How so? In general, there was all kinds of confusion and panic, but no matter what, the battle continued, and when the Americans discovered that the Japanese shells did not seem to be effective in penetrating the 343mm thick armor of Nevada, the Americans regained their confidence!

Rumble! With the roar of heavy artillery again, five 15-inch L42 guns jumped backwards violently, and five long fire dragons erupted from the muzzles of the guns and flew towards the American battleship 14 kilometers away. More than ten seconds later, www.biquge.info side of the Nevada once again erupted into a huge flame. Billowing smoke erupted from the breach, instantly covering most of the battleship, and the cannon must have hit a certain flue near the Nevada, and the shells successfully destroyed the flue while also allowing the smoke and exhaust fumes to vent from it.

This was already the fourth shell hit by the Fuso, and the Japanese naval officers and men were accustomed to this, and apart from some people who were more agitated and shouting, the Japanese naval officers headed by Vice Admiral Kondo were just silently staring at the American warships that were constantly being hit in the distance.

"Our shells don't seem to have any effect on the American battleships." It had been 20 minutes since the start of the battle, and the battleships in the distance had been hit, and then they had not received any fatal injuries, and the Japanese fleet had managed to place several fires on the bridges, decks, and gun corridors of the opponents, but the efforts of the American damage control team did not make much difference.

"The Japanese battleships were strong and managed to suppress the Nevada in the engagement, but their shell penetration was insufficient, and our 13.5-inch armor belt and 400mm armor on the front of the turret were perfectly immune to the enemy's attacks." Soon, Sims also found out about this situation, although he was hit again and again, but the Nevada battleship continued to fire at the opponent, and then, not a single shot hit the .......

The first Japanese shell damaged the front mast of the Nevada, causing the main rangefinder on it to be unusable, and all the guns could only rely on the rangefinder on the turret to fire, coupled with the interference of the dense smoke screen and flames generated after being shot, so that the accuracy of the Nevada's shelling can be described as miserable, and the alternating firing of the 10 guns of this American battleship seemed more of a manifestation of attitude in Japan. And the actual threat is very limited. The American shells are always far away and close, but they just miss! Well, at least that's the case with Nevada, and as for the other one, it's a different story.

The New York was commissioned in 1909, and although the No. 3 turret was basically scrapped due to the temperature of the ammunition compartment, there were still eight 14-inch guns after all, and the American officers and men who had been on the ship for two years had become accustomed to removing the middle turret as an additional factor. Although there is still a certain gap with the Japanese in terms of gunnery, the New York has an advantage over King Kong!

When the King Kong pasted the fourth shell into the 14-inch thick armor on the front of the New York No. 2 turret, the New York No. 2 turret said it didn't matter, I would give you one shot, and then the U.S. Navy made the first hit in this naval battle!

This shell hit the front door of the turret No. 3 of the King Kong, and unlike the Americans' armor that was as thick as 14 inches, the armor of the King Kong was only 9 inches! 13 kilometers away, 14-inch shells smashed directly, which could be pierced even if it was replaced by British or Japanese shells! However, this cannon has a really good effect!

The armor-piercing projectile, weighing more than 600 kilograms, landed very well and flew almost head-on towards the turret of King Kong, and unlike the picric acid charge used by the British, the Americans used the more stable D explosive. Although the fuse still didn't pass the test, the luck of this shell was obviously good, after the cap and the hardened layer of the armor surface turned into countless fragments, the sharp warhead slammed into the non-hardened layer inside the armor!

The blow was so powerful that it directly hit a deep crater up to 7 inches deep, and at this moment, the shell fuse activated. Under the action of more than a dozen kilograms of explosives, a huge bullet hole appeared in the head of the King Kong No. 3 turret.

"From the conning tower, I could clearly see a huge fireball erupting from the turret, and the smoke quickly covered the rear half of the bridge. After that, a series of explosions were heard near the turret, and the entire battleship seemed to be shaking. One of the 14-inch guns was blown off, and the other was pulled down. A Japanese officer aboard the Kongo said with trepidation.

"The British battlecruisers are really not strong, so I'm relieved." Lieutenant Commander Kimmel, the captain of the New York, looked at the King Kong with a pillar of fire rising in the middle of the hull in the distance, nodded with great satisfaction. The rumors that the British battle cruisers were relatively brittle, Kimmel had also heard from the German military attache in the United States, and this time, he finally verified it himself, which was really sour!

"Hold the grass, I knew it was going to be like this! I knew it would be this way before I bought it from the British! Lieutenant General Kato Dingyoshi looked at the King Kong who had been shot in the distance and said bitterly. When the Japanese Navy was purchasing battle cruisers, most of the admirals in the navy, and even Heihachiro Togo, thought that it was better to order German battleships than to buy British battlecruisers, and even some people in the Admiralty planned to follow the old story of the Asama again. Through third-country purchases, but in the end, the uncertainty of such purchases, the inadequacy of the equipment system, and the political nature overwhelmed everything. The Kongo-class battleships of the British Armstrong shipyard still made it into the Japanese Navy, and then were directly destroyed in the first ...... war.

After the New York first hit the Kongo, the situation of the war changed slightly, although in general it was still the Fuso-class battleships that had a certain advantage, and now the Nevada's forward mast was broken, and the rear mast was cut in half. One of the barrels of turret No. 2 was blown off, turret No. 3 was hit by the turret, and the huge impact temporarily stuck the rotation mechanism of turret No. 3. Two large holes were opened in the bow, the battleship was flooded about 1,000 tons, and the hull had a head roll of about 3 degrees and a left roll of 7 degrees. The swells of the battleship while sailing had already affected the firing of the bow turret. Overall, the Nevada is already dangerous.

"Divide 6 guns to attack the New York, I'm afraid the King Kong won't be able to defeat it." At this time, Kato Dingyoshi did not forget the order from the Admiralty - don't break the ship! If something goes wrong with King Kong and he sinks here directly, Kato Dingji may have to cut himself off .......

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