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The Third Empire - Chapter 1245

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:33:36 AM


Chapter 1245: 1245

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Admiral Graf spee, the gun in the middle of the No. 1 turret in the bow has been raised with the muzzle facing the distance and ready for launch.

"The target is still accelerating to escape. Please give shell warning immediately." With the sound from the radio, Colonel Langsdorf gave an order: "fire!"

FireStarter! With the order, gunner No. 1 pressed the button and the shell was fired.

"Boom!"

The projectile in front was pushed forward rapidly under the sudden high-temperature and high-pressure air flow behind. In almost one tenth of a second, it went out of the long barrel.

When it came out of the muzzle, a flame behind it flew out with huge smoke. The shell had reached the speed of nearly kilometers per second and flew away.

If it was an ordinary shell, the launching process would have ended, but now it is a rocket assisted extended range bomb. At the moment it flew out of the gun chamber, the rocket engine at the tail also began to ignite.

After the shell flew out of the barrel, the tail was with a hot flame, which reflected in everyone's retina and looked so spectacular.

The shell continues to accelerate forward. Although the rocket engine at the tail has only burned for dozens of seconds, its speed has been increased to nearly 2000 meters per second. Therefore, its trajectory is higher and its range is farther.

Overhead, the reconnaissance plane was still flying nearby, neither came down to shoot, nor issued more warnings. Most of the crew on the cargo ship had relaxed. These Germans would scare people. What about shells? Where did the shell come from?

They can't hear the shells flying at a speed close to Mach 6. If they look up, their retinas can't catch such a high-speed aircraft.

So, almost without anyone's attention, the 283mm rocket extended range bomb flew over.

"The trajectory is a little high. I'm going to miss the target. Prepare to correct the trajectory." Ludwig caught the incoming shell with the help of strict training and instinctive reaction, he said to Lucas in the back seat.

"Yes, the elevation is reduced by five points and the two secret positions are adjusted to the right. The next shot will be more accurate." Lucas has begun to calculate at full speed.

At this time, the shell had fallen, 200 meters from the other side's port. When the shell fell, a violent explosion occurred.

"Boom!" The loud explosion was enough to frighten any eardrum. When the explosion occurred, they had covered their ears and saw the terrible scene on the port side.

The water wave was lifted more than 20 meters high, and the whole water wave spread rapidly around, forming a terrible wave. The power of this shell is amazing!

With the waves, many fragments of shells also flew up. Those fragments expanded to the surrounding 200 meters of space. Some fragments even flew to their ship's side and hit it with a bang.

With the cargo, their ship was nearly 20000 tons, and it began to shake violently in this wave.

"Large caliber naval gun, with a caliber of at least 200 mm!" The first mate on the ship has seen the naval ship gun shooting. This momentum is definitely caused by the large caliber ship gun, which shows that there are large German warships nearby!

But where? They still couldn't see, which deepened their fear.

The coming of this shell completely dispelled the idea of their escape. Even Chris's eyes were filled with fear. If the shell was fired directly at his own ship, it only needed one shot and his own side could be killed!

In this cold Arctic Ocean, if there were no ships, even if they took a lifeboat, they would definitely freeze to death and could not live at all.

He's scared.

"The last warning, the shell just now is a warning. If the ship is not stopped, the next shell will be fired on the arrival ship. The joint maritime law enforcement committee will not be responsible for any consequences. Repeat again, please stop the ship immediately and wait for inspection!" Lucas continued to shout on the microphone.

In fact, at a range of 100 nautical miles, the accuracy is quite poor. If the other party maneuvers to avoid again, he may run dozens of nautical miles and shoot dozens of shells, but he can't hit.

However, Americans don't know. How can they know that shells are fired from hundreds of nautical miles away? In their consciousness, ship guns can only hit dozens of nautical miles, indicating that German ships are nearby, maybe behind a floating iceberg.

This shot is just a warning. The next shot really greets them on their ship. How can they stand it!

Therefore, Chris can only reluctantly give an instruction: "stop the ship." When he said this, he was powerless.

Stop the ship and accept the inspection. The result of the inspection is that their ship will certainly be detained. According to the inspection conditions of the joint maritime law enforcement Committee, any cargo ship is illegal because all goods are prohibited.

As long as they catch and detain the crew, they have to stay in Europe honestly and don't know when they can go back.

But it's better than floating on the cold Arctic Ocean as a body?

The black smoke in the chimney was small, and the ship slowed down. In the air, Ludwig shouted excitedly on the radio, "they have stopped the ship!"

As a water reconnaissance aircraft, their fuel reserves were quite large. They kept spinning over here. Almost two hours later, a high-speed S-100 torpedo boat came through the wind and waves.

This is the crystallization of Germany's advanced shipbuilding technology. Relying on three high-speed diesel engines, it can soar at a high speed of more than 40 knots at sea. Unfortunately, it has poor seaworthiness, small displacement and severe turbulence.

The flag of the joint maritime law enforcement Committee, designed only a few days ago, was flying on the mast. The newly painted maritime police ship came to inspect the American cargo ship.

Unfortunately, Chris has some regrets at this time. So far, they haven't seen German heavy artillery warships coming. What's the matter? Maybe the explosion of that naval gun shell was the other party's mystery?

Unfortunately, he had no chance. The German speedboat quickly approached, and several people with guns came up and completely controlled their ship. When they found the goods on board, the Germans immediately announced that the cargo ship was illegal and needed to be detained in a special port in Britain and could not go back until the ransom was paid.




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