Moreover, now the devils have begun to frantically build field airfields in Weihai, Luda, and Incheon; once all of them are built, it is not impossible to accommodate more than 1,000 or even 3,500 aircraft; at that time, even if the new Soviet-aided air force is in place and forms combat effectiveness, I am afraid that Qingdao will not be able to be saved, and the Chinese people's navy, which has been built up with great difficulty, will immediately face the danger of premature death. ,!

What particularly troubled Hu Weidong was that as long as those two huge ships were present, it would be impossible for him to adopt the simplest solution -- to directly send the army over to recapture Weihaiwei, because the army's artillery could not damage the two giant ships at all, and the main guns of the two giant ships were enough to inflict heavy casualties on the army. On the contrary, the Japanese army could continue to send additional land forces to Weihai under the protection of two huge ships, once the number was piled up to a much greater extent than that of the 15th Army (the devils in the coastal areas were very convenient to replenish, and the troops were easy to pile up. Not to mention that Qingdao cannot be saved, I am afraid that most of the lost territory that the 15th Army had worked so hard to recover before will fall to the Japanese again in a period of time

"By the way, Navy, it doesn't seem that there is no way at all?" , Hu Weidong suddenly had an idea, although the crew of Dingyuan and Zhiyuan are still very unskilled, but the two most basic tasks of firing guns and sailing (to be precise, just walking in a straight line are very skilled), and the radar soldiers and naval gun commanders on the ship are experts who have been honed in the army as early as possible, and considering the 240 main guns on the Zhiyuan ship with a long range, it seems that there is a way to try, and no matter how many big results can be, it is also haode to hit the morale of the Japanese army and use this to train the troops. Of course. The more important reason is that the scouts reported that although the enemy's warships were all moored in Weihaiwei Harbor, they attached great importance to the vigilance work, laid down mine protection nets, and two huge ships were moored inside, and destroyers and other small and medium-sized ships were parked outside, not to mention destroyers that were not easy to conceal, even if they were small torpedo boats. It is also almost impossible to get a chance to sneak up on two giant ships

"Do you mean to take advantage of the 240 long-range cannon and the fast speed of the Zhiyuan, so that the enemy's warships will be beaten and unable to fight back? That's the case. No matter how many enemy ships there are, they are just targets, and the analogy of 'flying a kite' is really appropriate. ”。 Shen Honglie said with a smile when he heard this, but there was a question he couldn't help but mention, "I just want to ensure that I don't get hit by the enemy, and the distance must be at least forty kilometers away, but such a distant target, even within the maximum range of the Zhiyuan main gun, is almost impossible to hit!" ”

"The hit rate is a problem, but we have the guidance of the fire control radar, the accuracy is at least much higher than that of the devils, and this tactic does not require us to have a high instantaneous fire density. Therefore, the main guns do not have to fire a salvo, just take turns to shoot one shot at a time, so that the recoil is much smaller, the vibration of the hull is naturally not so strong, and the hit rate can be increased by at least several times. Moreover, under this method of warfare, our ship does not fire from the side. Instead, the guns are fired directly in front or in the rear, and the shaking of the ship's hull is naturally smaller than in a conventional naval battle, which can also improve the hit rate", Hu Weidong suddenly smiled after listing a series of favorable conditions, "Besides." It doesn't matter if there is really only one percent, or even one thousandth, the hit rate, first of all, even if there are 1,000 rounds of 240 shells, the price is not as good as even a destroyer, we still earn; What's more, these captured shells are too bad, and at present, the border arsenal is producing more haode shells, so it doesn't matter if you run out of these shells, just treat them as training shells, the old ones don't go, and the new ones don't come! ”

When Shen Honglie heard this, he immediately straightened up and saluted Hu Weidong solemnly, "The navy has been waiting for this opportunity to take revenge for shame for a long time!" ”

Hu Weidong suddenly remembered something and added, "By the way, let the Dingyuan also go with you, to give the officers and soldiers on the ship a chance to go to sea for training; Second, the enemy must also have high-speed warships, if they catch up, let the Dingyuan come up to help solve it, even if the devil's naval quality is high, it is impossible to defeat the battleship with cruisers. The enemy's oxygen torpedoes are somewhat threatening, but as long as you keep a combat distance of 20,000 meters away (Note 1) and keep your eyes on the sea, the enemy will definitely not be able to hit them."

Knowing that he had received the task of going to sea to fight so early, the captain of the Zhiyuan, Sa Shijun, was very excited, but when he saw the energetic old man on the ship, his expression immediately fell, "Uncle, you are so old, don't come to mix blindly."

"Do you have any experience in fighting in the open sea? Do you have any experience with armored warship duels? I won't come here to bring you with me, I'm really not at ease! Sa Zhenbing said with his gray beard stroked.

Sa Shijun has been most afraid of this uncle since he was a child, and now he suddenly has no idea, and Shen Honglie, the commander of the Third Fleet, also has no choice but to ask Hu Weidong to come out as this villain. But Hu Weidong felt that what Sa Zhenbing said was not unreasonable, even those veterans in the Third Fleet had no experience in ship-to-ship combat, and it might not be bad to have an old man who had experienced it a little bit. It's just that Hu Weidong also asked Sa Zhenbing not to directly interfere with the command of the fleet, and the old man naturally did not allow it, and finally got the opportunity to follow the fleet to participate in the war. However, Hu Weidong also didn't want any accidents at his age, so he sent him to the Dingyuan battleship, which was the flagship but did not serve as the main attacker

Although Shen Honglie and Sa Shijun both had a bitter face, Sa Zhenbing helped the fleet solve some unexpected problems with his rich experience in navigation and naval warfare soon after he went to sea. Shen Honglie couldn't help but sigh secretly, "The experience of more than 40 years ago has actually helped us, and China's navy is too backward."

Note 1: No matter what caliber it is, when attacking a ship with a distance of more than 20 kilometers, the oxygen torpedo will only have a speed of 36 knots, while the speed of the oxygen torpedo will only be 30 knots or more than whether it is fixed or far away. What's more, even if the weather is fine, you can see a warship at a distance of about 20 kilometers by visual inspection, and the rain, snow and haze weather is even closer, although it can be observed with the help of a seaplane, but the long-range accuracy of the torpedo is inherently poor, and if you aim indirectly, it is simply infinitely close to zero......)

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