At the center of the gunstorm, the Blasgue light cruiser apparently ran out of luck in the first round, and the next half was saved again by the second salvo of the HMS Queen.

Almost the second salvo of the oncoming Queen, at a distance of less than 2800 meters, was almost the effect of hand-to-hand combat, considering the impact of the rainy night and the luck of the British, only one of the 6 shells hit directly, and the other straddle projectile flew close to the back of the bridge of the Brasger, smashing one of the 2 chimneys, but the bomb did not explode, but flew through the hull and exploded in the water.

But that one hit the shell, still almost to the life of the 4800-ton British light cruiser, this steel-core armor-piercing projectile directly penetrated the 150mm side-chord main armor belt behind the light patrol side of the Brasger, even if the use of Krupp authorized carburized armor technology, even if it hit at an inclination angle of nearly 60 degrees when hitting, but the huge kinetic energy of the shell is obviously not a weak light cruiser can resist.

The 320-kilogram shell smashed into the main armor belt, directly cracking the steel armor at a position of more than 1 meter on the waterline, and then, the bomb that rushed into the hull of the ship almost effortlessly tore the internal 40mm watertight compartment isolation armor belt, and then smashed through two thin layers of 30mm horizontal armor diagonally downward, and finally hit the armored room of the 8 Yarrow boilers in the rear of the battleship.

The huge impact force almost smashed the armor on the top layer of the armored room, and finally embedded in the 210mm boiler room armor defense belt. The terrifying warhead pierced the armor straight and straight on the other side...... This huge bomb, once exploding, would be enough to sweep the entire boiler room, for unknown reasons. Became a damn dumbass.

After receiving this news, the frightened Lieutenant Colonel Wilm did not come at all to thank God, and the doom was finally doomed......

The Hans battlecruise, which followed the Empress into the battlefield, obviously would not let go of a prey in front of him, but the captain, Rear Admiral Persson, obviously preferred to shoot black guns, and when the opponent's attention was focused on the Queen, he ordered the battleship to deflect slightly and continue to close the distance. And it was enough to see the Brasgue light patrol 2500 meters before the first volley was fired.

Shooting at such a distance is for a 343mm heavy gun with huge kinetic energy. The only external factors that affect the hit are the forward and backward pitch brought about by the battleship's current speed of up to 21 knots and the existing left and right roll of the hull, but for the well-trained main gun with electric shock ignition device. These problems have long been overcome.

And this round of volleys. The British light cruiser Brasg was completely destroyed, and when the British saw the fierce cannon flames from the side, they were already heading towards their fate without resistance...... Six shells from the 320-kilogram main gun directly hit 4, in addition, the 150mm rapid-fire guns fired on the side chord also hit 2 at the same time, and only in the first round of firing, a series of sky-high black clouds immediately bloomed in the front and middle of the Brasger's light patrol.

The 150mm twin rapid-fire gun in the bow of the ship was in a violent explosion. The entire gun mount was completely torn apart and thrown high. Then it smashed heavily on the foredeck, and a series of explosions made the foredeck suddenly fall into flames! But this is clearly not a fatal blow......

Hit the two heavy guns in the middle of the battleship, the first one directly hit the battleship command tower, the 200m armor of the command tower is impossible to resist the bombardment of the 13.5-inch main gun at this distance, the entire carburized armor plate at the hit site was directly smashed out of a huge crack, and then the explosion caused swept the cockpit under the protection of the armor, and even the bridge of the steel structure in the cockpit was burned into a strange curved shape by the high temperature of the flames, not to mention the living people inside.

The huge shock wave caused by the explosion also directly caused a huge shock in the command tower on the upper deck of the cockpit, like an earthquake office, and the officers, including Lieutenant Colonel Wilm, were thrown out by the impact force, and then smashed heavily on the steel cabin, unconscious.

But what was really fatal was the second armor-piercing projectile that hit the main armor belt on the side of the Brasger, and after the 320-kilogram big guy easily penetrated the main armor belt, it turned downward and smashed heavily into the two-story cabin, with a high explosion of more than 40 kilograms? As soon as the medicine sent out a ring blasting circle with a huge impact, everything standing within the range was swept and torn apart by the huge impact force, and then a huge fire broke out.

Of course, a fire alone is obviously not enough to kill a naval warship that has greatly improved damage management technology in this era, and a group of British damage management team members immediately appeared around, holding leather hoses, water pipes and sandbags ready to extinguish the fire, but then the bottom of the battleship, which made people itch their teeth, suddenly made everyone realize that disaster was coming.

Keel breakage...... A series of explosions caused by heavy bombardment had completely destroyed the most important main keel structure of the entire battleship, and the shells that were constantly detonating the gun positions in the fire eventually led to the rapid disintegration of the battleship......

Just as Vice Admiral Spee was about to strike the final blow at the target that had been picked up by the Hans, a huge white cloud suddenly burst out of the sky above the light cruiser Brasger - there was no doubt that the bottom structure of the battleship had completely collapsed, which was the most direct sign of the collapse of the large boiler...... Just a dozen seconds later, the British battleship, which was 130 meters long, let out an earth-shattering cracking sound and broke into two parts.

The two sides exchanged less than three rounds of fire, in fact, the whole battle from the beginning to the end, only seven or eight minutes, but for the French fleet, which was slowly moving more than 6,000 meters away at the moment, it was like a nightmare...... A new type of cruiser, which represents the best escort combat capability of the Royal Navy and has the fine naval tradition of the Royal Navy, was completely destroyed by the demons of the night in such a short period of time.

On the light cruiser Gloucester, which temporarily became the lead ship of the entire fleet, the commander Lieutenant Commander Owen was obviously stunned by the sudden situation, after the light cruiser of the Brasg was attacked, he immediately issued the order to turn to meet the attack, and his judgment was obviously the same as Lieutenant Colonel Wilm, who had been buried in the sea at this moment, just looking at the fire and firepower configuration of the salvo, the other party was obviously a battleship!

However, the honor of the Royal Navy made him still attack even if he encountered a strong enemy, of course, as a battleship commander who had grown up as a torpedo boat commander, he knew the absolute position of the giant ship's cannon in the battle, and the Gloucester Light Cruiser and the rapidly dismantled Brasger Light Cruiser were the same class of battleships, and according to the caliber of the opponent's guns, there were only two tactics he could use......

One is to take advantage of the night to approach the opponent, the bow of the Gloucester ship is equipped with two 613mm long-range MKIII torpedoes to attack, nearly 20 years of peaceful development, torpedo technology has advanced by leaps and bounds, and now the latest MKIII torpedo of the Royal Navy not only uses turbothermal power and is equipped with one-way gyroscopes, depth gauges and other precision components.

The 613mm caliber is also the largest underwater killing weapon in this era, of course, Lieutenant Colonel Owen does not know, the Germans who have always been good at secrecy work, have now been equipped with more outrageous 620mm torpedoes, and the difference between the two is not only in the 7mm caliber, the proportion of TNT explosives loaded is also a secret of the Germans.

The German side, which tended to be rigorous and technical, adopted a slight improvement of the German standard, with a mixed block charge of 60% TNT and 40% hexanitrodiphenylamine, which made the German torpedo explosion 7% stronger than the 100% TNT charge, while the British MKIII torpedoes did not use this complex loading.

However, relatively speaking, Lieutenant Commander Owen can be sure that if his first two MKIII torpedoes can hit the opponent, even the battleship will suffer unacceptable damage, and once the opponent is damaged, even if he fails to achieve the final victory, the opponent in the vast Indian Ocean, will be besieged by the Royal Navy warships that will swarm from all directions, and finally destroyed.

But the implementation of this tactic is obviously not easy, the speed of the MKIII thermodynamic torpedo has reached 30 knots, but the range is only 4500 meters, and in order to accurately hit the high-speed propulsion to the target, it is absolutely stupid to launch the torpedo at a distance of 4500 meters...... The distance between himself and the opponent at the moment is at least 7,000 meters, and if he wants to close the attack distance of 3,000 meters or even 2,000 meters, the opponent's main gun that is enough to shoot his head with one blow is undoubtedly a huge threat.

So, after seeing the Brasger broken into two burning hulls, Lieutenant Colonel Owen immediately made a second choice......

"Turn the rudder 15 degrees to the right, pull away, no shooting! Rally Order! Owen held a telescope and looked at the German battleship that disappeared into the darkness in a few minutes, and after extinguishing two fires, at 5:02 a.m., the Germans disappeared again into the heavy rain and fog, but everyone understood that the other party was quietly rushing in like a giant beast that had escaped into the darkness.

On the dark sea, except for the light cruiser of the Brasgue floating and burning on the sea in the distance, it was silent for a while, and everything was as unreal as if it had never happened......

"Report, the French Heavy Patrol Thaler is approaching our flank, and Rear Admiral Olava has sent a signal to coordinate operations!" At 5:10, in the strange atmosphere of the battlefield, Lieutenant Colonel Owen received the first good news, the French had taken the initiative to enter the battle sequence, although the main gun of the Thaler heavy patrol was only 9 inches, but after all, it had 3 9-inch twin main guns, and the firepower far exceeded itself. (To be continued......)