2119 The struggle of the weak 2
A nearly 600kg armor-piercing projectile roared over 8,000 meters and hit the main armor belt of the side of the Caesar. At this distance, the depth of the British new cuckold armor-piercing projectile was so terrifying that the first generation of hardened armor-piercing armor-piercing projectiles could not block the opponent's attack. With a violent collision sound, the shell cut an irregular hole in the deck. Then, accompanied by the broken quilt cap, hundreds of kilograms of bullet bodies drilled straight into the motor cabin at the rear of the Caesar 2 turret. With the launch of the bullet-bottom fuse, a dazzling ball of flames rushed out from the middle of the Caesar hull! This gun directly caused a partial fire in the hull, and caused the warship's power system to directly lose one-third of the power system! The No. 2 turret driven by the motor was also stuck in a fixed position!
"Switch the backup power supply immediately! All main guns use turret rangefinders to aim! Suppress the opponent with all their might!" The captain of the Caesar quickly put all his strength down. At this time, the distance between the two sides was close enough to shoot enough shells in a short time. Just less than a minute after the British fired, the German fleet also launched a counterattack. More than a dozen 12-inch and 10-inch guns were frantically thinking about the British battleship squadrons in the distance projecting tons of shells.
In addition to Caesar, the flagship Caesar Frederick, located in the second place, was also hit. A 12-inch shell hit the No. 1 main turret on the bow. This shell penetrated from the armor belt above the left artillery. Due to angle issues, the 11-inch armor also failed to block the British 12l50 artillery attack. Fortunately, the shell did not explode after piercing the armor. This time, the British fuse was too stable!
The battleship Caesar William II, ranked third, was in a bad mood. Two 12-inch shells hit the bottom of the flue, but the 6-inch flue armor was naturally shattered. Countless smoke gushed out from the breaking point, directly covering half of the ship's surface. The exhaust gas poured back into the boiler chamber also caused one-quarter of the boiler to be shut down, and another shell hit the tail of the hull, opening a large mouth at the waterline, adding 500 tons of water inlet to the warship!
The only lucky thing is the USS Cologne armored cruiser. This armoured cruiser is the farthest from the British warship, and most of its hull is covered by friendly forces, so the shooting angle of the Neptune battleship located at the end of the British fleet is not good. In addition, the armored cruiser is relatively fast, so the USS Cologne successfully avoided the opponent's first wave of attacks. And together with the last armoured cruiser Lun, which was not targeted by the main battleship, launched a counterattack against the bold, fearless, located at the head of the British fleet!
The German fleet turned rapidly under the cover of the smoke released by the destroyer. Although the British's first strike was fierce, it was not that fatal. Looking at the German main battleship looming in the smoke in the distance, Thomas couldn't help but worry at first, because he was ready to take the lead. While the main battleship raided the opponent, under the cover of two British light cruisers, the British destroyer team would immediately approach the opponent and launch a close-range lightning strike! When the German fleet's firepower was suppressed, the attack of high-speed torpedo boats was often very fatal!
However, Thomas's prior arrangements arose in this operation. Just as two British light cruisers led the destroyer to the caught off guard, two slender figures suddenly appeared on the side of the torpedo boat and destroyer detachment in the rear. At a distance of less than 800 meters, two large German destroyers used crazy firepower to slaughter the lightning strike teams that came out of the British fleet!
The two large destroyers, s119 and s123, finally chose to avoid two British light cruisers. Obviously, for large destroyers without torpedoes, fighting with light cruisers at close range is simply a search for death. According to the observation just now, the torpedo seemed to have been removed from the British light cruiser. Perhaps because of the previous battle, the torpedo was detonated, the British fleet carried out targeted modifications specifically for the night battle fleet, right? However, although the two large German destroyers had no chance of winning, the two British light cruisers were helpless against the German main battleship! Therefore, the two large German destroyers decisively cut into the battlefield from the gap between the light cruiser and the destroyer team behind, isolating the most threatening torpedo boats behind!
"Fire!" The powerful firepower of the 8 150mm cannons and 4 105mm cannons on the two large destroyers is definitely a very big trouble for the British destroyers caught off guard behind. The three torpedo boats that rushed in the front were covered by tons of shells in an instant. Faced with repeated attacks from the 150mm cannons, the torpedo boats of more than 400 tons were still too small and fragile, accompanied by the heart-wrenching explosion sound, violent energy and
The flames made the waterline of this poor torpedo boat riddled with holes. In less than a minute, the destroyer had a serious tilt, and the high-speed navigation increased the degree of tilt. In the end, the first destroyer directly sank into the sea, while the other two destroyers were detonated and exploded into countless palm-sized fragments. The power compartment of the other destroyer was pierced by 150mm shells and could only turn around on the sea.
"Kill these guys!" Faced with two large German destroyers that suddenly emerged, the British lightning strike team behind decisively turned their attention! The remaining four destroyers and one torpedo boat began to siege the two German warships. Both sides attacked their opponents like two eggs with hammers. Whether it was the German 150 and 105 guns or the British 4-inch guns, they were deadly to both sides without armor protection!
The rapid-fire guns of both sides fired wildly at a distance of less than 500 meters. Each warship was shrouded by the flames and smoke from the explosion. The shrapnel wrapped in shock waves hit everything on the hull wildly. The cannon shields on the cannon cracked into pieces under repeated attacks. Teams of soldiers exploded into piles of incomplete corpses in the shells, and blood flowed on the twisted deck. The hull made a series of sour twisting sounds in the explosion of the shells. Every time they were hit, the warship seemed to shake. In the high-intensity confrontation, both sides were soon overwhelmed!
"The damn German is finally finished!" Captain Brown, the captain of the Musketeer destroyer, who served as the flagship of the destroyer team, looked at the figure wrapped in flames in the distance and let out a sigh of anger!
Chapter completed!