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The Third Empire - Chapter 537

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:51:23 AM


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Now, the other party is right in front of him. If he rushes directly to shoot, he can only bombard the other party with his ship gun in front of him,

The dropping area is small and the hit rate is low.

In naval operations, the most accurate hit is, of course, lateral firing. In particular, if your warship is driving in the same direction and at the same speed as the other party, it almost doesn't need to hit any advance and just shoot directly.

Now, lansdorf is this idea. He hopes his warship can move to the port side of the other party and sink it at close range!

The diesel engine at the tail roars. Compared with the steam engine, the power of the diesel engine is still limited, which can not make the German class reach a high speed of more than 30 knots. However, the diesel engine has another advantage, that is, the starting speed is fast!

It takes time to heat the boiler, and the diesel engine almost goes on fire. At the same time, the diesel engine needs to accelerate, that is, a throttle lever.

Push the throttle lever to the end, and the diesel engine at the tail roars violently, pushing the warship, accelerate, accelerate!

Just escorting the formation, it can only sail at a speed of less than 15 knots. Now, its speed is increasing, 20 knots, 25 knots, 28 knots!

At the time of design, it was originally the maximum speed of 26 knots, but at the time of trial, due to the excellent design, this kind of warship can soar to a high speed of 28 knots.

Almost all the other battleships in the same period had only more than 20 knots, so they could fight if they could, and run if they couldn't.

Now, we have to catch up and fight!

At this time, the aircraft carrier Bayan is still sailing slowly, and its huge outline is becoming clearer and clearer.

From the perspective of this era, the 30000 ton Bayan is still tall and powerful, can carry dozens of carrier based aircraft, and can be regarded as the leader of the aircraft carrier.

However, from the current perspective of the German Navy, this aircraft carrier is completely backward, and there is no need to say the problem of speed. The deck is through the deck. Although there are three elevators, they are all on the deck. When the elevators are enabled, it is impossible to operate the aircraft on the deck.

This makes its deck operation quite slow. For example, it took an hour to recover 20 carrier based aircraft. If it was on the battlefield, this efficiency would have been blown away.

Under normal circumstances, the Bayan has a fighter fleet, a reconnaissance fleet and an attack fleet. Now, on the deck, there is only an old two wing reconnaissance aircraft.

Although it does not have much vigilance before taking off, it undertakes arduous tasks. It takes off a reconnaissance plane every once in a while to reconnoiter the surrounding waters.

At this time, Paul, the lookout, was operating his telescope and casually turned around the sea area. He immediately found a warship behind his port side, chasing after him!

At a distance, he could not see the flags flying on each other's masts. Moreover, as an intern, he was not familiar with the wide variety of warships of various countries and could not visually identify the models.

"Report to the captain and find a warship of unknown nationality behind our port side."

Port rear? The captain on the bridge was stunned when he got the news. Are they the two warships planned to meet with his own side? No, the position is wrong. It should be in front of your own side!

"Immediately send light identification signals, radio, and contact each other on the Navy's dedicated channel." Said general labard.

In the bay of Biscay, there is no danger for the time being. Even general labard did not expect that the Germans would come. He just thought it was his own warship.

He raised his telescope and looked at the distance, but the wind direction was very bad at this time. The smoke from the other party's chimney just floated to the right front of the other party. It could not be seen clearly from his own side.

Only a rough outline can be seen.

Light identification signal!

At sea, how to communicate with each other has always been a difficult problem to solve. At first, the ancient means of carrier pigeon and fireworks were used. Later, with continuous progress, international flag and light signals are quite commonly used.

Now, although it is daytime, when the lights aim at each other, they can still be clearly seen, and then they can communicate with each other with lights. In complex situations, this is better than semaphores.

Like now.

On the top of the bridge, the lights are rapidly sending identification signals to German warships. This is a unique identification signal of the French navy. As long as the other party responds according to the standard signals, it can be said to be his own.

"Report that the other party has sent a light identification signal." Here, Carl, the German lookout, has found the other party's intention and immediately reported to the bridge.

"Don't worry about them, let's move on!" In the bridge, Captain Randolph said, his heart was very excited.

Now, your side has accelerated to a high speed of 28 knots. As long as you start for more than ten minutes, you can drive side by side with the other side. This is the best attack distance.

The other party is unprepared and is still releasing the light identification signal to himself, which is simply giving himself a chance!

The range finder and radar are working at full speed, and the trajectory solver in the command room is buzzing. Now, they are ready to shoot at any time, and the shooting data have been calibrated!

Get closer. When you drive side by side with the other party, pour all your artillery fire onto the other party's head!

"Report, the other party didn't respond." Here, on the bridge of the French aircraft carrier, I have been waiting, but I just can't see the other side's response.

"Maybe the other party didn't see our light signal. We can try again." Said the captain.

General labard shook his head: "the reconnaissance plane will take off immediately. Hurry!"

There was an ominous feeling in his heart. As an old sailor who had been floating on the sea for many years, he could see a lot at a glance without tools, such as the speed of each other.

Now, he always feels that the other side's speed is very fast, even more than 25 knots. His own warship is not so fast. Is it a Spanish warship?

Take off the reconnaissance plane and go to reconnaissance!

After hearing the order, the po390 reconnaissance plane on the deck finally stopped dawdling. After the engine emitted black smoke, it was started. The pilot wore a flying hat and was ready to push the throttle lever. After the engine was fully turned on, he took off from the deck for reconnaissance.

This ancient reconnaissance plane has been in service for 30 years. Opening the cockpit cover is very beneficial to the observation of pilots.

Unfortunately, before the ancient biplane took off, it heard a sharp alarm.




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