Just two people had a chat. At a distance, an American destroyer was turning its bow to the direction of the German Hercules transport ship. The 127 mm cannon at the bow looked majestic and sharp. The cold water at the bow of the ship turned up beautiful white waves.
American destroyer bridge The captain of the American destroyer was very satisfied with the prey he found. He was ordered to maintain order in the nearby marginal waters, and he understood this as robbing some heavily armed German transport ships on the way-the ship could almost extort 100,000 by threatening thousands of German nationals. This kind of job will definitely make the colleagues envious.
So the German captain watched the American destroyer getting closer and closer to the German Hercules transport route, and the distance between the two ships had been shortened to several kilometers. Several turrets of the American destroyer had turned to the dark cannon, which frightened the German civilians.
"Listen to the boat ahead! We are American Navy destroyers! Please stop the ship at once and accept our inspection! " The American destroyer broadcast on the public channel of the bridge line communication channel is playing over and over again. Although it is in English, the ship is obviously, but everyone knows that after stopping the ship, everyone has to pay some more or less.
"There is no requirement for stopping inspection in the agreement between the two parties! Ignore each other and keep heading and speed! Keep going! " The captain ignored him and looked at himself nervously. Kohler said to the first mate who came to ask for countermeasures, "German ships are not used to being ordered by outsiders."
"Boom!" A few minutes later, the American destroyer seemed to see that the German transport ship didn’t mean to stop, so it finally endured the fire. A shell passed over the bow of the German transport ship about 100 meters and exploded to set off a high water column. Because of the other fire, the speed of the German transport ship was forced to slow down.
Kohler felt that his personal safety was not guaranteed when he saw the destroyer of the other side swaggering. He really wanted to go back to the cargo hold to see the gold bars and dollars smuggled out, and he really wanted to stay with his family because maybe this would be his last day.
"A bunch of miserable bones!" The American captain proudly put the telescope in his hand and said with a smile, "I don’t think we really gave them a face!" Although the German navy is powerful, can a broken transport ship still defeat our destroyer? Let the sailors take their guns and get ready to board the ship. Gentlemen, we will be rich! "
Chapter 694 There is also a kind of artillery.
"distress signal?" A German naval line cabin officer frowned at the paper in his hand, then looked puzzled. The crew who had just received the paper finally folded it and turned and walked to the end of the corridor.
On the contrary, they are very close to each other, and the German radar operator in another cabin has seen the strange driving tracks of two ships not far away from the screen, and also wrote what he observed as a note and communicated with the control tower.
Since Germany’s new cruiser (actually speaking, it is just a large-tonnage destroyer) has been in large-scale service, some temporary ships in the hands of the German navy have become somewhat dispensable, especially the Luzov, which was forcibly pulled to the aircraft carrier formation to defend the armored ship, has been attacked by ocean-going independent ships because of its real wave performance.
In the original three, there are only two armored ships left, and the ability to cover the sea and night is filled by the new battleship Admiral of the fleet of Lei Deer. So this time, the armored ship Luzov, which was evacuated from overseas Chinese, was naturally sent out to act as a temporary escort and a fast support ship to make it.
After more than two months of overhaul and modification, this pocket battleship or armored ship has undergone great changes. First of all, the first naval gun school radar has been installed, which can make the visibility very bad. In weather conditions, it depends on the radar to adjust the gun firing to hit the distant target.
Not only is the aiming radar installed at the top of the mast, but also the search radar and anti-aircraft gun guidance radar are installed. It can be said that this warship can go out to fight alone. The German navy has made an epoch-making super modification. Although the firepower and maneuverability have not improved, the equipment improvement can be reversed.
This warship was built with rare features. This warship with German naval characteristics is equipped with two triple 2 mm caliber main guns. Although the number is small, the caliber is better than most light cruisers, and the speed of this warship is as high as 29 knots. Thanks to the steady development of engine technology of German naval vessels, the speed of this warship exceeds that of a cruiser.
At that time, the design idea of this warship was very accurate. It sank all warships and merchant ships that were inferior to itself, and then the powerful opponents, heavy cruisers, battle cruiser and battleships, immediately turned around and fled at high speed. The typical sea-breaking fighting thinking created this nondescript cross-border warship.
This kind of design sounds good. What can Germans play with? The truth is also very simple. His country’s navy can’t see this strange warship’s armor level is average and its tonnage is limited. Although its firepower is strong, its density is very low. Its protection is almost the same as that of a light cruiser. It is not the opponent of the other main warship-this ship really seems to be unable to do anything except sneak attack.
A middle-aged German officer in the command tower of warship bridge carried his hand behind his back. On one side, he was a helmsman, a navigation officer, and on the other side, he was carrying some artillery colleagues. He received the distress report from the newspaper reporter and studied it carefully.
After reading it, he glanced at the first mate next to him and reached the battle order. "Adjust the course to the left, and we will go to the accident site to rescue our ship, prepare weapons, sound the battle alarm ship, enter the battle state and raise the battle flag of the Third Reich Navy. The public channel sent a message saying that the German navy was escorting this sea area!"
"yes! Mr. School! " The first mate immediately reached a battle command alarm, which was quickly sounded. The 15-mm auxiliary guns with low elevation on both sides of the ship’s side pointed bit by bit at the distant sea, and more 15-mm anti-aircraft guns and mm anti-aircraft guns also entered the combat state. The warship Luzov suddenly became like a hedgehog.
"What a great ship is it in the United States? It’s a destroyer for a long time … it’s really …" The officer in charge of artillery control glanced at the article and then scoffed at this battle. After all, it’s hard to fight because the opponents are not at the same level.
The American destroyer is a small destroyer with a displacement of more than 2 tons, while Germany is a standard cruiser with a full displacement of 16 tons, and its tonnage is very close to that of a heavy cruiser. In terms of firepower, the two sides are obviously different.
When the armored ship Luzov sped up and rushed to the scene of the incident, the process of the US Navy destroyer approaching the German transport ship was not as smooth as they thought, because the response speed of the Imperial aircraft carrier was faster than that of the slightly bulky armored ship Luzov, which received a distress signal one kilometer away.
Two routine patrol FW-19 fighters immediately rushed to the accident area after receiving the order. Kohler, a German businessman, was at a loss and felt that it was time to die. Two German fighters appeared in the day, and things became complicated and variable. These two planes did not have an effective weapon against destroyers. They could lower the altitude line to shout to the Americans.
The same public channel also sounded a mechanical German, but these sounds haven’t come yet. The most wonderful music in Kohler’s ear is also different. "This is the German naval air patrol fighter. We are responsible for taking over the national ship and asking him to leave the sea immediately! I repeat! Please ask him to leave this sea area immediately! "
This is definitely not very good news for the US Navy, because after all, once there is a German naval air force plane, if the two sides conflict, it means that dozens of German planes will arrive here in ten minutes, and maybe there are torpedoes and aerial bombs. An aircraft carrier fleet is obviously not a destroyer, which can provoke this matter. If it is not stupid, it will be clear at once.
"I am a US Navy destroyer! Now that you have taken over this transport, our horses will leave! Our horse will leave! " In the end, the captain of the American destroyer chose soft. After all, the situation is strong, and the German aircraft carrier fleet in the North Atlantic is still the boss, and no one can afford to provoke it.
"Two planes scared the Americans away?" Kohler felt very incredible. He watched the two German fighter planes hovering far behind the American destroyer. For the first time, they had such a slight affection for their motherland. After all, there are not many countries that can make Americans reason. These countries are not world-class and powerful countries.
"Our navy has not lost in the Atlantic!" The captain of the transport ship obviously breathed a sigh of relief because of the appearance of the plane. He went to the railing and explained to Kohler, "The Fuehrer led us to be invincible, and our navy is the real overlord of the whole North Atlantic!" When he said it, his face was full of pride, with an Aryan pride.
Not far from the sea, they turned around and fled despondently. Many German-born personnel on the German transport ship of the American ship cheered. After all, they have been bullied to death by Americans these days and lost expensive property. Now it is really a great pleasure to see their motherland drive away the American destroyer.
At this time, it was found that a huge warship appeared at sea level in the other direction. From this distance, it was known that the warship that appeared later was bigger than the American destroyer. In people’s frightened eyes, more than 10,000 tons of armored ships entered the escort route of the transport ship, and the mast was hung with the German navy flag fluttering in the wind and shaking.
"This is the German Third Reich battleship Luzov. Welcome to the waters controlled by the Third Reich!" On the line, the German Navy special channel came to the captain Luzov, which was even more powerful than the American destroyer just now. The German-born personnel of the transport ship were shocked and speechless by the momentum alone.
"Thank you for coming to help. Just now, those Americans tried to board the ship to check and return the guns, threatening us to slow down." The captain grabbed the intercom and spoke to the German navy ship.
Then there was a silence hissing in the line, and then there came the captain’s voice of the Luzov. "Did they return the gun?"
"It’s a cannon!" The captain of the transport ship held the intercom as if to say a normal thing.
"Da ordered the warship to prepare for the fire!" Captain Luzov said with a frown on the bridge
"But captain, the other side is out of the range of our auxiliary artillery. Do you want to speed up the chase?" Chief officer one leng and then asked
"We don’t need another kind of artillery with enough range!" The captain coldly interrupted the first mate’s words and then said
Followed by everyone watching the German-German personnel, accompanied by mechanical roar and metal friction, the two huge 2 mm main gun turrets of the armored ship Riluzov turned bigger and more frightening, and the holes pointed to the distant sea.
Chapter 695 695 Roar
How far can the armored ship Luzov’s 2 mm gun go? German excellent steel-making technology and gun casting technology enable this kind of cannon to push its own shells 3 kilometers away. Although this range is not the first in the world, it is definitely a bully to deal with an American destroyer equipped with a 127 mm caliber gun.
"Boom!" Almost at the same time, all six 2 mm main guns of German warships spewed dazzling flames. Even during the daytime, the huge flames and smoke were still clearly visible. Even when the huge propellant in the rough North Sea erupted, air billow blew away the haze in people’s hearts like a gangfeng.
And hundreds of meters away, watching six 2 mm caliber cannons volley attack every few seconds may be a spectacular sight for civilians. When the Luzov volley, Kohler and some deck civilians were scared and sat down. In their eyes, this may be the most powerful warship in the world.
Don’t laugh at these people’s ideas. Even if the British battleship is powerful, not many civilians can see with their own eyes that the ten guns of the King George V battleship are on fire at the same time. So these Germans think that the battleship in front of them is the world’s number one battleship, which is definitely not a compliment but a heartfelt sigh.
What’s more, the British navy battleship is better, but it’s someone else’s stuff, and it won’t go far overseas. The Germans roared themselves. Although it’s not as good as the British stuff, it actually sailed, and it was humiliated and fired angry shells!
Angry! When have Germans been so angry since 1919? When did the Germans have such a hard wind in the Atlantic since the high seas fleet sank a rainbow into the British seabed? For American warship guns? And just a group of critical German civilians vented their anger and fired directly? Kohler sat on the deck and looked at the distant naval gun. For the first time, he felt that he was a German, which was not a disadvantage.
Close to 2 kilometers away, the first mate and captain of the American destroyer regretted not being able to grab an objective sum of money themselves, but soon they suffered a thrilling round of "catastrophe from heaven". With the huge roar, the Germans fired shells 2 kilometers away and accurately flew around the destroyer, which set off a huge water column for the destroyer.
"The German fire? What the hell is going on? Didn’t we let the other ship go? " The captain of the American destroyer looked at the huge water column rising in the distance and was surprised for a long time before he spit out such a sentence. I don’t know who to ask. I just intercepted a transport ship, and the gun threatened a criminal not to attack directly with the main gun, right?
And I’m a small destroyer. Is it a bit overqualified to attack with the main gun of a 2 mm heavy cruiser? Do you want to play so hard? Who’s on that transport? It’s not the lover of the German Chancellor who happened to be there, is it? Why are you so unlucky?
After a series of question marks in Captain America’s mind, he finally remembered that he was in a very critical situation, so he quickly came to his senses and said, "Hurry! Speed up, change course, full rudder! Avoid our front route! Come on! Quick! "
The destroyer has a small tonnage and a faster sailing speed, which is a typical ship. It took less than ten seconds for the destroyer to turn around. With the roar of the engine, it deviated from the original route and turned its bow to the south.
At the same moment, the weapon officer behind the middle-aged captain of the German navy Luzov armored ship was reporting the attack results. "The first volley didn’t hit the target, and the impact point was far from the target. Do you want to shoot the second round?"
"Continue the fire!" The range and power of 2 mm caliber artillery are really amazing, but it is obviously a bit inappropriate to deal with destroyers of this size. At this time, the embarrassing situation that the Luzov has six main guns is somewhat prominent, and the firepower density is small, which makes the Luzov unable to continue to attack or the firepower density.
The factual solution is not without its drawbacks, that is, each time the front and rear main guns have a big cannon, then they are loaded and fired in turn to form a cycle. However, although the attack interval is compensated, the fire density is even more sparse-this kind of small boat with a small number of cannons is not without its shortcomings, and it cannot be a particularly successful cross-border warship design.
Of course, in terms of power, a cruiser whose design fails again is better than a destroyer. It is a bullying thing for many armored ships to attack destroyers.
The so-called laymen watch the excitement and watch the doorway. Although the design of armored ships puts too much emphasis on cross-border firepower, it has caused some problems, but the eyes of a group of German civilians on Hercules transport ship can’t see so many professional things. They are still immersed in the shock brought by the second volley, and they are deeply proud of the powerful German war machine.
Some people are proud, of course, some people have to be tired of dealing with the dangerous situation of wanting to scold women. Although the accuracy of the German artillery school radar is far from advanced to the point where to hit, after all, the sea in the North Atlantic is not just an aircraft carrier, but a battleship cannon will take off from time to time because of the wave problem. Whether it can hit the target or not is just a kind of lottery ticket with a relatively high chance of winning.
However, German artillery has always been famous for its accuracy, and since the German navy’s gun-handling technology can make the British feel threatened, it proves their strength. The artillery school radar guided the German navy not only to adjust the shooting parameters just now, but also to correct some shooting elements after the enemy’s course was changed.
The second round of volley shells almost formed a cross around the US Navy destroyer. One of the shells closest to the US destroyer almost hit the highest mast of the destroyer. The long-distance shelling was so accurate that the American sailors were in a cold sweat. If they were hit by a 2 mm caliber shell, they would swim back to the east coast of the United States in white and cold Atlantic waters.