Chapter 1238: Fleet Battle II

Chapter 1238 Fleet battle (2)

Almost every 20 seconds, two Russian battleships can perform one and a half salvos. In the most extreme one minute, the Russians fired three and a half salvos, 12 rounds, and delivered more than 5 tons of ammunition. Arrived around the German battleship!

I have to say that the Russian M1907 12-inch L52 main gun is still very powerful, with a complete servo equipment, it can achieve an amazing rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute! Moreover, the artillery itself uses heavy rounds weighing 470KG, and the muzzle velocity is as high as 762 meters per second. From the perspective of kinetic energy alone, this is a pretty good artillery. And adhering to the Russian habit of emphasizing firepower density, the Queen Maria-class battleship equipped with 12 12-inch guns is indeed not a good role to deal with!

Relying on sufficient ammunition, the overwhelming rate of fire and the overwhelming number of barrels, the Russians actually made the first hit in a weight confrontation. (The Russian Black Sea Fleet’s artillery skills are still good. Historically, the Russian Dreadnoughts fired at 20 kilometers away when they were fighting the Goben. The first time the bomb fell 460 meters from the songbook. The second time it was 183 meters. The third volley has been reduced to 46 meters! But unfortunately, the fortune was not good, and there was no hit in the end...)

A 470KG 12-inch armor-piercing projectile screamed and slammed on the deck of the Tegerhof. After passing through the upper deck, it exploded. After the fierce charging was guaranteed, a shock wave was generated and a death of about 20 meters in the hull was formed. In the area, hundreds of kilograms of shrapnel swept everything they encountered under the impetus of the explosion energy, and the flames produced by the burning of picric acid caused a small fire at the rear of the hull.

"It seems that the Russians are clever. They know that armor-piercing projectiles cannot penetrate our core compartment, so they switched to semi-armor-piercing projectiles or high-explosive projectiles." Count Spey said thoughtfully, looking at the smoke pillar rising from behind. The British can rely on climbing technology to create "green hat" armor-piercing bullets. But what if the Russians do not have this ability, they can only use high-explosive bombs.

The Tegerhof then made the first German super fearless hit. In the seventh half of the salvo, a 350MM main artillery shell successfully hit the front of the hull of the Emperor Alexander III. It penetrated and exploded without accident. The fragile front armor was opened. A large hole of several square meters was formed, and the entire armor plate was peeled off. This warship brought hundreds of tons of water ingress, but overall it was not a big threat.

It was Prince Eugen’s two shots that really decided the battle. In the ninth round half of the salvo, the German gunners who had entered the state also hit the two shells of the Queen Maria they caught in a salvo. ! A shell hit the artillery gallery area above the main armor belt of the hull, and three 130MM secondary guns were directly blown up by a huge explosion! Another shell hit the battleship's No. 3 turret. At a distance of 14 kilometers, the front armor of the turret, which was only 12 inches thick, was no different from that of paper! This shell shot from the middle of the turret easily cut the vertical armor belt on the top of the artillery, and then slammed into the tail of the middle M1907 12-inch gun!

The heavy artillery weighing dozens of tons was directly blown into two pieces. The rear half of the artillery was pushed directly away from the gun mount, directly smashing the dozens of gunners from various countries behind into a mass of fleshy, turbulent flames and dense shrapnel facing each other. The two gun positions also carried out an indiscriminate coverage attack. The hydraulic transmission equipment of the left main gun was destroyed, and the personnel of the right main gun were almost instantly wiped out. Mary lost the firepower of three main guns. The battleship Empress, immediately at a disadvantage!

The flames and smoke rising from the middle of the hull interfered with the imaging of the rangefinder at the top of the mast, and the heated air was distorted, making the image that the Russians saw in the rangefinder abnormally blurred. After the loss of the three main guns, the firepower dropped abruptly by a level. After a while, Queen Maria’s shelling immediately became messy, and the fight was disordered. A volley fell to Prince Eugen. Near Tegerhof behind the number, the latter was shocked. You know, at this time, the distance between the two German Super Intrepids is 1000 meters!

"Toughness is still not enough." In the ensuing battle, the earl could clearly feel that the Russians were a little messy. Their shooting was not as accurate as before, and they were constantly adjusting their course to protect themselves. Be more conservative and release smoke screens from time to time. This certainly reduced the accuracy of the German fleet's bombardment, but at the same time it also gave up the opportunity to counterattack. The bombardment of Queen Maria suddenly went far and near. Although there was another hit, compared with the Prince Eugen, this performance was far worse!

In the next 5 minutes, Prinz Eugen hit the target twice again. A shell hit a point directly in front of the No. 2 turret. After penetrating the 300mm-thick armor belt of the sidestring, the shrapnel flew directly. It shattered the next wall of the motor compartment and exploded the internal motor into pieces. At the same time, the ignited diesel fuel also set a fire on the middle deck. The hot flame caused the temperature of the adjacent ammunition compartment to rise linearly. The Russians were so scared that they immediately filled the ammunition depot at the bottom of the ship. In this way, only a few shells in the dressing room could be used for the central turret. A few minutes later, the No. 2 turret also stopped firing.

The position of the fourth shell was also good. This shell landed on the rear of the fourth turret~www.wuxiaspot.com~ Although it did not directly penetrate the rear armor due to the angle, the violent explosion still blasted the armor plate through. . Countless fragments collided unscrupulously inside the hull, directly causing the drive shaft at the bottom of the hull to malfunction. For this reason, the Queen Maria had to reduce its speed to 15 knots.

And just when the Queen Maria had shown a defeat, the situation of the Alexander III, which was caught by the Tegerhof, was equally bad. During this period of time, the Tegerhof hit 5 guns. However, except for one shell hitting the sidestring armor belt, passing through the boiler compartment and blowing up 2 boilers, the remaining 4 guns All the artillery shells hit the superstructure, the first turret of the Alexander III was interrupted by two barrels, and one chimney was blown up. The other two shells set fire to the stern of the hull. From a distance, the billowing smoke almost covered the entire battleship. Only when the Russian battleship opened fire, the muzzle storm would blow off some thick smoke, so that the devastated hull could be seen.

Due to the interference of fire and heavy smoke, the combat effectiveness of the Alexander III continued to decline. Although it hits the Tegerhof 3 times, both shells were bounced off by the heavy side-string armor and the front armor of the turret. Only one shell was fired. It hits the No. 4 turret at the rear of the hull and blows up an artillery.

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