In the Liaodong Bay, which has not yet completely thawed, scattered snowflakes are floating in the sky. In the undulating waves, two giant warships sailed at high speed one after another. The giant axe-like bows plowed two long tracks on the sea.
Ice floes hit the 320 mm thick alloy armor and made a slight sound. As the ship's hull undulated, the four nearly 30-meter-long golden dragons on the sides seemed to be flying on the sea surface alive. The iron-gray ship
Above the body, sixteen terrifying 380mm cannons were all pointing to the starboard side, with their high muzzles aimed at the sea in the distance. There was a small black spot there that was difficult to detect even with a telescope.
"Your Majesty, where is the target? Why can't I find it?" Attendant Yuan put his fat head in front of the large high-power telescope and said in a daze. Liu Buchan, the Navy Chief of Staff next to him, quickly gave him directions.
Today is the day for the main gun test of the Huaxia-class battleship. Emperor Yang personally took His Excellency the Chief of Staff and the Chief of Naval Staff to the highest point of the command tower of the Huaxia super battleship in the cold weather, waiting to admire his national treasure.
How to show off your power.
However, it is normal for the steward to not be able to find the target. The USS Illinois, the target ship, is a full 25 kilometers away from here. This battleship was captured directly from an American shipyard. Although it had been modified before
, a triple 280mm main gun is added at the front and rear. In terms of performance, it can be used as a battleship by many second-rate countries. However, in the current wealthy Chinese Navy, it can only be used as a target ship.
played.
Some people had previously suggested that it should be kept for exhibition. After all, this was the largest warship captured by the Chinese Navy. However, this petty idea was seriously despised by Emperor Yang. It would not take long before there were many captives available for exhibition.
Of course, it doesn't matter that Chief Yuan can't see where the target is. He's just here to join in the fun. In the fire control room just below them, those busy radar operators can know exactly where the Illinois is. Distance, direction, everything.
It becomes the data on the screen in front of them. If it is under sail, the course and speed of this more than 10,000-ton warship will also clearly appear in the mind of the radar operator.
These data are directly input into the mechanical ballistic computer of the firing director, including the battleship's own speed, course, wind direction, wind speed and even air humidity, atmospheric pressure, barrel wear and other data. All data are input into this computer at the same time.
It seems to be a miraculous machine. The firing parameters calculated through analysis are then directly transmitted to each main gun turret in the form of current signals. It automatically controls the turret rotation and gun pitch angle, and at the same time makes compensation adjustments based on the data fed back by the gun vertical stabilizer.
.Under the control of this firing director originally used on the USS Iowa battleship during World War II, artillerymen no longer need to aim. Their task is only to load ammunition and then wait for the indicator light to light up to fire.
Not only is this set of equipment used on the Huaxia-class battleships, but different versions with slight modifications according to different situations have also begun to be installed on the Kunlun-class battleships and Hongwu-class battlecruisers. Even some heavy cruisers are also planning to equip them with this set of equipment, and
Radar systems are all installed. Of course, many of these things cannot be solved by China's technical level at this time. At least half of the equipment is still completed by beautiful women. After all, even during World War II, these were top-notch technologies, Yang Feng
If he hadn't taken advantage of the situation and forced the Americans to give him the Missouri, he wouldn't have gotten this thing.
"Your Majesty, can we start?" Liu Buchan asked.
Emperor Yang, who was also lying in front of a telescope, nodded majestically. Liu Buchan quickly picked up the phone next to him and informed the people below. At the same time, he reminded Yang Feng and Yuan Shikai to hold on to the handrails beside them to prevent the shock from the shelling from causing the emperor to fall again.
Then less than half a minute later, I saw the No. 1 main gun of the Huaxia's bow turret suddenly spraying out a flame tens of meters long. The air pressure impact of the gun ejecting from the chamber instantly pushed a spreading arc on the sea surface, and
At the same time, I felt the battleship under my feet being pushed back hard. At this time, an earth-shattering roar came into my ears, and the sergeant Yuan who was caught off guard was so frightened that he screamed immediately.
Before his shouts stopped, the No. 2 main gun also spurted out flames. In the next very short time, the remaining six main guns from front to back opened fire in sequence. The huge recoil pushed the 40,000-ton ship
The giant ship was pushed out more than fifty meters from its original position.
The first round of salvo ended instantly, but the first shell had not yet fallen. In the eyes of thousands of people across the sea, dozens of seconds passed before I saw a sudden sudden explosion in the dark clouds connecting the sea and the sky in the distance.
There was a flash of fire.
This scene even shocked Liu Buchan. He pushed Yuan Shikai away roughly and grabbed his telescope. His eyeballs almost got stuck in. To be honest, although Emperor Yang asked to shoot at such a distance, as a man who was on the sea,
As a veteran of twenty years, he never thought that artillery shells could hit the target at such a distance. As for the first salvo hitting the target during the voyage, it was simply unbelievable. The farthest hit distance in a battle at sea is only seventeen.
Kilometers, and this is already more than 25 kilometers. Even the maximum range of the main guns of the battleships of European powers may not be this far.
"Old Liu, you scared me!" Attendant Yuan said dissatisfiedly at the side.
Liu Buchan, who woke up from the fright, quickly apologized to him. At this moment, the Yanhuang's main gun behind him also began to spit out flames. The roar of the flying shells sounded like a speeding train on the sea. But it was a pity that the Yanhuang's round
The salvo missed its target.
"Order the two ships to fire alternately at the fastest speed until the Illinois is sunk." Emperor Yang said with great satisfaction.
Liu Buchan quickly conveyed His Majesty the Emperor's order, and then the Huaxia's main gun roared again. In the next minute, the two battleships fired at a single gun rate of 2.5 rounds per minute, non-stop.
Forty rounds of 380mm piercing shells were poured at the Illinois, and the last five rounds hit. However, after the second shell hit, the more than 10,000-ton warship was actually destroyed and penetrated.
The internal explosion behind the horizontal deck tore open the hull, shattered the armor plate and began to flood. The three subsequent hits were completely wasted.
At a distance of twenty-five kilometers, the hit rate exceeded 10%. Liu Buchan was once again stunned. He knew the significance of this data very well. Moreover, it was still cloudy today, and it was almost impossible to observe the target with the naked eye at such a distance. This was also
This means that the same effect can be achieved at night. Although Emperor Yang has said many times that these are two invincible warships, the impact on people after the true power was revealed today is still huge.
This expensive experiment has come to a perfect end. This experiment also means that the two super battleships of the Chinese Navy have fully formed combat capabilities. Next, it is time to conduct ocean navigation experiments. Not only the super battleships, but also the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan
The two aircraft carriers of the USS Huaxia also need to conduct long-distance voyage experiments. Yang Feng’s goal is to sail directly from Lushunkou to Guam, and then turn back from Guam. Of course, they cannot refuel in the middle. With the Huaxia’s endurance of 8,000 nautical miles, this is completely
There is no problem. As for the endurance of the Dingyuan-class aircraft carrier, it is almost enough to run from Port Arthur to San Francisco and back without refueling.
As for confidentiality, it just so happens that the first batch of six Hongwu-class battle cruisers in the Navy's second round of shipbuilding plan have just been commissioned. Together with a batch of newly commissioned light and heavy cruisers, we will conduct long-distance training together, and first provide aircraft carriers along the way.
Clear the area with super battleships.
"How is the naval battle between Britain and Germany going?" At this time, Emperor Yang remembered the fateful decisive battle between Britain and Germany that was ongoing in far away Europe on the North Sea.
Soon he received a telegram from a Chinese cruiser that was watching the battle.
"Damn, the British are so awesome!" The contents of the telegram amused him.
The British did have a bit of a character explosion. In the battleship duel, they still did not take advantage. Although they sank a German battleship and two battle cruisers, the British lost including an Edward VII class.
Two battleships and three battle cruisers. Such a loss ratio is still terrible news for the British Navy, because it also means that the numerical advantage of both sides has disappeared.
But at this time, Commodore Betty, who was the commander of a destroyer fleet, gave Admiral May a brave idea to conduct a lightning strike with a high-speed raid by destroyers. To put it bluntly, it was a near-suicidal attack.
Although he was a little worried about this, Admiral Mei, who was really powerless to change the situation, still agreed to his plan. When the main fleets of both sides closed the distance to almost five kilometers and started a near-hand-to-hand fight, Shang, who had been hiding on the periphery of the battlefield,
Like a pack of wolves, hundreds of British destroyers squeezed in through the gaps between their own battleships in a dangerous way with their excellent navigation skills.
Seeing these small boats emerging at a speed of more than 35 knots, Prince Heinrich, who was enjoying the joy of victory, immediately ordered the fleet to turn to high-speed and leave. At the same time, German cruisers and destroyers came forward to block it, but at the same time as the German battleships turned,
, all the British ships that had approached within five kilometers fired a salvo of torpedoes. Suddenly, more than two hundred torpedoes dragged dense tracks on the sea and rammed into the German battleships one after another at forty knots.
And those sea monsters also accelerated to close to or even exceeded the limit of thirty knots. It is said that these torpedoes are difficult to hit the target. At forty knots, the steam gas torpedoes produced by Bofors can only hit the target at most.
They can hit six or seven kilometers. It is impossible for them to catch up with the high-speed retreating German battleships. Of course, Betty has no choice but to launch torpedoes at such a distance. His destroyers are not much faster than the battleships. Once the opponent wants to escape, it is easy to get dense during the retreat.
The secondary battery firepower of his destroyers was called out one by one.
But at this time, the British character exploded. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!