Fox of France

It is said that some boring guys in later generations once made such comments on the Internet to the generals of France, the Roman Empire. It is generally believed that His Majesty Napoleon and Deputy Commander Joseph are peerless military geniuses. Although there is still controversy about whether the Emperor Napoleon can break through the defense of the deputy commander of the agreement, at least the level of these two famous generals is agreed by everyone. The only thing they regret is that Imperial Shuangbi didn't actually come to love and kill each other, to come to the battlefield to bow to each other.

As for the other generals of the army, basically everyone still admits their level. Although some people occasionally say, "I will fight the Murat battle, but I shook the emperor's flag, lowered his head, and lowered his eyes. Once you close it, it's straightforward, what's the difficulty?" But people who say this will most likely be directly stunned back: "Marshal Ren Murat, that's a man who can go up, one sword at a time, and at least one platoon can be chopped down; if you go up, that's a matter of people picking up and down. "

But the Navy is really different. When someone criticizes some guys in the army for commanding innocent, some people say, "You say he can't do it, you can do it"; but when everyone talks about the French-Rome admiral, if someone says the navy marshal When the level is not high, no one really said that sentence. Because as long as someone says this, there will be a series of posts, and the content of these posts is basically like this: "Isn’t it just assaulting a kid? Help me up, I think I can really hit ten ."

France-Rome's navy is unprecedentedly strong, but this is an army without any famous generals and legends. It has made great achievements, but the reason it can win is entirely because France-Rome has the world's most steel mills and shipyards. It is said that after the British were finally defeated, Lord George Kirkburn, the original commander of the British Navy, came to the French Naval Academy as a tactical instructor. In his spare time, he visited Lorraine Steel and exclaimed: From Lin Province, the steel mills are great and great."

And he also wrote in his memoirs: “When I saw the huge blast furnace of Lorraine Steel Company, the towering chimneys, and the molten steel rushing from the open hearth like a river, I understood that our Failure is inevitable. Later, I visited the French shipyard, and after learning about the production capacity of the French shipyard, I strengthened my view. The war today is in the final analysis The war of industrial capabilities is a war between engineers and industrial workers, not a war between knights and generals... In the war, we have actually done well enough, and even our luck has been good enough. But. None of this is enough for a baby to defeat a fully armed adult strong man."

Indeed, in the Battle of the North Sea Strait, the luck of the British navy was indeed very good. If the French were more cautious, if the French just adopted the simplest approach, where everyone lined up in a battle line, and then fought against each other, the British would actually have no chance at all.

"Our warships, both in terms of design concepts and specific technologies, have completely fallen behind. If the two sides fought in the most usual way at a normal distance, and we did not set the main target of attack on the enemy. In addition to the battleships, that is, the super cruisers and cruisers that give priority to attacking the enemy. Then this tonnage is barely a battle that is evenly matched. The final result may be that all our warships are destroyed, and the French battleships At most only a little skin trauma." ("The Memoirs of Lord George Kirkburn")

Indeed, the British navy performed well in the "Naval Battle in the North Sea Strait." Their pole minecraft took advantage of the French negligence and hit the battleship "Trajan" all at once.

With the huge explosion, a large hole more than five meters wide was blown open on the side of the battleship "Trajan", and sea water was poured in at once.

It is almost impossible to block such a big hole on the battlefield. Fortunately, the design of the battleship "Trajan" is really excellent. This ship uses multiple watertight sub-cabin designs. This opening spanned two watertight compartments, but the entire ship was divided into fourteen watertight compartments. As long as the submerged sub-cabins are not more than six, the ship will not sink.

"The second and third sub-cabins on the right are flooded! Can't be blocked!" The news of the damage reached the commanding tower, and Admiral Bruce only felt that his heart was broken.

"Immediately order the relevant cabin personnel to evacuate immediately and prepare to close the cabin." Although the heart was broken, Admiral Bruce made a quick decision.

The sea water came in very quickly, and the sailors simply couldn't escape the sea. Only the sailor closest to the watertight gate had time to run out, and just after a dozen people ran out, the sound of the sea rushing over could be clearly heard.

"Close the watertight door!"

"Wait, there is..."

"Close the watertight door!"

So the watertight door was closed, and then a total of 128 sailors were locked in this confined space that was constantly being filled with sea water. It is said that after the watertight door was closed, some people heard the knocking sound coming through the thick watertight door.

Later, the question of whether the "Trajan" closed the watertight door too quickly has been a wound in the French Navy. Almost every discussion about this matter will arouse fierce controversy. Many people believe that if the action of closing the watertight door is slower, more sailors should be rescued; of course, some people believe that if the action is slow, the entire battleship will not be saved.

This incident actually caused the French Academy of Sciences. In the end, Academician Gauss used the model to restore and rigorously calculated the conclusion that the watertight door can be closed with a delay of 45 seconds. But this conclusion did not calm the controversy. Some people believe that if there are 45 seconds, many more people can run away, but some people believe that more people can run out of this time. Moreover, at the scene, it is impossible for the commander to perform model restoration and rigorous calculations, and can only rely on experience to judge. Therefore, the decisions they make cannot be considered wrong.

In addition to the loss of personnel, "Trajan" lost half of its power due to being submerged by sea water. In addition, as the two watertight compartments entered the water, the warship began to tilt to the right, and the inclination quickly reached fifteen degrees, coupled with the shaking of the hull itself, which caused a huge obstacle to the rotation of the main gun. The three main guns of the "Trajan" are temporarily unusable.

"Withdraw the third and fourth compartments on the left, and prepare to fill the third and fourth compartments with water." After a little thought, Admiral Bruce made this decision.

Injecting water into the corresponding watertight compartment on the left can restore the balance of the warship, thus allowing the warship to restore its combat effectiveness. Of course, doing so will cause the warship to enter more water and have less reserve buoyancy. If there is a problem of flooding in any place, the entire warship will be in danger.

It took about half an hour from retreating personnel to restoring balance with water injection and restoring the combat effectiveness of the main gun. In this half an hour, the situation has not changed much. The "Crecy" still has no combat effectiveness. The British tried to use it to hit the "Trajan", but although the "Trajan" was damaged in power, But "Crecy" is also impaired. Everyone can't run fast. It is not easy for a turtle to hit another turtle.

On the other side, the French fleet is still working hard to wash the decks of the "Poitiers" battleship. The "Caesar" lost half of its firepower, but the remaining firepower of the other warships is still very dense. While fighting the battleships, the French armored cruisers gained a clear advantage in the confrontation with the British armored cruisers. The armor of the French armored cruisers with key defenses was enough to withstand the British guns at a normal distance. , And their cannons can easily penetrate the British armored cruisers. Coupled with the advantage of the high rate of fire brought by the barrel retreat, the French armored cruisers quickly gained the upper hand in the confrontation with the British armored cruisers. .

Because the cruiser’s artillery fire rate is higher and the anti-strike ability is weaker, the battle between the armored cruisers is more intense than the battle between the battleships, and the winner is determined earlier. There are a total of six armored cruisers on the French side, and the number of cruisers on the British side is a bit more, a total of ten cruisers.

But the six cruisers of the French army are all armored cruisers, while five of the ten cruisers of the British army are so-called unprotected cruisers. And although it seems that there are more British cruisers and more artillery, the weight of the six armored cruisers that can be fired per unit time is almost twice that of the British.

Moreover, the British used two armored cruisers to pretend to be battleships to deceive the French. Although they successfully fooled the French, they also made the two armored cruisers have to face the terrible firepower of the battleships for a period of time. The armored cruiser No. 1 sank first. Although the other "Hope" has never been shot, he was also separated by the battleships of both sides and could not effectively support the battle between the cruisers behind.

So the battle between the two cruisers is not the British five armored cruisers plus five unprotected cruisers against the French six armored cruisers, but the British use three armored cruisers and five unprotected cruisers against six French armored cruisers, the British are in The quantitative advantage is limited, and it is even at a disadvantage in terms of displacement.

Coupled with the fact that the French were blocked at the entrance of the passage, although the British battleship did not receive much damage before the turn due to the influence of the heavy fog, when the fog dispersed, the cruisers had not had time to complete the turn As a result, the following unarmed cruisers were first attacked by the French cruisers.

The unprotected cruiser "Longbow" was first hit by four 100mm shells, one of which hit the steam engine boiler, causing "Longbow" to lose all power and become a dead target. Five minutes later, another shell hit the "Longbow" ammunition depot, and the unprotected cruiser "Longbow" exploded and sank.

After the "Longbow" was paralyzed, it blocked the passage of the three cruisers behind, and these three cruisers had to bypass the "Longbow" and advance. As a result, the "Moline" unprotected cruiser was sunk by thunder, and it sank even faster than the "Longbow". And until it sank, she couldn't even fire a shot at the French.

The other two unprotected cruisers did not get much better. Although they were not sunk on the spot like the "Longbow", they were hit more than once during the turning process. When they finished turning, they no longer Full combat power came to fight the French.

After entering the battle line to fight, the distance between the two sides kept getting closer, and both sides kept hitting their opponents with shells. At this time, the better defenses of the French armored cruisers were revealed. The British finally hit the French warship with one or two shots, either failing to penetrate or passing through.

On the contrary, as long as the French shells fell on the British cruisers, they could always form an effective strike. After the two sides shot each other for about half an hour, the British cruiser was completely crushed.

The armored cruiser "Vengeance" was concentrated in a gunpowder depot by a 100mm gun, and then exploded and sank; the armored cruiser "Sharp" was hit by more than ten shells, and the entire ship ignited fire. The fire was uncontrollable, so the captain was forced to give an order to abandon it. The armored cruiser "Ferocious" is in the best situation. Its superstructure and turret were destroyed and lost its combat effectiveness. However, because of this, the French did not care about him and directly transferred firepower to other warships. Up.

As for the remaining three unprotected cruisers, the situation is naturally not getting better. Now these three ships have sunk one more, and the remaining two are also burning.

On the French side, although the six armored cruisers have received one or two shots, the combat capabilities of all the cruisers are very good. So after the British cruisers had completely lost their combat effectiveness, these six cruisers also joined the siege of the "Poitiers" battleship.

Even if the 100mm gun is at zero distance, there is no possibility of penetrating the armor of the Poitiers, so the French simply use all high-explosive bombs or incendiary bombs to attack Poitiers~www.readwn.com ~Six armored cruisers, plus two super cruisers, and the battleship Caesar, which lost half of its firepower, began besieging the "Poitiers". Or to put it another way, the battleship "Poitiers" is now singles out against the French fleet.

Raindrops of cannonballs continued to fall next to Poitiers. The sea around Poitiers seemed to be boiling, and there were water columns from the cannonballs everywhere. Almost all the superstructures of the "Poitiers" were broken into hornet's nests, so that when the French raised their binoculars to observe closely, they almost developed intensive phobia.

Although "Poitiers" was still resisting, almost all the sights of the warship were destroyed, so their shooting was almost completely blinded, and the hit rate was comparable to that of the AK in the hands of Uncle Hei in later generations-anyway. Most of the hits can only rely on faith. However, Uncle Hei’s AK is fully automatic and has a high rate of fire. Even if it is blind, it is easy to cast one or two shots; but the British 305 gun has a very low rate of fire. If you want to cast one or two shots, it’s true. It's not easy anymore.

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