The fourth hundred is a chapter of back stabbing
The British warship, which had received at least 30 rounds of MOM-type prefabricated fragmentation shells, quickly deviated from the course it had originally pursued the F-217, which made it and the other two British warships extremely strange in formation.
"Sir, I reckon that British ship bridge, well, maybe the whole bridge building is no longer breathing." The rough embryo of the Guantong department reported to Marcose.
The name bridge originated from the steam engine paddle steamer period, when the control section was located on the bridge between the left and right port paddle wheel guards, hence the name "ship bridge" and "ship bridge". With the development of science and technology, propellers have replaced paddle wheels, and "bridge" no longer refers to the "bridge", but the names "bridge" and "bridge" continue to be used to this day.
The bridge is divided according to the position, and the large and medium-sized ships are divided into the front bridge and the rear bridge, and the front bridge is at the front end of the top of the bridge tower, which is the main control command position; The aft bridge, usually on top of the aft deckhouse, is the reserve command station. The bridge on a small ship is called a bridge. Of course, an aircraft carrier or landing ship, no matter how large it is, usually has only one bridge.
The bridge of the British ship, which has no living people in the mouth of the rough embryo of the Guantong Department, refers to the two bridges in front and behind the ship. That is to say, after being washed by the F-217 with a storm of shelling, the British warship, which was still firing at the F-217 ship just now, basically did not have many breathing core personnel except for the engine room located below deck.
So even if this ship was unlucky enough to take nearly thirty rounds, it didn't cause the shells in the semi-open turret to explode, but it was basically ineffective. Judging from the fact that it has not corrected its deviation from course, it has no one who can still take the helm!
Finally a brave sailor from the cabin below deck climbed the mast, and the commanders of the other two British warships learned of the terrible battle there from the sailor's flag.
Firing dozens of shells is a small matter for the Italian-made Otto Melera 76 mm naval gun with a theoretical rate of fire of 120 rounds per minute, even if the rough embryos deliberately reduce the rate of fire due to the life of the barrel, but the short time from the beginning of the deck wash to the end of the battle is simply too mysterious for the British!
If you know that the warships of this era often took several hours from the beginning of the artillery battle to the division of victory and defeat, some often lasted for one day, and in rare cases, there were cases where the two sides stopped for one night and continued to fire at each other the next day.
However, just now, one of their own warships completely lost its combat effectiveness after experiencing such a short period of shelling by the Great Song Dynasty, which was incomprehensible to the British.
There were no ammunition detonated, no engine room hits, and no even the fires and smoke of the naval battles they had experienced before, and their teammates fell to their knees in no apparent terms!
"Lock up that British ship with its side exposed to us, and continue to wash me!" Thinking that since his head was wet, he would have to finish his bath, Marcose, asked the fire controller to lock on to another British warship.
Click, click! As a sound of mechanical operation sounded under the main deck of F217, one by one the MOM-type prefabricated fragmentation shells placed in an upright position in the drum moved one by one to the spiral loafer located on the left side of the gun with the rotation of the drum, and then the hoist was lifted to the turret platform, and the two alternately swinging swinging arms took turns to feed the shells into the injector.
Bang! Boom! For every puff of smoke from the slender barrel of the F-217's 76mm gun, a shell was thrown onto the foredeck, and life was harvested on the British's warship.
The British had roughly estimated that the Great Song had used anti-personnel shells such as grenades against them, and although they did not know how the Great Song had managed to let the shells penetrate the ship's hull before exploding, this did not prevent the British from evacuating most of the men from the bridge to the cabins below the main deck.
The British left a few people in the front bridge to brave the artillery fire for steering operations, and whether they could escape in the end can only depend on luck, of course, the speculation that the Great Song people had to slow down in order to carry out accurate artillery bombardment is no longer expected, but what if the Great Song people will run out of ammunition after so long of shelling?
"Sir, we've run out of MOM-type prefabricated fragmentation shells!" I don't know if the British's prayers had an effect, and the rough embryo in the bomb chamber reported to the fire controller.
The drums of Otto Melera's 76mm guns are usually capable of holding 80 or 85 shells, and they can't last long with the speed at which they wash the deck.
"Swap for semi-armor-piercing shells and knock out the turret in the stern of their ship!" Marcos seems to have been prepared for the end of his cannonballs.
At this time, the two British warships had already turned around because of the relatively appropriate countermeasures, and were sailing away from the F-217 ship, intending to leave the battlefield.
Marcos's plan was to attack the butt of the British facing the bow of his ship, and gamble his luck to see if he could cause the ammunition in the half-open turrets of the British ships to detonate.
However, if the British dared to use a semi-open turret, there must have been measures to deal with the explosion of ammunition in the heat of artillery battles. In addition to timely rescue of damage management, the amount of ammunition stored in the turret is generally appropriately reduced.
So much so that after the 76mm naval guns of the F-217 ship slammed into the flamboyant rounds with semi-armor-piercing shells, Marcos found that there was a martyrdom, but this fire was afraid that the British had sailed to the Strait of Malacca, and the ship was probably not burned clean!
If it drags on any longer, it will be troublesome if more British warships are recruited, and this missile will not be used, and the semi-armor-piercing shell will not penetrate the engine room for fear of deep penetration, what is the problem?
Hey, the turrets at the stern of the British are all useless, I can lean over and release torpedoes, Marcose suddenly remembered that Yang Guangke gave an order forbidding him to use torpedoes.
The warships of the 38th Task Force are mainly worried about the damage to the electronic equipment on their ships if they want to attack outside the range of the opponent, otherwise with the power, rate of fire and accuracy of modern naval guns, it is not worth these steam warships to be front-on.
Since the two British warships in front of them were basically close and there was no way to shell the F-217s chasing them behind them in a short period of time, Marcos could safely lean in and use the ship's Mk32Mod9 torpedo tubes to give the Brits two 324mm light torpedoes.
The "Brandenburg" class frigate is equipped with American-made Mk 46Mod2 torpedoes, and the MK32mod9 torpedo tubes on board are pushed out by high-pressure air, because there is no "Aslock" rocket to increase the range, Marcos must enter the range of the Mk 46Mod2 torpedo from the distance of flying the kite before attacking the British warship.
Although the Mk 46 Mod2 torpedo had a range of seven kilometers on paper, considering that the British's ship was mobile, in order to ensure that the torpedo could catch up with the British, Marcos had to bring the F-217 into the theoretical range of the British naval guns.
Fortunately, the British will only care about running away, and there is no bloody plot of hanging up the St. George's flag and turning around and playing with the F-217.
Four American-made Mk 46Mod2 torpedoes were successfully launched, and at speeds close to twenty-seven knots, they easily caught up with the British warship. Even if Eagle Sauce called the Mk 46Mod2 torpedo with a total weight of 235KG a light torpedo, the 44.49kg PBXN-103 high-explosive charge loaded with its warhead was not something that the waterline armor of these two British non-capital ships could resist.
Although the commanders of both British warships moved most of their crews below deck in advance, it was difficult for these men to save them from sinking after each ship suffered two Mk 46Mod2 torpedoes.
On the contrary, the warship, which lost most of its core crew due to being washed by a round of MOM prefabricated fragmentation shells, was finally able to survive on the surface of the sea.
"Adjust the course, go back to meet E4, and hurry up to flash East Wanlu is the right thing to do." Marcos, who had only four Mk 46Mod2 torpedoes left, said to the first mate.