At this time, the two sides are about 22 kilometers apart. If the shooting distance is 18 kilometers, then the Moltke needs to be close to 4 kilometers. The difference between the two sides is about 4 kilometers. This means that it is probably going to chase for half an hour. However, just as the Minotao turned around, another German battlecruiser in the northwest of it puddles a bunch of shells on the other side's face!&1t;/p>

"I was not sure about the situation at that time. Our lookout saw a warship running towards us. We were actually not lucky today. We didn't find prey at the beginning, but unexpectedly, a British cruiser hit our muzzle!" Lieutenant Colonel Heineke, captain of the Captain of the USS Goben, recalled this way.&1t;/p>

It seems that this result is a bit strange to Chinese Studio, but in fact, it is not difficult for high warships to meet each other on this small sea surface. The straight-line distance from the Shetland Islands to the Norwegian seaside is only 165 kilometers. All Hippel warships can easily sail to about 27 knots, which is at least 50 kilometers per hour... So it is surprising that Minotao was blocked in the end...&1t;/p>

Minotao was obviously hit by this sudden gunfire and could not find the north. Due to the wind direction and position, the smoke column of the Goben battleship was not obvious. When Goben attacked, Minotao's main rangefinder was aiming in another direction. It was difficult to see the flames that were jumping ten thousand meters away simply by relying on the naked eye. The first round failed, the second round also failed, and the third round formed a cross-shoot and also brought the first hit!&1t;/p>

A 35omm shell entered water 20 meters on the side of the Minotao. After sinking for about 5 meters, the shell's posture turned right, and then sank like a torpedo while rushing straight towards the target. Then the sharp warhead easily tore open the hull under the waterline of the hull, and then easily knocked open the partition of the outside of the boiler chamber with a thickness of only 15mm. No matter how dark the Minotao is, it is just a patrol. The invincible underwater protection is bad enough. This guy can only be worse. A deep penetration injury appeared on Minotao's abdomen, and the explosion of the boiler chamber made the huge warship tremble like a sieve!&1t;/p>

This gun also determined the final fate of the armored cruiser. If you can't run away, you can't fight, you can't fight. The battle came to this point and went directly into garbage time. The Goben greeted the Moltke who was preparing to chase here, "Leave this target to me, you can do something else first." After a while, the Moltke turned around and began to evacuate. Then the Goben approached 14 kilometers and started to disarm Minotao with one cannon.&1t;/p>

Not to mention that the 1o-inch gun and 9.2-inch gun were caused to death at such a long distance, even hits could be described as a lottery ticket. Every time the Goben's muzzle shone, it was a disaster for the Minotao! The dense shells exploded on the hull, and the superstructure, main turret, cannon corridor, and side deck became fragmented by bombardment. Rolling smoke and flames spewed out of the warship's rupture. When the Minotao's last 9.2-inch gun was smashed into pieces, a destroyer quickly leaned forward, and then shot 2 torpedoes at a distance of 12oo meters and took away the last British armored cruiser.&1t;/p>

At the same time, other German warships that had already spread out in this sea area also began to hunt.&1t;/p>

"Full shoot, kill them!" The light cruiser Stuttgart stared at an auxiliary cruiser in the distance. This was a civilian ship modified, with a maximum flight of only 18 knots, which was nothing for light cruisers that were often over 25 knots. The 4 6-inch old guns on the other side were almost no threat to the German light cruiser 10 kilometers away.&1t;/p>

The Stuttgart light cruiser equipped with 6 175mm cannons easily sent a high explosive bomb to the opponent's head in a nearly target state. More than ten minutes after the battle, the auxiliary cruiser turned into a burning torch, and various supplies and combustible materials piled on the deck and in the cabin added the defeat of the warship. At this time, the British were very kind. They fought tenaciously. Until the warship sank, the only available 6-inch cannon did not stop shooting. For this dead and hard character, the Germans naturally did not hesitate to send them to the bottom of the sea with the most fierce attack.&1t;/p>

Battlecruisers and light cruisers will naturally choose their suitable opponents to fight. As the killing continues, some destroyers who cannot stand the loneliness also join the massacre. Even if the opponent's artillery fire is equally fatal to them, it cannot stop the Germans' fanatical torpedo charge.&1t;/p>

"Torpedo boat, the German ocean torpedo boat!" The lookout hand on the auxiliary cruiser Carolina found three figures in the distance that were almost close to the sea surface. The three destroyers approached their opponents with a 29-kilometer high-speed aviation. In the rolling sea wolf, the destroyers' ships seemed to have left the sea surface! With a relative voyage of up to 40 knots, I wanted to use only a handful of 6-inch guns to kill the three targets in the distance. This can only be said to be a bit too much...&1t;/p>

Three destroyers were passing through the water columns of shells. The British human resources did have some problems. It was not that they could not find people, but that they could not find enough experienced naval gunners. A group of people were operating the backward 6-inch gunners in a mess to try to lock in these gods of death that were approaching high on the sea. However, it was useless. The British never thought that they would encounter the opponent's lightning strike ships in the depths of the North Sea, so they were not equipped with many anti-lightning strike guns that could fire faster and rotate more conveniently. This negligence still requires the life of the Carolina to compensate!&1t;/p>

When it was approaching 5ooo meters, the 1o5mm and 15omm cannons on the German destroyer also began to fire. Shooting at such a distance was like fighting a bayonet. "Come on! Hurt each other!" When a high explosive bomb landed on the British auxiliary cruiser, the German destroyer was also hit. A shell fell on the upper deck of V99, killing and injuring two-digit combatants in one shot.&1t;/p>

But in the end, the German destroyer finally approached a distance of 3 ooo meters, and chose a dead corner where the opponent's artillery could not worry about, and then launched 4 torpedoes in a fan shape! The two torpedoes successfully hit the side of the auxiliary cruiser. The energy generated by the violent explosion seemed to push the ship flat to the side. What surprised the Germans was that in this way, the ship did not sink immediately!&1t;/p>

"It seems that the British have placed empty barrels and a large amount of cork inside the watertight compartment of the hull to maintain buoyancy. "A German officer said, looking at the struggling auxiliary cruiser in the distance.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!