Chapter 1168

Less than a second later, a huge pillar of fire rose from the middle of the hull! Countless fragments were thrown into the air in the fire, and thick smoke formed an oblique plume under the blowing of the sea breeze. Seeing that this poor light cruiser was not saved!

The rest was completely in garbage time, and the two British battleships continued to ravage this poor German light cruiser. And when Betty’s Tiger and the New Zealand at the back dealt with the close destroyers and aimed their muzzles at Major General Bodick’s fleet, all the Major General could do was to protect himself from the smoke!

"Let the destroyers go up and kill them!" And Thomas obviously had no intention of letting go of his opponents, and a group of destroyers charged up under the cover of two light cruisers. And at this moment, the Hipper fleet, which has always been unbearable, finally started!

The huge artillery aimed at a target not far away. The seaplane had approached the British fleet and reported the position of the British to the fleet. The rangefinder at the top of the mast stared at the enemy like a giant! The longbow in his hand has been raised, and when the red artillery indicator lights up, the first round of devastating projectiles began!

The fire suddenly shining on the distant sea became one piece! The volley of up to 64 heavy artillery from 8 fast battleships instantly formed a giant flame dragon swaying on the sea, and dozens of tons of shells flew out of the barrel almost at the same time! These devastating bullets flew at a speed more than twice the speed of sound to the British fleet that was caught off guard in the distance, and the British retina was shining with bright orange spots of artillery shooting! Fear and incredible expressions appeared on the British faces! At this moment, at least 70% of the British naval officers and soldiers were shocked!

"This is at least the strength of the two battleship squadrons! God! We are done!" a panicked British officer said loudly, pointing to the flames jumping in the distance, but soon, the noise of the cannonball falling into the water made him exclaim Cover it completely, and after tens of seconds, the entire British fleet is surrounded by water jets and flames! Even in the presence of sea fog, the shells fired by the German fleet at a distance of 12 kilometers still maintained good accuracy!

Prestige and Counterattack, which are the two behind, were first surrounded by the firepower of the four battlecruisers of the Hipper fleet! Mochi and Vonde Tahn deal with Prestige, while the other two battlecruisers deal with Prestige! Almost every 15 seconds, a round of cannonballs fell. Before the two queens could find the corresponding target, they were hit first when their reputation was good!

A 12-inch shell hit the front of the prestige's hull. The 405KG armor-piercing projectile easily tore off the 4-inch armor belt at the front of the prestige. By the way, it also tore a piece of steel next to the hull as a whole! A huge hole appeared in the waterline, and hundreds of tons of seawater quickly poured into the two sealed cabins. At almost the same time, a 350MM shell hit the prestigious main armor belt. At a distance of 12 kilometers and at a poor angle, the Queen’s 330mm thick armor belt failed to block the shell. ! This shell hit the transition area between the main armor belt and the upper armor belt. The thickness was about 10 inches.

I saw a sudden flash of fire on the hull of the Prestige, and then a stream of white steam mixed with black smoke ejected from the breach. Even ten kilometers away, the Moqi could still observe the continuous explosion on the Prestige. In the scene, the shell exploded after it penetrated the bullet transport channel in the lower part of the gun gallery, but the remaining fragments still smashed through several cabins, blasting several steam pipes at the back of the gun gallery to pieces! The shells in the secondary artillery area were detonated, and large flames and high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor spread rapidly inside the hull. The entire center of the battleship was like a volcano preparing to erupt, continuously spewing steam and fire.

And soon, under the attack of the Goben and the Cedric, the situation of the Counterattack was even worse, after all, it was facing 16 350MM heavy artillery! By the time Moch and Von De Tann shot their third shell on the front of the No. 3 turret of the HMS Prestige, the two German battlecruisers had hit their opponents four times!

Four hits were evenly distributed on the nearly 190-meter-long hull of the Prestige. One shell hit the bow, adding 800 tons of displacement to the battleship, and one shell hit the No. 3 turret, directly on the two. There is a hole in the middle of the artillery! The violent explosion swept across the entire turret, killing more than 60 Royal Navy officers and soldiers in an instant. Two artillery pieces were completely destroyed, but fortunately, there was no ammunition at the rear of the turret at this time, and the fire door leading to the ammunition compartment was also closed. The third shell hit the superstructure of the hull and a fire was lit, and the fourth shell hit the tail of the hull, bringing 700 tons of water into the warship.

But the worst is the battleship Barlem, which was fired by two Bavarian-class battleships by the Weimar and Braunschweig! To tell the truth, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship is at most the same level as the Helgeland-class fast battleship, and a level behind the Bavarian-class, and this time you, the poor Barrem is still one-to-two... Such a situation of warfare doomed the fate of this warship!

The two German battleships that had participated in Operation Thunder-Surbrus performed fairly well in this engagement~lightnovelpub.net~ The Weimar first caught the target in the seventh half salvo. In the ninth round, a semi-volley successfully shot a shell in the middle of the Barlem's hull! This gun successfully punched a bullet hole with a diameter of 800mm in the 330mm thick side-sinked armored division. The molten metal formed a radioactive metal jet around the bullet hole. Afterwards, the shattered shells once again penetrated Barrem's dome and directly exploded the boiler condenser on the port side into fragments. Numerous fragments jumped and collided inside the hull and destroyed a condensate tank next door. After losing enough condensate, the power of the Barlem dropped by about one-third!

A shell of Brunswick was shot in from a horizontal direction. Although it did not penetrate the upper part of the main horizontal armor due to the angle, the violent explosion still cut off several power transmission lines near the shot. A quarter of the area inside the entire battleship was instantly plunged into darkness.

The so-called misfortune did not come singly. When the two battleships entered the effective firing phase, the two battleships poured down more than 12 tons of ammunition per minute! The Barrem struggled hard between the water columns with flames and smoke, starting from the first shell hit, but within 5 minutes, this poor warship had been hit 7 times!

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