"first    b1ood!" The shell drilled directly into the fuselage of the o-4oo bomber, and then blew the miracle of the wooden structure into pieces! The power of the 88mm high-explosion bomb is absolutely terrifying. After the entire body was blown up, it formed a dangerous area with a diameter of dozens of meters. Any flying objects entering the area will be severely damaged. The other plane was also sadly hit by the wreckage of friendly forces in the body. The violent shaking forced the plane to give up the attack, and threw the torpedo down in a hurry and climbed to escape.&1t;/p>

As time goes by, more and more anti-aircraft firepower is activated. Not only the British who came to attack the attack were shocked, but even the Turks did not expect that there was such a powerful firepower in their port! Around the unmovable battleship of the St. Istervan, the three-digit anti-aircraft machine guns, machine guns and large-caliber anti-aircraft artillery were tilting the bullets around crazily. Looking from the air, a funnel-shaped barrage even formed! Continuously extending to the surroundings.&1t;/p>

"Damn!" Lieutenant Colonel Sols was a little confused. The whole plan was proved for a month, and Lieutenant General Trenchard did not expect that in Constantinople, this forgotten corner would encounter such dense air defense firepower! Of course, you can also say that the British underestimated the enemy. No matter what, this is also the capital of the Turkish Empire, the largest military port of Turkey, and the home port of the second largest fleet of the Allies... and the British Air Force is more about bombing the front-line targets, and the air defense firepower on the front is naturally not comparable to a fortress.&1t;/p>

The British had never considered how to suppress it. When the second bomber dragged flames and smoke into a warehouse next to the port, Lieutenant Colonel Sols finally couldn't help it. "Order the bombers of the Fourth and Sixth Teams to kill me the anti-aircraft gun positions next to me! All the bombers that had completed the attack were suppressed with machine guns!" and the lieutenant colonel who had red eyes shouted loudly!&1t;/p>

Unfortunately, the bomb chosen by the British this time is very unsuitable for this task. Although the 5ookg-level high-explosive bomb is extremely powerful, it is obviously overpowering when facing the anti-aircraft gun positions. At this time, what you need is a large number of small-equivalent bombs, which require coverage area, surface killing, rather than strong point killing! The machine guns equipped on British bombers are just the opposite. The 7.7mm machine gun is too powerful and can be blocked by any steel plate, so the air defense suppression effect this time is really not very good.&1t;/p>

This time the British encountered more than that. When the third team of torpedoes successfully threw the three torpedoes, the British watched helplessly as a torpedo sank, and the white track composed of exhaust gas came to an abrupt end. Then, with a loud bang, a water column flew into the air 70 meters away from the St. Isterwan.&1t;/p>

"Ma Dan, the Germans not only set up lightning protection nets, but also fishing nets!" A shrewd British pilot instantly found the problem.... Facing the lightning protection nets, it can be solved by adding a cutter in the front of the torpedo, but facing the fishing nets, this kind of thing is absolutely not strong, but can be soft and hard, and it is cheap to deploy several layers of things at once, which is troublesome. After all, in the first battle, even the propellers of submarines were entangled by the fishing nets and caused them to lose power. Submarines are like this, let alone a torpedo! This flexible thing cannot be solved simply by a cutter. And because of this, it indicates that all attempts to use torpedo to attack St. Isterwan are almost no longer effective!&1t;/p>

However, this time it was a fixed target. Although the Turks tried their best to shoot tons of shells into the sky, the hit rate was still quite touching without the help of radar and more advanced fire control systems. After the British used two precious 1ooo pound bombs to knock two high-explosion positions into deep pits, the subsequent bomber troops finally rushed in from the dense fire net gap!&1t;/p>

At 8:50, it was the most tragic moment of the battleship of the St. Istvan. Two 1ooo-pound bombs fell from the sky. A bomb fell into the middle of the hull. The huge bomb just hit the side of the ship! At the moment of the explosion, a huge orange-red fireball spewed out, and the shock wave generated by the explosion of hundreds of kilograms of explosives instantly swept half of the deck. The outer superstructure was swept away by a quarter, and the partitions and scaffolding were shattered by the bombs. The fire spread rapidly under the blowing of the sea breeze. A few minutes later, the battleship was trapped in a sea of ​​fire and thick smoke.&1t;/p>

However, the damage caused by the third bombshell is greater than that of the first two combined! The bomb entered water about 15 meters from the tail of the hull, and the sensitive fuse collided with the water surface and exploded violently! Hundreds of kilograms of explosives were detonated 5 meters underwater! At such a distance, the damage caused by nearly 3 ookg of high-explosion explosives was simply comparable to that of two mines hitting the same position! A water column up to hundreds of meters high rose into the air! The energy generated by the explosion was constantly transmitted to the surroundings through the surging waves! Under the impact of high-temperature and high-pressure bubbles and water flow, the armor belt on the side of the hull of San Isterwan was torn and collided by huge force!&1t;/p>

Accompanied by bursts of sour metal twists and breaking sounds, a large hole of more than ten square meters appeared on the side string, the surrounding hull plate wanted to be sunken, and even the entire piece of armor was torn off. In just a few minutes, thousands of tons of sea water poured into the unlucky warship... The entire warship gradually lost its balance, and the hull began to slowly sink with an incline of 10 degrees.&1t;/p>

After all, this is an unrepaired warship, and some of the water gates are not closed. Even if the loopholes and drainage cannot be blocked, the rear half of the hull of the Saint-Estvan finally hits the bottom! (The water depth of the berth is not large) The stern of the small half of the ship was flooded by sea water, and even the ship that began to sink due to water inlet was slightly upturned!&1t;/p>

"We seem to have killed this battleship?" Lieutenant Colonel Sols looked at the battleship St. Istvan, who was trapped in a sea of ​​fire and smoke, almost distrust his eyes. He had a premonition that he would achieve great results, but it was still a bit unbelievable to see a battleship falling in front of him!&1t;/p>

"We have created history, and we almost repeated David's feat of killing Goliath with a catapult!" Lieutenant Colonel Sols said excitedly. However, what he said this time was not completely correct. It is true that if the bottoming of the warships was used as the standard, the British bomber group could barely sink the St. Isterwan, but this time the sinking was relatively heavy because it was not completely destroyed, and the difficulty of repair was not as great as the British imagined!&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!