Chapter 864: Melee combat

From the perspective of Major General Bodick, he could see a series of fireballs rising into the sky. When the first batch of shells had not fallen yet, the second batch of shells had already been released! The shells resembling a meteor shower instantly covered the galloping British light cruiser, and the nearly horizontal angle of fire brought a terrible dangerous area to the opposing warship (the area that may be hit by the shell is called the dangerous area.)

A wall of flames rolled towards the British battleship not far away. When the two sides collided, the continuous explosion sound and the torrent of flames like a volcanic eruption instantly swept the entire battleship!

In a full minute, the Frankfurt fired more than 2 tons of shells. (One 175mm shell weighs 75kg, 6 artillery, and the rate of fire is 7 to 8 rounds per minute.) In this minute, the distance between the two sides was close to about 5 kilometers, and such a short distance allowed this round of shelling. With an extraordinary hit rate, nearly half a ton of artillery shells smashed on this poor British light cruiser solidly!

A violent fire storm swept all the protrusions on the Antrim deck for the first time. A 6-inch gun at the bow of the ship was hit by a 75kg armor-piercing round before it had time to fire the third round. After easily tearing off the 50mm cannon shield, the 12-man battery and the heavy gun were torn apart. The 5-ton 6-inch gun has reached the debris! The entire gun position was completely erased from the deck, only the remaining pillars and the debris next to it tell people that there was once an artillery here!

In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, in which the two sides almost smashed the muzzle into the opponent’s forehead in close hand-to-hand combat, they took the lead. The side with more cannon shots is generally the winner. In the mechanical servo, the turret becomes the winner. With the help of two great artillery weapons, the light cruiser Antrim on the opposite side had no chance to fight back. A series of shells hit the side gun positions, bridges, waterline armor belts, chimneys, engine rooms, and slender hulls. After a few consecutive hits, there was a terrifying explosion and tremor.

Dense shells blasted a cockpit into fragments, and two chimneys were also chipped off by Qigen. In less than 3 minutes, a dozen holes appeared at the ship’s side waterline, and turbulent water poured into the side. The side compartments even tore off the partitions of the power cabin under the violent impact. After dozens of seconds, the boiler cabin of this light cruiser was ready for fish breeding...

"It's beautiful! I shoot quickly! I see blood!" After seeing the obvious tilt and the entire hull turned into a large swimming torch, Major General Bodick shouted excitedly to the artillery chief through the microphone. Tao. The crushing in front of him aroused the fighting spirit and bloodthirsty in the man's heart. In less than ten minutes, Frankfurt has beaten her opponent into a dead fish.

At this time, the other six light cruisers of the two sides also entangled together. The British light cruisers, which realized that the other side was a stubborn stubborn, quickly released the smoke screen, and hoped that the destroyers behind could take advantage of the chaos to kill these obstructive light cruisers. The German light cruiser also rationally controls the speed and distance. The two sides always maintain a straight line distance of about 5 kilometers. The release of the torpedo at this distance basically only depends on Meng!

The German fleet will naturally not allow British light cruisers and torpedo boats to patrol the sea! After the three battleships aimed their main guns at the British fleet, the situation was different!

"We are like hitting a rabbit with a shotgun. After a shell explodes, it will produce hundreds of fist-sized fragments. These fragments may be nothing to capital ships, but to light cruisers and destroyers, they are absolutely deadly. !" The gunner of the battleship Oldenburg said triumphantly after the war.

The smoke screens of the three light cruisers can only cover part of the battlefield. The three German battleships at the side and rear still have a very good range of fire. Although the destroyers are also agile and not easy to hit, the near missed bomb is undoubtedly fatal for these warships. !

The water column approached the British destroyer formation like the footsteps of the **** of death. They now only have three choices. The first choice is to rush through their own smoke cover and fight to the death. The second choice is to stay in place and gamble for luck. The choice is straightforward. The roar of the cannonball explosion caused many people's eardrums to burst and bleed, and shrapnel like raindrops made him terrifying like hellfire rain.

The red-yellow flames exploded in the sky, the rising smoke, steam, and the diffused water vapor outlined a scene of apocalypse, and under the distant sky of Optics Valley, the British destroyer formations , Fist-big shrapnel fell from the air one after another, opening a large or small breach on a destroyer. Every collision is a test of life and death for the people in the cabin. Not only can the thin partition not provide better protection for the people inside, but it will make the other party's attack more deadly, thousands of dollars. Large or small shrapnel bounced and bounced between the cabins, passages and pipes, and the flowers of blood donation bloomed in the jump of the shrapnel, and the entire cabin became a colander under repeated attacks.

Acheron and the destroyer Assault first stopped struggling. The former was destroyed by a near-missing 350mm round. This high-explosive bomb weighing more than 600 kilograms fell in the sea less than 10 meters away from Acheron~www.wuxiaspot .com~ The instantaneous explosion immediately made the nearby sea water like a boiling pot. The energy of the explosion formed a large number of high temperature and high pressure bubbles in the water. When these bubbles burst, they produced a huge energy impact, and the water stream engulfing fragments hits. On the fragile side of the Acheron.

Accompanied by a series of intensive impacts, the outer hull of the battleship was instantly torn a few meters long, and then the power cabin. Finally, the keel at the bottom of the battleship, accompanied by bursts of sour metal breaking and twisting sounds, the destroyer was almost reached at both ends, the first half was seriously flooded, and the inertia of high-speed navigation accelerated his sinking. , Like a sharp sword pierced into the water, the bow never floated after entering the water, the tail was raised high, and the propeller stopped rotating.

The destroyer Strike was abruptly knocked to death by the rain of shrapnel. Countless large or small shrapnel struck the destroyer one after another. "In less than 2 minutes, our warship was punched at least more than 100 holes!" A British navy soldier who was rescued after the war vowed to say. As for how they counted it, this is debatable. But what is certain is that the entire power compartment of this unlucky destroyer was pierced by shrapnel from the sky before the war started. A few millimeters of the deck could not stop these debris at all. After a "meteorite rain" in the power compartment , The destroyer quickly became a "man-made hot spring." The result is naturally over!

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