If the situation in which the four super-dreadnoughts of the two sides engaged was a slight advantage of the Japanese navy, then the situation between the three quasi-dreadnoughts of the Austro-Hungarian fleet behind and the two quasi-dreadnoughts of the British was different! Whether it is the number or quality of the capital ships, whether it is the number or quality of the escort warships, it seems that the Austro-Hungarian fleet has the advantage, in a word, when the two sides fought, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian quasi-dreadnought squadron, Rear Admiral Vilenique, found that his advantage on his side was a little great! You can win in the past!

THE TWO AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN FLEET'S FORMER DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIPS, THE RADETZKY AND THE FERDINAND, WERE WELL MAINTAINED AND REPLACED WITH TWIN 240MM SECONDARY GUNS WITH SINGLE-MOUNTED 12-INCH GUNS. Biquge.info 6 door side chord 12-inch firepower can fully achieve long-range shooting. Moreover, this 12-inch naval gun is the same as the 12-inch naval gun on the German Navy dreadnought, and the armor-piercing power is guaranteed. And the armored cruiser St. George, in addition to the small 2 rounds of artillery, can actually be seen as a small dreadnought.

And what about the British fleet? The 12-inch guns used on the battleship Edward VII were 12-inch L40 guns, which were ...... before the Dreadnought. AND THE SECOND-LEVEL MAIN GUN ONLY HAS 4 SINGLE-MOUNTED 234MM GUNS, THIS GUN CIRCLE IS TOO SMALL, AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE IT IF YOU WANT TO!

THE NELSON BATTLESHIP IS IN A BETTER SITUATION, ALMOST NO LESS THAN THE DREADNOUGHT'S TONNAGE, WHICH MAKES THE BATTLESHIP'S ARMAMENT STILL POWERFUL, 4 12-INCH L45 GUNS THAT ARE THE SAME AS DREADNOUGHT, AND 10 234MM GUNS ....... IF YOU HAVE TO CARRY OUT THE "DREADNOUGHT" MODIFICATION, IT IS REALLY OKAY TO REPLACE THE 4 TWIN 234MM GUN TURRETS WITH A SINGLE INSTALLATION. BUT IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, BY THE TIME WAR 1 BROKE OUT, THE DREADNOUGHT WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE RESERVE, AND THE WEALTHY BRITISH NAVY NATURALLY DID NOT PLAN TO MAKE LORD NELSON "DREADNOUGHT", SO THE CURRENT BRITISH CAN ONLY CARRY A LARGE NUMBER OF 234MM GUNS TO ...... WITH THE OTHER SIDE AT A LONG DISTANCE.

To tell the truth, the two Radetzky-class battleships were already more than one early German cruiser in terms of firepower, the former and the two combined were 12 12-inch guns, while the latter had only 9 ....... And Edward VII is not only dreadnought in terms of armament and power, but also in armor protection! The armor height of only 9 inches can only be said to be average, although the defense area is large, but in the face of the Skoda 12-inch L45 gun ...... more fierce than the 12-inch L50 of the German dreadnought battleships in history. That's just too brittle! The 12-inch turret has a fairly sturdy head, but only a 6- to 9-inch turret is more problematic...... Well, in short, there is not much ...... where the Edward VII can block the opponent's 12-inch L45 gun at a normal distance.

The tactic chosen by Rear Admiral Vilenic was to give full play to the advantage of his own long-range firepower, and first concentrate the fire of one battleship and one armored cruiser to attack the weakest battleship Edward VII, and the other battleship to contain Lord Nelson, keeping a distance of more than 13,000 meters between each other, and reducing the power of the British 234MM guns to the greatest extent.

THE BATTLESHIP ARCHDUKE FERDINAND AND THE ARMORED CRUISER SAINT-GEROCH FIRST AIMED THEIR FIRE AT THE LAST OF THE ETWARD VII, 6 12-INCH GUNS AND 8 240MM GUNS AIMED AT THE TARGET IN THE DISTANCE, ALONG WITH THE RANGEFINDERS OF THE TWO BATTLESHIPS PUT THE TARGET DEAD IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CROSS, AFTER THE HUGE SHELL WAS PUSHED INTO THE GUN CHAMBER, WITH A SHOCK OF THE TURRET, THE FIRST BATTLE BETWEEN THE TWO BATTLESHIPS BEGAN!

Although it is a relatively old battleship, the firepower of the two battleships is still not small. The rate of fire of the 12-inch gun can be maintained at 2.5 to 3 rounds per minute. AND THE RATE OF FIRE OF THE 240MM GUNS OF THE ARMORED CRUISER ST. GEROCH EVEN REACHED 4 ROUNDS PER MINUTE AT ONE POINT! After the two warships join forces, they are no less than a first-class battleship in terms of projection! And when the two warships completed the straddle fire in turn, after entering the effective firing phase, these high-velocity guns immediately showed terrifying combat effectiveness!

The first to get the hit was the armored cruiser St. George, on the one hand, because the gunners on this ship are all old fritters, and the experience and quality of the fire control officer and gun commander who have served for more than 5 years are really extraordinary, and on the other hand, the rate of fire is fast, and the rate of correction is also fast! After just 6 rounds of correction, at a distance of 11,000 meters, the St. Georg managed to bite her opponent!

THE FIRST 230MM ARMOR-PIERCING PROJECTILE WEIGHING 240KG HIT THE 6-INCH GUN GALLERY ARMOR BELT OF THE EDWARD VII AND THEN ....... And then it actually broke through! Hard cap armor-piercing shell is really powerful, this penetration does not seem to be worse than the British 12-inch gun, to be honest, this shot is actually blown through, the shell is activated in the process of penetrating half, and then the violent explosion directly blew the remaining armor into fragments, a radioactive metal jet and fragments composed of a devastating impact swept across the two nearby gun tails, the armor of the side wall of the gun gallery of one gun emplacement was directly beaten into a sieve, and the people behind were blurred by countless flying shrapnel, and the other gun position seemed to be even worse, A burning, reddened fragment slammed into the propellant pack stored at the back of the turret.

Rumble! With a loud bang, more than a dozen packs of propellant and at least one hand of artillery shells were detonated, and the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of explosives and propellant was really amazing, and a huge fireball suddenly burst out in the middle of the entire battleship, and a piece of the upper deck was torn apart, and countless fragments were rushed into the air by the shock wave generated after the explosion, and then fell on the sea within a radius of several hundred meters, and some fell on the deck, and suddenly there was a "shrapnel rain".

And the lethal effect of another shell is also good, this shell fell on the deck above the Edward VII steam engine room, as a former dreadnought, the biggest hit is that the horizontal armor thickness is not enough, think about it, what can 1.5 inches of horizontal armor protect against? Well, this shell is not penetrated, it is also blown through, and the back plate after 1 inch of horizontal armor plus half an inch is actually of very limited effect. Then, the soldier in the engine room suddenly found that a flash of fire rushed out of the ceiling, and then smashed heavily on a vertical steam engine that was running, accompanied by a violent explosion, the steam engine of dozens of tons and the bracket next to it were directly blown to pieces! A storm of steel, flames, and steam covered everything in the chamber indiscriminately! A moment later, the flames rose into the sky, and Edward VII's power was directly half wasted!

And then, the battleship Ferdinand also performed well, a 12-inch shell smashed directly on the front of the turret of a 9.2-inch gun, although the 9-inch frontal armor is almost the same as the British battle cruiser turret armor, but in the face of the armor-piercing ability that is more vigorous than the German 12-inch L50 in history, the hardened armor up to 9 inches thick can only sink ......into the sand.

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