The Counterattack of the Villains in the Movie World

Chapter 372 Can't Run Away

When the gunfire suddenly sounded, the coalition fleet was in a state of complete confusion.

The captains of many warships didn't even know that it was the Ming Fleet firing, and they thought it was the fastest British Empire warship firing.

It's normal to have this kind of thinking, because there is a big gap between the artillery range they know and the artillery range of the Ming Fleet.

"Has the artillery of the British Empire fleet been upgraded? Is the distance of about three kilometers within their effective range?"

The commander of the Tsarist Russian fleet frowned, which was not good news for them.

Although the longest range of their artillery has reached five kilometers, in fact, the real effective range is only about two kilometers.

Just like the white horse gun, the maximum range can only be brought into play in the hands of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty. From 1500 meters away, it can kill with one shot, and there are no misses.

However, countries that have purchased the White Horse Gun and have imitated the White Horse Gun, including Tsarist Russia, which has been training sharpshooters, the farthest kill that can be achieved with the White Horse Gun is only 600 meters.

The effective range of most soldiers holding a white horse gun is less than 400 meters.

"I haven't heard of it. After we go back, we should ask them to check it out. If the range of Daying's artillery increases, it will have a great impact on us. We need to find out how they did it. After all, after the Ming Empire is gone, , the British Empire is one of our main adversaries."

The adjutant said: "However, I think the technology of the White Horse Gun should be used. Some of us are also studying how to transplant the technology of the White Horse Gun into the artillery to increase the effective range...Huh? The British warship was hit What happened? Didn't they fire the cannon?"

"It's the Ming Empire, they fired, and they hit the warships of the British Empire."

The commander of Tsarist Russia looked at the picture in the telescope and said certain words, but his tone was full of doubts.

"how is this possible?"

"How could it be possible that ten warships were hit by artillery at the same time? Didn't the Ming Empire only have twelve artillery pieces? That target ship also had artillery pieces on it?"

"No, no, there is no artillery on the target ship, they didn't fire, only the six battleships, only the twelve artillery pieces."

"My God, three of them started to sink. After being hit by a shell, they started to sink? What about the armor on their warships? They are all iron-clad warships, how is that possible?"

"General, look quickly, those artillery can change the direction of fire. They are fixed artillery, not movable gun mounts, but they can directly change the direction of fire."

Boom boom boom...

Another series of cannons sounded.

"The French fleet was also hit. How is that possible? They are 3.5 kilometers away from the Ming Empire's fleet."

"Ottoman's fleet was also hit, and they were nearly four kilometers away from the Ming's fleet."

"It's not good, our warship was also shot, two, two of our warships were shot."

"Eleven, General, they fired twelve this time, and eleven hit."

"What's the time between shots? Tell me, what is it?"

"Ten seconds, only ten seconds, they can fire one shot every ten seconds, no, twelve."

While speaking, ten seconds had passed, and the six battleships of the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation of the Ming Empire fired again.

This time, all twelve shells hit the target.

Judging from the hit rate alone, the battleships of the Ming Empire are simply unimaginable.

Both sides are in a moving state. In this era without guidance systems, the sights used by the coalition fleet are actually similar to the magnifying glass of guns.

Not all coalition warships have this kind of targeting system. Most of them still rely on naked eye observation and feel to fire.

So they couldn't understand the hit rate of the Ming Fleet at all, and what made them even more incomprehensible was the lethality caused by these shells after they hit.

Can a shell sink an ironclad warship?
It must have been very lucky, hitting the armor at the waterline, or hitting the ammunition bay of the warship. .

But once is luck, what about three or five times?

There were far more than one coalition warships that were hit by a shell and then began to sink directly, and such scenes are still being repeated.

It was enough to make everyone believe that this was definitely not the luck of the Ming Fleet, but that the power of their shells was astonishing, even beyond the knowledge of all the commanders of the coalition fleet.

There are still many warships that were not hit, but their captains have seen everything that happened in this sea area, the extraordinary range of the artillery of the Ming Fleet, the completely unreasonable hit rate, and the incredible killing effect.

Obviously they still have an absolute advantage in numbers, but there is fear in their hearts.

"Slow down, slow down now."

Some captains issued such orders out of fear, and they wanted to wait and see.

From their point of view, the Ming Fleet fired when the fleet of the British Empire narrowed the distance to within three kilometers. Although some shells hit warships at a distance of about 3.5 kilometers, their calculation of the distance was not true. precise.

So they determined that the artillery range of the Ming Fleet is only about 3 kilometers, and they are still more than 4 kilometers away from the Ming Fleet, and the Ming Fleet cannot hit them.

"Charge, charge me, go at full speed, as long as you charge within our range, we can sink them all."

Some captains also gave orders to continue the charge, such as the Russian fleet and the French fleet.

Compared with the small countries represented by those slowing warships, the countries behind them do not allow them to retreat, and they themselves do not allow them to retreat.

Because retreating means they will fail completely.

The coalition fleet was originally a battleship formation that was encircling, but it began to deform after the third round of bombardment by the Ming Empire, but the Ming fleet was definitely more than just three rounds of bombardment, and definitely more than six battleships and twelve artillery pieces.

Qin Huang aircraft carrier.

Li Hongzhang issued a second order.

"Great Wall No. [-], No. [-]...cruiser, fire."

The broadcast communication system installed in the aircraft carrier fleet of Qinhuang immediately transmitted Li Hongzhang's order to the six cruisers named after the Great Wall.

Like the battleships, these cruisers also each have two cannons. From this point of view, there seems to be no difference between the battleships and cruisers of the Ming Fleet.

That's exactly what happened.

In the historical process of another world, battleships are a type of warships that are destined to be eliminated, including cruisers.

Because the form of war will undergo earth-shaking changes due to the emergence of missiles.

Although the Ming Fleet has not produced missiles yet, when Anne designed these warships, she was already preparing for future upgrades.

So in essence, the Ming Fleet is not divided into battleships and cruisers, and there is actually no difference in firepower. The only difference at this stage is the difference in range.

Cruisers exist for open-ocean naval warfare, and battleships exist for naval warfare in offshore areas.

But this time, due to the preparation of sufficient transport ships and the unreasonable method of transporting materials such as portals, the battleships can also go directly to the Atlantic Ocean, and there is no need to build any battlecruisers.

Compared with countries like the British Empire, where the navy has to build ocean-going battleships, the Ming Fleet has too many advantages.

But the real advantage lies in the firepower system of the warship itself.

After Li Hongzhang's voice came from the captain's command room of the Great Wall No. [-] cruiser, the captain relayed the order to fire, and the artillery that had locked the target area fired almost instantly.

"Reload."

"Reloading complete."

"aim."

The artilleryman of the Ming Navy, who was in charge of controlling the artillery, looked at the targeting system in front of him, and easily locked an enemy warship in the attack area he was in charge of.

If the artillery aiming system of the coalition fleet is just a sight with a scale, then the aiming system of the Ming Navy is a sight with an auxiliary aiming system added.

It sounds like the difference is not big, but the artillery of the coalition fleet is similar to snipers, and it needs to manually calculate the speed, orientation and other information of the Ming warship, and the manual is prone to mistakes in many cases.

Although the Ming Fleet also needs manual calculations, the assisted aiming system can convert all parameters into the scale on the scope. A more scientific calculation method, an aiming system that basically does not make mistakes after the parameters are determined, is the The reason why the artillery hit rate of the Ming warship exceeds 95%.

"fire."

When the formation of the local fleet was pulled apart by the bombardment of the battleship, they no longer needed to escort and protect the transport ship.

Boom boom boom...

The six cruisers were also equipped with two 130mm cannons. When these twelve cannons fired at the same time, the firepower of the Ming Fleet truly suppressed the firepower of the Allied Fleet.

Even up to now, the coalition fleet just fired indiscriminately because of panic.

Twenty-four 24mm caliber artillery pieces have a maximum effective range of 130 kilometers and a total rate of fire of 10 rounds per minute, which can not only suppress the coalition fleet in terms of firepower, but also directly cover the entire battlefield.

All coalition fleets are within the artillery range of the Ming Fleet.

The most amazing thing is the power of the Ming warship's artillery.

Compared to the fact that smokeless gunpowder had just started to be used, and even the coalition fleet that was using black powder, the gunpowder used in the artillery shells of the Ming Empire had been upgraded to TNT.

This is an epoch-making upgrade.

What it brings is also an epoch-making improvement in power.

Combined with the armor-piercing design of the 130mm caliber shell, you don't need luck at all once you get into the soul.

The armor and metal hulls of the warships of the coalition fleet can't stop the artillery of the Ming Fleet at all. Even if the shells are only embedded in the armor, when the TNT inside the shells is detonated, the power produced is enough to cause serious damage to the hull .

The power generated by the explosion caused the entire warship to vibrate and even tilt.

Before the hit warship had time to check the damage, and was even in a dazed state, the second shell had already hit them.

The number of artillery pieces of the Ming Fleet is still relatively small, so while the rain and dew are evenly covered, their battle plan is to catch one and beat it to death, and vow not to give up until they hit it.

"Coordinate direction 225, distance 2.3 kilometers, Great Wall No. [-] ship requests to focus fire."

"Great Wall No. [-] ship received that the target is within the range of our ship's artillery and is loading. The aim will be completed in seven seconds."

"Great Wall No. [-] ship received it and completed targeting in five seconds."

"fire."

"fire."

"Great Wall No. [-] ship hits the target."

"Great Wall No. [-] hit the target."

"Target sinks."

"Confirmed, the target has sunk. The coordinate direction is 239, and the distance is 2.2 kilometers. The Great Wall No. [-] ship requests to focus fire."

"Great Wall Ship VI received."

A coalition warship whose hull was tilted due to being shot was hit by two shells at the same time.

With a bang, the hull tilted completely, and the broken armor was already below the waterline. When the sea water poured in, the warship was completely hopeless.

No one went to rescue the coalition navy soldiers who fell into the water, because they were too busy to take care of themselves.

When the 24 cannons were fired at the same time, the coalition warships that rushed towards the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation could not enter the effective range within 2 kilometers, and they were all shot and sank.

Their artillery, which has an absolute advantage in numbers, can't play any role at all. The shells that hit the sea area around the Ming Fleet did not affect the extremely high tonnage of the Ming Fleet, and there is no line of sight. .

The British Empire Fleet, which was the first to charge, actually sank forty warships within 3 minutes. Although they hadn't been completely sunk, the warships that had completely tilted could no longer move forward, nor could they have any impact on the Ming Fleet. any threat.

And the results of the Ming Fleet in these 3 minutes were not limited to the forty warships of the British Empire Fleet.

After 24 guns fired at the same time, the number of shells fired was as high as 144 per minute.

On average, only two or three shells are enough to sink a warship, and the theoretical kill in one minute exceeds 1 ships.

It took only 3 minutes for the war to start, and the coalition fleet composed of more than 300 warships unexpectedly had nearly 70 warships hit by the artillery of the Ming Fleet, and the number of warships that could not turn back on the way to sinking was as high as [-].

This is an incredible record, but it is only the beginning.

The warships of the Ming Empire carried a large number of shells.

Daming already had a fully automatic production line for shells. In such a war environment, there was absolutely no need to worry about the loss of ammunition.

Not only do they have enough reserves, they also have a big killer for ultra-long-distance transportation such as portals.

Even without using the portal, the six transport ships and the ammunition stored on the Qinhuang aircraft carrier are enough to support the Ming fleet for a whole day.

But the coalition fleet couldn't last a whole day at all.

In just 3 minutes, some warships had already slowed down, and some warships even wanted to return in circles.

No warships charged at full speed anymore, because the British Empire Fleet, the most powerful of the allied fleets, only had a dozen warships left, while the Ming Fleet did not suffer any damage.

They didn't even see the people of the Ming Empire.

Even if they used binoculars to keep staring at the deck of the Ming warship.

"Retreat, retreat immediately."

The Tsarist Russian fleet also began to retreat, and their losses were much less than those of the British Empire.

"Quickly, quickly, pull to a distance of more than four kilometers, no, five kilometers, as long as we open this distance, we will be safe."

"Six kilometers, we have to run at least six kilometers, because the Ming fleet is still charging towards us."

The fleets of France, Ottoman, and Germany are simply incomparable with the fleets of the British Empire. The fleets of the British Empire are about to be wiped out. If they don’t run, are they waiting to die?
At this moment, they finally felt how the army they had ridiculed felt when facing the Ming army.

It is really impossible to hit the Ming army with all their strength, but the Ming army can hit them at will.

However, what they don't know is that the Ming Fleet allowed them to close the distance and form an encirclement circle, just to complete their work in one battle.

The effective range of ten kilometers, including the distance between the warships of the Ming Fleet, and the speed...

"One can be a lot."

Wu Yan in the command room of the Qinhuang aircraft carrier, looking at the beacon fire soaring to the sky outside the porthole, and the sinking enemy warships under the beacon fire, emphasized: "I said that if we want to sink all of them, we must not miss a single one." , Li Er."

"The last general is here. If the last general lets one go, he will die as an apology."

In another world, Li Hongzhang, who regretted all his life because of the Sino-Japanese War of Sino-Japanese War, faced the 300-nation coalition consisting of more than [-] warships in this world, and said vigorously: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, none of them can escape."

(End of this chapter)