Chapter 815: Fight Less with More

"Boom!" Just as Chen Guan was considering whether to start the aircraft carrier operation behind him in advance, the barrels of the giant cannons of the Dingyuan that lined up had already turned and blasted towards the Nagato-class Anyun.

Chen Guanli knew that this was the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Long Wu, who directly gave the order for the bombardment.

He praised Long Wu, who was usually silent, for his courage, but he didn't know that Long Wu just put Meng Xiang's instructions in the first place, and would not use the aircraft carrier in the rear lightly, so he directly decided the support of the Dingyuan.

The battle situation was urgent, and Long Wu, who had the power of commander-in-chief, measured the strength of the enemy and the enemy, and immediately and decisively ordered the muzzle to turn.

The Anyun had just slammed into the Taiwan, which had replaced the two guns of the sinking Suzuya, and its speed was decreasing, and the shells of the Dingyuan were smashed down.

"Quick, left full rudder!" Captain Mikio Hayakawa held up his binoculars and stared at the black dot in front of him, sweating profusely.

He didn't expect that An Yun would have such an unwarranted disaster.

The opponent of the Dingyuan was the Musashi, and the two super battleships were fighting, and its Nagato-class did not come over, but ran to bully the cruisers. Who knew that the Dingyuan ignored the iron hammer that the Musashi bombarded, and directly aimed at the first attack target of the Anyu.

The Anyun made a sharp turn to minimize the attack surface, but had no intention of continuing to sideways. Hayakawa Mikio consciously faced the Dingyuan's world's first-caliber naval guns, and he did not have the courage to bombard at all. Even the Musashi is hard to bear, let alone the Nagato-class, whose armor is a little shy in the face of super battleships.

But Dingyuan's attack was too sudden, and it seemed that the first round of attacks was slightly more accurate. The Anyun had already tilted sharply, and the hull shook violently, and a sky-high column of water exploded beside it, letting out a groan of steel tearing.

The two 500 mm naval guns in the A turret at the front of the Dingyuan were favored by Lady Luck, and the first attack was effective, one of which hit the stern of the Nagato-class ship directly, and a near-miss bullet tore through the weak port armor of the Nagato-class.

More than a ton of shells were like tearing through a piece of waste paper, directly through the horizontal deck armor, which was only 75 mm, and smashed into the transmission compartment.

In the midst of a loud explosion. With broken gears and bearings flying sideways, and even a propeller flying out of the water, the Nagato-class was paralyzed on the surface of the sea, and the large hole in the open port side remained.

Even though the Anyun was 18 kilometers away from the Dingyuan, it was a little closer. But no one expected that the Dingyuan would make a contribution with one shot.

Chen Guan could only attribute it to luck, but he didn't know that Long Wu was already a little sure in his heart.

There were only two Nagato-class ships built by the Japanese themselves, and the Mutsu was beaten directly to the bottom of the sea by the Pioneer cannon. Those Nagato-level people who were crazy to buy by the Japanese were all opened by Meng Xiang. In addition to being equipped with a more advanced radar system, the Anyun with the back door is not too easy to aim and position, at least the success rate is greatly improved.

Caught off guard. An Yun can only admit that he is unlucky.

However, the level honed by the Japanese Navy is not so simple.

"Boom!" The Musashi, which had already discovered the movement of the Dingyuan, seized this opportunity, and the two turrets in front fired a salvo, and the six 460 mm cannons bombarded the Dingyuan 20.5 kilometers ahead.

The captain of the Musashi, Arima Xin, was obviously very calm and did not rush to the Dingyuan's change of direction attack, which gave the Musashi plenty of time to prepare for the attack.

The distance of 20 kilometers is already somewhat certain for the Japanese, who are struggling to shoot at sea.

Two water columns burst out around the Dingyuan, and the waves that rose at close range even made the Dingyuan's 90,000-ton huge body shake non-stop. Although the 380 mm side high-quality steel main armor and the sturdy hull skeleton withstood the tearing impact of the underwater explosion. But the gunner of the Musashi's B turret must have also gone to the toilet without washing his hands, and a 460-mm armor-piercing projectile hit the Dingyuan's A turret.

"Dang!" After a metal crash sound that spread throughout the battlefield, the Dingyuan A turret was slightly deformed except for the two barrels raised. It didn't explode.

Lady Luck gave the Japanese a hope, but left a disappointment when she turned around.

The 1,460-kilogram Type 91 armor-piercing shell was able to penetrate 494 mm of vertical armor at 20 km, but unfortunately it got stuck on the 500 mm thick frontal and somewhat inclined armor of the Dingyuan A gun mount.

Although the A turret is no longer in use, and even the operators inside may have been martyred, the damage caused by this gun is limited to that.

"Yaga!" Koga Feng's eyes were red, and he clenched his fists and roared.

The Musashi seized its chance, but also lost the record it had hoped for.

The other four huge cannons that had already been prepared by the Dingyuan also quickly responded to the Musashi's round of fire, although none of them hit, but also forced the Musashi to dodge.

Even the Musashi did not have the confidence to receive a single 500-mm naval gun shell from the Dingyuan.

Similarly, the Dingyuan could not ignore the heavy blow of the Type 94 naval guns of the Yamato-class. It was just luck just now, and I resisted it with the thickest turret armor. It doesn't mean that other armor can withstand it.

Eliminating some of the threat to the Nagato-class battleships, the Dingyuan continued to engage with the Musashi.

Under the continuous burst of the hundred-meter-high water column, the two steel giants fought together again.

The Anyun stopped in the water, busy plugging the hole and extinguishing the fire at the stern. The last Y turret has been damaged, and the remaining three turrets can be used as fixed turrets to continue the counterattack against the Huaxia Navy. But it needs to first resolve the crisis that is getting closer to it.

The three Keeling-class destroyers of the Huaxia Navy have already started to rush up at a high speed of 32 knots, and even Cheng Dalong's Qingzhou continues to rush forward, all aiming at the Anyun, which has lost its ability to move.

For them, the stagnant Anyun was definitely an excellent torpedo target.

The battleship Ise could no longer bother to intercept the Seisu, and the two large Alaska-class cruisers aimed their 305 mm guns at it at the same time.

Born in the Fuso-class battleship, the Ise was once the star battleship of the Japanese Navy with the conversion of the Ise-class battleship into the lead ship of the Ise-class battleship. Both Koga Mineichi and Yamaguchi Tamon had captained the battleship.

Its sister ship, the Hyuga, was in dockyard because it had been used as a test to convert into an aviation battleship, but the name was transferred to the Yamato-class battleship that had made great achievements in the Fiji Sea.

Originally, it was just a smoke bomb released by the Japanese, but with the exploits of the Fiji Sea, the name of the Hyuga was directly fixed on the Yamato-class battleship in the future.

Even if the old Hyuga is successfully renovated, it will need to be given a new name.

The Ise, which has become the only seedling, is already a little old, and even after modification, the thickest main armor is no more than 305 mm, and it can no longer keep up with the situation. Even cruisers can bully.

The Japanese did not know that the Alaska-class 305-mm guns were comparable to the formidable battleships, but Captain Isamu Takeda smelled danger from its massive body of about 30,000 tons.

At this time, the 18 50-diameter 305-mm gun barrels erected by the two Alaska-class two-dozen and one had already made it flawless, and it was not noticed that the Gagu Heavy Cruiser not far away was also in crisis.

After the Gunhawk Heavy Cruiser was sunk by the Vanguard, only the old battleship of the Gunaka-class Heavy Cruiser remained.

As Japan's first 200 mm naval gun, the Heavy Cruiser was once a test product of the Japanese Navy's many technologies after World War I, but now these features are long outdated.

Although the six main guns were modified to 203 mm, the thin-skinned armor was clearly unable to block the blows of the Cleveland-class 152 mm guns.

Even the Suzuya-class, which was the most advanced heavy patrol, was planted among these high-rate machine gunners, not to mention the old Furutaka class.

What's more, the enemy it had to face was not one, and the two large destroyers of Huaxia next to it also approached.

It is still the era of World War II, and only Huaxia calls warships with a full load of more than 8,000 tons destroyers. This kind of destroyer, which also holds six twin 127-mm machine guns, is also named the Oakland-class light cruiser in the US Navy in another time and space, but at this time, two destroyers bear the name of destroyers, followed by another Cleveland-class Yangzhou, and surround them in three dozen and one.

Thirty-six 127-mm guns from three battleships rained down on the lone Kaku. The monstrous columns of water that erupted around the Kago formed a piece, forming a curtain of water and pressing down on the Japanese officers and men on the Kako, who were already a little sluggish in the rain of bullets.

No matter how good the psychological quality of the Japanese naval officers and men on the Kago was, they were also destroyed by the rain of bullets that poured from the sky, and only instinctive dodging and counterattacking remained.

Wails and cries for help rang out on the Kaku, which had been battered by a rain of bullets.

But at this time, no one can care about saving them.

Even the Japanese destroyers who escorted the ship were named one by one by the Keeling-class destroyers rushed up by the Chinese Navy with 127 mm naval guns, and it was difficult to protect themselves.

"Prepare for the HNA attack!" Koga Feng saw that a naval battle that he could easily win in his heart was out of his control, and he couldn't help but order with a blushing face.

At this time, the three aircraft carriers accompanying Japan had no intention of training, but they already knew about the appearance of the Huaxia aircraft carrier, and they were only waiting for the reconnaissance plane to locate the location of the Huaxia aircraft carrier. Unbeknownst to them, a Kirov airship overhead had teleported their location to two second-class aircraft carriers in the distance.