Chapter 1374 Sneak attack on Kuwait Port (Third update, please subscribe)
Author: Xiaoyu’s Destiny
Chapter 1374 Sneak attack on Kuwait Port (Third update, please subscribe)
"He, how dare they..."
As the commander of the fleet, Makarov faced the gunfire rising in the distance and had only one thought in his mind - the British were crazy!
The next moment, another trace of joy flashed in his heart.
"we won!"
"What?"
"We won the war!"
In Makarov's view, with the British firing, the Ming Empire will definitely be involved. The Ming Empire will never tolerate the British shelling their ports. This is a humiliation to the Ming Empire!
"Although we will die,... Russia will win!"
Makarov stood up straight and said loudly.
"Gentlemen, go all out. Before we die, teach the British a lesson and let them know that we... the Russians are also brave men on this sea!"
"Ula!"
Amidst the sound of the radio and the rumbling of the cannons, the Russian sailors gave out shouts one after another. They cheered and rushed to the gun emplacement. While the gunners were loading ammunition, the boiler soldiers lit the boilers to pressurize the boilers...
This was such a surprise attack that the Russians didn't even light all the boilers! Faced with the British surprise attack, they could only be beaten passively.
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The sea surface was suddenly enveloped by dozens of huge flames that rose up one after another, and six Royal Navy battleships, led by the battleship "Reputation", opened fire.
For a moment, the sea was filled with the roar of cannons over twelve inches tall.
Following a burst of salvo, the bridge gunnery officer lowered his hands covering his ears. Captain Brenda looked in awe at the flames that burst out from the Russian ship's twin fourteen-inch guns during the salvo. The muzzle
The shock wave created a large ripple on the sea surface.
However, Captain Brenda's focus was on the cannonballs. At the moment when the cannonballs were fired, he pressed the stopwatch and started counting. Beside him, the observer observed the enemy ship through the scope.
Ten seconds later, the silent harbor suddenly boiled!
The sound of cannons rumbled, bullets rained, and countless tall water jets splashed around the warships parked in the bay.
"Near miss, left..."
Captain Brenda quickly reported data one by one while observing the Russian warship with a telescope, while the communicator on the side quickly passed the parameters on the phone.
The gunners in the turret immediately adjusted the firing parameters, and then launched artillery fire on the Russians again.
A series of bright white huge water columns with orange light at the bottom rose into the sky from the sea, and then there was a faint thunderous roar.
Suddenly, in the white water column, the battleship "Sevastopol" rose up and released a large ball of fiery red flames.
In just the second salvo, one shell accurately hit the "Sevastopol".
This fully demonstrated the excellent gunnery skills of the British Royal Navy.
However, that is to say, the gunnery is excellent. At this time, the highly sensitive picric acid explosive continues to exert its detonation effect in violent explosions. Even if it explodes on the water next to the hull, the shock wave generated by the explosion will still collide with the hull.
Destroys the hull armor.
Shrouded in artillery fire and flames, the "Sevastopol" and "Petopavlovsk" could only keep swaying in the waves formed by the dense rain of bullets. However, the Russian sailors on the ship did not suffer from this.
Fearful, they immediately launched a counterattack as soon as they were attacked. Although their warships were continuously hit, they still continued to load shells for the naval guns. When the main guns adjusted their firing range, the broadsides continued to fire.
It sprayed cannonballs, gunfire, and smoke when the cannonballs hit the battleships at the British fleet at the maximum rate of fire, turning the entire bay black.
Thick black smoke rose in the bay.
Although the British capped armor-piercing projectiles were of average quality, the high-explosive projectiles still fully demonstrated their power. The high temperature generated when the high-explosive projectiles exploded even ignited the oak deck. The wooden deck was ignited after being continuously hit by the shells.
, and for a time, flames were everywhere on the warship, and some flames even burned into the cabin.
In the bay, the slowly moving warship was completely shrouded in flames. In the blood and fire, the sailors fought tenaciously there. Although the Russian army was at an absolute disadvantage, they still fought tenaciously and headed towards
Sailing out of the harbor.
This is not to protect friendly cities, but because... unless they want to be beaten passively, they should stay in the harbor. They can only endure the baptism of artillery fire and rush out of the harbor in order to swim on the wide sea.
They used maneuvers to avoid artillery fire, but now, they could only passively take the beating.
Even like a target.
But even if it was a target, they still wanted to struggle. The leading battleship "Sevastopol" struggled little by little toward the outside of the harbor. As it sailed, Fisher also directed the fleet to approach it.
As the distance shortened, the hit rate of the artillery shells became higher. In almost every salvo fired, several artillery shells accurately hit the Russian ship.
When the distance was reduced to 8 kilometers, the British sailors could already see the black smoke clouds blooming from the bow and amidships of the Russian battleship. They even felt that they could see the flying wreckage of the battleship, the deck and the
The British sailors on the bridge couldn't help cheering and cheered loudly for the gunner.
"Use armor-piercing rounds!"
Now we have finally reached the distance where the armor-piercing power can be fully utilized.
When Fisher ordered the replacement of ammunition, the distance between the "Reputation" and the "Sevastopol" was less than 6,500 meters, and the four twin-mounted 14-inch main guns were pointed flatly at the "Sevastopol"
The ruined fleet of the Vastopol.
Suddenly, in the next moment, the eight huge guns of the battleship "Reputation" fired a salvo at the "Sevastopol". Eight heavy armor-piercing bombs weighing 1,590 pounds hit the "Sevastopol" at an almost vertical angle.
On the hull of the "Sevastopol", although the technology of the capped armor-piercing projectiles copied by the British from the Ming Dynasty was average, they discovered the idea of "heavy bombs". The same 356 mm naval gun shells weighed 1590 pounds, compared with the Imperial Navy's 356 mm
The naval gun shell weighs 700 kilograms and theoretically has stronger armor-piercing ability.
At a distance of less than seven thousand meters, its power was fully demonstrated. The whizzing shells only hit the target within a few seconds. Although two shells missed, there were still as many as six shells directly hitting the target.
It hit the battleship "Sevastopol" and directly penetrated the main armor of the battleship.
Two shells directly hit the rear part of the ship. One of them penetrated the boiler room diagonally. The armor-piercing shell directly penetrated the boiler. Then there was an explosion in the boiler room. The violent explosion directly destroyed the two shells.
A boiler, at the moment of explosion, high-temperature steam roared and the shock wave of the explosion swept through the entire boiler cabin. The high-temperature steam immediately created a death storm. The steam pipe exploded instantly, and scalding boiling water and high-temperature steam filled the entire cabin.
The people in the cabin didn't even have time to react, and they were all steamed on the spot.
At this moment, the steam emitted through the ventilation pipe even had a strong smell of meat, but at this time, no one would drool because of it.
The real deadliest blow was when a shell hit the ammunition depot behind No. 3 turret. The moment the shell exploded, it directly detonated hundreds of 14-inch shells in the ammunition depot...
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