Chapter 1186: Bombing 2
The flames and smoke that rose into the sky greatly boosted the morale of the British! The remaining bombers rushed up like sharks smelling blood, and the Hipper's fleet was bombarded with the most heaviness! This time, the British bomb belts were very varied, ranging from ordinary 60-pound small bombs to 1,000-pound large bombs, and in terms of sources, there were even more variety, some specially made, and some modified with artillery shells or anti-submarine deep bombs. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info Hipper's luck was as good as the bomb that blew him up was only 500 pounds .......
A series of small bombs fell from the sky, although most of them still fell into the sea, but only 2 hits of the 120-pound bombs still caused serious damage to the anti-aircraft gun array on the left deck of the Weimar, one of the bombs fell near an 88mm anti-aircraft gun, and the flying shrapnel easily harvested the entire gun crew, leaving only the artillery that turned into fragments, and the other bomb was even more fierce, directly erasing a 2-pounder gun and the two machine gun groups next to it.
When the smoke cleared, the deck was littered with mutilated, charred corpses and minced flesh, and the pungent smell of burning picric acid and the smell of blood were disgusting. Fragments of weapons and twisted decks make this a living hell. If we talk purely about the loss of personnel, then the effect of this bombing was even greater than the losses caused by the British fleet.
Hipper's biggest problem was a 500-pound bomb that hit the rear of the superstructure, which not only blew up half of the chimney, but also destroyed the nearby radio room. The damage to the equipment is certainly heart-wrenching, but more importantly, the total number of personnel in this bomb is not three out of ten! Because of this, Hipper was not able to receive von. Telegram from Lefetsov.
The capital ship was blown up. Not to mention the accompanying small warships, the destroyer S-120 was directly hit by a 150-pound bomb, which was a semi-armor-piercing bomb converted from a cannonball, and fell from a height of 500 meters and accidentally smashed on the deck of the destroyer, which was only 500 tons. This time, the British fuse lived up to expectations and penetrated the deck and then exploded in the engine room, and more than 30 kilograms of explosives directly handed over the ship directly to the North Sea.
The light cruiser Emden was lucky not to be hit by a high-powered aerial bomb, but a 500-pound near-miss still made the light cruiser with a displacement of more than 5,000 tons suffer. This high-explosive bomb, which exploded after entering the water at a distance of 15 meters on the starboard side, gave the German officers and sailors on the Emden the feeling of being hit by a small mine! More than 100 kilograms of explosives are really powerful! A huge shock wave struck the side of the Emden like a hammer! Crush the entire steel plate of the underwater part directly!
To be honest, the 10,000-ton treaty cruiser, which was twice as large as the Emden in World War II, was uncomfortable in the face of a high-explosive near-miss of the 250KG class, let alone the current Emden! The power of this bomb directly destroyed the Emden's undertree defense system, a huge crater with a length of 5 meters appeared in the underwater part of the light cruiser, a large amount of seawater poured into the power compartment of the Emden along the gap, and in just a few minutes, the boilers in the side compartment of the bomb were flooded one by one, and the unlucky battleship instantly lost half of its power, and it was seriously tilted.
The bombs that kept falling in the air scared Hipper a little frightened, although he knew that the current bombs could not penetrate his core, but it was still possible to drastically reduce the combat effectiveness of a battleship, imagine that if there was an artillery battle with the British fleet, the other party suddenly came to such a group of bombers to drop bombs, this feeling was simply too sour, it was definitely the result of a minute collapse!
As for the results of the anti-aircraft fire of the Hipper's fleet? NOW IT IS CERTAIN THAT ONLY ONE O-400 BOMBER WAS SHOT DOWN BY ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, AND THIS UNLUCKY PLANE WAS HIT BY AN 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN SHELL FLYING FROM NOWHERE, AND THE 10KG SHELL DIRECTLY BLEW THE PLANE IN HALF. At the same time, it can be determined that two bombers were hit by 2-pounder guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and flew back to the mainland with black smoke, as for the rest of the results? Hipper can't say that no other planes have been hit, but the effect is really not .......
"We brought out 5 seaplane carriers, and I'm curious to know now where they are! There wasn't a single twin-engine seaplane above my head! After the British bomber group was gone, Hippert said with a grumbling heart, and at this time, the first battleship detachment directly under the prince was experiencing an unprecedented sea and air battle! And all twin-engine aircraft, naturally, are for the protection of the "leadership"! In this air raid, Hippert was attacked by less than forty percent, and most of the remaining British bombers were headed for the general flagship of the German High Seas Fleet!
One of the greatest meanings of the Air Force is that it can directly hit the opponent's most critical targets across the two-dimensional battlefield! And this time the British thought the same way! Also, when they saw the Baden flying the commander's flag, a group of large and small planes rushed up like piranhas in the Amazon seeing creatures in the water!
That's right, you read that right, it was the Baden that raised the commander's flag ....... And the prince and Scheer are still on board the Bavaria! "Although it is a little inauthentic, in the absence of the British fleet, I think it is necessary to deliberately protect the real flagship!" Look at the Baden in the distance, besieged by a swarm of British bombers. Scheer was somewhat embarrassed to ......excuse the prince's order.
"You know what! Only in a relatively safe situation can we effectively command the battle! It's all about the needs of the battle! The prince's serious words gave Sher a deeper understanding of the so-called lower limit!
Prince Ruprecht admits that this arrangement is for his own safety, but at the same time, it is really impossible to effectively command the fleet on a capital ship besieged by double-digit bombers. Didn't you see the 2 black and long ones hanging under the belly of the V1500 bomber?! That's at least two 1,000-pound bombs! Even if it's a high-explosive bomb. The feeling of landing on the battleship is also definitely quite sour! In another time and space, the prince did not miss the various scars left by these bombs on the warships of various countries! That's called a murderous one!
And to protect the flagship! The aviation of the German Navy was also completely conscientious! It's not too much to do your best! It was also thought that their efforts bought time for the withdrawal of the main forces of the German High Seas Fleet from the battlefield below.
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