The Rise of the Empire

While the loud noise of the torpedo explosion was still echoing in the air, another even more terrifying explosion came from the Iowa! The explosion of the aft ammunition depot instantly killed the most powerful warship of the US Navy, and the huge double 12-inch turret was directly pushed away from the gun mount. Violent explosions continued to come from the stern of the hull, and the entire battleship was cut into two ends in the continuous explosions! Accompanied by the sound of metal twisting and breaking, the hull from the rear main turret sank directly into the sea, while the front half of the hull lifted high, then sat back and sank to the bottom of the sea.

The sinking of the Iowa was so fast that the huge vortex generated during the sinking even brought an approaching Japanese lightning strike ship into the sea! In less than a minute, the warship, which had separated and resisted just now, completely sank into the sea. And none of the 654 officers and soldiers on the ship survived! Dewey and his officers and soldiers left this world forever full of anger and unwillingness!

"Your Excellency, Commander, we have won the battle! The American flagship has been killed! We have avenged the black ship!" An officer looked at the Iowa sinking into the sea in an instant, and excitedly said to Hua Shanzi Said.

"Yeah, we won, but after this battle, how will the empire end?" After Huashan Ziji returned to reason from madness, he began to think about the future. Judging from the outcome of the battle, the Japanese fleet It has already won, but from a strategic point of view, the victory is not complete. If the United States and Russia are given enough time, the United States and Russia can still mobilize a powerful fleet! At that time, facing the large number of battleships of the United States and Russia, will the Imperial Navy still have the power to fight? The financial resources of the Americans are enough to allow them to buy warships from other countries. With these remaining warships, the prospects of the Japanese fleet are not so optimistic!

However, at this time, the remaining warships in Japan did not have the opportunity to consider these annoying things. The entire Japanese fleet chased the fleeing American and Russian warships in three waves. The two armored cruisers of Togo Heihachiro bit the two old Russians. Although the Asama-class armored cruiser is very fierce, both in terms of firepower and defense, it is much stronger than the Munich-class, but it is not easy to think about the speed of Naihe. There is no kerosene-fired boiler, no steam turbine, and enough firepower and defense. This is too difficult!

If nothing else, before the storm came, the two Russian cruisers had every chance to throw off the two Japanese armored cruisers. But unfortunately, maybe the Russians ran out of RP, or maybe it was the blessing of the Japanese Amaterasu, a 10-inch shell flew over a distance of about 4,500 meters and landed directly near the Parada wheelhouse! Although the armor of the wheelhouse blocked the shell, the violent impact still damaged the rudder, and a huge shrapnel even stuck the rudder!

"Brother, you go first! Take care all the way!" Parada issued a semaphore that the battleship was no longer operational, and then the Bayan replied "Take care" and began to withdraw from the battlefield. Looking at the Bayan going away, the two ships The Japanese armored cruisers did not pursue further. On the one hand, the storm was coming, and it was inevitable to lose them. On the other hand, they were far enough away from the main battlefield. Get rid of the Parada and dodge.

After the Yakumo used dense shells to kill the last counterfire of the Parada, the Asama fired two 18-inch torpedoes at a distance of 600 meters, and after hitting one, the Japanese found that the ship was heavily scarred The boat is still floating on the water! The battleship finally sank after another round of torpedoes. For the Russian officers and soldiers struggling on the sea, the Japanese had no mercy. The Russian officers and soldiers on the battleship Da were wiped out!

Just as the Parada was sunk,

Hashio Shimamura's pursuit also came to the end when he closed the net. Although the New York tried his best to cover the younger brother behind him, but the Olympia was too careless under the firepower of the armored cruiser Nisshin. The sidestring of the battleship was directly captured The dense rain of bullets became a sieve. When the New York was forced to abandon the battleship, the Olympia had already tilted 15 degrees!

Facts have proved that the 100MM side string armor plate of the USS New York is still somewhat useful. At least after being breached by an 8-inch armor-piercing bullet, the opening is relatively small, and there is less water ingress. Moreover, the blood bar itself is long, so it can still guarantee a high Speed, in this chase battle, this warship actually ran out of a high speed of 20 knots, so that the Japanese claimed in the telegram that "the enemy ship turned like flying, and our army could not pursue it... .”

The New York was able to escape, but the Olympia was not so lucky. The final result was naturally executed by torpedoes, but compared to the Iowa and Parada, which were all killed in battle, the Olympia was most fortunate that the officers and soldiers on board survived a lot. This is not to say that there are more Japanese Kindness, but because the Germans who watched the battle came, and the Japanese are not easy to do it in front of a third country!

As for the last chase? How to play 2 warships chasing 4 warships? The Americans thought about it thoroughly, and ran directly in 4 directions! The Japanese second-class cruiser really did not dare to leave the shelter of the Izumo to pursue alone, so they set their sights on the second ship of the Columbia cruiser. A 7,000-ton battleship was also a good prey, but was captured by two Japanese ships. The outcome of the warship's staring is naturally certain. In the end, the warship failed to see the sun of tomorrow, and was completely burned into a torch under the intensive high-explosive shell attack before sinking into the bottom of the sea!

Thank Almighty God, the ensuing storm provided shelter for the fleeing American warships. In the end, after a big battle, the US-Russian combined fleet lost the battleship Iowa, the cruiser Brooklyn, and the Rurik armor cruiser. The armored cruiser Parada and a 7,000-ton first-class protected cruiser, and the only protected cruiser left by the United States in history, the USS Olympia! And the price the Japanese paid was nothing more than a first-class protected cruiser Kasuga and a few torpedo boats!

The result of this battle surprised the onlookers of the British, French and German navies. Before the start, although everyone believed that the Japanese fleet had a certain advantage, they did not expect that the Japanese navy would sink the US and Russian fleet in just a few hours. 6 battleships! The total tonnage has reached 50,000 tons! Thinking back to the time when the Japanese navy fought against Beiyang in the Qing-Japanese War, this battle seemed too easy to outsiders! And the results of the Sulu Sea naval battle also made outsiders' evaluation of the Japanese navy jump directly from the third-rate inferior level to the second-rate superior!

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