"General Zhang, is our speed too fast? This is not conducive to our turn and seize the word 't'."

The speaker was Schell, a military representative sent by Germany. Before he separated from the Kunming ship, the German engineering and technical personnel of the Qingzhou and Yizhou were transferred to the Kunming ship, but Schell insisted on staying on the Qingzhou and participating in this battle. Although Schell had been in the army for nearly 20 years and became the future star of the German Navy, he had never participated in a formal naval battle. Therefore, he naturally would not miss this opportunity to accumulate naval battle experience. In addition, he also wanted to see the naval combat capabilities of overseas Chinese, but Zhang Wei did not reject his request and let him stay in the command room.

However, Scher also knew that he was an outsider, so he didn't say anything from the time the two sides started to negotiate until the breakdown of the negotiations. However, he couldn't stand it anymore, because after the Qingzhou number was launched, it accelerated to about 15 knots in more than ten minutes, and it was still speeding up. So Scher couldn't help reminding Zhang Wei that too fast speed would not help to seize the word "t".

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the navy's horizontal tactics were completely eliminated, and the one-character column tactics became the mainstream of naval battles. The most important thing about column tactics is to seize the horizontal tip of the word "t" and exert the firepower of the warships' sidewalks. Therefore, if the side can take the lead in seizing the horizontal tip of the word "t", they can gain a great advantage in naval battles, which has become the golden rule pursued by the navies of various countries.

However, the faster you get the better, because if you get the "t" character, the more difficult it is to cause effective damage to the enemy ship, but the enemy ship can also adjust its navigation immediately to avoid the edge. Of course, it will be even worse if it is too late. In that way, the enemy ship will take the lead in grabbing the "t" character and fall into a passive position. At this time, the distance between the naval warfare firefighting is generally considered to be within 5 kilometers. Therefore, the time to get the "t" character, the right way to get the "t" character, must be very accurate, neither too early nor too late.

Now both sides are heads of ships facing each other. In a sense, it is to compete with the steering speed of both sides. The steering speed of one side is fast and the steering radius is small, and the other side has a greater chance of taking the "t" side first. The Qingzhou and Yizhou have a larger hull, and the ship is slender and long, so the steering radius required is larger. Therefore, the steering is not an advantage, and now it has a high speed, which magnifies its own disadvantages. In comparison, each ship of the Dutch fleet controls the speed to about 10 knots, which is the most ideal steering speed.

In Scher's view, the correct tactic of the People's Army should be to control the speed to about 10 knots. After turning to the column to fight, he would use his own speed advantage to catch up with the front of the Dutch fleet, and then cut across the Dutch fleet. This is also a typical textbook-style combat method, so Scher was not only a little impatient.

After hearing this, Zhang Wei laughed and said, "Major, just wait and see the show."

After hearing this, she didn't know what to say, but she felt very up and down. She didn't know if she had insisted on staying on the Qingzhou Crown to participate in the war just now. If the Qingzhou Crown was sunk by the Dutch Navy, she would have died unjustly. But now there is no other way, so she had to leave it to fate.

At this time, Zhang Wei said: "Report our speed and the distance between us now?"

"Speed ​​speed is 16.3 knots, distance is 7.75 kilometers."

"Okay, start the fire immediately, 1 round of shooting, then 5 rounds of volleys, and then re-targeting."

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"Look, this group of yellow-skinned monkeys are still accelerating. It's so hard that they think they can get the top of the head by speeding up." Helveg said as he shook his head and said, "It seems that they don't understand naval battles at all, and they dare to ask for advice. They should teach them a lesson so that they can remember forever."

Just as Helvig was talking, there was a rumbling sound of cannons coming from the opposite side. The capitals of the two warships emitted flames and smoke. It was obvious that the other party had fired. About 7 or 8 seconds later, more than 10 water columns immediately rose in front of the Dutch fleet, but they were all far from the Dutch fleet and could not pose any threat to the Dutch fleet.

Helvig laughed even more and said, "They can't hold back now. It seems that this battle will be going very easily. I inform all ships to keep calm and not fire."

After hearing this, the other people in the command center felt that the commander was a bit arrogant, but the performance of overseas Chinese was indeed too amateur in their opinion, so most people also felt that this battle was already a victory.

However, the artillery bombardment of overseas Chinese was not over yet. After a few dozen seconds of pause, a new round of artillery bombardment was immediately started. However, the accuracy of this artillery bombardment was much higher, and the opponent's artillery fire was obviously concentrated on the Amsterdam, with water columns surrounding the surroundings of Amsterdam, and the nearest one was only more than 30 meters. Obviously, the other party also saw that this was the flagship of the Dutch fleet.

In the next round of artillery attack, Amsterdam finally couldn't escape. He was shot on the port deck, killing 6 or 7 soldiers, but the damage to Amsterdam was not great. However, after being shot, Amsterdam seemed to have been transported on his back and hit two more guns. Fortunately, both of the two guns hit the side. One reason was that the armor of Amsterdam was quite thick; the other was that the angle of the bullet was small, and one shell was bounced away, and the other shell was left with a crater on the side.

"Qingzhou hit 2 shots, Yizhou hit 1 shot, but the opponent's loss is not big, and the distance is now 6.83 kilometers."

Under the surveillance of the helicopter, the results of the first round of artillery bombardment and the current distance between both sides were very clear. After the five shellings, although only three shots were hit, Zhang Wei was still very satisfied with the result. After all, the first round of artillery bombardment was able to achieve such results, which was indeed good. So Zhang Wei immediately ordered the two warships to correct the shooting parameters immediately according to the data provided by the helicopter, and conduct the second round of artillery bombardment after 30 seconds.

At this moment, the Dutch fleet finally launched a counterattack. After all, after being hit three times, Helveg couldn't help but feel a little restless. Therefore, regardless of whether the two sides had not yet entered the distance of the battle stipulated by the textbook, they immediately ordered a counterattack. So the front main artillery of the six warships of the Dutch fleet opened fire and launched an attack on the Qingzhou and Yizhou. However, the landing point of the first round of artillery fired and did not cause any damage to the People's Army.

Before the Dutch fleet could carry out the second round of artillery, the People's Army's second round of artillery had arrived. In one minute, the People's Army completed the second round of five artillery bombardments. This time the results were further expanded. A total of four rounds of Amsterdam were hit. One of them fell on the deck and destroyed a turret of a 100mm naval gun. Two more rounds hit the command center. Although it was blocked by thick armor, it only caused two pits and a fire was ignited, which also caused some chaos to the Amsterdam command center.

The Dutch fleet did not fire volleys like the People's Army, but each fired freely, but the most of them only fired 3 rounds, and some warships only fired 2 rounds. Since the Qingzhou and Yizhou's main guns are the latest products of the German Krupp Company. Germany's artillery technology is originally the best. The theoretical rate of fire can reach 12 rounds per minute, and the actual rate of fire can reach 6-7 rounds per minute. For the main gun, this is a considerable rate of fire. In comparison, the speed of the Dutch fleet is obviously much slower, and the number of former main guns of the Dutch fleet is relatively small, so the Dutch fleet's artillery still hit no shots.

"Steer, turn, fast, turn after."

The continuous shelling of the enemy also completely shook Helveg's determination, because the opponent's main guns not only had a fast firing speed, but also had high accuracy. The number of front main guns of the Dutch fleet was too small, and the 6 warships were actually firmly suppressed by the opponent's two warships. Therefore, Helveg ordered the warships to turn and use side strings to face the enemy with side strings, so that they could fully utilize their side string firepower advantages.

Of course, Hurvig has not completely lost confidence and believes that the current passive situation is only temporary. Although his flagship has been hit by 7 shots in a row, it still has not suffered much damage. Therefore, as long as he completes the turn, he can play his numerical advantage and still win the battle.

"Silver Eagle, what is the distance between us and Ship 3 now?"

"The distance is 5.37 kilometers and the angle is 81.36 degrees. Pay attention to the enemy ship being turned, so you only have two rounds of shelling time at most."

"Okay, I understand." After saying that, Zhang Wei immediately ordered to inform the data from the helicopter to the turrets of the two warships. Seeing that the first two rounds of shelling were not very lethal to the enemy flagship, Zhang Wei also realized that it was not very likely to sink or severely damage the enemy flagship in a short period of time, so he indeed changed the target to the No. 4 ship Rotterdam, the Dutch Fleet.

"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

Just as the Dutch fleet turned, the third round of artillery fire of the People's Army Navy was launched. In less than a minute, Rotterdam was hit by four guns in a row, and two rounds were nearly lost. Rotterdam was just a medium-sized protective cruiser with no side armor and its defense was much worse than that of a shore defense battleship like Amsterdam. Therefore, it was immediately severely damaged. Its two rounds of shells hit the main turret of the bow, not only blowing the turret away, but also blowing a large gap at the bow. The two rounds of near loss also caused cracks and water seepage.

The warship could not be shelled when it turned, so when Helveg received the news that the Rotterdam was shelled, he was anxious, but he had no choice but to tell the warship that the steering could be faster so as to launch a counterattack. Amsterdam finally completed the steering, and at this time, Helveg received the news that the Tilburg was severely damaged by the other party's shelling.
Chapter completed!