Chapter 1010: The Battle Between the Quasi-Dreadnoughts 2
WITH A FLASH OF FIRE, A HUGE BULLET HOLE APPEARED ON THE HEAD OF THE SINGLE-MOUNTED 9.2-INCH TURRET, AND THE SHELL FINALLY COLLIDED WITH THE 234MM GUN BODY, ACCOMPANIED BY A LOUD BANG, THE GUN BODY AND SHELLS OF MORE THAN 30 TONS DIRECTLY TURNED INTO A BALL OF FLAMES! After killing all the personnel in the turret, one by one the fire dragons rushed towards the ammunition rack at the rear of the gun and the dressing room at the bottom, and then, a fire door temporarily saved the battleship, but the explosion of the ammunition rack behind the turret made the entire turret feel like sitting on the erupting crater, and it was instantly blown apart!
THE TWO GERMAN BATTLESHIPS WERE GETTING BIGGER AND EASIER, AND IN LESS THAN TEN MINUTES, THE GRAND DUKE FERDINAND HAD ALREADY THROWN FIVE 12-INCH SHELLS IN THE FACE OF THE OTHER SIDE, AND THE ARMORED CRUISER SAINT-GEROCH HAD PILED UP A DOZEN 240MM SHELLS. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info and the unlucky Edward VII on the opposite side so far, the main gun has not hit the opponent once!
"It was a complete one-sided slaughter, we leisurely shot at the British battleships in the distance, like shooting targets, we did not have to worry about the firepower of the other side, the British battleships shelled slowly and inaccurately, a few shells scattered around us, the nearest was 700 meters away. In this way, we sent each other shells one after another at a long distance, until we hit the other side with a thousand holes! An Austro-Hungarian naval officer recalled the situation after the war.
And just when the defeat of Edward VII has been revealed, the Japanese destroyer force has also taken a hand. Four 600-ton destroyers braved the hail of bullets from the Austro-Hungarian fleet to launch a wave of deadly lightning strikes, but this wave of attacks was doomed to be ineffective. The 6 destroyers of the Austro-Hungarian fleet formed the first line of defense, and the two sides fired frantically at a relative speed of up to 45 knots, like light cavalry wielding sabers, often separating the winners and losers in a staggered moment, after paying one destroyer to be hit into a big fireball by three Austro-Hungarian destroyers, the other two destroyers fell under the attack of the 150MM secondary guns and 88MM anti-mine guns of the armored cruiser St. Georg, and only 2 destroyers hurriedly fired 4 torpedoes, One of the shots sank ...... just after entering the water due to mechanical failure.
AFTER EASILY DODGING THE THREE TORPEDOES, THE EIGHT 240MM GUNS OF THE ARMORED CRUISER SAO GIORK LEVELED WERE AIMED AT THE EVACUATED JAPANESE DESTROYERS, AND EVEN IF THEY WERE EVACUATED AT A SPEED OF 30 KNOTS, THE JAPANESE DESTROYERS WOULD NEVER BE ABLE TO OUTRUN THE SHELLS!
A shell fell into the sea less than 10 meters away from a destroyer, accompanied by a dull loud sound, a column of water more than 50 meters rose into the sky, and the explosives exploded in the water after producing terrifying high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles, these detonations produced a huge impact after the explosion, the side of the entire battleship was as if it was hit by a giant hammer, and several cracks of more than one meter long appeared directly on the slender knife-like hull, and with the influx of a large number of water currents, the cracks expanded rapidly, After hundreds of tons of seawater entered, the ship had already tilted severely.
AND A MOMENT LATER, A 240MM CANNONBALL WITH A DIRECT HIT ENDED THE DESTROYER'S STRUGGLE, THIS SHELL HIT THE FRONT OF THE HULL DIRECTLY, AND THEN HIT THE BOTTOM PLATE OF THE HULL ALL THE WAY DOWN, A FIRE ROSE INTO THE SKY, THE DESTROYER WAS AS IF IT HAD BEEN DECAPITATED, THE ENTIRE BOW PART QUICKLY DETACHED FROM THE HULL, AND THE SECOND HALF CONTINUED TO MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE OF THE HUGE INERTIA, WHICH LED TO THE INFLUX OF MORE SEAWATER, AND IN LESS THAN A MINUTE, THE BATTLESHIP SANK TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA IN A HUGE WHIRLPOOL!
And at this time, the Japanese destroyers finally began to gradually adapt to the brutal naval battles in Europe, and the small warships had to be made with their tails between their tails when the capital ships were not powerful, and if they did not pull the smoke screen when they retreated, they were looking for death?! The last destroyer managed to shake off the trail with the help of smoke canisters, and after a wave of lightning strikes failed to send off three destroyers, the second half of the fleet's engagement was completely .......
Edward VII finally couldn't hold on, the main armor belt at the waterline of the hull side chord had been opened at least 3 holes, and the light armor protection zone at the bow and tail of the hull had been pierced no less than 6 times! The watertight compartments on the entire warring side have been almost destroyed, and in terms of the division of watertight compartments, Britain is generally super dreadnought, let alone a former dreadnought. However, the 16,000-ton battleship has entered 3,000 tons of water, and now, this battleship can only be called a miracle if it can float on the water! So much so that now even the only tail main gun that is still intact cannot be fired, because the angle of inclination is too large, and the elevation angle of the gun is not ...... enough.
At this time, the British battleship could not be balanced with water, otherwise the ship would sink directly ....... "Let the destroyer go over and send it to the bottom of the sea. We have another goal to pack. Rear Admiral Vilenique said as he looked at the battleship that had turned into a pile of floating ruins in the distance.
The current situation seems to be very good, when the Edward VII was blown into three pieces by 2 torpedoes and sank into the sea, the current situation is three to one, according to a certain statement on the Internet in later generations, that is, the leash dog wins! And it was, when two Radetzky-class battleships and one armored cruiser turned their guns on the last of the Lord Nelson, the tide of the battle was completely tilted in favor of the Austro-Hungarian fleet.
The flames of the three capital ships completely enveloped the Lord Nelson in the distance, and from time to time there were bursts of violent explosions on the hull of the ship that were more than 160 meters long, and the fire and smoke had completely obscured the battleship, so that the Austro-Hungarian fleet had to lower the rate of fire so that the ships could identify the water column that exploded when each other's shells fell so that they could correct it.
If nothing else, the battleship Lord Nelson will definitely not survive for 15 minutes! But at this moment, a series of water columns suddenly appeared around the battleship Radetzky, and the water columns that were nearly 100 meters high made Rear Admiral Velenique feel a trace of fear! "This TM is a 15-inch naval gun!" And when he pointed his telescope at the huge figure in the distance, he realized that the Lord Nelson could not die for the time being! Because, the battleship Hyuga has already aimed its guns at itself!
"I'm rubbing! The St. István isn't going to be finished, is it? "A terrible thought came to Rear Admiral Virenick's mind." No, there was no explosion on a battleship just now. ”
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