With a heavy roar, like rolling thunder echoing in the sky before a storm, the Bismarck seemed to have been slammed by a sea shark, and the huge tremor caused the steel body of more than 53,000 tons to shake violently. A curtain of water rose from the port side of the Bismarck www.biquge.info instantly rising above the mainmast of the Bismarck, and then the sailors on deck were horrified to see the vast waves of snow pouring down from the sky, and in less than two breaths they were completely enveloped!

"Wow!" The sea of ice roared, the waves sangled and swept vertically and horizontally, and the bridge of the tall and majestic battleship was like a submarine possessed in an instant, and it was directly swept up by the rushing blue waves. Even the conning tower, which was higher than the B turret, was not spared, and the sea water rushed in through the observation port, making Karls and the others inside deeply feel the temperature of the Norwegian Sea in the depths of winter. The water-soaked shirt clung to the skin of his body, sucking up the heat from a distance. In a matter of seconds, the 55-year-old Karls felt as if his feet and back no longer belonged to him: the cold could break through the muscles and implant stiffness and coldness deep in the bone marrow!

Lindemann wiped a handful of water droplets from his face, but his heart was relieved. The flooding of the conning tower meant that the torpedo hit point was the hull near its bottom, and this location undoubtedly belonged to the area of the Bismarck's core module, which had the most complete torpedo defense structure and underwater armor protection. For torpedoes with a charge of less than 500kg, the ship's core compartment is confident to resist. According to intelligence, the British destroyer was armed with a torpedo caliber of only 533 mm, which was almost impossible to hold half a ton of explosives without the use of pure oxygen power.

Lindemann's estimate proved to be accurate. The torpedo hit the Bismarck's forward auxiliary engine room, but it did not work at all as the British expected. The power of the 327-kilogram TNT explosion was like a volley of lava, but when it broke through the sandwich-like underwater structure of the German ship's empty tank-liquid tank, a lot of power was consumed. Due to the different medium and density of each layer, this leads to the energy generated by the torpedo explosion is sharply absorbed, when the power of the shock wave with a large attenuation breaks through these three difficult structures, it is greeted by 230~50 mm, the thickness of which gradually decreases from top to bottom homogeneous nickel-cadmium armor protection.

Until this point, the wild and unruly shockwave was like a beast that crashed into the iron gate, and it was no longer powerless to wreak havoc. With a loud roar, the TDS next door was only slightly deformed to carry the impact. Thanks to the skill and rigor of the German workers, none of the welds around the armor cracked. German sailors urgently closed the watertight doors around the blast site, and at the same time carried out all efforts to drain the salvage compartments, and the Bismarck only poured more than 400 tons of seawater to stop the draught from deepening, and the damage was slight or even noticeable.

Under Lindeman's all-out shouting and command, the officers and men in the steering engine room were not affected by the thunder just now, and continued to maneuver the battleship to dodge. In the midst of a silent prayer, three more torpedoes were dodged by the Bismarck's twisted body. However, the torpedoes fired by British destroyers were still too many after all. Accompanied by a muffled noise and a monstrous wall of water, the German sailors continuously felt a strong tremor from the warship under them, and each of these blows was like a giant hammer bombarding their hearts, making them anxious and worried about the pride of this German navy!

"The first team immediately sent 20 men to support Hatch 1167 and told them to bring welding torches and sealing plates, where the breach needed to be plugged first. All the personnel of the third damage management team went to the bow cabin No. 74 to prepare more hoses and barrels; After 5 minutes I'll have the main drain pump turn here to do the work, and they make sure the water inflow doesn't worsen! Damage Control Team 2 can abandon Watertight Compartment 475, but all subsequent compartments must be defended, and if it is lost again, the aft ammunition depot will be infiltrated from above by seawater bypassing the TDS. ……”

Commander Tower, who was still waterlogged, and Captain Lindemann quickly issued one damage control command after another. The herald behind him flew like the wind, accurately relaying these commands to the ears of his target through a variety of means, including the ship's phone and microphone. In less than 2 minutes, the Bismarck was hit by 3 more torpedoes in a row, especially the one that hit the bow and caused the most damage.

Due to the width and weight constraints of the site, it was impossible to deploy any anti-torpedo means, and the power of hundreds of kilograms of high explosives was finally completely released, causing devastating damage to large swaths of the hull structure. Coupled with the damage suffered by the Bismarck during the artillery battle, the situation in the bow of the ship suddenly became extremely serious, and in order to stop the inflow of water here, Lindemann threw all the main forces of the damage management into it.

In other locations, however, the damage was nowhere near as severe as the bow. In addition to the excellent lightning protection design of the warship itself, it is largely due to Lindemann's control of the warship: when it is confirmed that a torpedo cannot be evaded, he always tries to maneuver the warship and uses the core cabin with the strongest lightning protection ability to carry it.

When it is impossible to avoid multiple torpedoes at the same time, Lindemann also tries to balance the damage of the left and right sides of the warship to avoid a large angle of tilt due to too much water on one side. After 4 torpedoes, the Bismarck was not much different from the end of the previous artillery battle, except for the increase in water intake, and although the damage to the bow was heavy, it was also a non-core area that could be abandoned if necessary.

With the all-out rescue of the German soldiers, the torpedoes fired by the British destroyer group finally swept past the Bismarck. The Tirpitz in the rear, although not being "cared for" to the same extent, was hit by 2 torpedoes that were scurrying all over the sea. With the advantage of hardware, the ship was also not hit hard.

The officers and men on the British destroyer looked at the two German battleships that did not sink immediately, but they could only pull up the smoke and evacuate at full speed, and the eight torpedo tubes were reloaded for another round, which took half an hour to say the least.

"Merkel's 3rd Fleet should have already exchanged fire with the British, right?" Kars looked down at the pocket watch in his hand and said silently in his mind. In order to keep the attention of the British frigates on these two battleships, the price he paid was not insignificant: if the Bismarck did not have such a solid underwater defense, Lindemann's ship control skills were worse, and the ship might have been explained here today. Kars took a deep breath and tried to calm his frightened and restless heart: today is far from the end of the matter, and the next stage should be the stage for his own navy's assault.