s: Second update Half a minute later, the Sun Wu's third salvo hit two more hits.
One shot hit the armored command tower of the Empress Maria Theresa, turning the inside into a scorching hell, and all the officers and soldiers inside were hit by the high temperature. and shrapnel kills.
Another shot opened a large hole eight meters in diameter in the bow of the ship.
The ship suffered such heavy damage and was basically destroyed.
In this round of salvos, other battleships also opened fire, including the Austro-Hungarian Empire's Karl IV and St.
George.
Giuseppe of Italy.
Garibaldi, Varese, Francisco Ferruccio, and Amalfi were all hit.
Huge fireballs continued to erupt from Yi'ao's suit, with flames accompanied by shrapnel, broken steel and human limbs flying everywhere.
The armored command room of the battleship Xuanyuan was also busy at this time.
The main control computer screen on the wall in the middle of the front was using cursors of various colors and geometric patterns such as red, yellow, blue, and green to display the current positions of the enemy and ourselves.
State of affairs diagram.
At this time, dialog boxes kept popping up on the blue diamond-shaped cursor indicating the enemy's patrol.
Each dialog box indicated that the opponent had been shot.
The dialog box also displayed the location and time of the hit.
At this time, two dialog boxes popped up on the cursor of the northernmost ship labeled "Empress Maria Theresa".
"At 9:53 minutes and 17 seconds, the port side was shot, and the secondary battery was judged to be damaged, causing a fire."
"At 9:53:18, the middle part of the hull was shot, the front chimney was broken, and the boiler room was damaged."
"Damn it, the Sun Wu-class was too accurate."
Li Ang was a little speechless.
How could he be so cruel?
He bullied a 5,000-ton cruiser and even beat him to a standstill.
Li Ang was also a little anxious now.
His Xuanyuan and Shennong had fired four volleys and had not yet launched.
The best result was a near miss.
"Offset 200 meters to the left, offset 230 meters forward" "Wind direction 132.5 degrees, wind speed 5.8 meters per second" "Main gun turn left 0. 5 compasses, elevation angle decreased by 10 minutes" The fire control observers were also very anxious at this time.
They were constantly inputting various correction parameters from the calibration aircraft and various optics and radars into the fire control computer.
In less than a second, a new set of data was generated.
Calculated.
Immediately, the central control system began to drive the motor of the turret according to this new set of parameters, and correct the elevation and angle of the gun barrel in place.
The officers and soldiers in the turret were also busy wearing protective earphones, loading the shells from the ammunition elevator into the gun bore, and then pushing the calculated propellant.
After doing all this, the officers and soldiers quickly hid in the bunker room behind the turret, and the turret commander immediately pressed the "ready" button.
The biggest difference between Chinese battleships and similar foreign battleships is that their shooting calculations, angle adjustments and launches are all directly controlled by the central control system of the command tower, rather than being operated by each turret itself.
The personnel in the turret are responsible for loading shells and cleaning the barrel.
Unless the system is broken, they will not adjust and launch.
In the command tower, the indicator lights representing the readiness of the four main turrets lit up one after another, a rapid "ding bell" sounded, and the gunnery commander quickly pressed the volley button.
"Boom, boom, boom" Xuanyuan's 12 360mm main guns fired another salvo at intervals of 50 milliseconds.
The powerful muzzle storm pressed out 12 large craters in the sea on the side, and the huge recoil caused the tens of thousands of tons of ship to move sideways by dozens of centimeters.
The Xuanyuan and Shennong of the Fifth Battleship Detachment were ranked ninth and tenth in the battle line.
Their targets were the Italian Navy's San Giorgio and San Marco, the two latest Italian armored cruisers. .
This San Giorgio-class cruiser is an enhanced version of the Pisa-class.
Its main gun is the same as the Rapid-class, two twin-mounted 254mm main guns, but its secondary guns are four twin-mounted 190mm turret guns, and The main armor belt is 200 mm, and the speed is as high as 23.5 knots, which is much more powerful than the fast class.
But this kind of so-called depends on who you compare with.
It is definitely not worse than other patrols, but compared with the Fuxi-class super-dreadnoughts they are facing now, it is not even a little bit worse, not to mention that they are still In a disadvantageous formation, on the vertical line of the T.
In fact, these patrol officers and soldiers were also very aware of their fate.
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Their superiors sent them to attack the super-dreadnoughts of the Allies, with the obvious intention of dying.
In order to create opportunities for the main force to break through, they are now working hard.
The main guns are definitely not as good as those of battleships, but the secondary guns are not inferior.
The secondary guns of Chinese battleships are all 130 mm.
This is not a secret in the world, and the secondary guns of Italian and Austrian cruisers are at least 152 mm. mm, Pisa and San Giorgio even 190mm.
Therefore, the Italian and Austrian armored patrols' tactics are to use their own speed to approach the Chinese battleship at high speed, and then use their numerous secondary guns and rapid-fire cannons to "wash the deck" of the opponent.
Of course, they didn't dare to hope for sinking or anything like that.
They just wanted to be able to severely damage the opponent and that would be enough.
At this time, the Italian-Austrian patrol was facing the Chinese battleship.
Although it was at a tactical disadvantage and could only use the front main gun, it also had the advantage that the projection was smaller and it was less likely to be hit than when facing the enemy on the side.
Of course, this "not easy to be hit" is also a relative term.
There will definitely be losses during the approach.
There is no doubt about this.
The Italian and Austrian Navy are also mentally prepared for this.
They are ready to recover half of the cost of sinking.
Rushed into the Chinese battleship array.
However, the performance of the Chinese Navy surprised them.
The firing rate and hit rate of those battleships were frighteningly high.
The distance between the two sides was still more than 25 kilometers.
The Chinese side began to fire effectively, and hits occurred soon.
Three old Austro-Hungarian patrol ships became the first victims.
The most unlucky Maria Theresa Empress was hit by seven bombs 24 kilometers away and had begun to sink.
Karl IV and St.
George The Karl IV was also hit hard at a distance of 22 to 23 kilometers.
The ammunition depot of the front main gun was blown away, and the entire bow of the ship was blown off.
Now it has plunged into the sea, with only the back half of its body left standing.
On the sea.
The St.
George also knocked out the port side secondary battery magazine, took in a lot of water on the left side, and wiped out the boiler room.
It is now paralyzed on the sea and has become a blazing torch.
When the distance approached 21 kilometers, several other ships were hit one after another.
Although it was not as miserable as the three Austro-Hungarian patrol ships, you must know that the ones fired by China were either 390mm or 360mm heavy artillery. , let alone a direct hit, even a near-miss would still be a disaster.
"God bless, the Fuxi-class ship opposite me doesn't have such a high hit rate."
Captain Baggio of the San Giorgio couldn't help but cross himself.
There are only three cruise ships left that haven't been hit yet. , he is one of them.
The Fuxi-class ship opposite fired four consecutive salvos, but none of them hit itself.
However, the near-missile missile more than 10 meters away still caused some damage to the hull, knocking out a few rivets, and there was some water seepage at the bottom of the ship, but It's not a big problem and it doesn't affect the speed.
Baggio quickly ordered forced ventilation, not caring about protecting the power system at this time.
After receiving the order, the officers and soldiers in the boiler room quickly turned on the forced ventilation system.
The San Giorgio's chimney spewed a thick black smoke, and the ship's speed suddenly increased to 25 knots.
But at this time, his good luck seemed to have come to an end.
"Whoosh!"
Several train-like roars came from the sky.
Baggio's face suddenly turned pale.
Based on his experience, he had already heard that this round of gunfire would most likely hit the ship.
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But by this time, it was too late to avoid it.
He quickly grabbed a railing in front of him and yelled "prepare for collision".
There was a loud "boom", and Baggio felt the ship under his feet suddenly shake.
He suddenly became unsteady and flew up.
Fortunately, I subconsciously grabbed the railing just now, which is much better than those who fell into a gourd rolling on the ground.
"Dammit, report the damage" he immediately yelled.
After a while, the damage report came in.
The deck in front of the main gun was hit by a shot.
The shell passed through the deck and exploded in the anchor chain room.
The entire anchor chain room and half of the bow were blown away, and the deck was lifted up.
Blocking the forward firing range of the main gun.
There was also a near miss, which squeezed a hole over one meter long in the waterline on the port side.
At this time, the shelling effect was also fed back to the Xuanyuan.
"One shot hit the bow of the enemy ship, and one shot near the port side of the enemy ship was missed.
The enemy ship may have used forced ventilation.
The speed increased to 25 knots.
It is currently 19,500 meters away from our ship."
"The remaining parameters remain unchanged, change the enemy ship's advance, and continue shooting," Li Ang gave the order. 30 seconds later, Xuanyuan fired another salvo.
Baggio soon heard the whistling of another batch of artillery shells.
He couldn't help but cursed: "Damn it, how can the Chinese fire rate be so fast?
It's only half a minute.
Don't they need to watch the impact point?"
Well, Chinese battleships have ballistic radars and computers, and their gunnery is indeed different from the current mainstream gunnery.
They don't need to look at the impact point and then make corrections like the current mainstream gunnery.
When the shell is still in flight, the ballistic radar and The computer can calculate the impact point of the artillery shells when used together.
Therefore, the actual firing rate of Chinese battleships is quite fast, fully reaching the theoretical firing rate.
Otherwise, according to the current mainstream artillery techniques, it would be impossible to fire one shot every 30 seconds.
The average flight speed of large-caliber naval gun shells in the air is about 500-600 meters per second, and it takes 30 to 40 seconds to fly over a distance of 20 kilometers.
After falling on the sea surface, it can be corrected according to the impact point, plus calculation of shooting parameters Yuan's time, it is thankful to be able to achieve one shot per minute in actual combat.
The theoretical rate of fire is simply impossible to achieve.
However, China's battleships do not need this at all.
The time it takes for the computer to calculate this data is almost negligible, and the calculation speed only depends on the speed of the operator's data input.
Therefore, the rate of fire of Chinese battleships only depends on the loading speed of shells.
If they can load ten rounds per minute, then they can fire ten salvos.
Of course this is impossible, as the rate of fire of large-caliber submounted artillery shells cannot reach this level.
"Boom, boom, boom" this round of shelling caused the San Giorgio to receive three armor-piercing incendiary bombs in a row.
One shot destroyed half the bridge and the rangefinder was blown to pieces.
The second shot blew off the front main turret, and the third shot penetrated through the previous breach in the bow of the ship.
After breaking through the multi-layer cabin, it exploded at the starboard bulkhead, making a big hole in the heavy oil tank, and heavy oil flowed everywhere.
Yes, and the heavy oil was ignited by thermite, and the cabin below the deck was immediately surrounded by flames and thick smoke.
San Giorgio's sister ship San Marco was also hit by two shells in this round.
One water bomb caused a torpedo effect and opened a large hole in the underwater part of its starboard side.
A large hole was blown in its superstructure, and the incendiary agent also ignited the lifeboats and transport boats placed on the middle deck.
Thirty seconds after the "boom", another wave of heavy shells struck, and the San Giorgio was hit by two more rounds.
But this time Baggio didn't even hear the second explosion, because the second shell penetrated the armored command tower.
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Before Baggio and others could react, they were blown to pieces by the shock wave at close range.
They only I felt my eyes light up and died without pain.
"It has been judged that the enemy ship's mobility has been greatly reduced, its speed has been reduced to 11 knots, the front main gun and bridge are damaged, most of the secondary guns are damaged, a large amount of water has entered the bow of the ship, and it is leaning 8 degrees to the left."
On the Xuanyuan's calibration aircraft, The observer took a careful look at the enemy ship below and reported to the ship.
"Continue to attack" Li Ang continued to order.
Then he said a little depressed: "The quality of this Italian patrol is really good.
It took six rounds of 360mm heavy artillery and it didn't even sink."
"Boom, boom, boom" another volley was fired.
Probably due to factors such as the distance being shortened or the target's speed decreasing, the Xuanyuan's salvo hit five times.
"Five hits, two near misses," the observer from the school shooting machine shouted excitedly.
Although the shooting accuracy of Chinese battleships far exceeds that of their counterparts, they do not use guided artillery shells.
Five of the twelve shots hit, and two more were near misses.
This is a good result that is difficult to achieve even when shooting at fixed targets during training.
Under this round of attacks, the target San Giorgio finally couldn't hold on anymore.
The entire warship had been blown out of shape.
The front and rear bridges and three chimneys were broken, and the superstructure was almost completely flattened.
The two main gun turrets at the front and rear were blown away, leaving only a gun ring.
There were not many secondary guns and rapid-fire guns left, and the entire hull was completely surrounded by flames and thick smoke.
"Boom!"
At this moment, the San Giorgio suddenly burst out with a huge pillar of fire.
The pillar of fire soared more than a hundred meters high, and countless scraps of steel were sprayed high into the sky by the powerful shock wave, like an erupting volcano. .
"It was the ammunition depot that exploded."
This scene was clearly displayed on the external monitor screen in the control tower, and everyone who saw it said the same thing.
"The target has broken, split in half, and is sinking rapidly."
Both the radar sergeant and the sonar sergeant reported loudly.
Although the flames and thick smoke blocked the observation line of sight, they could not prevent the detection of electromagnetic waves and sound waves.
"Stop shooting."
Li Ang then ordered to stop shooting, with a smile on his lips.
Finally there is a result
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