For this battle, the Chinese Consulate Navy attaches great importance to it. Navy Commander Liu Junguo personally went out on his way, and at this time he was standing in the command tower of the 'Lanting' and observing the enemy situation on the opposite side with a telescope.

Seeing that the other party had unfolded the formation, Liu Junguo smiled and said, "Send a signal to Zhang Haiyang and act according to the plan." At this time, Zhang Haiyang, the chief of staff, was in the cruiser's leading ship 'Baoshan', when he received a telegram from Liu Junguo, and he smiled and said: "Order the entire cruiser fleet to turn the rudder, and we will go around." ”

The two fleets gradually approached, and the Cossack expeditionary fleet was lined up in four rows, with twelve ironclads in the middle two rows and up to twenty-five cruisers in the two rows on either side.

This was the traditional formation of naval operations, and in terms of the formation, Marshal Baglamilyan's command could be described as decent, and there were no major mistakes or omissions, which fully demonstrated the excellent quality of a seasoned commander, and the military attaches of various countries who watched the battle nodded their heads again and again.

With such a numerical advantage, a decent arrangement was a wise choice, and in their opinion, as long as there were no surprises, the Cossack navy was sure to win.

The modest arrangement of troops was not suitable for the Chinese Navy, and at this moment they were lined up in two columns, one column was the battlefleet, and the other was the cruiser fleet that began to accelerate its detour.

Seeing the formation of the Cossacks, Liu Junguo smiled and said: "It seems that the actual combat experience of the Cossack Navy is indeed insufficient, and it actually uses such an ancient formation to fight against me, the thinking is rigid, and the formation arrangement is in vain." Let's give him a solid lesson and tell them that this is not how warships in the new era are played. ”

"The fleet is left with full rudders." The distance between the two fleets was still seven kilometers, and Liu Junguo ordered the fleet to turn, and he wanted to seize the T-shaped position.

At this time, the effective range of the largest caliber naval guns of ironclad ships is generally only about three kilometers, so many countries follow the so-called attack line of shooting at a distance of three kilometers.

It's a pity that they forget that technology is advancing, and things are changing.

Since the use of the hydraulic pipe system and the new gun steel, the Chinese Leader has not only equipped the 'Lanting' class battleships with 330 mm guns, but the most important thing is that the diameter of these main guns is not the usual 30 times the diameter or 35 times the diameter but 45 times the diameter.

With such a high double diameter shell, the firing range of the shell was naturally extended, not to mention the fact that the Chinese Consulate used a new firing charge, which made the range of the battleship's main guns long beyond the common sense of these so-called military experts.

Before Marshal Bagramian could say anything to ridicule the ignorance of his opponents, the four Ranting-class battleships had already completed their turn, and in the fire control command room where the main guns were directed, gunners and observers began to use various instruments to measure distances and wind speeds.

With two successive 'booms', two calibration shells were fired, one of which fell into the sea less than fifty meters from the bow of the flagship of the Cossack expeditionary fleet, the Gangut.

"It's a near miss." The military attaché of the Saar Imperial Navy, who was standing on the watching ship, exclaimed, they never thought that the main guns of the Chinese Navy's range were so far.

If the Chinese Territory has fifty ships, not only ten such powerful warships, the title of the first navy in the world of the Saar Empire can change hands.

Equally astonished were military attachés from other countries and Marshal Baglamyan. Just when they were shocked by the ultra-long range of the opponent just now, the fire control rooms of each ship had already completed the ballistic correction, and another salvo was fired, this time sixteen main guns opened fire at the same time.

Dense shells exploded around the ships of the Cossack fleet, stirring up huge columns of water, and three shells quickly paid off, two old cruisers and one old ironclad ship were hit.

The 330-millimeter shells were not enough for a small 2,000-ton cruiser, and the two cruisers, one with the bow cut off, the other in two, began to sink.

Only the ironclad ship barely sank, but it had tilted into the water and had to withdraw from the battle.

There were three results in a single round of shelling, although thanks to the Cossacks' naïve use of the ancient dense formations, but also due to the accuracy of the artillery of the Chinese Navy and the installation of optical sights in the batteries.

The battleships of the Chinese Collar had a powerful main gun and an extremely high rate of fire, which left a deep impression on the naval attachés of the visiting countries. Military attachés from various countries who watched the battle took out their notebooks and wrote down the following sentence: "The key to victory in a naval battle lies in the need for larger-tonnage ironclad ships, so that the enemy can be killed with larger-caliber guns." ”

Colonel Mahan, the Imperial Military Attache of Boston, who was also watching the battle from a warship, wrote differently from others, he simply wrote this sentence in his notebook: "The axiom is only within the range of the ship's guns." ”

Later, this sentence was written into his book "On Sea Power", and because of the success of this book, Colonel Mahan later became the object of pursuit of various powers for a long time, and his writings and ideas also became the ideological indicators of military building of the navies of various countries.

After a round of artillery bombardment, Marshal Bagramian found that his thinking was a little simpler, and he immediately ordered the fleet to spread out a little in order to reduce the threat of fire coverage from the opponent, and at the same time ordered the ships to speed up, hoping to use their own naval guns to threaten the other side after closing the distance.

Unmoved, the Chinese lead fleet continued to shell the enemy from its side, and as the opponent's speed increased and the formation had dispersed, the results of the next few rounds of shelling were much smaller, and only two cruisers were heavily damaged.

As soon as he entered the maximum firing range of five kilometers, Marshal Baglamyan immediately ordered the front main guns of all warships to start firing. It's not that he doesn't know that at such a distance, his own artillery won't produce much results, but if he can't fight back after being beaten all the time, the damage to morale is too great.

Now your artillery range can barely reach the opponent's warship, and even if it can't deal effective damage, it can interfere with the opponent's line of sight and reduce your own losses.

Under the order of Marshal Baglamyan, the main guns of the Cossack Navy began to roar together, and columns of water suddenly burst out around the ships of the Chinese Consulate, but the four battleships remained unmoved.

The range of the opponent's artillery is not enough, and the shells reach this distance, even if they hit the hull, they have no armor-piercing kinetic energy. Such a non-threatening attack, Liu Junguo did not take it to heart.

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