The Rise of the Empire

　　 Boom! A column of smoke soaring into the air rose from the battlefield, and then the sound of a violent explosion reached the ears of the officers and soldiers on both sides. Just a few seconds ago, a 280mm shell penetrated the waterline hull of the Itsukushima. It hit the ammunition depot at the lower part of the Itsukushima main turret without hindrance! For warships that do not even have a waterline armor belt, this blow is undoubtedly fatal!

　　 In less than a second, the fuze ignited more than ten kilograms in the projectile, and the entire ammunition storehouse was instantly ignited! The soaring fire light cut this warship in half like a sharp sword! Even the half-drawn hull was blown to pieces! This warship that the Japanese used to be proud of struggled on the sea for less than ten minutes and sank to the bottom of the sea for a long time! At this time, Yang Yonglin's fleet and his opponent are 3V3! If nothing else, the survival time of the other three Japanese cruisers can only be calculated in minutes!

However, the advantage of the local battlefield does not determine the outcome of this war. When Itsukushima's half-drawn hull was still floating on the water, the Japanese fast fleet headed by Kasuga was like cavalry passing by, and the Beiyang Fleet The team's flanks are a mess!

　　 In history, the two outdated cruisers were super brave and lasted for only half an hour under the attack of the first guerrilla fleet, and on this plane, the enhanced version of the tour took less than 20 minutes to kill the opponent! A first-class cruiser, two top-notch second-class cruisers, plus a third-class cruiser, with more than 30 mid-caliber rapid-fire guns with more than 30 side chords, cleanly smashed two old cruisers into pieces with high-explosive shells. It was a short staggered time, and the Beiyang Fleet lost two warships!

　　 However, the sacrifice of Chaoyong and Yangwei is not meaningless. The main force of the Beiyang Fleet, headed by Dingzhen, has been inserted into the formation of 5 other Japanese cruisers, and the 12 warships of the two sides fought together! In this old ship battle, the Beiyang Fleet once again played an advantage!

　　 The first to be besieged was the pillar of the Japanese Navy in the 1970s, the main force in the 1980s, and the soy sauce in the 1990s, the iron-clad ship Fuso. This former overlord of the Far East is now very old! What's so dying is that this battleship was blocked by two ironclad ships!

　　 The 7 medium-caliber rapid-fire guns and several 305MM cannons of the two battleships directly hit the Fuso! Although the names of the iron-clad ships are hung on both sides of the war, it is clear that the gold content inside is different! The armor belt of the town has thickness and height, and the armor belt of Fuso has neither height nor thickness. Not only is it afraid of large-caliber artillery, but also afraid of sweeping the deck! There are almost no advantages!

With a dazzling red ball of fire flying out of the muzzle, the 305MML25 large-caliber naval gun suddenly retreated, and was then replaced with the help of the reset machine. Although the terrace gun is still used, although the loading equipment is still old, Because of the use of new smokeless gunpowder, the aiming speed of the artillery has been increased, and the rate of fire has also been improved to a certain extent. And the high-explosive bombs filled with picric acid explosives make these artillery deadly weapons! At a distance of 1,500 meters, Dingyuan made its first hit!

　　 This shell was accurately concentrated in the gun room in the middle of the Fuso hull. The fundamental reason why Fuso was called the gun room battleship was that most of its firepower was concentrated in the gun room in the middle of the hull! Its most important weapon-4 240MM guns are in the gun room! And there are no compartments!

　　 This 305MM heavy artillery made a home run! After destroying a 240MM artillery, the scattered shrapnel detonated the ammunition piled nearby at the same time! Afterwards, a series of explosions came from the gun room, and fire dragons spewed out from the muzzle and the damaged deck. The entire gun room is like a huge torch, and the raging fire spreads to the entire deck!

　　 And then the rapid-fire guns on the sidestrings of the two ironclad ships kept tilting high-explosive shells toward each other! Coupled with the cannon fire on the battle mast, countless shrapnel harvested the Japanese navy officers and soldiers trying to put out the fire. The rain of bullets was like an erratic giant beast, tearing an individual into a ball of meat, even leaving only The next pool of blood or charred corpses indicates that there was once a living person here!

This battleship that served in 1878 struggled hard under the attack of two battleships. Countless shells jumped on the side chords and deck of the hull, flames and smoke even got into the engine room, and the unprepared firemen were burned to death. Either suffocated and died, and under the scorching flames, all pipes and boilers failed. This warship that has been nearby for 16 years is really difficult to hold on!

　　 On the other side, under the command of Lin Yongsheng, Jingyuan and Laiyuan bit the Kaohsiung and Chikushi. Although Jingyuan is only average, relying on limited armor protection and better artillery skills, the two Beiyang iron armored ships still suppressed their opponents! Slow and precise firing will temporarily wound the Chikushi and withdraw from the battle, while the Kaohsiung will have to face the rain of six medium-caliber artillery.

　　 Kaohsiung’s wooden shell is obviously the best fuel for flames. The blue-green flames exuding deadly poisonous gas spread to the surroundings along the wooden boards, and the steel frame began to deform and become brittle under the burning of the flames. Accompanied by sour distorting sounds, the Kaohsiung hull structure collapsed in pieces~www.readwn.com~ Japanese soldiers who would not be able to dodge in the future burned to charcoal, and the burned wailing and heart-piercing wailing before dying The explosion of shells turned the entire battleship into a purgatory!

　　 But at this time, the 4 fast cruisers headed by Kasuga once again completed a double kill! The two battleships Guangjia and Guangbing at the rear were destroyed by intensive rapid-fire guns and high-explosive shells. Subsequently, the four cruisers drew a circle on the sea and sailed towards Pingyuan!

　　 When the rapid-fire artillery of the Kasuga was shrouded on the Pingyuan, a loud noise came from the battlefield in the distance! A huge fireball soars into the sky, which means that another battleship has been destroyed! The hapless child Hashidate finally couldn't bear it! Although it was not hit by the main gun of the Kaiyuan, the fire caused by the high-explosive bombs spread to the surroundings along the same road in the hull, and ignited the propellant pack on the egg feeding equipment, accompanied by a series of explosions. The stern part of the battleship quickly entered water. Under the action of gravity, the capital of the ship was slightly tilted. Accompanied by the sour sound of metal cracking and structural collapse, this battleship was finally over!

　　 "Admiral Ding may not be able to hold it." Sher looked at the Beiyang Fleet in the distance surrounded by a group of Japanese ships, and said with some concern. At this time, Ding Ruchang had only five warships, among which Pingyuan would be destroyed soon. Faced with the fierce firepower of four cruisers, Pingyuan could not escape.

　　 And if all cruisers are destroyed, the success rate of lightning strikes will be very high under the cover of Japanese fleet fire. The Japanese torpedo boat that has been wandering around the battlefield is like a shark smelling blood, ready to rush to take a bite at any time!

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