Red Alert 1895

Taiwan's fifteen Sovereign-class battleships formed a formation, and then killed the Japanese and American cruisers and destroyer detachments. Originally, the destroyers and cruisers of Japan and the United States could run away this time, but Yuheng Ito ordered them to delay Taiwan's battleships. Because if they don't delay Taiwan's battleships, then Taiwan's battleships will inevitably turn around and fight those battleships that are entangled by Taiwan. Taiwan's plan has been successful. He has successfully transferred the battleships and other ships in the joint fleet of Japan and the United States. Once they cannot cooperate to become a force, their strength will also be greatly reduced. Such a single ship This type of combat is definitely more beneficial to Taiwan.

However, now Taiwan's cruisers and destroyers have begun to block Japanese battleships. As for the cruisers and destroyers in Taiwan who started to block, they naturally used harassment methods during this process, and then used continuous harassment methods to block the enemy.

"Xiao Sa, this time I will command the cruiser, and you two will command the destroyer. Let's besiege them together. Our cruiser is responsible for diverting the enemy's artillery fire from a distance. You swim around those battleships, and then look for opportunities to launch torpedoes at them, and then In this way, we may be able to sneak attack one or two enemy battleships, and then we will have made meritorious service." Li He said.

"Okay, I'll take the destroyer up immediately!" Sa Zhenbing said.

Sa Zhenbing was in charge of commanding the fleet on one of the destroyers, and then rushed towards the Japanese battleship. According to the plan, those cruisers will be responsible for attracting the firepower of Japanese battleships on the periphery, which can effectively help the destroyers inside avoid being hit by enemy firepower.

"Cruiser, charge me, fire me!" Li He said.

Those cruisers began to approach the Japanese battleships, but since their cruisers can fire on Japanese and American battleships, it means that both Japanese and American battleships can also fire on them. The artillery range of battleships in this era is far longer than that of cruisers. And more powerful.

"Papa papa..."

More than 30 cruisers began to fire at the Japanese battleships, but the hit rate of these cruisers was not high, which is why the hit rate of firepower in this era is extremely bad. More than sixty shells were fired. It just didn't hit a single shot.

However, Yuheng Ito, who was on the Japanese flagship, immediately ordered: "Rush. Rush out as soon as possible, we don't have time to entangle with these guys. These low-end cruisers also want to block us? Their shells are tickling us Not too far!"

"Your Excellency, Commander, it's not good. A group of Chinese destroyers are approaching us. There are more than 70 of them!" A Japanese observer said.

"Mad, such a low-class thing dares to trouble our destroyer, it really has the guts of a bear!" Ito Yuheng said angrily.

"Your Excellency, Commander, are our naval guns targeting the enemy's cruiser or the enemy's destroyer? There are too many enemy warships, and we are at a loss as to what to do! Who are we targeting?"

Ito Youheng finally realized how much ants can kill elephants. Now these enemy destroyers and cruisers are besieging them here, apparently to stop them. In this way, they really have no good way to break through, because these cruisers and destroyers are not people who will not fight back when they are beaten, they all have their own weapons. The cruiser's artillery is just tickling them, and it is difficult to penetrate their armor if nothing else happens. But those destroyers are not simple, and those destroyers also have torpedoes. Torpedoes are often more terrifying than naval guns. Naval guns have less charge, and even if they penetrate their armor, they may not be able to bring absolute fatal damage to a warship. Unless the naval gun can hit a few vital points. For example, the bridge in charge of command, or the vital points such as the ammunition warehouse, engine room, etc. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to directly cause fatal damage with one shot, and many shots are often required.

But torpedoes are different. A torpedo can kill the old nose. A torpedo can easily contain hundreds of kilograms of explosives, and just one shot can blow up a hole in the bottom of the ship. And these openings poured into seawater in large quantities. If there is a little carelessness or the damage control personnel are not strong enough, the ship will sink directly! So torpedoes are even more terrifying.

However, although torpedoes are powerful, their biggest disadvantage is their short range. And the hit rate is also very cheating, even more cheating than naval guns. And enemy warships can dodge. It's not like naval guns have no time to dodge. Generally, this kind of destroyer equipped with torpedoes is used to adopt small and broad tactics against battleships. Siege and swarm these battleships with a large number of destroyers. Then maybe you can get results with a small gain.

"Let me fire their cruisers with the main guns, and then ignore them for the time being. If those cruisers approach us, then we will hit them with secondary guns. However, if they fire torpedoes, then we will Immediately attack with machine guns and destroy those torpedoes." Ito Yuheng said.

Ito Yuheng then looked at the Taiwan navy in the distance, and then showed a sneer, obviously he didn't think these Taiwan navy would be able to stop him at all. In fact, these Taiwanese navies are mostly novices, and it is difficult to be able to fire accurately. Especially launching torpedoes. The hit rate of torpedoes in this era is called a scam, as long as you don't let those guys get close. At that time, I can completely have secondary artillery and machine guns to attack those torpedoes, and the hit probability of torpedoes is very low. Maybe a wave can deflect this torpedo at any time, so torpedoes are not terrible. This kind of torpedo is not terrible, only the wire-guided torpedo of later generations is terrible. And there is also a kind of cavitation torpedo in later generations, and that is the most terrifying one. The speed of the cavitation torpedo is enough to reach several hundred knots, which is not much slower than the shell, and that is the torpedo that cannot be avoided.

However, due to technological reasons, the current torpedoes are still very backward and primitive, and cannot make these Japanese battleships feel too scared. Although there was a threat, it didn't reach the kind of real fear that made them feel.

"Destroyer, charge me!" Sa Zhenbing commanded the destroyer to attack the interior, and then these destroyers formed a detachment, and then began to fight against the battleships.

There are more than 70 of these destroyers. On the one hand, they say that about ten ships are a detachment, and now they start the enemy's battleships to rush over. And these are actually the tactics commonly used by the army. By sticking to the enemy, the mother can't get rid of it, sticking to them like a piece of brown sugar, so that they can't get rid of it even if they want to get rid of it, but they have to let him here to harass you. About one detachment went to entangle an enemy battleship, and then Taiwan’s destroyers were everywhere within one kilometer of their battleship. Their maximum tonnage was only 1,200 tons, which was less than ten percent compared to that battleship. the size of one. But like ants, they are harassing here and there.

"Your Excellency, Commander, these Taiwanese destroyers have entered the range of our secondary guns, should we open fire?" the Japanese staff officer in charge of fire control asked.

"Hit!" Yuheng Ito replied.

"Papa papa..."

The secondary guns of the Japanese battleships began to fire, but they missed the destroyers. Because these destroyers are not only small in tonnage and not easy to target, but they are also very fast, much faster than battleships. Such a battleship uses artillery to attack, it is completely shooting mosquitoes with anti-aircraft guns, basically there is not much possibility of hitting.

However, as a destroyer, you must be careful, because the caliber of the secondary guns of these battleships is more than 200 millimeters, and your own destroyer will be disabled if it is shot down, so you must be very careful about this.

"Every destroyer detachment, look for opportunities by yourself and launch torpedoes!" Sa Zhenbing said.

Those destroyers began to prepare to launch torpedoes against the Japanese battleships, because they mainly relied on torpedoes to fight. Their 75mm naval guns were not even tickling for battleships. It's a mosquito bite, it's harmless. Therefore, they can only use torpedoes to fight, and only through torpedoes can they effectively threaten the enemy's battleships.

"Fill the torpedo tank with water!"

"emission!"

"Puff!"

One of the destroyers fired a torpedo first ~www.readwn.com~ and then their torpedoes began to rush towards the Japanese battleship in the lead. The other destroyers also launched torpedoes one after another. They each had their own targets, and they all hoped to hit the enemy as soon as possible.

"Order the machine guns, prepare to attack the torpedoes, and reduce the speed, implement a 'z'-shaped advance, and try to avoid torpedo attacks! If the Chinese destroyers dare to approach us, they will hit us hard, you are welcome." Yi. Dong Yuheng said.

"Damn it, it didn't hit!" Sa Zhenbing said regretfully.

None of the more than one hundred torpedoes hit the enemy's battleship, but this was within Sa Zhenbing's expectation. The hit rate of torpedoes is worse than that of naval guns, and it is easier to dodge, so it is not surprising that more than a hundred torpedoes did not hit once. However, the more than one hundred torpedoes successfully forced the Japanese battleship to slow down, and did not dare to accelerate too much. Once it is accelerated too much, it is not flexible enough for the battleship. Once it is not flexible enough, it is easy to be hit by torpedoes. (To be continued.)