Chapter 1404 Lightning Strike

Will be outside, your life will be affected!

By the time the report of the expedition fleet was sent to Mingjing City, Wang Sheng had already made some preparations before taking the first step.

After all, it will take a long time for this report to come and go, and it will inevitably be a little late to act when the time comes.

The lightning strike fleet riding the wind and waves, as always, was searching for today's prey under the darkness of night.

After quickly approaching a Fuso fleet, and after the first wave of lightning struck, the commander-in-chief of the Fuso fleet quickly sensed something unusual in their actions.

Different from the previous style of retreating with a single blow, this time, the destroyers scattered on both sides did not directly withdraw from the battlefield, but continued to outflank them in a roundabout way!

Faced with the change from the normal behavior of the lightning strike fleet, the commander-in-chief of the Fusang fleet sank slightly, and then hurriedly shouted...

"The entire fleet remains vigilant! Peripheral destroyers are ready to launch torpedoes and launch a counterattack!"

That's right, to disintegrate the opponent's anti-torpedo net, the best solution Wang Sheng can think of at the moment is to launch continuous attacks!

Wave after wave of consumption is useless.

Which one of their torpedoes cost more, or a barbed wire on the opposite side?

Is it easier for them to build a torpedo, or is it easier to build a barbed wire opposite?

You don't even need to think about such a silly question.

Wang Sheng can even be 100% sure that there must be a lot of barbed wire on the other side's warships, and even if they change a new one every day, it will be enough for them.

Therefore, he simply did not follow the other side slowly.

After all, barbed wire is just barbed wire. It will be severely damaged if it is attacked by a torpedo. Continuous attacks are enough to break through this thin one-time defense line, and then cause effective damage to the warships under the defense line!

Of course, that's easy to say, but it's actually not that easy to do.

Wang Sheng directly divided the torpedo attacks of the fifteen destroyers under his command into multiple stages according to the number of the warships. At the same time, he also reduced the number of torpedoes fired per warship, and instead increased the number of attacks.

Although this approach will lose the explosive destructive power and attack coverage like before, but the advantage is that it can make his torpedo attack more effective.

As much as possible, avoid the embarrassing situation where all the dozen or so torpedoes hit the barbed wire and were triggered in advance, failing to cause direct damage to the enemy warship.

At the same time, according to the firing order, the destroyers that fired the torpedoes first could seize the opportunity to reload them.

The method of reloading torpedoes is actually relatively rare in history.

After all, as a maritime weapon, compared with those main gun weapons, the torpedo has a relatively short range. If a destroyer wants to launch a torpedo attack, it must first use its speed advantage to shorten the distance.

However, the destroyer type of battleship, its body is the most fragile among the battleship units.

All kinds of factors are combined together, in the case of close range, in the face of the enemy fleet, how dare the destroyer to stop more?

It is often that after releasing a wave of torpedoes, the speed is soaring and running directly. This is the most common way to play.

At the same time, loading torpedoes during the battle is also a very high-risk move. If you are not careful, you will suffer.

Therefore, most of the time, the torpedo attack is basically only once.

However, there are actually quite a few cases of secondary reloading in history, and the protagonists of these cases are, unsurprisingly, focused on the Fuso Navy who played very smoothly in lightning strikes.

At this moment, Wang Sheng is undoubtedly going to use this style of play. Taking risks, the soldiers of the regular army who have received emergency training on each battleship quickly acted.

Fifteen destroyers launched continuous torpedo attacks directly towards the Fusang fleet at this moment!

At the same time, the small naval guns on the hull also fired wildly, not to be outdone, venting all the firepower to their heart's content.

The roar of the dense artillery fire directly brought up a fire, almost completely illuminating this dark sea area!

In the frantic roar of the commander-in-chief of the Fuso fleet, the Fuso battleships began to fight back.

However, the Fusang Fleet's counterattack, in an instant, made the chaos of this maritime battlefield abruptly increased by two levels!

At this moment, the strong and almost suffocating smell of gunpowder is spreading like crazy...

Unlike the Lightning Strike Fleet whose formation was scattered on both sides of the battlefield, the Fusang Fleet's formation was relatively concentrated. However, it was this formation that made their situation worse.

The multi-stage torpedo attack allowed the lightning strike fleet to successfully destroy the torpedo nets around the Fuso fleet.

Gradually began to hit the torpedoes of the enemy warships, bursting out with the destructive power it should have.

Two of the Fuso destroyers were directly hit by torpedo attacks and sank on the spot with the roar of the explosion!

This situation is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Fuso fleet.

The morale, which had been fairly stable, had dropped significantly at this moment.

On the other hand, on the side of the lightning strike fleet, the tactics were successfully implemented, and the navy soldiers who finally achieved clear results were all refreshed.

Under the situation, there is a trend of getting better and better!

During this period, Wang Sheng, who was in the flagship, was not idle, and directly signaled the two heavy cruisers in the rear to fire at the Fusang fleet, and even the four light cruisers also fired one after another, and went up to join in the fun.

Low hit rate at night, lack of firepower, that's not a problem.

At this time, Wang Sheng's main purpose was to let the two heavy cruisers and four light cruisers in the fleet attract the attention of the opposing fleet. It would be better if they could attract a wave of firepower.

After all, compared with destroyers at such close range, heavy cruisers at the rear of the battlefield have a higher chance of evading enemy artillery fire.

However, the commander-in-chief of the opposite Fuso Fleet, although he was already in a roaring state at this time, was not stupid after all who could sit in this position. He directly ignored the artillery harassment of the heavy cruisers and light cruisers, and ordered the entire fleet to focus fire on the attack. destroyers closer to them.

According to the current situation, attacking a destroyer has a higher hit rate, which is naturally one of the reasons.

But a more important reason is that the destroyers equipped with torpedo launchers are the core of the attack. Even if only one or two ships are sunk, it can effectively reduce the threat level of the enemy's lightning strike fleet.

Of course, there is also a more important reason, so that he can show a little difference in record, otherwise, as soon as the situation here is passed back, their His Majesty the Emperor will not ask him to commit suicide within minutes?

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