Chapter 529: Engagement 2

Although the two sharp teeth of the Agile shark from the United Kingdom were broken, the Prince Albert was not all for nothing, the 150mm secondary cannon on it was also killed by 2, and the various small cannons on the engagement side were swept away by the dense 7.5-inch high-explosive shells. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info And all the main guns are busy dealing with the Agile Prince at the moment also has his own weaknesses, for example, now he can't deal with the armored cruiser of the Pizzana, which has been patrolling in the distance at the beginning and only joins the battle in the middle of the battle, and is as cunning as a wolf!

This 6,000-ton little guy armed with 12 6-inch guns would be as fragile as a baby if he faced the Prince Albert alone, but unfortunately, now when the Prince and Agile are fighting to the death, a small weight can affect the course of the battle. And at this moment, this lone wolf rushed forward without hesitation, and poured tons of high-explosive shells on the bridge of the Prince Albert with a 6-inch gun like a wolf's teeth!

"Annoying stuff!" In the distance, the constant beating fire from the muzzle of the cruiser Bassana made Scheer angry, but it was just a small boat, but it caused itself great trouble, and the dense high-explosive shells hit the side chord of the battleship one by one, and the German and Turkish sailors who assisted the damage tried to suppress the spreading fire with water dragons, but the death storm of flames and shrapnel swallowed up all the lives that dared to be naked! The poisonous gases produced by the violent combustion of picric acid began to spread in various cabins, and many people were caught off guard and could only crawl on the ground weakly, waiting for the arrival of death.

The aft deck of the battleship gradually turned into a sea of fire, and even the rear main turret, which was protected by the armored fort, became very unsafe, and the heat scorched everything in the cabin, and the flames burned the pipes and everything that could be ignited.

"I could feel the area outside the turret burning, because I could feel the heat as I got closer to the side walls. And the news from the ammunition depot is the same, as if we are in a huge furnace. After the war, the gun commander in turret 4 recalled the situation in this way.

"General, the gunnery chief suggests that we separate our firepower against these two targets, and we can't let the Italian cruisers attack us!" An officer said.

"However, the result of the dispersion of fire was that neither battleship could be suppressed." Scheer flatly refused the request of the gunner, if half of the guns were divided against the cruisers, then the loss would not only be the amount of projection, but also the accuracy, and if only 4 guns were used, it would be difficult to complete even the most basic corrective fire. So Sher would rather concentrate his fire on sinking or driving the cruiser away before dealing with the Agile.

However, soon, Scheer seemed to have a new idea, and he suddenly found that the British battleship on the opposite side seemed to have been suppressing its speed, according to intelligence, this battleship could easily run a high speed of 20 knots, but in actual combat, the opponent's speed has been maintained at about 14 knots. If it is said that in order to ensure the stability of the shelling, it is understandable to sail at this speed, but the other side should realize that the long-range battle is not good for them, but still does not accelerate the pursuit, what the hell is this?

"Freeboard! It must be freeboard! Scheer stumbled upon the 7.5-inch gun on the lower level of the Agile once again. It was the risk of seawater backflow that made the British afraid to speed up! Scheer said firmly. Increasing the speed to 17 knots, we need to get rid of that difficult guy. After figuring this out, Scheer commanded decisively.

"The Germans seem to be leaving?" Jericho said with some confusion. The battle did tilt in their favor, but the balance was fragile, the difference between the two sides was not much, and a good hit could wipe out this advantage, and with no other Italian fleet around, the Germans chose to evacuate with some problems.

However, Jericho was wondering if the other party was cheating, for example, leading himself into a minefield. The cruiser Pisana rushed headlong! The latter has been playing smoothly, and it thinks that the Agile will keep catching up and then holding back its opponent to the death.

The distance between the two British warships gradually widened, and coincidentally, the Pizzana was on the line between Prince Albert and the Agile, and the smoke from the Pizzana directly hindered the Agility's ranging and aiming. And Prince Albert, who was greatly reduced, immediately aimed all his fire at the Italian cruiser ......, which had just set himself on fire for half a day.

In the absence of pressure just now, the Pisana was only about 5km away from the Prince Albert, and now, under the deliberate control of Scheer, the distance between the two sides has been shortened to about 4,000 meters, and it is not possible to get closer, and Scheer is worried that the other side will release torpedoes. At this distance, the 10-inch gun can shoot almost directly! Scheer didn't even get a test shot, and almost leveled the muzzle of the gun aimed at the guy who angered his own scales!

Rumble! With a series of roars, 7 10-inch shells flew towards the target not far away! In the first salvo, 3 shells hit this poor battleship! It has to be said that the luck of the Bisana was a little bad, two of the shells fell very closely, and the dense 6-inch gun gallery deployed in the middle of the hull could not withstand the attack of 10-inch armor-piercing shells at all, and the fierce flames and steel storm swept across the area of several tens of meters in the middle of the hull. When the smoke cleared, only two huge holes in the battleship could be seen. Another shell hit the chimney of the Pysana and shattered it, pouring a large amount of smoke into the hull. The smoke even turned off several boilers!

In just a few minutes, the whole situation was reversed, and the Pizzana collapsed like a badly damaged hyena. The Prince Albert now has only one enemy, and that is the Agility!

"Damn, what's wrong?" Just as Scheer was about to take down the Agile in one fell swoop, there was a sudden loud bang on the side chord of the battleship. A 10-inch shell from the agile engine hit a turret in the middle of the hull, which did not penetrate the armor, but it just jammed the turret's rotation mechanism, and the Prince Albert could only use the fire of five main guns at most.

"You're in luck, British!" Scheer took one last look at the Agile on the surface of the sea, and then ordered the fleet to withdraw. This was the end of the first battle between Britain and Germany, and the Prince Albert was almost tied with one enemy and two enemies. However, the British could quickly repair the battleship when they returned, but the situation of Prince Albert is difficult to say.......

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