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Volume 1: The Arms Dealer¡¯s Feast Chapter 265: Sinking the Yamato (Part 2)

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    In the eyes of old captains like Yamamoto Isoroku, shelling dozens of kilometers away is just fireworks - because if you are unlucky, you can fire hundreds of shells but still not hit a single one.  Although the artillery in the 1930s could send shells to dozens of kilometers or even farther, the accuracy was not good. It can also be said that the technology of the fire control system has not yet been developed.

    These eight shells fell into the sea and exploded as expected by Yamamoto Isoroku. However, what surprised Yamamoto Isoroku was that these eight shells only landed on the sea two to three hundred meters away from the Yamato, and the shells exploded in the sea water.  (The armor-piercing bombs used by the Navy also weigh tens of kilograms.) The splashing waves actually fell on the deck of the Yamato - to be fair, at a distance of 35 kilometers, the initial launch only missed the target by two or three hundred meters, which is very accurate.  .

    Facing the first launch of the Central Navy, Yamamoto Isoroku also had to make some reactions. He immediately ordered: "The No. 1 main turret, the No. 2 main turret, and the No. 3 main turret are all ready for a test launch."

    The design of the Japanese Yamato-class battleship is an internationally popular triple gun barrel design with two front, two, and one rear turrets arranged along the central axis.  However, the triple gun barrels will affect each other during salvo firing, which will reduce the accuracy of the artillery fire. Therefore, one gun barrel usually fires first, and then the remaining two gun barrels fire after a second or two.

    It is for this reason that although the technology of triple gun barrels and quadruple gun barrels has been out for a long time, Jin Batian did not adopt it at all. Zhongshan-class battleships still use the relatively mature two-gun barrel design¡ª¡ª  If you already have everything you need to shoot faster, why bother thinking about adding more barrels?

    Furthermore, if triple gun barrels are used on the Zhongshan-class battleship, the number of cannons will be twelve. The additional four cannons and shells, the expansion of the turret space, and even the overall structure of the ship will require too many changes, so simply  Or stay the same in the face of change.  Anyway, the triple main gun will affect the rate of fire, and the number and weight of the shells fired per unit time are not much better than the double main gun.

    Just as the Yamato battleship's main turret was aiming and preparing for test firing, the Yanshan battleship fired a second round of eight shells.

    Seven of the shells landed on the sea dozens of meters around the battleship Yamato, and one shell was very lucky to land on the deck of the Yamato - this shot destroyed a secondary battery and two anti-aircraft guns on the Yamato.

    "Well done." Although it was not the first hit, the second round of shelling from such a long distance hit the enemy's flagship.  Seeing this scene, all the crew members of the Central Navy couldn't help but cheer in unison.

    But this is just the beginning. Jin Batian's Yanshan has the smallest number of people on board, with only more than 500 people. After the transformation, it does not need so many people and the rate of fire has been greatly increased. The space and load originally used for loading people are used for loading.  shot the shell.  Therefore, there is no shortage of artillery shells on the Yanshan.

    When Jin Batian discovered that the first hit was hit, he understood that the computer had completely locked on the Yamato battleship, and immediately pressed the salvo button.  The shells hit the Yamato battleship at a maximum speed of five rounds and forty rounds per minute.  Even at a distance of more than thirty kilometers, even supersonic shells would take dozens of seconds to fly. As a result, the third batch of shells was still in the air, and the fourth and fifth batches of shells had already flown out of the barrel.

    Seeing the shells exploding like dumplings around the battleship Yamato and even on the deck, the helmsman of the battleship Yamato began to evade before getting the order - even if Yamamoto Fifty-Six's order dozens of seconds later was to pressurize the boiler.  Just increase the speed to avoid cannonballs.  Although the Yamato is said to be the essence of Japanese battleships, it cannot withstand this rain of bullets.  Yamamoto Isoroku felt that the Yamato battleship was not shooting at one Nakayama-class battleship, but was besieged by three or four Nakayama-class battleships.

    After the battleship Yamato completed three test rounds, it also opened fire.  However, as the hull was repeatedly evading the S-shaped shells, the accuracy of the impact of the shells was not very accurate. The closest impact of the several shells only landed on the sea five or six hundred meters away from the battleship Yanshan.

    "Sure enough, this offense is the best defense. Hahahahaha" Jin Batian's arrogant laughter came from the bridge of the Yanshan.

    From God's perspective, seeing the Yamato dodging left and right on the sea like a whale, avoiding most of the Yanshan's shells, Jin Batian turned around and cursed fiercely: "How dare he dare"  hide."

    This is already unreasonable.  Since when has there been any reason not to hide from cannonballs?

    Jin Batian looked at the operation manual and switched the artillery on the Yanshan battleship from salvo mode to continuous fire mode.  After completing the computerized transformation, the Yanshan has three bombardment modes: one is for each gun barrel or turret to fire individually, the other is the whole ship's main gun salvo mode, and the third is the continuous fire mode.  This continuous fire mode divides the main guns on the ship into No. 1-8. Starting from the No. 1 main gun, it fires, and it ends with a round of continuous fire after the No. 8 main gun finishes firing.

    In terms of rate of fire, this continuous fire may be slightly slower.? Salvo mode, but the computer on the ship will slightly adjust subsequent bombardments based on the impact point parameters of each bombardment, which will increase the hit rate significantly.

    Regarding this point, the enemy on the Yamato battleship has the most say. Originally, it was just raining bombs around the Yamato battleship. Only a few shells actually landed on the deck - these few shells weighed more than 1,000 kilograms.  The shells also destroyed several secondary guns and more than a dozen anti-aircraft guns. The explosion of the shells also tore several holes on the deck and turned hundreds of Japanese navy into flesh and blood.

    I saw the bombardment paused for a moment, maybe only tens of seconds, and a stream of shells chased from the air towards the battleship Yamato - most of these shells did not miss and hit the deck of the battleship Yamato one after another. Yamamoto Isoroku  I just feel that everything I learned in the US empire is outdated and outdated. How can there be such a naval battle, how can there be such precise bombardment.

    Now the two sides are still within a direct range of artillery fire, and the shells can only explode on the deck. If so many shells are hit at a direct range, even the Yamato battleship will only be sunk by the shells.  However, there are countless shellings that can be withstood on the deck. Moreover, the most important main gun turret and bridge are also on the deck. It would be very fatal if the main gun turret and bridge were hit continuously.

    At this point, Yamamoto Isoroku did not dare to leave any backup, and immediately gave an order to the Navy's HNA Group: "All bombers and torpedo planes take off to besiege the enemy's No. 1 battleship."

    This time the Japanese sent six aircraft carriers - one of which was leased from the US Pacific Fleet on a wet lease basis.  This is also thanks in large part to the Lend-Lease Act that has just been passed by the US Empire. According to this act, US President Roosevelt has the right to return all domestic military and defense supplies to belligerent countries through sale, lease, exchange, etc.  The little devil is not only the largest trading partner of the US empire at this time, but also a pawn of the US empire in maintaining order in Asia, so such a major thing as leasing the entire Pacific Fleet can be completed within a few days.

    "If the US Pacific Fleet had not been wet-leased, I am afraid that today's battle of battleships would have been ten ships VS twenty ships. Now it is fourteen ships VS twenty ships. It is not impossible to fight.  Especially when the Japanese Navy wants to have four more aircraft carriers.

    To be fair, the aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft are now incapable of sinking the super battleship - unless the super battleship does nothing and stops on the sea to let the carrier-based torpedo aircraft keep firing torpedoes in one direction. The torpedoes of the 1930s  Neither speed nor power is satisfactory.

    In addition to posing some threats to the anti-aircraft guns on the deck, the bombers also put the super battleship on the sea and it could not be sunk no matter how many hundreds of bombers bombed it together. In order to deal with the sister ship of the Bismarck battleship Tirpitz, the English  People used a "tall cabinet" as a weapon that weighed several tons.

    Although these weapons are very powerful, there is one thing. Not one of the carrier-based aircraft in the 1930s can fly with this thing.

    The meaning of Yamamoto Isoroku's release of carrier-based aircraft is also very simple. It is to cause some trouble for this Nakayama-class battleship. Otherwise, if it is left to fight like this, the Yamato will only have two options: escape or sink.  Now it is obvious that relying only on the Yamato battleship's naval guns is completely unable to suppress the opponent's bombardment - on the contrary, the Yamato battleship's bombardment is always unable to accurately hit the Yanshan battleship due to constant evasion.

    Not long after Yamamoto Isoroku issued the order, two consecutive rounds of 406 mm armor-piercing projectiles hit the bridge of the battleship Yamato.  The kinetic energy of the cannonball turned into a huge impact force and the explosion made Yamamoto Isoroku and others who remained upright unsteady and fell to the ground or tables and chairs one after another.

    Jin Batian of the Yanshan here saw a large number of fighter bombers and torpedo planes approaching the Yanshan from the sky from the perspective of God. He picked up the walkie-talkie and said to the Huashan battleship and others behind him: "Let our carrier-based aircraft ignore the Yanshan and protect it."  Just the aircraft carrier and Zhongshan.¡±

    Aircraft carriers and carrier-based aircraft are also an old problem of the Nanjing Central Navy. Although Chen Shaokuan has been clamoring to build an aircraft carrier for many years - no one in the country knows how to do it, including Chen Shaokuan, the aircraft carrier advocate.  Ever since they acquired the aircraft carrier in 2003, the Central Navy has been learning under the guidance of half-hearted German naval instructors. The aircraft carrier is a new weapon that emerged after World War I. After World War I, the German Navy was also required to disarmament by the League of Nations.  I haven't played it before, but the Germans have finally played with seaplanes, aircraft carriers, and carrier-based aircraft, so they don't understand anything about it.

    So you can imagine how difficult it was for the Nanjing Central Navy aircraft carrier-based aircraft to get started. Excellent pilots are all in Peiping and Nanjing. The pilots of the aircraft carrier-based aircraft have to learn step by step from taking off.  By 1938, there were only two aircraft carriers capable of combat effectiveness.

    Because there are fewer aircraft carriers, there are fewer carrier-based aircraft. There are more than 100 aircraft on the two aircraft carriers.? They are all fighter jets - because there are too few aircraft, the two aircraft carriers have only one mission, to protect their own ships from being harassed by the Japanese bombers and torpedo planes. Yes, if the Japanese do not use kamikaze attack tactics, the ship  Carrier aircraft are harassment to naval ships in formation.  Especially in the face of tens of thousands of tons of super battleships, an aircraft is only equivalent to a big mosquito.  Besides, even mosquitoes can bite people, but the aircraft carrier also has anti-aircraft guns of various calibers and other fly swatters.

    Facing the hordes of bombers and torpedo planes flying in, Jin Batian was not afraid at all. Locking the aircraft by hand and eye could not be as accurate as the computer. There were eight twin 105mm anti-aircraft guns and eight twin 37mm anti-aircraft guns on the Zhongshan-class battleship.  The anti-aircraft guns and the 18 20mm twin anti-aircraft cannons are not insignificant. Every other person on the bridge controls one or two anti-aircraft guns, just waiting for the attack.

    Soon, a strange scene appeared on the sea. The Japanese flagship Yamato was beaten in a one-on-one artillery battle, and smoke billowed out and flames spread. The Yanshan battleship that was shooting at him was attacked by hundreds of fighter bombers and torpedoes.  During the siege, one or two aircraft were shot down by anti-aircraft guns and fell into the sea from time to time, but hundreds of aircraft were unable to penetrate the firepower network composed of dozens of anti-aircraft guns and posed a threat to the battleship Yanshan.

    Ten minutes into the artillery battle, the Yamato was already in dilapidated condition. The No. 2 main turret and the bridge were damaged in many places. Yamamoto Isoroku lost his usual composure and lay on the ground, grabbing a walkie-talkie and talking to the aircraft carrier.  The formation shouted with vibrato: "I order, launch the kamikaze tactics immediately, launch the kamikaze tactics immediately"

    The Japanese pilots were also very depressed. It wasn¡¯t that they didn¡¯t want to use kamikaze tactics, but that after launching kamikaze battles again and again, the plane was blown up by the volley and fell into the sea. After several attacks, nothing could be done.  But the commander had orders and had to listen. Bombers and torpedo planes that had not yet launched aerial bombs tried their best to lift to a high altitude, and then dived at a nearly vertical angle towards the battleship Yanshan below.

    At this time, another warning sounded inside the bridge of the battleship Yanshan: "Danger, locked by explosives. Danger, locked by explosives."

    "Accelerate and evade. Avoid." The shouts were transmitted through the wires in the bridge. Now even the main gun of the Yanshan was not so accurate.

    However, Yamamoto Isoroku saved a small life and immediately took this opportunity to order the battleship Yamato, whose No. 2 main turret and bridge were damaged and the deck was highly damaged, to retreat back to the main formation.  Because the damage control personnel on the battleship Yamato suffered a large number of casualties, the Yamato is now a big torch and a large smokestack on the sea, constantly emitting thick smoke and fire on the sea - it is too unenvironmentally friendly.

    After driving away the seriously injured battleship Yamato, the surrounding area and the deck of Yanshan were also in a mess - the Japanese aircraft that faithfully implemented kamikaze tactics were all blown up by volleys, but many explosives still fell on the deck along with their inertia and exploded.  , several anti-aircraft guns were damaged as a result, but because of Jin Batian's strict order, damage control personnel were not allowed to go on the deck until the aircraft was finished, and there were no casualties on the deck.

    Although the battleship Yanshan was faster than the battleship Yamato, Jin Batian did not catch up - even if the battleship Yanshan completed computerized transformation, no matter how powerful it was, it would still be dead when it penetrated into the enemy group.

    At this time, due to the exchange of fire between the battleship Yanshan and the battleship Yamato, the battleships on both sides also began to shoot at each other.  Because the ratio of battleships here is 13:19, some battleships of the Central Navy can calmly fight two against one or even three against one. Well, right now, the Zhongshan battleship is cooperating with the Qingling battleship and the Lushan battleship, with three Zhongshan class battleships.  The battleships besieged another Yamato-class battleship Musashi.

    Most of the battleships still implemented a very gentlemanly one-on-one model, but this situation changed when the battleship Yanshan killed hundreds of mosquitoes around it and rejoined the battle.

    Jin Batian waited for the assassin assassin sisters around him to control the anti-aircraft guns to blow up or drive away the Japanese aircraft one by one. Then he saw that the two sides were already fighting on the battlefield. The distance between the main fleets of the two sides was now about twenty kilometers.  .  Although the distance was still quite far, everyone could not help but fire at this distance because of the ultra-long-range bombardment performed by the Yanshan just now.  To say that the bombardment of more than 20 kilometers is still somewhat accurate, it means that dozens of rounds can hit an average of one shot. In military terms, it is a long-range bombardment.  Among them, the battleship Musashi, which was besieged by the three battleships Zhongshan, Qingling, and Lushan, had already received two 406mm armor-piercing rounds in the dense rain of bullets.

    I glanced at the nearest enemy, which was the Meiji battleship that was fighting one-on-one with the Huashan battleship.  The Meiji battleship is a protective type of Emperor-class battleship customized by the Japanese with borrowed money from Britain. Although its speed is worrying, its turtle shell magic is still very useful in battle.  The battleship Huashan saw a hit, but on the deck of the battleship Meiji?The thick smoke and flames that ignited were quickly extinguished.

    After Jin Batian used the computer to lock the Meiji battleship, he fired a demonstration salvo. Then, after the shells hit the water, the computer readjusted the angle of the turret and gun barrel. Jin Batian pressed the burst button and the shells flew from Yanshan.  The four turrets of the USS flew out continuously in the air and shot in a row towards the Meiji battleship more than 20 kilometers away.

    In just three minutes, dozens of artillery shells exploded on the battleship Meiji, blasting the Japanese on the deck and bridge of the battleship Meiji to the point of crying for their fathers and mothers.  They have just now understood what Fleet Commander-in-Chief Yamamoto Isoroku felt just now.  Even the protective Mikado-class battleships cannot withstand this level of indiscriminate bombing.

    The battleship Meiji quickly wanted to turn around and escape, returning to the formation just like the battleship Yamato did just now, but this time there were no hundreds of aircraft to delay its kamikaze tactics.  The Yanshan's main gun shells exploded one after another on the Meiji battleship, finally blasting a huge crack in its deck, and then a shell luckily penetrated the crack and caused a huge explosion inside the Meiji battleship.

    This internal explosion caused a lot of damage to the Meiji battleship's boiler pipes. On the sea, the Meiji battleship not only emitted huge flames and black smoke, but also slowed down. To say that the fireworks released by the Yamato battleship just now were no better than the current Meiji.  The USS battleship is small, but what a battleship fears most in a naval battle is damage to its power. This time, the battleship USS Meiji caught up.

    The battleship Meiji, which could not avoid the shells, became a target at this time. Even the battleship Huashan was not far behind when hitting such fixed targets. The hit rate was greatly improved and at the same time, a radio communication came to Jin Batian's Yanshan: "Meiji"  Leave it to us, the Huashan, and your Yanshan to support other ships."

    Jin Batian put down the communicator and cursed: "Your sister." However, after thinking about it, he was indeed suspected of robbing people. In the one-on-one gun battle just now, the Zhonghuashan still had a slight advantage, but this advantage was difficult to come by.  It just turned into a victory in a short period of time.

    Jin Batian ordered the helmsman to slightly adjust the sailing angle and move closer to the Japanese ship behind.  He locked his eyes and computer target on the battleship Hou Taoyuan which was shooting at the battleship Taishan.  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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