At the same time, Jericho also picked up a telescope to look at his opponent, and for the Mainz-class armored cruiser, Jericho saw it more than once. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He already knows the situation of this class of battleship. At this time, the situation of the battleship opposite did not seem to be very good, one of the guns in the twin turret in the bow was destroyed without being replaced, and the side armor belts of the battleship also left traces of many battles. The smoke coming out of the battleship's chimney also meant that the battleship was not burning very good coal. After all, Turkey's coal is much worse than the Welsh white coal, which is commonly used by the British.

"Our opponent is not in form, and he has chosen to challenge us at this time." Jericho is equally confident. He is full of confidence in the firepower and defense of the agility class, and in his opinion, it seems that there is nothing wrong with fighting a ship that is not in good condition with the firepower output of the agility class champion world!

As a British first-class decisive battleship, the agility class is not only powerful because of its firepower, but also equipped with a more advanced fire control system. In order to ensure that the 10-inch gun and 7.5-inch gun can hit the target more accurately. The original fire control command system was also installed with 2 units. During the Russo-Japanese War, the armies of the two sides generally engaged at a distance of about 7 km, and the well-trained officers and men of the British Royal Navy were naturally able to fire at this distance, and in general, the Prince Albert armored cruiser could not rely on the absolute range advantage to kill the opponent as it did two years ago.

However, relying on the fire control and walking advantages brought by the unified 7 10-inch main guns, at a distance of 9 kilometers, Prince Albert launched the attack first! The thick 10-inch L40 gun spewed out orange fireballs, and the storm formed when the shells were fired swept across the entire deck, and the first round of 4 shells flew towards the enemy in the distance with a breath of destruction, and after more than ten seconds, columns of water rose around the Agile.

With the beginning of this round of shelling, the direct confrontation of the surface fleet between Britain and Germany finally began! "Turn left half a compass point to close the distance, this distance is still a bit far." Jericho frowned slightly. When he asked his gun commander if he could effectively fight back at this distance, he gave an ambiguous answer, much to his dissatisfaction.

The Agile began to speed up while dodging the shells from a distance, and when it approached 8 kilometers, it finally began to counterattack the British gunners, who could not bear it. 2 twin 10-inch L45 guns fired first, followed by a dense 7.5-inch gun on the side of the ship! The long 7.5-inch gun slammed back, and a huge fireball erupted almost against the surface of the sea. The fire from the 7 secondary guns almost obscured the entire side of the battleship.

"From a distance, the British warship looked like an active volcano erupting at sea. They were projecting a scorching rain of bullets at us with an extremely high rate of fire. Next to our battleship was soon surrounded by a column of water. A German officer who went to war recalled the situation.

The two warships were soon surrounded by each other's barrage, and they were like two samurai in heavy armor, desperately attacking each other with the weapons in their hands, and they both had full confidence in their warships. No one flinched, no one was afraid, and the two battleships sailed in an almost parallel motion, fighting through a storm of steel and flame!

The Agility's seven 7.5-inch guns offer an unrivalled projection advantage, with a rate of fire of 4 rounds a minute meaning that each gun can fire nearly 300kg of ammunition in one minute! British gunners desperately lifted heavy shells and cartridges from the ammunition depot and stacked them next to the gun gallery to get a greater rate of fire. So much so that after Prince Albert had just opened a big hole in the bow of the Agile, the British decisively responded with three 7.5-inch shells!

All three shells landed on the upper deck of the Prince Albert. The violent explosion blew 2 lightly protected 88mm anti-mine guns to pieces. At the same time, a highly flammable picric acid explosive also formed a local fire on the surface of the battleship. In this battle, in which neither side could effectively penetrate the armor belt of the opposing side, the British decisively chose high-explosive shells filled with explosives in large quantities. And so far, it seems to be in good shape!

"Get closer and completely overwhelm your opponent with our high-explosive and semi-armor-piercing shells!" The battle put Jericho into a state of excitement, he was very aware of his strengths and weaknesses, melee output is the key to victory, and Scheer naturally could not fight the opponent's 4 10-inch guns and 7 7.5-inch guns at a close distance of 5km. The Prince Albert drew a zigzag avoidance curve on the surface of the sea and began to pull away, while returning the daredevil's weight with heavy artillery!

The Agile did not dare to sail at high speeds, because before setting off, the engineers of the British Royal Navy warned him in very cryptic terms that the seaworthiness of the warship might be worse. And during the sea trials, there was indeed a case of the lower artillery being poured into the sea. Although it is now calm in the Mediterranean, Jericho is flammable and does not dare to play big.

So when the Prince Albert, which was not in a very good state of the power system, looked at the distance again, the balance of war once again tilted to the side of the Germans, and at a distance of 9 kilometers, the firing range and strike accuracy of the 190mm gun gallery gun dropped sharply. The rain of bullets that had densely covered the German ships became sparse and sparse. And at this distance, the superiority of the 10-inch gun gradually manifested itself, and in less than 2 minutes, 4 10-inch shells fell on the slender hull of the Agile!

A series of explosions came out, and the violent vibration made Jericho in the conning tower feel uneasy, although the 10-inch shell could theoretically not penetrate the opponent's heavy 7-inch armor, but it was still very lethal for those dense and long 7.5-inch gun barrels! One of the shells landed at the front of the ship, and the awl-like shell split the barrel of the lower 7.5-inch gun in two, while the violent impact also caused problems with the ammunition supply system of the other gun. In a short period of time, the Agile lost the fire of two 7.5-inch guns.

The loss of the secondary artillery group created a hole in the Agile's dense firepower network, and the narrow firing range of the gun gallery itself made the problem even more prominent. "Reduce the speed a bit and keep it at 10 o'clock on the opposing ship, where they have a large blind spot for their artillery." The spicy Scheer quickly discovered this weakness and took advantage of the ship's relatively high speed to occupy this position, and Jericho, although he wanted to make up for this by adjusting the relative position, never dared to raise the speed to make all efforts come to naught, if nothing else, the advantages and disadvantages of both sides would be locked in.

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