Under the fierce and accurate shelling of two Chinese light cruisers, the American light cruiser was quickly scarred, and soon after, a 150mm armor-piercing shell fired by the Shen Tianzi light cruiser penetrated the weak horizontal armor and then went to the enemy ship's main ammunition depot in one go, and then there was no more......

With a loud bang that shocked hundreds of miles, this behemoth with a standard displacement of more than 5,000 tons was torn to pieces almost instantly, and more than 400 people from the captain and below were all killed, and none of them were spared. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The US commander could not help but be afraid for a while in shock, but fortunately he did not let the flagship rush to the front, otherwise his own life would not be guaranteed, and this US detachment would also fall into a situation of being leaderless. Although the situation is still very serious, at least it is not likely to collapse quickly, and there is even hope of victory for our side.

The reason why the US Navy lieutenant commander thinks this way is because the two Chinese light cruisers have been hit by a few 6-inch shells, although it is much less than his own side, but the gap is not so big that it is completely impossible to compete with it, and the overwhelming superiority in the naval battles during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Second Sino-Japanese War cannot be compared at all, and the lieutenant commander believes that even if his detachment is not able to defeat it directly, it can at least slow down its speed by injuring it, and ensure that the reinforcements sent by the main force of the fleet can catch up with them.

If you only compare the number of hits of the main artillery, the Chinese side is less than twice as many as the enemy, and this advantage is a world away from the war between the First and Second Sino-Japanese Wars. Could it be that the Chinese Navy has been in storage for swords and guns in the past ten years, and it is no longer that elite division with excellent quality?

Of course, this is not the case, in fact, with the advancement of ranging and fire control technology, the advantage brought by seizing the T-shaped crosshead in naval warfare is far less than it was ten years ago, and it is precisely because of this that even if the American detachment falls into a passive situation, their commander has not ordered it to be changed to a horizontal line.

One of the main reasons is that the value of the side side guns has dropped significantly, due to the promotion of the concept of comprehensive protection design, the deck washing tactics have just appeared and have been eliminated, and now the insufficient power of the side side guns can basically only be used to deal with their own weak one, or even two grades of small ships, so in this naval battle between the same class of warships, even if the T-shaped crosshead is seized, the actual meaning is only to make the enemy's rear main gun can not be fired. After all, with the poor flexibility of warships, it is practically impossible to always guarantee an absolute vertical angle, so the warships behind the bow against the enemy side can still fire at least the front main guns, and with the significant increase in the engagement distance, the distance between the warships is no longer worth mentioning, at least in a short column of only four ships in total, the gunfire hit rate of the warships behind is not much lower than that in the front.

This means that even if the enemy robs the T-shaped crosshead, each American light cruiser can still have 4 main guns to shoot at the enemy, and before the previous warship was heavily damaged, the US military had a total of 4x4 = 16 6-inch guns that could attack the enemy ship, which was the same as the two Chinese light cruisers. In this case, the Chinese Navy is still able to hit 2.8 times the opponent's main guns, which is enough to show how well-trained they are, although this also has the credit of fire control, better naval guns and the accuracy advantages brought by lateral shelling, and the advanced layout of the main guns on the whole central axis is advanced, but it suffers a lot when it comes to forward shelling, because the two main turrets will interfere with each other......

However, the Americans knew before the war that the Chinese Navy's gunnery was superior to their own, and they also knew that the Chinese warships were extremely fast (of course, the gap was more than 5 knots or they did not expect), and the possibility of grabbing the T-shaped crosshead was not small, but they still chose to take the initiative to meet the battle, which shows that the US Navy top brass believes that even with so many unfavorable conditions, they still have great hope of defeating the Chinese Navy. But what the Americans did not expect in any case was that the (soft) cap-piercing shells that they regarded as secret weapons had dropped their chains in actual combat, and they could not help the armor of Chinese warships at all, not to mention the waterline armor that reached 150mm at the thickest point, and even the horizontal armor, which was only 50mm thick, also rejected all the US shells that fell on it without exception......

It turns out that although soft cap armor-piercing shells also have the ability to restrain case-hardened armor, they are different from hard cap armor-piercing shells, they can only produce such special effects under the premise that the speed exceeds a certain value, and this value fluctuates to a certain extent depending on the specific situation, but the slowest is also 533 m/s, the muzzle velocity of the American 6-inch naval gun is not particularly fast, and the storage velocity effect of shells of this caliber is poor, and the distance of more than 2,000 meters is already below this limit. And in this naval battle, the warships of both sides never got so close, so the US Navy was tragic......

Since the distance between the two sides is too far, it is good to be able to see that the hit is not hit, unless you are lucky enough to hit the vital part to cause a secondary killing effect, it is difficult to judge whether the shell has penetrated the armor of the enemy ship. But as the naval battle continued, the US commander finally sensed the problem, the naval battle lasted for so long, and the enemy ships were hit by many 6-inch armor-piercing shells, how could they still fight so fiercely and drive so fast?

Although even so, the Americans did not expect that the soft quilt cap armor-piercing shell had huge flaws, but at least they finally understood that the Chinese's shells could kill them, and their own shells were not in line with Chinese warships, how could this battle be fought?

But now I realize that it is too late, because the current US military can't run away......

When this naval battle first began, Lin Daxin wanted to ensure the minimum target of sinking an enemy ship first, so the two Chinese light cruisers chose to concentrate fire on an enemy ship, but there was also a big flaw in doing so, that is, there was no fire suppression for one more enemy ship. An unattacked warship can be fired at full power, it is quite terrifying, in the avant-garde battle of Jutland in history, the British suffered a big loss because they missed a single battle, Lin Daxin is not unaware of this problem, but he is very confident in the defense of his own warship, at that time the distance was far away, he decided that the other party could not have a high hit rate, and the result was as he expected.

But after completing the minimum goal, Lin Daxin will not do this again, even if the enemy ship can't penetrate his own armor, and the superstructure is destroyed, he can't maintain combat effectiveness, after all, fire control is very fragile, and Lin Daxin is now standing on the unprotected bridge to command, after the combat distance is opened, he can't command at all when he shrinks in the command tower!

These two points are the biggest difference between today's naval combat mode and ten years ago, even if the enemy is unable to penetrate the main armor and adopts a comprehensive protection design, it is impossible to fight ten like the Haitian in the past, because it has become easier than ever to cripple a warship and make it incapacitated...... (To be continued.) )