Less than a second later, a huge pillar of fire rose from the middle of the hull! In the firelight, countless fragments were projected into the air, and billowing smoke formed a slanting column of smoke in the sea breeze. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Seeing that this poor light cruiser is hopeless!

The rest went completely into garbage time, and the two British battleships delightfully ravaged the poor German light cruiser. And when Betty's Tiger and the New Zealand behind also aimed their guns at Rear Admiral Bodick's fleet after dealing with the destroyers in close proximity, all the rear admiral could do was pull the smoke to protect himself!

"Let the destroyers go up and kill them!" And Thomas, clearly not intending to let his opponent go, a group of destroyers rushed up under the cover of 2 light cruisers. And at this time, the Hipper's fleet, which had been holding back, finally made a move!

The huge artillery was aimed at the target not far away, the seaplanes had approached the British fleet, and reported the position of the British to the fleet, and the rangefinder at the top of the mast stared at the old enemy like a giant's gaze! The longbow in his hand had been raised, and when the red artillery light came on, the first round of devastating projectiles began!

In the distance, the sea suddenly flashed with firelight! The salvo of up to 64 heavy guns of 8 fast battleships instantly formed a flaming dragon swaying and rising on the sea, and dozens of tons of shells flew out of the barrel almost at the same time! These devastated bullets flew at more than twice the speed of sound towards the British fleet caught off guard in the distance, and the retinas of the British were shining with orange spots from artillery fire! Fearful and incredible expressions appeared on the faces of the British! At this moment, at least seventy percent of the British Navy officers and sailors were stunned!

"That's at least the strength of two battleship detachments! My God! We're done! A panicked British officer pointed to the leaping flames in the distance and said loudly, but soon, the noise of the shells falling into the water completely drowned out his exclamation, and a few dozen seconds later, the entire British fleet was surrounded by water jets and flames! Even in the presence of sea fog, the shells fired by the German fleet at a distance of 12 kilometers maintained a decent accuracy!

The Prestige and Counterattack, located in the latter two, was first surrounded by the fire of the 4 battlecruisers of the Hipper's fleet! The Moltke and the Von der Thanen against the Prestige, while the other two battlecruisers against the Prestige! Almost every 15 seconds, a round of shells fell, and before the two queens could find their corresponding targets, they were hit first!

A 12-inch shell hit the front of the hull of the Prestige, and the armor-piercing shell weighing 405KG easily tore the 4-inch armor belt in the front of the Prestige, and by the way, a steel plate next to it was torn off the hull as a whole! A huge hole appeared in the waterline section, and hundreds of tons of seawater quickly poured into the two sealed cabins. AND ALMOST AT THE SAME TIME, A 350MM SHELL HIT THE PRESTIGIOUS MAIN ARMOR BELT, AT A DISTANCE OF 12 KM, AND AT A NOT VERY GOOD ANGLE, THE QUEEN'S CLAIMED 330MM THICK ARMOR BELT DID NOT BLOCK THIS SHELL! The shell hit the area between the main and upper armor belts, and the thickness was about 10 inches.

I saw a sudden flash of fire on the hull of the Prestige, and then a stream of white steam mixed with black smoke erupted from the breach, even ten kilometers away, the Moltke could still observe the scene of the continuous explosion on the Prestige, this shell exploded after shooting through the bomb delivery channel in the lower part of the gallery, but the remaining fragments still smashed through several cabins, blowing up several steam pipes at the back of the gallery! The shells in the secondary artillery area were detonated, and a large area of flames and high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor quickly spread inside the hull, and the entire middle of the battleship was like a volcano ready to erupt, constantly spewing steam and fire.

AND SOON, UNDER THE BLOWS OF THE GOEBEN AND THE SETRITZ, THE COUNTERATTACK WAS IN AN EVEN WORSE SITUATION, AFTER ALL, IT WAS FACING 16 350MM HEAVY GUNS! By the time Moltke and the Von der Thanen slapped the third shell on the front of the No. 3 turret of the Fame, the two German battlecruisers had already hit their opponents four times!

Four hits were evenly distributed over the almost 190-meter-long hull of the Prestige, one shell hit the bow of the ship, adding 800 tons of displacement to the battleship, and one hit turret No. 3, piercing a hole directly between the two guns! The violent explosion swept through the entire turret interior, killing more than 60 Royal Navy officers and men in an instant. Two guns were completely destroyed, but fortunately there were no ammunition at the rear of the turret, and the fire door to the ammunition compartment was closed. The third shell hit the hull superstructure, lighting a fire, and the fourth hit the stern of the hull, bringing 700 tons of water to the battleship.

But the worst thing was the battleship Baliem, which was fired at by two Bavarian-class battleships by the Weimar and the Braunschweig! To tell the truth, the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships are at most a notch with the Helgland-class fast battleships, and a notch worse than the Bavaria-class, and this time you, the poor Balime, are still ...... with a dozen or two. Such a belligerent situation doomed the fate of this battleship!

The two German battleships that had participated in Operation Thunder-Thurbrus behaved fairly well in this engagement, and the Weimar was the first to catch the target in the seventh half-salvo. And the ninth half-salvo successfully slapped a shell in the middle of the hull of the Barem! THE CANNON SUCCESSFULLY PUNCHED A 800MM DIAMETER BULLET HOLE IN THE 330MM THICK SIDE PANZER DIVISION, AND THE MOLTEN METAL FORMED A RADIOACTIVE METAL JET AROUND THE BULLET HOLE. And then the shell that shattered the warhead once again pierced through Barem's dome armor and directly blew the boiler condenser on the port side to pieces, and countless fragments jumped and collided inside the hull, destroying a condensate tank next door. And after losing enough condensation, the power of the Barem dropped by about a third!

A shell from the Braunschweig entered horizontally, and although it did not penetrate the upper part of the dome, which was the main horizontal armor, due to angle problems, the violent explosion still cut several power lines near the point where the bullet was hit. A quarter of the entire interior of the battleship was instantly plunged into darkness.

When the two battleships entered the effective firing phase, the two battleships poured down more than 12 tons of ammunition per minute! The Barem struggled between the columns of water with flames and smoke, and from the time the first shell hit, in just five minutes, the poor battleship had been hit seven times!

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