Chapter 88 [Opportunity for Victory!] 】
And now, the opportunity that Akayu envisioned has appeared! As long as Helena grasps this fleeting opportunity for victory, and Rabbit Wind is not too unlucky, the probability of being won by her own side in this exercise will increase to more than 80%!
Because of Katsuragi's little mother's opening air raid, the distance between the two sides has been reduced to within 20 kilometers, and the battleship, the war-weary, has already reached the range of shelling.
The reason why the Warweary has not fired is because at such an attack distance, just by virtue of her ship's artillery coverage, the hit rate is completely equal to nothing, and it is better not to fight than to fight in vain!
According to the composition of the fleet, the ideal artillery distance on the side of the Warweary is 12 to 15 kilometers, and it is precisely because of this that the Warweariness will order the assault fleet formed in a trapezoidal formation to prepare for a closer artillery battle when it finds that Katsuragi's little mother is struggling to fight.
However~ just after the formation was completed, and the ship girls had not yet accelerated forward, and the mixed formation of Katsuragi Little Mother's 36 sorties of ship attack and ship explosion was destroyed in an instant!
For a while, all the ship's mothers, including the war-weary, were stunned, and as for Katsuragi's little mother~ was completely in a state of gray soul out of body~
Said to be taken away by a wave of opening air raids? But the result was that his carrier-based aircraft had just entered the attack range of 5 kilometers and was instantly destroyed, and the opposite side was really a light cruiser and a destroyer, not a full Des Moines-class battle sequence?
But ~ even if it is really a full Des Moines-class battle sequence, it is impossible to wipe out a full 36 sorties of carrier-based aircraft in less than 20 seconds, right?
However~ just when the ship girls on Admiral Mao's side were still in a state of shock and bewilderment, the sharp sound of cannonballs breaking through the air finally pulled back their thoughts, of course~ Katsuragi's little mother was hit too hard, and she was still in a state of wandering in the world.
"Whole ship! Resist the stance! After the first wave of attack, the assault team rushed, and the opponent only had one Helena that could fire at such a distance, and the hit rate was simply impossible。。。。。。 ”
Boom Boom Boom ~ Before the command order on the war-weariness side was finished, a series of shell explosions knocked her last words back into her stomach.
As a ship that has a lot of combat experience and has reached a level of 20 or above, the War Weary has a very good judgment on the type of sound of the shell explosion, whether it is falling into the water, ricocheting, passing through, hitting directly or breaking through the armored area, the War Weary can understand it as soon as you hear it.
And the series of explosions just now made the war-weary Fan Buddha hear the long-cherished wish of the dead soul, which made her extremely afraid!
I was about to say that the hit rate of a round of shelling of the opponent's Helena could only scare the ship at all, but the ~15 shell explosions clearly told the warweary that only 1 shot was caused by falling into the water, and the remaining 14 explosions were all hits!
This~ This Nima was I misheard, or did the world smoke it? A mere light cruiser, or a light cruiser of the suppressed side of the rank, actually hit 14 out of 15 in the shelling of almost the maximum range!
Are you sure this isn't the legendary shipwreck who came to abuse vegetables in the guise of a tabula rasa?
"Emergency damage management treatment of each ship! Report the damage! Assault fleet assault missions remain the same! ”
Although the successive battles have kept the war-weary in a state of shock, ~ a historical ship is a historical ship, and the strategic deployment is still decent, without any omission.
From this point of view, Katsuragi's little mother, who basically did not participate in the battle in World War II, is indeed too inferior, because she has not come back to her senses at this time!
"The Atlanta was hit a total of 3 rounds, 83% of the main guns were damaged, 97% of the total auxiliary guns were damaged, and 13% of the deck armored area was damaged, and the emergency damage management treatment was initiated, and it is expected that the main and auxiliary guns will be able to meet the shelling needs after 20 minutes."
"The San Juan was hit by a total of 3 shots, 88% of the main guns were damaged, 94% of the total secondary guns were damaged, and 7% of the deck armored area was damaged, and the emergency damage management treatment was initiated, and the main and auxiliary guns are expected to meet the shelling needs after 25 minutes."
"The Keeling was hit a total of 2 rounds, 97% of the main guns were damaged, 100% of the whole anti-aircraft guns were damaged, 31% of the full torpedo projectors were damaged, and 46% of the deck armor area was damaged.
"The Javelin was hit a total of 2 shots, 100% of the main guns were damaged, 100% of the whole anti-aircraft guns were damaged, 49% of the whole torpedo projectors were damaged, 78% of the deck armor area was damaged, and the emergency damage management treatment was initiated.
After hearing the report of the destruction of the fleet, the mood of the War Weary fell directly to the lowest point at this time, because it can be said that the output capacity of the entire battle sequence formation has been knocked out by more than 70% in the process of being shelled in just one round!
Compared with other ships, the Warweariness itself was not lightly injured, and when it came back to its senses, the Warweariness found that it was actually hit by Helena's classmate with 4 shells!
One of the four twin main gun turrets was completely damaged, 8 of the 14 single-mounted secondary guns were completely destroyed, and the remaining 6 guns also required no less than 20 minutes of damage management and repair time, as for the other damage to the entire hull, it was simply minimal.
Although according to the overall data, even if the Warweariness ate Helena's almost saturated output in one round, it only lost 20% of its overall combat power, but now the Warweariness has no confidence that it can win this exercise.
The biggest advantage of the composition of the fleet on his side is the output point of the Katsuragi's carrier-based aircraft, the war-weary's own heavy artillery, and the number of superior ships, but now?
God knows how the two light ships on the other side killed the carrier-based aircraft group of the Katsuragi in seconds, causing the Katsuragi to still be in a state of mental collapse and unable to fight.
The number of ships still maintains an absolute superiority, but ~ can all warships that have no attack ability still be called battleships?
Although the two destroyers could also drop torpedoes, even the output of the main guns that the war-weary himself was most proud of did not discount much.
But ~ in the face of the opponent's two high-speed light warships, relying only on torpedoes and battleship main guns, without the output of secondary guns and forcing the position, they want to hit the enemy? The war-weariness can only say hehe~
With his own radar, he saw that the high-speed mobile firepower of Admiral Mao Mei and his party was almost completely defeated, and Chiyou was basically relieved about the next battle.