24 Battle of Tsushima - Gun in the shield
Sun Mingyang tilted his head and thought for a while: "Otherwise, we will divide a destroyer and form a strong attack detachment with the 'Barracuda-class' on each ship, and carry out amphibious operations behind the enemy's landing force, so that we can not let go of our hands at sea and have no scruples." ”
Huang Kehui waved his hand and said: "That's not good, the 'Barracuda class' is piloted by people, and the manpower on our ship is insufficient to deal with a naval battle of this scale. ”
"Hmm!" Sun Mingyang was completely speechless, the manpower drive system does have this problem, although its instantaneous acceleration performance is excellent, and it can greatly improve the maneuverability of the warship, but people will be tired, this acceleration can not maintain long-term continuity, especially the situation of driving such a large warship is even worse.
"Haha" Huang Kehui saw that Sun Mingyang was completely stumped, and laughed proudly. Blinked and said: "It's not difficult, now we have to transfer some soldiers of the 'Salvation Army' to the ship, and maintain at least three ~ four replacement personnel for the 'afterburner system', and then we will send the crew to operate the 'Barracuda-class' to patrol along the coast, think about it, the Fuso Army does not land in the port, then only rely on small boats, and these small boats will deal with our'Barracuda class' Think about it, who will win, but this single 'destroyer' is easy to be surrounded by enemy troops, we have to send a reassuring person to lead, who to send?" ”
The more he listened to Huang Kehui's words, the more frightened Sun Mingyang became, until his "ill-intentioned" eyes glanced over, and he was so panicked that he shook his hands and said: "Good my Commander Huang, send it to sweep, I don't do this thing, there is no oil and water in that job, is it okay to send someone else?" ”
Huang Kehui rolled his eyes and said: "Hmph, I'm the commander, I won't do anything but leave it to you, what's wrong with my illness." ”
Sun Mingyang's little bit of "admiration" for Huang Kehui's tactical analysis just now immediately disappeared, pouting and muttering: "Feelings, the tasks with oil and water are left to yourself, so what should I do, stay at the beach and watch and keep saliva, in vain we are still buddies, you are really interesting!" ”
"Look at the virtue on your kid's face, it's really unproductive, don't worry, I'll send someone else!" Huang Kehui teased him as he began to issue orders.
With a series of orders from the mouth of Huang Kehui, deputy commander of the destroyer fleet, the entire destroyer fleet moved. On the cold and slaughtering sea, the sirens on the battleship sounded continuously. The sailors began to nervously maneuver the ship according to the orders of the commanders at all levels.
The iron ships of the Fuso Army, led by the Nine Ghosts, approached Tsushima Island with difficulty in the face of the strong northwest wind blowing from the direction of China.
He sat upright on the general's seat on the stern with the battlements on his ship, his waist straight, his legs apart, and his ancestral sword standing in the middle. The military flag painted with "Sanye Aoi" and the general flag painted with "sea waves" sounded "hula" in the wind above their heads.
Seeing his eyes staring intently at the sea, he was secretly proud of the "iron boat" he was on. In such a wind and the ensuing strong wind and waves, the center of gravity of an ordinary wooden ship will appear unstable due to its own mass, and the shaking of the hull will increase, not to mention the artillery battle, and the lookout will not want to stay on the mast.
With a slight twitch of his eyes, the men around him, and the gunners ready to fire made it a little crowded. The nine ghosts continued to maintain their majestic sitting posture, recalling their father's words in their hearts: "As a general, you must always keep your composure!" ”。
He used the tactics commonly used by his ancestor Nine Ghost Jialong, "hiding a gun in the shield", and a large number of fireships were mixed in the warship, once engaged, when the warships of both sides chased each other, the fireships took advantage of the situation to surround each other. I want to rely on the ship and artillery to beat the enemy's warships one by one and sink them one by one.
It is winter according to the season, and the northerly winds from the Mongolian-Siberian high pressure front are prevalent here, with low temperatures, dry temperatures, and strong winds, and it is this monsoon that causes the cold wave that comes to Seoul with heavy snowfall. Nowadays, the middle road of the Fuso Navy is under the natural headwind situation, and it is almost impossible to rely on the wind power, relying on a few pairs of long pulp to fight against the strong northwest headwind, which is the most taboo mistake of a maritime combat general, and it is to face the battle from the downwind.
In fact, in the minds of the nine ghosts, a game of chess was being played at this time, and the fleet in the middle was his bait. It is estimated that the enemy may not have discovered his two-way surprise attack fleet now, as long as the enemy army comes to meet the fleet in the middle to see the wind and move slowly, the other two roads quickly cut off the enemy's return route and surround the enemy ships in the middle. In the melee, he relied on his own ships and artillery to encircle and annihilate them in one fell swoop.
The destroyer commanded by Huang Kehui successfully reached a considerable speed under the strong northwesterly wind.
In the rope room, the rope makes a sound along the oiled pulley, and slides rapidly. The four-cornered sails on the mainmast fell quickly, and the spinnaker swung in the whirring wind, facing the direction and rounding the canopy. The sound of the battleship closing the watertight doors everywhere was incessant, and in the blink of an eye, the entire destroyer fleet was ready for battle, and the neat formation of the "Gale-class" destroyer fleet accelerated on the sea surface only by the force of the wind.
Not to mention that the nine ghosts directly protect themselves with wishful thinking. Both sides were also pinched off by the waves at this moment, and the "eyes of distant looking" masthead lookout whistles. Although the impact of the waves on a catamaran such as the Gale Class is much smaller than that of a normal ship type, the sway caused by such wave conditions is still unbearable for the lookout on the top of the mast.
Fortunately, Huang Kehui had the news that the observation post on the top of the mountain on Tsushima Island kept using light signals, so in terms of information, Fuso's warships were one step slower.
In naval warfare, especially in the Eastern naval battles, where hundreds of warships are often killed, there are many more intrigues and tricks than in the West, where mobility and strength are contested, and the changes are also much more complicated.
There were also a lot of chess pieces-like games on the deck in front of the nine ghosts, and they looked at Liao Liao's few warships that were heading towards him with some confusion. Although they looked strange, a bit like the tortoiseshell ships of North Korea, but the configuration of those sails had the shadow of the red-haired warships, and he couldn't believe that they had destroyed thirty patrol warships with these ships.
"Is there any trick they have that they can't do?"
Looking at the enemy warship, it seemed that he had fallen into his own plan to lure the enemy, but there was a throbbing in the heart of the nine ghosts, and he couldn't help but ask himself in his heart: "Is this the enemy's plan...... Have I fallen for the enemy's tricks? ”