Chapter 401: Revenge for the Battle of Jutland
In the periscope, you can see that the huge battleship, the middle of which suddenly bulged, and then, before and after, broke apart!
The War Weary has been built for more than 20 years, and in these years, various technologies have been developed, such as the properties of steel, in addition to being hard enough, but also tough enough. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The sinking of the Titani was due to the lack of toughness of the steel. And the war-weariness was manufactured no later than the Titanic by a few years.
Of course, as a warship, the strength must be much greater than that of a merchant ship, but because it is heavier, it can withstand a lot of force in the middle.
In huge wind and waves, small boats can rise and fall along the waves and move forward in the waves, while large boats, under the entire hull, bear several waves at the same time, and in the lapping of the waves, the hull is prone to overall breakage.
Now, the blow of a heavy torpedo is to artificially create a huge wave, and the pressure generated by this huge wave is beyond the range that the bottom of the battleship can bear.
The War Weary was destroyed by a German-made supertorpedo.
Of course, it's not just this torpedo, according to the original design, such a torpedo would have no problem destroying a 10,000-ton warship. The destruction of a 30,000-ton warship is not enough.
Before this torpedo destroyed the other side, the Weary had already been attacked by a one-ton bomb and a torpedo dropped by a fighter, and these attacks had already caused a lot of damage to the middle of the hull of the Weary of War, and this new sailing torpedo was like the last straw that broke the camel's back, giving the Weary the final blow.
Of course, there is another reason that the warships of the World War I era have always attached importance to armor protection, but they have not paid attention to the protection of torpedoes under the water, and it is the most vulnerable underneath.
At this time, in Captain Prien's periscope, what was seen was a rather wonderful picture.
I saw that the heavy battleship, emitting black smoke, was still struggling, and suddenly, under it, there was a violent explosion, the sea was churning, the hull of the battleship was trembling, the middle was slightly bulging, and then, the front and back broke into two halves!
The 30,000-ton battleship was broken in half, and the sailors on it jumped down one after another, and the warship was completely hopeless, what an interesting picture.
The battleship was flooded in large numbers, and the sailors gave up the rescue, and at this moment, the second torpedo had already arrived.
When he was shooting, Prion didn't know if one was enough, so he directly got two of them, preferring to have a surplus than letting go of the other party, after all, this target is too valuable!
The second torpedo, which was also set at a depth of ten meters, was intended to explode at the bottom of the opponent, but now, due to the sinking of the warweary, it came into direct contact with the second torpedo and exploded on the side!
I saw that the stern part of the ship had cracked a large opening, and this explosion deepened its sinking even more, and it sank quickly without hesitation, and disappeared on the surface of the sea in less than a minute.
There was only one whirlpool, still revolving with it, as if it was nostalgic, as if it was telling something.
In World War I, the British fleet paid a certain price and defeated the German fleet, and the German navy was unable to defend its sea routes, and finally ushered in defeat.
And this naval battle is to avenge the First World War! Avenge the Battle of Jutland
Maybe the British have forgotten that they just want to live the life of a stable victor and want to maintain the present peace, but any German with a conscience will deeply remember the shame of the First World War! This shame can only be washed away by fighting!
Warweary, sunk.
In the harbor, one after another large warships were sunk, and the FW190 torpedo planes that arrived later began to attack the remaining medium warships, even small warships.
Everywhere there was smoke, everywhere there was fire, and the navy of the British Empire, which had arrogantly ennobled the whole world for hundreds of years, was groaning and trembling.
An FW190, flying low over the sea, aimed at a target in its own path, dropped a torpedo.
Its target is just an old V-class destroyer, the veteran destroyer of Britain after World War I, absolutely old.
On this destroyer, there are no naval personnel at all, it belongs to the moored in the harbor.
The torpedo swam through the water, and two minutes later, the destroyer, slowly sinking amid explosions.
For the German naval aviation, this was the first time they showed their demeanor, and at the same time, it was also a rather unhappy moment for them.
They didn't find any worthy targets, and the ones that made them so excited were almost sunk.
There are more than 100 FW190 carrier-based planes flying in, and they are looking for various targets in the harbor, and in the end they can only attack small targets of one or two thousand tons such as frigates and destroyers.
This is also the goal only of the torpedo planes that arrived in advance, and those who arrived later only had to attack the civilian ships.
Once the war begins, civilian ships will also be military targets, and these civilian ships will be requisitioned by the navy for the transportation of supplies, so now take advantage of the opportunity to sink as many as you can.
Especially those big-bellied tankers are the best targets! Britain is also an island country, and their oil is also transported from the outside world, and these oil tankers are the lifeblood of the British economy.
One oil tanker after another, the fire broke out, especially the one that had not yet unloaded the crude oil, which was even more intense.
There were even fewer targets left for Captain Prien, after all, his submarine was too slow to match the planes overhead.
U-47 was sailing in a snorkel state, and Prien was constantly searching for targets, and once or twice, when he was about to strike, the torpedo machine overhead had already preempted it.
Prien has some itchy teeth, and this time, it's really unpleasant!
Pryan continued to wander around the harbor, hoping to find something more.
The diesel engine in the tail made a rumbling sound, and although there was a snorkel, the characteristic smell of diesel still wafted in the submarine, and Prien calmed down, and he commanded the submarine, and continued to sail, sailing, all the way around Scarpa Bay, more than half a circle.
In a corner, Prion suddenly opened his eyes wide, and sure enough, there was a good thing!
This is a corner of the harbor, and due to the direction of the wind, the billowing smoke obscures this place, and it is difficult to see it from the sky, and in the thick smoke, there is actually a huge battleship hidden!
In the dark, as if it was fate, Prion found the target of the battleship Royal Oak.