Chapter 1014: Run Away 2
Chapter 1014 Running away 2
The Fuso and Hyuga, which were targeted by four German fast battleships, were desperate to work part-time for a period of time! The two sides were recently within 12 kilometers! Almost every 20 seconds, a wave of shells would fall next to two Japanese battleships or hit the tenth ring... The smoke screen released by the smoke cans could no longer cover the flames soaring on the two Japanese battleships. Even without the help of seaplanes, the German battleships could still clearly determine the location of the Japanese battleships!
boom! The Fuso was hit again, this time the shell hit the stern of the hull, and the entire stern seemed to be shaking under the heavy blow. The power supply to the rear of the hull has almost been cut off, and most of the passage is dark. Only some light can be seen near the bullet holes. The wreckage is scattered everywhere, the cabin is twisted to the point of collapse, dense poisonous gas and flames, plus unknown The falling shells turned the rear half of the Fuso into a hell on earth.
Because its butt was facing others, there were naturally a lot of hits in the rear. In no more than 20 minutes after the Spey fleet joined the battle, the Fuso's rear was hit by at least 3 main guns! Coupled with the previous hits, the secondary armor belts on both sides of the tail were almost beaten into sieves. Almost no armor plate was complete. Either there was a huge hole in it, or it was twisted after being affected by the explosion. In other words, it was torn half apart, and the entire tail was in terrible shape!
As the amount of water in the tail gradually reached 1,200 tons, a large amount of seawater rushed up along the deck. The place used to park the seaplane at the rear had already been submerged. Did the rising waves even pour into the shooting 5 Inside the No. 1 turret, the large amount of water intrusion caused the artillery to be directly disabled...
At this time, Kato Sadayoshi really felt the horror and bloodshed of war. For the first time, he felt that he and the battleship might be broken into pieces in a second! Then he sank to the bottom of the sea. Only now did he realize that he was not as determined as he thought. The muzzles of the enemy ships in the distance continued to shine with fire. Every explosion made his heart tremble, and he felt a sense of exhaustion and fatigue all over his body. Feeling of powerlessness.
"Every hit is a disaster, which means a new death storm sweeps across the battleship. We are bleeding every moment. We can always see mutilated corpses and blood donations everywhere in the cabins, corridors and decks. , the battle has reached this level, we have run out of gas, and the remaining artillery keeps screaming, but this is just the dying struggle of a dying man, we don’t know when we will die, maybe just one shot The shell hit at just the right spot, and the Fuso would never see the sun again tomorrow.”
"We tried our best to escape to the northwest. The battleships were making heavy groans every moment. Not only were they expecting the opponent's blow, the furnaces, turbines, motors and artillery were also reaching their limits! Excessive damage and Wear and tear caused these machines that were originally running smoothly to decline step by step, just like a terminally ill patient." After the war, Kato Nobuyoshi recalled the situation at that time.
And in fact it is so,
Even the count thought that he could sink these two battleships in this sea area. But at this time, the remaining Japanese destroyers rushed up again. Facing 4 behemoths with tonnages dozens of times larger than them, 5 A Japanese destroyer launched a final desperate charge, and torpedoes were thrown into the water one after another, rushing in the general direction of the German fleet.
Such a lightning strike was destined not to hit the target, but it still interfered with the Earl's fleet's pursuit. In order to avoid the torpedoes, the Sultan Osman I and the Reshadier were forced to change their course. Of course, these destroyers could not escape the firepower of 4 fast battleships and numerous escort battleships!
More than a dozen warships and dozens of rapid-fire guns of various calibers roared crazily, forming a moving net of fire in front of the entire German fleet. Three of the Japanese destroyers that rushed up like moths to a flame did not even have time to turn around. Torn to pieces by flying shells. One of the other two destroyers was directly hit twice by a 350MM armor-piercing bomb, while the other one encountered two pursuing and intercepting Austro-Hungarian navy destroyers, and was blown up by a torpedo fired from the opposite side at a distance of less than 500 meters. They had to be smashed to pieces. In this way, in the first naval battle after the Japanese navy came to Europe, all 8 destroyers were destroyed!
However, the efforts of the Japanese destroyers still brought opportunities to the two battleships. The five destroyers probably bought Kato Sadayoshi about 20 minutes, and during this time, the Fuso and the Hyuga pulled out about 4 kilometers. The distance between the two sides at this time was more than 17 kilometers, and the hit rate of the Allied warships, which were not in good condition, dropped sharply.
By the way, there is another ship to talk about here. The only remaining British battleship, Lord Nelson, failed to escape in the end. It did not have the defense and speed of the Fuso-class battleship, and at the same time it was besieged by 5 quasi-dreadnoughts, plus 3 destroyers. , in this case, this British battleship can only have one result, and that is to sink in battle!
But this time the Austrians were obviously unwilling to linger any longer. After beating the Lord Nelson half to death, a destroyer moved closer and used three torpedoes to finally kill the British Royal Navy's last pre-dreadnought! A column of water more than 100 meters high rose into the air from the ammunition depot at the front of Lord Nelson. The front of the ship seemed to be dragged out of the water by a giant hand, then folded and broke. After a while, it sank into the vast sea. When this British battleship was also defeated, only two battleships, Fuso and Hyuga, were left on the entire sea to depend on each other...
And just when Kato Sadayoshi had fallen into despair, and even most Japanese naval officers and soldiers thought that they had no hope of survival, a telegram rekindled the Japanese's hope of survival.
"My fleet is rushing to the battlefield. I hope your navy can hold on for 30 minutes!" Kato Nobuyoshi dared to say that this was the most happy and exciting telegram he had ever received in his life! This is like a person who is about to drown and suddenly finds a lifebuoy right next to him! But this time, the French finally did one thing right. They were indeed almost on the battlefield, even faster than the telegram said. In fact, if you look northwest from the top of the Hyuga's mast, you can already reach the battlefield. I found plumes of smoke appearing on the sea level! And in the case of relative sailing, maybe we can meet in less than half an hour!
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