Chapter 1403, Lightning Strike

will be outside, and the king's order will not be affected!

By the time the report of the expeditionary fleet was delivered to Mingjing City, Wang Sheng had already made some preparations and started the operation first.

After all, it takes a lot of time for this report to come and go, and it will inevitably be a little late to act when the time comes.

The lightning strike fleet that rode the wind and waves, as always, searched for today's prey under the cover of night.

Quickly approaching a Fuso fleet, and after the first wave of lightning strikes, the commander-in-chief of the Fuso fleet quickly sniffed out something unusual from their actions.

Different from the previous style of fighting with one blow and retreating, this time, the destroyers scattered on both wings did not directly withdraw from the battlefield, but continued to outflank them in a roundabout way!

Faced with the normal practice of the lightning strike fleet, the commander-in-chief of the Fuso fleet sank slightly, and then hurriedly shouted......

"The whole fleet is vigilant! The perimeter destroyers are ready to launch torpedoes and launch a counterattack! ”

That's right, if you want to break up the opponent's anti-torpedo net, the best plan that Wang Sheng can think of at the moment is to launch a continuous attack!

Wave after wave of consumption is useless.

Which is more expensive, a torpedo or a barbed wire fence on the opposite side?

Is it easier for them to build a torpedo, or is it easier to build a barbed wire fence opposite?

You don't even need to think about this kind of stupid question.

Wang Sheng was even 100% sure that the opponent's warships must have hoarded a lot of barbed wire, and even if they were replaced with a new one a day, it would be enough for them.

So, he simply didn't take his time with the other side.

After all, barbed wire is just barbed wire, and if you withstand a torpedo attack, you will definitely be seriously damaged, and continuous attacks are enough to break through this thin one-time defense line, and then cause effective damage to the warships under the defense line!

Of course, this is a simple thing to say, but in reality it is not that easy to do.

According to the number of battleships, Wang Sheng directly divided the torpedo attacks of the 15 destroyers under his command into multiple stages, and at the same time reduced the number of torpedoes fired by each battleship at a time, and instead increased the number of attacks.

Although this will lose the explosive destructive power and attack coverage area of the previous one, it will have the advantage of making his torpedo attacks more effective.

As much as possible, avoid the embarrassing situation of more than a dozen torpedoes crashing into the barbed wire and being triggered in advance, failing to cause direct damage to the enemy warship.

At the same time, according to the firing sequence, the destroyers that fired the torpedoes first could seize the opportunity to carry out secondary reloading.

The method of reloading torpedoes is actually relatively rare in history.

After all, as a naval weapon, compared with those main gun weapons, the range of torpedoes is already relatively close, and if a destroyer wants to launch a torpedo attack, it must first rely on its speed advantage to close the distance.

However, the destroyer type of battleship itself belongs to the most brittle category among all warship units.

All these factors are combined, and in the face of the enemy fleet at close range, how dare the destroyer stay longer?

It is often the most common way to play after releasing a wave of torpedoes and running directly at a high speed.

At the same time, loading torpedoes during the battle is also a very high-risk move, and if you are not careful, you will have to suffer.

So most of the time, there was basically only one torpedo attack.

However, there are actually a lot of cases of secondary reloading in history, and the protagonists of these cases are unsurprisingly focused on the Fuso Navy, which is very slippery in lightning warfare.

At this moment, Wang Sheng is undoubtedly going to use this style of play, taking risks, and on each battleship, one by one the regular army soldiers who have received emergency training quickly took action.

Fifteen destroyers, at this moment, launched a continuous torpedo attack directly on the Fuso fleet!

At the same time, the small naval guns on the hull were also firing wildly not to be outdone, venting all their firepower to the fullest.

The roar of dense artillery fire directly brought a burst of firelight, almost to completely illuminate this dark sea area!

In the frantic roar of the commander-in-chief of the Fuso fleet, the Fuso battleships began to counterattack.

However, the counterattack of the Fuso fleet made the chaos of this maritime battlefield rise by two levels in an instant!

At this moment, the smell of gunsmoke, which was so thick that it was almost suffocating, was spreading wildly......

Unlike the Lightning Strike Fleet, which was scattered on both sides of the battlefield, the Fuso Fleet's formation distribution was relatively concentrated, however, it was this formation that made their situation worse and worse at the moment.

The multi-stage torpedo attack allowed the Lightning Strike Fleet to successfully destroy the anti-torpedo nets on the periphery of the Fuso Fleet.

Gradually, the torpedoes that began to hit enemy ships exploded with the destructive power that should have been.

Two destroyers, which were hit directly by torpedo attacks, sank on the spot with the roar of explosions!

This situation was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Fuso fleet.

The morale, which was originally quite stable, fell significantly at this moment.

On the other hand, on the side of the lightning strike fleet, the naval soldiers who successfully implemented the tactics and finally achieved clear results were in high spirits.

Under the advantages of one another, the state is actually a trend of getting better and better!

During this period, Wang Sheng, who was in the flagship, was not idle, and directly signaled the two heavy cruisers in the rear to fire at the Fusang fleet, and even with the four light cruisers, they also opened fire one after another, and went up to join in the fun.

Low hit rate at night, insufficient firepower, that's not a problem.

At this time, Wang Sheng's main purpose was to let the two heavy cruisers and four light cruisers in the fleet attract the attention of the opposing fleet a little, and it would be better if they could attract a wave of firepower.

After all, a heavy cruiser located in the rear of the battlefield had a higher success rate in evading enemy shelling than a destroyer at such a close range.

However, the commander-in-chief of the Fuso fleet on the opposite side, although he had fallen into a roaring state at this time, the person who could sit in this position was not stupid after all, and directly ignored the shelling and harassment of the heavy cruisers and light cruisers, and ordered the whole fleet to concentrate fire on the destroyers that were closer to them.

According to the current situation, attacking destroyers will have a higher hit rate, which is naturally one of the reasons.

But a more important reason is that the destroyers equipped with torpedo launchers are the core of the attack, and even if only one or two are sunk, it can effectively reduce the threat of the enemy's lightning fleet.

Of course, there is a more important reason, so that he can come up with a little bit of a record to make a difference, otherwise, as soon as the situation here is passed back, their Emperor His Majesty will not tell him to commit suicide in a minute?

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