Chapter 466: Deck Cannon

If you're lucky, a torpedo can destroy a cargo ship, but now, obviously, it was an accident, and the other party's reaction was too fast. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Generally speaking, when a cargo ship is attacked, the crew is absolutely panicked and abandons the ship, but now, the other party can quickly carry out damage control and let the ship continue to float, which shows that the people above are not ordinary sailors!

This piqued the interest of Major Prion even more, and he must sink this cargo ship!

What's next? Go ahead and fire the second torpedo?

Of course not!

A T2 electric torpedo costs 25,000 Reichsmarks, which is of course very expensive, you know, a BF109 is only 43,000 Reichsmarks. Two torpedoes, you can build an airplane.

And airplanes can be used constantly, but torpedoes are disposable, and against cargo ships, the use of torpedoes, in fact, is already quite a luxury.

Just now, one has already been used, and now, the second one can't be wasted!

In addition to the precious, the number of torpedoes carried at a time to sea is also limited, and the power of these torpedoes must be fully exerted!

So, now, Major Prion is not going to waste any more.

"The tank drains and floats." Major Prion shouted: "Gunners ready. ”

Floating!

The submarine is in the water, it is the result of the balance of gravity and buoyancy, fill the ballast tank of the submarine, the gravity increases, then it will sink, and now, if you want to surface, you need to use compressed air to discharge the seawater in the ballast tank.

With his order, the submariner opened the pipe, and as the high-pressure air passed through the pipe, the entire pipe buzzed, and then the submarine gradually emerged from under the sea.

Just like a dragon out of the water, the surface of the submarine is constantly flowing down, and when the entire tank is emptied, the top of the submarine has been completely exposed.

Submariner Youde, the first to open the hatch at the top, instantly, a cool sea breeze blew, he took a deep breath, this feeling, awesome!

Even if the submarine already has a snorkel, the internal air of the submarine is still quite dirty, and the smell of diesel fuel is almost always there.

When the submarine has a chance to surface, it is the greatest joy to be able to come out and breathe.

It's just that Youde is not here to breathe, he has a more important task.

At this time, the submarine was shaking irregularly, and in the midst of the shaking, the submariner Youde ran towards the front of the deck.

There, there was an 88-mm naval gun.

Unlike the streamlined submarines with smooth appearances in later generations, the submarines of this era are still very primitive, and in appearance, they are more like surface ships.

At the same time, its armament, in addition to torpedoes, also deck guns!

At the beginning of World War II, German submarines in the Atlantic Ocean were not attacked by the powerful Allied anti-submarine forces, and most of them were single-boat safaris.

Therefore, when the German submarines encountered a single cargo ship of the allies, in order to save valuable torpedoes, they often surfaced to the surface and attacked the cargo ship with 88mm deck guns.

Even during the war, a large German XXXC submarine with 105mm deck guns engaged in an artillery duel with an American escort destroyer on the sea in a rough night!

At that time, most of the time of the submarine was surface sailing, and deck guns were a must.

At the same time, compared with the naval guns on other warships, the biggest difference between this deck gun is the anti-rust treatment.

Seawater is salty and can rust quickly if left unprotected.

The breech plating, special paint, are all rust-proof, and every time the submarine returns, it has to be repaired, for the deck gun to remove rust, replace parts, and so on.

The rear gun door is sealed, and at the same time, the front gun port is also covered with a cover to cover the gun muzzle, so that no water will enter the gun chamber.

Like now.

Youde, who hurried up, quickly dismantled the cover of the deck gun, which was the first task.

In the history of Atlantic submarine warfare, the ascent and descent of submarines were extremely common. In the midst of the panic, there will be a boat cannon that opens fire in a hurry and does not take off the gun mask in a hurry, resulting in an explosion accident.

This first task is very important.

Behind him, two other crew members followed.

The crew in the middle will open the main locker under the control cabin, and the shells will be stored inside, which is a small watertight ammunition locker.

After disassembling it, he quickly took out the cannonball and handed it to the person next to him, who had carried the cannonball just enough to fit into the chamber.

"Reloaded!" He shouted loudly.

Youde had already run back to the back of the gun emplacement, and he quickly shook the high and low machine, the barrel of the 88-mm naval gun, and turned it.

"Three hundred, just ahead, put!"

"Boom!" With a huge explosion, 88 mm shells flew towards the Navasota freighter on the opposite side.

Bruce stood at the bow of the ship, watching the submarine emerge from the water, watching the crew of the opposing boat come out and fire, at this point, he could do nothing but look.

This is a freighter.

Although there are weapons in the cargo hold of the cargo ship, these weapons are all in the cargo hold, and it is impossible for them to take the weapons out of the cargo hold in a short period of time.

At most a few rifles, does it work? In this case, it is necessary to have a naval artillery duel to be useful!

"God, what are they doing? We are a civilian ship! In the cockpit, the bearded captain, looking at the artillery fire on the sea in the distance, couldn't help but curse loudly.

If the other side just fired a torpedo under water, then it would not be admitted afterwards, after all, no one saw them, but now they actually surfaced to use naval guns, this is simply lawless, do they still take the Geneva Conventions in their eyes?

"Boom!" This cannon accurately hit the middle of the cargo ship, and in an instant, it exploded a large hole on the side of the ship's side.

No one can save this cargo ship anymore, this is just a cargo ship after all, this cannon has made the sea water gurgle in! The capsizing of the ship is just around the corner.

"Boom!" The second cannon sounded!

Compared to expensive torpedoes, shells are much cheaper, and, since they have already fired, then of course they cannot be finished at once!

The speed of manual loading was not slow, and this second shell, after more than ten seconds, flew again!

"Boom!" The second shell fell next to the first shell, and the second explosion directly tore the 10,000-ton freighter in half!

The Navasota freighter, broken from the middle, the front and rear halves, are frantically pouring into the sea, this ship, is completely hopeless!