"Distance 8620 meters, azimuth 96 degrees, coordinates 6,75;12,37; all main guns, salvo after 30 seconds. ”

"Boom, boom, boom!" The eight main guns of the Cadre General opened fire together, giving the first roar of today's war.

At this time, the Cadre General was facing the bow of the Old Man Star on the side side, so Owen could see very clearly through the porthole in the command room, and Owen's first reaction was that the People's Army did not carry out a calibration fire? Since the shell has to fly over a distance of more than 8,000 meters, it takes about 12 seconds, and in this short period of more than 10 seconds, Owen can also move his brain.

Just when Owen was still thinking about whether the People's Army was deliberately going to fight a chaotic battle, or whether he didn't understand the tactics of the Navy at all, he only heard the sound of "boom", and saw that less than 100 meters in front of the left front of the old man's asterisk, two water columns more than 20 meters high rose almost at the same time, and then only about 60 meters to the right of the old man's asterisk, two water columns also rose in a row.

The thought of "the landing point of the cannonball" had just flashed in Owen's mind, and he only heard a loud "boom", and there was a loud vibration under his feet, only to see a thick smoke and sparks rising on the left side of the old man's asterisk. Apparently it was shot on the port side. The huge hull suddenly shook, and a series of exclamations rang out from the command room.

And Owen's heart couldn't help but be shocked, it was difficult to say that the other party's character was really so good that it exploded? The first round of salvo fire was successful? Not even a school shot was used? But judging from the water column caused by the landing point of other shells, it was basically within a range of about 100 meters around the Old Man Asterisk, which also showed that the four batteries of the opposing warship were all quite accurate and accurate, not like an accidental hit, and it was difficult for the People's Army Navy to master the technology of accurate shooting at a distance of 9,000 meters in actual combat? This is a technology that even the British Navy has not been able to grasp now.

However, Owen did not forget that he was already in the middle of a war, so he didn't think much about it, and immediately issued two orders: "The front main gun immediately fires back and reports the damage." ”

At this time, the front main gun of the Old Man Star was already ready to fire, so after receiving the order, it immediately began to shoot, but the landing point of the shell was obviously far away from the Ganjiang, even if it was observed by Owen with the naked eye, it was at least 4 or 500 meters away, and there was no threat to the Ganjiang. But at this time, Owen also received a good news, that is, although the old man star was hit by a bullet, but the damage was not large, this is because the old man star is now the bow of the ship against the enemy, the hit surface is small, and the bow is pointed, the angle between the middle bullet and the shell is small, but also offset most of the impact force, plus the bow armor is thicker, the explosion of the shell did not blow through the side side, of course, the impact of the explosion still caused a large number of fragments in the hull, more than 20 crew members were injured, and several people died.

But such losses were very small for a battleship with a displacement of nearly 13,000 tons, the Old Man Star, and just when Owen was a little relieved and rejoicing, the second round of shelling of the Cadre came again.

"Boom Boom Boom" 7 or 8 sky-high water columns rose around the front and rear of the old man star, and there were 2 shells that fell less than 30 meters away from the old man star, which can be regarded as a close miss, and one of them fell about 25 meters behind the left side of the old man star, and another shell fell about 60 meters behind the old man star, forming a straddle fire.

2 near-miss bombs caused the old man's asterisk's huge turbulent waves, many people on the ship were unstable and fell, the stirred water column splashed onto the deck of the old man's asterisk, several crew members who were working on the deck were shaken greatly and the hull was unstable, and as a result, they were washed by the sea, and they all fell into the sea, and the soldiers below the deck could clearly hear a "grid" sound from the cabin under the waterline, obviously the hull part of the waterline was being strongly impacted and squeezed, and there were cracks and water seepage in many places.

"Turn, turn right away, turn right 75 degrees. ”

At this time, Owen finally couldn't hold his breath, although this time the old man's asterisk was not directly shot, but there were two close misses, and they actually hit the shot, indicating that the last accurate hit was by no means accidental, obviously the People's Army's navy did master the shooting technology of 8000-9000 meters in actual combat, and the hit was quite high, even two shots, all hits, and the British Navy's shooting within 7000 meters could not reach such a hit rate. Therefore, if you don't turn around at this time, you can only be hit by the fleet of the People's Army as a live target. And when the fleet of the People's Army also turns over, even if there is only one, I am afraid that my old man asterisk will not be able to carry it.

And now turning, then the Far East Fleet will have more artillery can be put into the counterattack, although the current engagement distance is still more than the normal engagement distance of the British warship, but if there are more artillery into the counterattack, it can still improve the hit, even if it can't hit the opponent's warship, but the smoke and water column caused by the shooting can also interfere with the opponent's shooting, and after the fleet turns, it can also share the pressure of the old man's asterisk. And Owen ordered to turn only 75 degrees, not 90 degrees, so that after the turn, the Far Eastern Fleet could still move diagonally and move towards the opposing side's queue until it reached its own engagement distance.

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"Shaou reported to the command that the lead ship of the enemy fleet is turning, and the lead ship of the enemy fleet is turning. ”

"What is the current distance between the two sides?"

"The sand gull replied to the command, which is currently 8040 meters away and is currently at a distance of 8040 meters. ”

"How's the situation of our fleet after receiving the sand gulls? How many warships have completed the turn?"

The sand gull replied to the command that the Mo Ye had completed its turn, and the Weiyang was turning. ”

"Immediately send the parameters of the Mo Evil to the command. ”

"Understood. ”

"The British finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to turn. Xia Ruichen put down the binoculars, and looked from the window of the ship, the old man asterisk had turned nearly half of the hull, and the bomb surface was much larger than just now. "The parameters provided by the Yueyang ship are accurate, and the parameters calculated and measured by our comprehensive fire control room are indeed far behind. ”

A comprehensive fire control room is set up on the Cadre, a set of integrated fire control calculation system is installed, and the shooting parameters are provided by the integrated fire control room for training in peacetime, but compared with the advance amount measured and calculated by modern electronic equipment, there is indeed a considerable gap between the shooting parameters provided by the integrated fire control room, after all, no matter how good the optical equipment is, it is also measured with the naked eye of the human eye, plus the error of calculation, so the final data error is very large.

Xia Ruichen turned out to be the first captain of the large protective cruiser Qingzhou, participated in the Battle of Java, and later served as the captain of the armored cruiser Chitu, participated in the Battle of Tsushima, and after the Battle of Tsushima, he was appointed as the first captain of the Cadre, and he had rich experience in managing warships and naval warfare. Although the firing parameters of this war cadre were all provided by the Yueyang ship, Xia Ruichen still asked the comprehensive fire control room to calculate the parameters of each shot. The purpose is to compare these two sets of data after the end of this battle, and find out the error rate, reasons and improvement methods of the integrated fire control calculation system, so as to improve the parameters calculated by the integrated fire control calculation system and improve the hit rate. After all, the People's Army Navy cannot always rely on these modern warships to fight, and ultimately it will all depend on the technology of this era, and this will not be too far away in the future, so we must be prepared now.

In the process of turning, the Cadre made another salvo, this time another shell hit the middle of the port side of the Old Man Star, and this time the old man Star was not so lucky, the shell tore a large hole on the port side and deck of the Old Man Star 6 or 7 meters wide and up to 4 meters, and destroyed the turret of a twin 105 mm gun, and the steel plate at the gap was curled, the steel beam was twisted, a large number of fragments, and the human body with the stump and broken arm was either hung on the stump and broken arm, or fell into the sea. Fortunately, this rift is above the waterline, so it is not too fatal for the warship.

At this time, Owen's face was pale, and he hurriedly ordered the damage management personnel to repair it, and ordered all the guns on the left side of the old man star to fire back, although the old man star had not completely completed the turn at this time, but the guns on the side of the side could indeed fire, so with Owen's order, more than a dozen guns of the left side of the old man star opened fire together, and launched a fierce blow to the cadre.

In fact, most of the shells were nearly a kilometer away from the Ganjun, but a dense column of water formed between the two sides, which also blocked the vision of both sides, at least in this case, both sides could not aim.

Owen's heart was also slightly relieved, and he only hoped to use this time to make his side as warship as possible to complete the turn and participate in the battle.

But at this moment, the Cadre launched another artillery attack on the Old Man Star, and at the same time, the Mo Evil, which had completed its turn, also launched its first round of artillery bombardment.

A total of 16 main guns of the two warships fired at the Old Man at the same time. This time there were 2 hits and 1 close miss, one of which hit the main gun turret on the foredeck of the Old Man Star, and the British battleship's protective design tradition was that the armor of the main gun turret was thicker than that of the command, because the British Navy's philosophy was that the first priority was to protect the weapons and maintain the combat effectiveness of the warship.

However, although the shell failed to penetrate the main gun turret on the foredeck of the Old Man Star, the powerful blast force killed most of the crew in the turret or shot through the splinters. And the turret was also mechanically damaged and could no longer shoot.

The other shell hit the waterline position on the side side, and the waterline position was also the focus of the battleship's protection, and the shell may not be able to penetrate easily, but a near-miss just now has caused the waterline of the Old Man Star to loosen, so this shell exploded a large crack more than 2 meters wide on the side side of the Old Man Star, and a large amount of seawater poured into the ship's hull.

Although the near-miss bomb did not penetrate the hull or cause heavy damage to the hull, it also caused many cracks and water seepage in the hull.