The first battleships to fight were not the battleships of both sides. The faster cruisers and destroyers on both sides first came into contact with each other on the periphery of the battleship. Among the weapons of cruisers and destroyers, both naval guns and torpedoes are not high, so these warships have
The battle can almost be regarded as hand-to-hand combat. The dense sound of artillery and torpedoes running around were intertwined. More than 400 small and medium-sized warships fought at close range, and the scene was extremely tragic.
Marshal Schell intended to do such a battle. He knew that Jericho was good at using destroyers to raid, so he first placed the cruiser and destroyer on both wings, forcing the cruiser and destroyer of the Allied Powers to fight, as long as they could be entangled,
This threat is much smaller. If the opponent does not engage in the battle, his small warships can assault the opponent's battle fleet from the flanks. Such side attacks are quite dangerous to the battleships.
Marshal Jericho knew Marshal Scher's plan, but he relied on the advantage of his warships and was eager to fight against soldiers and generals, so he also ordered cruisers and destroyers to rush.
Go up.
No matter how tragic the battle between cruisers and destroyers is, it cannot determine the direction of the battle situation. The battleships that can be decided must be the battleships. At this time, the battleships of both sides are getting closer and closer, but the first wave of attacking is not the battleships of both sides.
They are twelve 'Havelan' bombers taken off from four motherships of the Sar Empire Navy.
When the battleships of both sides were still eight nautical miles away, twelve bombers had already arrived above the Allied Fleet, and bombs were thrown densely at the Allied Battleships, and huge water columns rose one after another. A small number of anti-aircraft artillery fire were installed.
Yaman Fleet immediately organized an air defense fire network, but the Saars' dense bomb drops quickly achieved results. Two bombs exploded on the deck of the battleship "Spel", opening the deck of the battleship two near one.
Fortunately, the bomber bombs in Saal are small, and the penetration and explosion power are insufficient, so the explosion is blocked by the lower steel armor and does not cause much loss.
Because the 'Havilland' bomber is huge and too bulky, it is impossible to conduct dive bombing at all, and low-altitude horizontal bombing is too dangerous, they all chose high-altitude horizontal bombing. Although such bombing is safe, its hit rate has also been reduced a lot.
To make up for this defect, the aircraft can only carry more small bombs to make up for the lack of hit rate by number. Therefore, the bomb loaded by these aircraft is only fifty kilograms, and its power can be imagined.
Despite the lack of power, the dense bombs still hit four battleships one after another. Although the losses were not large, they were quite harmful to morale. The bombs were exhausted, and the twelve bombers had to return. The protagonists of both sides were still the battleships. When the naval artillery battle began
In the future, in order not to accidentally injure one's own warships, bombers could no longer attack. Therefore, this is the first frontal naval battle in the history of the Western Continent, with carrier-based aircraft participating, symbolic significance is more than practical.
Faced with the closer and closer opponent's battleships, Marshal Jericho and Marshal Scher issued an order to open fire almost at the same time. The main guns of more than one hundred battleships roared. In an instant, dense large-caliber shells filled the sky.
The shells intersected in the air and even collided by coincidence. The shells detonated in the air burst out like fireworks. Huge water columns were almost simultaneously raised on the sea near the two warships, pouring the battleships of both sides
It was soaked that the huge hulls were also swayed by the recoil of the main gun.
The Yamann Navy imported the "Chinese" class battleships from the Chinese Empire different from other battleships on both sides. The various warships on both sides are almost all Storm Ocean ship types. These warships are shorter and thicker than the East Ocean ship types mainly used by the Chinese Empire.
This shape is to adapt to the greater storm waves on the storm, allow warships to sail more stably, and also allow artillery to aim more stably, but the problem arises is that their speed is relatively slow.
The 'Chinese'-class battleships belong to the Eastern Ocean ship type, and their length and width ratio are larger and more streamlined. Since the Chinese Empire used flying scissors bows on this kind of battleship, the bulbous bows were used in the parts below the waterline. In addition,
Its double rudder triple oars and sway fin design makes this kind of warship very stable even on the storm ocean. In addition, the speed is significantly higher than that of other battleships, eight "Chinese"-class battleships entered the first place.
Effective range.
Thirty-two 330 mm bow main guns roared at the same time. Although this caliber artillery has no advantage in the rapid development of the navy today, the larger diameter of the Chinese Empire's naval gun makes up for its caliber shortcomings.
The kinetic shells still gave the Allied fleet a head-on blow.
The battleship "Gladun" in the front was hit by a shell and the waterline at the bow. This former Chinese ship with a displacement of only 9,000 tons was shocked by the huge impact of the shell. The old warship was originally resistant to
The sinking ability is not good. In addition, the Chinese-class battleships used shells imported from the Chinese Empire. These shells with TNT charges exploded with great power, making the breach of the bow of the 'Gladun' too large, exceeding the
This is the limit of the battleship.
With the ability of the 'Gradun', there is no possibility of blocking this loophole. The rupture quickly inflowed a lot of water. How could the 'Gradun' with only 9,000 tons of water displacement with a displacement of 'Gradun' with so much sea water weight, its stern
It was quickly pressed by the sea water, and then the entire warship slowly sank into the water.
The Navy of the Allied Powers won the first victory, which greatly boosted their morale. Since the fleets of both sides were interspersing at high speed, eight "Chinese"-class battleships could not turn to attack with side guns, so they could only intersperse between the opponent's warships, and both sides carried out the
A battle similar to hand-to-hand combat.
There are too many giant warships in this narrow sea, and there is no room for warships on both sides to line up neat battle lines to conduct long-distance artillery battles. Therefore, they can only use the most primitive tactics to let the battleships move closer.
A life-threatening attack from distance.
The fleets of both sides approached quickly. The dense artillery fire and the closer distance made the battle loss rate of both sides rise sharply. Even the eight solid armored "Chinese" class battleships soon showed multiple holes, and the naval battle has been
It has reached a white-hot stage.
Just as the naval battle was in full swing, the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire was approaching the sea outside the Port of Pooles. When it was twenty nautical miles away from the coast, the fleet launched a battle formation, and all carrier-based aircraft began to take off one after another, towards their respective establishments.