Almost every 20 seconds, two Russian battleships were able to fire one and a half salvos, and in the most extreme minute, the Russians fired three and a half salvos, 12 shells, and delivered more than 5 tons of ammunition around the German battleships!

I have to say that the Russian M1907 12-inch L52 main gun is still very powerful, and with complete servo equipment, it can reach an astonishing rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute! MOREOVER, THE GUN ITSELF USES A HEAVY PROJECTILE WEIGHING 470KG, AND THE MUZZLE VELOCITY IS AS HIGH AS 762 METERS PER SECOND. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info From a purely kinetic point of view, this is a pretty good artillery. And adhering to the Russian habit of emphasizing the density of firepower, the Queen Maria-class battleship equipped with 12 12-inch guns is indeed not an easy role to deal with!

Relying on ample ammunition reserves, an excess rate of fire, and an overwhelming number of barrels, the Russians actually achieved their first hit in a heavyweight confrontation. (The gunnery of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is still good, and the Russian dreadnoughts have historically fired from a distance of 20 kilometers when they fought the Goeben, and the first bomb fell 460 meters away from Goben.) The second time was 183 meters. The third salvo has already shrunk to 46 meters! But unfortunately, the luck was not good, and he didn't hit the ...... in the end. ）

A 470KG 12-inch armor-piercing projectile roared and smashed on the deck of the Taghoff, exploding after passing through the upper deck, and the shock wave generated after the violent charge was guaranteed to form a death zone with a diameter of about 20 meters in the hull, hundreds of kilograms of shrapnel swept everything it touched under the impetus of the explosive energy, and the flames from the burning of picric acid caused a small fire in the rear of the hull.

"It seems that the Russians have learned wisely, they know that they can't penetrate our core cabin with armor-piercing shells, so they switched to semi-armor-piercing shells or high-explosive shells." Count Spee said thoughtfully as he looked at the column of smoke rising behind him. The British can rely on climbing technology to make a "green hat" armor-piercing bullet. And what if the Russians don't have the ability, then they can only use high-explosive shells.

The Taghoff then made the first hit of the German dreadnought. DURING THE SEVENTH ROUND AND A HALF OF THE SALVO, A 350MM MAIN GUN SHELL SUCCESSFULLY SMASHED INTO THE FRONT OF THE HULL OF THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER III, PENETRATING WITHOUT ACCIDENT, AND EXPLODING WITHOUT ACCIDENT, THE FRAGILE FRONT ARMOR WAS OPENED A LARGE HOLE OF SEVERAL SQUARE METERS, AND THE ENTIRE ARMOR PLATE WAS PEELED OFF. Hundreds of tons of water ingress were brought to the battleship, but in general there was no threat.

It was Prince Eugen's two hits that really decided the battle, and in the ninth round and a half of the salvo, the German gunners who were already in the groove hit two shells of the Queen Maria, who were on the same page, in one salvo! A SHELL HIT THE AREA OF THE GUN GALLERY IN THE UPPER PART OF THE MAIN ARMOR BELT OF THE HULL, AND THE 3 130MM SECONDARY GUNS WERE DIRECTLY BLOWN AWAY BY A HUGE EXPLOSION! And another shell hit the third turret of this battleship, and at a distance of 14 kilometers, the frontal armor of the turret, which was only 12 inches thick, was no different from the papier-mâché! The shell that entered the middle of the turret easily cut through the vertical armor belt at the top of the gun, and then smashed into the tail of the M1907 12-inch gun in the middle!

The heavy artillery weighing dozens of tons was directly blown into two, and the second half of the artillery was directly pushed away from the gun mount, and more than a dozen gunners from various countries behind were directly smashed into a ball of flesh, and the raging flames and dense shelnel also carried out an indiscriminate covering blow to the two gun positions next to it, the hydraulic transmission equipment of the main gun on the left side was destroyed, and the personnel of the main gun on the right side were almost completely wiped out in an instant, and the battleship Queen Maria, which lost the firepower of the three main guns, was immediately at a disadvantage!

Flames and smoke rising from the middle of the hull interfered with the imaging of the rangefinder located at the top of the mast, and the heated air distorted, making the image that the Russians saw in the rangefinder unusually blurry. After the loss of the three main guns, the firepower dropped even more sharply, and after a while, the shelling of Queen Maria immediately became messy and disorderly, and a salvo fell near Taghof behind the Prinz Eugen, startling the latter. You know, at this time, the distance between the two German super dreadnoughts is about 1,000 meters!

"Resilience is still not enough." In the ensuing battle, the Count could clearly feel that the Russians were a little disorganized, their shots were not as accurate as before, and they were constantly adjusting their course, focusing on self-preservation, fighting more conservatively, and releasing smoke screens from time to time. This admittedly reduced the accuracy of the artillery shelling of the German fleet, but at the same time gave up the opportunity for a counterattack. Queen Maria's shelling came and went, and although it hit again, it was much worse than the Prinz Eugen!

IN THE NEXT 5 MINUTES, THE PRINCE EUGEN HIT THE TARGET TWICE, A SHELL DIRECTLY HIT A LITTLE IN FRONT OF TURRET 2, AND AFTER PENETRATING THE 300MM THICK ARMOR BELT ON THE SIDE CHORD, THE FLYING SHRAPNEL DIRECTLY SHATTERED THE NEXT DOOR OF THE MOTOR ROOM, BLOWING THE INTERNAL MOTOR INTO PIECES, AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE IGNITED DIESEL FUEL ALSO SET A FIRE ON THE MIDDLE DECK, AND THE SCORCHING FLAMES CAUSED THE TEMPERATURE OF THE ADJACENT AMMUNITION COMPARTMENT TO SKYROCKET. Frightened, the Russians immediately filled the ammunition depot at the bottom of the ship, so that the only 2 in the central turret could be used was a small number of shells in the dressing room, and after a few minutes, the No. 2 turret also stopped firing.

The fourth shell was also in good position, this shell landed at the rear of turret four, and although it did not directly penetrate the rear armor due to the angle, the violent explosion still blew through the armor plate. Countless debris collided with impunity inside the hull, directly causing the failure of the propeller shaft located at the bottom of the hull. For this reason, the Empress Maria had to reduce its speed to 15 knots.

And just when the Empress Maria was already showing signs of defeat, the situation of the Alexander III, which had caught the right thing with the Taghoff, was also very bad. During this time, the Taghoff hit 5 guns of the opposing side, but except for one shell that hit the sidechord armor belt, which penetrated the boiler room and blew up 2 boilers, the remaining 4 main gun shells all hit the superstructure, and the 1 good turret of the Alexander III was broken by 2 barrels, and a chimney was blown away. Two more shells set fire to the stern of the hull. From a distance, billowing smoke covered almost the entire battleship, and only when the Russian battleship opened fire, the muzzle storm would blow away some of the smoke, and the bombed hull could be seen.

Due to the interference of fire and smoke, the combat effectiveness of the Alexander III also continued to decline, although it hit the Taghoff three times, but both shells were deflected by the heavy sidestring armor and the frontal armor of the turret, and only one shell hit the No. 4 turret in the rear of the hull, blowing up one gun.

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