With almost no interference, the two German battleships performed exceptionally well! After the smoke dissipated, the Schánhorst found the target in the fourth round of half-volley. The Gneesenau next to him successfully hit the Anyi battleship located behind in the fifth round of half-volley!

Look at the five turrets of 2 large and 3 small from the front to the tail of the Anyi. One shell hits it, and it is not easy to hit the turret! The double 10-inch turret located in the middle was first destroyed. The sharp cup cap cuts butter like a hot knife and cuts the hardened armor layer up to 8 inches thick, and shoots it from the middle of the two cannons. After passing in, it continues to move forward and hits it directly on the tail cabin for storing spare ammunition!

At this time, according to the Japanese habits, there were exactly 4 spare shells and 8 launching medicine bags in the tail bay! The flames and impacts generated by the explosion of the shells first affected the silk medicine bag! A chain explosion occurred at the tail of the entire turret first, and a series of loud noises came from the turret. Finally, accompanied by a violent explosion that caused the entire warship to shake, half of the turret was directly shattered! The two guns in the front were even hit by a huge impact from the gun stand. Countless shrapnel and armor fragments shot out from the back of the turret and directly swept across the deck in the middle of the hull!

The power of the explosion was so huge that the entire middle part of the superstructure seemed to have been smoothed out! Although the losses of the superstructure seemed heavy, the impact was actually limited. What was really fatal was that this gun destroyed a chimney of the Anyi and the flue below! Half of the chimney was directly blown into the sea, and the black smoke gushing out of the flue quickly covered the middle of the hull and spread to the back of the hull.

The loss of the flue is serious, which is why some warships design flue armor. On the one hand, the smoke will directly affect the design of the artillery. On the other hand, if the exhaust gas is poured back into the boiler compartment, it may cause the boiler to be shut down. As for some people being smoked or even being smoked to death, it is not a problem compared to the above things!

It has to be said that the Japanese were still very hard-working at this time, and they were completely incomparable to the Heisei sacks in later generations. A group of Japanese rushed up without even being equipped with asbestos fire suits and gas masks, and the sea water extracted from the water pump sprayed towards the fire field to try to control the fire.

However, at this moment, the second shell fell and directly hit a group of firefighters. The flames like a volcano erupted and swallowed up the entire firefighting team. This explosion even smashed the entire upper deck, which had been pioneered, into a layer! More air entered the hull, making the internal fire expand faster. The flames like fire snakes wandered around the cabins and pipes, turning the compartments into flame hells. Many people who had not had time to withdraw could only struggle in the flames to spend the last and most painful time in their lives.

The Scharnhorst of Su Xiong performed well! In the seventh round of the half-scattered volley, he successfully hit two Samoan shells! One of the shells hit the front of the Samoan 12-inch turret due to angle problems and did not penetrate it but directly bounced away. However, even so, a 12-inch barrel was still taken away, and the huge vibration even caused problems with the hydraulic equipment of the other cannon.

The second shell hit the effect was very good. It was a shot that was shot in water, which entered the water 20 meters on the side of the Satsuma. Then it stabbed like a small torpedo. After successfully tearing open the outer shell plate and coal bin, it entered the main engine compartment. Although there was no explosion, the violent collision still knocked a transmission shaft into two halves! The huge transmission shaft suddenly jumped from the base under the action of inertia and swept half of the engine compartment! The violent impact and the fire caused by this made the warship lose half of its power!

Tomosaburo Kato felt that the entire warship was tilted to one side quickly. The British watertight compartment design was not very successful. There was no subdivided compartment of the Germans, nor was there an abnormal three-layer power compartment. The Japanese watertight design was also average. Although it was just a shell, a large amount of sea water still poured into the interior of the compartment and into the cabin from the rupture. Under the action of huge water pressure, the broken power compartment could soon raise fish.

The speed of the Satsuma inevitably decreased, while the Anyi behind bypassed the Satsuma with a decreasing speed and prepared to continue approaching. "Kill the ship behind first, the Satsuma will not be able to escape." Looking at the Satsuma with a rapidly decreasing speed, Su Xiong thought for a while and said.

Then the two German rapid battleships began to point the muzzle at the warship that continued to approach. The Japanese were also firing and counterattacking, but the nearest bounce point was 500 meters away from the German warship. And they had never formed a cross-fire. In almost ideal situations, the shooting accuracy was naturally high, just like in practice, the two German battleships crossed and poured a large number of shells on the other side's hull!

Huge fireballs rushed out of the muzzle again, and the two warships completely covered their opponents with a storm woven by steel and flames at a projection of more than 4 tons per minute.

"In less than ten minutes, I observed at least a dozen explosions on the Japanese warships! The Japanese seemed to be sitting on a gasoline barrel that exploded continuously. Huge fireballs rose into the air on the warship, and the superstructure of the warship was cut off by two-thirds. The side of the ship was full of ruptures, and a large amount of black smoke, white high-temperature steam and flames gushed out of the hull. The tilt of the warship can be seen even ten kilometers away. As an American, I was very excited!" Nimitz wrote in his viewing diary.

At this time, under the focus of the 16 350mm heavy artillery of the two battleships, An Yi went to the end of his life first than the Satsuma class. The tilt angle of the warship was as high as 30 degrees, and it was not even possible to solve the problem of water balance. In other words, if it were not for the help of other warships, he would probably never be able to return to Japan.

"Give up the ship!" After giving the order, the captain of the Anyi ship learned about his life with a bullet. The Anyi also became the first battleship to sink in the entire World War I! After Anyi left, the Satsuma time limit had already arrived.

As the dual 12-inch main turret at the rear of the Satsuma turned into a burning iron box, all the main guns and second-level main guns on the Satsuma battle side were destroyed, and the warship was tilted by 20 degrees. Now it can only spin at sea.

"Let the Swordfish come up and use torpedo to deal with them!" Accompanied by Su Xiong's order, two German battleships waited 8 kilometers away, allowing the auxiliary cruiser to launch torpedoes and serve as the final executioner. Although the two German battleships were equipped with torpedoes at the request of the Argentines, Su Xiong was worried that the Japanese could come up with some tricks in the end. Since that is the case, don't use expensive main ships to board, just use auxiliary cruisers.
Chapter completed!