"The brothers above, look at the point, whether the battle of the Beiyang Fast Fleet can end perfectly depends on you." An officer sneered at several of his colleagues as they walked into the hot air balloon.

"Okay, Li Laosan, hurry up and try it." A man with a telescope in his left hand said dissatisfiedly.

"Hurry up, time is pressing, come down to give you merit and reward silver. Lord Xu never hesitates to reward meritorious servicemen. Maybe you Zhang Yun can become the captain of the Beiyang Fleet Balk Team in the future. The officer said with a smile.

"What captain? It's not uncommon! The master thought that standing high and seeing far away could better see how the devil died, so he agreed to go to the balloon. Silver and official positions are floating clouds. "Which person named Zhang Yun has a look of disdain." But if you really give me a few hundred taels of silver and an official position, I can't shirk it, right? The last sentence of the last sentence caused the audience to laugh.

So in a burst of laughter, a huge hot air balloon flew into the sky, and there was a thick rope tied to it! Eventually, the balloon came to a halt at an altitude of 60 meters above sea level, and subsequently, several more ropes were thrown from the balloon, which were then fixed to the preset hooks on the boat by the people below. In this way, the entire observation platform is basically stable.

"Ready to get started." Looking at the hot air balloon over the Lushun, Xu Jie was very proud. If the battleships he designed plagiarized the work of some people, then it was original to build this balloon observation post himself. At least in Xu Jie's cognition, no one did this before 1900!!

"Fire!" Accompanied by repeated commands to fire. The Beiyang Rapid Fleet has finally launched its first attack on the Japanese mainland! And the Yokosuka shipyard will also come to the end of its life! Japan's only state-built shipyard, which built 5 unprotected cruisers and 2 protected cruisers, will be reduced to ashes today!

(书书屋.shushu5.fastest update.shushu5.) The first to be attacked was the large dock of the Yokosuka shipyard. This dock is sufficient to repair all warships in the Far East, including the Rurik, and is comparable in scale to the Beiyang Arthur dockyard. In addition to the dock itself, there is also a supporting power station, irrigation and drainage system next to it. Machinery room and lifting equipment and other related facilities. All of this adds up to a rectangular area more than 400 meters long and 300 meters wide. As long as you can get shells into this area, you can definitely inflict losses!

Although it is far away, it hits such a huge and stationary target. The accuracy will not be much worse. Besides, isn't there a hot air balloon observation post in the air to provide corrections? The initial firing was mainly test firing, and the rate of fire of the ships was not very fast. It stops after 3 rounds per gun, and then adjusts its shooting parameters according to the signal on the balloon.

And with constant adjustments, the accuracy of the artillery began to gradually increase. With the main body and core of the dock, more and more shells fell around the dock and its appendages. 227kg of 10-inch shells and 100kg of 8-inch shells constantly exploded in the dock. The large amount of goods ignited by the picric acid charge spread along various pipes in all directions. Suddenly, a 10-inch shell accurately hit a pumping station next to the dock! The huge explosion directly destroyed this key facility responsible for irrigation and drainage! Then the uncontrolled sea water quickly rushed through the pipe into the dock. The surging currents directly submerged the technicians who were maintaining the dock at the bottom. Most of them drowned, and a few were abandoned by the huge current, and then fell heavily on the walls of the dock, leaving a bloody red trail on them!

The fire in the dock section quickly spiraled out of control, and not only because of the high flammability of the picric acid explosives. The various wires and flammable materials next to the dock also contributed to it! Printed wires and timber turned the entire dockyard into a sea of fire. Before the water jet from the fire hose fell on the fire, it was blown by the rising hot air! Under the action of the sea breeze, the fire spread to the surrounding area, and a large number of bamboo and wood originally prepared for ship repair became the best fuel! (After the ship entered the dry dock, it was necessary to hold the ship against the ship with a bamboo donkey to maintain balance, as was the case with the maintenance of Japanese warships during the Russo-Japanese naval war.) ）…,

Finally, the support of the heavy crane next to the dock could not stand the long-term burning of the fire, and the strength of the support was rapidly reduced, and in a cracking sound, the huge support finally broke, and one section was heavily damaged in the dock. Smash the dockyard door to pieces. At this point, the Yokosuka Shipyard dock has no practical value!

And this was just the beginning, and with a crackling sound, the fire spread over the material storage area to the machining area of the Yokosuka shipyard. And with the complete completion of the dockyard, the Beiyang Rapid Fleet is also preparing to turn its artillery to the key departments of the Yokosuka shipyard, such as the forging shop, the power shop and the boiler building shop.

"Lord Xu, the observer on the balloon asks to stop the shelling!" At this moment, an officer pointed to a balloon hanging over the Lushun and said. "What else does the guy up there seem to be saying?"

"Hurry up and ask to understand, we have to hurry up and work, time is tight and the task is heavy!!" Xu Jie said half-jokingly.

The man said that, judging by the shelling just now, the effective range of the 10-inch and 8-inch guns seemed to cover the harbor next to the Yokosuka shipyard, which had a large number of ships waiting to sail. They suggested blowing up the port first. In the middle of the ring, an officer pushed open the door to the command room and said.

"If we use all the heavy artillery shells in the harbor at such a long distance, will we be able to complete the attack on the industrial area of the Yokosuka shipyard? Is there enough ammunition? Luang Weili said.

"Actually, according to the distance estimate just now, the 6-inch gun may also be able to reach the factory area of the Yokosuka Shipyard, and the factory area is generally plant and equipment, and there are no hard targets." Xu Jie agrees with the observers.

"But the 6-inch gun is a gallery gun, and the elevation angle of the gun is only 19 degrees! The maximum range is just over 10km. Lang Weili shook his head and said.

"Although the range of the 6-inch gun gallery gun is not enough because of the elevation angle, don't forget, the 6-inch gun of the Tianjin is a turret gun, and the elevation angle reaches 40 degrees, which can completely send the shells into the field! In terms of coordination, the remaining 10-inch heavy guns and 8-inch heavy guns are estimated to be enough. Xu Jie couldn't help but feel proud in his heart, fortunately he made the secondary gun turret when designing the PISA, otherwise it would be a big loss today.

"In that case, I'm afraid we'll have to do it again the next day, and we'll need to transfer the other 6-inch shells to the Tientsin overnight." Luang Weili said.

Now that the top of the fleet has agreed. Then the targets of the attack of the entire fleet naturally shifted to the military ports and those ships in the military ports. If it is said that hitting a ship with heavy artillery at such a distance will basically not hit, in that era when rangefinders were not yet widespread and there was no fire control, the normal combat distance was only 3km. Bombing a target 8 kilometers away from a piece of land is basically the same as a blind attack.

However, everything has to be done in mind. Actually, even if those ships are stationary! In Japanese ships, where fire-tube boilers are popular, if a ship wants to start a fire, it will not be able to move at all for more than 3 hours, and the boiler must first be ignited and then steam can be accumulated. It can only move when the steam reaches a certain level. (1) In wartime, it takes about 40 minutes for a battleship to catch fire and set sail.) I forgot the specific source——! So you can't go if you want to! Moreover, there are so many ships in Yokosuka Port that it is inevitable that they will not be hit, even if they can't hit the ship. By the way, you can bomb the port again.

In the spirit of the instruction that hitting the shells in the harbor is a victory and that as many as they can be blown up, the Beiyang Rapid Fleet, which aims to connect with long-distance shelling, has raised the elevation angle of the main guns by about 5 degrees! Then, under the correction of the hot air balloon observation post, the rain of bullets began to be sent to the transport ships and shore facilities in Yokosuka Harbor that could not even move! …,

"Those bastards of the Combined Fleet are all national thieves!" In the face of shells, the Japanese in Yokosuka Port were in a mess, flying shrapnel, flames and poisonous smoke kept harvesting the lives in the port, and the people who fled in all directions were concentrated by the flying shrapnel from time to time, and the blood and scattered minced meat mixed with screams filled the entire port area. Turned the entire port of Yokosuka into a Shura field. And the bigger disaster came from the various materials piled up on the port yards. Under the influence of the sea breeze, the fire spread everywhere and eventually burned all kinds of flammable goods such as grain, textiles and cotton that were piled up on the freight yard. Often, when the tongue of fire touches a little, a multi-ton pile of goods can turn into a burning torch in just a few minutes!

Many people have seen people running outdoors being killed by debris that came from nowhere. Some people think they are smart and run to the inside of the warehouse or house, while others choose the basement as a place to take refuge. But alas, the facts tell these people that their ideas are outrageously wrong!

Houses and warehouses can naturally withstand shrapnel, but how can an ordinary-built house withstand a direct hit from a shell? Even if one load-bearing wall is damaged, the whole house may collapse. Add to that the abundance of wooden furniture and textiles in the house, and once a little picric acid explosive is stained with high flammability, the whole house will be turned into an oven in an instant! Everything inside is the finest combustible! The heat flame can kill the occupants of the house in a short time! Even if you are lucky enough to escape from the fire area, the toxic gas after the combustion of picric acid and the lack of oxygen in the air will be a murderous and bloodless existence.

The pain of being killed by shrapnel is only a momentary matter, but those who are burned to death or poisoned by poison gas will be extremely painful while waiting to die. They tried in vain to knock on the walls with any tool they could find, trying to knock open an opening to breathe in the fresh air outside, but often the worst result was just to make death come sooner, because of the vigorous exercise and inhaling more poisonous gas and hot air, causing incurable damage to the respiratory tract, and finally there was only a dead end!

And with the spread of the fire, the area of the fire has even exceeded the Yokosuka Port area and spread to the urban area! But this can't be helped, who let the Japanese houses at that time were made of wood, with such a good chopping wood and arranging tools, the fire is not big but abnormal!!

Thank you to the book friend Kongchen...... The monthly pass support of the Chinese Tiger Benjun and other book friends ~~. Today the author got up and took a look, I damn it! There were 100+ fewer subscriptions in the first two days, isn't this a cheat——! Guys, this is a tragedy——! (To be continued) RQ