Chapter 759： Caught off guard (1/2)
”Let the light cruiser Sydney cover the transport fleet, and the Melbourne and the Defense will stand by outside the entrance.” After thinking about it, he decided to be more cautious. ”By the way, send a signal to those ships, ask them if they have found other large warships, and ask them to wait aside.”
Soon, the radio wave sent in clear code was sent out, and the other party seemed to be very interesting. Slowed down, turned around, and sent a call back. While expressing his obedience, he said that no other large ships were found.
”Maybe it was a false alarm.” Colonel Harris wiped a cold sweat, then picked up a cup of coffee. He hasn't rested since last night and is in high tension. Now he needs to refresh himself.
However, I just took a sip of coffee and picked up the beef burger at hand before I had time to take a bite, when a clever figure passed by the window. He quickly threw away the bread in his hand and ran to the observation window of the control tower. It was a seaplane, no, two! And definitely not a Royal Navy model!
”We may be in big trouble!” An ominous premonition haunts Harris, but he doesn't know where the danger comes from!
As if responding to Harris' premonition, a transport ship behind the fleet was suddenly shrouded in water columns of up to tens of meters! The sound of shells entering the water and the violent explosions plunged the entire fleet into chaos. All the transport ships had Royal Navy personnel, and these personnel naturally knew that this was an attack by a large-caliber naval gun!
The opponent's first round of shooting was very accurate, and it directly caught the target! But to Harris' surprise, the target was not found in the Defense's rangefinder!
”Let the Sydney and the destroyer come here, we are in big trouble!” Harris immediately ordered, and the huge defense began to turn, and with him was the light cruiser Melbourne.
The second round of volleys arrived as scheduled in just 20 seconds! This time, the opponent directly hit the poor transport ship, like an egg smashed by a heavy hammer, the superstructure of the transport ship with a displacement of 5000 tons was directly blown to pieces! Like a behemoth headed by a owl.
The transport ship that was hit was dragging thick black smoke and flames to try to avoid death’s deadly sickle, but only 10 seconds later, another round of shells fell. This time, Harris could observe two hits, once. At the stern, Harris could clearly see that half of the stern was cut off. The transport ship quickly slipped. But before the opponent was struggling, a cannonball fell straight on the already messy deck like the sword of Damocles. This cannonball penetrated at least three decks and exploded at the bottom of the cabin. There are also large amounts of ammunition carried by transport ships.
Boom! Accompanied by a loud noise, the entire transport ship was torn into pieces by a violent explosion. A huge fireball rose up from the sea. Then a huge mushroom cloud pushed the broken hull parts into the air, after gradually cooling down. , Forming a plume of smoke up to more than 150 meters. The re-falling pieces were scattered in the fleet, almost everyone was stunned!
”Damn, we can't see the attacker!” The gun commander of the armored cruiser Defense roared angrily. Judging from the opponent's shelling frequency, this is definitely not something that a warship can fire. The next two rounds of shells can't be separated. For 10 seconds, even a half salvo cannot be achieved, because the swing cycle of the battleship must be considered when the artillery fires. Without that battleship, the swing cycle would be only 10 seconds!