Chapter 89: The Fearless
"We can't go on like this! Zhiyuan and Jingyuan won't be able to hold on! Maybe it will be 2 vs 4 soon!" Earl Spey said anxiously looking at the two vaulted cruisers that had been beaten to pieces! At this time, he discovered the weakness of the Mainz itself, that is, the power of the 6-inch gun is not strong enough, simply setting fire is enough, but the damage to the hull of the 45KG shell is still much worse! And the rate of fire of the 280MM gun is still a bit slow!
The performance of Zhiyuan and Jingyuan is indeed good. If the fortune-telling rate is correct, the performance of these two warships is higher than that of the other, but the damage and hardware gap in the previous battles make it difficult for them to move forward! At this time, the two warships had been beaten to the brim. The 150MM artillery on the sidestring of the Zhiyuan and the 210MM main gun on the rear had been destroyed, and the main gun on the bow of the Jingyuan was destroyed! Only one of the two warships has the firepower left!
"Tell Zhiyuan Jingyuan to keep the formation, let's go up to win!" Yang Yonglin issued the second order in this battle that was enough to make him famous in history! When there is no ability to maintain the battle situation, then the best way is to charge when the situation is still stable! Kai Yuan happens to have this ability!
"Crazy!" The Kaiyuan, which was sailing parallel, quickly turned its bow, and the slender bow was aimed at the Kasuga like a sharp sword! Then the 7,500-ton ironclad ship rushed over like an angry tiger! At the same time, all the artillery that can hit is aimed at Kasuga!
When the firepower that was originally scattered on two battleships was concentrated on one battleship, even the Kasuga, which is also a first-class cruiser, had to retreat! And it seems that the opponent intends to implement the corner attack tactics! I didn't see the other party rushing straight over!
This is a special era, the speed of warships can already soar to over 20 knots, and the combat distance is generally within 3000 meters! In other words, the attack angle tactics are still feasible! And when the Kaiyuan pointed the bow of the ship at the Kasuga, Hirataka Kosan was so frightened that two of the three souls ran away! The straight-line distance of the opponent is only 2500 meters! If someone bumps into it, I'm afraid it will be a matter of minutes, right?
At this time, most people think about dodging quickly, and don't think about what the opponent's goal is. If they can still consider why the opponent adopts such an extreme tactic at this time, then this commander is not nervous Like a tree, the reaction is half a beat slow! Faced with this very classical style of naval warfare, Pingchao Hangsan resolutely gave up!
The huge hull of the Kasuga turned rapidly on the sea, and the steering gear at the stern was maximized. Under the action of huge inertia, the battleship even tilted slightly. The 100-meter-long hull began to turn quickly, and then under the action of huge power, , Speed up and escape from the battle!
The hull of the Kaiyuan quickly cut across the Japanese fleet. The Kasuga escaped the seemingly fierce blow, but the Yoshino did not react immediately, and the distance between the two sides quickly narrowed to 1200 meters or so! Moreover, the front half of Yoshino's hull is just facing the side string gun array of Kaiyuan...
"Although the situation is urgent, it's far from exchanging Kaiyuan for Chunri. I won't do such a loss-making business!" Afterwards, Yang Yonglin replied easily. In fact, Yang Yonglin didn't intend to use such a desperate tactic at all. The battleship is still in good condition, so why use the tactic of killing one thousand enemies and self-defeating eight hundred?
Yang Yonglin's key was to drive the Kasuga out of the battlefield temporarily, and then approached the Yoshino unprepared, and severely damaged it with a wave of fierce shelling, at least temporarily driving it out of the battle line! At 1,200 meters, the Yoshino faced the intensive shooting of more than a dozen artillery pieces of various calibers. It must have felt sour!
Dongxiang Heihachiro didn't react at the first time, or didn't react at all! When he was considering whether to evade, the shells from the first round of shelling had already enveloped the cruiser! The Yoshino, which used ear towers instead of gun gallery guns, was covered by a dense rain of bullets on almost all of the gun positions that could be engaged.
The American Mainz projected more than 2 tons of ammunition per minute at a very short distance and instantly turned the Yoshino into a sea of flames. The soaring flames and countless shrapnel tore the steel plate, and tore the artillery, cabin and personnel into pieces. The fragile cabin The partitions couldn't stop the raging shrapnel at all, and the steel fragments were like small armor-piercing bullets that smashed the entire cabin into a sieve, destroying everything behind it by the way!
And the most deadly blow came from the hit of two 280MM heavy artillery! A shell directly cut a huge hole in the armor at the waterline of the bow, and then a cloud of dark red flames gushed out from the hole. As the warship turned, tons of sea water poured in from the hole, and the huge The impact force even directly shattered part of the bow of the ship! And another shell hit the middle of the hull, not only destroying the two rapid-fire guns, but also cutting off several steam pipes! The speed of the rapidly turning Yoshino immediately began to drop!
"Release the torpedo!" However, at this critical moment, Togo Heihachiro still took remedial measures. On the one hand, he ordered the battleship to evade in the opposite direction, and on the other hand, he immediately released the torpedo! Let's not talk about whether you can hit the opponent, but at least you can make the opponent's firepower farther away from you!
Two inaccurate torpedoes made Kaiyuan subconsciously evade, and Yoshino took advantage of this time to escape from the opponent's intensive artillery fire, just like a wolf cunningly using its turn to hide. Started a lion cull! But just when Dongxiang Heihachiro thought he had escaped, this wolf just bumped into the teeth of another wolf!
"Consciousness is very vague, you can't tell what it is, but at critical moments, he will tell you what to do!" Deng Shichang commented on his actions at that time after the war! Apart from telling Deng Shichang to charge, Yang Yonglin had no other orders. But then, what Deng Shichang did just made up for the loophole of Kaiyuan! And completed the lore of the Yoshino!
Togo Heihachiro did the right thing. When suppressed by Kaiyuan's brutal close-range firepower, he evaded in the opposite direction. The two warships sailed opposite each other so that Yoshino could avoid the opponent's attack as soon as possible. But the tragedy is that Yoshino's evasion The direction was exactly opposite to Zhiyuan's turning direction. When he was away from the heavy artillery, he bumped into Zhiyuan's torpedo!
In fact, considering the tragic performance of compressed air-powered torpedoes in this era, it is almost wishful thinking to hit a high-speed moving target, but when the Yoshino dodged, the speed dropped sharply, and the huge hull directly crossed over, and two 280MM shells shot again Let Yoshino be as dull as a hyena with a broken leg, no speed, no maneuverability, and the hull is still sideways! No need to think about it at all, the Zhiyuan launched a torpedo at a distance of less than 500 meters. Less than a minute later, the already tilted hull of the Yoshino suddenly burst out a huge water column! Accompanied by a loud noise, a 5-meter-high hole appeared on the side of the hull!
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