1825 My New Daming

Chapter 310 Let's see the Ming aircraft carrier bombard the British battleship! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)

"Five degrees to the left! Three degrees to the right, fast, hide!"

I have to say that Major General Hao is still working very hard!Even in the face of more than 30 steam gas torpedoes with a speed of up to 36 knots per hour, he still tried his best to direct the helmsman to steer the ship to avoid mines according to the sailing skills he learned at the Dartmouth Royal Naval Academy.

However, the boat maneuvers he mastered to avoid torpedoes are all used to avoid compressed air torpedoes. The speed of those things is generally less than 10 kilometers per hour, and the range is only 1 kilometer. It can be said that it is slow and close, and it is very easy to dodge.But what he encountered today is a steam gas torpedo that can run up to 40 knots at the fastest and has a range of up to 8000 meters.
Facing the 36 steam gas torpedoes fanning out, the only correct way for Rear Admiral Howe to respond was to aim the bow of the ship at the incoming torpedoes to minimize the area hit by the bombs.However, Major General Hao, who saw the "Daming Torpedo Sea" for the first time, didn't know this trick at all, so his order not only did not make any contribution to saving the warship, but accelerated the demise of the Malina.

Just as the Malina was twisting left and right, two white waves had crossed the sea less than 3000 meters at an extremely fast speed, and plunged into the midship and back of the battleship Malina one after the other. stern.

Then, a terrible scene happened. I saw two huge water clusters suddenly burst out underwater on the stern of this battleship with a standard displacement of 1.8 tons. When the water clusters shattered, people actually saw the battleship's The stern seems to have been punched upwards by a giant hidden in the sea. It is raised high, and there are two huge holes in the raised part!

Although the torpedo threat was not considered too much in the design of the Victory-class battleship, the underwater part was not specially reinforced, and there was no mine protection barrier, but after all, the Victory-class battleship is a large-tonnage new battleship, the "skin" on the "butt" It's still quite thick, but now it's actually poking out such a big hole, which shows the destructive power of the Ming Navy's 530mm caliber steam gas torpedo.

The "butt" of this boat is not just a "layer of skin". There are many important parts inside and outside the "butt", such as the propeller and rudder, as well as the transmission shaft and a system to control the rudder.If it's going to blow up, even if it's just stuck in some important place, it won't be able to move.

However, if the battleship Malina had any "ship spirit", it would definitely not be able to take care of its battered butt now. Because the beating on its butt was just the beginning, and there would be more to come!

Just 1 minute after the stern of the Malina was hit by two torpedoes, two more steam gas torpedoes, like underwater killers, mercilessly stabbed the bow and midship of the Malina. Three loud bangs followed by three huge water masses.After the spray cleared, a piece of the Malina's bow was missing, as if an ax had been chopped off by a sea giant.On the other hand, two large "water-absorbing" holes were opened in the midship of the Malina, and sea water poured in, which made the Malina tilt 15 degrees to the left in a short while.

Major General Hao, who had already been knocked to the ground by five torpedo explosions and his head was smashed, reacted in time this time. Before he got up, he shouted and ordered: "Inject water, inject water to the starboard side to maintain balance."

Flooding to starboard is of course no problem, nor is keeping the balance.However, the part below the waterline of the Malina has already opened so many big holes, and the sea water is rushing in, and it can no longer be blocked. The watertight door does not know where to close it. water.Then the ship is a smooth sinking fate.
And the above five torpedoes are not all the achievements of the six ferocious "heavy mine destroyers" in the first round of heavy mine salvo.

In this wave, they fired 36 torpedoes at a very close distance from the Marina and the Wellesley!However, not all of these 36 torpedoes greeted the Malina, and the Wellesley also allocated about twelve or thirteen torpedoes. It was relatively far away from those destroyers, so it was only "rarely" exposed to two rounds of steam gas. torpedo!
These two torpedoes greeted the "ship face" of the Wellesley, and they were 530 mines!The bottom of the Wellesley has never been strengthened. Two 530 torpedoes went up and blew up the lower half of the entire "ship's face". The face is gone, and the ship can still be good ?Although it won't get better, it won't sink even if it sinks.Because the Victory also has the concept of a core armored area, the "ship face" is not in it.However, the hole in the "face" is really too big. Too much water has entered, and the bow has sunk severely.It doesn't matter if the shape is ugly, the trouble is that the propeller at the stern of the boat is out of the water, and the boat can't maneuver!Moreover, the 5 main gun turrets on the ship are also difficult to aim because of the severe bow sinking. Even if they can be fired, they are not accurate.

After the two battleships were hit by mines, they couldn't move for a while.The engine compartment of the Mariner was flooded, and the coal stoves inside were all extinguished, why is it still moving like this?Although the Wellesley still had power, when the ship's butt was pushed up, the propeller was out of water for a while, and it had to be injected back with water to balance and maneuver.And at this moment, among the planes in the sky, the twenty or thirty planes that hadn't dropped the 100-kilogram bomb were all excited!

Everyone knows the profound meaning of the art of war of "killing you while you are sick". If you don't make meritorious deeds at this time, when will you make meritorious deeds?So everyone didn't care about the height, they all hovered downwards, and in a hurry, they simply swooped down at a small angle, from the original 1000 meters to 2000 meters to a height of several hundred meters, dropped the bomb, and then shot A photo, if it hits the bomb, it will be a great achievement!
Because these planes are all aiming their noses at the battleships to dive, although they do not fall straight down at a large angle, they still allow the bombs to have "inertial guidance", and the accuracy has improved, and in a blink of an eye, they are "sinking steadily" "The battleship Malina suffered three 3-kilogram bombs!"One on the starboard side and one on the port side both pierced the deck and exploded below the deck. I don't know what was blown up?Anyway, the explosion was full of smoke.Another one directly hit the top of the turret in the midship, and it didn't blow through, but it still stunned all the gun crew members inside!

The "butt" of the Wellesley, which was "pouting buttocks", became an excellent target. It was hit by five bombs in a row, and it was blown up like a thick smoke, although the turret at the stern could also hold the A direct hit, but if you look carefully, you can still find that the stern turret of the Wellesley has been blown out of shape, and the situation inside is probably not much better.But that's all right, because the end of the Wellesley and the Marina is coming!

And the one that ended them was the aircraft-carrying battlecruiser Shuzhongwang where Zhuge Weidao was located!
Zhuge Weidao didn't dare to get too close to those two battleships at first, but now seeing them like this, he naturally became "brave" and immediately gave Lei Teng an order: "Captain Lei, rush up immediately, approach One point, use 300mm guns to sink these two British battleships!"

"Yes, Junmen!" Of course, Lei Teng would not let go of the opportunity to sink a battleship. As an aircraft carrier commander, I am afraid that he may not have a second chance to sink a battleship with naval guns in his life!
He immediately ordered: "At full speed, charge towards the enemy battleships. Charge to a distance of 3000 meters and then walk around them."

"Yes, sir!"

"Guns, assign fire channels! The No. [-] turret bombards that pouty battleship, and the No. [-] turret hits the other one!"

"Yes, sir!"

This is really awesome. An aircraft carrier-aircraft-carrying battlecruiser should also be considered an aircraft carrier, right?An aircraft carrier actually started an artillery battle with two battleships with one against two!

(End of this chapter)