The Rise of the Empire

The combat effectiveness of fleet operations depends on two aspects. One aspect is naturally the performance and personnel quality of the warships in the fleet, and the other aspect is the complete formation and efficient command. And now, Shelly rushed to the Japanese fleet with a total of 5 protected cruisers, while the Japanese protected cruisers only had 4! Moreover, they are in the process of evasive maneuvering, and are also at a disadvantage in terms of formation. Taking advantage of the sacrifice of the Rurik, the Americans seized the opportunity to launch a powerful counterattack after the battle broke out!

A group of armored cruisers holding sharp blades and wearing only iron pants collided directly! At close range, the two sides tried their best to use high-explosive bombs to suffocate their opponents. The picric acid shells easily tore open the unprotected hull. Life on deck hunts relentlessly. In just a few minutes, all 8 warships were on fire! All attempts to control the fire became futile under the heavy rain of bullets!

Just when the battlefield was heating up in a short period of time, the 8-inch gun on Rurik finally made a contribution! An 8-inch shell successfully hit the steering engine room of the protected cruiser Kasuga! Instantly blow up the entire cabin! The protected cruiser Kasuga, which was evading at high speed, instantly lost control like a wolf dog with its spine broken, and the protected cruiser San Diego, which seized the opportunity, fired 3 torpedoes at a distance of 700 meters from the opponent!

"The Japanese are so lucky!" Seeing two torpedoes passing behind the Kasuga and a third torpedo circling continuously on the water, Xie Li was terribly angry. The profiteers went to court!

But before Shirley finished complaining, the USS Philadelphia decisively went up to make up for the attack, and another 3 torpedoes drew a white track and fired at the target, this time the distance was even closer! 500 meters! In this case, even the Japanese Aunt Amaterasu can't save this battleship! A huge jet of water exploded from Kasuga's sidestring in an instant, and the 18-inch torpedo successfully tore a 3-meter-long hole in Kasuga's sidestring! Coupled with the fact that the battleship is out of control, the end of this battleship is doomed!

But when Shelly turned his attention to the other two second-class protected cruisers, the latter dodged very quickly. The two protected cruisers gave full play to their speed advantage to avoid this wave of deadly counterattacks. In a very short period of time, the Americans successfully sank a first-class protected cruiser and drove the other two out of the battlefield. The situation seemed to be very good!

However, the efforts of the U.S. and Russian navies soon proved to be in vain, because just as the Americans were cheering for killing a first-class protected cruiser, a loud noise from the U.S. battle line made the Americans just let go of their hearts again. It's mentioned in the throat!

"It's the Brooklyn! My God! A series of explosions occurred on the Brooklyn!" A series of explosions came from a distance, and the Russian officers and soldiers on the Bayan could clearly see the Brooklyn, the most powerful ship in the US Navy. A series of explosions occurred in the side string gallery of the armored cruiser, and raging flames and thick smoke gushed out from the side of the hull. Accompanied by the violent explosions, the entire battleship also tilted to a certain extent.

A 227KG shell hit the dome armor of Brooklyn. Although it failed to penetrate the 6-inch dome armor, the violent impact still caused the dome armor to deform. Countless flames entered the lower ammunition depot through the gap, and Ignite the propellant pack being transported upwards! And the so-called misfortunes never come singly, another shell came in from the dressing room below the sidestring 8-inch gun, directly detonating more than a dozen packs of bombs and a large number of shells accumulated in it! A soaring mushroom cloud burst out from the emplacement,

The dozens of tons of turrets were lifted and half pulled!

After this blow, the internal structure of Brooklyn suffered heavy losses, and the violent explosion caused countless cracks and holes to appear on the side string of the hull. A large amount of seawater broke through the watertight compartments and poured into the interior of the hull, flooding each cabin. The boiler room went out instantly, and a steam engine was also destroyed by flying shrapnel!

"Brooklyn is finished. After Rurik returns to light, the remaining time is probably calculated in minutes. And then the entire American fleet!" Scheer, who was watching the battle from a distance, said to the two colleagues next to him. Brooklyn began to slowly drift away from the battle line, and his end was destroyed by Japanese lightning strike ships. At the same time, the recovered Japanese began to redistribute their firepower. The Yashima helped the Fuji deal with Iowa, and the remaining 4 Asama-class armored cruisers began to massacre the American cruiser formation behind!

"Ants are ants after all!" Hayao Shimamura said contemptuously as he saw the Rurik being crippled by the intensive firepower of the Izumo. The Rurik was indeed ferocious when it rushed up, and the projected firepower of the 8 6-inch guns on the sidestring cannot be said to be weak, but the stern of the Izumo has a complete 3 to 4-inch high-explosive shell armor! A bunch of shells were thrown over, which did cause some trouble, and the rear deck caught fire at one point. But soon at such a short distance, the Izumo's counterattack caused more damage to the Rurik!

At a distance of less than 1000 meters, two 227KG 10-inch shells hit this crazy Russian warship almost simultaneously! A shell pierced through the tail armor belt and directly blasted a drive shaft into two pieces. The violently shaking drive shaft slammed into the next door of the cabin, smashing the makeshift hospital at the stern and the wounded inside into a pile of pieces. And another shell penetrated Rurik's engine room, directly reducing a steam engine to a pile of parts, and the violent explosion even made the whole ship jump. Billows of smoke and flames quickly diffused from the shot.

And then, countless high-explosive bombs made the battleship even worse. The ferocious flames almost engulfed the entire hull, and the end of the Rurik was doomed. The Japanese torpedo boats will be the final executioners. "Let's go up and help the Russians." Earl Spey asked for the opinions of the other two. After the two expressed their support, Earl Spey decided to be a good person and see if he could get some valuables from the Russians. intelligence.

In a short period of time, the U.S.-Russian fleet lost two capital ships in a row. With the sinking of the Brooklyn and Rurik, the entire U.S.-Russian fleet had only four main armored ships. Although the other party lost Kasuga, But it's not a big deal. Except for Fuji, which is a bit miserable, the other 5 warships are in good condition. The main turret of Nisshin has also been repaired, and they are waiting to be slaughtered!

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