Chapter 483: Bad Omen

In fact, a duel in a naval battle depends on both technique and luck.

You must know that the sea is always shaking. Under the current waves, the ship is shaking even more, and the loss is thousands of miles away. The naval guns can hit the shells more than ten nautical miles away, no matter how accurate, when the guns are fired, the moment If the boat swayed, it must have gone sideways.

Until later generations, with the bistable system, no matter how the warship shakes, the muzzle will never move, and the entire turret will be stable. This is the only way. Now there is no such method.

Therefore, although the opponent is aiming at himself, it may not be able to hit!

At this time, can you step back? Of course not! The captain of the Cornwall gritted his teeth and gave an order to his men: "Prepare for a salvo!"

Cornwall is just an ordinary cruiser with weak armor, but its firepower is not weak. It has 8 Mk VIII 203mm guns, which are installed in 4 MkI double turrets. The maximum range is more than twenty-eight kilometers.

If it is against a battleship, it may not have enough firepower to tear through the opponent's turret armor. However, it is absolutely no problem to deal with the Deutschland, because the Deutsche, like it, also has weak armor protection.

Cornwall's naval guns were also spinning rapidly, but before they turned around, they saw each other's naval guns and roared again!

From the outside, it looks like many British warships are chasing and beating a German warship. However, the German warship is not at a disadvantage. Now it is the German warship that is attacking!

The 283mm naval gun on the Deutsches has a very fast rate of fire, reaching 3 rounds per minute!

(No specific information was found, please let me know if you know, only the 283mm SK L/50 on the German Moltke-class battlecruiser during World War I still used the horizontal sliding wedge-type breech, and the rate of fire was per minute. 3 rounds.)

After all, Germany was a defeated country in World War I. Even in World War I, the German navy did not surpass the British in number, and for a long time after World War I, Germany did not have a single warship.

Germany cannot make up for the gap in quantity. Therefore, another method can only be used. The quantity is not enough and the quality is good. One German warship can fight against several British warships!

And now, the German Navy is relying on the performance of its own naval guns to compete with the British Navy.

In terms of one-on-one battles, it is a Deutschland, one-on-one against the main force of the British fleet, and in terms of group fights, it is a group of British navy fighting a Deutsches.

Deutsches, the more you fight, the more brave you are!

After the first hit, before the British fleet could react, the second salvo of the Deutschland had already begun!

"Boom, boom!" The two naval guns did not fire at the same time, and the tail was a little slower. The six 283 mm naval guns once again sent Germany's revenge to the British Navy!

"The left rudder is full!" the captain of the Cornwall shouted loudly. There is no artillery radar yet, and it is completely dependent on personal experience to avoid the opponent's blow.

The 10,000-ton hull of the Cornwall drew an arc on the sea. At this time, a wave just came in, and the wave even covered the capital of the ship. If it happened to be a huge wave from the right If so, it can even overthrow the hull.

This arc was quite successful. You could see the opponent's artillery shells slid over the top of one's own head and fell to the position just turned, splashed into the water, and splashed several meters high.

"Crack!" At this moment, there was a loud noise above the head, and an armor-piercing projectile actually passed over the mast, smashing the mast directly.

Above the mast, the m-shaped navy flag, which had been buzzing in the wind, fell down along with the broken mast, smashed onto the bridge below, and floated past everyone's eyes.

The drop of the flag is definitely a bad omen, a tradition for centuries of maritime power.

On the bridge of the Cornwall, everyone's expressions changed.

"Boom!" At this moment, a violent explosion suddenly came from the bottom of the Cornwall. With the explosion, the entire hull shook violently.

"Torpedoes, torpedoes, there are German submarines near us!" the captain shouted loudly.

He guessed exactly right, but it was too late.

If it is normal, it may be nothing to be hit by a torpedo, but it is all right to carry it down, but now, it is in a big storm! The structure of the hull is damaged, and it will be completely destroyed in the slap of the waves!

He guessed quite well.

With the sound of the explosion, the hull made a creaking sound, and then, a terrifying scream came from the lower deck.

"No, our hull is split!"

"Quick, go up, let's not sink with the ship!"

A single torpedo will abolish the Cornwall. In addition to the reasons for the waves, it is also related to the torpedo. This is the most advanced torpedo in Germany, with great power. The G7U hydrogen peroxide torpedo codenamed T11!

It was the submarine U-47 that launched this torpedo. After separating from the Deutschland, it continued to operate in this sea area. When the British main fleet was discovered, Priyan was ecstatic.

As a submariner, killing the enemy's warships is their most hopeful record. In contrast, fighting civilian ships is really boring.

Priyan didn't do it right away. After all, the British Navy had too many warships, and he wanted to do it secretly, such as now.

When the shells of the naval guns flew by, the hydrogen peroxide torpedo hit at the same time at a high speed of 48 knots, and successfully killed the Cornwall. From the outside world, the Cornwall was taken by the Deutsche. Destroyed by naval guns.

His submarine has not been exposed, as long as it is not exposed, there is the possibility of continuing to attack the enemy.

This of course did not scare the British Navy, they are also well trained, and just after the second salvo of Deutsches, the counterattack from the British Navy has also arrived.

Of course the British fleet didn't watch the Deutsches go on and on, they fired quickly too!

"boom!"

The Queen Elizabeth-class HMS Queen Elizabeth and Barham, as well as the Nelson-class HMS Nelson, and the R-class battleship HMS Sovereign, had their main guns loaded, aimed, and launched a salvo.

The main gun of the "Nelson" is 406 mm, while the other ships are all 381 mm main guns, but because they are in pursuit, they can only use the main guns of the bow.

Even so, the firepower was incomparably powerful. More than a dozen large-caliber naval gun shells flew towards the Deutschland. As long as the Deutsche was hit by one, it would be seriously injured if not dead.

"Target, starboard, Southampton-class light cruiser!" On the bridge, Colonel Stanger was not at all afraid of those flying shells, and he continued to issue combat orders.

Pick up those that can be beaten first!