PS: Supplement 2

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Half a minute later, Sun Wu's third salvo hit two more shots, one hitting the armored conning tower of the Empress Maria-Theresia and turning it into a scorching hell, and all the officers and men inside were killed by the heat and shrapnel. The other opened a large hole in the bow of the ship with a diameter of eight meters. The ship suffered such a heavy blow and was basically scrapped.

And in this round of salvos, other capital ships were also opened, the Austro-Hungarian Karl IV and St. George. Giuseppe of Italy. Garibaldi, Varese, Francisco Ferruccio and Amalfi were all shot. Huge fireballs erupted from the Ao's body, flames accompanied by shrapnel, shattered steel and human limbs flying everywhere.

In the armored command room of the battleship Xuanyuan, it was also busy at this time, and the main control computer screen on the wall in front of it was using cursors of various colors and geometric patterns such as red, yellow, blue, and green, showing the current state of affairs between the enemy and us.

At this time, I saw that on the blue diamond-shaped cursor that represented the enemy's patrol, a dialog box kept popping up, and each dialog box indicated that the opponent was shot, and the location and time of the shot were also displayed in the dialog box. At this time, two dialogs popped up at the same time on the cursor of the northernmost ship marked "Empress Maria Theresia".

"At 9:53:17, the port side was shot, and the secondary gun was judged to be damaged, causing a fire ......"

"At 9:53:18, the middle of the hull was shot, the front chimney was broken, and the boiler room was damaged......"

", Sun Wu-class is too accurate!" Li Ang was a little speechless, if you want to be so ruthless, bully someone a 5,000-ton cruiser, and even if you are paralyzed, you won't let go.

Li Ang was also a little anxious now, his Xuanyuan and Shennong had fired four salvos, and they hadn't opened yet. The best result was a close miss.

"200 m to the left, 230 m to the front......"

"Wind direction 132. 5 degrees, wind speed 5. 8 m/s ......"

"Turn left 0 for the main gun. 5 compasses, 10 minutes lower elevation ......"

The fire control observers were also very anxious at this time, and they kept inputting the correction parameters sent by the calibrator and various optical and radar into the fire control computer, and in less than a second, a new set of numbers was calculated. Immediately, the central control system began to drive the turret's motors according to this new set of parameters, correcting the elevation angle and angle of the barrel in place.

The officers and men in the turret were also desperately busy with protective headsets, sending the shells sent by the ammunition hoist into the gun chamber with a loader, and then pushing the calculated propellant. After doing this work, the officers and men hurriedly hid in the bunker room behind the turret, and the turret commander immediately pressed the "ready" button.

The biggest difference between Chinese battleships and their foreign counterparts lies in the fact that their firing calculations, angle adjustments, and firing are all directly controlled by the central control system of the control tower, rather than operated by the individual turrets themselves. The personnel in the turret are responsible for loading shells and cleaning the chamber, and they don't care about adjusting and firing unless the system is broken.

In the command tower, the indicator lights representing the readiness of the four main turrets were lit up one after another, and the "jingle bell......" rang out in a hurry, and the gunner hurriedly pressed the salvo button.

The 12 360-mm guns of the "Boom Boom Boom ......" fired another salvo at 50 millisecond intervals. The powerful muzzle storm pressed 12 large craters out of the sea surface on the side of the ship, and the huge recoil caused the hull of tens of thousands of tons to be translated to the side by dozens of centimeters.

The Xuanyuan and Shennong of the 5th Battleship Detachment were in ninth and tenth place in the battle line, and their targets were the Italian Navy's San Giorgio and San Marco, the two newest Italian armored cruisers. This San Giorgio class is an enhanced version of the Pisa class, with the same main gun as the fast class, with two twin 254 mm guns, but its secondary gun is four twin 190 mm turrets, with a 200 mm main armor belt and a speed of 23. 5 knots, much more powerful than the fast stage.

But this so-called also depends on who it is compared with, it is definitely not worse than other loading cruisers, but compared with the Fuxi-class super dreadnoughts they are facing now, it is not a little bit worse, not to mention that they are still in a disadvantaged formation, on the T-shaped vertical. In fact, these officers and men on patrol are also very aware of their fate, and the superiors sent them to attack the super dreadnoughts of the Entente countries, which is clearly to send them to death. In order to give the main force a chance to break through, they are now also fighting.

The main guns of the Chinese capital ships are 130 mm, which is not a secret in the world, and the secondary guns of the Italian and Austrian patrolmen are at least 152 mm, and the Pisa-class and San Giorgio are even 190 mm. Therefore, the tactic of the Italian-Austrian patrol was to use their own speed to approach the Chinese battleship at high speed, and then use their many secondary guns and rapid-fire guns to "wash the deck" of the opponent. Of course, they didn't dare to hope for sinking or something, just hoping that they could hit the other party hard, and they were already thankful.

At this time, the Italian-Austrian patrol was facing the Chinese battleship, although it was tactically inferior and could only play the front main gun, but it also had the advantage that the projection was smaller, and it was less likely to be hit by the enemy than the side side. Of course, this "not easy to be hit" is also relatively speaking, there will definitely be losses in the process of approaching, there is no doubt about this, and the Italian and Austrian Navy is also psychologically prepared for this, and they are ready to rush into the Chinese capital ship array at the cost of half of the battle.

However, the performance of the Chinese Navy surprised them, the high rate of fire and hit rate of those battleships were terrifying, and the distance between the two sides was still more than 25 kilometers, and the Chinese side began to shoot effectively, and hits soon appeared. Three old Austro-Hungarian cruisers were the first to fall victims, the most unfortunate of all, the Empress Maria-Theresia was hit by seven bullets at a distance of 24 kilometers and had already begun to sink, the Karl IV and St. George were also hit by successive heavy damage at a distance of 22 to 23 kilometers, the Karl IV was blown away from the ammunition depot of the front main gun, the entire bow was blown away, and now it has plunged headlong into the sea, leaving only the second half of its body on the surface. The St. George also knocked out the ammunition depot of the port side secondary gun, flooded heavily on the left side, and was wiped out of the boiler room, and is now paralyzed on the surface of the sea, becoming a blazing flare.

When the distance was close to 21 kilometers, several other ships were also shot, although not as miserable as the three Austro-Hungarian patrols, but you must know that the Chinese side hit either 390 mm or 360 mm heavy artillery, not to mention a direct hit, even if it was close to missing, it was enough to choke.

"God forbid, the Fuxi-class ship opposite me doesn't have that high a hit rate......" Baggio, the captain of the San Giorgio, couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest, and now there are only three ships left that have not been shot, and he is one of them. The Fuxi-class on the opposite side fired four salvos in a row, but the near-miss bomb more than 10 meters away still caused some damage to the hull, shook off a few rivets, and the bottom of the ship was a little seepage, but the problem was not big and did not affect the speed.

Baggio hurriedly ordered strong pressure ventilation, and at this time he didn't care about protecting the power system. The officers and men of the boiler room who received the order hurriedly turned on the strong pressure ventilation system, and the chimney of the San Giorgio spewed out a thick black smoke, and the speed of the ship suddenly increased to 25 knots.

And at this time, his good fortune seems to have come to an end.

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"Whoa......huhuhu Baggio's face turned pale suddenly, and from his experience, he had already heard that this round of artillery fire was very likely to hit the ship. But by this time, it's too late to circumvent it. He hurriedly clung to a railing in front of him while shouting "Collision ready ......".

There was a loud "......boom", and Baggio only felt that the ship under his feet shook suddenly, and he immediately stood unsteadily, and the whole person flew up. Fortunately, I subconsciously grabbed the railing just now, which is much better than those that fell into a rolling gourd.

"Damn, report the losses......" he immediately shouted.

After a while, the damage report came up, and the deck in front of the main gun received a shot, and the shell exploded through the deck in the anchor chain room, the entire anchor chain room and half of the bow were blown away, and the deck was lifted to block the front firing range of the main gun. There was also a near-miss, squeezing a hole more than a meter long in the port side waterline.

At this time, the effect of the shelling was also fed back to the Xuanyuan.

"One shot hit the bow of the enemy ship, one shot on the port side of the enemy ship missed a close miss, the enemy ship may have used strong pressure ventilation, the speed rose to 25 knots, and it is currently 19,500 meters away from our ship......"

"The rest of the parameters remain the same, change the advance of the enemy ships, and continue to shoot ......," Leon ordered.

Thirty seconds later, the Regulus fired another volley.

Baggio soon heard another batch of shells whistling, and he couldn't help but curse: "Damn, how can the Chinese fire rate be so fast? It's only been half a minute, don't they all need to see the landing point?"

Well, Chinese battleships have ballistic radar and computers, and the gunnery is really different from the current mainstream, they don't need to look at the landing point and then correct it like the current mainstream gunnery, when the shell is still in flight, the ballistic radar and the computer can calculate the landing point of the shell, so the actual combat rate of fire of the Chinese battleship is quite fast, and it completely reaches the theoretical rate of fire.

Otherwise, according to the current mainstream artillery technology, it is impossible to achieve one shot in 30 seconds. The average flight speed of large-caliber naval artillery shells in the air is about 500-600 meters per second, and it takes 30 to 40 seconds to fly over a distance of 20 kilometers.

However, the Chinese capital ship does not need this at all, and the computer takes almost negligible time to calculate this point, and the speed of the calculation depends only on the speed of the operator's input. So the rate of fire of the Chinese capital ships depends only on the rate of reloading of shells, and if they can be loaded with ten rounds per minute, then they can fire ten salvos. Of course, this is impossible, the rate of fire of large-caliber sub-loading shells does not reach such a level.

"Boom...... Rumble...... This round ......of shelling caused the San Giorgio to receive three armor-piercing incendiary shells. Half of the bridge was destroyed with one shot, and the rangefinder was blown to pieces. The second shot flew through the front main turret, and the third shot penetrated through the breach in the bow of the earlier ship, and after breaking through the multi-storey compartment, it exploded in the starboard bulkhead, punching a large hole in the heavy oil tank, and the heavy oil flowed everywhere, and the heavy oil was also ignited by the thermite incendiary, and the cabins below deck were immediately surrounded by flames and smoke.

The San Marco, the sister ship of the San Giorgio, was also hit by two shells in this round, one in the water that caused a torpedo effect, a large hole in the underwater part of its starboard side, and another that blew a large hole in its superstructure, and the incendiary agent also ignited the lifeboats and transport boats placed on the middle deck.

"Boom...... Thirty seconds later, another wave ......of heavy shells struck, and the San Giorgio was hit twice. But this time Baggio didn't even hear the second explosion, because the second shell pierced the armored conning tower, and before Baggio and the others could react, they were blown into slag by the shock wave at close range, and they only felt a light in front of them, and hung up without pain.

"It was judged that the enemy's ship's operational capability had been greatly reduced, its speed had been reduced to 11 knots, the front main gun and bridge had been damaged, most of the secondary guns had been damaged, and the bow had a large amount of water, and it had tilted to the left by 8 degrees......" On the Xuanyuan's calibrator, the observer took a closer look at the enemy ship below and reported to the ship.

"Continue to attack ......," Leon continued to order. Then he said a little depressedly: "The quality of this Italian patrol is really good, and it has not sunk even after six rounds ......of 360 mm heavy guns."

"Boom, boom, boom......" another volley was fired.

Probably due to the shortening of the distance, or the decrease in the speed of the target, etc., the Xuanyuan actually had five hits in this round of salvos.

"Five hits, two misses!" the school shooter observer shouted excitedly. Although the shooting accuracy of the Chinese battleships far surpassed that of their counterparts, they did not use guided shells, and they also used five out of 12 rounds, plus two close misses, which is a good result that is difficult to achieve in training to hit fixed targets.

Under this round of attacks, the target of the San Giorgio finally could not hold on, the entire warship had been blown out of shape, the front and rear bridges, three chimneys were broken, the superstructure was almost completely blown up, the turrets of the front and rear two main guns were lifted off, and only one gun circle remained. There were few secondary guns and rapid-fire guns left, and the entire hull was completely surrounded by flames and smoke.

At this moment, the San Giorgio suddenly burst out a huge pillar ......of fire, which rose more than 100 meters high, and countless steel residues and debris were sprayed into the air by a powerful shock wave, like an erupting volcano.

"It's the ammunition depot that exploded!" the scene was clearly displayed on the screen of the external monitor inside the control tower, and everyone who saw it said the same thing.

"The target has broken off, it has broken in half, and it is sinking rapidly!" both the radar non-commissioned officer and the sonar non-commissioned officer reported loudly, although the flames and smoke obstructed the line of sight, but could not prevent the detection of electromagnetic and sound waves.

"Stop shooting......" Li Ang then ordered to stop shooting, a smile on the corner of his mouth. Finally, there is a result.