Every fierce artillery fire that flashed almost simultaneously on the huge battleship in the distance made the nerves of the commander of the cruiser Immortal Miles tremble uncontrollably, as a senior naval officer, the salvo tactics used by the Chinese battleship, this theoretical advantage of gunnery, he was obviously not an ignorant person.

As an emerging empire that has dominated sea power for more than 100 years, the Royal Navy has been named royal to show the importance of sea power and domination of the sea, and the British Army has never had the honor of naming "Royal", of course, there are some other vignettes, and the Royal Navy has never been a conservative team.

The two generations of the Navy's chief designers, Lord Barnabe and Sir White, have always aimed to completely suppress any strong enemy at sea, and have devoted themselves to building a supreme maritime force, and both designers have the same understanding of the gunnery of the former Lord of the Navy, Sir Serge...... Artillery skills, only artillery skills can forge the strongest spear of the navy!

As for the Royal Navy, which has a super-powerful naval battleship power, how to use the fleet's heavy artillery to deliver a uniform and devastating blow was in fact put forward as a theoretical platform for naval tactics more than 70 years ago.

In the thirties, William, a senior officer in the Royal Navy? Kenneth had proposed a solution to the side-chord artillery salvo, and on the Navy's high-speed cruiser "Hussar", Rear Admiral Kenneth conducted the first sidechord salvo test of the Navy era, and gave the Royal Navy a crucial tactical cue - the salvo would be the most intense fire on the target.

Of course, in order to achieve a salvo in the true sense of the word, the battleships of the era with multi-layer gun windows should only solve the error of the different length of the arquebus when firing. It's a question that makes people want to break their heads......

For more than 30 years after that. Year 1868. The Royal Navy was the first to install an electric shock device on naval guns, so that a single shooter can fire multiple naval guns at the same time, Rear Admiral Kenneth's idea was once again pushed onto the tactical platform by countless Royal Navy fanatics, and Rear Admiral Kenneth developed a theodolite for horizontal launch control, which has long been named Kenneth Commander, which seems simple, but can allow shooting officers to ensure a horizontal position to fire the device, reflecting the Royal Navy's continuous pursuit of naval tactical leadership.

And it was extended from Kenneth Command. Equipped with bridge command sights, coupled with the Barr-Stroud rangefinder, which began to be popularized in the Royal Navy four years ago, the MK series command instruments of the mainstream configuration of the Royal Navy have been achieved, and when the enemy appears within the crosshair range of the bridge sight, the battleship can theoretically achieve concentrated fire projection of guns of all calibers!

But...... In fact, even the best admirals of the Royal Navy could not really apply this naval tactic to the rapid changes in relative distance, course, and speed of the two sides.

The advent of rangefinders, the improvement of observation methods, and a series of other advances in naval technology have improved the accuracy of naval shooting. But even behind the Royal Navy. There is a large number of dedicated and fanatical technical officers, naval shipyard engineers, and private arms suppliers. However, the salvo tactics that can truly achieve effective strikes are still in the past.

Now, Colonel Miles has seen the glory of this tactic that the Royal Navy could only dream of, but alas, he has become a guinea pig in this tactic......

In the previous two rounds of school firing, he had already discovered the danger of the Immortal, but the first salvo of the battleship on the opposite side full of cannon barrels made him anxious, and after the fierce artillery fire, although the rumbling cannons on the battleship of the Immortal covered out the movement of the cannonballs on the opposite side tearing the air, he still felt the heaviest pressure!

In less than 10 seconds, the salvo of the Chiyou had already rumbled past the bow of the battleship Immortal, and at a distance of less than 400 meters in the right front, it set off a huge explosion with a range of more than 100 meters...... Colonel Myers naturally understood what this meant, as long as he drove into the range of the trajectory of the shell, it would not be a splash of water, but a flower of steel.

The only thing that gave Miles some peace of mind was that the tactical maneuvering of his course had clearly worked, and the opposing school's shooting had not been able to provide direct assistance for the onslaught of the blow...... But at the next moment, he found that his tactical maneuver did not play the role he imagined.

In less than 15 seconds, the second salvo strike completely ignored the Immortal, which had been shrouded in black smoke from the gunfire, and smashed into the black smoke, and this time, the god of luck had obviously waved away from Colonel Miles, 4 of the 9 shells passed over the hull of the Immortal, 3 landed in front of the Immortal, and one of them set off a huge wave less than 15 meters from the front side of the ship.

The other two shells hit the two towering chimneys in the middle of the Immortal, and unfortunately, they got in the way! One hit the lower half of the chimney in the front of the middle section, the Chiyou was a 210mm rapid-fire shell, and the high-explosive warhead of nearly 90 kg exploded violently directly on the surface of the chimney, which broke the entire chimney into two at that time, and the high temperature caused a violent combustion at the same time, and the chimney in front of the Immortal suddenly became a fire pipe.

Another cannonball hit the middle of another chimney, and it exploded when it got in, and the fierce red fire was mixed with the fierce black smoke in the chimney, and the battleship suddenly hurt up and went straight to the sky with a huge black plume of smoke, and then, the whole collapsed chimney directly blocked most of the big chimney.

The 14 Cambon boilers in the bilge were burning the air violently, although the horn-shaped air intakes all over the battleship put a lot of air in, but the main chimney was suddenly blocked, and the bilge boiler room was filled with black smoke, and it immediately overflowed out of the boiler room.

In fact, Colonel Miles in the command room of the bridge in the top cabin was not at all at all, and the blown up front chimney was close to the bridge of the Immortal, which was not designed to be high, but at this moment the chimney turned into a large pillar of fire, and even ignited a wooden lifeboat at the rear of the bridge, and the smoke from the burning smoke and artillery fire made the view of the battleship terrible.

"Sharp turn of the rudder...... Return now! "Colonel Miles after learning the damn gun. Immediately give up any fluke mentality. Although he is still very relieved about his 305mm command tower. Chinese this Chiyou is a 210mm rapid-fire heavy gun, it should not be able to penetrate it, but he is really not sure about the shells that fall down at this distance, and the 150mm armor of the battleship's gun profile...... The Chinese's artillery skills are too outrageous, this shell is powerful, and I don't have the confidence to be a guinea pig!

Colonel Miles' sharp turn. It was obviously a timely and wise move, and the Orlando-class cruiser had very good seaworthiness, saving the British on the battleship again, and the Immortal, which was almost completely wrapped in a large cloud of black smoke, turned around in a panic and prepared to return to the mouth of the Sing Chau Strait not far away, where 3 invincible battleships armed with 343mm guns would control the battlefield at sea with incomparable power.

However, the extreme nervousness still made him make a little mistake. Forgot to stop shelling...... At this moment, the main and auxiliary guns on the battleship are still desperately and uselessly counterattacking, because the horizon has been completely shrouded in black smoke. It can be said that the counterattack at this moment can be called a standard "blind fight".

The fierce fire of the five 150mm rapid-fire guns on the upper side of the Immortal immediately exposed the position of the battleship in the black smoke, and this fleeting information was immediately noticed by the Chiyou observation post that was warming up.

"Enemy ship shot...... Two fires......"

"Enemy ships are turning...... Enemy ships turn ...... They're going to run! The rangefinder sergeant at the bridge observation post immediately shouted loudly and gestured in circles to the shooting officer.

"I'll you...... Run so fast! This made Han Tianye, who had just sent out another 3 rounds of rapid salvos, also quite annoyed, and the British were too stubborn, but he slipped away directly after being hit by two shots, and he almost did not hesitate to quickly change the three rounds of rapid shooting to two rounds of extended fire with experience.

The most powerful and iconic of the Chiyou is undoubtedly the triple 210mm rapid-fire turret in the bow of the ship, almost every round of shelling, has brought earth-shattering movements, gun position shooting officer Li Zhifu is the 84th class of the Guangzhou Officer Command School Artillery Department of the top student, and has one year of destroyer gun position, one year of Taishan ship rear main gun command experience, this is the landing of Chiyou, and command the Chinese fleet's first triple main gun important position.

In fact, the triple turret of the Chiyou is still the first triple turret in the world in this era, although the barrel of the Chinese Navy is not thick in the global navy, and even a little thin, but Qin Kai's insistence on artillery skills and accuracy, the diameter of the gun barrel of the Chinese Navy, even compared with the British Navy, is much ahead.

What's more, Qin Kai attaches great importance to the hydraulic retraction rapid-fire gun, and invests a lot of research and development efforts, Nanyang Heavy Industries launched the first type of 210mm rapid-fire gun in 86 years, and then continuously improved and introduced German technology, which created the launch of today's triple rapid-fire heavy artillery.

However, for the triple rapid-fire artillery technique, although the Governor of Qin provided the idea of delaying the electric firing of the central gun barrel, there are indeed various uncertain factors in the real realization, and the combined installation of the turret was originally a process of seeking a balance between accuracy, complexity and firepower density, and as a guinea pig, this is especially the case.

In the shooting of the triple main gun commanded by Li Zhifu, the most headache is this powerful main gun, in terms of shooting accuracy, it has a larger scattering distance and unstable trajectory than the main guns of other gun positions of the battleship, even if Qin Kai provides the idea of delaying ignition, the so-called theoretical 0.05 second ignition delay, and it is not a matter of morning and night to achieve perfection in technique.

In fact, from the day of the factory to participate in the Philippine naval battle, the engineers of the Mawei Artillery Bureau with a strict attitude have reached the point of nitpicking about any deviation and technical details...... And today is undoubtedly an opportunity to test this most powerful test again!

After a few rounds of rapid firing, Li Zhifu, as the shooting commander, was most concerned about whether it hit or not, on the firing parameter dial on the side of the turret, the pointers on the five electronically controlled dials were synchronized with the dials in the firing command room on the bridge behind at any time, and at this moment, the red and yellow lights indicating the shelling tactics suddenly lit up, which was the information for extended fire projection, and the roar of the officer in the command cabin in the microphone also allowed him to confirm the news.

He immediately made a gesture to the sergeant, and at the same time pointed to the dial of the changed steering machine, and within a few seconds, the sergeant had quickly turned the steam-powered steering machine, adjusted the scale to the southeast, and then, Li Zhifu immediately pressed the ready button.

With the shaking of the battleship, in an instant, the triple gun shook violently, although the gun crew was stuffed with earplugs, but the earth-shattering loud noise still made their ears hurt, but this did not affect the almost instinctive operation of the firing team, and the three hoisting planes that went straight to the bilge had already hoisted the next shell of more than 130 kilograms under the steel plate under their feet, along with the fixed firing cannon.

With Li Zhifu's downward gesture, the new gun bolts behind the three huge gun barrels were immediately opened violently, and the copper shell of the fixed propellant was immediately pushed out upside down and fell to the ground with a clang, and almost at the same time, the other three gunners had already turned the hoisting machine, hoisted up three shells with the fixed number of the fixed propellant, and stuffed them into the open cannon barrel at once!

At this time, the sergeant of the high and low aircraft had already completed the elevation scale that had just been corrected, Li Zhifu pressed the button that was ready to launch, raised the telescope and looked in the direction of the enemy ship, at the end of the lens, on the right side of the black fog, suddenly several fierce fires suddenly appeared!

The British detachment, which was watching from a distance, had apparently observed that the Immortal, which had just emerged, was in a bad condition, had already protruded from the mouth of the bay, and unexpectedly counterattacked the Chiyou with heavy artillery at a distance of nearly 10,000 meters......

Li Zhifu didn't have the heart to care about the British bombardment, as a senior officer, he had full confidence in the fleet's gunnery, and every actual battle made him more firm in this belief...... 10,000 meters away? Even the most arrogant elite of the Chinese Navy did not dare to play like this.

Although the accuracy has been improved, it is far from the extent that a stable trajectory can be maintained from a distance of 10,000 meters, and there is a certain margin of error in the calculation accuracy of the rangefinder and commander, which restricts the distance of the longest-range artillery battle...... But in this regard, he is convinced that the Chinese have run ahead of the British.

Rumble...... Boom Boom Boom ...... The triple heavy artillery has been fired again! (To be continued......)