It’s like a cup of delicious wine that you have to drink with a wry smile. Betty hesitated for a long time until the distance was close to 5 yards before she had to reach the right rudder 20 degrees steering command with a sullen face.
After completing the painful turn at 6: 23, the battleship Queen Elizabeth was shot first, but the position of the shot was not very important. Only one bunker in the stern of the ship was destroyed, and another cabin was flooded. Three sailors were killed and the speed dropped by one section. Three minutes later, the Mao Qi patrol was penetrated by the armor belt of the British Queen Elizabeth Australia fire, and then penetrated into the armor smoke and poison gas of the square gun shaft of Anton turret again. The gunner came to die heroically without wearing a gas mask. The fire caused by the explosion of the warhead of the shell was spread. However, the passage of the Mao Qi bomb conveyor spread, but the loader in the German ammunition loading room was tightly closed according to the safety regulations, and the armor cover saved all the fires and was temporarily isolated.
At 6: 34, the two fleets successively drilled into a thin sea fog area, and the fog interfered with the rangers. The two sides had to stop temporarily and re-distance to count the results. The Luzov patrol and the Devlinger patrol were shot once respectively, but they failed to cause significant damage. The German patrol encountered a tremor caused by a shell in the water, which caused the German to repair the plugging plug in a hurry, loosen the seawater and re-inject it, and the speed dropped by 26 knots. There was the Mao Qi, and some tragic Anton turrets were destroyed. Thirty-six sailors were killed. The British battleship Queen Elizabeth was shot with two rounds of combat effectiveness. The speed of the tiger was complete. The patrol of the tiger was shot with one round. A boiler room of the tiger was destroyed. White water vapor was everywhere. The bridge of the indomitable was shot and more than half of it was cut off by large-caliber shells
At 7: 03, the sea fog left the last afterglow, and the naval battle continued to falter. The German patrol Dora turret fired a 35-mm armor-piercing projectile. The tireless patrol was comparable to the armored cruiser’s 56-inch waterline with the main armor weighing more than 6 kilograms. The front of the 35-mm projectile was fragile like a piece of paper, and the hat was attached like mud. The waterline warhead of the stern was as scheduled, and the 15-ton battle cruiser hull violently shook a horizontal line, causing a terrible displacement. The main armor on the side was fleshed. Seeing that the speed is invisible, the fine cracks flash and spread at a faster speed. After shocking creaking and twisting, the armor belt sinks deeply, and finally a big hole is cut out and a violent explosion occurs in the depths of the hull.
"At 6: 33, the German ship directly hit the target ship on the side of the tireless fire, and it was left-leaning!" The lens of Deutschland rangefinder magnified the hit twice, and the commander’s tower resounded through the high-pitched sound of the rangefinder.
It’s done! Captain Deutschland smoothed his clothes and tried to stay reserved in front of the German officer corps. At this time, the captain’s feet trembled slightly and then became violently shaken. The powerful external force suddenly set the table for the captain and his assistant, and the Deutschland mold shook and fell to the solid deck.
"Commander Tadeutsche is shot on starboard. Repeat, Deutschland is shot on starboard!"
The second gun Chapter 16 Card (12)
"The vice captain German 35 armor-piercing projectile pierced our waterline, knocked a big hole with a diameter of nearly three meters, and the engine room behind the turret was hit by the engine room, and two adjacent cabins were flooded!"
The engine room power system has been interrupted, and the nearby pumps have stopped running in a hurry to verify the situation. The vice captain had to lead the captain of the damage management team to grope for the passage not far from the engine room.
In order to make up for the lack of horizontal armor, the patrol engine room, boiler room and ammunition depot of the tireless ship were paved with a layer of regenerative dome armor. However, this kind of Jerry-built 35 mm shell completely went bankrupt after it penetrated the engine room. When the X.O. walked through the narrow communication passage in the engine room, the passage was full of leaked steam, soot and seawater, and it didn’t hurt the captain to add something more. The X.O. could also see that the life of the tireless ship was hanging by a thread.
"The deputy captain’s armor-piercing bomb explosion damaged the contact doors of several sealed cabins nearby. Because the hole is too big, the plugging workers are not progressing smoothly, and this place may be submerged by seawater at any time …" The deputy captain insisted on moving on, and the captain of the damaged pipe could not stop it and continued to persuade in vain.
"The captain sent me here to verify the situation, but it seems that there is no accident to verify, so I will fight side by side here. If death is the British navy, I will not be doomed. Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cameron, the vice captain of the indefatigable, is willing to share this honor with you!"
The vice captain of indefatigable took the waterproof tube from the captain of the damaged pipe, turned his back on the diving engine room, and in the cold sea water, the vice captain heroically moved a lot of the damaged pipe players, and many Royal Navy sailors followed the vice captain’s footsteps, grabbed the plugging plug and jumped at the wheel. The engine room stirred with teeth in the whirlpool and tried to swim towards the torn hole.
At the end of winter and the beginning of spring, the cold sea water in the North Sea is not enough to resist the nature. Even if these lovely officers and sailors can complete the plugging work, most of them will lose their young lives, while the rest will have to be amputated or stay in bed for life due to severe frostbite.
"But …" The captain of the damage control team jumped to the engine room of the rough sound engine room. "Who the fuck cares about this!"
More than 10,000 yards away, the pleasure of accurately hitting the British indefatigable has not yet fermented, and the bad news of the German bullet has come one after another. The tremor caused by the armor-piercing bullet hitting the hull seems to be only the explosion, which continues for more than ten seconds.
Knocking on the corner of the table, the arm was scratched with a long wound, and the blood was unscrupulously revealed. The commander of the Moral Will, Taziman, lost a lot of blood. The captain of the German took out a handkerchief and hastily bandaged himself. He tried to get up from the thick deck and stumbled towards the fallen steel microphone.
"Commander Taemir’s turret was shot in the bomb conveyor, and the armor-piercing projectile propellant burst and damaged the pipeline team!"
The microphone is full of terrible sound of Dora turret gunner, who was still in high spirits a few seconds ago. The captain of the German warship was shocked, and the microphone was painted with black paint. He just pulled out a little white powder.
Deutschland’s pursuit and killing is the two tireless class patrol of New Zealand’s indefatigable class. This is a kind of four 12-inch main guns that can be regarded as a fast main ship to strengthen armored cruisers in a certain sense. This firepower is relatively considerable, but it also has the ability to scare people in front of Cedritz patrol with a big waist. However, there are several failures in the history of German military industry-the Deutschland patrol is obviously not one of them.
At 7: 04, a 35mm armor-piercing projectile hit the starboard side of the Emil turret of the German ship. The armor belt of the British armor-piercing projectile was charged with picric acid. It was rare that the armor belt of the German ship and the armor of the 1 mm blasthole were continuously pierced. The propellant in the ammunition conveyor was detonated, and the ammunition loader was swallowed up one after another. The continuous explosion made the 5 mm armor protection cover of the ammunition depot have to face the most cruel test, because it was enough to end the ammunition depot and propellant depot of a capital ship.
Good Germans don’t pursue the ultimate firing rate like the British. Good fire protection design and discipline saved this German warship.
Germans don’t have the ammunition loading room to prepare propellant. They are used to the ammunition depot propellant loading room. These two layers of armor protection covers also have ammunition loading room. The propellant is placed in a waterproof, fireproof and static brass metal device. Even if the ammunition propellant in the ammunition loading machine is detonated, the last layer of armor protection cover is slightly distorted due to shock wave, and the fire does not spread to the ammunition depot.
35 Armor-piercing projectile propellant killed 35 shells. The effect of superposition of German gunner’s insides was instantly shattered, and dozens of young lives ended. 35 Smoke and poison produced by the bitter acid burning of armor-piercing projectile spread along the ventilation system and were stunned. The sailors unconsciously inhaled a lot of high temperature and harmful gases, thus burning the central nervous system and wearing gas masks. The crew members and medical staff had to carry those injured and unconscious sailors from the communication channel of Dora turret ammunition depot in the back turret structure of the ship to retreat. As the communication doors of the two ammunition depots closed.
The German ship was lucky enough to steal a life, but it was already dying. It was simply repaired that the boiler broke down again due to violent tremor. The bow of the ship was filled with leakage plugs and partially re-seeped. The ammunition depot of Emile turret was swallowed up by seawater, although the seawater could be drained, but the fire near the ammunition depot was completely extinguished. After maintaining the balance of the ship, the captain of the German ship had to make water injection into the two dry cabins on the port side to level off. Until then, the ship hull of the German ship had been flooded by nearly 1,000 tons, and the speed dropped by two knots.
At 7: 47 on March 4, 1915, crossing the sea fog and falling melodiously, the first ray of dawn scattered across the North Sea not only meant that the navy had been troubled all night and collapsed, but also lifted the cards hidden in the opponent’s fog.
In order to better observe the impact of artillery shells and form the most powerful fighting force across the planet as soon as possible, two steel fleets invariably offered turrets and half-cannon shooting tactics. After the shrill buzzer, the deck gas of the Luzov seemed to solidify. Four 35 mm capped armor-piercing projectiles spewed out from the thick gun barrel of the main turret, and the amazing recoil made the officers and men of the whole warship still groan. The forward steps of a 3,154-ton steel giant ship seemed to stagnate for a moment, and the cold sea made a small jump.
Choking smoke spread from the hot barrels of the two main turrets at the bow of the ship, Anton and Bruno, and lingered near the main mast for a few seconds. After a few seconds, the old rival Lion patrolled the 343 mm armor-piercing projectile and splashed the water column as scheduled, and the height was even with the observation tower of Luzov.
Embarrassed, I looked at the soldiers’ leisure time, looked at the wet uniforms, grabbed the binoculars and swore, looked at the landing point of the British 343 and fed back the news to the Commander Tower.
"At 7: 04, the Commander Tower, the Lion fired three long-range bullets at Luzov, and a near-missing shrapnel seemed to scrape the profile of a gun in the belly."
"Connect the B-section damage management team and let them verify the information of the watchtower!" The commander of the first reconnaissance fleet, Wang Haidi, sat in a rickety chair with a slightly damaged pocket watch, and the calming medicine box in the left pocket of the dark military uniform was faintly exposed. Major General Paul Henry, the captain of the Luzov, stole a glance at vice admiral, who he admired and tried to imitate. He raised his head slightly with a cool and calm look and told his deputy captain, then the ranging tower reported the shooting results of this round.
"At 7: 04, the Commander Tower, Luzov, nearly missed an armor-piercing projectile or formed a near miss or the bottom of the ship directly hit the Lion, causing obvious tremor and displacement. The specific results method confirmed!"
The flagship of the two fast fleets died, but it was the fate of two patrol ships. Although it was not the first time to hit the opponent, the news that the Lion was shot in the patrol still made the officers and men of the Luzov deflate. The good news was reported when the little commander tower was filled with ease and confidence, but the noise of the watchtower rang again.
Fear, surprise, confusion and stubbornness in the voice of the lookout beat the eardrums of everyone through a small microphone.
"Please tell me this is not an illusion!"
Along the rising sun in the east, a super fleet consisting of two dreaded ships appeared in the telescope tube. They sprayed thick soot and hung the Z-shaped battle flag symbolizing the unification of Nelson, which was changing from six columns to a 1-kilometer battle line.
The lookout didn’t come from the bottom of his heart to look for his own reinforcements, so he saw another thrilling scene. A steel fleet with 17 capital ships in the southwest came to hang the iron cross black hawk flag at the top of the main mast, flying high and clanking with a dark background, and the hull was bathed in golden morning light.
The cold hull is tight, the gun barrel is towering, the main mast is like a black chimney, and there is a long battle line. The German nation just gave birth to the ocean heart. The lookout was intoxicated by facing the British 34331 shells, but he was not afraid. The lookout’s resolute face flashed a trace of fear, which belonged to the confusion of young people and then transformed into joy. The Germans were stubborn!
"This is the card of the British Empire?"
I’m really tired of the British hiding my head and exposing my tail. The big fleet in the northwest is not secret. The new ship, Wang Haidi, can finally breathe a sigh of relief and make a disdainful voice with a sense of rewriting history with reference to history.
"This is the German empire card? ！”
Led ten fast capital ships to battle, lost a lion-class battle patrol, lost the battle effectiveness of a queen Elizabeth-class battleship and predicted that she had quit the battle or sunk. The German war patrol just swaggered in front of David Betty. Seventeen capital ships appeared in front of him. Although the ocean fleet didn’t have a secret new ship, this figure still made the "sea cavalry" who commanded many naval battles feel depressed. The Nile River and the Far East were trained and brave, but her heart didn’t cool. Betty wouldn’t feel so good. She clapped her hands and joked with a face.
"This is the card of the naval power!"
After the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel, Japanese warship designer Fujita Kikuo wrote in his diary that there were 14 super-feared ships, 23 feared ships and 13 battle cruiser in a sea area of less than 1,000 square kilometers, which was almost twice the sum of the sea power of the United States, Japan, Italy and Austria-Hungary, which are interested in winning the first and second-rate power in the sea!
"I’m afraid these two countries have the strength to win the high throne of the ocean on this planet, and the dust should be the peak battle of age of steam!"
The second gun Chapter 17 Peak War (1)
Spent ten years, a country’s national treasury gambled for a hundred years, national luck and a generation of sailors’ youth ranked first in the world, and the largest fleet ranked second in the world. There were fifty capital ships and more than 200 support and support ships in the North Sea, the southern end of the middle line of Ska Gerakl Strait, and the west coast of jutland, which was an unremarkable sea area.
Not to mention the famous enemies, tireless lions, tigers and Queen Elizabeth, Mao Qi, Germany, Cedritz and Devlinger. There are also Wei, Bai Luofeng, Saint Vincent, Neptune, Giant, Hunting Block, King George V of England and Iron Duke. There are also two formidable fleets, Nassau, Helgolan, Caesar and King. The construction of the capital ships alone exceeds 100 million pounds, and the maintenance and training of the capital ships are astronomical figures.
March 4, 1915, this day belongs to Germany and Britain, this day belongs to the shallow North Sea, this day belongs to the big ship, the huge gun and the fear of the ship, and this day is destined to be written into the memory of a meaningful generation of history, which will change the history into a mystery.
Germany and Britain have their own rapid forces. Rao is Germany’s first reconnaissance fleet. The commander of the British fast fleet has a good personal friendship, but there is room for death on both sides in the vast sea. The battle continues. Luzov is unyielding and unyielding against the lion Devlinger and the tiger Cedritz. Mao Qi is unyielding against Queen Elizabeth and Australia’s Germany is tireless. Two fleets are drawn to fight each other at a distance of 130,000 yards.
"Entangling the British fast fleet to force Jellicoe’s main fleet to reinforce and let us fight before the Royal Navy pursues a long-range blockade" is a complaint to Wang Haidi’s instructions to continue fighting. The commander and staff of the first reconnaissance fleet are tired. It seems that the first reconnaissance fleet has overfulfilled everything. They need to stall Betty’s fast fleet and wait patiently for the final result of the main fleet’s battle line. "General, maybe we should protect our strength. After all, Betty still has a fast capital ship in her hand."
"A fast capital ship?" The pain and dizziness caused by neurasthenia hit like a flood, but Wang Haidi dared not twist the medicine box in his pocket. Expensive medicine would relieve the symptoms for a short time, while Wang Haidi suffered from mental fatigue, mental retardation and drowsiness.