The flames at the muzzles of the 405 mm guns and 38 283 mm guns exploded, and 42 orange muzzle flames bloomed on the sea surface, followed by a roar that resounded in the sky swept across the sea with an unstoppable momentum, followed by 72 150 mm guns and 6 120 mm guns firing one after another. In just over ten seconds, hundreds www.biquge.info of water columns around the Anglo-French combined fleet rose into the sky!

The 66 305-mm ships, 36 238-mm naval guns, 40 234-mm naval guns, 22 138-mm naval guns and 30 152-mm naval guns of the Anglo-French combined fleet immediately returned the color, and the huge momentum was even better than that of the Dirk Combined Fleet! The columns of water that rose into the sky almost joined together and became a white wall!

Neither Didrichs nor Milne, the officers and men of the Combined Fleet of Dirk or the officers and men of the Combined Anglo-French Fleet were all shocked by this devastating hurricane, a scene they had never seen or thought of.

Tyrol, United Forces, Ljubljana, Hesse, Braunschweig, Alsace, Mecklenburg, Styria, Lorraine, Wittelsbach, Wiedin, Zaringen, Bohemia.

Let? Bar, Colbe, Agamemnon, Lord Nelson, New Zealand, Commonwealth, Hindustania, Africa, Britannia, Hibernia, Diderot, Danton, Condorcet, Vigno, Voltaire, Mirabeau.

Twenty-nine steel ships lined up in two battle lines and fought a great battle unprecedented in the history of mankind in the Ionian Sea! In an instant, hundreds of tons of shells were sprayed out, and a hurricane of steel swept through the Ionian Sea! The sky is falling apart!

When the shells of the combined British and French fleets roared and exploded around their own warships, the soaring water columns shattered the calm waters of the Mediterranean, so that tens of thousands of tons of steel giants could feel the shaking of the impact, Didrichs couldn't help but wonder whether he would lose at that moment.

However, this thought was quickly dispelled by the tremendous roar of another half-salvo from his own fleet. Just 40 seconds after the first round and a half volleys, the Dirk Combined Fleet has already fired 3 round and a half volleys! And at this time, the combined Anglo-French fleet has not yet played the second round!

This discovery made Didrichs reassured: "A pre-dreadnought is a pre-dreadnought, and a quasi-dreadnought is not something that can be called casually!" Today, let me show you where the gap between the pre-dreadnoughts and the quasi-dreadnoughts is! ”

Although the British Lord Nelson-class, France's Danton-class, and Japan's Satsuma class are also known as quasi-dreadnoughts because of their huge tonnage and strong firepower. But now, in the face of the Wittelsbach class and the Braunschweig class, which are also called quasi-dreadnoughts, the gap between the two sides is clear at a glance!

The insistence of the German Navy, which had been armed with 6 main guns since the beginning of the Brandenburg class, finally showed its significance at this moment. The left and right sides of the main gun in the twin turret fired in turn, and each half-salvo fired 3 shells, and the observation of the landing point of the 3 shells was the acceptable limit for the German naval fire control system to carry out the calculation error of the impact correction!

The 6 naval guns fired a half-salvo every 20 seconds, and a staggered 20-second shot would completely dissipate the water column of the previous round and a half salvo, so as to avoid the water column from interfering with each other and affecting the observation.

After the preliminary range and course calculation of the enemy fleet, the fire control system will add and subtract a part of the parameters on the obtained data to guide the ship's guns to fire the first and second rounds of half a salvo, and then after the water column at the landing point of each round and a half salvo is observed, the fire control system will correct the firing parameters of the next round and a half salvo, so in fact, the fire control system of the German Navy has achieved the ability to make uninterrupted corrections to each round and a half salvo!

In 1912 and 1913, when they were docked for maintenance, the Wittelsbach class and the Braunschweig class were replaced with the latest third-generation fire control equipment, except for the loss of 2 main guns, and there was no difference between them and dreadnoughts! The quasi-dreadnought lives up to its name!

Milne on the Agamemnon had cold hands and feet, and the Royal Navy's dreadnoughts with only four main guns could only clumsily fire a full gun salvo, and then wait for the water column to be observed before correcting the firing parameters, even the well-trained Royal Navy officers and men could only fire a salvo in 60 seconds.

And the French are even more unbearable, the performance of the French front dreadnoughts in the tail can not be seen by Milne, but the French dreadnoughts in front of them can only fire half a salvo at a speed of 50 seconds!

The pride of the Royal Navy in gunnery was trampled under the feet of the Germans with a salvo of 20 seconds, and it was impossible for the Germans to shoot indiscriminately, which meant that every 20 seconds, the shells would fall closer to them!

The only consolation to Milne was that the Royal Navy's gunnery officers' experience in mid- and close-range artillery battles would keep their artillery shots from being too far off the Germans, and that the large number of secondary guns in his fleet would compensate for the slow firing speed of the primary guns.

Milne's judgment of 10,000 yards of close combat and taking advantage of the numerical superiority of the ships to concentrate fire quickly came to fruition, and the Ljubljana, the second ship of the Combined Forces class, which was being set on fire by the Agamemnon and Lord Nelson, was hit by a 234 mm shell on the back and lower side of the bridge, and the fire of the explosion lifted the spirits of the officers and men of the British and French combined fleet! Against the Germans' 20-second volley, they hit first!

Before Milne could rejoice, sparks flew from the side of the Colbe in front of her, and the United Force responded with a 330-kilogram shell.

"The Kolbe was hit."

"Damn it!" Milne said viciously to the staff officer beside him, "Ask the Kolbe about the damage!" ”

The lack of fire from the side of the Kolbe was even worse, which meant that the shells had penetrated the armor and penetrated into the hull, and the damage caused by the shells that exploded inside the hull was much worse. However, the French dreadnoughts seemed to be fine, and the 10 main guns turned to the side continued to fire, which reassured Milne about the level of protection of the two most important ships in the Combined Fleet, but the speed of the French shelling was not satisfactory to him.

"The French dreadnoughts are so fucking hard!" Diedrichs on the Tyrol also saw the Colbe's sparks, but the French dreadnoughts didn't seem to have received heavy damage, which made him curse.

Although the main armor belt of the Kolbe class is only 260 mm, the main armor belt is extremely conscientious and devoid of moisture. In history, its level of protection is the best among the first generation of dreadnoughts in various countries, and a British and German dreadnought, which is tied to a belt with a height of more than 2 meters, has to bow its head in shame in front of the Kolbe class.

The armor-piercing shell fired by the United Force smashed into the upper end of the main armor belt of the Kolbe, and the target test was able to penetrate the original German 283 mm armor cap at a distance of 10,000 yards to penetrate the main armor belt, but the shell that was depleted of kinetic energy exploded as soon as it passed through the armor, and the Kolbe was fine except for the addition of a hole in the main armor belt and the destruction of 2 adjacent compartments. And in the opinion of Didrichs, who was 9000 yards away, the French dreadnoughts had no!

This situation made Dyderichs a little anxious, although it now seemed that the British and French shelled less accurately, but the large number of secondary guns was more threatening. The German battleship has solid armor, and it will not cause any fatal damage if it is hit by the secondary main gun, but the continuous hit by the secondary main gun will also seriously damage the superstructure of the battleship, thereby affecting the accuracy of its own shelling, if you can't make a decisive blow as soon as possible, then God knows when the enemy's 305-mm shells will hit your head.

In addition, because of their numerical inferiority, their three battleships were set on fire, the Ljubljana, which was in third place, was set on fire by two Lord Nelson-class, the Hesse, which was in fourth place, was set on fire by two King Edward VII-class, and the Bohemia, which was at the bottom, was set on fire by two Danton-class. To make matters worse, the three Danton-class ships at the end of the combined Anglo-French fleet, which were not cared for by German ships, could attack the Zalingen and Bohemia, which were at the rear, without pressure.

It was great news that the United Forces hit the French dreadnoughts in the 11th round and a half salvo, and the United Forces could deliver shells to the French at a rate of 2 full salvos per minute, and if the French dreadnoughts could be quickly disposed of, it would greatly change the situation on the battlefield, but the performance of the French dreadnoughts told Dyderich that he was a tough nut to crack.

As soon as Didrichs thought that the hard bones on the opposite side were not easy to gnaw, the hard bones gave the Tyrol a 138mm shell, let? The secondary shells fired from the Barr did not penetrate the upper armor belt of the Tyrol, and when the smoke cleared, it left only an unsightly charred black on the side of the Tyrol, but this situation made Didrichs more and more irritated.

In Diedrich's restlessness, the battle began to grow fierce. Relying on the advantage of fire control, the German quasi-dreadnoughts fired about 20 rounds of half-salvos and then successively fired pinch bullets to effective fire, but the second-level main guns of the British and French combined fleet, which were getting more and more accurate, also confused the Germans.

The ships on both sides began to turn bruised, and the close combat made the battle even bloodier.

The 2.13-meter-high belt of the British's former dreadnoughts was useless, and the Germans' 283-mm shells could easily penetrate the 178-203 mm upper armor belt and explode inside the British's hull. However, the trajectory of about 9,000 yards was low and straight, and the German shells penetrated the British hull almost horizontally, unable to threaten the core areas such as the engine room and ammunition depot.

The second-stage guns on the British and French former dreadnoughts were also constantly eroding the decks of the German battleships, and the first-stage guns that gradually found the right head began to add scars to the German battleships. Although it was unable to penetrate the 4.6-meter-high 300 mm main armor belt of the German battleship, the huge dents in the armor belt, the pitch-black scorch marks, the potted bulkheads smashed by shrapnel and the burning deck all made the battleship look very miserable.

Every minute, the battleship was shot, exploded, swept across the deck, or wreaked havoc inside the ship's hull. Hundreds of lives were lost in the brilliant light of the explosion. Steel against steel, gunpowder against gunpowder, blood against blood!