The Rise of the Empire

With almost no interference, the two German battleships performed exceptionally well! After the smoke cleared, Scharnhorst's fourth and a half salvo found its target. The Gneisenau next to it successfully hit the battleship Aki in the rear in the fifth and a half salvo!

Look at the five turrets on the sides of the Aki from head to tail, two large and three small. If a shell hits the turret, it will be difficult not to hit the turret! The twin 10-inch turret in the center was destroyed first. The sharp cup cap directly cut through the 8-inch-thick hardened armor layer like a hot knife cutting through butter, and shot in from between the two guns. After penetrating, he continued to advance and hit directly on the tail compartment of the turret, which is used to store spare ammunition!

At this time, according to Japanese habits, there were exactly 4 spare shells and 8 propellant packs in the tail compartment! The flames and impact caused by the explosion of the shell first affected the silk medicine bag! A chain explosion first occurred at the rear of the entire turret, and a series of loud noises came from the turret. Finally, there was a violent explosion that shook the entire battleship, and half of the turret was directly blown to pieces! The two artillery pieces at the front were even knocked off the gun mount by the huge impact. Countless shrapnel and armor fragments were shot from the rear of the turret and directly swept across the deck in the middle of the hull!

The power of the explosion was so huge that the entire middle of the superstructure seemed to be flattened! Although the damage to the superstructure seemed heavy, the impact was actually relatively limited. What was really fatal was that this shot destroyed one of the Aki's chimneys and the flue below! Half of the chimney was blown directly into the sea. The black smoke billowing from the chimney quickly covered the entire middle of the hull and spread to the back of the hull.

The loss of the flue is serious, which is why some warships design flue armor. On the one hand, the smoke will directly affect the design of the artillery. On the other hand, if the exhaust gas is poured back into the boiler room, it may cause the boiler to stall. Things like being smoked down, or even being smoked to death, are nothing compared to the above-mentioned things!

I have to say that the Japanese at this time were still very hardworking, and they were completely different from the Heisei waste houses of later generations. A group of Japanese rushed up without even being equipped with asbestos fireproof suits and gas masks. Seawater pumped from the water pump was sprayed on the fire in an attempt to control the fire.

However, at this moment, the second shell fell and hit directly near a team of firefighters. The flames like a volcanic eruption engulfed the entire firefighting team, and this explosion even engulfed the upper deck, which was already the first of its kind. The whole floor was destroyed! More air entered the interior of the hull, causing the fire inside to expand faster. Flames like fire snakes traveled along the cabins and pipes, turning each compartment into a blazing hell. Many people who did not have time to evacuate could only struggle through the last and most painful time of their lives in the flames.

And Su Xiong’s Scharnhorst performed equally well! In the seventh and a half salvo, two shells were successfully hit on the Satsuma! Because of the angle, a shell hit the front of the 12-inch turret of the Satsuma and did not penetrate but bounced away directly. However, even so, it still took away a 12-inch gun barrel, and the huge vibration even caused another There was a problem with the gun's hydraulic equipment.

The impact of the second shell was very good. It was a water bomb that entered the water 20 meters away from the battle side of the Satsuma. It then penetrated like a small torpedo and successfully tore open the outer hull of the ship. After the board and coal bunker, they entered the main engine room. Although there was no explosion, the violent collision still broke a drive shaft in half! The huge drive shaft suddenly jumped up from the base under the action of inertia, sweeping half of the engine room! The violent impact and the resulting fire caused the battleship to lose half of its power!

Kato Tomosaburo felt the entire battleship tilt rapidly to one side.

The British's watertight compartment design is not very successful. There is no subdivided compartment of the Germans, and there is no abnormal three-layer power cabin. The Japanese's watertight design is also average. Although it is only a cannon shell, a large amount of seawater still pours into the compartment and the engine room from the breach. Under the huge water pressure, the damaged power cabin can quickly be Raised fish.

The speed of the Satsuma inevitably dropped, and the Aki behind it bypassed the Satsuma, which was slowing down, and prepared to continue approaching. "Kill the ship behind first. The Satsuma can't escape." Su Xiong thought for a moment and said after looking at the Satsuma whose speed was rapidly decreasing.

Then the two German fast battleships began to point their guns at the approaching battleship. The Japanese also continued to fire back, but the nearest impact points were 500 meters away from the German warships. And there has never been a cross-shot. The shooting accuracy under almost ideal conditions is naturally high, just like in practice, two German battleships crossed and poured a large number of shells on the other side's hull!

Huge fireballs rushed out from the muzzles again, and the two warships completely covered their opponents with a storm of steel and flames with a projection rate of more than 4 tons per minute.

"In less than ten minutes, I observed at least a dozen explosions on the Japanese battleship! The Japanese seemed to be sitting on a continuously exploding gasoline barrel, and huge fireballs soared into the sky on the battleship. The battleship Two-thirds of the superstructure had been cut off. There were holes everywhere on the side of the ship, and a large amount of black smoke, white high-temperature steam and flames spurted out from the hull. The tilt of the warship occurred even ten kilometers away Everyone can see it. And as an American, I feel very excited!" Nimitz wrote in his viewing diary.

At this time, Aki, under the intensive care of the 16 350MM heavy guns of the two battleships, reached the end of its life before the Satsuma class. The tilt angle of the battleship had reached as high as 30 degrees, and it could not even be solved by water injection balance. In other words, without the help of other warships, I am afraid he will never be able to return to Japan.

"Abandon ship!" After giving the order, the captain of the Anyi used a bullet to save his life. And the Aki became the first battleship to be sunk in the entire First World War! After Aki left, the Satsuma's time had come.

As the twin 12-inch main gun turret at the rear of the Satsuma turned into a burning iron box, all the main guns and secondary main guns on the fighting side of the Satsuma were destroyed, and the battleship tilted 20 degrees. Now we can only circle in the sea.

"Let the Swordfish come up and kill them with torpedoes!" Following Su Xiong's order, two German battleships waited 8 kilometers away to let the auxiliary cruiser launch torpedoes. Serve as the final executioner. Although the two German warships were equipped with torpedoes at the request of the Argentinians, Su Xiong was worried about what tricks the Japanese would come up with in the end. In this case, instead of using expensive battleships, use auxiliary cruisers.

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