It’s rare that the near-missing bullet of the Tiger patrol did not explode early, but burst at a depth of 1 foot after penetrating the sea water, so the shock wave accumulated and exploded. The sea water in the bottom of the hull of the Cedritz patrol boat formed several fine gases, which pushed the main ship with a standard displacement of more than 249 tons to the left for nearly half a meter and formed a violent tremor.
The hull seems to have jumped, shoveling coal, turning around and lifting coal repeatedly, and the boiler soldiers suddenly staggered. Many unlucky guys were hard at the coal outlet of the coal bunker or the boiler was densely woven with water pipes, valves and parts, and then the head was broken. I was checking the loss of a 15-inch near-lost projectile, and the feet of the damaged pipe soldiers trembled violently. It seemed that a brute force came and threw them over easily.
"The damage management team please confirm whether the Cedritz was shot or not, and feedback the damage!" The command tower of Cedritz, which has 4 mm frontal defense armor, has shock absorption effect and can explode to produce impact force. It is still clear from the soles of the feet. The experienced Moritz-von-Ogotti school grabbed the microphone and asked the cabins about the situation.
"The first near-missing ship’s side was not directly hit!" In the past, the huge wind, the roar of the machine and the explosion of the 35-mm main gun were all covered up. In the past, the hull was surrounded by towering water columns, which were higher than the chimneys. It was so cold that the lookout was thrown to the heights. Occasionally, something flashed in front of him. It was scattered shrapnel flying around the hull. The bold lookout carefully checked the landing point of the British shells and sent the information back to the commander tower regardless of the stirring water columns and flying shrapnel.
"The second bullet hit the starboard 5 meters!"
"The damage management team reported a near miss at the bottom of the ship! The bottom cabin is slightly damaged! "
The news of the damage management team from the belvedere came back one after another, and Ogoti School’s eyebrows were thick and worried. "If reuter doesn’t solve the Royal Princess, I’m afraid the Cedritz will suffer a big loss!"
Two enemy-class patrol ships, the unsinkable Mao Qi and the British battleship Deutschland, entered the battle distance of 1 yard only at about 1 o’clock due to heading problems. The 16-door 12-inch main guns of the unyielding and indomitable were hastily fired, which immediately led to the suppression of the Mao Qi Deutschland. Regardless of the four dual-mounted 35 mm main guns of the Deutschland patrol, even the 35 mm main gun of the Mao Qi was enough to penetrate into the enemy class and was comparable to the armored cruiser defense armor.
The first rounds of shelling of the Deutschland were all long-lost bullets. Occasionally, one or two bullets were missing from the hull of the indomitable ship for 30 to 40 meters, which was enough to make the waterline take the main armor. 4-6 inches of horizontal armor, 7 inches of turret front armor, 7 inches of command tower front armor, and 1 inch of indomitable ship patrol for a while.
However, the British are obviously luckier, somewhat ill-fated. After 13 rounds of shelling at 6: 01, a 35-mm armor-piercing bullet accidentally hit the German ship Deutschland, whose 25-mm waterline with its main armor was even more challenging. Although it makes sense, the bow of the ship will obviously not be covered.
The bow armor of the Deutschland was only 7mm, and it was ruthlessly hit by the British armor-piercing bullets. Tons of seawater surged into the 20,000-ton warship, and there was a slight tendency to lean forward. In order to keep the balance of the warship, the captain of Deutschland had to make the ship’s stern cabin water and level the speed, and suddenly it was slow.
"Commander tower we hit the target ship bow parts! The target ship has slowed down! " The observer of the indomitable observatory was excited by the sound, and the captain of the indomitable was cheering and cheering. At the other end of the British battle line, the Royal Princess was hit by the Devlinger.
The second gun Chapter 15 Jutland Jutland! (5)
[Don’t be surprised if you modify it at noon]
At 1: 15, the sky was getting dark, the sea breeze stopped completely, and the sparse sea fog choked people. The smell of smoke finally brewed into a haze over Jutland. The ninth destroyer team of the first world war patrol fleet was looking for the target ship in the dim light of the Royal Princess watchtower sailors.
"Target ship was shot! The impact point is located at the edge of the target ship’s piggyback lifting turret. The armor-piercing projectile penetrates the horizontal armor belt! " The Royal Princess Commander Tower observed the huge shadow of the target ship in the eyepiece of the sergeant. It seemed that a ship’s stern deck suddenly exploded with a cloud of smoke and orange flames looming in the smoke.
The Royal Princess Commander Tower is a joy. The Devlinger-class patrol is the most powerful one in German history. battle cruiser’s defensive firepower is no less than that of the heavy ship-fearing. On whether the armor-piercing projectile can penetrate the side armor belt and then penetrate the blast hole or the ammunition depot again, there is less heavy defensive armor. A main turret with Devlinger-class combat effectiveness is damaged!
"Armor-piercing turret half-gun volley launch preparation!"
In naval battle, the more times the fire splashes down the water column on the side of the target ship, the more observation it will be, and the more fearful it will be. In naval battle, the fighting distance is usually more than 10,000 yards. It is not easy to measure the distance and correct the shooting. Therefore, the turret half-gun volley has become a common technique in age of steam’s naval battle.
The British vowed to cheer and jump for joy. The captain Moritz von Ogoti of the Devlinger class Cedritz was wounded. He started a round of fire in sorrow and was unremarkable. After the shelling, he was called the most decisive shelling in the outpost of Jutland naval battle.
Heavy armor-piercing projectiles are arranged in order. Ammunition storage racks wear cotton clothes and special shoes. Sailors carefully control the overhead track of the bulkhead. Hydraulic manipulators take armor-piercing projectiles. The warhead of armor-piercing projectiles weighs 3 kg. The dangerous propellants in the gun magazine are held by metal tubes. These propellants are also sent to the gun magazine. The armor-piercing projectiles are sent to the ammunition loading room together. The experienced ammunition loader will adjust the propellant charge according to the data of the fire control tower to ensure the shooting accuracy. Then, the propellant shells will be placed directly against the loading barrel. When all this is done, the ejector will return to the ammunition depot to load the second volley and the propellant cartridge will be lifted to the gun and the armor-piercing projectile will be pushed into the gun bore.
When the loading barrel returns to the ammunition loading room, the gun gate will automatically lock. At this time, all the interlock devices have been released. The "Fire Preparation Complete" indicator light in front of the gunners in the fire control command tower lights up. After the main gunners repeatedly complete the shooting preparation, a round of volley aimed at throwing 24 tons of shells at the target ship can be carried out.
"launch!"
With the strong instructions of the gunner, the four main turrets and half guns of the Devingel fired four armor-piercing projectiles in unison. After a few seconds, the four main guns also fired at the target ship. Of course, a shelling will not make the Royal Princess wait too long. Even if the wartime conditions are crazy, the German gunner can still make four main guns with a diameter of 45 times and a diameter of 35 mm shoot at 21 rounds per minute!
The good news of hitting the target ship has not yet been fully fermented, and many staff members are still ignorant of the naval battle situation. At this time, four ships rushed to the Royal Princess with a decisive momentum. At 1: 17 on March 3, 1915, the wind on the coast of Jutland in the North Sea was getting darker and the sea fog was growing. Bad luck has arrived. Three 35 mm armor-piercing projectiles were splashed all over the Royal Princess. The "perfect cat" was covered with pearl white naval paint, and the hull bumped into several gorgeous colors. At the same time, a 35 mm armor-piercing projectile with a hat seemed to break like a raging fire
Touching the two layers on the left side of the bow turret of the Royal Princess is ridiculous, adding up to 2 inches and 5 millimeters of horizontal armor, which is like a piece of paper. Armor-piercing bullets weigh 3 kilograms, and the armor-piercing parts are smashed into fine pieces, and the bow deck of the ship is spinning and flying!
In naval battle, the closer the engagement distance is, the straighter the shell trajectory becomes. When the engagement distance increases, the shell trajectory is higher, which means that under the condition of rapid fire of the main gun, the shell will fall almost vertically around the target ship like raindrops, while the design of the lion-class patrol drawings is arrogant. The British empire designers have never considered the problem of long-distance engagement. If the Royal Princess plays the literal game, the main armor is slag, then the "perfect cat" horizontal protection is set, and the steering gear is only 25 inches thick and the horizontal armor is 6 millimeters.
It’s not over yet. Armor-piercing soldiers have uncovered the "perfect cat" without bloodshed. The emperor’s new clothes, known as 9-inch blasthole armor, have also caused great humiliation! Royal Princess’s so-called 9-inch blasthole armor is actually composed of 6-inch 152-mm side armor and 3-inch 76-mm blasthole loader barrel armor. When the speed of sound hits 35 mm, the capped armor-piercing projectile naturally penetrates the loader ammunition loading room without any force and explodes.
According to the wartime practice, every main gun ammunition loading room must be equipped with a pack of propellant, and the armor-piercing projectile exploded quickly, and more than ten ammunition loaders in the propellant room suffocated instantly.
The Royal Princess propellant loading room is composed of four independent ammunition rooms and one handling room, and the ammunition room is used for storing artillery shells. These rooms are usually equipped with explosion doors with 4 inches and 2 inches watertight compartments. The 5 mm watertight compartment armor cover may not be able to resist the energy generated by the explosion of armor-piercing projectiles, but the Royal Navy gunner violated the Safety Regulations in pursuit of gun speed, and the hole propellant magazine, the magazine hatch and the barrel passage armor cover became the last straw to overwhelm the camel!
The fire spread along the channel of the propellant loading room and the propellant depot. Thirty-one sailors heard the news and the medic was instantly burned to death. The turret gunner ordered the Lion to patrol Harvey exactly the same, but it would be painful to welcome the British this time!
The fire pump can’t stop the fire from spreading along the passage of the ammunition depot. The force drives the ammunition depot door to be closed and the sea valve to be screwed. The raging fire drives the damaged crew to retreat through the communication passage of the turret B turret ammunition depot, so the turret ammunition depot can’t be avoided again!
Oxygen was absorbed near the turret. Fourteen pipe-damaged soldiers were killed on the spot. Boom! The Royal Princess shook violently and placed more than one shell. Shock waves, flames and smoke were generated by the explosion of the ammunition depot. Shrapnel flew out of the hole of the armor-piercing projectile, and the top of the smoke spewed out. The top of the smoke was 3 feet 76 meters away from the sea level. The fire was enough to light up hundreds of meters nearby waters! Two coal bunkers, four boilers and a engine room near the turret were destroyed. Hundreds of tons of seawater roared in at the first time. Hundreds of tons of heavy turrets were thrown into the sky, and then they slammed into the bow and smashed the horizontal deck of the bow directly!
Running at high speed, the Royal Princess instantly changed from a noble princess to a faltering old man. The speed of the hull tilted forward from 2 knots to prevent the B turret ammunition depot from being martyred. The captain of the Royal Princess ordered the B turret to open the sea valve and at the same time injected water into the ship’s stern capsule to level it. At this time, the seawater in the Royal Princess hull was approaching 1,000 tons, and the speed dropped by 15 knots.
Smoke, the Royal Princess, lingered for observation and counterattacked into a luxury. Even the big men in the commander tower had to wear gas masks and continue to hold their posts because the ventilator in the commander tower could no longer bring fresh air, and there was choking smoke.
In less than two minutes, the Royal Princess was hit twice in a row. The No.1 chimney was on the right side, the engine room and coal bunker were completely destroyed, and the Parsons steam turbine water pipe leaked white water mist. The captain did not inject water into the left cabin to maintain balance, because the water intake of the Royal Princess hull was as high as 23 tons.
At 1: 23, the captain ordered the Royal Princess to abandon the ship and hit all the sea valves. At 1: 27, the first sunken capital ship of the Royal Princess was overturned and finally sank into the muddy ocean floor of the cold North Sea.
The second gun Chapter 15 Jutland Jutland (6)
[Calvin’s writing in this chapter is too tangled, so it’s watered again]
The fierce battle of the Luzov Lion was in full swing, from the distance of 19 yards to 156: 15. The main mast lookout of the Luzov Lion accidentally discovered that there was an unclear ghost fire in the long battle line of Britain.
Although the quality of Zeiss telescope is excellent, the sea fog and night can gradually disturb the sailors. It is too late to confirm that the lion has another round of shelling as promised, and the lookout can turn his head and focus on the impact point of those 343 mm armor-piercing projectiles. Hold the watchtower with armored protective guardrail and report the damage of the warship to the fire control tower of the command tower.
Although there is a main gun on the patrol of Cedritz, the caliber of the main gun is 12 inches and 16 yards, which is enough to greatly reduce the penetration of armor-piercing projectiles. Moreover, the design of the oblique main turret makes Cedritz have a small angle to exert its side fire. A metal storm of bullets and rain formed near the patrol of Royal Princess Tiger Cedritz, and the water column stirred up the poor Cedritz. At 1: 14, the Royal Princess even made a cross shot, although it didn’t hit Cedritz. The ship’s stern plunged into the sea for 343 mm, and the loss caused by the cap armor-piercing projectile should not be underestimated. A 152 mm sub-gun was damaged and exploded, and the attack force was offset by the 3 mm waterline belt and the 2 mm side armor belt. However, the ship’s hull was still violently displaced and vibrated, and many fine cracks appeared in the sealed cabin of water pipes and valves.
Cedritz is teetering, but the emperor’s love is sudden-the main gun of the Royal Princess seems to have died out, and the pressure on Cedritz is suddenly relieved from Moritz von Ogotti’s log, yelling, "Thank you, the Royal Princess finally found out that they should beat their opponents hard and turn their guns to the Devingel!"
Cedritz obviously underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Devlinger patrol, but this mistake was very important because even the Devlinger itself failed to find out that the Royal Princess had been hit hard. On the edge of the collapse, the range finder of the Devlinger-class patrol observation tower was enough to enlarge the distant things by 23 times, but this kind of killer gradually became foggy and dark, and the detection ability was greatly reduced. At 1: 15, the observation tower reported to the commander tower that "the target ship was shot on the bow deck with unknown results", so Devlinger continued. Indifferent shelling and twice hit the Royal Princess. At 1: 23, the Royal Princess disappeared from the observation mirror. At this time, the night, sea fog and sea have become unreasonable. The Devlinger can report to the flagship that it has lost its target ship.
It’s not just the Devlinger Lion that lost its target. The Luzov lost its target at about 1: 23. The Cedritz lost its eyepiece at about 1: 21, and the Mao Qi lost its target ship at about 1: 15 because of its backward rangefinder and distance of more than 17 yards.
Although the German patrol came last, it was finally out of the battle. At 1: 13, the bridge at the back of the bow of the German ship was cut off, and the horizontal armor was chiseled through the armor-piercing boiler room, which exploded and caused a fire.
Germany’s stern fire became indomitable, and the patrol was a little old and backward. The rangefinder had better indicate the sign indomitable. A 12-inch armor-piercing projectile poured several tons of explosives near the patrol, and Germany fought back at 1: 24 because the rangefinder was disturbed by the smoke from the stern fire. Although the fire in the stern of Germany has not been extinguished, the battle is still over in vain, because the usual fog in the North Sea is close to forming, and the indomitable has lost its target of hiding in the sea fog and shelling.
Wang Haidi’s first reconnaissance fleet, David Betty’s fast fleet, fought for more than half an hour, and Germany and Britain were still wanting more than 16 yards away. The sea fog made both sides lose their shelling targets and had to stop fighting for a while and lick their wounds.
In this turmoil, the Royal Princess sank quietly. It was not accompanied by the royal navy style, desolate and tragic, and the Scottish bagpipes were not in the same mood. At 1: 24 on March 3, 1915, the northern edge of Helgolan Bay in the North Sea was about 1 nautical mile from Jutland coastline. White sea fog accumulated here, and it was bright and thin, and the night was thick and quiet here.
The sea-opening valve hole made the seawater swallow more and more fiercely. The huge hull of battle cruiser built by British pound eventually capsized and creaked because of too much water on one side of the hull. After that, the heavy three-legged main mast slammed hard and stopped the noise. The ocean was deafening, and the main mast broke after the seawater splashed.
Rust has crept all over the bottom of the ship, and there are boring explosions in the depths of the ship from time to time, each of which constantly stimulates the sailors near the Royal Princess to spread. Another sealed cabin can’t bear the weight of seawater and burst into the water. The sailors who fell into the water can’t help but speed up their paddling and try to escape from the vortex that is about to form. Less than a minute later, the Royal Princess sank in the ocean and formed a huge vortex to devour the nearby bodies, clothing and debris.
The ocean is floating with the bodies of heroically killed sailors. Sweet photos of lovers leaked oil and broken wood. Fortunately, sailors put on wet clothes and endured the temperature of 35 degrees at night in the early spring of the North Sea, driving lifeboats and trying to find survivors to salvage the bodies of their companions. Fortunately, those who are lucky still stand on the cone, let alone collect the bodies in luxury.
Combined with the ranging report of the lookouts of Luzov, Devlinger and Cedritz, the sergeant Wang Haidi believes that the Royal Princess has only suffered heavy losses, while Betty is busy repairing the antenna of the Lion newspaper room to restore communication between the ships of the fast fleet. The tragedy of the Royal Princess has not yet been fed back to him.
"The commander’s antenna is set up!"
"Order the First World War Patrol Fleet to sail at a speed of 4 degrees to the north-east, with a speed of 1 knot." David Bettison clenched his fist and took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands at will. "All the ships of the First World War Patrol Fleet finished analyzing and summarizing the results as soon as possible, evaluated their own losses and reported to the flagship that the ninth destroyer fleet was on alert before the first and second destroyers searched for the fighting waters to rescue and collect the wounded. In addition, it sent a telegram to the second world war patrol fleet Elizabeth, the big fleet Iron Duke, asking for their position!"
The commander’s tower is full of dull and tangled smell. A fierce sea battle is fought against each other. The battle result reported by the capital ship usually takes care of the ship’s life and death. It is an exciting but puzzling thing!
The results of the patrol of the unyielding ship took the lead in counting the 12-inch main gun of the unyielding ship. A total of 12 main shells were fired at the unsinkable ship Mao Qi. Mao Qi was shot once and judged to be slightly injured. The unyielding ship was shot once and nearly lost five rounds. A 47-inch auxiliary gun was destroyed and killed. Twelve people were killed and one person was missing.
The captain of "Perfect Cat" read out the statistical report in the later period. For nearly half an hour, the Battle Lion fired a 21-inch shell at the Luzov. The Luzov was shot five times, and it was judged that there were minor injuries. Compared with the Luzov, the Lion was slightly injured. First, half of the signal cable of the wire antenna was destroyed, which led to the disconnection of the flagship Lion, and then the turret of the stern was hit and more than 70 sailors were killed.