Chapter 625 Night Battle Unparalleled 7

Next to the rear mast of the Guam, Li Zhen wore a raincoat and put on the ladder with the help of his comrades-in-arms. After carefully checking the radar, he climbed down the ladder and looked at the watch with a flashlight.

2:27 a.m., 25 a.m.

Looking up, his ears were full of roaring. The raindrops hit the thick steel plate and crackled. More than 40,000 tons of ship bodies kept shaking in the waves, making it impossible to imagine what the lighter light patrol would be in the dark in the distance at this time.

The rainstorm, the wind and waves and the blind night can't help but remind him of a battle that both the teacher and his father talked about. In the naval battle of the Bus Strait, Lieutenant General Ji Rushan, the current commander of the First Fleet, suffered a great loss for the first time.

It was also a rainstorm that day, which completely limited the rangefinder and other viewing methods, and the British navy's tactical use of bad weather was also much better than Xinhua at that time. Taking advantage of the opportunity of indistinguishable with the naked eye, it quietly deflected the bow to close the distance and continuously sank a battleship and a heavy cruiser of the Xinhua Navy.

Now it's a rainstorm, facing the British navy and the French navy. Can we win this time?

Looking at the triple cannon that the stern of the ship has turned to the possible direction of the enemy, Li Zhen had an answer in an instant. Xinhua ten years ago and ten years later were almost two things.

Ten years ago, Xinhua could only drive a modified warship bought and captured from Britain. It was not far from its doorstep, and it almost lost under the advantage of equipment.

But now the Xinhua Navy can send the world's largest battleship to block the British and French fleet 8,000 nautical miles away. Even a few months ago, it could go to the Atlantic Ocean, which was once thought to be the back garden of the teacher's home.

Maybe after a while, the students will tell the former teacher with unimaginable fierce fire, "You're old!" I can already beat you."

It is undeniable that the teacher still has a background. For example, the latest prestige-class battlecruiser they are about to deliver is close to the battleship, and the use of reciprocating steam engines is still tenaciously up to 25 knots. For example, the large heavy artillery light cruiser in this mission is a new weapon that the world did not expect. For example, they used small warships to release flares in the night war, and the small tactics of letting large warships bombard heavy guns in the distance after diverting firepower showed that Britain was much better than the upstart United States, which had been defeated by Xinhua before.

But he is still old after all. The navy needs a background, and the navy needs time to cultivate, but there is no need to mention the important surnames of technology and equipment. When the first new battleship appeared in Xinhua, the empire had begun to go down the mountain, not to mention the later torpedoes, submarines, aircraft and aircraft carriers. It is lagging behind in the whole.

Therefore, when the United States and the United Kingdom still expanded the army despite the increasingly strong opposition in the country, and still tried their best to make aircraft cannons and even warships, the father and the general seng still maintained their own war rhythm.

Many people don't know this point, but Li Zhen knows that no matter how much low-level equipment is manufactured, it is useless. In the words of his father Pingli, Xinhua is also exploding equipment. Under the condition that its industrial capacity is only a little behind, it also forms a generation gap with the United Kingdom and the United States, which means that every time Xinhua is armed with a soldier, Britain and the United States need Arm five people!

This is impossible!

What's more, even if the United Kingdom and the United States can arm themselves with five times the army and equipment of Xinhua, they can directly declare bankruptcy without fighting. Therefore, their father and Chen Ping, the two direct controllers of the military, know that the longer the time, the United Kingdom and the United States are not easier, but more pressure. To put it bluntly, the United States is only taking advantage of the early stage. The economic and industrial advantages have created a lot of outdated equipment for soldiers. Because of the comprehensive technical and experience advantages of the Xinhua Navy, they have to give up time-consuming technology and new equipment development and make every effort to purchase a large number of old equipment. In fact, this is a very serious act of exhaustion.

But the United States can't do anything about it. The Pacific Fleet was almost completely destroyed, and Alaska was gone. The counterattack of the United States and Canada would not wait until at least June. Panama was in danger. It accelerated its own operation to hoard supplies in Honolulu. As many as hundreds of thousands of troops practiced the transoceanic landing campaign with great fanfare. The United States had to add Hurry up and arm yourself.

According to a top-secret intelligence given to his father by Uncle Duan Fei, the United States has not even made many cannons, most of which are guns and bullets. That is to say, at present, they can only meet the basic needs of soldiers' guns, bullets and grenades. They can't afford too much heavy equipment at all. The equipment used by the Australian army is a few They are all provided by the United Kingdom. As for the aircraft, there are many, but mainly because the wooden aircraft is made simply, and for convenience, domestic arms dealers in the United States even installed car engines, which is much worse than the original British camel aircraft. If this kind of thing is also made in China, it can be at least a year. 20,000 to 30,000 aircraft have been released.

Even if you start to imitate the French "Schnard" assault tank, its combat effectiveness is not comparable to the latest Tiger tank in China. According to the results of the secret exercise, an M3 cheetah tank can deal with 5, while a Tiger M4 tank can even compete with more than 15 "Schnards".

The U.S. political axe is now desperately trying to expand the navy, which is actually what the father and the general seng most want to see, because the navy needs to consume too many resources, because the United States can't build heavy aircraft carriers and metal aircraft, so it has to build a large number of capital ships to offset the gap, which will seriously affect the U.S. Army, and the United States wants to raise troops. Li began to arm a large number of Mexicans and blacks. Once they land in the United States in the future, they may even have a large-scale defection.

Dulgently dragging the pace will make Xinhua also face suffering. The longer the time, the more severe the economic damage will be. However, the difference is that tens of millions of Xinhua nationals work overtime to win the war and work hard to make new equipment, and they are also cultivating stronger industrial capabilities through the war, but the United Kingdom and the United States are in the case of poor technology. If you want to win, you must make five times or even ten times more old equipment, and you must exhaust the last copper plate in the treasury, so this is not realistic at all.

Many people still don't understand that in fact, since the beginning of this war, my father and the Chief of General Staff have not planned to give the Allied countries the energy to fight back in the future! They deliberately control the rhythm of war, in order to make Europe consume more, and then through all the domestic manufacturing capabilities mobilized, they use their superior equipment to constantly consume each other until they are completely consumed, so that they will not be able to restore their vitality in the next hundred years!

Technology and innovation have become the killer of Xinhua. Just like now, it is raining heavily and reaching out in the dark. In the eyes of others, the navy can't fight at all in this case, but they don't know that the new radar is still working silently.

It's just.

Looking at the radar that was still rotating above his head, Li Zhen, who was thinking about the strategy of his father and the Chief of General Staff, suddenly felt that the heat in his chest had dissipated. The harsh weather was indeed the nemesis of electromagnetic waves!

"How's it going? Is the radar broken or because of the weather? With a sigh, Li Xiuyan came to his side with several officers and asked loudly.

"Syeur, it's the weather!" Li Zhen pointed to the outside. The rainstorm and strong wind made the sound a little distorted, so as he walked to the cabin, he shouted, "The raindrops were too dense, causing the clutter reflected back to be messy, so."

After entering the cabin and handing over the raincoats to the soldiers, everyone hurried back to the fire control compartment. The screen full of mahjongboards was still very helpless.

Li Xiuyan also frowned slightly and looked at his watch. If he couldn't come up with a way, he might use other tricks, but in this way, the 31st Fleet would be exposed in advance, and the two fast heavy artillery light patrols were likely to take the opportunity to escape.

"Is there any other way?" Li Xiuyan asked.

Seeing everyone's anxious look, Li Zhen also knew that it was very critical now. Maybe the Allied Southwest Fleet was not far ahead, so after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, "There is only one way now, but I'm not sure."

"Oh? What's the way? Say it quickly.

"It is to stop the mechanical rotation and fix the tile antenna in one direction, so that the electromagnetic wave signal will be continuously transmitted in one direction, and the clutter reflected back will be greatly reduced, and theoretically the signal strength in that direction can be enhanced. Maybe something can be found."

"Are you sure? Is there any precedent before?

"No." Li Zhen shook his head, but his tone was sure: "But last time I heard them in the optoelectronic laboratory of the Ministry of Science and Technology say that because there is a certain interval between mechanical scanning, although the signal transmission intensity is average, the returned beam will lag, so a new type of radar being developed by the laboratory called fire control radar is not rotated, straight Fix the electromagnetic wave at one point, so that the reflected signal will continue to come back, so that the detection accuracy is higher, which can be controlled by the cannon with the computer.

The problem is that the coverage of the tile antenna is 45° angle, so we may miss several other directions. Li Zhen's words calmed down all the fire control cabin, and everyone looked at Li Xiuyan.

Li Xiuyan stood quietly in front of the console and looked at the screen of the dot board and did not continue to ask questions. He believed that Li Zhen would not talk nonsense. There must be a certain basis for saying so, but the risk is also very high. Because the light patrols are lurking in a distant position and waiting for the signal to start, so at present, there are only two parts related to the island number and Medan. Radar, that is to say, can only cover 90° at the maximum, to ensure that one position is scanned. In case of omission, it will be very troublesome.

Is it a bet, or is it safer?

After thinking about it, Li Xiuyan gritted his teeth: "Stop the mechanical rotation, fix the agonal angle to the east, send a signal to the Medan, let them do the same, calculate the angle, stagger it as much as possible to ensure the maximum search range."

"Yes." After Li Zhen saluted, he immediately calculated with his partners. Three minutes later, after the two set angles were sent to Medan by light signals, the radar on Guam stopped rotating first.

Immediately after.

A green dot suddenly jumped out of the screen. Although it appeared from time to time under the interference of the clutter signal, it still made the radar soldiers shout excitedly: "I found them!"

"Quick, calculate the angle, distance!"

"Notify Medan, give up the previous coordinates, and try your best to search the area!"

"Quantity, how much can you determine?"

In an instant, the whole fire control module seemed to have turned into a big vegetable market in the morning, shouting and reporting endlessly. In just five minutes later, Li Zhen got the calculation results. After saluting, he reported: "Report the captain, the distance is 22 kilometers, the speed is 18 knots, the heading is just west, and the Tumenjiang is 10 on their left. Kilometers!"

"They are right in front of us!"

Looking at Li Zhen and the excited soldiers in the cabin, Li Xiuyan breathed a sigh of relief. After the stone landed, he was also in the mood to joke. He smiled and said, "We Chinese have an old saying. I don't know if the foreign devils have learned it, but I think it's okay, because they will know it in a while."

"Captain, what do you mean?" Li Zhen asked curiously.

"Return the other person in the other way!"

Li Xiuyan smiled and suddenly raised his voice: "First-class alarm, naval gun positioning, lifting wire-free silence, order Tumenjiang to prepare flares, so that they can also taste what it is like to be dark!" -

"Vine (Semore), how's it going?"

On the dark sea, the Lonely fell back and forth in the sea. Bernice swayed and grabbed the armrest and looked at Seymour who got out of the communication cabin and immediately asked.

"I don't know. There seems to be something wrong with the radio." Seymour shook his head, looked at the dark sea, and asked worriedly, "How far are we?"

"It's almost time. We've arrived at the Loati Islands, and we can reach Nouméa Port in two hours." Seeing that Seymour was still worried, Bernice laughed and said, "Well, don't worry, even if the Xinhua Fleet can catch up in this weather, it is impossible to find us. Even if we find out, the wind and waves on the sea are so strong, and the swaying will make the accuracy of the naval gun inaccurate, and I believe that God will stand with us."

Before Bernice finished shouting, his neck seemed to be stuck out, and his face suddenly changed his face. He didn't expect that the enemy not only had those monkey eyes, but also ran to his door to block it!

"It's impossible. How could they find us!" In Bernice's horrified shout, it was already as bright as day outside the porthole. Three dazzling and bright groups of light appeared directly in front of the fleet, followed by six flares on the left and right, followed by dense shells covering the rainstorm.

Semore's hands and feet were cold, and there was even panic in his eyes. The dazzling illumination made his eyes blurred at the same time, which made his brain seem to explode, because this trick was exactly what he used to deal with Xinhua before.

The lighting bullet opens the way, and the light patrol shells sphe to attack, and then. Seymour only felt his scalp suddenly explode. When he turned his head and looked at it, a huge fireball had exploded in the darkness in the distance.

March 25th, 2:58.

When the flares were on, the Guam and Medan made the first round of shots, and the night battle in New Caledonia officially began.

(to be continued)