Compared with a capital ship without losing the second battleship team, the situation faced by the first battleship team is more dangerous, not only because the first reconnaissance group at the end of the German battleline, three mackensen-class patrol ships and three Devlinger-class patrol ships, but also because dozens of main guns with a caliber of more than 135 inches have joined the sea ensemble one after another, and the formation of the main fleet of the big fleet is extremely unfavorable to them at the moment.
At this time, the North Sea Ocean, the main fleet of the big fleet, is divided into two parts that are difficult to support each other. The former is a column formation and travels at a high speed to the southwest. The British battle line consists of sixteen main ships of the first and second battleships, while the latter is composed of the first and fourth battleships during the turning process, and the naval battle is in a stepped three-column cruise formation.
In view of the fact that the British battlelines are not heavily bombed and the German Seventh Team has already pulled away a lot of distance, it is unlikely that the ocean fleet will be 1 km from the flagship Bavarian battleship as at the beginning of the naval battle. This ultra-long engagement distance will take the lead in grabbing people’s waves and limited ammunition. "Chapter 11 of the great sea soul changes the historical moment (II)" and J Ο ng force instead of dealing with the first battleship fleet and the fourth patrol fleet, which are slow in the process of turning forward and have a fine counterattack.
West Lyme quickly reached the fire and ordered the third battleship to fire ten battleships. The British fifth team, the first battleship team and the nine battleships fired the British sixth team, while the first reconnaissance group fired the British fourth war patrol fleet.
Since the European War, the ocean fleet has become accustomed to following the artist, the daring god of war, Selim, and fighting against the number and caliber of the main guns of the British capital ship. However, the offshore of the Orkney Islands benefited from Heidi Selim’s superb tactics to deceive the ocean fleet to enjoy the pleasure of fire suppression for the first time.
A sharp steel Great Wall was built in the North Sea, a German battle line composed of 27 capital ships. The logistics personnel approached the narrow porthole on the side of the battleship and watched excitedly through the small window that more than 200 large-caliber main guns of the German Navy continued to fire at a sea area lacking strategic depth.
Warships fired jǐng one after another. The sailors covered their dull ears and were slightly numb. The soles of their feet watched in an ostentatious manner as hundreds of kilograms of armor-piercing bullets were turned into clouds of hot filariasis and smashed at the other side of the sea, and then clouds of white Se water columns doped with black Se smoke burst out. Whenever the British fleet burst into dazzling light and covered the sky with RI smoke, the sailors would cheer and jump for joy, hoping that the ocean fleet would win.
Bruno, a member of the Devingel class patrol damage management team, witnessed the process of refining the ocean fleet into the North Atlantic king by the starboard porthole of the’ Dog God of War’.
At about 12: 26, I saw a dazzling light burst from a capital ship on the left side of the battlefield left by the British. The capital ship was at least 16,000 meters away from us. I borrowed a telescope from my colleagues. After careful observation, I was embarrassed to find that I couldn’t see anything valuable at all. It had been shrouded in fire and several kilometers of high smoke.
This did not prevent me and my colleagues from jumping and jumping excitedly in the narrow side compartment. It was not until the Defringer shelled jǐng again that I was quiet and came closer to the porthole to look at the poor guy.
Except for the smoke that hasn’t dissipated, we can’t find any evidence to prove that the capital ship has passed. I am ecstatic and curious at the bottom of my heart who wrote the misfortune of the British. Our great battleship Devlinger has sunk a super-feared ship (all the crew of Devlinger count the battleship Raytheon as the victory of Devlinger). Three old battleships in battle cruiser have the title of dog transport patrol, but our silk doesn’t mind that our credit book is a little richer …’
Bruno described that it was the tireless battle cruiser New Zealand, the last widow of the cheapest capital ship in history, who once again proved the theory of’ turret magnet’ in the naval battle of Orkney Islands in 1917. A 35 mm capped armor-piercing bullet penetrated the turret of the Devlinger class patrol, causing the ammunition depot to explode and sink.
It’s no longer worthwhile to describe the destruction of the New Zealand warship patrol. From the beginning of the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel, it’s said that the fragile cargo Se is enemy class and tireless class, or it’s been boasted by the British for a long time. The battleship King George V of England has been shelled to death by the German navy, and the history is strikingly similar. They are all turrets that were sunk through the ammunition depot.
The only thing that is debatable is the role played by David Betty in the sinking accident of the New Zealand war patrol. After Betty’s recovery, the Minister of the Third Sea, who was in charge of the shipbuilding of the British Navy, bluntly pointed out that the British capital ship despised the protection and the "entertainment show" and asked the naval design department to come up with a plan as soon as possible to strengthen the protection level of the active capital ship.
However, judging from the tragedy of the New Zealand patrol being fired, it’s not that David Betty didn’t work hard enough, but that the design mistakes of the capital ship of the British Empire have accumulated.
At about 11: 27, the Fourth World Patrol Fleet lost its sub-fleet’s flagship, the indomitable battle cruiser Hill, and the initial product of the theory of’ perfect cruiser’ lived alone in the North Sea.
This old-fashioned battle cruiser was lucky enough to survive the tragic Orkney Islands naval battle. After the war, the British were eager to cash out and insisted on mortgaging the old ship to Spain and Argentina despite the opposition of New Zealand Dominion. However, the Spanish and Argentines flatly refused to turn it around. After several rounds, the old ship was finally given to Poland, a newly established European power, at an ultra-low price.
Even though the fourth patrol fleet suffered heavy losses, the first battleship fleet and the fourth patrol fleet had to continue to turn. The only reason why the commanders of these two fleets were happy was that the poor performance of the second battleship fleet made them have enough time to prepare before starting the sea turn, deliberately pulling the distance and angle apart. The three-branch fleet stepped cruise formation could help them complete the turn and change the array as soon as possible.
This is a German artillery and British speed duel, and the contest will continue! "To be continued.
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I always consciously write 12 o’clock as 11 o’clock. What’s wrong with me? )
"("The King of the North Atlantic "in the fifth quarter fell like a meteor)
After the sinking of the New Zealand patrol, the most heroic naval battle in the European War continued.
The German battle line, which came from the southeast of the North Sea, stretched for more than ten kilometers. Strong winds hunted the North Sea and cut out a beautiful arc with its apex facing north.
The front end of this arc in Germany barely rushes along the peninsula coastline to the depths of Firth Bay. The second battleship of Britain is flat. The top of the arc is the first battleship. The second detachment of the five main ships are mired in turning and changing formations. In the south direction of the three detachments of the British left wing, the distance from the British is less than 12 thousand kilometers.
The ocean fleet can finally exert its strongest strength.
In 1995, due to the lack of effective fire control and sighting means, the naval battle in the Yellow Sea was only 3 kilometers away by direct aiming and gunner experience. The naval battle between Russia and Malaysia broke out in 195, and the fighting distance was extended from 3 thousand meters to 7 thousand meters because of the early artillery command system; In 1996, with the completion of the British battleship dread, the naval warfare mode has undergone profound changes, and naval experts have predicted that the battle will break out at a distance of about 13 thousand kilometers
After the outbreak of the European War, the fighting distance was repeatedly refreshed. In 1915, the naval battle of Ri Delan broke out, and the German and British capital ships were 10,000 kilometers. This ultra-long-distance fire still achieved results, but now the ocean fleet firmly occupied the word Crosshead, but it shortened the fighting distance by less than 12,000 kilometers.
This distance from the ocean fleet, installing a 35mm main gun and a 3mm main gun can explode a British capital ship, that is, ""even the Caesar-class and Helgolan-class battleships, the Helgolan-class and Mao Qi-class war patrol houses are equipped with a 35mm main gun and the sā-class battleships are equipped with a 2mm main gun.
Although in 1917, with the high defensive strength of the dreaded ship and the increase of the engagement distance of 35 and 2, these two kinds of main guns were widely recognized by naval experts as successors, but the distance was less than 12 thousand kilometers. Even though they could not cut through the low 13-inch waterline belt of the Royal Oak battleship, the German 35 mm SKL/5 main gun and the 2 mm SKL/5 main gun could penetrate 1 inch and 1 inch of homogeneous Knuber steel plate respectively, but the penetration force was enough to destroy the waterline belt armor, which was 71 inches in Britain.
Maybe greenby, the British, equipped with new armor-piercijīng projectiles, can explode the main guns with the same caliber, take the main guns of the sā class battleship with 3 mm waterline and the main guns of the Mao Qi class patrol with 27 mm, but the problem is that the British have turned and changed the array, and they have already formed a battle line. The first and second British battleships can fight back from some main guns. The problem is to maintain a high speed, and they can avoid the influence of the trembling hull on the shelling J and ng degrees.
The desolate North Sea touched the word "horizontal head" for the first time. The German navy led the commander-in-chief of the longitudinal wizard fleet Heidi Selim to achieve the perfect state of the word "horizontal head". Twenty-seven battleships and battle cruiser crossed the left wing of the British fleet. The three branches of the fleet continued to the south road, regardless of the need for the maximum firepower density of the main gun and the sighting program. Throw the firepower of the warship department in a general direction and enjoy the fire. Poor British.
Nearly 15 meters to starboard!’
Successive groups of filariasis grazed the towering three-legged main mast of the battleship Magnificent and plunged obliquely into the starboard direction of the battleship Magnificent, blinking. Germany 35 mm was capped with armor-piercing bullets, and 1 kg of explosive water in the warhead. ""There was a violent explosion, and the seawater was compressed and expanded into tons. The seawater was lifted to form a mushroom-shaped water column and then hit the sea heavily.
Surging up, the waves beat on the side of the battleship Magnificent, a huge ship with a standard displacement of 1,000 tons, and began to shake. The sailors in the cabin staggered and staggered, and the lookout of the armored watchtower of the former main mast was almost knocked off the deck by this impact.
The lookout curled up in the depths of the watchtower and tried to calm the beating heart. At this time, another round of shelling came as promised.
The Germans are crazy. Their 137-inch main gun keeps burning at us for almost two and a half rounds per minute. This round of shelling almost killed me. Just after a round of shelling, the flagship South Africa, the sixth team on the left side of Magnificent, was shot.
At this time, at the end of the team of the fifth team, we have completed the steering, and we are striving for high speed. The flagship Singapore of the sixth team is closely following the magnificent, and the steering distance is about 700 yards away. Smoke rises from two chimneys behind the main mast. I vaguely see a fire fog more than 100 feet high behind the commander tower of the South Africa.
Battleship South Africa is a big ship with a full displacement of more than 30,000 tons. However, the Admiralty is well aware of this huge ship, and I don’t know whether this capital ship was set off by the British or just exploded and caught fire somewhere in the building. I can pray for the magnificent South Africa, a 1-foot-high armored watchtower of the former main mast! ’
At 12: 29, the battleship South Africa was hit.
Before the South Africa Battleship was shot, this super-feared ship, which adhered to the idea of "firepower" of a generation of royal sailors, had suffered a lot of near-lost shells, surging water columns and flying shrapnel. "Chapter 11 of the Soul of the Sea of Great Powers Changes History Instantly (III)" made the South Africa’s unusually compact building riddled with holes, and this round of shelling has successively hit the South Africa with three 2 mm caliber armor-piercing projectiles.
The first armor-piercing projectile pierced the unprotected bow of the battleship South Africa into the sea and exploded. The hospital cabin at the bow of the battleship South Africa was destroyed. Three doctors and eleven sailors were killed on the spot, and due to the damaged bow and the high sea conditions in the North Sea, the battleship South Africa subsequently flooded heavily and seriously slowed down its speed.
The second armor-piercing projectile landed at a straight angle about 1 meter away from the port side of the South Africa, which was relatively low. The main mast lookout just reported the news that it was nearly 1 meter to the port side with ecstasy. This APC armor-piercing projectile weighing 300 kilograms and 2 mm was wittily on its way again.
Armor-piercing projectile with great lethality bounced up by seawater after juggling with sea level, forming a ship-fearing era. It is rare to see the’ Shui Piao Bomb’, and its extremely strange trajectory slammed into the South African battleship with only 7-inch armor belt. Fortunately, this armor-piercing projectile has already removed a lot of kinetic energy when it bounced for the first time. When the armor-piercing projectile hit the 7-inch armor belt, it was bounced off again, not even a near-missing bullet was formed.
Compared with the first two armor-piercing projectiles, the third armor-piercing projectile is much more powerful. This armor-piercing projectile accurately hits the bottom of the second chimney of the battleship South Africa.
Different from the protection concept of Germany and the United States, even the thickness of the main armor of the side water belt, which constitutes the core of the protection strength of a main ship, is extremely stingy. The British naval designers did not consider the armor protection of the chimney base at all, so this armor-piercing projectile pierced the second chimney of the battleship South Africa and exploded
Thanks to the engagement distance of less than 13,000 meters, the trajectory of this armor-piercing projectile is relatively straight, and it won’t go deep into the power cabin of the main ship of the Great Power Sea Soul along the chimney break like a big-angle shell, but it can’t be said that this armor-piercing projectile is worthless. After all, the explosion made fragments turn the No.2 chimney into a colander and caused the stern of the South African battleship to be dispersed. The fire and smoke made this once boasted by Armstrong Shipyard look extremely embarrassed.
In an instant, almost half of the North Sea knew that the battleship South Africa had been shot, except that a main turret was damaged, a big hole was cut in the waterline, and the battleship Bellerophon was still struggling. Almost every capital ship of the Royal Navy reported that the battleship South Africa was about to fall, including the battleship Revenge, and the big fleet was suddenly lost.
Will the battleship South Africa become the Royal Navy? Will the fourth warship in this naval battle be the fifth battleship sunk? If you have lost almost a battleship squadron before biting the Germans, how should the Royal Navy have the courage to continue fighting? If it weren’t for the battleship South Africa, what hasn’t been reported?
In the memory of the chief of staff of the British fleet after the naval battle, David Betty, their commander-in-chief, hid in the corner of the commander’s tower and turned it back and forth into a hill. Generally, the damage report of the first battleship and the fourth patrol fleet smoked less than half a pack of cigarettes continuously until the confidential officer reported that the South Africa was slightly injured and the fire in the ship was under control. Betty was about to entangle her eyebrows.
At 12: 32, the long process of turning and changing the formation of the big fleet finally ended. The British lost the last battleship, the indomitable, and came out of the German ring of fire scarred, and squeezed into the loose sea of the Royal Navy, stretching for almost 2 kilometers, struggling to gallop southwest.
At the moment, several battleships and a battle cruiser at the end of the British battle line look extremely embarrassed. Their main guns are blackened by smoke, and the seemingly solid buildings and side armor are full of "entertainment shows". Deep and shallow shrapnel scratches and large and small craters are scraped off, and the signal cables and colorful signal flags are flying wildly in the sky. The crane is hung upside down by fixed cables, and the side deck is rickety and anxious. Occasionally, the rescue boat will continue to rekindle smoke.
The Royal Oak was shot twice in the side armor belt, and the bow of the ship was slightly damaged by water seepage of more than 300 tons. Canada was shot three times, two boilers and a coal bunker were destroyed, the port generator stopped running, the speed dropped by four knots, 93 people were killed and seriously injured; Singapore was shot three times, a cannon on the port side was destroyed, the ammunition depot of the auxiliary gun was destroyed, the left trestle was broken, and the stern exploded, killing 130 people and causing moderate damage; Battleship South Africa was shot four times, and the bow hospital cabin was exploded and caught fire, and 46 people were killed and slightly injured. The Bellerophon was shot five times, and the water line on the side was damaged. The P turret was destroyed, and the water and ammunition depots of P and Q turrets were flooded with more than 1,500 tons. The speed dropped by ten knots, and more than 300 people were killed and seriously injured. Magnificent was shot once, and the port deck was slightly damaged, causing minor injuries …’
The war staff will report to Betty about the battle damage of the first battleship and the fourth patrol fleet. At this time, the commander tower of the flagship Revenge is filled with an undeserved and inexplicable emotion. However, this emotion did not last long because the battleship Canada once chased and intercepted the Japanese and escaped from the birth, which made the opening of the ocean fleet novel. To be continued.
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"("The King of the North Atlantic "in the fifth quarter fell like a meteor)
When we comment on June 21, 1917, we will always’ change the moment of history’.
When the dust settled in the Orkney Islands naval battle, the German capital ship dragged its scarred hull back to Port William. The first sentence given to Heidi Selim by the chief of staff of the German navy was neither to win the naval battle congratulations nor to cherish the memory of the dead, but to shock the past June 21, so Heidi Selim defined June 21 as’ a day to change history’.