Chapter 1,237 Fleet Battle 1
Chapter 1237 Fleet Battle 1
But in fact, this strategy also has too many problems in theory. First of all, battleships all roll, and the rolling cycles of different battleships are different. The earliest problem with artillery is to solve the shooting problem of all artillery at a certain roll angle... The Russian tactics cannot solve the problem of three warships rolling in the same state at all. Even the most basic requirements for long-distance shooting cannot be met.
The information transmission of battleships also has a time delay. In an experiment, the Russians discovered that the firing time of the main ship and the slave ship could actually differ by 10 seconds... Lieutenant General Eberhard said he was also drunk. But then, the Russians still expressed that they were optimistic enough about this strategy. And today we are finally going to show it on the battlefield!
The rangefinder located on the top of the Prinz Eugen locked the distant Russian fleet in the center of the lens. After the fire control personnel magnified the originally blurry target 23 times by adjusting the knob, they could even clearly see the target. Four tiled turrets with Russian characteristics. The crosshair of the eyepiece was firmly pressed in the middle of the target, and then based on the previously obtained data on the Russian warship, the fire control personnel transmitted the speed and orientation of the Russian warship to each main turret!
In order to ensure the accuracy of shooting, German supervision deliberately limited the speed, sailing at a speed and direction similar to that of the Russian fleet, and the huge twin-mounted 350MM main gun quickly pointed at the target. Following the order to fire, the Prinz Eugen first sprayed out fire dragons that were more than ten meters long!
The shells roared towards the Russian fleet on the opposite side. When the Germans started their third and a half salvo, the Russian fleet finally broke the silence. The first one to fire was the Queen Maria, and then the Alexander III. The Russian's "Trinity" tactic was indeed not as good as imagined. The so-called first salvo was fired only 5 minutes after the other warships opened!
In a pure fleet battle, the German fleet quickly gained an advantage. If the two Russian dreadnoughts could also rely on up to 12 main guns to obtain the so-called "asymmetric advantage", the design and spacing of each 6-shot shell If a shot every 20 seconds can put a certain amount of pressure on the Prinz Eugen and the Teghov, then the shooting of the three Russian pre-dreadnoughts at this distance from the Reshadier is completely blind! So much so that at the end of the battle, before interrogating the Russian prisoners, the German naval officers and soldiers on the Resaldier did not think that they were being fired upon by three Russian Dreadnoughts at the same time...
"Aren't the last two Russian pre-dreadnoughts attacking the Ferdinand?" After the war, the German officer responsible for interrogating Russian prisoners of war expressed difficulty in understanding the Russians' confessions.
To be honest, quasi-dreadnoughts are also divided into three, six or nine levels. The more powerful quasi-dreadnoughts can be evenly matched with early dreadnoughts. For example, the Ferdinand is equipped with 8 main guns and 6 side guns. If it is worse, it is actually not much different from ordinary pre-dreadnoughts. For example, the Russian Yevstafi has only 2 8-inch guns in addition to 4 12-inch guns on the side... At this distance,
In fact, it’s really no different from Dauntless….
Then, the Reshadier, who didn't know that it had been targeted by the opponent's Trinity, easily beat the Yevstafi at the front. After the latter had just fired a round of salvos, two rounds of destructive aura were fired. The 350MM main gun shells successfully hit this poor battleship.
As a Dreadnought, its defense is naturally unable to withstand attacks from German 350MM heavy artillery and hard-capped armor-piercing projectiles. As a Dreadnought, its displacement of over 10,000 tons also makes its "health bar" not that long. Just one hit brought disaster to this poor battleship!
The first shell directly hit the turret at the bow of the ship. The 11-inch vertical armor was like paper when faced with the shell weighing more than 600 kilograms. The hardened cover and the hardened layer on the outside of the armor shattered at the same time, revealing The incoming warhead left a circular radioactive bullet hole in the turret as easily as cutting through butter!
A dazzling flash of light suddenly erupted from the originally dark turret. Then, the exploding shell easily destroyed a 12-inch artillery piece and its servo device. Tons of steel turned into countless shrapnel that jumped and collided inside the small turret. In just a few seconds, waves of flames and shock waves turned the entire turret into hell! When the shell detonated the ammunition rack located behind the turret, the violent explosion even tore off half of the turret's armored roof. A fire dragon more than 50 meters long rose into the sky, and the entire battleship seemed to be shaking.
Another shell was equally deadly. This shell entered the water 40 meters away from the target. After entering the water, the shell quickly righted itself under the impact. Although the hood was shattered by the impact, the remaining part still pierced straight like a torpedo. target in the distance. The Resardier successfully fired a water bomb, directly sealing the fate of this poor battleship.
Accompanied by an indescribable harsh collision, the sharp warhead easily tore through the fragile hull plates, and then, together with hundreds of tons of seawater, tore a large hole of several square meters in the middle of the battleship! The shell continued forward, passing through the empty bunker and the coal bunker behind it, and shattered two old three-expansion steam engine bombs that were running at high speed. A huge orange fireball rose from the middle and rear of the hull, and the violent shock wave generated by the explosion even blew two 6-inch guns and three 12-pounders into the sky. The thick smoke that then poured out skyrocketed upwards, and the effect of this blow could be clearly seen even on the Reshadier 15 kilometers away.
Facing water bombs that would make Super Dauntless feel terrified, this one blow is enough to decide the outcome of the battle! The Yevstalin, which was pierced underwater, took in more than 1,400 tons of water in a very short period of time, which was undoubtedly a disaster for the ship that was just over 10,000 tons. What's even more tragic is that because the division of compartments is not scientific, and there are horizontal connections between compartments, with the influx of large amounts of seawater, each compartment was shattered. In just a few minutes, this poor ship The Russian battleship tilted 15 degrees, and when it lost power, the fate of this battleship had been decided!
"Okay, let's change the target. Just leave this guy to the destroyer." The captain of the Resardier looked at his results with satisfaction and ordered the gunner to lock the heavy artillery on the next target.
At the same time, the battle between the two Austro-Hungarian super-dreadnoughts, the Prinz Eugen and the Teghov, and the two Russian super-dreadnoughts did not appear to be one-sided. The main gun of the Prinz Eugen was huge, and the Russian People have more main guns!
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