626 Warriors in the Night (8)

, "Parameters, I need parameters for three rounds of shooting!." I want to update super fast.

, "Angle 23.

, "southeast wind, 36 meters per second".

"The distance is 32 meters。。

, "The muzzle of the gun is skewed to the left by 3, rolled." The telephone continuously brought the parameters fed back from the battleship's external observation planes into the fire control cabin, and was set by the soldiers to the mechanical computer during the shouts of the non-commissioned officers, and the computer driven by the high-precision gears adjusted the next round of firing according to these parameters, and then converted them into electrical signals. It is transmitted to the turret follower gyroscope and synchronous motor through dense wires.

Immediately afterward, the three triple 380 mm/Type 7 guns of the Guam and Medan each spun into motion, and the barrel throughput moved up and down with the waves, "aimed at the opponent who was shaky under the distant flares."

The naval artillery follow-up system, or RPC, is another killer feature of the Guam-class or the Chinese Navy under adverse weather conditions after the radar!

From the beginning of the operation in the bad weather of the Bass Strait, Li Mo has always dreamed of solving the weakness of the warship's poor combat capability in bad weather and high sea conditions, and at that time, due to the limitations of electrical technology, the system has not been broken through until the Guam-class began to build a breakthrough and was installed on the Hebei-class battleship.

With the outbreak of war, the price factor limiting the number of equipment was ignored, and this system has now become the standard equipment of the Chinese Navy, and even the Chongming Island-class destroyers have begun to be installed.

The fourth volley was played.

, "Boom......

When Seymour and Bernice's faces became more and more ugly, they didn't expect the Chinese Navy's naval guns to be so accurate in such harsh sea conditions, and they were about to order the disbandment of the formation to break through separately, when a huge ball of fire flashed around them.

The American Tennessee-class armored cruiser USS Montana, which was 500 tons and was considered a battleship at the time of launch, became the first victim due to the darkness of the sky. It was not known who hit it, although the credit was later given to the light cruiser Ussuri that had been bombarding him. But many years later, the underwater expedition team gave an answer.

A huge wound was cracked from the side side of the Montana hull, "It was hit by a 380 mm sub-gun ammunition depot on the side of the side, because the Tennessee class is still an old-fashioned gun gun, and at that time, in order to save cost, the Americans adopted the design of the unified ammunition depot of the sub-gun, so when 1052 152 mm shells were detonated, a 30-meter-long large wound was opened directly on the side of the side. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

This kind of trauma can be fatal even when the wind is calm, let alone in the case of heavy rain and high winds. So without waiting for the Montana to send a distress signal, it quickly capsized and disappeared into the waves.

The rapid sinking of the Montana was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the officers and men of the Allied powers, "especially for the American soldiers on the remaining three Tennessee-class armored cruisers, who were so frightened that they had only one thought in their hearts."

"Why is it always the United States that gets hurt。。

Like the United Kingdom, it was ill-prepared for the pre-war expansion of the world's naval over-spec race. After a large number of veteran sailors were transferred to serve in the battleships, "these old warships and cruisers were all transferred from the reserves, and as a large number of US capital ships were sunk, the old sailors were killed and wounded, and the evil consequences finally began to appear." These reserve sailors had no intention of fighting again. Only a string of semaphore lights were fired to allow the exit. Then the bow of the deflection began to accelerate out of the formation.

Seeing the three Tennessee-class armored cruisers that deflected the bow, Seymour almost wanted to capture these Yankees back and shoot them all, because the enemy was a sneak attack, and the fleet had not yet completed the formation of the battle team, and in order to reduce the probability of being discovered, a dense wedge-shaped navigation formation was used, so as soon as Tennessee, who was originally blocking the left, walked away, the Australia, which was injured before in the middle, was suddenly exposed to enemy fire.

The Tumen River, which was only 8,000 meters away from the enemy, discovered this accident first, and with the help of flares, the captain quickly discovered the huge body of the Australia in the middle of the gap, and immediately commanded 12 152-mm guns to shoot all the armor-piercing shells. 72 152-mm shells per minute. In order to enhance the lethality of the light cruiser's main gun, the Chinese equipment and technical department made great efforts to develop 152 mm armor-piercing shells, and also used pigeons for the first time, although it did not reach the level of pigeon alloy piercing shells in later generations. But the Australian was only an early tireless battle patrol, and its protection was already very weak.

Although the gap was opened, the Australia also saw the Tumen River desperately firing at itself. Four twin 305 naval guns continued to roar and return fire. On the other hand, although the Tumenjiang has a light hull and a large impact, the naval gun follow-up system ensures that it can maintain a considerable hit rate in high sea conditions.

After a three-minute rain of bullets, the Tumenjiang finally made a big difference, several armor-piercing shells penetrated the 5-inch (127 mm) protective armor at the bow, and after being blocked, the trajectory was deflected, and one end plunged into the torpedo tube at the waterline.

Although the 18-inch (457 mm) torpedo in the launch tube is not as powerful as the spear, the power after the detonation is still extremely amazing, not to mention that the fragments after the torpedo explosion also penetrated the torpedo ammunition compartment behind, causing the bow of the Australian ship to seem to be split in half by an axe, and hundreds of tons of seawater instantly filled the 12 empty compartments in the bow, making the battle cruiser suffer heavy damage in front after the butt was exploded, and plunged into the bottom of the sea.

Perhaps this is a bizarre sinking in the world, although it is very dark, several chefs on the Tumen River still hold cameras to record this scene. I saw only a blazing flare in the distance. A big black shadow actually plunged into the sea. The chimney smoked and opened and sank until it disappeared into the sea after ten minutes.

Two Guam-class battleships were depressed. No one expected that it was the Light Patrol that opened first, and even the Australian was planted in their hands, and the angry officers jumped to their feet, eager to personally direct the artillery battle.

At this time, neither Seymour nor Bernice wanted to fight. Because it was not accurate at all, under the continuous flares of the opponent, the gunner could not see anything at all, and could only follow the flame of the opponent's fire, and in this case, even if there was no wind, the accuracy was pitiful. At 3:15, before the formation could be completed, Seymour ordered the ships to disperse and break through to Noumea.

"Report, they scattered!. At the sound of the staff officer's reminder, the Entente fleet in the telescope began to disperse, and the two Lone-class battleships moved to the left. Two Valiant-class large heavy artillery light cruisers were to the right, while three Tennessee-class armored cruisers had sailed about 5,000 meters.

Li Xiuyan immediately ordered the light patrol of the Tumen River and the Ussuri River to pursue the three Tennessee ships, using his speed to entangle each other, but he himself was in a dilemma.

This is the suffering of not having a destroyer.

If there are several high-speed destroyers at this time, then in this sea state, it is completely possible to use the speed to break through to 5,000 meters to launch torpedoes, with the almost perverted power and speed of the Lance-3 torpedo, and the advantage of no track, in this case the enemy is basically dead.

There were also torpedoes on the four light cruisers. But they are all spear II type, not to mention obvious tracks, and the range and speed are also insufficient, and when the enemy has not lost the power to fight back, let the light patrol with a large volume and obvious target carry out a torpedo assault, which is no different from looking for death.

So at this point there are only two options left.

The first is to pursue two Brave-class large heavy artillery light cruisers, and the Guam-class is 2 knots larger than the other side. It is guaranteed to catch up and take out the opponent, but that will take time, because battleships and cruisers are different, and light cruisers are slower than battleships. The flexibility of steering and maneuvering is also stronger than that of battleships, not to mention that in such high sea conditions, it will take time to take out the opponent, so that the two Lone Class can escape safely.

The second was to concentrate on dealing with the Lone class battleships, which were slow French first-generation battleships. It can't be an opponent of the Guam-class, but the problem is the same, a battleship is a battleship, and even if it is suppressed by high-grade heavy artillery, it will take time to completely sink it" This is especially true in high sea conditions, so if you can't kill or damage these two battleships in a short time, the important target may escape into the port of Noumea at night. On the premise that there are shore-based heavy artillery in the harbor, even the Guam class does not dare to easily challenge the shore artillery.

In the distance, a Bristol-class light cruiser exploded, and he was hit by an 850-kilogram armor-piercing shell from the USS Medan, which penetrated the ammunition depot and exploded, and then penetrated the keel himself. It also drilled all the way through the entire bottom of the ship and exploded underwater, which shows how amazing the power of the 380-mm armor-piercing bullet is.

Time is of the essence!

Everyone in the command tower looked at Li Xiuyan, but he suddenly turned around and looked at Li Zhen, who was already qualified to enter the command tower as an electric tube, "What would you choose?" ”。

"I'll go after those two large heavy artillery light cruisers." ”。 Li Zhen hesitated for a moment and replied, "But I think you will choose a battleship, sir!" As soon as Li Zhen's words came out, everyone in the command tower was surprised, not understanding why Li Zhen would guess like this, the latter smiled unhurriedly: "Because according to the information currently available." Britain is still a lot behind in terms of power, only equivalent to our second-generation power system, it takes at least 20 minutes to accelerate to full speed of the knife joint, and we only need 5 minutes to accelerate to four knots, of which there is 15 minutes of utilization time, and we have radars, although the interference is serious, but now they have been locked, as long as they can take out those two battleships in 15 minutes, it will not be able to run away。。

These words made Li Xiuyan feel surprised in his heart Li Zhen's heart was careful, and at the same time, he also nodded, turned his head and took a deep breath, his eyes were cold: "Left full rudder, close to 8,000 meters." Secondary and rapid-fire guns pay attention to small targets on the sea surface.

The Lijiang and Lancang immediately moved closer to me. Cover the main formations with artillery fire and do not let small warships approach!

Also tell all the gunners that we have only 15 minutes。。

"Yes!" ”。! ~!