1855 United States Tycoon

Chapter 611, Sea Battle (3)

Because the Goben and Yews did not sink suddenly like the Invincible, the sailors still had time to leave the sinking ship. However, considering that in the other direction, the Indomitable and the Fighting Dog were still fighting the German Moji, so the British only left a destroyer to rescue the sailors wearing life jackets floating on the sea. Of course, Another task of this destroyer is to use torpedoes to fill the gun if the Yews has not sunk after all those who have fallen into the water have been rescued.

However, there are too many people floating on the sea. There are more than 400 people on the Yew, and more than 100 people have been sacrificed in the battle, but now there are more than 200 people on the lifeboat and on the sea. These people were rescued aboard the ship first, and then it was the Germans’ turn. It’s just that the destroyer is too small, with a displacement of just 1,200 tons, while the German Goben is much larger, with a full 1,400 sailors. Although a lot of them have been killed in battle, they are left. There were still more than 800 people who came down. Let’s not talk about getting these people on the ship. Will these guys try to rob the ship dishonestly? There is simply no place to hold so many people on the small destroyer, especially when this destroyer After rescuing more than two hundred British crew members, it was already quite overloaded.

“Oh, we are gentlemen, and the rules still have to be followed. Therefore, we threw all the lifeboats to them and let them stay in the lifeboats first. After our fleet returns victoriously, there will naturally be room for free. “Iris Captain Harry thought so, so he ordered: “Throw all the lifeboats to the Germans, and let them stay there first.” Then he frowned and looked at it. Wearing life jackets, those German sailors floating on the sea.

“Damn it, it’s the end of September now. The water temperature in this sea area is not high. If a person is soaked in such seawater, it will take at most half an hour, no, no, at most twenty-five minutes, and it will be finished.” Harry said. Thinking about it, he ordered: “Let’s pick up the Germans who are soaking in the water and let them squeeze on the deck…”

Hundreds of people were picked up on the Iris. At this time, the deck was full of people. Some of them even hung themselves outside the railings of the deck with belts, and on the barrels and masts. They are also full of Germans. Today’s destroyer Iris has absolutely met the requirements of the future military parade of the White Elephant Country, and has become an open destroyer.

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When the British cruisers drove back, the battle was actually nearing its end. Although the Indomitable lost a large part of the bow, it was unable to travel at high speed, but its firepower was still perfect, while the Mochi lost the steering gear, so that it could not be controlled at all, and its rudder was stuck. In one position, you can only make a circle on the spot. In this way, when it engages in artillery battles with the Unyielding, the Unyielding can always find a suitable position, use the side of the ship to face the Mochi, and exert all its firepower. As for the Moqi, its movement is completely Is involuntary. So in the artillery battle, the Mochi was not an opponent at all. In a cross-fire, its A turret was knocked off first, and then another armor-piercing projectile penetrated its main armor, destroying two boilers, and losing a quarter of its power. Fifteen minutes later, the Inflexible shells hit the Mochi again and caused a fire. Because the fire was difficult to control and had a tendency to spread to the main ammunition depot, the Germans had to fill the main ammunition depot with water. The result was of course that although the ammunition depot exploded and the danger of sending the warship to the seabed immediately was avoided, the Mochi also lost all the firepower of its main artillery.

After discovering that the German’s main gun was misfired, the Unyielding even narrowed the range and fired violently on the Mochi. And in the next twenty minutes, three hits were made on the Moqi, one of which was nearly missing, causing water to enter the starboard side of Moqi, and the other two shells completely destroyed Moqi’s power system, making this The huge ship was completely paralyzed on the sea.

By this time, the battle has no meaning. The shooting should have been stopped. The Germans were very gentlemanly giving the Germans some time to escape the warship that was destined to sink. But at this time, they received the news that the Invincible had been sunk. then……

“Since the Germans did not raise the white flag to surrender, continue shooting!” The captain of the Indomitable gave this order.

This order is of course completely legal. If the Germans raise the white flag, the British, who have always been gentlemen, will definitely cease fire. However, now the British are fully fired, and the main artillery and secondary artillery are constantly directed at the Germans. Hello, who can run out and raise the white flag? Now that the Germans no longer have any resistance-their main and secondary guns are all dumb. The Indomitable simply approached to a distance of one kilometer, and used the main gun to aim at the waterline of the Mochi. At this close range, the hit rate was so high that it was like hitting the forehead with a gun. And the second artillery of the Indomitable blasted against the bridge of the Moqi. At this time, the cruiser Pitbull and the destroyer Hausen also joined in, firing frantically at the Mochi with their respective artillery.

Under this kind of firepower, there is no human on the deck, and it becomes impossible to hang the white flag on the mast or abandon the ship. The destroyer Hausen also launched several torpedoes at the Mochi at a very close range. Under such a blow, the Mochi began to tilt rapidly, but within 20 minutes, it had already tilted for nearly 30 minutes. Spend. The Germans had to risk artillery fire to abandon the ship and escape. Because such an inclination means that the warship will be reversed soon-the speed of the ship’s tilting and turning is always getting faster and faster-by that time, someone will be able to escape.

So braving the British’s constant artillery fire, German sailors dressed in life jackets came out of the cabin one after another, hoping to jump into the sea, and then they were bombarded with flesh and blood from the cannonballs hitting their heads and covering their faces.

After another ten minutes, Moqi’s deck was almost perpendicular to the sea. Then it turned abruptly, turned over all of a sudden, buckled on the surface of the sea, and swayed a huge wave.

The British stopped shooting, and everyone was attentively looking at the huge ship that was about to sink, and watching its ochre-red bottom gleaming in the sun. And more than a dozen hard-fed like the five little knights in the Saint Seiya or the Germans like Tom Cat who escaped from this battleship by chance, or the Germans who can’t die like Tom, don’t have such a leisurely attitude. They are struggling to Swim far away, because it won’t take long for this ship to sink, and once a warship of this size sinks, it will create a huge vortex on the sea, and will float everything on the nearby sea. Are dragged down to the bottom of the sea.

After a few more minutes, the bow of the Mochi began to sink, and at the same time his stern was also out of the water, and slowly stood up, but the two huge turrets at the stern of the ship were gone. The turret of the battleship is buckled on the ship by its own gravity, so when the hull is turned over, the turret will sink first. This is also the reason why the wreckage and turret of the sunk warship are not in the same position in many cases.

At this time, a sound like a dozen trains sounding siren came from the warship. It was the sound made by the air in the hull when it was discharged from various gaps in the hull under water pressure. At this time, another creaking sound also rang, which was the sound made by the ship’s keel when it was slowly twisted. At this time, the stern has been raised very high, and the huge gravity is twisting the keel.

When the stern was raised to about thirty degrees, the ship made a loud bang, and the entire hull was folded in two sections from the middle. The broken warship sank to the bottom of the sea within two minutes, leaving a large whirlpool on the sea, dragging the two German sailors down before they could swim too far. But come, at least these two are still not as good as the five Xiaoqiang or Tom Cat.

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In the evening of the day of the battle, the Times published a special extra: “My heroic navy wiped out the German assault fleet.”

In this report, the British Royal Navy’s bravery and fearlessness, and Nelson’s spirit of fighting against the enemy have been highly praised. In particular, Major General Hood and his Invincible dealt a fatal blow to two enemy ships. After that, it was sunk by the last shell, which would more or less smell of Lord Nelson.

But more importantly, the threat posed by the German attack fleet was lifted. Although the Germans still have some so-called special cruisers disguised as merchant ships that continue to carry out their attack missions. But those special cruisers are essentially merchant ships equipped with artillery. At best, they can attack some individual merchant ships. When faced with a merchant fleet escorted by warships, they have no combat power at all. . At least, now on the route, battleships and battlecruisers are no longer needed.

Coupled with the use of radio direction finder, these assault ships were constantly found out, and one after another was sunk. The British route seemed to be completely safe again.

At this time, the British and French forces finally repelled the German forces in the Marne. With large colonies and able to produce large amounts of rubber, the British and French began to produce their own full-body chemical protective suits and used mustard gas on the battlefield many times. Of course, the Germans also unceremoniously fought back with mustard gas. However, the Germans have always lacked enough rubber, which makes the proportion of the German military’s full-body chemical protective clothing significantly lower than the British and French. So the result of the gas war is obviously not good for Germany. If it weren’t for something that happened afterwards, maybe the British and French planned to kill all the way to Berlin by relying on mustard gas.