Chapter 887 No Mercy, No Forgiveness 3

The distance between the two sides at this time is about 22 kilometers. If the shooting distance is 18 kilometers, then Moltke needs to be closer to 4 kilometers. The speed difference between the two sides is about 4 knots. This means that it may take half an hour to chase. However, just as the Minotaur turned around, another German battlecruiser to its northwest hit a pile of shells into the opponent's face!

"I didn't know the situation at that time. Our lookout saw a warship running towards us. We were actually not lucky today. We didn't find the prey at the beginning, but we didn't expect it. , a British cruiser hit our gun port like this!" Lieutenant Colonel Heinecke, the captain of the Goben, recalled at the time. This result seems a bit ridiculous, but in fact it is not difficult for high-speed warships to encounter each other on this small sea. The straight-line distance from the Shetland Islands to the Norwegian coast is only 165 kilometers. Hopefully, The speed of all Pell's battleships can easily reach around 27 knots, which is at least 50 kilometers per hour... So it was expected and reasonable that the Minotaur was blocked in the end... The Minotaur was obviously a little disoriented by this sudden shelling. Due to the wind direction and location, the smoke column of the battleship Goben was not obvious. When the Goben attacked, the Minotaur Tao's main rangefinder was aiming in another direction. It was a bit difficult to detect the flames beating more than ten kilometers away with the naked eye. The first round failed, the second round also failed, and the third round formed a cross-shot and also brought the first hit! A 350mm shell entered the water 20 meters away from the side of the Minotaur. After sinking for about 5 meters, the shell's attitude corrected, and then it sank straight towards the target like a torpedo. , and then the sharp warhead easily tore open the hull below the waterline, and then easily smashed through the 15mm thick partition outside the boiler room. No matter how nb it is, the Minotaur is just a cruise ship, invincible The underwater protection of the Minotaur was bad enough, but this guy could only get worse. A deep penetrating wound appeared in the Minotaur's abdomen, and the explosion in the boiler room made the huge battleship shake like chaff! And this shot also determined the final fate of this armored cruiser. It could not run away, and it could not be beaten. At this point in the battle, it has directly entered garbage time. The Goeben said hello to the Moltke, who was preparing to chase this way, "Leave this target to me, you can do other things first." After a moment, the Moltke turned around and began to evacuate. Then the Goben approached 14 kilometers and began to disarm the Minotaur with one shot. Not only did the 10-inch gun and the 9.2-inch gun cause fatal damage to Goben at such a long distance, even the hits could be described as lottery tickets. Every flash of the Goben's gun muzzle was a disaster for the Minotaur! Dense shells exploded on the hull, and the superstructure, main battery turret, gun gallery, and side decks were shattered by bombardments. Rolling smoke and flames spewed out from the breach in the battleship. After the Minotaur's last 9.2-inch gun was shot to pieces, a destroyer quickly moved closer and then fired 2 missiles at a distance of 1,200 meters. The torpedo took away the last British armored cruiser. At the same time, other German warships that had dispersed in this sea area also began to hunt. "Fire at full speed and kill them!" The light cruiser Stuttgart stared at an auxiliary cruiser in the distance. This was a civilian ship modified with a maximum speed of only 18 knots. For a light cruiser that can easily exceed 25 knots, It's nothing. The four 6-inch old-fashioned guns on the opponent's sides pose almost no threat to the German light cruiser 10 kilometers away. The light cruiser Stuttgart, equipped with six 175mm cannons, easily sent high-explosive bombs over the opponent's head in a near-target shooting state.

More than ten minutes after the battle, the auxiliary cruiser turned into a burning torch. Various supplies and combustibles piled on the deck and in the cabin accelerated the defeat of the battleship. The British at this time were very talented. They fought tenaciously. The only available 6-inch gun did not stop firing until the battleship sank. And for such hard-core goods, the Germans naturally did not hesitate to use the most violent force. The attack sent them to the bottom of the sea.

Battlecruisers and light cruisers will naturally choose their suitable opponents to engage in battle. As the killing continues, some destroyers who cannot bear their loneliness also join the massacre, even if the opponent's artillery fire is too much for them. Equally deadly, but unable to stop the Germans' fervent torpedo charge. "Torpedo boat, the German ocean-going torpedo boat!" The lookout on the auxiliary cruiser Carolina spotted three approaching figures in the distance, almost clinging to the sea surface. The three destroyers were traveling at a high speed of 29 knots. Approaching the opponent, among the rolling sea wolves, the destroyer's bow seemed to have broken away from the sea! When the relative speed is as high as over 40 knots, trying to kill three targets in the distance with no more than one-hand 6-inch cannon can only be said to be a bit much... Three destroyers sailed through the water column exploded by the shells. The British did have some problems with their human resources. It was not that they could not find people, but that they could not find a sufficient number of experienced naval gunners. A group of people were in chaos. They operated the backward 6-inch artillery in an attempt to lock down these gods of death approaching at high speed on the sea. However, it was of no use. The British never thought of encountering the opponent's lightning strike ship in the depths of the North Sea, so they did not equip many anti-mineralization guns with faster firing rates and easier rotation. This oversight has now required The Carolina paid for it with its life! When approaching 5,000 meters, the 105mm and 150mm artillery on the German destroyer also started shooting. Shooting at such a distance is tantamount to fighting with bayonets. "Come on! Hurt each other!" When high-explosive shells landed on the British auxiliary cruiser, the German destroyer was also hit. A shell fell on the upper deck of the V99, killing and wounding two figures in one shot. of combatants. But in the end, the German destroyer finally approached a distance of 3,000 meters, and chose a blind spot that the opponent's artillery could not care about, and then fired 4 torpedoes in a fan shape! Two torpedoes successfully hit the side of the auxiliary cruiser. The energy generated by the violent explosion seemed to push the ship sideways. What surprised the Germans was that, just like that, the ship It didn't sink immediately! "It seems that the British's move to place empty wooden barrels and a large amount of cork inside the watertight compartment of the hull to maintain buoyancy is very effective." A German officer said while looking at the struggling auxiliary cruiser in the distance. . The third update is here, please subscribe and reward~~~! !