Chapter 128 Demon Story

Of course, as a newcomer in the training camp, it is somewhat surprising that he can become the new pipe band of the Nanyang Naval Division, after all, there are many elites in the training camp, but Chen Mo's experience and solid knowledge made him progress very quickly when he served as an adjutant on Xu Shoushan's side.

Another important reason is that the difficult living space of these Nanyang Naval Division's iron-wedged battleships and the fragility compared to the 5O1 ship made some officers who were willing to fight for it temporarily give up this opportunity and chose to continue fighting on the 5O1 ship, while Chen Mo seized this good opportunity and successfully promoted to become a new pipe band.

The cruising degree of the "Wu" ship was only 8 knots, and the maximum degree was only at the first moment, Chen Mo had already ordered the inward arc of the angle to turn, but he still maintained an 8 knots course to sail eastward, so as to open up the formation of the enemy troops in the distance.

Soon, thick black smoke from the chimneys of the other two warships quickly appeared on the sea level, obviously the other party was all coming, after the last big battle, every officer and soldier of the Nanyang Fleet was full of confidence, and for this unexpected encounter, Chen Mo was naturally full of confidence, but he did not despise the enemy at all.

The Westerners on the opposite side are familiar with the voyage, and they are definitely not under their own sailors who train hard every day, and they have more experience in naval warfare than themselves, and fifty percent of the soldiers on the Wu are now recruits, and in the last naval battle, the battle of the "Wu" ship can be described as tragic, and more than half of the casualties were killed.

Chen Mo held a telescope on the bridge to observe the French fleet outflanked from three directions in the distance, it was obvious that the outermost battleship was very good, according to the classification of the battleships of the Nanyang Naval Division, it should be an iron-wedged wood-hulled fast collision ship, with a degree of more than 14 knots, and now the outer arc that is going around is tangential to the direction of the "Wu" ship, which is obviously responsible for intercepting the task.

And the innermost battleship has the lowest degree, which is estimated to be about the same as when his ship is fully advancing, and through the high-magnification Zeiss telescope, the dark ironclad on the opposite battleship is clearly distinguishable, it is an ironclad battleship! This news was immediately sent to the 5o1 ship in the flag language.

At this time, the "Wu" ship had completed its reconnaissance mission, and Chen Mo did not have the slightest intention of showing off in front of the opponent's three warships, he waved his hand, "Turn the rudder left, turn all the way to the flank of the flagship, rendezvous with the 'Chengqing', and cooperate with the flagship to fight!" ”

Colonel Brown was also stunned when he saw that the battleship of the Qing Kingdom opposite was not turning around and running, but sailing horizontally, although his perennial military career made him look older, but he felt that his eyesight had never diminished, which was the most important ability of a naval officer!

The degree of the enemy ship in the field of vision should be less than 1o knots, and with such a degree of pursuit, the distance between the two sides is now only seven or eight kilometers, and it only takes 3o minutes for the other side to enter the maximum range of his own fleet, of course, as a good naval officer, he will not throw valuable shells at that distance.

And even if the reconnaissance ship goes around the outer arc, it will engage the enemy 1o minutes earlier than itself, so as to block the possibility of the other side escaping from the open sea with artillery fire...... However, he soon realized that the enemy ships on the opposite side had given up their attempts to sail eastward, turned their butts and began to retreat, and the thick black smoke from the chimney also indicated that the boiler was being fully pressurized!

Only now did he remember to turn around and run, Colonel Brown snorted disdainfully at the stupidity of the enemy ship on the opposite side, "Order the boiler room to blow up the air and pressurize it with all its might, chase it with all tails, let the reconnaissance ship pursue first, and be sure to intercept the other party!" ”

The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed, and at this time, Serra, the adjutant next to Colonel Brown, suddenly reminded, "Colonel, do you think there is a fleet support from the Qing Kingdom behind?" ”

Brown smiled slightly, "Serra, you are too careful, fleet combat, the most important thing is formation, only a perfect formation can swing the power of artillery to the maximum, this enemy ship is so scurrying, even if there are battleships behind it, then our formation can be pressed, and a many-to-one situation can be formed......"

At this moment, an officer shouted from outside the door, "Report! Colonel, there is an unidentified battleship in the direction of 7o degrees to the left in front of the lookout! ”

This news immediately made Colonel Brown nervous, it seems that the Qing people do have other arrangements, could it be that there is really a large fleet lurking here? However, Lieutenant General Gu Ba has passed on the latest news of the Qing Navy, and there is only one ironclad ship in the entire Qing Kingdom...... The only one, but ...... It was a nightmare for the French Navy! ,

"Find out the number and details of the enemy ships immediately!" Colonel Brown immediately had a huge shadow in his mind, the black demon that made every commander of the Far Eastern Fleet talk about it, and the latest news was that the demon had six huge cannons with a caliber of 254mm caliber and 35 times the diameter.

And what's even worse is that listening to the officers who survived the last naval battle, this sea demon actually had the height of the latest La Perlouse-class cruisers, and in the last naval battle, the three Gao La Perlouse-class cruisers were all wiped out, which is undoubtedly the best proof, that is a 15-knot battleship, and his old ironclad ship only has more than 11 knots...... Colonel Brown gave a new order: "Change the direction of the direct course, cut the outer arc close to the Dugutu Road!" ”

The first mate who received this order was a little inexplicable, his own battleship was the slowest degree, and he also cut the outer arc with the largest arc, didn't he have nothing to do and find a long way to go! However, this was not the time to discuss this route, and the ironclad of the Atarant immediately changed direction slightly, moving closer to the friendly lane.

At this time, the Dujutu Luyin and the Reconnaissance only received a warning from the flagship that "the enemy has reinforcements," and did not have any new orders, so naturally they all intercepted the "Wu."

At this time, the French fleet advanced forward in an outer arc formation from south to north, and the reconnaissance on the outermost arc of the breakthrough took advantage of its own degree to shorten the distance with the warships to more than 4,000 meters, which was for the reconnaissance, the enemy had entered the effective firing range of its own 2oomm naval guns, although it was not the best firing distance.

The distance between the Atarant and the Frigate on the innermost arc was still six kilometers away, and the second-class cruiser Dujutuin between the Atarante and the Scout also used its slow ship to close the distance to the Frigate by less than 5 kilometers, and this distance also entered the firing range of the twin 24omm heavy guns installed on its ship.

At this time, in the opposite direction of the French fleet, the 5o1 ships are all coming, and the choice of this angle is to take advantage of the difference in sight distance, so that he can take the lead in attacking one wing of the enemy ship, although Lu Han is full of confidence in his own warship, but he does not plan to make the 5o1 ship into a cannonball magnet, in his opinion, it is best not to eat a single shot, that is the best tactic.

As the brain of the whole army, Qin Kai was in the shooting command room at this moment, and the shooting officer Chen Ying was constantly observing the first French battleship that had appeared in front at this time! Several other shooting officers were repeating aloud the number of the ship's range-finding points and stern range-finding points.

"The No. 1 position reports, the distance is 8,2oo meters, and the error probability is 25o meters!"

"The third position report, the ranging is 8,500 meters, and the error probability is 33o meters!"

Chen Ying reported his number while observing, "The ranging is 8,17o meters, and the error probability is 12o meters!" ”

An officer next to him had already taken a pencil and wrote down three sets of numbers, and soon the second ranging number jù was passed from the No. 1 and No. 3 observation points, and when the fifth group of numbers jù was transmitted, the distance between the two warships had been shortened to the first round of shelling!

The Reconnaissance cruiser was the first French 1i11Y high cruiser, although in order to reduce the overall weight of the ship, it still used a steel keel and a double-layer wooden hull structure, but in an important part of the ship, it was still protected by iron armor, and the bridge, ammunition depot, and boiler room were installed with 9omm forged steel plates.

The ship's main gun was a 2oomm 25x diameter terrace breech gun, two 15omm gunners mounted at the waist and an 18omm patio gun at the stern.

However, due to the rapid development of shipbuilding technology, the same tonnage of the reconnaissance was achieved for cruisers using thin steel plates, so there were only two cruisers of the same class, and then they were completely changed to steel battleships.

When the full-advance reconnaissance was approaching a distance of 4 kilometers, after a simple ranging measurement, the commander Lieutenant Colonel Sukodo had already ordered the first round of artillery bombardment, of course, in the pursuit at 15 knots, the shot had to hit the enemy ship that was also moving at a high speed at a distance of 4 kilometers, which was not much worse than the probability of the lottery in the future.

However, although this cannon has no reference basis, it is really good to be accurate! The cannonballs whizzed across the sky and landed about 3oo meters behind the right chord of the warship, and the violently exploding flowering cannonballs set off a large wave.

And immediately after the reconnaissance began to bombard the cruiser Dujuturuin, which also narrowed the distance to within 5 kilometers, as the largest of the French cruisers, the second-class cruiser Dujutuin had a displacement of 35oo tons!

From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of World War II, four warships were named Duguay, and now this one was launched in 1878 and assembled by the French Atlantic shipyard. ,

With a tonnage of 35oo and 14 knots, the hull is a double-hull, the inner mm teak hull, and the outer 3omm iron plate, which makes the ship obtain good protection under the premise of effectively reducing the weight of the steel hull.

The so-called deck revolving platform is a round turret surrounded by iron plates, and flat armor is laid on the top, similar to a steel "can", and the cannon is arranged in the "can". The lower part of the turret is equipped with a set of rotating mechanisms, which rotate the entire turret through guò, so that the guns in the turret can "shoot from all sides", and it is obvious that he has some advanced characteristics of the turret of later generations, such as the cannon moves with the platform, the cannon itself does not move, and has a great firing angle.

In addition, in order to avoid the fact that the rear gun angle relationship could not attack the target in front of the ship, the deck rotary platform of the Dujutu Luin was renovated, and the two rotary tables were staggered at a certain angle and position, which was conducive to the realization of the trend of the times when the naval war ship faced the enemy, even if the target within the angle of 3o degrees of the ship could still use four main guns to attack at the same time.

And five kilometers, which is already lower than the effective firing range of the Dujutuin, taking into account the appearance of enemy reinforcements, the commander Colonel Dox also ordered the first round of shelling, the Dujutuin at this time cut the channel of the outer arc, and in this position, the peculiar non-central axis of the gun emplacement on the Dujutuin, waved a good effect,

The 24omm heavy artillery roared, and Chen Mo, the commander of the "Wu" ship, who was very disdainful of the reconnaissance ship's powerless bombardment just now, was also startled, he didn't expect the second battleship to be chased with such fierce firepower! Thick black smoke rose from the rotating battery in the middle of the Duju dirt road, and in the firelight, the cannonballs were already flickering, and it was only after the four heavy cannons scattered on the sea that they set off a few large waves before the sound of the cannonballs whistling came.

Chen Mo Ami tofu, this time it's a real guy, looking at the waves and the tonnage of the opposite battleship, the caliber of this gun will not be much better than the 5o1 ship, his own mighty wooden-hulled ship, under such firepower, it is almost equivalent to a sampan, but unfortunately the 15omm gun on his ship has a firing distance of only 3 kilometers, and he can only be beaten and not fight back at this time!

"Turn the rudder 3o degrees to the left, get closer to the flagship, the tail gun is always ready to shoot, and give them some color when they enter the firing range!" Chen Mo gave an order loudly, at this time, there was no room for a mistake!

At this time, Lu Han on the 5O1 ship had already observed the scale of the guns on the Dujutu Road battleship, which made him frown, the battleship on the opposite side was obviously very powerful with artillery, and this battery located in the middle of the hull could shoot 4 guns at the same time, this is obviously some kind of novelty design of the battleship!

In addition, to his surprise, the number one enemy he originally thought was the French ironclad ship is still a cannon yet, and it is at least 6 kilometers away from the warship, and the distance is also very slow, and I don't know what the reason is, is it a hidden strength? Could it be that there is another intention? But now the most important thing is to choose the fastest way to deal a fatal blow to the enemy!

"Quan, move closer to Wu and intercept the French attack on Wu!" Lu Hanxun showed the key to the change of fighters on the battlefield, obviously, under the pursuit of the two high warships, Wu wanted to drag the enemy, it was bound to suffer huge damage, and the opponent's large battle ship in the center showed good artillery attack power, obviously needs to be treated carefully.

"Target, a large cruiser in the center of the enemy ship is shelled on the meter!" Lu Han immediately gave the order for the shelling!

In the shooting command room, Chen Ying was nervously observing, it was obvious that the opponent's strong firepower also aroused the high morale of the entire group of officers, and a group of groups of numbers jù flew from each observation position to the hands of the shooting officers, and soon a correction rate of the ranging error converted according to these numbers jù was calculated, of course, the calculation of these dozens of groups of numbers jù was not completed by Qin Kai's optical brain, but by the conversion of the empirical formula for the error calculation of the 5o1 ship rangefinder by the shooting officer Tong Guò.

The last set of numbers passed to Chen Ying's hand, he glanced at it, he picked up the microphone and conveyed the order loudly, "The correction rate of today's sampling shooting distance error is 714, 7o1, 71, 25!" An officer on the side quickly filled in the set of numbers next to a large number form on the wall.

Qin Kai smiled and watched the officers quickly calculate the shooting error rate, and those numbers jù after his optical brain calculation, the results obtained are very close to the error correction rate calculated by the shooting officer group, in the four groups of numbers jù represent the correction rate of 6 km, 5 km, 4 km, and 3 km respectively, and the error of the number jù calculated by his light brain is less than 1%, which can be said to be amazing efficiency in the era when there is no computer. ,

After the new error rate is generated, it will be applied to the latest artillery shooting calculation formula, and the final shooting parameters will be obtained through the newly designed 5O1 ship artillery firing element table and the shooting element empirical formula calculated by the optical brain!

"The first position has a range of 63oo meters and an error of 12o meters, and the second position has a range of 65oo meters and an error of 2oo meters, the angle of the battleship is 137 degrees, the relative straightness is 283 knots, and the wind affects the parameters!"

Chen Ying nodded, looked at the form on the wall, and then shouted loudly, "Herald...... Get ready to shoot! Countdown 1o seconds, 14 knots of enemy ship flight, firing angle 78 degrees 37 minutes, elevation angle 37 degrees 4o minutes, number of medicine packs 4, estimated target distance 613om! ”

The moment the order was given, the entire battleship suddenly seemed very quiet, even though the huge sound of the ship breaking the waves seemed to return to the sky, and everyone in the command room stared at the clock on the wall ticking slowly......

5…… 4…… 3…… 2…… 1

As the second hand ticked, the roar of the cannon resounded through the sky, and the huge recoil even made the hull of the ship moving high pause! The fire sprayed by the ship's four heavy guns seemed to make the heavens and the earth flash, thick black smoke billowed in, and the entire bridge was completely out of sight for a while.

But! Everyone who can see this will feel it...... That's what I can write...... A majestic scene for which heaven and earth change color!