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Zheng Xuechang didn't understand why the devil was so crazy.

Vice Admiral Okawauchi's tactics were clearly gambling with five battleships.

Bet that five battleships, including two heavy cruisers, which are the treasures of the country, will be destroyed, while the Japanese will be able to hit even one torpedo on the Atlantic battleship.

This tactic is quite effective in night battles, and the power of destroyers or torpedo boats to get close to the opponent at night and release torpedoes at close range is still extremely powerful. In particular, the Japanese army had extremely powerful spear-type oxygen torpedoes.

Originally, the Naval Resistance Force spent a lot of money this time, and the six air defense destroyers are now constantly erupting flares from a distance. Expensive flares were thrown into the sky as if they didn't cost money, and even in the night rain, visibility on the battlefield was quite high. It was to prevent the Japanese from using this tactic.

If Vice Admiral Fu 7 Okawauchi did not know that in this case, the chances of survival of the Japanese warships were extremely low, and it was absolutely impossible.

At a distance of ten kilometers, even if the Japanese heavy cruiser was heavily armored, it was difficult to hit the main guns of the battleship, and almost three or two shells could bury a steel monster with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons.

At a distance of three or five kilometers, the battleship's main gun hit rate would be amazingly high, and it would be completely possible to destroy a battleship with one strike.

What is it that makes the devil so crazy?

Since the start of the war, Fu Qi Okawauchi has been very clear that he has failed. From the moment the first escort aircraft carrier of the Cloud Eagle was blown up and sunk, he knew of his failure. The weapon on which the Naval Resistance Force became famous was not a battleship, nor an aircraft carrier. It's submarines. Just by looking at the six air defense destroyers that the Maritime Resistance Forces are idle and only release flares from a distance, we know how sure the Naval Resistance Forces are in packing up all the merchant ships.

Okawauchi Fuqi is very experienced in conventional warfare, and his judgment is very accurate. It was the realization that he had failed. So he's going to fight hard, and that's the only way he can save a little face.

At first, Zheng Xuechang thought that the devil was gambling with these three destroyers. In vain, he tried to redeem his car with a few pawns.

Later, Zheng Xuechang thought that the devil continued to gamble, and two heavy cruisers were added to the gambling table.

At this time in the battle, Zheng Xuechang already had some feelings, and he realized that the devil still had a backhand.

He couldn't guess the specific hand of the devil, but he knew that the devil had a cruiser that did not show up. Note. It is also impossible to be absolutely accurate in the intelligence of the Naval Resistance Army, and the cruiser in the intelligence is actually the Japanese mine-striking ship Ojing. And about the performance of this cruiser, he did not know much.

Zheng Xuechang wanted to take precautions, but at this time, the fierce situation of the battle had no choice but to turn the direction of the Atlantic, so he could only assign the four torpedo boats to the direction that might be attacked by the Japanese cruiser that had not yet emerged.

When the distance between the two armies is about ten kilometers.

Two Japanese heavy cruisers had already fired torpedoes, and torpedoes were scurrying on the sea. Dangerous.

The oxygen torpedo of the Japanese army was a super killer throughout World War II. Such a torpedo with a diameter of sixty-one centimeters. The charge is 490 kg. Few ships can withstand a blow. Even if a battleship is hit by such a one, it will be seriously injured even if it does not sink.

What's even more terrifying is that the range of this torpedo is even more than the range of the battleship's guns, and the horror in naval battles is not something that can be described in a single sentence. In the original Battle of Java, the Allied forces, especially the American sailors, were frightened by this weapon of mass destruction and did not dare to go to the battlefield again. For a while, it was rumored to be a nightmare weapon.

However, limited by technology, small Japanese torpedoes could not do long-range accurate shooting, even at a distance of 10 kilometers, it was not absolutely deadly.

But. No one dared to gamble, to ignore the threat of such a torpedo. What made Zheng Xuechang even more helpless was that the two heavy cruisers of the Japanese army were each equipped with twelve torpedo launchers. In the first wave, the two Japanese heavy cruisers released all the torpedoes on one side of the battleship, and twelve large killers rampage in the dark waters.

The devil's hand is similar to the grenade thrown by the army in close combat, but the grenade in naval warfare, the torpedo, is really terrifying.

In this regard, Zheng Xuechang also had to deal with it carefully. For the Naval Resistance Force, the increasing sonar technology made the Atlantic battleship not bad at dealing with long-range torpedo fire. But as long as it was evasion, it was impossible to take into account the shelling of Japanese heavy cruisers.

During the more than 10 minutes of dodging the torpedoes, the battleship Atlantic was in a rare situation of being passively beaten. In just over 10 minutes, seven shots were fired, and although they were not seriously injured, there were casualties.

When the Atlantic dodged the torpedo, Zheng Xuechang no longer had time to deal with anything else. The two Japanese heavy cruisers almost quickly formed a flanking attack on the Atlantic.

The threat of the Devil's two heavy cruisers has increased greatly, and the battleship Atlantic must also deal with it with all its might.

Although, there is one of the design guidelines of the battleship - its own armor should be able to withstand its own guns. HOWEVER, THIS DID NOT MEAN THAT THE BATTLESHIP WAS COMPLETELY IMMUNE TO THE INDISCRIMINATE BOMBARDMENT OF THE HEAVY CRUISER'S 203MM GUNS. You must know that some non-key parts of the battleship are also difficult to resist the penetrating force of their own artillery.

AND LITTLE JAPAN CAN ALSO MAKE GOOD THINGS, THE 50-FOLD DIAMETER 203MM NAVAL GUN IS MUCH MORE POWERFUL THAN THE BRITISH 203MM NAVAL GUN. In this regard, even Germany and the United States are no match for Japan.

The Japanese Army's Type 91 Armor-Piercing Shell, with experimental data at a distance of 10,000 meters, was capable of penetrating 190mm (7.5 inches) of NVNC or VC armor. You must know that although the main parts of the Atlantic battleship are ten inches, or even twelve inches of armor, there are many parts that only have five inches of armor.

Each of the Japanese heavy cruisers had five twin turrets, and the rate of fire was quite extraordinary. More than three and a half tons of ammunition were delivered per minute. The Atlantic battleship of the Naval Resistance Army was only able to fire two rounds every three minutes, and the average ammunition delivery was less than three tons per minute, and with anti-aircraft guns and other weapons, it could reach the level of a Japanese heavy cruiser. In this sense, the thinking of firepower first in the design of Japanese warships is also quite reasonable.

The battleship was also absolutely not to be taken lightly in the face of the Japanese heavy cruisers.

Once approached by the Japanese heavy cruisers, the hit rate increased, and the battleship was also very uncomfortable under saturation strikes. In particular, it was even more dangerous when they were caught between two Japanese heavy cruisers at close range.

There has never been a case in the world where a battleship was sunk by a heavy cruiser, and Zheng Xuechang didn't want to put such a record under his name.

Of course, there is another reason, a fool will take the porcelain and touch the stone, and the battleship Atlantic is Zheng Xuechang's porcelain.

As a last resort, Zheng Xuechang had no choice but to divide the two turrets against the enemy to prevent the Japanese heavy cruisers from forming a flanking attack on him. The battleship Atlantic had only two main gun turrets, and could only be one turret against one Japanese heavy cruiser.

Naval artillery strikes rely on probability, not entirely on aiming. For example, two turrets with eight main guns, if five rounds of fire can take out a Japanese cruiser, then one turret needs about four times the amount of shells to do, or twenty rounds. Of course, this is not possible in reality, and sometimes with a bit of luck, a single shot can be a hit.

However, in any case, the division of troops is a serious weakening of the combat effectiveness of the battleship, but it is Zheng Xuechang's inevitable choice. (To be continued......)