Shells flew at high speed in the air, blazing like fire, crashing into the sea like meteors. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Boom!

Waves hundreds of meters high instantly exploded on the sea surface, and the shock wave set off a huge tsunami, and the sea within a radius of dozens of kilometers was as if it had encountered a twelve-level violent weather.

The two super battleships, the First Emperor and the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, only fired a salvo of fire at the sea, which caused a great shock to the ships of the 19th German Cruiser Fleet.

Previously, the German soldiers of the ships had only seen the bombardment of the fortress of Monrovia from a distance in the military port, and no matter how fierce the artillery fire on land was, it was not very real for the naval soldiers.

But at this moment, the German soldiers of each ship felt the power of the legendary eighteen-inch cannon for the first time, and the huge cannonball weighing one and a half tons did not directly hit the German battleship, but the explosion effect on the sea surface frightened all the German soldiers.

Previously, these eighteen-inch shells fell on the fortress of Monrovia, and when they exploded instantly, they produced thousands of meters of fiery red smoke, and these German sailors did not feel too afraid, but when this eighteen-inch shell fell on the sea, it was able to explode a huge wave hundreds of meters high, and the power of this kind of shell was very clear to every German sailor.

If such a large-caliber shell hits the battleship directly, the consequences are unimaginable, and the battleship of less than 3,000 tons will be killed in an instant, and it is impossible for the personnel on it to be left with even bone slag.

Although the first salvo of the two Imperial Chinese super-battleships was aimed at the Swabian battlecruiser, although twenty-four shells failed to hit the Swabian, and even the impact points were scattered several kilometers away from the Swabia.

However, the Swabian was escorted by eighteen German warships, which were only one kilometer away from the Swabian and no more than ten kilometers at the farthest.

So at that moment, the impact point of many eighteen-inch shells, although far away from the Swabian, was unexpectedly close to the other German warships.

The tsunami provoked by the explosion of twenty-four eighteen-inch giant shells, wave after wave, directly hit other German warships, causing these one- or two-thousand-ton battleships to stagger in an instant, and the German sailors on top were all stupid, and more people were instantly scared to pee their pants.

One of the German Barker-class frigates was the most point-back, and an eighteen-inch shell hit very close to the ship, causing a close-range damage, and a huge underwater shock wave was wrapped in a sharp piece of shrapnel, which directly hit the armor below the ship's waterline.

It's just a frigate of less than 1,800 tons, the armor is already very thin, and the main armor belts are above the waterline, and there is hardly any armor protection below the waterline.

An artillery shell weighing one and a half tons, even if it is only a close-range shell, the kinetic lethality of the fragments is enough to tear through the waterline of a 10,000-ton battleship with armor protection, let alone a small frigate of less than 1,800 tons and a lack of protective armor.

In just an instant, the bottom of the German Buck-class frigate was torn apart by the impact, and a large amount of seawater poured into it frantically, causing the battleship to sink rapidly at the speed it seemed.

"Look, why did the Peak sink?"

"This- how is this possible? The Peak didn't get hit by a shell! ”

There was a panic in the bridge of the flagship Swabian battle cruiser, all of them were so frightened by the two powerful super battleships of the Chinese Empire that they lost their normal judgment for the time being.

"Eighteen-inch shells, even if they are only close-arrow shells, are enough to sink a battleship under 3,000 tons!"

At the critical moment, Tirpitz still maintained a calm analysis, but no one knew that he was also frightened at the moment.

No one could remain calm in front of eighteen-inch shells, even if he was Tirpitz.

The reason why Tirpitz remained calm was because if he was also flustered, then the fleet he brought out would not want to return alive.

"Sober me up!"

Tirpitz roared loudly, trying to hide the panic in his own heart.

"Report the distance!"

"Eleven nautical miles, sir!"

"Eleven nautical miles?"

"Yes, sir, one nautical mile will be within the range of the ship's main guns!"

Tirpitz was a little helpless, with a bitter face, but what he was thinking about was the distance of this nautical mile, and the two super battleships of the Chinese Empire would fire several rounds of shells.

"At least you have to survive three salvos from the opponent!"

Tirpitz smiled bitterly, hoping not to be hit, it was an armor-piercing blaster weighing one and a half tons, and even the 30,000-ton Swabian battlecruiser was afraid that it would be quite uncomfortable to receive a few such shells.

It's just that the more afraid you are, the more you come.

Just after a minute and a half, the two Imperial Chinese Super Battleships reloaded their main guns and corrected their ballistics, and began the second round of concentrated fire salvos.

I saw that on the sea more than 20 kilometers away, the main guns of the battleship the First Emperor and the battleship of the Great Emperor of the Han Dynasty spewed out huge flames, and even without a telescope, you could see that the fire was shining.

"Urgent evasion!"

"Left full rudder!"

Without waiting for the sound of artillery to be heard, the German commanders of the ships issued an order to evade, because the incoming shells were flying at supersonic speed, and if they heard the sound of artillery evasion, it would be all night.

For German warships, long-distance engagements have an advantage, that is, at a distance of more than 20 kilometers, the main artillery shells of the battleships of the Chinese Imperial Navy need to fly for more than ten seconds or even longer, and the huge fire emitted by the main guns at the moment of firing can be observed by the Germans for the first time, which is equivalent to giving the German ships more than ten seconds to urgently avoid the battleship and reduce the probability of being hit by the shells.

However, what the German commanders never expected was that the experts of the Imperial Chinese Naval Academy had already realized the solution to this situation in naval warfare, that is, when the main gun was calibrated, the possible evasion direction of the enemy ship was predicted in advance, and the amount of advance in the evasion was calculated.

Because it was a combat state, the German battleships were marching at high speed, and in this case, when the German ships saw the salvo of the main guns of the two battleships of the Chinese Empire, they must make evasive actions in advance, and in more than ten seconds, they could only avoid the full rudder to the left or right.

Therefore, during this salvo, the twelve main guns of the battleship Shi Huang the Great made an advance prediction to the port side of the Swabian flagship, and the twelve main guns of the battleship Han Wu the Great made an advance prediction to the starboard side of the Swabian battlecruiser.

That is, regardless of whether the Swabian battlecruiser made an emergency evasion to the left or to the right, it would be locked by twelve eighteen-inch shells.

Of course, if you join the Swabian battlecruiser and do not evade, but keep going straight, then the danger is minimal.

Unfortunately, this is the real war, a war that is constantly changing every second, and no one can predict what will happen in the next second, not even Tirpitz.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Huge columns of water rose into the sky, lined up in a straight line, and swept towards the battlecruiser Swabia.

This is the advantage of the central axis of the main gun, the unified caliber and double diameter, the impact point is almost in a straight line, it is easiest to calculate the impact point, and it is also the easiest to hit the enemy ship.

"One, two, three, four, five!"

On the Swabian battlecruiser, the German sailors looked at the huge water columns that were constantly approaching the ship in a line, and counted the number of water columns with a nervous face, because as long as the water column reached twelve before the Swabian approached, it meant that this round of salvo was over and there was no hit.

"Six, seven, eight, nine!"

"Ten—"

When the German sailors counted to ten, everyone panicked, and some even wanted to turn around and run away, but at that moment it seemed to turn into slow motion, so that these German soldiers were in a hurry and couldn't run.

Because the tenth shell was less than two hundred meters away from the port side of the stern of the Swabian battlecruiser, the exploding wave flew into the air and fell directly on the aft deck, where every German sailor was like standing in front of the sprinkler in the hands of a fireman, and was directly knocked down on the deck by the waves, and his head was broken and bleeding.

But this was not the most terrifying, because the eleventh and twelfth shells, with an interval of less than a second, hit the port side waterline of the Swabian battle cruiser and the starboard horizontal deck of the ship's amidships.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

After two loud bangs, the stern port side waterline was pierced, and the 200 mm thick armor was instantly pierced, leaving a gap of one and a half meters in diameter, and the steel was melted and red.

But this did not end there, the armor-piercing blasting projectile weighing one and a half tons broke through the four internal armor walls one after another before exploding.

At that moment, a large explosion occurred inside the port side of the stern of the entire Swabian battlecruiser, accompanied by a fiery red mushroom cloud rising into the air, and the entire stern was blown to pieces.

At the same moment, the horizontal deck of the starboard side of the battlecruiser Swabia was also hit by the twelfth armor-piercing blasting shell.

The horizontal armor deck, which was less than 100 millimeters thick, could not be carried at all, and was directly penetrated, and below was the conveyor belt of the No. 3 main gun turret, and one shell had just been out of the warehouse, and was transported to the No. 3 main gun turret by the conveyor belt.

It was the main guns of the battlecruiser Swabia preparing to return fire, all 356 mm armor-piercing blast shells.

The 356 mm armor-piercing blaster that was erected had just been fitted with a combat fuse in the front of the warhead, and the two German sailors in charge were still talking and laughing and preparing to knock out the super battleship of the Chinese Empire, but suddenly the deck above the head was pierced, and a 461 mm armor-piercing blasting bomb hit the conveyor belt directly.

"it!"

The two German sailors were dumbfounded for an instant, leaving only a grooved mouth, and before they could make a sound, their bodies were torn apart by the blast wave of the explosion, and then melted into the rapidly expanding flame blast wave.

The blast wave instantly detonated the 356 mm main gun shells on the conveyor belt, and the explosions one by one instantly stored thousands of tons of tons of explosion equivalent in the lower space of the ship.

The vertical and horizontal armor of the entire Swabian battlecruiser expanded and contracted for a while, and then expanded and contracted, and finally could not bear such a huge amount of energy, and exploded.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

At that moment, the huge hull of the Swabian was blasted open from the middle deck, and the five floors above were blown away in an instant, like a volcanic eruption, and the fiery red mushroom cloud and black smoke rushed into the air at a height of 10,000 meters in less than ten seconds.

The explosion continued, and the explosion became more and more powerful, as the ammunition depot of the No. 3 main gun below the amidship was not closed, and the blast wave hit the depot fifteen seconds later.

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”

The sound of a dense explosion sounded from the inside of the Swabian battlecruiser again, and then the huge energy had nowhere to vent, and instantly expanded to the bow and stern at the same time, and the steel in its path was twisted, torn apart, and even melted directly.

The German sailors inside the hull were talking and laughing one second, and the next second they were torn apart by the shock wave.

A German soldier hid in the inner cabin next to him, but unfortunately the shockwave quickly crashed into the hatch, he desperately grabbed the handle, trying not to be taken away by the shockwave, he shouted, but soon found that the hands that grabbed the handle, the flesh and blood were flying, and soon the bones were exposed, and then his head and the flesh and blood of his whole body were melting, and in less than three seconds, the whole person turned into a skeleton and vaporized in the endless flames.

Tirpitz was in the bow bridge, and all the German officers and men in the bow were knocked to the ground by the huge blast wave, and at that moment Tirpitz knew that the Swabian battlecruiser had been hit.

He knew very well the power of the eighteen-inch shells, and the Swabian must have been the result of heavy damage.

However, he soon sensed that something was wrong, and even if he was hit, it would not be a constant explosion!

And Tirpitz felt the constant violent vibrations coming from under his feet, as if the blast wave was coming towards him.

There is only one possibility, and that is that the shell hit the ammunition depot and caused the explosion.

At that moment, Tirpitz wanted to scold his mother, but unfortunately he didn't have much time to open his mouth.

Tirpitz's adjutant also found out, and even his reaction was even faster than Tirpitz's.

"General, jump ship!"

Before he even had time to consult with Tirpitz, the adjutant grabbed Tirpitz and jumped into the sea.

At that moment, the blast wave was transmitted to the ammunition depot of the No. 1 main gun turret below the bow.

With a loud bang, the No. 1 main gun turret was blown away in an instant, and a fiery red mushroom cloud rose into the air.

Tirpitz and his lieutenant, who had just jumped into the sea, were instantly swept away by the shock wave and crashed into the sea a few hundred meters away.

Tirpitz was dazed by the sea, and after drinking a few kilograms of seawater, he finally struggled to surface.

At this time, the Swabian battlecruiser was already unrecognizable, and the giant ship was full of holes, black smoke billowed out, and it was slowly sinking.

The giant ship of more than 30,000 tons, in a state of full blood, was killed in seconds by two super battleships of the Chinese Imperial Navy before a single shot was fired.

For Tirpitz, this was almost the greatest shame of his life, so angry that he instantly vomited three liters of blood (he was injured by the sea water when he fell into the water just now) and passed out.