The Chinese territorial navy attached great importance to this battle. Navy commander Liu Junguo took action personally, and at this time he was standing in the command tower of the "Lanting" and observing the enemy situation opposite with a telescope.
Seeing the other party unfolding its formation, Liu Junguo smiled and said, "Send a signal to Zhang Haiyang and act according to the plan." At this time, the Chief of Staff Zhang Haiyang was in the cruiser's fleet's "Baoshan" and received a message from Liu Junguo.
He smiled and said, "Order the entire cruiser to turn around and we will go around."
The two fleets gradually approached, and the Cossack Expeditionary Fleet was lined up in four rows, with twelve ironclad ships in the middle, and the two rows on both sides were as many as twenty-five cruisers.
This is the traditional formation of naval combat. In terms of formation, Marshal Baglamyan's command is well-behaved, without any major mistakes, fully demonstrating the excellent qualities of an experienced commander, and the military officers from all over the country who watched the battle nodded repeatedly.
After having such an advantage in quantity, it is a wise choice to arrange troops in a regular manner. In their opinion, as long as there is no accident, the Cossack Navy will win.
The well-organized troops are not suitable for the Chinese territorial navy. At this moment, they lined up in two columns, one column was a battle fleet, and the other was a cruiser that began to accelerate orbit.
Seeing the formation of the Cossacks, Liu Junguo smiled and said, "It seems that the Cossack Navy's practical experience is indeed insufficient. He actually used such an ancient formation to fight me. His thoughts were rigid and his formations were arranged in vain. Let's give him a knot.
A solid lesson tells them that warships in the new era are not played like this."
"The left rudder of the fleet." Liu Junguo ordered the fleet to turn seven kilometers away, and he wanted to seize the first position of the character T.
At this time, the effective range of the maximum caliber gun of the ironclad ship is generally only about three kilometers, so many countries follow the so-called attack line of shooting at these three kilometers. When military officers from various countries saw that the Chinese fleet began to turn so early, they were talking about it.
, Everyone agreed that the Chinese fleet commander had no common sense and there was no suspense in this battle.
Unfortunately, they forgot that technology is improving and situations are changing.
Since using hydraulic pipe retreat system and new gun steel, the Chinese corps not only equipped the Lanting class battleship with 330 mm caliber main guns, but the most important thing is that the diameter of these main guns is not the common diameter of 30 times or
Thirty-five diameters but forty-five diameters.
With such a high caliber shell range, the Chinese corpses naturally increased, not to mention that the Chinese corpses used new launch charges, which made the range of the main guns of the battleships have long exceeded the common sense range of these so-called military experts.
Marshal Baglamyan mocked the opponent for his ignorance and said it was not too late to exit. Four "Lanting" class battleships had completed the turn. In the fire control command room that commanded the main gun operations, gun officers and observers began to use various instruments to calculate the distance and
Wind speed and other data.
Two consecutive sounds of "boom" were fired, and two calibration bombs were fired out. One of them fell into the sea less than fifty meters from the bow of the flagship "Gangut", the Cossack Expeditionary Fleet.
"It's a near-missile bomb." The military officers of the Sar Empire, standing on the battleship, screamed. They never expected that the main gun of the Chinese territorial navy was so far.
If China had fifty ships, not only ten such powerful warships were needed, but the title of the world's No. 1 navy in the Saar Empire could change hands.
Also surprised were military officers from other countries and Marshal Baglamyan. Just when they were shocked by the opponent's ultra-long range just now, the fire control rooms of each ship had completed ballistic corrections, and another volley, this time
Sixteen main guns opened fire at the same time.
The dense shells exploded around the ships of the Cossack fleet, stirring up huge water columns. The three shells quickly achieved results, and two old cruisers and an old ironclad ship were hit.
The 330 mm caliber shells could not bear the 2,000-ton cruiser. One of the two cruisers was cut off the bow and the other was beaten into two sections, and they all began to sink.
Only the iron-clad ship had barely sunk, but it had already tilted into the water, so it had to withdraw from the battle.
One round of artillery has achieved three results. Although this is due to the Cossacks' childish use of ancient dense formations, it is also due to the accurate shooting of artillery soldiers in the Chinese territorial navy and the installation of optical sights on the fort.
The powerful main gun and extremely high firing rate of the battleships of the Chinese-territorial battleships left a deep impression on the naval officers of various countries who visited. The military officers of various countries who watched the battle took out their notebooks and wrote the following sentence: "The key to winning the naval battle is to be
It is necessary to have a larger tonnage ironclad ship so that larger caliber cannons can be used to give the enemy the most deadly damage."
Colonel Mahan, an officer from the Boston Empire who also watched the battle on a warship, wrote differently from others. He just wrote this sentence in his notebook: "The axiom is only within the range of the naval gun."
Later, this sentence was written into his book "Theory of Haiquan". Due to the success of this book, Colonel Ma Han later became a popular object of great power for a long time, and his thoughts on his works also became
The ideological indicators of navies in various countries.
After a round of artillery baptism, Marshal Baglamyan found that he had been thinking a little simpler. He immediately ordered the fleet to disperse the formation to reduce the threat of the opponent's firepower coverage, and at the same time ordered the ships to speed up, hoping to wait.
After getting closer, you can threaten the opponent with your own naval gun.
The Chinese fleet was unmoved and continued to shell the enemy on the side. As the opponent's speed accelerated, the formation had already dispersed. The results of the subsequent rounds of artillery were much smaller, and only two cruisers were affected.
Heavy damage.
Just as he entered the maximum range of five kilometers, Marshal Baglamyan immediately ordered the front main guns of all warships to start shooting. It was not that he did not know how much success his artillery would not have at such a long distance, but that
If you are beaten and cannot fight back, it will be too harmful to your morale.
Now our gun range can barely reach the opponent's warship. Even if it cannot cause effective damage, it can interfere with the opponent's sight and reduce your losses.
Under the order of Marshal Baglamyan, the main guns of the Cossack Navy began to roar together, and water columns suddenly exploded around the Chinese-led ships, but the four battleships were unmoved.
The opponent's artillery range was not enough, and even if the shell hit the hull, it would have no armor-piercing kinetic energy. Liu Junguo did not take such a threatless attack to heart.
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