Chapter 1010 The Battle Between Quasi-Fearless Part 2
Chapter 1010 The Battle between Quasi-Fearless 2
The fire flashed, and a huge bullet hole appeared on the forehead of the single-mounted 9.2-inch turret. The shell finally collided with the 234MM artillery body. With a loud noise, the 30-ton gun body and shells directly turned into A ball of flame! After killing all the personnel in the turret, fire dragons rushed toward the ammunition rack behind the gun and the lower dressing room. Then, a fire door temporarily saved the battleship, but the explosion of the ammunition rack behind the turret But the entire turret was blown to pieces in an instant as if it were sitting on the crater of an erupting volcano!
The bigger the two German warships were, the easier they were. In less than ten minutes, the Archduke Ferdinand had thrown five 12-inch shells into each other's faces, and the armored cruiser Saint-Georg even fired a dozen The 240MM shells were piled up, and I have to say that to be able to hit such a hit requires not only skill, but also some luck. As for the unlucky Edward VII on the opposite side, its main gun has not hit its opponent once so far!
"This was a complete one-sided massacre. We leisurely shot at the British warships in the distance, just like target practice. We didn't have to worry about the other party's firepower at all. The British warships' bombardment was slow and lacked accuracy. A few shells were scattered here and there. All around us, the nearest ones are 700 meters away. We just sent shells to each other from a long distance until the opponent was riddled with holes!" An Austro-Hungarian navy officer after the war The officer recalled the situation this way.
And just when the defeat of Edward VII had been revealed, the Japanese destroyer force also took action. Four 600-ton destroyers braved the hail of bullets from the Austro-Hungarian fleet to launch a wave of desperate lightning strikes, but this wave of attacks was destined to be ineffective. The six destroyers of the Austro-Hungarian fleet formed the first line of defense. Both sides fired wildly at relative speeds of up to 45 knots, just like light cavalry wielding sabers. The winner was often determined at the moment of the encounter. After one destroyer was turned into a big fireball by three Austro-Hungarian destroyers, the other two destroyers fell under the attack of the 150MM secondary battery and 88MM anti-torpedo cannon of the armored cruiser St. George. Only 2 A destroyer hurriedly fired 4 torpedoes, one of which sank as soon as it entered the water due to mechanical failure...
Naturally, it was impossible for the remaining three torpedoes to achieve any results in front of the prepared Austro-Hungarian fleet. After easily dodging the three torpedoes, the eight 240MM guns leveled by the armored cruiser St. George were aimed at the enemy. The evacuating Japanese destroyers were attacked fiercely. Even if they evacuated at a speed of 30 knots, the Japanese destroyers would never be able to outrun the shells!
A shell fell into the sea less than 10 meters away from a destroyer. With a dull loud noise, a water column of more than 50 meters rose into the sky, and the explosive exploded in the water, producing terrifying high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles. These The detonation produced a huge impact after the explosion. The side of the entire battleship seemed to have been hit hard by a giant hammer. Several cracks more than one meter long appeared directly on the slender, knife-like hull. With the influx of large amounts of water, the cracks expanded rapidly. After hundreds of tons of seawater entered, the ship had tilted severely.
And a moment later,
A direct hit of the 240MM shell ended the destroyer's struggle. The shell directly hit the front of the hull, and then hit the bottom of the hull all the way down. A burst of fire shot into the sky, and the destroyer seemed to be beheaded. The entire bow part quickly detached from the hull, and the rear half continued to move forward due to the huge inertia, which led to the influx of more seawater. In less than a minute, the battleship sank in a huge whirlpool. Under the sea!
At this time, Japanese destroyers finally began to gradually adapt to the cruel naval battles in Europe. When the main battleships were not strong enough, small warships had to do it with their tail between their legs. Is it courting death not to put up a smoke screen when retreating? ! With the help of the smoke canister, the last destroyer finally succeeded in getting rid of the opponent's tracking. After a wave of lightning strikes failed to kill three destroyers, the battle in the second half of the fleet completely collapsed... .
King Edward VII finally couldn't hold on any longer. The main armor belt at the waterline on the side of the hull had been drilled with at least 3 holes, and the light armor protection zones at the bow and stern of the hull had been penetrated no less than 6 times! The entire watertight compartment on the fighting side has been almost destroyed. When it comes to the division of watertight compartments, the British general super-dreadnought is not very good, let alone a pre-dreadnought. However, the 16,000-ton warship has already taken in 3,000 tons of water. Until now, it can only be called a miracle that this warship can float on the water! So much so that now even the only intact tail main gun cannot fire, because the tilt angle is too large and the gun elevation angle is not enough...
At this time, the British warship cannot fill with water to balance, otherwise the ship will sink directly... "Let the destroyer go over and send it to the bottom of the sea. We have another target to deal with." Rear Admiral Velennik said while looking at the battleship in the distance that had turned into a pile of floating ruins.
The current situation seems to be very good. After the Edward VII was blown into three pieces by two torpedoes and sank into the sea, the current situation is three versus one. According to some saying on the Internet, the leashed dog wins! This is indeed the case. When two Radetzky-class battleships and an armored cruiser aimed their guns at the last Lord Nelson, the battle situation in this divided battlefield had completely tilted towards the Austro-Hungarian fleet.
The firelight of the three battleships completely enveloped the Lord Nelson in the distance. Violent explosions were heard from time to time on the more than 160-meter-long hull. The firelight and gunpowder smoke had completely obscured the battleship, so much so that the Austro-Hungarian fleet The rate of fire had to be lowered so that each ship could recognize the water column that exploded when each other's shells fell so that they could correct it.
If nothing goes wrong, the battleship Lord Nelson will never survive for 15 minutes! But at this moment, a series of water columns suddenly appeared around the battleship Radetzky. The water columns reaching a height of nearly 100 meters made Major General Vellenic feel a little scared! "This is a 15-inch naval gun!" And when he pointed the telescope at the huge figure in the distance, he realized that the Lord Nelson would not die for the time being! Because the battleship Hyuga has already pointed its guns at itself!
"Oh no! Isn't the St. Stephen's finished?" A terrible thought suddenly came to Rear Admiral Verennik's mind. "No, no battleship exploded just now."
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