The splash of the monstrous water column was poured all the way in front of Takagi Takeo.

"What is this?" Takagi Takeo was familiar with this kind of power, and the main gun of the Mutsu was like that. Even if such a shell falls into the water next to it, it can cause some damage to the ship. The King Kong was affected, and the waves set off by a nearby 410-millimeter shell washed seven or eight people on the deck directly into the sea.

"Stand back!" Takagi Takeo was shocked. The power of such a huge cannon could not be withstood even by the Mutsu, and there were more than twenty of them at once.

He didn't worry about the plane's bomb, the empire had already done relevant experiments, and although the largest bomb carried by the plane at this time was a threat to the battleship, as long as it didn't hit the vital point, it didn't affect it at all. Perhaps with the development of aircraft, they will be able to pose a lethal threat to battleships in the future, but now they are far less threatening than the shore artillery in front of them.

He ignored the fact that the torpedoes and bombs dropped by the Vanguard planes on the Fengxiang had exceeded 500 kilograms, which were not comparable to the 250-kilogram bombs he was commonly used in. After all, the weapons of the vanguard army were ahead for several years. He is still immersed in the glory of the battleships dominating the seas during World War I, just like the later attacks from space, although they have appeared, but before they are embodied on a large scale, who can think that is the master of war?

He didn't see the sinking of the Fengxiang, but at this time he watched the Guying being hit by a 457 mm heavy shell on the bow of the ship, directly smashing the bow to pieces.

"Stand back!" He shouted loudly, facing more than 20 huge cannons at this time, any attempt to adjust the direction to hide to the side is also a risk, and the best way to open the distance as soon as possible to reduce the hit rate has become the best way.

At this time, he could no longer care about attacking the shore, and in the face of the salvo threat of more than twenty giant cannons on the shore, saving his life was the main thing.

At the same time, Shen Honglie was also struggling to save his life, and the main gun on the Ashigami made a big hole in the deck of the Kirishima, but the main gun of the Kirishima opened a big hole in the Ashigaku, and a large amount of seawater poured in. Causes it to wander and attack at a much reduced speed. Originally, its speed of 33.9 knots was much stronger than the Kirishima's speed of 27.5 knots, but after being shot, it was gradually shortened by the Kirishima. The S-shaped fighting of the Ashigara could not be carried out. At this point, the only option is to evacuate as soon as possible.

The Soryu can also reach a top speed of 34.5 knots, and at this time it has already opened up at full speed and gradually widens the distance between it and Kirishima. The Kirishima watched the Soryu move farther and farther away, and concentrated its firepower on the Soryu first, but allowed the Ashigara to escape.

"Attack the Ashigara!" Yamaguchi Jihei estimated that he could no longer catch up with the Soryu, and ordered instead. He was also a little helpless, the planes on the aircraft carrier could not fly, and the task of attacking could only be entrusted to him. Rough skin and thick flesh, strong anti-aircraft firepower, and powerful naval guns were the reasons why Nagumo Tadaichi let him come.

If you don't attack the Canglong, you can only be beaten passively. But when he heard about the division of the Mutsu, he scolded Takagi Takekuma in his heart for his lack of knowledge. The planes of the Vanguard Army were definitely not as threatening as they thought.

At this time, there were seven planes hovering over the head of the Kirishima, among which the dreadnought dive bomber had dropped three bombs, but the Kirishima's air defense capabilities were greatly strengthened after the second refit in 36 years. The fire of eight 127-mm high-angle guns and 20 25-mm anti-aircraft guns also cost Dreadnought a one.

Even so, it was hit by a bomb, the 725 kg bomb blew a big hole in its stern, fortunately it didn't do much damage, but such a powerful bomb also made Yamaguchi Ji frightened, and being hit the vital point was fatal.

Huang Chaoyang was also a little helpless at this time, facing the thick armor of the battleship and the anti-aircraft fire, the threat of dive bombers was slightly smaller, but the speed of the two large Avenger torpedo planes was too slow, and it was easy to be shot down by anti-aircraft artillery, and one of them was already damaged and was about to return to the Canglong.

"There are still too few planes, and we have to attack from all sides." Among the planes in the sky, there are two escorted Hellcat fighters, two Avengers, three Dreadnoughts, and the density of attacks is too low. The main attack force of the vanguard army was still concentrated on the side of the devil aircraft carrier.

"Ahh In the chorus cheers of the vanguard army, the sea water had already overflowed the deck of the Longxiang, and the two planes on it were forcibly taking off, but one was blocked by the debris on the deck hill and rushed into the sea water crookedly, and the other barely flew up, but then was hit down by more than 30 large-caliber machine guns.

"Concentrate your firepower and defend around the Akagi!" Nagumo Zhongyi was also remorseful in his heart, his initial estimation was all based on the surname of the Imperial Navy's carrier-based aircraft, and he also cautiously judged the level of the vanguard army with the level of the latest carrier-based aircraft in service in the empire, but he still underestimated the power of the vanguard aircraft, whether it was speed, protection or bomb power, it was far from being comparable to his own carrier-based aircraft. In several exercises and inferences of the Imperial Navy, the aircraft carrier formations that were able to support them were unexpectedly beaten to pieces by the aircraft attacks of the Vanguard Army.

Even if the planes on the Akagi continued to force their flight after simply repairing the deck, they could not stop the continuous group fights of the planes of the Pioneer Army.

It was his mistake to underestimate the surname of the aircraft of the Pioneer Army, and it was also a helpless mistake, who would have thought that the aircraft of the Pioneer Army would be so strong? Judging by its performance, which is stronger than any aircraft in service in the world now, who would have thought that the backward Huaxia would emerge with such a super-advanced aircraft?

He once again regretted agreeing to the departure of the Mutsu for the sake of more achievements and political compromises, but there was still no shadow of reinforcements in the sky, and all plans were completely messed up from the beginning.

"Keep retreating! Rendezvous with the Akagi! Takagi Takeo ordered with a dull face. Don't count on the attack, it's good to be able to go back with the King Kong. The Furutaka is finished, and even though it was modernized and strengthened last year with enhanced anti-aircraft firepower, there is nothing it can do in the face of the huge artillery shells flying in the air.

Most of the third round of shore artillery attacks was directed towards it, and the Ancient Eagle, which was still struggling to support itself by a huge cannon shell, could no longer hold on to the several shells that fell beside it, and after hitting a 410-mm shell again, it was a foregone conclusion that it would sink without moving.

The destroyer Qiufeng risked being blown up and sunk with a single shot to save the crew there, and out of 625 people, 287 people were rescued, not even half. In the end, the torpedo released by the Autumn Wind completely sent the Furutaka into the sea.

The King Kong was still draining the water and rescued, but the giant cannon that could attack from a distance only found it, and every minute there was always a cannonball falling around, and the high tension of waiting for the cannonball to fall was easy to make people go crazy, Takagi saw in the telescope that there was a sailor on the King Kong who shouted madly and broke free from the obstruction of the soldiers next to him and jumped into the sea.

He understood the helplessness of leaving his fate to Heaven to judge. When the cannonball explodes overhead, the loud sound seems to turn out all the internal organs of a person, and at the same time, it also throws all kinds of negative emotions out of the beating heart of the person and magnates it in the pupils of the person.

It's normal for something similar to happen in every battle, even some veterans sometimes suddenly lose their minds.

And he also had an urge to lose his mind at this time.

"Damn!" Takagi Takeo slammed it the command platform next to him. After this battle, his end was already sealed. All the glory was about to leave him, and the cheers of the generals drifted farther and farther in the sky.

"Damn it, there's another big monster!" On the Ashigaku, which was constantly speeding up to dodge, Shen Honglie saw another battleship coming on the left, which seemed to be clearly the Mutsu. I couldn't help but feel a trace of despair in my heart, if it was intact, the Ashigara could still rely on its speed to escape, but now it is likely to be overtaken. I can't fight and fight, I can't escape and I can't escape, I'm afraid that this time it's going to be over.

Cao Mo hid far away, he suddenly attacked the Kirishima just now, but both torpedoes missed, and luck once again stood on the Kirishima. A 152-mm shell landed next to the Cao Mo, and the cabin leaked, forcing the Cao Mo to urgently float after avoiding it. Thankfully, Kirishima focused on the Ashigara and pulled him out of the battlefield.

The Spring Rain and the Departure were also driven far away by the 152 naval guns on the Kirishima, and they couldn't get involved in this kind of heavyweight battle.

"Boom!" A Dreadnought plane rushed over, and although it was forced away by the anti-aircraft guns on the Mutsu, it dropped a bomb on the deck, possibly detonating ammunition or fuel, and the smoke on the Mutsu was ablaze.

"Good!" After Jiang Dacheng saw it from the periscope, he shouted loudly.

But the attack didn't have much effect on the Mutsu, and it was still moving forward at a rapid pace towards the place where the Kirishima and Ashigara were fighting.

"How did the Mutsu get here?" Jihei Yamaguchi was a little puzzled, he had received information earlier that they were separated from the Akagi. "Are they coming back again? What about other ships? ”

Before the signal for contact was returned, the main gun of the Mutsu opened fire first.

The first round of test firing fell relatively far away from the Ashigaku. The Water Reconnaissance 3 aircraft in the sky is constantly correcting its coordinates.

The second round is still biased. But the Mutsu came up.

"Takagi, this guy, the level has dropped too much! Could it be that the smoke is blocking his eyes? Yamaguchi scoffed.

As if something had been ignited by the bomb that had fallen on the bow, the smoke on the Mutsu was getting louder and louder, and the cannon of the turret at the front could be seen pointing in the direction of the Ashigara, and the bridge behind it was covered in smoke all the way to the stern, but the plaster flag fluttering at the top was still faint and faint.

The turret at the front was hoisted, ready for the next round of fire.

"Prepare the main gun, attack the Ashigara again!" Yamaguchi shouted as well. Targeted by two battleships at the same time, this time the Ashigara was already doomed.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Yamaguchi was about to give the order to attack again, but was pushed to the ground by the blast of air. His forehead hit the edge of the podium, and the blood left behind blurred his right eye.

"What's going on?" He wondered in his heart. Several planes in the sky were pushed to a high place, and for a while there was no such great threat to them, and neither was the attack of the Ashigara.

"The Mutsu is attacking us!" A staff officer ran in from the deformed doorway, bloodied and shouted.

"Mutsu?" The pass passed the Michinoku in smoke.

"Takagi Takekuma, this bastard, idiot, is not only blinded by the smoke, but also confused?" Yamaguchi touched the blood stain in his right eye, got up and cursed.

There was another shaking, and the sound of explosions continued to sound around him.

The Mutsu was four or five kilometers away from the Kirishima and so close that the 18 140-mm secondary guns on it also opened fire.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Yamaguchi shouted loudly.

The main guns on the Mutsu did not stop for a moment, and it did not look like it was fired by mistake, and the turret at the front also began to turn towards the Kirishima, and a gust of sea breeze blew, and in the gradually faint smoke, the muzzles of all the black holes in the turret were pointed at the Kirishima.

"Boom, boom, boom" Kirishima was hit again with a salvo. The 203 mm armor at the Kirishima waterline could not stop the 410 mm main gun bombardment of the Michinoku, and two large holes were damaged in succession, one of which was below the waterline, and a large amount of sea water poured in.

With a loud "boom", 102 mm thick armor near the ammunition depot broke through, and a 410 mm shell exploded inside.

"What the hell is going on?" Yamaguchi climbed out of the ruins of the conning tower and roared loudly at the still bombarded Michinoku in the distance.

"Keep attacking!" Chen Guan shouted loudly with a flushed face. The excitement of seeing a battleship about to be sunk under his command was stronger than the shock of seeing the Nagato-class for the first time. Although the sailors' skills were still much worse, with his carefully planned strategy, a sudden close attack was enough to send the shells to the Kirishima's side.

The guns on this Nagato-class battleship still kept bombarding towards the Kirishima, and Shen Honglie, who was already explaining the aftermath on the Ashigaku, also reacted at this time, and the main guns were fully fired and blasted towards the Kirishima together.

In fact, without their bombardment, the Kirishima was finished, and the explosion of the ammunition depot caused a series of explosions. Even if there were many sealed cabins, it didn't work, and a large amount of seawater rushed up from the bottom of the ship, quickly flooding the cabin below. From the outside, it looked like the Kirishima was already sinking.