1825 My New Daming

Chapter 457 It's over, it's over! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

hit!
But this is not the crux of the problem. The crux of the problem is whether it has been penetrated?
The 14-inch main gun of the Queen Elizabeth is undoubtedly the sharpest "spear" of the British Royal Navy today, and the main belt of the Da Zhou is the strongest shield of the Ming Navy!Now the sharpest spear is piercing the strongest shield. Whether it can pierce will determine the outcome of today's naval battle and the rise and fall of the empire on which the sun never sets!

Although this is a bit of a "weapon-only theory", today's naval battles are about the strength of ships and guns, and the survival of the current empire is also determined by the victory or defeat of naval battles.That is to say, whoever has the strongest guns, the most powerful guns, and the largest volume is the master of the world!

William Baga, who got up from the floor of the conning tower just now, has already grabbed a good seat to watch the battle. He raised his binoculars and stared at the flames emanating from the side of the Da Zhou. Throat is tight—the waterline armor of HMS King William IV, the strongest battleship in the British Empire, has punched several holes in the enemy's cannons. If the 14-inch guns of HMS William IV can't penetrate the opponent's waterline armor, then The British Empire may be... over!

The smoke from the 14-inch shell cleared away in an instant, and then a large area of ​​scorched black was revealed. After seeing the scorched black clearly, William Baga's face also turned black.Because he knew that the scorched black was left after the picric acid charge burned violently on the metal surface—and the picric acid charge burned a large piece of black on the steel plate surface of the Ming battleship, which meant that the 14-inch armor-piercing projectile must have It didn't penetrate the armor plate of the Ming battleship.Otherwise, it should explode in the belly of that battleship, and a hole should be opened on the surface to emit fire and smoke!

"No, no penetration. How is this possible?" The voice of Major General Jervis rang in William Baga's ear, and he was a little trembling when he heard it. He was obviously frightened by the sturdiness of the Ming Dynasty's 3-ton battleship. up.

"Sure, it must be the damn fuze that caused the trouble!" Of course, William Baga was unwilling to let it go like this, and he immediately found an excuse for the 3-inch shell that couldn't penetrate the main belt of the 14-ton battleship of the Ming Dynasty—— The shells are good, but the fuze is too sensitive, and it explodes when touched. This is an old problem. It has been like this since the beginning of the war. The Royal Navy has been mentioning this to the arsenal, but it can’t be changed. It is really wrong for the country and the king!
Thinking of this, William Baga ordered loudly: "Keep fighting, don't stop, we must penetrate the armor of the battleships of the Ming Dynasty!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Admiral, damage control report, there is no obvious damage to the main armor belt on the starboard side, our battleship withstood it!"

"Long live! Da Ming Wan Sheng Da Ming is invincible!"

At this moment, the command tower of the Great Zhou was filled with jubilation.

The thickness of the side main belt of the Dazhou is 175mm-350mm, and the thickness of the upper main belt is 175mm, all of which have a certain inclination, which can increase a certain degree of protection when being shot.

In addition, the bulletproof steel plate used by the Dazhou is the latest "deep hardened plate". This kind of steel plate is harder than the earlier surface-hardened armor steel-one is carburized and hardened on the surface, and the other is hardened to the inside. , so even if it is hard to hard.The price of armor steel produced by this process is extremely high, almost 20-30 times that of ordinary steel plates!Moreover, the post-processing of the steel plate hardened by this process is difficult (too hard), so it must be processed into the required shape before hardening.This is also a considerable challenge for the shipbuilding industry.Only an industrial country that is strong in shipbuilding and metallurgy can play the game. Daming is such an industrial country.

But you get what you pay for, and the bulletproof ability of this "deeply hardened plate" is just right, almost 2.5 times that of ordinary armor steel, and 15% stronger than armor steel with surface hardening technology——25 %.

That is to say, if the last 350mm deep hardened steel armor of the sideboard main belt of the Dazhou is converted into the surface hardened steel used on British warships, then 400mm must face upwards.If you consider the enhanced bulletproof effect produced by the inclined steel plate, it should be equivalent to more than 450mm! The 14-inch (356 mm) armor-piercing projectile has no hood, the fuze is not reliable, and the passivation of the picric acid charge is not in place. It should not be able to penetrate the thicker part of the main armor. The shipyard must have cut corners.

But Li Kezhi, Admiral of the 102nd Fleet, knew that it was not the time to be happy—the victory was not yet at hand!

Li Kezhi ordered loudly: "Continue to focus on the British No. [-] ship and hit me hard!"

"Yes, Admiral!"

The admirals on both sides have made the greatest determination to beat each other to death!

The gunners in the main gun turrets on both sides did not stop for a second, and they have been reloading and firing with all their strength. The 14-inch, 12-inch, 360mm, and 300mm shells came and went, and they hit each other very well. It's fun.Although the quality of the British's armor-piercing projectiles is indeed not good, they now have more than 200 cannons firing shells at the four battleships of Ming Dynasty. The armor-piercing projectiles filled with picric acid rain down like raindrops. Both the power and momentum are very amazing. .

At 6:36, the British fleet finally gave Daming a hard time. The side of the No. 4 turret of the Chengzhongwang battleship was pierced by a 12-inch shell, and an explosion occurred on the spot. The fire doors and turret bases, and perhaps even more damage.

But only 1 minute later, the 360mm cannon of the "Dazhou" class returned the color. Two armor-piercing projectiles weighing more than 700 kilograms hit the King William IV again, and one of them hit a side ship. The cannon, as it turned out, exploded the turret and exploded a huge fireball!The other one penetrated the bow of the ship, and directly penetrated into the torpedo compartment of the bow!

Installing torpedoes on battleships. To be honest, what a puzzling design!It's okay for Daming, they have powerful steam gas torpedoes after all! It can be launched 10 kilometers away, and the speed of more than 2 knots looks scary.But the British steam gas torpedoes have not yet entered service, so their battleships are equipped with compressed air torpedoes, which can only hit one or two kilometers. What is the use of installing battleships?Can the battleship still rush within [-] kilometers of the opponent?It's about to hit!

But the British warship designers stubbornly equipped their battleships with torpedo tubes, and built a torpedo cabin on the bow, which also stored some air-compressed torpedoes!
As a result, the torpedo did not cause any damage to the enemy, but it was about to bring disaster to the British Empire!This 360mm armor-piercing projectile not only penetrated the armor of the bow of the King William IV, but also easily broke through the armor of the torpedo compartment, penetrated into the interior of the torpedo compartment and caused a big explosion!

This is a violent explosion!Everyone in the command tower of the William IV was unable to stand, and fell to the ground again. William Baga fell very hard, his head hit the steel plate heavily, and there were bursts of severe pain, but his mind Still very clear.He knew that such a violent explosion could not have been caused by an armor-piercing bomb that did not contain much picric acid, and something must have been martyred.

As soon as he thought of this, someone shouted: "It's over, it's over, the bow torpedo compartment exploded, and the bow is gone. We are sinking rapidly."

(End of this chapter)