Chapter 1389 Desperate Situation 2
Chapter 1389 Desperate Situation 2
"The light cruisers work in pairs, cover each other, and keep a distance. The destroyers regroup and stop them!" Facing another wave of attacks, Rear Admiral Hopman is using the last time to readjust his fleet. The destroyers went up for a dogfight, and the light cruisers sniped from the side from a distance. However, I have to say that the number of Russian destroyers this time is really too much. (This is also a historical fact. Those who have read "The Fearless Sea" can look at the combat sequence of the Russian Baltic Fleet. Although the total number is certainly not comparable to that of Britain and Germany, but with more than 30 destroyers and torpedo boats, that is no problem at all. No!)
And when a group of destroyers form a tight formation and then quickly approach to release torpedoes together, not to mention the hit rate, a salvo of dozens of torpedoes can completely interfere with the maneuver of a fleet. Hopman's fleet is not powerful. The destroyer's torpedoes have been used up in a previous battle. It would be more difficult to intercept with naval guns alone. After all, it is difficult to use high-explosive bombs to hit a ship with a total weight of thousands of tons. The boat was still a bit difficult. Therefore, those piranha-like guys are still very scary!
However, the situation that Major General Hopman was worried about did not appear. Just when the Russians were about to enter the final charge stage before the lightning strike, the arrival of more than a dozen K-6 bombers changed the situation on the entire battlefield!
"Oh God, they are coming! We can't get rid of them!" Looking at the K-6 bomber flying at an altitude of more than 100 meters above the sea level, a Russian sailor on the Ukrainian said with a trembling voice.
"Hurry up and set up the machine gun! Shoot them down!" An officer walked to the deck in a few steps and used the belt in his hand to drive the soldiers who were trying to find shelter to the machine gun. On the rear deck, two twin-mounted machine guns were connected to the ammunition belts under the operation of more than a dozen soldiers, and then the huge target in the distance was set in the ring center of the mechanical sight!
When Russia met the German bombers, they still maintained the previous formation sailing. The speed and course of the entire formation did not change much. The Russians leading the formation knew that if the fleet dispersed at this time, they could indeed avoid the missiles from the air. Attack, but the group's plan to shoot torpedoes to disrupt the opponent's formation was completely in vain, so he planned to give it a try! However, when you are stable, your opponent is also stable. Even the German pilots were surprised that the Russian destroyers didn't hide when the bombers were approaching. ! Do you really think you can outrun a bomber? This is obviously contempt for the speed of the aircraft!
As a result, the first group of bombers almost flew over the high-speed destroyer in a tail pursuit state, and then dropped a series of 100KG and 50KG bombs!
boom! Along with a series of explosions, the Russian destroyer in the distance was covered by walls of water in an instant. If you look from the air, you can clearly see several bombs falling around and on the destroyer, and then in an instant , fire and water jets engulfed the target!
Although the destroyer is very fast,
But after all, the hull length is also 70 meters! The German bombers ignored some machine gun fire and lowered their altitude to about 100 meters. The probability of a bomb hitting it directly may not be high, but if more than 5 bombs are dropped directly, it will be different! Just like a seeder, piles of bombs dropped by K-6 bombers instantly covered each target!
boom! The Ukrainian was hit by a 50KG bomb on the rear deck! Although this weight is about the same as a 150MM artillery shell, the charge is at least four times that of the latter's high-explosive shell! The entire destroyer seemed to have been hit by a heavy hammer. Under the huge impact, several cabins at the stern were blown to pieces, and countless shrapnel and flames poured into the steering gear room at the rear of the destroyer. Just like a running cheetah that suddenly had its tail cut off, the Ukrainian made irregular movements on the sea.
The other Cossack was even worse. A 100KG high-explosive bomb was placed right in the middle of the destroyer! A 102MM gun and the front chimney were directly wiped from the hull by dozens of kilograms of high explosives. The blue-green flames spread in all directions along the cracks and passages blown by the sea breeze. The sharp shrapnel easily shredded the fragile steam pipe. The destroyer, which had been able to run more than 30 knots just now, quickly dropped to 15 knots. As the flames spread to the power compartment, it was only a matter of time before the destroyer shut down.
And some near misses are just as deadly! A Russian destroyer quickly rushed through the water curtain caused by the explosion, and sank to the bottom of the sea in front of the horrified eyes of a group of Russians... The several-hundred-ton torpedo boat was hit by two near-misses. One of the 50KG high-explosive bombs entered the water almost against the side of the ship. The violent explosion shattered the fragile watertight compartment like a small mine. Relying on inertia, the little guy rushed out, but soon, a large amount of incoming water knocked him away and pulled him into the embrace of the sea. Groups of water mist and high-temperature gas gush out from the gaps in the battleship, mixed with some explosions. This should be the result of the explosion of sea water and high-temperature boilers...
When the first wave of air strikes ended, all the bombers pulled up, circled, and once again entered the next round of attacks. The bombers that had thrown away their ammunition began to use machine gun fire like hedgehogs to wildly strafe the Russian destroyers. They even brought the target as close as 300 meters! Then, with the flash of machine gun fire and shell casings falling like raindrops, a destroyer was completely covered by the firepower of at least two 20MM machine guns and four machine guns! In less than a few seconds, hundreds of bullet holes appeared on the hull!
The sounds of metal clashing, steel plates twisting and tearing, the crackling sound of flames burning, and the screams of people hit by shrapnel were endless. The broken cabins, fires everywhere, blood flowing across the deck and mutilated bodies made this a real hell. After two consecutive rounds of strafing, although the destroyer was still sailing on the sea, no one dared to touch the artillery next to the pile of corpses! The smell of blood and corpses stimulated everyone's nerves. The roar of the machine gun was like the whisper of a demon. Facing an almost irresistible force, the morale of the Russians is on the verge of collapse!
Some destroyers no longer cared about the formation and chose to escape. The evacuation of the first destroyer kicked off the collapse of the Russian offensive. More and more destroyers and torpedo boats began to avoid the death from the air. However, machine guns and bombs are different. of! The intensive shooting at almost face-to-face distance and the large amount of ammunition allow the K-6 bomber to chase the opponent...
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