However, what Vice Admiral Philistine, commander of the British Far East Fleet, did not expect was that the shelling of the Chinese warships became more and more accurate, and from the third round, the other side completed the school firing, and the 12 210mm rapid-fire guns on the two Haitian-class armored cruisers were thus in full fire!

And only a few rounds later, the Haitian took the lead in getting hit, but Liu Buyun couldn't help but sigh lightly when he saw it, "It should have hit the armor, it's a pity, but there is no way, even if you use armor-piercing shells, you can't help the main armor of the Centurion-class battleship, it's better to use blasting bullets, at least the damage effect will be much better when hitting unprotected parts, and the armor-piercing bullets will be saved until they are completely disabled, and then lean up to get close to the shelling."

If when the first shell hits, Fermant can comfort himself by saying that "it's just a coincidence", then when the second and third shells fell on the battleship Centurion, Phelimante was finally forced to admit that the Chinese Navy's gunnery had improved significantly compared to the Battle of Jianghua Bay, which made him unable to figure it out anyway.

Although the British Royal Navy has been relatively slackly trained in recent years, it is not without hard-trained gunners, but even the most hard-trained and experienced gunners cannot hit the incredible hit rate of the Haitian-class patrol in any case.

You must know that the accurate shooting of rapid-fire guns is a world-class problem, because the firing interval is short, it is impossible to have time to carefully and repeatedly aim, and the naval guns cannot wait for the horizontal to be in place, and the losses are huge, so the hit rate of full-speed artillery is generally much lower than that of the old naval guns with a long firing interval, and the gap in actual combat is even greater. However, as early as the Battle of Jianghua Bay, the Beiyang Naval Division had already begun to emerge, and their artillery bombardment was fast and accurate, even if it was a retreat of artillery, it was impossible to perform better, which made Phillimant surprised at that time.

After the war, Philmante, after thinking hard and entrusting the British foreigners in the Beiyang Naval Division to investigate the matter to no avail, explained that the gunners of the venture capital company had a near-perfect technical level and psychological quality, so as to remind the Admiralty bosses to pay attention to artillery training, at least theoretically, human beings may indeed have such powerful artillery skills, which can barely make sense.

"But now that the distance between the two sides is more than 5,000 yards, and you can't even tell the other side's ship type without a telescope, how did the Chinese gunners aim so accurately? Could it be that they also installed binoculars on the main gun? Forced to take refuge in the command tower early, Phelimant slammed the bulkhead and exclaimed angrily, too excited to realize that he had inadvertently found the main reason for the sharp increase in the accuracy of the Chinese naval gunners

Liu Buyun saw that the Centurion was constantly being shot on the bridge, and he couldn't help but smile, praising the biggest hero of this battle and said, "This scope is really a good thing, you can see it clearly, and it will naturally hit accurately, so simple reason, why has no one thought of it?" ”

It was not until 1898 that Colonel Scott, then captain of the cruiser Scylla of the British Royal Navy, thought that he replaced the iron sight (mechanical sight) on the gun with a telescopic optical sight, so that the gunner could see the target clearly, which reduced the aiming error, and the hit rate naturally increased significantly, and the farther the distance, the greater the improvement.

Li Hui was worried about being leaked out by the foreigners, so he didn't come up with this method until the Beiyang Navy Division rebelled and he cleared all the foreigners, and then all the guns on the six Haitian-class patrols were installed with the main gun sights that had been designed with the ships a long time ago, so that the two Haitian-class gunners now have a god-like artillery hit rate.

"So far we have more than a dozen shells hit the target, and the British have not even hit us, this battle is sure to be won!" This naval battle is not only the first battle after the formation of the Ocean Fleet, but also the first naval battle he really commanded (the signal flag of Dadonggou was knocked out, and he could only command indirectly, and he couldn't do much at all, and Liu Buyun was even more depressed in the naval battle of Jianghua Bay. Now that victory is in sight, how can he calm down?

However, Liu Buyun will stand on the bridge to command, and refuse to stay in the relatively safe command tower, not entirely because of emotion, but with the distance of the battle, whether he can see the entire battlefield can be seen clearly The impact is much greater than before, maybe in the near future, the captain will stand on the bridge to command, will once again replace the cautious practice of hiding in the command tower, right?

Of course, not wanting to lose face is also a reason, in the case that the enemy's artillery hit rate is not even one percent, Liu Buyun feels that he will be laughed at if he wants to keep shrinking in the command tower, and he will definitely be laughed at after he goes back

"It's only been a little while, the Centurion has been shot 9 times, more than 5000 yards away, it's just, it's just", Philmante was almost crazy, although the armor blocked 4 of them, but 5 blasting shells that hit the unprotected parts caused a lot of damage, the incomparable arson effect of the silver explosives was printed and distributed again and again, if it weren't for the fact that Philmant knew the characteristics of the silver explosives in advance, Immediately after the Battle of Jianghua Bay, the irrational cabin settings of some warships were adjusted and the Far East Fleet's damage management drills were strengthened.

The standard displacement of the Centurion-class battleships is more than 10,000 tons, and it adopts a more novel and advanced design, and the armor thickness is much larger. She uses an armor layout with a focus on protection

Although the overall design is much more advanced, there is one point, the Centurion-class battleships are similar to the old ironclad ships like Dingzhen, and their bow and stern parts do not have any armor protection, in other words, the vital waterline part is not completely protected by armor, and the new blasting projectile using the bottom fuse will drill into the unprotected part and explode, producing several times the destructive force, if it hits the part near the waterline, the water must be unavoidable, and the breach will be too big to be blocked at all (to be continued). )