Loading the battleship's main gun is a slow process. In fact, even with a mechanical loader, it is very difficult to increase the rate of fire of the battleship's main gun.
Because it is not a new battleship after all, and the efficiency of the loading system is really not high, the firing rate of the main gun of the Tang Army's Dongwan-class battleship is about a few minutes.
The long and irritating wait made Bernard frequently pick up his binoculars to look at the enemy warships in the distance.
There was no movement from the enemy ship at this time, because the opponent's main guns also needed time to reload. Bernard was counting secretly, and he wanted to calculate the frequency of the enemy ship's firing.
Of course, there are more professional people doing this work, and there are specialized sailors in other positions using stopwatches to calculate the frequency of enemy fire.
But the result soon made them breathe a sigh of relief, because after their own side completed loading again and then opened fire, the enemy warship remained silent and did not launch a new round of bombardment.
There is good news, but there is also bad news. The good news is that the enemy ship's reloading speed is really slow, and it has not fired a second salvo for such a long time. The bad news is that our own shells once again missed, and they were still near misses.
The distance between the two sides is getting closer, but because of the mechanical ballistic calculation equipment, the soldiers responsible for controlling the calculation equipment have roughly summed up their experience.
The impact point of each cannonball can reflect the speed at which the fleets of both sides are approaching each other. As long as you adapt to this speed and reserve a corresponding amount of advance, you can improve the hit accuracy.
After repeated trials seven or eight times, the non-commissioned officers responsible for calculating the ballistics finally came up with a plan again and gave a data that they thought was reasonable.
Then, the angles of all turrets and artillery were readjusted based on this data.
Immediately afterwards, the gunners fired shells again, and Bernard could feel the warship under his feet shaking slightly, which was the power feedback when the 305 mm caliber cannon roared.
"Boom! Boom!" A series of roars echoed in the air. The shells spanned a distance of nearly ten kilometers and once again hit the sea water diagonally, leaving water columns soaring into the sky on both sides of the Mirage Navy warship.
The school shooter shouted excitedly at his post with his telescope, and even Bernard in the commander's tower could hear his shout: "Straddle fire! Cross fire! Near miss!"
"Straddle fire! Near miss!" Many officers also shouted excitedly. They worked hard for almost an hour and finally got the good news.
"Beautiful!" Bernard could not help but clenched his fists in excitement. He finally got the shout he had been looking forward to for a long time.
As if the enemy ship had been hit, everyone was celebrating excitedly. Just as they were celebrating, the enemy ship fired a second salvo.
All the officers in the bridge command tower became nervous again, and soon many shells fell, hitting the water and splashing water columns into the sky.
I don’t know whether it was because the Mirage Navy was well-trained or because they were lucky, but the impact point of this second salvo was obviously very close to the Tang Army’s fleet battle line.
However, before the water column soaring into the sky completely fell, the three battleships of the Tang Army fired another salvo.
Luck was still not on the side of the Tang army. Although it was still a straddle shot, all of them were near-misses! The Mirage Navy once again escaped disaster, and the nearest shells grazed the mast of their warship and landed in the distance.
The face of the man from Mirage has turned slightly pale. He stood on the bridge of his battleship, broken into a cold sweat by the shells that had just fallen.
He heard the harsh whistling sound of the shells, which proved that the shells that had just fallen were very, very close to him.
What frightened him even more was that twice in a row, the enemy's artillery shells fell around his battleship. This showed that the opponent had very advanced aiming methods and could accurately command the artillery to adjust the shooting angle.
The enemy's warships are faster, and the artillery loading and preparation are also faster. After the opponent fires two or three salvos, he can fire back one salvo. The Mirage Navy is obviously at a disadvantage in terms of firepower density.
On his battleship, the artillery reloading speed is very slow, and he can only rely on the sight to roughly correct the shooting angle. Hitting the enemy ship obviously requires more luck.
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This feeling of being completely surpassed made Mirumi Kazuo very uncomfortable. If he had known that the enemy's warships were so powerful, he would not even have planned such a decisive battle.
God knows how much pressure he is under now. The battleships lined up here are almost all the assets of the Mirage Navy.
If something happens to these warships, the Mirage Kingdom will lose control of the sea, which means that it will be taken over by the Tang Kingdom.
"If it weren't for those bastards in the Army, how could I take such a risk and fight the Tang Navy in a place like this!" Mirage Yinan cursed secretly in his heart. No\./Wrong\./Updated\./New`.w`.
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But after he finished scolding, he still had to continue to think about how to deal with the unfavorable situation at hand: although his battleships had a slight advantage in number, the actual combat power displayed seemed to be that of the Tang army.
"General, do you want to... adjust the course?" Mirage Kazuo's adjutant asked nervously.
He was also worried that he would be hit first by the other side, so at this moment he was already thinking of avoiding the enemy's firepower. Anyway, his own artillery was still a hundred and eighty thousand miles away from hitting the enemy ship, so he maneuvered to avoid the enemy's firepower first.
Isn't it a better choice?
But Kazuo Mirage didn't think so. It wasn't that he couldn't bear the shooting parameters brought by two rounds of salvos, but based on his experience in naval battles, dodging sometimes could not change the outcome of being hit.
He felt that naval artillery battles basically depended on luck. If you were lucky, you would be able to hit the target with two salvos. If you were not lucky, you might even be able to hit the target with more than ten salvos.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! If you start to adjust the course now, the shell that originally missed may hit the target. Wouldn't it be an advantage for the opponent to send it up?
Therefore, after thinking for a few seconds, he shook his head and decided to stick to his route and shorten the distance between the two sides to 8 kilometers or even 7 kilometers as soon as possible.
At a distance of seven or eight kilometers, the hit rate of the Mirage Navy's naval guns will obviously increase a lot, because at this distance, just relying on experience and a crude sight, you can hit the already large gun with luck.
Target.
So, Mirage Kazuo shook his head, gritted his teeth and insisted on his choice: "Keep the course! Let's talk after the third round of volleys!"
Following his order, the battleship of the Tang Navy in the distance fired another salvo, and the shells roared towards the direction of the Mirage Navy.
After more than ten rounds of shelling tests, this time the mechanical ballistic calculation equipment finally gave a relatively perfect answer.
On the swaying sea, the third-placed battleship of the Mirage Navy was suddenly hit by something and burst into dazzling flames.
A shell directly hit the middle of the battleship's hull. It first penetrated the side wall of the first-story building on the battleship deck, then penetrated downward through the floor, rushed into the lower compartment, and then exploded in the boiler.
The top explodes.
Another shell penetrated the hull of the Cyric-produced battleship near the waterline, leaving a rather scary-looking hole in it.
Just a moment later, the shell of Cyric's battleship was torn apart by the explosion. In less than thirty seconds, it billowed with thick smoke and its speed was reduced to almost stopping in place.
the point.
During the tragic first round of explosions, parts even flew onto the decks of the other two battleships at the bow and stern of the battleship.
Immediately afterwards, the battleship became farther and farther away from the battleship in front, and was soon overtaken by another battleship behind it.
Mirage Kazuo's face turned pale. He had originally lamented the 100 mm thick armor of the battleships built by Cyric, and felt that such battleships were simply solid sea fortresses.
But in the blink of an eye, the Cyric battleship that he thought was indestructible was hit by a battleship from the Tang Kingdom, completely losing its combat effectiveness.
At this moment, Mirage's battleship was as fragile as a piece of white paper!
"Turn immediately after firing! Take maneuver!" Mirage Kazuo, whose expression was completely out of control, clenched his fists and ordered to his adjutant.
"Boom!" This time, the 320mm caliber heavy artillery of the Mirage Navy roared. However, out of the original four battleships, only three completed the salvo this time.
The battleship that was just hit seems to have been completely lost. (More exciting on the next page!)
Combat power, billowing smoke obscured the bridge, looking like a gas tank that was about to explode at any time.
Sure enough, when the cannonballs fired by the Mirage Navy once again fell into the seawater and stirred up high water columns, the battleship built by Cyric, which was about to be overtaken by our own cruiser and had completely lost its power, died in the explosion.
Got it!
The explosion almost blew away the entire superstructure of the battleship, and the flames engulfed the huge turret between the two chimneys.
The main turret directly in front was thrown into the air by the explosion, and then hit the round gun mount heavily. No\./Error\./Update\./New`.w`.a`.p`
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The battleship built without understanding and plagiarized almost exposed all its flaws at this moment: the hull defense simply amplified by cruisers and ironclads is seriously insufficient, and the armor thickness compromised to ensure speed cannot resist the attack of large-caliber artillery.
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The backward power system forced Cyric to reduce the armor of the battleship. The 320 mm caliber main gun selected simply to surpass the Datang Group had an extremely slow rate of fire. The sighting system, which could not be copied, could only rely on amplification of the backward Datang Group.
Aiming systems on other battleships to top up.
In short, the appearance of the Cyric battleship was revealed the second it was hit by a cannonball: it was actually a battleship without a fire control system, with only the speed of an ironclad, and was only equipped with heavy cruiser-level armor.
