Henry is faced with a difficult choice. Although the former is heroic and bloody, he may get unexpected surprises, but this suspicion will accelerate the death of the old ships. The latter is beneficial to the plan of bypassing the Isle of Wight, but when the aid fleet is too far away from the Isle of Wight, it will help the Germans to sink these old ships that cannot fight back.
"Henry, you have to make a choice. The Germans won’t give us much time …" Campbell woke up.
"Ireland is solemn to Luzov and the king of Wales is majestic to Devlinger, and the ocean is hostile to Seidlitz and unafraid to Mao Qi". The school’s line of sight finally moved from the sand table. He turned to meet the observation hole of the Commander Tower, and the sunshine came in. The sunshine was a bleak smile for him. "Let the old ship Germans distance themselves and move to the west of the Isle of Wight. If we can support it until that moment, maybe we can form a crossfire at the Isle of Wight coastal battery …"
The confidential officer recorded Henry’s order and signed it by the captain. Henry took out his pen from his coat pocket and signed it, but he didn’t rush to return the newspaper to the confidential officer.
"There is still a newspaper that needs to be sent immediately." Henry looked at the confused machine official with a little embarrassment and a little expectation. "Huiyuan Fleet is limited in strength. In addition to the emperor’s ability to save us, there is just a code call to send jǐng to collingwood, so that the newspaper room can send a report to collingwood to see the British brothers …"
The situation is extremely urgent. The confidential clerk took the newspaper and kept returning to the room.
Although Henry tried his best to pretend to have a well-planned plan, the feeling of failure still spread like a virus. Henry intended to criticize his family for encouraging the First Reconnaissance Fleet and Heidi Selim to draw up and supplement the large fleet from the two naval systems "outside the plan", and Henry Campbell looked at each other before his death and felt a sense of enmity.
"How about going back to Portsmouth alive and having a drink in a bar?"
"Pleasure!"
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After getting closer, the first reconnaissance fleet began to slow down, and experienced sailors knew what this meant.
"Anton turret is ready!"
"Bruno turret is ready!"
"Caesar turret is ready!"
"Dora turret is ready!"
The artillery terminology of Luzov’s fire control center has come and gone one after another. J Θ ng quasi-she strikes, from the observation tower of the main gun responsible for ranging and calculating the azimuth angle to the observation tower of the landing point, from the measurement department responsible for calculating the relative speed at the bottom of the ship to the staff team responsible for inputting data to calculate the various elements, from the red-eyed gunner to the gunner with a gas mask hanging on the turret neck, from the loader of the waterline ammunition depot to the outermost turret ā, the whole warship has made efforts.
The gunner turned his head and looked at his hands. The chest was silent. vice admiral Haidi reached out and slightly pressed the cap. The gunner knowingly pressed the SHE button and fired the first shot of the Portsmouth naval battle
The shrill buzzer rang through the deck with earplugs in his ears. The lookout carefully leaned his head out of the watchtower armored fort and looked at the two backpack Anton and Bruno turrets at the bow of the ship.
A huge muzzle was fired, and two flames and smoke suddenly burst out. Suddenly, the deck behind the turret was covered with standard displacement of 30,000 tons. The patrol hull trembled slightly and moved to the right, and the starboard side of the hull made a cascade of fine ripples.
"At 16: 03, Luzov hit the left half gun of the first turret in Ireland!" …,
Seeing the most magnificent and bloody scene on the planet, the lookout took back his head and pulled out his pen against the armored guardrail to record the history of the watchtower.
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"At 16: 04, Luzov shelled Ireland in the first round. Four armor-piercing projectiles were fired on the port side!"
The roar of the friction gas just disappeared, and the huge explosion followed. Four armor-piercing projectiles splashed down to the port side of the battleship Ireland about 15 meters away, and tons of seawater were blasted into the sky and smashed into the sea.
Harrison, holding the microphone on one side of the half-squatting watchtower, was obviously frightened by the great destructive power of the 600-kilogram armor-piercing projectile, and the young man looked at the water column doped with smoke and was too nervous to speak.
Robinson had no time to comfort the poor newcomer. He skillfully controlled the watchtower and equipped the azimuth plate to measure the azimuth of the Luzov.
Harrison, this is fucking war! The azimuth plate extends the baseline to the Luzov, 15 kilometers away. Robinson quickly read out the engraving number "Stop staring and report the Luzov bearing 97 to the fire control tower!"
Thanks to the status of export ships, the British capital ships are generally equipped with semi-automatic Derel fire control system and a higher degree of automation. The trace of the Irish fire control command tower lacks ballistic computer assistance. It is like the tyrant nicknamed "King Arthur" by the Admiralty who is in charge of his subordinates.
"watchtower?"
"Bearing 97!"
"Observation tower?"
"167 yards away!"
"Bottom log cabin?"
"Speed 25 knots! The wind direction is southwest wind level 1! "
The gunnery staff manually input the ranging values into the distance averager to obtain the average ranging value, and then input the average distance, hull shaking, wind direction and other data into the Sh striking plate for complex calculation to obtain the final Sh striking data.
Shè strike data are fed back. Each main turret of Ireland is hydraulically driven, and the 135-inch main turret is manually driven to slightly correct the azimuth pitch angle.
"turret a is ready!"
"turret b is ready!"
"P turret is ready!"
"The turret is ready!"
"Y turret is ready!"
Shè hit the podium, one by one, symbolizing that the light of shè lit up in turn. At this moment, a 35 mm armor-piercing projectile exploded 25 meters from the port side of the Irish.
The explosion engulfed the water column and rocked the battleship hull slightly. The shell fragments climbed the Irish, and the thin shipbuilding steel building made a piercing friction.
"At 16: 04, Luzov shelled Ireland in the third round, and a near-missing bullet on the port side!"
The fire control tower echoed with Robinson’s angry voice in the observation tower, so the reason for the Irish shelling was that the near-missing projectile paused a little. After carefully checking the turret service status, the gunner and gunner fed back the information of the intact damage to the fire control tower, and pressed the SHE button.
Reverberating the turret bell is like a battle horn, accompanied by the roar of the gunner. The first 135-inch capped armor-piercing projectile is out of the chamber.
The second gun Chapter 9 Gorgeous ending collapse new chapter (4)
The Portsmouth naval battle did not start according to Henry’s school foot.
J: ng, the export ship of the British Empire, was engaged in a fierce battle, and Henry obviously didn’t expect the performance of the six battleships after the Erlan to be so unbearable
Solemnity and the King of Wales have a grudge against Devlinger Majestic, and the ocean has a grudge against Seidlitz. They are not afraid to attack a fire command ship in Mao Qi by striking the bridge bell to coordinate their firepower. This is the usual tactic in the pre-ship-fearing era, but the old ships of Nai have different ages, and their service status is even more different. As a result, the new ship Erlan takes the lead, and the Solemnity King of Wales forms another camp, while the Erlan keeps a distance of 2,000 yards, while the Majestic and the Ocean, Battleship Hatred formed a delayed third formation, and the second formation kept an astonishing distance of 3,000 yards. The boiler was forced to run, and there seemed to be a little problem in the power system of battleship Fearless, so this old ship, which was commissioned in 1991, was able to go alone and finally struggled to catch up with the battle line.
When the lookout reported the farce to the commander of Henry School, he finally realized that it was very difficult to maintain the integrity of the battle line formation, and it was impossible for friendly ships to cooperate with each other when they were more than 1000 yards apart.
Henry adjusted the fire channel again. The battleship King of Wales, which belongs to the London-class battleship, is in close service, so that these two old-fashioned battleships can establish a tacit understanding against the Devlinger, which is their responsibility.
The battleship Majestic was in an awkward situation. In 195, the old water ship seriously interfered with the following two old star-rated battleships because of its slow speed. However, the advantage was that the three battleships Majestic, Ocean and Hatred were relatively close to each other, so Seidlitz became the target of three old ships.
Don’t choose to sail at only 11 knots at the end of the battle line. Its opponent is the "unsinkable" Mao Qi.
At the beginning of the battle, the master ships kept turning left according to the instructions of Henry School and tried to distance the first reconnaissance fleet. However, in fact, the efforts of the master ships in the face of the speed advantage of the first reconnaissance fleet were in vain.
The disaster happened when Erlan Luzov excited four to shorten the fighting distance by 13 kilometers.
At 16: 44, observation sergeant Bruno Howe Chardt witnessed an amazing scene through the lens of the Mao Qi observation tower group. The dreaded battleship No.2 with a standard displacement of 15 tons was hit by a 35 mm armor-piercing projectile.
It was easily torn up by the cap armor-piercing projectile, and the thickest part of the fearless was only 9 inches. After the explosion, the side armor was chiseled through the hole, spewing a lot of white Se water vapor, spinning iron blocks, strong black smoke and blazing flames. After a few seconds, the battleship fearless seemed to be pinched by people. The speed dropped from more than ten knots to three or four knots, and the hull of more than 100 meters long was also shrouded by white Se water vapor.
"At 16: 44, Mao Qi was not afraid that the right half of the turret of the sixth round would hit the engine room of the No.6!"
The news from the watchtower made the commander of the Mao Qi, Tower Huan, thunderous. Magnus feng lai Winterzo raised his fist, grabbed the microphone and roared at the fire control tower like a great man. "Kill the Fearless before Koch wins!"
"The captain is happy to help!" Koch, the gunner of the Mao Qi, turned to his face and said, "Gentlemen, there is good news. You have just completed a round of crossing!"
It’s cross! The fire control tower worked hard and the artillery staff and their assistants forgot to cheer. You know, it takes J Ρ ng Zhan skill and a little luck to make a cross in the naval artillery battle, especially in the long-distance artillery battle in the era of fear of ships. Because making a cross means that the enemy ship is about to sink.
"The emperor no longer pities Britain, and we just kill the fearless, which was abandoned by God …" Long live the German sound can almost overturn the armored roof of the fire control tower of more than 100 mm. Koch made a hush with his hands and waited for the fire control tower to be quiet. Major Koch took a deep breath and roared word by word, "The Mao Qi is effective!"
As the Mao Qi has just launched a new round of near-ammunition across the station, the fire control tower needs to be revised. It is necessary to throw as many artillery shells as possible and sink the opponent in the shortest time. Major Koch ordered the soldiers to observe that the turret semi-artillery tactics were thrown to Java. The German guy rolled up his sleeves and sweated like rain, repeating simple regulations one by one, which brought the potential of four SKL/5 35 mm naval guns to the extreme.
On the other side of the battleship fearless, the sea instantly turned into a pot of boiling water, the smoke of artillery shells and the steam leaked from the engine room of the battleship fearless alternately staged a magnificent performance. How many shots were shot in the three-minute effective stand of the battleship fearless has become an unverifiable matter, because the old battleship exploded violently at 16: 47, and the whole warship broke into two pieces and sank in less than a minute. No one escaped.
Although the number of bullets fired by the battleship Fearless has become an unsolved problem in history, historians can still get a glimpse of it from the records of the watchtower of Mao Qi. According to the records of the watchtower, the gunner of Mao Qi increased the speed of the 35 mm main gun from two or three rounds per minute to three minutes, and the main gun with ten rounds and five doors was fired. A total of five 35 mm APC armor-piercing bullets were fired. The warhead of the 35 mm armor-piercing bullets was charged with 136 kilograms, and five of them were 6 kilograms of strong explosives, which was enough to level the Buckingham Palace in England.
Ten minutes before the naval battle broke out, the battleship Fearless sank in a very cowardly way. A few minutes before the battle, Fearless listened to Henry’s advice and handed over its fate to the emperor. However, when Mao Qi hit the engine room of Fearless, it suddenly woke up. At this time, the German Mao Qi patrol also entered the four-door MarkVIII 35 times diameter 12-inch main gun course. Unfortunately, the leakage of water vapor made all the sighting equipment of Fearless lose.
The battleship Poor Fearless has never been fired, and it has been a laughingstock on both sides of the Atlantic. After the Portsmouth naval battle, a proverb "You are like a fearless ship" first spread in the British Empire.
Because the theory that the British battlelines were out of line was the first reconnaissance fleet, three of his cruisers or the British themselves didn’t find that the Fearless had sunk, the British realized that the situation was not good when the Mao Qi cruisers joined the Seidlitz cruisers at 16: 51 against three old battleships, the Majestic, the Ocean and the Hatred.
Lieutenant Colonel Macaulay Leckie, the captain of the battleship USS Ocean, who was temporarily in charge of fire, was adventurous. Although Commander Henry ordered him to avoid melee as much as possible, Lieutenant Colonel Macaulay was bold, but he believed that conservatism could not save the Mediterranean aid fleet. Maybe he could win a chance if he stuck to the Germans to fight for his life.
So Lieutenant Colonel Macaulay Leckie persuaded the captain of the battleship Majesty to correct it for half a minute, and finally chose to believe that Macaulay Leckie would cover the Ocean and the Hatred near the Seidlitz by suicide charge.
Lieutenant Colonel Macaulay Leckie won the bet on the battleship Majestic. It was thrilling to cross the gate of Seidlitz. A 35 mm naval gun made a fire net, which narrowed the distance by 13 yards. Although Majestic came from the 9-inch side main armor of the last century and the Ocean and the Hatred caused widespread indignation and resentment, the 6-inch side main armor of Germany was as fragile as a piece of paper in front of a 35-mm armor-piercing projectile. However, Lieutenant Colonel Macaulay Leckie seemed to be a good gambler and persistently started a century gamble.
Visible in the depths of the Black Sea in 1914, the naval battle at the Cape of Sochi turned into a repetition in the naval battle at Portsmouth. In April 1915, one person was released in the place. The opponent in the English Channel changed from the German Gog to the strengthened Seidlitz, from five Russian old-fashioned battleships to three British old-fashioned battleships.
Commanders of the Majesty and the Hatred Ocean line up in a single file, which will bring them closer to each other by 5 yards. This is a dangerous distance, which may lead to a collision accident if they are not careful. When the three old battleships are less than 15 yards crowded, the huge bell on the bridge of the battleship Ocean becomes a lighthouse in the dark. The signalman bell scales and hits the azimuth semaphore to reach the final strike command, which makes the logic of the three warships become a warship with 12 35 mm main guns.
The old ships, Seidlitz, caused a lot of trouble. Although they were not equipped with 35 mm pointed armor-piercing projectiles to penetrate the 35 mm main equipment of Seidlitz, the continuous splashing of shells caused some damage to the Seidlitz building and greatly affected the observation of Seidlitz.
At 16: 46, four 35mm armor-piercing bullets splashed down the British battle line. Unfortunately, one armor-piercing bullet hit the Majesty. Fortunately, the light bullet with strong penetration hit the thin deck at the stern and the side deck at the stern, and three of his shells landed near the port side of the Majesty.