Chapter 864 Melee Fighting 1

Looking from the perspective of Major General Bodick, he could see a series of fireballs rising into the sky. Before the first batch of cannonballs fell, the second batch of cannonballs had already been fired! The shells like a meteor shower instantly covered the speeding British light cruiser, and the almost flat angle brought a terrible danger zone to the opponent's warship (the area that may be hit by the shells is called a danger zone.)

A wall of flames The wall rolled towards the British warship not far away. When the two sides collided, successive explosions and a torrent of flames like a volcanic eruption instantly swept across the entire warship! For a full minute, the Frankfurt fired no less than 2 tons of shells. (A 175mm shell weighs 75kg, 6 guns, and a rate of fire of 7 to 8 rounds per minute.) In this minute, the distance between the two sides was close to about 5 kilometers. Such a close distance made this round of shelling With an unusual hit rate, nearly half a ton of shells hit this poor British light cruiser solidly! The violent fire storm swept through all the protrusions on the deck of the Antrim at the first time. A 6-inch gun at the bow of the ship was hit by a 75kg armor-piercing projectile before it could fire its third shell. After easily tearing apart the 50mm gun shield, the 12-man gun crew and the heavy gun behind it were killed. The 5-ton 6-inch gun was broken into pieces! The entire gun emplacement was completely wiped off the deck, and only the remaining pillars and fragments next to it told people that there was once an artillery gun here! In this kind of hand-to-hand combat, in which the two sides almost put the muzzles of their guns into each other's head, the one who gets the upper hand and the one with more cannons and greater projection is generally the winner. With the help of the servo and the turret-based artillery, the light cruiser Antrim on the opposite side had no chance to fight back. A series of shells hit the side gun positions, bridge, waterline armor belt, chimney, and engine room one after another. , the slender hull made frightening explosions and tremors after several consecutive hits. The dense shells blew a cockpit into pieces, two chimneys were also completely cut off, and more than a dozen holes appeared on the waterline of the ship's side in less than 3 minutes. The raging sea water It flooded into the side compartments, and even tore off the partition of the power compartment under the violent impact. After a few dozen seconds, the boiler compartment of the light cruiser was ready for fish... "Nice shot! Rapid fire! There's blood!" After seeing that the ship had tilted obviously and the entire hull had turned into a large swimming torch, Major General Bodick said excitedly through the sound tube. shouted the gunnery commander. The crush before his eyes aroused the fighting spirit and bloodthirsty in the man's heart. In less than ten minutes, the Frankfurt had beaten the opponent in front of her into a dead fish. At this time, the other six light cruisers on both sides were also entangled. The British light cruiser, realizing that the other party was a tough opponent, quickly released a smoke screen, and hoped that the destroyers behind could take advantage of the chaos to kill these light cruisers that were in the way. The German light cruiser also rationally controls the speed and distance. The two sides always maintain a straight line distance of about 5 kilometers. Basically, the only way to hit the torpedo at this distance is through blinding! The German fleet will naturally not let British light cruisers and torpedo boats patrol the sea! After the three battleships aimed their main gun fire at the British fleet, the situation was different! "We are like shooting rabbits with a shotgun. After a shell explodes, it will produce hundreds of fist-sized fragments. These fragments may not be a big deal to a capital ship, but to light cruisers and destroyers But it’s absolutely fatal!” the gunnery officer of the battleship Oldenburg said triumphantly after the war. The smoke screen of the three light cruisers can only cover part of the battlefield.

The three German battleships located at the side and rear still have a very good shooting range. Although the destroyers are also agile and difficult to hit, near misses are undoubtedly fatal to these battleships!

The water jets are approaching the British destroyer formation like the footsteps of death. They now have only three choices. The first choice is to rush through their own smoke cover and fight to the death. The second choice is to stay where they are and gamble their luck. The third option is to just talk. The roar of the shell explosion caused many people's eardrums to burst and bleed, and the rain of shrapnel was as terrifying as the rain of hellfire. The red and yellow flames exploding in the sky, the rising thick smoke, steam and spreading water vapor outline a doomsday scene, and under the sky with the light valley and the sky, it is the United Kingdom. In the destroyer formation, fist-sized shrapnel fell from the sky one after another, opening large or small holes in the destroyers one after another. Every collision is a test of life and death for the people in the cabin. Not only can the thin partitions not provide better protection for the people inside, but it will make the opponent's attack more deadly. Thousands of pieces Large or small shrapnel jumped and bounced between the cabins, passages and pipes. Flowers of blood donation bloomed in the jumping of the shrapnel. The entire cabin became a colander under repeated attacks. Acheron and the attack destroyer stopped struggling first. The former was destroyed by a 350mm near-missile bomb. This high-explosive bomb weighing more than 600 kilograms fell in the sea less than 10 meters away from Acheron. , the instantaneous explosion immediately made the nearby seawater feel like a boiling pot. The energy of the explosion formed a large number of high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles in the water. When these bubbles exploded, they produced a huge energy impact, and streams of water carrying debris hit Ake. On the fragile side of the Rong. With a series of intensive collision sounds, a several-meter-long hole was instantly torn open in the battleship's outer hull plate, followed by the power cabin. Finally, there was the keel at the bottom of the battleship. With bursts of heart-wrenching sounds of metal breaking and twisting, the destroyer was almost reached at both ends. The front half was seriously flooded, and the inertia of high-speed sailing accelerated its sinking. , like a sharp sword piercing the water, the bow of the boat never floated again after entering the water, the tail was raised high, and the propeller also stopped rotating. The destroyer Attack was knocked to death by a hail of shrapnel. Countless shrapnel, large and small, hit the destroyer one after another. "In less than 2 minutes, at least more than 100 holes were drilled into our warship!" a British naval soldier who was rescued after the war swore. As for how they counted it, this is questionable. But one thing that is certain is that the entire power cabin of this unlucky destroyer was penetrated by shrapnel falling from the sky not long after the war started. The deck of a few millimeters could not block these fragments. After a "meteorite rain" fell in the power cabin , the destroyer quickly turned into an "artificial hot spring." It ended naturally! Thank you to Book Friends World x Youxue for your great reward~~~! Four updates today~~~! Please subscribe and reward~~~! First update!