Chapter 81: The decisive battle of the South China Sea

At a distance of less than 2000m, the artillery is almost pointing at each other, but there is obviously an important factor that affects the hit rate, and that is the speed at which both sides are advancing at full horsepower and the hull ups and downs caused by it!

After reading it, he opened his eyes, and the French were close to the shelling, and this time he was miraculously unscathed! He was overjoyed in his heart, TMD, it seems that it is absolutely impossible to go back and not worship Guanyin! What he didn't notice was that the ship's side had been blasted off the deck again.

"Turn right and go straight! Let those bunnies hurry up and reload, they usually eat more than pigs, and work so slowly! Wan Dafu scolded loudly!

At this time, the other side of the Dengyingzhou warship also went around, its situation is much worse than the Chaowu, although it is only taken care of by the 6mén 120mm guns on the right side of the opponent's cruiser, but the Nanhai Guanyin seems to be not protected enough, the bridge and stern of the Dengyingzhou are on fire, and the soldiers are busy with hoses to extinguish the fire.

There was another burst of cannons, and the 120mm guns on the cruiser attacked again, and the speed of this cannon was indeed amazing, almost one shot a minute, but this time it did not cause substantial damage except for one shot hitting the stern of the ship and blowing up a large piece of wood! It's just that, through the clairvoyance, Wan Tai Fook has already seen that the 6mén black dòngdòng 190-200mm gun on the opposite side has obviously finished loading and is making the final aiming, and he can only chant again in his heart, "Ami Tofu!" ”

After staring and waiting for a while, but the sound of the cannon did not sound, the three cruisers actually began to turn and prepare to converge, leaving only a few mén 120mm guns still firing at themselves!

"What's going on?" Wan Dafu was very puzzled by the sudden silence of this jīlie battle, and at this time, the bridge of the completely luǒlù played to its advantage!

"General...... North...... There's a battleship to the north! The overhead lookout soldier yelled heartbreakingly.

"Battleship ......" Wan Dafu is a little confused, but at this time, he can be clear, what kind of battleship he has, the French don't fire guns, let's quickly pull over and slip away!

"Hurry up and hit full throttle! Heading north, the warship is definitely not French, so if it doesn't work, we'll climb ashore, and it's better than falling into the sea and feeding the fish! "General Wanda's order was given quickly, and at this time, the tail cannon was killed, and it was impossible to counterattack while retreating, so go all out!

The three battered and miserable battleships hurriedly converged and headed north, while on the cruiser Destein, Colonel Gallok was observing a rapidly advancing battleship in the distance with a telescope, and the officers on the side were reporting what the observation post had discovered.

"La Perlouse, Nielli, is the formation complete?"

"It's cutting the inner loop channel, and it will be done soon! Colonel, the speed of the unknown battleship on the opposite side is close to us, and it looks like an ironclad ship! The tonnage is unknown, estimated at 3000-4000 tons, the observation post saw that the front gun position was 2 twin guns, the caliber was unknown, the rear gun position was blocked by the bridge, the number of guns was temporarily unknown, it was estimated to be a double gun! ”

"British ironclads?" Karlok scratched his head and said, in this era in the Far East, the British have ironclad ships, but what he can't understand is why the British are driving at full speed to their battlefield! But...... He took a closer look at the battleship's mast, and there was no British flag ?!

At this time, Staff Officer Sikov said: "Colonel, the battleships La Peruz and Nielli are following, you give the order!" ”

"Hmm!" Colonel Gallok nodded, the other party was just a battleship, "Order, catch up, catch up with the Qing warship by the way, and let the ship's gunwales sink them!" ”

At this time, the three ships of "Chaowu", "Dengyingzhou" and "Jingyuan" also completed the assembly, and began to slowly drive northward, Wan Dafu took the clairvoyance and looked at the huge battleship about 5km away, but he was a little stunned after looking at it, and pulled the soldiers next to him and asked: "Dog, look at it, how the battleship over there hangs out the flag, let us lean on!" ”

The personal soldier he called a dog looked at it with clairvoyance, and said in surprise: "Indeed, general, could it be the battleship of our Nanyang Naval Division, or the battleship of Beiyang?" ”

"Dream your big head! Beiyang has never heard of such a big ship! tn, hurry up and get up! Save the French pigs from coming to us! Wan Dafu gave the order while looking back at the French battleship behind him, at this time the French battleship had completed the formation and was pressing up violently!

Qin Kai stood in the command room and looked at the three broken battleships in the distance who were struggling to rush over, while the French cruisers behind had already completed their formation, obviously not ready to let go of these battleships of the Nanyang Naval Division, and were rushing at full speed in a queue! ,

Lu Han stood at the entrance of the shè command room and shouted loudly inside, "Chen Ying, have you calculated the measurement, but don't beat the French and beat your own family!" ”

"Lu Guandai, what you say, can our training camp be so bad!" Chen Ying was still concentrating on ranging and calculating, and the officer next to him muttered.

"Fire a warning from a distance of 6,000 meters, and by the way, take the three warships of the next Chaowu! Keep a distance of 4500m from the back and give the French a taste of our awesomeness! Lu Han smiled and shouted loudly, "Chen Ying! Can you do it? ”

Chen Ying looked back at Lu Han very reluctantly, "Guan Tie, you can rest assured, as long as you take care of the boat and drive the boat well, I will take care of all this thing!" If I can stabilize at a cruising speed of 10 knots, I will see the results of 5 rounds of Qi Shiè! ”

"Chen Ying, let you take care of the cannon, and make such a request! Why don't you go and talk to the French about the speed! Lu Han smiled, "It will definitely be at full speed later, if you can't hit it, you can see your ability!" ”

Chen Ying laughed, "Old Lu, this cannon is my baby, don't worry, you must let the French people in dog days taste the cannonballs made by our Mawei Artillery Bureau!" ”

"Order, move forward at full speed, cut the outer arc channel, keep a distance of more than 4,000m from the enemy ship, and maintain the same speed as the enemy ship!" Following Lü Han's order, the 501 ship moved forward rapidly, and the lànghuā with the bow jī jumped onto the deck from time to time.

Soon the distance between the two sides was close to 6000m, Chen Ying observed the rangefinder, and another officer on the side was carrying a phone and shouting loudly, "No. 1 gun position, range 6107m, tail gun range 6180m!"

Chen Ying nodded, quickly looked at the form on the wall, and then shouted loudly, "Prepare for the herald!" The countdown is 15 seconds, the speed of the enemy ship is 15 knots, the angle of attack is 121 degrees 37 minutes, the elevation angle is 36 degrees 40 minutes, the number of yào packages is 4, and the estimated target distance is 5950 m......"

The officer immediately conveyed the parameters of the fire to the position of the main guns in the front and rear, and at the same time looked at the clock hanging on the wall and began the countdown, "15...... 14…… 13…… 12……”

Chen Ying shouted again at this time, "Correct the angle of shè attack to 121 degrees and 10 minutes, and the rest will remain the same!" ”

The shè strike officer at the first gun position repeated the shè strike order while looking at the clock fixed to the wall, "Count down to 5 seconds, 5...... 4…… 3…… 2…… 1！ shè hit!! ”

At this time, the three battleships of the Nanyang Naval Division, which were desperately rushing to the 501 ship, saw an amazing scene, and at a distance of nearly 6 kilometers, the pitch-black battleship actually took the lead in launching an artillery bombardment! The 6mén cannon let out an earth-shattering roar, and between the black smoke and the flickering of fire, time seemed to stop at this moment!

Wan Dafu muttered, my mother, either I'm crazy, or the pipe belt of this battleship is crazy, he turned his clairvoyance and looked at the French cruiser that was speeding towards the side and rear!

With a barrel of 35 times the diameter, a 220-kilogram shell is sprayed out, and the shell gains an initial velocity of nearly 620 m/s, while at a distance of 6 km, the shell needs to fly for nearly 10 seconds......

At this time, the guns on the Destan and La Perlouz, and Nieri, which were advancing in formation, did not point to the 501 ship in the distance, but were ready to give a fatal blow by the way when they crossed the three snail crawling Qing ** ships! But when Colonel Karlok, who was standing on the bridge and carefully observing the battleship in the distance, saw the black smoke and fire coming from the opponent's artillery, he was stunned for a while!

This distance was outside the maximum range of the 200mm heavy gun he was equipped, and the other party actually carried out an artillery bombardment, and he subconsciously raised his eyes to look at the sky in front of him...... What he couldn't have imagined happened, six shells whizzed, high over the bridge of the Desdan, and set off a row of lànghuā on the sea 300 meters away!

This sudden blow completely destroyed Colonel Gallok's plan, and he was really taken aback by the fact that he was so close to the target with a single shot at a position of more than 6 kilometers. The opponent's artillery was greatly surprised, and he immediately ordered a rapid advance, as close as possible to the enemy ship in front of him, to deal with a strong enemy, even if it was a bayonet fighting close to him, it was necessary!

Now the cruiser's superiority in artillery range, caliber, and speed has obviously been lost, but it still has an absolute advantage in the number of artillery! After all, the total amount of 15mén guns of the three cruisers far overshadowed the reinforced ironclad ships of the Qing State! At this time, the three battleships of the Nanyang Naval Division hiding on one side had been ignored by those who chose xìng.

Chen Ying stared at the rangefinder and aimed at the 220-kilogram lànghuā 6 kilometers away, and quickly completed the range, "The first round of shè strikes deviated 470m directly behind the enemy ship!" At this time, the shè strike officer on the main gun rangefinder and the tail gun rangefinder also completed the deviation ranging, and the other shè strike officer immediately recorded the number of jù, and the number of each shè hit was obtained by smashing it out with real money, and this value should not be underestimated. ,

Qin Kai stood aside and looked at these fast-growing fleet officers in the new era, naturally he was very happy, his own warship already had some characteristics of a modern warship, which was destined to require a group of high-quality and high-ability officers, and being able to train such a group of officers was undoubtedly the biggest achievement of the training camp, but this was thanks to the Mawei Ship Master School, the cradle of modern science.

"Speed test! The opposing cruiser is sailing at full speed, and the estimated speed is 15 knots!! Chen Ying shouted loudly, this is the first time that the training camp has encountered such a high-speed warship, and the hypothetical target of the previous training is only 10 knots of cruising speed, which is also because the ship's gun shè attack tutorial clearly stated that the ship's speed has a huge impact on shè strike.

When the speed of the ship is higher than 12 knots, the undulation and swaying of the hull will affect the degree of shè hitting, of course, in the usual training, the training camp has also carried out a discussion on shè when advancing at high speed, and summed up a set of ways to improve the shè hit, after all, when fighting, it is a legendary story, but it is definitely the most effective way to do your homework early.

The speed of the French cruiser was immediately reported to the control and command room, and at the same time, the shè strike officers on the various gun emplacements were also informed, and everyone realized that these French ** ships on the opposite side were not soft persimmons!

The speed of the 501 ship was also immediately increased to the maximum speed of 16.5 knots, after all, the distance needed to run around the outer arc was larger! The rapid approach of the warships of both sides face to face.

5.5km…… 5.2km……

Lu Han and Xu Shoushan stood in front of the lookout window and observed the movements of the French with high-powered German Zeiss telescopes, and sure enough, the French changed course again, and the fleet as a whole made a right turn, the purpose of which was obvious, to use the maneuver of their ships to occupy the top advantageous position of the "D" shape of the naval battle, and give full play to the advantage of all the firepower of the fleet!

"Turn the rudder left! Keep driving parallel to the opposing fleet and maintain a distance of 4000m! Lu Han did not hesitate to give a new steering order, he smiled in his heart, these French are not stupid at all, and they also know how to use the ship's steering xìng to bully heavy warships and seize the advantageous position!

It's just that for the 3,700-ton, 4,300-horsepower 501 ship, the improvement is not only the power system, but also the high-strength large-format steering rudder that also makes the 501 ship have high speed and high maneuverability.

After the battleships on both sides turned, the busiest thing was the shè strike officer and the artillerymen on the gun emplacement, and the artillerymen of the first gun position were rapidly rotating the battery and re-pointing the barrels of the black dòngdòng at the French battleship on the other side! Tang Qingshan, the officer of the Shè Strike, was also re-determining the position of the enemy ship, first setting the elevation angle and offset angle, and if the result of his calculation was closer to the result of Chen Ying's calculation in the Shè Strike Command Room, the sooner he could complete the preparation for the Shè Strike, which was the duty of an excellent Shè strike officer.

From 5,000 to 4,000 meters, for a battleship that has reached a speed of 15 knots on both sides, that is, a journey of more than a minute, the 501 ship's shè strike command room is already running as fast as a machine at this time!

A shè strike officer shouted loudly the ranging numbers of the first and third running positions, "4,277 meters in the first position, 4,350 in the third position!" ”

Chen Ying lay in front of the rangefinder, calmly observed, looked at the number table on the side, and then shouted out the parameters of the first round of shelling, "The target enemy ship, the estimated speed is 15 knots, the angle is 47 degrees 11 minutes, the elevation angle is 27 degrees 10 minutes, the number of yào packages is 4, the estimated target distance is 4100m, and the countdown is 10 seconds!" ”

"The angle is 47 degrees 11 minutes, the elevation angle is 27 degrees 10 minutes, and the countdown is 7 seconds!" Tang Qingshan, the shè strike officer on the No. 1 gun position, shouted out the shè strike parameters, watching the clock on the wall ticking and walking, and everyone was silently reciting the countdown, 3...... 2…… 1

The stout hull of the 501 slammed down, and the powerful recoil of the 6mén main gun caused the battleship to move at least a few meters on the sea surface, and in the midst of the muzzle fire and smoke, more than 200 kilograms of shells whistled out! Even though Qin Kai had seen countless blockbusters with special effects in later generations, this kind of shock on the scene still made him move fiercely!

At a distance of 4 kilometers, the cannonballs fell heavily from the sky in less than 7 seconds, which was a very perfect tutorial shè shot, 6 open huā shells smashed on the sea surface on the left side of the opposing warship in a chain shape, and the one closest to the target even smashed on the sea surface of the Desdan and Niele, setting off a big lànghuā!

"Maintain the elevation angle, and the rotation angle is 47 degrees 0 minutes!" The order to correct the shè strike is given immediately!

After all, the relative speed of both sides at this time exceeded 30 knots (about 55 kilometers per hour), and the relative maximum displacement at sea could reach 1 kilometer per minute, which was definitely a test of the ability of the officers and gunners! ,

Chen Ying lay on the rangefinder and continued to carry out the distance between the two sides, after all, the loading of the 254mm heavy gun is a relatively long process, the gunner must first clean the chamber, and then the loading steps are completed by the lifting machine! In ordinary training, the most powerful No. 1 artillery group on the 501 ironclad ship can reach 2 minutes and 15 seconds to complete loading and aiming, but to complete Qi shè, it is obviously necessary to wait for the three twin giant guns to be completed, so the best result in training is 2 minutes and 25 seconds!

Watching the clock tick away, at this moment, everyone in the command room felt that this time had become so long!

On the Destan ship, the current commander of the fleet, Karek, naturally saw the roar of the steel monster in the distance, and then the cannonball actually landed on the fleet at most 100 meters away, and even one cannonball landed on the water between the fleets, which surprised him!

And he also observed that the opponent's artillery shè was neat and consistent, which made him a little dumbfounded, you must know that in their concept, there is no way to form an effective and neat shè shot, and the shè shots that rely on the herald to complete are all fired in turn, and the subsequent shè strikes are the efficiency of the game loading and the efficiency of aiming, it is obvious that the opponent has a jīng sharp navy that he has never touched!

At this time, the distance between the two sides had reached the effective range of the 190-200mm heavy guns on the cruiser, and there was still a long way to go before the best shooting distance, but in the face of the opponent's amazing striking degree, he did not hesitate to give the order to counterattack immediately!

The already loaded cannons roared together, and black smoke and fire spewed out 200mm shells from the barrels, and they rushed towards the steel monster in the distance!

However, at this distance close to the maximum range of artillery, if you want to hit a target moving at a high speed of 16 knots, it will definitely not work without the favor of the god of luck, Gallok watched the roar of this round of artillery with great anticipation, but as the landing points were displayed one by one on the sea level in the distance, he had to shake his head helplessly!

The range of the projectile drop point is surprisingly huge, and even some artillery pieces deviate by at least a kilometer, and the best artillery drop point is at least 300 meters away from the steel monster!

"Colonel, at this distance, we can't pose enough threat to that ironclad ship, we must shorten the distance!" Major Sikov, a staff officer on the side, also understood the situation and said.

"I also know that I need to shorten the distance, but the speed of this ironclad ship surprises me too much!" Colonel Gallok thought about it for a moment, and then made a decision, he had to force the other side to engage in a close-range jiāo battle! Although the bloody fight with the bayonet is the last battle he is willing to fight, but the excellent tactic is to transform his own advantages, not to magnify his weaknesses, obviously in terms of the number of warships, Gallok still feels that the advantage is obvious!

"Herald! Attack according to the interception formation, and be sure to form a siege posture against the enemy ships! Gallok stretched out his hand and pointed to the 501 ironclad in front of him.

After 2 minutes and 50 seconds from the first round of Qi shè, 5 second round of Qi shè! Between the black smoke and the firelight, the cannonballs rushed out with a full cavity of fire.

I have to say that this round of Qi shè is still very perfect, at a distance of 4000m, for a 35 times the diameter of the artillery, this jīng accuracy is already quite high, now the only big problem that affects the jīng degree is that the ironclad ship sails at full speed at 16 knots! However, the hard training of the artillerymen and the live ammunition that Qin Kai put into it became the key factors in achieving this victory.

When Colonel Gallok decided to adopt the method of three bread and bī forced the other party to shorten the distance of the artillery battle, the 501 ironclad ship immediately responded with a resounding slap in the face! The Destan was hit......

The 6 shells achieved surprising results, the Destein as a target, was directly hit by two, one of which directly hit the top of the ironclad fort of the cruiser's front row guns, the high-speed shell easily broke the 70mm steel plate, and then there was a violent explosion inside the ironclad fort, and the bomb machine was about to be loaded by the way was also ignited, a huge explosion swept the artillery inside, and by the way, the ironclad fort was completely blown away, Moreover, the sideways shrapnel easily smashed through the deck less than 40mm, causing a fire in the storage room at the front of the cruiser!

The other shell hit the waterline at the back of the cruiser, easily penetrating the steel plate and opening a large hole in the hull with a diameter of two meters, but due to the backflow of seawater, the explosion failed to cause a more destructive fire!

And even more amazing is the third near-miss bomb, this shell that fell on the stern of the ship was only 10 meters away from the stern propulsion device, after the underwater explosion, the huge impact bō and the flying shrapnel caused a crack in the stern thruster part of the ship with a diameter of only 30 cm, but this inconspicuous wound directly led to the final tragedy of the Desdan

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