Chapter 390 The Hood Sinks

"Boom!" A one-ton special semi-armor-piercing bomb drilled into the turret of the Hood and exploded.

The explosion immediately brought disastrous consequences to the Hood.

Below the turret of the Hood is the propellant pack. If you want to shoot out hundreds of kilograms of shells, the energy of the propellant pack is huge. When these propellant packs burn together in a short time, they will be closed. In the space, there is only one ending, that is to explode!

"boom!"

Two explosions sounded less than 0.5 seconds apart. With this huge explosion, the turret of the No. 2 main gun of the Hood, the turret of more than 1,000 tons, at this moment, from the seat ring, there was a burst of sound. Huge flame.

If you look at it from a distance, you can see the entire turret's seat ring, with hot flames emitting outward, and then, the entire thick smoke surrounds the turret.

The explosion of a tank is enough to lift the turret, and the explosion of the propellant of this double-mounted 381mm naval gun is naturally even more amazing.

Even if the entire turret has thousands of tons, it was still lifted at this moment. It didn't lift much, only about half a meter was lifted, so that all the high-pressure gas inside was released, and then it fell heavily.

"Boom!" The voice was astonishing.

The huge fiery gas covered the entire surroundings. On the quadruple-mounted anti-aircraft machine gun, Jack felt a shock wave rushing towards him. Almost in an instant, his body was separated from the machine gun turret.

He has been torn into pieces by the shock wave of the explosion, sprinkled all over the machine gun emplacement, and sprinkled all over the surrounding sea water.

Jack is dead.

It's just a microcosm, right now, there are explosions everywhere, blood and death everywhere.

For the British fleet, this day is simply their most humiliating moment, even more humiliating than the original Jutland naval battle.

Colonel Cole's eyes were full of fear. The big bomb just exploded next to him, and he was already terrified. If there was only that bomb, he would still have the confidence to save the warship, but now , Looking at the turret's martyrdom, he knew that there was no hope of saving the Hood.

If only the No. 2 turret was hit, it could still be rescued. The problem is that now the explosion of the No. 2 turret will have a chain reaction between Britain and France.

Now, it goes without saying that there is a serious shortage of manpower on the warship, and even if all the personnel on the warship are called, it is simply too late to damage the control.

Perhaps, the lack of manpower is still beneficial, so that the casualties of naval officers and soldiers can be reduced.

Colonel Cole, you were right.

When the propellant of the second turret exploded violently, a chain reaction started quickly.

Although the Hood is a twenty-year-old ship, its armor has always been quite thick, even the turret base, located below the deck, still has 229 mm thick armor.

The naval gun is the force of the battleship across the sea, and it is also one of the most unsafe elements of the battleship. It must be thick here, but now, it has become a dead spot.

Even the 229mm armor could not stop the explosion of the propellant inside. During the explosion, this layer of armor was torn apart.

As long as a crack is torn, there will be catastrophic consequences, because the flames and gases of high temperature and pressure spread rapidly.

As a result, the No. 1 turret in front was also bombed!

The explosion this time was only a second away from the previous explosion. After a second, the Hood was no longer as majestic as it used to be.

"Boom!" The ammunition of the No. 1 turret exploded, causing the Hood to undergo dramatic changes.

The explosion of the No. 2 turret did not deform the hull. However, the high temperature had caused significant changes in the steel of the hull, and the steel was softening. Then, the explosion of the No. 1 turret brought earth-shaking changes.

I saw that with the explosion, the Hood was disconnected from the position of the two main guns in front.

The hull at the back still exists, while in the front, the steel plate is distorted and twisted, and the entire bow is deformed.

A large amount of sea water surged up.

The advantage is that with the influx of seawater, the possibility of subsequent explosions is small, and the seawater will submerge the ammunition on the remaining gun positions, and the disadvantage is that this warship can no longer be saved.

The front end of the Hood was slowly sinking, and the billowing smoke enveloped the entire warship.

Colonel Cole, standing in his place, smelled the choking smoke in the air and watched his battleship sink. At this moment, his mind was completely blank.

In the sky, there are a series of dive bombers. The warships in the entire port are suffering from the devastating blow of the dive bombers. Although there are the sounds of anti-aircraft artillery all around, it does not change the victory in the slightest.

Germans, that sucks.

The Hood was slowly sinking, and Colonel Cole, following his battleship, slowly dipped into the icy waters. As a captain, a firm belief is to live and die with your own battleship!

"London, London, this is Scapa Flow Naval Base, this is Scapa Flow Naval Base, we are being bombed by Germany, please take off fighter jets to intercept, please take off fighter jets to intercept."

On the port, there is the headquarters of the base. At this time, on the top floor of the headquarters, in a room, there is a row of radio telegraphs, and a famous radio soldier is shouting slogans.

However, there was no echo at all, and there was a special squeaking sound in the earphones.

what happened? Is your radio broken?

Lieutenant General Horan stood anxiously outside the telegraph room, pacing, listening to the calls inside, and he was burning with anxiety.

Germany does not have overseas bases, they fly from the German mainland, and the route is on its own eastern sea.

And now, as long as fighter planes take off from other air bases in the UK, they can intercept German bombers along the way!

These German bombers are not escorted by fighter jets. As long as their own fighter jets can fly over, they can intercept these bombers and let out a bad breath.

But now, the radio doesn't work!

As for the wired phone, the phone was disconnected as early as the air raid siren sounded, and it must have been cut off by the agents.

The wired connection is blocked, the radio is also unavailable, which is really weird!

Lieutenant General Horan didn't know, just above his head, after the first batch of JU-290 bombers completed the bombing, most of them flew away, leaving only one, still hovering at an altitude of 10,000 meters, and this one Bombers, like other bombers, are a little different.