readx; "How's the situation on the Fuliang?" Yang Kunlin looked at the huge explosion and fire released by the Fuliang on the sea in the distance, and his face changed sharply!

As a veteran admiral, Yang Kunlin knew just by looking at the flames of the explosion that this time it was definitely a shell of more than eight inches that hit the Fuliang, and considering that there were two enemy ships on the opposite side of the Fuliang, one large and one small, the shell that the Fuliang was bearing should have been sent by a heavy cruiser of this navy. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

And the blow of the eight-inch shell was beyond the reach of the Fuliang.

Although the tonnage of the Fuliang is not small, and the combat displacement is as high as more than 8,000 tons, the level of air defense is still the level of a light cruiser, and it is simply not able to effectively defend against the blows of eight-inch naval guns. If you want to protect against the blow of eight-inch shells, you must at least have heavy cruisers with a combat displacement of more than 18,000 tons, such as China's Shiguang-class, the United States' Des Moines class, or those large cruisers of more than 20,000 tons in the Chinese Navy, the Fuxi-class, the Yangtze River-class, and the American Alaska-class.

And light cruisers, whether Chinese-made, American, or from other countries, are not able to effectively defend against the blows of eight-inch shells.

The Fuliang is a member of the Chinese Navy's Fuyan-class B-type, and it is also a late-stage model, and the specific design layout has been different from the previous Fuyan-class B-type, because according to the eighth and ninth phases of the naval development plan of that year, the light cruiser is divided into two directions, one is to focus on air defense capabilities, and the other is to focus on artillery combat capabilities. In order to minimize the cost, the specific design and construction are universalized.

Among them, Type A is an air defense ship required by an aircraft carrier battle group, equipped with eight twin mounts with a total of 16 five-inch and 40-fold guns. The B type is equipped with three triple guns, a total of nine six-inch and fifty-five guns. In addition, there are some differences between the two models in terms of specific anti-aircraft weapons, anti-ship weapons and speed, and even the standard displacement and combat displacement are different after completion.

However, because these two types of cruisers use the same hull, in addition to the different weapon systems, other internal mechanisms, electronic equipment and even appearance design are very similar, so they are generally called Fuyan class, but they are specifically subdivided into Type A, Type B, Type C, etc.

However, because the lead ship of Type B was named Fuguang, the outside world also called Type B the Fuguang class.

In the development plan of the Chinese Navy for many years, the shipbuilding plan has always been adjusted according to the development of naval strategy and technology, and this has caused the development and construction of ships within the Chinese Navy to be somewhat complicated, such as aircraft carriers, it can be seen that there are straight deck Qingshan-class aircraft carriers, there are also oblique deck Qingshan-class aircraft carriers, and then there are large armored aircraft carriers Tianshan-class, and then there are super aircraft carriers Jiulianshan-class and Huashan-class, And then there is also the Gotai Mountain class, which is an improvement from the sloped deck version of the Aoyama class.

If there is still a context to follow in the development of aircraft carriers, then the destroyers are even more complicated, and among the destroyers developed by the Chinese Navy over the years, starting from 1937, the first batch is the Zi'an class, pursuing high speed, high firepower and lightning strike capabilities. In 1939, the Zimei class was developed, no longer pursuing high speed and lightning strike ability, but pursuing extreme anti-aircraft firepower, and for the first time using a four-inch caliber fully automatic loading gun. However, in 1940, the Zimei class was improved and developed from the Zimei class, and this time the four-inch gun was abandoned and the era of equipping the five-inch gun was returned. The reason is very simple, that is, after the Chinese Navy tried the four-inch automatic anti-aircraft gun, it found that although the air surname can be enough, the anti-ship surname can be too poor, plus the 120 mm or five-inch naval guns of destroyers of various countries after the outbreak of World War II, which makes the four-inch naval guns of the Zimei class seem much inferior.

Naturally, the Chinese Navy does not want to see its latest destroyers unable to defeat the destroyers of other countries in artillery battles, so it has improved and developed the Zigui-class destroyers to be used as a new generation of general-purpose destroyers. The original Zimei-class destroyers were mostly used as air defense destroyers, and were mainly assigned to aircraft carrier battle groups to carry out air defense missions.

However, this is not the end, at the same time, on the basis of the Zimei class, another fast high-speed destroyer Zimei class B type has been developed, which is the successor of the first generation of Zi'an class, weakening the firepower, etc., but strengthening the speed, so that the maximum speed has reached as much as 37 knots, and is equipped with the most advanced electronic equipment, such as sea search radar, air search radar, as an avant-garde reconnaissance destroyer. There are not many destroyers in this paragraph

In this way, among the large number of destroyers built by China in the past few years, there are as many as four models, including the Zi'an-class, Zimei-class, Zigui-class, and Zimei-class B-class. If they correspond to the standard displacement, they are 2,000-ton general-purpose destroyers, 2,700-ton air defense destroyers, 2,800-ton fleet destroyers, and 2,800-ton fleet destroyers.

At this time, the Zipan in the 25th Squadron is the B type belonging to the Zimei class, and it is also the last batch of destroyers in the Zimei class series, and the entire Zimei class series, including the Zimei class, the Zigui class, and the Zimei class B type combined, the destroyers of the Zimei class hull series have built a total of 126 destroyers. Together with the 121 Zi'an-class series destroyers, the total number of destroyers of the Chinese Navy is nearly 250.

Of course, China's huge navy is not only these two series, but also dozens of destroyers that were commissioned before the war

At the same time, there are a large number of frigates in the Chinese Navy, mainly built during the period of large-scale naval expansion that began in the late thirties, mainly serving in the major coastal defense fleets for coastal patrols, but a considerable number of them were converted into auxiliary ships such as fast minelayers and fast transport ships during the construction.

At this time, the Zipan was already fully powered, and even the output power of the battleship exceeded the original rated power with an over-negative state, and the speed was maintained at a high speed of more than 37 knots.

The high-speed Zipan flexibly passed through the fire interception of the two destroyers, and then penetrated deep into the middle of the two naval transport fleets, but at this time, the radar on the Zipan still did not detect the main escort fleet of the Navy farther away.

Seeing that the surrounding firepower was getting denser and denser, the Zipan did not dare to continue the adventure, but quickly turned and broke away from the enemy ship, and at the same time launched artillery fire to return fire.

At this time, the eight-inch main gun on the three turrets had already begun to shoot at targets ten nautical miles away, because the distance was too long, the Shiguang used a radar fire control system, but in long-distance combat at night, radar was much more useful than optical aiming.

At that time, the Shiguang was in full swing, although the distance reached 10 nautical miles, that is, more than 18,500 meters, and although the shells of the Shiguang could still effectively hit the ship, the distance was too long, which also led to a decrease in the hit rate.

However, even though the hit rate decreased, the Shiguang still gave great support to the already battered Fuliang after firing a dense firepower volley. The nine main guns on the Shiguang tilted the shells at a rate of fire of about three rounds per minute towards a large ship in the distance, although it is not possible to know the accurate ship type data of the enemy ship, but according to the size and the firepower of the opponent's counterattack, Yang Kunlin can already determine that this is the heavy cruiser that hit the Fuliang so badly, and the specific model and name of the ship are unknown.

Although the nine main guns of the Shiguang are already old guns, there is no difference in the rate of fire and power of the main eight-inch guns of various countries.

The main guns on the Shiguang were developed by China in the 20s based on imported American eight-inch naval guns, using 55 times the length of the barrel, and the rate of fire was between three and four rounds per minute, and after the mid-thirties, as the Chinese Navy successively adopted the super-heavy ammunition plan on one capital ship, resulting in not only the 16-inch and 12-inch main guns on the capital ships using super-heavy ammunition, but also the 8-inch and 6-inch naval guns.

Generally speaking, the main gun of the current Shiguang is not very good in terms of surname, but it is not bad, and there is not much difference between it and the eight-inch naval guns developed and equipped by various countries in the twenties and thirties. If there is really a gap, that is, the eight-inch naval gun developed by the United States after World War II with fully automatic loading can far surpass, after all, the eight-inch gun of the Americans has a terrifying rate of fire of more than ten rounds per minute, and the rate of fire is comparable to that of a six-inch naval gun.

But then again, it is not that China cannot develop an eight-inch naval gun with fully automatic loading, but because there is no such demand, China has stopped the research and development of eight-inch naval guns since the mid-thirties, and has turned to the research and development of 12-inch naval guns with all its might, and together with the French, it has developed a 12-inch naval gun system with the surname Neng Superior, which is widely equipped on various types of large cruisers.

Although the guns on the Shiguang were old, they were still full of power, and the shells fell one after another near the Nazhi, which also forced the Nazhi to maneuver to evade, and at the same time gave up further firepower strikes on the Fuliang.

As a light cruiser, the Fuliang could not withstand the blows of the eight-inch guns, but the Nachi, as a treaty cruiser, could not withstand the blows of the eight-inch guns.

When the Shiguang stepped forward and used a large amount of firepower to relieve the pressure on the Fuliang, the Fuliang at this time finally took the opportunity to break away, while the Shiguang and the other two cruisers continued to provide fire cover for the Fuliang.

"The Fuliang can no longer fight at this time, its No. 1 turret has been destroyed, the No. 2 turret has been stuck, and only one No. 3 turret is still capable of fighting, in addition, the radar fire control system of the Fuliang has been hit by the destruction surname, and the optical fire control system in front of the main gun has also been damaged!"

Yang Kunlin frowned when he heard this, he didn't expect the situation of the Fuliang to be so serious, although the Fuliang at this time had not yet entered any water, let alone sunk, but in fact it had lost its combat effectiveness.

"Let the Fuliang evacuate the battlefield!" After Yang Kunlin said this, the communications officer hurriedly walked over again: "Report from the self-climbing!" ”

"Oh, did they find out that the enemy fleet did?" Yang Kunlin asked.

The communications officer said: "The Zipan reported that they had penetrated deep into the junction of the two transport fleets before, but they found no trace of the enemy's main fleet!" At the moment they are under intense enemy fire! ”

After Yang Kunlin listened, he looked at the chart in detail, and after more than ten seconds, he said: "In this way, the enemy army should not have the main escort fleet, otherwise it has not been discovered yet!" Let the Zipan break away and cover the withdrawal of the Zilin! In addition, report the information back to the mobile fleet! ”

Yang Kunlin did not know, nor did the officers and men on the Zipan, that just 20 nautical miles northeast of the warring sea area and 15 nautical miles away from the deepest part of the Zipan, several warships were approaching rapidly, and in the farther sea area, many large warships appeared, and battleships and aircraft carriers of tens of thousands of tons could be seen.