Chapter 403: Avenging the Battle of Jutland

In the periscope, you can see the huge battleship, the middle suddenly bulged, and then, front and rear, it broke apart!

The Warspite has been built for more than 20 years. During these years, various technologies have been developed. For example, the performance of steel must not only be hard enough, but also tough enough.

When the Titanic sank, it was because of the lack of toughness of the steel. The Warspite was built a few years later than the Titanic.

Of course, as a warship, its strength must be much higher than that of a merchant ship, but because it is heavier, the middle part of it bears a considerable amount of force.

In the huge wind and waves, the small boat can go up and down along the waves and move forward in the waves, while the large boat is under the entire hull and bears several waves at the same time, and in the beating of the waves, the hull is prone to overall fracture.

Now, the blow brought by a heavy torpedo is to artificially create a huge wave, and the pressure generated by this huge wave exceeds the range that the bottom of the battleship can withstand.

Warspite, destroyed by a German-made super torpedo.

Of course, it's not just because of this torpedo. According to the original design, such a torpedo would have no problem destroying a 10,000-ton warship. Destroying a 30,000-ton warship is not enough.

Before this torpedo destroyed the opponent, the Warspite had been attacked by a one-ton bomb and a torpedo thrown by a fighter plane. These attacks had caused great damage to the middle of the Warspite's hull. , and this new sailing torpedo, like the last straw that broke the camel, gave Warspite the final blow.

Of course, there is another reason that warships in the First World War have always attached importance to armor protection, but they have not paid attention to the problem of underwater torpedo protection. The bottom of it is the most vulnerable.

At this time, in Captain Prien's periscope, he saw a rather wonderful picture.

I saw the heavy battleship, smoking black, still struggling, and suddenly, under it, a violent explosion occurred, the sea swelled, the hull of the battleship was trembling, and the middle was slightly bulging, and then, The front and back broke into two halves!

The 30,000-ton warship was broken in half at the front and back. The sailors on it jumped down one after another. The warship was completely lost. What an interesting picture.

The battleship was flooded with water, the sailors gave up the rescue, and at this moment, the second torpedo had arrived.

When he was shooting, Prien didn't know if one was enough, so he just put on two, he would rather have excess than let go of the opponent. After all, this target is too valuable!

The second torpedo was originally set to be ten meters deep and was intended to explode at the bottom of the opponent, but now, due to the sinking of the Warspite, it came into direct contact with the second torpedo and exploded from the side!

I saw a large hole in the stern of the ship. The explosion deepened its sinking. It sank quickly without any hesitation, and disappeared on the sea in less than a minute. .

There is only one vortex, and it is still spinning with it, as if it is nostalgic, and it seems to be telling something.

In World War I, the British fleet paid a certain price and defeated the German fleet. The German navy was unable to protect its own sea routes and finally ushered in defeat.

And this naval battle is to avenge World War I! Avenge the Battle of Jutland

Maybe the British have forgotten that they just want to live the life of a stable victor and maintain the current peace, but any German with a conscience will deeply remember the shame of World War I! This kind of shame can only be washed away by fighting!

The Warspite was sunk.

In the port, all the large warships were sunk, and the FW190 torpedo planes that arrived later began to attack the remaining medium-sized warships and even small warships.

There was thick smoke and fire everywhere, and the navy of the British Empire, which had been arrogant to the whole world for hundreds of years, was moaning and trembling.

A FW190, flying low over the sea, aimed at the target on its own path and dropped a torpedo.

Its target is just an old V-class destroyer, the veteran destroyer of Britain after World War I, and it is absolutely old-fashioned.

There are no naval personnel on this destroyer at all, and it is moored in the port.

The torpedo swam through the water, and two minutes later, the destroyer sank slowly with the sound of the explosion.

For the German Naval Air Forces, it was the first time they showed their style, and at the same time, it was a rather uncomfortable moment for them.

They haven't found a worthy goal, and those goals that make their hearts sunk have almost sunk.

There are more than one hundred FW190 carrier-based aircraft flying in. They are looking for various targets in the port. In the end, they can only attack small targets of one or two thousand tons such as frigates and destroyers.

This is also the goal of the torpedo aircraft that arrived in the early stage, and the subsequent arrivals only need to start with the civilian ships.

Once the war begins, civilian ships are also military targets, and these civilian ships will be requisitioned by the navy for the transportation of materials. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity, sink as many ships as possible.

Especially those tankers with big belly are the best target! The United Kingdom is also an island country, and their oil is also transported by the outside world. These tankers are the lifeblood of the British economy.

One after another, the oil tankers burst into fire, especially those that have not unloaded crude oil, it is even more intense.

There were even fewer targets left for Captain Prien. After all, his submarine was too slow to compete with the plane above him.

U-47 was sailing in a snorkel state, and Prien was constantly searching for the target. Once or twice, when he was about to attack, the torpedo machine above his head had already taken the lead.

Priyan's teeth are itchy, this time, it's really unpleasant!

Around the port, Prien continued to wander, hoping to find something else.

The diesel engine at the rear made a rumbling sound. Although there was a snorkel, the unique smell of diesel still wafted in the submarine. Prin calmed down. He commanded the submarine and continued to sail, sail, and circle Scapa. Bay, turned more than half a circle.

Just in a corner, Prien suddenly opened his eyes, and sure enough there was a good thing!

This is a corner in the harbor. Due to the direction of the wind, the billowing smoke covers it up, and it is difficult to find it from the sky. In the thick smoke, there is actually a huge battleship hidden!

In the dark, as if it was the arrangement of fate, the target that Prien found was the battleship Royal Oak.