Chapter 50: 3-13. "Battleships" on the River
Siyuan's side was fighting with the opponent's surface units.
Similarly, Ah Chen's side is also engaged in naval battles, oh no, it should be accurate to say surface combat.
"There's two big guys over there." Ah Chen was looking out through the small observation window of the armored gunboat while alerting several of his roommates through the walkie-talkie.
Those were two AI armored gunboats, but the overall feeling was a little different from Ah Chen's - especially in terms of size.
Two armored gunboats, belonging to the same model.
That type of armored gunboat was much larger than Ah Chen's armored gunboat, so it looked less like a "boat" and more like a "ship".
This armoured gunboat, in proportion, has a wide hull, and its length is somewhat larger than that of some of the other armoured boats here.
This armored gunboat, or rather, this "behemoth" on the river with seven turrets!
In front of this "behemoth" there were two tank turrets, the upper turret was located behind the lower turret, like the turret of a battleship.
On each of these two turrets, a 76-mm gun is mounted.
On each side of the armoured gunboat, as well as in the middle building, there was a machine gun turret, each of which contained four 12.7 mm machine guns.
And in the rear of this armored gunboat, about the same as the bow, also in this "battleship way" two tank turrets with 76 guns were installed.
Such a large armored gunboat, if the four 76mm guns on it are fired in a salvo, its damage to a single ordinary ship is naturally not to be underestimated!
"There's no cover around here, so we can only find a way to forcibly withstand a wave of attacks first!" Ah Chen quickly observed the environment of the surrounding river and said to his roommate, "However, don't worry, I have a way, now everyone is lined up, that's right, front and back are lined up!" ”
The four armored gunboats, with the maximum speed they could, quickly adjusted their formation.
Now, Ah Chen's armored gunboats were at the head of the line, followed by three of his roommates' gunboats.
Such tactics are actually very similar to the tactics of battleships.
The purpose of this tactic is similar to that of the battleship platoon, that is, to form a battle line and make full use of the characteristics of the side fire of the armored gunboats being superior to the frontal fire as much as possible, so as to give full play to the firepower of the armored gunboats.
Each of the four armoured gunboats had a low turret with 152 howitzers, as well as a total of eight 12.7 mm machine guns mounted in the middle and rear machine gun towers.
Attacking in this formation, in terms of artillery firepower, you can have up to four 152mm howitzers that can play a firepower role - in this way, you have firepower superior to that of an armored ship of the opponent.
"Okay, wait a minute, let's go zigzag along the river. I said you can fire, everybody fire again! Ah Chen looked at the formation of his teammates through the small observation window, and then said, "That's right, follow me!" When I turned, I turned one by one. ”
Ah Chen piloted the armored gunboat, ready to make a tactical maneuver.
Ah Chen's armored gunboats traveled along the river for a distance, during which the two AI armored gunboats of the other side did not attack, and now this distance is not suitable for both sides to attack.
"Okay, get ready to turn, follow me!" Ah Chen turned the steering wheel and reminded several people.
The three armored gunboats began to follow Ah Chen's ship as planned, lined up and turned in turn.
"Okay, get ready......" Ah Chen said as he observed the other party's situation.
At this moment, with the successive "bang" sounds, there was a splash on the side of these people.
Immediately after, there were three shelling sounds from behind Ben Ah Chen.
Under the attack of the opponent's AI, these people in the rear opened fire in advance.
"Wait! This distance is still ...... It's not suitable for firing! ……”
Although the 152 howitzer has a large firepower, it also has a disadvantage, it is slow to reload, so it is necessary to wait until the distance suitable for firing before firing.
Bang, Ah Chen's side fired, and now this distance is suitable for firing.
Now, the three people in the rear are naturally in a long reloading period, in an embarrassing state that is suitable for firing but cannot fire......