After the extremely touching bombardment of the secondary artillery department, the small gunboats, which were not much thicker than modern fishing boats, began to turn, intending to withdraw to the sea beyond the range of the 127 mm twin secondary guns of the BB63. Well, maybe it would be better to withdraw to the range of the heavy coastal defense guns of the Dagu Fort, so that the "paper boats" of the Great Song people would stop, and many white officers had this idea.

Since the small gunboats that left the formation in the first batch were basically Italian-flagged ships, Luo Can surrendered because of the reputation of the pasta that could not open the ammunition box without a crowbar, and did not judge the true intentions of this fleet of small gunboats of several hundred to a thousand tons at that time.

Soon, the small gunboats flying the French and British flags also found that it was not a problem to advance against the fragments of anti-personnel shells falling into the UK, and they all joined the ranks of the Italians in "tactical transfer".

"Oh, I'll go, they're all turned around! Even the secondary artillery department can't resist this kind of shelling that scares children? So what kind of big-tailed wolf are you here to pretend to be? Seeing that the small gunboats on the opposite side turned around and ran away, Luo Can could only use complaining to alleviate the embarrassment of his miscalculation.

"To chase or not to chase?" The first mate asked Luo Can.

As far as the crude abilities of the secondary artillery department are concerned, if these small gunboats are allowed to go away like this, I am afraid that they will not have to expect them to hit anything.

"Lean in, really when the signal flag we hung is a decoration, can you come and leave as you want?! Anyway, all the shells have been used, so it's right to continue to let the rough embryos in the secondary artillery department practice! Luo Can said.

Because the small gunboats of pasta ran away without saying hello, this improvised fleet had no formation to speak of for a while, and after a while, it was chaotic but generally divided into two ways to retreat.

At this time, the BB63 chose to leave an open sea area between the two small gunboats to pursue, and the Italians were unfortunate to fall on the side of the BB63 with the secondary guns manned.

Although the rough embryos of the secondary artillery department were unreliable, they were not as imbecile as mentally retarded, and when the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed and there was no longer the psychological burden of facing suicide attacks, the hit rate of these three 127mm twin naval guns also began to increase.

Although the MK12 is a naval gun, its initial velocity and projectile weight are not as high as the 88mm anti-aircraft gun that Hans used to scare tanks in World War II.

But fortunately, the rough embryo of the auxiliary artillery department has selected the most suitable type of ammunition for the current battle situation, and the work of hanging and beating children without protection is simply hand-to-hand for personnel anti-personnel ammunition, and those who come do not refuse, refuse people for thousands of miles, and they are not people inside and outside, uh, anyway, when the prefabricated fragments are scattered on the brains of the Italians in the air, they finally don't have to worry about running away and not finding a good excuse.

When the soldiers of John Bull and the Gallic Chicken saw that the BB63 only tortured the small gunboats with the Italian flag, they were still a little happy in their hearts, they took it for granted that this was the Great Song Dynasty people bullying the weak and afraid of the hard, and they did not dare to choose the killer in the end for the provocation from the warships of big countries such as the British Empire and France.

However, the slap in the face of the Great Song people came almost as soon as these white officers had this thought. Because the BB63 and the small gunboats were close enough to each other, the two 20mm MK-15 Phalanx short-range defense weapon systems on the port side of the Iowa-class battleship were already locked onto the small gunboats closest to the BB63.

When the independent radar of the MK-15 "Phalanx" short-range defense weapon system detects the approach of a target such as a surface target and a low-altitude and slow-moving target, the British HDTI-5-2F ultra-long wavelength and high-resolution infrared thermal imaging system on the left side of its radome will intervene.

The image data collected by the thermal imager is transmitted to the shooter's console located in the BB63 Situation Room, where the Phalanx shooter can effectively identify these targets and decide whether to attack them, while the thermal imaging system can more intuitively assess the damage to the target in order to decide whether to continue the attack.

Of course, in the face of such high-speed targets such as anti-ship missiles, the MK-15 "Phalanx" short-range defense weapon system does not need to be identified, and it can be fired first.

Puff puff, the Phalanx shooters were not soft on the small British and French gunboats that were locked by the radar, and the bridge of these small ships was a burst of strafing. Although the MK-15 had significantly reduced the rate of fire of the 20-mm rotary gun, nearly a hundred shells penetrated the bridge of the target ship in a matter of seconds.

These 20mm rotary cannons fired MK-244Mod0 armor-piercing shells, and when each warhead containing a 100-5-gram tungsten alloy core hit the so-called iron armor of this era, it only took a breath to turn the originally intact bridge into leaky ruins.

Compared to the Italians who were washed by anti-personnel shells, John Bull and Gallic Chicken, who were strafed by the MK-15 "Phalanx" 20mm guns, suffered more casualties on the gunboats.

On the pasta side, as long as it is not unlucky enough to be set on fire by the fragments, there is always a whole corpse that relatives and friends can recognize, after all, the volume of the prefabricated fragments is there.

However, the tungsten alloy bullets fired by the 20mm cannon have a real killing effect on human tissues, which shatters when touched and breaks off when hit. The boats of John Bull and Gallic Chickens, after a burst of Phalanx, were left with piles of stumps and minced flesh except for the leaky bridges.

Although the MK-15 "Phalanx" short-range defense weapon system is also a well-known stalk in terms of hit accuracy, it is not possible to defend against small boats and missiles occasionally in actual combat, and it is also very intoxicating to make trouble during exercises. During the exercise, there were incidents in which a fighter plane dragging a target plane was shot down by a plane that missed the target plane.

However, despite all the jokes, the two "phalanxes" on the port side of the BB63 were under the control of relatively advanced radars and auxiliary thermal imagers, and the results of the "phalanx" shooters in one or two minutes were obviously much stronger than those of the secondary artillery department that had been busy for half a day.

"Well, it seems that there are no more target ships, can we still chase them?" When the "phalanx" that collected people's heads like cutting leeks joined the battle, the first mate soon found that they had nothing to target.

"Almost, you listen to the firing frequency of those 127mm secondary guns, those rough embryos are estimated to have the strength to load the shells, alas, they were originally the masters who sat in the office, and it can be considered to this extent." Luo Can said.

showed off a wave of high-tech weapons through the crowd, and at this time, I thought that those whiteskins should always recognize the huge gap between their ironclad battleships and the "Iowa"-class battleships.

However, the white naval officers who survived the catastrophe were already trying to propose a plan to their superiors to annihilate the giant battleship of the Great Song people.

In the eyes of the naval officers of these veteran naval powers, the Great Song people obviously took the detour of the small-caliber rapid-fire guns before the foot basin chicken.

Although thanks to the advanced technology in explosives, the small-caliber naval guns of the Great Song Dynasty could indeed easily gain an advantage when they were close to the face and washed the deck, but the Great Song people neglected to carry damage to the hull as a platform for naval guns, and it was impossible to sink the battleship by relying on these small-caliber guns!

Judging from the battle just now, the range of the small-caliber naval guns of the Great Song Dynasty is about fifteen kilometers, and at this distance, the large ships can still resist their "high-hit" artillery fire, once the Great Song people enter the range of our large-caliber naval guns, then their end is coming!

No matter how high the rate of fire of their small-caliber rapid-fire guns is, it is impossible to wash the decks of all ships before sinking when they are besieged by several battleships!

As for the 16-inch guns that even took off their artillery suits, it is estimated that they are some scary appearances, and the shelling of Maguan, which is considered to destroy the city and the land, is simply a farce performed by the Great Song Dynasty and those riotous ronins.

"Anchor here! Since Lord Zhongtang is so knowledgeable, let's not go to Dagu Fort to make trouble for his old man, and we will leave as soon as the retreating ship arrives! Luo Can said to the first mate.

Luo Can, who was anxious to complete the evacuation mission and then return to the Yantai sea area to continue to provide support to the ground forces, did not know that after the whiteskins saw the kind of Chinese practice that he had saved face for Lord Zhongtang, they were even more firm in their inference that the nine 406mm main guns of the "Iowa"-class battleship were some sets of tubes.