Chapter 879: Fierce Battle 3
The Bavaria kept hitting the distant opponent, and the armor of the battleship, which the British thought was relatively strong, became extremely vulnerable under the repeated blows of the 15-inch guns, and the second gun directly tore through the power compartment armor located in the lower part of the second chimney, and the fuse of this shell did not explode during the collision. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but just a solid iron lump of more than 800 kilograms rushing into it at a speed of more than 500 meters per second can also cause terrifying damage.
Two boilers were blown out in an instant! Countless debris and high-temperature and high-pressure steam unleashed an indiscriminate slaughter of the personnel inside the cabin! Then, a shockwave mixed with various debris and water vapor successfully formed a honeycomb in the compartment's partition, and then surged out, spreading out in all directions!
And the catastrophe continued, during the seventh round of firing, the Ajax was hit by 3 shells at the same time, directly destroying the motor compartment in the rear of the hull and the No. 4 turret, and the violent explosion and vibration also damaged the transmission shaft passing through the bottom of the hull, the sound of the mechanical structure breaking, and the discordant twisting sound of the main shaft came from the hull, in the slight tremor, the British were terrified!
However, just as the Bavaria was about to make persistent efforts to kill the British Super Fearless, an earth-shattering loud bang suddenly erupted from the tail of the British fleet, and a pillar of fire more than 100 meters high rose into the sky! Even at a great distance, through the telescope, the prince could still see a large amount of debris thrown into the air! Before the flames dissipated, puffs of smoke gradually cooled, and then a huge mushroom cloud was formed, and the rising mushroom cloud rose to a height of several hundred meters before it began to slowly dissipate!
"One of the brothers in the back seems to have done something great." Scheer said with a little envy.
Just a minute earlier, the battleship Hesse had simultaneously knocked two 15-inch shells in the face of the Indomitable in a salvo, both shells hit the front and rear of the hull at the same time, and then opened two large holes in the armor belt outside the ammunition depot with an area of several square meters, how could a mere 6-inch armor belt withstand the attack of a 15-inch heavy gun? The blow was crisp and sharp, and the meteor-like shells exploded directly in the ammunition depot, without giving the British any chance to release water in the ammunition compartment!
Ten seconds later, hundreds of tons of shells and propellants were ignited, and the entire battleship was blown into three sections in an instant! The middle section sank directly into the sea with a thunderous momentum, and the stern was directly blown into pieces, and the wreckage that fluttered one after another confused the face of the Indomitable battlecruiser behind! Even the independent rangefinder on the Indomitable No. 1 turret was smashed to pieces by what appeared to be some kind of steel beam!
A battle cruiser with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons was killed in this instant, although it was expected and reasonable, but when it happened suddenly, it still caused people to be shocked! Tons of steel were torn apart by a violent explosion, and thousands of crew members were wiped out in an instant, and it is impossible to say that you are not afraid!
"Come on, brothers, let's continue! Kill the other one too! Colonel Karlus, the captain of the battleship Hesse, who had won the first kill of the battle, turned his attention to another battleship, and he was excited to reap more victories!
"Mr. Captain, I'm afraid we're running out of ammunition." At this time, a somewhat disappointing news came, which made the colonel feel very dissatisfied.
"From the beginning of the battle to the present, we have knocked out 550 armor-piercing rounds, and when we came out, the total reserve of armor-piercing shells was 760 rounds." The gunner said with some embarrassment.
"Next time we should have all armor-piercing rounds." The colonel said with a wry smile that the Bavaria-class battleship had at least 120 rounds of ammunition per gun, and if nothing else, the battleship could have 960 rounds of main gun shells, but these shells could not all be armor-piercing. Armor-piercing shells, semi-armor-piercing shells and high-explosive shells will have a certain proportion, armor-piercing shells are suitable for attacking the main battleship, semi-armor-piercing shells hit targets with a certain defense, and high-explosive shells deal with unprotected targets such as destroyers.
"If nothing else, the Germans can sink all of us in this sea area, one by one." On the Invincible, Rear Admiral Hood said with a grim face as he looked at the pieces of wreckage on the sea and the debris falling from the air. He has already realized that the British have already lost, and the whole fleet is walking a tightrope without protection at the moment! Neither the 12-inch gun nor the 13.5-inch gun can effectively damage the opponent. And the opponent's attack is bloody!
And in front of the battle line, Vice Admiral Jeram also felt a huge pressure, in addition to his own and the Saxony, which had already lost a quarter of its firepower and did not have much ammunition left, it was considered a tie, and the remaining 3 battleships were obviously suppressed by the opponent, especially the battleship Ajax in the second position, the battleship had tilted, and the fire in the middle turned the entire battleship into a large torch, and even the smoke screen could not cover it. The speed of the battleship had already dropped to about 14 knots, and it was only a matter of time before it was forced out of the battle.
"We saved Betty, but who's going to save us?" Jerram smiled bitterly. The current situation is that it can't be beaten, and it's useless to say anything. Betty can't come up, Betty's four battleships can't even save the firepower of one battleship at the moment, and there seems to be no better way to come up than to share some damage.
"High-speed Betty evacuated quickly, we can't fight anymore, we're going to go." Lieutenant General Jeram gave the order in just 30 seconds, and it takes courage and decisiveness for a strong man to break his wrist! When the venom spreads down the blood vessels and throughout the body, there is no need to serve a bowl!
"It is said that we have sunk almost 10 light cruisers?" Lieutenant General Jerram said something that made those around him feel inexplicable.
"Well, let's do our best to turn that number into a dozen! Order the light cruiser to cover the torpedo boat to launch a lightning strike! Jerram said decisively! If you can't beat it, you have to die to die, that's looking for death! The thing that makes Jeram better than Betty is that he knows to stop this morning. Instead of regretting it when the situation collapses!
"The flagship turns its gun to the enemy's flagship, and we want to leave a memorial for them as we go!" Looking at the battleship flying the flag of the commander of the fleet and the flag of the Kingdom of Bavaria in the distance, Jerram said viciously!
The light cruisers and destroyers next to the British fleet moved again, and under the cover of six light cruisers, more than 20 destroyers of various types separated from the fleet, some of them approached the capital ships, and pulled out thick smoke screens, while most of them followed the light cruisers to launch a wave of decisive charge!
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