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After discovering the arrival of the British Home Fleet, Scheer ordered the seven battle cruisers led by Hipper and most of the destroyers to continue to clean up the severely damaged British fast fleet, while his main fleet spread out in a horizontal formation.
To meet the British fleet. 12:25.
At this time, the British battleships were lined up in column.
When the fleets of both sides approached a distance of 28 kilometers, Jericho ordered the fleet to turn right and open the battle line. 12:27.
The two sides were close to 25 kilometers, and Scheer ordered the German main fleet to also turn left and maintain the same course as the British fleet.
So the German army's 21 dreadnoughts and 10 pre-dreadnoughts formed a horizontal formation, immediately turned 90 degrees on the spot, turned into a column, and formed a battle line.
Both sides unanimously placed the most advanced battleships at the front of the battle line, and then lined them up from strongest to weakest.
The slight difference is that the British placed the two injured battlecruisers Lion and Royal Princess at the end of the battle line, while the Germans placed ten Dreadnoughts at the end.
The Bavaria, which was first in the German battle line, happened to be in line with the Royal Oak, which was second in the British army.
They were all arranged in sequence, one against one.
At this time, the number of capital ships forming the battle line on both sides was almost the same.
The British had 32 ships and the Germans had 31.
Of course, this was only about the same quantity.
Let’s not talk about the quality.
The ten German Dreadnoughts were basically blocking ships.
The life of the knife. 12:32.
The fleets of the two sides were 22 kilometers apart.
The Revenge, which was at the top of the British fleet, fired at the Bavaria first, which was the first shot in the decisive battle between the British and German navies.
Immediately afterwards, on two parallel battle lines of more than 30 kilometers long, heavy artillery from both sides fired in unison.
The earth-shattering sound of artillery filled every inch of space, and the beacon fire ejected from the muzzles reflected the air and sea water red.
This was a decisive naval battle between Britain and Germany.
It was also the largest and most powerful naval battle in human history.
It was also the only decisive battle in which both warring parties deployed their main fleets in full force.
This is a collision of more than one million tons of steel and flames.
The winner will gain complete strategic initiative and completely control the sea power of the North Atlantic.
This is a big fight in which both sides are willing to go all out.
The winner will get all the honors and results, and the loser will get nothing.
This was a battle that would determine the fate of the country, so officers and soldiers on both sides risked their lives.
In each salvo fired by both sides, hundreds of heavy artillery shells flew toward each other, and dozens of tons of steel and gunpowder were exchanged at every moment. 12:35.
The first hit of the main showdown between the two sides came.
What is more surprising is that it was not those cutting-edge super-dreadnought ships that achieved this result, but an old German pre-dreadnought ship Prussia.
Facing it was the battlecruiser Princess Royal.
The Royal Princess had been injured in the previous battle cruise duel.
The movement mechanism of the two forward main guns was stuck and was considered useless.
Only the two rear main guns could still fire normally, with only half of its combat effectiveness.
Even so, it still has four 343mm heavy guns available, while the Prussia only has four 280mm main guns.
The difference in firepower is extremely obvious.
But no matter how powerful the heavy artillery was, it was in vain.
The Royal Princess fired four salvos at the Prussian, all of which failed.
However, the Prussian's counterattack fire was much more accurate.
It hit the target in the fourth salvo and hit the target in the fifth salvo.
In the pre-war shipbuilding competition in China, Germany was clearly at a disadvantage.
They have much fewer battleships than the UK, and their manufacturing capabilities are not as good as the UK.
Germany can only start construction on up to five battleships at the same time, while the UK can start construction on nine battleships at the same time.
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This gap cannot be changed in a short time.
In order to try its best to reduce the gap, Germany naturally turned its attention to the pre-dreadnought.
In this plane, thanks to Wen Desi's extra large "Autonomous Five Mark", Germany has obtained more advanced main guns, fire control, and sighting systems.
So starting in 1910, the Germans successively upgraded and transformed their 20 pre-dreadnought ships, replacing them with new main guns and turrets, as well as fire control and sighting systems.
Although it is impossible to compare with a real dreadnought, it can at least give it a try.
The ten pre-dreadnoughts dispatched by Germany this time are five each of the Braunschweig class and the Deutschland class, which are their strongest pre-dreadnoughts.
These ten pre-dreadnoughts used to use a 283 mm 40-fold main gun with an elevation angle of only 22 degrees, and could only fire 240 kilograms of light projectiles, with a maximum range of only 18 kilometers.
After these former dreadnoughts were replaced with new 280 mm 45 times caliber main guns and new turrets, the elevation angle can reach 30 degrees, and they can fire 330 kilograms of heavy bombs, which greatly increases their power.
With the addition of new fire control and sighting systems, The effective range has been increased to 25 kilometers, and the hit rate has also been significantly improved.
It is precisely because of these magical changes that a fearless aircraft can achieve such good results.
The 280mm shell from the Prussia fell almost vertically, and thanks to the British habit of slashing armor, the horizontal armor of the Lion-class battle cruiser was only a pitiful 12.5 inches.
This 330kg armor-piercing incendiary bomb was almost useless.
It effortlessly penetrated the deck of the Princess Royal, penetrated several cabins in a row, and exploded in the boiler room.
Not only did it destroy many boilers, it also turned the entire boiler room into a flaming hell.
The Princess Royal's power suddenly dropped sharply, her speed dropped below 15 knots, and she could no longer keep up with the battle line. 12:37.
The British achieved their first victory when the King George V hit the Friedrich der Grosse and destroyed a secondary battery.
The Crown Prince gained an advantage in the battle with the Irish.
In this battle between the genuine Fuxi class and the counterfeit ones, the counterfeit ones were completely destroyed.
So far Ireland has missed a single hit, while Kronprinz has hit three in a row.
The British's bad habit of desperately reducing armor has also extended to knock-off products.
If it were replaced with a genuine Fuxi, it would not be a big problem to survive these three shots, but the knock-off products would be miserable.
Ireland's rear main gun magazine was penetrated, causing the ammunition to explode quickly.
The Irish was blown apart in the middle and sank into the sea miserably. 12:38.
The British retaliated.
One of the shells from the Neptune hit the underwater part of the Pomerania, penetrated the ship's plank and exploded in the torpedo room.
The detonated torpedo blew out a hole of more than three meters on her starboard side.
Big hole.
A few seconds later, the Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought ship disappeared from the sea in a burst of explosions.
The main fleets of both sides were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire, while the exchange of fire between the fast fleets on the other side was even more brutal.
The seven German battle cruisers and a large number of light ships pounced fiercely on the British fast fleet, which suffered heavy casualties.
The British fast fleet was not willing to die here.
They carried out tenacious resistance under the leadership of Major General Thomas.
Before the main exchange of fire just now, Jericho also asked eight armored cruisers and most of the light ships to come up for reinforcements.
The current lineup of the British army is three Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships, 8 armored cruisers, 10 light cruisers and 40 destroyers.
The German lineup consisted of seven battlecruisers, 13 light cruisers and 80 fleet torpedo boats including destroyers.
The largest number of German torpedo boats now is the Type 100 that China bought them.
This is a large torpedo boat, or small destroyer, specially designed for Germany.
In fact, it is a modified version of the 1935 class torpedo boat used by Germany during World War II.
It can be regarded as their own thing, but Mr.
Wen gave it to them twenty years in advance.
The German battle patrol ignored the immobile Warspite and concentrated all its main guns on Malaya and Barham.
At the same time, 80 fleet torpedo boats, led by light cruisers, launched an attack on the British fleet.
Although most of Germany's fleet torpedo boats are smaller in tonnage than British destroyers, they can't hold up many others.
The German oxygen torpedoes had a long range, and the torpedo boats also had a numerical advantage.
Soon, about 50 torpedo boats broke through the British artillery fire interception, reached the firing position, and fired torpedoes at the British fleet.
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These torpedo boats are generally equipped with six torpedo launch tubes in two triplexes.
This wave of torpedo salvo fired about 300 600mm heavy anti-ship torpedoes.
For a time, the sea was full of flying torpedoes.
This time, because we were dealing with a large number of light ships, half of the torpedoes had their fixed depth adjusted to 3 meters.
In the previous battle, the German torpedoes had left a deep impression on the British.
When the British ships saw the opponent launching torpedoes, they were frightened and quickly began to evade.
Of course, oxygen torpedoes are not completely without traces, but their traces are very short and faint, and can only be discovered at a very close distance.
In particular, the German Yasha torpedo has been modified by the Chinese.
The propeller design is much more reasonable than the Japanese original, and the track is even less obvious.
And most importantly, the propeller with a reasonable structure avoids the cavitation effect caused by high-speed rotation.
The reason why Japan's oxygen torpedoes had poor performance in the original time and space was largely due to the unreasonable propeller design.
Because their torpedo fuzes are very sensitive, and the constantly exploding cavitation bubbles cause the torpedoes to constantly vibrate during operation.
Most oxygen torpedoes are triggered by cavitation vibrations, and explode before they reach the target. .
After China's magic modification, the stability of the Yasha has completely surpassed the original Japanese version.
For example, none of the torpedoes used by the Germans this time exploded prematurely.
If it were replaced with an original Japanese torpedo, at least one-third would be wasted.
But now that the sun is shining in the sky, the sunlight reflected on the sea has caused great trouble to the lookouts, greatly reducing their warning distance.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom" A few minutes later, jets of water began to appear around the ships of the British fleet, and at the same time, dull explosions continued to sound.
Because the light ships were in the front, they were the first to suffer
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