With almost no interference, the two German battleships played unusually well! After the smoke cleared, the Scharnhorst found its target in a fourth-round half-salvo. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and the Gneisenau next to it successfully hit the battleship Aki located in the rear in the fifth round and a half salvo!

Look at the 5 turrets on the side of the Anyi from beginning to tail, 2 large and 3 small, a shell smashes over, and it is not easy not to hit the turret! The twin 10-inch turret, located in the center, was the first to be destroyed, and the sharp cup caps cut through the 8-inch thick layer of hardened armor like a hot knife cutting through butter, and fired through the middle of the two guns. After penetrating it, it continued to move forward, and hit directly on the aft compartment used to store spare ammunition in the rear of the turret!

And at this time, according to the custom of the Japanese, there were exactly 4 spare shells and 8 cartridges in the tail compartment! The flames and impact from the explosion of the shells first spread to the silk medicine packs! There was a chain explosion at the tail of the entire turret, a series of loud noises came from the turret, and finally accompanied by a violent explosion that shook the entire battleship, and half of the turret was directly blown to pieces! The two guns in the front were even more knocked down from the gun carriage. Numerous shrapnel and armor fragments shot out from the rear of the turret and swept directly across the deck of the entire mid-hull!

The power of the explosion was so great that the entire middle of the superstructure seemed to be wiped out at once! Although the damage to the superstructure may seem heavy, the impact is actually relatively limited, and the real fatal thing is that this cannon destroyed one of the chimneys of the Aki and the flue below! Half of the chimney was blown straight into the sea, and the black smoke billowing out of the flue quickly covered the entire middle of the hull and spread behind the hull.

On the one hand, smoke will directly affect the design of the gun, on the other hand, if the exhaust gas is poured into the boiler room, it may cause the boiler to go out, as for the individual people are smoked down, or even smoked to death, this kind of thing is not a matter at all compared with the above things!

I have to say that the Japanese at this time were still very hardworking, and they were completely different from the Heisei abandoned houses in later generations. A group of Japanese rushed up without even putting together asbestos suits and gas masks, and sprayed seawater from the pumps into the fire in an attempt to control the fire.

However, at this moment, the second shell fell and smashed directly near a team of firefighters, and the flames like a volcanic eruption easily engulfed the entire firefighting team, and this explosion smashed the entire upper deck that had been pioneered by the whole floor! More air entered the hull, causing the fire to expand faster, and snake-like flames swam around the chambers and pipes, turning compartments into fiery hells. Many of those who did not have time to evacuate could only struggle in the flames to survive the last and most painful time of their lives.

And the Scharnhorst of the Suchon did just as well! In the seventh round and a half of salvos, two shells of the Satsuma were successfully hit! A shell hit the front of the Satsuma's 12-inch turret due to angle problems, and did not penetrate but bounced off directly, but even so, a 12-inch gun barrel was still taken away, and the huge shock even caused problems with the hydraulic equipment of the other gun.

And the effect of the second shell hit was very good, it was a water bullet, 20 meters into the water on the combat side of the Satsuma, and then stabbed like a small torpedo, successfully tore open the hull plate and coal bunker outside, and then entered the main engine room, although there was no explosion, but the violent collision still knocked a propeller shaft in half! The huge propeller shaft jumped from the base by inertia and swept half of the engine room! The violent impact and the resulting fire deprived the battleship of half of its power!

Yuzaburo Kato felt that the whole battleship was rapidly tilting to one side, and the design of the watertight compartment of the British was not very successful, there were no subdivided compartments of the Germans, and there was no three-layer power compartment that could be called a perversion. The Japanese watertight design is also mediocre, although it is only a cannonball, but a large amount of seawater still pours into the compartment and the engine room through the breach, and under the huge water pressure, the broken power compartment can quickly be used for fishing.

The speed of the Satsuma inevitably decreased, and the Aki behind bypassed the Satsuma with a declining speed and prepared to continue approaching. "Kill the ship behind first, the Satsuma won't be able to escape." Looking at the Satsuma, which was rapidly decreasing, Su Xiong thought for a while and said.

Then the two German fast battleships began to point their guns at the approaching battleship. The Japanese were also firing back, but the nearest point of impact was 500 meters away from the German warship. And there was never a straddle. The accuracy of the fire was naturally high in almost ideal conditions, as in practice, when two German battleships cross-dumped a large number of shells on each other's hulls!

Huge fireballs burst out of the guns again, and the two battleships completely covered the opponent with a storm of steel and flame with a projection of more than 4 tons per minute.

"In less than ten minutes, I observed at least a dozen explosions observed on Japanese battleships! The Japanese seemed to be sitting on a continuously exploding gasoline drum, a huge fireball rose into the air over the battleship, and the superstructure of the battleship was cut off by two-thirds. There were breaches everywhere on the ship's side, and large quantities of black smoke, white hot steam, and flames erupted from the hull. The tilt of the battleship was visible even from a distance of ten thousand meters. And as an American, I'm so excited! Nimitz wrote in his diary of watching the battle.

At this time, under the focused care of the 16 350mm heavy guns of the two battleships, An Yi came to the end of his life ahead of the Satsuma class, and the tilt angle of the battleship was as high as 30 degrees, and it was no longer even possible to solve the balance of water injection. In other words, without the help of other warships, I am afraid that he will never be able to return to Japan.

"Abandon ship!" The captain of the Aki took his own life with a bullet after giving the order. And the Aki also became the first capital ship to sink in the entire First World War! And after Aki left, the limit of the Satsuma had also arrived.

As the twin 12-inch main gun turret at the rear of the Satsuma turned into a burning iron box, all the main and secondary guns on the engagement side of the Satsuma were destroyed, and the battleship was tilted 20 degrees. Now you can only go around at sea.

"Let the Swordfish come up and use a torpedo to finish them off!" Accompanied by Suchon's order, two German battleships waited at a distance of 8 kilometers for the auxiliary cruisers to fire torpedoes. Serve as the last executioner. Although the two German battleships were equipped with torpedoes at the request of the Argentine, Su Xiong was worried that the Japanese would be able to turn up some tricks in the end, in this case, instead of using expensive capital ships, let's use auxiliary cruisers.

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