My Italian: Chapter 328 The Battle of the Yellow Sea End

When the Italian and Japanese cruisers were fighting to the death, the situation was reversed on the frontal battlefield with three Turin-class battleships as the core.

Under the leadership of the three Turin-class ships, the Japanese containment formations were beaten to pieces, and the ships were not miserable.

Take Sanjing Ship as an example, the main battery of Itsukushima was stuck in the battery because it was bombarded before. The firing of its main battery requires the movement of the warship to adjust the angle, and the rate of fire dropped to an unbearable half an hour a day. I don't know where it got hit. In addition to too many failures of its 305mm main gun, this problem also has the pot that its warship's main gun firing training is too few.

At the beginning, in order to deal with the second ship of the calm, Japan put forward strict requirements on the muzzle velocity of the shell when purchasing the main gun at the Garnet Artillery Factory in France. Although the Garnett Gun Factory finally fulfilled the Japanese requirements, the muzzle velocity of the main gun would drop after firing 120-140 shells. In addition, only Matsushima has spare gun barrels on the Sanjing ship. Therefore, in order to ensure that it can deal with the calm two ships, the Japanese navy had to strictly limit the number of shooting trainings of the Sanjing ship.

Except that Matsushima had slightly more firing training due to the spare barrel, Itsukushima only had one firing training. Under such circumstances, it is natural that the Japanese sailors cannot be expected to use the main gun proficiently in battle?

So being able to fire a shot in half an hour is already pretty good.

And in a naval battle, it takes half an hour to fire one shot, so what else is there to fight? Therefore, the 320mm main gun on the Sanjing ship is really only a theoretical threat to the Turin class.

In addition to the Sanjing ship, what happened to the other ships? The most resistant Shancheng was beaten to death. A battleship that was sunk by a gun is even more unreliable. In fact, the containment effect of the Japanese Navy's containment formation is not high, and it is more caused by the efforts of its life-threatening torpedo boat formation.

These high-speed torpedo boats carrying deadly weapons are more dangerous than the vain naval guns in the diversion formation.

After all, in this era, the defense of warships under the waterline is very weak, and it is very likely to happen when one hits the soul.

If it wasn't to guard against these little demons, how could Lieutenant General Alvaro's formation have been entangled for so long. But now that these torpedo boats have been eliminated, the next step is to get rid of the entanglement of enemy ships. Of course, there is a more critical reason. Lieutenant General Alvaro is holding a telegram for help from Major General Levi.

In the telegram, Major General Levi reported the current situation of the rescue formation to Lieutenant General Alvaro in detail, including the heavy damage to the Venice.

The radio was extremely effective in this naval battle. Although the Italian and Japanese fleets were divided into two divisions to fight, the Italian fleet relied on the advantages of radio to connect the two disconnected formations.

So after receiving the telegram from Major General Levi, Lieutenant General Alvaro knew that he could not wait any longer.

"Order Barry and Palermo to target the enemy ship Yamashiro with Turin, and we will give priority to sinking the ship."

Lieutenant General Alvaro set the goal of the breakthrough to contain the only ironclad ship Yamashiro in the formation.

The order of Lieutenant General Alvaro may be a little confusing if the time and place are changed. Because according to the level of difficulty, the ironclad should be the most resistant battleship. How can the target be placed on this ship, shouldn't the Sanjing ship and other crispy battleships be more targets?

Generally speaking it should be true, but the situation is different now, because now Lieutenant General Alvaro is most concerned about speed. The reason is due to the efforts of the officers and men of the Yamashiro, the speed of the Yamashiro has gradually recovered. Although it has not reached the speed of 18 knots, it has risen to almost 17 knots.

Since Yamashiro's speed has increased to seventeen knots, it should be solved first. Alvaro does not want to see the toughest ship of the combined fleet slip away.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Although the salvos of twelve 356mm main guns from the three battleships failed to hit them, the officers and men of the Yamashiro knew that they were in purgatory again.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Before the officers and men of the Yamashiro could understand, another round of salvo shelling sounded, and four 356 mm shells came with the whistling sound of death.

"Boom, boom!"

In this shelling, the Yamashiro was quite unlucky. A 356mm shell tore a large opening of nearly two meters on the side of the ship, and the turbulent sea rushed towards the cabin along this opening.

"Quick, the loss team!"

The exhausted and unrested personnel of the Yamashiro had no choice but to bite the bullet while looking at the surging sea water.

As the captain of the Yamashiro, Chief Hisashi Kitago only felt a tingling sensation at this time. The power of the 356mm cannon is best understood by the officers and soldiers on the Yamashiro. In the face of the enemy's stormy shelling, the best way at this time is to let the severely damaged Yamashiro break away from the formation and return home.

"Major General Pingjing, the Yamashiro can't handle it anymore."

Seeing that his beloved ship suffered a huge blow, Colonel Kitago Hisao couldn't help but speak.

"I know what Your Excellency thinks, but for the victory of the combined fleet, we must persevere, even at the expense of sacrifice."

Admiral Tsuboi Hangzo, who knew what Captain Beigo was thinking, quickly stopped his desire to retreat. As the commander in command of the diversionary formation, Tsuboi Kozo must consider the overall situation. It is the responsibility of the diversionary formation to drag down the enemy's most powerful warship, so even if they sacrifice all of them, it must be done.

Captain Kitao Hisao, who was stopped by Admiral Tsuboi Kosan, could only watch the battleship fall into misery with tears in his eyes. As the saying goes, when the house leaks, it rains overnight, and the Yamashiro was hit hard again.

A 356mm shell fired from the Barry penetrated the armor of the ship's side and exploded in the power room.

The explosion of the shell destroyed the high-pressure boiler in the power compartment, and the Yamashiro immediately lost power and collapsed at sea.

Now even the officers and men of the Yamashiro know that they have fallen into a desperate situation, and the battleship that has lost its power will only become a living target.

When the Italian formation saw that the Yamashiro was stopped, morale was even higher, and more shells flew towards the Yamashiro.

Everyone on the Yamashiro can only pray for the protection of the Great God of Rizhao now.

Although Lieutenant General Ito didn't know that the containment formation led by Tsuboi Kozo was already using his life to delay the enemy's footsteps, he also knew that he didn't have enough time. Because the target Venice was scarred, but the enemy ship still did not lose its combat effectiveness.

"Fire!"

With the roar of the gunnery officer, the four 254mm main guns on the Yoshino flew towards the enemy ship.

Ito Yuheng stared at the enemy ship with the telescope, but the enemy ship did not explode with fireworks. Instead, he fired on the neighboring ship Akitsushu with the main gun behind him. He put down the telescope in disappointment and endured it. kept complaining.

"Damn, why are the enemy ships so powerful? Are our artillery shells useless?"

In fact, it's not just Ito Yuheng who complained like this. The officers and soldiers on the Yoshino and Akitsusu have such thoughts. The enemy ship Venice has been hit many times, so why hasn't it sunk.

The secret of the Venice's unsinkable lies in its design. The Venice-class armored patrol adopts key defense, and its armored box design, which is ahead of the whole world, makes the core position more difficult to be hit hard.

In addition, its watertight cabin is second only to the existence of the Turin class.

Although the 189 watertight cabins of the Venice class are less than the 213 of the Turin class, it is an unprecedented innovation in this era when no one pays attention to watertight cabins.

So this also caused the Venice to be hit hard, but it didn't sink.

In fact, at this time, Ito Yuheng already had remorse, and he had not made significant progress in attacking the formation for so long, which made him anxious.

But it's too late to go back on it, and now it's hard to ride a tiger. If there is no victory, the combined fleet will lose and contain the formation in vain, so he is more eager than ever to have a victory.

"Order the formation to shoot at extreme speed, and be sure to take down the enemy ship."

Ito Yuheng roared anxiously, but he couldn't solve the problem. Although it is intended to output more firepower by increasing the rate of fire, this leads to a decrease in accuracy.

On the Venice, which was bearing the main firepower of the enemy fleet, the communications officer came to the control tower excitedly with a message.

"The Turin and the Palermo have come to us, and Lieutenant General Alvaro asked us to delay the enemy and expand the results."

This remark immediately attracted a burst of cheers, and Rear Admiral Levi and Captain Gomes, who had gauze wrapped around their heads, let go of their worries and let out a long sigh of relief. The Venice has finally reached the dawn of hope, and the next battle will be much easier.

"Send a telegram to get the ships close to the enemy, be sure to entangle them."

When it comes to winning the battle, Major General Levi is of course unwilling to leave the enemy ship, and entangled the opponent and other battleships can naturally achieve the greatest results.

So in this case of coincidence, the distance between the two formations was even closer. From a distance of 4,000 meters, the exchange of fire gradually increased to 3,000 meters, or even more than 2,000 meters. This kind of hand-to-hand combat at sea is extremely bloody, and people are injured basically every moment. At this time, personnel such as tube damage rescuers, who are busier than the gunners, are also in shortage.

It has now become a competition of willpower between the officers and soldiers of the two naval forces, because basically both sides hit each other by themselves, and despite the screams and explosions of **** teammates, they can still continue to fight~www.mtlnovel.com~ Both Absolutely elite naval officers and soldiers on both sides.

The situation continued for nearly an hour, with heavy casualties on both sides. According to post-mortem statistics, 35% of the casualties on both sides of the entire naval battle were accounted for in this hour-long hand-to-hand firefight.

But now this situation does not need to continue, because two tall battleships have appeared in front of them.

"It's Turin and Barry, we won!"

Cheers from the Italian side boosted its morale again.

And the cheers of the Italians are **** for the combined fleet.

At this time, he panicked, and hurriedly issued the order he regretted most in the naval battle.

"Order all ships to break through and leave immediately!"

At this time, the two battleships are entangled and want to leave safely, is it possible?