Chapter 440: Let's not go to Pearl Harbor anymore, let's surround and send reinforcements! (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass)
"The torpedo has been fired!"
"Hurry up...... Pray quickly!"
"God bless us, God bless us, God bless the British ships......
Hong Renkun and Feng Yilong, who were carrying the great luck, also saw the torpedo launched, so they began to ask God to help take aim.
This time, the Kong Ming class also released 10 deadly millimeter "big thunders" at one time, all of which were aimed at the Monmouth on which Major General Bomai was riding.
Immediately afterwards, the warrior-class and the three escort-class who followed the Kong Ming also fired torpedoes one after another...... A 50-millimeter or 530-millimeter steam gas torpedo was first pushed out of the launch tube by high air pressure and plunged into the seawater. At the same time as falling into the water, the motor of the steam gas torpedo began to start, and the propeller at the tail of the torpedo also began to rotate rapidly, and the rotating propeller pushed the slender torpedo in the sea water at a high speed of more than 30 knots and began to break the waves and rush towards the British ships 5,000 meters away.
However, it was night, and visibility was poor, so it was lit only by moonlight and occasional flares. So the British didn't see the torpedo fired, and they couldn't see the torpedo trail of the torpedo formation formed by a large number of bubbles now. Therefore, the British formation did not know that dozens of deadly torpedoes were rushing towards their side, so they maintained their original formation and did not take any evasive posture.
It's too late, it's too fast. Bomai had just regained his footing with the help of his staff officer, and was calculating how many more rounds it would take to hit the Ming cruiser, which looked the size of a battleship. The millimeter torpedo fired by the Kong Ming arrived!
And this torpedo is as if it is fine, and the first torpedo that hits the Monmouth waterline armor headlong...... But 102 mm of armor, where can you stop a millimeter torpedo? I heard a loud bang, and the waterline armor belt on the starboard side of the Monmouth opened an opening that even a car could enter and exit, and the sea water was rushing in!
The shock caused by the violent explosion tossed Burmai to the ground...... This time he fell headfirst up, and a bald head slammed into the floor, and it broke at that time, and blood flowed all over his face. But before he could recover from the dizziness caused by his head hitting the steel plate, the Monmouth trembled violently again! This time the torpedo hit the bow of the hapless cruiser, and it was still a millimeter "big mine", but this time it was not the armor belt. Because the Monmouth's armor belt did not extend to the bow, the damage was even more striking when the millimeter "thunder" hit the thin steel plate, and the huge blast wave squeezed the sea water to break through the steel plate, and then penetrated several baffles and compartments in succession, almost destroying half of the bow.
The two terrifyingly large holes in the bow and amidships are, of course, extremely deadly...... To Rear Admiral Burmai and all the officers and men of the British Royal Navy aboard the Monmouth.
The frenzied influx of water soon caused the 9,800-ton armored cruiser to lose its balance and sink rapidly to the right, and in the blink of an eye, the Monmouth completely disappeared into the sea next to Guadalcanal.
But the sinking of the Monmouth was only the beginning of the catastrophe for the British Royal Navy! ….
Or the millimeter "thunder" shot from the Kong Ming...... I don't know how it sailed, but I actually ran headlong into the bow of the Bedford, which was following the Monmouth—or the bow with little armor protection! The torpedo exploded at the same time as it touched the steel plate, and this explosion directly blew off part of the bow of the Bedford and decapitated it! Is it worth it? How big is the hole that appears after the armored cruiser is "decapitated"? The sea water poured in like crazy, and it was not blocked at all.
So the Bedford quickly followed in the footsteps of the Monmouth, but instead of capsizing, it rushed down, and plunged into the sea and became a diving ship that never floated.
Then there is the Donegal, which is also a Monmers-class, with a 9,800-ton hull that looks very sturdy, but it can't resist the explosion of a 530-mm steam gas torpedo - for an armored cruiser of this class, the mine is not much different from the 530 mine...... That is, one dies quickly, and the other dies slowly
It's just a matter of death.
Three 530-mm steam gas torpedoes hit its stern and amidships, hitting the bottom of the ship, blowing out not holes, but gaps! Directly the explosion lacked a "mouth", and the sea water was really surging into hundreds of tons, and there was no chance of rescue at all. However, its captain, Colonel Asburn, still had time to give the order to abandon the ship, and he himself picked up his life, used his freestyle skills, and swam to Guadalcanal with a group of sailors. He spent three years on the deserted island before he was discovered and returned to England, where he was cordially received by Queen Victoria and Prince Juché at St. James's Palace......
The armored cruiser USS Berwick quickly followed in the footsteps of its three sister ships, but it was much stronger than the first three, and it was hit by five 530 mines in a row before it sank in the sea near Guadalcanal because of too much water. Before it sank, half of the ship's crew had been evacuated. However, most of them were not rescued, but instead became a meal for the sharks of the Sea of Solomon.
The results of killing four armored cruisers in a short period of time, not to mention that the British did not expect it, even the officers and men of the Ming Navy were dumbfounded...... They usually train and shoot torpedoes at night, but they don't have this result!
Of the 50 mines in 11, 4 10,000-ton patrol ...... were sunk This achievement appeared in actual combat, and it was simply a martial arts fortune!
The sea suddenly became quiet, and the guns on both sides were not big, so it took a full five minutes for Guo Xiaobao to react, and after a burst of ecstatic laughter, he ordered loudly: "Guns, the target is changed to British destroyers...... Free fire!"
After sinking the cruiser, of course, the destroyer could not be spared...... It's torpedo boats, gunboats, that's also the result! It is also an instrument of imperialist aggression and must be eliminated!
With Guo Xiaobao's order, the naval battle near Guadalcanal Island started again, and 6 destroyers of the "Kindergarten" class with a displacement of less than 1,000 tons became the target of the murderous Ming Navy's cruisers and 2,000 tons of "big drives"!
However, these British destroyers still ran very fast, and they did not care about salvaging the British officers and men who had fallen into the water. As a result, only 2 were sunk...... However, the 4 "infant destroyers" that ran away did not run well, and directly led the formation led by the cruiser Kong Ming to the vicinity of the William IV, the flagship of the British Royal Navy's Australian Grand Fleet.
The Wilhelm IV is a 35,000-ton ship with 10 14-inch guns, where is the Grand Cruiser like the Kongming class dare to touch? Seeing its hazy figure from a distance, Guo Xiaobao decisively gave the order to evacuate.
And through Yuehua looking at the back of the large cruiser of the Kong Ming class that was about to disappear, William, who already knew that his four armored cruisers had completely destroyed "one torpedo". Bhaga's voice is shaking!
"Quick, send a telegram to His Majesty the Emperor, I, we're not going to Pearl Harbor...... We're going to surround and send reinforcements, we're going to Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands!"
Big Rollo