The chart rooms of the ships of the German fleet were all lit up at the moment, and the navigator in a straight military uniform led his draftsmen to carry out nautical chart operations according to the information provided by Lin Han, so as to facilitate the correction of the number of shots of his own warships.

Although they have the corrected number jù of the close miss of the shell that the ship soul ship sume constantly provides, the rest of the ships that are not possessed by the ship's male ship maiden can only use the indirect number jù to shoot, and they can only honestly carry out drawing operations and calculations according to the number jù provided by Lin Han and Hannah, and then provide the corrected firing unit to the gun commander.

On the other hand, a second salvo from the sister ships of the Shane was again formed around the Ark Royal, and two near-miss rounds exploded near the ship, and the resulting water pressure squeezed the watertight compartments of a small part of the ship.

But the good fortune of the Ark Royal lasted so far.

Fifty-nine seconds after the start of the battle, the Shane sisters fired a third salvo, although the captain of the Ark Royal, who had already reacted at this time, personally steered the steer to evade, but the Ark Royal, which was on the march at night and was only traveling at a cruising speed of twenty-four knots, had limited maneuvering evasion efficiency.

A sixteen-inch cannonball fired by the Gnaisenau, in the shocking sound, slammed into the left rear side of the Ark Royal, the sixteen-inch shell easily tore through the weak sidestring armor of the Ark Royal, and the fire exploded inside, red light appeared, and the side of the Ark Royal aircraft carrier seemed to be torn open, and it was suddenly blown out of a huge breach with a diameter of more than ten meters, and the air waves were rushing. Tens of thousands of tiny shrapnel were fired in all directions inside the aircraft carrier like a hurricane.

The sixteen-inch shell hit the hangar of the aircraft carrier, where the Sea Hurricane and Swordfish fighters in stock were twisted into a storm of iron by a large number of sharp metal mixtures from the explosion. Where shrapnel and air waves swept by, bulkheads, decks, and human bodies were all pierced and shattered in an instant, blood spurted, and the interior of the originally neat hangar suddenly turned into a tragic hell with blood and fire!

The shell from the Gneisenau not only destroyed the hangar, but also severely damaged several nearby sailors' cabins, and more than a dozen pilots suffered heavy casualties in the hit. In addition, some oil pipelines were damaged. And a fire broke out in the hangar.

But the disaster on the Ark Royal wasn't over yet. After three consecutive rounds of missed shooting, during the fourth round of shelling, the Scharnhorst, which had previously missed on the ground, finally ushered in a burst of character, and this round of nine shells fired by the ship. I was hit twice in a row. A single bullet hits the flight deck. After penetrating the flight deck paved with steel plates of several tens of millimeters, it exploded under the second deck, causing damage to several boiler lines and rendering several boilers ineffective.

And another shell hit a meter above the waterline of the ship's amidships. However, this was a dud bomb, and after hitting a huge mouth more than two meters wide in the swollen part of the ship, it passed through the entire hull, and then broke through the wall at the other end of the underwater part and fell into the sea, actually piercing the ship. Since the part of the hit was the sailor cabin. Wherever the shells passed, the metal fragments carried up flew in all directions, and the sailors' cabin was littered with dead and wounded. What's even more deadly is that in the rough Atlantic Ocean, a large amount of seawater takes the opportunity to pour in through the breach.

In the 119th second after the start of the battle, the sister ships of the Scharn fired a fifth salvo at the Ark Royal, and this shot failed again, but in the sixth salvo one hundred and forty-eight seconds later, the two ships each scored a hit, a 406 mm cannonball from the Scharnhorst, which hit the bow of the Ark Royal, and this time it hit the deck on the right side of the bow due to excessive penetration, and then fell into the sea through the steel plate on the starboard side, and the time-delay fuse was detonated only after the shell fell into the sea. However, the resulting huge hole on the starboard side of the bow still led to a large amount of water ingress.

The fatal blow from the Gnaelinau was a fatal blow from a triple battery in its tail that hit the Ark Royal's power room, destroying one of the ship's steam turbines and causing a fire. At the same time, the shell tore a huge wound more than ten meters long on the hull of the ship, and the sea water rolled in. More than two-thirds of the ship's boilers stopped working under the blow and the sea continued to pour in, and even more deadly, the huge vibration caused by the blow caused the rudder to break and freeze, and the Ark Royal began to spin slowly on the sea under the residual power.

At around the 182nd second, the Shane sisters fired their seventh salvo at the Ark Royal, and each ship hit one shot in this salvo. One of the shells hit the bridge and killed all the officers in the command room, including the captain. The other, even more deadly, hit the ship's aviation fuel depot and set it on fire, and the Ark Royal soon burned into one of the most visible torches of the night. Although the rest of the shells missed, they caused the hull to rupture in many places, and more water should have entered. Despite the fact that all the working pumps on the Ark Royal were pumping water at full capacity, the hull was still slowly sinking.

Lin Han scanned the tragic situation of the Royal Ark and said to Hannah:

"We've slit that guy's throat and can shift the fire against the London, and that guy is desperately trying to turn to lightning strike us!"

At this time, Hannah's main gun correction was provided by Hannah, and Linhan's attention was mostly focused on the heavy cruiser London, which was forcibly turning to launch a "lightning strike" on the two ships. The task of replenishing the guns of the Ark Royal was given to the 7,000-ton light cruiser "Valkyrie", which was in fourth place in the queue and had completed the turn.

Due to the fact that the Ark Royal was close to the left rear of the German fleet, the escort cruisers were either completely destroyed or were being bathed in a "rain of bullets", and the anti-lightning strike capability was greatly reduced, which just left a gap for the lightning strike ship.

German light cruisers are usually named after cities, but as Hannah's control of the German Navy became stronger and stronger, and the German Navy became more and more "superstitious" and more and more developed towards the "cathars", the four new 7,000-ton light cruisers launched in 1939 have been openly named "Valkyrie class", and the names used are all after the famous Valkyries in Norse mythology. Such as Valenkiri, Burenhill, Floya, etc. And Hannah herself was even considering whether the two Shane-class battleships returning to Hong Kong after the Battle of Norway in December needed to be renamed "Gabriel" and "Sephiroth".

Then the light cruiser "Valkyrie" quickly approached the Ark Royal, which was slowly circling at sea, fired four torpedoes from a distance of 6,000 meters, turned around and fired two more with its tail tube, and finally hit two shells. An hour later, the Ark Royal failed due to excessive water ingress. Sink in icy waters. Of the 1,200 officers and men on board, only 300 were rescued.

When the eighteen main guns of the Scharn sisters were attacking the aircraft carrier Ark Royal, a total of twenty 128 mm secondary guns on one side of the two ships, plus six secondary guns of the same caliber on the Deutschland, and six 283 mm front and rear main guns. At this time, they were all facing the ship, which was trying to turn the bow. The 10,000-ton heavy cruiser, which was ready to launch a decisive lightning strike, opened fire.

The sideways turn of a 10,000-ton ship. It's not as easy as a car turning, and it takes a few minutes to turn a bulky hull no matter how fast it is, and even longer if it's a battleship.

The Sister Shane during the siege of the Ark Royal. The heavy cruiser London, which reacted the fastest, did not turn around until 110 seconds after the start of the shelling. In the process, the captain of the London, who realized that he had been attacked at night, ordered the whole ship to fire flares in the direction of the distant shelling, without consulting the commander-in-chief of the Hood, Vice Admiral Holland.

When the flares were fired, the London was being "bathed" by the rain of secondary shells of the three German capital ships, just like the previous two Linxian-class light cruisers, the London was on fire, not only the hull of the ship, but even the surrounding sea water was blown up by the shells falling from the raindrop ships.

Shells were constantly falling on the London, and from time to time secondary or anti-aircraft guns were hit and blown into the sea, and sailors who were risking their lives to load flares in open gun emplacements were even more flesh and blood. But even in such a bad situation, several flares were loaded by the sailors who fought to the death, and then the direction in which the German fleet was located was shot.

The flares exploded in the air, and several bright lights were instantly lit in the sky, illuminating the direction of the German fleet, and the figures of nine German battleships were clearly visible on the sea.

At this time, the battleship London had already been hit by too many bullets, small fires had broken out in many parts of the hull, and the sailors working on the ship had suffered heavy casualties, but the warship, under the command of the captain, still risked death to turn, and in the process of turning, the four two-in-eight guns on the ship still fired unyieldingly at the German ship -- of course, as far as the present situation of the London was concerned, the significance of this kind of shelling, psychological emboldening demonstration, far outweighed by its actual threat, even with the help of flares, was interfered by the limitation of visibility and its own constant bullets, The ship's shells were all ridiculously off.

When the London completed the difficult turn in front of the enemy in the rain of bullets, the whole ship had been hit by nearly 30 shells at this time, of which the 283 mm shell hit one shot, the first turret of the front main gun was directly blown up, and the other parts were unceremoniously washed by the opponent's 128 mm shells, the deck was full of stumps and scraps of sailors, the ship's searchlights were completely destroyed, the rangefinder was completely destroyed, and the four turrets, except for one turret that was destroyed by the opponent's first shot, the remaining three turrets, and the fourth turret in the tail were under shelling, The opponent's shell hit the eight-inch barrel, causing damage to the barrel, and then the gunner of the turret continued to fire without knowing it, and the barrel of the gun blew up, and the No. 4 turret was scrapped.

Even though the London had been half-crippled after the turnaround, the ship was still carrying a dense rain of bullets in the direction of the Scharnhorst, but at this point, the Scharnjourn sisters, who had severely damaged the Ark Royal, had turned their guns and aimed their main guns at him.

Twenty-fortieth second after the battle began, the Gneisenau, which was the first to turn its guns, opened fire on it, and ten seconds later the nine main guns on the Scharnhorst roared at it.

Compared with the Ark Royal, which is about twenty kilometers away, the distance of the London is closer, and the speed that has just completed the change of direction to him is greatly reduced, and it is easier to hit, although the nine shells fired by the Gzensenau guided by Lin Han were all lost, but the Scharnhorst commanded by Hannah gave the London a fatal blow in the first round of shooting, and a shell from its front main gun directly hit the torpedo compartment of the London, and triggered the detonation of the torpedo in loading, and the bow of the London was instantly destroyed by this explosion, and the sea water poured into it frantically, The ship was then at sea for less than five minutes before falling headlong into the icy depths of the sea, leaving no survivors of the entire crew.

Historically, the London is "famous all over the world" for its "Purple Quartz Incident" that interfered with the People's Liberation Army's crossing of the river, and the ship survived until it was decommissioned in 1950 before sinking in an accident during a movie shoot. Another unfortunate Lin Xian-class light cruiser, historically given to China's Nanjing Nationalist Government after World War II (in fact, compensation), was later renamed the famous "Chongqing". These two warships could have "lived" longer, but due to the appearance of the traverser, their combat lives ended ten years ahead of schedule.

When the brave London sank in a huge explosion, the three main cruisers of the British fleet: the Hood, the Prestige, and the Counterattack also reacted, and the last Prestige fired a flare on the London, illuminating the position of the German fleet before firing first, and then the Hood and the Counterattack also fired at the Scharnhorst, which was in the front.

However, the situation faced by the three ships was the same, at a distance of more than 25 kilometers, or even as far as 30 kilometers, and in the middle of the night, when it was impossible to obtain the exact position and distance of the opponent's warship, this kind of fire was a complete waste of ammunition, and the closest deviation of all the shells was as high as 1,500 meters.

Therefore, when the Shane sister ships "two ghosts knocked on the door" and beat the Ark Royal, they were in a state of "ignorance" of the shells fired by the three ships from a distance, still maintaining course, unhurriedly pulling the trigger on the Ark Royal, and after slapping the biggest nail in the eye little by little to the near-death state, there was also "leisure" to divert the muzzle of the gun, and give a fatal blow to the London, which was launching a decisive assault on it.

The Shane-class ships joined forces and killed the London in one blow, only then did they turn their guns around and aim at the nearest battlecruiser, the Prestige. Although it was two against three, Lin Han and Hannah, who advocated that it was better to cut off one of their fingers than to hurt their ten fingers, did not want to choose the tactic of dividing their troops against the enemy in the night battle with all their advantages. Instead, he decided to rely on the advantage of thick guns and thick skin, and joined forces to "round" kill opponents one by one. (To be continued......)

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