All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

"Staff Officer Qi, assess the approximate level of the two warships that are charging towards us?"

Ye Bai stood next to the porthole of the bridge, and said to Qi Sicheng behind him without looking back, in view of the current lack of officers on the Yanhuang, Qi Sicheng's work is also quite busy, and it is okay in normal times, just plan the route of the Yanhuang and command the piloting group.

But wartime is different, in the process of naval warfare, Qi Sicheng not only has to command the navigation of the Yanhuang, but also needs to act as a staff officer for Ye Bai, responsible for providing Ye Bai with some professional knowledge and advice.

Although Qi Sicheng is not a professional combat staff officer, he has received a professional military education, for example, in the current situation, he can roughly judge the size and tonnage of the battleship by visual inspection.

"Captain, there are three enemy ships in total, except for the leading one with a tonnage of more than 2,000 tons, which may be a destroyer, and the other two are only a few hundred tons, which should be the level of a gunboat. "

Although Qi Sicheng's answer was not accurate, Ye Bai did not blame him, after all, the naval warships of this era had not yet fully formed a system at all, and they were fundamentally different from the conventional warship types in later generations, and there was nothing strange about Qi Sicheng's inability to accurately judge 327.

Ye Bai himself was not familiar with these, and when he heard this, he just said: "Pass the order, the target of the fire will remain the same, the main gun will keep attacking with all its might, sink the target enemy ship as soon as possible, and for the 3 battleships that are approaching, use the 20mm tube machine gun on the ship to deal with it, and you can use torpedoes when necessary." "

At this time, Ye Bai actually regretted it a little, when he upgraded the fire system of the Yanhuang before, he configured the main gun and torpedo to be almost the same, but ignored the secondary gun system on the battleship, and only relied on the 420mm tube machine guns arranged on the sides of the ship and the 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun that was originally arranged above the ship's building, but has now been transferred to the side side.

However, in the current situation, Ye Bai has no other choice, in the event of a sudden attack, most of the Fujian naval divisions whose warships were damaged no longer have much ability to provide strong support to the Yanhuang, which is equivalent to saying that in this naval battle, the Yanhuang is equivalent to single-handedly taking on the French expeditionary fleet.

The three twin-mounted main guns want to concentrate all their firepower on the Triumph, and they can't free up their hands to attack the three French battleships that rushed over quickly, once the two single-barreled 20mm guns deployed on the side can't stop it, Ye Bai can only choose to use torpedoes, 5000 torpedoes are used on these old battleships, although there are some losses, but where can I take care of so much at the moment of crisis.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

The members of the artillery crew on the Yanhuang have experienced many naval battles, and the cooperation between them has been quite tacit, and with the master-level gunner as the commander, the hit rate is getting higher and higher, and the hit is getting more and more accurate.

Under the salvo attack, dozens of shells fell around the Triumph one after another, blowing up countless waves and causing a lot of damage to the triumphant hull.

As the number one main battleship in the French expeditionary fleet, the Triumph itself is quite not bad, with a tonnage of more than 4,000 tons, it is equipped with 6 238mm tube guns, 6 140mm tube guns and many other guns on the battleship, and the armor on the side side has also reached 150mm, even if it is not a sneak attack, a single Triumph can almost suppress the entire Fujian naval division.

However, it is quite an old-fashioned antique battleship, even if the Yanhuang only belongs to the technological level of the World War II period on the earth, the fierce artillery fire still makes the Triumph burst into flames and smoke everywhere.

In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Yanhuang, the Triumph, which was originally frantically shelling the Fujian Naval Division, no longer continued to bombard, frantically adjusted the direction, aimed the muzzle at the Yanhuang, and the two battleships launched a fierce artillery battle.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

Shells continued to streak through the air, flying towards the opposing warship, falling into the sea and exploding violently, but under this artillery battle, it was the Yanhuang who took advantage.

already had the advantage of being the first move, the density of firepower was not small, and the level and tacit understanding of the gunners were also quite superb, and even surpassed the gunners on the Triumph, and quickly gained the upper hand in the artillery battle.

Especially when a 102mm bomb on the Yanhuang hit the power compartment of the Triumph and blew up the steam boiler on the Triumph on the spot, the fate of the Triumph was almost sealed.

The burning fire had not yet been extinguished, thick black smoke enveloped the entire Triumph, and the steam boiler was blown up, which also made the Triumph almost lose most of its power, and could no longer drag the heavy hull weighing more than 4,000 tons, so it was forced to stop on the surface of the sea and could not move. (If you read a violent novel, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

Ye Bai, who was always paying attention to the situation of the Triumph, had his eyes lit up, and hurriedly shouted: "Prepare the torpedo, aim at the largest enemy battleship, fire two salvos, and blast it to the bottom of the sea for me." "

At this time, Ye Bai didn't care about saving money at all, so he used 2 expensive 533mm mines in one go, and if he wanted to completely hit the seriously injured Triumph, maybe one was enough, but Ye Bai didn't want to take this risk at all, so he chose to be safe and directly used two 533mm torpedoes.

"Yes, Captain. "

The communicator on the side hurriedly grabbed the intercom and conveyed Ye Bai's order to the torpedo operator on the deck, and then two 533mm torpedoes flew out of the five-pack torpedo launch tube that Yan Huang had just transformed, and fell headlong into the sea.

As soon as the torpedo entered the water, it was really like a fish in water, and with the support of strong power, it sailed quickly on the sea surface at a high speed of more than 40 knots, bringing up white waves.

If it was during World War II, when the development of torpedoes was relatively mature, and the navies of various countries attached great importance to it, the traces of these two torpedoes sailing in the sea could not be concealed from professional naval crews, and it was very likely that they would be avoided by the target warship.

But now it's 1884, and torpedo technology is not mature at all, and even if some lookouts see the waves scratching the sea, they don't realize what kind of weapon it is, and they don't pay attention to it.

The distance between the Triumph and the Yanhuang is now less than 7 kilometers, which is not a problem for a torpedo with a maximum range of 14,000 meters, and the high speed of more than 40 knots in a range of 6 kilometers also makes this distance even more difficult.

"Boom", "Boom"

In a short period of time, two 533mm mines plunged headlong into the waterline of the Triumph, which could not move on the sea, and the weak armor could not stop the heavy torpedoes of this caliber at all, and they were easily penetrated.