"The direction is northwest, the distance is 4,930 meters, the southeast wind, the wind force is 4.7, and the wave height is 1.8 meters."

When Hu Biao's order to 'fire with all his strength and kill the Gao Qianho first', it fell into the ears of the members of the Xuange Battalion detachment.

The gunners on the three battleships of the Xuange Battalion immediately took action.

First, he lay on the rangefinder, and after getting the actual data of the current distance from the ship, he quickly reduced the distance of 500 meters in his heart.

Then, according to some simple measuring instruments, after taking a look at the current wind direction, wind speed, and wave height, I shouted out the above string of data.

Why should the measured distance be reduced to 500 meters?

Of course, because the target is constantly moving, if you don't make a little advance, where is it possible to hit the target; So another 500 meters of advance for the enemy ships is the predetermined position they set for a salvo.

And after the gun commander yelled out the relevant data in his mouth, in the next second, a sailor with a beginner Chinese level; He was shaking a hand-cranked mechanical computer at a rapid pace.

While inputting the data I heard, I entered it skillfully.

In his place, there is also a sailor with a high level of Chinese, holding a pen and paper in his hand, constantly making various calculations and records.

After spending about ten seconds, I had already calculated what the firing angle of a cannon next to me should be.

When he reported such an angle, also with a loud voice, the anxiously waiting gunner commanded the gunners and quickly adjusted the angle of the gun.

The above operation is a bit cumbersome to say.

However, under the long-term training, with the full cooperation of several people in a gun crew, it only took 356 seconds to complete the complete process.

At this time, the Takachiho had not traveled a distance of 500 meters and entered their preset firing position.

By the way, not all artillery crews use the above aiming methods.

The only exception was the 210 mm gun on the foredeck of the Chaise.

Because the artillery commander who commanded it was Huang Acan, the boy in the countryside of Shunde in the first battle of Yangcheng in the past; But fifty-three or four years have passed, and the former boy is now gray-haired.

Fortunately, after cultivating the "Mozi Five Elements Qi Alchemy", his body is quite tough.

Huang Acan, who is now an old man, never uses these bells and whistles to aim at his cannon, relying on an intuition.

But with his inexplicable intuition, the aiming effect is even better, which is a special case in the entire fleet.

In this way, when the Gao Chiho ship entered the preset firing point, on the three battleships of the Xuange Battalion Fleet, one by one, the gun commanders shouted directly in their mouths, almost at the same time:

"Open the gun~"

Suddenly, amid the loud sound of artillery, the three battleships of the Xuange Battalion detachment that had been crossed were forced to slide behind for a distance of sixty or seventy meters under the huge recoil force of the ship's guns.

In this process, the people on the boat also staggered for a while, that is, they grabbed the handle around them in time, so that they did not fall to the ground.

However, when everyone was balancing and did not recover, they all stretched their necks and looked in the direction of the Takachiho ship.

As a result, in the blink of an eye, more than a dozen shells of various sizes were summoned out by the detachment.

It was already facing the Takachiho ship and fell down one after another.

Of the dozen or so shells, most of them were empty; After they exploded, huge columns of water exploded on the surface of the sea near the ship.

However, there were four or five shells in it, and the distance of deviation was not too far, and under the effect similar to a near-miss bullet, the shock wave generated made the Takachiho ship shake violently

In addition, two shells managed to hit this target.

Among them, there was a 210 mm caliber shell, which Huang Acan relied on his instincts to aim at and beckoned out, and directly hit the rear deck of the Gao Qianho.

There is a 150 mm caliber secondary gun, which is directly reimbursed.

Almost 16% of such a hit rate is already miraculous in the current era; The damage caused is also good, but if you want to kill a battleship of more than 3,000 tons, it is still a little worse.

However, in the face of such firepower and hit rate, everyone in the devil's first fleet was still taken aback.

After all, this was the first round of artillery fire from the Xuange battalion, and with their experience, as the distance closes, the hit rate of such an artillery attack will only become more and more terrifying.

In short, the effect of the first round of fire of the Xuange battalion fleet was no less than that when he was fighting the landlord, the little devil started to fight a three.

Hu Biao and these people have already been thrown out of a bomb of four fours, who and who must not be confused?

But after suffering a loss, the four warships of the first guerrilla fleet of the island country continued to rush over at high speed.

The same is true of the Takachiho ship, which has burned up in the aft deck position; While the loss management team was extinguishing the fire, the power group was frantically burning the boiler and rushed over at full speed.

Why, is the little devil so fierce?

From Togo Heihachiro, the roar from his mouth to his subordinates, you can know:

"Rush, rush, just a little more and we can stop and fire; We have more and larger battleships, and there are more rapid-fire guns on them.

As long as we have a certain hit rate, we can take them out.

Then turn back and take out Qingguo's Beiyang fleet; Long live the island country, long live Your Majesty~"

Under the roar of Togo Heihachiro, the four warships of the 1st Guerrilla Fleet moved forward at full speed, and after a short time, the Xuange Battalion detachment fired another salvo.

This time, three more shells were fired on the Akitsuzu, and even the chimney was blown up and blocked.

In the case that the smoke cannot be discharged normally, the boiler has a great danger of deflagration and explosion.

However, the above risk of deflagration and explosion still takes a certain amount of time; Before this, the distance between the two fleets was only about 2,200 meters, and the four warships of the little devil began to cross one after another.

In the Xuange battalion detachment fleet, before firing at them for the third time.

The four warships of the 1st guerrilla fleet of the little devils finally opened fire frantically......

At the moment when the fire on the opposite side lit up, Hu Biao instinctively grabbed the mouth of a handle beside him, and shouted out a sentence in his mouth:

"Shelling, pay attention to balance~"

Afterwards, Hu Biao could clearly feel that a large number of shells were falling on the sea near the Guifei; It seems that they have taken the Guifei as their main target.

Xu is close enough, the little devil's hit rate in this wave of attacks is good, and there are several hits on the Guifei.

One of them also hit the conning tower, which was the thickest part of the armor of the entire battleship, but it was not penetrated by this shell of unknown caliber.

Just how did you say that? At the moment of being hit by a shell.

Hu Biao, who was staying in it at the time, felt like someone was ringing a big bell in his ear.

Boy! After the huge sound came, the head of the man slammed into the wall under the shaking of the hull, and it hurt even if it hurt; The key is that my brain is 'buzzing~', and I feel like I'm going to be deaf at that time.

However, Hu Biao didn't care about this, and hurriedly looked towards the front deck at the same time, his mouth was facing the communication brass pipe, and he shouted at the top of his voice:

"All departments, report the damage immediately~"

Fortunately, after Hu Biao took a look, in addition to seeing a tabletop-sized hole on the foredeck, someone had already dragged the water pipe to extinguish the fire.

The other replies were: "The power compartment is safe, there is no loss~"

"The ammunition compartment is safe, not hit~"

"The sailor's rest cabin has been blown open, and it will soon be blocked~"

“……”

In the above report, Hu Biao was pleasantly surprised to find that so many high-quality armor on the Guifei were really not in vain, and they suffered a round of intensive artillery fire in a short time, but there was no loss in key parts.

So, so what are you waiting for?

While the little devils on the opposite side were loading the shells, the detachment beckoned out with another round of artillery fire.

This time, the Takachiho ship finally couldn't bear it.

After hitting the hull in many places, there was a violent explosion, especially the key waterline part, after being hit by a 210 mm caliber shell, it was directly torn open a terrifying gap, and a large amount of seawater poured in.

By the time the 1st Guerrilla Fleet, the other three warships, with their so-called rapid-fire guns, had been hailing this side for another round, the ships had already begun to sink heavily.

After seeing this scene, the commander of the First Guerrilla Fleet, Heyuan Yaoichi, scolded bitterly, 'Baga~'.

Because up to now, he had to admit that the tonnage, the number of artillery fire, and the caliber of their First Guerrilla Fleet were several times that of the three small boats of the Xuange Battalion.

But in such a situation of no fancy, hard steel on the front.

They weren't the opponents of these iron-clad tortoises, or the spiky iron-clad tortoises.

If they really want to continue the bombardment, maybe the other side will have one or two unsunk, and the four ships of their first guerrilla fleet will all be sunk.

What to do? With a thought, Heyuan had an idea.

In front of the communication brass pipe, a brand new order was issued: "The Yoshino, Akitsuzu, and Yoshino ships are to conduct maneuver operations at full speed."

Warriors of the Imperial Navy need not be afraid, although the opponent's defense is stronger, but the speed of our ships is faster; As long as we take advantage of this advantage and fight in a mobile manner, we will defeat them sooner or later. ”

Under such an order, the three warships of the 1st Guerrilla Fleet of the Devils began to maneuver at maximum horsepower.

While constantly turning on the surface of the sea, he fired cannons at this side; However, in this way, it will not be possible to concentrate fire on the Guifei.

Instead, thanks to more advanced observation methods, the Xuange battalion continued to concentrate fire on the next target:

In their eyes there is a soft persimmon, more than 3,100 tons of Qiujinzhou ship.

Because the remaining three fleets of the First Guerrilla Fleet hurriedly launched a mobile operation, even on the Takachiho ship, which had only its mast out of the water, the sailors who were fluttering in the water could not care about saving them.

Let them splash helplessly in the sea and sink into the water.

It is worth mentioning that on the mast that exposed the sea, a little devil sailor stood on the mast above and not only did not run, but held a rifle and kept firing at this side.

The problem is that at such a distance, even the battleship cannot be hit.

Seeing such a scene, Hu Biao's heart was full of joy; Because although he has forgotten, the name of a TV series he watched when he was a child.

But always remember that after the Gao Sheng was sunk, the soldiers on board continued to use the rifles in their hands to fire desperately and powerlessly at the devil's warship.

The so-called feng shui takes turns, and the despair of this plane finally falls on the little devil.

And Hu Biao, who saw through the little devils and planned to fight them with high-speed maneuvers, almost didn't laugh at this moment.

Special! Although the three ships of the detachment looked like big lumps of iron because they had added too much armor.

It is completely at the expense of most of the maneuverability and speed in exchange for protection.

But the members of the equipment production team such as Brother Wolf Qing almost boiled the boiler that was transformed by the brain, even if they were carrying a huge load, if they couldn't even run the devil's battleship, they would just buy a bean and crash it to death.

Holding back a laugh, Hu Biao roared and issued a new order:

"Catch up and sink them~"

Under such an order, Shui Shui Wei and the other old soldiers cheered loudly, and they fought this battle more freely than ever......

In the following time, Hu Biao and his opponent began to chase and fire constantly.

Under the continuous high-speed maneuver of both sides, it is inevitable that the hit rate will be greatly reduced; However, every once in a while, a battleship was hit.

In such battles, the hull of the ship gradually crumbled.

At 2:43 p.m., after more than an hour of fighting, it was not known whether the Akitsu Chau had hit the boiler with an armor-piercing shell or the ammunition compartment.

Anyway, in the eyes of Hu Biao and others, a huge explosion sounded.

At the same time, this big guy of more than 3,100 tons actually jumped up from the sea.

By the time it hit the sea, the entire hull of the ship was broken in two; In a very short period of time, the two hulls of the ship sank rapidly towards the bottom of the sea.

Suddenly, the surviving devil sailors above jumped down to the sea like crazy and fled, trying to escape with a small life.

It's just that all their efforts will eventually become phantoms.

Because of a warship with such a large tonnage, the vortex and suction generated during the rapid sinking process will suck all of them into the bottom of the sea.

It was also at this moment that Heyuan and Togo Heihachiro felt bitter in their hearts,

Although they were very reluctant, they had to admit one point: they looked like a formidable No. 1 guerrilla fleet, but they could not defeat each other with hard steel on the front, and they were still not opponents in mobile combat.

Because they were both sunk two battleships, although the other party's three battleships were also a little embarrassed, they still retained most of their combat effectiveness.

In the end, the commander of the 1st guerrilla fleet, Kawagen Yoichi, issued a painful order from his mouth:

"Immediately move closer to the team and ask for their help......"

******

Seeing the Yoshino and Naniwa ships, after fleeing towards the fleet, Hu Biao and the others naturally refused to let go, and continued to chase after them.

Just because in the previous time, there were three remaining warships of the 1st guerrilla squadron of the island nation.

In the process of fighting with the Xuange Battalion sub-fleet, it gradually broke away from the battle area of the Beiyang Fleet and the main fleet of the Combined Fleet, and is now more than ten nautical miles away.

It took about twenty minutes to get between escaping and chasing.

That is, at three o'clock in the afternoon, when the specific battle situation on the main battlefield fell into the eyes of Hu Biao and others, everyone still couldn't help frowning.

Thanks to the new artillery shells they had arranged in advance, high-quality thermal coal, and the 1st Guerrilla Fleet, which was a great threat to the little devils.

Therefore, the actual battle situation of the Beiyang Fleet today must be different from the results of the original historical development; It's definitely a lot better than the original.

The good news is that not a single ship of the Northern Yang fleet has been sunk to this day.

If it were the original time in history, the Super Brave would have been sunk.

The Janista ran aground in a panicked retreat and became a lamb to the slaughter; The other ships also suffered considerable damage.

On the contrary, it was originally the combined fleet of island nations that did not sink a single battleship in the entire naval battle.

The ships Takachiho and Akitsuzu of the First Guerrilla Fleet were sunk, and the ships Hiei, Akagi, and Chiyoda of the fleet were sunk.

On the island side, of the twelve warships invested this time, only seven warships remained.

Even the remaining seven ships, under the powerful power of the new shells, also ignited fires of different sizes; After all, many of the battleships in this year still use wooden planks for many positions.

The bad news is that the Northern Yang fleet was not sunk by a single ship, though.

But by this moment, most of the warships had to temporarily withdraw from the battle because of damage, even if they later extinguished the fire.

Or it takes a lot of time to plug a leaky compartment.

Whether it will be able to catch up with the battle at that time is also unknown.

On the battlefield, on the side of the Beiyang fleet, only two ships remained in Dingzhen, and the Zhiyuan ship was still fighting, and there was a scene of five to three.

Now here in the main battlefield, it is equivalent to the devil's five warships led by the Songdao ship, and the two ships are constantly fighting around Dingzhen.

Although the Zhiyuan ship tried to support, it was unable to solve the Itsukushima that was blocking in front of it for a while.

In such a tonnage, it is almost twice as many opponents as him.

So, in such a situation, the two ships Yoshino and Naniwa, as well as the three battleships of the Genge Battalion subfleet, also joined the battle......

(End of chapter)