Chapter 311: Is this aircraft carrier a serious aircraft carrier? (Please subscribe, please vote)

When Zhuge Weidao was commanding a strange aircraft carrier to bombard two half-dead battleships, Chen Jian and Lieutenant General James Hood were competing with each other using the most standard tactics of "grabbing the T position" and "circling in circles".

It’s called indistinguishable!

Everyone knows how good it is to "grab the T position", but it is not easy to get it. Chen Jian's four Zhongwang-class ships are fast, but they are not that fast. If they can run 30 knots, then T

The position was obtained early. Unfortunately, they were only at 24 or 25 knots. Even with forced ventilation, they could reach 26 knots, and 27 knots would be too high.

James Hood's 8-level victory level also has a rated maximum speed of 21 knots, and the forced ventilation can also reach 23 knots. Although it is 3 knots slower than the opponent, it is still on the same level. Therefore, James Hood can command his own

The 8 Victory-level troops move in double columns in the inner circle, going around Chen Jian's 4 Zhongwang-level troops. His double columns are still staggered, so that his firepower advantage can be maximized. 8

All 64 12-inch guns of the Victory class can be concentrated to bombard a Chungwang class!

However, the 4 loyal kings only have 32 300mm cannons, which is obviously no match for them!

Therefore, facing the fierce artillery fire of James Hood's formation, Chen Jian's formation was helpless. He neither dared to get too close to the opponent, nor could he use the 300mm cannon to blast the opponent's battleship at a long distance - because it was not attacked

The penetration depth of cap-piercing armor-piercing projectiles, cap-piercing armor-piercing projectiles, 300mm guns and 12-inch guns is a bit insufficient. The Victory class and Zhongwang class adopt the latest surface-hardened armor, and both sides adopt the concept of key protection for armor distribution, so

The defensive capabilities are quite reliable.

They fought against each other for quite a while, but nothing came of it.

James Hood is certainly not in a hurry. He has the advantage now! Even if his eight battleships cannot kill his opponent's four battleships at once, will Rear Admiral Howe's two Victory-class battleships not be able to kill that "half of a battleship"?

That’s a 4:1 advantage!

Chen Jian, on the other hand, is a little confused. His four battlecruisers are the absolute main force of the Ming Dynasty on the battlefield today. If he can't defeat his opponent, how long can Zhuge Weidao survive with an "aircraft carrier" that can engage in artillery battles?

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If Zhuge Weidao couldn't hold on and was beaten to death, then Chen Jian would be in big trouble. Zhuge Weidao now has the ambition to be the most powerful general in the Zhuge family! If he was defeated by Gray because Chen Jian didn't fight hard,

Here in the Te Strait, there will be trouble in the Zhuge family if they don't deal with Chen Jian in the future.

Just when Chen Jian was considering whether to use his battlecruiser as a torpedo boat and fight a "battlecruiser pig burst" with the 12 heavy torpedo destroyers in his hand, Lei Teng was transferred to the bridge to serve as the bridge observation team

The monitor, Lu Benwei, suddenly shouted: "Mr. Chen, Zhuge Junmen seems to have defeated two enemy battleships!"

Chen Jian was shocked when he heard this, "What? Zhuge Junmen has been defeated?"

"No, no, it's not that the Yingyi were defeated!" Lu Benwei said loudly, "Zhuge Junmen defeated the two British battleships with an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser. The two British battleships seemed to be about to be sunk.

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"What?" Chen Jian couldn't believe his ears, but he immediately turned his binoculars to look at the battlefield on the other side. At first glance, he didn't even believe his own eyes.

Because the scene he saw was incredible!

The Shu Zhongwang was using two twin 300mm turrets to bombard two British battleships with five twin 12-inch cannon turrets, and it also damaged the two British battleships!

One of the ships has obviously sunk and seems to have lost all power. Although the five turrets have not all misfired, after losing the electric loader and other servo systems, the British artillery can only manually operate the gun, which has a slow rate of fire.

It was beyond words. As for the secondary guns on this battleship, most of them failed to fire, and fire spread everywhere on the deck. The damage control team seemed to be powerless and could only watch the battleship being engulfed in flames.

The other battleship was even worse. The bow of the ship sank into the water for some reason. The butt of the ship was sticking out, and it was still on fire. It was also constantly hit by the Shu Zhongwang's 300mm main gun!

The two British battleships were really badly beaten!

But how is this done? How can an aircraft-carrying battlecruiser be so powerful?

Is this aircraft-carrying battlecruiser not as simple as it looks? What other unknown secrets does it have?

Just as Chen Jiang thought of this, a huge ball of fire suddenly broke out on the British battleship with its butt sticking out!

In the thick smoke, Chen Jian could only see that the "butt" of this battleship, which seemed to have at least a standard displacement of 18,000 tons, had been blown off, and the entire warship was suddenly broken into two pieces near the stern turret.

, exploded violently and even threw part of the stern of the ship high into the air, and then crashed hard onto the sea, causing huge waves.

Chen Jian was stunned!

Is this a one-shot ammunition depot?

Isn’t this too awesome? Is Zhuge Weidao worthy of being the God of Navy?

James Hood also saw one of his battleships being shot down by an "aircraft carrier" of the Ming Army with artillery. Nowadays, the most popular in the navies of various countries are the artillery shells with picric acid as the warhead. The power of this explosive

How violent was it? If the Wellesley was bombed like this, it would not be a matter of "losing" its "butt", but it would be completely destroyed! Although the ship has not sunk yet, it must be abandoned.

Just when James Hood was extremely shocked, something even more unacceptable happened. The "aircraft carrier" that had just been destroyed actually drove so far away from the "lying" battleship USS Malina

Two torpedoes were launched from a distance of only 1,000 meters, and then a terrible scene happened. Two huge water columns suddenly rose up from the side of the Malina. When the water columns and the subsequent water mist dissipated,

This ship, with a standard displacement of more than 18,000 tons, had seriously rolled over and then sank into the sea at a speed visible to the naked eye!

James Hood was dumbfounded - what happened to him? How could one aircraft carrier kill two battleships in the blink of an eye? And they were killed with artillery and torpedoes.

Is this aircraft carrier a serious aircraft carrier?

"Vice Admiral, an urgent message from Rear Admiral Ilu." The communications officer of the fleet suddenly shouted loudly at this time. "Rear Admiral Ilu said that he witnessed the whole process of the destruction and sinking of the Wellesley and the Malina. Ming

The Chinese fleet used the tactics of aircraft, battleships, and lightning strike ships to sink and destroy the two battleships! If the same tactics were used on the remaining eight Victory-class ships, it would also be effective, so he suggested that the second Indian

The fleet is temporarily withdrawing to India to rest!"

Not to mention, George Yilu, who was overlooking everything from a high place, really saw it right!

The reason why Zhuge Weidao was able to win was actually because he used an unprecedented method of coordinated combat among aircraft, battleships, and torpedo ships that had never been seen before in another period of history. It was completely original to him.

If Zhuge Weidao continues to adopt the same coordinated combat mode, then James Hood's fleet will definitely continue to suffer heavy losses. It may be that the entire army will be annihilated and lose all victory levels.

If it got to this point, the British Empire would lose the entire war.

So now James Hood must give up the decisive battle and withdraw from the battlefield immediately...
Chapter completed!