readx; "Kaohsiung!" Vice Admiral Yoshimura Ohno looked at the battleship behind that was slowly sinking into the water, as if he had aged for decades in an instant, his face was devoid of his previous passion and seriousness, and at this time he was like an old man watching his children die in front of him!

After a long while, he turned around to look at a group of officers who looked excited or the curtain had ended, and after taking a deep breath, the curtain on his face had all disappeared: "Gentlemen, although the Kaohsiung has sunk in battle, we still have the Shinano, the Haruna, and countless brave and fearless Imperial Navy soldiers, we have not been defeated tonight!" Victory is still ours! ”

As one of the three capital ships, the Kaohsiung was hit many times in less than 10 minutes, and several 12-inch shells, two torpedoes, and a 16-inch shell made the warship, which was more than 40,000 tons, directly silent. The fact that the 1st guerrilla formation of the Navy has already been heavily damaged. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

So far, the Takao in the 1st Guerrilla Formation has sunk, the Shinano has been hit by a torpedo, and the auxiliary ships involved in the lightning and anti-lightning missions, including the two heavy cruisers and other light cruisers and destroyers, have been more or less damaged, and only the Haruna is intact.

In contrast, the Yellow Emperor was hit by a torpedo that caused the speed to drop, but the Yandi was also hit by several shells, but these two of China's main battleships for decades, the symbol of the navy in the hearts of the people, the pillar of Zhenguo still maintained its main combat effectiveness, and the Shaohao and Fuxi, which existed as secondary capital ships, were also intact. In other words, the capital ships of the Second Mobile Fleet still maintained their combat effectiveness, while the light forces suffered a lot of damage, especially the 17th Destroyer Fleet had sunk a destroyer, the Zizhan destroyer had also been heavily damaged, and many other destroyers and light cruisers had also been seriously damaged or slightly damaged.

The light units of the Second Mobile Fleet suffered a lot of damage, but the results were equally huge, and the dozens of torpedoes fired achieved as many as three effective hits, and two of them caused heavy damage to the Kaohsiung, and made great contributions to the main artillery attack and sinking of the Kaohsiung by the Yellow Emperor.

Compared with the slight losses and the gains made, the light ship units of the 2nd Mobile Fleet had a big advantage.

The sinking of the Kaohsiung did not end this naval battle, Yoshimura Ohno still wanted to break through the interception of the Chinese battlefleet and attack the Chinese aircraft carriers, but he did not know that at this time, the five Chinese aircraft carriers had already broken away, and the distance was dozens of nautical miles away at this time. Moreover, not to mention attacking Chinese aircraft carriers, according to the current situation, it is still questionable whether Yoshimura Ohno's 1st guerrilla formation can break through under the interception of the fleet directly under the 2nd Mobile Fleet of the Chinese Navy.

Even if the luck of the 1st Guerrilla Formation continues to deteriorate, it is still a question of whether it will be able to survive until dawn!

The battle continues, although the sinking of the Kaohsiung has seriously hit the morale of the officers and soldiers, but everyone is not a mentally handicapped protagonist or supporting role in a mentally handicapped film and television drama, they are all soldiers who have undergone rigorous training! Maybe those ordinary soldiers will still panic because of the sinking of the Kaohsiung, but to be honest, ordinary soldiers play a very small role in naval battles, they are just a small part of the battleship, and it is those officers who really play a key role.

In these years, basically all the backbone officers in the army are professional officers, whether they are officers of the Chinese Navy or officers in the Navy, they are all professional officers who have been trained for decades, maybe few of them are military geniuses, but they are the most determined soldiers in this era, no matter what they are fighting for, but most of these officers are people who disregard life and can do anything for victory.

These officers can stand on the bridge with a firm face under the heavy fire of the enemy ship, and apply to continue the command of the battle easily, even if the superior orders them to drive the battleship to ram the enemy ship or use torpedoes and shells for their own battleship, they will not hesitate!

This is true of those Chinese naval officers who have graduated from the Chinese Naval Academy, and even more so of those who have graduated from the world's three major naval schools.

On the Tone, the gunnery bridge was filled with gunsmoke, and just now a twelve-inch shell of the Fuxi hit the island of the Tone, and the shell exploded near the gunnery bridge, causing heavy casualties among the officers and men inside. As a treaty-type heavy cruiser, although the Ligon is extraordinary, it cannot compete with those large cruisers of more than 20,000 tons, and the armor of the heavy cruiser cannot withstand the attack of 12-inch shells.

Ito Yura struggled to get up, at this time he was covered in blood, some of the others, some of his own, his abdomen had been wounded by a shrapnel, the blood was oozing out one after another, but he didn't seem to feel the pain, he struggled to get up and sat down a little unsteadily, and then grabbed the handrail to prevent himself from slipping.

His face was already pale, and his ears still echoed the hum of the shell explosion just now, and he shook his head to make himself more sober, he opened his eyes and strafed the people on the bridge, and at this time there were several motionless people lying on the ground with blood flowing, and several wounded officers and soldiers were trying to struggle to get up.

"Hurry up, the Empire needs us!" Ito Yura Nakasa shouted vigorously: "All return to their posts, immediately carry out the next round of ranging, and prepare to provide firing for each turret!" ”

Less than half of the fallen were able to get up, and all of them were wounded, and they were struggling on the console with their bloodied hands, and the Ligon opened fire again after stopping the shelling for more than a minute!

The Ligon continued to approach at a high speed, and behind it were several destroyers, and the Tone had to use its firepower and body to open a passage for the mine-striking ships so that they could fire torpedoes.

The Tone was also hit by extremely fierce firepower, and the two large Chinese cruisers had concentrated their firepower on the two heavy cruisers of the Navy, and the many five-inch secondary guns of the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor were also aimed at them.

Designed and built as the flagship of the lightning strike fleet, the natural mission of this heavy cruiser was to lead the destroyers to break through the interception of the enemy fleet and launch lightning strike operations against the enemy fleet.

At this point, it is said that the initial design goal of my secondary capital ship, that is, the heavy cruiser, is different from that of other countries.

The British Navy's heavy cruisers were only secondary because they had a large number of colonies and sea transportation lines to guard, and a large number of cheap capital ships were needed to maintain the safety of maritime traffic and act as the flagship of the colonial fleet. And the heavy patrol of the United States is different, the Americans have no maritime traffic surname to protect, their heavy patrol role is one that is to replace the battle cruiser but serve as the fleet avant-garde ships, although the early stage was limited by the treaty and could not be built larger, but after the outbreak of World War II, the United States' heavy patrol suddenly rose to more than 15,000 tons, and the subsequent Des Moines class was 20,000 tons of tonnage, this development trajectory fully shows that the role of the Americans' heavy patrol in the US Navy is very important, And the subsequent development of the Alaska-class large cruiser also fully represents this maritime strategy and thinking.

To a certain extent, the development of China's heavy cruisers is between the United States and the United States, and the early Chinese heavy cruisers were actually designed and built as capital ships, and other countries did not have this type of ship when China built a large number of balanced heavy cruisers, and the role of the 15,000-ton heavy cruisers in the Chinese Navy at that time was to serve as the main vanguard fleet, and as the main force of artillery warfare on the secondary front, and covering the aircraft carrier operations was not their main task.

Since China did not have battle cruisers, and aircraft carriers really replaced battleships to become the core of the navy after the thirties, it also led to the fact that several of China's early heavy cruisers were designed and used as fleet's avant-garde reconnaissance capital ships, from the Huatai class at the beginning to the later Shiguang class, even if it was a two-level four-ship treaty heavy cruiser during the treaty period. However, this situation has changed greatly since the mid-thirties, and after the Chinese Navy shifted its strategic focus to aircraft carriers in an all-round way, all shipbuilding and tactics revolved around aircraft carriers, and in this case, large cruisers of more than 20,000 tons appeared.

The tactical positioning of large cruisers in the Chinese Navy is mainly aircraft carrier support, and the Alaska-class positioning of the United States is a heavy patrol killer, but with the outbreak of the Pacific War in 1941, aircraft carriers dominated the sea with an unparalleled advantage and became the core of naval warfare.

However, in the general environment, when artillery warships are reduced to aircraft carriers and escort ships, there will also be some small situations, for example, it is impossible to say that there are aircraft carriers everywhere on a secondary front, because in many cases ordinary ships will be allowed to undertake combat missions, and in some special cases, there will also be a situation in which groups of surface capital ships will fight.

And tonight the battle between the battleships of the two countries is like this!

Tonight, there are no aircraft carriers!

Tonight, a storm sent huge waves on the sea!

And such a night gave the battleships of both sides an extremely rare opportunity to engage, and the mine-striking ships on both sides also got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the chance to run out of torpedoes in a naval battle and then reload and launch is absolutely a handful.

The gunnery bridge on the Ligon was still in disarray, but the Ligon still used a speed of more than 30 knots to ride the wind and waves, and quickly approached in the waves, and there were columns of water raised by cannonballs everywhere in front of and behind it, and another twelve-inch cannonball hit the Ligen, and the huge power of the cannonballs directly caused one of the front main turrets of the Ligon to be lifted and then smashed down, but the Ligon did not stop, and several destroyers behind it did not stop.

The shells that fell on the surface of the sea lifted up columns of water, and the many columns of water were connected in series like rainforests, and the Tone in the rainforest and several destroyers in the rear turned in unison, and when they turned, another 12-inch shell hit the Tone, which directly penetrated the side armor of the Tone, and then exploded violently in the interior compartment of the Tone. At the same time, more than a dozen torpedoes had been fired from the Tone and several destroyers behind it, heading towards the Shaohao and Fuxi in the distance.