Chapter 1017: Give It a Try!
Chapter 1017 Give it a try!
"Oh no! So upright?!" The count watched the French fleet continue to maintain its original course and dive in. He also felt a little numb. It was not because he was afraid, but because he couldn't figure out where the French's confidence came from. Are you really not afraid of being hit by more than 30 of your own naval guns like this? Do you really think your 350MM naval gun is a bluff? ! The Earl suddenly found that all the routines he had designed before seemed to be somewhat useless now, and the only thing left was hard work! Either the French rushed over to block the return of the Negovan fleet, or they fought back the French themselves. However, the Earl liked this simple method of warfare very much!
The final battle of the Battle of Rhodes Island has been called the most mindless battle since the beginning of World War I! The ideas of both sides are very clear, and the approach is also very direct. In simple words, one side wants to rush over, and the other side is not allowed to rush over... The French fleet, led by three Brestany-class battleships, marched forward bravely, while Count Spee's four fast battleships raised their spears against their opponents!
Naturally, the French would not charge directly at each other. When the two sides were close to within shooting range, the French fleet, led by Brestani, slightly turned two compass points so that the warships behind could have some shooting. boundary. The three super-dreadnoughts can exert about 70% of their firepower, while the next three Guba-class battleships can exert about 40% of their firepower. The French thought that this should be enough!
However, the French still underestimated the gunnery and combat effectiveness of the Spey fleet. Historically, the Count's fleet was known for its superb gunnery and civilization. Whether in the Battle of Coronel or the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the artillery of the Far East Fleet The Master of Arts is remarkable. Especially when facing two battlecruisers, under extremely unfavorable circumstances, the Far East Fleet still hit the Invincible 22 times! Among them, there were 12 210MM shells, 6 160MM shells, and the other hit calibers were unknown. Of course it just doesn't do any damage. It is said that only one person was slightly injured... But this time, when his own fleet was powerful enough, the count left an extremely profound impact on the French fleet's first daytime battle!
"Don't worry about the Dreadnoughts at the back. They are no threat. Just take care of the super Dreadnoughts in front." Following the Count's order, four fast battleships quickly distributed firepower, and the Sultan Osman I and the Reshadier took aim. De La Perel's flagship, while Tegelhof and Prinz Eugen aimed at the two battleships behind.
The courses of the warships on both sides sailed at an acute angle. When it approached a distance of 17,000 meters, the main gun of the Sultan Osman I once again sprayed out streams of flames! I thought that the speed change rate was relatively large, so the first round of shooting was poor, and the shells landed behind the target battleship one after another. As the distance between the two fleets approached, and after realizing that the French fleet might not change its course, after reloading the data, the Allied fleet's hit rate still increased, and when the Allied fleet formed the first round of straddle attack on the French warship, By that time, the two sides had approached a distance of 13,500 meters!
But this time, a close-quarters fight broke out between the two sides again! The Allies still have ships of the same class that continue the lineage of the Helgeland-class fast battleships.
As for the Allied Powers, well, in every aspect, the French Brestany-class battleship is several notches behind the Fuso-class fast battleship!
The Brestany, which was focused on by the two fast-following battleships, was hit first. A 350MM shell hit the No. 2 turret of the French battleship from the front. This was the most vulnerable of all turrets. The 250MM armor could not survive. At a distance of 13,000 meters, it is impossible to withstand the attack of 350MM armor-piercing bullets. At this distance, the latter can easily penetrate more than 12 inches! This shell directly hit the joint between the front and the horizontal part of the turret, and the violent impact even blew away a large piece of horizontal armor! And then the shell tore through the armor and landed on the main gun on the left side of the No. 2 turret!
Boom, a pillar of fire more than ten meters high rose into the sky. The violent explosion even pushed most of the artillery piece weighing dozens of tons out of the turret, and then landed heavily on the top of the No. 1 turret. This gun weighing dozens of tons The huge kinetic energy carried by the hammer cannot be underestimated! The rangefinder and observation port on the cover of No. 1 turret were directly crushed, and the French officers and soldiers inside were also shaken to pieces as if they were inside a big bell! What's even more coincidental is that this barrel even hit the barrel on the left side of the No. 1 turret, directly bending it. Fortunately, there were no shells in the artillery at this time, otherwise the explosion would be a trivial matter!
Before the French could figure out the situation, a 350MM shell fired from the Reschadier hit the front of the Brestany's hull. This shell directly tore a long strip on the bow armor belt. The hole is more than 3 meters long! Approximately 400 tons of displacement were added to the battleship in a short period of time…. Less than 10 seconds later, another shell hit the middle of the hull. Even at an angle that was not ideal, this 350MM shell still cut through a hole as thick as 270MM like a hot knife cutting through butter. armor, and then hit the tilted dome armor! In the end, the shell failed to completely penetrate the dome armor but turned into countless fragments along with the dome armor! But even so, 3 boilers in the power cabin inside were shut down!
Compared with the Allied fleet's sharp attack, the performance of the Brestany was very poor. The French artillery shells were like Blanc motion. Under the suppression of superior firepower and the influence of the huge speed change rate, The bomb impact area was so erratic that the Germans wondered whether the Brestany on the opposite side was targeting their four battleships in sequence. Once, the last battleship Prinz Eugen even found a group of shells hitting the target. into the area 1,000 meters behind him.
When the two sides approached 12,000 meters, the two German battleships sent at least four more shells to the hull of the Brestany. The gun mount of the third turret in the middle was hit, although the position was not very good. It could penetrate, but after the huge impact, a large piece of steel plate dented directly, smashing the transmission equipment of the gun mount into pieces. And a shell that penetrated the armored belt of the gun gallery not only blew up the two 138.6MM artillery pieces, but also seemed to detonate something, lighting a moderate fire for the French battleship...
In addition, the other two shells concentrated on the front of the battleship, and as a result, the three together had a hole of more than 40 square meters on the side of the hull. This caused the Brestany to tilt severely, and most of the bow was submerged in the waves from time to time.
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