Chapter 476: Shelling Cover-up
Hearing Guan Gong's order for the shelling, a staff officer objected: "General, the three battleships are still far away from the enemy, and if the shelling is now, I am afraid that the effect will not be good, and it will only be a waste of ammunition." Please search ()! The fastest updated novel"
As a staff officer, they have the obligation to correct the wrong decisions of the commander-in-chief, so if they have different opinions, they can raise them as soon as possible, and of course, it is the commander-in-chief's business whether or not to adopt them.
"Confused, where can I care about wasting ammunition now. Now that the warship has stopped for no reason, it will be troublesome if it is discovered by the Soochow people. Isn't it good to waste some ammunition and make the people of Dongwu jealous and dare not act rashly? โ
Justice.
According to the original plan, the three warships were to advance until the edge of the reef area before stopping to start shelling the Soochow naval forces and covering the small warships to enter the reef area to clear the fishing nets.
Now they are still some distance from the edge of the reef area, and at this distance, the rocket artillery on board can still fly into the formation of the Soochow naval army.
However, due to the distance, the aim will definitely deteriorate.
The accuracy of rocket artillery itself is very poor, and it will be even worse if it is far away, and starting to fire rocket artillery at this time to shell the enemy can only play a role in scaring people.
The Dongwu Navy and the Jingzhou Navy have been fighting for many years, and they also know the power of the Jingzhou Navy Army's artillery platoon, and they have also taken a series of targeted measures to deal with the Jingzhou Navy Army's artillery, one of which is to change the dense formation to an evacuation formation.
Now the Soochow Navy has long learned to be smart, their ships are sparsely arranged, and the shells fall in their formation, and a large part of them will fall in the water, and the probability of hitting the ships with dense attacks is similar to that of the blind cat encountering the dead mouse.
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Even if a large cement warship aims all 45 rocket launchers on one side of the side at one enemy battleship and concentrates fire on one battleship, after a long flight, those rockets will eventually spread out when they fall, and it is difficult to say how many rockets can land on the enemy ship that has been targeted.
The difference was a thousand miles, and the farther the flight, the more it spread, and the more difficult it was to hit the enemy's ships, so the staff officer was not in favor of starting to fire rocket artillery at such a long distance.
But Guan Gong is not thinking about this problem at all, whether he can hit the enemy or not is secondary, the key is not to let the three battleships of the Dongwu people have problems, if they find that these three battleships have problems, maybe they will send the warships to deal with these three warships, and even find the weakness of the propeller.
At that time, it is likely to cause very strict consequences, and this consequence may be too big for the Jingzhou naval army to bear.
Therefore, Guan Gong decisively gave the order for the shelling, which was to give the Dongwu people a false impression that the three warships were actively stopped, and the purpose of their stop was to start shelling.
The staff officer was not stupid, he understood as soon as he heard Guan Gong's explanation, and he knew that this matter was very important, so he no longer spoke out to dissuade him.
As soon as the three large battleships received the order, they began to turn their hulls sideways, but the process was a bit difficult because the propellers became entangled and lost the most important power.
But just because it's a little difficult doesn't mean it can't be completed, they still have the second set of sails ~ power.
However, it is not easy to make subtle adjustments to the hull with the help of sails, but fortunately, the warships of the Jingzhou Navy have a good command system, and there are copper pipes between the bridge and the various sail positions for instant communication.
Fine-tuning commands were constantly conveyed between the bridge and the front, middle and rear sail positions.
"Headsail, half-sail, thirty degrees to the left."
"Rear sail, full sail, fifteen degrees to the right."
"Mid-sail, full-sail, zero-degree."
The sailors of the various sail positions of the personnel in charge of the command and command of the bridge were busy sweating profusely, and they tossed and turned for a long time before finally turning the ship sideways.
Fortunately, the propellers of the three ships were just stuck and could not rotate, and it was still possible to swing left and right, otherwise it would be more difficult to turn this body.
In the Soochow fleet, separated by a line of defense, a young general was watching the movements of the naval army with a telescope in the Feilu (equivalent to the flagship of the command room) of the building.
With the popularization of telescopes in the Hong army, some products fell to the people, and then passed into the hands of some generals of the Eastern Wu army.
Therefore, now some high-level generals of the Eastern Wu Army also have this magical war artifact.
This young general's name is Ling Lie, his father is Ling Tong, and his grandfather Ling Cao is a famous general of Eastern Wu.
He inherited his father's business at a young age and became a general of Eastern Wu, and was sent here by Lu Xun to serve as the defender of this important line of defense.
Originally, with the importance of this line of defense, the guards here need to send an old and serious general to guard it, but now the generals of the three kingdoms are in a period of lack of success, and Dongwu is even more sad, and a large ~ piece of veteran will be captured by Liu Hou, and now it is still idle in Chengdu, and Dongwu is also facing a situation where no one is available.
In addition, now that Sun Quan has just died, various factions are vying for power and profit, and the government is unstable, these factors also directly affect the appointment of generals in the army.
Lu Xun really has no one to use, so he can only use a large number of younger generations.
This Ling Lie's three generations have shed blood for Dongwu, and Cheng Dรน, who has done his best, is no worse than Zhuge Liang, and it is difficult to say in terms of ability, but there is absolutely no problem in terms of loyalty, after careful consideration, Lu Xun finally handed over this important position to him.
Since Guan Gong led the Jingzhou Navy to approach the defense line, he has been waiting for the battle, when the three cement warships came all the way to the defense line, he thought that a big battle was about to break out, and he had ordered the fleet to prepare for the battle, but what he didn't expect was that the enemy ships suddenly stopped advancing.
The place where they parked the ship was still far away, even if they were going to shell with artillery ~ artillery, they shouldn't have stopped there?
With Ling Lie's understanding of fire ~ artillery, it should not be the best distance for artillery bombardment, what is the enemy's plan?
Ling Lie was puzzled, he never thought that the enemy army had something wrong and stopped, but thought that the other party must have some conspiracy.
can't blame him for being suspicious, it's really that over the years, there have been too many strange things in the Hong army.
Fire ~ artillery, mines, hot air balloons, etc., etc., each of them is incredible, and each of them is extremely lethal.
He had already fought with the Han army in the army, and he was experienced in fighting the Han army, and he had also heard the descriptions of many uncles and brothers in the army, and knew that the Hong army had a lot of moths, and he would catch the road if he was not careful.
Therefore, he can't be unscrupulous.
Just as he was about to order a scout ship to be sent to spy on the enemy's military situation, he finally saw the enemy ship slowly turning its hull, trying to turn the ship sideways.
"Oops, do they want to start shelling?"
As a naval general of Eastern Wu, Ling Lie had a deep understanding of the two super warships of the Hong Army, and knew what it meant for them to cross the hull.
"Order the ships to disperse further, and the unrelated ships to retreat as far as possible, and be ready for the enemy's shelling. All gunboats were ordered to prepare for a return fire. โ
Ling Lie immediately gave the order.
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