Chapter 1237: Fleet Engagement 1
But in fact, there are too many problems in this set of tactics theoretically, first of all, warships have roll, and the rollover cycle of different warships is different. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info And the earliest problem of artillery is to solve the problem of firing all guns at a certain roll angle....... And the tactics of the Russians could not solve the problem of three warships rolling in the same state. Even the most basic requirements for long-range shooting could not be met.
The Russians found in an experiment that the firing time between the master ship and the slave ship could be ...... 10 seconds. Lieutenant General Eberhardt said he was also drunk. But then, the Russians still said that they were optimistic enough about this tactic. And today it's finally time to show it on the battlefield!
The rangefinder at the top of the Prinz Eugen locked the Russian fleet in the distance in the center of the lens, and after the fire control personnel magnified the originally vague target by 23 times by adjusting the knob, they could even clearly see the four tiled turrets with Russian characteristics. The cross of the eyepiece was firmly pressed in the middle of the target, and then according to the data of the Russian battleship obtained before, the fire controller transmitted the speed and bearing of the Russian battleship to each main turret!
IN ORDER TO ENSURE THE ACCURACY OF THE SHOT, THE GERMAN OVERSEER DELIBERATELY LIMITED THE SPEED OF THE VOYAGE, SAILING AT A SPEED AND DIRECTION SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE RUSSIAN FLEET, AND THE HUGE TWIN 350MM MAIN GUN WAS QUICKLY POINTED AT THE TARGET. With the order to open fire, the Prince Eugen first spewed out a series of fire dragons more than ten meters long!
The shells whistled and flew towards the Russian fleet on the opposite side, and when the Germans began the third half-salvo, the Russian fleet finally broke its silence, firing first on the Empress Maria, then on Alexander III. The Russians' "Trinity" tactics were indeed not as good as they could have imagined, and the so-called first salvo was fired only 5 minutes after the opening of the other battleships!
In a pure fleet engagement, the German fleet quickly gained an advantage, if the two Russian dreadnoughts could also rely on up to 12 main guns to achieve the so-called "asymmetric advantage", if the design of each 6 shells and the 20-second interval of each shot could still put a certain amount of pressure on Prince Eugen and the Taghoff, then the shooting of the three Russian dreadnoughts against the Reshadier at this distance was completely blind! So much so that at the end of the battle, before interrogating the Russian prisoners, the German officers and men on the Reshadier did not think that they had been subjected to the ...... of fire from three Russian dreadnoughts at the same time.
"Aren't the last two Russian dreadnoughts attacking the Ferdinand?" After the war, the German officers in charge of interrogating Russian prisoners of war expressed incomprehensibility to the confessions of the Russians.
To be honest, the quasi-dreadnoughts are also divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the more powerful quasi-dreadnoughts can fight with the early dreadnoughts. For example, the Ferdinand, which is armed with 8 main guns and has 6 guns on the side chord. For example, the Russian's Yefstafi has only 2 8-inch guns ......in addition to 4 12-inch guns on the side chord. At this distance, there is really no difference from the former intrepid .......
Then, unaware that the Reshadyer, who had been targeted by the opposing Trinity, easily and painfully beat the Yefstafi, which was at the forefront, and after the latter had just fired a salvo, two 350mm main gun shells with a devastating aura successfully smashed into the poor battleship.
AS A DREADNOUGHT, ITS DEFENSE IS NATURALLY IMPOSSIBLE TO RESIST THE ATTACK OF GERMAN 350MM HEAVY GUNS AND HARD CAP-PIERCING SHELLS, AND ALSO AS A DREADNOUGHT, THE DISPLACEMENT OF MORE THAN 10,000 TONS ALSO MAKES ITS "BLOOD BAR" NOT SO LONG, AND JUST ONE ROUND OF HITS BROUGHT DISASTER TO THIS POOR BATTLESHIP!
The first shell hit the turret at the bow of the ship, and the 11-inch vertical armor was like paper paste in the face of the shell weighing more than 600 kilograms, and the hardened cap and the hardened layer on the outside of the armor were shattered at the same time, and the exposed warhead left a circular radioactive bullet hole in the turret as easily as butter!
A dazzling flash of light suddenly erupted from inside the originally dim turret, and then, the exploding shells easily destroyed a 12-inch gun and the servo, and tons of steel turned into countless shrapnel that jumped and crashed inside the small turret. In just a few seconds, a flood of flames and shockwaves turned the entire turret into hell! And when the shell detonated the ammunition rack located behind the turret, the violent explosion even tore off the armor cover of half of the turret, and a fire dragon more than 50 meters long rose into the sky, and the entire battleship seemed to be shaking.
Another shell was equally deadly, this shell entered the water at a distance of 40 meters from the target, and the shell was quickly righted under the impact, although the hood was shattered by the impact, but the remaining part still pierced the target in the distance like a torpedo. The Reshadiye successfully fired an in-water bullet that directly sealed the fate of the poor battleship.
With an indescribable screeching sound, the sharp warhead easily tore open the fragile hull plate, and then tore a large hole of several square meters in the middle of the battleship together with hundreds of tons of seawater! The shells continued forward, passing through the empty bunkers and the coal bunkers behind them, smashing two old triple-expansion steam engine bombs at high speed. A huge orange fireball rose from the middle and rear of the hull, and the violent shock wave from the explosion even blasted two 6-inch guns and three 12-pound guns into the sky. The ensuing smoke soared upwards, and the effect of the blow could be clearly seen even from the Reshadiyah 15 kilometers away.
In the face of a water bullet that is enough to make Super Dreadnought feel terrified, this blow is enough to determine the outcome of the battle! The Yevstalin, which was pierced underwater, entered more than 1,400 tons of water in a very short period of time, which was undoubtedly a catastrophe for it that was just over 10,000 tons. And what is even more tragic is that because the division of compartments is not scientific, and there is horizontal communication between compartments, with the influx of a large amount of seawater, one compartment after another was shattered, and in just a few minutes, the poor Russian battleship was tilted 15 degrees, and in the case of loss of power, the fate of this battleship has been decided!
"Okay, change the target, this guy can leave it to the destroyer." The captain of the Reshadiye looked at his results with satisfaction and ordered the gun commander to lock the heavy guns onto the next target.
At the same time, the two Austro-Hungarian super-dreadnoughts Prince Eugen and Tergerhof fought with the two Russian super-dreadnoughts but there was no one-sided situation, Prince Eugen's main guns were huge, and the Russians had more main guns!
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