Anti-pirated chapter~~~~! I have changed it in my old time! Today is the third update!!!

In terms of fleet quality, it is true that Fuso-class battleships are powerful, but this only takes up the advantage of late construction time and large tonnage. In fact, the general saying within the Japanese Navy is still that it is one line away from the Bavarian-class battleships. The Japanese Navy is not stupid. They can understand the technical gap between them at some key points, such as range measurement, the Germans' astronomical rangefinder and super long baseline do have advantages in fire control. For example, armor-piercing bombs. The Japanese believe that in terms of penetration ability, their 15-inch gun is actually not as deep as the opponent's 350mm heavy gun.

In terms of tactics, the Japanese realized the gap between themselves and the German fleet. Kato Hiroji realized for the first time that submarines and battleships could still be played like this! Although the assault on the two German fast battleships last night was beyond Kato Hiroji's expectations, it was understandable. To put it bluntly, it was just a use of light and time to steal a wave. But the Japanese were really scared about the night siege of submarines like wolves. These submarines were obviously very weak, but they were erratic. With just one chance, they could severely damage your transport ship. This tactical cooperation and strategic thinking were something the Japanese had never encountered before.

The Japanese fleet is proud of the main fleet and the strategies formulated for the decisive battle of the fleet are useless in the face of new threats! No matter how strong the main fleet is, it cannot fight a submarine. Although the submarines also have limited lethality to the main fleet, but why do they directly destroy your economy and domestic production? No matter how strong the fleet is, what's the use of the country unable to support it? At this moment, Kato Hiroji could only sigh, it's not that I don't understand, the world changes too fast!

However, this time is obviously not a time of random thoughts. Kato Hiroji needs to try his best to save his fleet. The most conservative way is to transfer Yama Castle immediately and throw the Osmanthus off, but it is so uneasy that anyone feels uneasy! And the biggest problem at the moment is, what should I do if the two battlecruisers of Lieutenant General Yamaya? Kato Hiroji could feel that the Germans seemed to have known the existence of Yamaya Other Fleet. Kato might be able to do it well. Maybe he would be the key to his teammates!

"Keep the distance at about 16 kilometers. Concentrate firepower to attack Yamashiro." With Su Xiong's order, the two German battleships concentrated their firepower again on the most powerful Japanese battleship.

The Ornith Horse has been beaten to pieces. Moreover, the speed is too low to maintain formation with the Yama City. It is expected that with the increase in water inlet and the inability to drain due to insufficient power supply, the speed of this battleship will be further reduced, and it can even be towed by other warships. However, under the sight of two German battleships and a circle of submarines, I want to cross half of the Indian Ocean at a speed of 10 knots? I can only say that this idea is a bit naive, so Su Xiong believes that it is OK to ignore the Ornith Horse for the time being.

When more than a dozen large-caliber main guns of the two battleships aimed at the Yamashiro, the world's largest displacement warship finally couldn't stand it... Every minute, at least 14 tons of shells were fired from the two German battleships and flew to the Japanese battleships in the distance. The rounds of shells were so dense that both German battleships needed to reduce the rate of fire as much as possible to ensure sight-seeing and save worry. Under the so-called basic principle of "powerful miracles", the Yamashiro battleship suffered an unprecedented blow!

"In one minute, we even saw six huge explosions rising from the Yama City! The huge warships swayed in the storm of flames and steel, like fishing boats struggling in a storm. More than 70% of the superstructure had been trapped in the flames. We destroyed at least three turrets of the Yama City. The Japanese attacks became weak and powerless, and they could only passively bear the blow. Even if the Yama City sank in the next moment, I was not surprised at all!" A German officer recalled the scene at that time.

In fact, during the time when Shancheng was spending more than two years, the German fleet's best record was that it hit the opponent five times in one minute! It is true that the 350mm armor-piercing bomb could theoretically not penetrate the core armor box of Shancheng. However, if the hits were too many, it would still pose a fatal threat to this giant ship of more than 30,000 tons!

In this storm of steel and flames, the first thing that was done was the two turrets at the stern of the Shancheng ship. The No. 4 turret was hit by a 350mm shell. The 15-inch thick gun mount armor plate was indeed powerful and resisted the attack. However, the huge impact caused the overall misalignment of a armor plate, which directly stuck the rotating mechanism of the artillery. The huge turret was forced to point to the direction of 2 o'clock and could not move.

Turret No. 5 was quite unlucky, and both shells hit the front of the turret! The turret armor of the Shancheng number lived up to expectations and successfully blocked the first shell. This shell did not cause much damage except for forming an 8-inch-shallow crater on the armor plate. However, when the second shell hit nearby, the entire armor plate and the back plate behind were finally a little unbearable! You must know that the armor plates of this era were all knotted! The connecting part must be fragile, and the huge energy generated by the two impacts directly lifted off a large piece of armor plate as a whole! The back plate behind also shattered into countless fragments and repeatedly ejected in the narrow turret! Destroyed the private servers of the two cannons and killed at least 60% of the people!

The remaining two shells hit the main armor belt of the hull. One of them hit the non-core cabin at the front of the bow, bringing more than 600 tons of water inlet. The other one was blocked outside the core cabin without any surprise, but a crack of more than 2 meters was still produced! A large amount of sea water poured into a boiler chamber along the crack, causing the three boilers to completely shut down.

During this period, even the most conservative estimates of the Japanese, they were hit more than 10 times. Three of the shells fell on the superstructure of the hull, causing the already spreading fire to completely lose control. The other shot was shot and opened a hole on the lower edge of the main armor belt of the hull. Fortunately, the extension of the main armor belt of the Yama City was quite powerful, and the angle of the shot was not very good. The 90mm-thick tilt lightning-proof steel plate blocked the impact of the shrapnel and the water flow, but still allowed several sealed cabins to enter water.
Chapter completed!