"General Zhang, isn't our speed too fast, which is not conducive to us turning and seizing the 'T' cross. ”

It was Schell, a military representative sent by Germany, who spoke. Before separating from the Kunming, the German engineers and technicians of the Qingzhou and Yizhou were transferred to the Kunming, and only Schell insisted on staying on the Qingzhou and participating in the battle. Although Schell has been in the army for nearly 20 years and has become the future star of the German Navy, he has never participated in a formal naval battle, so he naturally will not miss this opportunity to accumulate naval combat experience, and he also wants to see the naval combat capabilities of overseas Chinese, and Zhang Weizhi did not refuse his request and let him stay in the command room.

However, Scheer also knew that he was an outsider, so he was silent from the beginning of negotiations between the two sides until the collapse of the talks, but at this time he was really a little unbearable, because after the Qingzhou was launched, in ten minutes, it accelerated to about 15 knots, and it was still speeding up, so Scheer couldn't help but remind Zhang Wei that too fast was not conducive to seizing the "T" crosshead.

After the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, the navy's horizontal tactics were completely eliminated, and the one-line column tactics became the mainstream of naval warfare, and the most important place for the column tactics to build was to seize the "T" cross-head and give full play to the side firepower of the warship, so that the side could take the lead in seizing the "T" cross-head, and it could gain a great advantage in naval warfare, which has become the golden rule pursued by the navies of various countries.

However, it is not as fast as possible to seize the "T" crosshead, because if the "T" crosshead is seized outside the firing range, it is not only difficult to cause effective damage to the enemy ship, but also the enemy ship can immediately adjust the navigation to avoid the edge, of course, if it is too late, it will be even worse, then the enemy ship will take the lead in grabbing the "T" crosshead and fall into passivity, and the naval battle distance at this time is generally considered to be within 5 kilometers, so the timing of seizing the "T" crosshead must be grasped very accurately, neither too early, nor too late.

And now the two sides are facing each other, and seizing the "T" crosshead is in a sense a competition for the steering speed of both sides, which side turns faster and has a small turning radius, and that side has a greater chance of taking the lead in seizing the "T" cross. The hull of Qingzhou and Yizhou is larger, and the ship type is slender, and the steering radius required is larger, so the steering is not dominant, and now it is high speed, which magnifies its disadvantages, compared to the ships of the Dutch fleet to control the speed at about 10 knots, which is the most ideal steering speed.

In Scheer's view, the correct tactic of the People's Army should be to control the speed at about 10 knots, and after turning into the column engagement, and then use its speed advantage to catch up with the front of the Dutch fleet, and then cut the head of the Dutch fleet, which is also a typical textbook combat method, so Scheer is not only a little unbreathable.

When Zhang Wei heard this, he smiled and said, "Major, you just wait to watch a good show." ”

When she heard this, she didn't want to say anything, but her heart was full of ups and downs, I don't know if it was wrong for me to insist on staying on the Qingzhou to participate in the war just now, if the Qingzhou was sunk by the Dutch Navy, I would be wrongfully killed. But now there is no other way but to resign yourself to fate.

At this time, Zhang Wei said: "Report our speed and the distance of the other party now?"

"The speed is 16.3 knots, and the distance is 7.75 kilometers. ”

"Okay, fire right away, 1 round of calibration, then 5 volleys, and then re-aim. ”

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"You see, these yellow-skinned monkeys are still accelerating, and it's hard for them to think that they can grab the crosshead by speeding up. Helwig shook his head as he spoke, and said, "It seems that they don't understand naval warfare at all, and they dare to come and provoke us, so they should be taught a lesson and remembered forever." ”

As Herwig spoke, there was a rumbling sound of cannon on the other side, and the capitals of the two warships were seen emitting fire and smoke, apparently the other side had opened fire. About 7 or 8 seconds later, more than 10 water columns were immediately raised in front of the Dutch fleet, but they were all far away from the Dutch fleet and could not pose any threat to the Dutch fleet at all.

Helweig laughed even more, saying, "They can't hold their breath anymore, and it seems that this battle will be easy." Inform all ships to calm their breath and not to open fire. ”

The others in the command headquarters listened to this, and although they felt that the commander was a little overly supportive, the performance of the overseas Chinese was indeed too amateurish in their eyes, so most of them also felt that the battle was already under control.

But the shelling of the overseas Chinese has not ended, after a pause of dozens of seconds, a new round of shelling immediately began, but this time the accuracy of the shelling is much higher, and the opponent's artillery fire is obviously concentrated on the Amsterdam, the water column surrounds the Amsterdam, the nearest is only more than 30 meters, obviously the other side also sees that this is the flagship of the Dutch fleet.

In the next round of shelling, the Amsterdam finally couldn't escape, and a shot on the port deck killed 6 or 7 soldiers, but the damage to the Amsterdam was not great. However, after receiving one shot, the Amsterdam seemed to be on its back, and it was hit by two more shots, but fortunately, both of them hit the side side, first, because the armor of the Amsterdam was quite thick, and second, the angle of the projectile was small, one shell was bounced away, and the other shell left a crater on the side side.

"Qingzhou hit 2 shots and Yizhou hit 1 shot, but the opponent's loss was not big, and now the distance is 6.83 kilometers. ”

Under the supervision of the helicopters, the results of the first round of shelling and the distance between the two sides were very clear, and after the five shellings, although only three shots were hit, Zhang Wei was still very satisfied with this result, after all, the first round of shelling could achieve such a result, and it was indeed good. Zhang Wei immediately ordered the two warships to immediately correct the firing parameters according to the data provided by the helicopters, and after 30 seconds, conduct a second round of shelling.

And at this moment, the Dutch fleet finally launched a counterattack, after all, after three blows in a row, Hervig couldn't help but be a little breathless, so regardless of the fact that the two sides had not yet entered the distance specified in the textbook, immediately ordered to fire back, so the front main guns of the six warships of the Dutch fleet opened fire one after another, launching an attack on Qingzhou and Yizhou, but the first round of shelling was not good, and it did not cause any damage to the People's Army.

Before the Dutch fleet could carry out the second round of shelling, the second round of shelling by the KPA had already come, and in the space of a minute, the KPA completed the second round of 5 shellings, and this time the results were further expanded, a total of 4 rounds were hit on the Amsterdam, one of which landed on the deck, destroying the turret of a 100-mm naval gun, and two more hit the command headquarters, although blocked by thick armor, causing only two pits, and a large fire was ignited, which also caused some confusion to the command of the Amsterdam。

The Dutch fleet did not fire a salvo like the People's Army, but each fired freely, but at most it only fired 3 rounds, and some warships even only fired 2 rounds, because the main guns of the Qingzhou and Yizhou were based on the latest products of the German Krupp company, Germany's artillery technology was second to none, the theoretical rate of fire could reach 12 rounds per minute, and the actual rate of fire could also reach 6-7 rounds per minute, which was a considerable rate of fire for the main gun. In comparison, the speed of the Dutch fleet was significantly slower, and the number of front main guns of the Dutch fleet was relatively small, so the Dutch fleet still did not hit any of the shelling.

"Steering, steering, fast, turning backward. ”

The continuous shelling also completely shook Helwig's concentration, because the opponent's main guns were not only numerous, fast in rate of fire, but also quite accurate, and the number of the Dutch fleet's front main guns was too small, and the 6 warships were firmly suppressed by the opponent's 2 warships, so Hervig also ordered the warships to turn and face the enemy with a flank, so as to give full play to their sidestring firepower advantage.

Of course, now Helwig has not completely lost confidence, believing that the current passive situation is only temporary, and although his flagship has suffered 7 shots in a row, it still does not suffer much damage, so as long as it has completed the turn, it can give full play to its numerical advantage and still win this battle.

"Silver Eagle, where is the distance between us and the 3rd ship now?"

"At a distance of 5.37 kilometers and at an angle of 81.36 degrees, note that the enemy ships are turning, so you only have a maximum of two rounds of shelling. ”

"Okay, I understand. After saying that, Zhang Wei immediately ordered to report the data from the helicopter to the turrets of the two warships. Because seeing that the first two rounds of shelling did not have much lethality to the enemy's flagship, Zhang Wei also realized that it was not very likely that he wanted to sink or severely damage the enemy's flagship in a short time, so he really changed the target to the No. 4 ship of the Dutch fleet, Rotterdam.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Just as the Dutch fleet was turning, the third round of shelling by the KPA Navy began, and in less than a minute, the Rotterdam was hit by four guns in a row, with two near-misses. The Rotterdam was only a medium-sized protective cruiser, with no side armor and much worse defense than a shore defense battleship like the Amsterdam, so it was immediately hit hard, and both shells hit the main turret in the bow, blowing not only the turret away, but also a large gap in the bow. The two near-misses also caused cracking and seepage on the side.

The warship could not be shelled when it turned, so after receiving the news of the shelling of the Rotterdam, Helvig was anxious, but there was nothing he could do but to falsely tell the warship to turn faster so that it could launch a counterattack. The Amsterdam finally completed its turn, and at this time Herwig received the news that the Tilburg had been heavily damaged by enemy shelling.

Tilburg is a protective cruiser of the same class as the Rotterdam, and it is the No. 4 ship in the Dutch fleet, and the distance of this strike is not only closer, only 4.23 kilometers, but also at this time the Tilburg's turn is more than half completed, most of the hull is exposed, and the target of the bomb is naturally larger. After the first four rounds of shelling, the Yizhou ship also found its senses, and the result was an astonishing hit rate of 6 rounds, and there was a close miss, and the side of the Tilburg was hit by three guns, one of which was close to the waterline, and one shot hit the command center, and the second shot hit the bow of the ship, so it also became the most damaged Dutch warship.