"Well done!"

Lin Yongsheng jumped up excitedly, whether it was the soldiers on the battleship the First Emperor or the battleship Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, they all cheered excitedly the moment they saw the destruction of the German battlecruiser Swabia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Just the second round of concentrated fire salvo killed the 30,000-ton giant ship Swabian in seconds, which is unprecedented in the history of ancient and modern naval warfare, which is enough to make the two super battleships that have just been commissioned famous.

"Soldiers, but that's not enough!"

"We're going to wipe out the German Navy in front of us!"

"Destroy the German Navy!"

The second killing of the German battle cruiser Swabian greatly boosted the morale of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and it was determined to clean up all the remaining German shrimp soldiers and crab generals in one go.

Twenty-four main guns quickly adjusted their firing ranges, and the third salvo began.

The thunderous cannon roared again, and the remaining German battleships tossed and trembled in the furious artillery rain.

One and a half tons of shells, every time they exploded, even if it was only a close-arrow shell, it frightened the sailors on the German ship.

There is no way, the power of the eighteen-inch shells is too great, the 30,000-ton Swabian battlecruiser was killed in seconds, and these small ships of several thousand tons will be sunk even if they are hit by such a huge shell, and even the slag of the explosion will be left.

In front of super battleships, any battlecruiser, cruiser, destroyer, frigate and other battleships are here to send experience.

The Swabian patrol was sunk in an instant, which really frightened the Germans of the other ships, and before the fourth round of shelling of the Chinese Imperial Army arrived, these German ships turned around and fled.

In just ten minutes, the entire Gulf of Monrovia became bleak, and the smoke of gunpowder billowed everywhere, obscuring the sky and the sun.

The cannon was still roaring, and it was the artillery from the fortress of Monrovia, where the Germans, although also frightened by the sinking of the Swabian battlecruiser, continued to shell under the orders of Schriefen.

Shi Lifen, who had been nervous at first, was now slowly calming down, and he quickly noticed that the fortress artillery was not useless against the two super battleships of the Chinese Empire. When the largest caliber twelve-inch fortress artillery shells were fired at large elevation angles, the ballistic curves fell on the horizontal deck of the super-battleships of the Chinese Empire, which inflicted a considerable amount of heavy damage.

This is true, and Schriefen's judgment is not wrong.

The two super battleships of the Chinese Empire have 500 mm of vertical armor at the thickest amidships, and no caliber gun in the world can penetrate such thick armor protection.

However, the horizontal armor of the two super battleships is not as thick as 500 mm, after all, if even the horizontal armor is required to reach a thickness of 500 mm, then the armor weight needs to be at least 40,000 tons, and the full load displacement of the Empire-class battleship is only 68,000 tons, so it is impossible to lay a thickness of 500 mm for the horizontal armor.

Of course, the Imperial Chinese military has long understood that the mode of naval combat is no longer limited to direct artillery fire, and the main guns carried on the capital ships of the Chinese Empire can reach a maximum elevation angle of 45 degrees, such as the two Empire-class battleships in front of them, the maximum elevation angle is 45 degrees, the minimum elevation angle is minus two degrees, when the maximum elevation angle is fired, the range is as high as 46 kilometers, and its trajectory is the maximum parabola, with the purpose of penetrating the horizontal armor of the enemy ship for damage.

During the World War, the Japanese Combined Fleet and the American Interoceanic Fleet suffered a big loss when they were engaged with the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the horizontal armor of their battleships was so thin that a random 200-millimeter armor-piercing blast could penetrate the battleship and cause heavy damage.

That is the way of naval warfare, it is not easy for the main gun of the battleship to achieve a large elevation angle, and it requires a tall hull main gun turret design, in this regard, the turret design of the navies of other countries is not mature, so the elevation angle of the main gun shooting is generally not more than 30 degrees, and it is not easy to shoot large elevation shells during naval battles, and it is difficult to find the weakness of horizontal armor protection.

Therefore, Tirpitz previously said that the fortress guns could not sink the two Chinese Empire super battleships, which was based on the theory of vertical armor, and he ignored the horizontal armor aspect.

The two super battleships of the Chinese Empire, the thickness of their horizontal armor protection is only 200 mm, although more than 188 mm of fortress guns, theoretically have a chance to penetrate 200 mm of armor, but that is the European standard, if you change to the Chinese Imperial standard, because the Chinese Imperial warships are using the world's most powerful Chinese special steel, so if you want to penetrate the 200 mm Chinese special steel, the German Krupp fortress gun must reach at least 280 mm caliber.

In the actual engagement, Schliefen found that the 305 mm fortress guns on the fortress could inflict great damage on the super battleships of the Chinese Empire when fired at the maximum elevation angle, instead of the need for at least 400 mm caliber or more giant guns, as Tirpitz had previously said.

With this discovery, Schriefen regained confidence that as long as he could survive the battle in front of him, he could quickly replace the fortress with a large number of 305 mm guns.

Of course, Shi Lifen was worried about the current war, after all, there were only two Chinese Imperial warships, although they were the two most powerful super battleships in the world, but at most they were just showing their muscles, and they were only limited to a corner of the bay, and it was impossible to expand the range of attack.

The main guns of battleships have a lifespan, and the barrel life of the two super battleships of the Chinese Empire is only 300 rounds. It takes at least half a month to replace the barrel of this super giant cannon, and if you count the round-trip distance, it is impossible to do it in four or five months.

In this way, it is impossible for the two super battleships of the Chinese Empire to waste ammunition at this time, and they will be concentrated on the use at the beginning of the most intense battles.

On the sea, on the bridge of the battleship Emperor Shihuang, Lin Yongsheng was full of pride, and he was happy to complete the task successfully, and he was excited to kill a super dreadnought battlecruiser of the German Navy in one shot, but most importantly, in front of all the German troops, it was a very refreshing thing to slap the face of the German Reich Defense Minister Schriefen.

"Report, twenty rounds of salvo fire, whether to continue the attack, please instruct!"

Lin Yongsheng was excited, and he couldn't help but be disappointed after hearing this report.

"It's been twenty rounds? Then it's over! Inform the Emperor Wu of Han, complete the mission, and retreat! ”

Although he was still unsatisfied, Lin Yongsheng was also aware of the power of the German fortress artillery, especially those more than 300 mm fortress guns, and the projectiles fired condescendingly had a curved trajectory, which was extremely destructive to the horizontal armor protection of the Reich-class battleships.

In the battle just now, the battleship Shihuang the Great had several decks hit and were damaged, while the battleship Wudi of Han was also slightly wounded, some superstructures were attacked, and five Chinese Imperial Navy soldiers were wounded.

The two super battleships in Lin Yongsheng's hands, but the baby bump of the Chinese Imperial Navy, this time they came out to make a circle, show their muscles, and pretend to be B, if they are accidentally hit hard, it will not be a slap in the face, but a shame.

"Fire the cannon with all your might, we must not let these two damn Chinese Empire warships escape!"

Finding that the two Chinese Imperial battleships turned around and sailed away from the bay, Shi Lifen's confidence was instantly sufficient, and he yelled, as if to let the whole world know that these two super battleships of the Chinese Empire were beaten away by him.

"Report to Your Excellency General, two battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy have fled! It's already beyond the range of our artillery! ”

"Count them as fast as they run, or you'll sink them!"

Before Shi Lifen could speak, Governor Perrault next to him jumped out and interjected, as if the credit for all this was his.

Shi Lifen looked at Perrault with a pained expression.

At this moment, Shi Richen doesn't know what to do with this corrupt Perrault, on the one hand, Shi Richen wants to kill Perrault, on the other hand, Schrichen wants to report this battle as a victory, so since he has won, obviously Perrault's credit cannot be ignored, after all, Shi Richen has just arrived, and this fortress project is repaired by Perro, which cannot be denied.

I really want to kick the girl to death!

Shi Li scolded distractedly, and said angrily: "Don't go and see General Tirpitz yet, if he dies, I will kill you!" ”

"I wish he was alive!"

Perrault said with a bitter face, there was no way to crush people to death at the official level, and if he wanted to save his life, he had to hurry up to search and rescue Tirpitz.

The fleeing German Navy's 19th Cruiser saw the departure of the two Imperial Chinese Super Battleships and hurriedly turned around and joined the search for Tirpitz and other surviving German sailors.

Schliefen waited for a while, then he lost his patience, he knew very well that the Germans were the first to open fire, so the Chinese Empire already had an excuse to start a war, whether it was a full-scale war with the German Empire, and began to wage war against Monrovia alone, Schliefen could not make up his mind, and hurriedly returned to the Governor's Palace, sent a notice to Berlin, and asked for the order of Kaiser Wilhelm III.

At the Imperial Palace in Berlin, Wilhelm Jr., who had just ascended the throne as Emperor of the German Empire, was not very familiar with everything, because he was actually still in high school.

As soon as Schliefen left Berlin, the central power of the entire German Empire fell into the hands of the Prince of Baden, and all military and political orders from the Kaiser were approved by the Prince of Baden before they could be executed.

However, Prince Baden was still good to Hitler, after all, he was still in use, and he couldn't be too faceless.

So Hitler surfaced and assumed the posts of head of the Gestapo and secretary general of the Chancellery.

Although Hitler was Hitler, he did not change the name Hitler back to it, but called Hitler from then on, and he felt that the name Hitler was more charming and domineering.

"Sure enough, the fight started!"

Prince Baden and Hitler held a single conference room and hooked up together.

"What are you going to do?"

"According to the strategy you formulated before, I will take the diplomatic war channel on my side, and theorize with the Chinese Empire, your side must hold the territory of German Southwest Africa, and it can be delayed for as long as it wants, but you must not let Shi Lifen come back alive, understand?"

Schriefen was Prince Baden's biggest opponent and obstacle, and Hitler knew it well and did not expose it.

In Hitler's view, after the Prince of Baden got rid of Schrefen, he would force the palace of Kaiser Wilhelm III, and then the Prince of Baden would become emperor. This is exactly what Hitler was happy to see, otherwise if Hitler were to force Wilhelm III, the resistance would be unprecedented, and the cost would be enormous. On the contrary, Prince Baden forced the palace and killed Wilhelm III, so Hitler will be the real beneficiary when he comes to another praying mantis to catch cicadas and yellow finches.

Of course, the premise is that Prince Baden will not act against Hitler in the first place after taking out Schriedt.

In this regard, Hitler could not guess clearly, and could only show that he had greater use value in front of Prince Baden, so that Prince Baden could not do anything to Hitler for the time being.

Hitler knew that he was also playing with fire with a gasoline can, but he liked this kind of life-threatening challenge, which was more exciting and exciting.

"Don't worry, Prime Minister, you will receive good news early tomorrow morning!"

Prince Baden asked rhetorically: "Why now?" The Chinese Empire is afraid that it will take immediate military action! ”

Hitler smiled and said: "First of all, my lord, do you know that every time there is a big war in the Chinese Empire, it must first carry out a national war mobilization, and the Chinese Imperial Military needs to convince the Congress before it can start a war." And the people of the Chinese Empire have a problem, that is, the division is famous, there is no excuse for war, they will not do it easily. Therefore, tonight the Chinese Empire will hold an emergency meeting, and tomorrow morning it will speak ill of our German Empire to the whole world through diplomatic channels to win the approval of all countries in the world, and then it will give us a 24-hour ultimatum to force us to make an apology and compensation, and then put forward all kinds of harsh demands, which are bound to be unacceptable to us, so they will have an excuse to use force. ”

Prince Baden was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said with a smile: "It's really like this when you say that!" It seems that you have studied the Chinese Empire a lot, and you know them very well! ”

Hitler also wanted to show his talents in front of Prince Baden, and only in this way could he make the other party feel that he was useful.

"The Chinese Empire is the only superpower in the world, and if we want the German Empire to survive, we must have a deep understanding of the habits and interests of the people of the Chinese Empire."

Prince Baden was impressed by Hitler, nodded and said, "In the future, tell me a lot about your experience in this area!" ”

Hitler hurriedly nodded: "Yes, willing to serve you!" ”

Prince Baden saw Hitler's sincerity and nodded with satisfaction.

"You go on, how to give me good news tomorrow!"

Hitler smiled mysteriously and said, "I will take action tonight, we will strike first, and let the Chinese Empire cry tomorrow!" ”

"Preemptive? You are crazy? Do you think that the Chinese Empire has no excuse to fight us? Prince Baden was in a hurry.

Hitler said: "Prime Minister, do you think the Chinese Empire will accept our peace negotiations?" No, don't be too naïve. The Chinese Empire is determined to test our reaction, and the more groveling we become, the more the Chinese Empire will gain an inch, so war is inevitable, and we simply strike first in order to take advantage. Only by hurting the Chinese Empire can they be deterred. ”

Prince Baden nodded and said, "What you said also makes sense!" So how are you going to preemptively strike? ”

Hitler suddenly sneered: "Feast in the air!" Tonight I prepared a thousand tons of aviation smashing eggs for the Roberts port of the Chinese Empire! ”