Chapter 23 Speed Advantage
The 6th surface test site of the Central Naval Academy
In the vast sea area, four girls carrying metal ship uniforms are traveling at high speed in the planned area. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
They are the four shipwives who participated in the theoretical demonstration course, belonging to two different commanders, and they are carrying out several objectives scheduled for the exercise.
In the distant stands, the students were watching the condition of the four girls with a small detector, and at the same time listening to some important matters told by the youth mentor.
"As students of the Central Naval Academy, you will not be sent to the front-line battlefield immediately after graduation, and you will not face the main fleet in the deep sea." The young man who was standing on the podium seemed to be teaching his younger brothers and sisters some experience as a person who had come from the past.
In fact, most of the academies of the New Human Federation will not assign fledgling admirals to the extremely dangerous frontline sea. It's just that they have just become qualified admirals, and they lack sufficient combat effectiveness and combat experience, and sending them directly to the front line is a useless act of sending them to death.
"You will be sent to the Second Tier, which is a vague zone of control between humans and the deep sea, and is semi-out of control for us. Because the main deep-sea fleet in the area has been wiped out, more of what remains is the deep-sea patrol fleet. The young mentor looked reminiscing, as if he was recalling what had happened to him.
The patrol fleet of the deep sea is not the same as the main fleet of the deep sea, they are mostly formations of deep sea destroyers led by deep sea cruisers. And this is the first time that most Admirals will face opponents in the future, and it is for this reason that the academy has specially added combat training against lightning strikes and anti-expulsions, in order to fully prepare students.
"How to fight the cruiser, you can find some inspiration from the confrontation between these two cruiser wives." The young people zoomed in on a certain battlefield on the light screen so that it occupied most of the light screen so that the students could observe it carefully.
Somewhere in the sea three or four kilometers away, two girls with ship uniforms were aiming at each other with naval guns.
The girl with blonde hair and a single ponytail was controlling the two naval guns on the ship's equipment and the two naval guns in her hand, a total of twelve guns were projecting the scorching cannon fire on the opposite girl's side.
Anne constantly calculates and controls the cooldown time of her naval guns, and in the case of controlling the sequence, the naval guns continue to fire and shoot, and under the long-term high-intensity confrontation, her mental power has been greatly consumed, and Anne's state has also declined.
Although the ship girls have extraordinary strength, their spiritual power is also limited. The high-intensity continuous use of the ship's uniform, even Anne, whose mental power itself is relatively strong, is a little unable to support it.
"Annie, break the link with the other three reconnaissance planes!" The boy confirmed Anne's state through the psychic network from a distance, even though he gave Anne this command.
"Okay." After being reminded by the teenager, she noticed that she was still spending part of her energy on the reconnaissance plane that had just been released. In order to reduce consumption, she directly cut off contact with the reconnaissance plane, and reduced the additional consumption of mental power as much as possible.
The girl did not turn off the effectiveness of the radar while reducing her consumption as much as possible. Through accurate calculations, she dodged the enemy's main gun fire while still returning fire with her own four triple guns.
But this can only delay time, even if the main gun is used for non-stop fire, it only reduces the possibility of some of the opponent's concentrated fire hitting itself. Through high-density firepower projection, she temporarily blocked the opponent's attack, but this did not reverse her disadvantage.
Although her twelve main guns have an astonishingly high projection, they can't deal more serious damage to her opponent.
The firing has lasted for a minute and a half now, and the girl who has done her best has used her own naval guns to project nearly 200 cannons, but although she has obtained 5 close misses and 2 hits, it has not caused it to fall into a small state and withdraw from the battle.
The girl's state was clearly displayed in the electronic light screen of the high stands, and most of the viewers couldn't help but start thinking after witnessing the shooting for a minute and a half.
"Ladies and gentlemen, why did the Red Cruiser Fleet not achieve effective results despite its large number of shots?" The instructor of this course asked everyone in the room this question, but there was not much response in a short period of time.
"The damage of the main guns of a light cruiser to a heavy cruiser is limited, and only the rate of fire without the ability to damage cannot weaken the opponent's combat effectiveness." , a girl with dazzling blond hair, after carefully evaluating the scene just now, gave such an answer.
"Des Moines is right. Although the main guns of the red cruiser had a rate of fire of more than 12 rounds per minute, they could not inflict much damage on the opponent......", and as he explained, some changes appeared on the screen again.
The Canberra, which had been hindered by heavy fire for a long time, learned that Anne's artillery fire would not cause extremely fatal damage to itself, so she ate two direct shots. Running his four-seat twin main gun at full strength, a salvo since the start of the battle has achieved accurate hits.
After the roar of the artillery, the girl who emerged from the smoke seemed to be a little embarrassed.
Anne sensed the state of her ship, and although she breathed a sigh of relief, she still pulled herself together again. Hit by a high-explosive bomb just now, and affected by the fragments of other high-explosive shells, the damage to her ship's armor is already very close to a small state.
"Anne, prepare to retreat." , the voices of Aritus and Veneto resounded at the same time in the spiritual link.
The girl did not hesitate at all, completely abandoned the main gun fire, and after slightly controlling the secondary gun to make a slight signal of return fire, she began to evade the Canberra's cannon with all her might.
Canberra initially decided to continue the pursuit, as she had not received instructions from her commander on her next move.
It wasn't until half a minute later that another girl with white hair and red eyes appeared in the distance of her eyes.
Sitting on top of the huge naval guns, the two main guns on both sides of him were constantly adjusting their positions, and the main guns of the three triple battleships were aimed at the Canberra at this time.
Knowing that something was wrong, Canberra began to turn its course. But when she wanted to distance herself again, the shells fired by the nine battleship's main guns flying in the sky were bursting into the sea around her.
Canberra, which endured multiple shockwaves of debris, finally fell into a small state of destruction and was forced to withdraw.
And the students who witnessed all this through the light screen seemed to be a little surprised.
They didn't accurately calculate the heading direction and distance of each unit, but they originally estimated that Cleveland might be able to exit the field after a little more support, and the scene would change to a situation where the main red fleet faced the entire blue fleet alone.
"Colorado is too slow for the Red Admiral to properly appreciate the tactical flexibility that comes with the speed gap." , The black-haired girl who was standing in the center of the crowd and was looking at the light screen with black-framed glasses made such a judgment very lightly.
When Avalon heard this somewhat familiar voice, he couldn't help but be surprised: wasn't that the little girl from that day? It's also an over-the-top guy with a lot of mental power. He vaguely remembered that one of the shipwives under his command was the supervisor of the exercise.
"That's a good point. You already knew about this result through the information provided by Chiyoda, right? The young man's mentor seemed to be able to guess the reason for the girl's voice to make a judgment.
"Exactly, as early as the moment when the cruisers of both sides engaged in battle, the main fleets of both sides had already adjusted their course. Among them, the main fleet of the blue side is closer to the blue cruisers. The information she said was not unpublished, and it was also displayed in the corner of the screen, but she relied on different sources to obtain information and organize it, and came to this conclusion.
"Blue is even closer?" At first, most people were a little unconvinced, but after a little careful calculation, they found that this was indeed the case.
Both of the red fleets (Veneto and Annie) are faster than the blue (Colorado and Canberra), and they do have a greater distance before they meet.
But even so, the main fleet of the red side still took the lead in the sea area where the cruisers of the two sides were fighting through the speed advantage, and forced the blue side to reduce its strength in advance.
After that, everyone still doesn't need to look at it to be sure, the firepower is not inferior to Colorado's Veneto, and with the help of Annie, the battle can be solved very easily. Once there is a large quantitative gap between the two sides, it will be difficult to say that the situation will be reversed.
"The advantage of the red side in this exercise is one of the main points of the speed advantage that we want to talk about. Next, please summarize freely, each of you has one opportunity to speak, and I will use your summary as the result of this class. After the youth tutor finished speaking, he began to wait patiently for the students' reactions.
"High speed can bring the advantage of rapid deployment, that is, it can quickly mobilize its superior firepower to destroy the enemy's cruiser fleet before the enemy's main force is coming, thereby weakening its combat effectiveness." Naturally, it was Talia who could clearly state her point of view.
"Good", the youth mentor nodded, marking Talia in his notebook.
"The difference in speed between the two main fleets selected for this exercise is too large, which makes the main fleet of the red side have such a swift interception capability, otherwise when the speed gap is not so large, such a trend will not necessarily occur." , Avalon made a deduction and commented.
"That's something to consider. When the red and blue cruisers were fighting just now, because the speed difference was not large, it was not easy for the two sides to throw each other away, and the impact of the speed gap was relatively weak. The young mentor followed his train of thought and mentioned:
"Only when there is a considerable speed gap between similar types of ships, the speed advantage can be more obvious. If the Red Cruiser had a speed of 36 knots just now, the Blue Cruiser would not have been able to force it into a forced engagement. ”
"In the same way, some ships rely on the value of speed to avoid engagement with ships that are more powerful than themselves, the most obvious is our destroyer girls, who rely on higher speed to have a more flexible tactical arrangement."
After that, there were a few people who put forward their own opinions, and the young people all commented on it a little and recorded the scores.
It wasn't until ten minutes later, when Aletus and the other admiral returned to the stage, that the mentor gave some guidance and commentary. After entering the results and putting a resource on the accounts of the two as a reward, the theoretical demonstration class was announced.
Most of them didn't leave quickly, but exchanged their views on the stop with their partners or their own shipwives.
"I'm wondering what ......would happen if it was your Des Moins who went up just now," Avalon asked expectantly after informing Arites of his conjecture.
"Perhaps the first few rounds of the cruiser engagement will force the other side to leave." Given the terrifying rate of fire and projection of De Moines' main guns, Arrites came to this conclusion after a little estimate.
"That's an exaggeration...... But it's ...... to think about it", Avalon was a little surprised at first, but then wondered why the academy didn't let Des Moines play.
"Takao told me that day that after De Moines came to the cruiser, he instantly took the first ......place in the artillery exercise," he recalled, and finally remembered this incident.
To some extent, Aritus did appreciate the strength of this self-proclaimed strongest cruiser. The terrifying rate of fire of the main gun and the high-precision radar fire control system, coupled with a powerful prevention and control system, can be said to have a considerable advantage in the face of any opponent that can be called a heavy patrol.
"I envy the terrible rate of fire of your main gun...... My Kaohsiung seems to be a bit lacking in this, if only it could be replaced with that kind of gun...... Wait a minute, why do I feel a little cold......", and as Avalon muttered something, he suddenly felt a chill nearby.
"Do you care about that?" , The girl who was wearing a blue uniform and short skirt greeted her admiral very cordially.
"Aha...... Actually, you don't need to worry too much about that problem in Kaohsiung...... Torpedoes can solve a lot of things sometimes......," Avalon argued.
"It's not okay to change the main gun...... I've heard Des Moines say that none of the heavy cruiser wives she knows so far can use her main guns, even if they are of the same nationality. Alitus shook his head, explaining the question.
"Ah...... That's right! Tomorrow is Saturday, so let's go to the equipment trading office on the fourth floor of the academy, right? There seems to be a lot of good stuff there, and I know a boss very ......well," Avalon suggested, recalling some of the problems of his two shipwives.
"Okay......", Aretus remembers that he also has something to deal with, and agrees to his invitation.
It was some of the equipment that had been excavated from the ruins of the previous town guard's mansion, and some of it seemed to look good, but he hadn't identified it before. There is no way to confirm its specific value, so it is just to take advantage of this sorting out, so as not to occupy the position of his subspace.