Chapter 309: Is this going to start? !
"What's the situation!" In an instant, both the German and French eyes were attracted by the explosion and the rising smoke coming from a distance! No one knows what happened in the distance. Although the incident happened suddenly, there was still a trace of reason on both sides. In the first few minutes after the explosion, no one did it.
"The battleship accelerates and pulls away!" Hipper ordered immediately. Although he didn't know what was going on in the distance, he still needed some precautions. The experience on the battlefield made Hipper have an instinctive sensitivity to crisis. ! He can clearly realize that today's things may not be good anymore! For the cruiser Marquis of Bismarck, it is the upper layer to attack the opponent with precise artillery fire at a distance, otherwise it is only 2500 meters away, waiting for the opponent to wash the deck with a rapid-fire gun? !
In the face of the German warship that was gradually accelerating and preparing to spread the distance, the French's nerves that had collapsed to the limit were once again greatly stimulated! Pierre then accelerated, but unfortunately, neither Charlemagne nor the two cruisers behind were far as fast as the Marquis of Bismarck....
"Damn! Tell the French to come out!" At the same time, Scheer, who was lingering outside the minefield, sent a telegram to the French again. But the other French transport ship that did not hit the mine by chance not only did not leave the danger zone immediately, but went to save people...
In Schell's desperate gaze, 8 minutes later, another loud noise rang! The transport ship going to rescue was blown to pieces by another mine! More deadly, at the same time, a telegram was delivered to Pierre. "We have struck a mine!" And it is precisely because of this ambiguous telegram that the whole situation is completely out of control!
Who laid this mine? Is it Portuguese or German? If it is the former, then it is naturally a misunderstanding, and if it is the latter, it is a declaration of war. Although France is weaker than Germany, it is absolutely impossible to watch its two transport ships blow up and remain indifferent! At this time, Lieutenant Pierre automatically made up for the whole process-this was a mine laid by the Germans, and their fleet drove our transport ship into the minefield. This was a murder!
When Pierre brain completed the whole process, the engagement became inevitable. Less than 3 minutes after the explosion of the second transport ship, Charlemagne raised the flag of engagement! Afterwards, with the violent shaking of the hull, the four 12-inch guns on the Charlemagne fired the first round of volleys at the Marquis of Bismarck, which was 6000 meters away!
When things can't be solved with your mouth, then solve them with your fists! It is impossible for the French to wait for the Hamburg to come back and start the war again. Don't look at the 3 vs. 2 and the French don't know what to do. So, no matter what, let's concentrate on the fire and take down the previous warship.
Unfortunately, this time the French encountered the most time-experienced and most ruthless fleet commander in the German Navy, as well as the most powerful cruiser. At a distance of 6 kilometers, equipped with a new rangefinder and The first salvo of the armored cruiser Marquis Bismarck, which got up early with fire control equipment, made the French feel terrified!
Eight 254mm heavy guns fired at the same time, and a huge fireball instantly covered the hull of the warship more than 150 meters long. When the thunderous sound had not yet been heard, eight fireballs with a destructive atmosphere had already flown to Ryan. The Ryder protective cruiser!
In just a few seconds, the best battleship among the French cruisers in active service was surrounded by huge water columns. Perhaps because of the short distance or luck, the Count Bismarck was in the first round of attack. Successfully clamped the target. Only less than half a minute later, the second round of volleys made a hit, and two shells weighing 245kg hit the cruiser like heavy hammers!
The sidestring of the Lion Ryder, which was successfully hit in the first shot, tore a big hole, and then hit the 4-inch thick armor. In terms of defense, Ryan Ryder was not even as good as Edgar, and the latter was at least. 6-inch armor, and this warship still uses ordinary steel-faced iron armor, and the angle of inclination is not very large. The armor-piercing projectile that has been passivated did not explode prematurely, and it easily pierced a hole in the dome. Later, this shell directly exploded several boilers in the power cabin into a ball of fragments!
Hundreds of degrees of high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor gushes out from the breach at a very high speed. Burning everything in the entire cabin, in just a few seconds, this boiler warehouse became a **** of others, and the Lion Ryder also lost nearly half of its power!
And this is just the beginning. Another shell blasted a 5.5-inch cannon into fragments, and the flames generated after the explosion spread along the ammunition hoist down the deck. Although there was no detonated ammunition depot, the raging fire was already Began to spread.
And while the French officers on the Ryan Ryder were busy rescuing the warship, the armored cruiser Marquis of Bismarck, which had entered the state, delivered at least three 254mm shells to the cruiser in less than 2 minutes. Body!
The doubling of the number of main guns will definitely not only double the amount of projection, but with more advanced rangefinders and fire control equipment, at a distance of 6 kilometers, the cruiser Marquis of Bismarck can be hung easily. A battleship that is more than an era behind itself! From the design point of view~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The Marquis of Bismarck can already be seen as a small, slow Von De Tann! And Ryan Ryder's arena status is not as good as the previous Japanese ten thousand tons armored cruiser... It is not too much to say that it is 20 years away!
Before this battle, no one could imagine that an 8,000-ton warship would be beaten and lose its combat effectiveness in just over ten minutes! During this time, the Marquis of Bismarck hit the opponent at least 15 times! On average, one hit per minute! The Lion Ryder, which had no waterline armor belt, was battered and ripped apart, and even three large holes of several square meters were torn apart at the waterline!
And the superstructure of the entire battleship turned into a sea of flames. The shells with the breath of death kept hitting the dying struggler, and the yellow-green flames began to spread on the deck, and countless shrapnels wanted to harvest the exposed ones. French navy officers and soldiers.
It is not that the French did not work hard. When they were just injured, they were still extinguishing the fire and draining water under the command of the officer. But soon, the raindrops of shells made the French completely desperate. The speed of their rescue is far behind the speed of destruction. In the distance, the battleship that kept spraying the tongue of fire was like a terrifying sea monster with 8 giant tentacles, pulling this cruiser into the abyss of death step by step!
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