Chapter 1188

And as the battleship Baden, the British Air Force concentrated attack, it also suffered the biggest crisis since it entered service! The British crew rushed towards the counterfeit flagship from all directions. Countless bombs fell like raindrops, blowing up water curtains around the battleship.

"The British airstrikes are very fierce. Their technology is very good and bold. They even entered the battlefield from a height of 400 meters under the anti-aircraft fire. I saw more than one time that the British bombers were torn apart by antiaircraft artillery. The boarding and the surrounding frigates played very well, and I can hardly ask them to do better.” On the Bavaria, Lieutenant Admiral Scheer commented as he looked at the battleship Baden covered by gunfire and water curtain in the distance.

Although most of them are rookies, there are still some NBs in the British bomber unit responsible for attacking the Baden. A big guy with a wingspan of 38 meters can fly over a height of 300 meters above a German warship, and then steadily throw a 1,000-pound bomb on the foredeck. This is definitely a product of a combination of technology and luck. !

When the 1,000-pound high-explosive bomb easily smashed through the uppermost deck, it exploded in the bow cabin of the Baden! The picric sour explosive weighing nearly 300KG is really powerful, which is about the same as the lethality of a 15-inch high-explosive bomb hit by about 5 rounds in the same place! A group of dazzling fireballs rushed out of the deck abruptly, and the violent explosion even directly lifted the uppermost deck of tens of meters!

Even the No. 1 turret was stuck because of the deformation of the deck! The influx of air greatly contributed to the spread of flames. Under the strong sea breeze, within a short time, the front deck of the No. 1 turret of the Baden was almost covered by flames!

"I will never forget the first time I was hit by a blockbuster. The battleship with a displacement of nearly 30,000 tons seemed to be trembling in a huge explosion. A dazzling firelight skyrocketed from the deck, and the turbulent flames directly Out of control, we had to mobilize all the damage management personnel to put out the fire. After the battle, when we finally extinguished the fire, only the skeleton was burned in some parts of the bow! This kind of large tonnage The bomb is terrible!" An officer of the Baden recalled the situation.

The other semi-armor-piercing shell that hits also caused very heavy losses to the Baden. This bomb modified with a 9.2-inch shell was swooped down at a 30-degree angle by an FB27 bomber from a height of 500 meters. A parabola was drawn in the air and it landed precisely at the bottom of the chimney behind the Baden!

Under the action of huge inertia, the armor-piercing projectile weighing nearly 200KG directly penetrated the outer guard plate of the chimney and exploded on the honeycomb armor at the bottom! Although the armor protection is trustworthy, the flurry of shrapnel still destroyed a large number of flue ducts, and fragments fell one after another and blocked many smoke exhaust channels. As a result, the boiler on the book stand was quickly extinguished. But along the flue, flames and thick smoke entered a generator compartment behind the chimney, which led to the strike of a generator.

As for the other bombs that fell, although they could not pose a fatal threat to the battleship's core compartment, they still caused great losses to the battleship. The entire battleship traveled through flames and smoke. For a while, Prince Ruprecht was worried that such bombing would eventually cause the battleship to be burned! Fortunately, the structural strength of the Bavarian-class battleship was large enough, the armor protection area was also relatively large, and the power system was strong. In the end, this war-torn battleship was successfully turned in under the siege of British bombers.

The Württemberg on the side was also not spared. One 500-pound bomb and one 150-pound bomb fell on the battleship, destroying the rangefinder on the top of the battleship and tapping a hand in the middle of the hull. The Bavaria, where the prince was located, was also bombed. A bomb fell near the communication antenna, directly stopping Bavarian radio communication for 90 minutes. Another bomb fell on the turret and was bounced off by heavy horizontal armor. Did not suffer much. The other two bombs caused a fire within a certain range.

The battleship was still scarred. The loss of some auxiliary battleships became inevitable. Take the prince’s main fleet as an example. In this battle, one light cruiser was sunk. This ship was sunk by a direct hit on the waterline. Two light cruisers were injured and two destroyers were sunk in confusion. ...... For a boat of several hundred tons, even a 250-pound bomb could be fatal!

Two hours later, when the figure of the last British bomber disappeared from sight, Ruprecht and the officers and soldiers of the German Navy could finally breathe a sigh of relief. They knew that aircraft, a new combat tool, was very terrifying. , But I didn’t expect the British hastily attack to cause such a big trouble to the powerful high seas fleet!

"The British fleet is not as annoying as these bombers! We have fought against the Royal Navy so many times, but in terms of losses, the British bombers performed much better than their warships!" Scheer commented on the British. Air strikes.

"Look, this is just the beginning! Maybe in the future, no, very soon, we may not be safe in the port! Their long-range bombers can even take off from the British mainland and bomb Wilhelmshaven!" To be honest, this time The bombing also left the prince's lingering fears. He didn't expect the British to have such a strong aviation force at this time, the level of which is even no less than the beginning of 1918 in history!

This time, thanks to the fact that the British prepared very hastily ~ lightnovelpub.net~ In addition to the large number, no matter from the tactics or the quality of personnel, to the choice of weapons. The accuracy of the hit can be described as a mess. But even so, it still made the German fleet hurried.

"The statistics have come out. This time the British used nearly 190 bombers of various types. They mainly came from the Gulf of Forth and the two surrounding airports. If we want to continue to compete with the British in the future, then the construction of our aircraft carrier is probably We must hurry, and carrier-based aircraft must also improve performance." Scheer said with a worried look. In fact, from the point of view of the hit rate, this data is not high, 190 aircraft, with at least 500 bombs of various weights, directly hit about 10 rounds, which is 2% of the hits. But even so, no one can ignore this sharp sword from the sky.

"These things will be discussed later. All the injured warships will go back to our naval base in the east through the Kiel Canal after a short rest in Wilhelmshaven after returning. I will arrange for the Bavarian Air Force to complete the defense of Wilhelmshaven as soon as possible." I thought about it.

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