778 Dreadnought Class
The decisive battle between the British fleet and the Chinese fleet was about to break out.
The Dynasty-class battleship informed the location of the British fleet to the Hell-class submarines, and Qin Hui immediately led eight Hell-class submarines to sail towards the British fleet.
At this time, the British fleet, dreadnought-class battleships and large cruisers were each lined up in a line formation, of which the large cruisers were behind the dreadnought-class battleships, allowing the dreadnought-class battleships to show their guns and bombard the Chinese fleet.
For the Hell-class submarines, there is only a short period of time to attack the British fleet, because after the attack of the Hell-class submarines is launched, the Dynasty-class battleships and the Emperor-class cruisers will also approach the British fleet and launch an attack, and the rocket explosions of the Dynasty-class battleships are extremely powerful, and if they fall in the water, it is easy to cause accidental damage to the Hell-class submarines.
Eight Hell-class submarines approached the Dreadnought-class battleship, and the simple sonar equipped on the Dreadnought-class battleship heard the sound of the Hell-class submarine, and the Dreadnought-class battleship suddenly realized that there was a submarine from the Huaxia fleet approaching, and Commander Fisher immediately ordered the British fleet to conduct anti-submarine warfare.
As soon as the order was given, the four large cruisers immediately took advantage of their maneuverability and circled the rear of the line of dreadnought-class battleships, and the large cruisers also had simple sonar on them, and they could also hear underwater movements.
The large cruiser was armed with twelve 76-mm rapid-fire guns, and the shells of these rapid-fire guns were not weak, hitting in the water and exploding in the water, which was enough to inflict a certain amount of damage on the submarine.
The large cruisers probably heard the direction of the submarines of the Chinese fleet and fired shells in that direction, and some large cruisers dropped depth charges, and under the blow of the British fleet, a hell-class submarine was injured and had to withdraw from the battle.
The Hell-class submarine heard the explosion from time to time and decided to attack immediately, the Hell-class submarine locked on to the target with sonar and fired tiger shark torpedoes, white waterlines crossed the sea, and three large cruisers were hit by tiger shark torpedoes and sank into the sea.
The battle of the Hell-class submarine sank three large cruisers, and at this time the Dynasty-class battleship was already less than 30,000 meters away from the Dreadnought-class battleship, and the battleship duel was about to break out, and the Hell-class submarine immediately withdrew from the battlefield.
Before the duel between the Dynasty-class battleships and the Dreadnought-class battleships, the large cruisers and the Emperor-class cruisers first started a battle, and the large cruisers outflanked the Dynasty-class battleships, wanting to flank the Dynasty-class battleships with the Dreadnought-class battleships, but the Emperor-class cruisers certainly could not let the British fleet succeed, so they went forward to block the large cruisers, and the two sides launched artillery bombardments on the sea.
Although the large cruisers of the British fleet were more combat-capable than the Emperor-class cruisers, three of them were sunk by the Hell-class submarines, so they were evenly matched with the Emperor-class cruisers of the Chinese fleet.
While the large cruisers were engaged in the battle with the Great Emperor-class cruisers, the distance between the Dynasty-class battleships and the Dreadnought-class battleships gradually narrowed to 20,000 meters.
The Dynasty-class battleships learned the lesson of the last defeat and increased the distance of firing rockets to 15,000 kilometers, striving to damage the enemy before the enemy opened fire, and a single salvo could inflict a large number of damage on the Dreadnought-class battleships.
In terms of numbers, there were eight Dynasty-class battleships, while there were only six Dreadnought-class battleships, and the Huaxia fleet had the advantage.
The distance finally came to 15,000 kilometers, Liu Daming gave an order, and eight Dynasty-class battleships launched rockets together, each Dynasty-class battleship carried 120 rockets, 60 on the port side, 60 on the starboard side, and 8 Dynasty-class battleships could rain 480 rockets on the enemy at one time.
Four hundred and eighty, this number is enough to make up for the lack of accuracy.
The sound of "whirring" rockets sounded on the Dynasty-class battleship, and dazzling tail flames flew over the Dynasty-class battleship, and the entire Dynasty-class battleship was shrouded in smoke from the launch......
On the Dreadnought-class battleship in the distance, Commander Fisher and many British sailors had seen such a spectacular rocket launch scene for the first time, and they had also seen the rocket launch of a Dynasty-class battleship before, but that time it was a single Dynasty-class battleship, which was not spectacular at all.
The rockets drew a graceful arc in the sky and landed beside the dreadnought-class battleships, raising columns of water, some of which smashed directly into the dreadnought-class battleships, detonating with a bang, and after the explosion, they would ignite a sky-high fire.
Commander Fisher's battleship was none other than the Dreadnought, and the Dreadnought was also hit by a rocket, which exploded on the aft deck, and the entire aft turret was blown out and fell heavily into the sea, but fortunately it did not cause the ammunition depot to explode, otherwise the entire battleship would have been scrapped.
Commander Fisher looked at the whistling rockets and was so surprised that he couldn't say a word......
Just as Commander Fisher was taken aback, two Dreadnought-class battleships sent a report: "Our ship has lost its combat effectiveness and must withdraw from the battle." ”
There were only six Dreadnought-class battleships left under Commander Fisher, and if two more were to withdraw from the battle, there would be only four Dreadnought-class battleships left that could fight, and Commander Fisher did not want them to withdraw from the battle, but they were too seriously injured, and Commander Fisher had no choice but to agree to their request to withdraw from the battle.
The two Dreadnought-class battleships then retreated to the northwest, but unfortunately, the Hell-class submarines were cruising in that direction and spotted two Dreadnought-class battleships approaching, and they were so excited that they immediately fired Tiger Shark torpedoes and sank them.
The rocket rain of the Dynasty-class battleships rained down for five minutes, and the two Dreadnought-class battleships were injured and withdrew from the battle, and the remaining four Dreadnought-class battleships were all damaged, and the combat effectiveness was seriously damaged, but Commander Fisher did not order a retreat, but ordered the Dreadnought-class battleships to continue to approach the Dreadnought-class battleships and fight a decisive battle with them.
The reason why Commander Fisher gave such an order was mainly because he was very confident in the sinking resistance and firepower of the Dreadnought-class battleships, after all, the Dreadnought-class battleships were large warships with a displacement of 20,000 tons, and the displacement was 10,000 tons more than the Dynasty-class battleships.
The dreadnought-class battleships continued to approach the dynasty-class battleships, and the distance of 12,000 kilometers was instantaneous, and the dreadnought-class battleships opened fire one after another, but the four dreadnought-class battleships were killed by rockets, and there were only twelve heavy guns left that could shoot.
The shock wave generated by the explosion of the rocket shattered the sighting devices one after another, and the British sailors had to aim visually, resulting in a serious misalignment of the shells, not to mention the formation of a straddle shot, and none of them fell within two hundred meters of the Dynasty-class battleships.
The distance soon came to eight thousand meters, which was within the range of the guns of the Dynasty-class battleships, and eight battleships, forty-eight 280-mm heavy guns, opened fire one after another, and after three salvos, the shells formed a straddle fire, and then the shells fell on the Dreadnought-class battleships.
400 mm rockets kicked the door, 280 mm ship guns swept away, Lin Fei's pre-war idea has become a reality today.
The two dreadnought-class battleships "Brave" and "Fearless" were hit by several shells, and the two dreadnought-class battleships were seriously injured by rockets, but now they were hit by shells again, and they suddenly could not support them and sank into the sea.
In the blink of an eye, there were only two Dreadnought-class battleships left, one was the Dreadnought, where Commander Fisher was, and the other was the dying "Fortitude", of which the Tenacity had lost power and reluctantly hoisted the flag of "our ship has lost power".
This kind of flag can actually be seen as a kind of surrender signal, the battleship has no power, it is almost like death, but the Huaxia battleship ignored its surrender signal and directly fired a series of shells, sinking it.
Commander Fisher, seeing that the Dreadnought-class battleship was left alone, reluctantly ordered a retreat.
Where to retreat, Singapore will definitely not be able to go, Commander Fisher is out of his own hands, and if he goes back now, he will definitely be ridiculed to death by Sir Thiamham, so Commander Fisher decided to go to Siam to hide.
Commander Fisher sent a message to the large cruiser formation to retreat to Siam, the battle of the large cruiser was still quite smooth, sinking two Emperor-class cruisers, but only one of himself was sunk and one was damaged, even so, Commander Fisher did not dare to let the large cruiser continue to fight, because the Dynasty-class battleships had completed the annihilation of the Dreadnought-class battleships, and they could go to support the Emperor-class cruisers at any time, and then the large cruisers would only be defeated.
Commander Fisher led the fleet to retreat in the direction of Siam, and the Chinese fleet did not catch up, because in the battle just now, they were also damaged, and there were not enough shells.
Commander Fisher led a dreadnought-class battleship and four large cruisers to Siam, thinking that the Siamese Emperor Chulalong would come to greet him warmly, but he did not expect to wait for the heavily armed Siamese soldiers, who surrounded Commander Fisher's battleship and informed Commander Fisher that, in accordance with international practice, Commander Fisher's battleship was temporarily detained.
The large-caliber artillery salvo fire control system and steam turbine technology on the dreadnought-class battleships were top secret, and Commander Fisher could not tolerate them falling into the hands of the Siamese, so he ordered his subordinates to scuttle the Dreadnought, and in this way, the eight Dreadnought-class battleships on the expedition to the Chinese Empire were all sunk.
Commander Fisher and a group of sailors were properly taken care of by the Siamese Emperor Chulalongkorn, and Lin Fei did not ask Chulalongkorn for these people, because Lin Fei understood that once he asked for it, Chulalongkorn would not dare not give it, and once Chulalongkorn gave it, it would mean that Siam had completely fallen to China, which Chulalongkorn did not want to see.
Since Chulalongkorn didn't want to do this, then Lin Fei didn't need to be reluctant. (Canghai shared the writing story on the WeChat public platform, please search on WeChat - qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, reply 2 to watch)