After some movement, the U32 submarine finally hit the target ship route, and Lieutenant Moore was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief and throw the periscope to his right-hand man.
"The seaman takes over the periscope!" Moore took out a timer from his pocket while walking towards the place where he was talking. "The torpedo cabin is two meters deep in front and two meters in front!"
Mo ‘eryin handed over the torpedo microphone in the bow torpedo cabin through the telephone line and reached a series of short instructions in high spirits.
"Guys, move our big baby out to a depth of one meter!"
When the torpedo cabin moved, the sailors buried their heads to set the timer and automatic depth setting mechanism, and then the mechanical boom sent the last two G7 power torpedoes of U32 weighing 13 tons into the 5 mm torpedo tube.
"Gordon don’t leng the torpedo tube pressure! Harlem, show me the barometer! "
There are usually two kinds of torpedo launching methods: one is wet, that is, water is injected into the launching pipe and the torpedo and seawater are ejected together through the piston; Another is that the submarine injects compressed gas into the launching pipe before the dry torpedo is launched, which can not only eject the torpedo from the launching pipe at high speed, but also help to rush out of the high pressure at high speed to prevent seawater from flooding into the launching pipe and avoid the launching pipe from entering the water.
Gordon’s heavy torpedo tube, manhole cover, tube filling, Harlem came to the barometer and stared at it intently. When the pressure gauge read more than the red line, Harlem made a gesture to the torpedo.
"The boss is done!"
"The torpedo cabin in the command cabin can be sent after the depth of the first two is fixed!" Young people are sharp and J and jīng quasi-torpedoes are full of pride. They pick up the phone and take credit for the command module.
"The torpedo room did a good job!" Lieutenant Moore cocked his head, picked up the microphone and looked down at the timer in his hand. He praised the torpedo room. When the hand of the pocket watch pointed to 16: 14, Lieutenant Moore took over the periscope again.
U32 is nervous. Everyone knows that the ambush is about to play glory or regret the hero or continue to be named for this moment.
"Two rounds in front of the torpedo cabin!"
Torpedo long press the firing button, and two power torpedoes are ejected by the powerful air pressure of the firing tube. The G7 power torpedo drags two white Se wakes at a speed of 37 knots and flies straight at the target ship.
Almost at the same time, submarines U31 and U33 lurked at two other angles, and torpedoed the super-feared ship 100 meters away.
"Power cabin emergency dive!"
After the torpedo was launched, Lieutenant Moore decisively made the U32 emergency dive. The effective attack distance of the torpedo during the whole European War was about one kilometer, while the hunting-class super-fear ship was 177 meters long and densely packed with 16 4-inch /5-times-diameter auxiliary guns, 4 47-mm guns and 6 extremely fast banging guns.
U32 had a thrilling dive, including Lieutenant Moore’s body. The crew listened attentively and cocked their ears to wait for the explosion from the sea surface. After about seven seconds, the sea level faintly exploded.
"The target ship was shot!"
Dubbed the iron coffin, the U-boat instantly became a happy ocean. The crew of U32 couldn’t help but sing the song of submarine soldiers. The submarine soldiers have always been the most unpopular. The navy arms pay attention to manners. The sloppy submarine soldiers are always regarded as heretics, but who is the white submarine soldier? Who knows? !
Lieutenant Moore, the submarine U32 kept in a submerged state and sailed northeast for about fifteen minutes. When it was almost pinched, the submarine recovered the depth of the periscope and could not wait to raise the periscope.
There was a little ripple in the quiet Erlan Sea, and a dark tubular object poked its head out of the sea to search for what it was.
Lieutenant Moore slowly turned the periscope and searched for the target ship from the southwest for several angles. After that, Lieutenant Moore, the submarine king Weddigen, regarded his life idol as a shocking scene.
On the desolate sea, a huge steel ship with a miter flag has a bright setting sun background, just like a trapped animal, spraying small-caliber ammunition on both sides of the hull and dragging the smoke to cover the sky and rushed straight in the direction of U32 submarine.
"dive emergency dive!"
Moore didn’t have time to think about the strange direction and course of the hunting class super-feared ship, so he avoided the boat and destroyed it. The second lieutenant rushed to reset the periscope and never looked back at the seafarer and roared.
Irene, the captain of the ship, repeated monotonously that the captain ordered the submarine to run at a high speed with 1 or 2 horsepower SSW-type motive units to fill the water tank. The submarine was like a heavy iron block plunged deep into the sea. At this time, the propeller came from the top of the submarine and the bubble burst, and the water displacement was only over 100 tons. It seems that the medium-sized submarine was involved in the turbulence and the boat shook violently.
"Captain, what is that?" Sailor Irene pointed to the periscope breath in shock way
"it’s that damn ship!" Lieutenant Moore held the bulkhead to uncover the mystery.
"Heading due east?" Irene can calculate the course of the hunting class battleship without looking at the map. "What do the British want to do just east of the captain is the Isle of Man?"
"The British should be seriously flooded. They are going to run aground on the beach!" Lieutenant Moore couldn’t help but swing his fist at the reset periscope. "It’s a pity that we don’t have torpedoes!" to be continued
The second gun Chapter 10 Brilliant victory (4)
The sunny April day in the English Channel has come to an end.
The red sun sets in the far corner, and the light shines obliquely. The Isle of Wight Mountains off Portsmouth Harbour extend from the west coast to the Culver Cliff on the east coast until the northeast plain, where the common lush pines and cypresses in Europe are sparse.
The returning fishing boat is full of harvest, stepping on the reflection of the setting sun and gradually sinking into the cliff of Culver, and the shadow of Y and N glides sadly to the deep and shallow branch of the northeast corner of the Isle of Wight.
Fishermen’s wives guard the shore early as the most valuable asset of a small fishing village. Wooden fishing boats can be fished offshore. The wives waded through waist-deep seawater to help men tow wooden fishing boats worth 5,000 pounds to the shore.
"The price of bread on the island has gone up a lot!" The men dragged the fishing boat into shallow water and climbed the fishing boat in reverse. They moved baskets of cod to the boat. Mrs. Allen was carrying laundry baskets to the shore and talking to her husband when he came back from the sea. "Turner wrote back. Thankfully, he was not sent to France by the War Department with a black conscience, but was sent to Scotland to take on the coast guard. But I heard that Hampshire sent a letter to inform Newport to ask all the admiralty departments in the Isle of Wight to register and put retired sailors on standby at the local conscription office as soon as possible." "
It seems that the dark face of Allen, France, was flushed when he heard that his eldest son Kent was not sent to danger by the War Department, but the call-up order from the Admiralty slightly shocked many old sailors who had retired.
"Guinevere, what’s wrong with the British Kingdom? It’s so critical that it needs to recruit old sailors like me who have been retired for more than 20 years to enrich the navy?"
Allen once served on the ironclad Beleisel, a 4,000-ton ironclad ship with sail equipment. Turkey originally ordered the ironclad ship from Samda Shipyard. Due to the outbreak of the Russian-Turkish war, Britain unexpectedly declared neutrality and terminated the transaction, and then repurchased the ironclad ship at a very low price.
Allen, an armored coastal defense ship, has been in service for five years and 19 years. The armored old Maybelle Bell was converted into a target ship. Allen did not follow his comrades and moved to another warship, but retired before becoming a naval officer.
More than 20 years of fishing life makes the memory stay in the darkest and most moderns Navy. Allen’s thinking can’t keep up with the changing times. Sergeant Qianhai crouched on the soft beach, took out kraft paper from his pocket, wrapped inferior tobacco leaves, gently twisted a handful and stuffed them into his pipe.
"Who knows?" Mrs. Allen relayed some incredible gossip to Xingang. "I heard that the Germans shelled Greater London. Maybe the Admiralty was disappointed with the young people and wanted to recruit you experienced old sailors to sit in the town …"
Allen’s wife still thinks that the old navy doesn’t try to hold back a smile. One build what did not build, smoking a pipe, chatting and looking at the calm sea.
"Allen, listen, Patel Cook was also a reserve officer. After the war broke out, he was drafted by the Admiralty and finally died. It is said that even the bones could not be found in the Mediterranean. The Germans are very powerful, especially Heidi Selim. It is said that he can’t win Allen. You can go to the Admiralty and can’t listen to the recruitment …"
The wife tried hard to persuade Allen, but the old sailor had no time to pay attention to his nagging. The wife drifted to the sea for half a generation, and the old sailor was once again attracted by the deep sea. Even the pipe that looked like a treasure slipped from his fingers and he didn’t find it.
"What is this exercise? ！”
Allen unconsciously got up, and the blue eye pupil accidentally dyed the sea blood red. Allen’s wife stopped the topic in time and found the root cause of her husband’s gaffe along with her husband’s sight.
The Mizi flag flying high in the east main channel of the Isle of Wight may exceed 20,000 tons, and the huge steel ship will crush the waves and pass beautifully.
It was a scene that made the British people feel proud. But strangely, there were three light warships with small tonnage but extremely fast speed to the south-east of the steel giant ship. Although Allen had not served in the navy for a long time, he could see that the little ones were trying to chase the slightly embarrassed 10,000-ton ship.
"Torpedo attack exercise?"
Allen was at a loss. In Allen’s impression, the fear of the ship was the overlord of the sea, and the theory of the overlord of the sea could not be chased around by three armored ships whose gross tonnage might not exceed that of Allen. The only possibility was torpedo attack and acting.
"Admiralty is really lose your head. How can acting be busy on the main channel? Although both sides make bombs and torpedoes, there is still a great threat to civilian ships and transport ships entering and leaving Hong Kong! Moreover, if this is a torpedo attack, the destroyer formation attack formation is too clumsy! Which destroyer dares to charge without protection and containment, and it is still difficult to calculate the amount of oblique charge before the torpedo sends her. Isn’t this a death wish? ！”
Seeing the poor torpedo warfare skills of three British light warships, even the retired Victorian navy had to shake their heads and swear that the generation was worse than the next.
This farce off the coast of Portsmouth attracted the villagers in the small fishing village. At this time, a third party couldn’t bear loneliness and came out from the direction of Portsmouth Port. An old reconnaissance cruiser and four A-type destroyers cut across the three little guys who followed the ship regardless of the collision danger.
"Is it a torpedo attack and defense exercise?"
The fierce posture of the interception fleet made Allen a little nervous. The old smoker took a cigarette pipe only to find that there was only a little ash left in his pipe reaching into his tobacco pocket. His hand also touched Allen’s rush to look for tobacco leaves and bowed his head. At that moment, the sea exploded.
"This is not a bomb!" Although it was a sunny day in April, the old sailor still felt his spine chill and his blood coagulated. "Little rabbits, that’s not a bomb. You had a drill accident!"
When the old navy was out of breath, it felt sorry for the people on the Isle of Wight beach, but in his eyes, the interception team did not seem to have the slightest regret or stop. Instead, it continued to torpedo the feared ship and attack the small fleet fire.
Take off the gun clothes early. 76 mm guns, 47 mm guns and banging artillery shells of various calibers rained down on the side of the torpedo attack team.
The explosion power of small-caliber artillery shells is not as powerful as that of the armored ship Belleville, but the torpedo attack detachment is also a light ship, which may not be able to resist these small-caliber artillery shells. The sea surface has set off a group of water columns, and the torpedo attack detachment route has created a fire blockade like purgatory.
The torpedo attack unit didn’t mean to fight back. With the speed advantage, three light warships rushed around in the rain and tried to chase the feared ship.
The boom gun shocked less than half of the Isle of Wight, and also frightened Portsmouth Harbour. The fishermen in the fishing village guessed the reason at random, but Allen saw a clue from the three-way game of real knives and guns.
"Damn it, it’s not a drill, it’s a German!"
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Less than 3 kilometers away from the Waterway of Portsmouth Port, the setting sun in the main channel off the sea is leaning against the Culver Cliff on the Isle of Wight, and the pine and cypress will shed the lost temperature. The hull of the collingwood has just escaped from the repair dock of Portsmouth Port, and the battleship Collingwood has been plated with a pale red blood Se.
The engine room of collingwood has done its best to save the boiler room when moving coal and transporting coal. Only in case of emergency can the boiler room be opened, the boiler soldier will wipe his face with his hands covered with coal ash and sweat, and strive to swing a shovel to send Welsh high-quality white coal from the colander-type coal bunker on both sides of the boiler room to the boiler. The chief engineer will stare at the steam pressure gauge and let the hand start the fan.
Forced air injection into the Yarrow-type mixed-combustion water tube boiler with fan increases the atmospheric flow and pressure in the furnace, which makes the combustion reaction of Welsh high-quality white coal more violent than usual, thus obtaining a higher furnace temperature. The high output power and long-term forced ventilation may lead to the ablation loss of boiler parts and materials, and the negative effects such as leakage of steam pipeline seals due to excessive pressure can no longer be taken care of by collingwood people.
Collingwood, dragging choking soot, struggled to Portsmouth port, and the pressure of the first reconnaissance fleet broke through. In 1991, collingwood ran out of 221 knots during the light sea trial off Portsmouth port, and the speed reached 224 knots.
Despite the good sea conditions in the English Channel, the steel hull of the 20,000-ton steel ship is still slightly shaking, and even the command tower with shock absorber can feel the slight shaking.
After sailing, the man of iron in the power cabin collapsed, and the watchtower became the hardest hit area. The watchtower shook and made the lookout almost steady. The strong sea breeze infiltrated along the gap in the collar and blew away the lookout’s warmth. The lookout had to tie himself to the main mast and shrink his head to report to the watchtower.
"Commander Tower I saw Major Brown leading the support fleet. They fired at the Germans. The Germans didn’t fight back. They still chased us about 1,5 yards away! In addition, the first reconnaissance fleet was not found to be repeated. The first reconnaissance fleet was not found! "
"Send a telegram to Major Brown to tell them not to let the Germans fight to cover the collingwood’s retreat into Portsmouth!"
Embarrassed captain Clemente Ley asked the confidential officer to record the report. When the confidential officer handed it over to the captain for signature, Ley seemed to remember something, either for the sake of awakening friendly forces or to cover up his fears, and asked the confidential officer to add a sentence.
"The Mediterranean Aid Fleet has lost its joint command with Heidi Selim, and the first reconnaissance fleet may have gone north!"
The second gun Chapter 10 Brilliant victory (5)
Counting the European Warships, the Germans may be able to make a long list, such as the unsinkable Mao Qi, the dog god of war Devlinger, the Mediterranean lone wolf Ge, the sad Germany, the German mad dog Gnesenau, the water assassin u9, the Earl Seahawk, the Black Swan Emden, the African leopard Koenigsberg, the hungry wolf Graudenz, the once sea overlord across the North Sea, but now it is ruined by Great Britain, but it is shameless to put the No.13 submarine detachment on the table.
In the list of these strange warships, Mao Qi, Devlinger, Deutschland and Ge are the main ships, Gnesenau is a large armored ship with a tonnage of more than 14,000 tons, and Earl Seahawk sails to attack the ship, water assassin u9, British submarine e13, hungry dog Graudenz, black swan Emden and African leopard Koenigsberg, all of which are small and insignificant.
Seahawk is the famous Earl of Lucknow. Finally, the medieval knight Lucknow led this sail attack ship to sail from the North Sea through the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and finally fled to the Indian Ocean to capture thousands of miles, hence the name "Earl".