Chapter 887: Never have mercy, never forgive three
The two sides are about 22 kilometers apart at this time. If the shooting distance is 18 kilometers, then the Mochi needs to be close to 4 kilometers. The speed gap between the two sides is about 4 knots. This means I am afraid it will take half an hour to chase. However, just as the Minotaur turned around, another German battlecruiser on its northwest blasted a bunch of shells on the opponent's face head-on!
"I don’t know the situation at the time. Our watchman saw a warship running towards us. We were actually not lucky today. We didn’t find any prey at the beginning, but unexpectedly, a British ship. The cruiser hit our muzzle like this!" Goben Captain Lieutenant Colonel Heinecke recalled at the time.
It seems that this result is a little bit chatty, but in fact, in this small area of the sea, it is not difficult for high-speed battleships to collide with each other. The straight-line distance from the Shetland Islands to the Norwegian coast is only 165 kilometers. The speed can easily reach 27 knots, which is at least 50 kilometers per hour... Therefore, it is reasonable that Minotaur was blocked in the end...
Obviously, Minotaur was struck by this sudden bombardment. The smoke column of the battleship Goben was not obvious because of the wind direction and position. When the Goben attacked, Minotaur’s main survey The distance meter is aiming in another direction, and it is a bit difficult to detect flames jumping more than ten kilometers away by naked eyes. The first round failed, the second round also failed, the third round formed a straddle and also brought the first hit!
A 350mm shell entered the water 20 meters from the side of the Minotaur. After sinking about 5 meters, the attitude of the shell turned right, and then it sank like a torpedo while rushing straight towards the target, and then sharply The warhead easily tore open the hull under the waterline of the hull, and then easily smashed open the 15mm thick partition outside the boiler chamber. Minotaur, no matter how big it is, is just a patrol ship, invincible underwater protection. It's bad enough, this guy can only be worse, a deep penetrating wound appeared on Minotaur's abdomen, and the explosion of the boiler chamber made this huge battleship shake like chaff!
And this gun also determined the final fate of this armored cruiser. It can't run, can't escape, hit, can't hit. At this point in the battle, it went directly into garbage time. The Goben greeted the Mao Qi, who was about to chase here, "I'll leave this goal to me. You can do something else first." After a while, Mo Qi turned around and started to evacuate. Then the Goben approached 14 kilometers and began a cannon to disarm Minotaur.
The 10-inch gun and the 9.2-inch gun caused fatal damage to Goben at such a distance. Even the hits can be described by touching the lottery. Every time the muzzle of the Goben shines, it is a disaster for the Minotaur! Dense shells exploded on the hull, and the superstructure, main turret, artillery gallery, and side deck became fragmented in the bombardment. Thick smoke and flames were emitted from the breach of the battleship. When the last 9.2-inch cannon of the Minotaur was broken into pieces, a destroyer quickly approached and shot 2 at a distance of 1,200 meters. The torpedo took away the last British armored cruiser.
At the same time, other German warships that had dispersed in this sea area also began to hunt.
"Shoot at full speed, kill them!" The light cruiser Stuttgart stared at an auxiliary cruiser in the distance. This is a civilian ship modified with a maximum speed of 18 knots, which is not the case for a light cruiser with a speed of 25 knots or more. What kind of. The four 6-inch old artillery pieces on the side of the opponent were almost no threat to the German light cruiser 10 kilometers away.
The light cruiser Stuttgart equipped with six 175mm guns easily delivered a high-explosive shell to the head of the opponent in a nearly target state. After more than ten minutes of the battle, the auxiliary cruiser turned into a burning torch. Various supplies and combustibles stacked on the deck and in the cabin accelerated the battleship's defeat. At this time, the British were very kind. They fought stubbornly. Until the battleship sank, the only available 6-inch gun did not stop firing. For this kind of hard stuff, the Germans naturally did not hesitate to use the most violent. The attack sent them to the bottom of the sea.
Battlecruisers and light cruisers will naturally choose their suitable opponents to fight. As the killing continues, some unbearable and lonely destroyers also join the slaughter, even if the opponent’s gunfire is equally deadly for them, but But it could not stop the Germans' fervent torpedo charge.
"Torpedo boats, German ocean-going torpedo boats!" The watchman on the auxiliary cruiser Carolina discovered three figures that were approaching quickly, almost close to the sea. The three destroyers approached their opponents at a high speed of 29 knots. In the tumbling sea wolf, the bow of the destroyer seems to have been out of the sea! In the case of a relative speed of more than 40 knots, I want to use a 6-inch gun with no more than one hand to kill three distant targets. It can only be said that I think a lot...
Three destroyers traveled through the water column blown up by artillery shells~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The British human resources did have some problems. It was not that they could not find people, but that they could not find enough experienced naval gunners. People roaringly operated the backward 6-inch artillery in an attempt to lock these death gods approaching at high speed on the sea. However, there is no use for eggs. The British never thought of encountering the opposing lightning ship in the depths of the North Sea, so they did not equip many anti-lightning guns with a faster rate of fire and more convenient rotation. This oversight is needed until now. The Carolina made up with her life!
When approaching 5,000 meters, the 105mm and 150mm guns on the German destroyers also began to fire. Shooting at such a distance is tantamount to a bayonet. "Come on! Hurt each other!" When a high-explosive shell landed on the British auxiliary cruiser, the German destroyer was also hit. One shell fell on the upper deck of the V99, and one shot killed two figures. Combatants.
But in the end, the German destroyer finally approached a distance of 3000 meters, and chose a blind spot that the opponent's artillery could not worry about, and then fired 4 torpedoes in a fan shape! Two torpedoes successfully hit the side of the auxiliary cruiser, and the energy from the violent explosion seemed to push the ship sideways. What surprised the Germans was that, just like that, the ship It didn't sink immediately!
"It seems that the British placed empty wooden barrels and a large amount of cork inside the watertight compartment of the hull to maintain buoyancy." A German officer said while looking at the auxiliary cruiser that was still struggling in the distance.
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