The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

The captain of the "Yamato", Gao Liuyi, Eighth Commander, felt so awkward, he took over, and this unprecedented super battleship was already second-hand... er no, it was junk.

The first time I got used to a long voyage, I ran into an inexplicable block. As a result, I didn't even catch a single hair of the enemy, and was destroyed and bruised. This kind of unlucky thing proves that this warship may be cursed by gods and ghosts by nature, and it must not be. What good luck is accompanied by, but such things as luck are very important to the navy!

As the official first captain, not only did he not have the opportunity to fight independently, but he had to cooperate with the original target British and American navies and listen to their orders. This feeling is very uncomfortable!

But the good thing is that you can fully demonstrate your excellence among the three most powerful naval powers in the world, and let them have a good look at what is the most powerful warship in the universe!Just looking down from the majestic bridge, the refreshing feeling is not to mention how refreshing it is!

But there is an old saying that says that a big tree attracts the wind, and a gun shoots a bird that stands out. The "Yamato" and other two battleships are too outstanding and conspicuous among the hundreds of ships in the entire formation. As long as you look at them, you can first find their huge and majestic figures. Naturally, you have to deal with them first. Let them come and kill one, what a feat, what a boost to morale!

In the offense, it is naturally the undisputed main force, but it is very uncomfortable to be regarded as the first target to hit!

A loud bang sounded from the rear, and the rising black smoke could be clearly seen from a long distance away. Gao Liuyisan felt a very bad feeling in his head, and hurriedly ordered the damage control to rush up immediately Put out the fire, and at the same time order the engine room to work hard to increase the power output, and you can't let the opponent hit it casually!

That's right.In Takayanagi's heart, there is a judgment of "hitting casually"!How can there be such a good thing in the world that can be hit from such a long distance?This is unscientific, and it is not in line with the routine. It is probably because the opponent aimed at one place and fired several rounds of shells in succession.

...not to mention whether he thought right or wrong.There are always variables in war, but in specific battles, calculations must have the upper hand and have strong decision-making power!

The two ships of the "Kunlun Mountain" tilted their hulls [-] kilometers away, and almost made a U-turn on the spot with a very small radius that made people's eyes round. The slight tilt turned the straight-on sailing into a cross-cutting posture with ease, and then The naval guns were fired at once, not just the first two rounds.It's the basic number of probability shooting---five consecutive rounds! !

The rate of fire of the "Kunlun-class" main gun is not the low rate of 1.8 rounds per minute of the Japanese army, but the regular rate of 2,5 or 3 rounds.This is still under the premise of ensuring the stability and hit rate of the salvo!

At this time, they don't need to go all out, but since the target is locked, there is no reason to let it go easily, so every half minute, a round of shells hits.Each time, a strict fine-tuning strategy was followed.Keep a close eye on the "Yamato"'s forward curve, and ensure that every shell that falls and the explosion circle that happens to form can fit this behemoth into it!

The third round of shells arrived as scheduled, and the more precise strikes ensured another hit.Impressively, a near-missing bullet hit the armor hard from below the waterline on the port side with a side-ball attitude. The angle of entry was too large, almost parallel to the armor, so the 1.2-ton armor-piercing warhead just smashed into the well-proportioned armor. A sink the size of a tub, then bounces through the water.Explode close to the bottom keel of the ship!

"Boom!" The dull sound was mixed in a series of more than a dozen explosions, which was very inconspicuous, but the distance was too close, and the destructive power of the [-]kg charge also set off an amazing impact, making the sturdy "Yamato" The shell was slightly deformed, and there was a strange creaking sound, which shocked the people in the bottom cabin!

When Gao Liuyisan saw the jet of water rushing up against the ship's side, his face changed drastically in shock, and he almost crushed his finger bones, but fortunately, there didn't seem to be any major damage.This breath has not gone down yet, the fourth round of shells crashed down, this time, not so lucky!

The shooting was aimed at the center line of the battleship, and the accuracy of the landing point was outrageous!A shell fell at a small angle and hit the base of the front turret from the front!The armor-piercing ability of the shell at the terminal speed is extremely attenuated, but it still unceremoniously smashed a terrifying hole in its 560mm thick armor!

Of course it is impossible for Zhu Bin to equip his battleship with ordinary warheads!Giant ships and cannons are bombarded, using kinetic energy strikes as the key to victory, the fight is the hit rate, and the end penetration after the hit!

Conventional steel warheads rely solely on their own weight and end kinetic energy, which means that the closer they are, the greater the penetrating power, and the penetrating power is stronger after adopting the capped structure, but there is still a huge gap in the strength of the projectile.But what if the external hardening of the warhead is at the same level as tungsten carbide? !

That's right!That's what he does!

With unprecedented seabed mining technology in hand, hundreds of thousands of tons of spaceships and millions of tons of space junk alloys, high-purity molecular smelting and ion high-temperature smelting, he has no shortage of materials that are extremely expensive and scarce in other countries. Strategic metals, such as tungsten, manganese and various ultra-high-strength alloys, are even extravagant enough to specialize in warheads, and depth-piercing aerial bombs and semi-armor-piercing anti-ship missiles used to destroy bunkers. The hardness of the impact on the head, It was almost made of depleted uranium by him, but the hardness and strength are not bad at all!

Under normal circumstances, at a distance of 420 kilometers, even a 300mm armor-piercing projectile may not be able to penetrate more than 560mm of armor in the end, let alone [-]mm. This time is no exception. It did not penetrate, but it did not fly!

The delicate hooded armor-piercing projectile flew off the hood and penetrated at a stable angle. After the brittle quilt collapsed, the vertebral body wrapped inside plunged into the armor unceremoniously with amazing hardness, rebounding and anti-shock force After being damaged and vented, the warhead exploded joyfully!

"Boom!"

The warhead with a certain energy-gathering armor-piercing structure exploded into a cone-shaped destructive force, and slammed it hard on the huge gun mount. The impact was so strong that the battleship trembled slightly, but the crew inside the turret But I can't take it anymore!

The detonation tremor that was close at hand made their hearts beat hard like a sledgehammer, and more than a dozen people vomited blood and became paralyzed on the spot.The inner lining collapsed, and several more were injured. The heavy shell fragments swept across, and of course the upper barrel was not spared. One of them rebounded and got stuck in the gap, blocking a thick barrel Just a little bit.

The look and feel from the bridge is different!Gao Liuyi's third assistant trembled again.The corner of his mouth was trembling and he almost called out "The Emperor's Blessing", and he roared out of composure to let the damage control check, and found that the main turret had not been blown down, but his heart was hanging and he couldn't let it go anymore-what is the size!

Endless!The fifth round flew evenly, and it was another hit!

The luck of the shell this time was the best, and it actually approached the top of the 127mm twin turret next to the bridge from the side!It was impossible to destroy the turret mount, but it was too easy for this paper-thin armor. The armor-piercing bullets were as crisp as a knife-cut tofu, smashing the top of the entire turret.The two gun barrels were blown away from the roots first, and all the soldiers inside were torn to pieces!

Afterwards, the shell penetrated deeply into the interior of the turret, and the explosion smashed the lower bomb supply mechanism and all the personnel together, and severely tore the steel of the circular base. The triple-mounted cannon was smashed into a mess!

The tremors caused by the explosion finally made people on and off the bridge uneasy. The threat that was so close at hand was too obvious, and broken shrapnel and blasted steel flew around.Some even rose to the top and smashed the outer walls clanging!

Gao Liuyisan couldn't hold back any longer, and loudly ordered the battleship to immediately change its marching strategy.Don't do any more snake-like maneuvers, it is clear that the opponent has already judged their trajectory, so a series of shelling is carried out accordingly!

Regardless of whether this conjecture is true or not, if there is no better explanation right now, it can only be regarded as the most reliable idea.

People's experience is forced out, and the Japanese navy's failures over the past few years are not in vain.They can roughly guess what kind of means the opponent has. The corresponding strategy is not countermeasures, so they have to try to avoid it as much as possible.Just like now, you can't reach others at all, so you have to minimize the number of times you get hit!

The Yamato-class battleship is too bulky! More than 6 tons of standard displacement.With a full load of 7 tons, the total length is only 263 meters, which is not even as long as the "Taishan class". It is conceivable that the width is huge, and the corresponding mobility is inevitably somewhat insufficient.With its low power of 15 horsepower, it is quite good to be able to run 27 knots, but the heavy armor is too restrictive, and the consistent high center of gravity of Japanese ships can easily cause the tragedy of inadvertent capsizing.

In contrast, Zhu Bin's "Kunlun-class" battleship has a length of 285 meters and a width of 38 meters, which is much longer than Yamato!However, due to the extreme simplification of the overall steel and construction, the standard displacement is only 5.5 tons, but the actual content space and full row carrying capacity are not much worse than their 7.2 tons!

In terms of power, it is even worse!Better stability, greater speed, higher maneuverability, greater rate of fire, and a series of leads have formed an unfathomable advantage. Speaking of it, it is very bullying.

But who made Zhu Bin like this way of bullying the small?And it is also a consistent strategy of pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!

When the "Taishan class" was built, he made a displacement of 3.5 tons to fool people, but in fact, as long as you know its size, it is easy to judge that the guy must have a standard displacement of at least 4.5 tons!Looking at the structure of the ship, it is a mess of simplicity, but there are not many turrets at all, and a large part of the rear deck is still empty...Who would believe it if there is no ghost!

The Japanese didn't understand it, thinking that his combat effectiveness was just like that, so they suffered a big loss!

It's still the same now, I can't tell what level the opponent is, and I think I'm smart enough to judge that the main gun won't be that big, at best, it's about the same as before, but I got beaten up, Gao Liuyisan immediately woke up, the opponent in front of Nima Can't use common sense to judge whether it is good or not!

He guessed right!The performance indicators of all the current capital ships of the Japanese army, the status of armaments, the performance of all main weapons, ballistic trajectories, navigation habits, and evasion strategies have all been made clear, and targeted strike strategies have been formulated.

Regardless of other things, the "Yamato" desperately returned to the normal course on the premise of ensuring that the ship would not capsize, stopped changing direction to evade, and rushed straight forward. At the same time, the hull began to tilt at a forty-degree angle towards Go ahead.All the main guns began to point to the predetermined target area, with a maximum elevation angle of 45 degrees, ready to fire!

The speed of the two armies' confrontation is very fast, 1 kilometers in one minute. Now after five rounds of salvos, the distance between each other has quickly approached about 1.5 kilometers.The range of the main gun of the Yamato class is up to 42050 meters!

In the state of full radio shielding, the reconnaissance plane could not report the specific coordinates, but there was no problem with the pointing action. On the top of the tall bridge mast, the extremely simple radar and lookouts simultaneously discovered the equally mighty existence of the "Kunlun". What a blur, at least the target is finally seen!

"Fire! Fire!"

Gao Liuyisan roared loudly at the phone, and the three 460mm main guns roared in response!

The movement of the salvo can be described as spectacular!One left and one right.The salvos of the eighteen super cannons of the two giant ships rose into the sky, like a crater about to erupt. Although the huge recoil of the turrets calculated at thousands of tons did not move the 1460-[-]-ton hull, it also made the hull Vigorously shaking, the heavy [-] kg armor-piercing projectile shot out like a stalk, and the exaggerated posture made people dizzy!

The grandeur of this momentum made the British and American generals on the other warships and the officers of each ship amazed, and even shocked their hearts!Sure enough, it is the world's largest caliber cannon.Just the sound of firing is so appalling, I really don't know if it hits.What a scene!If it is coming towards your own battleship... the generals of the two countries are all terrified!Just the weight of the cannonball, I am afraid that one shot can smash through my own battleship!

That's really hard to say!

The North Carolina-class side armor of the Yankees is only 12 inches. Under heavy protection, the power system and ammunition depot seem to be relatively safe, but they will definitely not be able to withstand such a heavy bombardment, even the 16-inch turret.It is also pitifully weak, and within 30 kilometers, it is absolutely almost the same with one shot.

Not to mention the British George V class, the 14.7-inch side reinforcement is only 348mm, but the main turret is thinner, only 324mm, even if it is a long-range hit.The thickness of the armor is also slag in one shot. I really don't know what the 356-ton full platoon does with such a large hull and a bunch of main guns with a caliber of only 4mm.

But no matter what, the two battleships are smaller than the Yamato, and it’s frightening to think about it. Thanks to the Japanese, the Chinese are impatient. I really can't bear such a terrible main cannon!

Forty kilometers!Without the assistance of the early warning aircraft, the radar of the "Kunlun" easily captured the signal of the incoming artillery shell. In just a few seconds, the ballistic calculation was completed, and the planned hit coordinate map was also outlined. A huge deviation spread over five kilometers The data allowed Zhu Bin to continue talking and laughing --- there was not a single warship of his own in that area!

The giant ships confronted each other, and the little ones consciously evaded. Destroyers, submarines, and light cruisers quickly left, and absolutely did not participate in this kind of unconventional gang fights, even if it was a random attack at a distance of [-] kilometers. Cannonballs hit them half dead, so they couldn't help.

So "Kunlun" and "Tianshan" naturally rushed to the front, but what is more strange is that "Yingzhou" also continued to follow the rear of the formation and arched forward. The [-]-ton slender body made the flagship The old seniors looked at it inexplicably, especially when they saw from a distance that the guy's whole body was completely flat and even a turret could not be seen, so they didn't know the truth at all!

However, Zhu Bin did not intend to explain in detail, and they wisely chose not to ask too many questions. Zhu Bin is not their subordinate, let alone some selfless naval elite. , cannot be ignored.

"Yamato" and "Musashi" fired together, and the holographic screen in the bridge command room switched to a three-dimensional image. The positions and miniature effects of the six enemy battleships were very intuitive, and the ballistic dotted line drawn in advance can be followed The light spot of the cannonball rapidly advancing along the trajectory made all the old gentlemen including Chen Shaokuan stare. What's going on?

Zhu Bin put it lightly: "This is the trace of the enemy ship's artillery shells detected by our anti-battery radar. We can predict their hit coordinates in advance, make effective evasion at any time, and launch a counterattack."

Prediction in advance... The seniors are really confused about the situation.Could it be that the cannonball flies faster than the sound, and you can know in advance whether it will hit?What level of technology is this!Kidding!There is nothing better than this!

Chen Shaokuan has been following up anyway, and his mind is not as rigid as others, so he immediately expressed his opinion: "The target of a large-caliber artillery shell and the radar launch area are no less than that of an aircraft. It is not difficult for radar to find it, but the ballistic prediction...is really amazing. , beyond our comprehension!"

Not to mention shells, even for a battleship as big as it is, it is very difficult to accurately determine its coordinates, course, and speed from dozens of kilometers away, and thus calculate the angle of shelling. How, it still requires a terrifying calculation power and dizzyingly complicated work!

Zhu Bin couldn't explain too many technical things to them, so what he said was useless, and he said calmly: "Sooner or later, technological development will reach this point. In the future, the chances of wars happening at a distance that can be seen by the flesh are increasing. Xiao, basically when you see the enemy, the outcome has already been decided, nothing unusual."

A group of people stared at each other, which means you don't think it's unusual!Even if no one can see it, the winner is already divided. What kind of level is this!

"Boom---boom!" Pieces of 460mm shells fell in disorder one after another. The nearest one was more than one kilometer away from the "Kunlun Mountain", and all of them were far away from the coordinates. The maximum range of the enemy ship.

The rising water column and the blurred figure of the warship were very unclear from 1 kilometers away, but there was a contrast after all, so that the Japanese army finally took a chance to make a correction. After 38 minute, the second time The volley came again, this time, the angle of the cannon was lowered a little, and the landing point was about [-] kilometers...too close!

Not only was Gao Liuyi's third assistant not frustrated, but he also shouted excitedly: "The distance of the Chinese battleship is about 39 kilometers, correct the coordinates, and fire together!" (To be continued...)