353 Pride of the Royal Navy
As if in the darkness, the iron-blooded Chancellor let out his own roar, as if it was about to roar for the German Navy, as if it was going to make a deafening noise at sea for the Third Reich!
On the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, where the waves were rough and the waves were undulating, eight 381 mm guns were slightly raised, spewing out its scorching flames. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
A huge shock wave spread out at the muzzle of the cannon, blowing away the surging waves at once. However, these waves collided with other waves, splashing more water droplets.
As if to accompany the roar of the battleship Bismarck, the Atlantic Ocean, which had belonged to Britain for a hundred years, was churning at this moment with waves as thick as city walls.
A thunderclap exploded in the strange sky, blocking the dark clouds of the moonlight and stars, and he was unwilling to be lonely and showed his existence.
Remember which side of the Hood where the shells landed on the Hood when the Bismarck fired twice in a row? If you remember that on both occasions shells landed on the starboard side of the Hood, then you know what the turn of the two sides really meant.
The Hood and the Bismarck pulled away, and the shells of the battleship Bismarck, the moment they burst out of the gun, flew towards the Hood.
Flying over long distances, across the churning sea beneath their feet, the shells rubbing in the air, the temperature scorching the entire body.
Then the shells fell at the highest point, and the front end of the shells cut through the darkness and crashed into the deck of the battlecruiser USS Hood.
The wooden deck was pierced at once, and the armor below more than a hundred millimeters thick did not in any way prevent the onslaught of 381 mm caliber shells.
As if cut into butter by a hot dinner knife, the Hood's fragile horizontal armor, as in history, failed to stop the Bismarck's battleship's shells.
Just when the battlecruiser Prestige was hit, the British search fleet seemed to have lost God's favor. And at this moment, it turned out that their luck really ran out.
Not one, but two shells hit the Hood at the same time, a testament to the power of the German Navy's ultimate killer weapon.
The German standard 52 times diameter 381 mm caliber gun was tempered to an extremely precise degree by German engineers and technicians.
This cannon, which is machined with almost the most sophisticated machines in the entire world, can also achieve amazing shooting accuracy even when the battleship is shaking.
Now, they have proved their excellence with their actual performance! Two shells accurately hit the deck of the battlecruiser USS Hood and penetrated there.
John standing on the bridge of the USS Hood? Tovey only felt the ship tremble beneath his feet, and then he was lifted off the ground with a violent tremor.
As if there was an earthquake, he felt like he couldn't stand at all, and then his feet suddenly left the ground, as if they had suddenly disappeared.
Before he could realize what had happened, he was caught off guard by the ground that was knocked back to his feet.
His whole body fell to the ground like this, and he felt a sharp pain in his face and chest. He tried to get up reluctantly, but found that his entire body had lost the ability to move.
John? While Tovey was still in the midst of a chaotic mind, a terrible thought came to mind, and he was still aware of the seriousness of the problem when he was shaken.
Damn it! His battleship was hit! And it seems that the place that was hit this time is not an inconsequential place!
Originally, what he wanted the Germans to hit the most was the very perverted side armor of the Hood! The thickness there is really amazing, and it's on par with a real battleship.
A simple comparison will tell you, John? How confident Tovey was in the broadside armor of the Hood - the Bismarck battleship had 320 mm thick broadside armor, while the Hood had as much as 305 mm on the broadside armor!
It's a pity that this time, as in history, two shells accurately hit the deck of the Hood, that is, the fragile horizontal armor, at a distance of about 16 kilometers.
The thickness here is only a pitiful 100 mm, and for a battleship-class main gun, it is no different from running naked.
Because of this, two shells easily pierced through the fragile layer of protective armor, then shattered the ceiling of the chamber below, and then pierced the floor of the chamber.
In the process, the two shells continued to gain momentum, and then continued to destroy downwards until they reached a deeper place, and then stopped.
When the two shells are stuck in the steel plate and stop, the armor-piercing fuse placed inside them activates the explosives in the warhead.
It took only a thousandth of a second for the two bombs to explode the most violently. The cannonballs, along with the surrounding steel plates, burst open, creating an ever-expanding force of destruction.
Just as these terrifying forces spread, in the process of rampage with flames and heat, this devastating destructive force encountered something that could increase their power.
They hit a boiler with high temperature and flames inside! The 24-cylinder boilers of the battlecruiser USS Hood and the huge gas turbines behind them!
In the power compartment of the Hood, the force of the shell's explosion blew through the hard boiler casing, detonating the oil inside. These boilers turned into one small bomb after another, blowing up the power compartment.
After tearing again and again, the side and bottom of the Hood finally could not withstand such twisting and began to leak.
Wisps of high-pressure water appeared like fire hydrants to extinguish fire, and the entire cabin was littered with mutilated corpses and still burning fuel.
The explosion continued to spread, and the power of the shells was magnified countless times in the enclosed space inside the Hood.
Although it did not break off and sink on the spot like the battlecruiser Prestige, the battlecruiser Hood was definitely seriously damaged.
Although the Hood did not appear to have suffered such serious injuries, the two shells did paralyze the pride of the British Royal Navy at once.
The Hood is very beautiful, which is why it has traveled around the world on behalf of the Royal Navy. The ship is slender in shape, and the side has a beauty like a city on the sea.
From a professional point of view, the Hood can be regarded as one of the most beautiful warships in the world! Belch...... The ugliest is the Japanese mountain castle, which leads in absolute votes, not one.
You must know that it is a full 12 meters longer than the Bismarck, and just looking at the posture, it is much more streamlined and beautiful than the Bismarck.
It's a pity that this is a war, not a beauty pageant. The Hood's beautiful posture didn't give it any value bonus in front of the battleship's shells, so it began to slow down sadly.
The battlecruiser USS Hood, which had lost most of its power compartment, had dropped to less than 15 knots after a minute.
"We've been shot! We've been shot! "John, who hasn't gotten up from the floor yet, has just regained fifty percent of his consciousness? General Tovey shouted loudly.
He tried to struggle to get up from the ground, but his hands were on the floor for a while, and he couldn't make this simple movement.
His ears were still ringing at the moment, and the huge explosion had diminished a lot as the steel spread to the bridge, but it was still dizzying.
"Inform the loss management! Notify the loss management! Let them hurry up and fix it! Extinguish the fire as fast as you can! Fast! Fast! "I simply gave up my intention to get up and lay on the ground, John? Tovey shouted loudly.
The battleship had already been hit by the enemy, and with the remaining power, the only way for the battlecruiser Hood to survive now was to quickly turn south before the opponent's firepower could cover it.
Finding a way to get out of the battle, taking advantage of the psychological advantage of the German fleet not daring to rashly follow the south in the dark, it is important to keep this battleship.
"Sir!" John on the ground? As Tovey kept giving orders, a young officer grabbed his arm: "Are you wounded?" ”
"Leave me alone! I'm fine! Turn the ship in no time! Turn now! Heading due south! You must use maneuver to contain your opponent! "John? Tovey shouted as he stood up with the help of others.
Now his mind was full of thoughts on getting the Hood out of battle as quickly as possible, and he wanted to bring the battleship back to England safely, no matter what.
Well, now it seems that the word security has nothing to do with it...... But at the very least, take it back to the UK mainland, right?
If two of the fastest battlecruisers were lost at once, the fleet of the British Navy, what to stop next time, the German fleet, which was comprehensively superior in speed?
"Turn now!" Seeing that his subordinates were still supporting him, John, who had already lost his mind? Tovey nudged and motioned for the other party to take command of the battleship first.
As long as the steering was successful, the Hood would be able to face the German fleet with a smaller stern, and the probability of being hit would be much lower.
At the same time, with the little speed that remained, the Hood could move slowly south. If the German fleet did not dare to pursue, then the Hood could be considered to have escaped.
As for the interception of the German fleet, John at this time? Tovey, I don't even think about it anymore. All he was thinking about now was how to preserve the pride of the Royal Navy.
Unfortunately, while his order was still not conveyed on the bridge, shells from another German battleship rained down on the tail of the Hood.
Although the firing angle was a little small, the Gneisenau, which had already killed its target, launched the first round of attacks on the Hood with six 280 mm guns in the bow.
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