Chapter 170: The Destruction of the French Far East Fleet (Part II)

At this time, it happened that the last few 156 batteries were destroyed, and there were still a few batteries below 1o6 mm remaining, and Gao Yujie, who was anxious, couldn't care about it.

"The capital ship is raised to a knot...... After advancing 10,000 meters, it becomes a battle line, and the port side faces the enemy...... The destroyers immediately went out in full force, outflanking ......"

A barrage of orders came out of his mouth, and six capital ships lined up in a horizontal line, and eight destroyers lined up on two flanks, pressed towards the population of Cam Ranh Bay.

"The Air Force is really unreasonable, and we are robbing the work of the Navy," Gao Yujie said angrily.

News came from the seaplane that had just carried out the school firing mission that the protective cruiser Friant had collided with a torpedo ship in a panic while escaping. The hapless torpedo ship was cut in two by the cruiser's ship and sank on the spot. And the Friante was not much better, its ship was hit with a big hole, and the degree was greatly reduced, and the degree, which was originally just over 6 knots, was suddenly reduced to less than 1o knots. Then he was beaten by the over-the-top airship, and he hit 4 2o kg bombs and 2 1oo kg bombs, and 156 shells, which were blown apart and shattered.

"Okay, Lao Gao, they bombed the port and went to ......" Political Commissar Liu Haifeng smiled and pointed to the sky.

Everyone looked up and saw that the airships had indeed turned around and flew in the direction of the harbor, and they fired their cannons as they flew, and the muzzles of the guns continued to spew fireworks and gunsmoke.

Yes, now the airship has abandoned the attack on the warship and moved on to other facilities in the port. This is due to the fact that the French ** ships have been mobilized, and they are bombing at high altitudes, and the hit rate is really not ideal. As for the artillery of the airship coming to the door, the hit rate for such a moving target is also not ideal. And because the main gun of the airship is a low-pressure howitzer, the threat to large warships is also limited, but it is a threat to small ships, but the hit rate is very tragic. Therefore, after weighing it again, the airship troops turned to attack those stationary targets that would not move. Anyway, the navy is guarding the door, and they can't run away.

And now the French fleet has also taken advantage of this opportunity to rush out of Cam Ranh Bay at full speed, ready to fight the Chinese fleet.

Without the disturbance of airships, the French fleet quickly restored order.

"The Chinese fleet is now in front - 10,000 2 kilometers, and six capital ships, in the direction of 1 o'clock, are coming towards me in a horizontal formation. There were 4 light cruisers in the 11 o'clock direction and 4 in the -o'clock direction...... "lookout posts" to report.

In fact, the "light cruiser" he saw was a Zhuhai-class destroyer, but in this era when destroyers had just emerged and were generally less than 1o6 tons, it was not an exaggeration to say that the 26-ton Zhuhai-class was a "light cruiser".

Major General Montcalm held up his binoculars, and he saw a dozen faint plumes of smoke rapidly approaching in the sky ahead. The smoke is light, and if it weren't for the fact that the sea breeze is very small now, it would be almost impossible to see. This shows that the opposing ship uses a new oil-fired boiler instead of a traditional coal-fired boiler, otherwise even the best quality anthracite would not be able to have such a light smoke when driving at high speeds.

Montcalm stared at the pillar of smoke and estimated it in his heart, and his face suddenly changed: "It's about a knot, it's so fast." Damn the Americans, these greedy Jews dare to ......sell anything" In fact, he didn't know about the intelligence that "these warships were designed by China and built by the United States", but he didn't believe it at all, and always felt that it was the smoke put by the Americans.

"Your Excellency, there are Chinese planes in the sky...... one of the officers said, pointing to the sky. I saw a few seaplanes all the time

"Damn, get rid of them...... "Montcalm glared at the flies and said viciously. He knew very well what these planes do, they were the eyes and ears of the warship, and it was not a good thing to let these guys spin around their heads.

"Ping Pong...... Pong ......" The French warships suddenly heard a sparse sound of cannons, but the seaplanes were only slightly pulled up and still did not leave.

An officer next to him explained: "Your Excellency, our anti-aircraft artillery suffered a lot of losses in the air raid just now......

It's just that these French ** ships have just been ravaged by airships, airships are not just throwing bombs, and the dozen or so guns on them are not idle, although the main guns did not hit a few, but those small-caliber secondary guns can hit a lot, although the hull, main guns and command towers have little effect on the defensive positions, but for those anti-aircraft guns that have almost no defensive power, the consequences of being hit are devastating. Originally, the anti-aircraft guns on these old warships were symbolic, and after such a round, there was not much left.

"Forget it, leave them alone. Montcalm thought about it and gave the order: "We can't fight Chinese firepower, we must rush up and fight in close combat, all three cruisers rush over and entangle them, and the torpedo ships will follow closely and shoot torpedoes......"

The fleets of the two sides were hedging head-on at an opposing time of 8 kilometers, and the distance between the two sides had been reduced to within 20,000 meters. I saw that the six capital ships of China that were advancing in unison came with a full right rudder, drew an arc more than 1 kilometer long on the sea surface, and pointed the port side against the French fleet that was desperately rushing, and seized the T-shaped crosshead position. At the same time, the main turret was rotating.

"Report to the commander, the enemy formation changed to a herringbone, the armored cruiser burst forward, the distance was 193o... ̈"

Gao Yujie looked at the navigation clock, and the time displayed on it was: 1o o:2 minutes.

"Attention to the capital ships, start the test firing of the main guns" he immediately gave the order.

"Boom, boom, boom...... Boom, boom, boom, boom ......" The first round of test firing was carried out from the four main turrets of the capital ship.

Seeing the fireworks coming out of the guns of the Chinese battleships, the French officials were first shocked, and then overjoyed.

"How could you have hit it if you fired so far? ”

"The Chinese Navy is all novices, and it is really a waste of six cutting-edge warships......"

"Hahaha, it looks like our win rate has gone up again......"

But they weren't happy for two minutes before they couldn't laugh anymore.

"Boom...... Boom ...... "2 shells fell at a distance from Jules. Less than 3 meters from the Ferry. And also - shells also fell on Leon. In the vicinity of the Gambida, the nearest one is less than 1o meters from the port side.

"How is that possible? It's a coincidence," the French were stunned, this was a test firing of nearly 20,000 meters, and six shells hit within three meters.

At 1o o:14, the distance between the two sides was close to about 183o meters, and the second round of test firing came again, this time it was not one for each turret, but a salvo of two main guns. This time, some shells were close misses, and most of the shells fell within 1oo meters, and they had already been fired in a straddle

The Frenchman's face has changed greatly, but now it is difficult to ride a tiger, and he can't run if he wants to, so he has to gamble hard.

At 1o o:6, the distance between the two sides was close to about 176o meters, and the Chinese fleet fired a third round of test firing.

A 3o-mm shell almost stuck to Jules. The starboard side of the Ferry landed in the sea and exploded in the water with a thud, and the violent shock wave left Jules. The Ferry was trembling with its massive hull.

"Boom...... Boom ......" almost at the same time, Leon on the right. Two flames erupted on the Gambida and were shot

A 3o mm armor-piercing projectile penetrated Leon. The deck of the Gambida rushed directly into the left anchor chain room and exploded, and its ship suddenly broke a big hole. Not to mention the complete destruction of the anchor chain chamber on the left side, the armored steel deck was blown outward by the shock wave, forming a "screen" six or seven meters high, which stopped the forward firing angle of the main gun at once. There was also a 2o-mm shell that hit the foremast, blowing off the foremast, and the collapsed mast smashed a one-pound gun.

"Damn, our guns are too close" The range of the 19-mm guns of the French armored cruisers is only 15 km, and this is still the maximum range, and no one can say where it will fly if it is shot.

At 1o:17, the test firing of the Chinese fleet was completed, and the official effectiveness of the firing began, and the ships fired at the French battleships as quickly as possible.

At 1o 18 p.m., the second salvo of the heavy cruiser Qingcheng, 2 hit Leon. The Gambida, a one-millimeter armor-piercing projectile hit the deck near the front main turret, and after exploding through the deck, it damaged the action structure of the main turret. The other hit the fire control sight on the bridge.

At 1o o:19, the first salvo of the Taihang large cruiser had a hit.

Two armor-piercing shells hit Leon one after another. Although the bridge of the Gambida did not penetrate directly due to the distance, the huge vibration caused by it also turned people on the bridge. Moreover, the fragments of armor that collapsed in the inner layer of the bridge can kill people, even no less than a direct explosion of a medium-caliber grenade, which suddenly caused dozens of casualties in the bridge, as well as the destruction of a large number of instruments, and the entire bridge was in a mess, and the blood flowed like a river.

Another armor-piercing shell went down the chimney, penetrated several decks, and exploded in the boiler room. The high-pressure steam in the blown up boiler caused a second damage, and the entire boiler room was either killed or steamed by the rampaging high-pressure steam. Leon. The Gambida's degree dropped from about 21 knots to B knots all at once.

And Jules on the other side. The Ferry was even more unlucky, because it was flying the commander's flag, so it was set on fire by two dreadnoughts, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Qinling, and a large cruiser.

In the third salvo, 4 out of 3o mm large-caliber shells hit it. The first pierced the bridge and turned the chart room below into a slaughterhouse; The second destroyed the fire control system; The third blew the chimney in two, and the fourth blew the front main turret over. There was also a 2o mm shell that landed on the starboard side, distorting 2 64 mm turrets.

At this time, when the main battlefield was in full swing, the destroyers on both wings were also outflanked, and their task was to clean those torpedo ships. The 4o 13o mm guns on the ship, with B shots per minute, hit those torpedo ships with only a dozen knots and nowhere to escape. These torpedo ships are all old goods from two years ago, many of them are still iron-ribbed wooden hulls, and the torpedoes installed on them are also old torpedoes with a range of less than 36 meters.

At 1o o:02, the distance between the two sides was reduced to 146o meters, and the Chinese capital ship launched a fourth salvo. Jules. The Ferry hit the B shell again, and the entire superstructure was in shambles, with no secondary guns on either side left. Another shell hit its stern, blowing up the propeller chamber.

Leon. The Gambida was also hit by 4 shells, one of which penetrated the ammunition depot of the front main gun, and the detoxified ammunition depot blew the ship completely away, Leon. The Gambida was like being beheaded. In less than three minutes, the 24oo-ton armored cruiser was in the ass.

The three ships Taihang, Qingcheng, and Emei, which had completed the task, shifted their firepower to the Chasai Lu Borobat, which was hanging behind. The 36-ton protective cruiser was even more unbeaten, and after hitting -/o mm, 624o mm shells one after another, it began to sink.

And the destroyers on the other side are also on a killing spree, and now one torpedo ship has become a submarine, and another has become a flaming flare.

Just when Gao Yujie was preparing for the fifth salvo, Jules. When the Ferry was sent into the sea.

"Commander, the French have surrendered," reported the telegraph officer next to him, who had a telegram in his hand.

"Oh, surrendered?" Gao Yujie didn't answer the telegram, and took a closer look with a telescope.

Sure enough, Jules. There were several men on the Ferry, wielding white shirts and sheets. Why don't they hang the flag? Well, the flagpole is blown up and can't be hung up.

At this time, Gao Yujie took the telegram and looked at it. It was indeed a telegram from the French Far Eastern Fleet requesting surrender.

"Well, order the ships, stop shooting. Let them all stand up and be ready to surrender"

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