Fight with dignity.

The whole ship retreated.

After receiving this order, the captains of the ships almost fell to the ground. Before Parsifal gave the order, at least a dozen countermeasures flashed in their minds, and it could be said that all aspects had been considered. Just when they were confidently preparing to use the enemy's heads to wash away the shame of their brother troops and add merit to themselves, the order from the flagship was like a bucket of ice water, poured firmly on the blood-boiled and fierce heads of this group of enthusiastic and fierce people.

There was an uproar on the radio, complaining, questioning, complaining, saying everything, but strange things were strange things, and the fleet still maintained a wheeled formation and retreated behind the line of defense according to Parsifal's orders.

After all, they are soldiers with strict military education, not Charlemagne's hot-blooded or profit-driven red deer. Perhaps they are as diverse as Charlemagne's counterparts in terms of personality and opinions. But the obedience to order and authority that permeates the marrow of their bones ensures that they will never make any "subordination", "rampage", or "go alone".

Command, do as you want - this is the biggest difference between the Wehrmacht soldiers and Charlemagne's group of guys in military uniform, whose consciousness is stuck in the era of feudal lords.

Parsifal naturally knew exactly how the old captains who were not very convinced of him would react to this order, and he was also clear about their small plan to follow the order on the surface, but secretly did not intend to take this opportunity to pull himself down from the throne of commander of the detachment and replace him. But he neither debunked their intentions, nor lamented that if he took over the command of the fleet a little longer, he would be able to run in the fleet.

Won.

There was only one thought in his head.

"After retreating 3 kilometers, the whole ship stopped, the main guns of each ship were loaded with high-explosive shells, and the warheads were equipped with fixed-altitude fuses. ”

The second order caught the captains off guard again.

Retreat 3 kilometers? Retreat only a little? Isn't it to flee in front of the enemy? Ignore this for now, it is always a good thing to allow artillery to be fired, and it is better than being sent to a military court after the war for "fleeing without a fight" because of the dishonor. What does it mean to be able to use high-explosive bombs? According to the air defense operation regulations, when the main gun is performing an air defense mission, it should not be loaded with a "powerful Type 3 anti-aircraft bomb" equipped with a radio proximity fuse?

Here's a word of mention. The so-called "powerful three-type anti-aircraft bomb" is a kind of special ammunition for large-caliber naval guns to perform air defense tasks, which is essentially an anti-air howitzer shotgun, whose caliber includes 155mm, 203mm, 280mm and other mainstream naval guns of the defense army, and even the 406mm main gun of the general flagship "Emperor" is also equipped with special three-type anti-aircraft ammunition. This type of shell is equipped with a large number of 20mm × 30mm cylindrical miniature bombs, which are filled with highly adhesive incendiary agents in addition to explosives. In the test, the 280mm Type 3 anti-aircraft bomb can disperse 1.5 micro-bombs per square meter in an airspace within 65 meters in diameter, which is generally more than enough to deal with flying beast swarms or small combat boats. If multiple naval guns use three-type anti-aircraft shells to concentrate fire, even a 10,000-ton giant ship will instantly turn into a crematorium floating in the air.

The use of high-explosive shells is not impossible to perform air defense tasks, and the shock wave generated by the explosion can also kill and injure air targets. It's just that the lethal effect is not as good as the three-type anti-air bomb.

Anyone who sees this kind of order will only suspect that the fleet commander has a problem with his brain.

It is true that Parsifal's orders and fleet actions even the commander-in-chief of the fleet, Vice Admiral Kischel, could not help but angrily curse "what the hell is that idiot doing", and the staff officers even broke out personal attacks such as "coward" and "afraid of death". But the enraged officers should not forget that Parsifal was an outstanding officer with a record of turning the tide of battle many times from adversity. Many times, people tend to only notice his magically gorgeous and treacherous performances, but often inadvertently ignore the seemingly inexplicable layouts before.

Layout first, then general - this is the basis of chess and the core essence of all of Parsifal's battlefield magic.

The generals who shouted and cursed did not realize that the almost vertical relative position of the Endeavour and the Second Cruiser had formed an angle between the positions of the two sides because of the retreating action of the Second Cruiser.

Also overlooked are the fact that three reconnaissance "Kenpf" belonging to the Lund Bell are continuously reporting the parameters of the target to the mothership in three different directions and altitudes.

"Send the target parameters and shooting elements to the ships, and each ship will activate the synchronous firing device and hand over the launch command to the flagship!"

A radio-controlled synchronizer is installed in the fire control system of the defense warship, and when entering the fleet war, the ship can hand over the right to start the electric shock of the main gun to the flagship through this device, and when the flagship fires the main gun, the main gun of the ship can also be fired synchronously. In this way, a more unified salvo is formed.

Now, the device will be in action for the first time in a form that the designers never imagined.

In the operation interface, according to the data transmitted back by the three MDSs, a certain light point that continues to be locked in a three-dimensional way by triangulation method is moving along a dotted line, and in front of this line, a complex parabolic dotted line is interleaved with it.

"The synchronous firing device is activated, the synchronous signal of each ship is confirmed, and the transfer of the launch right is confirmed!"

"The pitch adjustment of the main gun is complete, and the ballistic calculation is correct!"

The voice of the gunners poured in behind the director of the Control Center, and Parsifal straightened up and re-stared at the lines of smoke that continued to stretch towards the ground in the optical interface, the battleship Charlemagne had descended to an altitude of 7,500 meters above the ground. This altitude is still a forbidden area for creatures to survive, and it won't be long before she starts to slow down, weakening the effects of inertia, and trying to adjust her course or drop the commando before reaching the ultimate altitude.

Unfortunately, she didn't have that chance.

Waving his hand vigorously towards the sky, Parsifal called:

"Let the MDS group retreat, and the main guns of the whole fleet will fire three times in a row!!"

Ignoring the co-captain's astonished gaze, Parsifal stared at the pillar of smoke that continued to stretch toward the ground, as if that was all he had. The recitations and summons on the bridge, the pre-shelling alarms that resounded throughout the ship, and the movement of our airframes in the interface - all of them had nothing to do with him.

The electric bell stopped, the crew was in place, and the voice of the gunner, slightly out of shape from nervousness and excitement, resounded on the Lund Bell.

"Launch preparation...... Shooting (Feuer) !!"

In an instant, the entire battleship trembled, and the flash, heat, and air pressure of the rapid expansion shook the bridge, and even the strong light of the anti-glare reinforced glass could not be weakened to illuminate the Lund Bell.

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When he noticed the strange behavior of the fleet below, Roland had a bad feeling in his heart, and the cheers of his companions, "They fled!", "Now we have won", did not make him feel uneasy. And when he heard the sound of the enemy ship group firing (the release of smoke not only obscured the enemy's vision, but also his own vision, and the only channels to obtain information from the outside world at this time were only the listening device and the radio station), a series of seemingly nonsensical actions sketched a strategic blueprint in his mind, and also made him understand the true meaning of those actions.

In front of the smoke obscuring the view, the enemy's floating squadron carrying out the air defense mission of the battery did not "retreat" as the crew of the Endeavour thought, but "actively retreated". Its purpose is to obtain the angle of the main gun's anti-air fire.

The larger the caliber of the gun, the smaller the range of elevation angles. The reason for this is that the hydraulic pitching mechanism is too burdened, and the elevation angle is too high, and the recoiled stroke of the gun is too long, and the bolt will hit the turret floor directly when the gun is fired. Even for the 155mm high-level dual-purpose gun, the maximum elevation angle was limited to 75 degrees. Air weapons that carry out dive attacks at angles greater than this angle are to be handled by anti-aircraft missiles and small- and medium-caliber antiaircraft guns with sufficient elevation angles.

It is with this characteristic in mind that Roland chooses a high parabolic trajectory and dives down at nearly 90 degrees. The purpose is to buy time to block the firepower of the floating fleet and ground anti-aircraft artillery before the opponent redeploys. The only threatening anti-aircraft missile was dealt with by the electronic jamming device carried by the Licorne.

It wasn't without his assumption that the opponent would actively retreat to gain enough elevation angle, but in Roland's vision, this maneuver would be taken as soon as Endeavour entered the dive trajectory, or after Endeavour had slowed down.

This is not the worst time - such as the moment when the slowdown finishes opening the hatch to release the commandos - but it is definitely the most uncomfortable time for Roland. Blinded by the smoke released by itself, Endeavour lost its rocket to provide additional thrust to change the trajectory of its inertial flight, and it was too early to open the barrier and use air resistance to slow down. To use a figurative analogy, a blindfolded man is led by a rope and rammed into the muzzle of an enemy's gun.

This is no accident.

Although there are a lot of accidents on the battlefield, many times, tactical accidents are just fragments of strategic necessity.

The fleet commander saw through the tactical intent and chose the best time to implement his tactical layout, disrupting the rhythm of the whole operation just as it was about to enter the best situation, and then importing the situation into the script he had set. Just like a magician conjuring a rabbit or dove out of a hat out of thin air in full view of everyone, he shows off a wonderful magic trick on the battlefield.

"The fleet commander...... Who the hell is it?"

Roland couldn't help but mutter, and the shells exploded one after another, and the Endeavour was like a leaf in the eye of the storm, and the wind of despair and adversity carried the rain of iron and fire to the defenseless boat.

The teenager at the center of this storm widened his eyes and carefully collected the data fed back from all over the place, and every small piece of information was absorbed into the brain, and through integrated analysis, the outline of the situation was sketched little by little.

Even he felt incredible, being put in a position, in adversity, not only was his mind exceptionally clear, but deep down he had an urge to try.

Roland was by no means a belligerent and warlike man, but at this moment he raised the corners of his mouth.

"Nerve-wracking...... If I can't even get over this level of crisis, how can I catch up with that guy?"