Chapter 352: Hunting (5)
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The two ships turned on the active sonar almost at the same time, and also detected each other almost at the same time, and it was only then that Krezimmer and Finch realized that the distance between the two ships was only more than 1 kilometer.
This made both of them break out in a cold sweat.
"Captain, the steering is complete!"
"Torpedo launch!" Krezimmer ordered on the spot.
With the action of the piston in the launch tube, another torpedo was pushed out, and after floating, it was fired straight at K11.
But just when Krezimmer felt that he was sure of victory, the sonar soldier's report slapped him in the face like a slap: "Report to the captain, the sound of the engine!" Propeller sound! The enemy ships are moving! ”
When Krezimmer heard this, he was stunned for a moment, the torpedo he had just shot was shot according to the original position of K11, if K11 moved its position, then what would he still shoot?
He came back to his senses and said angrily to the sonar: "Why did you wait until Lao Tzu's torpedo shot out before you said it?!" ”
"I... I just heard it...... "The sonar man said aggrievedly.
"Well, forget it...... Thanks to Lao Tzu, there is still one left! Krezimmer rejoiced, "Turn 0-0-0, fire a last-minute torpedo, and dive to the limit after launching!" ”
With that, Krezimmer retracted the periscope that had come out of the water, and if the last torpedo still failed to hit the target, he would have to run away.
"Turn 3-5-6, torpedo fire!"
The last torpedo was unloaded and headed for the K11 at a speed of 55 knots.
"High-speed propeller sound! German submarines fired torpedoes! "When the first torpedo engine was started, the sonar crew of the K11 frigate caught the distinctive propeller sound of the torpedo.
“Shit!” Finch scolded angrily, then pushed away the second mate next to him, grabbed the steering wheel and went into battle himself.
But the acceleration of the ship is not as good as the car, first of all, the ship is very heavy, like the warship is measured in thousands of tons and tons, and the power system of the current ship is a combination of boiler + steam turbine, unlike the internal combustion engine used in the car tank.
What's worse is that when the K11 left Dunkirk, more than 300 soldiers were crammed into the bilge alone, and even more were squatting on the deck, so although the K11 had lost a weight by throwing most of its useless stuff on the shore when it left the mainland, it was still in an overweight state.
Therefore, no matter how much Finch pushed the clock, the sailors in the engine room could not immediately raise the speed of the ship.
A distance of more than 1,000 meters is only thirty or forty seconds for a torpedo with a speed of up to 55 knots. At this time, the moon, which had been hiding for a long time, rarely appeared, and in the bright moonlight, the sailors on the deck easily spotted two torpedo trails composed of a large number of bubbles.
“Torpedo!” The sailor looked at the two torpedoes that were approaching at a rapid pace, and the first to scream loudly, and after the quick shouting, he immediately ran to the other side of the warship, jumped into the sea and desperately swam away from the warship, and his brain was a little slower, and he also hugged the surrounding fixes while praying that the torpedo would not hit him.
The movement of the army soldiers was much slower, although they all knew about the torpedo but had never really touched it, and they didn't know what it was like in the water, so it wasn't until the navy called out that they didn't know that it was a torpedo, and hundreds of soldiers suddenly became a pot of porridge, diving into the water, lying down and hugging their heads, and it was not lively for a while.
In the eyes of everyone, the first torpedo passed the stern of the ship without danger, but the second torpedo shot straight at the bow of the ship.
Seeing that he couldn't dodge anything, Finch in the bridge hurriedly let go of the steering wheel, grabbed the handrail on the bridge wall with one hand, grabbed the microphone broadcast in the ship with the other, and shouted: "Torpedo attack!" Get ready for ......"
Before he could finish his sentence, the gift from the U-23 hit the bow of the ship headlong and turned into a brilliant "firework".
The violent explosion set off a huge splash of water more than ten meters high, and most of the hull of the K11, which had a displacement of only more than 1,000 tons, was lifted off the sea, and the beautiful bow was directly decomposed into an iron sheet in the air, and the remaining hull was then smashed back into the water, and the turbulent sea water quickly poured into the ship from the broken bow, and the whole ship sank rapidly.
As for the people on board, the people near the bow of the ship were directly killed when the explosion occurred, and the fate of the people on the rear deck of the middle was different, and most of the people who found something to fix themselves escaped, while most of the remaining people who failed to find something to fix were thrown out, and the farthest one of them was thrown out of eighty or ninety meters, which definitely broke the world long jump record.
Of course, there are still some "people" who fly farther than him, but those are some parts of stumps and broken arms.
Because the bridge was in the middle, most of the officers escaped, and only a few went to God because they were hit by splinters or failed to hold on to the handrail and kissed their heads with steel.
Finch was lucky, and his arm strength was greater, so he survived.
"Captain, the ship is about to sink! Jump ship! An officer staggered over to Finch and shoved him into a life jacket.
"What about the Army?!" Finch asked anxiously.
"Captain! When is it? What do you care about them?! The officer said, "Aren't they the only ones who are responsible for our exposure?" ”
"Alas, that's fine!" Finch sighed, took the life jacket and hurriedly put it on his body and ran out of the bridge.
But as soon as he stepped out of the bridge, an ammunition depot near the amidship exploded, and although the scene was far less spectacular than the explosion of Hood's main ammunition depot, the power was still not to be underestimated.
Anyway, the bridge was affected by the explosion, and Finch's luck could not save him again, a piece of iron about the size of two books hit him head-on and cut him in half, and the officer, who had been fighting German submarines for many years, still followed his men into the sky.
Compared to the deck, the situation in the aft bilge where Peter and the others were located was slightly better, and the violent explosion only smashed them to pieces, and the fatal fragments did not affect them in the slightest.
It was just that the sea water continued to pour in through several gaps and hatches, and quickly passed the waists of the soldiers, and the army soldiers, who had never seen such a formation, only screamed and forgot to flee completely.
It wasn't until several naval officers climbed out of the wide-open hatch that these "army red deer" reacted.
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