Less than 2 minutes after Edward VII was hit by **, the second eagle strike 100** fell from the sky again, which hit the Republic behind Edward VII.

Although most of the warships of the Expeditionary Fleet had not yet reacted, most of the warships did not know what was going on, and they only heard a loud "boom" sound and fireworks appeared, the Republic was less than 300 meters behind Edward VII. Therefore, the entire process of Edward VII being hit by the Hawk 100** was seen clearly in the observation deck, bridge, and command center. Moreover, many of the steel debris shot out by the explosion were hit or fell on the Republic.

Although I still don’t understand where the strike came from, I saw the second eagle strike 100** falling from the sky again with flames. The watchtower, bridge, and command center suddenly felt a panic like a storm. Someone shouted: "Enemy attack! There is an enemy attack!" Someone shouted: "Switch to avoid! Quick, turn to avoid!" Someone shouted: "Start fire, open fire."

But all this is useless. The Republic did not respond at all. The performance of the warships in this era was basically not very big.

This time, the ** hit the middle of the warship, which is between the two chimneys and the rear main gun. In front of the kinetic energy converted from powerful potential energy, the deck without armored steel plates was broken like paper paste, and almost most of the ** was lost in the deck and exploded immediately.

"boom!"

The huge fire group was launched from the middle of the warship, and the huge hull was so shocked by the violent explosion that it almost jumped from the water surface. The closest to the explosion point were the two rear second-level main gun turrets that were washed away from the hull by strong air waves. They flew more than 10 meters high before falling into the sea. The deck, side armor, dome armor and other components in the middle of the warship were all deformed and cracked, and they were splashed and scattered, and they seemed to be interrupted in two pieces. The raging fire almost spread from the middle to the entire ship.

However, the missiles of the warship were far away from the command room this time. Although the command room was also hit by a huge impact, it was stronger than Edward VII. Most of the personnel in the command room survived. Of course, it was impossible to avoid injuries from everyone. Even Captain Kevin was scratched by two iron pieces. But he ignored the pain and immediately ordered rescue and repair the leak, but someone soon reported it, and the leak could not be blocked. In fact, the Republic cannot be called a leak now. The sea water poured back into the hull like a breach. More than 10 soldiers in the damage manager jumped into the accumulated water to try to block the leak, but they were immediately washed away by the rapids. Seeing that the warship was unable to be rescued, Kevin had to order the officers of the ship to abandon the ship.

In just two or three minutes, the two most powerful battleships in the Expeditionary Fleet were both hit hard. Although the two warships are still floating on the sea, the head of one of them has been completely blown away, and the other almost went into two parts from it. Anyone knows that these two warships are no longer saved.

Although many people on the warship saw clearly when the second shot fell, what kind of weapon was obviously not like an ordinary shell, and where did it come from? Because it was definitely not fired by the warship of the People's Army on the opposite side. No one could be sure whether it was a weapon of the People's Army. After all, this weapon was too weird. It inserted straight down from the sky with flames and attacked the weakest deck of a warship. The power of the explosion was much greater than that of ordinary shells. No one had ever heard of what weapon it was.

In fact, this is not the first time that the People's Army has used ** attacks on the battlefield. When the Time Traveler just came to this era, the Dagukou Naval Battle of defeating the Eight-Nation Alliance Fleet, the Bohai Naval Battle of defeating the German Far East Fleet, and the Tsuma Naval Battle last year, all used ** to attack the enemy. But firstly, in these battles, the number of ** used was not large, and no more than 10 rounds in any battle. Secondly, these battles have some special reasons, so they did not attract the attention of all countries;

The Dagukou naval battle occurred when the time travel group had just arrived at this era and was carried out at night. Almost no one noticed the attack. At that time, all countries basically sent their own 2 and 3rd-level warships. Even if they were defeated, they did not pay too much attention and did not seriously review and summarize. However, the German Far East Fleet lost a lot in the Bohai Naval Battle, but Germany was very good at face and did not mention it much. Later, the military cooperation between Germany and the East China government was relatively close, and they also intended to conceal the details of the Bohai Naval Battle for the East China government.

The Tsuma naval battle was a recent naval battle. In terms of scale, it can be regarded as the largest naval battle in the era of Duo Rivet Steel Steel, and the result of this battle was enough to affect the direction of the entire Far East battlefield. However, after that battle, Japan lost its control over the sea, and its sea routes were almost blocked by the East China government, and its external exchanges were reduced. Therefore, the relevant information could not be spread at all times.

Of course, another important reason is the British despise. In fact, there were some rumors at this time that the East China government's navy had a mysterious weapon and was powerful, but the British navy's technical department believed that these rumors were too absurd and did not take them seriously. Because although the East China government has won many naval battles since its establishment, it did not attract the attention of the UK. It believed that the East China government won only 2 or 3 opponents. Even if it was the Battle of the Takama, the East China government was waiting for it and took action while the Japanese and Russian fleet was both defeated and exhausted, which was not enough to prove the strength of the East China government's navy. Therefore, it was not carefully studied.

It was not until the Natuna Islands that Britain formally attached importance to the People's Army Navy, and this naval battle was conducted in a very serious and detailed study. However, the People's Army Navy did not use ** attacks in this naval battle, so the British Navy was almost unaware of this. Until its two strongest warships were hit by a devastating blow, they still didn't know what the situation was. Of course, even if they knew it, it would not be possible to change the end.

However, the People's Army did not have enough reaction time for the Expeditionary Fleet. After the Republic was hit by 100 Eagle, only 2 or 3 minutes later, two more ** were launched from the Kunming ship.

The share of the Eagle Strike 100** has been used up, and there are 4 Eagle Strike 18** that are used in emergency rescue. Therefore, the Kunming ship launched the Haihongqi 9** this time. It turned out that the number of this type of ** is 32, and 8 in the previous battle, plus 2 retained. The share that can be used this time is 22. The power of the Haihongqi 9** is of course much smaller than that of the Eagle Strike 100** and the Eagle Strike 18**. This is just a type of air defense. The warhead is only 165 kilograms and the filling amount is about 100-120 kilograms, but it is still much stronger than the shells at this time.

According to the use of previous wars, it takes 2-3 rounds to sink or make a battleship of more than 10,000 tons completely lose its combat effectiveness. In rare cases, 4 rounds are needed. Therefore, 22 rounds of Haihongqi 9** can be sunk or make the 6-7 battleship completely lose its combat effectiveness. In addition, there are 4 rounds of Eagle Strikes 18**. The People's Army can also sink or make more than 10 battleships lose its combat effectiveness.

The target of the People's Army's strike this time was the British three Fear-class battleships, Fear-class, Rebellion, and Breed. These are the second only to the two Edward VII-class battleships in the expeditionary warships. Although these three warships were injured in the battleships just now, they still should not be underestimated. Han Chao decided to fire 2 Sea Red Flags 9** each of these three warships to see the effect of the strike, and then decide whether to conduct a second wave of strikes.

In fact, there is no need to sink or completely lose the combat effectiveness of these warships. As long as they can be severely damaged, the People's Army's battleships are about to enter the combat distance. Since Haihongqi 9** is an air defense, it has extremely strong tracking capabilities for targets, so there is no need for helicopters to guide the entire journey. It only needs to provide one target. Therefore, Haihongqi 9** can launch a group of 2 shots every 20 seconds, with a total of 3 shots, totaling 6 shots. When the last group of ** left the warship, the first group had not yet hit the target.

There were 6 rounds in the air, which scared the crew of the Expeditionary Fleet because they had just arrived one by one, but now there were 6 rounds at once, and anyone would feel panic in his heart.

The speed of the Haihongqi 9** is much faster than the Eagle Strike 100**. It didn't last long for 6 shots to appear in the air at the same time. After only more than 10 seconds, the first group of Haihongqi 9** fell from the air. Both shots hit the Kweichow battleship. Then the 2nd and 3rd groups of Haihongqi 9** also fell one after another, accurately hitting the Rebellion and the Disharmony respectively.

Among these three battleships, the Buhe was the most effective in the combat effectiveness just now. He suffered a total of 4 280 mm shells and 7 200 mm shells. Two gaps were opened on the left side. One of them was close to the waterline. Although it was protected by heavy armor, it was still blown up to a gap of more than 2 meters wide and cracked in multiple places. However, after the efforts of the damage managers to rescue, the gap was blocked and most of the water inlet was discharged. Although it was still seeping water, it was not a big deal to the warship.

However, one sea red flag 9** penetrated into the cabin from the left deck. Although the gap was blocked, the materials used were only ordinary steel plates, and they were only 10 mm thick. They were simply bound with iron wire. Most of the cracks were cracked by the shock of the explosion, causing cracks in many places on the side, and seawater poured in from the cracks and gaps; and another one, after penetrating the deck, inserted into the crew cabin, not only caused huge damage to the deck, but also killed more than 30 damage officers who were resting in the cabin, and blocked the passage of request.
Chapter completed!