Chapter 3187 The Enemy Plane Flew Straight up and Then Dropped Rapidly!

The reason why the crew was able to withdraw safely after being bombarded by naval guns was not only because of the extremely abnormal armor protection of the IS7, but also had something to do with the Japanese naval guns themselves.

The Akizuki-class destroyer itself was designed for full-time air defense missions. The main gun with an elevation angle of up to 89 degrees made a compromise in caliber in order to weave an anti-aircraft barrage at a high rate of fire.

The 100mm caliber is destined to have a small destructive effect of its projectiles. Even if it fires high-explosive grenades, the charge of its projectile warhead is only 950 grams, which is less than one kilogram of warhead charge.

Facing the terrifying Slavic steel behemoth IS7, it is good enough to shatter the sights and force IS7 to withdraw from the battle. What else do you want?

But one thing is that the Akizuki-class 100mm main gun, which has limited destructive power of a single shell, has a high rate of fire due to the positioning of the anti-aircraft gun.

The electric loader is installed in the spacious turret space, and the maximum firing rate of a single gun can reach 15-19 rounds per minute.

The super-long barrel of up to 65 times the caliber and the 7 kilograms of propellant not only make the muzzle velocity break through the 1,000-meter-per-second mark, but also can send the shells to explode at an altitude of 10,000 meters during air defense operations. It is also one of the few anti-aircraft guns of the Japanese army that can threaten the heavy bombers of the US Army.

Even if there is only one turret available now, it can still maintain a relatively high amount of firepower projection. The 100mm high-explosive projectiles that whizzed in one after another soon made the offensive forces of the Kulbarov Division see its power.

Swish, swish, swish——

Boom——

Boom——

It is not pleasant to be bombarded by Japanese naval guns. Even though the IS6 and IS7 have super high maneuverability, it is difficult to be directly hit by the Japanese destroyer guns whose hulls are already tilted and are still further intensifying during the maneuver.

But continuing to be bombed was not a solution. Seeing this, the battalion commander who had not fired at the turret immediately, thinking that the turret had lost its combat effectiveness, immediately picked up the radio at hand and gave an order.

"113, 121, 122 vehicles, concentrate your firepower to knock down that damn turret! Use grenades to bomb directly!"

Before setting off, the battalion commander who led the attack had received news that the turret of the Japanese destroyer had basically no armor protection. He knew that using armor-piercing shells to bombard this broken thing would likely lead to over-penetration, and thus would not have any ideal destructive effect, so he simply ordered to bombard directly with grenades.

The three IS7s that received the order immediately separated from the large maneuvering force and quickly maneuvered to a firing position far away from the firing line of the Japanese naval guns, stopped, aimed, and prepared to fire.

Faced with the question of whether to attack the three vehicles that had separated from the large force or continue to bombard the large force, the only remaining Japanese naval gun turret chose the former, and thus would inevitably bear the blow brought by the latter.

"High-explosive shells loaded! Target the Japanese destroyer turret, the last one! Gunners ready!"

"Loading complete!"

"Aim!"

"Fire!"

Boom--

Boom--

The three IS7s, with muzzle flashes surging one after another, fired continuously. The powerful 130mm high-explosive grenades broke free from their restraints, whizzed out from the fierce muzzle flashes, and rushed straight to the target.

Hitting this kind of static target, a warship turret that is already within a kilometer range and is larger than a tank, is completely easy for the three IS7s to capture without missing the target and all hit.

The turret, which has no other effective protection except the 13mm anti-fragment armor, can't withstand the fierce bombardment from the Red Navy's 130mm naval gun.

The turret that was hit on the side was torn open with two holes on the spot, one of which was hit by two shells almost at the same time.

The surging and spreading blasting flames then poured into it, and instantly convected into a terrible fire storm in the fully enclosed turret.

More than a dozen Japanese soldiers in the turret were immediately turned into "stewed meat", and the flame storm was wrapped with high-speed fragments. After being roasted and shaved, only a pile of burnt human tissue remained in the turret. The turret that was still firing at a high rate of fire just now has now become a pile of scrap metal.

"Continue! Load high-explosive bombs and fire another round!"

It is impossible to determine whether this thing was really blown up, or whether it turned into a "resurrection firepower point" after adding people, and only temporarily lost its combat effectiveness.

The battalion commander who led the team to do everything possible saw this scene and directly ordered three IS7s to fire another round of artillery to ensure that the broken turret of the Japanese devils was completely lifted away.

The three IS7s that were originally planning to do supplementary shooting immediately executed the order. With the blessing of the semi-automatic loader, the firing rate of up to 10 seconds per round was fully utilized, and the reloaded and fired again came in the next second.

Boom boom boom——

Another three 130mm high-explosive grenades headed straight for the target, but this time it was not as simple as hitting the surface of the turret again.

The turret, which had been torn open by the previous round of shelling, was directly filled with three more whistling projectiles and exploded.

The emergency shells placed in the turret that had not been used up became the culprit of the secondary explosion. The power of 32 100mm high-explosive shells exploding simultaneously was not to be underestimated.

The next second, the top of the entire turret was directly blown through by the powerful secondary explosion, and various debris and the bodies of the Japanese soldiers who had been killed were thrown into the air like a volcanic eruption.

That is, the weight of the twin turret was too large, up to 5 tons, and the lack of armor protection was too fragile and was directly blown through, which released most of the explosion pressure, which led to the turret not being directly blown off the hull and lifted into the air.

In this way, Nagano Koji's command ship lost all the main gun firepower.

Two of the four twin turrets were destroyed by self-propelled artillery, and another was destroyed by the late Katyusha rocket launcher, and the last one was directly taken away by three IS7s with two rounds of concentrated fire.

Witnessing the violent scene of the whole ship shaking when the last turret exploded, Nagano Koji, who was already gritting his teeth with anger, had no time to think more, let alone care about the bleeding injuries, and only heard a shout from the deck below the bridge.

"Enemy plane! Enemy plane straight up and down!!!"

Hearing this roar, Nagano Koji felt a chill on his back and hurriedly looked out along the broken window frame. Only then did he realize that Russian fighter planes had flown in the sky at some point, and there were dozens of them, swooping down with full loads of underwing weapons.

Even if Nagano Koji was arrogant and stubborn, the cruel reality of the situation at this point was enough to make him understand that the final destruction would not come at any other moment, but at this moment.

"Damn Russians! Damn artillery! Damn planes!!!"