Chapter 1,242 Three-Party Melee 1
Chapter 1242 Three-party melee 1
boom! The huge body was directly smashed into pieces when it collided with the sea! The towering water columns and flames instantly swallowed up the attacker and the attacked, and their fragments merged into the sea together, making it impossible to distinguish them from each other. "They are simply a group of lunatics. They will never spare their lives on the battlefield. Even if they are seriously injured or run out of ammunition and food, you must not let down your guard. They will use their arms, teeth, and even... I will risk my life for the last time. If I can, I will never fight such opponents. They are the most terrifying, crazy, and at the same time the most respectable enemies!"
In this battle, the Luftwaffe launched air strikes more than once when they ran out of ammunition. The final number counted by the British was 7 strikes and suspected strikes, and 3 were successful. The blood of these warriors was not shed in vain, especially when covering the collision of the Les Sardiers. The seaplane numbered V151, driven by the pilot Ensign Norman, successfully destroyed a submarine carrying a MK5 torpedo. The British V1500 bomber almost disrupted the British bombing.
The two British bombers next to them threw away their torpedoes in panic and immediately climbed away because they found that there seemed to be several German fighter jets flying towards them. The only one that was successfully struck by lightning was an FB27 bomber. This aircraft threw a torpedo 600 meters away and when it was about to pull up, it was accidentally hit in the head by a 150MM secondary battery shell!
Cannonballs weighing 45KG are not easy to deal with! Like a hammer hitting an egg, the bomber instantly turned into a ball of fire! And this bomber also became the first unlucky child in history to be destroyed by a 6-inch artillery in the air and was recorded in history!
However, this 450KG torpedo eventually hit the left side of the Les Sardiers and exploded not far from the previous MK5 torpedo. This is near the middle of the hull and is the ammunition depot under the No. 2 turret. Although it is underwater The thickness of the defense system was slightly different, but the extra thickened steel plate still blocked the torpedo strike with a warhead weighing only 90KG.
Of course, water intrusion is inevitable. This blow penetrated at least three compartments and brought 300 tons of water into the battleship. The total amount of water intrusion in this battleship is currently as high as 2850 tons! Although it is still struggling to float on the water, anyone can see that if the attacks continue, the battleship's end is probably not far away!
"Hold the grass! Pig teammates! What are you doing?" Colonel Short, who was very dissatisfied with the attack just now, was still waiting for the third round of attacks, but unfortunately, more than ten minutes passed and there were no more torpedoes. The machine launched an attack on the heavily damaged battleship.
"What are those bastards doing?!" Colonel Short roared and opened the cabin cover on top of himself, then stretched out his head to look for those friendly forces. At this time, he clearly saw several bombers heading towards a ship sailing rapidly on the sea. warships launched air strikes. After a rough identification, Colonel Short recognized that this was Count Spey's flagship.
Prinz Eugen fast battleship! Needless to say, the remaining British bombers began to attack the other two Austro-Hungarian battleships that ran out!
"This is really a bad result!" Colonel Short was a little discouraged. Now he finally knew what it meant to fall short. When he needed to give the target the final blow, his men actually ran away like this! Radio communications were interfered with, making it impossible for the colonel to effectively command a large fleet of aircraft. At this time, a proper attack by other Allied warships directly shattered the colonel's attack plan!
"I'm afraid we will lose our last fig leaf!" Colonel Short said weakly. In fact, at dawn, this operation seemed to the colonel to be half lost... When it was time to launch the attack, not a single squadron-level aircraft arrived on time... This is a typical opening and you lose half of it!
As the saying goes, things change later, and when the British were gathering their fleet, a fleet that had never appeared on the Western Front suddenly flew over the port of Ereli, which made the British look embarrassed! These high-speed twin-engine aircraft with bomber marks on their bodies defeated the British bombers in a very short period of time. This would definitely mean losing the other half!
Until shortly before launching the attack, Colonel Short thought that no matter how hard he tried, he would not be able to achieve a miracle. It would be enough to be able to kill a super-dreadnought and then become the first bomber commander to destroy a capital ship. In that case, , and his immediate boss, Lieutenant General Trenchard, will end well, right? The rest of the process was generally smooth, with a decent hit directly damaging a fast battleship, and the Russians bravely jumped out and beat up the drowned dog. However, at the end of the fight, when the last blow was needed, his teammates actually gave up the easy prey and went after other battleships with nimble legs and feet. Come on, how long has it been and you are still thinking about killing them? !
From the perspective of Colonel Short, his teammates are a bunch of pig teammates, and then from the perspective of the Russians, the British bomber force that turned around to attack the Prinz Eugen and Tegelhof was simply more angelic than angels. exist! The two super-dreadnoughts that suddenly came out directly aimed their guns at the two Russian dreadnoughts. At this time, the distance between the two sides was only 9,500 meters! When the Russians saw the fireballs rising in their field of vision, they were frightened!
However, the actual situation is indeed like this. Taking advantage of the Russians' unpreparedness, the German battleships suddenly rushed out of the smoke and caused tons of damage to the opponent in a very short period of time. 9500 meters distance! Prinz Eugen almost flattened the barrels of the four turrets, and didn't even need corrections! All 8 main guns of Confidant fired! In the third round of salvo, three shells were thrown onto the hull of Alexander III in one breath!
A shell directly hit the command tower of the Emperor Alexander III. At close range, the power of the 350MM main gun shell was so amazing that it was like a heavy hammer hitting a watermelon. It knocked out 8 senior officers of the entire battleship with one shot. More than that! After the explosion, the entire command tower turned into a torch. The other two shells were also effective. One of them opened a hole in the main armor belt of the side string and blew up a turbine behind it. The third shell hit the side of the No. 1 turret. The 10-inch armor plate, even at a certain angle, could not block this fatal attack, and the entire armor plate was completely torn off. The shells darted into the gap between the two pieces of armor, and then directly hit the tail compartment behind the turret, successfully detonating 4 of the shells and 6 propellant packs...
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