Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 344: Fighting the Neon Squadron

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!The Qing Dynasty is manufacturing a light cruiser of about 7,500 tons. In addition to the speed and functions of a cruiser, this domesticated ship is equipped with a large number of rapid-fire guns of various calibers such as 180MM, 155MM, and 120MM, which are specially used to hunt destroyers.

Since entering the dreadnought era, the original heavy cruisers have been gradually replaced by battlecruisers. With the use of cross-breaking tactics, the role of light cruisers has gradually changed.

They not only need to break the relationship, detect cruise tactics, but also match the cruiser of Party B to deal with the cruiser of the enemy. After all, once they are approached, even the battleship will not be able to eat.

The Neon on the opposite side did not choose to build a cruiser due to funding issues. Instead, they used a large number of inexpensive destroyers to offset this disadvantage. Although it was a bit extreme, it could barely offset the disadvantage on the battlefield.

The destroyer of the Qing Dynasty, ignoring the damage to the equipment, had a maximum speed of 32 knots, far exceeding the neon pioneers dragged down by two old cruisers.

They sailed at a high speed of 26 knots, and after only half an hour, they quickly launched a squadron chasing Kawara Kaichi.

At this time, the distance between the two parties has expanded to within 8 nautical miles, and through advanced observation equipment, the other party can be found.

"Report to the general and found that the Qing Navy, a two-thousand-ton destroyer, and six 1,500-ton cruisers. They are very fast and will soon be able to catch up with us."

Just a minute later, the Neon Observer confirmed the identity of the incoming ship, and one of the staff officers asked Kawara for a report.

"Damn it! Why aren't the Qing people's battlecruisers, do they think they can defeat us with destroyers?"

Kawahara frowned. He thought that these destroyers were here to entangle them, waiting for the battlecruisers to come, which would be more troublesome. Although they had completed the task of luring the enemy, they must explain here.

They had already figured out that although the naval cruisers had already worked a lot, they would take the second half of the year to go into battle and they should be safe, but they did not expect that they were so willing to send these destroyers to "death".

"Order the fleet to control the speed at ten knots and prepare to fight! Tell your Excellency Commander Tsuboi! Here is the destroyer fleet of the Qing people. Their main force should not be far away. We need reinforcements!"

Kawara wanted to press down on the doubt in his heart and ordered.

In his opinion, although it is 7 vs. 7, and the ordinary destroyer of the Qing Dynasty is a bit larger than the neon destroyer, but the two light cruisers of his own should completely abuse each other.

But once the opponent's battle patrol catches up, they will be killed. All this depends on Tsuboi's choice.

As for himself, he is already ready to break the jade.

Soon he knew that he had made a very stupid decision. The battle between destroyers was not a battle between battleships, breaking the battlefield or grabbing a side of the T.

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In terms of firepower, the destroyers of the neon side are indeed a bit stronger, and the new destroyers of the Qing Dynasty will also be more advanced in this regard, so as to prevent their own destroyers from falling into the wind in the battle with the opponent's destroyers.

The new type of destroyer is the 2000-ton destroyer of Sa Zhenbing, with two 180MM guns and four 155 guns, as well as various caliber machine guns and heavy anti-aircraft machine guns.

Because they were affected by the general trend of naval battles, and some ignored the current situation.

It’s not a big problem to get past all of this, at least for the time being, it’s not a problem for the Neon fleet.

Because in many cases war is not only determined by visible firepower.

On the battlecruiser "King Kong".When Tsuboi received a distress telegram from the vanguard, he frowned and issued the order.

"Send five destroyers to reinforce them, and the other warships continue to move closer there at a speed of twelve knots."

His goal is the battle cruiser of the Qing Dynasty instead of these little fish and shrimps. Once they appear early, the battle cruiser of the Qing Dynasty is likely to abandon these destroyers. In that case, his strategic goal this time will not be achieved.He didn't want to take this risk.

"Hay!"

The staff officer nodded.Immediately turned and left and gave the order.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

When the two sides were still more than 5,000 meters away, the Japanese fleet first launched an attack. However, the quality of the neon navy itself was not high. In the Sino-Japanese War of Jiawu, their elites were exhausted, and the usual training was to save shells. It is impossible to have the training volume of Daqing.

The intervention is conceivable. These shells exploded near the destroyer that had separated their formations and continued to operate at high speed. They were 500 meters away from their target cruiser No. 1, which is the nearest ship of Sa Zhenbing.

If there is no tracking or precise fire control system for high-speed operation, the best way is to attach the firepower cover.The cruiser approached them at high speed with dozens of hundreds of artillery shells down, launching a range attack.

The battle between the destroyer and the destroyer, and even the cruiser, is chaotic war. The two sides of the destroyer are constantly approaching at high speed, strangling, and doing melee combat.

The cruiser dealt with the destroyer by using intensive firepower to catch him and sink him before he admired it.

"Continue to get closer. If they want to move, they will kill the two cruisers first, and then deal with their destroyers."

"Their Zhiyuan must be on the way. We must quickly resolve this fleet."

Sa Zhenbing was a bit disdainful of the Neon Navy’s artillery level. He had a guilty conscience when he saw the enemy break such a battle. He was ready to be sunk by one or two ships on the road, but did not want Neon to return to the so-called second-rate navy It is nothing more than scale and tonnage...