79. The Great War of Coastal Defense (3)
Although the Chinese fleet acted on a crooked and irregular route, it perfectly avoided the attacks of all the artillery on the batteries, and the shells shot into the sea, blowing up perfect splashes that seemed very ironic to Guba and others, and the Chinese fleet perfectly rode the wind and waves in the splash, and stood up alone, "What's going on!" How will the Chinese know the range and range of the battery! ”
The coastal defense batteries of this era are all fixed to death, and the firepower of the artillery is of course very powerful, but it can only hit one point, not any angle and any position can be shot, and the lone pull launched thousands of young people in Vietnam, and spent the price of whipping countless people to get this continuous battery like the watchtower of the Great Wall, and was actually seen through all the range by the Chinese, so easily entered and crossed the defensive line of fire!
Lone's eyes suddenly turned black, it is obvious that the Chinese have discovered something, according to his judgment that is not full of malice at this time, the Chinese intelligence agencies must have figured out all the range of the battery, these damned Chinese, in Vietnam it seems to be mercury, pervasive, there are their manpower everywhere! It must have been the stupid officers who did not know whether they had intentionally or unintentionally leaked the secrets, so that the fort outside Haiphong Harbor became an ornament! This matter must be investigated, but now is certainly not the time to investigate, what is needed now is to repel the Chinese Nanyang naval division. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "It's okay! "There are two other places that they will never be able to fathom! Gu Ba gritted his teeth and set off from the dock, and got on the ironclad ship, "Don't think that we can't bombard the Nanyang Naval Division in advance at this time," he said through gritted teeth, Gu Ba raised his head and looked at the distant battery, which was shooting from the sea in vain, there are undulating green hills on both sides of Haiphong Port, and many forts have been built on them in turn, and the green hills on both sides are like two giant snakes winding outside Haiphong Port, and the highest part of each is like a high snake head, always watching the overseas scene, ready to show its fangs"We've got something else to do!" ”
As soon as Gu Ba's words were finished, on the highest hill battery on the left, a huge shell suddenly fired angrily, directly hitting a small mosquito artillery boat in the ranks of the attacking Nanyang naval division, the gunboat exploded in response, many Chinese soldiers hurriedly jumped into the water to escape, and after a while, the mosquito artillery boat slowly sank to the bottom of the sea, and the Chinese finally suffered losses for the first time.
The French soldiers shouted, obviously very happy, and the heralds around him gave orders, and the warships that were originally moored in the harbor lifted anchor one after another, and sailed towards the port exit according to a certain matrix, and now they need to speed up and grab the T-shaped position, and then use the entrance battery to slow down the speed of the Nanyang Naval Division, so that there is no problem at all!
Gu Ba sneered slightly, he stood on the side of the ship and watched for a long time, and saw that the two sides had been maintaining a fixed speed to fire artillery, and many small Chinese gunboats had been sunk or lost their combat effectiveness. He no longer cared about the outside world, and entered the command room, ready to begin directing this and subsequent frontal naval battle. The Chinese will not be able to defeat France!
Guba just turned around and entered the command room, the highest point on both sides of the fort is still functioning, suddenly made a shocking loud noise, boom, the rocks on the mountain suddenly exploded, Guba flew out, saw that the mountain has exploded a huge gap, stones and soil have flown down, the green mountains on both sides seem to be hung with two yellow mud waterfalls, one after another explosions sounded, no one to tell him, Guba clearly understood, these two forts, and lost their effect again.
The last land batteries could not slow down the advance of the Chinese navy, and after a while, several cruisers turned their heads from the southwest corner and sailed to the northeast, exposing one side of their ships, lining up the entire exit of the harbor in a crescent shape, and the gunboats and gunboats, large and small, crossed the sea, exposing the side of the ship.
The civil official on the side of Guba grabbed his face in horror, his face had been scratched, and he suddenly didn't know, "They blocked our exit!" ”
"Don't worry!" Gu Ba said loudly, and he originally had a panicked expression on his face, but at this time he had to stabilize his emotions, "No problem," he said loudly, "Do you see, they only have these junk cruisers, not a single ironclad ship!" Even if these fishing boats block our exit, our ironclads can easily break through their offensive line! Even T-shaped artillery tactics won't make any difference! ”
The so-called T-shaped artillery battle tactics actually have a long history and are not a product of the era of armored ships, if you trace back its originator, it should be the famous British naval admiral Albimar, Britain has carefully designed this tactic since the construction of the 54-gun battleship Prince Prince. At that time, the guns of the battleships were installed on both sides, so only the flanks of the enemy could produce the best combat effect, and if the whole fleet was flanked, facing the opponent's column, and striking its lead ship, it could produce terrible results.
This was the most popular naval strategy before World War I, but if it was in a wide sea area, in the T-shaped tactic, the "one" horizontal bar was difficult to grab, because your opponent was by no means an idiot, and it was impossible to stand still and let you occupy an advantageous position in a daze, but in the port, if this tactic was formed, then the terrible side-by-side fire was enough to make anyone unforgettable for life.
The self-confidence of the lonely is that the tonnage and firepower of the North Vietnamese fleet far exceed that of the Nanyang Naval Division, and although the number of warships is far inferior to that of the Nanyang Naval Division, the Nanyang Naval Division does not have a single ironclad ship, but the French Northwest Vietnamese Fleet has five ironclad ships!
The Ironclad was a steam-type warship of the early second half of the 19th century, covered with hard iron or steel armor. As wooden warships were unable to withstand the bombardment of increasingly powerful shells, ironclads were born. In November 1859, the world's first main ironclad battleship, the Napoleon, led by the French Navy, set sail for the first time. The Royal Navy began planning the development of armoured warships in 1856, and in 1857 successfully drew up a draft of the armoured frigates, but in early 1859 the Royal Navy chose to build two ironclad frigates, and in 1861 decided to develop towards a fully armored fleet. After the first confrontation between ironclads during the American Civil War, the unarmored (wooden-hulled) battleships of the sailing era were clearly weak, and the ironclads replaced them as the most powerful ships in naval warfare. (To be continued.) )