"Three o'clock, torpedo!"

The Project 509 destroyers, which had just dealt with a torpedo, had not had time to breathe a sigh of relief when they were awakened by a word from the lookout on the mast, and about a nautical mile away, a long white wave was swimming towards them at a rapid pace. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

But what is certain is that the target of this torpedo was not the 509 destroyer, but the battleship or cruiser behind them.

Nowadays, Japan does not have an air force, so the role of destroyers on the battlefield is bound to be reduced, and even people feel that the destroyer designed by the Chinese Empire is simply a chicken rib, although he can also launch torpedoes, but compared to the small and convenient torpedo boats, the destroyer's body is a little too large, and the agility is not as small as a smaller torpedo boat, or a small frigate.

Perhaps it was expected, so the destroyer's armament, in addition to the first two and two rear two or four 105 mm triple guns, the entire destroyer was equipped with a total of 30 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 26 20 mm twin anti-aircraft guns, 16 38 mm single anti-aircraft guns, and 6 88 mm anti-aircraft guns.

The length of the destroyer is only 73 meters, not counting the main guns, with machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, it has averaged to the point that an air defense weapon is deployed at a distance of less than one meter, although these weapons are not deployed side by side, most of them are divided into two sides, and above the warship, but in addition to the position occupied by the front and rear main guns, it has basically reached the plane effect, and the maximum distance between each two weapons does not exceed three meters.

What does this mean? It means that it is a hedgehog, as long as there are planes passing by here, it is impossible to break through his defensive line, machine guns, anti-aircraft guns of various calibers, which make up for each other's shortcomings very well, so that they can take care of each other at a long distance or at a medium and close range, plus a reasonable layout, so no matter which direction the enemy aircraft comes from, it can ensure that at least three anti-aircraft machine guns, two 20 mm twin anti-aircraft guns and two 38 mm single anti-aircraft guns and one 88 mm anti-aircraft gun can attack each other at the same time.

At the beginning of the design, the problem of dealing with small ships such as torpedo boats was also fully considered, and the Chinese Empire did not build a large number of small ships, so this aspect needs to be taken into account.

Therefore, on the destroyer, all anti-aircraft weapons, except for the 20 weapons deployed on the top of the warship, can attack sea surface targets 20 meters to 50 meters away.

Therefore, the destroyers built by the Chinese Empire, in addition to not having any advantages in the face of large ships, are still relatively powerful in dealing with targets such as air targets and torpedoes, of course, the hit rate is another matter.

In fact, during the day, the possibility of a torpedo hitting a warship is not very large, but that is only a one-on-one situation, if it is in such a complex occupation situation, then the situation is not easy to say, after all, those capital ships still need to fight with the opponent's main warship, and then to avoid torpedo attacks, it will be a little powerless.

However, this is also a direct cause of the lack of combat experience of the officers and men of the Imperial Chinese Navy, in fact, in real naval warfare, this problem is a problem that every naval officer and soldier needs to face, not just themselves.

'Da Da Da ......'

Under the guidance of the lookout, two 38-mm anti-aircraft guns, as well as four 20-mm twin anti-aircraft guns and six anti-aircraft machine guns, formed a dense defensive network where the torpedoes must pass.

As the minutes ticked by, the bullets and shells were being consumed, and the expected explosion did not happen, but instead the lookout asked to adjust the password of the target, and it was clear that the torpedo had passed through the blockade they had set up earlier.

"At five o'clock, there's another torpedo!" However, before the last torpedo was detonated, the lookout sounded the alarm again.

'Boom! ’

The 105-mm gun in the bow of the ship began to vent its dissatisfaction, and in the distance, two water columns converged into one, forming a column of water about twenty meters high, which exploded violently near a torpedo boat.

Although the destroyer's main gun is difficult to deal with the main warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet, there is no problem in dealing with these torpedo boats, and the attack distance of torpedoes is limited, so if the torpedo boats want to accurately hit the target, they can only quietly shorten the distance between the two sides, and then quietly drop torpedoes, but although the hit rate is improved, the probability of being hit is also greatly increased.

Plus the other party is not a fool, won't he hide when he sees a torpedo coming? Therefore, the hit rate of torpedo boats is actually not high, of course, the hit rate on the battlefield is not high, no matter what weapon, sometimes a naval battle between the two sides will run out of ammunition, but in the end it is still impossible to annihilate each other, and even sometimes only a few warships of the other side can be sunk, this kind of thing is not non-existent.

'......Boom'

Lu Ming mechanically adjusted the shooting Zhu Yuan, and then waited for the loader to load a new ammunition into it, the ammunition of the 105mm main gun was not very heavy, but it was only compared to the 305mm main gun of the battleship, in battle, the loader was the most tiring position, they needed to keep loading the shells into the gun chamber, and there was hardly any time to rest before sinking the enemy ship.

Lu Ming's shoulder was gently patted, and the next moment, Lu Ming stepped on the firing pedal without hesitation, and the two 105mm shells were fired again, flying towards their target.

Lu Ming couldn't remember how many shells he had fired, and the loaders on both sides were already covered with sweat, and their mouths were constantly panting.

Because there is no need for sectional reloading, the rate of fire of 105 mm is more terrifying than other guns, and it is not surprising that it is called a rapid-fire gun, and after being equipped with a semi-automatic ammunition feeding system, the 105 mm main gun on the destroyer can achieve two and a half guns per minute, that is, five fires in two minutes, the speed of ten shells.

This kind of speed is absolutely unimaginable even for Japanese rapid-fire guns, but on the warships of the Chinese Empire, this has become the norm, and below the main gun is the ammunition depot, where is there a device similar to the semi-automatic ammunition feeding system of a tank, but this needs to be operated manually.

With the help of chains, gears, etc., it is necessary to use manpower to pedal the pedal, similar to the bicycle pedal device, every time a cannonball is sent, it will automatically jam the position, and this device can only rotate in one direction, so it also avoids the occurrence of the cannonball falling.

The lower part only needs to arrange one or two soldiers, constantly carry the shells in the ammunition depot to the card slot, and the loader in the upper turret directly takes the shells from here, and then walks on a distance of less than half a meter, you can directly load the shells into the gun chamber, which is very convenient and fast, the only disadvantage is that the firing speed is too fast, and the loader also needs great physical strength to support.

There were five people in this turret, and in addition to the main shooter, there were four loaders, two of whom worked as laborers for the manual ammunition delivery device, and if the loader was tired, the two would switch jobs.

A few kilometers away, through the scope, Lu Ming finally saw the picture he wanted to see the most, and what was rising in front of him was finally no longer the white water jet waves, but black smoke, shrouded in orange firelight.

", hit the ......" Lu Ming slapped his big hand excitedly, this was the first time he hit the enemy in actual combat, and this time the hit also allowed Lu Ming to sweep away the haze that he hadn't hit before.

"Keep loading and try to kill this grandson as soon as possible." Lu Ming continued to beckon the loader to reload his ammunition.

Although the 105-mm main gun has a fast rate of fire, the caliber is relatively small, and if it is placed in the army, this caliber of artillery is already considered large, but who made this the navy?

Unless their cannon directly hits the opponent's ammunition depot and causes the opponent's ammunition to detonate, it is very unrealistic to want to kill the opponent with one shot, unless the opponent is already scarred, and this cannon triggers the recurrence of other injuries.

And naval warfare is far from being as simple as imagined, especially in the face of large warships, even if it is a warship of the same level, it often needs to hit at least twice below the waterline to be able to sink the opponent, and the other way is to hit the opponent's ammunition depot, in addition to these two methods, there is no other way to sink the opponent's warship.

As for hitting the top half of the enemy ship, at most it will only kill the enemy and make the warship incapacitated, but it is still far from sinking.

After learning that he had hit the enemy, the loader worked harder, and Lu Ming also aimed at the opponent again and again, made a good prediction in advance, and then quickly fired the shell.

After hitting the enemy's fourth shell, Lu Ming finally ushered in his own spring, and two shells accurately hit the enemy's torpedo boat, and the previous fire has not been extinguished, but ushered in a greater fire, in an instant, only more than 600 tons of torpedo boats were instantly covered by the fire almost half of the area, was blown up, the Japanese navy that was affected by the flames is countless, through the scope, Lu Ming can even see that some Japanese navy had to jump into the sea to extinguish the fire.

And after being hit twice in a row, Lu Ming had clearly felt that the opponent's speed seemed to have slowed down.

'Good opportunity! Lu Ming subconsciously realized.

But before the loader could reload the shell into the chamber, a larger flame appeared in the scope, and the flames from the explosion of the shell rose high into the air, as well as the human body and parts appeared in the scope, but it was not clear to see, only a black shadow could be seen quickly sliding from a height.

Immediately afterward, the torpedo boat completely lost power, and the violent explosion seemed to have stopped, but the fire continued to decrease, and the black smoke continued to disappear, along with the torpedo boat that had been hit twice.

"it...... Who the fuck robbed my torpedo boat? Lu Ming scolded loudly, Nima, Lu Ming really wants to walk in front of that guy, do you grab people's heads like this? (To be continued.) )