Seeing the behemoth like the six Sovereign-class battleships forming a queue, even Yang Yonglin couldn't help but become a little nervous, and immediately ordered the two warships to turn away. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, the 24 343mm guns on the six British battleships opened fire together, and the density of fire was still considerable, although the first round of shelling luckily did not hit a single shot, but the second round hit two shots at once, all hitting the main armor belt of the waterline of the Super Brave!

The British officers and men immediately thundered with joy, but the cheers soon subsided, and all kinds of sounds of surprise and confusion sounded, making the battleship almost as noisy as a vegetable market.

"What? Are you sure you didn't penetrate the armor, not that you didn't blow up? Vice Admiral Seymour, who had already taken refuge in the command tower in accordance with the latest safety regulations, couldn't believe his ears after listening to the report of his subordinates.

The officer who had come to report swore with a curse, "It is true, Your Excellency Vice Admiral, that both shells exploded, and the whole ship heard the sound, but the enemy ship did not seem to have anything wrong!" ”

Vice Admiral Seymour subconsciously pinched his thigh hard to confirm that he was not having a nightmare. Since it exploded, it was naturally not a dud, and the enemy ship was hit by an armor-piercing bullet that was successfully detonated but was unharmed, which can only show that the armor-piercing shell failed to break the armor of the enemy ship at all, and the explosion occurred outside the armor, so naturally it was impossible to cause any substantial damage, and the judgment of the subordinates was reasonable, and there was no problem at all.

However, the caliber of the main gun of the Sovereign class has reached 13.5 inches, and the weight of the shells is close to 600 kilograms. Even if they looked so advanced and powerful, but a cruiser is a cruiser, how could it be possible to compete head-on with a battleship? It's not scientific!

"It must have been that the picric acid explosives of the French were too sensitive, so the charge in the armor-piercing shell detonated in advance before the shell could penetrate the enemy's armor, so it failed to penetrate. However, after buying the picric acid explosives, it stands to reason that the Admiralty should have sent someone to test it, but I didn't hear them report that there was a very serious phenomenon of early explosion? Didn't they test it at all? Just perfunctory? It must be so! There is no other explanation! Those derelict pigs! Seymour quickly thought of a possible reason, which was quite close to the truth, but what he never understood was that the main factor was not actually the sensitivity of the picric acid explosive, but the magical effects of the new armor. However, there are indeed problems with the British Admiralty's testing method, but this is not because the testers are perfunctory, but because the navies of various countries have not yet summarized an accurate and reliable method of depth testing.

Although the judgment was not entirely correct, sometimes even the wrong conclusion could lead to the correct solution, and Vice Admiral Seymour decided that it was a pot of picric acid explosives, so he ordered the switch to solid ammunition. The change was immediate, and the main armor belt, which had hitherto not been penetrated by the Haitian-class armored cruisers, was finally penetrated, but it was useless......

After learning that the main armor belt had been penetrated, Yang Yonglin was startled, but after he learned more about the damage, his nervous mood suddenly relaxed, "It turned out to be just a solid bullet, and the hit was still on the water, so there is nothing to worry about......

The solid armor-piercing projectile directly pierced the 155mm-thick main armor belt of the Chaoyong, and then penetrated multiple compartments in a row before finally stopping, and the penetration was really powerful. However, because it is a solid bullet that cannot explode, the only damage it can cause is a hole in the armor and bulkhead that is at most an opening the size of a foot basin. Even if it is below the waterline, it is only necessary to close the compartment to prevent further water entry (it is difficult to plug such a large hole directly), and as long as the number of bullets is not too large, there is no fatal danger; And this shell is still above the waterline, so it is purely to help with ventilation, and there is no danger.

"Armor-piercing blasting shells can't penetrate our armor, and solid armor-piercing shells can't be dangerous, as for blasting shells, although the enemy hasn't used them yet, but in common sense, they won't have too good an effect on a fully protected Haitian-class patrol." After realizing this, Yang Yonglin naturally came to an unbelievable conclusion, "Doesn't this mean that the Sovereign-class battleships actually have no way to take us at all?" ”

Although she has been told again and again that the armor protection of the Haitian-class patrol is terrifyingly strong, as a traditional admiral, Yang Yonglin always subconsciously positions her as a "cruiser", so she has always underestimated this. In the battle of the Yangtze River estuary, the Haitian-class armored cruiser was unscathed, and Yang Yonglin was relatively easy to accept, after all, the caliber of the main gun of the Centurion class was 254mm, which is still the normal main gun caliber of a large cruiser, and it is reasonable that the armor of the Haitian-class patrol can be completely immune, and now even the 343mm caliber giant cannon can be completely prevented, which is really too exaggerated.

But no matter how exaggerated, since it has been proven by practice, Yang Yonglin immediately accepted such a conclusion, and once he accepted this conclusion, Yang Yonglin, who originally planned to use the advantage of the effective range of his own naval guns to slowly "fly a kite", immediately changed his mind, "Anyway, those battleships are nothing to be afraid of, so simply sink the two remaining cruisers to prevent future troubles!" ”

The reason why it is only said to be two ships is because the Blake has already sailed far, and it is difficult to catch up even at the speed of the Haitian-class patrol, even if there is still thick smoke billowing above her, and it seems that she will sink immediately if she is hit by another shot, but it is a pity that her speed has not decreased significantly, and Yang Yonglin can only give up her strategy and give priority to dealing with the other two.

After all, if a ship's speed is greatly reduced, it cannot run fast, and the hope of catching up is much greater; One is still spinning in place, and it can't run at all, and it doesn't even have to chase. Both have a much better chance of sinking than the Blake.

The Gibraltar that was spinning in place could be eaten at any time, so Yang Yonglin wisely chose to chase the **** first, although the latter's speed is now not even 12 knots, but if it is left alone for a long time, once the distance is opened to a certain extent, the British will put the smoke screen, and the chance of successfully escaping is still not small.

Seeing that the two Chinese warships did not flee at all, but pounced on the cruiser ****, which was withdrawing from the battlefield, Vice Admiral Seymour's lungs exploded. But before he could have a seizure, he heard a sudden thunderous noise in the distance...... (To be continued.) )