Chapter 675: Torpedo Boat Charge (He Baiyin's "Sun and Moon in the Pot")

When I woke up, I found that the silver league rewarded by the big guy of "the sun and moon in the pot", I was shocked and surprised, and I felt a lot of surprises, this is the first silver league leader who has written a book for so many years, and I couldn't believe it was true for a while. Thank you, big guy, what I didn't say today, plus more!

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The navy of the Orr Kingdom can't watch the navy of the Krull Kingdom unscrupulously carry out sea transportation and supplies, in this case, wouldn't the navy that their Orr Kingdom Navy spent a lot of money to build become an ornament?

The naval fleets of the Orr Kingdom, under the cover of shore fire, left the port one after another, and began to form a formation outside the port.

The navy of the Krull Kingdom outside the port did not rush forward, but continued to adjust its formation, and a number of main detachments formed a multi-level horizontal formation, blocking all the channels through which the Orr Kingdom continued to break out.

Time passed little by little, and at about 7:30 in the morning, the two battleship detachments of the Orr Kingdom, a total of seven second-class battleships, began to accelerate and break through in the northeast direction, and the four coast-class coastal defense ironclads were on the flanks, also moving forward in a horizontal formation.

From this, two columns were formed!

The navy of the Krull Kingdom on the opposite side also began to adjust its course, and its main fleet intercepted due north and tried to seize the T-shape!

The main fleets of both sides began to maneuver and gradually approached, and it did not take long to be within the effective range of both sides, and the flagship of the Krull Kingdom took the lead in shelling the 1st battleship detachment of Orr, the leading flagship princess 2nd class, with a strong power of 350 mm.

Immediately afterwards, the Princess also returned fire with its four 300-mm 25-caliber naval guns!

The main fleets of both sides entered the effective range one after another, from one or two, to three or four searches, and finally more than a dozen warships on both sides continued to fire!

However, the warships of the two sides are still very far away at this time, and there is generally a distance of four or five thousand meters, even though the warring sides are already generally equipped with a combined rangefinder, and the theoretical combat distance is enough to pull the distance to four or five thousand meters, but the actual combat effect of this long-distance artillery bombardment is not large.

What's more, the wind and waves are big now, and the warships on both sides are swaying very seriously, and the waves are constantly hitting the battleships, and even rushing to the deck!

It was very difficult for both sides to aim and fire, and many battleships on both sides used 300-millimeter, 250-millimeter, and other large-caliber naval guns to carry out long-range artillery fire, and after several rounds of artillery fire, they did not even form a straddle fire.

And as the distance between the main fleets of the two sides was further shortened, the warships of the two sides successively achieved straddle shots and even hits.

At this time, the navy of the Krull Kingdom finally brought into play the strength of their world's number one navy!

Although it was difficult to seize the advantageous position because of the passive interception, and even the first column of the battleship detachment of the navy of the Orr Kingdom seized the T-shape, but still relied on the superb gunner's gunnership, and began to fire at the Princess of the Orr Kingdom.

Soon, the battleship of the second rank of the Princess was hit by two shells of 350 mm cannons, and the first shell hit the turret directly, directly penetrating the armor of the gun mount, and was directly scrapped by the former main turret of the Princess!

The second armor-piercing shell directly penetrated its main armor belt, exploded deep inside, and tore a huge hole in the side side, causing a large amount of seawater to pour in, and the speed of the Princess began to be forced to decrease, and began to tilt sharply, which was already completely ineffective.

Although the navy of the Kingdom of Krull is experienced and has superb gunnery skills, but because of the passive interception, the first battleship detachment of the navy of the kingdom of Orr seized the T-shape, at this time, the four princess-class second-class battleships of the first battleship detachment of the navy of the kingdom of Orr used their main guns to carry out fierce shelling, even after the princess was half-disabled, the remaining three battleships still used naval guns to carry out fierce shelling.

When the two sides got closer, a large number of 150-mm secondary guns also joined the battle.

At this time, the distance between the main fleets of the two sides has been narrowed to a distance of two or three thousand meters, or even closer!

The two sides come and go, and the fight is not lively.

The 1st Battleship Detachment of the Orr Kingdom Navy finally relied on its tactical superiority to hit three main gun shells of the enemy ship, and even more 150 mm secondary artillery shells.

Soon, a battleship of the Krull Kingdom Navy was emitting smoke, stopped shelling, and pulled away from the open sea, the ship was hit by numerous shells, causing water and fire, and had lost most of its combat effectiveness, and urgently needed to withdraw from the battle

At this time, the second-class battleship of the Princess, which had been struggling for a long time, could not support it, the hull had tilted very seriously, and after seeing that the ship could not be saved, the captain of the Princess was forced to give an order to abandon the ship.

At the same time, a number of other battleships were also shelled, and the Larkin (Unification) in the second battleship detachment was attacked by fierce fire from three battleships and three enemy cruisers of the Krull Kingdom Navy, and was hit by multiple shells, although the main armor belt was not penetrated, and there was no large amount of flooding, but the deck was already a sea of blood, and even the crew members in the main turret were killed and wounded.

Heavy losses in personnel, and the Lagin, which had no combat effectiveness, was forced to withdraw from the battle!

The above battle seems to be fierce, but in fact, the battle is actually very slow, from the battle between the two sides to the sinking of the Princess, and the withdrawal of the Larkin from the battle, it has been more than forty minutes.

At this time, the high-speed cruiser formation of the Navy of the Orr Kingdom also attacked!

Their six dome cruisers, one by one, soared to a speed of more than eighteen knots, forming a high-speed column to assault forward, they tried to flank the enemy's main fleet when attracted by their own fleet, in addition to they also shouldered another task, that is, if the engagement did not go well, they needed to break through and break out to carry out the task of breaking the diplomatic relationship.

The Orr Kingdom has secretly reached an agreement with the Great Heng Empire, and the Great Heng Empire has sent a number of integrated supply ships to wait in the depths of the ocean, as long as they can break through, then they can get supplies at sea, and then attack the sea routes of the Krull Kingdom!

As long as they can successfully break through, then they will be able to create huge problems for the routes of the Krull Kingdom, whose merchant ships are all over the world, and they can catch their prey wherever they go.

The cruiser is in a high-speed assault!

It didn't take long for more than two dozen torpedo boats to rush out!

The torpedo boats of the Orr Kingdom Navy were faster, and they could easily reach more than 20 knots, and a small number of advanced torpedo boats could reach more than 25 knots, so when the cruising fleet in front attracted the attention of a large number of enemy ships, more than 20 torpedo boats all soared to the highest speed!

On a bumpy torpedo boat, a Barry Mayne, dressed in the uniform of an Orr general and wearing the rank of major general, firmly grasped the railing and stared at the enemy's main fleet ahead.

The enemy battlefleet was attacking his own battleship detachment at this time, under their onslaught, the Princess sank, the Larkin was heavily damaged and forced to withdraw from the battle, and several other battleships were also heavily damaged, he knew very well that if he continued with this, his main fleet would be sunk more battleships, and it would be impossible for the cruiser fleet to break the blockade of the enemy fleet!

At this time, the fleet needs his torpedo fleet!

Barry Mayne, is a new generation of admirals in the Orr Kingdom, six years ago he began to study in the Daheng Empire, and enrolled in the Daheng Empire Naval Academy, majoring in lightning strikes, graduated after three years of study, and practiced in the torpedo ship unit of the Daheng Imperial Navy for half a year, and when he returned to China, he also accepted a batch of torpedo boats to return to China as an accepting officer.

Upon his return, he was promoted to Colonel and ordered to form the first fleet of specialized torpedo boats in the Aurer Kingdom Navy, and then successfully went on to become a rear admiral.

He is now the premier lightning strike expert in the Orr Kingdom!

For today's lightning strike operation, he has been leading the torpedo boat unit in training for many years, and in the past month, he has frequently discussed strategy with other admirals of the navy.

Thanks to his efforts, the strategy developed by the Navy of the Kingdom of Orr was very heavy on the role of torpedo boats.

The whole battle plan is to first attract the enemy's main fleet with a fleet of battleships, and when the capital ships of both sides fall into a melee, then the cruiser formation will try to surprise it, regardless of whether the cruiser assault is smooth or not, when the cruiser fleet attracts a large number of enemy cruisers, it is time for the torpedo boat force to appear!

At that time, they will rely on their high speed, agility and compactness to avoid the interceptive fire of the enemy ships, and finally break into the melee area of the main fleets of the two sides, and carry out close-range lightning strikes in order to inflict heavy damage on the enemy's capital ships.

The entire battle plan, with the exception of the breakout of the cruisers, was actually aimed at creating favorable opportunities for the torpedo boat fleet.

Otherwise, those second-class battleships and shore defense ironclad ships alone would not have posed a huge threat to the enemy's main fleet.

It is true that now the princess of the navy of the Orr Kingdom has been sunk, the Larkin has been heavily damaged and withdrawn from the battle, and a large number of warships have been hit and damaged, but on the other side, only one battleship has been seriously injured and withdrawn from the battle.

The difference in strength between the two sides is too great, and with the traditional way of fighting, there is no chance of victory at all, and there will not even be a chance to inflict huge casualties on the other side.

Therefore, the navy of the Orr Kingdom put its hopes on the torpedo boat unit.

About half of the torpedo boat force of the Orr Kingdom Navy was ordered from the Valya Empire, and half was ordered from the Daheng Empire, in fact, if you add it up, the number of their torpedo boats exceeds forty, but the other dozen or so are early torpedo boats, with a speed of only more than ten knots, which are already useless, and many are deployed in another port.

At present, all the torpedo boats that have a speed of more than 20 knots are participating in the operation, and 10 of them are still active torpedo boats of the Daheng Navy, which were urgently procured, and each of them has reached a speed of 25 knots.

The torpedoes carried by each ship are also produced by the Valya Empire and the Daheng Empire, which are the most advanced compressed air torpedoes in the two countries at the same time, with an effective range of about 600 meters and great power.

Barrymeen looked at the torpedo boats to the left and right and behind him, and then to the main enemy fleet in front!

It's almost time for the final charge!

Immediately, he shouted: "Command, all the army charges"

"The Orns will never back down!!"

As the ships hoisted their charging battle flags, more than 20 torpedo boats quickly entered the battlefield.