In fact, the duel in naval warfare depends on technology, but also on luck. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

You must know that the sea is shaking, and now under the waves, the ships are shaking even more, and the slightest mistake is thousands of miles, and the naval guns will hit the shells more than ten nautical miles away, even if they are accurate, when the cannon is discharged, if the ship shakes, it will definitely be deviated.

Until later generations, with the dual-stability system, no matter how the warship shook, the muzzle of the gun never moved, and the entire turret was stable, so that it would work, and now there is no such means at all.

Therefore, although the opponent aims at himself, he may not be able to hit!

At this time, can you go back? Of course not! The captain of the Cornwall gritted his teeth and gave an order to his men: "Prepare for a salvo!" ”

The Cornwall was just an ordinary cruiser, weakly armored, but its firepower was not weak, it had 8 MkVIII 203mm guns, which were housed in 4 MkI twin turrets. The maximum firing range is more than twenty-eight km.

If it was against a battleship, it might not be fierce enough to tear through the opponent's turret armor, but it would never be a problem against the Deutschland, because the Deutschland, like it, had weak armor protection.

The Cornwall's naval guns were also spinning rapidly, but before they could turn around, they saw the opponent's naval guns and roared again!

Outwardly, it was a large number of British battleships, chasing a German battleship and beating it, however, the German battleships were not at a disadvantage, and now it was the German battleships attacking!

The 283-mm naval guns on the Deutschland had a fairly fast rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute!

(I didn't find any specific information, but I only found out that the 283 mm SK L/50 on the German Moltke-class battlecruisers during World War I still used a horizontally sliding wedge bolt with a rate of fire of 3 rounds per minute.) ）

After all, Germany was a defeated country in the First World War, and even in the First World War, the German navy did not surpass Britain in numbers, and for a long time after the First World War, Germany did not have a single battleship.

Germany could not make up for the quantitative gap, so it could only adopt another method, the quantity was not enough, the quality was enough, and one German battleship could fight against several British warships!

And now, the German Navy is relying on the performance of its own naval guns to compete with the British Navy.

On heads-up, it was a German ship, single-handedly fighting the main force of the British fleet, and on group fighting, it was a group of British Navy fighting a German ship.

Deutschland, the more you fight, the braver!

After the first hit, before the British fleet could react, the second salvo of the Deutschland had already begun!

"Boom, boom!" The two naval guns did not fire synchronously, the tail was slightly slower, and six 283-mm naval guns once again sent German revenge to the British Navy!

"Left full rudder!" The captain of the Cornwall, shouted loudly that there is no artillery radar yet, and it is completely dependent on personal experience to dodge the blows of the other side.

The hull of the Cornwall, which is more than 10,000 tons, drew an arc on the sea surface, and at this time, a wave just came, and the wave even covered the capital of the ship, and if it happened to be a huge wave from the right, it could even overturn the hull.

This arc was carried out quite successfully, and you could see the opponent's shells, cut over your head, fell to the position you had just turned, splashed into the water, and smashed a splash several meters high.

"Click!" At this moment, there was a loud bang overhead, and an armor-piercing bullet actually passed above the mast and directly smashed the mast.

Above the mast, the rice-shaped naval flag, which had been hunting in the wind, fell down with the broken mast, smashed on the bridge below, and floated past everyone's eyes.

The drop of the flag is definitely a bad omen, a tradition of maritime powers for hundreds of years.

On the bridge of the Cornwall, everyone's faces changed.

"Boom!" At this moment, a violent explosion suddenly sounded at the bottom of the Cornwall, and with the explosion, the entire hull of the ship shook violently.

"Torpedoes, it's torpedoes, near us, there are German submarines!" The captain shouted loudly.

He guessed exactly right, but unfortunately it was too late.

If it were usual, if you were hit by a torpedo, it might be nothing, just carry it hard, but now, in a big storm! The structure of the ship's hull is damaged, and it will be completely destroyed by the lapping of the waves!

He guessed exactly right.

As the explosion sounded, the hull creaked, and then, a terrifying scream, came from below.

"No, our hull is cracked!"

"Quick, get up, let's not sink with the ship!"

One torpedo, the Cornwall was scrapped, in addition to the cause of the waves, it was also related to the torpedo, which was the most advanced torpedo in Germany, powerful, the G11U hydrogen peroxide torpedo with the code T7!

The torpedo was launched by the submarine U-47, which continued to operate in the waters after separating from the Deutschland, and was overjoyed when the British main fleet was discovered.

As a submariner, taking out the enemy's warships is their most desirable achievement, and in comparison, fighting civilian ships is really boring.

Prien didn't do it right away, after all, there were too many warships in the British Navy, and he was going to do it secretly, like now.

As the shells from the naval guns flew by, the hydrogen peroxide torpedo, at a high speed of 48 knots, also hit at the same time, successfully killing the Cornwall, which was seen by the German naval guns to be destroyed by the outside world.

His submarine has not yet been exposed, as long as it is not exposed, there is a possibility of continuing to sneak attack the enemy.

This, of course, did not frighten the British Navy, they were also well trained, and just after the second salvo of the Deutschland, a counterattack from the British Navy, had already arrived.

The British fleet, of course, was not going to watch the Deutschland continue to wield power, and they opened fire quickly!

"Boom!"

The Queen Elizabeth and Barham of the Elizabeth class, as well as the Nelson-class Nelson, the R-class battleship "Sovereign", have completed the loading of the main guns, aiming, and began a salvo.

The main guns of the "Nelson" were 406 mm, while the other ships had 381 mm guns, but because they were in pursuit, they only had the main guns in the bow to use.

Even so, the firepower was incomparably strong, and the shells of more than a dozen large-caliber naval guns flew towards the Deutschland, and as long as the Deutschland took one hit, it would be seriously injured if it did not die.

"Target, starboard, Southampton-class light cruisers!" On the bridge, Colonel Stanger was not afraid of the flying shells, and he continued to give combat orders.

Pick up the ones that can be beaten first!