Chapter 2585: Rush Hour Two

Although the shell was shattered by a huge impact while penetrating the armor plate, tons of high-speed fragments still caused huge damage to this Japan's strongest battleship! Flames and shock waves engulfed high-speed fragments like a sharp sword, knocked them on the condenser pipe on the left side of the battleship Fuso and blasted them into pieces with ease! For a time, white steam and smoke spread all over the surrounding cabins, and the flames from the explosion were looming in the white smoke. Groups of damage pipe members rushed in desperately to save the precious condenser, but a considerable part of them were Killed by high temperature steam.

"We were hit and the left-string main armor belt was penetrated. The left side condenser was destroyed, and the battleship was decelerating. We need time to transfer the left side load to the right side condenser." An officer was a little panicked. Reported to Shigeru Yoshimatsu.

Everyone in the Fuso command tower felt the shock caused by the blow just now. Some people even saw the flash when hit. But no one cares, because they trust their defense very much. The Fuso-class battleship is definitely a battle-tested battleship. During the war, it has experienced at least three battleships against capital ships. During the previous confrontations, the turret may be stuck. Dead, the armor plate may be shattered, but the main armor belt has never been hit through! This is where the Japanese feel confident! But this time! The Germans told the Japanese with facts that you are too close!

Also feeling great pressure was the battleship Yamashiro, which was followed by a 15-inch shell from Mecklenburg that hit the armor of Yamashiro's gun mount! If theoretically, the 330MM side armor of the Fuso-class battleship with an inclination of 18 degrees can be immune to all main guns in World War I. Then the armor of Fuso's gun mount is not so strong! The reason is very simple. The armor of the gun mount is curved. It is very troublesome to make a large thickness steel plate curved. On the one hand, the cost will be very high, and on the other hand, there will be some technical difficulties! Therefore, the Fuso-class gun mount armor is only 320MM! And if the opponent shoots vertically into the center of the circle, then it is not difficult for a 15-inch gun to penetrate!

(The reason for the theory is that there are many special situations in actual combat. For example, the warship will shake laterally. If it is relatively inch at this time, the angle of the main armor belt may be reduced, and it may be approached at this time. The 15-inch shells from the distance penetrated. Generally speaking, the 15-inch shells were very lucky!)

So, no surprise, this shell successfully penetrated the mount of the No. 2 turret of the battleship Yamashiro. Fortunately, the Japanese damage tube was considered appropriate. The two fire doors that isolated the turret and the lower ammunition compartment succeeded. Blocked the first round of impact of the flame and shock wave. However, the fire caused by the bomb explosion and the high temperature gas generated by the ignited ammunition still began to spread in the surrounding compartments. As a result, the overwhelmed captain of the battleship Yamashiro decisively ordered to fill the No. 2 ammunition depot with water. Thick smoke and firelight gushing from the breach, and the tens of meters high smoke column even interfered with the main rangefinder of the Yamashiro. Although the damage is not fatal, the strike efficiency of the Yamashiro has undoubtedly dropped in a short time. Several grades!

At the same time, the Bavarians of the German fleet also received their first heavy blow since the end of the war! But this time the heavy blow was a bit of a village, and the battleship in front was gradually enveloped by the smoke released by the smoke canister, but the last battleship Weimar was an exception! The battle line of the Japanese fleet is longer, and the warships in the side and rear can still target the Weimar, which has not been covered by smoke. So, not surprisingly, there are well-fired Fuso-class battleships Takaha, Tosa, and Haruna. The cruiser aimed at the poor Weimar.

While the Japanese fleet had harvested two 15-inch shells, the Weimar was hit three times! Two 15-inch shells and one 14-inch shell. A 15-inch shell with too bad angle was flew by Weimar's heavy main armor, which did not cause much impact. But another 15-inch shell hit near the flue of the Weimar! The fragile flue armor naturally cannot stop the 15-inch heavy bomb attack. So, no accident, the Weimar chimney was opened with a huge opening, and some fragments blocked the boiler exhaust duct below, and even caused exhaust gas. The backflow directly caused the two boilers to stall! The other 14-inch shell had a big hole in the stern of the hull, and because it used a semi-armor-piercing shell, it also lit a not-so-small fire!

"The situation is not so good." Feeling the hull's speed drop, and looking at the plume of smoke rising from the bow of the second ship next to him, Shimamura felt his heart tremble with pain! It's not that I can't beat it, but I feel that I can't make it! You know, the Japanese fleet came here with such great effort not to fight the Suxiong fleet, but to attack the American transport ship. If the two sides can reach some kind of "tacit understanding", the ghost will take care of the Suxiong fleet. To the Japanese, Su Xiong's fleet is just a stone in a pit, smelly and hard!

Even so far, the whole plan has gone smoothly, but Hayao Shimamura has been reminding himself~www.wuxiaspot.com~ This time, the Japanese fleet is fighting behind enemy lines, any inconspicuous damage will lead to unexpected results. And now, the left condenser of the flagship is destroyed, and the six 10-inch guns of the front main battery of the Yamashiro may be abolished. Compared to his own mission, the previous results were very limited!

Although the left side condenser can be repaired after it is damaged, and when designing the Fuso-class battleship, the Japanese took into account all aspects of the margin. Theoretically, the remaining condenser can meet the needs of the battleship, but in case What's the problem? There is a fable in Europe about losing a kingdom to a horseshoe, and Hayao Shimamura naturally knows this allusion, and because of the inadequate cooling, the speed of the warship is too low, and it is really possible that the warship is bitten by the returned Benson fleet. of!

As for Yamashiro’s front main turret group, the crisis has not been resolved. Although the No. 2 ammunition has been filled with water, the ammunition will not be destroyed, but you must know that these 3 turrets are placed on the front deck in a fret shape. Yes, the distance between the turrets is very close, and the most direct result of the fire inside the hull is that the temperature in the vicinity of the No. 1 and No. 3 turrets is too high and some servo equipment is damaged! You must know that the temperature of the ammunition depot must be controlled at any time. In this era, the officer’s cabin on a battleship can be without air conditioning, but the ammunition depot absolutely cannot!

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