New Ming Empire mixed in America

After collecting the information he wanted, black smoke rose again from the reconnaissance ship disguised as a merchant ship.

"Squad leader, could you please not load so much coal at once next time? If the boiler wasn't thicker, we might really have to break down here."

Several soldiers in charge of the boiler complained loudly.

"You're just complaining. If I hadn't been so clever, would we have gotten accurate information?"

The squad leader wiped the sweat from his face and walked towards the deck.

"Have you recorded everything?" the squad leader asked the observers, whose faces were covered with soot and whose teeth could only be seen when smiling.

"It's all been recorded. What kind of brain does the squad leader have? How could he come up with this solution?"

After an observer handed over all the information collected by his companions to the squad leader, he did not forget to flatter him a little.

"You can think of reading more when you have nothing to do. By the way, if you want to buy books, go to the bookstore owned by my brother-in-law in San Francisco. Mention my name and get a 20% discount."

The squad leader began to summarize this information one by one from a special position on the railing.

The more he wrote, the more solemn his face became, and finally he simply took all the information and rushed towards the location of the communication team.

"What's going on, monitor? Did we collect it wrong?"

The observer who flattered him just now scratched his head, wondering what kind of stimulation the squad leader was feeling.

"Tell me what you have discovered, and we can add it up as well."

Another observer stated his plan, and then several observers gathered together and began to murmur.

"After observation, there are three Class 2 ships in my charge, all flying the Union Jack flag with the British flag. There are 9 Class 3 ships, also the Union Flag. There are also two Class 3 ships flying the Dutch flag."

"There are three fourth-class ships in my charge, one flying the flag of Nasan, and two flying the flag of Argentina."

"I am in charge of 32 steam gunboats..."

It didn't take long for this summary to reach Song He.

Looking at the various battleship data written in the intelligence, Song He's expression became serious.

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There are a total of 82 combat ships, including 17 iron sailing warships.

3 level 2 ships (UK), 11 level 3 ships (UK 9, Netherlands 2), 3 level 4 ships (France 1, Argentina 2).

32 steam gunboats (20 British, 4 French, 8 Dutch), 12 sail gunboats (Argentina).

There is also a broadside gunport ironclad ship (Black Prince) inside

In addition, there are more than 100 large and small ships such as troop carriers, logistics ships, fleet merchant ships, etc.

"Quickly send a copy of this information to His Majesty, and then summon the captains of each ship to come over for a meeting!"

After Song He finished his instructions, he took the information and started marking it on the chart.

At first, the idea was to intercept halfway, but now judging from the intelligence, if it were to intercept, it would probably be surrounded by the opponent's warships.

Although I have confidence in the new warships, I still have to be cautious. A more perfect interception plan would be better.

Soon, all eight battleship captains rushed to the conference room.

Song He didn't waste any time and asked everyone to gather around to refer to the intelligence and express their opinions on the upcoming naval battle.

"There are a total of 17 enemy sailing battleships. Oh my God, this looks down upon us too much."

The captain of the Reserved King couldn't help but sigh after taking a look at the information.

"Cut the nonsense, I asked you to express your opinion, no one wants to listen to your ink."

Song He glared at the other party, then glanced at all the captains and said:

"Right now, there is only one battleship with a name in our fleet. If you don't want to have a numerical ship name in the future, just be nice this time!"

What Song He said made sense, because Li Mingqi had already said that after this naval battle, all warships would be named.

If anyone does not perform well, he or she will have to bear a numerical ship name such as: Xinming Empire 1-1 Ironclad Battleship.

"Our warships are fast and have a long range. I think we should make more use of these advantages."

"When the naval battle begins, the opponent's warships will definitely form a broadside formation to seize the T."

A captain picked up a dozen battleship models and arranged them in a battle line on the map.

Then he picked up a model representing a new type of warship and pointed it vertically at the enemy warship.

"After the opponent gets into position, we can suddenly increase the speed and turn to catch the opponent off guard!"

As he spoke, the captain drew a model representing a new type of warship on the map.

I saw this battleship model quickly making a turn in front of the enemy ship, then accelerating to the side of the opponent's line, occupying the T-head.

In naval battles, what is called seizing the prefix T is the cross of the T.

Because all warships at that time had broadside artillery (including Warrior-class ironclads), they only needed to seize the T-shaped horizontal line and face the enemy sideways.

This can give the battleship an advantage in firepower and concentrate its firepower to destroy the enemy's frontmost battleship.

And in the era without radar, in the T-shaped fleet, except for the lead ship, which had a sighting field, it was difficult for the other warships to have a shooting field of view.

Especially now that battleships are assisted by steam power, the black smoke from the battleships in front will also block the view of the battleships behind.

And without radar, it is impossible to accurately judge the shooting distance, that is, to calculate the shooting elements.

In this case, since the calculation of the shooting distance is relatively simple, the fleet located in the T-shaped area can be easily unified and commanded.

For example, the commander orders the warships to focus fire on the opponent's second warship.

Then all the firepower can be used, and even if the second warship cannot be hit, the first or third warship can be hit.

As for a fleet in a vertical position, each warship is at a different distance from the enemy warship. The gap between each ship is too great, making it difficult to form superior firepower.

To put it simply, it is like two groups of people fighting in an alley. If you are at the entrance of the alley, you can fight with more people, but those in the alley can only come forward and get beaten one by one.

Maybe you will say that after the battleship comes sideways, doesn't the area affected by bombs increase?

But there is a premise, that is, the enemy battleship's main gun must be in front of the battleship.

Of course, this kind of battleship is also a strange existence in the era of ironclads.

The warships of this era, including ironclads, are all side-gunned warships, that is, the artillery is placed on the continuous gun deck on the side of the ship.

The so-called continuous gun deck refers to the location of the gun windows on the side of the battleship.

Because there is too much debris on the open deck, a whole row of artillery cannot be placed, so it cannot be called a continuous artillery deck.

And the calibers of the artillery on the artillery deck are not the same, because the lower deck is stronger, so the artillery below can be of larger caliber.

The higher up the continuous artillery deck, the smaller the caliber of the artillery.

Of course, if the artillerymen on the lower floors are not afraid of being killed by the cannons falling down from above, they can also install large-caliber artillery.

"I think we can also take advantage of the collision angle of our new warship and the forward firing of the turret, and rely on the sudden increase in speed to rush directly to the enemy's flagship, and then concentrate firepower to kill the opponent!"

The captain of another new warship also gave a plan.

As for whether you can find the opponent's flagship in a naval battle...

Let's not talk about the size of the second-level ship. You can tell it just by looking at the gun window.

A ship with three layers of gun windows is a second-class ship, and a ship with two layers of gun windows is a third-class ship.

As for the fourth-level ships...it's enough to have a gun window, but what about bicycles?

Of course, many British warships still have an extra half gun deck on the deck, but the number of gun windows on the hull is still very reliable.

If it encounters something rare that happens once in a century and uses a small battleship as its flagship, then the Xinming Empire will be in bad luck.

After hearing this, Song He interrupted the captain and said:

"You can charge directly, but have you ever thought about how many shells your warship will be hit during the acceleration process?"

"Also, what I asked you to publish is the battle plan, haven't you considered the other battleships?"

Song He looked at the two captains of the new warships who had just spoken with a serious look on his face.

At this time, the captains of the new warships remembered that besides them, there were four other battleships in the fleet that needed broadside firing.

All of a sudden, they were like deflated rubber balls, their heads drooped and they stopped talking.