1825 My New Daming

Chapter 309 Unexpectedly, the Ming Navy's trump card turned out to be them!
"Major General, Ming's battleship carrier is rushing towards us!"

"Major General, the planes of the Ming army are also rushing towards us!"

On the bridge of the Royal Navy's battleship Malina, the voices of the chief staff officer and the navigator had already rang in the ears of Rear Admiral Thomas Howe, commander of the second battleship formation.

Rear Admiral Thomas Howe is also a very experienced naval commander!When he was a teenager, he followed his father, Lord Howe, on a warship as a naval intern, and then through his own efforts and a letter of recommendation from Admiral Hood (Lieutenant Admiral Hood's father), he successfully entered the Dartmouth Royal Naval Academy.After graduating from the Naval Academy, he participated in the Napoleonic Wars, and spent money to donate a captain's position during the war. In this way, Thomas Howe relied on his own efforts, step by step, and finally became a rear admiral of the British Royal Navy. !
Rao is such an experienced rear admiral, so he is a little confused at the moment.Directly in front of him is a warship that doesn't know whether it is an aircraft carrier or a battleship, and several third-class cruisers are rushing towards him-see what this means is an artillery battle!
And in the sky, dozens (64) of small biplanes formed 4 formations, staggering and almost flying over the battleship Malina where they were-looking at this posture, they were about to drop bombs!
On one side, the planes are throwing bombs, and on the other side are battleships, aircraft motherships, and artillery. How do we deal with this?He didn't teach at the Royal Naval Academy in Dartmouth, and he didn't encounter it in the Napoleonic Wars. It can be said that he never thought that such a situation would happen before today!

Seeing that the major general who came from a famous family but was a bit unresponsive was still in a daze, the chief of staff of the battleship Malina reminded loudly: "Major General, the enemy plane is approaching, we should take an S-shaped evasion route!"

"Yes, yes, yes, take the S-shaped evasion route!" Major General Hao finally remembered that the S-shaped evasion route is a standard way for ships to avoid airship bombings, and it should also be used to avoid aircraft bombs, right?

He thought for a while, and then said: "Let the Wellesley (another Victory class) use the same method. We must not let the Chinese bombs fall on the Marina and the Wellesley!"

"Yes, Major General!"

"As ordered!"

Both the helmsman and flag officer of the battleship Marina responded loudly.The first officer of the battleship, an elderly gunnery expert, reminded: "Major general, taking an S-shaped evasive route will increase the difficulty of artillery observation and aiming."

"It doesn't matter," Major General Howe said, "the enemy doesn't have many bombs to drop, and it will be over in a while!"

As soon as his voice fell, the bridge observer shouted loudly: "The enemy ship opened fire!"

Major General Hao hurriedly turned his head to look.In the line of sight, several black dots leaped from the sea like lightning, and then flew over the battleship Malina suddenly, and landed on the sea more than a hundred yards away.Major General Hao turned his attention to the "battle aircraft carrier" that fired just now. It was still more than 1 yards away!

At this distance, they were able to shoot so accurately. The Ming Navy's gunnery and range-finding skills are really well-deserved!
"boom"

The bow of the battleship aircraft carrier in the distance flashed with flames again, and several 300mm shells were blasted out of the muzzle again!However, it still missed, but the shell landed twenty or thirty yards closer!

Is this too accurate?

The chief staff officer of the Marina suddenly reminded: "The airship! It must be the airship hovering over us that is assisting them in sighting!"

"Damn it!" Major General Hao cursed.

At this time, the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft guns on the battleship suddenly fired, crackling into a ball.At the same time, the Mariner also began to move in an S-shape, wriggling on the sea surface to avoid bombs.

Those small biplanes in the air seemed to be on the battlefield for the first time. Seeing two battleships writhing on the sea surface and firing dense anti-aircraft ammunition, they were a little bit hesitant for a while, so they had to raise their heights and fly around them. I want to wait for them to "twist" and get tired before frying.

However, the Marlina and the Wellesley seemed to be tireless, twisting endlessly, and all kinds of anti-aircraft ammunition seemed endless. This air strike seemed to be a little bit impossible.

The twisting Malina and Wellesley also caused trouble for the aiming of the four 4mm guns on the battleship carrier that was getting closer and closer. After several rounds, the shells kept falling. A hundred yards away from both ships.

Major General Hao also breathed a sigh of relief, and murmured: "That's all. The plane can't blow up, and the cannon can't hit it. Next, let you yellow-skinned monkeys taste the power of the Royal Navy's 12-inch cannonball!"

Following the order of Major General Howe, when the distance between the two sides was reduced to about 16 yards, the 12 [-]-inch cannons on the Marlina and the Wellesley finally fired their first salvo.

"Report, the distance is 9000 meters!"

"Distance, 8500 meters!"

"Distance, 8000 meters."

When the British 12-inch shells kept falling near the aircraft-carrying battlecruiser Shuzhongwang, the navigator of the Shuzhongwang was still reporting the distance one after another, and the atmosphere in the bridge became tense.After all, the two battleships in the distance are the latest British battleships. They should be designed with 10 12-inch "full main guns". Without the second-level main guns to interfere with sighting, the accuracy of shooting should be improved a lot—— In recent years, with the advancement of artillery technology and the advancement of various sighting methods and calculation formulas, the effective shooting distance of the main guns of battleships has become farther and farther, and now generally exceeds 5000 meters. Inch guns hitting 12 meters should also have a certain degree of accuracy.

After all, the Shuzhongwang is an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser, and it doesn't have an armored deck. If the opponent's 12-inch shells smash through the flight deck and fall into the hangar below, it will easily cause a fire.

So Zhuge Weidao didn't dare to be too reckless, he was Zhuge's military adviser after all, not Zhang Fei with a bad face!
"It's almost there!" Zhuge Weidao took a deep breath, "It's time to show our real trump card!"

"Yes, Junmen."

Ma Xuchen, the chief of staff of the fleet, ordered loudly: "Order all destroyers to start charging at full speed!"

Wang Wen, the aviation staff officer of the fleet, also picked up the loudspeaker of the radio and said loudly: "So pay attention to the air units. Now start dropping bombs. Remember, keep the altitude and avoid being shot down by the enemy!"

Following the order of the two, the situation on the sea and in the sky suddenly changed!
First, the 64 Ssangyong aircraft circling in the sky began to lower their altitude, and then began to line up to drop bombs.In the process of circling, these planes have formed 4 teams, and every 2 teams bombed a victory level.It is not swarming, but lining up for bombing in an orderly manner.The Ssangyong aircraft flew over the Malina and the Wellesley in sequence from an altitude of 2500 to 3000 meters, and flew from the left rear, right rear, right front, and left front of the two ships respectively. This is specially used to deal with S-shape evasive bombing method.But the effect didn't seem to be very good. The bombs fell one by one, and one by one fell into the air. The Marlina and the Wellesley were unscathed, but a lot of huge water jets exploded.

The attention of the British and Indian naval officers and soldiers on the Malina and the Wellesley was of course attracted by these bombs that might fall on their heads at any time.

I don't know how long it took to explode, but when Major General Hao suspected that these small planes in the sky would never end, someone shouted, "The cruiser Mingguo's cruiser rushed up!"

cruiser?
Major General Hao was taken aback for a moment, and then turned his attention to the sea, only to realize that 6 cruisers (actually torpedo destroyers) with an astonishing speed had rushed 3000 yards away!
What is this for?
When Rear Admiral Hao didn't know what was going on, he saw the six destroyers deflect their bows slightly, pointing their bows at his battleship, and then each fired a bunch of torpedoes. It really was a bunch of torpedoes!
He has never seen a cruiser that can launch so many torpedoes at a time (actually only 6), let alone torpedoes that can be launched at such a long distance, and these torpedoes run fast after entering the water It left scary tracks on the sea—at least 30 of them!

30 torpedoes shot a fan, how to hide?
(End of this chapter)