All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

"Staff Officer Qi, would you like to evaluate the approximate levels of the two warships charging towards us?"

Ye Bai stood next to the porthole of the bridge and said to Qi Sicheng behind him without looking back. In view of the current shortage of officers on the Yanhuang, Qi Sicheng's work is also quite busy. It's usually fine. He only needs to plan the route of the Yanhuang. , just command the driving crew.

But it is different during wartime. During the naval battle, Qi Sicheng not only had to command the Yanhuang's navigation issues, but also served as a staff officer to Ye Bai, responsible for providing Ye Bai with some professional knowledge. and suggestions.

Although Qi Sicheng is not a professional combat consultant, he has received professional military education. For example, in the current situation, he can roughly judge the size and tonnage of the warship through visual inspection.

"Captain, there are three enemy ships in total. Except for the leading ship, which has a tonnage of more than 2,000 tons and may be a destroyer, the other two are only a few hundred tons and should be gunboats."

Although Qi Sicheng's answer was not accurate, Ye Bai didn't mean to blame him. After all, the naval battleships of this era have not yet fully formed a system. They are fundamentally different from the conventional battleship types of later generations. It doesn't matter if Qi Sicheng cannot accurately judge. 327 is so strange.

Ye Bai himself is not familiar with these. Hearing this, he just said:"Give the order, the target of the focus of fire remains unchanged, the main gun maintains full attack, sink the target enemy ship as soon as possible, for the three approaching warships , use the ship's 20mm tube machine gun to respond, and torpedoes can be used when necessary."

At this time, Ye Bai actually regretted a little. When he upgraded the firepower system of the Yanhuang, he configured the main guns and torpedoes almost the same, but ignored the secondary battery system on the battleship. All he could rely on was the layout. The 420mm tube machine guns on both sides of the ship and the 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun originally placed above the ship building have been moved to the side.

However, under the current situation, Ye Bai had no other choice. The Fujian Navy, which suffered a sudden attack and damaged most of its warships, no longer has much ability to provide strong support to the Yanhuang. It means that in this naval battle, the Yanhuang is going to challenge the French expeditionary fleet on its own..

The three twin-mounted main guns must concentrate all their firepower on the Triumph. There is simply no way to attack the three French warships that are rushing over. Once the two single-barreled 20mm guns deployed on the sides are turned off, Unable to stop him, Ye Bai had no choice but to use torpedoes. Torpedoes costing 5,000 yuan each were used on these old-fashioned warships. Although it was a bit of a loss, how could he care so much in a crisis?

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom!"

The gun crew members on the Yanhuang have experienced many naval battles, and their cooperation with each other has become quite tacit. With a master-level gunner in command, the hit rate is getting higher and higher, and the fighting is getting better and better. More accurate.

After rounds of salvo attacks, dozens of shells fell around the Triumph one after another, exploding countless waves and causing considerable damage to the good hull of the Triumph.

As a French expeditionary fleet The number one main battleship in the warship, the combat effectiveness of the Triumph itself is quite good. With a tonnage of more than 4,000 tons, it is equipped with 6 238mm tube cannons, 6 140mm tube cannons and many other artillery pieces on the battleship. The side armor also reaches Even if it is not a sneak attack with a 150mm, the Triumph alone can almost overwhelm the entire Fujian Navy.

But after all, it is a quite old-fashioned antique warship, even if the Yanhuang only belongs to the technological level of the World War II period on earth, the fierce artillery fire The battle still caused the Triumph to be on fire and smoking everywhere.

The Triumph, which had been frantically bombarding the Fujian Navy, stopped bombarding the Yanhuang when faced with it. It frantically adjusted its direction and aimed its guns at the Yanhuang. No. 2, the two battleships engaged in a fierce artillery battle

"boom"、"boom"、""Boom" shells continued to fly through the air, flying towards (cabc) the opponent's warship, falling into the sea and violently exploding. However, in this kind of artillery battle, the one who took advantage was the Yanhuang.

It already occupied the The advantage of being the first to strike, the firepower density is not small, the level and tacit understanding of the gunners are also very high, even surpassing the gunners on the Triumph, and they quickly gained the upper hand in the artillery battle. Especially when a gunner on the Yanhuang When the 102mm bullet luckily hit the power compartment of the Triumph, blowing up the steam boiler on the Triumph on the spot, the fate of the Triumph was almost doomed. The burning fire had not yet been extinguished, and the thick black Smoke enveloped the entire Triumph, and the steam boiler was blown up, which also caused the Triumph to lose almost most of its power. It could no longer drag the heavy hull weighing more than 4,000 tons, and had to be forced to stop. He couldn't move on the sea surface. (To read Baoshuang novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Ye Bai, who was always paying attention to the situation of the Triumph, his eyes lit up, and he quickly shouted:"Prepare the torpedoes, aim at the largest enemy warship , fire two salvos, and blast it to the bottom of the sea."

At this time, Ye Bai didn't care about saving money at all. He used two expensive 533mm mines in one go. If he wanted to completely hit the heavily damaged Triumph, one might be enough, but Ye Bai didn't want to risk it at all. It was risky, so I chose to play it safe and directly used two 533mm torpedoes.

"Yes, Captain."

The correspondent on the side quickly grabbed the intercom and conveyed Ye Bai's order to the torpedo operator on the deck. Immediately afterwards, two 533mm torpedoes flew out from the five-unit torpedo launch tube that the Yanhuang had just transformed. One end fell into the sea.

Once the torpedo entered the water, it really felt like a fish in water. With the support of strong power, it sailed quickly on the sea at a high speed of more than 40 knots, bringing up white waves.

If it was during World War II During this period, when the development of torpedoes was relatively mature, and the navies of various countries paid great attention to it, the traces of these two torpedoes sailing in the sea could not be hidden from professional naval crews, and they were likely to be avoided by the target warships.

But now In 1884, torpedo technology was not mature at all. Even if some lookouts saw the waves drawn on the sea with sharp eyes, they did not realize what kind of weapon it was, and it would not attract their attention. The conflict between the

Triumph and the Yanhuang The distance is now less than 7 kilometers. This distance is not a problem at all for a torpedo with a maximum range of 14,000 meters. The high speed of more than 40 knots within 6 kilometers also makes this distance even less expensive. time

"boom"、""Boom."

In a short period of time, two 533mm mines plunged into the waterline of the Triumph, which was unable to move on the sea. The weak armor could not stop a heavy torpedo of this caliber and was easily penetrated.