Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 1118 Leave the Future and Hope

Chapter 1130 Leave the Future and Hope
"Three thousand battleships?" After repeated confirmation, Jiang Xie was quite surprised to find that the semaphore was not wrong.The 20 main warships of the No. [-] Quad Squadron Fleet of the State of Wei moved forward at full speed with full sail, galloping in the direction of the Yamato Allied Forces.

The warships of the Wei State are actually designed with flying scissors, but compared with the cargo flying shear ships, the warships do not need to consider economic transportation, nor do they need to manufacture a large number of cargo compartments, so the warships of the Wei State are significantly faster.Since the eighteen main battleships are all old ships with more than two years of ownership, their weapons and equipment have all been refitted.The first is to dismantle the Greek fire and ballista on the original flying fish battleship and the first boarding battleship, but replace it with a 120mm rear-loaded rifled howitzer.

This kind of naval gun is not equipped in the army, because this kind of artillery is too heavy, weighing more than 500 kilograms. For the army, how to move this huge monster is a very big problem.However, the clever Wei craftsmen had a whimsy and transplanted this cumbersome artillery on a battleship, and then moved it to a train.Such cannons are mounted on trains, and eighteen cannons are assembled into a train, which can be fully armed to patrol the territory of Wei State.When encountering within a range of 700 meters along the railway line, it is possible to strike at a fixed point.

Although the armored train artillery has not been put into active service, more than 100 ship-mounted artillery have been refitted. Such a first-class warship can carry twelve 120mm artillery.The Flying Fish battleship can be equipped with sixteen doors. Although the No. 20 fourth squadron fleet only has eighteen warships, it has a full 220 eight howitzers.

The 24th squadron sailed forward with full sail, and finally arrived at the sea area of ​​​​the Yamato Alliance Army after an hour and a half. At this time, it was actually not suitable for naval warfare, because the sun was about to set in an hour at most, and it had the ability to fight beyond visual range in the dark. The Wei State Navy's combat effectiveness will be greatly affected.However, Tang Mao ignored it and ordered the firing directly.

The maximum range of the 120mm howitzer of the Wei State Ninety-Nine is 700 meters. Of course, hitting a target at this distance on a bumpy sea is similar to shooting a target 1000 meters away with a rifle. Where the shell can hit depends mainly on the mood of the shell. .However, at a distance of more than 4000 meters, Wei Guo's 24th Squadron fleet unexpectedly hit the target with a single shot, sending a two-masted warship of Yamato into the bottom of the sea.

At this time, the soldiers of the Yamato Allied Forces began to panic, and shouted in fear: "Wei State battleship, Wei State battleship!"

Qu Lai Zun Bie Zun was also stunned, he was very angry when the Wei State warship came up and didn't even say hello, but he didn't expect that when he met the Wei State merchant ship just now, he didn't say hello or fight, and went straight to war .

Qulai Hobetsu-san yelled: "Too much deception, order the troops to fight back!"

Hearing this, the Yamato warriors were about to cry.The Yamato Kingdom has never seen artillery. When Western colonists blasted open the gate of Japan with firearms, Japan called the six-pound front-loading artillery the country's collapse, which means that the country will collapse once it is fired.In this era, their ancestors have seen more powerful artillery than they did.Although Wei's first-generation howitzer has a caliber of only 120 mm, its multiple is only a very poor 22 times.Not only the initial velocity of the shells is low, but also the accuracy is not high, but the Yamato people don't know it, they only know that they were hit by a thunderball before they saw the battleship of Wei State clearly, and sank one first. When people are fighting, this is obviously fighting with God, okay?

These Yamato generals were about to cry, "His Royal Highness, we want to fight back. The key is that you let us fight back?"

Wei Guo didn't have so many worries. Eighteen warships fought horizontally, using their broadside guns to fire the first round of salvos at the Yamato battleship.And the first to ascend the level is the first two and the last two, and the left and right four each.The entire squadron has a total of 78 artillery pieces. Although the hit rate at the position of 4000 meters is not low enough to be less than half, the power of these 78 artillery salvos directly scares the Yamato coalition forces.

"Boom boom boom" 78 120mm howitzers began to fire, and the sound of rumbling guns resounded on the Bungo Waterway. Although the hit rate of the first salvo was less than half, there were still two unlucky Yamato sloops A direct hit by a shell.The fishing boat originally used for fishing in the Yamato Kingdom was so weak that it was hit by a 120mm high-explosive bomb weighing [-] kilograms, directly disintegrating the two sloops.

The sailors and samurai on the two sloops were blown up like sawdust flying randomly in the air, and the sea water around the sunken ship was instantly stained red by the flesh and blood of Yamato soldiers. "Fight back, fight back," the Crown Prince Gorai Hobetsu, who was on the flagship of the Yamato Alliance Army, roared ferociously.In fact, at this time, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Yamato Kingdom was so frightened that he was about to pee. He used this crazy performance to suppress the endless fear in his heart.

For a moment, the entire warships of the Yamato League of Nations fell into chaos, and the warriors of the Yamato Kingdom seemed to be in disbelief that the Great Wei Empire dared to directly fire at them.You must know that although the opponent's ships are tall, their numbers are too small. Anyone with a little knowledge of numbers can count them clearly. There are only [-] warships of the Wei State, not even a fraction of the Yamato Allied Forces.Faced with such a huge disparity, shouldn't the warships of the State of Wei avoid their edge and seek a diplomatic solution?But what is unbelievable is that the Wei warship opened fire.

Seeing that the effect of the first salvo was so unsatisfactory, Rear Admiral Tang Mao of the No. 20 Quarter Fleet of the Wei State Navy immediately became angry.Although Wei Guo invented the breech-loading rifle howitzer, the price of both the cannon and the shells was frighteningly high.First of all, this kind of stray bullet gun manufactured through repeated tests, each costs a total of 600 million yuan. If converted into copper coins of the same weight, it would be 600 catties of copper. If converted into gold, this would be a full More than 24 taels of gold.If it weren't for Wei's huge overseas colonial income, the Wei court would not be able to afford a large-scale naval refit.As for the price of each shell, it is also frighteningly high.Just after a salvo, the 500th squadron fired shells worth more than 500 million yuan. More than [-] million coins are nearly [-] catties of copper coins, and smashing them can sink the ships of Yamato.

Facing an enemy ship actually costs more than 200 million yuan from Wei Guo. You must know that it is only 300 million yuan to manufacture a clipper ship. burden.Ordinary soldiers don't care about these war losses, but as a general Tang Mao can't help but care, because he can't explain to the court.

"You losers, do your eyes grow on your butt?" Tang Mao shouted: "Do you know how expensive a cannonball is? If you sell you, you can't afford it. If anyone dares to waste cannonballs, I will kill you." Twist off his head, stuff it into the barrel and shoot it out!"

Hearing Tang Mao's threats, although these soldiers of Wei State did not believe that Tang Mao dared to wring their heads off and shoot them out as cannonballs, they did not dare to be careless. After all, Wei State's money did not come from strong winds, it was all from Wei State. The soldiers fought back with one shot at a time.Soon the Wei State battleship completed preparations for the second round of shelling, but at this time, due to the lack of optical sighting equipment, although the shells had a long enough range, they could not shoot accurately.If artillery positions are set up on land, they have a 3000% chance of hitting a target within 1000 meters, but the shooting distance at sea is shorter.The enemy ship must be placed within a distance of [-] meters before fighting.

"General, the wind direction is very unfavorable to us now, and the warships of the Yamato Kingdom are approaching us quickly!" The observer on the watchtower reminded Tang Mao: "We can no longer let the enemy ships approach, otherwise it is easy to suffer, that is, those broken ships on the opposite side, We will be at a disadvantage if one hundred ships are exchanged for one of ours!"

"Understood!" Tang Mao said: "Then let's see if the Japanese dwarfs can approach us for 500 meters."

The State of Wei has the most powerful navy of this era. The Navy of the State of Wei at this time is no longer the Navy of the State of Wei that was driven by Ran Ming to compete with the Navy of the Gupta Empire.At this time, the Wei State Navy has completed Wei State's unique naval warfare thinking. First of all, it is to use the advantage of Wei State's long-range weapons to widen the distance from the enemy ships, and can give the enemy a fatal blow without harming itself.What's more, the range of the artillery has an advantage compared to the range of the ballista.

Two quarters of an hour passed, and when the swarms entered the distance of 200 meters from the Wei State warships, the Wei State Navy's No. 20 fourth squadron fleet began the second round of bombardment.

At a distance of 200 meters, although the hit rate of the howitzer is only slightly higher than [-]%, the hit rate is very impressive. "Boom boom boom" The warships of the State of Wei kept firing, and the effect of this round of salvo was much better.At least forty Yamato battleships were hit directly and disintegrated in the sound of explosions.

The war had just begun, and Yamato lost more than forty ships.This made Yamato Crown Prince Qurai Hobetsu's face even more gloomy.

At this time, all the battleships of the Yamato Kingdom were not equipped with artillery, let alone the trebuchets, and they were not capable of long-range counterattacks against the warships of the Wei Kingdom.These Yamato ships rushing towards the warships of the State of Wei did not seem to be fighting at all, but launched an offensive of flying moths and throwing fire at the warships of the State of Wei like a collective suicide.

Wei's 120mm howitzer can shoot two to three rounds per minute. Although it is comparable to the howitzers of later generations, this shooting speed is very cheating, but at this time the speed of Yamato's ships is only a pitiful eight or nine knots, that is to say, they For every 200 meters forward, it needs to withstand two or three shellings from Wei.When the distance of 300 meters is completed, it will be enough for Wei Guo's naval guns to carry out at least ten rounds of bombardment.

After completing the second round of shelling, the skilled gunner quickly stuffed the shells into the barrel.At this time, the gunpowder of the Wei State artillery used picric acid, which is the smokeless gunpowder of later generations. This kind of gunpowder would burn very fully without any residue, so the gunner did not need to clean the barrel at all.It only takes a dozen breaths to complete the adjustment of the firing angle by withdrawing the shell case from the barrel and inserting the shell.

The tragic battleship of the Yamato Allied Forces had just advanced tens of hundreds of meters before receiving the third round of shelling.The battle distance between the two sides is getting shorter and shorter, and the hit rate of Wei Guo's naval guns is also getting higher and higher. At a distance of 300 meters, there is barely a 1000% hit rate, and at a distance of 800 meters, it will never be less than [-]%.As for the distance of [-] meters, the gunners of the Wei warship can hit [-]% of the hits with their eyes closed.

However, the power of Wei's ship guns is too terrifying. The Wei's navy did not use the Dahe Navy as an imaginary enemy at all, but took the Gupta Empire's second-tier warships as their imaginary enemies. The 120mm howitzer should be enough to kill the Gupta Empire's second-tier warships. The ability to paralyze more than half of the Gupta Empire's second-tier warships.As for the fishing boats of the Yamato Kingdom, which are not of the same level, the hit is to be blown into pieces. Even if it misses by chance and the shells are nearly missed, the Yamato battleship can be disintegrated.

In a short distance of more than [-] meters, [-] to [-] warships of the Yamato Kingdom were buried in the seabed.

"Boom!" A 120mm artillery shell exploded on the bow of a Yamato Allied Navy brig.The entire capital of the ship was cut off in the explosion.Seawater poured into the warship from the blown-out bow, causing the warship to sink rapidly.In less than a minute, the front half of the battleship sank into the sea, while the stern was raised high.From a distance, it seemed that the battleship was swallowed by a huge monster.Soon, a large whirlpool was left on the sea surface, as well as those planks scattered on the sea surface.Those officers and soldiers of the Yamato Allied Forces who jumped into the sea in order to escape, there is no one to rescue them now!Defeating opponents in naval battles is the most important thing!
Of course, this is not the most tragic thing on the battlefield. The most tragic thing is that two 120mm grenades exploded among four or five Yamato coalition sloops.When the explosive explodes, the surrounding air will expand rapidly to generate a shock wave, and the shock force of this shock wave will cause damage or injury to objects or human bodies.Explosives of the same mass and performance, if they explode in seawater, will produce eight hundred times the impact force than in air.As a result, the two high-explosive bombs formed a huge vortex in the seawater with a radius of more than 50 meters and a wave height of more than ten meters.

If it was a warship of the later generations, the impact of the vortex formed by the near-missing bombs on the warship would be within an acceptable range. However, the warships of Yamato were all fishing boats. As a result, this huge vortex spread rapidly, covering a radius of 200 meters. The ship of the ship is screwed up like twisted twists.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Wei's warships fired continuously, and the sea in the Bungo Channel was filled with gunfire and smoke.If you look down from the sky, you can see that the Wei State Navy is sailing northward in an orderly manner.Moreover, they intentionally controlled the speed of the ship so that the distance between the two sides remained stable at a distance of 1000 to [-] meters.Even if the Yamato Allied Forces catch up, it will be difficult to shorten the distance between the two sides.At the same time, the Yamato Allied Fleet had to brave the fierce artillery fire of the Wei State Navy to advance.Battleships were constantly being hit, or caught fire, or were directly sunk!
"Damn it!" the crown prince Qulai Hobetsu couldn't help but cursed.

"Your Highness, the Crown Prince, we can't fight any more. If we continue to fight, our Yamato Kingdom may be hurt!" Dazai rushed to Lai Hobiezun to persuade him earnestly: "Your Highness, you must retreat, the only way to save The main force of the fleet, keep the vitality of Yamato, and only in this way can the future and hope of Yamato be preserved!"

(End of this chapter)