"Discover the target! Two warships! It should be battleships! Oh my God, if this is not a British ship, it would be terrible!" When both sides approached 16 kilometers, the Japanese finally discovered two German warships attached to the coastline! Although the rangefinder can clearly observe the appearance of these two warships, it is still difficult to see the opponent clearly from Tosaburo Kato's telescope.

As an officer, the worst situation is that when the two sides fight, they don’t know what their opponent identities are! There is no way, the so-called distance detector can only see a ship shadow. The details are not clear at all. In the second battle in history, the Germans could regard the Degree Battlecruiser as Nelson, and the British could also regard Prince Eugen as Bismarck, which means that seeing may not be true.

These misjudgments did have a certain impact. The former directly scared away two German battleships (Sharg and two ships.) while the latter was even more incorrectly judged the ship type, which led to the firepower being concentrated on the wrong target, so that Bismarck could kill Hood without interference!

"If it's a dreadful ship, it's bad!" Kato Tomosaburo's heart skipped a beat. He could feel a drop of cold sweat staying from his head and his neck. The difference between the dreadful ship and the former dreadful ship is not in terms of the projection. If it's more than the projection weight than the shells, the Satsuma battleship may not be worse than the Dreadful ship. Is the projection of 4 12-inch guns and 6 10-inch guns really worse than the 8 12-inch guns? Not necessarily!

The real difference lies in the unified caliber of the main gun and consistent ballistic performance, and the ability to engage in ultra-long-range combat brought by the advanced fire control system. Of course, this was not expected at the beginning of the Fearless Design in history, and the fire control at the beginning could not keep up, so the long-distance combat advantage of the Fearless Ship was not taken advantage of. But now, super fearless has come out, and the navies of countries around the world naturally understand this truth.

The key to long-distance fire control is continuous tracking and correction. With the number of artillery, you can use half-volley to quickly calibrate the target at a speed of 20 seconds per round to find the target. Generally speaking, three guns are the minimum limit. Then, the shooting elements are corrected by correcting the shooting points. However, the previous fearless problem is that it only has 4 main guns. Although the 4 guns can also be corrected when firing, the interval is too large, so the accuracy speed will be slower, which will reduce the correction efficiency.

Although the current fire control allows the former Dreadnought to play a role at a distance of about 10 kilometers, it is still much worse than the effective range of the Dreadnought with a length of more than 15 kilometers! It doesn’t feel that the opponent can beat him, but he can’t fight back!

Soon, the shells shot from a distance proved how correct Kato Tomosaru's guess was! Accompanied by the huge explosion, four water columns up to nearly 100 meters high rose on the non-combat side of the Satsuma battleship! Almost half of the Japanese naval officers and soldiers could see the water wall less than 300 meters away from their hull! In an instant, the tension and excitement of the battle filled Kato Tomosaru's body!

"We have no chance to hit the target at a distance of fifteen thousand meters!" Soon the rangefinder reported a number that made him feel desperate. It was too far. Although within the theoretical range of the 10-inch gun, the backward fire control was still weak in the number of second-level main guns.

"Release the smoke, let's lean on it. Maybe it's a dreadnought, but when they come here from the North Sea, the machinery must be seriously damaged and will not be fast. It will narrow the distance to 10 kilometers!" Kato Tomosaburo ordered.

"After getting close to the target, let An Yi and us concentrate their firepower to attack the opponent's flagship!" A moment later, Tosaburo Kato added another order. To put it bluntly, the output of the former dreadnought is basically to get close to it and make his face hard. Moreover, according to his experience, as a battleship, he is quite strong. At least the 14-inch gun of the Kwango-class cannot do anything to the Satsuma's ten-inch main armor belt 10 kilometers away, so if you think you can withstand it, concentrating your firepower to kill the enemy is also a good choice?

The two Japanese warships rushed forward with full horsepower, and then the boilers of the two warships were just a little bit, and the steam turbines were just a little bit output. In addition, they were all old ships participating in the Russo-Japanese War. At this time, how high do you want to drive? 17 knots are at the top! Rolling black smoke came out of the chimney, but the speed was just not up. In Su Xiong's eyes, these figures hidden in the smoke were as slow as snails!

The cigarette tank did play some role, at least the shelling of the Schánhorst was not very accurate. Subsequently, Su Xiong asked the fleet to keep a distance while slowing the shelling speed. But what surprised Su Xiong was that the shelling of the Gneisenau behind was still underway.

"Can this hit the target?" Su Xiong sent a flag to the Gneisenau in doubt.

"Our Seagull Seaplane is larger, with three people on it, one person controlling the radio station, and the other person is responsible for observing the landing point of the shell." The answer of Gneesenau made Su Xiong's eyes lit up. So that's it! It's easy for smoke to block the view of the horizontal plane, but if you change the angle, it won't be able to stop it! This idea is very good, Su Xiong nodded subconsciously.

However, although the observers on the Seagull can see the battleship An Yi and the bounce point, how to describe it is very problematic. Although the aviation school shooting has opened a window, it is obviously still a certain distance from Dacheng. The seagulls kept hovering in the air, flying over the huge battleship from time to time, and then reported the observed bounce point, but the effect is very limited in the end...

The German fleet was out of the upper wind direction. When the Japanese fleet rushed over, the sea breeze would naturally dissipate a large amount of smoke. It is precisely because of this headwind that the Japanese smoke did not achieve the expected effect. Well, let it be clear that when the Japanese used up the cigarette tank, the distance between them and the German warship was still about 14 kilometers! This is the case that the other party could not accelerate and run!

When the smoke dissipated, the two German fast battleships could finally show their power! The officers and soldiers on both German warships were drawn from the Helgolan-class battleships. They had been thinking about this class of battleships for several years and were not too familiar with them. Although they were technically behind the Bavarian-class battleships, the Bavarian-class battleships were not in service for a long time. In terms of actual combat level, from the perspective of artillery skills alone, these veterans from the Helgolan-class battleships were definitely the highest! Su Xiong's men can compete for the Emperor Award, the highest award for German naval artillery skills every year!
Chapter completed!