Chapter 673: A Great Victory (4)

The Discord withdrew from the battle, which can be regarded as basically losing its combat effectiveness, and the situation of the Dreadnought, the Resistance, was not much better, the Dreadnought was the flagship of the British 2nd battleship detachment, and a Sea Red Flag 9** hit the lower part of the command room, causing the command room to tilt and press on the turret of the front main gun, causing the turret to be unable to turn, and the personnel in the command room were also many casualties, especially the captain Martinez was seriously wounded; It exploded in front of the rear mainmast, breaking the rear mainmast by root, and when it fell, it smashed into the chimney, knocking down a chimney as well.

The two Haihongqi 9** of the other group all fell on the foredeck of the Resistance, less than 10 meters apart, and the superimposed explosion of the two ** caused damage to the turret of the front main gun, and the bow deck was almost completely destroyed, and ignited a fire, and the side side cracked and seeped water in a large area, fortunately, there was no wave pole to the ammunition depot under the turret, which did not cause a chain explosion, but it was also seriously damaged.

Han Chao, who commanded the battle on the Kunming ship, was very satisfied with this result, and at this time, the battleships of the KPA's Northern Fleet had already entered their range and, under the guidance of helicopters, launched fire on the expeditionary fleet.

At this time, the expeditionary force fleet was already in chaos, because the KPA's strike methods were so frightening, and now that five of its warships had been attacked, who would be next? In fact, if the two sides opened a battle line at sea to bombard, even if the KPA warships had a longer range and a higher hit rate, the expeditionary force fleet would not have felt such a panic, but now no one knows where the blow came from, how to dodge it, and how many other such strike methods the KPA has, so it is natural to panic.

And the flagship was sunk, there was no commander, and the other fleets did not know what to do, whether to advance or retreat, no one gave orders. In fact, when the expeditionary fleet was established, there were quite detailed provisions for the transfer of command, if the commander died or lost the ability to command, the acting captain of the same ship took over the command, and if the flagship Edward VII sank or lost combat command, the Republic took over the command, and after the Republic, the Dreadnought.

It is said that this arrangement cannot be regarded as inconsiderate, but now the Edward VII and the Republic are sinking, and the Dreadnought has also suffered heavy damage, the captain Martinez was seriously injured, and the acting captain has not yet been determined, and what is even worse is that the warship with the radio installed suddenly found that the radio could not be used, and there was only the current sound of "Zz" in the headset, and the signal could not be transmitted or recovered, so the central command of the entire expeditionary fleet was completely paralyzed.

Without command, the other fleets did not know how to act, but at this time, they could not wait idlely, so the fleets had to take matters into their own hands and take what they thought was the most appropriate way to respond.

First of all, the British fleet decided to launch a campaign against the People's Army, and now the British fleet has 2 Dreadnought-class, 5 Majesty-class, 4 Duncan-class, a total of 11 battleships, the strength is not weak, and the British Navy has a glorious history of more than 200 years, and the belief that the enemy must fight has been deeply rooted in the psychology of every British Navy, even if it is defeated, it cannot fall into the glory of the British Navy for a hundred years, although I don't know where this blow came from, but the visible enemy is in front of you, and the radio can not be used, and there is a flag signal, so the captain of the Majesty McManaman hung out"Take over the fleet", "attack" banners, and then lead 5 Majestic-class battleships to rush towards the KPA fleet.

The other 2 Dreadnought-class battleships and 4 Duncan-class battleships also attacked the KPA fleet, and Neville, the acting captain of the Dreadnought, and McClini, the captain of the Resistance, also did not ask for the command of the fleet from the Majesty, because these two warships had suffered heavy losses, and it was difficult to guarantee that they would be foolproof in the subsequent battles.

Although the French navy does not have the glorious history and glory complex of the British navy, the pride of the French is not inferior to that of the British, and the commander of the French fleet, Ginole, did not know what to do for a while, but when he saw that the British fleet launched an attack on the people's army fleet, he was naturally not to be left behind, so he also played the banner of "the whole army attacked", and then led the fleet to attack. But a step later than the British fleet.

However, the navies of Russia and the Netherlands did not have such courage, and they all chose to retreat.

The Netherlands is a small country, the glory of the former sea coachman has long disappeared with the wind for nearly 300 years, and the current Dutch people have completely regarded themselves as small people in a weak country in terms of mentality, and they do not have the slightest consciousness of their ancestors.

Russia is a big country and a military power, but it really has nothing to be proud of in terms of navy, and the Far East War has been fought for two and a half years now, Russia was defeated by Japan first, and then defeated by the East China government, and the three Pacific Fleets were all wiped out, and even the important Far Eastern town of Vladivostok was lost. Seeing that the general situation is not good, I don't leave at this time, but wait for the right time.

So the fleets of these two countries immediately turned around and retreated, knowing that the fleets of these two countries were originally grouped together, at this time they also disregarded the order of the fleet, scrambling, as a result, the Russian battleship Glorious in order to compete for the retreat route, successively rammed two Dutch cruisers Curaçao, St. Martin, these two 4,300-ton protective cruisers that had been able to withstand the 13,500-ton battleship rammed, Curacao was stopped and cracked, seeing that it was hopeless, the bow of the St. Martin was seriously deformed into the water, and the speed was greatly reduced.

The commander of the Dutch fleet, Koman, could not stand it anymore, and commanded the flagship Wilhelm I to ram into the rear of the Glory, and as a result, the two propellers of the Glory were broken and could not move; but this also angered the commander of the Russian fleet, Konstantinov, and ordered the tail guns to the Wilhelm I, because the two ships were only more than 10 meters apart at this time, so there was only one round of fire, and both guns hit the Wilhelm I, completely shattering the foredeck of the Wilhelm I, entering the water and sinking.

The entire expeditionary fleet was in disarray, and it took three or four minutes for the Kunming to sort it out, and by this time the five Majestic-class battleships of the British fleet had already exchanged fire with the battleships of the People's Army. And Han Chao ordered to strike at the British fleet again, the first thing to hit was 5 Majesty-class battleships, and each warship was still assigned 2 Sea Red Flag 9**, because from the perspective of the strike effect on the Dreadsome class, although it was difficult to sink a battleship, it was enough to inflict heavy damage on the battleship, and it was enough to do this step, and the rest of Bi Jing's affairs could be handed over to the battleship to solve, and his fleet could be tempered, so there was no need to pursue the need to completely sink the warship.

This was followed by the fight against 4 Duncan-class battleships, and this time it was switched to the Sea Red Flag 16**. It turned out that after the battle of the Majesty-class battleships, the share of the Sea Red Flag 9** was only 6 rounds, and if the Duncan-class battleships were attacked, at least 2 warships could only attack with one **, so the effect of such a blow was naturally greatly reduced, so they simply switched to all the Sea Red Flag 16** attacks.

Although the power of the Haihongqi 16** is far less than that of the Haihongqi 9**, the warhead is only 20 kilograms, and the amount of ammunition is only 16 kilograms, but it is better than a large number, the Kunming ship can be equipped according to the configuration of a pit and 4 bullets, a total of 32 rounds, deducting the reserved two rounds, the available quota has reached 30 rounds, and Han Chao decided to use 6 rounds of Haihongqi 16** for each Duncan-class battleship to strike, although only in terms of the amount of ammunition, the amount of 6 Haihongqi 16** is not as good as a Haihongqi 9** , but firstly, such a blow is evenly distributed, and 6 Haihongqi 16** is enough to clean all the decks of the entire warship; second, the Duncan class is a simplified version of the majestic class, whether it is tonnage or defense, it is the weakest type in the British fleet, and 6 Haihongqi 16** can completely damage the Duncan class.

So far, the People's Army's ** attacks have been completely used to hit British warships, which is also ** The priority option of attack, because the British warships are the main force of the expeditionary fleet, and they are also the strongest battles, even if they are the weakest Duncan-class battleships, their strength is stronger than all the French battleships, just from the tonnage comparison, it can be seen that the displacement of the Duncan-class battleships is 14,000 tons, and the maximum tonnage of the French battleships is only 12,500 tons, unless it is like the cadre class of the People's Army, 8 main guns are equipped on a warship, otherwise the tonnage and combat effectiveness are basically proportional.

After the Duncan-class battleship, the People's Army's Sea Red Flag 9** and Sea Red Flag 16** have only 6 rounds left, which is not enough to deal a heavy blow to the remaining 5 French battleships, but there are still 24 long tassels 5 anti-submarine ** on the Kun ship, which is actually a rocket boost**, first use the rocket to launch ** near the enemy's warship, and then enter the water to separate, **After entering the water, use its own power to propulsion, attack underwater targets or underwater parts of surface warships. In addition, there are 6 Eagle Strike 83** on the Xiangyang ship, and if it is not possible, you can also use helicopters to launch ** attacks, so there is enough way to attack the remaining 5 French battleships.