Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 295: Iron Blood Ocean (1)
The T-shaped formation carefully arranged by the Baltic Fleet seemed so fragile under the multiple impacts of the Chinese Fleet, and it was easily disrupted.The torpedo ships on the left and right wings were bombarded frantically by the broadside rapid-fire guns of the Guin and the Triumph. The rate of fire of 9 shells per minute made it impossible for these torpedo ships to evade, and they were quickly killed on a large scale. Seeing that the momentum of the torpedo ship was not good, it actually hid behind the main cruiser. This was simply a great irony for Rostrav!

In order to protect the flagship at the beginning of the T, Rothstraf immediately sent the Kropatra and the Siberia forward at high speed, trying to stop Juin and Triumph, but was entangled tightly by the two ships Changsheng and Unbeaten up.boom!boom!Amidst the two loud bangs, two high-speed armor-piercing projectiles were fired from the cold barrel of Changsheng and Bubai, and the two 42-kilogram projectiles drew a white line in the air, hitting the front deck of the Cropatra one after another. There was no fatal damage to the hull, but it took the lives of more than 30 Russian sailors who were busy here.

However, at this time, Guin and Triumph had just turned around from the two enemy ships, and the side of the Siberia quickly fired three 3-inch shells, two of which landed in the sea more than 5 meters in front of the Triumph. Here, the rising waves washed the bow deck of the Triumph, and another shell hit the No. 20 secondary gun on the port side of the Triumph. Amid the roar of the explosion, the secondary gun completely broke away from the launch device and fell into the In the desolate sea.

"Damn it!" Liu Changsheng, the captain of the Triumph, was heartbroken watching a secondary gun being taken away by a single shot. In his mind, this warship was like his own child. It made him feel as if he was being gouged out by a knife.He yelled at the chief engineer: "Old Hu, speed up, what are you going to do if you want to get another shot!"

As a retaliatory attack, the Triumph soon fired four 6-inch shells at the Navarin in front. One of the shells penetrated the bow armor of the enemy ship and exploded in the hull. Come out with an "eye".Another shell happened to hit the main mast and exploded. The tens of meters high mast crashed down, killing 7 sailors who were busy on the deck on the spot, and 12 sailors were seriously injured.As a result, Liu Changsheng's gripped heart just relaxed a little.

"Aim at the opponent's flagship and hit me hard!" Liu Changsheng said through gritted teeth.

Boom!The two 6-inch main guns on the stern of the Triumph began to roar at the Peter the Great, and the shells fell into the sea in front and to the right of the Peter the Great, causing waves tens of meters high. Nothing moved.Liu Chang stomped his feet angrily, and shouted: "Hey! Slow down, the main gunner takes aim before firing!"

The two main cruisers Navarin and Batoyev that escorted the flagship pushed forward from the left and right wings, crossed the hull, and fired back at the approaching Guin and Triumph with rapid-fire guns.At this time, Juin and Triumph, who were trapped in the enemy's line, seemed a little lonely. However, in the northern waters 3000 meters away, the Cropatra and the Siberia were besieged even more frantically by Chinese warships.Not to mention warships such as Nanxiang, Blue Whale, Sea Lion, and Yangfan, the 8-inch main artillery of the Hurricane alone battered the Cropatra. Four high-speed armor-piercing shells hit the hull of this warship. And it exploded in the main power cabin and drainage cabin, and the blazing flames detonated three power boilers, and waves of huge explosions sounded in the hull of the Cropatra.What's more terrible is that a 5-inch shell fired from the Nanxiang penetrated the waterline armor of the warship, creating a large hole with a diameter of two meters there, and the seawater poured in at a speed of several tons per second. , and the artillery fire from behind pierced through his side armor one after another, the Cropatra quickly became fat, and the entire hull leaned heavily to the left, completely losing its attack capability.

Under such circumstances, the Siberia chose to abandon its teammates at a critical moment, quickly changed its course, and fled to the main camp.Even so, the stern of the ship was pierced with two large holes by the main artillery of the Rage, and a 5-inch high-explosive shell fired by the Blue Whale blew up the ammunition piled on the deck. After a series of huge explosions, it was endless The raging fire.

At this time, the Chinese artillery fire became more intense. In just a short time, the cruiser Cropatra hit eleven bullets in a row, but luck was not bad. So far, the ammunition depot has not been hit. The power system was completely scrapped and became a living target at sea.All the non-combatants on board had also been evacuated to the lifeboats. The lifeboats were heaving up and down in the splashing waves, but facing the intensive artillery fire from the sky, they could only pray silently on the boats.

During this incense-burning effort, the attack formation of the Singapore fleet exerted great power. Because it was very close to the enemy ship, the hit rate also increased rapidly. The expansion is a bit slow.Lin Yongsheng also recognized the identities of most of the enemy ships. The huge flagship was the Russian Peter the Great. In addition to the nearly sunken Cropatra, the Baltic Fleet has thirteen main cruisers.

The Chicheng and a Firebird just delivered from the French Mediterranean shipyard, as well as the new ships Agni and Pevenez just delivered by the United Kingdom constitute the southern wing, using high speed to prevent the target fleet from attacking.The King Kong, Takayama, and Alps followed Greg to form a relatively weak northern wing, and the middle route was carried out by the original sailing fleet of the Russian Far East Fleet and the [-]-ton Peter the Great for long-range fire strikes. The Baltic Fleet has changed from a T-shaped lineup to a V-shaped lineup.

The trump card in Rostrav's hand is the three ironclad ships, the flagship Peter the Great, the Navarin and the Batoyev.Needless to say, the Peter the Great has a displacement of 270 tons and a main gun of 6000 mm. It is fully capable of competing with any of the Chinese flagships Rage and Hurricane.The Navarin has a displacement of 6 tons, and the maximum armor thickness of its main parts is comparable to that of a Chinese Yuanzi-class warship.The displacement of the Batoyev has also reached more than 5 tons. The gun position is a double-mounted [-]-inch main gun, plus six [-]-inch fast guns on the left and right sides, a total of fourteen guns.The number and layout of the Navarin's gun positions are exactly the same as those of the Batoyev. Although the caliber of the main gun is larger than that of the Batoyev, the fly in the ointment is that the main gun is an open-air gun with a breech gun, and there is no advanced tube retreat When the artillery is fired, the artillery has to avoid the strong recoil, so the attack efficiency is far behind that of the Chinese warships, and the left and right side guns are not as fast as Batoyev.But overall, the firepower of these three warships is still strong enough. Lin Yongsheng could see clearly that if he wanted to defeat the Peter the Great, he had to break through this trident first.

Although the Peter the Great directly ahead had good protection and fierce firepower, the other six ships he led were all sailing warships, and their firepower and protection were extremely weak.On the right wing, it was the enemy's weakest point. Except for the flagship Greg, the fast gun, the other four ships had no obvious advantages.

Lin Yongsheng observed for a while, and made a decision that made him very proud afterwards. The main ship opened fire on the enemy with all its strength. The target was not the Peter the Great, but six other sailing warships, forcing the enemy's old ships first Lost combat effectiveness.At the same time, cancel the formation of the left and right wings, and concentrate all the fast ships to intersperse and attack the enemy's right wing. Same as the previous strategy, start from the weakest, and after destroying the four warships around the Greg, encircle and wipe out the Greg on the spot .Use the protective capabilities of your three ironclad ships to attract the opponent's firepower, and use the cover of the fast ship group to destroy the enemy's right wing!In the Chinese language, this is called picking the soft persimmons and pinching them.

Haitian led the Yangfan, Sea Lion, Haima and Blue Whale. A total of four fast cruisers adjusted their direction and rushed to the northwest at full speed. The Russian ship King Kong was the first to bear the brunt!
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