Chapter 136
As for the initiation that even old warships are afraid of, Wei An has also considered it.
The ship girls under him can slowly install other ship equipment, but the armor must be fully loaded at once.
Destroyers must at least be able to defend against heavy cruisers and below, and effectively defend against heavy cruisers' main guns except when struck by lightning.
Cruisers can defeat ordinary battleship girls, as well as some powerful ship girls, and can withstand the 381mm main gun without any problem.
As for battleships like Clemenceau, they can defend against 460mm main guns.
This ensures that they will not suffer a disadvantage in a duel of the same ship type and reduces the probability of injury.
So the Shropshire only has 8 small 203 main guns. Unless Clemenceau lets her fire the guns in the face, there is a chance of penetration.
But when she thought about the distance and hit rate of Clemenceau's bombardment, she became numb.
But it's not impossible for her to win, as long as she can get to that place and launch her own torpedoes.
Therefore, Shropshire, who had made plans early, was not prepared to confront Clemenceau head-on, and she did not have the capital for a head-on confrontation.
Before the exercise started, everyone was looking forward to the result.
Whether it was Shropshire who relied on his experienced experience to teach the younger generation, or Clemenceau did not operate and only used numerical values to complete an unpretentious counterattack.
This time the battle was all about his shipgirls, so he had no command and relied on their own temporary judgment.
However, Vian did not restrict Clemenceau's use of ship equipment.
Standing on the snowy deck, even Saratoga and Lexington were by his side
"Commander, who do you think will win?"
Saratoga looked at the two shipgirls' ships going away and asked Vian curiously.
After all, only Vian knew Clemenceau's real combat ability best.
"Clemenceau."
Weian gave his answer without hesitation.
"Is there no chance of her winning in Shropshire?"
Wei An still thought about this for a while.
"If Shropshire can successfully use a torpedo attack to cause Clemenceau to leak water, reduce its speed, and is not skilled enough to deal with these things,"
"Otherwise, I don’t know how Clemenceau could lose."
Just when Saratoga wanted to drag Vian to question but was rejected by him with a smile, she could only pouted and began to observe the two ship girls while explaining the information to others.
Elizabeth stayed on Xuefeng's battleship as she was expected. Hood sailed his ship next to Xuefeng.
Clemenceau, who was leaving, recalled the thoughts that Wei An had instilled in her.
Don't think about saving resources and shells. If you want to fight, you must use all your firepower. Mosquitoes also need to use cannons.
Although Yukikaze's phobia of lack of firepower is more serious, the most serious one is the security guard who comes from the rabbit house.
At the same time, he should never underestimate others, so he sailed for a long time on both sides to reach the designated location. After confirming the start of the sea, Shropshire immediately began to observe the movement of the sea through the field of vision around her battleship.
Monceau's battleship is smaller, so her concealment is slightly better. If we want to find the target , she must first discover Clemenceau.
The exercise area used this time is a sea with a diameter of 50 nautical miles.
From Latoga's perspective, the distance between them was more than 40 nautical miles.
Both sides were heading towards the center of the sea with purpose, but Clemenceau's speed was obviously much higher when they were sailing. Vian and the others were a little bored here, and she had already told a few jokes to Vian.
But when Clemenceau and Shropshire were 25 nautical miles apart, Saratoga finally cheered up.
"Something has changed! Something has changed!"
Saratoga's words immediately attracted everyone's attention.
"The distance between them now is about 25 nautical miles, and Clemenceau just started to slow down his speed."
"She seemed to have discovered something, and she turned around anyway!"
Saratoga watched as Clemenceau and Shropshire continued to sail. Sooner or later, the bows of the ships would meet.
But now Clemenceau directly turned the bows and pointed the side of his warship at Shropshire. At the same time , she was constantly adjusting her sailing angle so that she was always in the T position.
"Clemenceau's turret has begun to turn, aiming at Shropshire's position!"
"The distance between them now is only 20 nautical miles! Clemenceau must have discovered the location of Shropshire!"
"Amazing! The enemy can be traced within 25 nautical miles, but they are still out of sight now!"
At the same time, everyone turned their attention to Wei An.
Clemenceau was able to discover Shropshire so quickly that he must have known about it. Wei An just looked at Xuefeng
"Sister, has Shropshire left the search range?"
"Well, it just left my enemy range."
After installing the radar, Xuefeng has the same ability to find enemies and observe as Clemenceau.
And the position is arranged so that Xuefeng, who runs faster, is farther away, and Shropshire is farther away from them. Close.
Shropshire had been under Xuefeng's radar detection before.
After hearing what Wei An and Xuefeng said, they still didn't understand that Shropshire had already entered the enemy ship of Wei An within 25 nautical miles. However,
Hood and Elizabeth were already numb to the ability of Wei An and his shipgirls to create surprises. They just wanted to see what surprises Clemenceau could bring them this time.
"17 nautical miles!"
"14 nautical miles!"
"Clemenceau fired! The gun was fired at a distance of 14 nautical miles!"
The artillery fire was deafening.
Clemenceau had locked the location of Shropshire through radar early. She had been aiming for a long time and chose to fire alternately. She did not fire her own artillery fire once, and at the same time her The battleship accelerated again and changed direction.
But what Clemenceau didn't expect was that her bombardment hit her at 14 nautical miles, because her hit rate was already very low after 14 nautical miles. She was not prepared to hit the Shropshire ship the first time. She did not see Clemenceau's ship, so Clemenceau bombarded her. By the time she knew it, the shells were already there. She was in the air.
So after predicting the landing points of the previous rounds, she confirmed that she had been discovered, so she took evasive actions. He caught the slightly deflected cannonball fired later, but the accuracy of the shot was not as good as the shot.