Dewey was full of fighting spirit, and the opponent only had six battleships. It didn't matter even the most powerful battleships of the Chinese Empire. After all, he also had the most powerful battleships of the American Navy, and he had an overwhelming advantage in number.

"Twenty nautical miles!"

"Fifteen nautical miles!"

"Twelve Nautical Miles!"

"The other party fired!"

...

A US scout shouted on the tower of the battleship South Carolina.

Dewey raised his head and in the telescope, he saw the main guns of the six battleships of the Chinese Empire Navy spewed out balls of flames, and then the rumbling sound of cannons crossed the sky. Twenty or thirty seconds later, the shells fell into the nearby sea, exploded with a loud bang, and huge and terrifying waves rose.

The bounce point was so close to the fleet that it scared the American naval officers and soldiers to sweat.

Dewey was also shocked, but his expression was calm and he said coldly: "Don't worry! They can't hit us at this distance! Each ship is ready for combat. The second squadron surrounds the left wing, the third squadron detours from the right wing, the first squadron resists the enemy head-on, and each ship can attack on its own when it is eight nautical miles away!"

Dewey doesn't need any tactics at all, just surround these six Chinese Empire naval warships.

If these six battleships can be sunk, the Chinese Empire will no longer be able to compete with the American Navy.

Dewey even felt that Roosevelt of the White House would directly award him the Navy five-star general and the highest medal of honor.

There was a buzzing sound in the sky. If you didn't listen carefully, you wouldn't hear it at all. You would think it was the whistling of shells.

But Rice heard it, and he looked up and found several planes hovering over their fleet.

This was the first time he saw a seaplane, but he recognized it as an airplane, except for not understanding why such airplanes had no wheels, only two things that looked like rugby (floor).

"Photo taken those planes!"

Rice didn't realize the role of those seaplanes, she was just curious.

However, when the cameraman was photographing the seaplane in the sky, he accidentally discovered something strange.

"Mr. Rice, you see that fake plane will still shine, flashing!"

Rice then looked carefully and was shocked.

"That's Morse code!"

Rice, who is familiar with Morse code, instantly discovered the lights flashing on the plane, which was the Morse code.

"Corte, can you untie it?"

Rice called Cort, an expert in telegraph ciphering.

Because Roosevelt once secretly launched a large-scale spy war in the United States, the Intelligence Agency bribed personnel from the American Intelligence Station of the Chinese Empire, intercepted some cryptobooks and crypto machines of the Chinese Empire, thus severely damaging the American branch of the SHIELD. This has made the US military's rapid progress in telegram ciphers, especially when facing the Chinese Empire's cryptography and encryption technology, it is no longer as ignorant as before.

Colt analyzed the existing Chinese Empire password encryption method. Although he could not fully unravel the content, he had a clue.

"It should be a set of numbers!"

"number?"

"These planes hover over our heads, but are sending a set of numbers to the Imperial Chinese Navy, so this set of numbers should be our location."

"No! It's sent every time after the Chinese Empire's naval shelling!"

"Damn it, it's the blasting point! The Chinese Empire Navy is using planes to check the bombing point and correct the shooting of various elements for the naval gun!"

Rice finally reacted and hurriedly told Dewey.

Dewey said: "No wonder the Chinese Empire Navy's naval strike accuracy is getting more and more accurate! Shoot the plane on my head!"

...

Some US sailors could only find the rifle and fired into the sky, but unfortunately it was useless.

Dewey suddenly looked ugly, and he looked at the plane in the sky, but he had no choice.

"The Georgia was shot!"

A loud shout attracted Dewey and Rice's gaze back.

At 8:46 am, the battleship Georgia was shot and was hit on the port side by a 406mm shell, and a violent explosion occurred, and black smoke rolled into the sky.

A huge hole with a diameter of two meters was exposed, and as the waves hit, a large amount of sea water poured in.

The US military on the Georgia was so scared that their faces turned green. They rushed to repair the situation and mobilized a large number of water pumps to drain the backflow of seawater.

On the battleship of the USS Angry, Lin Jiyun and Lin Taizeng immediately smiled happily after seeing the battleship of the USS Georgia.

"This battleship Georgia is too fragile. It can tear open a hole close to two meters with just one 406mm shell. This is too exaggerated! How can I remember that when our 406 gun was tested at the shooting range, it can tear open a hole of only half a meter!"

Lin Tai once looked puzzled. Every naval gun in the Imperial Navy would conduct various penetration and destructive power tests. If the enemy was supposed to be the United States, then live ammunition was fired on the shooting range based on the armor protection thickness of each class of warships in the United States to test the destructive power of various naval guns in the Imperial Navy, so as to ensure that when the Imperial Navy commander encounters the corresponding US warships, he will accurately determine whether the US warships can be sunk based on the shooting range naval gun test data.

Of course, Lin Taizeng paid great attention to the battleships of all levels of the American Navy. The George was affiliated to the Rhode Island-class battleship and started construction in 1888. It has 300 mm Havis armor protection, but it gives Lin Taizeng the feeling that it is too crisp at this moment.

Even if it is long-range shelling, there are air reconnaissance aircraft that continuously provide corrections to bounce points, and the error is compensated.

Soon, a volley of the battleship of the USS Agitated Battleship, a giant 1.2-ton shell hit the USS Minnesota. The shells easily penetrated the horizontal armor protection of the USS Minnesota battleship and exploded violently at the rear of its ship.

In an instant, fires soared into the sky, black smoke rolled, and the entire ship was blown up in a mess and was seriously damaged.

Lin Tai once suddenly said: "Sir, have you noticed that the protection of US battleships is too fragile and seems to be more like a battleship cruiser?"

After hearing this, Lin Jiyun pondered for a while, and then said happily: "Do you think it's possible that the American Navy is using battleship cruisers to make up for the numbers and pretending to be battleships?"

Lin Tai once said: "Battleships and battleships are equipped with large-caliber naval guns of the same level. The difference is that the battleships strengthen the armor and sacrifice speed, and the battleships strengthen the speed and sacrifice armor, but we cannot distinguish the thickness of this armor with the naked eye."

Lin Jiyun nodded and said, "Yes, we can't tell it out of the way, so we gave the US military space to operate with fake and real operations, but it can be distinguished in battle. Battleships are much more resistant to beating than battleship cruisers."

Lin Tai once nodded. This was exactly what he thought, because he felt that the so-called US battleship in front of him had no ability to resist beatings.

"If America really uses battleship cruisers to pretend to be battleships, then we will be more confident in destroying them!"

In order to determine what was in my mind, Lin Jiyun and Lin Tai decided to test it.

At this time, Dewey's fleet had already divided into three groups and tried to surround six Chinese imperial naval warships.

Dewey also made a major mistake, that is, he also forgot that many of the battleships in his hands were actually the battleships used to pretend to be.

It is a very serious mistake to place battle cruisers on the battlefield of the fleet's decisive battle and let them fight against the opponent's battleships.

Although the Chinese Empire Navy is not sure that many of the US battleships opposite are battleships, as long as both sides continue to fight, the crisp battleships will be exposed soon.

"We have eliminated the main force of the Chinese Empire's Navy. These are their last six warships. As long as we sink them, the entire Pacific Ocean belongs to our American Navy!"

Dewey yelled, boosting the morale of the American Navy and calling on the American soldiers on all ships to fight bravely.

The Imperial Chinese Navy only has six battleships, but the American Navy has ten battleships and ten battleships. Although two main battleships were attacked last night and were temporarily unable to participate in the battle, there are still eighteen main battleships, three times that of the Imperial Chinese Navy. The morale of the American Navy was naturally high.

Dewey wanted to destroy all six Chinese Empire naval battleships with head-on attacks and two wings.

Lin Jiyun's original plan was to fight a war of attrition with Dewey, but after discovering that some of the so-called battleships of the American Navy were likely to be battleship cruisers, he temporarily changed his plan and planned to test it.

Therefore, under the instruction of Lin Jiyun, Lin Tai commanded six battleships including the Agitated and concentrated fire to attack the left-wing team of the American Navy.

At this moment, the left wing of the American Navy is the Delaware, North Dakota, Florida, Utah, Mississippi, and Georgia.

Among them, the four battleships, Delaware, North Dakota, Florida and Utah, are super fearless, and are equipped with 15-inch cannons. However, the armor thickness is lower than that of the battleship armor of the same level, but it is a little thicker than the battleship cruiser of the same level.

Mississippi and Georgia are battle cruisers equipped with 14-inch cannons, which have been hit by a 16-inch shell. At this moment, the ship is emitting black smoke, but it does not affect the battle.

Seeing that the six super fearless battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy came directly, Lieutenant General Al, the US commander who commanded the left wing fleet, was also nervous, but he looked at the distance. Dewey's main fleet and the right wing fleet were coming quickly, trying to complete the siege. Once the siege was completed, these six Imperial Chinese battleships would definitely not be able to escape.

So Al bit his teeth and ordered his six main battleships to fight.

The six-to-six situation seems to be evenly matched, but the firepower gap between the two sides is too big.

In the Chinese Empire, there were 24 406 (16-inch) mm main guns and 48 381 (15-inch) mm main guns, while in the United States, there were 48 15-inch (381-mm) main guns and 24 14-inch (343-mm) main guns.

This firepower gap was reflected in the moment of the battle between the two sides.

The warships of both sides blew each other at a distance of more than 20 kilometers, and the shells roared, and the sea water boiled instantly.

Within just five minutes, both sides had completed 4 to 8 rounds of artillery bombardment.

The loading machines on the Chinese Empire warships are efficient, and the main gun can fire at as fast as 2 shells per minute. There are also air reconnaissance aircraft to help observe the bullet points. The time it takes for artillery to fire and correct the ballistics is short, so eight rounds of shells were fired in five minutes.

Although American warships also have loading machines, they are slower in efficiency. On average, they fire one round of shells more than a minute. After each fire, it takes a long time to correct the ballistics, so only 4 rounds of shells were fired within five minutes.

After five minutes of fierce firefighting between the two sides, the fleet commanded by Al suffered a great loss.

Florida was shot 4 times, of which three were 15-inch armor-piercing blasting bombs. Three large holes were opened on the side of the stern. The shell exploded inside, causing more than 100 casualties and severe damage to the hull. There was also a 406mm armor-piercing blasting bomb that hit the bow commander tower. The commander tower had a 360mm front armor-piercing blasting bomb, which was directly penetrated. After the shell exploded, it directly killed the captain and other commanders in the commander tower, without any bones.

Delaware was shot three times, Utah was shot three times, and Mississippi was shot one time.

Among them, the North Dakota was the worst, with seven shots.

The seven shells that hit the North Dakota were all from the Chinese Empire warship Thunderstorm.

It was the third fire volley of Thunderstorm. Because of the accurate calculation of the advance amount, North Dakota's intention to avoid it was discovered. As a result, this time, 12 shells were fired, and 7 shells hit North Dakota at the same time.

The entire superstructure of the battleship North Dakota was blown up, with more than 200 people directly killed, and more than 300 people were injured to varying degrees, struggling in the flames and black smoke.

Luckily, Al felt that the Imperial Chinese Navy did not shoot a deadly piercing shot, otherwise the battleship North Dakota would have been sunk in the five-minute battle just now.

Of course, while the shells of the warships of the Chinese Empire hit the US ships, Al commanded the US ships to fire the artillery, and many shells hit the warships of the Chinese Empire.

The 15-inch armor-piercing projectile fired by the USS Delaware hit the 350-mm armor of the Battleship Agitated, and could only smash a fiery red pit, and the warhead was embedded in it, and a stream of blue smoke came out.

The 15-inch shells fired by the US ship Florida hit the armor of the Thor battleship of the same level and penetrated the armor of the Thor battleship. However, because it was just an armor-piercing bomb and did not explode, it only caused pure physical penetration damage.

The 14-inch shells fired by the Mississippi ship, although they hit the Furious in the fourth round of volleys, failed to tear the Furious's armor.

In just five minutes of firefighting, the gap in combat effectiveness between naval warships between China and the United States was quickly reflected.

Al realized the strength of the Chinese Empire fleet on the opposite side. Lin Jiyun and Lin Taizeng also discovered the biggest weakness of the American Navy. Some of the battleships claimed to the outside world actually had armor protection that was only as good as battleship cruisers.

This is a fatal weakness that is enough to destroy the entire American Navy.

Lin Jiyun and Lin Taizeng had already realized it, but Dewey did not realize it.

Because Dewey, like the naval generals of other countries, hoped that his warships would be more and more good, he also organized the battleship cruisers into the battleship team to participate in the battleship team and use them as the main battleship.

But this problem was strangled in the Chinese Empire early on, and was not killed by Li Weiguo. Because after he created the term battleship, he forbidden the generals of the Chinese Empire's naval generals from using battleships as main battleships into battleship formations, and he was not allowed to use battleships to fight battleships.
Chapter completed!