Chapter 209: There is no worst, only worse!

If the Manila naval battle in history is a solitary proof and cannot be counted, then the San Diego naval battle is enough to show how **** the quality of the Spanish navy is! Let's see how the 4 battleships of the Spanish fleet died!

The flagship Princess Maria Theresa was hit 2 rounds by 12-inch guns, 3 rounds by 8-inch guns, 4 rounds by 6- and 5-inch guns, and 1 round by 4-inch guns. It was hit by 12 shots by a 57MM gun, the battleship caught fire and then ran aground. This injury situation is very general. After all, this is a battleship of more than 6000 tons, and if it is well damaged, it will not be destroyed. But this is already the best warship in the Spanish fleet!

Okendo was hit by 4 rounds by the 8-inch gun, 4 rounds by the 6-inch and 5-inch guns, 1 round by the 4-inch guns, and 53 rounds by the 57mm gun. Then these bitterness The acid and high-explosive bombs burned the battleship... Although there is a small defense area, it is shameful to be burnt to death by a 57MM gun. After all, the shell of the 57MM gun weighs only 6 pounds!

  The performance of the Vizcaya was even worse! A cruiser of more than 6000 tons was hit by 5 rounds by 8-inch guns, 5 rounds by 6-inch and 5-inch guns, 4 rounds by 4-inch guns, and 9 rounds by 57MM guns! Then the ship surrendered... So TM surrendered!

  Of course, the worst thing was the Cologne. This ship was hit by 4 rounds by a 6-inch and a 5-inch gun and 3 rounds by a 57MM gun! Then the Spanish surrendered, please, you are Garibaldi! Later generations are sacred by a certain god! In the end it is not to die in battle but to surrender! This way of death is too awkward, right? The resistance will not be as good as the Qing army during the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

  According to the situation of these hits, we can also see how poor the quality of the Americans is. In a battle where the opponent had no fighting spirit and his side was completely smashing children, he actually made such a small hit! This TM's cheat, none of the 12 13-inch guns on the 3 battleships hit! A total of 46 8-inch guns hit 12 rounds! The Americans won, not because of how elite they are, but because their opponents are too weak!

In this battle, the performance of the Spanish people also surprised Ma Jifen, "They were shooting at the sun! The shells fired from a distance of 2500 meters did not pose any threat to us at all, except for a bunch of flowers. The nearby splash reminds us that the other party is firing at us, we can hardly feel a little pressure from the opponent!" Ma Jifen described the Spanish artillery after the war.

  Of course, American artillery is not smart enough. Except for the extremely fast 57MM gun, the Shelly Fleet did not hit the opponent with a shell over 5 inches in a quarter of an hour! , And at this time, the fighting distance between the two sides has narrowed from 3,500 meters to 1,800 meters...

  However, only from the strategic purpose, the purpose of the Shelly fleet has been achieved, and they have further delayed the retreat of the Spanish fleet. With Dewey’s acquiescence, the cruisers of the U.S. fleet finally abandoned the slow-moving Iowa, and the remaining five armored cruisers approached at a speed of 20 knots or more. The battle line composed of five armored cruisers was like a dragon. Passing quickly from the tail of the Spanish fleet, along with the firing order, the sidestring firepower of the cruisers exploded and shot out frightening fires!

  Dozens of medium-caliber artillery and nearly a hundred small-caliber artillery projected several tons of ammunition in a very short period of time. A wave of fire formed by a shell directly flooded the two Spanish unprotected cruisers at the rear. The explosion of the high-explosive bombs almost became one piece. The two battleships were instantly covered by orange barrage. Piles of flames jumped and spread on the deck. The hull without any protection was torn to pieces by the violent explosion. The Spanish soldiers were beaten into a pool of flesh and blood by the tyrannical fire before they made any evasion. The two unprotected cruisers were sent to the bottom of the sea without even holding on for 5 minutes!

   "This is horrible!" Severa never dreamed that he could encounter such a powerful fleet in the Far East. He even thought that even if he was fighting the Royal Navy's Far East Fleet, it was nothing more than that. The crazy firepower of the opponent made him immediately lose his square inch, and then he issued an order that was quite controversial for later generations: "Disband the fleet, and escape for their lives!"

And when this order was issued, the Spanish fleet, which was already on the verge of collapse, was immediately torn apart. The remaining three large ships began to scatter and flee. The Americans responded fast enough, but made mistakes in their busy schedule, and Brooklyn and New York immediately went to catch them. The closest to him, Princess Maria, Rurik and two other Russian armored cruisers went to capture Okendor, while Carlos V, the strongest, fastest and best defender, was ignored. ! The closest battleship to Spain is actually the three protective cruisers commanded by Brigadier General Shelly! And the remaining US-Russian warships are either busy with something else or are too far away!

"Let’s catch the biggest one, it will be the most bragging target in this naval battle!" Shelly, who was on the battlefield for the first time, would naturally not miss a chance to beat the water dog. The three arched cruisers chased them at the fastest speed. Going up, Ma Jifen couldn't help but wiped a cold sweat, and said to his heart: "As long as the opponent has a little fighting spirit and the level can be considered to be acceptable, then it is a proper anti-kill plot!"

   However, Ma Jifen obviously overestimated the Spanish fighting power ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ or to be honest. After the Princess Mary was intensively fired by high-explosive bombs for ten minutes, she declared her surrender, lowered her battle flag, and then washed up on the beach, and the personnel began to evacuate. The Okendor's performance was not good. After being caught up, she struggled for more than half an hour and announced her surrender. The Spanish did not do anything else, but she still remembered to open the sea valve, and the armored cruiser finally sank to the bottom of the sea. .

  The only one who survived this naval battle was the flagship Carlos V of General Servila! This armored cruiser ran for more than 3 hours with the output of 3 American dome cruisers! When Shelly and others suddenly discovered that there was not enough ammunition, they were already more than 50 nautical miles away from the main battlefield! "Let this guy run away. The German ship is strong. We almost emptied all the ammunition and we couldn't even slow it down!" Looking at the armored cruiser Carlos V on fire on the deck in the distance, thank you Li said angrily.

This battle, which became the Battle of Morro Bay by later generations, was the first naval battle conducted by the American fleet since entering the steam age, and it was also the first victory in the steam age. In this naval battle, the Americans easily crushed by absolute superiority. Opponents, Spain lost 3 gunboats, 2 unprotected cruisers and 2 armored cruisers. The gross tonnage is close to 20,000 tons, and the only thing that slips through the net is the flagship of General Severa.

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