"Pour me a cup of tea!"

Just when the atmosphere was extremely tense, standing in the bridge of the armored cruiser "Zhenhai", in the midst of all the gazes, Huang Zhongying unexpectedly gave an order. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

After a while, he took a cup of hot tea from the midshipman's hand, took a sip of the hot tea, and then held the teacup with a relaxed and complacent expression.

"At a distance of 10,000 meters, with the" Jinghai "as the fire command ship, the fleet after one calibration, concentrated fire on the" Duke Suvorov "! ”

As the commander of the cruiser, Huang Zhongying knows what he will face, and he also knows the power in his hands, in terms of tonnage and firepower, the cruiser is at an absolute disadvantage, but this does not mean that he does not have the strength to fight, the electric drive ranging clock in the fire control control control tower, the two optical rangefinders installed on the top of the command tower, and the latest cutting-edge optical sights.

In sighting, ranging equipment, the cruiser fleet was ten years ahead of them. Although the cruiser fleet uses a 10-inch main gun, the caliber and power are inferior to the Russian ships, but the rate of fire is 5 times that of the Russian ships, and more importantly, the Northeast Navy also has a magic weapon - soft steel cap armor-piercing bullets! This is a new type of shell that has not been adopted by the Russian Navy, or even by the navies of other countries, and several years ago, the Northeast Navy conducted research on this type of shell for many years, and two years ago, this new type of shell completely replaced the old armor-piercing shell with insufficient power.

The use of mild steel cap-piercing bullets has made up for the lack of power to some extent. These technological advantages determined that the cruiser fleet had an advantage over the Second Pacific Fleet.

Thanks to the excellent range-and-sight fire control system, the cruiser could hit farther, more accurately, and in less time fired more shells. To some extent, this compensated for the disadvantage in tonnage and firepower, but the most fundamental disadvantage was the gap in the quality of officers and sailors.

And now all you need to do is to maximize the power in your hands!

"Order the fleet to compress the distance by 400 meters and maintain a speed of 14 knots!"

Whether in the pre-war preparations. In the past, cruisers practiced long-range artillery bombardment and coordinated attacks on the same target by multiple ships, in order to concentrate their firepower on a single target in naval warfare. And this tactical principle is actually very simple, unified command shooting, in this way, theoretically turned these multiple warships into one. So as to achieve the goal of destroying the enemy with overwhelming firepower.

Now, Vice Admiral Hwang Jong-young is using this tactic, and the fire command ship is the No. 4 ship, the Jibo.

Just sink one, and after handing the teacup in his hand to the midshipman next to him, he looked at the Russian warship Huang Zhongying and muttered in his heart.

It's a win!

"Raise the Z flag!"

After completing the formation change, Huang Zhongying gave the order to raise the Z flag. This has been a naval tradition since Nelson, why the "z"?

The "z" is the last of the 26 letters, and there is no more. If this signal fails, then this fleet will cease to exist.

At the same time as the "Z" flag was raised, the flag-bearers began to play the flag, which was:

"450,000,000,000 people are looking forward to everyone's hard work!"

In the armored fire control room at the top of the mast of the battleship Jibo, the rangefinder stared at the opponent in the distance with a rangefinder, and adjusted the adjustment button without turning while observing the target.

It's done!

At the moment when he saw the staggered shadow of the "Duke Suvorov" regrouping, he immediately read out the latest distance figures.

"Honor and life will depend on the upcoming sea battle!"

At the moment when he loudly reported the distance of the enemy ship, such a sentence came out of his heart.

At this time, the distance between the Zhenyang Fleet and the "Duke Suvorov" was only 10,000 meters, and it had already entered the firing distance. Because the Russian fleet was fully equipped with rangefinders. In the past, shooting was generally started at around 12,000 meters. But now Rogerstinsky really has no intention of fighting, so after entering the 10,000 meters, he has not given the order to open fire.

Now, as the commander of the fleet, Rogerst Winsky knows better than anyone that he has entered a pocket, that the Chinese fleet has rushed to the T-shape, and that his fleet is sailing in three columns in this narrow strait. We are in an extremely bad situation -- a situation in which we cannot exert our firepower if we want to fight, and we cannot retreat when we want to retreat.

At the moment of lowering the binoculars, Rozhest Stevensky gave the order without even glancing at the officer in the bridge.

"Two more sections! Turn left twenty-five degrees! ”

Despite his unwillingness to fight, Rogerstinsky, who knew that he had no way to escape, gave the order to fight!

Now for him. His only hope is to be able to break out of the strait, and the Chinese fleet sails from left to right, and if he picks up the speed, he still has a chance. Under his command, the ships moved on.

When he gave this order, because the distance was closer, the Chinese fleet had completely revealed their shadows, and he could clearly see that although the 8 capital ships of the cruiser fleet were lined up in a single battleline, the distance between them was very close, so close that it almost gave people the illusion that they were a whole.

At this time, on the first battleship of the cruiser's battleship, the gunners who had already prepared for a long time were already gearing up, and one by one thick cap-piercing shells were filled into the barrels, and the turrets began to turn, and the barrels were raised and pointed straight ahead. The damage management team was already in place, and the medical officer, who was also making the final preparations, looked out from time to time and waited for the approaching wounded.

Suddenly, the medic who was praying on the battleship "Jibo" only felt a shock under his feet, and in the next moment, a deafening sound of cannon came over, and the long-awaited battle finally began!

At this point, gambling is at its last minute.

Roger Stevensky saw that in the telescope, the No. 4 ship, the capital ship of the Chinese fleet, vacated two clusters of flames.

"Enemy ships fire!"

Rogerstinsky was naturally very aware of the disadvantage of his side, and he clearly knew that the "Duke Suvorov", which was now the lead ship, would bear the fire of all eight warships of the Chinese fleet in the next battle, but now he had no other choice.

Now that he can't fight or run, he can only passively meet the attack from the Chinese.

"Great!"

From 15x magnification with the help of a rangefinder. When the range-finding officer saw that the battleship "Duke Suvorov" had adjusted its course while firing at Jiyuan, he couldn't help but shout loudly. Just for this moment, he seemed to see the sinking of the "Duke Suvorov".

"Good!"

The course adjustment of the "Duke Suvorov" in the telescope only made Huang Zhongying grasp the telescope with both hands, and his heart instantly rose to his throat, originally the "Duke Suvorov" was only exposed to fire in the front, but now the "Duke Suvorov" exposed its own side. It's almost the same as a target spinning in place, a target that can't fight back at all, and what does that mean?

Victory!

"The Russians are finished!"

Wang Wei silently pondered in his heart.

It takes 23.8 seconds for a 254-mm shell to fly 12,000 meters, and in the command tower of the battleship Jibo, Luo Ziwei holds a telescope, and beside him, the young first mate holds a stopwatch to count.

Finally, in the telescope, two columns of water exploded in the water about 100 meters away from the "Duke Suvorov".

"One more chance!"

At this time, Luo Ziwei's heart was twisted into a small ball, and he knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even in the next ten minutes, it is very likely that the outcome of this naval battle will be decided!

"Fire!"

Quietly watching the two columns of water rise, Roger Stevensky thought in his heart. That's when he realized he had made a mistake. Or maybe it's fundamentally wrong!

Perhaps, he should not have tried to rush out of this strait at all, he should have turned around at all costs, he should have ordered the fleet to turn around and retreat at the first moment when he discovered the Chinese fleet, the first time he found that they had seized the "T-head", maybe retreating was the best option. Now, for the next nearly an hour. None of them will be forced to use less than 1/3 of their firepower to meet the Chinese.

Naval warfare has always been an industry that requires precise calculations, not to mention this industry, which is extremely specialized, and very dependent on sophisticated rangefinders, relying on sophisticated lateral distances, although there is still a certain gap, but the first salvo of the Zibo. However, the results were quite good, although it was only the first school firing, and it did not even constitute a close miss, and the distance was more than 300 meters.

Based on this value, their hit rate is only about half of what they have trained in the past. But being able to play half the level of training in naval battles is enough for every officer and soldier of the cruiser fleet to be proud of.

"10,000 meters!"

In the command tower of the "Zhenbo", Huang Zhongying also muttered about this distance value. It's a very microsecond, even a little bit. Compared with the navies of other countries, the Northeast Navy pays more attention to change and technological change, and it can be said that from the first day of the establishment of the Northeast Navy, they have continuously introduced a large number of advanced technologies in order to improve their combat effectiveness.

For the cruiser, 10,000 meters, just in the middle range immunity zone, the Russian fleet's 12-inch cannon did not form a straddle fire, and the shells fired by it did not penetrate the armored deck, and the old armor-piercing shells used by it did not penetrate the broadside armor, and the "wave" class of the ten-inch naval gun, although it also did not form a straddle fire, but the muzzle velocity of the ten-inch naval gun was higher and its trajectory was straighter, and the cap-piercing projectile used could penetrate the 10-inch thick armor belt at a distance of 10,000 meters. And the Russian battleship was only nine inches, or even thinner.

"With the development of technology, everything in naval warfare has become extremely cold and mechanical, it is not as bloody as land battles, there will be no bayonets in the red, there will be no enemy soldiers, there will only be accurate calculations and calibration!"

Thinking of the advantage he was in at this time, Huang Zhongying secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, at least until now, he was still in an advantage.

Huang Zhongying, who looked a little relaxed, once again explained every aspect of the firing and shooting, and finally emphasized a sentence.

"Any mistake at this point will cause an irreparable mistake!"

Staring at the battleship "Duke Suvorov", the flagship of the Combined Fleet in the distance, if something goes wrong now, it is not only irreparable, it is simply holding a grudge for life, whether the cruiser is alive or dead, it depends on this time!

He knew very well how important the next few minutes were.

"Armor-piercing shot!"

Relying on Jiyuan's two rounds of artillery calibration, when the gun commander of the "Zhenhai" armored cruiser shouted angrily, the shells of its main and auxiliary guns went out like thunder, and at the same time, the 32 10-inch main guns and 48 6-inch auxiliary guns of the eight capital ships of the cruiser fleet sounded almost simultaneously.

It was the first salvo of the cruiser.

More than ten seconds later, the Russian sailors on the deck of the battleship "Duke Suvorov" and Rogerstinsky in the commander tower all saw the flash of light tearing through the sky in the air, and the shells accurately fell around the "Duke Suvorov", nearly one-third of which formed a near-miss, and at the moment when the water column was in the air, the port side armor belt of the "Duke Suvorov" sounded like a giant bell impacting, as loud as a bell, but the harsh sound instantly overshadowed the explosion.

At that moment, the sound of the metal striking shook the entire strait! It was at the moment when the sound reached his ears that Rogerstvinsky's expression changed, and the battleship was hit......

"Boom ......"

Without waiting for Rodgerstwinsky to have the next thought, the starboard No. 1 gun position exposed by the "Duke Suvorov" after adjusting its course, directly below the command tower, but there was a violent shaking, and at the moment the explosion reached the ears, the cloud of smoke from the explosion spewed out violently from the breach and the ventilation pipe.

The black cloud of smoke threatened to swallow the entire warship, and the explosion shook so violently that Rogerstwinsky almost fell to the ground. He grabbed the handrail, turned his head and saw that the faces of the warships around him were pale, and the hit rate of the Chinese fleet was far more accurate than they had imagined, at least from this salvo, and at the same time more violent explosions continued to explode near the starboard and starboard decks of the "Duke Suvorov", and suddenly a column of water rushed into the command tower, which was the sea water thrown out when a lifeboat full of water was blown into the air.

And the unforgiving cruiser did not stop shelling because the "Duke Suvorov" was hit and the gun's guns exploded, but continued to shoot, and the fire of all 8 Bozi-class armored cruisers was all focused on the target of the "Duke Suvorov" at this time.

"Roger Stevensky is defeated!"

Witnessing the smoky "Duke Suvorov", Huang Zhongying frowned and whispered softly, although he only saw the chaos of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet before, he knew that the Russians would lose, but he was still a little worried at that time, and now the results of the first round of salvos, he finally believed that China would definitely win this naval battle!

"Now...... Let's send them into the sea! (To be continued.) )