The distance between the two sides was about 22 kilometers at this time, and if the firing distance was 18 kilometers, then the Moltke would need to be 4 kilometers closer. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe speed difference between the two sides is about 4 knots. This means that I am afraid that I will have to chase for half an hour. However, just as the Minotaur made a U-turn, another German battlecruiser to the northwest of it was head-on with a bunch of shells in the face!

"I don't know what the situation was, our lookout saw a battleship coming towards us, we were actually unlucky today, we didn't find prey at the beginning, but I didn't expect that a British cruiser hit our gun like this!" Lieutenant Commander Heineke, captain of the Goeben, recalled at the time.

It seems that this result is a bit of a joke, but in fact, in this small sea, it is not difficult for high-speed warships to meet each other, from the Shetland Islands to the Norwegian coast of the straight line distance is only 165 kilometers, and the speed of all the Hipper's warships can easily soar to about 27 knots, that is, at least 50 kilometers per hour....... Therefore, it is not surprising that the Minotaur was blocked in the end......

The Minotaur was obviously a little unable to find the north by this sudden artillery bombardment, because of the direction and position of the wind, the smoke column of the battleship Goeben was not obvious, and when the Goburn attacked, the Minotaur's main rangefinder was aiming in other directions, and it was a little difficult to find the flames beating more than ten kilometers away by the naked eye. The first round failed, the second round also failed, and the third round formed a straddle shot and also brought the first shot!

A 350MM shell entered the water at 20 meters on the side of the Minotaur, and after sinking about 5 meters, the attitude of the shell turned right, and then it was like a torpedo while sinking straight towards the target, and then the sharp warhead easily tore the hull under the waterline of the hull, and then easily hit the partition outside the boiler compartment with a thickness of only 15MM, no matter how NB the Minotaur is, it is just a patrol, and the invincible underwater protection is bad enough, this guy can only be worse, A deep piercing wound appeared in the Minotaur's abdomen, and the explosion in the boiler compartment made the huge battleship tremble like chaff!

And this cannon also decided the final fate of this armored cruiser, run, can't run, can't fight, can't fight. The battle has reached this point and goes straight into garbage time. Goeburn greeted the Moltke, who was about to chase it this way, "I've got this goal in my hands, you can get busy with other things first." Moments later, the Moltke reversed course and began to withdraw. The Goeben then approached 14 kilometers and began a cannon to disarm the Minotaur.

The 10-inch guns and 9.2-inch guns inflicted fatal damage on Goeben at such a long distance, and even the hits can be described as touching a lottery ticket. Every time the muzzle of the Goeben shines, it is a disaster for the Minotaur! Dense shells exploded on the hull, and the superstructure, main turret, gun gallery, and side decks were shattered by bombardment. Billowing smoke and flames erupted from the breach of the battleship, and when the last 9.2-inch gun of the Minotaur was shattered, a destroyer quickly approached and fired two torpedoes from a distance of 1,200 meters, taking away the last British armored cruiser.

At the same time, other German warships that had dispersed in this area of the sea also began to hunt.

"Shoot at full speed and kill them!" The light cruiser Stuttgart stared at an auxiliary cruiser in the distance, a converted civilian ship with a top speed of only 18 knots, which was nothing for a light cruiser of more than 25 knots. The 4 6-inch old guns on the side of the opposing side were almost no threat to the German light cruisers at a distance of 10 km.

THE LIGHT CRUISER STUTTGART, ARMED WITH SIX 175MM GUNS, EASILY DELIVERED A HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELL TO THE OPPONENT'S HEAD IN A NEAR-TARGET STATE, AND MORE THAN TEN MINUTES AFTER THE ENGAGEMENT, THE AUXILIARY CRUISER WAS REDUCED TO A BURNING FLARE, AND VARIOUS SUPPLIES AND COMBUSTIBLES PILED UP ON THE DECK AND IN THE HOLD ACCELERATED THE SHIP'S DEMISE. The British at this time were very kind, they fought stubbornly, until the battleship sank, the only available 6-inch gun did not stop firing, and for this diehard goods, the Germans naturally did not hesitate to send them to the bottom of the sea with the fiercest attack.

Naturally, the battlecruisers and light cruisers chose their suitables for engagement, and as the slaughter continued, some of the lonely destroyers joined the slaughter, even though the artillery fire was equally deadly, but could not stop the Germans' fanatical torpedo charge.

"Torpedo boats, ocean-going torpedo boats of the Germans!" The lookout on the auxiliary cruiser Carolina spotted the figure of 3 destroyers in the distance approaching almost close to the sea, and the three destroyers approached the opponent at a high speed of 29 knots, and in the tumbling sea wolf, the bow of the destroyer seemed to have left the sea! With a relative speed of more than 40 knots, it can only be said that it is a bit ...... to think about using a 6-inch gun that does not exceed the number of a hand to kill three targets in the distance.

With three destroyers flying through the water column blown up by the shells, the British did have some problems with their human resources, not that they could not find people, but that they could not find a sufficient number of experienced naval gunners, and a group of people were scrambling to operate the backward 6-inch guns in an attempt to lock on to these Grim Reapers, who were approaching at high speed on the sea. However, it was useless, the British had never thought of encountering the opposing mine-striking ship in the depths of the North Sea, so they were not equipped with many anti-lightning guns with a faster rate of fire and more convenient turning, and this negligence now needs to be compensated by the Carolina's life!

CLOSE TO 5000 METERS, THE 105MM AND 150MM GUNS ON THE GERMAN DESTROYERS ALSO BEGAN TO FIRE, AND FIRING AT SUCH A DISTANCE WAS TANTAMOUNT TO FIGHTING BAYONETS. "Come on! Hurt each other! "When a high-explosive shell landed on the British auxiliary cruiser, the German destroyer was also hit, and a shell landed on the upper deck of the V99, killing and wounding a double-digit number of combatants.

But in the end, the German destroyer finally got closer to a distance of 3000 meters, and chose a dead angle that the opposing artillery could not scrupulously keep, and then fired 4 torpedoes in a fan shape! Two torpedoes successfully hit the side of the auxiliary cruiser, and the energy generated by the violent explosion seemed to push the ship sideways, and to the Germans' surprise, the ship did not sink immediately!

"It seems that the British's efforts to keep buoyancy by placing empty barrels and large quantities of cork inside the watertight compartments of the hull have been effective." A German officer said as he looked at the auxiliary cruiser that was still struggling in the distance.

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