In fact, those three unfortunate ones who were sent to play the flag by lottery really did not have to worry about being shelled by the Far East Fleet of the British Royal Navy. Let's not mention that the John Bull Navy warships are full of upright boys with a "sense of honor" in their heads, take their "Captain Hundred" that was sunk by Feng Lan and Xu Jing as an example, whether it is the 254mm twin main gun or the 120mm secondary gun it is equipped with, if you want to hit a speedboat three kilometers away, Zhen Nyima has to let God help you hang it.

Even if this will pass through the self-inflicted evil to the British to export the monkey version of the rangefinder and ranging algorithm, but the life-saving/interceptor speedboat that the three rough embryos are riding can easily jump to a speed of forty-five knots, how can those old antique naval guns that need to fire rangefinder shells first and then slowly adjust them by manual calculations can hit them?!

Breaking away from the Britle's range was a blink of an eye for a high-speed life-saving/interceptor shock boat capable of reaching a top speed of fifty-five knots, and when the three rough embryos approached the mothership "Brandenburg"-class frigate F-217 in an irregular serpentine position with a strong feeling of vomiting, they could already hear the beeping siren from the ship, which was an artillery alarm, which required all personnel close to the foredeck to enter the cabin.

Bang! Boom! A muffled sound was followed by a crisp metal crash, and the slender barrel of the Italian-made Otto Melera 76mm gun on the front deck of the F-217 spewed two clouds of mushroom-shaped smoke, and a shell was thrown onto the foredeck by an automatic bomb thrower and rolled onto the barrage net.

And then again, bang! Bang! Bang! Three muffled sounds followed! The Otto Melera 76mm gun had a rate of fire of nearly 120 rounds per minute, and the F-217 fired three more armor-piercing shells at the British's ship in the middle of a daze.

“Check！”

“Check！”

The bridge of the F-217 is filled with passwords from rough people asking for corrections and checking the effects of the shelling.

"Captain, three shots were hit, but it doesn't seem that the strike effect is very ideal!" The first mate said to Marcose.

The only operation Marcos participated in using naval guns in this plane was the naval battle in which Task Force 38 broke the siege of East Manlaw, when their opponent was the declining sea coachman.

That abusive artillery battle gave Marcos a preliminary understanding of the "paper" armor of warships in this era, but the reason why he asked his subordinates to load the 76mm main gun with semi-armor-piercing range extender just now was because the current opponent was the British Royal Navy, which was known as the strongest in the world in this time and space.

It is understandable that the coachmen of the sea and mountains are already in the twilight, and their warships have no money to pile up armor, but the British Royal Navy, which bears the crown of the empire on which the sun never sets, can't it also use paper boats to protect the colonial interests of the whole world, otherwise, what is the face of this great power?

However, John Bull's Far East Fleet was originally the main opponent of those armored cruisers of the Maozi Pacific Fleet, and by the way, there was a possibility that a town would be a skinny footbasin chicken navy, and they really didn't need to pile up armor!

As the main force of the Far Eastern Fleet, the "Captain of the Hundred" and its sister ship "Pavrel" are all shrunken versions of the "Sovereign" class battleships, the thickest armor in the middle of the main belt is 305 mm, but the thinnest part is 51 mm!

The above data is a second-class battleship of the "Captain of the Hundred" class, but there is no such battleship among the British warships that disobeyed the order to go south, and only two battleships were built! The "Captain of the Hundred" has been sunk by Feng Lan and Xu Jing, and the "Pavrel" is firmly in the hands of Colonel Percy Scott. On the opposite side of the F-217 are trash fish and shrimp with a displacement of less than 10,000 tons, and they don't even have a covered turret!

"I'm rubbing, it shouldn't be too worn!" Marcos said.

At present, the Otto Melera 76mm naval gun uses semi-armor-piercing range extender (SAPOMER), which is generally used against ships and shore targets. This thing was developed on the basis of the semi-armor-piercing bullet (SAPOM), and the basic mountain maintained the strong penetration of the SAPOM while still having a decent damage effect. Well, if this thing can explode when it is put inside.

Semi-armor-piercing extended-range projectiles (SAPOMER) are designed to increase the range by improving the shape of the projectile. The warhead is slender and the shape of the middle part of the projectile is no longer cylindrical, which reduces the wave resistance and reduces the air friction resistance during the flight of the projectile, thus achieving the goal of increasing the range by 22% and increasing the maximum range from 16.3km to 20km.

At this time, the distance between the F-217 ship and its firing target was about ten kilometers, and when the projectile that had been further reduced penetrated into the superstructure of the British warship at this distance, its kinetic energy for armor piercing was obviously overflowing.

Obviously, these shells passing through the hall will not be able to carry out the most popular "deck washing" tactic of the moment, what? Why don't you attack underwater armor, you say? Big brother, are you sure you've seen shells from 76mm naval guns? How many holes do you have to make to sink the ship because the British are too busy?

"Replace the prefabricated fragmentation shells immediately!" Marcos ordered the 76-mm guns to be replaced.

That's how capricious! I have a long range, I am very fast, Lao Tzu is the beginning of the artillery battle can also slowly change the type of shells, not satisfied to catch up.

After Marcos gave the order to change the ammunition, the F-217 also reduced its speed in order to hoist the life-saving/interceptor speedboat.

This slowing down immediately ignited the emotions of the British on the other side, and some people immediately speculated based on the monkey version of the rangefinder and the ranging method sold to them by the crossing crowd, and the Great Song people could only achieve a high hit rate of artillery bombardment by slowing down.

Some people also expressed contempt for the Great Song warship, which was only equipped with solid shells, and once again mentioned that the shelling of Maguan was a bluffing trick by the Song people who had planted explosives in advance.

In short, the British, who had suffered little overall loss after being hit by three shells by the Great Song people, had almost rushed towards the F-217 with full horsepower. Even the British warship that rushed ahead had already begun to shell with its bow guns, and it was not known whether it was trying to scare Marcose or to gamble on luck, and no one knew where the shells would fall at this distance.

"The replacement of MOM-type prefabricated fragmentation shells has been completed!" The rough embryo, located under the main deck, was quickly replaced with shells inside the drum.

"It's really Nima rushing over, this is obviously bullying our small barrel! Paste their faces, don't treat bean bags as dry food, it's really a joke when Lao Tzu opened the flag that my ship was ordered to block your ship! Marcos said.

Bang! Bang! Bang! At this time, the F-217 ship adjusted its course, kept its hull and the course of the British at an angle of about 70°, and then opened fire on the British with the assistance of modern fire control computers.

Marcose is flying a kite! Even if they sailed diagonally at an angle of about 70°, it would be difficult for British warships loaded with only coal-fueled triple-expansion steam engines to close the distance between them and the F-217, which could reach a maximum speed of 29 knots.

The British, who were still laughing at the inpowerful solid bullets of the Great Song people just now, immediately learned a new lesson. The MOM type prefabricated fragmentation projectile fired by Otto Melera's 76mm naval gun was originally used to deal with fast-flying (including sea-skimming flight) targets in the air, the inner cavity of the projectile is filled with A3 high-energy explosives, and the inner side wall of the projectile is covered with 3,000 0.5g cube tungsten blocks.

The MOM-type prefabricated fragmentation projectile has two detonation modes: near-explosion and collision delay, and the fire controller has already "intimately" chosen the latter for the British. When the shell is set to this mode, the proximity function of the fuse is disabled by the conversion device on the gun and the warhead launch delay function is switched, resulting in the shell being detonated after entering the hull.

The other two British warships that had not yet been shelled by the F-217 found that the own warship at the front of the formation was subjected to accurate shelling by the Great Song people, but like the previous shelling, the bridge and other buildings did not seem to be damaged, and it seemed that there was no fire and no busy figure in the damage management.

"Sir, it's on course!" After a while, someone noticed that there seemed to be something wrong with the warship in the formation that was shelled by the Great Song people.

In fact, the problems encountered by this warship, which was hit by a prefabricated fragmentation shell of the 76 mm MOM, were really a big deal. The superstructures that had been hit by the shells, which from the outside looked like only a bullet hole that was not particularly large,3 high-energy explosives could turn cubes weighing only 0.5 g into frenzied rampaging particles that sliced through everything they came across, until the kinetic energy was exhausted.

The chamber was filled with bloody scenes, with large blood stains left by large pieces of human tissue torn off by the shock wave on the walls, and small red dots splattered out of the small tungsten lumps that had entered the human body.

The cabins with faint cries for help and moans were already considered to have been favored by Lady Luck, and due to the hardness of the tungsten blocks, there were basically no objects in the cabin that could stop these violent little things, and the people who stayed in them would basically be hit by so many no matter where they were, and no one was really spared!

It's no wonder that the people on the other two British warships couldn't see the busy figures of the damage managers, after a round of shelling, those who were not under the main deck had already suffered most of the casualties, how could anyone be busy!