The so-called "straddle shooting" is a proper term for naval artillery shooting techniques, and in fact it is also a conventional method, which should be called the entrapment method according to the terminology of artillery

On the side of naval warfare, the distance between the two sides is generally relatively long (in artillery battles, it is usually between three kilometers and more than thirty kilometers, too far beyond the range of artillery, and too close to use torpedoes is more effective): coupled with the influence of wind and waves on the stability of the hull, the difficulty of aiming naval guns is much higher than that of land artillery.

Therefore, when a large battleship fires its guns, it generally uses all the main guns to fire a salvo, and the impact points of each shell do not overlap during the salvo, but are relatively evenly separated in a certain area. When a cannonball is fired and the enemy ship is in between two shells, it is called straddle fire. If a warship on the sea encounters such a situation, it means that it has been locked by the enemy's main gun, and all that remains is to pray for luck and let itself live a little longer.

Twenty kilometers away from the British fleet, the newest German battleship, the Frederick the Great, was like a grim reaper coming out of the darkness, and he was flanked by several light cruisers and destroyers. This is a powerful fleet, and their only purpose is to destroy all enemies.

, "Concubine Boom ......"

, the muzzle of the "Tendrick the Great" turned slightly, and then let out an earth-shattering roar.

The muzzle flames of the three main guns side by side converged into a massive ball of fire that spanned ten meters in diameter, and this fireball flickered for less than a second before being replaced by an even larger white cloud of smoke. The white smoke quickly dissipated with the sea breeze, and for a moment the entire huge hull of the "Frederick the Great" was shrouded in the thin smoke.

The power of the battleship's main guns in full salvo was staggering, the huge air pressure of the muzzle pressed a wide shallow pit in front of the sea on the side of the ship, and the 72,000-ton hull was pushed three or four meters to the side and rear by the huge recoil, and all those who witnessed this moment could not help but feel deep awe in their hearts for this terrible man-made destructive force.

The exclamation of the frigate captain Lahr did not last long, and another round of shelling followed.

The 460 mm main guns on the "Frederick the Great" were too powerful.1 If the nine main guns of the triple assembly were fired at the same time, they would cause great damage to the structure of the ship, so under normal circumstances, the nine main guns were fired indirectly in three parts, and the interval was generally ten to tens of seconds.

, the sailors on the "Zeus" were all awakened at the first shelling, when the British sailors ran to the deck barefoot with their upper bodies and some even wore only one inner kull "

A second round of shelling came to them.

Two huge explosions accompanied two huge water columns with a roaring roar into the sky, the huge water column was less than twenty meters away from the "Zeus", and Anthony and Lal on the watchtower even heard the sound of "rattling" when the strong water pressure squeezed the hull.

Although such a bombardment did not directly hit the ship, the huge water pressure was enough to cause damage to the ship, and if it was a few ships, it might be directly squashed.

Standing on the high watchtower, Lal and Anthony stared blankly at the water columns rising into the sky, these two water columns were so high that the two people standing on the watchtower more than ten meters high could not see the top of it when they looked up. The sailors on the deck were also stunned on the deck, and they were afraid, afraid of the weapon of death found in this human creation. The devastating cannon unleashed enough energy to turn any brave sailor into a coward, and the deck of the Zeus was already lying on its stomach with a bunch of sailors who had to fall on their feet because they were unsteady.

It seemed like a long time, and another century had passed, and the column of water that had soared to the sky finally fell back into the sea, and the sailors finally recovered from their uncertainty. But a new catastrophe came, and the huge eddies caused by the water column dragged the "Zeus" quickly to the vortex of death, which may not be anything to those huge battleships or cruisers, but it was disastrous to this frigate of only more than 800 tons. When the ship was dragged by the irresistible force of nature to the whirlpool that was six or seven wide next to it, all the sailors on board cried out in despair.

All of them closed their eyes helplessly at this moment and waited for God's judgment" When the "Zeus" rushed to the edge of the whirlpool, another cannonball landed on the starboard side of the hull, and the heavy shell landed less than five meters away from the ship, forming a near-miss, the frigate screamed in protest under this terrifying torque, the battleship swayed back and forth and struggled, and the sound of tooth-aching metal twisting echoed over the entire battleship. The huge shock wave and the impact of water pressure when the explosion sounded finally squeezed the weak hull of the "Zeus" into two.

These two sections, each with hundreds of tons of hulls, were blown up to both sides at once, and all the people on the ship sank to the bottom of the icy Atlantic Ocean in an instant.

Shells continued to fall around the flotilla, and the weak escort fleet groaned in pain in the overwhelming fire.

Just as the weak British fleet panicked at the loud crack, the sailors on the watchtowers of the few frigates and destroyers that had survived were horrified to see a huge silhouette of the ship rushing out from a distance through the binoculars. The towering mast seemed to soar into the sky, and the fiery red Iron Cross flag fluttering on the mast clearly appeared in front of everyone through the telescope.

"Damn, it's the super-battleships of the Germans!" Everyone who saw this scene let out a painful shēn groan.

"Humble yourself!"

"Sound the battle alarm!"

The remaining four destroyers and frigates have not lost their fighting spirit as imagined, and the 200-year heritage of the British Royal Navy is vividly displayed here. This destroyer, with a maximum tonnage of only 3,000 tons, and three frigates with a displacement of only seven or eight hundred tons, pounced on the huge figure in front of them, and although they were as small as ants in front of an elephant in front of the super-battleship of 72,000 tons, they still rushed forward without hesitation, in order to defend the honor of the British Royal Navy.

Perhaps the British spirit of defending honor to the death will move many and make many naval officers admire, but it will never include the German Navy. The deep hatred between Germany and Britain can only be described as grinning.

In the Norwegian Sea last year, in the "Battle of Narvik," the German Navy's destroyer fleet consisting of 10 destroyers was wiped out by the fleet headed by the British Royal Navy and the battleship "Warweary," and after the destroyer fleet was annihilated, more than 2,500 surviving naval officers and men of the 3,300 surviving officers and men went to the Norwegian coast and were formed into five, "sailor mountain marine" battalions, which put on the uniforms of the captured Norwegian troops and used the weapons of the captured Norwegian army to join the ranks of the mountain soldiers and resist the Allied attack together.

However, some German sailors were captured and shot as spies because they wore Norwegian army uniforms instead of being treated as prisoners of war. This incident deeply stung the nerves of the German Navy, and also raised a strong resentment between the German Navy and the "Battle of Narvik"

Immediately after the incident, Field Marshal Raeder of the German Navy gave an order that the German Navy would never accept the surrender of the British Royal Navy in the days to come.

Therefore, the commanders of the German battleships lacked even a shred of admiration and pity for the near-suicidal behavior of the brave British destroyers and frigates, and the only cold words that came out of their mouths with their faceless faces were, that is, "Fire!" ”

"Boom, boom, boom......"

As the distance narrowed, the twelve 155-millimeter naval guns on the "Tendrick the Great" also rang out, and countless bullets rained down on the cowardly destroyers and frigates.

The four brave ships were enveloped in bursts of heavy artillery fire and smoke in the midst of the explosions, so much so that the commanders on board the "Frederick the Great" had to give the order to stop firing.

When the smoke cleared, the Germans were presented with the wreckage of three half-sunken ships and a ship emitting smoke, no, it was no longer a ship, it was just a pile of twisted and burning metal wreckage.

Its top bridge and armored main gun conning tower had been blown away, and the battle bridge on the lower floor had been torn in half, half twisted and diagonally protruding outboard, and the other half collapsing into the seafaring bridge on the next level. The wide platforms on both sides of the bridge that protruded from the bridge had been distorted by the tremendous force generated by the explosion, and the sides of the battle bridge had simply been torn off the bridge, where the complex steel tubular bridge support structure was now lulled.

There was no longer a single moving figure of the ship, all of them were lying in pools of blood, and the 155-mm armor-piercing shells used by the Germans had also smashed the inside of the ship into a sieve, and absolutely no one survived under such an impact.

After destroying the convoy, more than a dozen British merchant ships that were desperately fleeing were surrounded by several German destroyers coming from behind. Looking at the muzzle of the black hole, those British cargo captains did not have the courage of the Royal Navy to defend their honor, and they were frightened.

In desperation, they had no choice but to obediently raise the white flag and sail towards the target of the German Hamburg mark under the orders of the German Navy...... @