Chapter 242: Sinking one after another

Two 800-kilogram bombs of the Helios supership pierced the 76 mm deck armor of the Yegoryevsk and exploded inside the Yegoryevsk hull, which not only caused a skyrocketing fire, but also many underwater parts of the Yegoryevsk were blown up and leaked, but fortunately they did not blow up important places such as ammunition compartments. In key places such as ammunition compartments and power compartments, firebreaks were set up to prevent fires from detonating shells and boilers, so that the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 13,500 tons withstood two huge bombs and persisted in not being sunk.

The Helios supership and the Mars large airship are opposite to the Russian Navy's Second Pacific Fleet, the Helios dropped two 800-kilogram bombs and flew over the head of the Yegoryevsk, there is no way to continue to make up for the Yegoryevsk with 2 bombs to sink it, the Helios can't turn 180 degrees, just to blow up and sink the Yegoryevsk, it would be a waste of time.

Zhang Heng, the captain of the Helios, didn't care if he didn't blow up and sink the Yegoryevsk, there were dozens of warships of the Russian Navy waiting to bomb him! So the Helios supership continued to fly to the next target.

At this time, the four battle lines of the French Navy's expeditionary fleet and the three battle lines of the Russian Navy's Pacific Second Fleet had become chaotic because of the airships, and they had withdrawn from the battle lines to avoid the bombs of the airships. If it is still on the battle line, the airship flies straight over, and the warships above the battle line are not waiting to be bombed!

However, it is relatively easy for these modern space-time airships purchased by Lin Daxin to turn in the sky, even if the Russian warships are not in a straight line, it is not easy to escape the fate of being bombed.

The Helios continued to fly, and then came to the head of an all-steel battleship of the Russian Navy and dropped two 800-kilogram bombs, but the two bombs did not hit the target, and both were thrown into the sea, blowing up two water columns more than 20 meters high.

Captain Zhang Heng couldn't help but secretly say bad luck and ordered the airship to continue to fly over the next large Russian warship.

The Mars large airship flew directly to the head of the Joan of Arc-class large fast armored cruiser Yaroslavovna with a displacement of 11,092 tons, and in the screams of the Russian naval officers and men above the warship, it opened the bomb port of the airship and dropped 4 300-kilogram bombs on the Yaroslavovna in one go, as a result, 2 bombs hit Yaroslavovna, 1 bomb pierced the 51 mm deck armor in its bow, and penetrated 2 layers of steel plates, and exploded in the torpedo room in the bow, Dozens of 381-mm torpedoes in the torpedo room were detonated at the same time, and the bow of the ship more than ten meters long was directly blown off. Another bomb pierced the deck armor, and the explosion caused an explosion in one of the ammunition silos of the Yaroslavovna, from which the Yaroslavovna was blown up in two.

The Yaroslavovna, which was divided into 3 sections, did not hold out on the sea for long, and the 3 sections sank into the sea one after another, and the 580 Russian naval officers and men on the warship, because the Yaroslavovna sank too quickly, only escaped less than 20 people, and Yaroslavovna became the first warship of the Russian Navy's Pacific Second Fleet to sink.

On the other side, the Hercules supership, after sinking the French Navy's all-steel battleship Michelia, flew to the head of the Charlemat-class all-steel battleship Hurda, which has a displacement of 11,693 tons, and dropped two 800-kilogram bombs, but both bombs allowed the Hunta to dodge, making the French naval officers and sailors of the Hurda breathe a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but rejoice God bless!

The Hercules continued to fly forward and came to the head of the French Navy's 11,100-ton Emperor Charlemagne-class all-steel battleship Josephin, and this time the captain of the Hercules, Zhang Guoxin, ordered the four inlets to be opened in turn when the airship flew to the bow of the Josephin, and four 800-kilogram bombs were dropped continuously every one second.

Although four bombs need to be used at a time, the hit rate will be much higher for the main warship with a length of more than 100 meters.

Sure enough, two of the four bombs dropped this time hit the Josephin, and the deadliest one was an 800-kilogram bomb in the stern of the ship. The bomb penetrated the 90 mm thick deck armor, drilled into the ammunition compartment of one of the main gun shells of the Josephin, and detonated hundreds of 305 mm shells, the stern of the Josephish was almost blown up, and the turbulent sea water poured into the hull, so that the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 11,100 tons disappeared into the sea in just 5 minutes, and only more than 30 of the 600 French naval officers and sailors on the warship jumped into the sea and floated on the sea, and the others sank to the bottom of the sea with the Josephin.

Zhang Guoxin saw that although this method of dropping bombs wasted a lot, the hit rate was really as high as in the simulation exercise, so he notified other airships through the radio station configured on the guò airship, and asked other airships to adopt this bomb delivery method.

Other airships that received Zhang Guoxin's telegram also began to drop four bombs every one second interval, which made the bombing hit rate higher, and more and more warships of the French Navy's expeditionary fleet and the Russian Navy's Second Pacific Fleet were also severely damaged.

Moreover, the airship that Lin Daxin purchased from modern time and space is more convenient to turn in the sky, so that the airship can constantly circle and bomb the heads of the fleets of the two countries.

When Lin Daxin led the First Fleet and the Second Fleet of the Northeast Navy to be 8,000 meters away from the combined fleet of the French Navy and the Russian Navy half an hour after the airship bombardment, many warships of the two countries had already been sunk by airships, and many of them were seriously injured by the bombs of the airships even if they were not sunk.

The French Navy's Charlemart-class all-steel battleship Gabriela was dropped by the Northeast Air Force Hercules supership that flew over its head and dropped four 800-kilogram bombs, two of which hit the Gabriela.

Both bombs pierced the 78 mm deck armor of the Gabriela and several layers of steel plates, exploding near the bottom of the hull. The power of the explosion of two 800-kilogram bombs caused several large holes in the underwater armor of the bottom of the hull and the side of the hull of this all-steel battleship with a displacement of 11,693 tons, which made the warship leak and the sea water poured into the hull from several large holes.

In the end, the Gabriela broke away from the French fleet, and although it was not bombed by airships again, the continuous influx of sea water into the ship's hull allowed the all-steel battleship to hold on to the sea for more than 20 minutes before slowly sinking into the sea. The 600 French naval officers and sailors on the Gabriela had sufficient time to escape, and nearly 500 escaped from the sunken warship and waited for rescue in lifeboats, while the other 100 French naval officers and sailors were killed by two 800-kilogram bombs exploding inside the hull.

The supership Hercules had just dropped four 800-kilogram bombs on the Gabriela and flew to the head of the French Navy's Charle-Matt-class all-steel battleship Francis, which also dropped four 800-kilogram bombs on the all-steel battleship.

The French naval officers and sailors on the Francis, under the command of the captain, tried their best to dodge, but they were still hit by two 800-kilogram bombs of the Hercules, one bomb hit the Francis's conning tower, and the 400-millimeter-thick conning tower armor did not carry the 800-kilogram bomb, and the conning tower was reimbursed at once. Another bomb was even more deadly, directly penetrating the 78 mm thick deck armor, penetrating two layers of steel plates, and landed near the ammunition bin of a main gun shell, detonating hundreds of 305 mm shells in the ammunition compartment.

The 600 French naval officers and sailors on board the Francis, because the warship sank too fast, even jumped into the sea to escape and did not swim far, and were sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool generated by the sinking hull, and as a result, 600 people did not survive.

The all-steel battleship Elvira of the same class became the third all-steel battleship of this class of the French Navy to be sunk, and after it was hit by the supership Hercules supership, it was treated the same way, and four 800-kilogram bombs flew to the all-steel battleship with a displacement of 11,693 tons.

The Elvira kept changing direction, allowing it to dodge 3 bombs, but the last 800 kg bomb was lost, this bomb penetrated its deck armor, and penetrated 2 layers of steel plates, and exploded directly in one of the power compartments of the Elvira, as a result, after detonating more than a dozen boilers in the power compartment at once, the serial explosion caused a sky-high fire, and soon the fire burned to the ammunition compartment of a main gun shell in the body of the Elvira. Hundreds of 305-mm shells were detonated by the fire, and in a shocking explosion, the Elvira sank into the sea with all 600 French naval officers and sailors. R1152