The two sides officially began the battle at 4:27 a.m. on 20 September, and the sea suddenly rumbled with cannonballs, smoke and flames. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The six capital ships of the Nanyang Naval Division carried out roundabout tactics against a dense barrage of bullets, and under the frantic rate of fire of the ZIS-3 cannon, it was impossible not to be shot.

Just a minute later, the Kaiji won the jackpot when it was hit by a 76-mm shell on the starboard side, and the fireball burst out of the hull and flew over the sea.

The fragments of wood were scattered along with the kinetic energy of the medicine, which shocked the friendly ships to watch, and the screams of the wounded sailors were highlighted after the explosion was exposed.

Subsequently, the Nanyang No. 6 ships, which were exposed to enemy fire on the side of the projectile, were hit head-on, and the "Nanchen" and "Huantai" ships on the side of the bomb impact were hit by many shells.

The Nanyang Naval Division, which had never been subjected to such rapid artillery bombardment, was almost directly stunned, and the rate of fire of their own naval guns was slow, and it seemed that there were only sporadic return fire.

"My lord, the fire is fierce and difficult to extinguish!" The second officer, whose face was blackened, ran to report the situation

The fire that ignited on the starboard lug of the "Huantai" has spread to the entire ship with the help of the wind and continuous bombing.

The whole ship was blazing with flames and smoke soaring into the sky, and although it was still moving forward, it had become a floating coffin.

Zhang Qiguang, the pipe band, clenched his saber, his eyes locked on the front, and he had made up his mind: "My generation is from Rong, it is to serve the country, and now is the right time!" Pass my order, all abandon the ship and escape, and I can take the rudder myself! ”

Everyone still wanted to persuade hard, but when they realized that the ship had broken away from the formation and no longer carried out a roundabout route, but rushed directly to the enemy ship, they had to sigh and escape on their own.

The "Huantai" traveled only about 100 meters alone, and within 10 seconds, the bow was hit by two 122-mm grenades one after another.

The bow tower where Zhang Qiguang was located was engulfed in flames, and the "Huantai" also flooded in large quantities, sank quickly, and finally disappeared into the sea.

The condition of the "Kaiji", which was sympathetic to the same disease, was very bad, the starboard armament had been completely destroyed, the mast was broken, and the fire was difficult to extinguish.

If a wooden structure catches fire, it will be very deadly, and even if you have a chance to get close to the enemy ship, it will be difficult to kill or injure the opponent.

"Boom ......" Just as it was still trying to gallop across the field, the hull of the ship suddenly exploded violently.

A giant fireball rose up and rushed into the air, and the hull of the ship broke in two, slowly warped, and submerged into the sea.

In less than five minutes after the start of the battle, the Nanyang Naval Division sank two capital ships......

According to the naval artillery data provided by the second cargo youth, the firing range of the main guns of the Qing Naval Division was no more than eight kilometers, and the combat distance of more than nine kilometers was an absolute safe zone.

Now Fleet B consciously maintains a distance of nine to ten kilometers from the opponent, so that it can rest easy to use its own range advantage to sling the opponent.

That's why Helen was relieved and boldly asked her Kimhans to place M-30 howitzers and ZIS-3 cannons on the deck, and the shells were piled up.

As long as one enemy projectile falls, causing an explosion, I am afraid that the entire battleship will have to be turned into a fireworks display, but fortunately, such a thing cannot happen at all.

In the event of an emergency, such as a large warship of another country temporarily sailing into the waters of the theater of operations, it will pose a serious threat to the fleets of the clan army, and there is a possibility that the guns will be misfired.

Then in order to ensure absolute safety, the sailors can completely push the cannon into the sea with ammunition and use the turret gun to return fire.

These are all used to offset the accounts, and what the alliance has is a renewable resource, so there is no shame in wasting it.

At present, although the navy of the national country has the battlecruiser "York" with a full load displacement of more than 38,000 tons.

But including it, the entire fleet has not escaped the fate of a one-time fleet, and all warships cannot be repaired, they are all porcelain-like existences!

The matching shells are also scarce in a short period of time, although the chicken has contacted Krupp to imitate it and sent a series of samples.

The other party still needs time to finalize the production, if you pinch your fingers to calculate, the arrival of the goods in a year is fast, and it is still unknown whether the imitations sent over can be used.

This is the strange thing that the navy warships are equipped with army artillery and fight cattle across the sea......

In the naval battle in front of him, for the clan fleet, his own shells are not very powerful, but the opponent's armor is even more funny.

Not to mention 122-mm large-caliber shells, but 76-mm medium-caliber projectiles, which can cause a large fire when they hit the target.

In the first three minutes after the start of the battle, the artillery also needs to constantly compare the target to ensure the accuracy of the bombing.

Once the relative speed of movement of the two sides and the trajectory of the target were mastered, the ZIS-3 cannon began to take advantage of the high rate of fire.

After the six warships of the "Bombardment......" Nanyang Naval Division were sunk by the "Nanchen" and "Huantai", the remaining four were still subjected to continuous shelling.

"My lord, 'Kaiji' is no longer good!" Guo Baochang turned his head when he heard the sound and saw that the "Kaiji" had turned into a bonfire floating on the sea.

The raging flames grew stronger and stronger, the billowing smoke rose into the sky, and the whole battleship was miserable, and sailors whose clothes were on fire constantly jumped into the sea to survive.

Even so, there were shells that constantly hit the "Kaiji", blasting the remaining superstructure into flying parts and projecting them onto the sea.

The rate of fire of the ZIS-3 cannon is 20 rounds per minute, and the salvo of five guns can hit the target even if the hit rate is only 5 percent, and five shells can hit the target in one minute.

The six warships of the Nanyang Naval Division marched side by side in two and two, and the three ships close to the side of the clan fleet would naturally suffer a catastrophe.

These domestic warships were built with a lot of wood, and the so-called armor was relatively thick iron sheets.

Mo said that it was attacked by a special incendiary bomb, even ordinary artillery shells can give it a devastating blow.

And the sporadic return fire of the Nanyang sailors is more like the roar of a salute at a funeral, none of them hit, only symbolic meaning.

Before the start of the war, the young man specially told Helen that the officers and men of the navy were high-value soldiers and needed to be trained for a long time to form combat effectiveness.

If the other side intends to surrender, they can open the net and give them good treatment as prisoners of war after the war, and maybe they can be hired.

But if this group of teasers really dares to come up and fight to the death, they can't let them succeed easily and hurt their one-time fleet built with gold.

Guo Baochang, who was in charge of the "Nanrui", couldn't help but feel ashamed and indignant, his Nanyang Naval Division has been developing for decades, but now it is no match for the rising star.

That Wang Liche is really a wolf's ambition, cruel means, and he doesn't think about the feelings of the same door at all, and he wants to put the Nanyang sailors to death.

Just when he was wandering out of the world and sighing secretly, the "Baomin" couldn't hold on, and the hull was pierced through many holes, quickly entered the water, and began to sink.

The "Jingqing", which had no time to take care of him, had already suffered heavy damage, and if it continued to fight, there was only one way to die, and in desperation, the white flag was raised.

After that, the shelling finally stopped, but the "Jingqing" could not land and surrender, and the battleship had already tilted sharply, and it would not be long before it capsized.

The sailors were scrambling to jump into the sea to escape, desperately swimming away from the battleship, for fear of being swallowed by the whirlpool generated by the sinking hull and becoming fish food.

"Alas~!" Guo Baochang, who had the intention to kill the enemy and had no power to return to the sky, sighed, saw that the general trend had gone, and if he resisted again, he would injure the soldiers in vain, so he let the "Nanrui" follow in his footsteps.

On the east side of the battlefield, a raid detachment consisting of eight torpedo boats, "Lei Gan," "Lei Kun," "Lei Li," "Lei Kan," "Lei Zhen," "Lei Liang," "Lei Xun," and "Lei Dui," sailed at a speed of nearly 20 knots.

For the clan fleet, they posed an even greater threat than the six thousand-ton warships, because the targets were too small to avoid bombs.

In these years, the range of torpedoes was extremely limited, and the accuracy was impossible to mention, so if you really wanted to hit a battleship, you had to attack at least two or three hundred meters away from the opponent, or even closer, before it could be launched.

And it is almost impossible for them to get close to the cruisers of the clan army during the day.

Whether it's a 122mm howitzer or a 76mm cannon, it can be difficult to hit a small and nimble torpedo boat, but the clan also has a good weapon for close combat.

"Da ......" dozens of "Makqin" and "Guojunov" heavy machine guns fired a rain of bullets.

These things are bulky weapons on the ground, but after they are on the ship, they become the smallest self-defense equipment, and the effect is comparable to that of a handfire.

In order to prevent torpedo attacks, the second-cargo youth equipped his disposable gold fleet with a large number of heavy machine guns.

One can destroy torpedo boats, and the other can destroy torpedoes that have already been fired.

They were originally installed primarily to defend against the large number of torpedo boats possessed by the Japanese Navy.

The effective firing range of any type of heavy machine gun was more than a kilometer, and it was condescending on a cruiser and was very effective against small surface targets.

Team A, "Lei Gan", "Lei Kun", "Lei Li", and "Lei Kan", in groups of two, laid siege to the cruiser "Prince Albert".

Team B "Lei Zhen", "Lei Liang", "Lei Xun", and "Lei Dui" attacked the cruiser "Lune" with all their might, striving for victory in the first battle.

It's just that they didn't expect that two or three kilometers away from the target, they were strongly blocked by the opponent's shipborne weapons.

Team A's "Lei Li" was first exposed to fire, and finally exploded, turning into a ball of fire, and the debris floated on the sea, even omitting the process of sinking.

The "Lei Kun" and "Lei Kan", which were attacking together, were also intercepted by a barrage of bullets on an unprecedented scale, and when they forced their way through, the torpedo boat was simply stripped of its shell.

Seeing that the hull of the boat was hit by more bullets and was sinking rapidly, in a hurry, the two boats had to fire torpedoes at a long distance, which was perfunctory.

The "Lei Gan" had the best luck and advanced to the water area less than 800 meters away from the target before it was beaten into a hornet's nest.

Even with the tactics of four against one, Team B did not take advantage of it.

Because the cruisers on the side of the clan army are also in groups of two, covering each other.

Less than 300 meters west of the "Lune" was the "Scharnhorst," and the firepower network formed by the two ships almost made it impossible for the Qing torpedo boats to start.

According to the highest instructions of the chicken, the deck and empty space of the battleship should be fully utilized, and heavy machine guns can be placed in all other places with less space, except for the artillery running position.

If the area is insufficient, multi-layer iron frames should be welded, and at least twenty heavy machine guns must be installed on each side of the ship to ensure the safety of the battleship.

Strive to be armed to the teeth, invulnerable, and intimidating to the enemy, and the heavy machine guns are worth the money anyway.

Each torpedo boat of Team B had to face a concentrated fire attack of ten heavy machine guns, and the only way to successfully break through was to entrust it to a certain god.

Within ten minutes, four dazzling fireballs appeared on the sea one after another.

At this point, Guo Baochang's tactical concept of carrying out left and right assaults and east-west flanking attacks has been completely shattered.

The four old and slow 1,000-ton wooden-hulled cruisers, "Fubo," "Feiyun," "Haijing," and "Chenhang," were even more powerless in the face of the two battleships, the "Deutschland" and the "Nassau."

After resisting for less than five minutes, the "Haijing" was sunk, and the "Fubo" was also turned into a bonfire by the rain of shells.

The "Feiyun" and "Chenhang" ships still wanted to maneuver and fight, but the output power of the power system was low, and the speed was too low.

After running less than two kilometers, it was hit hard, the hull of the ship was flooded in large quantities, and it was sinking, barely waving the white flag, buying precious time for the sailors to escape.

"No wonder that guy doesn't want to do it himself, it turns out that they are all vulnerable!" Helen had no interest in this kind of unsuspenseful naval battle, and began to complain about the young man again.

After the naval battle, out of humanitarian considerations, the clan fleet began to salvage the drowning braids, and they could also go over to persuade them to surrender.

Several dinghys, loaded with some high-ranking officers of the Qing army's naval division, sailed to the coast and conveyed Helen's ultimatum.

If the soldiers on the beachhead continue to resist stubbornly, what awaits them is an unprecedented "fireworks display"!

The example of the naval battleship is placed there, and the braids on the shore can see it clearly, and their hearts are even more clear.

The range of the artillery delivered by the army to the beachhead is not as good as that of the naval guns of the naval division, and once the two sides start a war, it will be a complete hanging!

The pigtails had just come ashore, and since no enemy had been found, they had not even had time to build fortifications and hideouts.

This gave the clan fleet an unusually good chance of getting down, and a grenade could kill dozens of people if it fell!

After an earth-shattering firefight, 14 of the 18 combat ships of the Qing Trinity Navy Division were sunk, and four of the other ships were destroyed by fire and sunk themselves.

In a nutshell......

Annihilation!

Of the thirteen transport ships that were hurriedly unloading their cargo in the shoal, one was accidentally injured by the clan's artillery fire and was immediately burned, and the other twelve were frightened and took the initiative to raise the white flag in order to protect themselves.

Helen had four armored cruisers escort them to the port of Gullon, which was considered a trophy of victory, and those who did not want to move were treated as being sunk with a twenty-four salute!

As for the "reptiles" on the beachhead, it is not too late to give an order when the guys who persuaded them to surrender in the past play a role.

Due to the arrival of the enemy ships, the pigtails were frightened and scrambling, and the supplies brought ashore were scattered more than a kilometer of the beach.

Artillery, ammunition, rations, forage, tents, bedding simply did not have time to sort, they were stacked in a complete haphazard manner.

During the artillery battle between the sailors and the rebel fleet just now, everyone completely forgot about their own work.

The pot-bellied prefect with a group of illiterate men with five million curiosity poked the shore to watch the excitement......