Chapter 2120 The Fight of the Weak Three
This guy just now sank a destroyer and a torpedo boat in close combat. The powerful firepower of this destroyer is terrifying. If it weren't for his own 4-inch guns that could easily penetrate the opponent's side, Second Lieutenant Brown even thought What I encountered was a light cruiser! But now it's all over, the guy is dead. The entire deck has been covered by flames, and there is hardly a complete superstructure. The three chimneys have been destroyed, and the 6 gun positions above are only a pile of twisted scrap iron. The rear half of the deck of the battleship is almost level with the waterline. All that remained for the British was to torpedo him into the sea.
"Although we are enemies, I have to say that these guys are the best and most heroic fighters. Even though we are enemies, we have to show respect for their fighting. Therefore, I hope that if one day we meet Given their situation today, we can fight until the last moment." Second Lieutenant Brown said to his subordinates.
The destroyer Goshawk gradually approached the target, crossed the side of the ship and opened the torpedo launch port when it was close to 400 meters, but at this time something unexpected happened to the British, the destroyer, which was already on the verge of death, suddenly began to accelerate ! And quickly aimed the bow at the approaching British destroyer! When the nearly 100-meter-long German large destroyer came across, the distance between the two sides was less than 300 meters!
"Quickly release the torpedoes!" Two torpedoes on the Goshawk flew out of the launch tube. However, due to the haste, the depth determination of the torpedoes had problems. In people's horrified eyes, the bow of destroyer S123, like a long knife, slammed into the middle of the destroyer Goshawk's hull. Accompanied by the vibration of the hull and the sound of metal breaking, the bow of destroyer S123 and the ship's side of Goshawk Under the violent impact, it turned into a pile of fragments at the same time! Hundreds of thousands of tons of seawater poured into the two warships along the torn crack, and a few minutes later, the two destroyers sank into the seawater at the same time!
"Damn it, I take back what I said earlier, this is a group of lunatics! Their purpose of fighting is not to win, but to drag the enemy to their deaths!" Second Lieutenant Brown said angrily.
As for another large German destroyer, the performance of the destroyer S119 also did not insult the prestige of the High Seas Fleet. After destroying two British torpedo boats, this destroyer fought a British light cruiser for 25 minutes until the German fleet temporarily got rid of the British fleet. When the capital ship was chasing and killing, the destroyer still clung to the British light cruiser Boudica. Although the destroyer S119 was not as heroic as the death of the S123, from a strategic point of view, the destroyer S119 was of great importance to the entire The contribution of the battle is the highest! It is because he pinned down a light cruiser, so that the other warships of the 7th Thunder Squadron had the opportunity to buy more time for Earl Spey's main fleet!
"It's a German destroyer!" Just as the Thomas fleet was attacking the Spey fleet step by step, a lookout suddenly pointed to the German destroyers rushing out of the night in the distance. These destroyers released smoke before charging, A puff of black smoke obscured the figure of the Thunderbolt ship. The British could only see clouds of smoke rushing towards the main fleet, but they couldn't tell where the opponent was! And these destroyers are the remaining destroyers and torpedo boats of the 7th Lightning Squadron who have just completed the lightning strike and are about to return!
Even though they have fired all the torpedoes, the British don't know! Facing the sudden thunderbolt squad, Thomas could only look at the assassins hiding in the dark with extreme disgust, and then let out a long sigh.
"The fleet turned 2 compass points to the left to avoid the German torpedo boats! Send a signal to Lieutenant Colonel Hall!! Get rid of all these troublesome miscellaneous fish!" Thomas' heart was bleeding when he gave this order! The large reverse rotation of the fleet undoubtedly opened up the distance between it and the German fleet.
And the course deviation caused by the steering made all the previous shooting data invalid! The British fleet needs to re-measure and correct the shooting! This undoubtedly gave the German main fleet breathing time!
The British main fleet chose to evade, and under the leadership of the Royalist light cruiser, more than double-digit light cruisers and destroyers rushed towards the German Seventh Destroyer Squadron. However, the five German destroyers fired a dense barrage. Facing the shelling like a rolling wall of flames, the German destroyer squadron did not back down. They moved with difficulty in the explosion and water column, drawing lines on the sea surface. curved track.
A shell fell on the hull, and each attack was like a giant hammering hard with a heavy hammer. Shrapnel and flames flew around in the cabin, sweeping down the German naval officers and soldiers who were fighting like wheat. The side of the destroyer was honeycombed by the repeated hits of the shells, and the high temperature generated by the British picric acid high-explosive bombs even ignited the metal parts. The destroyer S95, which rushed to the front, was the first to be set on fire! This small destroyer with a displacement of more than 500 tons lasted less than 5 minutes before being smashed into pieces by shells fired from multiple directions!
The fastest one was the HMS. The two destroyers tried to rush through the gap of the British fleet. At a distance of less than 400 meters, the two destroyers killed a British destroyer with artillery, and rushed to a distance not far from Thomas' flagship. To 3000 meters! At this time, two British light cruisers blocked the latter's way forward, and finally faced the lion-like British light cruisers, the German destroyer, which was at most equivalent to two wolves, bravely rushed up!
After a burst of rapid artillery fire, the destroyer S97 finally rushed to a place less than 900 meters away from the battleship Bold! Under the impact of the secondary battery array on the side of the bold, three huge explosions occurred in a row on the S97! The flames soaring into the sky are tens of meters high! Afterwards, the falling debris even hit the conning tower of the Bold.
"Damn it! We are fighting against a group of demons today!" Looking at the debris floating on the sea, Thomas took out a handkerchief and wiped the cold sweat off his head with lingering fear. Objectively speaking, the opponent's lightning strike is not fatal. Even if the opponent uses torpedoes, the success rate of attacking at this distance and azimuth is still not high, but this kind of courage to fight to the death obviously affected Thomas' judgment. More German destroyers will rush up, but the escort warships prepared before seem to be insufficient? So, after hesitating for more than ten seconds, Thomas ordered the fleet to turn left for half a compass point again!
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