"Let's fire, fire, fire quickly!"

With Hervig's almost hoarse shouting, more than 10 artillery pieces of the side of the Amsterdam were activated and launched a fierce counterattack towards Qingzhou and Yizhou. At this time, other warships of the Dutch fleet also completed the turn and fired with all their strength. For a moment, water columns around Qingzhou and Yizhou rose up, almost covering both warships.

It was not until this time that Helvig was relieved. No matter what, he had completed the turn and took the lead in grabbing the "t" horizontal head. Now he can fully utilize the number of warships and side firepower to reverse the unfavorable situation just now.

Moreover, through the porthole, Helvig saw that the two warships of the other party had not turned yet, and were still rushing towards the Dutch fleet's column array in a straight line. He couldn't help but feel relieved. The feeling of winning before the war just now seemed to be back.

"The speed is 19.5 knots and the distance is 4.27 kilometers. It will take you about 10 minutes to survive."

Zhang Wei said: "Don't worry, we can survive. Keep accelerating."

It was not until this time that Scher understood the tactics used by overseas Chinese. It turned out that from the very beginning, Zhang Wei did not think about fighting the Dutch fleet on a battle line, but planned to use the seemingly backward horizontal tactics to rush straight to the opponent's array.

If it were before the war began, Scher would definitely be dismissive of this tactic, and would even denounce those who formulated this tactic for not understanding naval warfare, because Scher was a typical academic school, but had never participated in actual combat, so he regarded the things in the textbook as the golden rule, and everything that was not in the textbook was heresy. The naval battle of 7 years ago proved that the horizontal team tactics had passed the ages, and the column line tactics were the mainstream of naval warfare. From the horizontal team tactics to the column tactics, of course, they would definitely lose.

But at this point in the battle, Scher had to admit that at least so far, this set of tactics is still effective. After all, Scher is not a person who sticks to dogma and does not know how to adapt. He just lacks practical experience, so he began to seriously analyze the advantages and disadvantages of overseas Chinese using horizontal team tactics.

Compared with the Dutch fleet, the disadvantage of the overseas Chinese navy is that the number of warships is small, and the power of the main guns is not as powerful as the other party. Although the two overseas Chinese warships have 16 main guns, their caliber are 155 mm, which can only be considered medium caliber in the navy. The Dutch fleet has a total of 240 mm main guns and 7 210 mm main guns. In terms of caliber, the Dutch fleet undoubtedly has a clear advantage; while the overseas Chinese have the advantage of the fast speed of warships and a large number of single-ship guns, and they all use German artillery, which has a fast firing speed and a large firepower delivery density. Because of the large main guns in front and rear, the firepower is relatively strong. It can be said that the two overseas Chinese warships considered the combat mode of the bow against the enemy when designing them.

According to the advantages and disadvantages of both sides, if overseas Chinese and opponents engage in battle line bombardment, the Dutch fleet can fully utilize the advantages of many ships and large main guns, and extremely low winning rate. Therefore, if overseas Chinese want to win, they cannot play according to common sense. Using horizontal team tactics, they can first fully utilize the advantages of strong main guns of overseas Chinese warships and take the initiative at the beginning of the battle. After the Dutch fleet completes the steering, they can use their speed advantage and quickly cut into the array of the Dutch fleet, disrupt the formation of the Dutch fleet, create chaos, and form one-on-one battles in the local area. This can also give full play to the advantages of high firepower density for overseas Chinese.

It should be said that although this set of tactics is a bit risky and there are too many uncertain factors, the chance of winning is indeed much greater than the battle line. Judging from the current situation, although the battle has been going on for less than 20 minutes, overseas Chinese undoubtedly have the advantage, hitting Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Tilburg, especially causing great damage to the two ships Rotterdam and Tilburg, but they failed to hit a single bomb, which proves that this set of tactics are effective so far.

Of course, Sher was quite surprised by the high hit rate of the two warships, because Sher came here from Germany with the ship. She had seen the training of the People's Army Navy along the way, but she did not have such a high hit rate. Generally speaking, the hit rate in actual combat is lower than that in training, but for overseas Chinese, this phenomenon also made Sher puzzled. He naturally didn't know that the People's Army had helicopters in the air and provided detailed data, so the hit rate of the shelling would of course be greatly improved.

However, the advantage obtained before is just an appetizer, and the next stage is the moment of Guanjian in this battle. It depends on whether these two warships can quickly cut into the enemy's array and disrupt the enemy's position. If the two warships can cut into the Dutch fleet at a very high time, then this battle is in sight; on the contrary, it may be severely damaged by the Dutch fleet during the cutting process, not only will the advantages of the previous stage be wiped out, but this battle will also end in failure.

At this time, the distance between Qingzhou and Yizhou was about 80 meters, and was moving in unison, rushing quickly toward the third-ranked Tilburg and fourth-ranked Rotterdam in the Dutch fleet. This was the central part of the Dutch fleet. Now the speed of the two warships has increased to 20 knots, and Zhang Wei was still ordering acceleration. At the same time, the artillery at the bow of the ship was also constantly firing at the Tilburg and Rotterdam. The helicopters in the air were constantly providing shooting parameters to the two warships, as well as the distance to the Dutch fleet, the time required, etc.

But at this time, the Dutch fleet had all turned, so the firepower on the side was fully opened, and a crazy attack on the Qingzhou and Yizhou were launched. The sound of cannons roared, the smoke filled the gunpowder, and the firepower was fierce. Compared with the passive situation just now, it was completely incomparable.

In just a few minutes, the Qingzhou and Yizhou were shot continuously, and the sidewalks, decks, commands and other parts were hit, and almost no water columns on both sides of the warship had stopped. Fortunately, the Qingzhou and Yizhou were positioned as protective cruisers by the People's Army, but if the standards were relaxed, they could be considered an armored cruiser. The defense of both sides, commands, or turrets was not bad.

The Dutch fleet's large-mouthed naval guns were not large and the firing rate was slow. The Qingzhou and Yizhou were all moving at high speed, so the hit rate was extremely low. It was just that the Qingzhou was hit by a 210mm shell, and a large gap was blown up on the left front side, blowing up a double 100mm gun turret. The other medium guns were small and medium-mouthed. Although the two warships were shot more than 20 rounds each, there was not much damage. Because of its power loss, the speed did not slow down at all. Moreover, as the Qingzhou and Yizhou approached the Dutch fleet, the shooting angle of the Dutch warships became smaller and smaller, and the naval guns that could fire were gradually decreasing.

While being beaten, the Qingzhou and Yizhou were of course not idle, but fought back with great force. Not only was the artillery on the head of the ship constantly firing, but the distance was getting closer. The shooting boundary of the two warships was getting bigger and bigger, and some side guns could also fire. The strength of the counterattack was constantly increasing. There were helicopters in the air and provided shooting parameters, so the hit rate was significantly higher than that of the Dutch fleet.

However, the targets of Qingzhou and Yizhou were mainly targeted by the two warships Tilburg and Rotterdam. Therefore, during the fierce firefight, the Tilburg and Rotterdam were also shot more than 10 shots, and they were hit on multiple places on the side and deck, and fires were ignited, which obviously had suffered heavy damage.

"The Utrecht reported that their former main gun had no firing angle."

"Tilburg reported that the enemy ships were less than 1,000 meters away."

"Rotterdam reported that the port side of the missile cracked and water was inflowed."

At this time, Hulvig on Amsterdam was already in a state of great anxiety. By this time, he had fully understood the opponent's tactics, which was to cut in straight lines. However, the two warships on the other side were too fast, and the fewer and fewer naval guns could be used, and he could not stop the opponent's advancement and cut in at all. Moreover, he understood better what the consequences would be after the opponent entered his array. He would divide his fleet into two and divide it into two sections. It was difficult to check the beginning and the end, but he was helpless and had no way to deal with it. Now Hulvig's mind was blank and he murmured: "How did these yellow-skinned monkeys command? They just couldn't fight naval battles at all, so there was such a random fight."

Fortunately, Linkvic was still sober, so he did not pursue the stupid words his commander said, "Commander, please order to turn."

Before Hurvig came to his senses, he said blankly: "Is it useful to turn now?"

Linkvic smiled bitterly and said, "If you turn now, you may be able to save the situation of the battle, but if you don't turn again, we will definitely lose."

After hearing this, Hurvig became a little excited and said, "Okay, order each ship to turn with the flagship."

However, it was not so easy for the Dutch fleet to turn. First of all, the Dutch fleet's speed has increased to 13 knots, so the steering radius is larger. This time it is a 180-degree large rotation, so it takes at least 10 minutes to complete the steering.

"Be careful of Qingzhou, be careful of Qingzhou, the enemy ship No. 1 is turning. It seems that you will be killed and you will be retaliated. You must deal with ship No. 3 and ship No. 4 as soon as possible."

"Qingzhou understands, Yinying, please inform me of the location of Ship 1 and Ship 2 at any time."

After replying to the helicopter, Zhang Wei immediately ordered: "Order Yizhou to concentrate firepower and attack Ship No. 4 with all our might. Let's attack Ship No. 3."
Chapter completed!