The so-called "cross-fire" is a proper term in naval gun shooting technology. In fact, it is also a conventional term. According to artillery terminology, it should be called the pinch method.
In naval battles, the distance between the two sides is generally relatively far. In artillery battles, it is usually between three kilometers and more than thirty kilometers. If it is too far, it exceeds the range of the artillery. If it is too close, the use of torpedoes will be more effective; in addition, wind and waves will affect the stability of the ship.
Due to the influence of surname, the difficulty of aiming naval guns is much higher than that of land guns.
Therefore, when a large battleship fires, it usually uses all its main guns to launch a salvo. During the salvo, the impact points of each shell will not overlap, but will be dispersed relatively evenly in a certain area. When the shells are fired and the enemy ship is on two sides,
The situation between firing and firing is called straddle fire. If your warship encounters such a situation on the sea, it means that you have been locked by the enemy ship's main gun, and the rest can only pray for luck.
His care allowed me to live a little longer.
On a sea surface twenty kilometers away from the British fleet, Germany's latest battleship "Friedrich der Grosse" was like a god of death rushing out of the darkness, followed by several light cruisers and destroyers.
This is a powerful fleet, and their only purpose of existence is to destroy all enemies.
"Boom boom boom"
The muzzle of the "Friedrich der Grosse" turned slightly, and then let out another earth-shattering roar.
The muzzle flames of the three parallel main guns converged into a huge fireball with a diameter of more than ten meters. This fireball flashed for less than a second and was replaced by an even larger white smoke ball. The white smoke ball quickly
The smoke dissipated with the sea breeze, and for a time the entire huge hull of the "Friedrich der Grosse" was enveloped in the thin smoke.
The power of the battleship's main gun salvo was staggering. The huge air pressure from the gun muzzle pressed out a wide shallow pit in the sea near the ship's side. The 72,000-ton ship was forcibly crushed by the huge recoil.
It was pushed three or four meters to the side and rear. Everyone who witnessed this moment couldn't help but feel deep awe at this terrible man-made destructive power.
The frigate Captain Lahr's screams did not last long, as another round of shelling followed. The 460mm main gun on the "Friedrich der Grosse" was too powerful, and the nine main guns in the triple mount
If the guns are fired at the same time, it will cause great damage to the structure of the ship. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the nine main guns fire indirectly in three times, and the interval is usually ten to tens of seconds.
The sailors on the "Zeus" were all awakened by the first bombardment. When the British sailors ran onto the deck with their upper bodies exposed, some even wearing only a pair of underwear and bare feet, the second round of bombardment came.
onto their heads.
Two huge explosions were accompanied by two huge water columns rising into the sky with roaring roars. The huge water columns were less than 20 meters away from the "Zeus". Anthony and Lal on the watchtower even heard the strong water pressure.
It makes a "rattling" sound when squeezing the hull.
Although such shelling did not directly hit the ship, the huge water pressure was enough to cause damage to the ship. If it were a smaller ship, it might be directly crushed.
Lal and Anthony, standing on the high watchtower, stared blankly at the water columns rising into the sky. The two water columns were so high that the two people standing on the watchtower more than ten meters high looked up.
If you can't see it in your head, you can only describe it as being incompatible with each other.
In the "Battle of Narvik" that took place in the Norwegian waters last year, the German Navy's destroyer fleet composed of ten destroyers was wiped out by a fleet headed by the British Royal Navy battleship "Warspite". After the destroyer fleet was annihilated, the three surviving destroyers
More than 2,500 surviving naval officers and soldiers among the 1,300 officers and soldiers went to the coast of Norway and were organized into five "Sailor Mountain Warfare" battalions. They wore the uniforms of the captured Norwegian army and used the captured weapons of the Norwegian army.
, joined the ranks of the mountain soldiers to resist the Allied attack.
However, after some German sailors were captured, they were not treated as prisoners of war but were shot as spies because they were wearing Norwegian army uniforms. This incident deeply stung the nerves of the German Navy and aroused strong criticism from all over the German Navy.
Hatred, after the "Battle of Narvik", Marshal Raeder of the German Navy immediately issued an order, that is, the German Navy would never accept the surrender of the British Royal Navy in the future.
Therefore, the commanders on the German battleships lacked even a hint of admiration and sympathy for the almost suicidal behavior of those brave British destroyers and frigates. With expressionless faces, they could only spit out one cold word, that is
"fire"
"Boom boom boom"
As the distance got closer, the twelve 155mm naval guns on the "Friedrich der Grosse" also fired, and countless bullets rained down on the fragile destroyers and frigates.
Amidst the explosions that filled the sky, the four brave ships were enveloped by bursts of fierce artillery fire and smoke, so much so that the commanders on board the "Friedrich der Grosse" who were so excited that they had to shout
An order to stop shooting.
When the smoke gradually dissipated, what appeared in front of the Germans were the wreckage of three more than half of the ships that had sunk and one ship that was emitting thick smoke. No, it can no longer be called a ship. It can no longer be called a ship.
Just a twisted pile of burning metal.
Its highest-level bridge and armored main gun control tower had been blown away without a trace, and the battle bridge on the lower level was torn in half, with one half twisting and leaning out of the ship's side, while the other half collapsed in
In the navigation bridge on the next floor, the large terraces protruding from the bridge on both sides of the bridge have been distorted by the huge force generated by the explosion. The two sides next to the battle bridge were simply torn directly from the bridge.
Coming down, the complex steel tube bridge support structure is now exposed.
There was no moving figure on the surface of the ship, and everyone fell in a pool of blood. The 155mm armor-piercing bullets used by the Germans also smashed the inside of the ship into a sieve. In this situation
Absolutely no one can survive the blow.
After wiping out the escort fleet, more than a dozen British merchant ships that were desperately escaping were surrounded by several German destroyers coming from behind. Looking at the black muzzles, those British cargo ship owners did not
Scared out of their wits by the Royal Navy's courage to defend their honor, they had no choice but to raise the white flag obediently and sail towards Hamburg, Germany under the orders of the German Navy.