Chapter 240 Fleet Artillery Shelling Specifications

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This is coming from the west of the Taiwan Strait is the second squadron of the French Far East Fleet, after completing the attack on the port of Guangzhou, ready to rush back to Keelung Port to participate in the next military operation, and these two battleships are definitely the main lineup in the French fleet, the new Palop-class armored cruisers. ⑤???? Read the latest chapters of the book

The Palop armored cruiser, which was designed in response to the loss of tonnage of the French Far East Fleet, was completed by the French Snyder shipyard in 1881, and the construction of four ships was completed, and the outfitting and sea navigation tests were completed by the end of 82, Jiāo paid the Far East Fleet.

Among the requirements for the design of the Palop armored cruiser, the first was to achieve a speed of more than 16 knots, and at the same time required the ability of artillery to fire in all directions, and the armor requirements were much higher than those of the La Perlouse class cruisers in service before, and the waterline armor was required to be more than 150mm, and the best high-carbon steel in France was used.

In terms of artillery, it is undoubtedly the biggest attraction of this series of cruisers, with a heavy gun of 4mén 240mm and 30 times the diameter, which adopts the design of the deck rotary table used on the British Inflection.

Moreover, in order to cope with the battle concept of the bow facing the enemy in this era, the guns installed on the center line were obviously inconvenient to fire forward, so on the Palop armored cruiser, the two twin 240mm heavy guns in the center of the hull were staggered from each other and placed on both sides, which was the famous diagonal battery design in later generations.

In addition, there are 4mén 120mm breech speed guns, 8mén Habekis 47mm machine guns, and 10mén Habekis 11mm machine guns, and the overall firepower can be described as very strong.

The speed of the Palop armored cruiser is also the first in the French Far East Fleet, and the maximum speed can reach 16.7 knots, which is definitely a very proud speed for a cruiser with 150mm armor in key parts, so this sortie to attack Guangzhou is a completely easy trip for the commander of the "Palop" La Roy.

However, it was clear that the easy trip was over, and they were almost at the entrance of Keelung Harbor, and the lookout post had directly rammed the huge Qing fleet after observing a British ironclad ship without danger, which was something that Colonel La Roy did not expect at all, and he immediately gave the order to attack the sister ship "Malody", which was closely following him.

In the face of a powerful battleship, any attempt by the enemy to pursue would be met with a shameful failure, the Palop armored cruiser increased its speed and went to the left flank, he thought very clearly, thinking about the tail detour of the Qing fleet, if the opposing battleship tried to intercept him, it would be necessary to make a U-turn as a whole, and the left flank was a vast sea, which could provide enough room for maneuver to use the shè advantage of the ship's heavy guns to crush the opponent. The book is updated in real time DU(5) 8.сΟm

For a moment, smoke billowed from the chimney on the Palop armored ship, obviously pressurizing with all its might, and the speed of the battleship quickly increased to the limit, and it quickly rushed to the periphery of the two battleships Chaoyong and Yangwei of the South and North Ocean Combined Fleet.

Lu Han immediately counterattacked, the second fleet's ironclad ship "Huashan" turned its bow to the left and circled the left flank of the super brave ship to assist the two warships to launch an attack, and the first fleet also responded, the fastest 701 ship intercepted the left flank and prepared to attack in the direction of the enemy ship's advance, while the slower Hengshan turned right to assist the Third Fleet in attacking.

The flagship No. 501 ironclad ship did not take the initiative to attack at this time, but it also turned around and pointed directly at the French battleship, after all, it did not enter the decisive stage, and the other party only had two battleships, so it should be used as a warm-up At this time, in front of the French, there were already 2 ironclad ships and two armored cruisers attacking.

The most leisurely is naturally the minister of Nanyang, he paced back and forth in the bridge, not picking up the telescope to observe the French battleships in the distance, these two battleships seem to be very good from a distance, Qin Kai pursed his lips, thinking in his heart, during the battle, Qin Kai never took the initiative to put forward any command opinions, that shouldn't be done by him, the governor, he was just a serious learner.

"My lord, the range is 7,200 meters, the target ship is very fast, and the preliminary estimate of the enemy's ship speed is more than 16 knots" In the command room, Chen Ying let out a strange cry, and shouted out of his head.

This obviously attracted Lu Han's attention, the speed of more than 16 knots, this is a high-speed warship, the speed of the two ironclad ships "Huashan" and "Hengshan" did not exceed 13 knots, and they were able to intercept it in the first time, and it was impossible to intercept the other party, so he immediately ordered, "Prepare to attack",

On the British ironclad ship in the distance, Rear Admiral Orwell had already climbed to the roof of the cabin below the lookout post, holding a high-powered telescope to observe the battle in the distance, and the distance between the two warships was greatly shortened, and the artillery battle broke out......

The cruisers "Palop" and "Malodi" opened fire almost at the same moment, and the target was the Huashan ironclad ship, which was 5 kilometers away and had just turned around to intercept, and in this high-speed movement, it was almost impossible to attack the target that had just entered the effective shè range

However, the shells did hit so far, Rear Admiral Orwell didn't notice this detail, Lu Han and Chen Ying obviously noticed the change in this process, in the past naval battles, the biggest weapon of the Nanyang Naval Division was heavy artillery, and they all recorded the shè of the French artillery, but it was obviously not as amazing as these two battleships. ⑤???? Read the latest chapters of the book

A thought flashed through the French, and the artillery of the French was also improved...... The 254mm, 35 times diameter heavy artillery of the Nanyang Naval Division was undoubtedly an amazing weapon of mass destruction in this era, and the maximum range could reach an astonishing 9 kilometers.

Now the opponent dares to attack at a distance of 5 kilometers, which is far more than the distance at which the French fired artillery in the previous battles, and in the first few naval battles, 5 kilometers is exactly the distance of the Nanyang naval division's attack, and it is also within the best distance, at this distance, 254mm heavy artillery can almost dòng penetrate any armor below 150mm.

At this time, the heavy artillery on the two ironclad ships of "Huashan" and "Hengshan" launched a counterattack, and they had completed the outflanking of the front, but the heavy guns on the two modified ironclad ships only had a double gun, relatively speaking, the firepower was a little worse However, the unique GX11 rangefinder of the Nanyang Naval Division provided a higher degree of shè hitting, and the more advanced shè strike concept could completely dominate the victory scale.

In the first round of artillery bombardment, the main guns on Huashan and Hengshan did not fire together, but used a single barrel to send a shell, even two rounds of shell, so that the calculation of the artillery shell hit Zhuyuan could be completed as much as possible, which was compared with the previous 501 ship came up to the 6-gun shell method, the efficiency of the shell attack and the degree of jīng were greatly improved.

In fact, this is only a small modification of the shè attack plan, and it is also the experience that the Nanyang Navy Division has learned in the weekday exercises, but when this small proposal was sent to Lu Han's table, it really made the sailor general excited for a day, this is definitely a genius construction yì, and the artillery shè strike group that delivered this Jian yì was awarded the collective second-class merit afterwards

In the process of rehearsing this new striking standard, each artillery striking group successively collected a lot of good construction, and finally formed the current standard of the Nanyang Naval Division, which completes the calculation time of the elements and errors of the 501 ship, taking the 501 ship as an example, reducing the time by two-thirds, you know, the faster the calculation of the striking elements in a naval battle, the greater the probability of victory.

In this round against shè, neither side had any results, in fact, the first round hit, it was a completely small probability event.

However, the counterattack of the other side completely broke the original wishful thinking of the commander of the "Palop", Colonel La Roy, 5 kilometers is already the maximum effective range of the heavy guns on their ship, this distance can carry out artillery battles, but the probability of hitting is extremely low, the French battleships still use an extremely outdated reference shè method, which is difficult to effectively launch artillery bombardment for long-distance targets due to the limitation of eyesight.

At this time, Laroy suddenly found that the other side had started the second round of artillery bombardment earlier than his own, although his own men were only 5 seconds slower, but this point has fully explained that the opponent's artillery has a very good suzhì, and now for LaRoy, because he found that the previous battle plan was completely empty, he immediately gave up the tactics of attacking the enemy.

"Maintain the distance between the two sides, go full speed, and bypass the enemy's fleet" Colonel Laroy immediately issued a new order, this Chinese fleet appeared near the island of Taiwan, there would only be one purpose, that is, to attack the port of Keelung, and it was necessary to rush back to remind the fleet to prepare for a counterattack

At such a distance, the two captains of the French fleet immediately discovered the weakness of their own shelling, and in the next four rounds of shelling, although the cruisers "Palop" and "Malody" had twice as many heavy guns as the two ironclad ships of the other side, in five rounds of shelling, none of the 40 shells hit, or even missed.

On the contrary, in the shelling of the two ironclad ships of the Qing Kingdom, a total of 20 shells were fired, but at least three of them were within 150 meters, which was already a very dangerous range, and it was obvious that it was definitely not a good idea to fight more with less, and La Roy immediately ordered to go straight at full speed and get rid of the opponent's fleet with all his might. ,

However, at this time, I suddenly woke up, it seemed to be a little late, the 701 ship that bypassed the right flank, and the 501 ship that outflanked the left flank had also been flanked one after the other, and the two ironclad ships of "Huashan" and "Hengshan" in the middle were also in hot pursuit, although because of the slow speed, the distance had been stretched at this time, but their heavy artillery was still able to go up to the French, which once again made Colonel La Roy astonished.

On the 501 ship, Chen Ying was quickly giving an order, but it was obviously not an order from Qi Shi, referring to the shè strike parameters calculated by the shè strike command room, each gun position was independently measured and calculated, and then fine-tuned the shè strike Zhuyuan, the left gun barrel of the A, B, and C gun emplacements carried out the first round of calibrated shè shots, and the three lànghuā flew up at a position of several hundred meters of the enemy ship

A few seconds later, the new shè parameters were issued, and after the ranging fine-tuning of the individual gun emplacements was also carried out, a second round of shelling was carried out, and the three shells fell perfectly on the left and right of the French flagship...... It was perfect, and after completing the observation, the shè firing parameters of gun emplacement B were immediately adopted by Chen Ying, and after the error calculation, it was immediately sent down to the shè strike officer of each gun emplacement.

The 701 ship, which was chasing the French fleet at a fast pace, took advantage of the advantage of ship speed to circumnavigate the right side of the French formation and launched an artillery bombardment of the French battleship.

Now I can only fight back with all my strength, at this time, only the flagship 601 and the heavy cruiser 701 can keep up with the French fast cruisers, and the speed of the two ironclad ships of Hengshan and Huashan is too slow, and they have been left behind at this time, and the speed of the two battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division's Chaoyong and Yangwei can barely keep up.

However, the retreating 10-inch (254mm) cannon on their ship was only 26 times the diameter, and the maximum effective range was only 5 kilometers, so it was no longer possible to exert power at this time, but Qin Kai still ordered them to pursue at full speed and continue to put pressure on the French.

On the British ironclad ship "Jasmine Princess", Rear Admiral Orwell had already ordered to follow at full speed, and the gunboats on both sides were carrying out long-distance artillery bombardment in the distance, but up to now, both wings of the French detachment were firmly targeted by the Qing fleet, and it had already shown a precarious situation.

Sure enough, after five rounds of each other's five rounds of white rolls, the sixth round from the 501 ship's platoon guns successfully enveloped the cruiser "Palop", one of the shells obviously hit the aft deck, and the thin silhouette of the two machine guns in the stern could not resist the energy of the heavy cannon, and the machine guns and the soldiers made by the cào were almost completely wiped out in this explosion, and at the same time immediately burst into flames.

In the next two rounds of Qi shè, the 701 ship also hit the center of the left wing hull of the "Palop" armored cruiser, and more than 200 kilograms of open huā shells directly smashed through the thin armor of the side chord, and an explosion occurred in the hull sticking to the boiler room.

The French battleship finally ushered in the hit after nearly half an hour, and a heavy gun smashed on the bridge of the 501 ship, but in the face of the 200mm thick armor, the French shells were obviously not powerful enough, leaving a deep black mark on the armor surface, which made the happy French disappointed again.

The two sides are chasing after me, and they are heading north at full speed, and the French obviously have no intention of fighting, but Qin Kai is also powerless to chase, and there are only 701 ships suitable for pursuit in the entire fleet, and the speed of the 501 ships is also unsatisfactory, and the distance between the two sides is slowly widening