Chapter 2257: The Final Battle 4
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Judging from the current situation of the Fury, this warship still maintains a relatively good state. This situation is difficult to observe when dozens of warships are huddled together. After all, observations may be smoked by our own heavy artillery How can you have the opportunity to observe the situation of the enemy ship in detail? But the situation is different now. In the 1V1 situation, both sides can carefully observe the state of the enemy ship.
"The fight against the British Fuso gave me the same feeling as the Fuso-class fight against the Japanese in the Mediterranean." Earl Luckner said with some helplessness. "Our naval guns can't cause fatal damage to the core area. We can only force the opponent to withdraw from the battle by continuously attacking the non-core area and incapacitating attacks. The new British ship should be a good reference to the design of the Fuso class."
If it was a fair fight, then the situation of Earl Lucknar might be more dangerous, but the situation of Major General Hood's Furious Horn is also not good. The Bavarian 15-inch guns had already left a lot of scars on this battleship. In this case, it was difficult for the Prinz Eugen to penetrate the opponent, while the Fury was caused by insufficient ammunition reserves and remaining artillery. Firepower is difficult to play.
On the other side, the situation of Thomas's Queen Elizabeth was worse than that of the Fury, and the hardware conditions were not as good as the Fury, so it was at the bottom when it fought against the Teghoff. However, in order to be able to rescue the attacked friendly forces, Thomas still fought very resolutely.
"Order the destroyer to rush forward. There is no need to drag this battle on for so long. Focus on attacking the Warrior." Earl Spey ordered decisively as he looked at the battleship Warrior whose speed had dropped significantly in the distance.
Don't look at it as 2 against 1, but all the remaining artillery pieces of the two British battleships together are not enough to have 8 guns... There was not much ammunition left, and the warships were tilted to varying degrees. And just now, another violent explosion came from the sidestring of the Battleship Warrior! At a distance of less than 12 kilometers, a 350MM armor-piercing projectile successfully penetrated the upper part of the Warrior's 330MM vertical armor belt! Because of the tilt of the hull, the shell that was supposed to fly to the middle deck of the hull successfully penetrated into the engine room of the Warrior!
In just a few seconds, the fate of this warship was sealed. The shell weighing more than 600 kilograms and the high-speed steam turbine collided together, accompanied by a violent explosion, and the two turbines in the entire engine room were crushed. It exploded into parts in an instant, and there was a frightening vibration and noise from the middle and rear of the hull. Thick smoke, flames, high temperature and high pressure poured out neatly from the hit point. After dozens of seconds, the two ships on the left side of the Warrior The propeller stopped turning unwillingly. In the end, the speed of this battleship was only about 10 knots left!
"We've done our best, let's cover the retreat of the Warspite." Looking at the Warrior in the distance, which could only crawl at a slow speed, Thomas closed his eyes in pain. The order to retreat was issued. In fact, the situation of the Warspite is not good now. If the Germans insist on keeping the Warspite, Thomas is at most 50% sure. To Thomas' surprise, after severely damaging the Warrior, the battleship United Force did not intend to continue to attack the War Spite.
"The Germans seem to feel that they have gained a lot today, or they have other plans. At the last moment, they let go of the War Spite. In fact, not only the War Spite, but even other ships including the Queen Elizabeth. The return of the warships to the UK has nothing to do with the release of the Germans. Maybe the Germans have a conspiracy, but at this time it is meaningless to me and the Grand Fleet, because it doesn’t matter whether it is 10 warships or 15 warships. ,
We have all failed, and it is a decisive failure. In theory, we have been put on the table like steaks, ready to be slaughtered! "After the war, Thomas said so.
In the end, the Warrior, abandoned by friendly forces, ushered in its doomsday. Like the Tiger, the British may feel that it is meaningless to struggle any longer, so they simply evacuated the personnel and sank the warship. The German navy also stopped the attack very tacitly. Ten minutes later, the last British battleship sunk in this naval battle disappeared from the sea.
"We won, and everything is over." Earl Spey said to himself. It took only 50 minutes from the battle between the two sides to the end. Everything is so logical. So much so that Earl Spey described the naval battle as a "plain victory" in his diary.
However, what the earl said was only half right. The German navy did win, but everything was not over. If the entire naval battle in the Norwegian Sea was compared to a large-scale performance, then it was not Earl Spey who finally drew the terminating symbol. , but the German Land-Based Air Force and Betty!
Just when Earl Spey was about to close the team, the two bomber squadrons of the Luftwaffe finally found the Betty fleet with the help of the guiding plane! And they are also facing the same problem as Earl Spey, that is, there is a quota for their killing! In theory, only one aircraft carrier is allowed to be killed!
"Damn it, we've already run so far, how could we still be targeted?" Betty cursed as she watched the German fleet appearing in the distance. More than 30 fighter jets of various types, many of which were temporarily assembled from parts, and this final fleet became the only air defense ace of the British fleet!
"The fleet disperses and evades, immediately take off all fighter jets to intercept, and tell the pilots, don't chase after them, they can only fight within 50 kilometers from the aircraft carrier!" Beatty ordered, so the British carrier-based aircraft force once again Sortie, to meet the German bombers.
"To be honest, I feel that our K6 bomber is not suitable to participate in this battle." On the K6 bomber, a pilot looked at the pointer on the fuel gauge worriedly, while calculating the amount of fuel needed for the return flight.
"No, I feel very suitable. Don't you feel that our aircraft is in the best condition now? We have used up 40% of the fuel, and the load is very light. I can even control the aircraft to make a shallow dive of 30 degrees. Bombing. The maneuverability and agility of the aircraft are the best. We have a high probability of dropping a 400KG bomb on the British aircraft carrier. Compared with those K8 bombers, they can only use horizontal bombing to attack these fast Battleships, in fact, I have always believed that the best way for heavy bombers to attack the sea is to use torpedoes, because their hit rate with bombs is also very low!" said the bombardier comfortably.
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