3 knots Artillery battle
Thirty Fuso ships had apparently spotted this huge fleet, and although the Gale-class destroyers' extremely concealed protective colors prevented them from spotting, the tall hulls of the Whale-class amphibious assault ships had little wind and waves, and there was little possibility of concealment at sea level with good visibility.
With a telescope, the lookout on the mast could spot them from a distance of forty kilometers, but the protective camouflage on the "Whale Class" provided good concealment, and the distance was reduced to thirty kilometers. And the Fuso flotilla of the "Gale-class" destroyers did not see their sails clearly until twenty-five kilometers.
However, it was too late at this time, and the ten "Gale-class" destroyers rushed towards the Fuso Fleet, which had a maximum speed of only eight knots, like a blazing storm rolling on the sea level.
Due to the relative speed of the two sides as high as eighteen knots, it took less than half an hour for twenty-five kilometers (about 13.5 nautical miles) for the two sides to close to each other in less than half an hour. At this time, the Fuso people saw clearly what kind of warship they were facing.
The hull of the trapezoidal section that looks extremely strange in this era, and the slender pipes sticking out from both sides should be their guns, and the lookout on the Fuso battleship rejoiced in his heart, "It seems that such a ship is nothing difficult to deal with, and their cannons are not very good, the barrels are so thin, and it seems that they must not be very far away if they are not as thick as our iron cannons." ”
SB is SB, and they never understand what kind of state the war is going in when the level of science and technology is almost an era apart.
At the same time, Yu Huzi was still using a telescope to observe the sailing ship of the Fuso people. Obviously, their ship type is greatly influenced by our Chinese ships, and many of their characteristics are unique to our Chinese ships.
The bow of the ship hangs down the mountain word anchor, the width is flat and the stern is high, the stern extends forward to the amidship, and the square bow is slightly warped. On the forecenter deck, the two-masted four-cornered sails are placed on the foredeck and amidships roof brackets, and the freeboard and flat stern are painted with wave patterns. Six oars are located on the broadside between the two masts in the middle of the ship. The stern rudder is deeply inserted into the water, and there are 2 stern ruars, and the stern oars and steering are on the stern deck. The foremast and mainmast are not only hung with canopy but also with flag (flag), and there is a wind vane flag on the top of the mast. The mainmast has a small bucket. The aft flagpole is hung with only signs and signal flags.
Yu Hu took off the wine jug at his waist, tilted his neck and poured a sip of wine, and the hot blood boiled between his chest and abdomen. He doesn't have a good impression of these little devils.
After the monkey named Toyotomi Hideyoshi attacked Korea, Japan no longer "spoke peacefully, courtesy, did not be suspicious, and did not be treacherous" (Emperor Dahua of Japan warned his envoy during the Tang Dynasty of China, known as Dongyi and Rou in history), and Japan no longer "looked submissive" to China.
Yu Hu raised his neck and poured another sip of wine, and scolded in his heart: "It's still good as the commander said, these bastards are not familiar with it, look at this ship, they are all clippers who learn from our China...... Hmph, in the future, I will fight hard and I will not let these Fuso dwarves learn the shipbuilding methods of our warships......"
While thinking in his heart, he visualized the enemy's firepower. At this time, the combat method of the Fuso Navy was still to use artillery and rockets to engage in long-distance combat, and to jump from close quarters to engage in broadside combat. In order to prevent the enemy from jumping onto the side of their ship, the side of the Fuso naval warship was filled with thick iron spikes.
Some of the strings were flanked in the shape of battlements, filled with iron cannons, and the stern that extended forward to the amidships was open on all sides, and there seemed to be two cannons in the bow of the ship.
According to Yu Huzi, who used to come to Fusang to load goods, he knew that the Fusang Navy did not have any decent cannons, and the best estimate was the imitation of the "Franc Machine" (see 2 articles of "Relevant Materials") with a range of about 1,000 meters, plus some of their own iron cannons with a range of about 300 meters. There are about two types of muskets: the Tanegashima Gun with a range of about 200 meters, and the Platoon Burst with a range of about 100 meters.
Almost at the same moment, the four-cornered soft sails on the middle mast of all the battleships quickly fell, so as not to affect the "sail canopy by the wind" when the battleship maneuvered rapidly (see Article 3 of the "Relevant Materials" for remarks), and the manpower drive system was fully operational, and the speed of the forty-meter-long battleship was immediately increased to the extreme.
On the other hand, the Fuso fleet, instead of lowering the sails, they stretched out a large pulp on each side of the battleship to increase their power. It seems that they also realize that their speed is really slow compared to each other, like 'the old cow can't go uphill one by one'.
The fleets on both sides approached rapidly, and Yu Huzi and the opposing navy ordered to "open fire" almost at the same time, and for a while, the sea was filled with the sound of artillery and gunsmoke from the exchange of fire between the two sides. Behind the Shenzhou Army Destroyer Fleet was a "Barracuda-class" dinghy with a spinnaker and viciously rushed over, and they were also lined up in the formation of two "five-point plum blossoms" (see Article 4 of "Related Materials" for information) unique to the Shenzhou City Navy.
Columns of water rose to the left and right of the warships on both sides, and the sound of "booming" shells was heard incessantly. Obviously, the 1647 Thor-J cannon used by the Shenzhou Navy is much higher than the "Franc machine" gun used by the Fuso Army, both in terms of rate of fire and accuracy.
The destroyers of the Shenzhou City Navy, lined up in two plum blossom shapes, had cut into the "safe angles" on both sides of the Fuso Navy, and the 100-mm cannon continued to spew out a series of figure-eight tongues of fire (the influence of the artillery retractor), and the large length-diameter ratio ring-tail cannonballs made a sharp roar towards the Fuso Navy warships (no matter how powerful the shells of Shenzhou City were, the sound was always terrifying).
The warships of the Fuso Navy are also lined up in the shape of "five-point plum blossoms". Speaking of which, these little Fusang devils didn't learn anything from China, so they took it back and changed it back and forth, and it was not a system. Now, due to the accurate firing of the 1647 Thor-J cannon of the Shenzhou Juncheng destroyer, the rigid "five-point plum blossom" formation and the lack of mobility and communication guarantees, the battle formation suddenly became chaotic.
In addition to the 30 warships, the Fuso Navy also had more than 10 "arson ships". The small hull, one side of the four-cornered hard sail, plus eighteen pairs of long pulp, what a fuck! It is also a "centipede ship" that copied the Chinese Ming Dynasty naval army. As soon as the two fleets exchanged fire, they had already rushed out of the "five-point plum blossom" formation.
In the firing position of the 1647 Thor-J cannon of the "Gale-class" destroyer of the Shenzhou Army, the observer of each gun sat on a chair next to the bulkhead, his eyes did not leave the binoculars fixed on the bulkhead, and only used one hand to make various "sign language" (see Article 5 of the "Relevant Materials") and constantly reported the aiming data.
The gunner took out the shells from the shell cabinet made of multiple layers of resummating armor on the side according to the order of the gunner, and the combustible powder packs made of raw silk were transferred to the gun emplacements through the passage from the lower deck, and another gunner was responsible for loading. In this way, the ammunition is separated, and the occurrence of shells or propellants detonating when hit by enemy shells will be reduced.
The other two gunners were responsible for the high and low and left and right firing boundaries, respectively, and kept their eyes off the gestures of the aiming hand, and the control wheel in their hands turned quickly according to his gestures.
The sight of the sight calculates the impact point of the cannon's corrective shot through the scale in the telescope, and with the undulation of the waves, the hand is slowly raised, and the gun commander stares nervously at his gesture, and the fire rope in his hand is always ready.
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