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After deciding on the scheme of dispatching the army. In order to further weaken Italy's combat effectiveness, the naval resistance fleet took a more active attitude and intensified its attacks on Mogadishu and several port arteries along the coast of the Gulf of Aden.

Every escort shelling of the ports and batteries garrisoned by the Italian troops became almost routine, and the standard of artillery of the battleship Pacifico improved extremely rapidly during these days, and the results were simply a miracle.

By mid-December, the battleship Pacific's best result was that at a speed of 22 knots, it could hit a fixed target at a distance of 15 kilometers, without a test launch.

At this distance, a 30 percent hit rate can be achieved when shooting at a moving target.

In two months, the battleship Pacific consumed thousands of shells (real), and the results improved to such an astonishing point that not only the naval resistance forces themselves were satisfied, but even Major Smith was amazed. However, this kind of training method is really expensive enough, and even the British Navy itself is reluctant to do so.

The mountain of shells was consumed almost to the bottom of the warehouse in just two months, and the British army simply could not bear such a consumption, but fortunately it was a stock of shells, and the British battleships rarely used this caliber artillery, otherwise such consumption could have been directly stabbed to Churchill.

On 23 December, the Naval Resistance Fleet routinely escorted a convoy of merchant ships. After the convoy ended, the fleet circled the Somali coast and again launched a naval artillery strike.

This was the first time that the Naval Resistance Army had shelled an Italian ground army, which had apparently been on the march to the Kenyan-Somali border. The British dragged their feet, and by the end of November they had gathered 26,000 men, but they refused to attack. During this period, Li Guang also flew to Kenya to meet the British general Vice Admiral Cunningham (not the famous Admiral Cunningham), in short, it was polite and encouraging, and there were not many substantive combat arrangements.

In fact, Li Guang understood the British general Cunningham. It was not so easy to put together a stray group of troops, and the army organized by the British was simply a ragtag plus a ragtag, a white plus a Indian plus a black. If such a military strength cannot be run in advance, let alone fighting, I am afraid that it will be difficult to guarantee the march.

Of course, the Italians are not entirely stupid, and they are not unaware of the movements of the British army, and they are also actively deploying troops.

It is also lucky that the Naval Resistance Army can encounter such an Italian baggage force without intelligence.

Major Smith, after spotting the Italian troops on the shore, immediately asked Li Guang to open fire.

With short hands, Li Guang has little interest in slaughter, but it is too pedantic to talk about benevolence and righteousness to the enemy.

The results of the naval artillery training were vividly displayed in the following hour.

More than 140 shells were fired from the main guns, and 14 salvos were fired from the naval guns, and the bombardment area stretched for several kilometers. The seaplanes served as the school shots, and the final statistics for the post-war photographs and observation of the shelling were 11 on the road, and 32 within 30 meters on both sides of the kilometer. Only sixteen shells landed a hundred meters on either side of the road.

Major Smith stuttered a little for such an achievement; 'Awesome. Terrible. ’

It is indeed powerful enough, and it is difficult for the British Imperial Navy to reach such a level. According to the statistical method of naval warfare, the naval resistance force had a hit rate of 36 percent in this battle and nearly 55 percent of its ammunition.

This achievement is too dazzling, which is more than double the level of the British Navy. Major Smith was born in the British Imperial Navy, and he was promoted to major at the age of thirty, and he really worked hard.

Although this battle, it was against targets on land. Moreover, the wind and waves were calm, the weather was sunny, and the combat conditions were excellent. But this is also too much of an average.

You must know that in naval battles, not only the shells that hit must be counted as the results, but even the close misses must also be counted as the results. A powerful main gun like a battleship can also cause the combat effectiveness of a light ship such as a destroyer to lose its combat effectiveness, and even damage the combat effectiveness of a cruiser.

On the whole, the effective killing ratio of the main guns of the Naval Resistance Army has reached an astonishing 91 percent.

The British Navy had a hit rate of about 5 percent in naval battles, and it was said that it had a good score of 20 percent in training. In this battle, the Navy's hit rate was seven times higher than that of the actual battle, and it was 80 percent higher than the best result of its training.

It's only been two months, and Major Smith knows very well the results of the first attack on the Italian shore artillery battery, five salvos, fifty shells, and the closest to the battery is about 150 meters, and the farthest is even a thousand meters. The hit rate is zero.

At that time, Smith's expression was very strange, and Smith was quite kind and did not ridicule him on the spot. The liaison officers under him were sneered at on the spot, and Zheng Xuechang was choked with shame at that time, and his face turned blue for several days.

Naval gun shooting is a comprehensive technique, and it is definitely not a single person who can improve the overall level. All aspects are important, and a small mistake can cause an error of hundreds of meters.

On the battleship Pacific, the rangefinder was a German-made 12-meter optical rangefinder, with an error of 30 meters at 20 kilometers.

The mechanical computer inputs parameters, ship speed, wind speed, angle, and there are errors in every link.

Some of the factors that affect the accuracy of a cannon are outside of parameters, such as air pressure, such as the humidity of the air. These require human experience to fine-tune the shooting elements.

There are many other factors that can be more uncontrollable, such as turbulence in the air. You must know that the firing range of the battleship's main guns is 27 kilometers, and the actual combat distance is generally around 20 kilometers, according to the British battleship combat regulations, 14 kilometers is the nearest battle line, and it is rarely lower than 10 kilometers in actual combat. At such a distance, a random turbulence of air can cause a shell to deviate from the target.

In addition, due to the aging of the battleship Pacific, there were mechanical gaps in the adjustment of the main guns, which required not only frequent maintenance, but also the familiarity of the gunners with the weapons in hand.

In two months, Zheng Xuechang led the officers and men of the ship to hold no less than 30 technical seminars. Simulated shelling is even more repeated several times a day.

In such high-intensity training, the officers and men of the whole ship have been tempered as one. Such brutal training is simply not possible for European navies, only Chinese with super endurance can do.

Maybe the Japanese Navy can do it, but no matter which warship of the Japanese Navy is willing to consume shells so generously. No matter how hard the simulated shooting training is, it is difficult to compare with this kind of live-fire training, or even combat.

Major Smith only saw the thin Chinese on the battleship rising rapidly, but it was difficult to know the hardships of more than a thousand officers and men.

Major Smith occasionally had to go ashore for a few days, but Li Guang did not get off the ship at all except for necessary official duties for two months, and he was also improving in the process. Zheng Xuechang was to command the battleship group USS Pacific (USS Pacific plus two pickup air defense destroyers. Li Guang, on the other hand, had to command the entire fleet, the air force, and even the army.

Regardless of the fact that the combined forces of the navy, land and air force have less than 5,000 troops in the Arabian Sea region, it is not so easy to really smelt such a complex quasi-modern army into a whole. The difficulty of command and management is definitely more difficult than that of a division or even an army of the Chinese army in China.

Like an arm making a finger.

This is the realm pursued by famous generals at home and abroad in ancient and modern times.

Li Guang is not an arrogant person, he knows that he cannot compare the art of conducting with the famous generals in history and reality. Li Guang was working hard, and he devoted his energy to training troops, and a well-trained army could make up for the improper command of the generals.

Li Guang is moving towards the goal of "making a finger like an arm."

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