Chapter 1961: Above the Strait II
An officer tried to reorganize his subordinates. He drew his pistol and drove the soldiers back to the gun position, but a 12.7MM bullet stopped his efforts, and a huge wound almost cut him in half. His scorched internal organs and bright red Blood was sprayed on the British sailors not far away. Feeling the vomitous smell of blood, watching the blood flow into a river, it was already like the deck of Shura's hell. The spirits of these recruits finally collapsed. They shouted for their lives, and some Some even opted to jump ship!
"It's really embarrassing to the Royal Navy." Looking at the British sailors who almost escaped in an instant, a German pilot said contemptuously, one after another, the planes dived continuously, suppressing the British with intensive firepower The anti-aircraft firepower is so strong that when the German bombers entered a distance of 1 kilometer, they did not suffer much counterattack. The unintensive shells fell on the sea surface to create water columns, and the huge bomber walked through the water columns calmly, and used the last time to aim the nose at the target! And the first to enter the battlefield is a group of K6 bombers carrying heavy aviation torpedoes!
"The distance between the targets is 600 meters! The speed is 10 knots! Launch!" The heavy torpedo detached from the pylon. When it entered the water, the propeller at the tail of the torpedo quickly turned, and the exhaust gas generated by the thermal power torpedo was pulled out behind the torpedo. A white exhaust strip! With the cooperation of the gyroscope and steering gear, the torpedo quickly regained its balance and rushed towards the British battleship in the distance at a speed of more than 30 knots!
600 meters has almost reached the distance where you can use a machine gun to cover your face, but the target is still a slow battleship that can only move on a 2-dimensional plane! Then the result is already determined! When the bomber flew over the Dignity after pulling up, the warhead of this torpedo weighing 180KG had already had a close contact with the Dignity's fragile underwater protection system! Imagine that it took more than 100 kilograms of cotton gunpowder to sink the super-fearless old-fashioned mine in history. And this time, the dynamite is enough to deal with the Queen!
The moment the tip of the mine head touched the hull plate, the high explosive in the mine head was directly detonated. In an instant, the energy generated by the explosion of more than 180 kilograms of explosives crazily squeezed the surrounding seawater, and the water cannot be compressed. It became the best target. The hull plate with a thickness of 12mm was declared finished in less than 0.1 second. The shock wave generated by the explosion first tore a long scar, and then squeezed by hundreds of tons of seawater The entire steel plate was instantly shattered by the impact, and a large hole of ten meters square meters appeared at a depth of 2 meters underwater!
Subsequently, a large amount of seawater swept across the entire cabin with the remaining energy of the explosion, and the compartments were smashed to pieces, and the compartments connected horizontally by the British had no effect at all under such blows, and the place that served as the hatch became the entire structure. The weak point, and the impact is concentrated here! When the aftermath of the explosion finally calmed down, the power compartment in the center of the hull had been pierced, and thousands of tons of seawater poured into the boiler compartment, submerging hundreds of British sailors who hadn't had time to evacuate together with their boilers. . The overheated boiler exploded when it came into contact with the icy seawater, and streams of high-temperature and high-pressure steam broke through the shackles of the pipes and gushed out. The fate of this battleship has been decided, and it can never return to the British mainland!
"Dodge immediately!" The other battleships automatically disbanded the formation, and the three expansion steam engines were running crazily, trying to let these battleships escape from under the wings of the Luftwaffe. However, the old power system makes these slow-moving guys like snails. After disbanding the formation, the remaining anti-aircraft firepower was unable to effectively deal with the Luftwaffe's sneak attack. The remaining bombers were divided into several teams and easily caught up with the target.
Then a series of bombs and torpedoes were thrown on the British battleship!
The Noble was the second to be hit, but the first to sink! Two powerful torpedoes hit almost the same spot on the poor battleship. The successive violent explosions directly blew up the battleship into two pieces. The second half of the stern sank to the bottom of the sea in less than half a minute, and the bow was raised high, and then it slowly rowed into the sea. The powerful 12-inch cannon pointed to the sky, expressing its unwillingness!
The Prince George and the Victory followed closely behind. Under the attack of at least 10 K6 torpedo planes, facing the torpedoes fired from the left and right sides at the same time, the two battleships were finally hit when they could not retreat. . Among them, the ammunition depot of the Victory was directly hit, and then a huge flame rose into the sky on the sea surface, hundreds of tons of steel and sea water were thrown into the air, and a smoke column with a height of hundreds of meters remained for a long time at the place where the battleship sank. scattered. The Prince George walked relatively quietly. Although it was hit by 3 torpedoes, but because the Germans used a less powerful 500KG torpedo this time, and the position was not very good, the battleship was sinking slowly. There is still an opportunity to evacuate some personnel.
At this time, the Germans did not use bombs or machine guns to slaughter the escapees who were about to leave. A bomber squadron from the Navy in the elephant fleet targeted the three cruisers behind. In their view, attacking these cruisers is more meaningful! "Let those guys in the Air Force attack those unarmed guys. The first thing our naval aviation needs to consider is to face the main fleet of the British." Major Norman, the captain of the Seagull Squadron, said to his opponents.
At this time, when the former dreadnought battleship was easily slaughtered by the German bomber force, the three British armored cruisers saw that the situation was not good and prepared to evade. Under the current circumstances, the navy's air defense has actually collapsed. In the eyes of ordinary people, it is a better choice to slaughter those slower and almost defenseless transport ships. If the three armored cruisers are more low-key, they should go back alive. no problem. For most people, this logic makes sense, but it is a pity that this time, they ran into the German Navy's land-based aviation unit who wanted to practice with cruisers!
The three armored cruisers Drake, Cape of Good Hope, and Crecy have left the transport fleet at this time, and they are fleeing frantically towards the British mainland at the highest speed. Although they are also outdated old ships, they have an average service life Armored cruisers that are less than 10 years old can still drive at a speed of more than 20 knots, which is not inferior to the non-fast battleships in the British fleet, and the targets are more agile and flexible. This is the first time for the Seagull Squadron to participate in actual combat. It is indeed a difficult target!
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