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Although Mo Haiwen's Kunshan frigate is not at the front and can no longer directly look ahead, because of the information linkage with the other three frigates, and the Changshu at the beginning has started radar scanning, so to monitor the actual distance between the enemy and himself, there is no need to hold a telescope, a triangular ruler, a semicircle and other things to write and calculate, just look at the display screen.

In other words, as long as you look at the display, the radar system and computer system will automatically calculate the actual distance between the enemy and yourself, and accurately calculate the speed of the opponent's fleet based on this distance and the change of time.

In the fire control computer, not only will these distance numbers be updated in real time, but also real-time parameters such as wind, humidity, wave roll, etc., which will be continuously adjusted after complex and rapid calculations, so as to ensure the maximum number of first hits and increase the probability of subsequent shelling hits.

Therefore, even if you don't count the technological inferiority of the artillery itself, just looking at these advanced fire control systems, there is no suspense in this surface war before the battle, and unless the Chinese fleet makes a mistake on its own, there is no reason for defeat.

At this moment, not only Mo Haiwen and the other captains are staring at the radar screen, but Li Yongji is also staring at the radar screen, but he abides by his own principle, that is, he obeys the orders of the fleet commander during the water battle, so even if Li Yongji's status is higher, he will not make remarks on tactical command.

Of course, he said that he would not make a statement and let Mo Haiwen play as much as he could, but in case Mo Haiwen commanded blindly, Li Yongji would not let him spoil the fleet he had worked so hard to build. It will definitely be stopped, but at least so far, Mo Haiwen has played quite well, and even in terms of the adaptability of the immediate command, he is even stronger than Li Yongji.

This is not to say that Mo Haiwen's comprehensive quality in naval warfare surpasses Li Yongji, but it is really that Mo Haiwen concentrates on this aspect of learning, and the so-called art industry has a specialization, which is naturally stronger than Li Yongji, who is involved in all aspects.

That is, at the level of naval battles of the XIX century, or at the level of naval battles of the beginning of the twentieth century. Mo Haiwen is already stronger than Li Yongji, but in terms of strategic planning, especially in operational theory, he is still a certain distance from Li Yongji.

In addition, Mo Haiwen's command ability is more based on the high-tech equipment that he is more familiar with his own ships, knows how to use and use these things to his advantage, and if he becomes the admiral of the Western powers again, he uses that old-fashioned ships and equipment. Then his level is at most a third-rate level, belonging to the student level that can't graduate yet, at the very least, he uses the earth method to measure the speed and accuracy of the distance. It is far from being as good as the admirals of other great powers of the era.

However, with advanced weapons and equipment, the old methods are outdated. Mo Haiwen only needs to skillfully use those advanced equipment, seize the fighter in time, and formulate a battle plan. In this respect, Mo Haiwen is quite qualified as a fleet commander.

For example, the plan he is currently formulating to completely annihilate the enemy, and the order to let the opponent get close to two thousand meters before firing, all show that he is a qualified and confident admiral.

The so-called war, in fact, most of the time is not to look at any clever plan, but to see whether you can fully assess the strength of the enemy and us before the war, and then decide whether to fight or not. And when you decide to fight, you can make full use of various methods to maximize your strength, then you are a good general.

In this regard, Mo Haven has done a very good job, although everything he does is decent, but in the current situation where I am strong and the enemy is weak, being decent is the best way.

From five kilometers to two kilometers, a full three kilometers apart, and the speed of the United States ironclad fleet, the instrument shows 10.21 knots, that is, 10.21 knots and 18.91 kilometers per hour.

Of course, this speed is definitely not the real speed of those ironclad ships, because they are upstream, with the wind and water, with bonuses, this speed is reached, if you count the flow rate of the water, the speed of these ironclad ships is between 6 and 7 knots.

But in any case, the speed of 18.91 kilometers per hour is still quite fast, which is equivalent to running more than 300 meters in one minute, in other words, at most ten minutes, the fleet will reach a place two thousand meters away from the Chinese fleet, and this place is the place where the Chinese fleet fires.

Ten minutes is neither long nor short, but it is enough for the officers and men of the first detachment of the task force to adjust their physical and mental state and make all kinds of preparations to enter the battle in the best possible situation.

Soon, eight minutes passed, during which Mo Haiwen still maintained a basic steady, but as the last two minutes came, his palms began to sweat, and the tension became heavier and heavier.

Finally, the last minute came, and through the radar ranging, the light points on the screen showed that the enemy had entered the place of their own shelling, that is, at this time, they were ready to open fire.

However, Mo Haiwen still did not give the order to fire, but instead started a one-minute countdown, asking all the members to cheer up and fire with all their strength after the countdown was over.

Just as the first detachment of the Chinese task force began to wait for the fire to be fired with all its might, as the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, the officers and men of the ironclad fleet of the United States began to be in high spirits.

At this moment, this ironclad fleet was originally not a whole fleet, but a fleet with different scores, but when Grant heard about the fall of New Orleans Harbor, he negotiated with the commanders of the fleets on the Mississippi River to form this ironclad fleet composed of pure ironclad ships.

The purpose of forming this ironclad fleet was not to defend, but to attack, because Grant planned to let this fleet take the lead, followed by a few wooden troop carriers, with 20,000 troops, and then go down the river to retake New Orleans.

Anyway, in Grant's opinion, Vicksburg is already a turtle in an urn, lacking food and ammunition, and he can't escape from his own palm. 50,000 people yourself is enough to surround each other.

However, the port of New Orleans is the mouth of the Mississippi River, and its geographical location is quite important, once the Chinese occupy it, they do not have to do anything, they can continue to transport supplies and continue to transfuse blood for the Union States, so that the United States will lose the significance of blockading the Mississippi River.

And, from the bottom of my heart. Grant does not think that the Chinese are a threat, after all, he has not really dealt with the Chinese army before, and he usually hears some legends, so he does not think that the miserable Chinese army, which was bullied by Westerners before, can have awesome combat effectiveness.

It's just that Grant is more reserved and the commander of the legion, so he has to pay attention to the influence, not as direct as Sherman. A yellow-skinned monkey with its mouth open and closed.

Grant is like this, not to mention the captains of those ironclad ships, they all think that the Chinese are just fakes that take advantage of the situation, even if 20,000 people come. The Americans only need to send 10,000 troops to defeat the Chinese.

Of course, the Chinese's weapons are still quite good, but in the minds of the Americans, it is just that the Chinese copied the design of the Sharps rifle. After all, China's so-called Hua-1 rifle is actually no different from the American Sharps rifle, it is nothing more sophisticated. Even Sharps himself felt that the Chinese were copying his rifle and even filed a protest against China's Ministry of Defense.

There is also the Chinese artillery, which is nothing more than a copy of the 12-pounder Napoleonic gun, which is nothing more sophisticated and lighter, and there is nothing unusual about it.

These Americans don't know that the Chinese weapons they come into contact with are all export versions, that is, deleted versions, and there is still a certain gap between them and the weapons used by the Chinese army, not to mention the automatic weapons of the Praetorian Guard.

In other words, if the Chinese military had not been so strict in its secrecy measures, had been willing to be more open-minded, or had fought head-on with the foreign powers and let the prisoners go back, then the world's impression of the Chinese military would never have been as foggy as it is now.

But the reality is that the Chinese army is full of ordinary weapons, such as imitation Sharps rifles and imitation Napoleon guns, and foreigners are strictly prohibited from visiting, and the weapons also have very strict secrecy measures.

In addition, although China has now opened its doors to reform and open up, it is actually quite different from the real reform and opening up, which leads foreigners to have no idea about the actual situation of China's armed forces.

Not only the army is not clear, but also the Chinese navy and the great powers are also unclear, and they all feel that it is mysterious and abnormal, and the biggest reason for this is the destruction of the Russian expeditionary fleet.

Before, when Russia was at war with China, it once smashed the pot and sold iron to form an expeditionary fleet, during which it also pulled ships such as Britain and France, and then took a Russian army to China to show off its might.

As a result, when they walked almost half the world and finally approached China, they were completely wiped out near the Dongsha Islands!

Note that this is a total annihilation, and not a single ship escaped, everyone is either dead or captured, and the captured prisoners, whether Russians or British, have not been released by the Chinese so far.

If it had been before, this situation would naturally make the great powers angry, but the total annihilation of the Russian expeditionary fleet shocked the great powers too much, and I heard that China had a million army forces, coupled with the increasing trade volume with China, and the increasing dependence on Chinese medicines, so that the Western powers did not dare to act rashly.

Not to mention later, Li Yongji's series of fake photos, the pile of photos of ironclad ships, temporarily frightened the British, and also confused the British, and the British did not dare to act rashly. The British were instigated, and the French did not dare to act rashly.

Not to mention, the Russians fought with the Chinese several times in a row were huge failures, and they also owed a lot of debts for this, plus the vitality of the Crimean War was not restored, and they did not want to start a war with China at this time, so they pinched their noses and agreed to an armistice, and ceded a lot of territory to China.

The Russians are planning to settle accounts with the Chinese, but even the Russians themselves are only thinking about finding a place from the land war, and before that, they are also doing everything possible to inquire about the situation of the Chinese navy, but so far there is still no clue.

Even the European powers could not figure out the situation of the Chinese navy, let alone the United States of America, which is still a second-rate country, at most the second strongest country, and is still in a state of civil war.

That is, since China's previous appearance, especially after the annihilation of the Russian expeditionary fleet, has already shown its power to the world, because the Great Powers are the most realistic. They only look at the results.

It is precisely because China has shown surprising strength, and the process of annihilating the Russian expeditionary fleet is still a mystery, and because China is now developing too rapidly, so the world's mainstream powers have a cautious attitude towards China, and they are also afraid of the Chinese army.

For example, Britain agreed to join forces with the Chinese to intervene in the American civil war, which of course had Britain's own interests, but it also had the purpose of observing Chinese power, because they wanted to see what the state of the Chinese army was, and once the Chinese army was at war with the United States. A lot of things can't be hidden.

After confirming the true strength of the Chinese army, including the army and navy, the British Empire will readjust its strategic deployment in Asia, so this cooperation with China, Britain was originally ill-intentioned, otherwise, it would not have declared war so far, and it has never really moved against the United States. It's still about deterrence.

However, the fear of China is mainly the business of the upper politicians of various countries, but for the following. In particular, those military officers in the United States of America still have a condescending attitude toward China.

As mentioned earlier, the current United States is at best second-strong. Don't look at the fun in the Americas, but even if you add the Union countries, the total population of this country is only 50 million. At best, it is a regional power, far from the world powers, at least not like Britain and France, which have colonies all over the world.

Because of this, most Americans' understanding of China is actually very one-sided, especially in the eastern region, and the general impression of Chinese is still based on hearsay.

Just like General Grant, the size is also a high-ranking officer, but even he, now he still thinks that the Chinese are all braided, and they kneel at every turn. As for those Chinese businessmen wearing suits and ties in the United States, they are generally considered to be special cases among Chinese, and they are the customs of Chinese after entering the United States, or pretending to be civilized, and do not represent the majority of China.

There are a lot of people who think about it, and of course it's because of their racist ideas, or white supremacy ideas.

In today's United States, don't look at the civil war for whether to keep slaves or not, but in fact, at the root, it is not for the freedom of those black slaves at all, but after all, it is still for the sake of the conflict of interests, the war between the emerging industrial bourgeoisie and the old estate owners, and even the war between the Republicans and the Democratic Party.

Lincoln's so-called "Emancipation Proclamation" is not to be seen as fanciful and lofty in content, but it is fundamentally aimed at increasing cheap labor for the industrial bourgeoisie and to combat the shackles of the manor economy on labor.

Therefore, the emancipation of black slaves is essentially a war between two groups of white vested interests, and the so-called emancipated blacks are only incidental, of course, this is indeed a progress.

But no matter what, at this time, regardless of the north and south of the United States, the mainstream ideology is white supremacy, even if black people are free, they are still an inferior race, and a normal white person will not be on an equal footing with black people.

Since they look down on blacks, so do yellow people, and white Americans also have little affection for yellow-skinned Chinese, and still think that they are inferior, but slightly better than blacks.

It is precisely because of the contempt and contempt in the bones of the Americans that they never think that the Chinese army is anything great, or has any combat effectiveness, even if the Chinese are said to have very advanced muskets and artillery.

In the military of the United States, especially in the minds of people like Sherman, even if the Chinese learn to use rifles and artillery, they will at most bully the natives, and the real face of the brave and fearless white American troops will definitely collapse.

It is based on this idea that after Grant heard that the Chinese attacked the port of New Orleans, although he attached great importance to it, he also thought of trying his best to recapture New Orleans, but he did not really take the Chinese seriously.

After all, in his opinion, the defenders of the port of New Orleans supported 5,000 deaths, and in the face of more than 20,000 Chinese troops, but also the Chinese of the Grand Fleet, defeat was also a matter of course.

In the same way, now seeing that the Chinese are actually coming so soon, the ironclad fleet of the United States feels provoked, so it is so eager to attack it, just hoping to teach the Chinese a hard lesson here and sink these strange ships of the Chinese.

Otherwise, the ignorant are fearless, precisely because they have never fought with the Chinese before. I don't know the strength of the Chinese, especially the Chinese Navy, so they are so big, they even dispatched sixteen ships, with a long snake formation, rushing straight over, clearly planning to play close shooting after rushing closer.

It's a pity that they are destined to hit the iron plate this time, and the performance of the ship is not good, and they still play this kind of long snake formation and active attack, and they really don't know how to die.

Time passed like this, second by second. When there were only ten seconds left, Mo Haven gave the final order to prepare for shooting, and all the gunners began to stop breathing, waiting for the final moment to fire.

Finally, the last second passed, and without waiting for Mo Haiwen to speak, the artillery shooters of each ship spontaneously opened fire, and the emotions that had been held for a long time were also fired out along with the cannon fire.

With the sound of this rumbling artillery fire. It's officially the start of this Mississippi River encounter!

The first to suffer was the fiercest to attack, and at the head of the fleet was the St. Paul.

This ironclad USS St. Paul is the same as the USS Virginia of the Confederate States. It is a typical conversion ship, that is, just a steam-powered wooden ship converted into an ironclad ship.

Because the overall structure is still the original wooden steam paddle steamer ship, the gun method is not a complex rotating turret, but a side gun.

Other words. The St. Paul's ironclad was actually a hasty project, which simply removed the superstructure of the original wooden steamship and covered the surface of the hull with five layers of ironclad. There is still a gap with a real ironclad battleship.

However, the displacement of this battleship is not small, after adding ironclad, it is 1,200 tons, plus this ship has 4 32-pounder guns and 8 24-pounder guns, so that the firepower of this ship is also quite strong.

In the previous siege of Vicksburg, this St. Paul played a very important role, it was this ship, with its 32-pounder and 24-pounder guns, blew up two batteries in Vicksburg in succession, established a lot of feats, and because of this, this ship was able to grab a pioneer position.

You must know that in this era, the first ship to be the first is a great honor, even if you don't get anything in battle, as long as you are the first, you can still be rewarded for your merits.

It's a pity that this time this fierce ironclad ship didn't even have a chance to fire, and was hit by four 100 mm caliber armor-piercing shells at the same time.

It should be said that the thickness of the iron armor on the São Paulo is still quite good, this ship is covered with a total of five layers of iron armor, and the thickness of each layer of iron armor has reached 2.5 mm, which is 12.5 mm thick, and because it is layered iron armor and made an inclined plane, it is theoretically stronger than the general 12.5 mm iron plate.

At this thickness, it is difficult for an ordinary gun, even if it is a 24-pounder gun, to break this layer of iron armor lightly, even if a 32-pounder gun, as long as it is not too close and hits the weak part, it is generally not a threat to this ship, and it is because of this that this ship is so bold to take the lead.

However, although the tonnage of the four frigates of the task force is not too large, they are all equipped with H/PJ-87 single-barreled 100 mm naval guns, which have a rate of fire of 90 rounds per minute, and the muzzle velocity of the shells when fired is 870 meters per second, and the maximum firing range against sea targets is 17.5 kilometers, and the effective firing distance is 12 kilometers.

With this kind of artillery attack, even if you don't use armor-piercing shells, just ordinary blasting shells, you can easily tear apart the iron armor on the São Paulo, not to mention that for the sake of insurance, they use armor-piercing shells.

Four-shot cannon. After the shell hit the São Paulo, the shells shredded all the exterior iron armor of the São Paulo, penetrated directly into the interior of the ship, and continuously penetrated multiple compartments until the bottom compartment of the ship, and then delayed the fuse to cause a large explosion.

This kind of explosion triggered from the inside immediately paralyzed the entire São Paulo, after all, the São Paulo is essentially a wooden ship, but the exterior is covered with iron armor. Now the shell drilled into it and exploded, blowing up all the keels and other parts in one fell swoop, but this time, the St. Paul was completely saved and sank directly.

The sinking of the São Paulo was the first, but not the last, and because the São Paulo was the first ship to take the lead, the sinking of this ship soon affected the operation of the ships behind it, forcing the ships behind to carry out evasive maneuvers.

However, soon, there were many explosions around the ironclad ship behind for a moment, indicating that it was bathed in a very dense rain of bullets.

In fact, this was also a mistake by the Chinese task force, because the four frigates not only fired 100 mm main guns at the same time, but even 37 mm secondary guns also fired, and although this increased the density of fire, it affected the shooting accuracy of the main guns, so the guide made a splash, but did not hit.

However, the Changshu was the first to notice the problem, and they began to turn off the shooting of the 37 mm secondary guns, and instead concentrated on firing with the 100 mm naval guns, and the rate of fire was also maintained at the rate of 30 shells a minute, basically one shell per two seconds.

Sure enough, after making this adjustment, the accuracy of the guns immediately increased, and another ironclad ship was blown up, which was a small ironclad with a displacement of 900 tons slightly behind.

The Changshu quickly used the radio to convey this problem to all the ships behind, and the three frigates behind immediately adjusted the firing plan, concentrating on firing with 100 mm automatic naval guns, and maintaining a rate of fire of 2 seconds per shot, and each ship selected a target, little by little, and must pursue shooting accuracy.

As a result, the firing accuracy of the four frigates immediately improved greatly, from less than 20 percent to 40 percent at once, and they could basically hit one or two shots with five or six rounds.

In this case, the losses of the United States Navy rose sharply, and in a short time, six of the sixteen ironclad ships were damaged and sunk, and the rest of the ships were also panicked, some continued to rush forward, some turned back, some fired back, and some anchored, in short, it was a chaos.

Taking advantage of his illness and asking for his life, when the ironclad ships of the United States were in chaos as a whole, the first detachment of the task force went crazy, and the gunners became more and more proficient in firing their guns, and the hit rate was getting higher and higher.

In the end, even the troop carriers and supply ships behind were not willing to be lonely, and most of them operated the Type 59 57mm anti-aircraft guns on board and fired indiscriminately at the front.

The maximum firing range of the Type 59 57 mm anti-aircraft guns is 12 kilometers, which is no problem to deal with targets two kilometers away, and although these guns do not have advanced gun sighting systems, but at this distance, they are almost the same with visual sight, and the rate of fire also makes up for the gap in shooting accuracy, and so many ships behind, firing with 57 mm anti-aircraft guns at the same time, it is really a rain of bullets, and the fleet of the United States is blinded.

In this way, under the accurate fire of the four modern frigates and the indiscriminate bombardment of a large number of 57-mm anti-aircraft guns, the 16 ironclad ships that rushed fiercely were hit one after another, and all but two of them surrendered voluntarily and were saved from death, and the entire battle lasted only 48 minutes.

In forty-eight minutes, he won a battle on the water, which is unique and incredible in this era.

But how to say it, this is the victory of science and technology, the victory of asymmetric warfare, the kind of bullets raining down, can only be beaten and cannot fight back, and no one can stand it.

Therefore, this result may not be incomprehensible to the Americans, but it can only be taken for granted and there is nothing strange about the naval officers and men of the task force who have often exercised in this way in the past. (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)