Chapter 113: The March War IV
The discovery of the Chilean fleet so smoothly was not only due to the fact that the route of the Chilean fleet was not concealed, but also related to a newly improved branch of the Naval Resistance Force. Of course, it also has a lot to do with luck, after all, when sailing on the sea, it is normal to deviate from the course at night for ten nautical miles and eight nautical miles. If you're unlucky, it's not uncommon for two fleets to pass by and not know each other.
Li Guang has a habit of thinking, he has always put the Naval Resistance Force in a weak position to think about the battle situation, and in fact, the Naval Resistance Army is indeed weak to the powerful Navy. Since it is weak, it is necessary to study the opponent from the learning opponent.
Zheng Xuechang's captured navy from the Tianlong was fully tapped by Li Guang and he received a lot of useful training methods. Li Guang from the 21st century also has a lot of thinking limitations, he attaches too much importance to technology, such as the search for air and sea, Li Guang also has a mindset in his mind -- radar. But from the mouth of the prisoner of the Yue Ben Navy, Li Guang learned a secret of the night battle of the Yue army.
It is said that the navy often boasts that it is the best in the world in night warfare, and in addition to being well-trained, it has a killer feature -- cat's eye. The so-called cat's eye is to train personnel with strong night vision ability to serve as observation posts. It is said that the radar technology of this devil is not good, so it will work on the personnel. In order to cultivate cat's eyes, there is not only a set of training methods, but also a special diet and supplements. The so-called supplements are just vitamins and other things that are good for vision, and the little devils can't do genetically modified.
The radar technology of the devil is not good, and Li Guang simply can't buy radar, so he does not hesitate to adopt this kind of cat's eye training naval resistance army. Now the Naval Resistance Army has cat's eye soldiers not only warships, but also submarines and marines. In the Navy, these observation posts were called clairvoyants.
And this time to find the Chilean battleship, the clairvoyants of the Maritime Resistance Army did not bother much at all, and the Chilean fleet was brightly lit on the dark sea, just like a cruise ship, it was really easy to find.
After discovering the Chilean naval fleet, Zheng Xuechang took two warships around a big bend and quietly embellished behind the Chilean naval fleet.
The arrogance of the Chilean Navy allowed them to make two big mistakes in just one day. For the first time, the Chilean Navy should not have taken action against fishing boats, and the attack on fishing boats not only made the Maritime Resistance Force clearly judge the hostility of the opponent, but also made the Maritime Resistance Army react immediately. Moreover, the Chilean Navy used naval guns for fishing boats, and did not use submarines to secretly remove them, so that the telegram could be sent in time. You must know that the battleship is definitely earlier than the fishing boat to discover the other party, after all, the large-aperture telescope equipped on the battleship is definitely not comparable to the eyesight of the crew on the fishing boat.
And the night fleet sails, there are no hidden routes, and it is even brighter. This is another big mistake. These two big mistakes doomed the Chilean fleet to suffer great losses in the early stages of the war.
Zheng Xuechang, as the supreme commander of the surface ships of the Maritime Resistance Army, actually only experienced one battle. But the battle between life and death made Zheng Xuechang mature quickly. Instead of attacking recklessly, he ordered two warships to quietly approach the Chilean fleet.
The Chilean naval formation was not fast, advancing at less than ten knots, and most of the navy was still asleep at four o'clock in the morning. The strangest thing is that a submarine of the Chilean Navy is now sailing on the sea, and it is just a matter of sailing on the sea, and it is simply stupid to turn on the lights on the tower with the brainless brain.
In the darkness of the night, the Dominion and Jairus quietly approached the Chilean naval fleet. Four o'clock in the morning is the most sleepy time of the day, and this is the time chosen by the tyrant.
Five nautical miles. The Chilean Navy was unaware.
Three nautical miles, the Chilean fleet still did not notice in the slightest.
Two nautical miles, the Chilean fleet is already visible to the naked eye.
Two thousand meters, the Chilean fleet still did not react in the slightest.
That's the distance. The Baxia and Jairwood were already moving parallel to the two ships at the tail of the Chilean fleet. Zheng Xuechang gave an order, and the two battleships fired six torpedoes.
Instead of finding the largest battleship, the Admiral Latorre, the Baxia and Jairus opened fire on a freighter and a warship at the tail of the fleet.
To be honest, the Navy Resistance Army and the Devil are mortal enemies, but some of the fighting skills and desperate spirit of the Navy also make the Navy Resistance Army very admired, especially Zheng Xuechang, a British naval officer. The torpedo warfare of the Navy, although it did not dare to boast of being the best in the world. But the torpedo tactics of its destroyers were quite sharp. Just from its tactical parameters, one or two can be known, five thousand meters during the day and two kilometers at night. (This is the standard of bravery of a destroyer.) )
In actual combat, the Pixiu submarines of the Maritime Resistance Army generally fired torpedoes no more than 1,000 meters. But for surface ships, two thousand meters, even at night, is an extremely dangerous distance. At such a distance, the opponent's naval guns can be hit with a single hit, whether it is a large or small caliber. The small battleship of the Naval Resistance Army is like paper paste against the main guns of cruisers and battleships at such a distance, and it has no protection power.
The weapons are inferior to the people, the training is not as good as the people, if they dare not fight hard, how can the naval resistance force fight against a powerful enemy. If you want to defeat your opponent and keep the stone statue island, the only way is to win in the face of danger. Zheng Xuechang had a very clear understanding of the battle situation, and when he fired a torpedo at a distance of 2,000 meters, he was making a dangerous move and was desperate.
When the torpedo was fired, Zheng Xuechang's heart immediately lifted up, and he counted the time silently in his heart. Two minutes later, there were several loud bangs, and the two Chilean ships were immediately in flames. At this moment, the dark ocean and the universe were lit up by the flames of the explosion, and the entire sea awoke from the darkness and silence. In the eyes of the fighters of the Naval Resistance Army, the fire of the explosion was a brilliant result. But in the eyes of the Chilean soldiers, the two flames were like ghosts of fire on the dark sea, like the cold light of the scythe of death.
There was a burst of cheers from the soldiers on the Baxia, and Zheng Xuechang also stomped his feet excitedly. In fact, in a night battle, it is difficult to confirm the model of the target even at a distance of 2,000 meters. But Zheng Xuechang can be sure of one thing, all six torpedoes hit, and all of them exploded. This power could not be resisted except for battleships, neither cruisers nor destroyers, and if it was a merchant ship, it would have definitely disintegrated.
At this time, Zheng Xuechang, as the commander, did not dare to be careless. After firing the torpedo, the Jairus had turned its bow and sped east.
The Baxia turned the bow, but did not break away at high speed.
At a distance of less than three kilometers, the 152mm main gun on the Baxia opened fire quickly, and the fire at this distance was so accurate that even the calibration was omitted, and for a long-barreled cannon, this distance was direct aiming. Even the parabola of the trajectory did not need to be calculated, and the third shell accurately hit another merchant ship.
The rate of fire of the 152mm guns can reach three rounds in two minutes, and it takes less than five minutes to fire, and the main guns on the Baxia have already hit a merchant ship five guns in a row in the confusion of the Chilean Navy.
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