Chapter 311: This Aircraft Carrier, Is It a Serious Aircraft Carrier? (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)

When Zhuge Weidao commanded a strange aircraft carrier to shell two half-dead battleships, Chen Jian and James. Lieutenant General Hood is competing with each other with the most standard tactics of "grabbing the T position" and "going around in circles", and the fight is so difficult to solve!

Everyone knows how good it is to "grab the T position", but it is not easy to grab it. Jian Chen's 4 Zhongwang-class ships are fast, but they are not as fast as that. If they want to be able to run 30 knots, the t position will be in hand early. It's a pity that they are also 24 or 25 knots, even if they are forced to ventilate, they can soar to 26 or 27 knots.

And James. Hood's 8 Victory Class also has a rated maximum speed of 21 knots and strong pressure ventilation of 23 knots. Although it is 3 knots slower than its opponent, it is still on a notch. So James. Hood can command his 8 victorious levels to walk the inner circle in a double column, and keep going around with Chen Jian's 4 Zhongwang levels. His double column was still staggered, so that he could give full play to his firepower superiority. 8 Victory-level 64 12-inch guns can be concentrated to bombard a Loyal King!

And the 4 Jojo Tadaoh class only had 32 300mm cannons...... Clearly not an opponent!

So in James. In the face of the fierce artillery fire of Hood's formation, Chen Jian's formation was helpless. He didn't dare to get too close to his opponent, and he couldn't hammer the opponent's battleship with a 300-millimeter gun at a long distance - because there were no cap-piercing shells, hood-piercing shells, and the penetration depth of the 300-mm guns and 12-inch guns was a bit insufficient. The Victory class and the Zhongwang class have adopted the latest case-hardened armor, and both sides have adopted the concept of key protection for armor distribution, so the defense capability is quite reliable.

They hammered each other for a while, but they didn't get any results.

James. Hood, of course, was not in a hurry. Now the advantage is in him! Even if his 8 battleships can't kill the opponent's 4 battleships in one stroke, Rear Admiral Hao's 2 victorious class will not hammer the "half battleship"?

That's a 4:1 advantage!

And Chen Jian is a little bit of a circle...... His 4 battle cruisers are the absolute main force of the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield today, if he can't defeat the opponent, then how long can Zhuge Weidao rely on an "aircraft carrier" that can fight artillery battles?

If Zhuge Weidao can't hold it and is killed, then he Chen Jian will be in great trouble...... Zhuge Weidao now has the meaning of the first general of the Zhuge family! If he didn't fight hard because Chen Jian didn't fight hard and folded here in the Gretel Strait, the Zhuge family would have a ghost if he didn't clean up Chen Jian in the future.

Just when Chen Jian was considering whether to use his battle cruiser as a torpedo boat and fight a "battle cruiser pig rush" with the 12 heavy mine destroyers in his hand, Lu Benwei, who was transferred to the bridge by Lei Teng to serve as the leader of the bridge observation squad, suddenly shouted: "Mr. Chen...... Zhuge Junmen seems to have defeated the enemy's two battleships! ”

Chen Jian was taken aback when he heard this, "What? Zhuge Junmen has been defeated? ”

"No, no, no....... It's Yingyi who is defeated! Lu Benwei said, "Zhuge Junmen defeated two British battleships with one aircraft-carrying battlecruiser...... Two of Yingyi's battleships seem to be about to be sunk! ”

"What?" Jian Chen couldn't believe his ears, but he immediately turned his binoculars to look at the battlefield on the other side. And at first glance, he didn't even believe his own eyes.

Because the scene he saw was incredible!

The King of Shu Zhong was bombarding two British battleships with five twin 12-inch cannon turrets with two twin 300-mm turrets...... And also scarred those two British battleships!

One of them had sunk noticeably, as if it had lost all power, and although the five turrets were not all dumbfired, the British artillery had to operate the guns manually after losing the electric loader and other servo systems...... The rate of fire is unbelievably slow. As for the secondary guns on this battleship, most of them were also dumb fire, and the fire spread everywhere on the deck. The team seemed to be powerless and could only watch as the battleship was engulfed in flames.

And the other battleship was even worse, the bow sank into the water somehow, the butt of the ship pouted, and it burned fiercely, and it was constantly hit by the King of Shu Zhong with a 300-mm main gun!

The two British battleships were really beaten badly!

But how is this done? How can an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser be so powerful?

Isn't this aircraft-carrying battlecruiser as simple as it seems? What other secrets does it have that no one knows?

As soon as Chen Jian thought of this, a huge ball of fire suddenly broke out on the pouting British battleship!

In the smoke of gunpowder, Chen Jian only saw that the "butt" of this battleship, which seemed to have at least 18,000 tons of standard displacement, had been blown away, and the entire warship was broken in two near the stern turret, and the explosion even threw a part of the stern fragments high, and then smashed down on the sea, and splashed monstrous waves.

Jian Chen was stunned!

Is this a one-shot second ammunition depot?

That's amazing, isn't it? Zhuge is the way, this is enough to be the god of the navy?

James. Hood also saw one of his battleships being denied ammunition depot by an "aircraft carrier" of the Ming army with artillery...... Now the most popular thing in the navies of various countries is the shell with picric acid as the warhead charge, how powerful is this explosion? If the Verisley is bombed like this, it is not a matter of "dropping" an "ass", but it is directly finished! Although the ship has not sunk yet, it must have to abandon the ship.

Just in James. When Hood was shocked, something happened that made it even more difficult for him to accept. The "aircraft carrier" that had just been destroyed actually swaggered to a distance of only 1,000 meters from the battleship Marina, which was already "lying flat", and fired two torpedoes...... Then a terrible scene happened, only to see two huge jets of water suddenly rise from the side of the Malina, and when the jets of water and the resulting mist dissipated, the standard displacement of more than 18,000 tons had already turned on its side and sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye!

James. Hood was dumbfounded—what the hell happened to this? How can one aircraft carrier take out two battleships in the blink of an eye? And it was taken out with artillery and torpedoes.

This aircraft carrier....... Is it a serious aircraft carrier?

"Lieutenant General, Rear Admiral Yoshiro's urgent telegram ......" The fleet's communications staff officer suddenly shouted loudly at this time, "Rear Admiral Yoshiro said that he witnessed the destruction and sinking of the Willisley and the Malina...... The Ming fleet adopted the tactics of aircraft, warships, and lightning strikers to sink and destroy the two battleships! If the same tactic is applied to the remaining 8 Victory-class ships, it will also work, so he suggested that the 2nd Indian Fleet temporarily withdraw to India for recuperation! ”

Not to mention, the one who overlooks everything from a high vantage point. The righteous law is really accurate!

The reason why Zhuge Weidao was able to win was actually to use an unprecedented way of fighting aircraft, warships, and lightning strike ships that had never been done before in another period of history.

If Zhuge Weidao continues to adopt the same cooperative combat mode. That James. Hood's fleet will certainly continue to suffer heavy losses. Maybe you will be wiped out by the defeat and lose all the victory levels.

If it got to this point, the British Empire would have lost the entire war.

So now James. Hood must abandon the decisive battle and withdraw from the battlefield immediately......