When Zhuge Weidao was commanding a strange aircraft carrier to bombard two half-dead battleships, Chen Jian and Lieutenant General James Hood were competing with each other using the most standard tactics of "grabbing the T position" and "circling in circles". It’s called indistinguishable!
Everyone knows how good it is to "grab the T position", but it's not easy to get it. Chen Jian's four Zhongwang-class ships are fast, but they are not that fast. If they can run 30 knots, then the T position has already been obtained. It's a pity that they can only reach 24 or 25 knots. Even if they are forced to ventilate, they can reach 26 or 27 knots and it will be as high as the sky.
James Hood's 8-level victory level also has a rated maximum speed of 21 knots, and the forced ventilation can also reach 23 knots. Although it is 3 knots slower than the opponent, it is still on the same level. Therefore, James Hood can direct his 8 Victory Levels to move in double columns in the inner circle, constantly going around Chen Jian's 4 Loyal King Levels. His double columns are still staggered, so that he can maximize his firepower advantage. The 64 12-inch guns of 8 Victory-class cannons can be concentrated to bombard one King-Chung class!
And the four loyal kings only have 32 300mm cannons... obviously they are no match!
Therefore, Chen Jian's formation was helpless in the face of the fierce artillery fire from James Hood's formation. He neither dared to get too close to his opponent, nor could he use the 300mm gun to blast the opponent's battleship at a long distance - because there were no capped armor-piercing projectiles or hooded armor-piercing projectiles, the penetration depth of the 300mm gun and the 12-inch gun was a bit insufficient. . The Victory-class and Zhongwang-class adopt the latest surface-hardened armor, and both sides adopt the concept of key protection for armor distribution, so their defensive capabilities are quite reliable.
They fought against each other for a while, but neither achieved any results.
James Hood is certainly not in a hurry. The advantage is now his! Even if his eight battleships can't kill his opponent's four battleships at once, will Rear Admiral Howe's two victory-class battleships not be able to kill that "half battleship"?
That's a 4:1 advantage!
Chen Jian, on the other hand, is a little confused... His four battlecruisers are the absolute main force of the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield today. If he cannot defeat his opponent, then Zhuge Weidao will rely on an "aircraft carrier" that can engage in artillery battles. "How long can he last?"
If Zhuge Weidao couldn't hold on and was beaten to death, then Chen Jian would be in big trouble... Zhuge Weidao now has the meaning of being the most powerful general of the Zhuge family! If he ends up here in the Great Strait because Chen Jian doesn't fight hard, the Zhuge family will be in trouble if they don't deal with Chen Jian in the future.
Just when Chen Jian was considering whether to use his battlecruiser as a torpedo boat and fight a "battlecruiser pig burst" with the 12 heavy torpedo destroyers in his hand, Lei Teng was transferred to the bridge to serve as the bridge observation team The squad leader Lu Benwei suddenly shouted: "Mr. Chen... Zhuge Junmen seems to have defeated the enemy's two battleships!"
Chen Jian was shocked when he heard this, "What? Zhuge Junmen has been defeated?"
"No, no, no...it was the British who were defeated!" Lu Benwei said loudly, "Zhuge Junmen defeated two British battleships with an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser... It seems that the two battleships of Yingyi are about to be sunk!"
"What?" Chen Jian couldn't believe his ears, but he immediately turned his telescope to look at the battlefield on the other side. And at first glance, he couldn't even believe his own eyes.
Because the scene he saw was incredible!
The Shu Zhongwang is using two twin 300mm turrets to bombard two British battleships with five twin 12-inch cannon turrets... and it has also damaged those two British battleships!
One of them has obviously sunk, and seems to have lost all power. Although all five turrets have not misfired, but after losing the electric loader and other servo systems, the British artillery can only operate the gun manually... ..This rate of fire is ridiculously slow. As for the secondary guns on this battleship, most of them failed to fire, and fire spread everywhere on the deck. The damage control team seemed powerless and could only watch the battleship being engulfed in flames.
The other battleship was even worse. The bow of the ship sank into the water for some reason. The butt of the ship was sticking out, and it was still on fire. It was also constantly hit by the Shu Zhongwang's 300mm main gun!
The two British battleships were really badly beaten!
But how is this done? How could an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser be so powerful?
Is this aircraft-carrying battlecruiser not as simple as it looks? What other unknown secrets does it have?
Just as Chen Jiang thought of this, a huge ball of fire suddenly broke out on the British battleship with its butt sticking out!
In the thick smoke, Chen Jian could only see that the "butt" of this battleship, which seemed to have at least a standard displacement of 18,000 tons, had been blown off, and the entire warship was suddenly broken into two pieces near the stern turret. , the sudden explosion even threw part of the stern section of the ship high into the air, and then hit it hard on the sea, causing huge waves.
Chen Jian was stunned!
Is this a one-shot ammunition depot?
Isn’t this too awesome? Is Zhuge Weidao enough to be considered the God of Navy?
James Hood also saw one of his battleships being shot down by an "aircraft carrier" of the Ming Army. The ammunition depot was shot down with artillery... Nowadays, the most popular in the navies of various countries is the artillery shells with picric acid as the warhead. , how powerful is this suicide bomb? If the Wellesley was bombed like this, it wouldn't be a matter of "losing" its "butt", but it would be completely destroyed! Although the ship has not sunk, it must be abandoned.
Just when James Hood was extremely shocked, something even more unacceptable happened. The "aircraft carrier" that had just been destroyed actually moved so arrogantly that it was only 1,000 meters away from the "lying" battleship USS Malina and launched two torpedoes... and then a terrifying scene It happened, and two huge water columns suddenly rose up from the side of the Malina. When the water columns and the subsequent water mist dissipated, the ship with a standard displacement of more than 18,000 tons had seriously rolled over, and then it fell to the side. It sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye!
James Hood was dumbfounded - what happened to him? How could one aircraft carrier take out two battleships in the blink of an eye? And they were killed with artillery and torpedoes.
This aircraft carrier...is it a serious aircraft carrier?
"Lieutenant General, Rear Admiral Yilu's urgent message..." The fleet's communications staff suddenly shouted loudly at this time, "Rear Admiral Yilu said that he witnessed the destruction of the Willis and the Malina. The whole process of sinking... The Ming Dynasty fleet used the tactics of aircraft, battleships, and lightning strike ships to sink and destroy the two battleships! If the same tactics were used on the remaining 8 Victory-class ships , can also work, so he suggested that the Second Indian Fleet temporarily withdraw to India to rest!"
Not to mention, George Yilu, who was overlooking everything from a high place, really got it right!
The reason why Zhuge Weidao was able to win was actually because he used an unprecedented method of coordinated combat among aircraft, battleships, and torpedo ships that had not been seen in another period of history. It was completely original to him.
If Zhuge Weidao continues to adopt the same cooperative combat mode. Then James Hood's fleet will definitely continue to suffer heavy losses. Maybe they will be defeated and their entire army will be wiped out, and they will lose all their victory levels.
If it got to this point, the British Empire would lose the entire war.
So now James Hood must give up the decisive battle and withdraw from the battlefield immediately...
