Great Entrepreneur of the Universe

Chapter 241 Lady Luck must be on his boat

December 1902, 10.

The huge Sihai fleet rode the wind and waves in a single column on the ocean, and the weather was clear and clear. Outside the Sihai command tower, Wang Shouliang stood near the twin-mounted 1MM main gun, directing the auxiliary artillery to practice feeding, loading, and unloading bombs. process.

I saw a figure running quickly from the deck, "Report to the shopkeeper, the lookout found the cruiser Lushan, raised a flag, and discovered the whereabouts of the Japanese fleet."

"The opposing fleet is about 40 nautical miles southeast of our unit."

Wang Shouliang perked up, "Is it the squadron or the main force?"

On the vast sea, everyone wants to fight and fight each other. In an era when transportation and communications are underdeveloped, how can we detect the enemy in advance, pass on messages, etc.?

This is usually when the main fleet is sailing, and two or three cruisers are separated to go first. The cruisers are fast and rely on the cooperation of telescopes, semaphores, lookouts, etc. to communicate.

The three-star escort nodded quickly and was very excited, "It's the main fleet!"

Wang Shouliang was overjoyed, "Sign up the flag, return the cruisers to their positions, and prepare each ship for a big battle!"

When the weather was good and the visibility was good, our cruiser lookouts discovered the enemy's traces, and the Japanese found that their Sihai Escort fleet was also normal.

What Wang Shouliang wanted to laugh about was that with the same actions as theirs, the Japanese also began to change their formations, with the same death squad of torpedo boats rushing into the sea.

That day was absolutely beautiful!

It's not a squadron but the main force. It should be Mikasa, Hatsuse, and Yashima, all three ships with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons. The large combined fleets are fighting each other.

According to the normal horsepower, they moved forward steadily at a speed of 15 knots. An hour later, there was no longer a need for a single cruiser to look ahead. In the command tower of the Sihai at the front of the 1 column, Wang Shouliang had already seen the Japanese fleet with a telescope.

Wang Shouliang decisively issued the order, "Change the formation of the 1-word column, and the torpedo boat suicide squad will go to sea!"

As long as you don't fall into the trap and don't be too greedy for success, then going on again and again and recruiting Japanese merchant ships will be such a stable and extremely wealthy way of making money.

They also became escort chiefs. In the following six months or so, they often sailed out to sea in large ships, searching for, meeting, and recruiting island nation merchant ships again and again. Each time they were recruited, the goods were divided into 50% by the upper and lower ranks of the big ships. Captain-level escort commanders They get the most points!

Of course, Wang Shouliang, the big shopkeeper, will take the other half.

This situation is normal. According to the information he found out, in order to fight the war this time, the Japanese not only used torpedo boats to charge into the formation, but also installed many small cannons on these torpedo boats. In order to charge each other first, Use small guns to sink a group of Sihai Escort torpedo boats.

Risk your life, just risk your life! !

Next, the cruiser Lushan and others, who had been out alone, quickly returned to the team, and the large fleet also charged down in the direction of the Japanese.

Their speed is 15 knots, and the Japanese are also coming towards them.

In the next one or two, two or three years, it is estimated that all kinds of merchant ships that the Japanese invaded in East and Southeast Asia will be arbitrarily demanded tolls by the post-war Sihai Escort Officers and Chief Escort Officers.

But the excitement was overwhelming. The entire Sihai ship was full of emotions, including the entire Sihai fleet, which was also full of fighting spirit.

Not to mention the excitement of the dead soldiers sinking the big ship this time, each receiving 10 taels of silver. In the next one or two years, or even longer, they will drive the big ship to collect...

Just like the last naval battle on Kume Island, under his words, several 150-ton cargo ships behind the column quickly turned to both sides, allowing torpedo boats to launch into the sea like dumplings.

In the last war, the torpedo boat suicide squads made a desperate charge and were rewarded for their merits after the war. The first dead soldiers, such as He Dahai and Yu Sanqi, received more than 10 taels of snowflake silver.

Big torpedoes are designed to deal with big ships.

The bounty given by Wang Shouliang is too exciting.

No wonder the three-star escort in the communication team was so excited.

The two fleets heading in both directions were now just over 10 nautical miles apart, less than 20 kilometers from each other.

Everyone in the Four Seas Fleet knows that this battle only needs to be won.

In the large-scale fire merger in December last year, the entire Asahi and Japanese fleets were destroyed, leaving only 12 elite divisions out of the 2100 members of the Sihai Escort fleet.

It would be a good thing if the small cannon could sink a batch of them.

Wang Shouliang is not afraid either. His torpedo boat suicide squad is not only equipped with small cannons, but is also equipped with Maxim machine guns.

But now, these are not so important!

Because Kevin and Joseph and other war observers from Yan Lun Gui Lao had already left the Sihai and were standing on other ships in farther waters to watch the battle, Wang Shouliang himself was free.

Is he, the most powerful artilleryman before World War II and a master artilleryman, free? What is the meaning and concept of this? The Japanese joint fleet will soon realize this.

On the vast sea, two groups of torpedo boat suicide squads rushed towards each other.

The Sihai Fleet headed by the Sihai also fought from the northeast to the southwest, diagonally downward, and gradually formed a parallel line with the combined fleet coming from the southeast.

Wang Shouliang arrived at the twin-mounted 305MM turret toward the bow of the ship, and personally began to adjust the muzzle steering.

This is the most advanced and terrifying MK9 heavy artillery in Yanlun. The gun is nearly 13 meters long and can fire shells weighing 390 kilograms a distance of 14 kilometers. This is the maximum range of heavy artillery.

The new turret loading device can reduce the efficiency of firing guns from once every three minutes to once every minute.

The combat power is greatly increased!

In fact, the Yinlun Navy has never seen such MK9 heavy artillery in actual combat. After all, Yinlun is still at its peak, and the First World War has not yet started.

On the contrary, Wang Shouliang's Sihai Fleet and the Japanese's Liuliu Fleet were equipped first.

There is a twin-mounted heavy gun at the bow of the ship, which fires two 390-kilogram heavy guns at once. There is also such a twin-mounted turret at the stern of the ship...

When Wang Shouliang arrived at the turret at the stern of the ship and adjusted the muzzle angle, his Sihai ship and the Japanese flagship Mikasa on the other side were already moving forward and within a 14-kilometer range of each other.

Theoretically, this is the MK9 heavy artillery with the largest attack range.

Of course, the maximum range and the effective range are definitely not the same thing. Just like the last time the two sides fired artillery within a range of ten kilometers, they only started to hit the target after entering seven or eight kilometers.

Wang Shouliang was in the stern turret of the ship. After adjusting again, he fired decisively.

Boom boom!

Two 390-kilogram picric acid shells were fired together, causing the huge ship to slide backwards. The roar of the heavy artillery was like the roar of a tiger or the roar of a dragon.

Two terrifying shells also flew more than ten kilometers from the sky, and landed heavily on the side of the Mikasa ship one or two hundred meters away after ten or twenty seconds, and entered the sea...

Empty!

The muzzle velocity of this super heavy cannon is only over 700 meters per second, and it does take time to fly meters. It doesn't matter!

Wang Shouliang shouted, "Clean and reload!"

As the auxiliary gunner team got busy under the words, he ran to the bow turret. When he arrived, he simply operated and once again fired the third and fourth heavy cannon while the entire ship was sliding.

Visible to all eyes.

The third shell again entered the sea about 50 meters away from the Mikasa's hull, but the fourth one landed directly on the deck behind the Mikasa's stern...

The Mikasa seemed to have been hit hard on the deck by the giant spirit god's iron fist from the sky. The large deck exploded directly. The huge and terrifying explosion force caused the Mikasa to disperse a large amount of seawater violently like it was dancing on the sea. ups and downs.

Wang Shouliang had already quickly ran back to the stern turret and found that a group of auxiliary gunners took one minute and twenty seconds to load the new heavy cannon. He was no longer in a hurry.

At this moment, the Shikai and Mikasa are still about 13 kilometers apart from each other.

Ten seconds later, when the Sihai roared for the third time today, the fifth six picric acid shells weighing 390 kilograms let out a new dragon's roar, and the heavy artillery came out of the cage.

One exploded in the command tower of the Mikasa like fireworks, and the other exploded in the bow turret...

Even if the Mikasa is not finished yet and has no tendency to sink, the ruins of the command tower and the destruction of the two twin turrets already represent the withdrawal of the Mikasa!

At this moment, the Sihai, no, it was the entire Sihai Escort fleet. They were all dumbfounded, looking at the two turrets of the Sihai as if they were looking at gods or miracles.

This is too outrageous.

He had just entered the maximum range of the heavy artillery. Six rounds of heavy artillery before and after, and the Mikasa was destroyed? That's where the flagship of the Japanese joint fleet is.

Recalling the Asahi that sank last time, even if the command tower turret was hit by four or five rounds of heavy artillery, it could still resist and continue to fire...

The terrifying explosive power of this picric acid shell shocked everyone in the fleet, including the Japanese fleet opposite.

But horror or not, the war has just begun.

The Mikasa was parked passively on the sea, and the Hatsuse behind it turned into a new bow, sailing past from the side...

Wang Shouliang was already re-adjusting the angle of the turret. His non-human brain was running at super speed and had long surpassed the computing power of the most basic mechanical computer.

He is still more than twelve kilometers away from Hatsuse! !

Boom boom! !

When the Shikai's heavy artillery roared again, and the ship floated on the sea to remove the impact, two 390kg picric acid shells, one shot missed, and the other hit the waterline of the Hatuse, easily tearing nearly 200MM of armor. The sea water was tearing apart and shaking as the ship was tearing apart, and it rushed towards the Hatsuse crazily.

Countless people became even more numb.

Among the group of Japanese torpedo boats that were charging in groups and acting as suicide squads, many crew members slowed down their boats in confusion...

That is the strongest force of their empire, the courage and belief of the Japanese empire.

How come as soon as the war started, the enemy fleet's flagship was hit by four of the eight super heavy cannons? ? Is this the death of their Yamato? ? There were heavy casualties without even entering the effective range. There is no other explanation except luck, right? !

While the Japanese torpedo boat stormtroopers were confused and confused, the 150 torpedo boat death squads of the Sihai Escort Bureau began to become fanatical, fanatical, and still fanatical!

One by one, the sailors and dead soldiers began to tear off their clothes, and some even began to pour themselves alcohol, roaring and speeding up the charge.

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The Sihai Escort Fleet, a few nautical miles to the west, on the deck of an ironclad ship drifting on the sea, Kevin and Joseph, including various other ghosts.

At this stage, most people are holding telescopes and staring at the encounter between the two fleets...Fire!

When the Shikai roared with heavy artillery again, the explosion caused the Hatsuse's deck to turn upside down, and another heavy artillery round hit the Hatsuse's ammunition depot, triggering a horrific explosion. The explosion caused the Hatsase to fall apart and begin to sink.

Only then did Kevin realize that something was burning at the corner of his mouth. He dropped the telescope angrily and spit out the butt of his cigar, "Wang Defa Ke? San Aofu Bichi..."

"Is this luck? This must be luck!"

"Goddess of luck must be standing on Wang's Sihai ship today. Shete, how is this possible? How is this possible!"

Naval battles, naval battles, luck and all, it's really crazy.

Let’s just say that the original Battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and Mao Xiong lasted from February 1904 to May 2. In the early days of the war, Makarov was recognized by Da Mao Xiong as the most outstanding general in the navy. In the early stages of the war, he just took up the post of commander. ! !

Driving his own battleship out to sea, he was directly hit by a mine and sunk.

The most outstanding general died directly...

The morale of the Mao Xiong Navy is in a state of collapse. Our little military god and commander-in-chief just started the war, and he was killed by a mine when he went out. Is it okay?

This kind of outrageous thing is not an isolated occurrence in all kinds of wars and battles in the history of the world.

So, the brand new Xiaoliuqiu naval battle had just begun, and before they entered each other's effective range, the Shikai showed off its power. It fired eight cannons, half of which destroyed two Shikishima-class battleships?

Joseph was in a daze, "This is impossible, this is too... They really solved the problem of the stability of picric acid, Shet!!"

If it weren't for the new picric acid bombs, or the old cotton gunpowder shells, whether it was the command tower or turret of the Mikasa or Hatsase, it could withstand four or five heavy artillery rounds.

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A moment later, when the Sihai Fleet and the Japanese Fleet entered a ten-kilometer range from each other.

Wang Shouliang had already left the turret and re-entered the command tower. At this time, after his rounds of horrific artillery fire attacks, the Mikasa and Yashima were all disabled.

Hatsuse is sinking.

The Japanese combined fleet only has a dozen destroyers and cruisers with a displacement of three to four thousand tons as the main force, and the torpedo boats of both sides have also joined forces.

Fight wildly with each other using small cannons or machine guns.

In fact, several Japanese torpedo boats have already escaped!

This is the Japanese navy after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1894. They have already exerted the momentum to destroy the wolf, but without the incredible victory of the Ghost-Bear War, the Japanese cannot be arrogant, and the morale and morale of the army will collapse.

At least the battle on Kume Island was enough to let them know that the combined fleet was not invincible in Asia.

As soon as the war started, all three large ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons lost their combat effectiveness? Maybe the commanders of the three major ships are all dead.

What an outrageous blow to the morale of a fleet? ?

Not to mention the morale of the torpedo boat formation collapsed, there were small boats escaping, more than a dozen cruisers and destroyers, and some ships slowed down...

On the other hand, what about the Sihai Escort Fleet? Wang Shouliang's Sihai was given free rein to the ordinary artillery regiment, and its hit rate plummeted, and it began to miss four out of four shots.

But the other ships, including the numerous Mingshan destroyers and cruisers, were all going crazy, even crazier than being shot with blood!

(End of this chapter)