Chapter 2119 The Fight of the Weak II
An armor-piercing projectile weighing nearly 600KG roared and flew over a distance of 8,000 meters and hit the main armor belt on the side of the Kaiser. At this distance, the penetration depth of the new British green hat armor-piercing projectile is so terrifying, with a thickness of 11 The 1-inch hardened armor of the first generation failed to block the opponent's attack. Accompanied by a violent collision sound, the shell forcibly cut a large irregular hole in the deck, and then, accompanied by the broken quilt cap, hundreds of kilograms The missile body went straight into the motor compartment at the rear of the No. 2 turret of the Caesar, and as the bottom fuze was activated, a dazzling flame shot out from the middle of the Caesar's hull! This cannon directly caused a partial fire on the hull, and caused the direct loss of one third of the battleship's electrical system! And the No. 2 turret driven by the electric motor was also stuck in a fixed position!
"Switch the backup power immediately! Use the turret rangefinder to aim all the main guns! Suppress the opponent with all your strength!" The gunner of the Kaiser quickly lowered his full strength. At this time, the distance between the two sides is close enough to fire enough shells in a short time. The point is that in less than a minute after the British opened fire, the German fleet also launched a counterattack. A dozen 12-inch and 10-inch artillery were frantically thinking about the British battleship squadron in the distance, projecting tons of shells.
In addition to Caesar, the second flagship Kaiser Friedrichshaw was also hit. A 12-inch shell hit the No. 1 main turret on the bow. This shell penetrated the armor belt above the left gun because of the angle , the 11-inch armor also failed to block the attack of the British 12L50 artillery, but fortunately, this shell did not explode after penetrating the armor. This time, the British's fuze was too stable!
The battleship Kaiser Wilhelm II, which ranked third, was even more miserable. Two 12-inch shells hit the bottom of the flue, but the 6-inch flue armor was naturally blown to pieces, and countless thick smoke flowed from the crack. The opening gushed out, directly covering half of the ship's deck, and the exhaust gas pouring back into the boiler compartment also caused a quarter of the boilers of the battleship to go out, and another shell hit the stern of the hull and opened fire at the waterline. A big mouth adds 500 tons of water to this battleship!
The only lucky one is the armored cruiser Cologne. This armored cruiser is the furthest away from the British battleship, and most of the hull is covered by friendly forces. Therefore, the shooting angle of the battleship Neptune at the rear of the British fleet is not good. The speed was relatively fast, and the Cologne successfully avoided the opponent's first wave of blows. And together with the last armored cruiser Loon that was not targeted by the capital ship, it launched a counterattack against the super fearless HMS Bold located at the head of the British fleet!
The German fleet quickly turned around under the cover of the smoke released by the destroyer. Although the British's first blow was fierce, it was not so deadly. Looking at the German battleship looming in the distance in the smoke, Thomas couldn't help but started not worrying, because He has already made preparations. While the capital ship is raiding the opponent, under the cover of two British light cruisers, the British destroyer squadron will immediately approach the opponent and launch a close-range lightning strike! When the firepower of the German fleet is suppressed, the attacks of high-speed torpedo boats are often very deadly!
However, there was a serious problem with Thomas' prior arrangement in this operation. Just when the two British light cruisers led the destroyer to the unprepared German avant-garde destroyer squadron, two slender figures suddenly appeared behind the torpedo boat and the destroyer squadron. On the side, at a distance of less than 800 meters, two large German destroyers used crazy firepower to slaughter the lightning strike squadron that the British fleet had sent forward!
The two large destroyers HMS finally chose to avoid the two British light cruisers. Obviously, for large destroyers without torpedoes, fighting light cruisers at close range is simply courting death. According to the observation just now, the British light cruisers seem to have The torpedo has been dismantled,
Maybe it was because of the previous battle, after the accidental loss of a light cruiser due to the detonation of the torpedo, the British fleet specially made targeted modifications for the night battle fleet, right? However, although this made the two German large destroyers have no chance of winning, but at the same time, it also made the two British light cruisers helpless against the German battleship! Therefore, two large German destroyers decisively cut into the battlefield from the gap between the light cruiser and the destroyer squadron behind, isolating the most threatening torpedo boat behind!
"Fire!" The powerful firepower of the eight 150MM guns and four 105MM guns on the two large destroyers is definitely a very big trouble for the British destroyers who were caught off guard. Tons of shells cover, in the face of repeated blows from 150MM artillery, but a torpedo boat of more than 400 tons is still too small and too fragile, accompanied by heart-pounding explosions, violent energy and flames will hit this poor torpedo boat at the waterline It was riddled with holes, and in less than a minute, the destroyer had a serious tilt, and the high-speed navigation made the tilt even worse. In the end, the first destroyer directly sank in the sea, and the One of the other two destroyers was blown into countless palm-sized fragments by the detonation of the torpedo, and the power compartment of the other destroyer was pierced by a 150MM shell, so it could only spin around on the sea. ,
"Kill these guys!" Facing the two large German destroyers that suddenly appeared, the British Lightning Squad behind decisively turned their spearheads! The remaining 4 destroyers and 1 torpedo boat began to besiege the two German warships. The two sides attacked the opponent like two eggs with a hammer. Whether it was the German guns or the British 4-inch guns, they were not armored. Deadly for both parties!
The rapid-fire guns of the two sides fired at each other crazily at a distance of less than 500 meters at the latest. Every warship was shrouded in flames and gunpowder smoke after the explosion, and the shrapnel wrapped by the shock wave crazily hit everything on the hull. The gun mantlet on the ship was shattered into pieces under repeated attacks, groups of soldiers were blasted into piles of mutilated corpses, and blood flowed on the twisted deck. The hull made a tooth-piercing distorted sound in the explosion of the shells. Every time it was hit, the battleship seemed to shake a bit. In the high-intensity confrontation, both sides were soon overwhelmed!
"The damned Germans are finally finished!" Lieutenant Brown, the captain of the destroyer HMS Musketeer, the flagship of the destroyer squadron, looked at the figure wrapped in flames in the distance and let out a fierce breath of anger!
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