The Rise of the Empire

Chapter 1290

Under the blowing of the sea breeze, the white smoke emitted by the two German battleships that had used all-oil-fired boilers quickly dissipated in the half-black air. The speed of the German fleet at this time is not fast, about 15 knots, the rangefinder on the top of the mast is slowly turning, locking a small boat following the last of the fleet in the center of the field of vision!

"This little thing is really hard to find!" After passing the data measured by the rangefinder to the fire control room, an officer rubbed his stupid eyes. According to the Germans’ opinion, the first thing they must remove is the destroyer behind. These guys are the enemy of the submarine and the assassins in the night. In order to prevent the two German warships from being overturned in the gutter, these little guys must be removed first. .

"According to common sense, there should be one more ship, but it can't be found now. It will be completely dark in a few tens of minutes. Are we going to take action?" Raidel said while watching the darkening sky.

"Let Scharnhorst kill it in 5 rounds! After the flagship opened fire, Gneisenau immediately attacked the transport ship at the tail! Everyone is quicker, we only have dozens of minutes." Su Xiong Commanded. "Also, tell Colonel Schultz's wolves that they can move freely after nightfall."

With the order of Su Xiong, the Scharnhorst-class fast battleship, which was called the Twin Death God of the Indian Ocean by the Allied Powers, once again showed its hideous teeth! 13000 meters! At 11 o'clock! The half volley begins! As the heavy fire door was opened, a 350MM shell weighing more than 600 kilograms and a drug package wrapped in silk and brass were extracted from the ammunition compartment deep in the battleship.

The artillery is placed at a loading angle of about 5 degrees, and the huge mechanical servo transports the cannonball to the rear of the artillery, and is placed into the barrel under the action of the mechanical push rod. (The earlier German dreadnoughts in history were pushed into the chamber by manpower, and there was a mechanical boost at the back, not to mention a mechanical push rod, which greatly improved the rate of fire!) Then the front section of the propellant pack, and In the second half wrapped in a brass shell, after a shell and 2 packs of propellant were pushed in, with the sound of steel sliding, the horizontal wedge breech block closed quickly!

Because of the short distance, the angle of elevation of the artillery was very small. Eight large, thick artillery pointed at the 11 o'clock direction of the battleship. At this time, the destroyer, which looked like a rabbit targeted by hunters, did not realize the approach of disaster. Still crashing behind the fleet at 10 knots and sailing slowly.

"High explosive bombs, fire!" 4 thick and long flames burst out from the muzzle instantly, one huge fireball even covered the half-drawn hull, 4 rounds of 635KG shells flew out of the muzzle at more than twice the speed of sound. Before the thunderous noise entered the ears of the Japanese, the water column splashed by 4 shells had already enveloped this poor warship!

"Nice work!" In the main rangefinder's field of vision, the water column splashed by a shell almost coincides with the target. This shows that even if the shell misses a hit, the landing point is very close, and it may even be a near miss. bomb! 4 shells were evenly scattered around this hapless Japanese destroyer, and successfully caught the opponent in the first round of shooting!

"Switch to effective shooting and fire at full speed!" The fire control officer issued an order. After 30 seconds, the second round of shells also flew out of the barrel!

"What's the situation?!" The captain of the destroyer Isokaze suddenly saw a column of water tens of meters high up from a place less than 20 meters from his warship's ship! (Dear readers, this is definitely not the author’s mistake. During the First World War, Japan really had a first-class destroyer called Isokaze, not the Kagerou-class Isokaze in the Second World War. It served in 1917. If you don’t believe it, please see Kang Warship, the lower right corner of page 242 of the 1906-1921 book)

Afterwards, more than 100 Japanese naval officers and soldiers on this battleship could feel that the hull seemed to be hit hard by a sledgehammer. The originally smooth battleship quickly became swayed, and a dull loud noise came from From the bottom of the hull, it seemed like a strong wave hit the hull.

The fist-sized shrapnel easily penetrated the hull plate of the Isokaze only a few millimeters thick like an armor-piercing bullet underwater. The underwater part of the middle of the hull was instantly smashed into a sieve. Tons of seawater poured into the hull along the large and small gaps, and the three boilers on the damaged side instantly went out. The entire hull also tilted irreversibly. Amidst waves of shaking and constant explosions, the entire battleship was crumbling! Although there was no direct hit, the damage to Isokaze was equivalent to the near-blast damage of a small mine!

"Report the loss and prepare to damage the tube immediately!" The Japanese captain yelled at the sound transmission tube, and then the Germans did not give the destroyer a chance. In the third round of the salvo, a 350MM high-explosive bomb succeeded. It hit the front of the Japanese destroyer, and the two 4.7MM guns in front were easily wiped off like dust on the table. And this is not a game, dozens of kilograms of explosives directly blasted the destroyer's bow like a Japanese sword into flowering buns! The turbulent sea caused this warship to have a serious bow directly!

"This Japanese destroyer is over, let's fight others!" Two minutes later, only half of the stern of the destroyer Isokaze was raised from the sea. The Scharnhorst aimed its muzzle at the Japanese transport ship in the distance, and just shortly after it hit the destroyer Isokaze, Gneisenau also won the first battle in the battle. The result!

Gneisenau aimed at a Japanese transport ship located to the northwest ~ www.wuxiaspot.com ~ From the hull appearance, the registered tonnage should be more than 5,000 tons. The light from the position of the ship is not bad, and the distance is moderate. At a distance of 14,000 meters. Gneisenau threw a round of artillery shells on a Japanese transport ship that was caught off guard like a target!

Facts have proved that the defense of civilian ships cannot be compared with that of warships. This is not only inferior to the performance of armor defense, which can be reflected by numerical values, but also in microscopic aspects such as compartment division and reserve buoyancy. The second round of salvo hits. One of the 350MM shells in the country had already sentenced the transport ship to death.

This shell, like a sharp long knife, cut a gap of several meters in the middle of the target ship! Shrapnel and shock waves produced by the explosion directly destroyed the watertight compartment of the left string. The transport ship loaded with more than 5,000 tons of ore, metal ingots and other materials tilted to 25 degrees in less than 3 minutes. The Japanese were screaming frantically, trying to ask their colleagues nearby for help. Or maybe want to save the ship. However, their efforts are ultimately useless.

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