Chapter 766: Rolling

With almost no interference, the two German battleships performed exceptionally well! After the smoke cleared, Scharnhorst found the target in the fourth half of the salvo. The nearby Gneisenau even successfully hit the battleship Aki in the fifth round with a half salvo!

  Look at the 5 turrets, 2 large, 3 small, on the side of the Ayi from the beginning to the end. It is not easy to miss the turret with one shell hitting it! The twin 10-inch turret in the center was destroyed first. The sharp cup cap cut through the hardened armor layer of 8 inches thick like a hot knife cutting butter, and shot in between the two guns. After penetrating, they continued to move forward and hit the turret directly on the tail compartment used to store spare ammunition!

  At this time, according to Japanese habits, there are exactly 4 spare shells and 8 propellant packs in the tail compartment! The flames and shocks from the explosion of the shell first spread to the silk pill pack! A chain explosion occurred at the tail of the entire turret first, a series of loud noises came from the turret, and finally with a violent explosion that made the entire battleship sway, half of the turret was directly shattered! The two artillery pieces in the front were severely impacted from the gun mount. Countless shrapnel and armor fragments shot out from the back of the turret and directly swept across the deck in the middle of the hull!

  The power of the explosion is so great that the entire middle of the superstructure seems to be wiped out! Although the loss of the superstructure looks heavy, the impact is actually relatively limited. What is really fatal is that this gun destroyed a chimney of the Aki and the flue below! Half of the chimney was directly blown into the sea, and the black smoke billowing from the flue quickly covered the middle of the hull and spread to the back of the hull.

The loss of the flue is serious, which is why some warships will design flue armor. On the one hand, smoke will directly affect the design of the artillery. On the other hand, if the exhaust gas flows back into the boiler compartment, it may cause the boiler to extinguish. Such things as being overwhelmed or even being smoked to death are nothing compared to the above-mentioned things!

  I have to say that the Japanese at this time are still very hard, and they are completely different from the later Heisei abandoned houses. A group of Japanese rushed up without even equipped with asbestos fire-resistant suits and gas masks, and the sea water drawn from the water pump was sprayed toward the fire site in an attempt to control the fire.

However, at this moment, the second shell fell over and directly hit a team of firefighters. The fire like a volcanic eruption engulfed the entire firefighting team, and this explosion even destroyed the first upper deck. The whole smashed a layer! More air enters the interior of the hull, making the internal fire expand faster, and the flames like a fire snake swim around the cabins and pipes, turning each compartment into a flame hell. Many people who have not had time to withdraw can only struggle in the flames to spend the last and most painful time in their lives.

  And the Scharnhorst of Suxiong performed equally well! In the seventh round of the semi-volley, he successfully hit two shells from the Satsuma! A shell hit the front of the 12-inch turret of the Satsuma due to an angle problem and it did not penetrate but flew directly. However, even so, a 12-inch barrel was taken away, and the huge vibration even caused another There is a problem with the hydraulic equipment of the artillery.

The second shot had a very good hit effect. It was a water bomb that entered the water 20 meters from the warring side of the Satsuma, and then stabbed it like a small torpedo, successfully tearing open the outer hull. After the slab and coal bunker, he entered the main engine compartment again. Although there was no explosion, the violent collision still knocked a drive shaft in half! The huge drive shaft suddenly jumped from the base under the action of inertia, sweeping half of the engine room! The violent collision and the resulting fire caused the warship to lose half of its power!

   Yusaburo Kato felt that the entire warship was rapidly tilting to one side, and the British watertight compartment design was not very successful. Without the German fine compartment, there was no abnormal three-layer power cabin. The Japanese watertight design is equally general. Although it is only one shell, a large amount of seawater still flows into the compartment and the engine room from the breach. Under the action of huge water pressure, the damaged power cabin will soon be able to recover. Raising fish.

  The speed of the Satsuma inevitably dropped, and the Aki behind it bypassed the slowing Satsuma and prepared to continue to approach. "Kill the ship behind first, the Satsuma can't run." Su Xiong thought for a while, looking at the Satsuma, which was declining rapidly.

  Then the two German fast battleships began to point their muzzles at the approaching battleship. The Japanese also kept firing back, but the most recent impact was 500 meters away from the German warship. And there has never been a straddle shot. The shooting accuracy under almost ideal conditions is naturally high, just like in practice, two German battleships crossed a large number of shells on each other's hull!

  Huge fireballs rushed out of the muzzle again, and the two warships used a storm of steel and flame to completely cover their opponents with a projection of more than 4 tons per minute.

"In less than ten minutes, I observed at least a dozen explosions on Japanese battleships! The Japanese seemed to be sitting on a petrol tank that exploded continuously, and huge fireballs rose into the air on the battleship. Two-thirds of the superstructure was cut off. There were cracks everywhere on the ship's side, and a lot of black smoke, white high-temperature steam and flames sprayed out from the hull~www.wuxiaspot.com~The tilt of the battleship It can even be seen from ten kilometers away. As an American, I am very excited!" Nimitz wrote in his watch diary.

  At this time, under the care of the 16 350MM heavy guns of the two battleships, Ayi went to the end of life before the Samo class. The tilt angle of the battleship has reached 30 degrees, and it is not even possible to solve the balance of water injection. In other words, if there is no help from other warships, I am afraid that he will never return to Japan.

  "Abandon the ship!" After giving the order, the captain of the Aki used a bullet to understand his life. And Ayi became the first battleship sunk in the entire First World War! After Anyi left, the end of the Satsuma had also arrived.

  With the dual 12-inch main turret at the rear of the Satsuma turned into a burning iron box, all the main and secondary guns on the combat side of the Satsuma were destroyed, and the warship was tilted 20 degrees. Now it can only spin around at sea.

  "Let the Swordfish come up, and use torpedoes to get rid of them!" Following Su Xiong's order, two German battleships waited 8 kilometers away for the auxiliary cruiser to launch torpedoes. Serve as the last executioner. Although the two German warships were equipped with torpedoes at the request of the Argentines, Su Xiong was worried about what the Japanese would be able to reveal in the end. In that case, don't use expensive battleships, just use auxiliary cruisers.

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