Eastern Sea!
Three cruisers with medicine flags escorted the ten troop-carrying ships towards the port of Shanghai!
The flagship of the seventh fleet of the Japanese Third Fleet was the Nagara cruiser!
On the bridge, Captain Kumoto Ichiro slowly put down the binoculars in his hand and looked at his deputy beside him.""How much longer until we reach Shanghai?"
"Captain, we're still two hundred nautical miles away from Shanghai. We should be able to reach Shanghai Port in seven hours!”
"Yes! I hope nothing happens!"
Upon hearing Ichiro Kumoto's words, the vice-captain beside him smiled and said,""Captain, the sea is the territory of our navy. In two months at most, the entire Huaxia will be ours!”
"That's right. In front of the Imperium's navy, the Huaxia Navy is nothing. The two cruisers can't even enter the ocean.”
Ichiro Kumoto nodded. He was very clear about the flag of the Huaxia Navy, Ninghai and Pinghai!
"Pay attention to the ships of other countries! It's not a good time to have a conflict!"
"Ha Yi!"
At this moment, in the command tower of the Sunset!
Yu Zhiqian was learning naval tactics from the captain of the Sunset, Chen Jun.
Yu Zhiqian was now the highest commander of the Sunset. He knew that he was not qualified to command a battleship yet. What he needed to do now was to learn naval tactics continuously, so he needed someone to guide him!
"Sir Commander, Sir Captain, the recon plane has reported that a Japanese fleet has been spotted fifteen nautical miles north!”
" Report the formation of the enemy fleet!"
"The enemy fleet is made up of three cruisers and ten merchant ships. There are traces of the Japanese army on the merchant ships. They should be the Japanese military transport ships. The flagship is a Nagara class cruiser, and the other two cruisers are old cruisers!”
When he heard this, Chen Jun immediately reported the situation of the enemy fleet to Yu Zhiqian!
Nagara class cruiser!
The displacement was only about 5,000 tons, and the main cannons were seven 140mm main cannons!
It was impossible to penetrate the armor of the Sunset. The only thing to take note of was the torpedoes equipped on the cruiser!
"Fight!"
Yu Zhiqian did not hesitate to give the order!
Immediately, the entire Dusk began to get busy!
The three triple-mounted main cannons began to slowly rotate their barrels, aiming in the north direction, and slowly raised their thick barrels!
At this moment, the seventh fleet of the Japanese had not discovered the Sunset at all!
Twelve nautical miles was equivalent to more than twenty-two kilometers!
Due to the weather, the 7th fleet was not equipped with reconnaissance aircraft and was difficult to observe with the naked eye!
The Dusk's main cannon had a maximum range of 42 kilometers. 12 nautical miles was completely within its range!
Moreover, this distance was also the best shooting range for battleships!
Half a minute later, the Dusk's three main cannons adjusted the height of their barrels, set the firing range, and loaded their ammunition!
Yu Zhiqian stood in front of the command tower's messenger!
"Fight!"
Following Yu Zhiqian's order!
The three 406mm main cannons fired in succession!
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
“……”
Nine consecutive thunderous booms rang out!
The Dusk's hull even shifted a few meters in the sea!
Nine 406mm cannons flew towards their targets!
At this moment, on the bridge of the seventh fleet!
The Japanese did not find any problems and continued to advance towards their target!
"Boom!"
The first shell landed on the sea not far from a troop-carrying ship!
After the shell fell into the water, the fuse was immediately triggered!
It exploded underwater!
After a loud bang, the huge wave almost overturned the 5,000-ton merchant ship!
"Enemy attack!"
The seventh fleet did not even have time to sound the alarm!
The second shot!
The third shot!
The fourth shot!
……
The Dusk's artillery shells continued to land around the Seventh Fleet!
Until the eighth shell directly hit a troop-carrying ship!
"Boom!"
After a loud explosion, the 8,000-ton merchant ship exploded into two halves from the middle. The huge flames from the explosion swallowed the merchant ship!
Then, the merchant ship sank into the sea from the middle!
Nine cannonballs, one hit!
This hit rate was very high in the first round of test firing!
There were two steps to firing a battleship!
The first and second rounds of artillery fire were both test shots to test the landing point of the shells!
After the third round of shooting, it was the real cannon fire!
"Report, in the first round of test firing, one shot hit, the other eight main cannons all deviated by less than 1%!”
"Continue firing!"
The first round of firing had already yielded results, so there was no need to adjust the barrel. After adjusting the deviation slightly, the second round of firing appeared again!
On the bridge of the Japanese Seventh Fleet!
Ichiro Kumoto, stand steadily!
The waves caused by the explosion of the nine battleships 'main cannons around the Nagara class made the Nagara class feel as if it was shaking in a storm!
"Where are the enemies? Dammit, counterattack!"
"Captain, according to the cannon fire, the enemy is more than ten nautical miles south of us. We can't find any traces of the enemy for the time being! Unable to fight back!"
"More than ten nautical miles? Damn it, battleship!"
Ichiro Kumoto instantly understood that he might have been bombarded by battleships!
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