Chapter 1691： Closing one

Chapter 1691: Ending (1)

"They used us as experimental objects to test the effectiveness of the aircraft's attack." Looking at the fast battleship Gneisenau, who was keeping a distance from him, a sense of shame surged into Hyakutake Saburo's heart. Without putting him in the eyes, the entire Japanese fleet is like an experimental mouse. This is the most difficult point for this Japanese major general.

"Nan Yun Tadaichi, no matter what, you must live, escape the German encirclement and suppression, and then bring the news of this naval battle to the joint fleet. The Germans have used a brand new method of combat, which may change the entire world! "Saburo Hyakubu said.

Now, the Japanese navy commander is already arranging the "future." Your own fleet will inevitably end today. Even if the second wave of bombers cannot destroy Katori, the Gneisenau in the distance will come up to make up for it. Instead of this, it is better to arrange some people to flee the warship before the other party attacks. I hope they will have better luck and can avoid the German encirclement and suppression, and bring important information about this naval battle to the joint fleet!

Therefore, before the arrival of the second wave of carrier-based aircraft of the German fleet, a group of people headed by Nan Yun Chuichi had already boarded the small boat and prepared to evacuate. In Hyakutake Saburo’s view, as long as luck is not particularly bad, someone will The news went back. In fact, he did not expect it. Maybe Nan Yun Zhongyi and others should not be killed right now. They did use the night to escape the encirclement and suppression, and did return to Japan after several setbacks.

However, there was a problem with the information sent back. In the end, several surviving Japanese officers did not make it clear how the planes appeared at sea, and it was unclear whether the planes were launched by seaplane carriers or aircraft carriers. They can only say that single-engine aircraft can carry bombs and torpedoes very well. Let the Japanese navy officials guess for themselves... And in the end, when the Japanese Navy finally made a correct judgment on the battlefield situation, it was already February 1914, and two months later, the Great North Sea battle that shocked the world broke out. The Japanese judgement on the British situation No improvement! Of course, this is for the time being.

Let’s not mention the Japanese. After an hour of preparation, the second wave of German naval aviation was finally launched. After this actual combat test, the German naval aviation has a deeper understanding of the entire combat process of aircraft carriers, and now It is necessary to test the lethality of single-engine bombs and torpedoes on capital ships in actual combat!

In order to obtain better intelligence, when the second wave of attack aircraft was flying in the air, the Gneisenau also narrowed the distance, hoping to observe the situation of Katori from a close range. And when the head was covered with German aircraft, Katori naturally had no time to deal with the German fast battleship in the distance!

As an old ship that has been in service for 15 years, the maneuverability of Katori is naturally not good. In addition, the anti-aircraft weapons on the ship are better than nothing, which makes the German bombers very comfortable to launch the attack. The first entry is a dozen bombers of various kinds. The dense bombs fall like raindrops. This time, not only 300KG bombs were thrown. There are also 500KG bombs and various small bombs carried by JU5 bombers. So in the next ten minutes, the poor battleship went through a round of bomb baptism.

First of all, a few small bombs of 50KG and 100KG fell on the Katori, causing little damage. The 50KG bombs exploded directly on the ship and did not damage the hull, but for deck guns and scattered ones. The machine gun has a good suppression effect, and the flying shrapnel suppresses the anti-aircraft firepower much stronger than a simple machine gun. The 100KG bomb performed better, but the damage it caused was only to cause some damage to the middle deck, destroying some pipes and lines, and maybe the effect would be better if it could hit the flue and the like.

What really surprised the Luftwaffe was the lethality of the 500KG semi-armor-piercing projectile. A JU5 bomber flew over at an altitude of 250 meters, and then successfully threw a 500KG bomb to the stern of the Katori. This bomb had huge kinetic energy. Under the action, it easily penetrated two decks! Although it did not directly destroy the last armor of the stern, the huge explosive force blasted through this armor.

Hundreds of kilograms of shrapnel and shattered hull caused a devastating blow to the drive shaft under the dome and the steering engine compartment behind! A drive shaft was directly broken, and the drive shaft that lost power smashed several cabins next to it under the action of huge torque, and the entire steering gear cabin was also destroyed by the shock wave generated by the bomb. From the appearance, The stern of this battleship was also very bad. The small half of the stern was almost completely destroyed by the huge explosive force of the bomb. The entire area of ​​the bomb was turned into rubble, and the three decks were all in a big collapse. After being hit by this heavy blow, Katori started to spin around the sea as if he had a hemiplegia.

The killing effect of another 500KG bomb was also very good. This bomb hit the rear of the main gun on the bow of the Katori. It also exploded after passing through two decks. The energy generated by the explosion directly destroyed the click directly below the shot. The cabin directly abolished about half of Katori’s electricity, and the flames from the explosion began to spread along the tunnel, even threatening the ammunition depot of the front main gun, so that the Japanese had to fill the ammunition depot with water. Soon after the second 500KG bomb hit, before the torpedo attack, the Katori battleship showed a certain degree of first tilt, which can also be proved After experimenting with various bombs currently available to the Air Force Looking at the battleship Katori, which was already like a volcano in the distance, the four torpedo planes of the German naval aviation decided to send each other another way. This time, instead of using formation lightning strikes, they went up alone and used them. Torpedoes attack different parts of the battleship to see the effect.

The first torpedo hit the deepest place of underwater defense in the middle of the hull. Perhaps the coal bunker here has not been used up. Although the torpedo destroyed several cabins, because it was full of coal, there was not much water ingress. With the protection of coal and empty warehouses, the 150KG torpedo warhead did not seem to penetrate the last next door of the power cabin.

The other two torpedoes hit the bow and the lower part of the main turret behind the stern. The former naturally caused a lot of water flooding on the Katori, while the German pilots judged that the latter should have penetrated the next door of the ammunition depot, because it was about 2 times after the mine was hit. Minutes later, another violent explosion broke out under the main turret after Katori. This time it was so powerful that the entire hull was directly blown into two sections from the main turret at the rear!

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