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The artillery fire was howling, and the bullets were circling. Countless fighter planes shuttled through the air defense iron curtain that was as dense as a rainstorm, launching fierce attacks on the warships hanging on the sea with the St. George's flag. ~As they dived, towering water columns like giant Fusan trees rose up on the sea, and red and purple fireballs that were as powerful as mountains. The surging flames and rolling smoke rose one after another from the warships, and soon increased to more than a dozen groups. As we can see, the blue sea was full of burning steel. The originally fresh and bright warships became distorted and shattered under the attack of the God-Punishment Heavenly Condemnation, and the situation was terrible.

After more than ten minutes of attack, the four aircraft carriers in the British main fleet ignited a surging flame, and the tall ships began to tilt slowly, and countless British sailors rushed to the sea like dumplings. Although they were trying their best to dodge at sea at a high speed of 30 knots, the guided weapons controlled by German pilots always locked in their figures. In order to defeat the opponent's aviation power in one fell swoop, Germany

The fleet was not at all ruthless and used more than half of the guided bombs and torpedoes in the formation on these core targets. Amid the deafening explosions, these armored aircraft carriers with perfect protection were ultimately out of support. Faced with the loss of the tube that could no longer be rescued, the captain was forced to order the ship to abandon. At this time, except for the lucky encounter with the dud, the USS Kewei, who was still struggling to persevere. The three aircraft carriers including the Royal Ark are no longer rescued.

While the British aircraft carriers were under fierce attack, those battleships, like floating islands, were also trembling under the bullying of these lightweight aircraft. Faced with these small and lightning-like pocket mosquitoes and flies, the huge cannon clusters they spent a lot of money to build had no effect except for accelerating and sinking after the warships were hit. The large-caliber air defense cannon was only powerful at mid- and close range, and an average of 2,000 shells were fired. If they encountered German aircraft that did not carry guided weapons and needed to launch attacks at the distance, the British battleship could also resist through its inconstrained small-caliber air defense net. If the opponent dropped line-guided torpedoes and guided bombs from 5 to 8 kilometers away, the only thing the British sailors could count on was to intercept the bombs and torpedoes that were attacked in the middle, or expect these guys to fail themselves!

On the battleship of the Prince of Wales, British gunners were manipulating their four eight-piece 40mm ping-table guns to fire in the air, and under the full load of the missile-changing soldiers. Large rays of shiny spots were always chasing around German aircraft. As one of the latest battleships in the British fleet, it also received the focus of the German aircraft fleet. In the previous battles, two bombs and one torpedo had already hit it. Since it was a new type of battleship, its heavy armor and more reasonable cabin layout allowed it to withstand it.

This wave of attacks, high-explosive bombs and less powerful aerial torpedoes did not cause serious damage to their core compartments. Although the warship was flooded into thousands of tons of seawater and the ship surface facilities were destroyed in large quantities, it was still serpentine avoiding at a speed of 26 knots and trying its best to attack the German aircraft in the air. After unknown how many shells were fired, a ju-87 finally exploded with a flash of flames, and the sailors on the British deck suddenly burst into joy, as if they were going to vent all the humiliation they suffered today!

"I found an enemy plane right above!" The British gunner's roar immediately pulled the gunner's joy back to the cruel reality. Looking up, he saw a ju-87 coming out of the sky from a high altitude. It was swooping down at a nearly vertical angle. Through the scope on the ping-ping cannon, the British gunner could even see the round figure below its belly. Before the gunner gave the order, the sound of anti-aircraft artillery fire sounded densely again. However, what made the British sailors anxious was that the orange-yellow spots shot from their warships roared and swept through the plane. As the bullets were raining, no shot was directly hit.

In fact, this is also a situation that is difficult to change under the current technological background of the times, that is, the gunners are almost unable to effectively strike against high-speed moving air targets. For the short-range air defense firepower on the warship, all hits are not precise strikes based on accurate judgments on the enemy plane's orientation and advance amount, but purely by firing a large amount of bullet rain to try their luck. In actual combat, it is already commendable to shoot down a fast enemy aircraft with 2,000 small-caliber shells. If luck is not on the side of air defense firepower, it is absolutely uncommon to fire 4,000 shells without hitting a single hit!

The beep was shrill and the ears were filled with sharp sounds. After a short while, the British sailors on the deck of the Prince of Wales heard the terrifying hissing sound that was close to him. A round and blunt bomb suddenly fell from a height of nearly a thousand meters, and the perpetrator quickly pulled the nose and ended the dive in a smooth arc. Due to the previous dive acceleration, the bomb had an extremely high initial speed at the beginning of its release. In just a few breaths, it fell straight from the air to the front of his eyes. With the violent vibration caused by the impact of the hull, more than a dozen team members who were rescued and extinguishing the fire on the deck could not stand and staggered and fell. For a moment, they felt a strong sense of joy in their hearts: the terrifying scene that seemed to be as if the earth was soaring into the sky did not appear in the hit area, and the German bomb must have been a dud that failed to detonate!

However, just a moment later, the British sailors suddenly felt a new strong vibration coming from the inside of the hull; this vibration was even more fierce than before, and even dozens of people fell heavily on the deck. A bright red light lit up from the hole near the bridge behind the battleship, mixed with red flames and thick black smoke as thick as ink, and the navigation speed of the entire battleship also decreased sharply!

Since battleships have the thickest horizontal protection among all surface ships, ordinary high-explosive bombs can no longer meet the strike needs. In this case, armor-piercing bombs dedicated to breaking through enemy ships came into being and became another standard equipment for German HNA bombers. Its loading coefficient is an order of magnitude smaller than that of explosive bombs, but its penetration ability of armor has a qualitative leap. To a certain extent, this armor-piercing bomb can be regarded as a large-caliber A-cannon shell, and

Since it was released by a dive bomber, its corner of more than 60 degrees undoubtedly gave it the innate horizontal depth penetration ability far exceeding the shell. At this moment, an 800kg armor-piercing bomb effortlessly penetrated the main horizontal armor of the Prince of Wales' 124mm thick power section, and blew up three of the four steam turbines below it. The Prince of Wales, which lost most of its power, lost its speed, from 26 knots to 14 knots, which also made it an ideal prey for German aircraft.

"Boom! Boom!" Two thick water columns rushed straight into the blue sky. The Prince of Wales, which lost its speed, could no longer effectively avoid the incoming torpedoes, and was quickly hit by two torpedoes one after another. The violent explosion was effectively transmitted under the bearing of seawater, instantly blasting two large holes of dozens of square meters of water on the outer shell of the hull; the high-pressure air wave wrapped in seawater did not decline, and it broke through the two 19mm lightning-proof neighbors inside it and went straight into it.

In the core compartment, as the sea water surged and flooded, the main generator cabin and a large number of lines were flooded, and the lights of thousands of cabins suddenly went out, and even the most important pumps stopped operating due to power outage. The surging sea water flooded one cabin after another, and the water inlet of the warship began to lose control; however, the German aircraft still did not want to let go of the seriously injured giant beast. As the water splashed, three torpedoes rushed towards it quickly!

The sky was shocked and the waves soared into the sky. The Prince of Wales immediately reached the end of its brief service career in this fierce attack. The warship began to tilt continuously, and the draft gradually deepened. The British sailors quickly took off the lifesaving rafts from the warship and threw them into the sea, and then they jumped into the sea one after another. This giant ship with a standard displacement of more than 40,000 tons had not yet used its equipment to roar at the German fleet, and then sank slowly under the attack of the aviation army, becoming the prey of the wronged souls under the burial plane.

"We have lost this war." Looking at the scene of flames soaring into the sky on the sea around them, Tovey, standing in the commander's tower, said in a trembling voice. In less than 20 minutes, his fleet seemed to have entered the hell furnace: the four aircraft carriers had already become complete torches under the bombardment of dozens of bombs, and the explosion of aviation fuel and torpedoes continued to come from it. Even if the destroyer did not impose lightning strikes on it, they could not hold on for long, and the missiles and torpedoes that could turn and aim at all wiped out the last glimmer of hope in Tovey's heart: the opponent had already mastered such a powerful weapon, and he could not have any chance of winning!

The main fleet, which had originally invested a lot of money and was regarded as the cornerstone of the decisive battle by the entire navy and the country, also suffered an unbearable devastating blow. The Prince of Wales sent a telegram to abandon the ship. The Gangyong-class battleship Balum was overturned and sunk after being hit by three torpedoes. The Revenge-class battleship Royal Oak was drilled into the ammunition depot by an armor-piercing bomb. The entire warship was instantly bombed into thousands of pieces like firecrackers. Except for the two Gangyong-class battleships that had not been attacked, the remaining 10 main battleships were all injured, among which the Duke of York had lost their ability to operate.

.In the sky, the attack and bomb drops of German aircraft have not stopped! These battleships, together with the 6crh shells developed before the war, have become useless waste in this naval battle. The era of battleships is gone forever. (Good activity with pie falling from the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you to get! Follow~ Click/Official Account (Add WeChat account--Enter DD) and participate immediately! Everyone has a prize, now follow the dd WeChat official account immediately!) (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, update faster!

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