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Part One Twenty Years Chapter 11 The Moment That Changed History (2)

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    (I want to apologize. Originally, the previous chapter was about the destruction of Singapore, but there was no update for three days, so I recorded it as a Hong Kong number. I¡¯m not going to change it, so just leave it as it is.)

    ¡°(Section 5 of "King of the North Atlantic", the fearless men who fell like meteors)

    In any naval battle, losing speed means death.

    The German Navy did not give the Indomitable battle cruiser a chance to make a desperate struggle. Although the thick smoke covering the sky made it difficult for the gunners of the Ocean Fleet to observe, the German naval officers and soldiers who had experienced countless naval battles were definitely not lacking in handling this situation.  experience in this situation.

    After several rounds of shelling and calibrating fire, the four Nasa-class battleships of the most inconspicuous first unit in the Ocean Fleet launched a cross-fire attack. After a short concentration of fire, the battle cruiser Indomitable, which had become a target ship for the German gunners, was destroyed by 280  mm main gun killed.

    At 11:20, the Indomitable battle cruiser completely disappeared on the North Sea. The number of Royal Navy battleships lost increased to two, with a loss of nearly 50,000 tons, and more than 1,500 officers and soldiers were killed.

    Although the casualties were heavy, this number was not unacceptable to the British.  Everyone knows the terror of the T-shaped head, and who knows the power of Heidi Silem. The Grand Fleet, which has strong firepower but low protection, can only lose two people under the Germans' nearly 20 minutes of concentrated fire.  The boat is already considered a blessing in misfortune.

    It is a pity that the British did not make good use of this luck to turn things around. It must be known that in the Battle of Ridland in 1915, the main fleet of the Grand Fleet led by Jellicoe completed the sea turn in just over 20 minutes.  and change of formation, but in 1917 off the coast of the Orkney Islands, it took Betty's main fleet nearly twenty minutes to get the Second Battle Fleet to turn.

    At 12:21, the four battleships of the Second Division of the British Second Battle Fleet dragged the First Division a full kilometer behind, forming a five-kilometer battle line with the First Battle Fleet and heading southwest at high speed.  .

    In fact, the British choice to drive northwest is more conducive to their high-speed escape from the battlefield.  Even though the German First Reconnaissance Group has extremely strong combat effectiveness, the Grand Fleet can at least preserve its main force while being severely cut off, and can also obtain four American battleships as reinforcements from the north. However, in the command tower of the Revenge battleship, including  Senior officers of the British Grand Fleet, including the flagship commander, selectively ignored this point.

    Although the officers and soldiers of the Grand Fleet had been frightened by Heidi Sealem and the Iron Cross naval flag flying high in the southeast, they could no longer remember the half-intoxicated and insignificant things in the sailors' club before the naval battle.  He was so aggressive that he could not remember the unscrupulous longing for victory on the battleship deck before the sea battle. He was obsessed with getting rid of the pursuit of the German Navy God of War. However, as a sea commander of the Royal Navy, no one dared to issue this reasonable but unreasonable decision.  Order.

    Except for a fight to the death.  The Royal Navy seems to have no choice!

    On the 20th, thirty-seven battleships of the Royal Navy, which the people of the British Empire wanted to build anew at the expense of their fortunes, headed south and west, aggressively going to sea to find traces of the German navy, determined to teach the arrogant Germans a lesson in the North Sea.

    The reality is that after the sea fog dissipated in the early morning of the 21st, the Royal Navy lost control of the whereabouts of the German raid fleet.  Ten thousand people on the ten capital ships of the fast fleet were controlled by Heidi Silem like a headless fly, tossing back and forth in the North Sea.  What is even more frightening is that the main fleet of the Grand Fleet ran head-on into the entire main force of the German Navy off the coast of the Orkney Islands.

    It is originally an extremely humiliating thing for the Royal Navy to be repeatedly played by its arch-enemy Heidi Sealem.  In particular, the Royal Navy was particularly angry when the main fleet of the Grand Fleet lost two battleships in an almost "unfired" manner.  The Royal Navy has no capital to withdraw from Scapa Flow. If it does not want the news that the German raiding fleet once again shelled the mainland appears on the front pages of major newspapers in London, if it does not want the entire British Island and the two  The family members of the officers and soldiers killed on the battleship pierced their spines and cursed. If they do not want to be the trigger that leads to the complete decline of the Royal Navy¡¯s spiritual temperament, the Royal Navy must entangle the Germans here as much as possible while preserving its own strength.  At the same time, the battlefield is directed closer to the southwest of the Firth of Forth and the fast fleet.  Wait for the moment when the fast fleet joins the battlefield.

    The British Second Battle Fleet stumbled to complete a turn of "strategic value", following in the footsteps of the flagship Revenge, heading towards the depths of the Firth of Forth along the smooth coastline running from southwest to northeast in the southern part of the peninsula.  The First Battle Fleet, which set its speed very low, did not hesitate at all and followed the turn flag raised by the squadron flagship Royal Oak.  Starting a long overdue U-turn at sea.

    Compared to the Second Battle Fleet, which did not lose a single battleship, the First Battle Fleet faced a more dangerous situation, not only because the First Reconnaissance Group III, which fell at the end of the German battle line,A Mackensen-class battle cruiser and three Derfflinger-class battle cruisers, dozens of main guns with a caliber exceeding 13.5 inches, have successively joined the maritime ensemble, and the formation of the main fleet of the Grand Fleet at this moment is also extremely disadvantageous to them.

    At this time, the main fleet of the Grand Fleet was divided into two parts on the North Sea that were difficult to support each other. The former was the British battle line traveling southwest at high speed in a column formation, consisting of the First Battle Fleet and the Second Battle Fleet.  The fleet consists of sixteen battleships, and the latter is a three-row cruising formation composed of the first battle fleet and the fourth battle cruiser fleet in the process of turning in a ladder-like naval battle.

    In view of the fact that the bomb-hit area of ??the British battle line is not large, and the distance between the leader of the British battle line and the German 7th Squadron has been greatly increased, it is unlikely that the Ocean Fleet will be led by the flagship battleship Bayern at the ultra-distance of 18 kilometers like it was at the beginning of the naval battle.  Taking the lead in the battle distance, wasting limited ammunition and energy instead of dealing with the first battle fleet and the first battle fleet that were turning slowly and had no power to fight back.  Fourth Battle Cruiser Fleet.

    Sealem quickly issued an order to focus the fire. The ten battleships of the Third Battleship Group focused on the British Fifth Squadron, the nine battleships of the First Battle Fleet focused on the British Sixth Squadron, and the First Reconnaissance Group focused on the British Fourth Battle Group.  Patrol fleet.

    Since the European War, the Ocean Fleet has been accustomed to following the brave god of war Sealem, fighting against the British's superiority in the number and caliber of battleship main guns. However, in the offshore Orkney Islands, thanks to Heidi Seeley  Thanks to Mu's superb tactical deception, the Ocean Fleet enjoyed the pleasure of suppressing fire for the first time.

    The German battle line composed of twenty-seven battleships built a sharp steel Great Wall in the North Sea.  The damage control troops who were not on duty and the logistics troops who were handling debris approached the narrow portholes on the side of the battleship and watched excitedly through the small windows as the German Navy continued to use more than two hundred large-caliber main guns towards a sea area that lacked strategic depth.  A scene of setting fire.

    Warships fired warning bells one after another. The sailors covered their aching ears and slightly numb soles of their feet, watching with a smug look on their faces as the capped armor-piercing projectiles, which often weighed hundreds of kilograms, soared into the air and turned into balls of blazing fire towards the sea.  The other side was smashed, and then clouds of white water mixed with black gunpowder smoke exploded.  Whenever dazzling lights and thick smoke erupt from the British fleet formation, these sailors, who sincerely hope that the Ocean Fleet will win, and are filled with strong patriotic emotions, will cheer for joy.

    Bruno, a member of the Derfflinger-class battle patrol damage control team, was standing by the starboard window of the Dog Transport God of War, witnessing the process of tempering the Ocean Fleet to become the King of the North Atlantic:

    ¡®At about 12:26, ??I saw a battleship left by the British on the far left side of the battlefield suddenly burst into a dazzling light.  The battleship is at least 16,000 meters away from us.  I borrowed a "Daguo Haihun" telescope from a colleague to observe it carefully, but I was embarrassed to find that I couldn't see anything of value at all. It had been shrouded in fire and thick smoke several kilometers high.

    This did not prevent my colleagues and I from jumping up and down excitedly in the narrow side compartment passage, until the alarm of another round of shelling from the Derfflinger came from the ubiquitous box buzzer.  Come, I calmed down and approached the porthole again to look at the poor guy.

    Except for the thick smoke that hasn¡¯t dissipated yet.  We can no longer find any evidence on the undulating waves of the North Sea that can prove the existence of that battleship.  At the bottom of my heart I was ecstatic, and at the same time I was curious about whose hand it was that the British misfortunes came from.  Yes.  Our great battleship Derfflinger had already sunk a super-dreadnought (all Derfflinger crews counted Thor as the Derfflinger's victory).  Three battlecruisers, two old-fashioned battleships, have the title of dog-carrying battlecruisers, but I don¡¯t mind at all that our credit book is a little richer'

    Bruno was describing the Indefatigable-class battlecruiser New Zealand of the British Fourth Battlecruiser Fleet.  This last widow, known as the cheapest battleship ever built, once again became a powerful argument to prove the 'turret magnet' theory during the Battle of Orkney in 1917. It was used by a 350mm Derfflinger-class battlecruiser.  The capped armor-piercing projectile penetrated the turret, causing the ammunition magazine to explode and sink.

    The destruction of the New Zealand battlecruiser is no longer worth the time it takes to describe it.  Starting from the Battle of Dogger Sandbank, both the Invincible-class and Indefatigable-class battleships, as well as the King George V-class battleships that have been boasted by the British for a long time, have all been killed by the German Navy with one shot, and history  Strikingly similar, they both have turrets penetrated.  The ammunition depot exploded and sank.

    The only thing worth debating is David Beatty¡¯s role in the sinking of the battle cruiser New Zealand.  After Betty's resurrection, as the third Sea Lord in charge of the British Navy's shipbuilding affairs, he bluntly pointed out that British battleships disdained the protection and "entertainment show" existence of the British battleships, and demanded that the naval design department be replaced as soon as possible.Develop plans to enhance the protection level of active battleships.

    Judging from the tragedy of the New Zealand battle cruiser being fired upon, it was not that David Beatty did not work hard enough, but that the British Empire¡¯s mistakes in the design of its battleships were already hard to recover from.

    Around 11:27, the Fourth Battlecruiser Fleet lost their squadron flagship. The battlecruiser Indomitable, as the original product of Fisher's "perfect cruiser" theory, survived alone on the North Sea.

    This old battlecruiser was lucky enough to survive the tragic Battle of Orkney Islands.  After the war, the British, who were saddled with triangular debts, were eager to cash out. Regardless of the opposition of the Dominion of New Zealand, they insisted on giving the old ship as collateral to Spain and Argentina. However, they were flatly rejected by the Spanish and Argentinians who were crazy about German warships.  After several twists and turns, the old ship was finally given to the newly established European power Poland for free at an ultra-low price of 150,000 pounds.

    Even though the Fourth Battle Cruiser Fleet suffered heavy losses, the turn of the First Battle Fleet and the Fourth Battle Cruiser Fleet must continue.  The only thing that makes the commanders of these two fleets happy is that the clumsy performance of the Second Battle Fleet gave them enough time to prepare before starting the turn at sea. The stepped cruising formation of the three squadrons that deliberately widened the distance and angle can  Help them complete turns and changes in the fastest time.

    This is a duel between German artillery and British speed, and the competition will continue!  "(To be continued.)</dd>
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