Chapter 1245 Are you afraid of shells?
Admiral Graf Spee, the cannon in the middle of the No. 1 turret on the bow of the ship had been lifted up, and the muzzle was facing the distance, ready for launch.
"The target is still accelerating its escape, and requests to warn the shell immediately." With the sound coming back from the radio, Colonel Langersteff issued an order: "Fire!"
Fire! With the order, gunner No. 1 pressed the button and the shell was fired.
"boom!"
The launching medicine package violently released its energy. The projectile in front was quickly pushed forward under the high-temperature and high-pressure air flow that suddenly appeared behind. In almost one ten thousandth of a second, it went out of the long gun barrel.
When it came out of its muzzle, a flame flew out from behind with huge smoke. The shells had reached a speed of nearly a thousand meters per second, flying towards the distance.
If it is an ordinary shell, the launch process is over, but now it is a rocket-boosted extended range bomb. Just as it flew out of the barrel, the rocket engine at the tail also began to ignite.
After the shell flew out of the barrel, it had a hot flame at its tail. This flame was reflected in everyone's retina and looked so spectacular.
The shell continued to accelerate forward. Although the rocket engine at the tail only burned for dozens of seconds, its speed had been increased to nearly two thousand meters per second, so its ballistics were higher and its range was further.
Above head, the reconnaissance plane was still flying nearby, neither coming down to strafuse or sending out more warnings. Most of the crew members on the cargo ship had already relaxed. These Germans would scare people. Where did the shells come from?
The shells flying over at a speed of nearly Mach 6 could not hear the sound, and if they looked up, their retina would not be able to capture such a high-speed aircraft.
So, almost no one cared about it, the 283mm rocket extended range bomb flew over like this.
"The ballistics are a bit high, I'm going to miss the target, and I'm going to prepare to correct the ballistics." Ludwig, with the help of strict training and instinctive reaction, captured the flying shell. He said to Lucas in the back seat.
"Yes, reduce the elevation angle by five points, adjust the two tight spots to the right, and the next shot will definitely be more accurate." Lucas has already started to calculate quickly.
At this time, the shell had fallen, located 200 meters from the port side of the other party. When the shell fell, a violent explosion occurred.
"Boom!" The huge explosion sound was enough to shock any eardrum. When the explosion occurred, they had covered their ears and saw the terrible scene on the port side.
The water wave was raised more than 20 meters high, and the entire water wave spread rapidly around, forming a terrible wave. The power of this shell was simply amazing!
With the waves, many pieces of shells flew up. The pieces expanded to the surrounding space of 200 meters, and some pieces even flew to their ship's side, hitting them, making a thump.
With the cargo, their ships were almost 20,000 tons, and they began to shake violently in the waves.
"Large caliber naval guns, at least caliber than 200 mm!" The first mate on the ship had seen naval gun shooting. This momentum was definitely caused by large caliber naval guns, which shows that there were large German warships near one side!
But where? They still couldn't see it, which deepened their fear.
The flight of this shell completely dispelled their idea of escaping. Even Chris's eyes were filled with fear. If the shell was shot directly at his own ship, it would take only one shot and he would be killed!
In this cold Arctic Ocean, if there were no ships, even if they were on a lifeboat, they would definitely be frozen to death and would not be able to survive.
He was already scared.
"The last warning is that the shell just now is a warning. If the ship is not stopped, the next shell will be fired onto the cargo ship. The Joint Marine 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 in the microphone.
In fact, the accuracy is quite poor at a range of 100 nautical miles. If the opponent maneuveres and dodges, he may run dozens of nautical miles or shoot dozens of shells, but he will not hit it.
However, Americans don't know, how could they know that the shells were shot from hundreds of nautical miles away? In their consciousness, naval guns could only hit dozens of nautical miles, which means that German ships were nearby, and maybe behind a floating iceberg.
This shot was just a warning. If the next shot was really greeted on their ship, how could they bear it?
So Chris had no choice but to give the order: "Stop the boat." When he said this, he was powerless.
If the ship is stopped and inspected, the result of the inspection is that their ship will definitely be detained. According to the inspection conditions of the Suiyi Joint Law Enforcement Committee, any cargo ship is illegal because all cargo is prohibited.
As long as they are caught and detained, their crew members will have to stay in Europe honestly and don’t know when they will go back.
But, it's better than floating in the cold Arctic Ocean to be a corpse?
The black smoke inside the chimney became smaller and the ship slowed down. In the air, Ludwig shouted in the radio excitedly: "They have stopped the ship!"
As a sea reconnaissance aircraft, their fuel reserves are quite large, and they keep hovering over it. Almost two hours later, a high-speed S-100 torpedo boat came by the wind and waves.
This is the crystallization of Germany's advanced shipbuilding technology. With three high-speed diesel engines, it can speed up to more than 40 knots at sea. Unfortunately, it is not good at sea, the hull has a small displacement and is extremely bumpy.
The flag of the Joint Marine Enforcement Commission designed a few days ago was floating on the mast. The newly painted coast guard ship came to inspect the American freighter.
Unlucky, at this time, Chris had already regretted it. So far, they had not seen the German heavy artillery warship coming. What was going on? Maybe the explosion of the naval gun shell was the other party's deception?
Chapter completed!