"What Kawahara-kun said is very true, I am worried about the war situation, and it is inevitable that I will not think about it. Then I will order the flag soldiers to send orders to the other three ships, and the Akitsusu will temporarily replace the flagship, and let Uemura Hikonojo temporarily command for me", Tsuboi Kozo, who was deeply satisfied with Kawahara Yoichi's statement, said the list of orders that had been prepared a long time ago, and finally relieved his heart, and secretly sighed that his catastrophe had finally passed. However, thinking that the previous obviously superior battle situation would be reversed in an instant, Tsuboi Kozo was still a little difficult to let go, and kept muttering in his heart why the enemy's luck would be so good, but he didn't expect that in fact, the Beiyang Naval Division could only be said to be normal at best so far, and the reason why those three shells would hit continuously was actually caused by Tsuboi Kozo's command

Historically, in the Battle of Dadonggou and later in the Battle of Tsushima between Japan and Russia, the Japanese Combined Fleet made an unconventional tactical maneuver, the so-called "Great Turn in front of the enemy", which simply means rushing to a place that is already quite close to the enemy fleet before starting to turn around and make a detour.

The advantage of this tactical maneuver is that it takes a short time and does not allow the enemy to carry out targeted countermeasures, and the success of this tactic has a lot to do with the fact that the two great victories of the Japanese side in the two naval battles in history, especially the almost one-sided results of the Russo-Japanese naval battle of Tsushima.

However, if a tactic is considered unconventional, it means that it has fatal flaws and cannot be commonly used, so what are the flaws in the tactics of turning in front of the enemy?

Nothing else, except that the probability of your own warships, especially those in front of the column, being hit by enemy artillery fire during the turn will increase significantly.

First of all, the warship in the process of turning is easier to aim than under normal circumstances, and at the same time, it is also beneficial for the enemy warship to concentrate fire on the front of the column (usually the flagship), so in the process of turning, this unfortunate warship must withstand several times more powerful than normal circumstances, or even more than ten times more fierce artillery fire, you can understand how dangerous this is

Historically, in the Battle of Tsushima between Japan and Russia, when the Japanese Combined Fleet carried out the "Great Turn in front of the enemy", the flagship Mikasa suffered more than 30 shells of more than 100mm caliber in a short period of time, if it were not for the armor-piercing blasting shells at that time, they were powerless against the surface hardened armor, and the charge of Maozi's shells was so small that people could not complain about it (on average only a fraction of the Japanese shells), so that it could neither penetrate the armor of the Japanese ships, nor effectively damage the superstructure of the Japanese ships and kill the Japanese personnel, and it was not even much better than solid bullets. It is not impossible that the Mikasa was severely damaged or even sunk on the spot.

And once the flagship is lost just after the battle, the morale of the Japanese side will inevitably suffer a heavy setback, and the outcome of this naval battle will be very difficult to say

In the historical Battle of Dadonggou, the first guerrilla unit also had a false alarm when implementing this tactic, and in the process of turning in front of the enemy, the two old ships of Chaoyong Yangwei hit the Japanese ship many times in a row within 6 minutes, if it were not for the fact that the shells used at that time were too watery, either solid shells, or the charge was too small or black powder, the Japanese side would have paid more than just a small number of casualties. And now all the ships in the Beiyang have been replaced with amazing silver explosive blasting bombs, one shot is worth the power of dozens of rounds in history, after all, the Yoshino is just a protective cruiser with a displacement of only more than 4,000 tons, far less resistant to beating than the Mikasa as a battleship, how can it withstand it?

In the final analysis, this is to blame for the poor intelligence work of the Japanese, and the intelligence network of the devils in China during the First Sino-Japanese War was not very good (almost all of the leaks were caused by the Manchu Qing side themselves, so the Japanese intelligence officers also made a lot of mistakes and almost killed the navy. They were also hit hard by the appearance of Li Hui, a traverser, so they could only learn some very rough information, knowing that the strength of the Beiyang Naval Division had increased, but to what extent it had been enhanced, the Japanese side did not count at all.

Originally, the Japanese navy was still more cautious, but the complete victory in the Battle of Toshima gave birth to the heart of underestimating the enemy, and now in this naval battle, the poor performance of the Beiyang Naval Division in the opening stage due to bad luck and never being able to hit made the commander of the first tour, Tsuboi Hangzo, turn a blind eye to the three weak ships on the right flank of the Beiyang Naval Division, and boldly implement this risky tactic that is close to a double-edged sword, and then the Yoshino is tragic

Although it is said that the rise of Japan has always been accompanied by luck that can be called against the sky, but no matter how good the luck is, there is a limit, the accuracy of the shelling of the Chaoyang and Pingyuan is already high, and the training has been strengthened after getting a large amount of ammunition in this time and space, and the level has been greatly improved, in the face of the rare target ship of the Yoshino in turning, even if the gunners of the three ships are only playing normally, they have several percent of the certainty of hitting the target, and the probability is so high that the impact of luck is minimal.

As a result, the Beiyang Naval Division, which had missed the target with not a single shell before, suddenly launched a gorgeous "triple attack", which made Li Hui, who was hiding in the dark room "watching the live text broadcast", applaud repeatedly

It is not only the ammunition used by the Beiyang Naval Division that is different from history, but also the increase in the rate of fire of the artillery cannot be ignored, and after replacing the Vavisel gun carriage and adopting a smokeless launch and medicine pack, the rate of fire of the 260mm main gun of the Pingyuan has almost doubled.

Although the main guns of the Chaoyang No. 2 ship did not change the gun mount, their rate of fire was already fast, and after replacing the smokeless ******, the maximum rate of fire in actual combat was increased from one round in two and a half minutes to one round in one and a half minutes, which was faster than the main gun of the Pingyuan.

However, the two 150mm Krupp secondary guns on the Pingyuan, which also had a replacement of the Vavisel gun mount, were the fastest to fire, and each gun could fire two or three shells per minute after using smokeless firing and medicine packs. Although they were unlucky at the beginning of the battle, they were never able to make a peace, but after the first guerrillas began to turn, they broke out like the main guns!

In this short period of time, three shells hit the Yoshino, but the 150mm shells had a small charge, and the first two shells hit the armored parts, but they did not work.

But bad luck didn't last forever, and the third 150mm blaster that hit the Yoshino finally hit the unprotected part, and since this shell was a new type of blaster with a fuse at the bottom of the projectile, it did not detonate immediately at the moment of contact, but with a slight delay until it was drilled into the coal bunker

As a result, an implosion effect was enough to increase the power of the explosion several times, and the destructive power was almost comparable to that of an old 10-inch blasting projectile, which immediately made the Yoshino's already serious injuries even worse

Although the Yoshino finally escaped from the strike range of the three Beiyang ships with its unparalleled ultra-high speed, the crisis was far from over, and one bad news after another reached the command tower, making Tsuboi's forehead almost wrinkled into the word "Chuan".