How else to say that the Royal Navy in this era is NB? Not to mention anything else, at least people's sense of responsibility and courage are still the ones that have surpassed those younger generations after the end of the Cold War. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Info watched their transport ships being killed one by one, and the Sydney and Melbourne finally couldn't help it, and they were going to launch a counterattack!

The Sydney first peeked out of the smoke screen, ready to fire torpedoes closely, and then rained down 150mm shells, although the Sydney had a 4-inch armor belt, but the height and length were relatively tight, even 150mm secondary artillery shells could force these light cruisers back.

After a 6-inch gun emplacement was knocked out, the Sydney honestly hid in the smoke, and the Melbourne was even more unlucky, after rushing out of the smoke at a distance of 8 kilometers, it happened to be targeted by the main gun of the Gneisenau, although there was no school firing, but the rear main gun group of the Gneisenau still left a deep scar on the Melbourne in the case of almost flat fire!

A 350mm high-explosive bomb pierced straight through the upper edge of the Melbourne's armor, and after smashing the next door, it exploded in the engine room on one side of the Melbourne, and the meteorite-like cannonball collided with the roaring steam turbine, and after a loud bang, the poor battleship was spread out on the sea like a hyena that had been broken from its spine, and could only use the other half of the power that could be evaded backwards!

"Destroyer! Destroyers hurry up! We're running out of time! The captain of the Sydney looked at the sea behind him with some anxiety, those destroyers should also come up, right?

At this time, what answered him was a burst of cannons like popping beans! When the destroyer, which the British had high hopes for, passed behind the four merchant ships in front, the 150mm and 75mm guns that suddenly protruded from the side of the latter once again caught the British by surprise! And these four auxiliary cruisers were the same four ships that stood between the British fleet and the German fleet in the first place! That is, Su Xiong's four attack ships named after sea fish! They have endured until now, and finally extinguished the last flame of hope for the British!

"If it weren't for our ships, how could they have so properly stood between the British and our warships, creating a perfect opportunity for us to engage the enemy?" Afterwards, Raeder bragged in public more than once about his arrangement! That's right, the 4 auxiliary cruisers started with the task of providing cover for the two super dreadnoughts, and then while the big ships of the two sides were fighting together, the 4 auxiliary cruisers took the opportunity to clear out the destroyers, and then killed the transports that were completely defenseless!

At this moment, the plan of "Brother Xi" Raeder has been fully presented to the world, the task of the Nautilus attack ship that entered the strait first is to block the exit of the strait with mines, and 500 mines are arranged in a place with a width of no more than 10 kilometers and a narrower roadway that can be passed, this density is already quite high, according to Caron's words, if there is no Breto, from the point of view of probability, the British transport ship can always encounter a mine. And even if you pass, what can you do? An unarmed transport ship against an auxiliary cruiser that can wrestle with a light cruiser? Thinking too much, right? By the way, as for the other destroyer, the Fruit Fly? The annoying fly didn't touch the Nautilus, it was taken down by the mines laid by the latter!

And the other four "fish" are opening the way in front of the capital ship, playing the role of innocents along the way, as long as they don't fire first, once the British and the two super dreadnoughts fight, how can they still be taken care of? So they can avoid the defense that they absolutely can't beat, dodge the two light cruisers of more than 5,000 tons that they can barely beat, and then find the destroyers, and after cleaning up, go to deal with those transport ships that are huddled together! Why isn't Raeder in a hurry? It's because your auxiliary cruiser has penetrated into the enemy!

The British chose to force their way into the strait, who was waiting for them was the Thunderstorm and the Nautilus, and if they chose to disperse, then naturally there were 4 fish and 2 ships to solve the super-dreadnought handling of the British fleet. This is not in the ocean, as soon as the formation is disbanded, you can't chase it, the area of the Gulf of Aden is not much, and the sea area at the entrance to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait is even smaller, where do you run? Don't you see, are there still seaplanes staring in the sky? Even if you can run, how many can you run?

As a result, the capital ship, auxiliary cruisers, and mines in a suitable sea area, combined with a careful plan, eventually led to a classic ambush battle at sea, of course, it can also be called a sea massacre! It's like a pack of wolves making their prey feel like a cliff and letting the prey jump off ...... itself. And because Raeder made this plan, he received the title of the king of the Indian Ocean wolves from the British!

It's not that the British didn't receive the news, but if they did, it was useless, because at this time the British Mediterranean Fleet was blocking the Austrian-Turkish fleet with the French in the Mediterranean, and this inaccurate news was not at all possible for the British Mediterranean Fleet to enter the Red Sea, plus the perpetrators were two warships that had been "sold" to Argentina, so even if the British broke their heads, they couldn't imagine this situation! In other words, if you think of it, you can't solve it.

The auxiliary cruiser may be a send-off in the face of a light cruiser, but it is easy to hit a destroyer with only a few small guns, defenseless, and almost 0 armor. Like the Musketeers, the British were all stupid when a dense number of shells came from a distance of several thousand meters! With a few violent explosions, all but one destroyer escaped by dragging its crippled hull, and the remaining three destroyers were smashed to pieces in the confrontation with the auxiliary cruiser. At this point, the fall of the British fleet was only a matter of time.

The Melbourne, who had already been wounded, then played GG. After running out of its own smoke canisters, the Gneisenau gave its opponent a happy finish, firing a full salvo of 8 guns and directly hitting 4 shells! Tsunami-like flames and shrapnel smashed the Melbourne's side hull to shreds, and one of the shells successfully penetrated the ammunition depot at the waterline.

"The Melbourne was pushed out of the sea by a big hand, and the whole battleship was broken in two under its own gravity, and then fell back into the sea, and the second half was very open and sank, and the first half was still struggling on the water, and the bow raised high was full of unwillingness. The huge whirlpool created when the battleship sank pulled a large number of people overboard to the bottom of the sea, so much so that of the three British cruisers in this naval battle, this battleship had the least number of survivors. This is how a captured British officer described the sinking of the Melbourne.

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