Chapter 89: Fearless
"We can't go on like this! Zhiyuan and Jingyuan will not be able to hold it! Maybe it will be 2 to 4 soon!" Earl Spey looked anxiously at the two arched cruisers that had been beaten to fire behind him! At this time he discovered the weakness of the Mainz itself, that is, the power of the 6-inch gun is not strong enough, and it is enough to set fire alone, but the damage to the hull of the 45KG shell is still much worse! The rate of fire of the 280MM gun is still a bit slow!
Zhiyuan and Jingyuan’s performance is really good. If the fortune-telling rate is used, the performance of these two warships is higher than that of the other, but the damage and hardware gap in previous battles made them difficult! At this time, the two warships had been severely wounded. The 150MM gun on the sidestring of the Zhiyuan and the 210MM gun at the rear had been destroyed, and the main gun on the bow of the Jingyuan had been destroyed! Only one of the two warships has firepower!
"Tell Zhiyuan Jingyuan to continue to maintain the formation, we can rely on it!" Yang Yonglin issued the second order in this battle that was enough to make him famous! When there is no ability to maintain the battle, the best way is to rush when the situation is still stable! The Kaiyuan ship happens to have this ability!
"Crazy!" The Kaiyuan, which had been sailing in parallel, quickly turned the bow, and the slender bow was aimed at the Kasuga like a sharp sword! Then this 7,500-ton iron-clad ship rushed past like an angry tiger! At the same time, all the artillery that can be fired are aimed at the Kasuga!
When the firepower originally scattered on two battleships was concentrated on one battleship, even the Kasuga, which was also a first-class cruiser, had to retreat! And it seems that the opponent is planning to execute the angle attack tactics! I didn't see the opponent rushing straight forward!
This is a special era. The speed of warships can reach more than 20 knots, and the combat distance is generally within 3000 meters! In other words, the angle of attack is feasible! When Kaiyuan aimed its bow at Kasuga, Pingjing Hangsan was so scared that Sanhun ran away by two! The opponent's straight-line distance is only 2500 meters! If people collide, it will probably be a matter of minutes, right?
At this time, most people want to dodge quickly, instead of thinking about the other party’s goal in doing so. At this time, if the other party can still consider why the other party uses such extreme tactics, then this commander is not very nervous. Like a tree, the reaction is half a beat! Faced with this kind of classic naval battle method, Pingjing Hangsan was decisive!
The huge hull of the Kasuga turned rapidly on the sea, and the steering gear at the stern was maximized. Under the effect of huge inertia, the warship even tilted slightly. The more than 100-meter-long hull began to turn quickly, and then under the influence of huge power. , Speed up to escape the battle!
The hull of the Kaiyuan quickly crossed into the Japanese fleet. Kasuga escaped this seemingly fierce blow, but the subsequent Yoshino did not react immediately, and the distance between the two parties quickly narrowed to 1,200. Around meters! Moreover, the front half of the Yoshino's hull is directly facing the side string gun array of the Kaiyuan...
"Although the situation is urgent, it is still far from the extent of using Kaiyuan to exchange spring days. I won't do this kind of loss-making business!" Yang Yonglin replied easily afterwards. In fact, Yang Yonglin didn't plan to use such a desperate tactic at all. The battleship is in very good condition, so why use the tactic of killing the enemy with a thousand and self-defeating?
The key to Yang Yonglin is to temporarily expel the Kasuga from the battlefield, and then approach the Yoshino caught off guard, and use a wave of fierce shelling to severely damage it, at least temporarily expelled from the battle line! At 1200 meters, Yoshino faced the intensive shooting of more than a dozen guns of various calibers, which must have been sour!
Togo Heihachiro didn't react at the first time, or didn't react! When he was considering whether to evade, the shells fired from the first round of shelling had enveloped the cruiser! The Yoshino, which uses ear stations instead of artillery guns, almost all of the gun positions that can be engaged are covered by dense rain of bullets.
The Mainz’s ammunition of more than 2 tons per minute throws the Yoshino into a sea of flames at a very close range. The skyrocketing flames and countless shrapnel tore the steel plate, tearing the artillery, cabin and personnel to pieces, fragile cabin. The partition can't stop the raging shrapnel at all. The steel fragments are like small armor-piercing bullets that smash the entire cabin into a sieve, destroying everything behind it by the way!
And the most deadly blow came from two 280MM heavy artillery hits! A shell made a huge hole in the armor of the ship's bow waterline, and then a group of dark red flames gushed out from the breach. As the battleship turned, tons of seawater poured in from the breach. The impact even directly shattered part of the bow area! Another shell hit the middle of the hull, not only destroying the two rapid-fire guns, but also cutting off several steam pipes! The speed of the rapidly turning Yoshino immediately began to drop!
"Release the torpedo!" However, at this critical moment, Togo Heihachiro still made remedial measures. On the one hand, he ordered the warship to evade in the opposite direction, and on the other hand, he immediately released the torpedo! Let's not say whether you can hit the opponent, but at least let the opponent's firepower be farther away from you!
The two unpredictable torpedoes made Kaiyuan this behemoth subconsciously evade, UU reading www. uukanshu.com and Yoshino took advantage of this time and successfully escaped from the enemy's intensive artillery fire, just like a wolf cunningly using its steering to avoid a lion's culling! But when Togo Heihachiro thought he had escaped from birth, this wolf happened to hit another wolf's teeth!
"Consciousness is very vague, you don't know what it is, but at a critical moment, he will tell you what to do!" After the war, Deng Shichang commented on what he did at that time! Yang Yonglin had no other orders other than telling Deng Shichang to collide. But then, what Deng Shichang did just made up for the loopholes of Kaiyuan! And completed the lore of Yoshino!
Togo Heihachiro did the right thing. When he was suppressed by Kaito’s ferocious close-range firepower, he evaded in the opposite direction. The two battleships sailed relative to each other so that Yoshino could avoid the attack as quickly as possible. But the tragedy was Yoshino’s evasion. The direction is exactly opposite to the turning direction of Zhiyuan. When he was far away from the heavy artillery, he hit the torpedo of Zhiyuan!
In fact, considering the tragic performance of compressed air-powered torpedoes in this era, it is almost wishful thinking to hit high-speed targets, but the speed of Yoshino dropped sharply when dodge, the huge hull directly traversed, and the two 280mm shells were again Let Yoshino be as slow as a hyena that has broken a leg, without speed, maneuverability, and the hull of the ship horizontal! The Zhiyuan didn’t need to think about it. The torpedo was shot at a distance of less than 500 meters. Less than a minute later, the Yoshino’s already slanted hull suddenly exploded and shot a huge water column! Accompanied by a loud noise, a large hole measuring 5 meters long appeared on the side of the hull!
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