At this time, the Defense was as bright as a light bulb in the night, and even if Harris chose to release the smoke screen, the pillar of fire that rose into the sky still pointed out his position. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe Scharnhorst has formed a straddle of the Defence, and a mechanical ballistic computer produced by Bavarian Precision Mechanics has accurately described the opponent's trajectory. Cannonballs came one after another as if they had eyes.

"Pointless struggles, hurry up and solve them!" Su Xiong looked at the sea torch moving in the distance and said impatiently. For the next 5 minutes, the Defense was unable to dodge the shelling of the Scharnhorst, and under the average half-salvo attack of half a minute, the battleship was hit by 7 350mm shells in succession, and when it came out of the smoke again, the battleship was already in tatters!

"The engine room on the right side of the battleship has been damaged, the boiler room on the left side has been flooded, 4 boilers have been turned off, the hull has been seriously flooded, a 10-degree tilt has occurred, and the bow main turret is unusable." A series of desperate news arrives, letting Harris know that the end of himself and the defense has arrived. So at the last moment, he gave an order that he would regret for the rest of his life! - The entire convoy of convoys quickly passes through the strait!

And just after this telegram was sent, the armored cruiser Defense finally reached the limit, and a shell hit the side of the battleship, this shell successfully pierced the main armor belt that was only 6 inches thick, and then plunged into the rows of neatly arranged boilers in the boiler store, and after a dazzling white flash, a series of explosions came from the entire right boiler room. The explosion of the shells directly smashed the four boilers, and the high-temperature and high-pressure steam with a temperature of more than 200 degrees rushed out of the ruptured pipes, and formed a white mist after meeting the cold air outside.

All the British Navy personnel who tried to extinguish the fire or repair the battleship were swallowed by the flames and heat, countless shrapnel constantly jumped in the small compartment to harvest people's lives, mutilated corpses and dark red snow water were all over the ground, and the entire battleship turned into an Shura field from the middle section onwards.

Although the defense is still floating on the sea, but at this moment all the power is lost, the battleship is tilted 25 degrees, the artillery has no firing range at all, of course, it is useless to have a firing range, in order to prevent the flames from spreading to the ammunition depot, the British have already poured water into the ammunition depot early, so now the defense is a salted fish, a salted fish that was taken out in only 10 minutes after the start of the war.

Compared with the defense, which is already a little old, the Melbourne, the newly launched 5,000-ton light cruiser, lives longer, and the blood bar is of course the defense is longer, in terms of defense, both ships are pierced, and at this time, the Melbourne's own high-sensitivity attributes and appropriate smoke screen protection make him live longer. Of course, the fact that it was not lit up in the first place is also one of the reasons.

The cruiser was in the shape of a dense column of water at a speed of 23 knots, and smoke erupted from the smoke canister, forming a moving wall of smoke around the battleship. This caused a lot of trouble for the shooting of the Gneisenau. And the British still have a counterattack, at this time, the cruiser Sydney is following from behind with 4 700-ton destroyers, these destroyers originally from the Far East Squadron are the only chance for the British to turn the tables!

"Throw some distance, time is on our side." Raeder said as he looked at the British light cruiser hidden in the smoke in the distance. Under normal circumstances, even if Raeder chooses to evade temporarily under the idea of protecting the ship, then he will be very depressed, because the other party's cruisers and destroyers are buying time for the transport fleet.

But as Raeder, this admiral who was called "Little Brother" by Rupresitt (the eldest brother who is extremely meticulous) naturally does not ignore this problem, so even if it is far from being as mature as in later generations, he has already considered this problem!

The two German fast battleships began to turn slowly, and then increased the speed appropriately, and opened the distance, anyway, you can't use the smoke canister all the time, and when the smoke is gone, that is, you are dead, so Raeder is not in a hurry with the first arrangement, and he is unhurried and circling in circles with the two British light cruisers, although the prey in front of him is very good, but Raeder knows that his battleship is more expensive! For the sake of a few troop carriers, let your battleship have an accident, you can't do it!

At this time, the veteran Su Xiong is obviously more ruthless than Raeder, of course, in the eyes of the British, it is not a ...... thing. Your two light cruisers are protected by smoke, and I can't touch you. But your convoy doesn't have smoke cover, right? How far can a convoy with a normal speed of only 9 knots go out at this time? And it's time to line up to cross the strait!

"First bypass the two light cruisers, and we will directly attack the British convoy with the main guns!" Su Xiong ordered. At this time, two German fast battleships were outside the strait, relying on 350mm guns and 6-meter asana rangefinders, and in high visibility and good sea conditions, it was possible to hit a target of 18 kilometers. At this time, because the German fleet did not choose to be in the narrow strait, it was possible to rely on the same speed as the light cruisers, bypassing the opponent and then bombarding the troop carriers from a distance.

Rumble! The main guns of the Scharnhorst roared again, and ten seconds later, a huge flame suddenly erupted from the side of a transport ship 13 kilometers away, and a large piece of the entire side was torn off, and even the hull plate under the waterline was torn open. The raging sea water rushed in, not only further expanding the broken opening, but even piercing several adjacent watertight compartments!

Not to be outdone, the Gneisenau smashed a troop carrier in the queue into a flaming torch in the next round of shots. Unlike TNT explosives used in armor-piercing shells, picric acid explosives used in high-explosive shells are nothing short of a mass killer for such defenseless ships, with excellent flammability, toxic smoke, and what could be better than picric acid?

In front of the two super dreadnoughts, the merchant ships on the opposite side are as helpless as lambs to the slaughter! Although the attack on the transport ship by the two super dreadnoughts was not long, it had already seriously injured or sent six transport ships to the bottom of the sea one after another, and at this moment, the seaplanes flying in the air could clearly see the people struggling on the sea surface and falling into the water.

"That's probably a thousand, right?" The pilot of the Kingfisher seaplane smacked his lips.

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