Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 646 Chapter 646 A Blank Paper

Reloading the main guns of a battleship is slow work. In fact, even with a mechanical loader, it is very difficult to increase the rate of fire of the main guns of a battleship.

Because it is not a new type of battleship after all, and the efficiency of the loading system is really not high, the rate of fire of the main guns of Tang Jun's Dongwan-class battleship is about a few minutes.

The irritating long wait in the middle made Bernard frequently pick up his binoculars to look at the enemy's warships in the distance.

There was no movement on the enemy ship at this time, because the opponent's main gun also needed time to reload.Bernard was silently counting, he wanted to calculate the frequency of enemy ships firing.

Of course, there are more professional people doing this work, and there are special sailors in other positions who use stopwatches to count the frequency of enemy fire.

It's just that the result soon made them breathe a sigh of relief, because after their side finished loading again and opened fire, the enemy's warship remained silent and did not launch a new round of shelling.

There is good news, and there is bad news.The good news is that the loading speed of the enemy ship is really slow, and the second salvo has not been fired for a long time.The bad news is that one's own shells missed again, still near misses.

The distance between the two sides is constantly getting closer, but because of the mechanical ballistic calculation equipment, the soldiers in charge of manipulating the calculation equipment have roughly summed up their experience.

The landing point of each shell can reflect the speed at which the fleets of the two sides are approaching each other. As long as they adapt to this speed and reserve a corresponding amount of advance, the hit accuracy can be improved.

After repeated trials seven or eight times, the non-commissioned officers responsible for calculating the trajectory finally came up with a plan again and gave a data they thought was reasonable.

Then, all the turrets and all the artillery were readjusted according to this data.

Immediately afterwards, the gunners fired shells again, and Bernard could feel the slight vibration of the battleship under his feet, which was the power feedback when the 305mm caliber cannon roared.

"Boom! Boom!" A series of roars reverberated in the air. The shell spanned a distance of nearly ten kilometers, and once again slanted into the sea, leaving jets of water on both sides of the mirage navy warship.

The school shooter shouted excitedly with the binoculars on his post, and even Bernard in the command tower could hear him shouting: "Strap shot! Stretch shot! Near miss!"

"Strap shot! Near miss!" Many officers also shouted excitedly. They worked hard for almost an hour, and finally waited for the good news.

"Beautiful!" Bernard couldn't help clenching his fists excitedly, he finally got the shout he had been looking forward to for a long time.

As if the enemy ship had already hit, everyone was celebrating excitedly. While they were celebrating, the enemy ship fired a second round of salvo.

All the officers in the conning tower of the bridge became tense again, and soon many shells fell, hitting the water surface and splashing water jets soaring into the sky.

I don't know whether it is because the Phantom Navy is well-trained or their luck is against the sky. The landing point of the second round of salvo is obviously very close to the battle line of the Tang Army's fleet.

However, before the soaring water column fell completely, the three battleships of the Tang Army fired another salvo.

Luck is still not on Tang Jun's side. Although they are still straddling shots, all of them are near misses!Once again the Mirage Navy escaped, the nearest shell grazed the masts of their warships and fell in the distance.

Mirage Kazuo's face turned slightly pale. He stood on the bridge of his battleship, sweating coldly from the shock of the shells that fell just now.

He heard the ear-piercing whistle of 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, which showed that the opponent had very advanced aiming methods and could accurately command the artillery to adjust the shooting angle.

The enemy's battleship was faster, and the loading and preparation of the artillery was faster. After the opponent fired two or three salvos, he could return a salvo. In terms of firepower density, the mirage navy was obviously at a disadvantage.

On his battleship, the artillery reloading speed is very slow, and he can only rely on the scope to roughly correct the shooting angle. It is obviously more luck to hit the enemy ship.

This feeling of being completely surpassed made Kazuo Mirage very uncomfortable. If he knew that the enemy's battleship was so powerful, he would not even plan such a decisive battle.

God knows how much pressure he's under now, the warships lined up here are almost all the possessions of the Phantom Navy.

If any accident happened to these warships, the Phantom Kingdom would lose its control over the sea, which means that Tang Kingdom would be able to take whatever it wanted.

"If it weren't for those bastards in the army, how could I take such a risk to fight the Tang Dynasty's navy in such a place!" Mirage Kazuo cursed secretly in his heart.

But after cursing, he still had to continue to think about how to deal with the unfavorable situation in front of him: Although he had a slight advantage in the number of battleships, the actual combat power shown seemed to be that the Tang army was a little stronger.

"General, do you want to... adjust the course?" Kazuo Mirage's adjutant asked nervously.

He was also worried that his side would be hit by the opponent first, so at this moment he was already thinking of avoiding the enemy's firepower.Anyway, our artillery is still a thousand miles away from hitting the enemy ship. Isn't it a better choice for our side to maneuver first to avoid the enemy's artillery fire?
But Mirage Kazuo didn't think so. It's not that he was reluctant to part with the shooting parameters brought by two rounds of salvos, but based on his experience in naval battles, sometimes evasion can't change the outcome of being hit.

He felt that artillery battles at sea basically depended on luck. If you were lucky, you could almost hit the target with two rounds of salvos.

If you start to adjust the course now, maybe the shell that missed the original hit will just hit, wouldn't it be cheaper for the opponent to send it up by yourself?

So, 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, only relying on experience and crude sights, you can rely on luck to hit the already large guns. target.

Therefore, Kazuo Mirage shook his head, gritted his teeth and insisted on his choice: "Keep the course! Let's talk after the third round of salvo!"

Accompanied by his order, the battleships of the Tang Dynasty Navy in the distance fired another volley, and the shells roared towards the direction of the Phantom Kingdom Navy.

After more than a dozen rounds of shelling, the mechanical ballistic calculation equipment finally gave a relatively perfect answer this time.

On the swaying sea, the battleship of the Mirage Navy, which was in the third place, was suddenly hit by something and burst into dazzling flames.

A shell directly hit the middle of the battleship's hull, first piercing through the side wall of the first building on the battleship's deck, then penetrating down through the floor, rushing into the lower compartment, and then slamming into the boiler. top explosion.

Another shell penetrated the hull of the Cyric battleship near the waterline, leaving a rather scary-looking hole in it.

Just a moment later, the shell of the Cyric battleship was torn apart by the explosion. In less than thirty seconds, it billowed thick smoke, and its speed was reduced to almost stop in place. the point.

During the tragic first round of explosions, some parts even flew onto the decks of the other two battleships at both ends of the battleship.

Immediately afterwards, this battleship became farther and farther away from the front battleship, and was soon overtaken by another battleship behind.

Kazuo Mirage's face turned pale. He had previously admired the 100 mm thick armor of the battleship built by Cyric, and felt that this kind of battleship was simply a solid sea fortress.

But in a blink of an eye, the Cyric battleship, which he thought was indestructible, was hit by the battleship of the Tang Kingdom, completely losing its combat effectiveness.

At this moment, the battleship of Mirage is as fragile as a piece of white paper!
"Turn around immediately after firing! Take maneuvers!" Kazuo Mirage, whose expression was completely out of control, clenched his fists and ordered to his adjutant.

"Boom!" This time, the Mirage Navy's 320mm heavy artillery roared.It's just that out of the original four battleships, only three completed the salvo this time.

The battleship that was hit just now seemed to have completely lost its combat effectiveness, billowing thick smoke covered the bridge, and it looked like a gas tank that was about to explode at any time.

Sure enough, when the shell fired by the Phantom Navy landed in the sea again, stirring up a high column of water, the battleship built by Cyric, which was about to be overtaken by its own cruiser and completely lost power, died. up!
The explosion almost lifted the entire superstructure of the battleship, and the flames engulfed the huge turret between the two chimneys.

The main turret directly in front of it was lifted into mid-air by the explosion, and then hit heavily on the circular turret mount.

At this moment, the battleship, which was copied without understanding, exposed almost all its flaws: the hull defense power simply enlarged by cruisers and ironclad ships is seriously insufficient, and the armor thickness compromised to ensure the speed cannot resist the attack of large-caliber artillery at all. .

The backward power system made Cyric have to reduce the armor of the battleship. The 320mm caliber main gun chosen simply to surpass the Datang Group has a very slow rate of fire. The sighting system that cannot be copied can only be enlarged by the backward Datang Group. Aiming systems on other warships are used to supplement the numbers.

In short, the superficial Cyric battleship revealed itself the second it was hit by a shell: it is actually a battleship with no fire control system, only ironclad speed, and only equipped with heavy cruiser-level armor cruiser……

(End of this chapter)