Chapter 224: Chasing death and chasing north

When the loud noise of the torpedo explosion was still reverberating in the air, another more terrifying explosion came from the Iowa! The detonation of the tail ammunition instantly killed the most powerful warship of the US Navy, and the huge twin 12-inch turret was pushed directly away from the gun mount. Violent explosions continued from the tail of the hull, and the entire battleship was cut into two ends in the continuous explosion! Accompanied by the sound of metal twisting and breaking, the hull from the rear main turret sank directly into the sea, while the front half of the hull was raised high, and then sat back and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The sinking of   Iowa was so fast that the huge vortex generated during the sinking of the battle even brought a nearby Japanese lightning ship into the sea! In less than one minute, the warship that had separated and resisted just now sank completely into the sea. The 654 officers and soldiers on the ship have not survived! Dewey and his officers and men left this world forever with anger and unwillingness!

"Your Excellency Commander, we won! The American flagship was killed! We avenged the black ship of the year!" An officer looked at the Iowa, which was sinking into the sea instantly, and was excited about Huashan Ziji. Said.

"Yeah, we won, but after this battle, how should the empire end?" When Kawayama Ziji returned from madness to reason, he began to think about the future. From the end of the battle, the Japanese fleet I have already won, but from a strategic point of view, the victory is not complete. If the United States and Russia are given enough time, the United States and Russia can still mobilize a powerful fleet! At that time, the Imperial Navy will face a large number of battleships from the United States and Russia. Does it still have the power to fight? The Americans have enough financial resources to buy warships from other countries. With these remaining warships, the future of the Japanese fleet is not so optimistic!

  However, at this time, the remaining warships in Japan did not have the opportunity to consider these annoying things. The entire Japanese fleet was divided into three waves to chase the American and Russian warships that fled in all directions. Togo Heihachiro's two armored cruisers bit two old Russians. Although the Asama-class armored cruiser is very vigorous, both firepower and defense are much stronger than the Munich-class, but the speed is not easy to get up. There is no kerosene mixed boiler, no steam turbine, and enough firepower and defense. This is too difficult!

  If nothing else, before the storm, the two Russian cruisers have a good chance to throw off the two Japanese armored cruisers. However, perhaps the Russians ran out of RP, or perhaps the blessing of the Japanese Amaterasu, a 10-inch shell flew over a distance of about 4500 meters and landed directly near the Parada wheelhouse! Although the armor of the wheelhouse blocked the shell, the violent impact still damaged the rudder, and a huge shrapnel stuck the rudder!

"Brother, you go first! Take care all the way!" Parada issued a banner saying that the battleship was no longer able to operate, and then Bayan replied "Take care" and began to evacuate the battlefield, looking at the Bayan going away, two ships The Japanese armored cruisers did not pursue further. On the one hand, the storm was coming, and it was a certain thing to chase after them. On the other hand, they were far enough from the main battlefield. Just kill the Parada and flash.

After the Yakumo used intensive shells to kill the Parada’s final counter-attack, the Asama fired two 18-inch torpedoes at a distance of 600 meters, and after one hit, the Japanese found that the ship was scarred. The boat is still floating on the water! After another torpedo was repaired, the warship finally sank into the sea. For the Russian officers and soldiers struggling on the sea, the Japanese had no mercy. A intensive machine gun and the subsequent storm drove Para. All the Russian officers and soldiers on the battleship Da was destroyed!

At the same time that the Parada was sunk, Shimamura’s pursuit came to the time when the net was finally closed. Although the New York tried her best to cover her younger brother behind her, the Olympia was under the firepower of the Nisshin armored cruiser. It was too casual, the sidestring of the battleship was directly smashed into a sieve by the intensive rain of bullets. When the New York was forced to abandon the battleship, the Olympia had already tilted 15 degrees!

Facts have proved that the New York’s 100MM sidestring armor plate is still a bit useful. After being broken by at least an 8-inch armor-piercing projectile, the opening is relatively small, the water intake is relatively small, and its own health bar is long so it can still guarantee a high Speed. In this chase battle, this warship actually ran out of a high speed of 20 knots, so that the Japanese claimed in the telegram that "the enemy ship turns like flying, our army can't pursue it... ."

  The New York can run away, but the Olympia has no such luck. The final result was naturally executed by torpedoes, but compared to the Iowa and Parada that all died in battle, the luckiest thing about the Olympia was that the officers and soldiers on board lived a lot. This is not to say that there are many Japanese. Kindness, but because the Germans are here to watch the game, and the Japanese are not easy to do it in front of the third country!

  As for the last way to chase soldiers? How to play with 2 battleships chasing 4 battleships? The Americans completely wanted to drive, and ran directly in 4 directions! The Japanese second-class cruiser really did not dare to leave the shelter of the Izumo to pursue it alone, so they focused on the second ship of the Columbian cruiser~www.wuxiaspot.com~A 7000-ton warship is also a good prey. , And after being watched by two Japanese warships, the outcome is of course certain. This warship finally failed to see the sun tomorrow, and was completely burned into a torch under the intensive high-explosive bomb attack and sank to the bottom of the sea!

Thank God Almighty, the storm that followed provided shelter for the escaped American warships. In the end, after a great battle, the US-Russian combined fleet lost the battleship Iowa, the cruiser Brooklyn, and the armor of the USS Rurik. cruiser. The Parada armored cruiser and a 7,000-ton first-class protective cruiser, and the only protective cruiser left in history, the Olympia! The price the Japanese paid was just a first-class protective cruiser Kasuga and a few torpedo boats!

The result of this battle surprised the onlookers of the British, French, and German navies. Before the start, although everyone thought that the Japanese fleet had a certain advantage, they did not expect that the Japanese navy would sink the US-Russian fleet in just a few hours. 6 battleships! The total tonnage has reached 50,000 tons! Imagine that the Japanese navy, which fought one country and one territory, fought so hard against the Beiyang during the Qing-Japanese War. This battle was simply too easy for outsiders! And the result of the Sulu Sea naval battle also made outsiders' evaluation of the Japanese navy jump directly from the third-rate inferior level to the second-rate superior!

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