Chapter 2593: On the Self-cultivation of Bait One
"Your Excellency, the speed of the last two battleships of the Japanese fleet has dropped!" At this moment, an officer's words interrupted the conversation between the two and brought them back to the battlefield!
Benson walked over, picked up the telescope in his hand and looked into the distance. At this time, he did see the two large battleships full, and beside them, there were a large number of searchlight columns and flares from the US Navy destroyers. Turn this sea area into a day!
The U.S. main fleet is indeed slow, but it can’t hold people with a large number of destroyers. According to the plan before the war, when the Su Xiong fleet was not in place, the U.S. Navy used the idea of destroyers to drag opponents through lightning strikes. What do you say in actual combat? The good news is mixed, the good news is, it seems that your plan has succeeded? After all, according to the subsequent intelligence, the two battleships should be medium torpedoes, but the worry is that the losses in the impact process just now were a bit large. Up to now, the U.S. Navy has sunk at least 8 destroyers, and also Seven destroyers were injured and quit the battle!
"It doesn't matter, just a capital ship that can retain the Japanese. Destroyers, as much as the United States!" Benson comforted himself. "I just don't know which type of Japanese battleship is left this time. I hope it will be Fuso-class or King Kong-class. But most likely it will be Hanoi-class battleship." Benson said to Ma Jifen next to him.
Benson’s inference is very reasonable. First of all, the speed of the Japanese fleet is too low. If it were all high-speed battleships, the Americans would never be able to catch up. They would have run away long ago! But now, there is only one fundamental reason why the U.S. fleet can hang behind and chase the Japanese, and that is, there are warships towing in the Japanese fleet! After all, the speed of the fleet depends on the ship with the lowest speed! And who is the slowest in the Japanese main fleet? Naturally, they are two first-generation dreadnoughts! Their speed is low and their firepower is also poor. If you want to catch them, you must catch them!
"Go up, first use naval guns to suppress the opponent, and then the destroyer will go up to release the torpedoes, and quickly kill them! We have to chase other targets!" With Benson's order, a total of 13 American battleships quickly rushed up, and then At a distance of less than 8 kilometers, with the help of searchlights and flares, the firepower was crazily tilted towards two Japanese battleships!
Well, this is a total of 13 battleships, 10 of which are still super fearless! At a distance of 8 kilometers, the artillery can be leveled and fired! Why do you need fire control? The US main fleet, which has been fighting land for a month, finally caught an opportunity to shoot at sea! So, apart from anything else, hundreds of large-caliber naval guns were crazy thinking about the target and shot out hundreds of tons of ammunition!
"I have never seen such a spectacular sight. The battleship with a total weight of more than 300,000 tons and more than 100 artillery can smash nearly 200 tons of steel on the target in one minute! The dazzling light even when the artillery fires It made my eyes hurt, and the endless sound of cannons overwhelmed all the sounds on the battlefield. Even though my colleagues and I were close at hand, we had to shout with our voices if we wanted to talk. The shock waves from the flattened guns were on the sea. A huge ripple was formed. In the distance, two poor Japanese battleships were surrounded by countless water jets and flames. Even the water jets rising at the same time blocked our view like a wall. However, no one stopped the shelling. We Fighting to shoot cannonballs at our mortal enemy!" An American military officer described the shelling scene in his post-war memoirs!
Ever since, the fate of the two Japanese battleships alone has been decided. No matter how messy the attack, no matter how low the hit rate, in the case of a super-saturated attack, the number is enough to make up for the lack of precision and shooting skills. In the end, these two battleships didn't need destroyers to make up for it, and forced the US fleet to shatter them with brutal firepower!
However, the news that came a moment later made Benson very embarrassed, because these two battleships were not only the U.S. Navy’s dream of hitting the Shen Fusang class and the King Kong class, nor the bottom line that Benson was willing to accept—the Hanoi class. A battleship, but a former Japanese dreadnought ship! According to the telegram sent back by the US destroyer squadron that participated in the lightning strike, the target was obviously a battleship with a sidestring single-mounted main gun, and if you read it correctly, then the two battleships should obviously be former dreadnoughts! So, this made Benson a little embarrassed. After so much effort, he only hit two wastes!
"Damn it, why did the Japanese fleet bring two wastes?" Benson said depressed.
"Perhaps just as an abandoned child when necessary, just like a gecko." A U.S. Navy officer next to him also said with some dissatisfaction.
"It seems that we have been busy all night, but we only have this gain. You know, the Japanese fleet killed one of our dreadnoughts and three former dreadnoughts just now!" Another voice sounded in the control tower, nothing Doubt, at this time, although the results have been achieved, almost everyone is depressed. Because the U.S. fleet lost money in the battle tonight. Once the trailing battleship is killed, the Japanese fast battleship in front is also equivalent to shed a burden and can naturally be evacuated at full speed~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Therefore, in the eyes of Benson and others, the chase tonight The killing may end here!
"Damn it, if Su Xiong's fleet were here, we won't be so successful tonight!" Benson once again vented his dissatisfaction with Su Xiong.
"The two battleships died as if according to the previous script. I feel like we are making a movie. All the characters appear and perform according to the script, and finally the curtain call." Others in the mountain house looked at the two surrounded by fire and explosion in the distance. A Satsuma-class battleship exclaimed.
"I feel that we are bidding farewell to an era." Yamamoto Fifty-Six also said sadly. So far, all Japanese naval battleships that have participated in the Japanese-Russian naval battle have been retired or sunk, except for the memorial now docked at Yokosuka Port. Except for the two old armored cruisers and the two remaining old armored cruisers, Yamamoto Fifty-Six could no longer find a trace of the original combined fleet.
"The end of an era, the beginning of a new era, everything has to be born and die, look at the beginning." Other people in the mountain house said. Afterwards, the two silently watched the direction of the disappearance of the two Satsuma-class battleships in the distance, and paid their final attention to these veterans!
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