While the loud sound of the torpedo explosion was still echoing in the air, another even more terrifying explosion came from the Iowa! The detonation of the aft ammunition depot instantly killed the most powerful warship of the U.S. Navy, and the massive twin 12-inch turret was pushed straight away from the gun mount. Violent explosions continued to come from the stern of the hull, and the entire battleship was cut into two ends in continuous explosions! With the sound of metal twisting and breaking, the hull from the rear main turret sank directly into the sea, while the first half of the hull was raised high and then recoiled back to the bottom of the sea.

The sinking of the Iowa was so fast that the huge whirlpool created during the sinking of the battle brought even a close Japanese mine-strike ship into the sea! In less than one minute, the battleship, which had just separated from the resistance, sank into the sea completely. And none of the 654 officers and men on the ship survived! Dewey and his officers and soldiers left this world with anger and reluctance to leave this world forever!

"Your Excellency, Commander, we have won! The flagship of the Americans was taken out! We avenged the revenge of the black ship of the year! An officer looked at the Iowa that sank into the sea in an instant, and said excitedly to the Kayama Shiki.

"Yes, we won, but how will the empire end after this battle?" When Kayama Shiki returned to his senses from madness, he began to think about the future again, judging from the outcome of the battle, the Japanese fleet had won, but from a strategic point of view, the victory was not complete, if the United States and Russia were given enough time, the United States and Russia could still mobilize a powerful fleet! At that time, the Imperial Navy will still have the strength to fight in the face of a large number of battleships of the United States and Russia? The Americans have enough financial resources for them to buy warships from other countries, and with these remaining warships, the prospects of the Japanese fleet are not so optimistic!

However, at this time, the remaining Japanese warships did not have a chance to think about these annoying things, and the entire Japanese fleet pursued the scattered American and Russian warships in three waves. Togo Heihachiro's two armored cruisers were biting two Russian old-timers. Although the Asama-class armored cruiser is very violent, both firepower and defense are much stronger than the Munich class, but it is not easy to think about the speed, there is no kerosene mixed boiler, no steam turbine, and enough firepower and defense, which is too difficult!

If nothing else, before the storm, two Russian cruisers had every chance to throw off two Japanese armored cruisers. But alas, maybe the RP of the Russians ran out, or maybe it was the blessing of Aunt Amaterasu of the Japanese, a 10-inch shell flew over a distance of about 4500 meters and landed directly near the wheelhouse of the Parada! Although the armor of the wheelhouse blocked the shell, the violent impact damaged the rudder, and a huge piece of shrapnel stuck the rudder!

"Brother, you go first! Take care all the way! Parada issued a flag that the battleship was no longer operational, and then the Bayan replied "take care" and began to withdraw from the battlefield, and looking at the Bayan in the distance, the two Japanese armored cruisers did not pursue further, on the one hand, the storm was coming, and the pursuit was a certain thing, and on the other hand, they were far enough from the main battlefield. Kill the Parlada and flash it.

After Yakumo took out the last of the Parada's counterattack fire with a dense cannonball, the Asama fired two 18-inch torpedoes at a distance of 600 meters, and after one hit, the Japanese found that the scarred ship was still floating on the water! After another torpedo was fired, the battleship finally sank into the sea, and the Japanese had no mercy for the Russian officers and men who were struggling on the sea, and a dense machine gun and the ensuing storm wiped out all the Russian officers and men on the battleship Parada!

At the same time that the Parada was sunk, Shimamura Suo's pursuit was also at the end of the net, although the New York tried its best to cover the little brother behind him, but the Olympia was too ineffective under the fire of the armored cruiser Nisshin, and the side chord of the battleship was directly beaten into a sieve by the dense rain of bullets, and when the New York was forced to abandon the battleship, the Olympia had tilted 15 degrees!

It turns out that the 100MM side-chord armor plate of the New York is still somewhat useful, at least after being broken by the 8-inch armor-piercing bullet, the opening is relatively small, the water is relatively small, and the blood bar itself is long (8500 tons) so it can still ensure a high speed, in this chase battle, the battleship actually ran a high speed of 20 knots, (the New York ran out of 21 knots with a tonnage of more than 8800 tons!) So much so that the Japanese all claimed in the telegram that "the enemy ships are turning in like flying, and our troops cannot pursue them." ”

The New York was able to escape, but the Olympia was not so lucky. The final result was naturally torpedoed execution, but compared to the Iowa and Parada, which were all killed, the most fortunate thing about the Olympia was that the officers and men on board had survived a lot, not that the Japanese were merciful, but because the Germans who watched the battle came, and in front of a third country, the Japanese were not easy to do!

As for the last chaser? How to play 2 battleships chasing 4 battleships? The Americans are completely thinking about it and running directly in 4 directions! And the Japanese second-class cruisers really didn't dare to leave the shelter of the Izumo to pursue alone, so they set their sights on the second ship of the cruiser Columbia, a 7,000-ton battleship is also a good prey, and after being targeted by two Japanese battleships, the outcome is naturally certain, this battleship finally failed to see the sun tomorrow, and was completely burned into a torch under the dense high-explosive bomb attack and sank to the bottom of the sea!

Thank God Almighty, the ensuing storm provided shelter for the fleeing American warships, and eventually, after a great battle, the combined U.S.-Russian fleet lost the battleship Iowa, the cruiser Brooklyn, and the armored cruiser USS Rurik. The armored cruiser USS Parlada and 1 7,000-ton first-class protective cruiser, and the only American protective cruiser left in history, the USS Olympia! And the price paid by the Japanese was nothing more than a first-class protected cruiser Kasuga and a couple of torpedo boats!

Before the start of the battle, although everyone thought that the Japanese fleet had a certain advantage, they did not expect that the Japanese navy would sink 6 warships of the US and Russian fleets in just a few hours! The total tonnage has reached 50,000 tons! Thinking about the Japanese navy in the Qing-Japanese War, which fought one country and one place, fought hard against Beiyang, this battle seemed too easy to outsiders! And the results of the naval battle in the Sulu Sea also made the evaluation of the Japanese Navy by outsiders jump directly from the third-rate inferior level to the second-rate upper class!

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