Chapter 127

readx; As the two shallow water battlegunboats Kawachi and Settsu, which are the new ones of the Japanese Navy, have rough skin and thick flesh, not to mention the large caliber of artillery, there is a problem that speed is their weakness, but fortunately, the only task of these two shallow water battlegunboats is to defend the coastal waters, relying on the shore guns in the port fortress to give the invading enemy a head-on attack. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Considering that the Chinese Navy does not have any larger warships that can threaten the Japanese Navy's current fleet in Shanghai, the entire Chinese coast can be said to make the little Japanese warships or small sampans come and go very arrogantly, and the navy of the Republic of China is not enough to stuff people's teeth, so the Beiyang Nationalist Government can only let the fleet be a shrinking turtle, which further fuels the arrogance of the little devils and does not take the Beiyang Nationalist Government in their eyes.

It took more than ten minutes to increase the speed so much, and it stopped and anchored at a distance of about 15-17 kilometers from the Shenwei in the middle, and the two ships showed a tendency to be flanked left and right. A total of 4 12 large-caliber triple guns of the two ships rotated the huge turrets, slowly locking the target direction, that is, the Shenwei, the culprit who sank the Joban and the Urakaze, to death, and the 12 long gun barrels on the two battleships raised at a certain angle at this time, aiming the muzzles of the black hole at the Shenwei in the distance, as if they were about to be fired anytime and anywhere.

In the early days, the caliber of naval guns was not large, and if they were manually loaded, they could still keep up with the rate of fire, but according to the 410 mm caliber naval guns installed on the Kawachi and Settsu, I am afraid that a lot of valuable time would be wasted if they were manually loaded, and the gunners inside would suffer when it rained or when there were strong winds and waves. Now, after the newly produced Nagato-class enclosed new twin-mounted turret, and under the transformation of the Yawata Arsenal, the manual loading mechanism has been changed into a semi-automatic mechanical hydraulic loading device, and the ventilation and smoking devices have been improved, and the gunners in the turret no longer need more than a dozen people to serve a gun like in the past, and the number of people has been reduced by half at once after the semi-automatic mechanical hydraulic loading device, and the space saved is enough for the people inside to move unhindered.

"Target enemy catamaran battleship, data measurement ......" There is a large spherical artillery firing mechanical rangefinder tower on the top of the Hanoi and Setjin, and a little devil surveyor staying in this circular mechanical rangefinder is staring at the digital engraving line on the large-diameter outburst eyepiece on the rangefinder with his eyes, and another devil next to him is to determine whether the shells fired by the artillery have an impact on accuracy by observing the wind speed sensing device.

"Wind speed 1, light wind state has no effect, good weather, good light, good visibility, no deviation in the firing angle of 33 degrees, and the firing range is not less than 15 kilometers." The two devil surveyors reported the data to the bridge control tower after repeated measurements, and at this time, the captains of Kawachi and the Setzu got the data measured by the mechanical ranging tower on the top of the bridge, and the captains of the two battleships looked intently for a while.

"Yo Xi, the weather is very nice to my liking, I'll clean up after you!!" On the Hanoi, looking at the data handed by his subordinates. The brain turned so fast that even the captain of the ship, Naono Daisa, whose mouth was upturned, was secretly proud in his heart, and at the same time stared at the Kamui sailing slowly on the sea with vicious eyes.

"Is there any movement on the other side?" The captain of the Kawachi, Naono Osa Loggi, asked his lieutenant who was waiting beside him.

"Your Excellency, please wait." When the deputy saw the commander's question, he immediately called the watchtower and received a reply from the observer on the watchtower: the enemy ship did not respond in any way.

"Report to Your Excellency Dazuo, not yet." After hanging up the watchtower's phone, the deputy respectfully reported to the log.

"Yo Xi, that's good." Naono Loggi nodded.

"Report whether Dazuo opened fire?" The chief of staff beside him began to remind the captain in front of him.

"Oh, I'll talk to Yamamoto Black Flag Daisa first." After speaking, Yuan Yuan picked up the radio intercom and connected to the signal of the Settsu.

...... Two minutes is not a long time, and the two captains agreed to teach the opposing battleship a very profound lesson with their own powerful naval guns......

"Order, artillery preparation!" After hanging up the radio, the originally expressionless log suddenly ordered the subordinate next to him who was murderous.

"Understood, the angle of the gun in the No. 1 and No. 2 turrets has been adjusted." The artillery dispatcher, who had been waiting impatiently for a long time, began to arrange the artillery operation of the battleship's turret against the sonic tube in front of him.

"Yes, the angle is corrected, everything is fine." There was no need to change the angle, and the gunners in charge of the elevation angle of the gun in the turret checked it, and then answered loudly through the sonic tube after completing the rest of the turret angle.

"Cannonball loading!! First round volley!! ”

"Understood! All of them have shell loading!! Hurry up! "The loaders in the turret who received the order operated the loader to the loud shouts of the gun commander.

After the high-power generator equipped with the hull continuously converts electricity into kinetic energy, the sturdy semi-automatic mechanical hydraulic loading device pushes the hoister under the operation of the gunner, directly lifting the 12 410 mm caliber high-explosive armor-piercing shells in the ammunition compartment, and accurately stuffing them into the chamber of the open bolt, and then several gunners stuffed the cannon cartridge wrapped in silk with high-flammability propellant into the tail of the shell. After all this was done, the gunners carefully checked to make sure that there were no problems before closing the bolts, and the gunners in charge of firing waited for the sound transmission pipe in the turret to give the command of the gunner.

"Fire!!" After making sure that the preparations before the shelling were correct, Log's eyes once again showed a sinister look, and he glanced at the waters where the Kamui was located in the distance, and gave the order to open fire.

"No. 1 and No. 2 gun positions are all there, fire!!" The gunners of the two battleships faithfully carried out this order, and saw that the shooters of the four triple large-caliber naval guns on the two battleships had just pressed the firing trigger......

"Boom ......" Next, with the help of high-flammation gunpowder, large-caliber shells roared out of the 12 guns with a wall of more than ten meters long and thick barrel muzzles of Hanoi and Setjin, and the 410-mm slender guns were ejected from the bore, and due to the efficient combustion of the cartridges, the muzzles then emitted thick white smoke and orange-red fire.

12 huge shells of 410 mm flew directly towards the target Kamui with a thunderous sound. After the guns were discharged, the two battleships were slightly shaken, and the gunners of the turrets were fortunately covered with their ears wide open and endured the roar of a loud noise, if they did not do so, they would have become deaf.

"Report to the captain, enemy ship shelling! Suspected shells! The number is 12. Please give us your instructions. The Kamui's radar observer noticed a few dots on the radar screen flying towards his ship, and reported it to the captain.

"Got it... Keep watching. Ma Shuli didn't seem to be surprised that Little Japan would do this, but she replied without saltiness. She knows very well in her heart how perverted the battleship under her feet is, and the cannonballs with a caliber of more than 400 mm and less than 800 mm can be completely ignored, of course, as long as there is no freak like the H44-class super battleship that the mustachioed Führer came out of crazy Y-Y, she can completely skip the class and the Yamato-class battleship! There are ten powerful guns in their own light, and at a distance of more than 30 kilometers, with the ballistic computer with a high-speed rate of fire and accurate strikes, they can easily kill the battleships that are stronger than themselves, except for the H44-class super battleships, of course.

"Captain, that's fine." The other female co-captain asked, still a little worried, in some consideration.

"You don't have to worry, shells under 500 mm pose no threat to the battleships under our feet." Ma Shuli smiled and replied lightly.