Chapter 1691 The End 1
Chapter 1691 The End 1
"They are treating us as experiments to test the attack effect of the aircraft." Looking at the fast battleship Gneisenau that kept a distance from him in the distance, a sense of shame came to Saburo Hyakutake's heart. Without taking him seriously, the entire Japanese fleet was like a guinea pig for experiments. This was the most intolerable thing for the Japanese major general.
"Nagumo Chuichi, no matter what, you must survive, escape the German encirclement and suppression, and then bring the news of this naval battle to the United Fleet. The Germans have used a brand new combat method, which may change the entire world! "Hakutake Saburo said.
Now, the Japanese naval commander is already making arrangements for his "future affairs." Your own fleet will definitely be finished today. Even if the second wave of bombers cannot destroy the Katori, the Gneisenau in the distance will come up to hit it. Instead of doing this, it is better to arrange for some people to escape from the battleship before the opponent attacks. I hope they will be lucky enough to avoid the German encirclement and suppression, and bring important information about this naval battle to the combined fleet!
Therefore, before the second wave of carrier-based aircraft of the German fleet arrived, a group of personnel led by Nagumo Chuichi had already boarded a small boat and prepared to evacuate. In Hyakutake Saburo's view, as long as the luck is not particularly unlucky, someone will always take this The news was sent back. In fact, it was exactly as he expected. Perhaps Nagumo Chuichi and others were still alive now, and they did use the ensuing night to escape the encirclement and suppression, and did return to Japan after many twists and turns.
However, there were problems with the intelligence sent back. The few surviving Japanese officers did not explain clearly how these aircraft appeared on the sea. They could not figure out whether the aircraft were launched from a seaplane carrier or an aircraft carrier. They can only say that single-engine aircraft are also powerful in carrying bombs and torpedoes, and let the senior officials of the Japanese Navy guess... In the end, when the Japanese Navy finally made a correct judgment on the battlefield situation, it was already February 1914, and two months later, the decisive battle of the North Sea broke out that shocked the world. The Japanese judgment had a negative impact on the British situation. No improvement at all! Of course, this is not mentioned for the time being.
Let’s not mention the Japanese. After an hour of preparation, the German Naval Aviation’s second wave of attacks was finally launched. After this actual combat test, the German Naval Aviation had a deeper understanding of the entire combat process of the aircraft carrier, and now It’s time to test the lethality of single-engine aircraft’s bombs and torpedoes against capital ships in actual combat!
In order to better obtain intelligence, when the second wave of attack planes approached the sky, the Gneisenau also closed the distance, hoping to observe the Katori's situation from a close distance. And when there were German planes overhead, the Katori naturally had no time to deal with the German fast battleships in the distance!
As an old ship that has been in service for 15 years, the Katori's maneuverability is naturally not very good. In addition, the anti-aircraft weapons on the ship were better than nothing, which made the German bombers very comfortable to launch attacks. The first to enter were more than a dozen bombers of various types, and dense bombs fell like raindrops. This time, the bombs dropped were not just 300KG bombs. There are also 500KG bombs carried by JU5 bombers and various small bombs.
So in the next ten minutes, this poor battleship went through a round of bombs.
First, several 50KG and 100KG small bombs fell on the Katori, causing little damage. The 50KG bomb exploded directly on the ship, causing no damage to the hull, but for deck guns and scattered The machine gun has a good suppression effect. The flying shrapnel suppresses anti-aircraft firepower much more than a simple machine gun. The 100KG bomb performs better, but the damage it causes is only some damage to the middle deck and destroys some pipes and lines. If it can hit places such as flues, the effect may be better.
What really surprised the Luftwaffe was the lethality of the 500KG semi-armor-piercing bomb. A JU5 bomber flew over at an altitude of 250 meters, and then successfully dropped a 500KG bomb onto the stern of the Katori. This bomb exploded with huge kinetic energy. It easily penetrated two decks under the influence! Although it did not directly destroy the last dome armor at the stern, the huge explosive force still blew through this dome armor.
Hundreds of kilograms of shrapnel and the shattered hull caused a devastating blow to the drive shaft located under the dome armor and the steering gear compartment behind it! A transmission shaft was directly blown off, and the powerless transmission shaft also smashed several cabins next to it under the huge torque, and half of the entire steering gear compartment was destroyed by the shock wave generated by the bomb. From the appearance, The stern of this battleship was also in very bad shape. The smaller half of the stern was almost completely destroyed by the huge explosion of the bomb. The entire hit area was turned into ruins, and a large piece of the three decks collapsed. After suffering this heavy blow, the Katori began to circle on the sea as if suffering from hemiplegia.
The killing effect of another 500KG bomb was also very good. This bomb hit the rear of the main gun on the bow of the Katori. It also penetrated the second deck and then exploded. The energy generated by the explosion directly destroyed the click directly below the place where the bomb was hit. cabin, directly consuming about half of the Katori's power, and the flames caused by the explosion began to spread along the tunnel, even threatening the ammunition depot of the front main gun, so that the Japanese had to fill the ammunition depot with water, and the first Shortly after the second 500KG bomb hit, and before the torpedo attack, the battleship Katori tilted to a certain extent, which can also prove this.
After experimenting with various bombs currently available to the Air Force, looking at the volcano-like battleship Katori in the distance, the four torpedo planes of the German Naval Aviation decided to send the opponent off again. This time, they did not use a formation. The method of lightning strike is to go up individually one by one, and then use torpedoes to attack different parts of the warship to see the effect.
The first torpedo hit the deepest part of the underwater defense in the middle of the hull. Perhaps the coal bunkers here had not been used up. Although the torpedo destroyed several cabins, there was not much water in them because they were full of coal. With the protection effect of coal and empty warehouses, the 150KG torpedo warhead did not seem to penetrate the last partition of the power cabin.
The other two torpedoes hit the lower part of the main gun turret at the bow and stern respectively. The former naturally caused a large amount of water to enter the Katori, while the German pilots of the latter judged that they should have penetrated the wall of the ammunition depot, because about 2 years after being hit by the mine, Minutes later, another violent explosion erupted under the Katori's rear main turret. This time, the power was so powerful that the entire hull was blown into two pieces from the rear main turret as the limit!
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