"If we can send these guys to the bottom of the sea, then in the future, we will have no problem fighting the fearless people of the large fleet!" Major Norman said. To be honest, these armored cruisers that have been disbanded in the formation are actually more difficult to deal with than the battleships in the formation. Therefore, the most intense battle between cats and mice in the entire battle has already begun!&1t;/p>

Unlike the former fearless battleships that had been escorting in the Dover Strait after the war, these cruisers fought wits and courage with German submarines at the exit of the North Sea, and helped German auxiliary cruisers catch cats and mice in the ocean, and survived under the bombs of the Bavarian Air Force in the Aegean Sea. The combat experience between the commander and the crew was quite rich!&1t;/p>

"Damn, those semi-enclosed turrets are really disgusting!" When another wave of strafing ended, watching the bullets hit the steel baffle on the anti-aircraft gun position being bounced off, the German pilots on the K4 interceptor looked at the gun positions surrounded by steel plates on the deck with resentment. It has to be said that after being bombed too much, they learned how to deal with it. The officers and soldiers on the Drake armored cruiser added defense to their additional firepower points against the air and replaced them with new gun mounts. Faced with machine guns and shells falling from the sky, the 25mm steel plate can almost guarantee safety. The new foot-powered gun mount makes the artillery's rotation and pitch angle better.&1t;/p>

What is most worth mentioning is that the air defense firepower on these cruisers operates under unified command. Through the rangefinder and simple fire control on the ship, the gunners adjust the artillery based on unified information and then fire again. Although it is very primitive and it is still difficult to shoot the plane, watching the dense flames keep flying past the plane, it is enough for the German torpedo bomber to give up the attack when necessary.&1t;/p>

However, sea-to-air is still very passive. Just a few minutes later, Major Norman, who is also experienced, responded. The bomber carrying the bomb first took a low-altitude horizontal bombing, and then the torpedo machine was on. Those steel plates could block the shells, but they could not block the 25okg bomb, right?&1t;/p>

The subsequent facts proved that the semi-armour-piercing bomb was indeed good for cruiser-level warships. Even though it was not fatal torpedo, bombs dropped from a height of 30 meters at a large angle still had a good effect on hysteresis and suppressing enemy ships.&1t;/p>

After all, the anti-aircraft gun has not evolved to the level of World War II. One of the very direct manifestations is that the elevation angle of the artillery seems to be insufficient... The maximum elevation angle of 55 degrees is too threatening to the bomber entering from above his head. The machine gun has no such limitation, but it is difficult to use a 7.7mm machine gun to shoot the twin bomber. Because the big guy flying in the air is also a thorny one!&1t;/p>

The plane quickly compressed the air when it dived, and a harsh sound spread around through the friction between the fuselage and the air. The roar of the motive was like a roar of death. The first bomber would throw two 25kg bombs at the Drake in sequence. The armored cruiser, which was more than 100 meters long, was agile like a sea snake. After adjusting the course twice, it avoided the falling bomb. The huge hull drew a snake-shaped trajectory on the sea surface, but it constantly changed direction and overdrawd the high-temperature and high-pressure steam stored by the cruiser. When luckily avoided the third bomb, the fourth bomb successfully landed less than 10 meters from the side string of the warship!&1t;/p>

Boom! A huge water column warship rushes high up next to it, and the falling sea water even wets a large deck. On the surface, it looks like a failed hit. But in fact, although it is covered with the name of a half-armor-piercing bomb, there are also up to 90 kilograms of charge in the 25okg bomb! Although it cannot directly tear the warship to pieces like a torpedo that hits directly, the shrapnel generated after the bomb body rupture still makes the armored cruiser pay a heavy price under the energy generated by the explosion.&1t;/p>

The hull plate of more than ten millimeters thick was made into a sieve, and a large amount of sea water entered the hull through the gap. With the high maneuver of the warship, the hull plate was already close to the limit. After the last large scale [31 Novel Network       Update Fast], it finally broke down the entire under the impact and collision of seawater. Hundreds of tons of seawater poured into it and destroyed the internal structure of the warship. The transmission shaft of the propeller on the left side produced a burst of tooth-inspiring metal breaking and twisting sounds during the vibration and collision. The uneasiness brought by the vibration and fragmentation forced the British to temporarily turn off the connected power system. This made this armored cruiser, which was originally like an agile cheetah, instantly turned into a lame hyena!&1t;/p>

Then, destruction followed one after another! The third bomber that attacked bravely dived down, and threw 225okg of semi-armor-piercing bombs from a low altitude of 150 meters in a row at a distance of 150 meters!&1t;/p>

"I could clearly feel the arrival of the god of death. A big guy with a wing spread of more than 20 meters fell almost vertically from the air. (The line of sight is not actually a big dive angle.) I watched with my own eyes two black bombs fall from the air. From the position of the command tower in the front, these bombs were only the size of rice grains. The two bombs flashed and disappeared. One of them fell between the chimneys No. 3 and No. 4, while the other seemed to fall at the stern!" Captain Drake recalled the scene at that time.&1t;/p>

The first bomb successfully landed between two chimneys thick in the hull, and sadly, this formerly fearless armored cruiser obviously did not have a porous defense structure called flue armor! So, when the bomb easily smashed through the upper deck, it was a devastating blow to the flue below!&1t;/p>

A huge ball of flame rose from the middle and rear of the hull with the sound of explosion. Countless debris and thick smoke surged out. Nearly 100 kilograms of explosives easily destroyed all the flue under the two chimneys. The exhaust gas and flame spread to other places along the broken flue, and the exhaust gas poured into the boiler bin even extinguished several boilers. Although the casualties caused were not large, the entire warship lost half of the boiler in a very short time!&1t;/p>

Another bomb hit the stern rudder cabin near the stern rudder cabin. The violent explosion directly destroyed the rudder cabin at the rear, which had almost no defense. At the same time, the violent vibration also caused the stern rudder to fall off directly. Just two bombs caused the Drake, who had just run away, to a half-stagnant state. Before the British could react, two bombs fell down roaring, one of which almost fell into the water on the ship, and the explosion destroyed several compartments of the ship, while the other bomb fell on the left deck!&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!