Torpedo? yes, torpedo!

Who would have thought that a German submarine would suddenly appear here? Who would have thought that the other side would launch a torpedo without knowing it? And didn't he say that the submarine would not sneak attack if the speed was high enough? Is this really not cheating?

With doubts in his head, the captain of the battleship USS Soviets did not even have time to give the order to evade. The first mate, who had participated in the First World War, saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly shouted: "Left full rudder! Avoid torpedoes! Keep moving at full speed! Left full rudder! Quick!"

As soon as the sailors holding the steering wheel heard this order, they quickly slammed the steering wheel to their left side, and the entire steering wheel spun like an electric fan...... Well, even if you are injured, it is not easy to explain to the people above.

The effect of steering at full speed is quite obvious, but the speed of the ship is fast, and it is impossible to be faster than the cruising speed of the torpedo, and the destroyer cannot do this, and it is even more impossible for a battleship weighing tens of thousands of tons to do it.

"Boom!" With a huge explosion, the entire Soviet Union shook violently, obviously the first torpedo had hit the hull, and now everyone no longer had any luck, they could only pray, keep praying, praying that the battleship under their feet could withstand this round of torpedo attacks, even if it was seriously injured but never sunk.

The massive explosion tore through the battleship's heavy side armor, piercing the bulkheads inside, twisting and distorting the keel structure that supported it. This is the most powerful crystallization of the human chemical industry, with the help of the most violent force of nature, at the same time destroying the strongest and thickest fortress of the human smelting industry.

This time it was clearly the former who had won, the huge explosion had destroyed the structure of several entire compartments, and the sea water was pouring into the hull in large quantities, and the oil had leaked into the surrounding sea on a large scale, looking as if it were a bloodstain and looking hideous and terrifying.

Of course, this qiē was far from over, and the huge explosion was not just one, and the second torpedo quickly hit another position of the battleship, which was relatively close to the rear of the hull, and it was also the most heavily armored position of the entire battleship. However, it is a pity that this place is too close to the place that has just been blown up by the torpedo, and the internal structure caused by the torpedo just now is distorted and deformed, which directly makes the nearby cabin and the stressed structure become fragile.

The second explosion made everyone desperate, this torpedo blew the surrounding compartments directly into a gap, about a dozen compartments were completely destroyed at once, and the influx of sea water was faster than the original. And this explosion had an even more lethal effect - the speed of the entire Soviet battleship slowed down all at once!

So the third and fourth torpedoes were not wasted, and all of them crashed near the tail propeller of the Soviet Union. This time it was really the life of the Soviet Union, not only the two huge propellers on the starboard side were blown away, but the rudder was also completely destroyed, and the sea water poured into the stern of the hull, and soon merged with the sea water entering the side side.

So just two minutes later, the Soviet Union's hull began to rise rapidly, the red waterline painted on the bottom of the bow hull was moving away from the sea, and the sharp bow was being lifted out of the water at an incredible angle.

Most of the damage management personnel inside the hull were swept away by the influx of seawater, and when the seawater rushed into the boiler room, the entire warship lost power. The efficiency of the pumping machine immediately dropped several times, and the inclination of the hull became even tighter. From the time the Soviet Union was hit to the final failure of the damage pipe, it took only 15 minutes.

You have to marvel at the human means, they often take a long time to build a huge achievement, but sometimes it only takes a few seconds to destroy this achievement. It took three years from design to construction, but it didn't take half an hour to sink from the time it entered the water.

The well-designed anti-torpedo structure could not withstand the destruction of four large-caliber torpedoes, and the thick armor also failed to stop the rampant high-explosive charges. That's what war is all about: no fortress can last forever, and the Great Wall is sometimes not the best option.

Torpedoes were responsible for destroying armor and shaking the ship's defenses. The sea water did the rest—they poured into the interior of the battleship, pushing the twisted walls through, through the crevices and holes, into the vents and the cracks in the doors, and then taking over one area after another that was originally air. When they squeeze a lot of air out of the hull, the entire ship becomes overwhelmed, pulling more cabins into the water, and the cycle continues, until the whole ship sinks to the bottom of the sea.

The heavy armor laid to prevent destruction had become a cumbersome cloak that could not be taken off at this moment, and hundreds or thousands of tons of solid steel plates pulled the battleship to sink slowly, and the efforts of human beings seemed to be negligible at this time.

"Soviets, Soviets, you're leaning, you're leaning, need help?" On the bridge of a cruiser behind the Soviets, the cruiser captain kept calling to the Soviets over the radio.

A few minutes later, the Soviets sent the first telegram after it was hit, and the content was simple: "I was torpedoed, the damage failed, and all abandoned the ship!" and when this telegram was sent, the stern of the Soviets had sunk into the sea, and the huge bow in front of it had been completely lifted out of the sea by the huge leverage.

This qiē is somewhat similar to the process of the sinking of the Titanic, except that the Titanic sank the bow first into the bottom of the sea, and pressed the stern out of the water. The battleship USS Soviet, on the other hand, was completely reversed, with its stern sinking to the bottom of the sea due to water ingress and its bow being raised high.

"Destroyer, search the entire sea, catch that German submarine, sink it!" The captain of the cruiser immediately took command of the battlefield, and after a slight hesitation, he immediately gave the order to fight. He didn't want to lose another warship for the rescue effort, or let go of the German submarine that was the killer when the USS Soviets had already sunk.

"The explosion was on the starboard side of the USS Soviet! The submarine was on our starboard side!" the captain of the Soviet destroyer had a bushy beard, and he had a lot of combat experience. Because he had served as an anti-submarine commander in the First World War and had very proficient anti-submarine skills.

"Full rudder on the right! Full speed ahead! Prepare depth charges!" he raised his binoculars and looked at where the opposing submarine might be, where it was calm and nothing seemed to have appeared. However, he was very sure that beneath the calm water, a submarine was speeding away in the opposite direction.

"Don't turn back on the rudder! deviate from some course!" the bearded commander of the destroyer confidently held down the steering wheel with one hand, preventing his ship's sailors from pulling the steering wheel back. The destroyer deviated somewhat, and then returned to the direction it had intended to be aiming for after about a minute.

Going straight after a submarine? What is the difference between that and looking for death? In case an opponent jumps over the wall and counterattacks with a torpedo at the tail of the submarine, it is definitely a very tricky problem. He carefully did a good job of evasion, so the submarine side relied on the inaccurate sonar system, and it was impossible to fire lightly and counterattack.

Behind this destroyer, the Soviet cruiser had already driven to the vicinity of the USS Soviets and began to lay down its lifeboats to save people. There was a dense mass of Soviet sailors floating there, and they would not have to wait long before they froze to death in the icy waters. The bow of the huge Soviet ship is now almost submerged, and the powerful 381 mm cannon is now standing like three chimneys on the sea.

"Captain, aren't we going to save people? Without us, I'm afraid it won't be too late to save people. The first mate looked back at his comrades soaked in the water, and his tone was full of anxiety. You must know that there are more than 1,600 officers and soldiers on board the Soviet Union, and even if half of them are killed, there are 800 people.

"There are other ships to save people!We're responsible for taking out that German submarine!" said the bearded captain stubbornly, "We can catch him now!"

"Can you catch it?" the first mate was stunned, then looked back at his captain in shock.

"It can't go far!" said the bearded man confidently, "I'm going to sink it!"

The destroyer under his feet was the latest anti-submarine destroyer purchased by the British, built in July 1937 and very young. In fact, the negotiations for the purchase of this destroyer are still very tortuous, which can be regarded as a small story.

This ship was originally one of the new destroyers designed and built by the British Navy, and before it was completed and the Navy could take it into service, the Soviet Union deliberately leaked the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact", which surprised Britain and France, and they had to free up their hands to prepare for dealing with Germany that deceived them.

In gratitude for the "kind reminder" of the Soviets, the British Navy sold the new destroyer to the Soviet Union, after all, at that time the British Navy had not yet been challenged by the German High Seas Fleet. So the Soviet Union got this new destroyer, which "symbolizes the friendship between Britain and the Soviet Union".

This destroyer is equipped with a relatively new sonar, which can be regarded as a small professional anti-submarine destroyer in the Soviet Navy. That's why the Soviet Navy sent an experienced bearded man as the captain of the destroyer, and sent the destroyer to the Soviet Union as an escort ship.

Now, the official contest begins. A destroyer stared at its prey, but instead of a cute seal, it was a steel shark that could open its jaws at any moment. R1148