Naval Warfare for All: From Patrol Boats to Carrier Fleets

Until the time when the Yanhuang entered the battlefield at an extremely fast speed, the two old devils, Hikonosuke Kamura and Heihachiro Togo, of course, at this time, they are not old, they are only in their 40s, and they can be regarded as prime-aged officers.

These two guys finally found out that something was wrong, which means that something happened on Yoshino’s side, either defeated or fled, and there is a possibility that they were pinned down by the other party.

However, the two old guys did not want to believe the first two possibilities, and the Yoshino was a cutting-edge warship that had just been purchased by the Japanese Bon Combined Fleet and had just been launched, and it was not so easy to defeat or sink.

As for fleeing the battlefield, it is even more impossible, Kawagen is not only the captain of the Yoshino, but also the commander of the first guerrilla group of the combined fleet, deeply trusted by His Majesty the Celestial Locust, not to mention, but also a real samurai, it is impossible to do something like abandoning his comrades on the battlefield and escaping on the battlefield~.

In this case, there is only one last more reasonable explanation, that is, the support fleet of the Beiyang Naval Division found that the situation of the Jiyuan was not good, so they divided their forces to fight, pinning down the Yoshino while rushing to support the Jiyuan.

Coming to this conclusion, both Uemura Hikonosuke and Heihachiro Togo breathed a sigh of relief, and in the absence of communication through the flag, they very tacitly divided the troops into the same battle, and the Akitsusu continued to attack the Jiyuan, while the Nanisu turned the bow of the ship and fired at the Yanhuang, which had just been inserted into the battlefield.

“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”

A shell exploded around the Yanhuang, especially the two 260mm Zupp guns equipped by the Langspeed, which were even more powerful, blowing up a cloud of waves, but also causing waves to appear on the originally calm sea, making the Yanhuang’s hull shake.

In the face of the attack of the Wave Speed, the Yanhuang inserted diagonally into the battlefield naturally did not mean to be polite, and the turrets of the three twin 127mm flat dual-purpose guns on the battleship rotated in bursts, and the high muzzles were aimed at the Wave Speed.

Subsequently, the muzzles of black holes erupted into flames, and 6 127mm caliber shells flew out of the muzzles, also falling on the periphery of the Wave Speed, and the large number of waves that exploded also set off the hull of the Wave Speed.

This time, Lütyans did not open the distance again, relying on the advantage of the range of the guns on the Yanhuang to attack the Langsu, after all, the range of the two 260mm Zupp guns on the Langsu also reached about 12,000 meters, and the Yanhuang did not have much cheap to take advantage of in the range.

Therefore, the two sides kept a distance of about 4 miles and constantly opened artillery and bombarded, which was quite lively.

And the Jiyuan, which was originally struggling to support, was also relieved, they fought with one enemy and two just by virtue of a bloody nature, but the fight was extremely hard, and now with the support of the Yanhuang, their opponent was only left with one Qiujinzhou, and this pressure was instantly reduced by more than half.

Even Fang Boqian, who was not very bold, shouted in the bridge as if he had beaten chicken blood, commanded the Jiyuan to attack desperately, and fought with the Qiu Jinzhou.

The distance between the warships of both sides is not far, not more than 5 kilometers at all, this kind of close-range shooting, the hit rate is relatively considerable, but overall, the Yanhuang still occupies the advantage of science and technology, performance advantage of the Yanhuang hit rate is higher.

Looking from the outside of the battlefield, even if there is a thick smoke shrouded, you can still see the fireballs rising from time to time, and the fire is particularly bright in the thick smoke.

Those fires were nothing else, they were produced after a shell fell on the hull and exploded, which shows the fierceness of the battle, even the Yanhuang was hit twice by the shells fired by the Langsu, once in the side position exploded, tearing the side side side a hole.

Another shell landed in the middle of the hull, blowing up a single-barreled 20mm caliber machine gun while also causing casualties to several crew members, fortunately, Ye Bai had the foresight to recruit a group of medical personnel on the Yanhuang to set up a medical cabin, otherwise these wounded would not even have a place to treat.

The Yanhuang was hit by two shells, and the Wave Speed was naturally more uncomfortable, after all, the hit rate of shelling at this distance was still a few chips higher than the crew members on the Yanhuang.

As far as Ye Bai saw with his own eyes, there were at least 5 fireballs exploding on the Wave Speed, which meant that under the continuous volleys of the Yanhuang, at least 5 shells fell on the hull of the Wave Speed, and a violent explosion occurred.

Ye Bai silently calculated the account in his heart, these 5 shells almost knocked out nearly 2,000 armor points of the Wave Speed, so calculated, it seems that the use of shells is really not as good as torpedoes, but the price of a torpedo is enough to need 5,000 pieces, it is too expensive, it is very cool when you use it, but it is quite distressing after use.

The Langsu was knocked out by the Yanhuang by nearly 2,000 armor points, plus the losses caused by the previous battle with the Jiyuan, the Langsu now has at most two-thirds of the armor value, although it is still considerable, but it makes Ye Bai feel that victory is in sight.

These shells that successfully hit the Wave Speed not only knocked out nearly 2,000 armor points of the Wave Speed, but most importantly, ignited a fire on the hull of the Wave Speed, and the bright fire was like a large torch on the sea, indicating the target to other warships.

“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”

Just when the Langsu and the Yanhuang engaged in a fierce confrontation, they made a circle on the sea and returned to the other side of the Langspeed, and the Pengze had also entered the attack position, and did not use the main gun salvo, and directly launched a 3mm diameter torpedo.

As the captain of the Nanispeed, Heihachiro Togo has always thought that the Pengze is pinning down the Yoshino, so he is not even the slightest guard against the Pengze’s sneak attack, not to mention that now the Nanispeed has burst into flames, and many crew members have joined the firefighting work.

The lack of sufficient vigilance for the situation on and below the surface of the water made the three torpedoes launched by the Pengze easily hit the hull of the Wave Speed and exploded violently.

Three 533mm diameter torpedoes exploded one after another, almost killing the Wave Speed, and three large holes were blown open on the side of the Wave Speed’s hull, and I don’t know how many cabins were blown up.

Even more unfortunate, one of the torpedoes exploded near the power compartment of the Wave Speed, and the power of the explosion blew up several adjacent cabins, including the power compartment that was close at hand.

Several coal-fired boilers were immediately blown up in the violent explosion, so that the power system of the Wave Speed was directly paralyzed, without the support of power, the speed of the Wave Speed was greatly reduced, almost stagnant, and many subsystems could no longer be used.

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Facing a live target parked on the sea, Lü Teyansi and Jiang Chaoying did not have the slightest intention of mercy from their subordinates, and each commanded the Yanhuang and Pengze to concentrate their firepower on the Langsu and bombard the Langsu.

After close shelling, the hit rate of the Yanhuang and Pengze was not bad, and now the Langsu has lost most of its power, and it is somewhat difficult to barely maintain the voyage, which makes the hit rate of the two warships rise several notches again.

A round of 127mm caliber shells flew from the left and right directions, landing around the Wave Speed, which had lost power and speed, and in the violent explosions one after another, the Wave Speed did not know how many shells were hit.

Caught between two sides, the Wavespeed’s limited counterattack force was simply one or the other, and as a shell landed precisely on the main gun position of the Wavespeed, the heavy 260mm Krupp gun was directly blown away, and the Wavespeed’s counterattack was even weaker.

“Boom”, “Boom”, “Boom”

The Yanhuang and the Pengze joined forces to attack, and in just a few minutes, the Langsu was blown up, the entire hull superstructure was almost razed to the ground, and one gun was either blown up or reduced to a state of parts.

Under the continuous explosion, the remaining two-thirds of the armor value of the Langsu continued to decline, and soon under the attack of two 533mm diameter torpedoes fired again by the Yanhuang, the armor value was emptied, and the entire hull was blown into several sections and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

A battleship with a damaged power system and losing most of its speed is undoubtedly a living target for torpedoes, not to mention that the chaotic Wave Speed does not have the energy to notice the attack from below the surface, and even if it does, it cannot be effectively avoided, and can only endure helplessly.

The Langsu was sunk, and only the last Japanese benzene battleship Akijinzhou was still doing its final death throes on the entire battlefield, don’t see that the Akitsusu is now fighting quite fiercely with the Jiyuan, and even has the upper hand, if it were not for the timely support of the Guangyi, which contained part of the energy of the Akitsushu, I am afraid that it would have won the victory.

But now it is different, the Yoshino and the Nansu were sunk one after another, and the Yanhuang and Pengze were completely freed up, turned their ships, and launched a fierce attack towards the Akitsusu.

Together with the Jiyuan and Guangyi, 4 warships surrounded the Qiu Tsuzhou, and shells of various calibers flew from all directions, and Qiu Tsuzhou was unable to return to the sky even if he had the intention to dodge.

In just a few moments, it was hit by several shells, igniting a fire in the superstructure of the battleship, and the strength of the counterattack became weaker and weaker, and it only took one more fight, and the Akitsusu was bound to sink.

And what is even funnier is that seeing such a great opportunity to beat the falling water dog, responsible for transporting official documents, he met the Gao Sheng on the way, and the gunboat Cao Jiang, who was accompanying him, also joined the battlefield impatiently.

With a displacement of several hundred tons, two 120mm guns fired continuously, although the damage caused to the Akitsusu was limited, it was like tickling, but the courage was commendable and the spirit was worth encouraging.

Subjected to the artillery fire of 5 warships, and torpedo attacks mixed from time to time, not to mention such a protective cruiser as Akitsushu, even if the ironclad ship came, it could not bear it, and it did not last long before it slowly sank to the bottom of the sea in the continuous shell explosion.