Brilliant Sword: Fighting against the Xixi System One Hundred Thousand Japanese Army

This naval battle also had military observers.

However, these military observers were not on the ship, but sat in a small room on the shore, watching the battle images sent back by the reconnaissance plane.

When European military observers looked at a multi-deck ship, the sides of the behemoth were full of cannon muzzles, and their faces were full of bewilderment.

When Slim saw the arsenal ship appear, he shouted loudly: "Look, this is the arsenal ship I told you about."

As an army general, Slim simply liked the 'Arsenal Ship' too much.

Go directly to the enemy's coast, and then bombard the ground with full-depth strikes.

With this thing, as long as the navy sends a ship over, the army rushes up to collect the corpses.

Slim had seen how Lufeng used the 'Arsenal Ship' to cleanse the devil's position during the Battle of Crossing the River.

Everywhere there was a wreck.

Not to mention the devil's fortifications, even the little devil himself has been broken into pieces.

Other European military observers did not see anything good about this three-deck retro warship.

One of them stood up and said, "Slim, this is 1941, not 1841. What's the use of a three-deck broadside without even a turret?"

"The current turrets can all be turned, and the speed of turning the hull is too slow."

Slim twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with a half-smile, "You'll know how this thing works later."

As soon as Slim finished speaking, he saw rockets rushing out of the nests and soaring into the air towards the Devil's 'Mikuma' cruiser.

The screen quickly switched to the side of the cruiser 'Mikuma', only to see shells exploding violently around the cruiser 'Mikuma'.

The entire battleship was blown to pieces in the blink of an eye, like a pile of scrap iron floating on the sea.

The flanks of the entire ship have been blown away, and the internal structure of the cabin can already be clearly seen.

Then the entire heavy cruiser 'Mikuma' rolled over and sank to the bottom of the sea.

It takes 9.2 seconds for fifty rockets to be fired from the rocket nest in one go.

Therefore, in the eyes of these military observers in Western Europe, the devil's 'Mikuma' was sunk in an instant.

The warship that took several years to build turned into nothing in an instant.

Such a violent attack method left these great powers who once dominated the ocean dumbfounded.

The heavy cruiser 'Mikuma' is not an obscure small ship.

The heavy cruiser 'Mikuma' belongs to the 'Mogami' class cruisers.

Originally the Devil was known as the 'amazing default ship' in the 'Navy Holiday' era.

On the surface, it is equipped with five 5mm triple-mounted main turrets, but the single weight of the turrets is equivalent to that of 155mm dual-mounted turrets. Once the treaty expires, it can be replaced with a 203mm main gun at any time, known as a heavy cruiser.

Therefore, the heavy cruiser "Mikuma" cannot be underestimated in the eyes of all the European powers.

But the "Mikuma" in front of me sank in the blink of an eye, which is too challenging for cognition.

Ordinary heavy cruisers confront each other, it is a protracted battle, how could it become an instant annihilation here.

At this moment, a man in the uniform of a British naval officer turned his head to look at Slim and asked a question: "Slim, do you know how fast this 'Arsenal Ship' can run?"

After all, Slim was an army officer, so he really didn't know how fast a ship could go.

Slim shook his head: "I don't know, but you can ask the naval officer of the Eighth Route Army about this."

The British naval officer twitched his lips, thinking: "People can tell you such things easily, and they didn't sign the "London Naval Treaty." '

After the "London Naval Treaty" was signed in 30 years, it was signed again in 36 years. This time it will not officially expire until the end of 42 years. However, the war has been fought like this, and no one cares about the navy. treaty.

At this moment, Catherine asked: "Joseph, do you have any doubts about this kind of arsenal ship?"

The naval officer named Joseph said: "If the design of this kind of warship can run above 28 knots, it reminds me of the Germans' design concept for ships before the war."

Catherine asked back: "German? What design concept."

Joseph explained: "The commander of the German Navy, Erich Raeder, proposed a tactic called 'cruising warfare' before the war."

"The general meaning is that when one's own side is unable to control the sea, it uses ocean-going single-ship raids to attack the enemy's sea shipping lines, so that the enemy cannot effectively use the sea control it has."

Raeder once wrote a book called "Cruiser Warfare on the Open Sea", which means that a warship sails on the enemy's route, and then "I drove this mountain, I planted this tree" to rob.

It is exactly the same as Lufeng dispatched destroyers to intercept in the Pacific Ocean before.

In other words, Lufeng simply copied the tactics of the Germans.

Catherine thought for a while, but found that she didn't understand what it meant: "So?"

Joseph continued to explain: "With the firepower of this 'Arsenal Ship', as long as a group of cargo ships of the devils are intercepted, all the cargo ships of the group will sink into the sea."

"If the opponent has an escort ship, the submarine will not dare to show up, but this ship is different. With a concentrated sneak attack and firepower strike, even a battleship escort can destroy the battleship in one go."

"Compared to several 'giant' battleships, this type of cruiser is cheaper and has higher strategic value."

"If there is any weakness in this ship, it is that the air defense is not enough, but the problem is not big, and the carrier-based aircraft can't do any damage to it."

Before World War II, carrier-based aircraft were mostly used for reconnaissance, but it was not expected that World War II would lead to the rapid iteration of weapons.

When Catherine heard what Joseph said, she felt that it made sense.

Catherine asked: "It seems that the Germans didn't do this, they didn't build many fast cruisers."

Joseph explained: "Because the Germans think that doing so is a public acknowledgment that the German navy is inferior to the sea. We, the United Kingdom, finally chose to build Bismarck-class battleships."

This kind of ship that can cause a devastating blow to any warship in a short period of time has caused a small shock of "fear of insufficient firepower" to the Western European powers.

The sudden bombardment not only gave a little shock to the observers of the European powers, but also gave some shock to the devils.

A heavy cruiser sank so quickly, what about the other battleships?

Isn't that sinking faster?