From Major General Bodick's point of view, he could see a series of fireballs rising into the sky, and while the first shells had not yet fallen, the second batch of shells had already been discharged! The meteor shower-like shells instantly covered the galloping British light cruisers, and the near-flat angle created a terrible danger zone for the opposing ships (the area that could be hit by the shells was called the danger zone). Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ）

A wall of flames rolled towards the British battleship not far away, and when the two sides collided together, a continuous explosion and a torrent of flames like a volcanic eruption swept the entire battleship in an instant!

For a full minute, the Frankfurt fired no less than 2 tons of shells. (ONE CANNON 175MM SHELL WEIGHS 75KG, 6 GUNS, AND A RATE OF FIRE OF 7 TO 8 ROUNDS PER MINUTE.) In the course of a minute, the distance between the two sides was close to about 5 kilometers, and this close distance gave this round of shelling an extraordinary hit rate, and nearly half a ton of shells smashed firmly on the poor British light cruiser!

A raging firestorm swept through all the protrusions on the deck of the Antrim for the first time. A 6-inch gun in the bow of the ship did not have time to fire a third shell, but was hit by a 75KG armor-piercing shell, and after easily tearing open the 50mm artillery shield, the 12-man gun crew behind it and the 6-inch gun weighing 5 tons were shattered! The entire gun emplacement was completely wiped off the deck, and only the remaining pillars and the debris next to them told people that there was once a cannon here!

In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, in this kind of hand-to-hand combat in which both sides almost put their guns in each other's heads, the side that grabbed the first hand and had a large amount of artillery projection was generally the winner, with the help of the two sharp weapons of mechanical servo and turret artillery, the light cruiser Antrim on the opposite side had no chance to fight back at all, and a series of shells hit the side gun emplacements, bridges, waterline armor belts, chimneys, and engine rooms one after another, and the slender hull made a terrifying explosion and tremor under several successive hits.

Dense shells blew one cockpit to pieces, two chimneys were also cut off by Qi Gen, more than a dozen holes appeared in less than 3 minutes at the waterline of the ship's side, and the raging sea water poured into the side compartments, and even tore open the partition of the power compartment under the violent impact, and after a few tens of seconds, the boiler compartment of the light cruiser was already ready for fish .......

"Well played! Rapid shooting! Blood! After seeing that it had clearly tilted, and that the entire hull had become a large swimming torch, Rear Admiral Bodick excitedly shouted to the gunnery chief through the microphone. The crushing in front of him stimulated the fighting spirit and bloodthirstiness in the hearts of men. In less than ten minutes, the Frankfurt had beaten its opponent into a dead fish.

At this time, the other 6 light cruisers on both sides were also entangled together, and the British light cruisers, realizing that the other side was hard stubble, quickly released the smoke screen, and hoped that the destroyers behind could take advantage of the chaos to take out these obstructive light cruisers. The German light cruisers also rationally controlled the speed and distance, and the two sides always maintained a straight-line distance of about 5 kilometers.

And the German fleet, naturally, would not let British light cruisers and torpedo boats patrol the sea! After the three battleships aimed their main guns at the British fleet, the situation was different!

"It's like hitting a rabbit with a shotgun, when a shell explodes, it produces hundreds of fist-sized fragments, which may not be anything to a capital ship, but they are absolutely deadly to light cruisers and destroyers!" After the war, the gun chief of the battleship Oldenburg said triumphantly.

The smoke screen of the three light cruisers could only cover part of the battlefield, and the three German capital ships located in the rear of the flanks still had a very good firing range, although the destroyers were also agile and not easy to hit, but the close miss was undoubtedly fatal for these battleships!

Columns of water approached the British destroyer formation like the footsteps of the Grim Reaper, and they now had only three choices, the first option was to rush through their smoke cover and fight to the death, the second option was to stay where they were and gamble on their luck, and the third option was to directly pull the call. The roar of the shell explosion caused many people's eardrums to burst and bleed, and the shrapnel like raindrops made him terrible like a rain of hellfire.

The red-yellow flames that exploded in the sky, the smoke and steam that rose and the diffused water vapor outlined a scene of the apocalypse, and under the sky of Optics Valley was a formation of British destroyers, fist-sized shrapnel falling from the sky one after another, opening large and small breaches in the destroyers. Every collision is a test of life and death for the people in the cabin, the thin partition not only does not provide better protection for the personnel inside, but will make the attack of the other party more deadly, thousands of large or small shrapnel jumped and bounced between the cabins, passages and pipes, and the flowers of blood donation bloomed in the jump of shrapnel, and the entire cabin became a colander under repeated attacks.

The destroyer Akeron and the Attack first stopped struggling, the former was destroyed by a 350mm near-miss bomb, this high-explosive bomb weighing more than 600 kilograms fell in the sea less than 10 meters away from Akeron, the instant explosion immediately made the nearby sea water like a boiling pot, the energy of the explosion formed a large number of high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles in the water, these bubbles produced a huge energy impact when they burst, and the water flow wrapped in fragments hit the fragile side of the Akeron.

With a series of dense crashing sounds, the hull plate of the battleship was instantly torn open a hole several meters long, and then the power compartment. Finally, the keel at the bottom of the battleship, with a tooth-aching sound of metal breaking and twisting, the destroyer was almost reached at both ends, the front half was heavily flooded, and the inertia of high-speed navigation accelerated his sinking, like a sharp sword piercing the water, the bow never floated again after entering the water, the tail was raised high, and the propeller stopped turning.

The destroyer Attack was killed by a rain of shrapnel. Numerous pieces of shrapnel, large and small, hit this destroyer one after another. "In less than 2 minutes, our battleship was punched out of at least 100 holes!" After the war, a rescued British sailor swore that it was debatable how they counted them. But one thing is for sure, the unlucky destroyer was not only the entire power compartment was pierced by shrapnel falling from the sky after the start of the war, and the deck of a few millimeters could not stop these fragments at all, and after a "meteorite rain" fell in the power compartment, the destroyer quickly turned into a "man-made hot spring". And so it was!

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