readx; When the battleships on both sides used their main guns to duel, their respective lightning strike ships also launched a huge lightning strike operation, and many torpedoes on the sea surface flashed white waves towards their respective targets, although most of them could not hit the target, and occasionally hit will also appear to make people vomit blood duds, but such a huge lightning strike operation, there will always be one or two hit the enemy ship. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After the 17th Destroyer Group hit a torpedo on the Shinano, it hit a torpedo on the Kaohsiung!

At the same time, however, his lightning strike force, led by two heavy cruisers, broke through the Chinese Navy's fire interception net and fired a large number of torpedoes at the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor.

The torpedoes of China and Ben are all within a radius of eight taels, and both sides use oxygen torpedoes, which are super fast and have a relatively long range, and as far as torpedo technology is concerned, the oxygen torpedo technology of China and the two countries is much stronger than that of other belligerent countries. However, this kind of advanced is only compared with other participating countries, in fact, like the torpedoes of other countries, the torpedoes of China and the two countries also have many problems, and the hit rate is low and there are frequent failures.

There have been SS105 submarines in the submarine force of the Chinese Navy before used up all the torpedoes in order to attack a merchant ship, but only one hit, such a low hit rate is enough to make people feel tragic, but what is even more tragic is that the only hit torpedo did not explode, this incident made the officers and men of the SS105 submarine at that time angry and scolded their mothers, and the commander of the Fourth Submarine Fleet, Rear Admiral Pan Lisheng, took the report to the chief of the torpedo section of the Navy Ship Administration Department to slap the table, He claimed that the top and bottom personnel of the Torpedo Section were all sinners who brought disaster to the country and the people, and even charged the section chief of the Torpedo Section with the crime of betraying the country.

Although the hit rate of torpedoes in these years was still low and the failure rate was still high, the great power of torpedoes still made torpedoes a vital weapon in the navy. You must know that as early as the end of the 19th century, during the Sino-Japanese War and later the Russo-Japanese War, torpedoes were extremely important weapons, and the hit rate and failure rate of torpedoes at that time were higher.

And today, the lightning strike units of both sides fired torpedoes almost on their orders, and at most on the sea, there were dozens of torpedoes galloping at the same time!

Although the hit rate is not high, there are still a small number of torpedoes that make hits and explode!

And the Yellow Emperor hit this kind of low-probability thing, a torpedo hit the rear half of its port side, and the huge power of the torpedo immediately caused a huge gap to appear in the rear half of the port side of the Yellow Emperor, and a large amount of sea water immediately poured in from the gap.

The officers and men of the squadron in charge of the loss immediately closed the nearby cabins, and then a large number of pumping machines began to pump water, and this was the time to fully test the Yellow Emperor's ability to manage the loss.

As a battleship designed at the end of World War I and commissioned in 1921, the Yellow Emperor was not too good for underwater protection because the design focus at that time was focused on speed and firepower, and the limited protective weight was also tilted to the side armor and horizontal armor. And this situation was widespread on all the battleships designed and commissioned at that time, and everyone's level of underwater protection was not good, and no one could say that it was not.

In the large-scale refit of the Yellow Emperor in the late thirties, the refit focused on increasing the speed and improving the level of protection, although it also improved some underwater defense, but the widespread view of the Navy at that time was that it wanted the four old battleships to have a speed of 30 knots, and increasing the underwater defense would increase the underwater resistance and reduce the speed. Under such circumstances, the underwater defense of the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor and the other Shundi and Zhuan was actually not very good, and could not be compared with the cutting-edge battleships of various countries designed and built in the late thirties.

At this time, after the Yellow Emperor was hit by a torpedo, the defects of underwater protection were fully exposed, and the huge gap caused by the torpedo caused a large amount of seawater to pour into the hull of the Yellow Emperor.

Almost instantly, the speed of the Yellow Emperor was reduced.

Vice Admiral Lu Jian clenched his fists: "Continue to maintain firepower and open up the distance between you and the enemy ship!" ”

After the Yellow Emperor was hit by a torpedo, the enemy ships may attack the Yellow Emperor in a concentrated manner when the speed drops, and because the speed of the Yellow Emperor decreases, the hit rate of the enemy ships will also increase, which is extremely unfavorable to his own fleet, so Lu Jian wants to further widen the distance between the capital ships of the two sides, on the one hand, to give full play to his own long-range shooting advantages, and on the other hand, to avoid too close a distance and let the Yellow Emperor be hit by the enemy's intensive firepower.

Lieutenant General Lu Jian is very aware of his own strengths and weaknesses, the advantage is that he does not need to fight hard with the enemy, as long as it drags on until dawn, it is a victory, and in addition, in the battle, long-range shooting is also a major advantage of his side. The weakness lies in the fact that their own protection is somewhat weak, and if they get close, once they are hit by the sixteen-inch shells of the enemy ships, it will be difficult for the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor to withstand them, and the other two large cruisers will not be able to withstand the blows of these huge shells.

Therefore, no matter from that point of view, it is necessary for the fleet directly under the Chinese Navy to distance itself from the enemy's main fleet.

After the Yellow Emperor was hit by a torpedo, a large amount of seawater was poured into it, although it did not endanger the core compartment, such as the power compartment, etc., but it still caused a decrease in speed, but the firepower on the Yellow Emperor was not weakened, and the nine sixteen-inch cannons above him continued to fire, constantly firing a heavy 1,200 kilogram of heavy bombs.

When the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor were engaged in the battle with the enemy ships, the Shaohao and Fuxi were also continuing to fire, but unlike the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor concentrating their firepower on the Shinano, the firepower of the Shaohao and Fuxi was previously concentrated on the two heavy cruisers called Ben.

When it was discovered that the battleship Kaohsiung had been torpedoed and its speed had been greatly reduced, the Shaohao and Fuxi diverted their firepower and dumped their 12-inch shells on the Kaohsiung in an attempt to inflict further heavy damage on the Kaohsiung.

The guns on the Shaohao and Fuxi are the same model of twelve inches and fifty times the naval gun, the basic structure of this naval gun is jointly developed by France and China, the establishment concept and some details are similar, but although it is jointly developed but the caliber of each is different, the French Navy took thirteen inches, they were to fight against the German pocket battleships, and the Chinese Navy took twelve inches, At the beginning, the reason why the Chinese Navy adopted the 12-inch caliber was mainly to counter the large number of heavy cruisers in the three countries of Britain and the United States, considering the cost and the factors of the enemy's heavy patrol firepower, it only adopted 12 inches, which can be regarded as an extremely conservative choice.

Although the caliber is only 12 inches, the power of this gun is not weak at all, and the vertical penetration power is directly compared with the old 14-inch naval gun, and with its power it can completely deal a major blow to the old battlecruisers and old battleships in this navy.

And this is also the confidence of Lieutenant General Lu Jian!

As long as the Yandi and the Yellow Emperor can resist the fire of the enemy's sixteen-inch guns and deal a blow to the enemy's cutting-edge battleships, then the enemy's thin-skinned battlecruisers or old warships can be handed over to the Shaohao and Fuxi to deal with.

It must be said here that although the Shaohao, Fuxi and Yangtze River classes are all divided into the ranks of large cruisers, but these three levels are very different, among which Shaohao was originally designed as a light battleship, in addition to speed and firepower, its protection can far exceed the subsequent Fuxi class and Yangtze River class.

The protection level of the Fuxi class exceeds that of the Yangtze River level.

It can be said that among the seven third-class ships, in addition to maintaining the same firepower and speed, the weaker the protection ability of the ships in the back, of course, the displacement is getting lower and lower, and the cost is getting lower and lower, as can be seen from their tonnage, the standard displacement of the Shaohao is 27,000 tons, and after installing a large number of air defense weapons and other equipment, the combat displacement has reached more than 32,000 tons. The standard displacement of the Fuxi class is 24,500 tons, and the combat displacement is more than 27,000 tons. As for the standard displacement of the last Yangtze River class, it is several hundred tons less than that of the Fuxi class, and the combat displacement has just reached 27,000 tons.

In the subsequent construction process of the Fuxi class and the Yangtze River class, the power system, radar system, main gun and air defense artillery system applied are already products of a mature system, so the cost is far less high than the original Shaohao.

After all, when Shaohao was built, almost all power systems, radars, main guns, anti-aircraft guns, etc. had to be newly developed, and the research and development funds spent on it were very huge, which also caused the cost of Shaohao to remain high. However, the construction of ships cannot be compared with the cost alone, but also the original naval strategy and international background.

In order to obtain the maximum combat effectiveness in the balance of 25,000 tons, the navy basically did not consider the cost factor when designing and building the Shaohao, only pursued the surname Neng, and even concealed the actual displacement in order to achieve a better surname, but the original report was 25,000 tons, and the current public declaration of Shaohao is also a 25,000-ton warship. And not the actual twenty-seven thousand tons.

Because the cost is not considered much, so at that time there were all good things to be installed, including a new generation of high-pressure steam turbines specially developed, various types of radar systems, advanced fire control computers and specially developed twelve-inch main guns, it can be said that the construction of Shaohao was the foundation of many technical foundations in the subsequent period of China's naval expansion, without the early investment of Shaohao, it is impossible to reduce the cost of the two subsequent large cruisers and other types of warships.

To a certain extent, Shaohao is a scientific research test ship!

Among the Shaohao and the subsequent two-stage large cruisers, only the Fuxi class and the Yangtze River class are more in line with the large cruisers demarcated by the Chinese Navy, and the Shaohao should be classified as light battleships.

However, the firepower and speed of these three are comparable, so they are uniformly divided into large cruisers, and the number of Shaohao has also been changed from BB-8 to CB-1.

After Shaohao and Fuxi diverted their firepower, after several rounds of continuous salvo fire, they finally achieved the first large-caliber main gun hit in this naval battle!