"Found the target! Two battleships! It should be a battleship! God, if this is not a British ship, it would be terrible!" When the two sides approached 16 kilometers. The Japanese finally found two German warships posted on the coast! Although the rangefinder can clearly observe the appearance of the two battleships, it is still difficult to see the opponent clearly through Kato's telescope.

  As an officer, the worst case is that when the two sides are fighting, they don’t know the identity of the opponent! No way, the so-called sight of the rangefinder can only see a shadow of the ship. The details are not clear at all. In the history of World War II, the Germans can regard the battlecruiser Prestige as Nelson, and the British can also regard Prince Eugen as Bismarck. This shows that seeing is not necessarily true.

These misjudgments did have a certain impact. The former directly scared off the two German battleships, while the latter was even more due to the misjudgment of ship types, which caused the firepower to focus on the wrong target, so that Bismarck did it without interference Drop Hood!

   "It would be bad if it were the Dreadnought!" Yusaburo Kato felt a drop of cold sweat from his head down his neck. The difference between the dreadnought and the former dreadnought is not in the amount of projection. If it is more than the projected weight of the artillery shell, the battleship Satsuma may not be worse than the dreadnought. The projection capacity of 4 12-inch guns and 6 10-inch guns and the fearless 8 12 Is it really worse than an inch gun? not necessarily!

The real difference lies in the uniform caliber of the main guns, the same ballistic performance, and the ability to engage in ultra-long-range combat brought by the advanced fire control system. Of course, this was not expected at the beginning of the fearless design in history. It couldn't keep up, so the long-range combat advantage of the Dreadnought did not play out. But now that super fearlessness has come out, the navies of all countries in the world naturally understand this truth.

  The key to long-range fire control lies in continuous tracking and correction. With more artillery, you can use a half salvo to quickly calibrate the target at a speed of 20 seconds. Generally speaking, one round of three shots is the minimum. Then by correcting the situation of the impact point, shooting the elements. However, the problem with the former fearless is that it only has 4 main guns. Although the 4 guns can also be corrected, the interval is too large, which results in a slower speed of alignment, which reduces the correction efficiency.

  Although the current fire control allows the former dreadnought to be effective at a distance of about 10 kilometers, it is still much worse than the effective range of the dreadnought of more than 15 kilometers! Don’t feel too bad that the opponent can beat yourself and you can’t fight back!

  Soon, the shells fired from a distance proved how correct Kato Yusaburo’s guess was! Accompanied by a huge explosion, four water columns nearly 100 meters high rose on the non-engaging side of the battleship Satsuma! Almost half of the Japanese navy officers and soldiers can see the water wall less than 300 meters from their hull! For an instant, the tension and excitement of the battle filled Kato Yusaburo's body!

"Fifteen kilometers away, we have no chance to hit!" Soon the rangefinder reported a number that made him feel desperate. It was too far. Although within the theoretical range of a 10-inch gun, the fire control was still behind. These massive secondary guns are powerless.

  "To release the smoke, let's lean on it, maybe it's a dreadnought ship, but they must come here from the North Sea with serious mechanical wear and tear, and the speed will not be fast. Bring the distance to 10 kilometers!" Kato Yusaburo ordered.

  "After getting close to the target, let Aki and us focus on the firepower to attack the opponent's flagship!" A moment later, Yusaburo Kato added another command. To put it bluntly, the output of the former dreadnought is basically just getting close and making a face. And according to his experience, as a battleship, he is relatively sturdy. At least the 14-inch gun of the King Kong class can’t help the Satsuma’s ten-inch main armor belt at a distance of 10 kilometers, so he thinks he can hold it. Under the circumstances, is it also a good choice to concentrate firepower to kill the enemy?

The two Japanese warships rushed forward with full horsepower, and then the boilers of the two warships were just as small, and the steam turbines were just as little output. In addition, they were all old ships that participated in the Russo-Japanese War. At this time, you think How high is the speed? Festival 17 is the best! The billowing black smoke came out of the chimney, but the speed just couldn't get up. In Su Xiong's eyes, these figures hidden in the smoke were as slow as a snail!

   Smoke cans did play some role, at least Scharnhorst’s shelling was not very accurate, and then Su Xiong asked the fleet to keep the distance while slowing down the shelling speed. But to Su Xiong's surprise, the shelling of the Gneisenau was still going on.

   "Can this hit the target?" Su Xiong sent a semaphore to the Gneisenau in question.

   "Our seagull seaplane is bigger, and it can carry 3 people on it. One person controls the radio, and the other person is responsible for observing the impact of the shells." Gneisenau's answer made Su Xiong's eyes bright. It turned out to be like this! It is easy for smoke to block the view of the horizontal plane, but if you change the angle~lightnovelpub.net~ it can't block it! This is a good idea, Su Xiong nodded subconsciously.

However, although the observers on the Seagull can see the battleship Aki and the impact point, how to describe this is very problematic. Although a window has been opened for the aviation calibration, there is still a certain distance from Dacheng. , Seagulls hovered constantly in the air, flying over the huge battleship from time to time, and then reported the observed impact points, but the effect was very limited in the end...

The German fleet is upwind. When the Japanese fleet rushes over, the sea breeze will naturally disperse a large amount of smoke, and because of this headwind action, the Japanese smoke did not achieve the expected effect. Well, let’s make it clear. When the Japanese smoke cans were used up, the distance between them and the German warship was still about 14 kilometers! This is still the case when the opponent can't speed up!

  When the smoke cleared, the two German fast battleships were finally ready to go! The officers and soldiers on the two German battleships were all drawn from the Helgoland-class battleships. They had been thinking about the battleships of this class for several years, and they had never said they were familiar with light vehicles. Although technically lagging behind the Bavarian-class battleships, the Bavarian-class battleships have not been in service for long. In terms of actual combat level, only from the perspective of artillery, these veterans from the Helgoland-class battleships are definitely the highest. ! Su Xiong's subordinates are the ones who compete for the Emperor's Prize, the highest award in German naval artillery every year!

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