Chapter 404： Not enough power to make up

The power is not enough, so come together!

The four torpedoes in the second wave swim out of the launch tube, accelerate to a speed of 30 knots, and head towards the Royal Oak on the opposite side!

At this time, hundreds of sailors were in the cabin of the Royal Oak anxiously carrying out damage management.

Withdraw the sea water and close the watertight door. The damage to the warship is not very serious, and it can be rescued!

However, the next explosion completely broke their dream!

"Boom!" The second wave of torpedoes struck again. This time, it happened to be at the location of the last explosion.

With the explosion, the watertight compartment on the side was blown open by a big opening. Inside, the sailor who had just closed the watertight door was surprised to see the sea water coming in.

Damn it!

Before they even had time to climb up, they were submerged by the turbulent sea.

After struggling for a few times in the sea, they have no strength to bounce.

Not all sailors can swim, and not all can hold their breath for a few minutes in a confined space.

"Boom!" The second torpedo followed. This explosion completely exploded the lower fuel tank.

In this era, warships are beginning to burn heavy oil. After all, heavy oil is the cheapest and easier to load than coal. At the same time, the fuel tanks for heavy oil are generally arranged at the bottom of warships.

This makes it easier to balance the weight of the ship, and at the same time, in the process of burning heavy oil, the vacant place can be supplemented with sea water. Don't worry about the mixing of sea water and heavy oil, the density of the two is different.

For ordinary warships, no matter whether it is sailing or not, the fuel tank cannot be completely empty. The Royal Oak still stores half of the heavy fuel oil, more than 1,000 tons.

Under normal circumstances, heavy oil cannot be ignited, and it is harder to ignite than diesel. When a warship ignites, it ignites diesel first, and then uses diesel to ignite the heavy oil.

But now, it's different.

The explosion of the torpedo instantly brought a lot of heat, which is enough to ignite the heavy oil!

At the same time, air flowed in from the blasted holes, and in this way, the fuel of the Royal Oak was ignited.

The raging fire spread rapidly. In the fire, as the temperature increased, the structural strength of the entire warship became lower and lower.

"Boom!" Another torpedo followed. When this torpedo exploded, the Royal Oak, as if exhausted all its energy, could no longer support its body.

The ship's hull was flooded with water and continued to sink. Heavy oil was floating everywhere on the sea, spreading and burning.

"Two cars, back three." Prien shouted loudly, he was very satisfied with the sight.

I put nine torpedoes and hit the other six. These six torpedoes finally sent the Royal Ark to the bottom of the sea!

Good job!

Prien didn't even have time to let his submarine go forward and retreated directly out of the battlefield. He needed to patrol one more time to shoot out all the torpedoes he was carrying, and then, look for a chance to drive away!

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Mainland Island, also known as "Pomona Island". The largest island in the Orkney Islands is Scarpa Bay to the south, and the headquarters of the British naval fleet is on this island.

In the east of the island, Kirkwall is the largest city here and the capital of the Orkney Islands.

To the east of Kirkwall is Kirkwall Airport, which is located almost in the southeast of the island and is a flat place.

This is a mixed-use airport. In addition to civil aviation aircraft, navy carrier aircraft are also stationed in this airport.

At this time, there was a panic everywhere in the airport, with countless smoke pillars rising, and on the side of the airport, on the tarmac, those navy carrier aircraft were burning.

This was the target visited by the first batch of Junkers-88 bombers, and the bombs dropped by several Junkers-88s turned it into a sea of ​​flames.

After that, there is no value here.

Originally they were all backward carrier-based aircraft. Except for a swordfish taking off, the rest were destroyed on the ground. Compared to those warships on the sea, there is really not much value here.

As the dropped bombs were densely packed, even the runway was bumpy.

In the thick smoke, a jeep came to the base. From the car, a man in a pilot's costume shouted loudly: "Get me a plane. Be fast!"

"Captain, we don't have planes anymore." A dark-faced ground crew shouted to him. The planes are all in the fire!

The ground crew knew him. This was the captain pilot of the 803rd Squadron of the "Jaeger" carrier on the Royal Ark carrier, Charlie Evans.

The Jaeger carrier aircraft was developed almost at the same time as the sword torpedo aircraft. However, this aircraft is relatively advanced. For example, it is equipped with retractable landing gear and a fully enclosed cockpit, and uses a single-wing structure.

However, the Jaeger’s engine has insufficient horsepower, only 840 horsepower, resulting in its relatively low speed.

This aircraft has only been equipped for a few months.

Now Charlie is urgent.

When the explosion started, he was at the Fleet Headquarters. He accepted the commander's order and must notify the homeland!

The radio has been interrupted. In this case, he can only take off himself!

In the sky, there are German planes everywhere. Taking off in this situation is simply death, but he must take risks.

Tell the local people what happened here, he is going to fly to Scotland and land at Mey Air Force Base 200 kilometers away, and ask for their support!

What happened here is incredible. In the past, Scarpa Bay was considered the safest naval base, and it was also easy to control German exports in the North Sea, but now it seems that this is definitely Wrong.

Because the German long-range bombers can already fly here!

So, fighter jets should be deployed here! Pure air dominance fighters, if one deploys Hurricane fighters here, they will definitely be able to intercept German bombers!

Now, it is not too late, as long as he sends out the intelligence about the bombing here, he can attract the Scottish air force to support here!

Charlie needs a plane.

However, the ground handling shattered his dream, no, the plane has been blown up!

"Where's the hangar? Is there in the hangar?" Charlie asked.

"The hangar was also bombed." The ground crew said to Charlie, and then pointed his finger at the hangar in the distance, still burning.

"Yes, there must be!" Charlie yelled and ran towards the hangar. Finally, in a hangar that was about to collapse, he found a sword torpedo machine, half of the torpedo machine. The wing has been broken.

"Just this one, push it out immediately." Charlie shouted.

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