Chapter 1748: Fourteen. Yam Liza (17)

What is the enemy fleet doing?
Principality soldiers looked at each other, or scratched their ears, everyone was thinking about this issue.
Abnormal behavior is not uncommon on the battlefield. It is often the case that in order to lure enemies into traps, we make some weird behaviors that cause opponents to misjudge. In addition, you can't bear the pressure, and it's not uncommon to go crazy on the battlefield.
But what is the enemy in front of you?
Escape before battle?
So mysterious?
Lure the enemy deeper?
Mechanical failure?
Is there a problem with the command system?
The officers almost squeezed out their imagination and military knowledge, but still did not understand what the Parsifal fleet wanted to do.
Indeed, the state of the Parsifal fleet will be strange to all bystanders.
The originally straight and straight line is becoming a mess. The leader’s flagship gradually fell behind, and the battleships behind the queue were gradually overtaking the flagship. At the same time, the entire fleet is still climbing, but the climbing speed is fast or slow. The difference in plane and vertical speed makes the original straight line become a three-dimensional inclined S-shaped.
The most taboo in fleet warfare is the chaos when changing formations. At this time, when the enemy fires and shoots, it will generally die very ugly. In terms of the skills of Major General Parsifal and the performance of his subordinate fleet since the beginning, such low-level errors should not be committed. But if it's not a mistake, what would it be?
So there are the above guesses.
Errors and mechanical failures in the command and communication system seem to be the most likely. As long as it is a machine, as long as it is in use, no matter how it is maintained and repaired, the failure is inevitable. In the same way, no matter how you train and exercise, the communication system—whether it is the semaphore, the induction of a magistrate, or the mechanical communication system of the empire, errors in the transmission process are inevitable. It is not impossible to confuse the command system and the execution level due to misinterpretation of the secret code, incorrect writing format, incorrect filing, omission of a paragraph... and so on.
In addition to these more scientific guesses, there are some less reliable, even wishful guesses.
"It must have been from other squadrons of support to launch a full-scale attack, and the hairless monkeys had to turn around and defend!"
This is one kind, and then another.
"What must have happened to that black tea admiral! Either dead or sick!"
"Ula! Ula!"
There was a cheering cheering in the cabin. The vast majority of people do not know what everyone is cheering for, and they know that this may be just an illusion, but all the soldiers who have been infected and want to vent their suppressed emotions for a long time do cheer. Then, soon, a new voice was added to the cheers — the officer's scolding.
"You silly people, shut up for me! Everyone sticks to their posts, don't run around without orders!"
The officers actually wondered if the strange actions of the other party would be the command structure, especially what happened to the fleet commander, but they knew that the probability of this kind of thing was not higher than that of a big stone falling into the enemy ship. . In addition, the restraint as an officer does not allow them to express their blissful emotions like soldiers.
They can only restrain the soldiers who are in a state of excitement, using scolding, punching and kicking to pull the soldiers out of delusions and regain calm. Then silently observe the actions of the enemy ship and wait for the superior's instructions.
This is certainly a bit negative, but it is always a reasonable choice, and even Major General Kolchak himself is inclined to this idea.
When the opponent is in a state of unexplained chaos, take the decisive attack and grasp the key to victory in one fell swoop-this is the idea and attitude that any aggressive naval officer should have. The major general himself is even more convinced that the fleet is allowed to avoid fighting only under desperate circumstances. As a matter of fact, he should not miss the good time in front of him.
But several factors prevented him from putting this kind of instinct and impulse into practice.
The battleships of the three battleship squadrons under Major General Kolchak are all newly built products, whether it is the Peresvett class or the Rostislav class, it is a new ship that has only been in service for more than a year, and the five Borodino classes are in service. The time is just half a year. On the life cycle, it is almost the same as the opposite. But the difference is that the Lapland crew of the enemy fleet has received strict and professional training in the empire, and those warships have received sufficient testing and training. Originally, the superiority of the enemy ship's maneuverability was obvious, and the difference in personnel quality (70% of the illiterate rate of the Principality's sailors), no matter whether it was climbing or level flight, the battleship of the Principality could not catch up with the enemy ship, and it might lead to the collapse of the queue formation. The two old-fashioned cruisers of the Mobile Force-the "Liulik" and the "Aphrodite"-could try it. However, these two ships are too far behind, and the number is too small. Even if the assault is carried out, the meaning that can be produced is limited. If you accidentally catch two valuable cruisers.
Another element that motivated Kolchak to wait and see was the previous shelling. The two near misses indicate that the enemy ship's gunner can quickly hit the target even at a long distance. He has every reason to believe that although the enemy ship is slightly inferior in artillery caliber, the armor thickness may not be as good as that of the battleship, but if it is singled out with any battleship under his command, it can still prevail. His main advantage is still in the number of ships and artillery caliber.
In the end, the most decisive factor was that the commander on the opposite side was Parsifal, who let him savor the taste of failure many times. The one who could always anticipate the enemy and seize the opportunity in front of him. Faced with this daunting opponent, Kolchak is not willing to take risks easily.
"Keep the rhythm now."
The indifferent command of the fleet commander to:
"We can't mess with ourselves."
This is a reasonable judgment, at least it looks like this now.
After about two minutes, this judgment is no longer reasonable.
"Gosh!"
Kolchak slammed his forehead screaming loudly:
"That sly pointed ear boy!! How could he think of this!!"
The officers in the bridge did not react for a while. When they held a telescope to look at the new formation of the enemy fleet that was gradually forming, their faces became difficult to look.
At this time, the Parsifal fleet was conquering, and a three-dimensional diagonal column was placed diagonally above the three battleship units of the Principality Army.
The original pilot "Von de Tann" is now the end of the column, and the destroyer "Berching" at the end of the team has become the leader of the pilot. The entire queue has been from the height of 4,500 meters above the ground. It extends diagonally to a height of 3,700 meters. The linear distance between each ship is about 700 meters. The width of the entire column is just across the distance between the three battleship units of the Principality Army.
For the Principality fleet, this is a very unfavorable state.
The first ship of the enemy fleet is within the range of the main gun of the pilot ship of the Principality battleship detachment, but the angle between the boat and all pilot ships exceeds 35 degrees, and the maximum elevation of the main gun of the Principality battleship is only 25 degrees ( Large-calibre main guns have strict requirements on manufacturing technology and metallurgical industry to increase the large elevation angle. High-angle shooting has extremely serious component losses. Therefore, until the Jutland navy battle, the elevation angle of the main battleship main guns was fixed at about 15 degrees The main guns with an elevation angle of more than 20 degrees began to appear only after the battle of Lan Hai), even if the officer jumped his feet, it was impossible to increase the elevation angle by even one degree. As for the flagship at the end of the enemy fleet's queue, the angle is enough, but others are beyond the range...
If the enemy continues to maintain the current route, it will not take long for the Principality Fleet to watch the enemy ship cut into the route above his head. The next three battleship squadrons will be exposed to the rain from the overhead, but their own battleship is right. This has no power to fight back.
Even though the battleships of the Principality were thick and fleshy, it was inevitable if they sustained the barrage from directly above.
Can't hesitate anymore.
Kolchak, conscious of his mistakes, gritted his teeth and exhausted all his strength to order:
"Subordinate the battleship's first squadron to rise at full speed! Engage with the enemy! It doesn't matter if the engine is burned and the boiler is blown up! Even if it is used, it will hit the next enemy ship! If you let them fly over the fleet, Then it's all over!"
The pale-looking trainee correspondent hurriedly saluted, ran out of the bridge, and after some communication, the command of the fleet commander arrived in the hands of Colonel Felksham, the first detachment of the battleship one minute later~www. EbookFREE.me~The Borodino-class battleship is the crystallization of the most advanced shipbuilding technology of the Principality. By introducing the technology of the Empire and the Republic, the Principality installed the electrified command system on the battleship for the first time. In the main gun turret of the battleship "Borodino", there are orange, green and red signal lights. When the battleship enters the battle state or receives the flagship battle order, the battle bridge will send a "battle preparation" command to each turret, the orange signal light will light up, the gunner will monitor the enemy ship's position, aiming position, observation Data such as distance is input to the instrument panel in the battle bridge and transmitted to each turret. A group of instruments in the turret will simultaneously display the data entered by the gun length. The gunners who received the commands and data will immediately prepare the guns to load the ammunition, fix the equipment and clear the battle position. After everything is in place, the gunner presses the button, and the green signal light indicating "ready" will light up.
The soldiers inside the turret were anxiously waiting for the final instruction, and nervousness, anxiety, and excitement made a second as long as the same hour. The turbid air still smells of oil and gunpowder after passing through the thick anti-dust masks, breathing the air that can stun people. The artillery confirmed the last time that the protective glasses, masks, earplugs were all in place, and slightly loosened After breathing, he was absorbed in waiting for instructions again.
After a long and short three minutes, at 11:08 am, the red signal light representing the firing order lighted up inside the main turret of the ship's bow. I used to sit on a steel high stool and watched the target's gun through the range finder installed on the top of the turret. The head of the gun fell sharply and shouted with exhaustion:
"Fire!"
The artillery who had already prepared for the effort struggling to pull down the firing rope, and the crisp "click" sound from the 305mm main gun tail sounded when the hammer struck the propellant bottom fire. The next time the brain was too late to react, the main gun was torn when the main gun fired. The roar of all cracks rang through the sky.