Chapter 222: Back to Heaven

The combat effectiveness of fleet operations depends on two aspects. One aspect is naturally the performance and personnel quality of the warships in the fleet, and the other aspect is the complete formation and efficient command. And now, Shelly rushed to the Japanese fleet with a total of 5 protective cruisers, while only 4 Japanese protective cruisers! Moreover, he was in an evasive maneuver and was at a disadvantage in terms of formation. Taking advantage of the sacrifice of the Rurik, the Americans seized the opportunity to launch a powerful counterattack after the battle broke out!

  A group of armored cruisers holding sharp blades and wearing only iron pants collided directly! At close range, the two sides tried their best to suffocate their opponents with high-explosive bombs. The picric acid shells easily tore off the lack of protection of the hull. The flames generated by the explosion of high-energy explosives quickly spread to the surroundings. The flying shrapnel and poisonous gas exposed everything Life on the deck was hunted mercilessly. In just a few minutes, 8 battleships ignited a raging fire! All attempts to control the fire became very futile under the intense bullet rain!

  Just when the battlefield was heated up in a short period of time, the 8-inch gun on Rurik finally made its mark! An 8-inch shell successfully hit the steering engine compartment of the Kasuga protective cruiser! Blow up the entire cabin in an instant! The protective cruiser Kasuga, which was evading at high speed, instantly lost control like a wolfdog with its spine broken. The protective cruiser San Diego seized the opportunity and shot 3 torpedoes 700 meters away from the opponent!

"The Japanese are very lucky!" Looking at the two torpedoes passing by behind the Kasuga and the third torpedo spinning on the water, he was furious. He vowed that if he could go back, he would take those produced torpedoes. The profiteer goes to court!

  But before Shelly’s complaint was over, the Philadelphia protective cruiser decisively went up to make up the knife, and another three torpedoes made a white track and shot towards the target, this time closer! 500 meters! In this case, even the Japanese aunt Amaterasu can't save the warship! The sidestring of the Kasuga burst into a huge water column in an instant, and the 18-inch torpedo successfully tore a large opening over 3 meters long on the sidestring of the Kasuga! Coupled with the fact that the battleship has lost control, the end of this battleship is doomed!

   And when Shelly turned his attention to the other two second-class protective cruisers, the latter avoided it very quickly. The two protective cruisers took full advantage of their speed to avoid this deadly counterattack. In a very short period of time, the Americans successfully sunk a first-class protective cruiser and drove the other two out of the battlefield. The situation seemed to be very good!

But the efforts of the U.S. and Russian navies quickly proved to be nothing short of spectacle, because just as the Americans were cheering for the killing of a first-class protective cruiser, a loud noise from the U.S. battle line made the Americans' heart that had just been put down again. Mentioned on the throat!

"It's the Brooklyn! Gosh! The Brooklyn has a series of explosions!" A series of explosions passed through from a distance, and the Russian officers and soldiers on the Bayan could clearly see the Brooklyn, the most powerful ship in the US Navy. A series of explosions occurred in the side-string gun gallery of the armored cruiser, turbulent flames and thick smoke sprayed from the side of the hull. Accompanied by the violent explosion, the entire battleship also tilted to a certain extent.

A 227KG shell slammed into Brooklyn's dome armor. Although it failed to penetrate the 6-inch dome armor, the violent impact still deformed the dome armor. Numerous flames entered the lower ammunition depot from the gap, and I ignited the propellant pack being transported upwards! The so-called misfortune did not come singly. Another shell was introduced from the dressing room at the bottom of the 8-inch sidestring gun and directly detonated the dozen packs and a large number of shells accumulated in it! A cloud of mushrooms soaring to the sky burst out from the gun position, knocking off the dozens of tons of turrets!

  After this blow, Brooklyn’s internal structure suffered heavy losses, and the violent explosion caused countless cracks and cavities in the side strings of the hull. A large amount of seawater broke through the watertight compartments and poured into the hull, submerging one by one. The boiler compartment was instantly extinguished, and a steam engine was also destroyed by scattered shrapnel!

   "The Brooklyn is over. After Rurik returns to the photo, the remaining time is probably calculated in minutes. Then the entire US fleet!" Sher, who was watching the battle from a distance, said to the two colleagues next to her. The Brooklyn began to drift away from the battle line slowly, and his end was destroyed by the Japanese lightning strike ship. At the same time, the recovered Japanese began to redistribute firepower. Yashima helped Fuji deal with Iowa, and the remaining four Asama-class armored cruisers began to slaughter the American cruiser formation behind!

   "An ant is an ant after all!" Shimamura said contemptuously as he looked at the Rurik which was maimed by the concentrated firepower of the Izumo. The Rurik was really brutal when it rushed up, and the firepower of the 8 6-inch guns on the sidestring was not weak, but the stern of the Izumo was equipped with perfect 3 to 4 inch anti-high explosive shell armor! A pile of shells were thrown over, which did cause some trouble, and the rear deck caught fire. But soon at such a close distance, the Izumo counterattack caused more damage to the Rurik!

  At a distance of less than 1000 meters, two 227KG 10-inch shells hit this crazy Russian warship almost simultaneously! A shell pierced the tail armor belt ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and directly exploded a drive shaft into two pieces. The violently swaying drive shaft slammed on the side wall of the cabin, smashing the temporary hospital and the wounded inside into a pile of debris. Another shell pierced Rurik's engine room, directly reducing a steam engine into a pile of parts. The violent explosion even made the entire ship seem to jump. Thick billowing smoke and flames quickly diffused from the shot.

   And then, countless high-explosive bombs made this battleship worse. The fierce flames almost swallowed the entire hull, and the end of the Rurik was doomed. The Japanese torpedo boat will be the final executioner. "Let’s go up and help the Russians." Count Spey asked the other two people for their opinions. After the two expressed their support, Count Spey decided to be a good man and see if he could get something valuable from the Russians. intelligence.

In a short period of time, the US-Russian fleet lost two capital ships in a row. With the sinking of the Brooklyn and the Rurik, the entire US-Russian fleet had only 4 main armored ships, and although the opponent lost Kasuga, But it's not a big deal. Except for the six battleships, Fuji is a bit miserable, the other five battleships are in good condition, and the main turret of the Nissin has also been repaired, just waiting for the killing!

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