Chapter 425 Sea Battle III, Second Kill

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"What is the empire waiting for?"

"Triumph!"

Every warship that sees the flag knows this answer. The blood cloud dragon claw flag fluttering high in the gale is the signal of the decisive battle!

A sudden moment.

Four Jilin-class and four Dalian-class were separated from the formation like runaway wild horses. The splashes of the majestic bows stunned the naval observers of various countries.

"Report, the distance is 17,000 kilometers."

"16,000 kilometers."

"15,000 meters."

"14,000 meters."

"13,000 meters!"

The captain of the navigator's distance report one after another made the atmosphere tense in the Jilin. After all, there were eighteen main battleships in the distance. With the sound, everyone's eyes turned to insisting on not going to the conning tower, but standing in the bridge with cigars.

"The left rudder is five degrees, parallel."

When the inward bow was 13,000 kilometers away from the Russian fleet, Long Guozhang finally gave an order, and the deflected bow immediately formed two parallel lines with the opposite Russian fleet.

The splash of the bow and the constantly enlarged shadow of the ship made Roger Winster understand that he could not leave. In the case of all the radio failure, he had to continue to use the old method, ordering the first, second and third battleship squadrons to be led by the Crown Prince, and the three cruiser detachments were inserted into the inner side and the battleship formation. Form a double column, and at the same time let the remaining small cruiser detachment protect the transport ship and turn to Sibilu Island first.

But Long Guozhang did not want to let go of a Russian [***] ship, and immediately ordered Le Fei to lead the light patrol to intercept the Russian small cruisers and logistics ships.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, after the hopeless escape, the incident took place in the Indian Ocean outside Sumatra, only 30 kilometers away from Sibiru Island, the largest island in the Mentawi Islands. The first shell of the Battle of Sibiru, which was known as the Battle of Sibiru, rushed out of the former main gun of the Alexander III. The roaring naval gun was like a signal and opened. It made people wait for more than half a year, and even produced a suffocating naval battle.

After the radio command failure, which was once the greatest hope of victory, the ancient method of relying on the flag to convey the message made it impossible for the Russian fleet to achieve unified shelling. Although most of the three battleship detachments that have formed the battle line were unified L40/305 mm guns, the gunfire was still messy.

While the battleship detachment opened fire, the three cruiser detachments divided on the right also roared. The whole 182 main and secondary guns with a diameter of more than 190 mm opened fire at the same time, causing a black hurricane to suddenly roll up in the blue sea, and the smoke and even people's sight were blurred.

Hipelle grabbed the telescope, and several black spots in the camera roared at Jilin. The flight of more than ten seconds seemed to be very short, but it seemed to be extremely long in the rumbling sound of gunfire and violent heartbeat.

Boom.

The first wave of shells fell, and the latest one was even 50 meters away from the starboard side of Jilin. A column of water several meters high rose in the air, and huge waves even spread to the deck.

Whether it is Roger Winster, or an ordinary Russian sailor, or even the three observation ships hiding far away from the fish pond, or Li Mo on the Honolulu, who also watched the battle in the distance, were shocked by the hurricane. No matter who, even Li Mo, who personally built a powerful fleet, was Seeing so many cannons roaring together at a time, there is only one word to describe that feeling.

Landslide!

Yes, even if the average loading of Russian shells is less than one-tenth of that of Xinhua, it still uses ancient black gunpowder, which is unimaginable for ordinary people.

He clearly remembers that he had read a novel in his previous life, saying that a traveler took a BB fleet in the game and commanded the battle without changing his face on the first day of returning to the battleship era.

Nonsense!

Li Mo really wants to find out the guy who wrote the book, let him see this kind of real naval battle that stirs hearts, and tell him that this is not a game that ordinary people can face. Not to mention one day, even a year, some people can't guarantee that they will not change their faces when watching nearly 200 shells fall, because even if they go to those videos The roar of unshielded battleship guns will also make people at a loss.

At least at that moment, he first had the idea of whether to lose or not.

Soon, the second round of shelling of the Russian fleet began again. When the shining fireballs lit up one after another, Li Mo found that Long Guozhang did not order a counterattack, and immediately turned his head to look at Chen Ping.

"The gunnery of the Russians is really not good." The rumbling gunfire not only did not make the navy-born chief of staff worry, but also licked his mouth as if he was not satisfied. He smiled and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry, Long Guozhang knows it. It's not the right time!"

"It's not the right time yet?!"

Li Mo is so anxious that he can't wait to fly over in person to ask Long Guozhang when the fire will be opened. You know that the latest shells just now have fallen dozens of meters away. If you are adjusting a few rounds, won't it take a few meters or even!

Raindrop-like shells fell again, and countless thick columns of water rose again on the starboard side of eight capital ships. At this time, not to mention Li Mo, even the observers of various countries on the three observation ships and even Russian sailors doubted. Are the Chinese people in a hurry to go out without shells?!

On the mast, Hipel seemed to feel that his lungs were about to burn, and a round of shells fell like rain, but what surprised him was that the fleet commander had not ordered to fire, and the eight capital ships were still rushing forward at a speed of more than 20 knots. Looking down from the flying hummingbirds, the eight capital ships seemed to be in a rainstorm. The swifts seemed to care about the raindrops around them.

Suddenly, a 152mm shell, which did not know whether it was a deviation or luck, fell ten meters in front of the bridge of Heilongjiang behind. The explosion and fire suddenly rose from somewhere. Although this level of shells could not cause any damage to the Heilongjiang, a large piece was still left on the newly washed deck. Black stains.

Hshipper was about to turn the camera to see when the next round of shelling would come. In the camera, several sailors hiding on the 76th artillery behind the bridge suddenly shook and found that they were smoking a lot. It seemed that they didn't see the explosion just now.

What kind of mentality is this?

Arrogant? No, Hipel shook his head. Even in the powerful fleet, it was impossible to be indifferent under such an attack, and they did not want to fight back. From the cigarette butts, it could be seen that they were trying to suppress the flames in their chests.

But they didn't get the order!

Hipper seems to have found the reason why the fleet can rise rapidly. They fly steel warships and train themselves into cold war machines. What's more daunting is that these machines can strictly obey orders.

They are like a group of prairie wolves chasing their prey, staring at red eyes, waiting for a fatal blow!

Hipper quickly turned the camera. When his eyes crossed a piece of smoke, he suddenly saw that the Jilin was about to catch up with the front crown prince, and finally understood why the dragon commander had not ordered to fight back.

"If they start the main gun to counterattack, the huge backbar force will push the hull horizontally, so that the speed will have to be lowered immediately." Seymour frowned at the "silent" fleet that had made a rush, but had not fired a shot so far, and a trace of throbbing rose in his heart.

Fisher nodded. The T-tactic of the battleship was not invented by anyone, but summarized with countless blood, and the Xinhua Navy strictly implemented this point. Even if it was temporarily suppressed, it did not give up the opportunity to create a final kill.

Compared with the clumsy gun skills that the Russians spent ten rounds and only hit a few shots, they mastered the key to victory or defeat.

Speed!

Fifteen minutes later, when the last Harbin heavy patrol also rushed out of the shelling circle of the Russian fleet with gunpowder smoke, Long Guozhang was suddenly relieved and shouted, "Left rudder!"

"Full rudder left!"

While the first mate shouted in response, the helmsman used all his strength to hit the steering wheel to the left. The huge Jilin deck suddenly leaned to the right. The roaring steam turbine had accelerated to the limit, driving the four crankshafts to rotate rapidly. The two pieces of the water were sharply deflected, guiding the water brought by the propeller. On the left.

Everyone saw that 12,000 meters away in front of the Crown Prince, a white arc white water wave with an angle of about 90 degrees rolled up, and the seven main ships in the rear also carried out left rudder maneuvers at the same time.

More than 20,000 tons of steel monster turned rapidly, which brought an amazing tearing force. Even if Hipel got the news and grabbed the handrail, he felt as if he was going to be thrown out.

When the decks of Jilin and the seven partner ships behind him were flattened a few minutes later, Hipper saw the Crown Prince led by Russia in the distance, and a perfect T-shaped character had been formed.

Regardless of staggering, he immediately raised his telescope again, because he knew that the shelling was about to begin. He had to provide information for the naval gun, and hoped to see the real power of the new generation of battleships with his own eyes.

"Decelerate, 16 knots."

"Target, Crown Prince."

"Five me hard!"

In the bridge, after being covered by the Russians for more than ten minutes, Long Guozhang's anger finally broke out like magma, completely tore off the calm disguise just now, and the gunner immediately raised the phone after receiving the order.

"Target No. 1, Crown Prince."

"Gain fire!"

When a harsh electric current sounded from the turrets, the gunners pressed the launch button almost at the same time. Almost at the same time, 38 305mm naval guns and 36 254mm naval guns burst into roars. The orange fire burst out from each muzzle, and the huge rectic force would be more than 20,000 tons of battleships. He suddenly moved back nearly ten meters, making Happel on the mast feel as if he had been pushed and pulled violently, and his body leaned forward and almost fell down. Fortunately, his partner behind him pulled him.

Unable to even thank him, Hippell immediately raised the telescope again. It took about 20 seconds from the gun to the goal of reaching 15,000 meters. He still had enough time to see the whole picture.

A wave of shells blew up countless columns of water around the Crown Prince, making the French-made battleship, which was called a masterpiece by Russia when it was launched, as if it had fallen into a storm.

But before it could completely avoid the water mist brought by the first round of shelling, just 30 seconds later, the Xinhua First Battleship Squadron and the Triple Patrol Team fired the second round of shells again without even seeing the effect of the first round.

Speed!

There is no doubt that from the silence of the war to the continuous roar of the naval guns, Hipel finally caught the key to the naval battle, but before he could get excited, something happened that stunned everyone.

About 20 seconds after the second round of sipation, when the third shell had been filled into the muzzle and the muzzle began to be quickly raised and ready to aim again, a huge fireball suddenly broke out on the Prince in the distance.

In the smoke of gunp, Hippell only saw that the double pride of France and Russia seemed to have been twisted by a rooster. Before he could sing, he suddenly broke it into two parts from the position of the former bridge. It exploded violently and even threw up the remnants of the bow of at least 2,000 tons, and then smashed it fiercely. Huge waves splashed on the sea.

Everyone is sluggish.

Even Li Mo was stupid, and only two words appeared in his mind.

Second kill!

Real second kill! ......

(to be continued)