"Your Excellency, the warships of the Chinese have given up the idea of seizing the 'T' prefix, and they are coming diagonally in their entirety, ready to engage in a one-on-one battle with us." This was stated by the observer for Japan.

Ito Yuheng smiled, he obviously knew that the combat quality of these Taiwanese sailors was relatively poor, and Taiwan's battleships were originally very advantageous, but now they are facing this kind of result, and they cannot give full play to their speed advantage, so that although their warships are faster than the Japanese warships, they cannot play enough results, which naturally drags down the overall formation. Once the battleship is seriously scattered, it will not be able to exert the power of the entire fleet at all.

"Since they want to practice one-on-one combat methods with us, then we will take the initiative to meet them, and then see how many catties and taels they have!" Yuhen Ito said.

Soon, both sides began to move diagonally in each other's direction, and the two fleets began to close together like an arrow. However, when the distance between them was about five kilometers, the two sides maintained a parallel distance again, and the distance between the two lines was restored. And Ito looked at the sword-class battleship in the distance with a telescope, and then began to observe what was different about this sword-class battleship. He obviously knew that this sword-class battleship should be a new type of battleship in Taiwan, but he didn't know what the difference was between them and the traditional battleship, which was what Ito Yuheng cared about.

"Strangely, they seem to have only five batteries, but each one has two cannons close together. Even, their battleships actually installed the main guns on the central axis, not like ordinary people on both sides of the battleship deck? Ito asked suspiciously.

"Everyone, each in place, each looking for their own present, and then concentrate their firepower on me!" Chen Fa said.

"Bang ......"

Five sword-class battleships fired fifty shells at the same time. Then the unity launched towards the Japanese battleships on the opposite side. Each of the five battleships had its own goal, so they didn't have any confusion. Every sword-class battleship was headed at a single target, and each enemy battleship was attacked by an average of ten shells.

"Poof-" "Poof-" "Poof-"......

The shells of the Taiwanese battleships began to hit the Japanese battleships, but it was a pity that none of the fifty shells and any shells were hit, and they all reached the sea, setting off waves in bursts. There was also a large group of dead fish and rotten shrimp that were killed by shells, which can be regarded as a fire at the city gate and affected the pond fish.

"Fight back!"

The gunnery chiefs of the Japanese fleet also began to give orders, and then let the main guns of their battleships start firing. However, the number of warships that the Japanese army actually faced Taiwan was only five, and the design methods used by their warships were all ordinary design methods, with the main guns installed on both sides of the battleships, and only two main guns on each side. The Japanese Kayama-class battleship was designed to be modeled after the British Monarch-class battleship, with a total of four 343 mm guns. However, their design plan still placed the main guns on both sides, so that each time they faced the enemy at the same time, only two main guns could fire in combat, and the other two main guns were almost idle. Firepower that was idle on the battlefield. Naturally, it all means waste.

"Puff ......"

All 10 shells exploded next to the warship of the Taiwan Navy, setting off waves in waves.

"Damn, who designed this battleship of the Shina people, this is really a genius design scheme!" Ito said in shock.

Ito Yuheng is also a naval expert, he knows a lot about naval things, and he has seen the design of this Taiwanese sword-class battleship, which is simply a god. This battleship design in Taiwan is simply a stroke of genius. So Ito Yuhyung also felt that he had to be convinced.

"We're in trouble this time, the people of China have five times more firepower than ours! This design. It's genius. And their two guns are close together, which can not only increase the density of firepower, but even save a lot of turret space and save the weight of the warship. And he adopted all the main guns as a means of warfare, and this kind of thinking is simply ahead of the world. Heck, why is the first thing that comes to mind is the Tachina people. Isn't it the outstanding naval talent of our Great Japanese Empire? Ito said angrily.

"Your Excellency, what is the warship of this Chinese people? You actually have such a high regard for this battleship of the Chinese people? A staff officer next to him asked.

"Of course, their battleship is a groundbreaking design, and I'm sure this battleship will put an end to the battleship designs of the past. Our battleships ours are outdated. We may not win this battle! Yuhiro Ito said.

Just when the artillery of both sides was coming and going, Ito Yuheng also began to introduce the advantages of this Taiwanese warship to these Japanese staff officers. The biggest advantage of Taiwan's battleships is that they have unified the caliber of the main guns, and the central idea of this sword-class battleship is to unify the caliber of the main guns, which can use all the main guns to concentrate fire on a target, which can effectively make the enemy lose. In this era of battleships, there is no radar, no very good observation and aiming equipment, not enough electronic aiming equipment, no computer to quickly calculate various parameters, all rely on manpower to calculate the operation, and the speed and efficiency are all a pitfall. An average hit rate of 4 or 5 percent is good, and 10 percent is already God's favor for you.

So in this case, whichever side can pour fire as soon as possible can improve the higher hit rate. The more firepower output at the same time, the side with more firepower at the same time will definitely have a huge advantage when the hit rate is almost constant. Taiwan's battleships are all using main guns, and at the same time, the density of firepower poured is greater, and it is easier to reach that critical value.

As for the Japanese Xiangshan-class battleships, their design thinking is still stuck in the old way. In the past, the idea of the battleship design method was to focus on using different guns to face different targets. Use the main gun to hit the enemy's battleship, the secondary gun to hit the enemy's cruiser, and the small-caliber rapid-fire gun to hit the enemy's approaching destroyer or boat.

However, this design idea caused that once in the battle between battleships and battleships, those secondary guns and small-caliber rapid-fire guns did not have enough range to be able to participate in the battle, so their rapid-fire guns and secondary guns were naturally wasted.

The Japanese battleships had only four main guns, and they were still distributed on both sides, and only two of them could face the enemy when facing Taiwan. Therefore, the fire density of their five battleships was only capable of firing ten shells at a time, but Taiwan was able to fire fifty shells. Even if the quality of Taiwanese sailors is relatively poor, it is enough for them to output several times more firepower density than the Japanese.

"Their unified main gun caliber is designed to be able to concentrate firepower against the enemy, and it also has a very huge benefit. Their observers and calculations can calculate only once, and they can also derive the meta-parameters of all the main guns, and then be able to adjust the parameters of the main guns at once, so that they can ensure that the fire is sufficiently concentrated. Once the firepower is concentrated enough, the hit rate will naturally go up. If we follow the old method, the elements of different artillery pieces must be calculated by a calculator. However, different computing personnel have different abilities, and various computational thinking is also different. In this way, they are likely to calculate a different result, and then this result is reflected in the gunner again, so that the gunner's angle and parameters are also different. ”

"And this situation of different elements is very detrimental to the next adjustment, different computational personnel have different computing experience, and their experience is often not shared. If multiple calculators are working together, it is easy for them to have problems if they have a conflict. So instead of having multiple calculators do the calculations, it's better to have the same calculators do the calculations. Even if the same calculator fails to hit the first time, he can adjust it according to his own thinking in the future, so that he will not have to adapt to the calculation methods of other calculators. This is of great benefit to the calculation and adjustment of artillery parameters, which can uniformly adjust the artillery parameters as quickly as possible, so that there will be no conflict. ”

And, in line with their design ideas, they put the two guns side by side, sharing the same turret. Although their turrets appear to be much larger, they are much lighter than the two separate turrets. On this kind of battleship, if you can save weight, you are also saving displacement! If you can save weight, you can put more supplies, and more supplies, coal, shells, etc. can be placed. On the other hand, if you don't want to use more supplies, you can also install more military facilities, which is also good. In this way, the tonnage of warships can be maximized to maximize the comprehensive combat effectiveness of warships. So, this design is a stroke of genius. ”

"Then, this battleship has many advantages, the biggest advantage is the location where they put the turret, which is also a very impressive design idea, and it is also one of the most important means of this battleship." (To be continued.) )