Chapter 388： The Hood sinks

"Boom!" A one-ton special semi-armor-piercing bomb penetrated the Hood’s turret and exploded.

And this explosion immediately brought disastrous consequences to the Hood.

Below the Hood’s turret is the propellant pack. If you want to shoot out hundreds of kilograms of shells, the energy of the propellant pack is huge. When these propellant packs burn together in a short time, they will be closed. In the space, there is only one ending, which is explosion!

"boom!"

Two explosions, less than 0.5 seconds apart, with this huge explosion, the turret of the Hood No. 2 main gun, the turret of more than 1,000 tons, at this moment, a burst of sound emerged from the seat ring A huge flame.

If you look at it from a distance, you can see the seat of the entire turret, with hot flames emitting outwards, and then the entire thick smoke envelops the turret.

The detonation of a tank is enough to lift the turret, and the detonation of the propellant of this double-mounted 381 mm naval gun is naturally even more amazing.

Even if the entire turret had thousands of tons, at this moment, it was still lifted. It didn't lift much high, it only lifted about half a meter, letting all the high-pressure gas inside be released, and then fell heavily.

"Boom!" The momentum was extremely shocking.

The huge hot gas covered all the surroundings. Jack felt a shock wave rushing towards him on the quadruple anti-aircraft machine gun. Almost in an instant, his body was separated from the machine gun turret.

He had been torn into fragments by the shock wave of the explosion, spilling the entire machine gun position and the surrounding sea water.

Jack, died.

This is just a microcosm. Now, there are explosions everywhere, blood and death everywhere.

For the British fleet, this day is simply their most humiliating moment, even more humiliated than the original Jutland battle.

Colonel Cole’s eyes were full of fear. The big bomb just exploded next to him, and he was shocked. If there was only one bomb, he would be sure to rescue the warship, but now , Watching the turret's destruction, he knew that the Hood had no hope of salvation.

If only the No. 2 turret was hit, it could be rescued. The problem is that the current explosion of the No. 2 turret will have a chain reaction of Britain and France.

Now, it goes without saying that there is a serious shortage of manpower on the warship. Even if all the personnel on the warship are called, there is no time to damage control.

Perhaps the lack of manpower is still advantageous, so that the casualties of naval officers and soldiers can be reduced.

Colonel Cole, guess right.

When the propellant of the second turret was violently smashed, the chain reaction began quickly.

Although the Hood is a twenty-year-old ship, its armor has always been quite thick, even if it is the base of the turret, which is located below the deck, it still has 229 mm thick armor.

Naval artillery is where the force of battleships in the sea and the most insecure element of battleships. It must be thick here, but now, it has become a dead spot.

Even the armor of 229 mm could not stop the explosion of the propellant inside. In the explosion, this layer of armor was torn.

As long as a crack is torn open, there will be catastrophic consequences, because the flames and gases of high temperature and high pressure spread quickly.

As a result, the No. 1 turret in front was also destroyed!

This time the explosion was just one second apart from the last explosion. One second later, the Hood had lost its majestic appearance in the past.

"Boom!" The ammunition of the No. 1 turret exploded, causing drastic changes to the Hood.

The detonation of the No. 2 turret did not deform the hull. However, the high temperature has caused significant changes to the steel of the hull. The steel is softening. Then, the detonation of the No. 1 turret brought earth-shaking changes.

With the explosion, the Hood disconnected from the position of the two main guns in front.

The hull at the back still exists, while in the front, the steel plate is distorted and twisted, and the entire bow is deformed.

A lot of sea water rushed up.

The advantage is that with the influx of seawater, the possibility of subsequent martyrdom is less. The seawater will submerge the ammunition on the remaining gun positions, but the disadvantage is that this warship can no longer be saved.

The front end of the Hood was sinking slowly, and the billowing smoke enveloped the entire warship.

Colonel Cole, standing in his position, smelled the choking smoke in the air, and watched the sinking of his battleship. At this moment, his brain was completely blank.

In the sky, there are dive bombers, and the warships in the entire port are suffering an extinction blow from the dive bombers. Although there is the sound of anti-aircraft artillery all around, they cannot change the outcome of the battle.

Germans, it's horrible.

The Hood was sinking slowly, and Colonel Cole, following his battleship, slowly immersed in the cold water. As a captain, a firm belief is to coexist and die with his warship!

"London, London, this is Scarpa Bay Naval Base, this is Scarpa Bay Naval Base, we are being bombed by Germany, please take off immediately to intercept, please take off immediately to intercept."

On the port, there is the headquarters of the base. At this time, in a room on the top floor of the headquarters , there are a row of radio telegraph machines, and a famous radio soldier is shouting slogans vigorously.

However, there is no echo at all. In the earphones, there is a special prickling sound.

what happened? Is your radio broken?

Lieutenant General Holland stood anxiously outside the telegraph room, pacing, listening to the calls inside, he was distraught.

There are no overseas bases in Germany. They flew from the German mainland, and the route is on their own eastern sea.

And now, as long as fighters take off from other British air bases, they can intercept German bombers along the way!

These German bombers are not escorted by fighter jets. As long as one's fighter jets can fly past, they can intercept these bombers and let out a sigh of malice.

But now, the radio is not working!

As for the wired telephone, as early as when the air raid alarm sounded, the telephone was cut off, and it must have been cut by the agent.

The wired connection is unavailable, and the radio is unavailable, which is really strange!

Lieutenant General Holland didn’t know. Just overhead, after the first batch of JU-290 bombers completed the bombing, most of them flew away, leaving only one, still hovering at an altitude of 10,000 meters. The bomber is a bit different from other bombers.

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