Chapter 265 Sunk Yamato (2)
In the eyes of an old captain like Iroku Yamamoto, the shelling of dozens of kilometers away was purely a firework - because if you are not lucky, it would be a few hundred shells that could not hit a single shot. Although artillery in the 1930s could send shells to dozens of kilometers or even longer, its accuracy was not good. It can also be said that the technology of the fire control system has not yet been developed.
These eight shells did not appear to Yamamoto Izuru's expectations and collectively fell into the sea and exploded. But what surprised Yamamoto Izuru was that these eight shells fell only two or three hundred meters away from the Yamato. The shells exploded in the sea water (the navy's armor-piercing shells were also dozens of kilograms**). The splashing waves actually landed on the Yamato's deck. To be fair, the 35-kilometer distance from the first launch was only two or three hundred meters away from the target.
Faced with the first launch of the Central Navy, Yamamoto Izuru also had to respond and immediately ordered: "The No. 1 main turret, No. 2 main turret, and No. 3 main turret are all ready for a test fire."
The design of the Japanese Yamato-class battleship is an internationally popular triple barrel design that is arranged along the central axis, with the front two and back one and three turrets along the central axis. However, the triple barrels will affect each other when firing salvos, which will reduce the accuracy of the shelling. Therefore, there is usually one barrel that fires first, and then the remaining two barrels will fire after one or two seconds.
It is precisely because of this reason that although the technology of triple-mounted gun barrel and quad-mounted gun barrel has been released, Jin Batian has not adopted it at all. Zhongshan-class battleships still use a relatively mature two-mounted gun barrel design - there is anything faster, so why bother thinking about adding gun barrels?
Furthermore, if a triple gun barrel is used on the Zhongshan-class battleship, the artillery will become twelve, the four additional cannons and shells will be added, the space of the turret is expanded, and the overall structure of the ship needs to be changed, so it is better to respond to changes in all changes. Anyway, the triple main gun will affect the rate of fire, and the number and weight of shells fired per unit time are not much stronger than that of this double main gun.
Just as the Yamato battleship's main turret was aiming and preparing for test firing, the Yanshan battleship launched another round of eight shells.
Seven of the shells fell on the sea dozens of meters around the Yamato battleship, and one shell was very lucky to land on the Yamato deck - this cannon destroyed a secondary gun and two anti-aircraft guns on the Yamato.
"Good fight." Although it was not the starter's hit, the enemy's flagship was hit by the second round of artillery attacks at such a long distance. Seeing this scene, the personnel of the Central Navy could not help but cheer in unison.
But this was just the beginning. Jin Batian's Yanshan was the least, with only more than 500 people. Because there were not so many people after the transformation, the rate of fire was greatly increased. The space and load used to load people were used to load shells. Therefore, the Yanshan shells were the least short of.
When Jin Batian found out that the first shot was hit, he realized that the computer had completely locked the Yamato battleship, and immediately pressed the salvo button. The shells hit the Yamato battleship at a maximum speed of five rounds and forty rounds per minute. The distance of more than 30 kilometers was more than ten seconds, and the result was that the third batch of shells was still in the air, and the fourth batch and the fifth batch of shells had already flown out of the cannon chamber.
Seeing that the shell exploded around the Yamato battleship and even on the deck like dumplings, the helmsman of the Yamato battleship began to evade before he received the order - even if Yamamoto Izuki issued an order in dozens of seconds, it would just pressurize the boiler and increase the speed to avoid the shells. Although Yamamoto was the essence of the Japanese battleship, it could not withstand this move. Yamamoto Izuki felt that the Yamato battleship was not shooting against a Zhongshan-class battleship, but was besieged by three and four Zhongshan-class battleships.
After the three test shots of the Yamato battleship were completed, it also opened fire. However, in the repeated S-shaped evasion shells, the shell's landing point was no longer accurate. The nearest number of shell landing points was only on the sea surface five or six hundred meters away from the Yanshan battleship.
"Sure enough, this attack is the best defense. Hahahaha..." Jin Batian's arrogant laughter came from the bridge of the Yanshan.
From God's perspective, seeing that the Yamato dodges left and right on the sea like a whale, avoiding most of the Yanshan shells, Jin Batian turned and scolded fiercely: "He is so brave, he dares to hide."
This is already unreasonable. When will there be any reason to avoid cannonballs?
Jin Batian looked at the operation manual and transferred the cannons on the Yanshan battleship from the volley mode to the continuous firing mode. After this computerized transformation, Yanshan has three types of shelling modes: one is to shoot individually with each barrel or turret, the second is to shoot the main guns of the entire ship, and the third is to shoot the main guns of the ship. This continuous firing mode is to divide the main guns on the ship into No. 1-8, starting from the main gun No. 1, and ending with the main gun No. 8, a round of continuous firing is completed.
In terms of rate of fire, this continuous shooting may be slightly slower than the salvo mode, but the computer on the ship will slightly adjust the subsequent shelling according to the landing point parameters of each shelling, and the hit rate will increase significantly.
The Japanese on the Yamato battleship had the most say about this. Originally, the bombs fell like rain around the Yamato battleship, and there were only a few shells that fell on the deck. Even these few shells of more than 1,000 kilograms also destroyed several secondary cannons and more than a dozen anti-aircraft cannons. The shells exploded on the deck and turned hundreds of Japanese navy into flesh and blood.
The shelling paused for a moment, and for about a few dozen seconds, a row of shells chased and flew towards the Yamato battleship - most of these shells did not fall into the deck of the Yamato battleship one after another. Yamamoto Irosaki felt that what he had learned in the United States before was outdated and out of date. How could there be such naval battles, and how could there be such accurate shelling?
Now both sides are still at the distance of the artillery bending, and the shells can only explode on the deck. If so many shells are caught at the distance of direct shooting, even the Yamato battleship will only be killed by the shells. However, there are still many shells that can withstand on the deck. Moreover, the most important main gun turret and bridge are also on the deck. If the main turret and bridge are hit continuously, it will be a very fatal matter.
When he arrived here, Yamamoto Iroji didn't dare to leave any backup plan and immediately ordered the Navy Navy Brigade: "All bombers and torpedo planes take off and besiege the enemy's Navy's main ship."
This time, the Japanese sent six aircraft carriers - one of which was rented from the US Pacific Fleet by wet lease. This is also a lot to thank the US Imperial Council for the loan loan bill just passed. According to this bill, US President Roosevelt has the right to return all domestic military and defense materials to the belligerent countries by selling, renting, exchanging, etc. The Japanese are not only the largest trading partner of the US at this time, but also a piece for the US to maintain order in Asia. Therefore, such a major matter of renting the entire Pacific Fleet can be completed within a few days.
If the US Pacific Fleet had not been rented over here, I am afraid that the Japanese Navy would have to have ten VS twenty ships in the duel of the main battleships. Now there are fourteen VS twenty ships, so it is not impossible to fight. Especially when the Japanese Navy has to have four more aircraft carriers.
To be fair, the carrier-based aircraft of the aircraft carrier is now unable to sink the super battleship - unless the super battleship does nothing and stops on the sea to allow the carrier-based torpedoes to fire torpedoes at one side. The torpedoes of the 1930s are not as fast or powerful as they are.
In addition to posing some threats to the anti-aircraft guns on the deck, the bombers were placed on the sea with super battleships that would not be sunk no matter how many hundreds of bombers were bombed together. In order to deal with the sister ship of the Bismarck, the Englishmen used a ton-weight killing weapon like the "high cabinet".
Although these killer weapons are very powerful, there is one thing. One of the carrier-based aircraft in the 1930s can count on one, and none of them can fly with this thing.
The meaning of Yamamoto Irojiu's launch of carrier-based aircraft is very simple, which is to cause some trouble for the Zhongshan-class battleship. Otherwise, if it is put on the attack like this, the Yamato can only escape or sink. Now it is obvious that relying solely on the Yamato battleship's naval guns is completely impossible to suppress the opponent's shelling - but the Yamato battleship's shelling is always due to constant evasion and inaccurate hitting the Yanshan battleship.
Not long after Yamamoto Izuru issued the order, these two consecutive 406mm armor-piercing bombs hit the bridge of the Yamato battleship. The kinetic energy of the shells turned into huge impact force and the explosion made Yamamoto Izuru and others unable to stand upright, and they all fell to the ground or on tables and chairs.
Jin Batian of Yanshan here saw a large number of fighter bombers and torpedoes approaching Yanshan from the air from the perspective of God. He picked up the telephone and said to the Huashan battleship behind him: "Let our carrier-based aircraft ignore the Yanshan, protect the aircraft carrier and Zhongshan."
The aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft are also the old root of the Nanjing Central Navy. Although Chen Shaokuan has been calling for many years to build an aircraft carrier, no one in the country can do it, including him, Chen Shaokuan, an aircraft carrier advocate. Since he got the aircraft carrier in 30s, the Central Navy has been learning under the guidance of the German Navy instructor who was half a bottle of swaying - aircraft carriers are new weapons that appeared after World War I. The German Navy, which was asked by the League of Nations to disarma after World War I, had never played with the German Navy, but he did not know at all about the carrier-based aircraft of seaplanes and aircraft carriers.
Therefore, it is conceivable that the difficulty of the Nanjing Central Navy aircraft carrier-based aircraft is started. Excellent pilots are all in Nanjing, Peking, and pilots of aircraft carrier-based aircraft must learn step by step from takeoff. By 1938, only two aircraft carriers could form combat effectiveness.
Because there are few aircraft carriers, there are few carrier-based aircraft. The more than a hundred aircraft carriers are all fighter jets. Since there are too few aircraft carriers, there is only one mission. It protects the ships of this side from being harassed by Japanese bombers and torpedoes. Yes, if Japanese do not use the Kanfeng attack tactics, carrier-based aircraft will harass the naval ships forming formations. Especially when facing a super battleship of tens of thousands of tons, an aircraft is only equivalent to a large mosquito. Besides, even mosquitoes can bite people, but there are also anti-aircraft cannons of various caliber on the aircraft carrier.
Jin Batian was not afraid of the formation of bombers and torpedoes flying in groups. People locked the planes with their hands and eyes, and how could this computer lock the planes accurately? On the Zhongshan-class battleship, eight twin 105 anti-aircraft guns, eight twin 37mm anti-aircraft guns and 18 20mm dual anti-aircraft machine guns are not vegetarians. Everyone in the entire bridge controls one or two anti-aircraft guns, just waiting for the **.
Soon, a strange scene appeared on the sea. The Japanese flagship Yamato battleship was blown by thick smoke in a one-on-one artillery battle. The Yanshan battleship, which was fired against him, was besieged by hundreds of fighter bombers and torpedoes. From time to time, one or two aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft artillery artillery and fell into the sea. However, hundreds of aircraft were unable to penetrate the firepower network composed of dozens of anti-aircraft artillery artillery posed a threat to the Yanshan battleship.
After ten minutes of artillery battle, the Yamato was already broken, and the main turret and bridge of the No. 2 were damaged in many places. Yamamoto Iroku no longer had the same calmness as before. He lay on the ground and grabbed the walkie-talkie and shouted in a tremolo to the aircraft carrier formation: "I order, immediately launch the Kanfeng Warcraft, immediately launch the Kanfeng Warcraft..."
The Japanese pilots were also very depressed. It was not that they did not want to launch the Kanfeng war, but that they were volleyed and knocked down into the sea halfway after launching the Kanfeng war. There was no way to attack several times. However, the commander had orders and had to listen. Bombers and torpedoes that had not yet produced bombs were pulled to high altitude with all their strength and dived towards the Yanshan battleship below at a nearly vertical angle.
At this time, the Yanshan battleship inside the bridge was again warning: "Dangerous, locked by explosives. Dangerous, locked by explosives."
"Accelerate avoidance. Avoid." The shouts were transmitted through the wires in the bridge. Now even the Yanshan main gun was not so good.
However, Yamamoto Iroku saved his life and immediately took this opportunity to order the Yamato battleship, which was injured in the main turret and bridge of the No. 2 and was damaged in the deck height, to retreat and return to the main formation. Because the damage personnel on the Yamato battleship were killed and injured, the Yamato was now a large torch and a large chimney on the sea, and rolling smoke and fires continued to emerge on the sea - it was too unecocious.
After driving away the seriously injured Yamato battleship, the surrounding area and on the deck of Yanshan were also in a mess - the Japanese planes that faithfully implemented the Kanyu Tide were all blown up by volleys, but many explosives still landed on the deck along the inertia and exploded, and several anti-aircraft guns were damaged. However, due to Jin Batian's strict order, the damage personnel were not allowed to go to the deck before the plane was shot, and there were no casualties on the deck.
Although the Yanshan battleship was faster than the Yamato battleship, Jin Batian did not chase it - even if the Yanshan battleship, which has completed the computerized transformation, is a dead end no matter how powerful it is, it is going to penetrate into the enemy group.
At this time, due to the exchange of fire between the Yanshan battleship and the Yamato battleship, the battleships of both sides also began to shoot at each other. Because the proportion of the main battleships here is 13 to 19, some of the Central Navy's battleships can calmly fight two or one or even three to one. Well, the Zhongshan battleship is now cooperating with the Qingling battleship and the Lushan battleship to besiege the Japanese another Yamato-class battleship, Musashi, with three Zhongshan-class battleships.
Most battleships still carried out a very gentleman one-to-one mode, but this situation changed after the Yanshan battleship killed all the hundreds of mosquitoes around him and then joined the battle situation again.
After Jin Batian was waiting for the assassination killer sisters around him to control anti-aircraft artillery to explode or expel the Japanese planes one by one, they saw that the two sides had already started fighting on the battlefield. The distance between the main fleets of both sides was about twenty kilometers. Although the distance was still a little farther away, because of the super-long-range artillery fired by the Yanshan just now, everyone couldn't help but open fire. To say that the artillery fire of more than twenty kilometers was still a little accurate, it was about dozens of shots that could hit one shot on average, which was military long-range artillery bombardment. Among them, the battleship Musashi, which was besieged by three battleships of Zhongshan, Qingling and Lushan, had already suffered two 406mm armor-piercing bombs in the dense rain of bullets.
I took a look at the nearest enemy. It was the Meiji battleship one-on-one with the Huashan battleship. The Meiji battleship was a Emperor-class battleship customized by the Japanese with loans from Britain. Although the speed was worrying, it was still very useful in battle. The Huashan battleship saw that it hit a shot, but the thick smoke and flames ignited on the deck of the Meiji battleship were quickly extinguished.
After Jin Batian locked the Meiji battleship with his computer, he first demonstrated a round of volleys, and then waited for the shells to fall into the water, the computer adjusted the angle of the turret and barrel. Jin Batian pressed the continuous firing button and a row of shells flew out of the four turrets of the Yanshan battleship, connected in the air, and shot into the Meiji battleship more than 20 kilometers away.
In just three minutes, dozens of shells exploded on the Meiji battleship, exploding the decks of the Meiji battleship and the Japanese on the bridge to cry and cry. They just now understood what the fleet commander-in-chief Iroji Yamamoto just now felt. Even the protective emperor-class battleship could not stand this level of bombing.
The Meiji battleship soon wanted to turn around and escape, returning to the formation just like the Yamato battleship just now, but this time there were no hundreds of planes launching the kamikaze tactics for it to delay time. Yanshan's main artillery shells exploded one after another on the Meiji battleship, and finally exploded a huge crack on its deck. Then a shell was lucky enough to penetrate the crack. A huge explosion occurred inside the Meiji battleship.
This internal explosion damaged the boiler pipelines of the Meiji battleship. On the sea, the Meiji battleship was slowing down. It was said that the fireworks released by the Yamato battleship just now were not smaller than the Meiji battleship, but what the warship feared most in naval battleship was its power damage, and this time the Meiji battleship caught up.
The Meiji battleship, which could not avoid shells, became a target at this time. Even the Huashan battleship was not behind when fighting such fixed targets. While the hit rate was greatly improved, the radio communication was sent to Jin Batian's Yanshan: "The Meiji is handed over to us Huashan, and you Yanshan will support other ships."
Putting down the communication device, Jin Batian cursed: "Your sister." But then he thought, he was indeed suspected of stealing the head. The Zhongshan Mountains were still a little advantage in the one-on-one artillery battle, but this advantage was difficult to turn into a winning position in a short period of time.
Chapter completed!