Chapter 398 Too Fierce?

"Hey, hey, I've heard the plan, do you have any suggestions?"

"I'm not suitable to intervene in this kind of thing, right?" Sophie said: "This kind of thing should be regarded as a matter of grand strategy. I am just the temporary commander of a squadron. After our fleet merges with the main fleet, I will only be Chris. He is just the captain of the Na. Such matters related to guild decisions should be decided by big shots like you, right?"

"Is it as exaggerated as you said?" After I finished speaking, I asked directly: "What's your opinion, Kristina?"

"If you use our guild's name to make a fortune, we will charge image fees." Kristina said with a smile, but her tone was gritted.

"Okay, I think I understand what you mean. So, before that, do you want to deal with the following fleet first?"

"I'm good at this." After Sophie finished speaking, she directly ordered the first mate below: "The fleet will speed up and start free artillery fire after approaching the enemy's range. It should be possible to shoot directly at this distance, right?"

"clear."

After this kind of order is conveyed, it is actually equivalent to letting the battleship perform freely. Of course, Sophie does not intend to use the advantage of the battleship's performance to engage in a melee. Her purpose is to test the performance of the battleship, so she plans to let the fleet play freely first, and then start command and dispatch after our battleship is surrounded, so that we can It fully tested the emergency response capabilities of the new fleet under combat conditions.

Although Sophie's intention was to let each ship play freely for later testing, we soon discovered that something was wrong with the situation.

As Sophie's order was conveyed, the main guns of each ship began to reload ammunition, followed by a flash of electric arc. A dozen warships in the opposite fleet were blown into pieces in the first round of strikes. metal fragments, and what's even worse is that the subsequent attacks didn't even pause at all. The main gun on the battleship began to roll call the enemy battleships one by one.

The liquefied magic crystal steam shells equipped on our battleships are so powerful that as long as the opponent's battleship is hit by one shot, it will almost certainly sink. Even if it withstands an attack, ordinary battleships will lose their combat capabilities and become floating on the sea. Living coffin. Our plan was to have the warships on both sides enter a state of melee to test the command system, but the warships on our side fought too hard. At this speed, in the end it will not be our warships that get mixed up, but our fleet will directly pass through the other side's fleet and open a channel. After all, with such firepower, the opponent simply cannot stop or divide our warships.

"Damn, isn't this firepower a little too strong?" Sophie herself was startled as she looked at the enemy warships exploding and sinking in front of her. Although I have seen various performance data on battleships before, the problem is that there is often a difference between the data and the intuitive results. Only when you directly see the effect of the bombardment will you realize what the result will be when the power of the liquefied magic crystal steam shells and the rate of fire of the electromagnetic cannon are combined. This is no longer a naval battle. It was a massacre.

The explosion effect of the liquefied magic crystal steam bomb is similar to that of a cloud bomb. At the moment of explosion, it will generate an ultra-high pressure to squeeze the target. Because the squeezing force generated by the liquefied magic crystal steam cannonball is very powerful. Therefore, when the liquefied magic crystal steam shell hits an enemy ship, the effect will be as if the opponent's warship was suddenly pinched by an invisible big hand. If it is a battleship with super thick armor, it will be better. At most, the entire superstructure will be flattened, standing like a twisted abstract metal sculpture above the hull. If it is a battleship of other levels, it will often be crushed at once. Sexually extruded into a solid metal block.

We all know that metal itself cannot float on the water. The reason why a warship made of metal can float is because it is hollow inside. The detonation effect of the liquefied magic crystal steam cannonball ultimately compressed the hollow metal battleship into a solid metal block. In this state, how can the battleship still float on the sea?

Modern warships are equipped with watertight compartments inside. Once the battleship is damaged, as long as the compartments are closed, the battleship will not sink, because seawater will only penetrate into the leaking compartments, and other compartments will not have any problems. This design is like fixing a lot of empty cans together to make a ship. Even if you shoot it with a submachine gun and break through some of the cans, the ship will not sink. Because there are many other cans still providing buoyancy. However, the pressure effect of the cloud bomb is not to penetrate these cans, but to beat all the cans into solid metal pancakes like a compressor. In this state, it is impossible for the cans to provide buoyancy, so it is impossible to sink. It has become an inevitable result.

Although the fleet ahead is used by the British to defraud those stupid guilds out of their money, they also have the idea of ​​​​trying to see if they can get some benefits from our guild. Therefore, their warships are not actually adulterated, but are genuine high-end warships. Not only are these battleships in a leading position in Europe, but they are also designed with watertight compartments based on real-life battleships. This design could have ensured that even if they were shot through several large holes by ordinary artillery, they would not sink immediately. But now, all of this has become a meaningless design. There are only two situations when a watertight cabin faces a cloud bomb. Either the pressure generated by the cloud bomb is not enough and the ship's hull remains unscathed. Or, as is happening now, the battleship is directly squeezed into a discus, and then sinks instantly within a few seconds.

"Isn't this firepower too abnormal?" Kristina looked at the sinking battleships in front and asked Sophie next to her: "Should we lower the shooting speed? At this speed, we can't wait for the battleships from both sides to interfere. The other party just ran away when we were together, right?"

"Actually, I am also worried about this problem, but our warships have maintained this firepower for a while. If we suddenly reduce the firepower density now, will it scare the opponent away?"

"This..." Kristina is not a naval combatant after all, and she doesn't know much about this kind of thing. She can only shake her head helplessly and suggest that Sophie ask me for my opinion.

"My opinion is simple, don't stop the bombardment, just go straight through." I answered directly after hearing their question.

"Why?" Sophie didn't understand my decision. (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation.)