1825 My New Daming

Chapter 374 I, the U.S. Navy, know night battles best! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Great! Finally caught up!"

"God bless America!"

"It's time to show these yellow-skinned monkeys a little bit of power!"

"Now they can't escape and we can avenge those people on Wall Street!"

"That's right, we are the U.S. Navy that knows night battles best!"

When the flares fired by the armored destroyer Maya illuminated the Pennsylvania, there was joy in the bridge of the Pennsylvania.At this moment, including David Porter, all US naval officers firmly believed that victory would belong to them.

The reason is very simple, because they all believe that the U.S. Navy must be the most night-fighting navy in the world!
Before radar and night vision goggles, which can help the strong to open and hang at night, naval powers with superior equipment and military strength usually don’t like night battles—the real naval powers are displayed in broad daylight. Fighting, relying on stronger boats, more powerful guns, and winning by relying on strength to crush, why do you want to play heartbeat in the dark at night?

Moreover, night battles must be close combat, which gives the enemy's torpedo boats and smaller-caliber cannons that can't penetrate one's own armor at long distances a chance to exert their power.The strong on the battlefield have always liked to kill chickens with a sledgehammer, and subjectively they will never give their opponents a chance to comeback.

Therefore, world-class navies such as the British Royal Navy and the Ming Navy will avoid fighting the enemy in low visibility and high sea conditions. They prefer to crush their opponents with hulls with superior performance and superior numbers in broad daylight when the weather is calm.

As for night battles, the British Royal Navy often fought in the age of sails, but in the era of steam ironclads, they didn't like it very much.

As for the Ming Navy, it seems that they like to bully people with their equipment advantages.According to the intelligence that the U.S. Navy received wholesale from their "Daddy Ying", what the Ming Navy is best at now is sending planes to drop bombs far away to damage the enemy's ships, and then their own warships, patrols, and destroyers will go on the field.And they didn't play well on the field, but put a high-performance torpedo a few kilometers away to bully people, no, bully ships!

In addition, the British Royal Navy also suspects that the Ming Navy has a submarine that can dive underwater and launch torpedoes-when they were investigating the loss of the Indian fleet, they found reports of dozens of ships being hit by mines inexplicably!
And there are surviving sailors who found that there was a mysterious ship with a very low freeboard that was almost sinking in the water. It appeared before their ship was sunk, and then disappeared without a trace.
In short, it cannot be said that there are no records of surface ships of the Ming Navy actively seeking night battles, and they are rarely seen.

As for the Japanese Navy, no one has noticed that they are probably similar to the Ming Navy, right?
On this timeline, anyone who has learned a little bit of East Asian history knows that China is the eternal Rome of the East!What Japan, North Korea, Annan, Siam, Ryukyu...all look up to the existence of "Oriental Rome"!Even if Japan has been fighting with Daming all the time, it's just trying to get a better condition to integrate into "Rome".And before they integrated, they studied Daming very hard.

So in the eyes of knowledgeable people all over the world, the so-called "Texas Japanese Overseas Chinese Maritime Self-Defense Force" is nothing but a squadron of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Navy. The equipment, command, training, and even the salaries and benefits of the officers and soldiers are all given by Ming.

Therefore, the tactical capability of "Dezhou Haizi" should be the same as that of the Ming Navy.

The bombing of the Norfolk Naval Port and New York by the "Texas Sea Self" also proved this point.

As for why the Pennsylvania was discovered by the Japanese. It should be an accident, or it may be that the Pennsylvania is relatively large, with a standard displacement of 1.3 tons.On the other side of the Dezhou Sea, except for the two aircraft carriers, the other ships are three to four thousand tons.

Thinking of this, David Porter was confident, and he ordered loudly: "Order the destroyer to turn on the searchlights to search for the enemy ship, and fire flares after finding the enemy ship, so the armored cruiser keeps the blackout, continue to maintain the column and follow the flagship Pennsylvania. !"

"Yes, Lieutenant General!"

The answer to him was of course a confident voice!
Americans are always very confident!
David Porter obviously underestimated the night vision and professionalism of the "cat-eyed samurai" selected by Japan!

Although the Japanese devils on this timeline talk against the Ming Dynasty, they actually took the Ming Dynasty as their teacher for 100 years.However, the night combat level of the Japanese navy has always been higher than that of the Ming navy. The Japanese did not know the "secret method" of eating cod liver oil and carrots, but they also had their own clever tricks, which was to select "cat-eyed warriors" across the country.

Japan has a population of 2000 million anyway!Moreover, the status of a samurai is very attractive, so the shogunate navy, which attaches great importance to night battles, has never lacked "cat-eyed samurai".

In addition, Japan's "cat-eyed warriors" have another point that the American watchmen can't match, that is, they are extremely responsible!
If a "cat-eyed samurai" is found dozing off during combat duty, or if he fails to find out first when encountering an enemy, he will be cut into his stomach.

Therefore, these cat-eyed warriors on night shift must not dare to wander around during the day, but recharge their batteries in the cabin specially arranged for them.At night, they take up their duties with vigor, staring at their "cat's eyes" and searching for traces of the enemy in the darkness.

In fact, when the Maya's secondary guns fired flares, the cat-eyed warrior on the Maya had already sent out the U.S. Navy formation for a while-the cat-eyed warrior discovered this big ship at a distance of 1 meters from the Pennsylvania. the existence of the ship.

However, Nobutomo Tani Seiichiro is very good. He knows that he is not strong enough to defeat the enemy with long-distance bombardment. He can only try his best to get close, and then launch 450mm steam gas torpedoes-these torpedoes are installed in the national-level armor. The ear mounts on both sides of the destroyer can be launched forward.Two triples, a total of 6 rounds of 450mm steam gas torpedoes.

A torpedo of this size is small among steam gas torpedoes, and its range is relatively short. When the torpedo travels at a speed of 36 knots, its maximum range is only 7000 meters.

In order to launch these 6 steam gas torpedoes, Seiichiro Nantani immediately issued an order to change formation, and set up a horizontal formation directly in front of the American armored cruiser formation, and then moved forward quietly, not firing guns, until he reached the battle with the U.S. Navy When the USS Pennsylvania was less than 5000 meters away, it finally couldn't help but gave the order to launch flares.

"It's a Pennsylvania class!" Nobutomo Tani Seiichiro recognized the Pennsylvania class illuminated by flares at a glance, and he immediately shouted, "4000 meters, torpedo salvo, and then free fire!"

"Yes, sir!"

At this moment, several destroyers responsible for guarding the six Pennsylvania-class destroyers on the sea had turned on their searchlights, and several beams of light swept across the sea, obviously looking for enemy ships.

After sweeping for a while, a beam of light had already swept across the hull of the Kokiko-class armored destroyer Aoba.Immediately afterwards, all the beams of light moved to the Aoba, and then there were three "dong dong dong" sounds, and three flares had been shot into the air near the Aoba.Seiichiro Tani also felt a pain in both eyes, and immediately became tense.

The time to decide the fate of victory or defeat is about to begin.

"4000 meter."

Before Seiichiro Tani's eyesight fully recovered, the captain of the Maya yelled.

Nobutomo Tani Seiichiro immediately shouted: "Right now, launch the torpedo!"

"Yes, sir!" cried the Maya's gunnery officer.

"Bah, bah, bah"

After a few soft beeps, six 6mm steam gas torpedoes had been ejected out of the torpedo tubes, dragged a white trail, and rushed towards the huge Pennsylvania in the dark at a high speed of 450 knots.

(End of this chapter)