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832 Engagement! The pinnacle of the cannon of the giant ship (7)!

Captain Yamato, Colonel Takayama, felt so awkward. He took over and said that this unprecedented super warship was already a second-hand product... Well, it was a junk product.

When I adapted from the first long voyage, I encountered an inexplicable blockade. As a result, I didn't even catch a single hair from the enemy and was destroyed and covered in bruises. This unlucky thing proves that this warship may have been cursed by gods and ghosts, and there must be no good luck. But luck is very important to the navy!

As the official first captain, not only did not have the opportunity to fight independently, but he had to cooperate with the original targeted navies of Britain and the United States at the beginning, but also listened to their arrangements. This feeling was very unhappy!

But the advantage is that it can fully demonstrate its excellence among the three most awesome naval powers in the world, so that they can take a good look at what is the most powerful warship in the universe! Just looking down from the majestic bridge, the feeling of pleasure is so refreshing!

But there is an old saying, "The tree attracts wind, and the gun strikes the bird." The two warships such as the Yamato are really too outstanding and conspicuous among the hundreds of ships in the entire formation. As long as you look at them, you will first find their huge and majestic figures. Naturally, you have to attack them first and kill one. What a great merit and how encouraging morale!

When it comes to attack, it is naturally the undisputed main force, but it is regarded as the target to hit the first one, which is very uncomfortable!

A loud bang sounded in the rear, and the black smoke could be clearly seen from a distance. Gao Liuyisan's head buzzed and a very bad feeling came out. He hurriedly ordered the damage pipe to rush up to extinguish the fire immediately. At the same time, he ordered the engine room to work hard to improve the power output, so he could no longer let the opponent hit it casually!

You read that right. Colonel Gao Liu's mind was a judgment of "stumbled at will"! There is no such good thing in the world, you can hit it from such a distance? This is unscientific and does not conform to the rules. Maybe the other party aimed at a place and fired several rounds of shells in succession, right?

...Not to mention whether he was thinking right or wrong. War always has variables, but in specific battles, calculations must have the upper hand and have strong decision-making power!

The two ships "Kunlun Mountain" tilted their hulls fifty kilometers away, and almost turned around in place with a very small radius that made people widen their eyes. They easily turned the straight voyage into a cross-cut posture. Then the naval guns were fired together, and the ones that came out in one breath were not just the two rounds in front. But the basic number of probabilistic shootings was five consecutive rounds!!

The main gun fire rate of the "Kunlun class" is not the Japanese low speed of 1.8 rounds per minute, but maintains the routine of 2 or 5 rounds, and can even hit a high speed of 3 rounds per minute if you are anxious! This still ensures the stability of the volley and the hit rate!

At this time, they don’t need to fight desperately, but since they locked the target, there was no reason to let go easily. So every half minute, a round of shells came over. Every time, they followed a strict fine-tuning strategy. They stared at the forward curve of the Yamato, ensuring that every time the shells dropped and the explosion circle formed could fill the behemoth!

The third round of shells arrived as scheduled, with an increasingly accurate blow, ensuring another hit. Suddenly, a nearly missing bullet hit the armor hard from the port side waterline in the posture of a edge ball. The entry angle was too large, almost parallel to the armor. So the 1.2-ton armor-piercing warhead just smashed the well-proportioned armor into a large depression of a bathtub, and then bounced into the water. Exploded in a place close to the keel on the bottom of the ship!

"Boom!" The dull sound mixed with a series of explosions of more than a dozen, and the distance was too close, and the destructive power of the 18 kilograms of charge also caused an amazing impact, causing the solid shell of the "Yamato" to slightly deform, and even squeezed out a squeaking scream, which scared the people in the bottom cabin!

When Gao Liu Yisan saw the water column running up against the side of the ship, his face changed drastically and almost crushed his finger bones. Fortunately, there seemed to be no major damage. Before he could breathe, the fourth round of shells fell down. This time, he was not so lucky!

The shooting at the center line of the warship was accurate and outrageous! A shell fell at a small angle, from the front turret base in the front! The shell's armor-piercing ability at the end speed was extremely attenuated, but it still made a terrifying hole in its thick 560mm armor without hesitation!

Of course, Zhu Bin could not equip his warship with ordinary warheads! The giant ship and cannon are bombarded with kinetic energy strikes as the key to winning, and the hit rate and end penetration after hitting!

A conventional steel warhead depends solely on its own weight and end kinetic energy. The closer it is, the greater the penetration force, and the stronger the penetration force is when using the exposed structure. However, due to the limited strength of the bullet, there is still a huge gap. But what if the external hardening of the warhead is the same as tungsten carbide?!

That's right! That's what he did!

He has unprecedented submarine mining technology, hundreds of thousands of tons of spacecraft and million tons of space waste alloys, high-precision purity molecular smelting and ion high-temperature smelting, which makes him not lack strategic metals that seem extremely expensive and scarce in other countries, such as tungsten, manganese and various ultra-high-strength alloys, and even warheads that are specialized in attacking, deep-piercing bombs used to destroy bunkers, semi-armor-piercing anti-ship missiles, and the hardness that hits the head is almost made into depleted uranium by him, but the hardness is not bad at all!

Under normal circumstances, even a 420mm armor-piercing bomb at a distance of 50 kilometers may not be able to penetrate more than 300mm armor in the end, let alone 560mm. This time, it is no exception. It has no penetration, but it has not flashed!

The exquisite quilt-piercing bomb bounced off the hood, penetrated at a stable angle, and then broke the brittle cracks and collapsed. The vertebrae wrapped inside pierced into the armor with amazing hardness, and the rebound shock force was destroyed and eliminated. Then the warhead loading burst out happily!

"Boom!"

The warhead with a certain energy-concentrating and armor-breaking structure exploded and formed a conical destructive force, and slapped hard on the huge cannon mount. The impact force made the warship tremble slightly, but the crew members in the turret couldn't stand it!

The detonation tremor that was close at hand made their hearts hit the first level like a sledgehammer. More than a dozen people vomited blood and limply on the spot. The lining board shattered and several more injured. The extremely heavy shells swept across, and of course they did not let go of the gun barrel above. One of them rebounded and actually stuck into the gap, plugging a thick gun barrel a little bit.

The feeling of looking on the bridge is different! Gao Liuyi, the three colts, trembling again, almost shouted "Emperor's blessing" with the corners of his mouth. He roared out of control and asked the damage tube to check, and found that the main turret had not been destroyed, but his heart was hanging and could no longer let go. What was the end?

It’s not over! The fifth round flew evenly, and another hit!

The shells were lucky this time, and they cut from the side close to the top of the 127mm double turret close to the bridge! There was nothing we could do if the cannon seat was not bad, but it was too easy to use this thin and paper-like armor. The armor-piercing shells were as straightforward as a knife to cut tofu, shattering the top of the entire turret. The two gun barrels were first blown away from the root, and all the soldiers inside were torn to pieces!

Then, the shells penetrated deeply into the turret, and the explosion blew the lower bomb supply mechanism and all the personnel together, and tore the steel on the round base, and the fragments that collapsed on the side smashed a three-unit machine gun next to it!

The tremor caused by the explosion finally made people on and off the bridge uneasy. The threat was so close that it was too obvious. Broken shrapnel and broken steel flew around. Some even rose to the top and smashed the outer wall jingled!

Gao Liu Yisan could no longer hold back and shouted to order the warships to change their marching strategy immediately. Don’t do any snake-shaped maneuvers anymore. It was obvious that the other party had already determined their marching trajectory, so a series of shellings were carried out accordingly!

Regardless of whether this guess is true or not, there is no better explanation at the moment, so I can only regard this idea as the most reliable one.

People's experience is forced out, and the failures of the Japanese Navy over the past few years are not for nothing. They can guess the similar methods of the opponent. The corresponding strategy cannot be counter-attacked, so they have to try their best to avoid it. Just like now, they cannot reach others at all, so they have to minimize the number of hits!

The Yamato-class battleship is too bulky! The standard displacement of more than 60,000 tons is 72,000 tons, but the total length is only 263 meters, which cannot even keep up with the length of the "Tarzan-class". The width is imaginable, and the corresponding maneuverability is inevitably insufficient. With its low power of 150,000 horsepower, it is quite possible to run for 27 knots, but the heavy armor limit is too large, and the Japanese ships' usual high center of gravity is also easy to cause the tragedy of unconscious overturning.

In contrast, Zhu Bin's "Kunlun-class" battleship is 285 meters long and 38 meters wide, which is much longer than Yamato! However, due to the extremely simplified overall steel and construction, the standard displacement is only 55,000 tons, but the actual content space and full-ship load capacity are even less than their 72,000 tons!

The power is even worse! Better stability, greater speed, higher maneuverability, greater fire rate, and a series of leading companies have formed an advantage that cannot be calculated. Speaking of which, it is very bullying.

But who made Zhu Bin like this method of bullying the small with the big one? And it is the usual strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!

When he built the "Taishan-class", he created a 35,000 tons of water displacement to fool people. But in fact, as long as he knows its size, it is easy to tell that the guy must have a standard platoon of at least 45,000 tons! Looking at the structure of the ship, it is so simple that it is not a single turret, and there is still a large piece of it empty on the back deck... Who would believe it if there is no ghost!

The Japanese didn't understand it, thinking that his combat power was just like that, so they suffered a great loss!

This is still the case now. I can’t tell the other party’s level. I’m smart enough to judge that the main gun will not be too big. At best, it’s similar to the previous one. As a result, I was beaten up and Yisan Gao immediately woke up. Damn the opponent in front cannot judge whether it’s good by common sense!

He was really guessed right! All the current performance indicators, military situations, performance of all the main weapons, ballistic trajectories, navigation habits and evasion strategies of the Japanese army are clearly understood. If you formulate targeted strike strategies, how can you run away?

Nothing else was left to mind. The Yamato desperately returned to normal course while ensuring that it would not capsize, stopped changing directions and rushed forward straight, while the hull began to be tilted at a 40-degree angle toward the front. All the main guns began to point to the predetermined target area and prepare to fire at a maximum elevation angle of 45 degrees!

The two armies hedges very quickly, 1.5 kilometers in one minute. Now, after five rounds of volleys, the distance between them quickly reached about 40 kilometers. The Yamato-class main gun range is up to 42,050 meters!

The entire radio is shielded, and the reconnaissance aircraft cannot report specific coordinates, but there is no problem with pointing action. At the top of the high bridge mast building, the extremely simple radar and lookouts also discovered the same mighty existence of the "Kunlun". No matter how vague it is, at least I finally saw the target!

"Fire the gun! Fire!"

Gao Liuyisan roared loudly at the phone, and the three 460mm main cannons roared!

The movement of the volley was spectacular! One left and one right. The smoke of the volleys of the eighteen super cannons of two giant ships rose into the air, as if the crater was about to erupt. Although the huge recoil calculated by thousands of tons of turret did not allow the hull to be translated by 60,000 tons, the hull also shocked violently. The 1,460 kilogram armor-piercing projectile came out like a squash, and its exaggerated posture made people dizzy!

The great momentum made the British and American generals on the other warships amazed and shocked them even more! It was indeed worthy of being the world's largest caliber cannon. The power of the launch alone was so terrifying. I really don't know what the scene would be like! If it was heading towards its own warship... the generals of the two countries were both terrified! The weight of the shell alone would probably be able to beat their own warships into the right way!

That's really hard to say!

The Americans' North Carolina-class side armor is only 12 inches. Under key protection, the power system and ammunition depot seem to be safer, but they absolutely cannot withstand such heavy bombardment. Even the 16 inches of the turret is pitifully weak. Within 30 kilometers, it will definitely be almost the same as a single shot.

Not to mention the British George V class, the 14.7-inch reinforced sidewalk is only thinner, but it is only 348mm main turret, only 324mm, even if it is a long-range hit, it is all armor thickness that is slack at one shot. I really don’t know that such a large hull carries a pile of main guns with a caliber of only 356mm, and what the 40,000 tons of full platoon did.

But no matter what, the two warships were smaller in size as a whole, which was terrifying to think about. Fortunately, the Japanese were beaten by the Chinese. If they secretly attacked them, they would really not be able to withstand such a terrible main gun!

Forty kilometers! Without the assistance of early warning aircraft, the Kunlun itself easily captured the signal of shells attacking from afar. In just a few seconds, the ballistic calculation was completed and the coordinate diagram of the scheduled hit was also outlined. A huge deviation data spread over five kilometers allowed Zhu Bin to continue to chat and laugh in that area, and there was not even a single warship in his own warship!

The giant ships consciously avoided the bombing. The little guys consciously evaded the destroyers and submarines. The light patrolman was very quick to leave and would never participate in such unconventional group beatings. Even if a flying shell was hit by a distance of 40 kilometers, they would have to die and they would not be able to help.

So the "Kunlun" and "Tianshan" naturally rushed to the front. What's strange is that the "Yingzhou" also continued to arch forward in the rear of the formation. The 20,000-ton slender panel made the old seniors on the flagship look inexplicably, especially when they found from a distance that the guy was in a stable body and could not see a turret, so they completely didn't know the truth!

However, Zhu Bin didn't explain in detail, and they chose wisely and didn't ask much. Zhu Bin is not their subordinate, nor is he a selfless naval elite. He is a overlord of one side and may even ascend to the supreme leader at any time. It should not be ignored.

The Yamato and the Musashi fired together. The holographic screen in the bridge command room switched out a three-dimensional image in response to the sound. The positions and miniature effects of the six enemy battleships were very intuitive. The dotted ballistic lines drawn in advance could follow the trajectory and the light spots of the shells that were rapidly advancing along the trajectory, which made the old gentlemen, including Chen Shaokuan, stare at each other. What is this?

Zhu Bin said it lightly: "This is the trace of enemy ship-launched shells detected by our anti-aircraft radar. They should predict their hit coordinates in advance, make effective evasions at any time, and counterattack."

Predict in advance... The old seniors really can't make a difference. Could it be that the shells fly faster than the sound, and you can also know in advance whether they will hit it? What kind of technological level is this! Just kidding! This is the magical method!

Chen Shaokuan has been following up all the time, and his mind is not as rigid as others. He immediately expressed his opinion: "The target of the large-caliber shell and the radar launch surface are no less than one aircraft, and radar discovery is not difficult, but this ballistic prediction... is really magical and cannot be understood by us!"

Not to mention shells, even a warship is as big as a warship, and can accurately determine its coordinates, heading and speed from dozens of kilometers away, and thus calculate the angle of the shelling. Even if there is a computer, it still requires quite terrible computing power and dizzy work!

Zhu Bin couldn't explain too much technical things to them. He said it was useless and said calmly: "Technical development will sooner or later, and in the future, the chances of wars occurring in the distance can be seen from the meat are getting smaller and smaller. Basically, when you see the enemy, the winner will be decided, and there is nothing strange."

A group of people stared at each other, that's what you think is not strange! Even if you can't see it, the winner will be decided. What kind of era is this!

"Boom!" A large number of 460mm shells fell down one after another. The nearest one was more than one kilometer away from the Kunlun Mountains, and they all deviated from the coordinates, and did not form any leap. Instead, they hit the maximum range of the enemy ship.

The water column that soared into the air and the vague figure of the warship seemed very unclear from forty kilometers away, but in the end, there was a comparison that finally gave the Japanese army a chance to correct. After a minute, the second volley shot came again. This time, the angle of the cannon was slightly lowered, and the landing point was about 38 kilometers... It was too close!
Chapter completed!
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