The sinking of the battleship York meant the complete rout of the Allied Combined Fleet's 2nd Squadron, which was already weak, with only 3 under-armored King George V-class battlecruisers and 2 poorly armored Kronstadt-class battlecruisers.
Now having lost 1 King George V-class, it is simply impossible to resist 2 Hindenburg-class and 4 Veneto-class.
As a result, Admiral Ingersoll had to order the disbandment of the 2nd Squadron and allow the remaining 2 King George V and 2 Kronstadt to escape.
The decision to disband the 2nd Sentai also means that the main force of the European Combined Fleet has lost its containment, and the 2 powerful Hindenburg-class and 4 Veneto-class will soon come to attack the 1st Sentai of the Allied fleet If the 1st Confederate Fleet could not defeat the 1 Bismarck-class, 2 Richelieu-class and 2 Barbarossa-class ships in front of them before this, then the sea supremacy in the North Atlantic would have to return to the Germans.
At the critical moment, Admiral Ingersoll suddenly heard a cheer of "Ula" in his ears.
He hurriedly raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of a staff officer's finger beside him, it turned out to be a Barbarossa-class battleship shrouded in water injection, which was a straddle shot Probably sensing the danger, the Barbarossa-class suddenly began to turn, as if it wanted to turn away, but in fact, the other Barbarossa-class and the Prinz Eugen heavy cruisers also began to turn and prepare to run away.
It turned out that after the disbandment of the 2nd Sentai of the Combined Fleet of the Allied Powers, Marshal Lütjans also ordered the disbandment of the 2nd Sentai of the Combined European Fleet.
At the same time, he ordered the 1st Squadron of the Combined European Fleet to pursue the battleship Anson and the 3rd Squadron to pursue the battleship Howe.
According to the calculations of Admiral Lütjans, his two warbands were enough to annihilate two British battleships.
In this way, he won three major results very well tonight.
And two of the Americans' South Dakota-class battleships have been wounded and will most likely go to the dock for overhaul.
In this way, the mainstay of the Allies in the Atlantic were the four Soviet-class battleships and the two Kronstadt-class battlecruisers of the Soviet Red Navy With these six Soviet warships, the sea supremacy of patrolling the North Atlantic was not yet firmly back in the hands of Germany Lütjans's wishful thinking played well, but at this time on the battlefield, there was a sudden change that he did not expect.
The battleship Barbarossa is in this time and space, the O-class is an upgraded version of the Scharnhorst class, and it is not the battleship of the Soviet Union that is the foreign power and the middle of the battle patrol that recruits it Although the defense of the Soviet-class battleships was flooded, the radar and fire control were newly installed, and the officers and men of the Red Navy had not yet mastered it.
The 52SKC34 gun is a genuine German gun, exactly the same as the gun system used in the Hindenburg class.
Moreover, the Soviet class also has the characteristics of large ships carrying small guns, and the full load displacement of 650,000 tons is more than 2,000 tons larger than the 630,000 tons of the Hindenburg class.
The firing accuracy of the cannon is relatively high, and as long as the elements are measured, it is easy to hit the target.
The high-speed flick pierced its port armor belt.
This time, the fuse, which was always malfunctioning, exploded after the shell penetrated the boiler room at the waterline, not only blowing up a boiler room, but also blowing up an important steam pipe to the engine room, reducing the Barbarossa's speed from 30 knots to 10 knots.
However, the Barbarossa's bad luck had only just begun, as before it was hit by the Soviet Union, Lütjans had already ordered the 2nd Sentai to disband.
So the faster Bismarck, Jean-Bar, Napoleon Kaiser and Schlieffen all dispersed, and the Tirpitz, which withdrew first, also ran away.
Only the Barbarossa was left unfast, and it was immediately besieged by 2 South Dakota-class and 4 Soviet-class ships.
Although Rear Admiral Lindemann, who found that the situation was not right, the commander of the 2nd Sentai hurriedly ordered the Bar, Napoleon, and Schlieffen to move closer to the Bismarck, in an attempt to reorganize the team to rescue the Barbarossa.
But 2 South Dakota-class and 4 Soviet-class 54 406 cannons did not intend to spare the Barbarossa.
The battleship was now a substitute for the Tirpitz, having been hit by a dozen 406 shells in a matter of minutes, burning the entire deck and knocking 2 of the 3 turrets flying.
At 11:20 p.m., disaster befell the Barbarossa, a 406 shell fired by the Soviet Ukrainian battleship once again penetrated the Barbarossa's waterline armor and then crashed all the way to the vicinity of the Barbarossa's No. 2 boiler room, a huge explosion swept through the No. 2 boiler room, and the steam and toxic smoke instantly killed everyone nearby.
Subsequently, the battleship, with a standard displacement of up to 330,000 tons, completely lost power, was scarred, was enveloped in fire, and could no longer move.
Five minutes later, the commander of the European Combined Fleet, Ruttejens, reluctantly gave the order to abandon the Barbarossa, and a Z-destroyer approached the Barbarossa with 406 shells that kept coming, saving the surviving officers and men on board, and then firing torpedoes at the giant ship, ending its suffering.
Now the two sides are tied 1: 1 in the number of losses of battleships.
However, the draw is only temporary.
At 11:30, the 1st squadron of the combined European fleet caught up with the British battleship Anson.
This time, 2 Hindenburg-class and 4 Veneto-class ships beat 1 King George V class.
Deadly shells from 16 406 cannons and 36 380 cannons rained down.
The shell hit the aft deck of the Anson, blew a large hole, and ignited something, and the fire burned on the "ass" of the Anson.
After another 2 minutes, the 406 shells fired by the battleship Hindenburg made another contribution, this time hitting the No. 3 turret aft of the Anson, and the armor protection of the 1275-inch 324 could not resist the penetration of the 406 shells at all, and the No. 3 turret was knocked off the spot.
The huge shock caused by the explosion of the shells caused the No. 4 turret of the Anson to fail, and the turret failure was due to the old problem of King George V's class, which prevented it from firing, and the stern of the Anson lost all its firepower.
Upon discovering this, the Admiral Hipper, which was still in the 1st Squadron, immediately pursued the heavy cruiser at full speed with several Z-destroyers, intending to torpedo the stern of the Anson.
The Leander-class light cruiser, which was following the Anson, could only fight hard, and engaged in a fierce battle with the Admiral Hipper, which was soon beaten to the ground and sunk into the icy Atlantic Ocean after 15 minutes of hard work.
Although the sacrifice of this light cruiser held off the Admiral Hippel, it could not withstand the constant fire of shells 406 and 381.
Shells and 3 381 shells hit the Anson's "ass" and the back of the ship's amidships.
The shells also penetrated the rear chimney deck of the Anson, drilled into the boiler room and made a big explosion, and milky white high-pressure steam was immediately ejected from the amidships of the hull, forming a jet stream tens of meters high.
This scene made Admiral Ingersoll on the battleship USS Soviet, who was rushing to the rescue, look at it squarely.
Ingersoll's face was ugly to death, and the explosion of the boiler room meant that the speed of the ship's hull had dropped significantly, and the Anson was less lucky At this moment, there was a sudden earth-shattering noise in the distance, and I don't know whose ammunition depot exploded "It's the Howe, it was blown up by the Germans with V3 missiles, it's finished," Fraser's trembling voice rang out, "God, today is the darkest day in the history of the British Royal Navy, we have lost the Duke of York, and we have lost Howe, and there is only one Anson left, and it seems that it will not be saved."
God, what can we do?"
Bulganin didn't understand English, but he knew the reactionary word "god".
This comrade military commissar thought to himself: God can't save you reactionary imperialists now, and it seems that in the fight against Nazis and fascism, it is still necessary to rely on the powerful Red Navy and the Red Navy to be the mainstay of the anti-Nazi struggle in the Atlantic Bulganin's idea was at least half right, and now even God can't save the Anson.
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The 2 Hindenburg-class and 4 Veneto-class ignored the 406 shells from the 1st Sentai of the Allied Combined Fleet, and just bombarded the Anson, which was about to turn into a "volcano".
At 11:45 p.m., the last remaining King George V-class battleship also ushered in its own end.
Maybe the shells penetrated the ammunition depot, maybe the fire spread and ignited the ammunition depot, maybe it was something else.
In short, after a loud bang, the stern of the Anson disappeared into the air, and the icy water poured inexorably into the hull.
The battleship also slowly sank into the sea.
Fortunately, however, a few minutes before the explosion of the Anson's ammunition depot, the captain of the Anson gave the order to abandon the ship in time.
Therefore, after the sinking of the Anson, most of the officers and men on board did not sink to the bottom of the sea together, but floated on the icy sea in life jackets.
Incidentally, the ships of the Combined European Fleet did not salvage or attack them, as a fierce battle soon ensued between the 1st Squadron of the two Combined Fleets.
Most of the British officers and men who fell overboard were later salvaged by the Red Caucasus and Kirov, who ventured to the rescue, and the two Soviet heavy cruisers were busy salvaging the drowning men without firing a single shot or being attacked in tonight's engagement t1706231537: