Chapter 358
My Empire Chapter 358
2020-11-03
Chapter 358 359 Artillery Battle Begins"Aim for the target!" With a clear cry, the main gun on the battleship Conquest, Made minor adjustments.
Although in Earth's history, the fearless class battleships were not equipped with advanced equipment such as radar, but these battleships serving in the Alanhill Navy still used some different advanced equipment.
The first point is that Alanhill's fearless ships are equipped with radar electronics. These devices were not installed after modification, but existed when they were originally designed.
In order to install these radar equipment, the center of gravity of the fearless ship has been slightly raised, and the superstructure has also been modified.
The huge internal gear with a diameter of more than 5 meters drives the turret to meticulously rotate under the drive of the motor. These gears are neat and orderly, like the splendid flowers of industrial civilization.
The inner wall of the huge artillery has attractive rifling. These riflings rotate to the tail section without any deviation, ensuring that each shell can fly out of the barrel according to the predetermined trajectory, rotating and flying in a stable direction. Target.
"Ready to fire!" In the closed turret, with this order, the atmosphere suddenly became tense. All are waiting for the next order, and this is their first time facing an evenly matched formidable foe.
The gunners in their respective positions stood at their posts, heavy, hundreds of tons of guns ready to go. The gunner who was in charge of firing had already pressed the button of the firing device, the officer in the turret raised his chin, and his eyes were full of firm light.
He held the phone in his hand, waiting for the sound of the order to fire. Although he can't see the enemy here, he can still feel the tense atmosphere of the war.
On the bridge, everyone saw the demon fleet on the sea in the distance through the thick glass windows. Those black battleships are getting closer and closer, and a black line has been formed on the sea level.
Laurens picked it up again and again, and put down the telescope in his hand again and again: "How is the distance measurement?"
"The newly installed rangefinder shows that, We are 16 kilometers away from the enemy." An officer immediately replied.
"Okay! Order the artillery to start shooting! Then adjust the shooting parameters according to the actual shooting state!" Laurens was a little impatient for the first real naval battle he commanded, and said The order to attack was given.
The next second, the weapons officer grabbed the phone in front of him and gave a loud command to fire: "Fire!"
"bang!" Almost at the same time, The cannons on the battleship Conquer began to roar. Following this angry roar, all the cannons shrank back slightly, and then slowly returned to their positions.
Immediately afterwards, a large amount of white smoke was ejected from the muzzles of these artillery pieces. At this time, all the shells fired were still in flight.
At the same time, the 8sect master guns on the four turrets of the battleship Hero also spewed dazzling fire. Eight 305mm caliber artillery shells flew towards the distant enemy with this salvo.
After just a few seconds, the 8sect master gun on the battleship Victory also opened fire. After firing a row of shells, it entered the loading stage.
A dozen kilometers away, in the demon's fleet, a demon officer was pressing his long sword, clamoring to give the human navy a little color: "Hurry up and prepare the magic gun! Make them pay!"
"Yes! Sir! We're ready to fire, as long as we get within range, they're done!" an ugly demon replied in a shrill voice.
The weapons and equipment of the demon fleet are not at the same level compared to other empires, they have magic cannons, which are powerful and have a long range, so compared to Alanhill's fleet, they are not completely in the disadvantage.
This kind of contest is also evenly matched, and naturally everyone has their own obsession with winning and losing - you can't expect to rely on a sailing fleet to defeat the enemy's steel battleship, but if it is a battleship against a battleship , it feels different.
Just as the demon fleet was about to open fire, the shells fired by Alanhill fell first. The shells smashed into the water at once, and the explosion caused a water column as high as several 10th layer buildings.
The huge explosion suddenly quieted the noisy demon army. The demon soldiers on the deck looked at the magnificent water column and for a moment forgot that they should roar and strengthen their momentum.
A moment later, more water jets rose into the sky, and a demon touched the sea water splashing on his cheek, and then he realized that the human terrifying attack had already begun.
"Raise the magic defense barrier!" The demon commander headed loudly gave the order to fight.
In his shouting, a water column tens of meters high rose from the side of a giant Archfiend battleship with a length of more than 200 meters, which looked extremely spectacular.
In naval battles, the situation where the first round salvo hits the enemy is really as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns, too many factors restrict the hit rate in naval battles, so most At times, even if you have an advanced naval battleship, you will choose to get as close to your opponent as possible before firing.
In short, Alanhill's first round salvo, in fact, simply did not hurt the demon fleet in the slightest. And Alanhill's navy was not affected by the ineffectiveness of this round of attacks.
The Alanhill sailors who loaded the guns could not see the results of their battles. They could only confirm their guns were firing on the enemy through the dull sound of explosions.
Then, they couldn't see any enemy, just inside the small turret, they continued to repeat the reloading work they had just repeated.
Mechanical reloading equipment transports the shells out of the well-protected ammunition bays and takes the shell elevator to the turret. Immediately afterwards, the propellant charge is transported to the designated location by a similar device, and then the semi-automatic loading begins.
Soldiers would use a motor to operate a push rod that would push the shell first into the barrel. Then, the push rod works a second time, pushing the prepared propellant charge into the barrel. At this point the loader can close the breech and get ready to fire.
When the ammunition for both guns is loaded, the entire loading is complete. The returned artillery will be adjusted to the angle before loading at this time, so that it can attack again with high precision.
"Fine adjustment by 0.31 degrees!" The calibration data is transmitted to all turrets by phone, and the gunner in charge of the angle begins to adjust the elevation angle of the gun barrel of the artillery he is in charge of according to the data.
After adjustment, the attack accuracy of this time will be greatly improved, and basically the second shot can be created.
And once there is a cross shot, it is not far from hitting the target. If the opponent is also an expert in naval battles, he will adjust his course or change his speed to interfere with the opponent's shooting estimation.
After everything was in place, all the Alanhill battleships broke the silence that lasted a few minutes. Another round of artillery salvos began, beginning with the battleship Conquest and ending with the battleship Victory.
24 305mm caliber artillery shells flew to their respective targets again, and at this time the demon's fleet had not yet entered their attack range.
The attack distance of the magic gun is actually very long, and it is not much different from that of the large-caliber artillery. But Naihe Demon's observation and aiming system is too backward, so in order to ensure the aiming accuracy, they can only wait patiently and wait for a suitable attack distance.
The second round salvo is imminent, those armor-piercing projectiles filled with magic spar, accelerated in the air to a critical point, and then plunged into the target. The projectile body has burned red due to friction, and the internal charge has become extremely unstable.
Another column of water shot straight into the sky in the middle of the demon fleet. The demon battleship, which had already supported the magical defense barrier, felt the attack from human beings, momentum is big, power is deep.
"These damn humans!" A demon officer said with a gloomy expression, looking at the sky-piercing water column aroused in front of him, gnashing teeth with hatred. He could not tolerate the situation that the advanced weapons provided by the source of magic were on par with the weapons used by humans.
Unfortunately, just when he was gnashing his teeth, a 305mm caliber shell pierced through the magic defense barrier as fragile as a piece of paper and directly smashed through the deck of a demon battleship.
Before everyone could react, a huge explosion exploded inside the demonic battleship that had penetrated the deck.
The power of the crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood ripped apart the hull of the demon battleship at once, the twisted and deformed steel plates broke apart, all split up and in pieces with the hideous barbs on them . And then in the next second, the water poured into the cabin and drowned everything it could.
No one thought that the second round salvo, the shells shot by Alanhill's navy, could accurately hit a target.
Therefore, this cannonball greatly inspired the confidence of Commander Lawens, who was watching the battle: he now felt that his fleet was likely to completely wipe out the size of the fleet in front of him. A very large demon fleet.
In fact, it's not how accurate Alanhill's naval shooting ability is, but because there are too many demon battleships, even if it is a matter of probability, so many demon battleships are arranged together, the probability will become multiplied to a promising level.
In addition, the Alanhill fleet has been fighting in the south, and it has indeed cultivated a very high-level navy. These naval gunners normally attack the enemy's fort, attack the city, and control the artillery, which has actually reached a very proficient level.
So, unconsciously, Alanhill's navy, in fact, has a much higher level of artillery than they estimated.
(end of this chapter)