Act 33: The plug-in fire control

The two armies confronted each other, and the battleships were fighting ships, but the first round of volleys was formed by the enemy. No matter which naval person collapsed, it was even more depressing, especially when his three battleships only made a cross-fire for five consecutive rounds of artillery fire.

Obviously, when the shells fired from the 380-mm main gun of the Qiongya fell around his ship with a train-like scream, and then raised a huge water column to clean the hull of the Haruna, Yoshisaburo Nomura felt depressed in his heart.

Yoshisaburo Nomura, the quality of Japanese naval soldiers trained in a harsh training mode such as "Yueyue Fire, Water, Wood, Gold and Gold" that he did not take any leave once he went to sea. Because it was difficult to exceed European and American countries in terms of quantity, the Japanese navy has been trying to improve the performance of its own warships and the quality of sailors. He was completely desperate when training sailors, which made all officers and soldiers miserable, and at the same time caused several naval accidents. However, for these accidents, the top leaders of the Japanese navy believed that sacrifices were inevitable in training simulated wars, so they ignored them completely. Naturally, there was nothing to say about the quality of sailors trained from this.

(In Japanese, a week is represented by the seven stars, that is, the day, the moon, the fire day, the water day, the wood day, the gold day and the earth day. "Moon, the fire, water, wood, gold and gold" means that there are no so-called Saturdays and Sundays in the seven days of the week. That is, the day day should work the same as the moon day, and the earth day should work the same as the gold day. The usual manifestation is Saturday, and the day should also work)

Looking at the navies of all countries around the world, there are only a handful of cross-fires in the first five rounds of volleys at a combat distance of more than 20,000 meters. The activity of shooting at the battleships not only requires machinery and people, but also has the luck. With the technical conditions in the 1920s and 1930s and the navigation state of the "Qiongya" has always been the smallest area of ​​the bow against the enemy. There is nothing strange about the data produced by Yoshisaburo Nomura's three battleships.

As for the current performance, the quality of our own sailors Yoshisaburo Nomura is recognized, but the question is, compared with those imperial sailors who are recognized by him, why did they only last more than six years, and even all large ships have just been launched. The Qiongya Navy, which has been running-in between the people and ships for an extremely short time, was able to shoot a cross shot in the first round of volleys? How could this make the Japanese sailors tortured by "moon and moon fire, water, wood, gold and gold" feel?

Before leaving for Songhu, Yoshisaburo Nomura had seen the information about the Qiongya East Sea Fleet given by the Southern authorities. Although the information said that the Qiongya people were willing to spend a lot of money in training, the main gun barrels of the "Qiongya" were killed in the past six months of training, which was more than the battleships that were killed in the Imperial Navy in the past five years, but no matter how long it was said that the "Qiongya" was delivered to the Navy, the time for the "Qiongya" was delivered to the Navy was too short, and the training of the warship was not only a single bombardment. Such a short time was not enough to train elite gunners who needed extreme experience. Therefore, it was unbelievable to say that the quality of the Qiongya sailors was thrown out of the Imperial sailors and killed him in one street. Moreover, even the top sailors could not guarantee the first round of cross-fires, after all, mechanical errors could not be completely eliminated.

(Japanese naval battleships usually do not use main guns for fire training. First, the shells are too expensive, and second, the barrels are also expensive. If you can't practice much artillery training, you have to change the barrel. For the Japanese army, who even use machine guns instead of cannons for tank training, and they are extremely stingy, their usual practice is to use a relatively small-caliber cannon to be used as a training cannon. When practicing shooting, all the other cannons are trained using the main guns of the battleship, and only when real shooting is used. Therefore, the number of main gun barrels that the Japanese Navy knocked out during training cannot be compared with the Qiongya Navy, which directly practiced with the main guns.)

"This time, the Chinese people are lucky, right!"

After thinking about it, Nomura Yoshisaburo could think of this cross shot made by the "Qiongya" this time. After all, as long as luck comes, even if all hits directly in the first round, it may appear. Luck, such an invisible and intangible magical thing, cannot be controlled by anyone.

Of course, our Commander Yoshisaburo Nomura was unable to think about it, although the gunners on the battleship "Qiongya" were not experienced, they had extremely science fiction machinery as auxiliary! The fire control device of the "Qiongya" was not something that Nomura Yoshisaburo could understand. The accuracy of the data given by modern range-finding radar and stereoscopic range-finding instruments was not comparable to any range-finding instrument in the world. The accuracy gap between the two sides was as far as Beijing to New York, and even Yoshisaburo Nomura didn't know that there was a radar.

According to the current procedures for combat in the world, after having distance parameters, if the main gun of the battleship hits the enemy, it is necessary to consider the battleship's own heading speed, enemy's heading speed, wind direction and wind speed, and other problems that are enough to make people scratch the scalp. Due to the limitations of equipment in the 1920s, these problems are almost entirely solved by human experience. Experienced gunners can produce quite good data under specific conditions, but gunners with a little less experience are difficult to deal with. Therefore, the hit rate of long-distance artillery battles is understandable, and it is also because these countries attach great importance to elite gunners.

The gunners on the battleship "Qiongya" are indeed quite lacking in experience, and there is no way to do so, but the problem is that Roger has his battleship that no one else has, and even if he imagines it, he can't imagine a concept - a fire control computer...

In modern times, using the gimmick of developing the most realistic naval war games, Roger found someone to develop such a software for calculating ballistics. Although it is far inferior to modern real military products, it can only be regarded as a fake and shoddy copycat. However, even such a copycat is also a magical tool that can directly rush the gunner's experience from zero to full level and also have a hit rate plus 10.

Roger spared no effort to improve the combat effectiveness of the "Qiongya" and always put things on it in different ways. If the turret was not able to stuff it after the automatic ammunition machine was installed, he even wanted to install a two-way stabilizer on the main gun to improve the hit rate under high sea conditions.

It is indeed a very depressing thing to be shot in the first round by the enemy, but it is even more depressing that the Lieutenant General of the Third Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy, the Excellency Yoshisaburo Nomura, was still depressed. However, the first round of the cross shot was not entirely lucky, but this matter can only be said to be luck. I don’t know whether Chen Xuchu is too lucky or Yoshisaburo Nomura is too bad.

"Hiss Commander! Something went wrong with our turret No. 3."

Nomura Yoshisaburo frowned and said unhappily: "What's wrong? Is there a malfunction?"

"A nearly missing bomb just now destroyed the turret's rotation device. Now the rotation speed of the turret No. 3 has dropped by more than half. I'm afraid it will not be able to capture the Chinese warship in time."

"When will it be repaired?" The firepower of a turret was lost as soon as the war started? This is not a good signal. Nomura Yoshisaburo could only pin his hopes on the repairman's skills.

"Lieutenant Tanaka said to give him 10 minutes."

"10 minutes...well, then 10 minutes." Nomura Yoshisaburo helplessly accepted the tragic situation where his No. 3 turret had to lose ten minutes just as the battle began, but he did not think 10 minutes was an unacceptable number. For repairing a behemoth like the main gun turret of the battleship, 10 minutes was already very fast.

Nomura Yoshisaburo didn't know that he didn't have enough time to 10 minutes to let him wait for the repair of the No. 3 turret to be repaired.

Just as the shells flying out of the first volley of Qiongya fell into the sea, Nomura Yoshisaburo's ship, the flagship of the Japanese Third Fleet, "Haruna", also fired a volley. Following closely behind, "Ise" and "Hyuga" also opened fire. Unfortunately, one of the three battleships failed to hit the volley of Qiongya. Then the gunners of the three ships began to reload the ammunition and prepare for the next volley.

However, just as Yoshisaburo Nomura stared at the Qiongya with an unhappy look on his face, expecting that the next volley could hit and teach this hateful Chinese warship a lesson, a huge fire suddenly appeared on the Qiongya battleship. The flames instantly wiped the entire hull from Yoshisaburo Nomura's vision, leaving only the ray of flames.

"We hit it!?"

When he saw the huge fire, Nomura Yoshisaburo's mind had this idea at the first time, but if you think about it carefully, whether it was his "Haruna" or the other two battleships "Ise" and "Hyuga" who had just completed the volley and were loading ammunition. No one fired at this time?

Moreover, if you think about it carefully, the fire lights that emerged from the Qiongya just now always had an extremely familiar feeling. I have seen them countless times in his naval career - that seems to be the scene that only happened when the main guns of the battleships were fired volleys? However, the Chinese warships had just fired volleys ten seconds ago!? Didn’t it mean that it was a 380mm main gun, how could it have such a firing speed? It was obvious that both sides fired in the last round of volleys, but the filling of the most elite imperial naval gunners under him was just halfway through!


Chapter completed!