"His Excellency Commander, the speed of the two battleships at the last Japanese fleet has dropped!" At this moment, the words of an officer interrupted the conversation between the two and pulled them back to the battlefield!

Benson walked over, picked up the telescope in his hand and looked into the distance. At this time, he did see two large warships full, and next to them were a large number of searchlight columns and flares of US Navy destroyers, turning this sea area into a whole lot of daytime!

The main American fleet is indeed not fast, but it cannot withstand that there are a large number of destroyers. According to the pre-war plan, when the Suxiong fleet is not in place, the US Navy has the idea of ​​using destroyers to hold the opponent through lightning strikes. What should I say in actual combat this time? It is mixed and joyful, and it seems that my plan has been successful? After all, according to subsequent intelligence, these two battleships should have hit torpedoes, but what is worried is that the losses were a bit big during the impact just now. Until now, the US Navy has sunk at least 8 destroyers, and 7 destroyers have been injured and withdrawn from the battle!

"It doesn't matter, it's good to keep the Japanese main ships. The destroyer needs as much as the United States!" Benson comforted himself like this. "I just don't know which type of Japanese warship I left behind this time. I hope it's Fuso-class and the King Kong-class are OK. But the most likely is the Hanoi-class battleship." Benson said to Majifen next to him.

Benson's inference is very reasonable. First of all, the speed of the Japanese fleet is too low. If it were all high-speed battleships, the Americans would not be able to catch up, and they would have run away long ago! But now, there is only one fundamental reason why the American fleet can hang behind and chase the Japanese, that is, there are warships in the Japanese fleet tow speed! After all, the speed of the fleet depends on the lowest speed warship among them! And who in the main Japanese fleet has the lowest speed? Of course, there are two first-generation dreadnoughts! They are low speed and poor firepower. If they want to catch them, they will be caught!

"Storm up, first use the naval gun to suppress the opponent, then destroyers to release torpedoes and kill them quickly! We have to chase other targets!" With Benson's orders, a total of 13 American battleships rushed up quickly, and then, with the help of searchlights and flares, they frantically tilted their firepower towards the two Japanese battleships!

Well, these are 13 battleships, 10 of which are still super fearless! At a distance of 8 kilometers, artillery can be leveled and fired! What else do you need fire control? The main American fleet, which has been fighting against land for a month, finally caught a chance to shoot at the sea! So, without saying a word, hundreds of large-caliber naval guns were frantically thinking about the target and fired hundreds of tons of ammunition!

"I have never seen such a spectacular scene. The main ship with a total weight of more than 300,000 tons and more than 100 artillery can hit the target in one minute! The dazzling light when the artillery fired even made my eyes feel pain. The endless sound of cannons overwhelmed all the sounds on the battlefield. Even though my colleagues and I were close at hand, we had to shout at the top of our voices if we wanted to call. The shock wave generated by the shooting artillery formed huge ripples on the sea. In the distance, two poor Japanese battleships were surrounded by countless water columns and flames, and even the water columns that rose at the same time blocked our view like a wall. However, no one stopped the shelling, and we rushed to shoot the shells at our mortal enemy!" A US officer described the scene of the shelling at that time in his memoir after the war!

Therefore, the fate of these two Japanese single battleships has been decided. Even if the attack is chaotic and the hit rate is low, the number is enough to make up for the shortcomings in accuracy and shooting under supersaturation attacks. In the end, these two battleships do not need to be finished with destroyers at all, and the US fleet will smash it into pieces with brutal firepower!

However, the news that came after a moment made Benson very embarrassed, because these two battleships were not only not the US Navy dreamed of sinking Fusang-class and King Kong-class, nor were they the bottom line that Benson was willing to accept - the Hanoi-class battleship, but a Japanese former dreadnought! According to the telegram sent back by the US destroyer team participating in the lightning strike, the target was obviously a battleship with a side string single-mounted main gun. If you read it correctly, then these two battleships should obviously be former dreadnoughts! So, this embarrassed Benson. After so much effort, he only hit two wastes!

"Damn it, why did the Japanese fleet bring two wastes?" Benson said with some depression.

"Maybe it's just a abandoned child when necessary, like a gecko." A US Navy officer next to him said with some dissatisfaction.

"It seems that we have been busy all night, but we only gain this little. You know, the Japanese fleet killed one of our dreadnoughts and three front dreadnoughts just now!" Another voice sounded in the command tower. There is no doubt that although the results were achieved at this time, almost everyone was in a low mood. Because the American fleet was in a loss in the battle tonight. Once the warship that was dragging behind was killed, the Japanese fast warship in front would be equivalent to getting rid of a burden and naturally evacuated at full speed. Therefore, in the eyes of Benson and others, the pursuit tonight might end here!

"Damn it, if the Su Xiong fleet was here, our results of battle tonight would definitely not be so small!" Benson once again vented his dissatisfaction with Su Xiong.

"The two battleships died as if they were following the previous script. I felt like we were shooting a movie, and all the characters appeared, performed and finally ended." Others in the mountain house sighed at the two Satsuma-class battleships surrounded by fire and explosions in the distance.

"I feel like we are saying goodbye to an era." Yamamoto Izuru said sadly. At this point, all the Japanese naval battleships that participated in the Russian-Japanese Navy Battle have been retired or sunk. Except for the memorial ships docked in Yokosuka Port and the two old-fashioned armored cruisers that still exist, Yamamoto Izuru could no longer find any trace of the original joint fleet.

"The end of an era, the beginning of a new era, everything is born and destroyed, let's see," said someone from the mountain house. Then, the two of them silently stared at the direction of the disappearance of the two Satsuma-class battleships in the distance, and gave their last gaze to these veterans!
Chapter completed!