Although the U.S. Navy's warships are leading in terms of technical level, the U.S. Navy's main imaginary enemy is Britain, so the warships built by the Americans are targeted, and the main operations are also focused on ship-to-ship combat. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoEven though the situation of naval warfare in the world is becoming more and more complicated, the Americans have not yet caught up.

In the US Navy fleet, there are only four Essex-class frigates with anti-submarine capabilities. The U.S. Navy immediately dispatched all its anti-submarine frigates to the ambushed waters to carry out their missions. These anti-submarine frigates are equipped with passive sonar, which was already available in the First World War. The anti-submarine weapon is a deep-sea bomb, and the anti-submarine of the Datang Navy also has anti-submarine rockets and hedgehog cannons.

However, the actions of the Americans were also in Nelson's prediction, and Nelson separated several high-speed cruisers from his fleet and also advanced to the area where the accident occurred.

The American side soon discovered Nelson's attempt by a water reconnaissance aircraft and had to suspend the dispatch of anti-submarine frigates for anti-submarine missions. The U.S. Navy was in a bit of trouble at this time, that is, if these cruisers were attacked, then the U.S. Navy would inevitably send capital ships, and the British Royal Navy would besiege U.S. ships; If the US Navy presses in full and confronts the capital ships of the Royal Navy, then it will have to risk being ambushed by the British submarines again.

The scales of the tactical situation in naval warfare had tipped in favor of the British Royal Navy, and the British could strike at the US Navy as they wished. However, the British could not delay too much, because their goal was to gain sea supremacy, and they did not destroy the US Navy, in fact, the Americans still had the advantage in strategy.

At this time, the Americans had to take some risks, they sent two relatively fast Maine-class battleships plus cruisers to cooperate with anti-submarine frigates to carry out anti-submarine missions, while the Grand Fleet lagged behind and maintained the ability to support the detachment in front as soon as possible.

This method can be said to be relatively safe, but it is also suspected of walking a tightrope, and once there is a little problem, then the US Navy may suffer heavy losses.

Sure enough, when he discovered that the U.S. Navy had sent a formation containing battleships to approach, Nelson immediately ordered the fleet to move forward at full speed, striving to reach the target sea area in the fastest time, and launch a strike on the U.S. Navy first, taking advantage.

When the Royal Navy fleet was operating, the US Navy's water reconnaissance planes finally discovered their traces, and it turned out that this fleet had been hiding in the waters south of Newfoundland, which happened to be a blind spot for reconnaissance. The U.S. Navy, having obtained the enemy's exact location, immediately dispatched to prepare for a decisive battle with the enemy. As long as they can intercept the British in the southern waters, then to a certain extent, they can also avoid the threat of submarines, these small submarines are very slow, and after a while they have to surface, seaplanes cannot attack, but they can see the submarines on the surface, once they surface, the threat of submarines can be ignored, and become a live target for hunters.

And when it comes to driving, the British and Americans also use two different methods. In order to maintain the maximum combat power of the fleet, Nelson had to limit his travel speed to about 17 knots, and while his Bellerophon-class and cruisers could run at speeds above 21 knots, the Dreadnought and older ships could not. On the other hand, in order to exert their speed and avoid the threat of submarines, the Americans concentrated all ships of more than 21 knots in an attempt to strike at the enemy first. In this way, the U.S. Navy fleet abandoned the old ships such as the Chishach-class, assembled the two Maine-class and two Connecticut-class ships that had been dispatched before, and rushed towards the enemy with high-speed cruisers.

Nelson's fleet was a single transverse formation, with the capital ships lined up in a line, shoulder to shoulder, and the cruisers not lined up by him, but on the other side of the battle line.

When the U.S. Navy was about to engage in battle, it lined up a column, which was also a standard combat formation. The intention of the US Navy was to make a turn after entering the firing range and then quickly attack the opponent with firepower. They had to surround a few capital ships and storm as much as possible to avoid the enemy's concentrated fire, as they had fewer ships at this time. After some time, the slow ships of the US Navy will arrive, and the Americans will be able to choose a more flexible support method to fight the enemy.

However, this mode of operation is basically fateful.

After the U.S. Navy came into view, Nelson commanded his Royal Navy Grand Fleet to complete a collective right turn, and the single horizontal formation became a single vertical formation in the blink of an eye, while at the same time aiming his own broadside at the head of the U.S. Navy's single vertical battle line, forming a T-shaped that was not standard but was advantageous enough.

The level of the Royal Navy's ship handling surprised the American counterparts, the guns of both sides were basically copycats based on the Datang foreign trade artillery, and the firing range was not much different, and the capital ships all fired at a distance of 10,000 yards. This is also the first time that the navies of other countries other than the Datang Navy have had a warship fire at such a distance.

Nelson's main fleet moved, but his cruisers remained silent, and the cruisers circled to the right, not intending to meddle.

At a distance of tens of thousands of yards, neither side found anything, and the impact points of the shells were rather outrageous, but both sides fought hard and soon fired a second round.

The Americans were busy turning to avoid their own line of battle inferiority, so their shelling was somewhat worse than the British, both in terms of intensity and rate of fire, and the Americans fired the second round only after the British fired a fourth round of main gun fire. The frequency of shelling on both sides was not very fast, and it was the first time that both sides were shelling at a distance, and the gunners had to observe the point of impact and adjust the trajectory. On this day, the visibility on the sea surface was not bad, and the observation work was done well. There are already rudimentary fire control devices on the ships of the two navies, and although they are not very powerful, they are better than nothing.

The first to hit the enemy was the US Navy, which, of course, was just a matter of luck. The shell fired from the third turret of the battleship Vermont hit the British's Bellerophon-class ship No. 2 Magnificent, and this shell directly hit the area between the two main guns on the front deck of the Magnificent, causing damage that paralyzed both turrets of the Magnificent, and the front deck of the Magnificio immediately lost the ability to attack.

However, the fifth round of shelling from Nelson's USS Bellerophon, in which two shells crossed the USS Connecticut, the flagship of the US Navy, seemed to be getting closer and closer to hitting. (To be continued.) )