1825 My New Daming

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"Slow down! Slow down to 12 knots."

Seeing the Blake armored cruiser less than 1 meters (1.3 yards) ahead begin to turn, Chen Jian immediately gave the order to slow down to 12 knots.The reason for slowing down is because the ship is unstable if the speed is too fast, and the guns will not be able to shoot accurately if the ship shakes too much.The reason why he didn't simply stop was to continue to shorten the distance between him and the target. Twelve kilometers is still too far.Although the accuracy of the 1mm main gun equipped on the Guogong class is not bad, relying on the current artillery sighting technology and the stability that a 210-ton warship can provide, the two 3000mm cannons installed on the bow of the Guogong class ship can hit one It can still be a bit accurate when hitting targets beyond 210 meters. If it can be pulled to 6000 meters before hitting, it would be ideal.Therefore, the 4000 state-level ships under Chen Jian's command still had to maintain a certain speed and neat formation.

This is easy to say, but really hard to do.

It is very difficult to keep eight 8-ton steamships in a neat horizontal formation during the "high-speed sailing" of more than ten knots on the choppy ocean. Now they have to slow down by four knots together, and they have to slow down It is too difficult to keep the horizontal line neat after decelerating.It not only tests the level of boat handling, but also tests the integrity rate of equipment, and even tests whether the bottom of the 3000 state-level boats is clean and whether there are barnacles attached to make people feel scalp numb.
Only a navy that is well-trained, has sufficient funds, and has a large number of shipyards and shipyards can perfectly complete the deceleration and maintain formation according to Chen Jian's order.

If you can't keep the queue neat during the deceleration process, or the entire horizontal line is crooked before deceleration.Then the ships may block each other's firing range of the main guns, and the firepower cannot be fully exerted.

However, the eight 8-ton armored cruisers of the Ming Dynasty performed perfectly in terms of maintaining a horizontal formation and consistent deceleration, which made Colonel Jervis in the bridge of the Blake armored cruiser feel a little nervous.

The horizontal team is so difficult, and they all play so well, I am afraid that this artillery technique. I don't know who they will aim at to focus their fire?You shouldn't be playing the Blake, right?The position of the Blake is not good, and it is not easy to fight.

"Target, the third ship of the enemy formation, the Blake class, the distance is 8600 meters!"

If Colonel Jervis heard what Staff Sergeant Lu Benwei shouted, he would be greatly relieved. It was the Waterloo that was going to be called.

"Distance, 8600!"

A sergeant next to Lu Benwei then picked up the phone receiver and reported the results of Lu Benwei's observations to the bridge, and then turned the knob used to adjust the distance clock - the distance clock is a clock that looks a bit like a dial A disc with numbers and pointers on it.However, what is displayed on this disc is not the time, but the distance to the target.The purpose of this distance clock is to let the artillerymen below know the distance when the telephone and microphone on the ship fail.In addition, you can also let nearby own ships know the results of your own observations, so that you can "copy homework" from each other!

At the same time, the atmosphere on the bridge of Cao Guogong was extremely tense.The navigator kept reporting the distance between the ship and the target, while the gunnery chief gave orders to the No. 2 bow turret below with a headset on his hands——according to the plan, only the bow 210 was fired on the target ship. The two 155mm main guns of the No. [-] turret will participate, and the [-]mm secondary guns on the ear turrets on both sides will not join.Of course, this is also to avoid unnecessary shaking of the ship when the secondary guns are fired, so as to affect the firepower of the main guns.

In other words, the armored cruiser Waterloo will face the bombardment of 16 210mm guns later!

The time of firing was the time when the Waterloo began to turn to starboard.

On the flagship Wei Guogong, while listening to the voyage chief's report, Chen Jian fixedly stared at the Waterloo with his binoculars—the distance between this ship and the 8 Guogongs when it turns will be very critical!
If the distance is close enough, the 16 210mm cannons will output hundreds of rounds at a time, and there will be no problem at all, and there will be eight rounds in ten rounds. Even if the Waterloo does not sink, it will have to go back to the Hindustan Shipyard in Mumbai. Go fix it for a few months (is it enough?)!

Moreover, the British only had three Blakes in the Indian Ocean (a total of three at this level), one of which was damaged, and the remaining two could only cover its retreat.
Because if the collision continues, the other two will also be hit with hemiplegia, then the Indian fleet will not be able to fight even the breaking and anti-breaking battles. At knots 16 and 18, the Ming Navy's Persian Gulf Fleet is enough to sail across the Arabian Sea.There are 19 ships of these two classes!It's not a broken friendship, but a blockade war directly!
"Sir, the third enemy ship has turned!"

The navigator of the Wei Guogong suddenly shouted.

Chen Jian also saw that the 9000-ton ship started to turn around, so he hurriedly shouted: "Report the distance!"

"6200 meters!"

Not ideal, but that's the way to go.

"Target, enemy No. [-] ship, hit me hard!" Chen Jian roared, and the veins on his forehead bulged.

The gunner who received the order immediately raised the phone, reported the shooting figures calculated by the calculator to the bow turret, and then roared: "Fire!"

When his order was passed into the turret, the gunner who received the order slammed the firing button.Almost at the same time, in the bow turrets of the other seven Guogong-class ships, the gunners also pressed the launch button with full strength.

The 16 210mm naval guns burst into roars almost simultaneously, and orange-red fireballs bloomed from each gun muzzle. The huge recoil force pushed back the 3000-ton Guogong class, causing the Lu Benwei, who was measuring the distance on the mast plate, seemed to be pushed by someone, and his body almost fell down. Fortunately, the deputy observer around him was prepared and helped him.

Before he even had time to say thank you, he put his eyes on the eyepiece of the rangefinder again. When he looked again, he found that there were countless water columns suddenly appearing around the 9000-ton ship. into the storm.

"The first round of straddling shots. Well done!" Seeing this scene, Lu Benwei couldn't help cheering.He's not cheering for the gunner, he's cheering for himself!
The straddle shot shows that the observations and calculations are correct, and then as long as some adjustments are made on this basis (the ship is moving), it can ensure that the shells are scattered in the "dangerous zone", so that it is a matter of time before they hit.

"Distance!" The deputy observer on the side shouted.Only then did Lu Benwei remember his responsibilities, and quickly observed the distance.

At the same time, Chen Jian stared at the Waterloo from the bridge of his ship Wei Guogong, and also witnessed the straddle just now.About 50 seconds after the first salvo, the 16 210mm cannons fired a second round of shells again.

This rate of fire is indeed fast enough!

Another straddle and a near miss!More shells landed in the "danger zone", and countless water jets exploded.

Immediately afterwards was the third round of salvo, and the interval between the second round of salvo was also 50 seconds. Less than ten seconds after the 16 210mm shells were blasted out of the muzzle again, the armored cruiser Waterloo in the distance Suddenly, a huge fireball broke out.

hit!
In the midst of the gunpowder smoke, Chen Jian only saw thick smoke and flames billowing from the bow of the Waterloo, as if a big hole had been punched out!

"Good job!" Chen Jian patted the railing in front of his body excitedly.However, what he is praising now is not the gunners, observers, and computer soldiers, but the technicians responsible for improving the formula and fuze of picric acid Z medicine!In the previous Battle of the Jiyi Waterway, the Ming Navy's shells were all bombed on touch, so they were all bombed on the surface of the enemy ship's hull, not after they got in.

And this shell obviously pierced through the steel plate of the enemy ship's bow, and it exploded after getting inside!
(End of this chapter)