Chapter 1,464 Clean and Neat 1
Chapter 1464 Clean and neat 1
"Turn off all searchlights, release the smoke screen immediately, let's retreat! The destroyers rush up, prepare to release torpedoes!" Rear Admiral Trasu's handling is still very correct. Although he doesn't know who the attacker is, just take a look at the organization of the Allied Mediterranean Fleet. We know that no capital ship (including armored cruisers) can compete with the Ernest, a product born out of the idea of breaking diplomatic relations. Moreover, this time the other party takes the first action, and we suffer the loss first, which makes it even worse. No need to fight.
However, it is a pity that even with correct judgment, it is still of no use in the face of an absolute gap in strength and an irreversible situation! For example, now, the Lightning Strike Team, which Rear Admiral Trasu has placed high hopes on, hoping to cover the retreat of the armored cruiser, cannot protect itself! Just a minute before the two super-dreadnoughts opened fire, the accompanying destroyer squadron also began to attack the French destroyer following the armored cruiser!
The two destroyers S155 and L81 directly grabbed the last French destroyer Musketeer! With the cover of darkness, the two German destroyers quickly approached the target at a high speed of 25 knots! The Germans were quite calm and opened fire on the French destroyer with a displacement of up to 900 tons at a distance of 1,600 meters!
Three 105MM artillery pieces and two 88MM rapid-fire cannons poured out at least 40 rounds of artillery shells in a few minutes. In the dark night, the muzzles of the guns continued to flash with light spots, and illumination bombs also flew into the night sky. Along with this, With a slight explosion, a ball of light that was more dazzling than the sun slowly fell with a parachute, illuminating the surrounding sea area of hundreds of thousands of square meters! In an instant, night suddenly turns into day!
If the battle between large battleships is relatively long, like a constant fight between two iron-framed giants, then the battle between small battleships is completely a bloody melee between topless warriors. Without any reliable protection, both sides have the capital to kill their opponents with one blow. Speed, accuracy, and ruthlessness have become the keys to the battle between destroyers!
Two German destroyers approached the destroyer detachment from the rear with a speed of only 9 knots. (Because it is necessary to perform anti-submarine missions, the speed must be limited, otherwise the hydrophone will lose its effect due to the noise of the destroyer itself. The sonar used to destroy the destroyer in World War 2 will also be limited by the noise of the destroyer itself!) The effect of the sneak attack itself is greatly reduced. Magnification! The two destroyers pursued directly from 1,600 meters to the nearest 700 meters! After at least nearly two digits of shells were hit on the destroyer, the latter launched a counterattack!
The Musketeer is also very helpless! An artillery piece at the stern was destroyed by a 105MM cannon at the first opportunity. The torpedo tube was in the middle of the hull and could not attack the blind spot at the stern, while the other three shells hit the roaring engine room. The 105MM high-explosive shells easily tore apart the hull of the ship by just a few millimeters and then blew the engine into pieces. After the flying gears lost their restraints, they caused even more damage than the shells. They easily smashed the walls of the compartments. plates, thus generating more shrapnel, which reduced the French naval personnel fighting in the surrounding cabins to a pulp.
And the other few 88MM shells also fired very well.
After a series of breaches were made in the side string of the Musketeer, a large amount of sea water poured in from the breach, and after losing power, more than 200 tons of water entered in a short period of time. The destroyer actually became exhausted within a few minutes after the battle. Became a dead fish!
"Turn to the next one!" After the two German destroyers knocked out the last gun of the Musketeer, they decisively gave up the goal and continued to charge at high speed. At this time, the French fleet still did not pick up the speed! After all, you can't expect a destroyer to speed up like a car by stepping on the accelerator!
At this time, the second French destroyer Sentinel had turned, exposing its more than 70-meter-long hull to the side and front of L81! At a distance of 900 meters, the destroyer L81 decisively fired three fan-shaped torpedoes at the target! Ten seconds later, the destroyer Sentinel directly hit a torpedo. With the explosion of more than 300 kilograms of explosives, the destroyer with a displacement of only more than 600 tons was directly blown into pieces! A huge fireball rose into the sky from the sea, and hundreds of tons of steel and seawater were thrown into the air more than ten meters high! The scattered seawater and debris fell within a radius of several hundred meters, and even landed on the destroyers of both warring parties!
In less than 10 minutes after the war started, 2 of the 6 French destroyers were killed! At this time, Major General Trassou's order made the situation of the entire French fleet even more chaotic! Because the order was issued for French destroyers to attack the Allied battleships, but only two destroyers received this order! As a result, two destroyers rushed towards the German fleet in the dark night, while the other two destroyers fell into the siege of 6 Allied destroyers!
In a sneak attack, they were beaten 6 to 2 by the opponent's overwhelmingly superior force. The outcome of this was already clear. The two French destroyers did not even last 7 minutes, and were killed by the German destroyers that arrived one after another with tons of artillery shells. On the sea. The other two destroyers rushed forward under the cover of night!
Unfortunately, when they were still more than 3,000 meters away from the two super-dreadnoughts, a series of flares fired from the 88MM secondary guns fell on the nearby sea, directly exposing the two French destroyers to a bright light. middle! The well-prepared German fleet fired wildly with more than 20 6-inch artillery and 88MM anti-mine cannons!
A barrage of destruction composed of flames and bright lights spread across the sea area where the two French destroyers were located. In less than a minute, the two warships were enveloped by hundreds of water jets.
"We don't even know when the two French destroyers were destroyed. Water columns and fire filled our field of vision. We just need to make sure that the two warships are in this area, and then use tons of artillery shells to completely cover them. , after more than ten minutes of shooting, we stopped. There was only a pile of broken debris and various garbage on the sea, proving that there was a warship here just now. We don’t know when they were destroyed, we only need to know that they Just hang up!" After the war, a German officer recalled the scene like this!
However, while killing the destroyers, the two Allied super-dreadnoughts did not forget to attack the two French armored cruisers. After the six French destroyers sank to the bottom of the sea, the two armored cruisers had reached the last moment, even if the French finally released a smoke screen Couldn't save them either! He couldn't even delay the time of defeat!
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