Two Hundred and Sixty Eight Assassinations
Without thinking too much, Prien aimed at the parked warship that was far away from him, and fired a torpedo in one breath.
It is obviously not worthwhile to waste an attack opportunity in order to save torpedoes. After all, this is the anchorage of the British Royal Navy. Once there is an unsinkable damage, the British can quickly repair the injured warship.
So Prien decided to ensure that the sinking was the premise, and fired a torpedo at his main target in one go. As for why he fired at the distant target first, Prien also had his own considerations, so that he could buy enough time for him to reload the torpedo.
As the first torpedo left the submarine, it swam to its target. The torpedo technicians inside the submarine quickly began to drain the torpedo tubes on the bow, unscrewed the loading hatch, and pushed in the torpedo bombs that had been prepared long ago.
"One or two! Push!" The torpedo technician below pushed the most convenient torpedo into the launch tube, and then skillfully closed the hatch of the torpedo launch tube for the only one, shouting loudly: "The loading of the No. 3 launch tube is complete! "
And almost at the same time as him, another group of soldiers also shouted loudly: "The No. 4 launch tube is loaded!"
The officer in charge grabbed the communicator and reported loudly: "Report to the command cabin! The bow torpedo tubes 2, 3, and 4 are ready! They can be launched!"
"Has the steering been completed?" Prien anxiously asked the first officer beside him, but the first officer did not answer. At this moment, he was too nervous to watch with a pocket watch, imagining the precise calculation of the time when the torpedo hit the target.
"Helmsman! Has the steering been completed?" Prien had no choice but to ask another insider.
"Report to the captain! The steering will be completed soon! I am operating the steering wheel." The helmsman replied loudly.
Prien put his face on the sight again, and began to observe his target carefully. At the beginning, there was nothing in his sight except the sea surface, so he had to wait patiently. Sure enough, only a few tens of seconds passed. A huge stern came into his view.
He hurriedly continued to confirm: "Aim at the target!"
"Confirm that the torpedo is ready!" The torpedo operator glanced at the dashboard and replied loudly.
"Bow torpedo tubes No. 2, 3, and 4, get ready!" Prien confirmed again.
"Torpedoes No. 2, 3, and 4!" the torpedo operator replied again.
"Launch!" Prien loudly issued his second attack order.
"Launch!" The torpedo operator skillfully pressed the button to launch the torpedo.
"Boom!" Everyone in the boat once again felt the muffled sound of the torpedo leaving the submarine, as well as the slight shaking caused by the recoil.
The torpedoes prepared this time were over-adjusted. The first batch of torpedoes fired had an initial speed of 30 knots, and the torpedoes fired this time were all set to a super fast speed of 44 knots. Doing so will shorten the attack distance of the torpedo, but obviously this defect is not important in this state.
"Don't stop turning! Keep loading ammunition!" Prien ordered his submarine to slowly approach the first target, while carefully observing the reaction of the British Navy with a periscope that could look around the surrounding sea.
At this time, his first torpedoes finally hit their target-the British Royal Navy battleship Barham. The officers and soldiers on the battleship were still asleep at this moment, but they were stunned by the sudden vibration and explosion.
At the beginning, the soldiers thought it was a drill, so they just put on their clothes as if they were on an errand, but when they found that the battleship began to tilt and the sea water began to pour into the floor, they finally realized the seriousness of the problem .
Soon the battleship lost its rescue value, because the torpedoes attacked different parts, but they all destroyed part of the main isolation structure of the battleship, so that the water ingress of the entire battleship could not be controlled at all, and at this time Baba The oil tank of the Barham also began to leak, and with the explosion of the ammunition depot of the small-caliber secondary gun, the entire sea around the Barham was ablaze.
"What's the matter?" The British sailors in the chaos still couldn't figure out what happened. Most people still think it was an accidental explosion. The first reaction of many people is not to fight back, but to rescue the accident.
"I don't know! There was an explosion on our sideboard! Many brothers were trapped below! We are trying to save them!" A damage control officer replied loudly while wearing a life jacket. There was chaos on the deck, and the damage control officer grabbed one of his subordinates and said: "Look at the situation, this warship has already rolled at least 25 degrees, and it will sink soon. I want you to find the captain ! Tell him to evacuate the sailors immediately."
However, when they were beating drums and gongs to rescue their own battleship, huge flames rose from the side of the aircraft carrier Bravery on the other side. Only a second later, a huge explosion sounded again, and everyone on the deck The soldiers were all dumbfounded, and a bad feeling came to their hearts.
"It's impossible for two warships to have explosion accidents at the same time, right?" A soldier with a bare head and messy sleeping hair muttered in a low voice.
"Of course not!" George, the damage control officer on the Malaya, was rescued and returned home with the only destroyer that escaped, and learned that the remaining destroyers were all dumped by the German Navy. He was assigned to continue his service on the cutting-edge aircraft carrier Ark Royal, which had just entered service, when he just opened the hatch and walked onto the deck.
He saw the huge explosion, the rising flames, and the black smoke columns that could be easily distinguished even under the night, and shouted loudly: "Quick! Sound the battle siren! This is not an accident! It is the enemy's attack!" Attack!"
"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..." As soon as he finished speaking, the battle alarm sounded on the aircraft carrier Bravery that was hit. The whole scene became even more chaotic. On the surrounding shore, the anti-aircraft guns began to fire blindly, and many shells flew into the sky dragging their rays of light.
George staggered when he was hit by someone passing by. He struggled not to fall, and then hurried to the bridge. As soon as he ran there, he found that the captain of the Ark Royal was already standing in the combat position.
"Anchor! The power system of the battleship starts immediately! Call the power room! Tell them to start the battleship as quickly as possible! Quick!" The captain glanced at George, nodded, and then looked at his adjutant : "Let all artillerymen go to their positions! Searchlights are looking for suspicious targets on the surface! I suspect that enemy submarines or divers are sabotaging in Scapa Flow."
"Captain! I think it might be an air strike..." The first officer asked, "Do you want the gunners in the air defense position to interfere with the air-to-air shooting?"
"No need! That will only make the scene even more chaotic! The anti-aircraft artillery on the port is already doing the air-to-air shooting, so we can't just add to the snake!" The captain waved his hand and denied: "Prepare all the cannons! Find the target Then fire immediately."
Then he looked at George: "George, you lead people to prepare for emergency repairs! I can't confirm whether our battleship will be targeted."
"Understood! Captain!" George nodded, and went down to find his damage control team. When he passed the flight deck, he glanced at the busy ground crew. They were giving the only aircraft on the deck. I remove the canvas for protection.
But apparently the disaster was not over yet. Before George stepped off the flight deck, the battleship Monarch not far from them exploded. The creaking sound could be heard clearly on the deck of the Ark Royal.
George, who has already experienced a disaster, can tell from the sound that the Sovereign is also finished. This battleship can be said to be worse than the Barham, which was hit and exploded first, because it seems that the Sovereign has detonated its ammunition depot, so The explosion was even more violent.
The Royal Navy officers and soldiers who had just realized that they had been attacked completely collapsed. In a panic, the two destroyers collided, and the sharp bow of one destroyer cut off the bow of the destroyer next door. On the other side, several gunboats and warships that were already on patrol were rescuing British soldiers who fell into the water.
Soon there was another huge explosion, and the ammunition depot of the Sovereign exploded. The powerful explosion force even caused parts on the Sovereign to fly to the deck of the Ark Royal aircraft carrier. The whole of Scapa Flow was in chaos. Under the gaze of countless searchlights, the second aircraft carrier Bravery that exploded capsized, and a plane on it that was too late to take off finally slid to the sea and crashed into the icy water.
"This is the Royal Ark aircraft carrier! All activated destroyers block the sea immediately! Go to all the outlets as fast as possible! Blockade the entire Scapa Flow! Please answer if you hear it, please answer if you hear it." The ship of the Royal Ark The chief stood next to the radio, holding the walkie-talkie and reluctantly issuing his orders.
He saw the burning and sinking battleship Sovereign through the window, and suddenly felt that something was pressing on his chest, which made him very uncomfortable. I came here with a fleet of destroyers, is it just to witness the end of the Royal Navy? He asked himself sadly in his heart.
On the other side, the people on the German submarine u-211 are also in a state of desperation. They shot down 12 torpedoes in one go, and now it's time to escape. In order to get out of Scapa Flow more easily, Prien had already chosen the direction of departure, and now he was turning in the water, and then headed towards the pre-prepared escape line at full speed.
But no one has a bottom line in their hearts. Is it really smooth sailing this time?
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