Chapter 1,154 You Are Thinking Too Much

Chapter 1154 You are thinking too much

In the eighth round of all salvoes, the Hessen was the first to hit! Two 15-inch artillery shells hit Moore's flagship like a heavy hammer! The first method shell penetrated from the rear of the No. 2 turret. The improved hard shell easily tore through the Queen's top two layers of thin steel plates with a thickness of about 1 inch, and eventually the steel plate was 2 inches thick. The dome armor and the back plate behind it were smashed into pieces!

The roaring motor below the deck was smashed into pieces by the cannonballs falling from the sky. A huge fireball carried countless fragments and broke through the fragile steel plate and rose into the sky! The entire battleship seemed to be trembling and shaking constantly from this hit. Another shell directly hit the front armor belt of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, and then easily tore a large hole of several square meters!

The Mecklenburg at the back did equally well. One shell directly blew half of the chimney of the Barem into pieces, and thick smoke like ink poured into the power cabin, causing at least two boilers to stall. HMS Malaya and HMS Reputation, located in the middle of the British fleet, saved some face for the Royal Navy. Malaya successfully hit the prince's flagship Bavaria and penetrated a secondary battery turret, attaching a 150MM secondary battery to the gun crew. It exploded to pieces, and the Reputation hit the No. 4 turret of the battleship Baden with one shot. The turret armor belt was fine, but one of the main gun barrels was chipped off...

Currently, the battleship Warspite that has been hit the most is the battleship Warspite, which was simultaneously fired at by Von der Tann and Seydlitz. Although the nine 12-inch guns of the Vondertann pose little threat to the Queen, the eight 350mm guns of the Seydlitz are almost useless at this distance. But how come the artillery fire rate of these two battleships can reach the level of three rounds per minute! There are 17 main guns in total, which can be fired three times a minute! How terrifying is this! Even if all the solid iron lumps are hit, 20 tons of steel will theoretically hit it in one minute!

Therefore, from the 8th minute when Warspite was hit, shells continued to fall on Britain's most powerful battleship.

"In less than 5 minutes, I at least observed no less than 8 hits on that poor battleship! The No. 1 turret on the bow must have been destroyed. I can clearly see the thick smoke billowing out. , the armor belt of the gun gallery seemed to have been hit twice, and thick smoke and flames had covered the entire gun gallery. There should also be a problem with the British No. 3 turret. I can confirm that one shell hit the lower part of the No. 3 turret, which should be The ammunition lifting equipment or the turret rotation equipment inside were destroyed." The Seydlitz's gunnery commander wrote excitedly in his diary.

"Perhaps, we will become the first battleship to achieve a record of battleship kills in this battle." The captain of the Seydlitz said with confidence as he looked at the dilapidated Warspite in the telescope.

However, a loud bang about ten seconds later broke the captain's dream. The battlecruiser Australia, located at the end of the British fleet, suddenly heard a loud noise from the middle of the hull, and a fire dragon nearly 100 meters high rose into the sky. In just ten seconds, a large amount of flames and smoke spurted out from the hull.

Like an erupting active volcano, the battleship tilted rapidly and quickly separated from the fleet.

Like a hyena whose back was broken, the British battlecruiser struggled wildly on the sea. But the continuous explosions still sounded the final death knell of this battleship! Less than a minute later, a violent explosion resounded throughout the battlefield. The rear half of the battleship was lifted out of the water by a huge force, and the front half of the hull broke due to gravity! Accompanied by bursts of tearing sounds that almost challenged the limits of human hearing, the head of the broken hull fell directly into the sea, and the second half was directly photographed into several segments when it fell back to the water!

Just now, a shell from the battleship Weimar fell into the water less than 50 meters away from the Australia. The shell after entering the water continued to move forward like a torpedo after taking off its hood. As the depth continued to increase, An elegant and deadly parabola was drawn under the sea! In the end, the shell hit the hull plate of the Australia at a depth of 6 meters in the middle and rear of the hull. There has never been a battleship whose main armor belt could extend six meters underwater! The Australia's TDS steel plate, which is only 30MM thick, naturally cannot stop a 350MM armor-piercing projectile! As expected, the shell penetrated the ammunition magazine located at the lower part of the No. 3 turret, and was followed by a flash of light. The fate of the Australia is sealed!

There was no time to close the compartments and no time to fill the water. In less than a minute, the battleship was torn into pieces and sank to the bottom of the sea with more than 800 living lives, becoming another sacrifice on the altar of war. Taste!

"Who sank? Was it our Queen or the battlecruiser?" Major General Moore said in panic when he saw the thick smoke covering the sky and the rising water column in the distance. "When I heard this loud noise, I seemed to hear the doomsday bell, the end of everything!" Afterwards, the major general was still very scared when he mentioned this incident, which could not help but make him not afraid, as Having experienced the Battle of Thunder-Sebrus and seeing with his own eyes the elite battleships and battlecruisers of the British Empire were wiped out one by one by the German fleet's artillery fire, Major General Moore had a deep hatred for the German fleet in his heart. Especially the group of Bavarians have an instinctive fear. This is not timidity, but forced by the situation!

But now, only 12 minutes into the war, the first battleship has been knocked into pieces by the opponent. It is impossible to say that you are not afraid! Then Major General Moore glanced at the wall clock hanging on the wall worriedly. At this moment, the hour and minute hands on the wall clock looked so ferocious and terrifying to him! It's like a lifeline.

"Hold on for half an hour? After half an hour, I'm afraid Jericho will be able to collect the body for himself!" Major General Moore shook his head and said. "The fleet releases a smoke screen and the light cruiser detachment attacks. We need to temporarily avoid the edge." Finally, Major General Moore issued the most controversial order in this battle! He blatantly disobeyed Jericho's order and turned the fleet half a Roman classic to the right, widening the distance between him and the German fleet!

"Damn coward, if he was half as brave as Betty, then we could end the war today!" Lieutenant General Charles Madden said angrily while looking at the telegram just sent by Major General Moore.

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