The Rise of the Empire

Otherwise, how can we say that the Royal Navy is NB in ​​this era? Apart from anything else, at least his sense of responsibility and courage are still beyond compare with those of the younger generation after the end of the Cold War. Seeing their transport ships being killed one by one, the Sydney and Melbourne finally couldn't bear it anymore and they were going to launch a counterattack!

The Sydney first emerged from the smoke screen, preparing to get close to launch torpedoes, and then the 150MM shells came like raindrops. Although the Sydney had a 4-inch armor belt, the height and length were relatively tight, even at 150MM. The secondary battery shells can also drive these light cruisers back.

After a 6-inch gun emplacement was knocked out, the Sydney hid in the smoke. The Melbourne was even more unlucky. After breaking out of the smoke at a distance of 8 kilometers, the Sydney was just hit by the Gneisenau. The main gun of the Gneisenau was targeted. Although there was no calibration fire, the rear main gun group of the Gneisenau still left a deep scar on the Melbourne body even though it was firing almost flatly!

A 350MM high-explosive shell penetrated directly through the upper edge of the Melbourne's armor. After smashing the bulkhead, it exploded in the engine room on one side of the Melbourne. The meteorite-like shell collided with the roaring steam turbine. After a loud noise, the poor battleship lay spread out on the sea like a hyena with its spine broken. It could only use the remaining power of the other half to evade backwards!

"Destroyers! Destroyers come up quickly! We don't have much time!" The captain of the Sydney looked at the sea behind him anxiously. Should those destroyers come up too?

At this time, what answered him was a blast of cannons that sounded like exploding beans! When the destroyer that the British had high hopes for passed by the four merchant ships in front, the 150MM and 75MM artillery suddenly protruding from the side of the latter caught the British by surprise again! And these four auxiliary cruisers were the four ships that stood between the British fleet and the German fleet! That is, Su Xiong's four attack ships named after sea fish! They have endured until now and finally extinguished the last hope of the British!

"How could it be possible that if it weren't for our ship, it could be so well placed between the British and our warships, creating a perfect opportunity for us to engage with the enemy?" Afterwards, Redl boasted about his arrangement in public more than once! That's right, the initial mission of these four auxiliary cruisers is to provide cover for the two super-dreadnoughts. Then when the two ships are fighting together, the four auxiliary cruisers choose the opportunity to clear out the destroyers, and then attack the transport ships that have no defense at all. !

At this moment, "Little Brother" Redel's plan has been fully revealed to the world. The mission of the Nautilus attack ship that entered the strait first is to block the exit of the strait with mines. 500 mines are arranged in an area with a width of no more than 10 kilometers, which can Where the traffic lanes are narrower, the density is already quite high. According to Caron, if there is no Bretu, from a probability point of view, the British transport ship will always encounter a mine. And what if you pass? An unarmed transport ship facing an auxiliary cruiser that can compete with a light cruiser? Are you overthinking it? By the way, as for the other destroyer, the Fruit Fly? This annoying fly didn't even hit the Nautilus, but was taken care of by the mines laid by the latter!

The other four "fish" are opening the way in front of the battleship, playing the role of innocent people along the way. As long as they don't fire first, how can the British take care of them once they fight with the two super-dauntless ships? So they can avoid the Defense, which is absolutely invincible, and the two light cruisers of more than 5,000 tons, which are almost invincible, and then look for destroyers to attack. After cleaning up, they can deal with those transport ships that are crowded together! Why isn't Redl in a hurry? It's because his auxiliary cruiser has penetrated into the enemy!

The British chose to force their way through the strait;

Who is waiting for them is the Thunder Array and the Nautilus. If they choose to disperse, then naturally there will be 4 fish and 2 ships to deal with the super fearless processing of the British fleet. This is not in the ocean. Once the formation breaks up, you can't catch everyone running away. The area of ​​the Gulf of Aden is not that big, and the sea area is even smaller at the entrance of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Where are you going to run? Didn’t you see, are there any seaplanes staring at you in the sky? Even if you can run, how many can you run?

As a result, the battleship, auxiliary cruiser, and mines cooperated with a careful plan in a suitable sea area, which eventually led to a classic maritime ambush battle. Of course, it can also be called a massacre at sea! This is like a group of wolves finding their prey on a cliff, and then letting the prey jump off on its own... And precisely because Redel formulated this plan, he obtained the title of Wolf King of the Indian Ocean from the British!

It's not that the British didn't receive the news, but if they did, it was of no use, because at this time the British Mediterranean Fleet was blocking the Austrian-Turkish Fleet in the Mediterranean with the French. This inaccurate news was not likely to make the British Mediterranean Fleet Entering the Red Sea, and the perpetrators were two warships that had been "sold" to Argentina, so the British would never have imagined this situation even if they broke their heads! In other words, even if I think about it, there is no way to solve it.

Auxiliary cruisers may be useless against light cruisers, but destroyers with only a few small guns, no defense, and almost zero armor can be easily captured. Just like the Musketeer, the British were all stunned when the dense shells came from thousands of meters away! Following several violent explosions, except for one destroyer that luckily escaped dragging its disabled hull, the remaining three destroyers were all shattered into pieces in the exchange of fire with the auxiliary cruisers. At this point, the destruction of the British fleet was only a matter of time.

The Melbourne, which had been damaged, immediately hit GG. After its own smoke canister was used up, the Gneisenau gave its opponent a happy ending. All eight artillery pieces fired in one salvo, and four shells were directly hit! The tsunami-like flames and shrapnel directly smashed the Melbourne's side hull to pieces, and one of the shells successfully penetrated the ammunition magazine located at the waterline.

"The Melbourne seemed to have been pushed out of the sea by a big hand. The entire battleship was broken into two parts under its own gravity, and then fell into the sea again. The second half sank soon after being opened, and the front half was still struggling on the water. High The raised bow was full of reluctance. The huge whirlpool generated when the battleship sank pulled a large number of people who fell into the water into the seabed. So among the three British cruisers in this naval battle, this battleship had the least number of survivors." A A captured British officer described the situation when the Melbourne sank.

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