Seeing the Central Navy in a decisive battle, Saito Jiro was also very happy. In this way, the slowly and verbose guy Iris Yamamoto, who was fighting for me. After giving the order to the aircraft carrier formation backwards, Saito Jiro ordered the fleet to become a chevron and lean over with the other party.

The distance between the two sides of the long snake formation was more than forty kilometers, which had exceeded the maximum range of the sixteen-inch naval gun. After both sides approached carefully, Gui Yongqing, who relied on the plane's positioning, knew that the opponent's warship had reached its maximum range and was almost crushed by pressure, finally couldn't hold back and ordered to open fire with all his strength.

"Fire the cannon." After receiving the order, the officers and soldiers of the main turret of the two ships, who had been very angry, immediately roared and announced the cannon.

The Zhongshan and Qingling opened fire almost at the same time. The sixteen main gun barrels of the two ships northeastward successively burst out huge flames. Unfortunately, most of the first shells at this distance failed. The best luck shot hit the radio antenna on the bridge of the enemy's chief Xiao Ming. The sixteen-inch armor-piercing blast bomb destroyed the radio antenna and then passed over Xiao Ming and fell into the sea.

Seeing that the flagship he was riding in became the target of attack, Saito Jiro immediately ordered: "Fire a fire and fight back."

The Japanese main turret shouted: "The Emperor's martial arts fortune will last for a long time and will fight back." But the luck here is even worse. None of the thirty-six main guns shot at the target one after another. The best luck of the shell is still fifty meters away from the Zhongshan ship.

In the first round of strikes, no one considered the issue of the first hit, but instead fired the second round of shells. After the plane was sent back to the landing point of the shells, the mechanical loading of the Zhongshan ship had been completed. The plane was adjusted according to the landing point given by the plane. The Zhongshan battleship took the lead in firing a second round of volleys. Just two seconds later, the Qingling battleship also launched a second round of volleys.

This time the hit rate has been greatly improved. The target of the Zhongshan ship was the Japanese Xiao Ming. A armor-piercing blasting bomb hit the main turret No. 2. The shells loaded by the main turret No. 2 also exploded, blowing up the entire turret No. 2. Because the Japanese Emperor-level use the three-layer triple main gun, the explosion and death of the main turret No. 2 also affected the operation of the main turret No. 1 in front and the third behind.

The volleys of Qingling were still all lost, but they were much better than the landing point of the first shell.

The Zhongshan battleship injured the enemy ship before they had time to celebrate, and the revenge of the other three Emperor-class battleships also arrived. Although the flagship Xiao Ming failed to fire, twenty-seven sixteen-inch shells fell around Zhongshan one after another, and one shot hit the Zhongshan bridge command tower. Although the shell failed to penetrate the main armor of the command tower with a thickness of 420 mm, the shock of the armor-piercing blast bomb explosion injured the Navy Deputy Commander Gui Yongqing, including a group of staff.

Gui Yongqing got up from the ground, feeling the hot face and the red mouth in front of her, the sweet ears buzzing. When he wiped it, he found that blood was flowing out of the seven orifices of the eyes, ears, mouth, nose and people.

Gui Yongqing was too lazy to wipe it, so he helped a chair up from the ground and sat on it. Looking at his colleagues who were tilting around, Gui Yongqing laughed and found a cigar in his pocket. He ignored the blood on his hands and dyed the cigar red, and bit the cigar coat and lit it himself. Gui Yongqing blew a cigar cigarette and said, "I don't know when Commander Chen will come."

A staff officer who got up said, "I'll ask." He picked up the radio and adjusted it for a while, then threw it away and said, "Deputy Commander, the radio station is broken."

"The people are almost trembling to death, but they are not bad. Let the flag behind you ask the Qingling No. Ching, Captain Chen Ce of Qingling No. 1, replace the commander."

The injury to the bridge here has little impact on the battle situation, and both sides have already fired. As the distance gets closer, the cruisers of both sides have also opened fire.

The Central Navy has six heavy cruisers of 10,000 tons (the remaining escort aircraft carriers), equipped with eight 203 mm naval guns, and one Kent-class armor reinforced version (standard displacement of 12,600 tons, full load displacement of 15,300 tons). The four light cruisers on the Japanese were divided into three models, one with more than 4,000 tons, two heavy cruisers of more than 6,000 tons, and one heavy cruiser with more than 10,000 tons. There are also two light cruisers of 3,000 tons who are not embarrassed to follow up and join in the fun and guard the aircraft carrier with several destroyers.

The naval guns on both sides were as raining as soon as possible. The Central Navy was also guarding against air strikes by torpedo planes and dive bombers, and even opened flowers at the sea. The escorted naval carrier-based aircraft came to their opponents and began to shoot at the same time or pursue them. The sea surface in the sky was still fierce.

The Japanese pilots are indeed experienced, but the old performance of biplanes is far from being as good as monoplane metal aircraft. Although they suffer losses in quantity, the carrier-based aircraft of the Central Navy repeatedly attacks and injured the Japanese biplane fighters, and from time to time, monoplane fighters fall into the sea. Many rookies who have only flew for dozens of hours have grown up in this short period of time, and they will naturally feed the fish if they are not lucky.

Both sides were looking forward to reinforcements, but the battle lasted for seven or eight minutes without seeing any reinforcements.

The battleship's attack continues, but the good luck of both sides seems to be used up. Although shells hit each other from time to time, the losses caused are not enough to immediately lose the other party's combat effectiveness.

In the tenth minute, the battle situation took a turn. A armor-piercing blasting bomb from Qingling hit the armor belt under the waterline of the battleship of the Renxiao battleship. An explosion occurred inside and exploded to blow a large hole in the armor belt. The sea water suddenly poured in, causing the Renxiao hull to tilt, and all the shells were shot into the sea several thousand meters away from Qingling.

Such a large hole could not be blocked for a while, and pumping water was also a problem. The captain of the Inhyo ship had to order water injection on the other side to maintain balance in the hull. In this way, the landing point of the Inhyo ship's naval shells became increasingly accurate.

The Xiao Ming was injured and the Renxiao was also injured. The next two Zhongshan-class battleships were much easier to face the two Emperor-class battleships. The number of main guns of the naval gun was rewritten to 16 to 18, and the Zhongshan-class battleships still had the advantage in firing rate, which made up for the shortcomings of the two artillery.

But the real turning point of the battlefield was the arrival of Chen Shaokuan, who led the fleet. The carrier-based aircraft on Chen Shaokuan first discovered the four aircraft carriers left by the Japanese behind, two light patrols and eight destroyers. Faced with such a big meal, Chen Shaokuan naturally did not let it go. He immediately ordered the boiler to pressurize and turn on the maximum speed. Chen Shaokuan had spent half an hour on the way back to the flight and kept his trump card here. The battlefield was already in full swing, and no one was interested in the arrival of this fleet.

When Chen Shaokuan led the fleet, two Zhongshan-class (unnamed), four heavy cruisers and eight destroyers approached 30 kilometers to open fire, the Japanese navy discovered the fleet. However, at this time, the planes and ships were all tied together in the sea and no one had time to rescue them.

The troops Chen Shaokuan led to the ships were elites who had been trained for two years or more. In the first round of artillery attacks, a destroyer of the Japanese was hit by a near-missile bomb from a main gun and sank directly into the bottom of the sea.

After the first round of artillery shooting, Chen Shaokuan locked the target on four aircraft carriers. Such a big guy had a large target on the sea surface and thin armor. Who would he hit if he didn't hit him? At the same time, Chen Shaokuan also took over the command of the sea surface combat.

Faced with the threat of the battleship's naval gun range, the Japanese aircraft carrier wanted to run away, but evacuating the battlefield privately was a felony of shooting at the military court or being asked to seduce the stomach. They could only generate electricity to the commander, but the commander's antenna was destroyed in the first round of artillery attacks. Saito Jiro was commanding in flag language, and then the Insumi-incoming Hoshiha sent the telegram.

This speed was inevitably slowed down a little bit. Chen Shaokuan's second round of artillery bombing achieved good results in injuring two aircraft carriers. One aircraft carrier deck was shot and caught fire, and the other aircraft carrier was in the side. The Japanese were used to placing fuel and bombs on the deck to speed up the loading speed. This trick suffered a great loss at this time. The fired aircraft carrier fuel burned and caused the bomb to explode and destroyed the deck even more thoroughly. A large number of aircraft carrier deck personnel were lucky enough to avoid the threat of shelling but were injured by their own fuel and bomb burns.

When the Japanese aircraft carrier adjusted the direction they wanted to escape, the third round of artillery bombing also arrived. Most of the shells fell into the sea water near the aircraft carrier, splashing huge waves, but some shells exploded on the aircraft carrier.

In order to give the aircraft carrier a time to escape, the remaining five destroyers of the Japanese escort aircraft carriers fired at the reinforcements of the Central Navy Fleet with only more than 100 millimeters of main guns. However, no one paid attention to them in front of them, and were responsible for continuously firing artillery at the aircraft carrier. As for these jumping clowns, the eight 2,000-ton Scott-class destroyers behind them will solve them.
Chapter completed!