Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1661 Fate
For a battleship like the "Musashi", the explosion of the anti-ship missile warhead itself is not fatal, because its rough skin and thick flesh are designed to withstand damage, but the remaining fuel of the anti-ship missile is fatal when it burns...

This is not to say that the deck of the "Musashi" can be burned through. It has a layer of heat insulation material on the top deck and the deck is still several hundred millimeters thick. It is really not easy to burn through.

The problem is that the fire will burn the gunners and crews of the battleship to death one after another... The gunners are nothing more than the gunners. The death of the gunners will not affect the escape of the battleship, but the crew will burn less and less, and even the command staff will be affected. It affects the operation of the battleship.

The last time the anti-ship missiles hit the "Musashi" was only 7, and the damage caused was not large, but this time it took more than [-] missiles... Even the Eighth Route Army itself does not know how many hits. Guidance is sometimes a bit "unknown" in it: the missile soldiers control the missile to approach the enemy ship from the screen sent back, getting closer and closer, and then suddenly the screen disappears.

At this time, no one can be sure whether the missile hit the enemy ship and exploded, so the screen cannot be seen, or it was hit by the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery and exploded in the air.

If you really want to see clearly, you have to be a pilot performing a cover mission in the air, but they can only roughly report that there are more than [-] bombs.

Twenty or so pieces are three times as many as the previous 7 pieces. When the fire burned, thick smoke billowed into the sky, and the warship was full of screaming devils who were ignited by the fire... These people are still lucky, they are still alive , Many devils were directly surrounded by flames and instantly lost their voices.

Many devils who were ignited by the fire jumped into the sea to escape.

In fact, this cannot be said to be escape, because jumping into the sea under the premise of being burned basically would not survive, and the Eighth Route Army would not take the time to rescue them.

But being drowned in the sea is better than being burned to death on a warship, at least these devils think so.

Then the speed of the devil battleship slowed down significantly.

Xu Huandong, who was watching the battle, thought that the fire spread to the inside, but later found out that was not the case.

The reason why the battleship slowed down was that the fire sealed the vents and other gaps in the inner compartment, and as a result, not only could the air not enter, but it was sucking the air out of the inner compartment.

This made the crew in the inner cabin panic, and they didn't know whether to open the hatch and go out or stay in the cabin.

Most of them chose the latter, since to open the hatch would be to set themselves on fire.

But there is no way to wait like this. They can only hope that the fire will become smaller in the near future.

However, the ensuing missiles quickly dashed their hope...

At this time, the devils were basically defenseless against the missiles of the Eighth Route Army: the "Musashi" was hit by more than [-] missiles and basically lost its anti-aircraft firepower, and a destroyer accompanying it was hit by two missiles and basically lost its combat effectiveness.

At this time, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Devil destroyer should be said to be very strong.

The devil's destroyer is the Bailu class, and its anti-aircraft firepower originally only had a Type 40 [-]MM anti-aircraft gun.

This also shows how careless the devils were about air defense in the early days.

But this is normal, because in the early days of World War II, many people believed that naval warfare was still a "big gun ship". What effect can dropping bombs on an airplane have?
So air defense is just for show, one or two anti-aircraft guns or anti-aircraft machine guns are enough.

But as the war became more and more intense, it was discovered that naval guns were useless in real naval battles, and anti-aircraft guns were in short supply, so more and more anti-aircraft guns were changed. First, it was changed to two double-mounted Type 25 9MM anti-aircraft guns, and then directly changed to 3. There are 21 double-mounted guns plus 2 single-mounted ones, and [-] anti-aircraft machine guns.

This anti-aircraft firepower is much better than Mao Xiong's "Wrath-class" destroyer.

But having said that, Mao Xiong's destroyer really doesn't have much air defense needs... Hans's fighter plane will go to the sea to bomb its destroyer when it is full and has nothing to do.

Therefore, if these two destroyers and a cruiser of the Devil are all in place, that is, surrounding the "Musashi", it is really impossible for the missiles of the Eighth Route Army to cause so much damage to the "Musashi".

But now, a heavy cruiser and a destroyer chose to escape, and the remaining "Musashi" and the destroyer became targets and were blown up.

Once they lose their combat effectiveness after being bombed, it will be easy for the Eighth Route Army to make up for these two ships.

If the Japanese warships really set up defensive formations as ordered by Toshihei Inoguchi, it is not certain who will win the battle. There may be a few missiles overflowing and hitting the "Musashi", but the "Musashi" will take the fight in a while. It has no choice, and the final result is likely to be that the Eighth Route Army ran out of anti-ship missiles and only damaged the "Musashi", and then the Eighth Route Army watched the "Musashi" leave with regret.

In this situation, the devils are already defeated, and the Eighth Route Army still has [-] missiles to fight slowly.

The next batch only hit fifty.

Because the battleship at this time has no power to fight back, and there is a high probability of hitting no matter how many hits.

Sure enough, the wounded and smoking battleship and destroyer had only sporadic anti-aircraft firepower, and only one of the fifty missiles was intercepted by it, except for a dozen that failed to hit or hit the outer armor... The missile hit the outer armor of the battleship. The armor is not much different from a miss. Its main armor belt is as thick as 410MM. It is designed to resist shells. The charges of anti-ship missiles will not hurt it, and the remnants and fuel will fall into the sea and burn.

What played a role was the thirty or so shells that hit the deck to continue to maintain and increase the fire.

When the Eighth Route Army launched the third batch of missiles, the destroyer had exploded inside and the hull began to tilt. Although the battleship was still moving, its speed had slowed down significantly.

The Eighth Route Army fleet chasing behind had sailed into the range of naval guns, and the staff officer asked Xu Huandong, "Regimental Commander, shall we fire?"

Xu Huandong replied: "What kind of fire is there? Are there any living people on it? What are you fighting for?"

The staff officer asked again: "Then let's hit the torpedo and sink this guy!"

Xu Huandong rolled his eyes at the staff officer, and replied: "You're just trying to sink it, such a big lump can be worth a lot of money even if you sell it for scrap iron!"

Then he gave the order: "Get ready to board the ship!"

"Yes!"

Although the staff officer responded in this way, he murmured in his heart.

The main reason is that most of the crew of the coastal defense regiment are crew members of civilian ships, and none of them know how to fight, and the only ones who can fight are the gunners.

But there are not many gunners who have fired guns. Only a small part of them are Eighth Route Army artillerymen, and the rest are militiamen who came up after a period of training.

In this situation, it is really not an easy task to organize a commando to fight hand-to-hand with the devils on the ship!
(End of this chapter)