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At this moment, all the submarines have surfaced.

Looking at the dozens of submarines around, the dark and oppressive feeling was so overwhelming that everyone gasped.

They didn't expect that the other side had so many submarines.

A colonel hurriedly said: "Torpedoes are used for defensive counterattacks."

Just as they were preparing to fight back, ten submarines opened fire on them crazily with their deck guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.

The distance was only about three hundred meters. Although the submarine's anti-aircraft machine guns and artillery were not as powerful as large-caliber artillery, they were still quite lethal at such a close distance.

The Japanese navy was shot into pieces just as they were about to reload their ammunition.

It’s not that the submarine doesn’t want to continue using torpedoes, but because of the limitations of the submarine’s performance.

Today's submarines do not stay underwater for long periods of time; they have to surface for repairs from time to time.

Not only that, after firing a torpedo, it will be discovered by the enemy. If you want to fire a second one, it will take about ten minutes just to reload.

There was simply no time.

Now that we have discovered it, we might as well just fight it out in the water.

Of course, although submarines equipped with artillery can engage in combat with enemy surface ships, they are limited to small enemy ships.

If a submarine attempts to use artillery to engage in a gun battle with an enemy ship larger than a destroyer, then it is just being too optimistic.

It is precisely because they are destroyers and cruisers that these submarines dare to surface.

Of course, the ten submarines also have a huge advantage in terms of the number of artillery pieces.

At the same time, nearly a hundred secondary guns of the four battleships fired shells.

This time they are not ordinary shells, they are high-explosive shells.

boom!

The remaining cruisers and destroyers were all hit by the double attack.

In just 10 minutes, all the remaining destroyers and cruisers were sunk.

However, one submarine also could not escape its fate and was hit by a torpedo from a destroyer.

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It has to be said that this destroyer is the nemesis of submarines.

Submarines are slow and take time to dive. Once discovered or targeted, there is no way to escape. It is either you die or I die.

What's more, three hundred meters is also within the attack range of a destroyer's torpedoes.

One submarine was exchanged for four cruisers and three destroyers. It is hard to say who lost and who gained.

Kato Tomotaro saw through the telescope that the other side still had ten submarines and gasped.

He underestimated the opponent's strength.

Soon, all the crew members on a submarine were rescued.

Nine submarines sank again.

Now, the two battlecruisers Kongō and Kirishima from Kato Tomotaro's two fleets were also destroyed.

Six cruisers were destroyed last night, and four more were lost today, making a total of ten cruisers completely gone.

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Three destroyers were just destroyed, and two more were destroyed in the previous artillery fire from both sides.

It can be said that there are only six battleships left.

The six battleships had been damaged to varying degrees.

Of course, two of the four battleships on Shen Hao's side were also seriously damaged, one was intact, and one was hit by three shots.

The battle had lasted nearly two hours.

The Japanese artillery fire was becoming weaker and weaker, and they had almost no shells left.

一艘战列舰12门12英寸（305mm）的主炮、21门5英寸的副炮。

The 305mm naval gun is 15.25 meters in length and weighs 51.85 tons. The initial velocity of the gun is 855 to 1120 meters per second and the rate of fire is 2 to 3 rounds per minute.

The 305mm naval gun can fire ordinary shells, armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells, and the shells weigh 380 kilograms.

A battleship can only carry a maximum of 305 rounds of mm naval artillery shells.

It was all done in less than two hours.

After silently calculating, Forrest Gump sneered and said, “Retreat a bit and replenish the ammunition.

Then push forward, the other side may not have enough shells."

The artillery shells of both sides were almost the same.

So, Shen Hao took a submarine to approach the battleship and took out 400 armor-piercing shells and 400 high-explosive shells from the system.

Fortunately, there are system rewards, otherwise it would take several hours just to transport hundreds of tons of heavy artillery shells by manpower.

After the shells were fully loaded, Shen Hao quietly boarded the submarine again.

Using the observation mirror, he secretly watched Ding.

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We have no more shells on our side, and the Japanese fleet must be gone too. This is inevitable.

With the support of Shen Hao's artillery shells, battleships such as Forrest Gump are in high spirits.

But during the nearly two-hour bombardment, the four battleships also suffered varying degrees of damage.

However, he has not been fatally injured and is still able to fight.

After this battle, all four battleships needed major repairs.

And many naval soldiers died.

The situation on the Japanese side was similar, with even an old battleship half-sunk.

It is only a matter of time before it sinks completely into the sea.

When the Japanese artillery fire gradually subsided, Forrest Gump ordered: "Don't fire anymore. We don't have any shells left. Drive forward three miles. Then listen to my orders and concentrate your firepower to destroy the three new battleships first."

"Yes, Captain."

On the Japanese side, Kato Tomotaro was about to call off his troops because he had run out of artillery shells.

This naval battle was tragic.

The other side first launched an unethical sneak attack, destroying two battlecruisers.

The cruiser and the "090" destroyer were destroyed in one fell swoop, and the opponent only lost one submarine. It can be said that it was a disastrous defeat.

As for the battleships, both sides had the same speed. The three old battleships were slower and could not catch up, so they could only shoot at each other.

Kato Tomotaro never expected that the enemy had so many artillery shells, which were comparable to theirs, or even more abundant.

This made him begin to doubt his life.

He cursed the intelligence officers as idiots and pigs.

Kato Tomotaro saw the enemy's four damaged battleships actually sailing towards this side.

Some surprises.

Something must be wrong when things are out of the ordinary. Kato Tomodarou frowned and asked, "What do you think they want to do?"

"General, we have more people and each of our warships has three shells, so we can continue the attack.

As long as you get close, hit you.

I believe their shells are now empty."

"I think so too. Let them come. We have five warships and more than 6,000 people. What are we afraid of with so many people?"

"Yes, you can fight."

Hearing everyone say this, Kato Tomodarou nodded and said, "In that case, let's fight to the death."

After saying that, he snorted coldly and drew out his command knife.

"Since they want to fight head-on, then let's go for it. I don't believe they are an iron wall and will kill without mercy."

"Hai!"

At this moment, Kato Tomosaburo thought that the other party was going to fight to the death.

This plays into his hands.

Although the two fleets lost their destroyers and cruisers, they still had five battleships.

Even though each battleship only had three shells.

But the navy outnumbered the enemy.

He has an advantage in all kinds of data, what is he afraid of?

As for the other side having submarines, in his opinion, as long as these four battleships were captured, victory would be achieved.

With the sun shining brightly in the sky, Kato Tomosaburo seemed to have seen the dawn of victory.

The two sides moved forward tacitly.

The distance is less than 15 nautical miles.

Forrest Gump watched as the other side was tricked. Of the six Japanese battleships, one was about to sink and remained where it was, while the other five had already approached.

The best decisive battle distance for battleships is 15 to 20 nautical miles.

The hit rate is already very impressive.

If one side insists on rushing into 8 to 10 nautical miles, the hit rate will be higher, but a considerable number of shells may hit in the process.

By the time it reached 10 nautical miles, it had already been severely damaged.

Now the positions of each Japanese battleship are very dense.

Seeing that the Japanese army showed no intention of stopping, Forrest Gump seemed to have guessed their intentions.

Originally the decisive battle was to be fought within 15 nautical miles, but now Forrest Gump feels that 10 nautical miles is not impossible.

"Keep going, slow down, attack after 10 nautical miles, and fire all your cannons."

As time passed, the distance between the battleships of both sides was just 10 nautical miles.

Forrest Gump: "Fire!"

Kato Yutarou: "Fire!!"

Both sides had a very good understanding and fired together.

boom!

When Kato Tomodaro saw the 12 main guns on the opposite side all emitting flames, his heart skipped a beat and his face turned pale.

He knew it was over.

Each of his battleships had only three shells, but the opponent fired 48 12-inch 305mm shells in this round of main guns alone. The firepower of the two sides was not at the same level at all.

These four battleships are all new-class dreadnought-class battleships built by the United States after 1909.

Although they are not at the level of super-dreadnought battleships, the hulls of these four battleships are about 20% larger than previous battleships.

Each battleship was equipped with twelve 12-inch (12 mm) main guns.

All are installed on a twin-mount turret.

Not only that, in order to support the main gun firepower, there are 21 5-inch secondary guns.

and two 21-inch torpedo tubes.

48 rounds for the 305mm main gun, plus 80 rounds for the 5-inch secondary gun.

In an instant, hundreds of shells attacked at the same time, like meteorites falling to the ground.

Despite the hot weather, the Japanese soldiers only felt cold all over.

They could only watch the artillery fire from the opposite side coming towards them, but they were powerless to do anything.