Chapter 487 Proud Record

Compared with the waterline armor belt, the armor on the bridge is not thick. When the huge armor-piercing projectile hits the building at the front of the bridge, the scene is extremely spectacular.

If you had a high-speed camera and replayed this scene, it would be much clearer.

When the shells made contact with the ship's armor, the front deformed rapidly.

From the outside, the front end of the armor-piercing projectile is quite smooth and beautiful in appearance. In fact, this is just the hood of the first layer, and the structure is fragile. The main purpose is to improve the aerodynamic shape and reduce the kinetic energy consumption in the air.

After the contact, this layer was quickly destroyed, exposing the second layer of the quilt, which was the main force of the armor-piercing projectile, used to penetrate the surface carburized steel plate.

The 380mm armor-piercing projectile is already quite powerful. At a distance of 27 kilometers, the penetration depth reaches 300mm. For example, now, the 152mm armor, like an impacted aluminum plate, was instantly deformed and then torn apart. The armor-piercing projectile successfully penetrated into it.

"Boom!" A huge explosion sounded.

Behind the front quilt is the main shell, the front is the delay fuze, and the rear is the charge.

The charge of armor-piercing shells is definitely not as much as that of high-explosive shells, but the charge of 380mm shells is also quite abnormal.

The whole shell weighs 800 kilograms, and the charge has hundreds of kilograms.

With its explosion, you can see that the building that was just hit collapsed completely in an instant, and countless fragments flew across.

At the same time, a huge air wave also followed, and this air wave could directly shatter the glass on the bridge, not to mention the terrifying debris.

"Crack!" Almost in an instant, a fragment of several tens of kilograms flew to the bridge, smashed the glass of the bridge, and cut off the upper half of the helmsman in front of him.

The lower half of the helmsman's body is still standing, as if he wants to start the boat, but the upper half of his body is gone!

This is just the beginning.

Admiral Tovey squatted down at the moment of the explosion. He hoped that the armor on the lower part of the bridge could block these terrifying fragments.

The screams kept ringing.

A small shrapnel, only the size of a bullet, penetrated the tens of millimeters of armor of the conning tower, got in, got stuck in the stomach of an officer, flew out from the other end of his stomach, and went out again. hit another person's head.

Under the huge impact, the officer's body fell backwards, a large opening appeared in his stomach, and his intestines flowed out.

As for the other person, he fell down without humming, and Bai Huahua's brains splashed onto the side wall behind him.

Those who survived were almost all disabled. After the explosion, 18 people were killed on the bridge, including 11 senior officers and 13 people were injured, all of them seriously.

Only Tovey survived again. He huddled into a corner, dodging the debris of the terrible explosion and the impact of the air current. When he stood up, there were no survivors on the bridge.

The steering gear has been blown up, senior officers have been killed in large numbers, and the Queen Elizabeth has suffered heavy losses.

However, it's not over yet.

Cannonballs, like rain.

In the short three minutes that followed, Bismarck dropped 36 406mm rounds, while Scharnhorst dropped 48 380mm rounds.

Of these, 12 shells hit the Queen Elizabeth.

It's a full battleship shootout! The German Navy once again used its proud record to show the quality of its first-class navy.

At the back, the hit rate is higher, because the battleship Queen Elizabeth, which has been dried out of the bridge, has lost the ability to turn, and is a better target.

The sixth 406mm shell hit the engine room behind it, which greatly reduced the speed of the battleship. In this way, the Queen Elizabeth became a living target, and the hit rate in the later period was even higher. .

Another reason is that the wind and waves are gradually getting smaller.

Queen Elizabeth, which was temporarily given a chance to breathe, was shot, and the other battleships abandoned the Deutsches, the fleet turned and began to charge towards the German formation.

At the same time, on the side of the Queen Elizabeth, the Zealot moved up quickly, blocking the middle of the German fleet and the Queen Elizabeth, and then, a billow of black smoke rose.

On the battlefield, the way to interfere with the opponent is to release a smoke screen. This is a tactic that existed in ancient times!

In this way, the German fleet lost the specific location of the target, and the entire Queen Elizabeth hid in the smokescreen.

Luckily, this battleship was shot many times and still stood firm. More importantly, its turret was not hit by a devastating blow, and it did not lead to the explosion of ammunition, which is commendable.

At this time, the two sides had rushed to a distance of 14 nautical miles and approached a distance of 8 nautical miles.

In order to avoid the loss of shells, and because the other main battleships of the United Kingdom were pressed up, the German fleet had to change the target. The next one was the Barham, the same model as the Queen Elizabeth.

Regardless of the total tonnage of the fleet or the number of battleships, the British navy still has an advantage.

After the Queen Elizabeth was wounded, they still had three 30,000-ton battleships, Barham, Nelson, and Sovereign. On the German side, there were only two main ships.

The other warships were all soy saucers and waited until the outcome was decided before chasing after them to clean up the battlefield.

However, since several of the escorting warships were destroyed by Deutschland, the British fleet now has more capital ships and fewer escorts, and the German fleet is an exception.

The British navy will not back down. In order to maintain maritime hegemony, they have always taken the initiative to attack this encounter, which has turned into a main confrontation.

In fact, the main force of the German fleet, there are several more, but the main force of the British fleet is here, although they can still be transferred from the colony, but the overseas interests can not be guaranteed at all.

This naval battle will decide the fate of the British Navy!

At this time, they did not know that the German navy still had an aircraft carrier outside the battle zone, anxiously waiting for the weather to improve.

The storm in the Atlantic has just become smaller. On the Hitler aircraft carrier, Captain Tiller asked the commander of the carrier air wing: "Can we take off under the current weather conditions?"

"With the catapult, we can take off, but once the weather is bad, we won't be able to land."

"That's worth it, go all out!" Tiller clenched his fists: "This battle will completely wipe out the main force of the British Navy!"