At this time, the last few 155mm turrets had been destroyed, and there were still a few 105mm or less turrets remaining.
Gao Yujie, who was impatient, couldn't care less.
"After the battleship line's forward speed increased to 24 knots and advanced 10,000 meters, it turned into a battle line.
The enemy destroyers on the port side immediately moved forward at full speed and outflanked the two wings."
A series of orders came out of his mouth, six battleships lined up in a horizontal formation, and eight destroyers lined up on both wings, pressing towards the population of Cam Ranh Bay at high speed.
"The Air Force is so shameless and our Navy is taking jobs away from us," Gao Yujie said angrily.
News came from the seaplane that had just performed the calibration mission.
During the escape process, the protected cruiser Friant collided with a torpedo ship because of its panic.
The unfortunate torpedo ship was cut into two pieces by the cruiser's bow and sank on the spot.
The Friant was not much better.
Its bow was hit with a big hole and its speed was greatly reduced.
The original speed of just over 16 knots suddenly dropped to less than 10 knots.
Then the airship that caught up beat the dog hard.
It was hit by four 250-kilogram bombs and two 100-kilogram bombs.
It also suffered several 155-meter artillery shells and was blown to pieces.
"Okay, Lao Gao, they bombed the port."
Political Commissar Liu Haifeng pointed to the sky with a smile.
Everyone looked up and saw that the airships had indeed turned around and were flying towards the port.
They were firing cannons as they flew, and fireworks and gunpowder smoke were constantly sprayed out from the muzzles.
Yes, now the airship has given up attacking warships and has turned to other facilities in the port.
This is because the French warships are on the move and are bombing from high altitudes.
The hit rate is really not ideal.
As for the airship's door-to-door artillery, its hit rate against such moving targets is also very unsatisfactory.
And since the main gun of the airship is a low-pressure howitzer, the threat to large warships is very limited, but it is a threat to small ships, but the hit rate is very tragic.
Therefore, after weighing the situation again, the airship troops turned to attack fixed targets that would not move.
Anyway, the navy is guarding the door, so they can't escape.
The French fleet is now taking advantage of this opportunity to rush out of Cam Ranh Bay at full speed, preparing to fight the Chinese fleet.
Without the interference of the airship, the French fleet quickly restored order.
"Discovered the Chinese fleet, 32 kilometers ahead, six battleships, heading towards me in a horizontal formation at 1 o'clock.
There are 4 light cruisers each at 11 o'clock and 3 o'clock," the lookout sent out.
Report.
In fact, the "light cruiser" he saw was a Zhuhai-class destroyer.
However, in an era when destroyers had just emerged and were generally under 1,000 tons, it would not be a stretch to call the 2,000-ton Zhuhai class a "light cruiser." exaggerate.
Major General Montcalm raised his telescope, and he saw a dozen faint smoke pillars approaching rapidly on the horizon ahead.
The smoke was so light that it would have been almost difficult to see if the sea breeze hadn't been so light now.
This shows that the other side's ship uses a new type of oil-fired boiler instead of a traditional coal-fired boiler.
Otherwise, even with the highest quality anthracite, it would be impossible for the smoke to be so light when traveling at high speed.
Montcalm stared at the smoke column and made an estimate in his mind, and his face suddenly changed: "About 24 knots, it's so fast.
Damn the Americans, these greedy Jews dare to sell anything."
In fact, about "these warships are Chinese warships" It's not that he didn't know the information about "Designed and Built in the United States," but he didn't believe it at all.
He always felt that it was the Americans who set off the smoke.
"Your Majesty General, there are Chinese planes in the sky," an officer said, pointing to the sky.
I saw only a few seaplanes flying all the way "Damn it, get rid of them!"
Montcalm stared at the flies and said viciously.
He knew very well the role of these aircraft.
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They were the eyes and ears of the warship.
It was not a good thing to have these guys hanging over his head.
"Ping ping ping pong" The French warship suddenly sounded a sporadic sound of cannons, but the seaplanes only pulled up a little and still did not leave.
An officer next to him explained: "Your Excellency, our anti-aircraft guns suffered heavy losses in the air raid just now."
However, these French warships had just been ravaged by airships.
The airships not only dropped bombs, but also had more than a dozen cannons on them idle.
Although the main guns missed a few hits, those small-caliber secondary guns could hit A lot of them were hit, and although they had little effect on highly defensive positions such as the hull, main gun, and command tower, the consequences of being hit were devastating for those anti-aircraft guns that had almost no defense.
Originally, the anti-aircraft guns on these old warships were symbolic, but after another round like this, there wouldn't be much left.
"Forget it, leave them alone."
Montcalm thought for a moment and then issued the order: "We can't let the Chinese fight with firepower.
We have to rush up to melee.
The three cruisers rushed over at full speed to entangle them.
The torpedo ship followed closely and fired torpedoes."
The fleets of both sides are confronting each other head-on at a relative speed of 80 kilometers per hour.
At this time, the distance between the two sides has shortened to within 20,000 meters.
I saw the six Chinese battleships advancing in unison, all with full starboard rudders, drawing an arc more than 1 kilometer long on the sea, turning their port sides towards the desperately rushing French fleet, and seizing the T-shaped crossbar. head position.
At the same time, the 24 main turrets are rotating.
"Report to the commander, the enemy formation has changed into a herringbone shape, and two armored cruisers are approaching, the distance is 19560" Gao Yujie looked at the navigation clock.
The time displayed on it was: 10:12.
"Attention all battleships, start the main gun test firing," he immediately issued the order.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom," the 24 main gun turrets on the six battleships fired the first round of test firings.
Seeing fireworks emerging from the muzzles of the Chinese warships, the French officers were first surprised and then overjoyed.
"How can it possibly hit if you fire from such a distance?"
“The Chinese navy is all newbies, it’s a waste of six cutting-edge warships.”
"Hahaha, it seems our winning rate has increased again" But before they were happy for two minutes, they couldn't laugh anymore.
"Boom boom" 2 shells landed in the distance from Jules.
The Ferry is less than 30 meters away.
Three more shells also fell on Leon.
Near the Gambida, the nearest shot was less than 10 meters away from the port side.
"How could this be a coincidence?"
The Frenchman was stunned.
This was a test firing close to 20,000 meters.
Five of the 24 shells hit within 30 meters.
At 10:14, the distance between the two sides was close to about 18,300 meters.
The second round of test firing came again.
This time it was not one shot from each turret, but a salvo of 72 main guns.
This time, 7 shells were hit as near misses.
Most of the shells fell within 100 meters and had been hit as straddle fire.
The Frenchman's expression changed greatly, but now he was riding a tiger and couldn't get off, so he had to take a gamble.
At 10:16, the distance between the two sides was close to about 17,000 meters, and the Chinese fleet launched its third round of test firings.
A 360mm shell almost touched Jules.
The Ferry fell into the sea on its starboard side and exploded in the water with a bang.
The violent shock wave shocked Jules.
The Ferry's huge hull was shaking.
"Boom" Almost at the same time, Leon on the right.
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Two balls of fire burst out one after another on the Gambida, and she was hit.
A 360mm armor-piercing round penetrated Leon.
The Gambida's bow deck rushed directly into the left anchor chain room and exploded, causing a big hole in its bow.
Not to mention that the left anchor chain room was completely destroyed, the armored steel deck was blown outwards by the shock wave, forming a six to seven meter high "screen", which suddenly blocked the forward firing angle of the main gun.
Another 280mm shell hit the foremast, breaking it in half.
The collapsed foremast also damaged a 3-pounder gun.
"Damn it, the range of our guns is too close."
The French armored cruiser's 193mm main gun has a range of only 15 kilometers, and this is still the maximum range.
No one can tell where it will fly when fired.
At 10:17, the test firing of the Chinese fleet was completed and the formal effectiveness firing began.
Each ship tilted its firepower towards the French warship at the fastest rate of fire.
At 10:18, the heavy cruiser Qingcheng fired its third salvo, two of which hit Leon.
On the Gambida, a 240mm armor-piercing projectile hit the deck near the forward main turret.
After penetrating the deck and exploding, it damaged the action structure of the main turret.
Another hit the fire control sight on the bridge.
At 10:19, the Taihang large cruiser fired three hits in its third salvo.
Two armor-piercing bombs hit Leon one after another.
Although the bridge of the Gambida was not directly penetrated due to the distance, the huge vibration caused also caused people inside the bridge to flip over.
Moreover, the armor fragments that collapsed on the inner layer of the bridge were just as capable of killing people, even as much as a direct explosion of a medium-caliber grenade.
Dozens of people were killed and injured in the bridge, and a large number of instruments were destroyed.
The entire bridge was in a mess, bloody Flow into a river.
Another armor-piercing bomb rushed down the chimney, penetrated several decks, and exploded in the boiler room.
The high-pressure steam in the blown-up boiler caused a second damage.
Everyone in the boiler room was either killed or steamed by the violent high-pressure steam.
Leon.
The Gambida's speed suddenly dropped from about 21 knots to 8 knots.
And Jules on the other side.
The Ferry was even more unlucky.
Because it was flying the commander's flag, it was attacked by two super-dreadnoughts, Fuxi, Nuwa, and Qinling, and a large cruiser.
In the third salvo, 4 of the 24 360mm large-caliber artillery shells hit it.
The first penetrated the bridge and turned the chart room below into a slaughterhouse; the second destroyed the fire control system; the third blew the chimney into two pieces, and the fourth blew up the forward main battery turret.
Turned over.
Another 280mm shell landed on the starboard side, blowing two 164mm turrets sideways.
At this time, when the main battlefield was in full swing, the destroyers on both wings also surrounded them.
Their mission was to clean the torpedo ships.
The 40 130mm guns on the eight destroyers, with a rate of fire of 8 rounds per minute, made it impossible for those torpedo ships with only a dozen knots to escape.
These torpedo ships are old goods from 20 years ago, and many of them still have iron-ribbed wooden hulls.
The torpedoes installed on them are also old-fashioned torpedoes with a range of less than 3,000 meters.
Now those Chinese destroyers are six or seven kilometers away, and it is impossible to fight back.
At 10:20, when the distance between the two sides narrowed to 14,000 meters, the Chinese battleship launched the fourth salvo.
Jules.
The Ferry hit 8 shells again, and the entire superstructure was in a mess, with only ten of the secondary guns on both sides remaining.
Another shell hit the stern of the ship, destroying the propeller room.
Leon.
The Gambida was also hit by 4 shells, one of which penetrated the ammunition magazine of the forward main gun.
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The explosive magazine blew up the entire bow of the ship and disappeared, Leon.
It was as if the Gambida had been beheaded.
In less than three minutes, the 12,400-ton armored cruiser turned upside down.
The three ships Taihang, Qingcheng, and Emei, which had completed their mission, turned their firepower to the Chaseluprobat hanging behind.
This 3,600-ton protected cruiser was even more unbeatable.
After being hit by three 280mm and five 240mm artillery shells, it began to sink.
The destroyers on the other side are also killing each other.
Now 5 torpedo ships have become submarines, and 6 have become burning torches.
Just as Gao Yujie was preparing for the fifth volley, Jules was shot.
When the Ferry was sent into the sea.
"Commander, the French have surrendered," reported the nearby telegraph officer, holding a telegram in his hand.
"Oh, surrendered."
Gao Yujie did not answer the telegram and took a closer look with a telescope.
Sure enough, Jules.
There were several people on the Ferry holding white shirts or sheets and waving them desperately.
If you want to ask why they don't hang the flag, well, the flagpole has been damaged by the bombing and can't be hung up.
At this time, Gao Yujie took the telegram and looked at it.
It was indeed a telegram from the French Far East Fleet requesting surrender.
"Okay, order all ships to stop shooting.
Let them all stand up and prepare to surrender":