"Boom!" A dazzling light burst out of the darkness, like a rainbow, and the fire dragon soared into the sky. Before the British sailors on the Charles could enjoy the splendid scenery, the deck beneath their feet shook like the earth and the sound of an earth-shattering explosion that threatened to tear their eardrums. The scorching wind danced wildly, the scorching waves rushed, and the shattered steel hull and the dense shrapnel rushed to the sky****; A large area of the left side of the Baisha was immediately blown to pieces, and the raging flames roared and spewed out from it, and soon soared to an altitude of nearly 100 meters.

"Target 2.5 km, first hit!" Otto shouted through the microphone to the personnel inside the main turret. Under the guidance of the radar, the Scheer quietly approached the target in the dark night, and then suddenly turned on the searchlight and launched a thunderous bombardment of the target with its main gun. Due to the proximity of the two sides, the ballistics of the main guns of the German battleships had tended to a straight line; In this case, even if the exact distance of the target cannot be accurately determined in the dark, the 283-mm shell can easily hit the enemy ship in a straight flight!

Although Otto did not approve of the current practice of firing directly at merchant ships, it was his best choice in order to sink as many British ships as possible. At present, there are still many British merchant ships fleeing at night in this sea area, and they are desperately fleeing at a speed of 8~10 knots every moment. If they still force the cargo ship to stop and send armed sailors to capture the prisoners in small boats, it will inevitably take a lot of time, and this will inevitably greatly affect the process of pursuing other merchant ships. You must know that the several transport boats with their own engines carried by the Scheer had already carried anti-aircraft artillery officers and soldiers to occupy the previous merchant ships, and now there was only one unpowered lifeboat and Cali raft left. These vehicles were never meant to sail the seas, and floating on the surface was their only and competent mission.

"To be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself. If we had sunk one less British cargo ship today, it would have killed more German fighters when it arrived in England with its loads. Otto's expression gradually became firm, and then he ordered: "There are 3 guns left in the Anton turret. Shoot now! ”

There was a thunderous earthquake, a burst of red light, and three heavy shells whizzed towards the British merchant ships; Its momentum is as straight as a meteor thunderbolt, and the mountains collapse. Since tonight's target was an unarmored merchant ship, Otto ordered the main gun to be loaded with high-explosive shells: the high-explosive shells had a larger charge coefficient than the semi-armor-piercing shells used in the daytime battles with British cruisers, with 29kg of the 360kg shells being high explosives. The cruiser USS Hawkins, with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons, could not withstand the attack of semi-armor-piercing shells of German ships, and how could civilian ships with fragile hulls withstand the baptism of high-explosive shells? I saw that the port hull of the British merchant ship burst out one after another several magnificent red clouds with a radius of more than ten meters, and the whole ship soon burned into a torch that illuminated the sea and air.

In a suffocating scorching wave, Jack, a young British sailor, struggled to climb out of the rubble. The clothes on his chest were already wet and red with blood. The slightest movement is a pain that pierces the heart. The body of Captain Pipin lay nearby, his back smashed by the collapsed steel beam of the bridge and collapsed in a large chunk; And the shrapnel of his head was completely shaved off, and the red and white goo slowly spread out on the deck.

Seeing such a bloody and terrifying scene, Jack, who was not yet an adult, almost broke down emotionally, and he let out a hoarse cry that was not like a human voice, like a young wolf cub who saw the she-wolf being dismembered by a pack of lions. The captain, who usually took good care of himself, turned into a corpse that had lost all his life in an instant, and died so miserably! Jack's gaze shifted to the remains of the black navigator Kawa, whom he had taunted the previous evening. Half of his bloodied body was already surrounded by the raging Flame Demon. Melted grease trickles down; In some parts, the skeleton of Bai Sensen can already be seen in the flesh and blood.

"Uh-wow......" Jack couldn't take it anymore and immediately vomited violently. His whole body trembled, and his face was as white as paper. Turning his head, he didn't dare to look at the miserable scene of hell again. A violent tremor came from inside the ship, and the gradually sloping deck gave Jack a shred of what he still had to sane: he suddenly found that the cargo ship had already tilted significantly, and it was estimated that it would be completely sunk into the sea in a few minutes at most!

Driven by a strong desire to survive. Jack actually suppressed the fear in his heart for a short time. Resisting the severe pain, he quickly bandaged the wound on his chest with the strips of cloth he had torn off from his sailor suit, and then snatched a wooden door from the flames that had been nearly half burned. Throw it off the surface with all your might. Because of this violent movement, Jack's wound that had just healed burst open again, and the severe pain and massive blood loss made his consciousness blurry and drowsy, and he wanted to fall asleep. However, Jack, who subconsciously knew that the ship was going to sink soon, squeezed out the last bit of potential in this body; He took the whistle in his pocket and took it in his mouth, climbed over the parapet more than a meter high, and then jumped down the plank he had just thrown into the sea.

Three minutes later, the Baisha cargo ship, loaded with 15,000 tons of iron ore and timber, finally stopped burning. By this time she was below sea level, and continued to sink into the bottomless darkness of eternity. Amazingly, Jack was still floating on the water. His hands tightly clamped the handle of the broken wooden door beneath him, desperately trying not to let himself roll into the sea; After each deep breath, I desperately called for help through the whistle in my mouth. After a while, a dazzling searchlight finally swept here, and fell on Jack, who was lying on the door panel with his upper body.

Seeing this, Colonel Cranke frowned. After a moment of silence, he finally ordered the battleship to move closer and use the lifeboat to salvage the live port. Through the mouth of this British sailor, he can also know the tonnage and cargo of the merchant ship that has been sunk.

Guided by the radar, the Scheer then turned to its next nearest target. The British cargo ship was only 9 km away, and if it weren't for the sake of saving shells, Captain Cranker would have even ordered the main guns to fire a salvo from radar measurements. Soon, however, he was glad that he had avoided a tragedy that might have accidentally hit an ally. Just a few minutes later, the Scheer's radar screen suddenly showed that there was another point of light next to the target; And just when Cranke was in shock, the point of light that suddenly appeared showed his identity with the fire fired at the British merchant ships: the U-boat of the German Navy!

"Haven't you had enough of last night's feast, these greedy wolves?" Seeing that the friendly submarine was using 88mm deck guns to arbitrarily bully the British merchant ship more than 200 meters away, Cranke couldn't help but pout, and said with some annoyance. Although he did not witness the attack of the beautiful wolf pack that was raided on all sides and blossomed in the middle, he also knew the heavy losses of this British fleet through the telegram sent by the submarine early this morning. He originally thought that it would be his turn to stage a peerless drama today, but he never expected that the submarine force would come to grab people's heads! Don't these guys know that if they hadn't dealt with the three escort warships in the evening, where would they have been able to swagger to the surface and carry out artillery bombardment with impunity?

"Quick, immediately send a signal to inform our submarines, so that they must confirm the identity of the other party before launching an attack!" Crank, who gritted his teeth, suddenly reacted and immediately ordered to the adjutant in front of him. He clearly remembered that his submarine relied on sonar to capture the noise of the propeller to confirm the position of the ship that could not be seen visually; Now that this sea has its own existence, it is necessary to beware of accidental attacks. Thinking of the unprecedentedly terrifying torpedo equipped on his submarine, Cranke couldn't help but shudder, if he was hit by that kind of torpedo, even if it had a perfect mine protection system, there would be more than 70% chance of being explained here!

Seeing the figure of the adjutant contacting the telegraph room, Cranke regained his gloomy expression and said hatefully: "Damn submarine, don't you want to take away the results of the battle from me!" The next merchant ships are all mine! ”

After a long night, the main engine shook and hissed, and the Pocket Patrol and five submarines of the Scheer attacked in this sea area in unison, launching an all-out pursuit of the scattered and escaped British merchant ships. Brilliant searchlights pierced the darkness, followed by deadly shells that cut heads and faces. The British sailors were desperate to find themselves even on a dark night with such low visibility. The idea that they fled at night before was tantamount to self-deception and stealing the bell!

"God, who will save us......" the English sailor cried out in mourning, looking particularly sad in the flames of the explosion. At this moment, under the crushing of absolute power, the reserved skins of all civilizations have been stripped of their bodies, leaving only ordinary souls that tremble with fear. The English finally experienced the pain of those who had been conquered, enslaved, and slaughtered by them, and the law of the jungle was the best reward for them!

With the advantages of speed and radar positioning, the Scheer had an absolute advantage over the submarine in this pursuit. Within four hours, 5 more British merchant ships were destroyed and sunk by her heavy artillery. Facing the already empty radar screen, Colonel Cranker still had no intention of stopping. There were still a few merchant ships scattered across the sea, and he was determined to wipe them out. (To be continued.) )