Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 232 If I still want to play next time, I can only do it next time.

A few days later, dozens of nautical miles southwest of Kume Island, two rows of fleets were fighting, one from the northwest to the southeast, and the other from the southeast to the northwest.

Separated by a distance of more than ten nautical miles, they all faced the opponent in a single column.

The ones coming from the northwest were led by Wang Shouliang's ship Sihai, and opposite was the Asahi battleship. One had a displacement of more than 7000 tons, and the other had a displacement of more than tons. There was a huge visual difference just by looking at the tonnage and size.

Therefore, after the Asahi of the island nation's fleet, other destroyers and cruisers with a displacement of three to four thousand tons in the first column were invisibly strengthened.

The three large ships of Nanhai, Donghai, and Beihai behind the Sihai were covered by the word "1". They were all far inferior to the Asahi, which made the Sihai Escort fleet be overwhelmed in terms of momentum.

In the command tower of the Sihai, he looked through the telescope and felt that the distance between the two sides was about to enter the twenty-kilometer range. Wang Shouliang shouted to the outside, "Sign the flag and change the wheel formation!"

When the messenger quickly gives orders to other ships.

Wang Shouliang just lit a cigar and said to the spectator Joseph beside him, "The Japanese Japanese are attacking in a single column, but they still want to use a T-shaped formation. They are operating in the same old way."

"But I have rehearsed a lot in advance to break their T-shaped formation."

If you form a horizontal team, you can hit 1 more times, and take turns to focus your fire to sink the opponent.

The first round of bombardment by both fleets was nothing more than scratching.

It is precisely because the ship is small and the target is small that it is difficult to attack.

For example, it was not until a few years later in the Battle of Tsushima that the island country first used picric acid bombs, which made the Mao Xiong fleet miserable. Only then did the island nation lose three torpedo boats, Mao Xiong sank 21 large ships, and captured 7 ships.

Then, as several large cargo ships turned in a curve, they gradually turned sideways and faced the Asahi fleet, like dumplings. Dozens of torpedo boats, carrying hundreds of dead soldiers, charged forward at full power. .

The fleet behind the 1-line column could not hit the -line opponent in front because of the large number of artillery groups on both sides of the ship.

It won't work if it's too close, and the ship taking the lead in turning will become a living target. It won't work if it's too far, because the opponent will change its formation and direction in advance to avoid it.

The situation is that an armored ship can still withstand dozens of artillery shells from the other side in a battle without being seriously injured...an armored ship is super resistant.

Before the island nation Picric, none of the European and American powers were equipped with such artillery shells.

But whether you can seize the opportunity depends on experience and ability, including luck.

Once several dozens of torpedo boats entered within one kilometer of the Asahi, they opened fire.

There was a hail of artillery fire on the calm sea.

"King, whether your group of dead soldiers can achieve extraordinary feats depends on the next ten minutes."

After a while.

Dozens of small torpedo boats went into the sea, which made people speechless.

The speed of torpedo boats is generally more than 30 knots, about 60 kilometers per hour, but at this moment, the two fleets moving forward in double diagonal lines are only ten kilometers away.

Another wave of the island nation's fleet, headed by the Mikasa, ambushed an island in Xiaoliuqiu.

The flag signal was played, and behind the "1" column of the Sihai Fleet, several freighters with tens of thousands of tons directly broke away from the "1" and changed their routes to the left and right sides.

Of course, when the sighting and fire control systems were relatively primitive, neither Yulun nor France had equipment such as observation instruments.

While there was still some distance left, Wang Shouliang decisively formed a single column into a wheel formation.

On the Sihai, Joseph held the telescope and looked out. He felt the main guns of the Sihai firing again one after another, and then he sighed, "These torpedo boats must at least impact within a thousand meters of the fleet, one kilometer... to have a big impact." effect."

Boom boom boom!

Whether it was a 305mm heavy gun, a 152mm secondary gun, or a 75mm Krupp gun, they took turns firing from the moment the two sides entered a 10-kilometer range like two parallel lines.

Not to mention the large ships that were not hit, there were dozens of torpedo boats that were not hit by the hail of bullets.

Of course, when the two armies are fighting, the fleet in the T-shaped position has a good view, can fight when they want, and run away if they don't want to. It can also intercept the opponent's forward route. There are so many advantages, and both sides in the naval battle want to grab the T-shaped advantage. bit.

The Asahi team had no time to wait and continue to rush forward and seize the best T-shaped position. They decisively started to turn from 1 to .

What the Japanese are best at is that when charging each other with the opponent's single column, they suddenly turn from the lead ship at the right place and turn the single column into a horizontal formation.

Seizing this timing is really important!

At this stage, the effective range of the mainstream 305MM heavy artillery on major ships is generally less than 10 kilometers. Firing beyond this range depends on God's will.

The side artillery of all the ships in that single column can be fired at the same time by multiple ships, concentrating fire on the frontmost ship of the opponent's single column.

Such a change, even if it was still ten or twenty kilometers away, could not be missed by the people in the Asahi command tower. Suddenly, a wave of flags swayed.

Even if Wang Shouliang's Sihai Fleet appears in advance and comes nearly a hundred nautical miles in advance to merge with the Asahi fleet, if it is delayed for a long time, it will still wait for the follow-up Mikasa fleet.

With the joint efforts of many parties, it happened as scheduled.

The Four Seas Fleet suddenly dropped dozens of torpedo boats like dumplings... Even if they were all small boats, that would be outrageous.

Form a T shape with your opponent.

The power of torpedoes is absolutely terrifying!

This is because the ironclad ships of this era, whether they have command towers, turrets, decks, or waterlines, are often covered with armor steel starting at 60 or 100 mm, and the explosive power of heavy artillery in this era is not too scary.

Mikasa is a large ship with a displacement of 14,000 to 5,000 tons like the Asahi, and one of the most powerful firepower before the dreadnought era.

In the era when battleships and artillery were rampant, one of the most classic T-shaped or T-shaped tactical battles was the Battle of Tsushima. The Japanese attacked the Mao Xiong fleet and made a huge profit.

Through the silver bullet offensive these days, Wang Shouliang not only knew that the Asahi fleet, which was escorting and transporting 10,000 tons of armored steel across the Pacific, was to catch other fish, he also knew that the other party had planted an ambush near Xiaoliuqiu. .

Over there, Wang Shouliang stood in the Sihai command tower, commanding four Zhenyuan-class ships and several three- to four-thousand-ton destroyers and cruisers to change formations.

That's right, under the premise that all the men are affectionate, the concubines are interested, and all parties are not well-intentioned, this is said to be fishing or robbery, or a naval battle involving mutual bloodletting and actual combat drills.

He wanted to lead him to the best outflanking location before starting a war.

To put it into perspective, the total number of large ships of the Sihai Escort Bureau is barely above ten, plus a few freighters, and the Asahi fleet is also about the same size.

But that's only against artillery shells.

Torpedoes are different. This thing is a small boat used to fight a big ship. In World War I, the Leo-Hungarian Empire was directly defeated by two small Italian torpedo boats, which sank a dreadnought with a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons.

Two little guys with a displacement of 30 tons can sink with a few shots and have a displacement of tons.

And this time the intelligence, whether Asahi or Mikasa, is all ordinary artillery shells and no picric acid bombs. The island country is preparing to deal with the furry bear and the national war surprise attack, and will not let the strange move be wasted on his escort-level strength.

Following Joseph's words, Wang Shouliang said calmly, "Our Sihai Escort Agency, when we go out to do business, the most indispensable thing is ruthless people who tie their heads to their belts and fight hard." During the explanation, he continued to give orders, letting the slash The fleet took turns firing.

The two sides entered eight kilometers and five kilometers from each other. Along with the artillery bombardment, not to mention ordinary destroyers and cruisers began to be shot, the Sihai began to be hit by artillery.

Outside the command tower where Wang Shouliang was located, he was bombarded by a 152mm secondary gun, but he was guarded by the tenacious armored steel, which meant that there were only a few bumps and vibrations.

The Asahi fleet diagonally opposite also began to be hit.

There is a saying, the difference is not too outrageous in the artillery bombardment, the Sihai Escort Fleet is often hit by three bombs, or four artillery shells, and the opposite one is hit once.

This is the proficiency and accuracy of the Japanese artillery, which far exceeds the artillery of the Sihai Escort Agency.

There is still a group of Yin Lun instructors here to help.

Otherwise, he would have received ten shots before the other party could receive one. After all, even the old pirates of the Luo San Artillery Department were still carrying knives a few months ago. At most, they had bows, arrows, Ordinary long rifle, play ship-to-ship naval battle.

The Asahi fleet was engaged in the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War six years ago, and its strength has grown in the past few years.

Under this situation, Wang Shouliang was still very calm. He was not afraid at all. There was no danger of death at all.

Even the more than 2100 sailors he has raised must experience the stimulation of such a bloody battle in order to grow. He has spent so much money, excellent treatment, and resources. If he does not even have the courage and belief to fight a bloody battle, it will be in vain. .

It starts with a cut of five kilometers from both sides.

Not only the Sihai, Nanhai, Beihai, etc. have increased the frequency of being hit by bombs, but dozens of torpedo boats have also begun to be hit.

Boom boom boom!

As long as a small torpedo boat is hit by a bomb, it will be broken into pieces and sunk with one shot.

But the rest are still charging in the rain of artillery!

Shopkeeper Wang gave too much. If you die, you will be a good man again in eighteen years. The pension after death will be enough to make your relatives rich... What else is there to dare? !

After Wang Shouliang received another heavy artillery shot on the front deck of the Sihai, he once again raised flags and issued orders. As the fleet moved forward, more torpedo boats were launched from the Sihai and Nanhai.

Finally, when Wang Shouliang's No. 4 Fleet, a destroyer of more than 3,000 tons and a cruiser of more than 4,000 tons gradually cracked and sank under the heavy guns.

Some torpedo boats that rushed within a thousand meters of the enemy ship launched the powerful killer weapons on the small speedboats.

Boom boom boom!

One after another, there were terrifying explosions, huge waves and loud noises under the water, tearing apart the four large ships behind the Asahi in one breath.

The Asahi and the other remaining ships also went crazy. Small-caliber cannons swept across the sea like machine guns, bombing the remaining torpedo boats that were approaching more and more.

At this time, there were less than fifteen torpedo boats on the sea that did not launch torpedoes within one kilometer of the island nation's ships.

The first batch of dozens of ships did not mean that the rest were all sunk, but there was a group of dead soldiers who started launching in an area of ​​two or three kilometers. After launching, they became empty... There is no point in continuing to move forward. Can turn around.

This can only be said that the psychological quality of these dead soldiers is still deviated.

Less than one-third of the torpedo boats were actually sunk.

The second batch of torpedo boats launched from Sihai and Nanhai were a relay charge!

………………

Ten minutes later.

The Sihai and Beihai floated steadily on the sea, and several passenger ships were wandering in the sea near the ruptured and sunken destroyer and cruiser Sihai, trying to search and rescue sailors who were still alive in the sea.

The torpedo boats are also regrouping.

The Nanhai and Donghai were paralyzed and were transferring their crews, and one was damaged and lost its combat effectiveness.

When Wang Shouliang played another semaphore, seven torpedo boats on the left and right of the Asahi front-dreadnought, which had already raised the white flag, received the order and opened fire!

Joseph was speechless for a while while smoking a big cigar, "Is it really sinking? That is one of the top battleships. It took us three years to build it in Yanlun, and it cost one million pounds!"

On the sea at this moment, the Sihai Escort Bureau suffered a lot of damage in the battle, but near the Asahi, in addition to the Asahi itself, there were only two cargo ships carrying 10,000 tons of armored steel still floating on the sea.

Everything else is in the process of sinking.

The small boats fought against the big ships, hundreds of dead soldiers charged, and they really achieved a brutal result!

Wang Shouliang roughly estimated that more than 120 torpedo boats were killed and collapsed this time. A boat with three to five people killed between 160 and people.

The minimum pension is one thousand taels of silver, which is 12 taels, plus various house gifts and arrangements for their relatives and friends to find jobs.

My own fleet had received so many shells, and more than 100 people had been killed or injured just on the Sihai, not to mention the Nanhai and Donghai.

This battle, plus the sunken ship, death and injury compensation, would cost at least several million taels of silver.

It goes without saying how much the cannonballs are worth.

But Wang Shouliang still felt it was worth it. After a great war, even if only 2100 of the more than 1100 Sihai Escort naval divisions were left intact, they were still elite divisions that had experienced the iron-blooded war.

This battle is much more effective than their hard training for a year and a half.

The island country...not to mention the destroyers and cruisers of the island country that have been sunk. The sinking of the Asahi is a loss of one million pounds, which is more than 10 million yen, and more than 10 million black Mexican yen.

After the Sino-Japanese War, one-sixth of the Sixty-Sixth Fleet plan was scrapped.

Not to mention the many elite gunners lost.

Along with Joseph's complaints, Wang Shouliang also took a puff of cigarette and shook his head, "I also want to capture them. Although they have surrendered, the Mikasa is coming from Xiaoliuqiu..."

"There's no time, it's all over!"

He just created a time difference, allowing the Japanese to outflank them, and he defeated them with a single blow.

I still want to play this time next time, but I can only do it next time.

Although the losses were huge, the iron-blooded troop training was worth it. Ten thousand tons of armored steel was not a small amount of money, and the two 10,000-ton freighters were not a small amount of money.

You must know that the 10,000-ton cargo ship Wang Shouliang arranged this time to carry dozens of torpedo boats was still leased.

Of course, let's talk about it.

Wang Shouliang still quickly issued orders for the torpedo boats that had discharged their torpedoes to continue returning to the cargo ships, including the Sihai and Beihai, to replenish their torpedoes.

He wasn't sure when Mikasa's fleet would come out.

(PS: Simplify the naval battle, how much casualty rate does the army collapse? 15% or 20% leads to a full-scale rout and other problems. It can only be improved by spending money. The ability of money is a weapon to stabilize the masses, die generously, and treat death as if it is home. If the money is missing, you will kneel down halfway. Begging for mercy is a fundamental practice in the late Qing Dynasty. As the biggest counterfeiter, the protagonist is least afraid of spending money to boost morale~)

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