Three Hundred and Fifty-Nine Artillery Battle Begins

"Aim at the target!" With a crisp cry, the main gun on the battleship Conquest was slightly adjusted.

Although in the history of the earth, the Dreadnought-class battleships were not equipped with advanced equipment such as radar, but these battleships serving in the Ireland Hill Navy still used some different advanced equipment.

The first point is that the dreadnoughts of Ireland Hill are equipped with radar electronic equipment. These equipments were not installed after modification, but existed when they were originally designed.

In order to install these radar equipment, the center of gravity of the dreadnought has been slightly raised, and the superstructure has also been modified.

The huge internal gear with a diameter of more than 5 meters drives the turret to meticulously rotate under the drive of the motor. These gears are neat and orderly, like the splendid flowers of industrial civilization.

The inner wall of the huge artillery has attractive rifling. These riflings rotate to the tail without any deviation, ensuring that each shell can fly out of the barrel according to a predetermined trajectory and stably fly to the target.

"Ready to fire!" In the closed turret, with this order, the atmosphere suddenly became tense. Everyone was waiting for the next order, and this was the first time they faced a powerful and evenly matched enemy.

The gunners in their respective positions stood at their posts, and the heavy, hundreds of tons of artillery were ready. The gunner who was in charge of firing had already pressed the button of the firing device, the officer in the turret raised his chin, and his eyes were full of firm light.

He held the phone in his hand, waiting for the sound of the order to fire. Although he can't see the enemy here, he can still feel the tense atmosphere of the war.

On the bridge, everyone saw the demon fleet on the sea in the distance through the thick glass windows. Those black warships are getting closer and closer, and a black straight line has been formed on the sea level.

Laurens picked it up again and again, and put down the telescope in his hand again and again: "How is the distance measurement?"

"The newly installed rangefinder shows that we are 16 kilometers away from the enemy," an officer replied immediately.

"Okay! Order the artillery to start shooting! Then adjust the shooting parameters according to the actual shooting status!" Laurens was a little impatient for the first real naval battle under his command, and gave the order to attack.

The next second, the weapons officer grabbed the phone in front of him and loudly ordered to fire: "Fire!"

"Boom!" Almost at the same time,

The cannons on the battleship Conquer began to roar. With this roar, all the cannons shrank back slightly, and then slowly returned to their positions.

Immediately afterwards, a large amount of white smoke was spewed from the muzzles of these artillery pieces. At this time, all the shells fired were still in flight.

At the same time, the 8 main guns on the 4 turrets of the front battleship Hero also spewed dazzling fire. Eight 305mm caliber artillery shells flew towards the distant enemy with this salvo.

After only a few seconds, the eight main guns on the battleship Victory also fired, and after firing a row of shells, they entered the loading stage.

More than a dozen kilometers away, in the demon's fleet, a demon officer was pressing his long sword, clamoring to give the human navy a little color: "Hurry up and prepare the magic gun! I want them to pay the price!"

"Yes! Sir! We are ready to fire, as long as we get within range, they are finished!" an ugly demon replied shrilly.

The weapons and equipment of the demon fleet are not at the same level as other empires. They have magic cannons, which are powerful and have a long range, so they are not completely disadvantaged compared to the fleet of Alan Hill.

This kind of contest is also more evenly matched. Naturally, everyone has their own obsession with winning and losing. You can't expect to rely on a sailing fleet to defeat the enemy's steel battleships, but if it is a battleship fighting a battleship, it will feel different.

Just as the demon fleet was about to open fire, the shells shot by Alan Hill fell first. These shells smashed into the water at once, and after the explosion, a water column as high as dozens of floors was stirred up.

The huge explosion suddenly quieted the noisy demon army. The demon soldiers on the deck looked at the magnificent water column and for a moment forgot that they should roar and strengthen their momentum.

After an instant, more water columns rose into the sky, and a demon touched the sea water splashed on his cheek, and then he realized that the terrible attack of humans had already begun.

"Raise the magic defense barrier!" The demon commander headed loudly gave the order to fight.

In his shouting, a water column dozens of meters high rose from the side of a huge demon battleship with a length of more than 200 meters, which looked extremely spectacular.

In naval battles, it is really rare that a salvo hits the enemy in the first round. Too many factors restrict the hit rate in naval battles, so most of the time, even with advanced naval warships, it is very difficult to meet the enemy in naval battles. It will choose to get as close to its opponent as possible before firing.

In short, Alan Hill's first salvo actually didn't hurt the demon fleet at all. And the navy of Ailan Hill was not affected by the ineffectiveness of this round of attacks.

The Alan Hill sailors who were responsible for loading the artillery with ammunition could not see their combat results at all. They could only confirm that their artillery had fired at the enemy through the dull explosion.

Then, they couldn't see any enemy, but inside the small turret, they continued to repeat the loading work they had just repeated.

Mechanical loading equipment transports the shells from the well-protected ammunition bays, and then takes the shell elevator to the turret. Immediately afterwards, the propellant charge is transported to the designated location by a similar device, and then the semi-automatic loading begins.

Soldiers use a motor to operate a push rod, which pushes the shell first into the barrel. Then, the push rod works a second time, pushing the prepared propellant charge into the barrel. At this point the loader can close the breech and get ready to fire.

When the ammunition for both artillery pieces is loaded, the entire loading work is completed. The returned artillery will be adjusted to the angle before loading at this time, so that it can attack again with high precision.

"Fine adjustment by 0.31 degrees!" The calibration data was transmitted to all turrets by phone, and the gunner in charge of the angle began to adjust the elevation angle of the artillery's gun barrel according to the data.

After adjustment, the attack accuracy this time will be greatly improved, and basically the second time can create a cross-shooting situation.

And once there is a cross shot, it is not far from hitting the target. If the opponent is also a master of naval warfare, he will adjust his course or change his speed to interfere with the opponent's shooting estimation.

After everything was ready, all the Alan Hill battleships broke the silence that lasted for a few minutes. Another round of artillery salvos began, beginning with the battleship Conquest and ending with the battleship Victory.

24 305mm caliber artillery shells flew to their respective targets again, and at this time the demon's fleet had not yet entered their attack distance.

The attack distance of the magic cannon is actually very long, and it is not much different from the large-caliber artillery. But Naihe Demon's observation and aiming system is too backward, so in order to ensure the aiming accuracy, they can only wait patiently and wait for a suitable attack distance.

The second round of salvos was imminent. Those armor-piercing bullets filled with magic spar, accelerated to a critical point in the air, and then swooped down and slammed into the target. The projectile body has burned red due to friction, and the internal charge has become extremely unstable.

Another jet of water shot straight into the sky in the middle of the demon fleet, and the demon battleship, which had already supported the magical defense barrier, felt the powerful attacks from humans.

"These goddamn humans!" A demon officer's face was low, looking at the sky-high water column aroused in front of him, gritted his teeth with hatred. He could not tolerate the situation that the advanced weapons provided by the source of magic were on par with the weapons used by humans.

Unfortunately, just as he was gnashing his teeth, a 305mm caliber artillery shell penetrated the fragile magical defense barrier like a piece of paper and directly smashed through the deck of a demon battleship.

Before everyone could react, a huge explosion exploded inside the demon battleship that had penetrated the deck.

The destructive power suddenly ripped apart the hull of the demon battleship, and the twisted and deformed steel plate broke apart, with the hideous barbs on it. And then in the next second, the water poured into the cabin and drowned everything it could.

No one would have thought that in the second round of salvos, the shells shot by the navy of Ireland Hill could accurately hit a target.

Therefore, this cannonball greatly inspired the confidence of Commander Lawens who was watching the battle: he now felt that his fleet could completely wipe out the seemingly huge demon fleet in front of him.

In fact, it is not how accurate Alan Hill's naval shooting capabilities are, but because there are too many demon warships, even if it is a matter of probability, if so many demon warships are arranged together, the probability will be doubled to one A very promising degree.

In addition, the Alan Hill fleet has been fighting in the south, and it has indeed cultivated a very high-level navy. These naval gunners usually attack the enemy's fort, attack the city, and control the artillery, which has actually reached a very proficient level.

Therefore, unknowingly, the navy of Ailan Hill, in fact, the level of artillery skills is already a lot higher than their own estimates.