Chapter 1374: Attack on Kuwait Port (3rd update, please subscribe)
"He, how dare they..."
Makarov, the fleet commander, faced the artillery flames rising in the distance and had only one thought in his mind - the British are crazy!
The next moment, a hint of joy flashed in his heart again.
“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 bombardment of their ports. This is a humiliation to the Ming Empire!
"Even though we will die,... Russia will win!"
Makarov stood up straight and spoke loudly.
"Gentlemen, do your best. Before we die, teach the British a lesson and let them know that we... Russians are also brave warriors on this sea!"
"Ulla!"
Amid the broadcast and the rumble of the cannons, the Russian sailors shouted one after another and rushed to their gun positions with cheers. While the gunners were loading ammunition, the boilermen ignited the boilers to increase the pressure...
This was a surprise attack, so much so that the Russians didn't even light all the boilers! Facing the British surprise attack, they could only passively take the beating.
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The sea surface was suddenly covered by dozens of huge flames that rose one after another, and six Royal Navy battleships, led by the "Reputation" battleship, opened fire.
For a moment, the sea was filled with the roar of huge cannons with a gun diameter of twelve inches or more.
Following a burst of salvos, the gunnery officer on the bridge put down his hands that were covering his ears. Captain Brenda looked in awe at the flames that burst out from the twin fourteen-inch guns pointed at the Russian ship during the salvo. The shock waves from the muzzles drew a large ripple on the sea surface.
However, Captain Brenda's focus was on the shells. At the moment the shells were fired, he pressed the stopwatch and started counting. Beside him, the observer was observing the enemy ship through the sight.
Ten seconds later, the silent harbor suddenly became boiling!
There was a rumble of cannon fire and bursts of bullets, and countless tall columns of water splashed around the warships anchored in the bay.
"Near miss, to the left..."
While Captain Brenda was observing the Russian warships through a telescope, he quickly reported the data, and the communicator next to him quickly passed the parameters over the phone.
The gunners in the turret immediately adjusted the firing parameters and once again launched an artillery attack on the Russians.
A series of huge water columns, bright white in color with an orange glow at the bottom, rose above the sea, followed by a faint rumbling sound like thunder.
Suddenly, in the white water column, a large ball of fiery red flames rose from the battleship "Sevastopol".
In just the second salvo, a shell accurately hit the "Sevastopol".
This fully demonstrated the excellent artillery skills of the British Royal Navy.
However, it was because of the excellent artillery skills. At this time, the highly sensitive picric acid explosives continued to exert their explosive effects in the violent explosion. Even if the shock wave generated by the explosion on the water surface next to the hull would still collide with the hull and destroy the hull's armor.
Surrounded by gunfire and flames, the "Sevastopol" and "Petropavlovsk" could only sway constantly in the waves formed by the dense rain of bullets. However, the Russian sailors on the ships were not afraid of this. They immediately launched a counterattack as soon as they were attacked. Although their warships were constantly hit, they still continued to load shells into the naval guns. While the main guns adjusted their firing range, the broadsides continued to spit shells at the British fleet at the maximum rate of fire. The gunfire and the smoke from the shells hitting the warships turned the entire bay black.
Thick black smoke rose into the bay.
Although the quality of Britain's capped armor-piercing shells was average, the high-explosive shells still fully demonstrated their power. The high temperature generated by the explosion of the high-explosive shells even ignited the oak deck. After the wooden deck was continuously hit and ignited by the shells, flames were everywhere on the warship for a while, and some flames even burned into the cabin.
In the bay, the slowly moving warships were completely engulfed in flames. In the blood and fire, the sailors were fighting tenaciously there. Although the Russian army was at an absolute disadvantage, they still fought tenaciously and headed out of the port.
This was not to protect the friendly cities, but because... unless they wanted to passively take the beating, they would just stay in the harbor. They could only endure the baptism of fire and rush out of the harbor so that they could maneuver on the wide sea to avoid the fire, but now, they could only passively take the beating.
Even like a target.
But even though they were targets, they wanted to struggle. The leading battleship "Sevastopol" struggled little by little to move out of the harbor. While it was moving, Fisher also commanded the fleet to approach it.
As the distance shortened, the hit rate of the shells became higher, and almost every salvo had several shells accurately hitting the Russian ship.
When the distance was shortened to 8 kilometers, the British sailors could already see several clouds of black smoke rising from the bow and amidships of the Russian battleship. They even felt that they could see the wreckage of the explosion. The British sailors on the deck and the bridge could not help cheering and applauding the gunners loudly.
"Use armor-piercing bullets!"
Now we are finally at a distance where we can fully unleash the armor-piercing power.
When Fisher ordered the change 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 straight at the damaged fleet of the "Sevastopol".
Suddenly, the next moment, the eight huge guns of the battleship Renown fired a salvo at the Sevastopol. Eight heavy armor-piercing shells weighing 1,590 pounds penetrated the hull of the Sevastopol at an almost vertical angle. Although the British plagiarized the armor-piercing shell technology from the Ming Dynasty, they found the idea of "heavy shells". The same 356mm naval gun shell weighed 1,590 pounds, compared with the Imperial Navy's 356mm naval gun shell weighing 700 kilograms, theoretically, it has stronger armor-piercing ability.
At a distance of less than seven kilometers, its power was fully demonstrated. The whistling shells hit the target in just a few seconds. Although two shells missed, there were still as many as six shells that directly hit the battleship "Sevastopol" and directly penetrated the main armor of the battleship.
Two shells hit directly into the rear part of the midship, and one of them smashed through the boiler room at an angle. The armor-piercing shell directly penetrated the boiler, and then an explosion occurred in the boiler room. The violent explosion directly destroyed the two boilers. At the moment of the explosion, high-temperature steam roared and swept through the entire boiler room along with the shock wave of the explosion. The high-temperature steam immediately created a death storm, and the steam pipe burst instantly. Boiling water and high-temperature steam filled the entire cabin. The people in the cabin didn't even have time to react before they were all steamed to death on the spot.
At this moment, the steam spewing out from the ventilation pipes even carried a strong aroma of meat, but at this moment, no one would drool over it.
The most fatal blow was a shell that hit the ammunition depot behind the No. 3 turret. The moment the shell exploded, it directly detonated hundreds of 14-inch shells in the ammunition depot...
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(End of this chapter)
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