To the southeast of the Hood, Somerville lay on the windowsill of the Nelson bridge, leaning forward, his face full of shock, pain and disbelief.

Across seven or eight hundred meters, Somerville could feel the terrifying power of the Hood explosion.

The battlecruiser Hood, the pride of the Royal Navy of the British Empire, was so sunk?

Less than ten minutes before the war started, I sank into the sea in such a tragic way.

Somerville rubbed his eyes and looked at the location of Hood again, and soon confirmed that he had no hallucinations. Hood's figure had disappeared without a trace.

"The time is too short, they can't escape, more than 1,400 people."

Somerville murmured to himself with grief that he had a lot of experience. It took only three or four minutes for the Hood to break and sink. In such a short time, the sailors on the ship had no time to escape, let alone the big explosion inside the hull was enough to kill almost half of the crew.

Standing up straight, Somerville's eyes turned to the German warship in the distance and shouted loudly: "Left rudder 25 degrees, all main guns will modify the targets, and priority will be given to attacking the opponent's battleships."

Somerville also found that his side was in an unfavorable position, and the German warship occupied the T-shaped cross-section position, facing his own warship. His own warship's superior firepower could not be fully utilized, so this unfavorable situation must be reversed immediately.

Picking up the telescope, Somerville looked at the German warship with thick smoke emitting from the opposite side, the bow of the ship sank into the sea, and the stern of the ship was raised high, and muttered angrily: "It is really unforgivable to actually recognize the wrong target.

After receiving the order from Somerville, the battleship Nelson turned urgently and headed towards the enemy with starboard. The triple-mounted sixteen-inch main gun, which was idle in the previous battle, slowly turned and pointed at the German warship with a cold light.

The sighters controlled the large rangefinder and re-locked the target, pointing directly to Bismarck and Tirpitz.

Somerville was busy adjusting the position of the local fleet. After Bismarck and Tirpitz joined forces to kill Hood, they also found new opponents.

The Bismarck came to the Prince of Wales, while the Tirpitz came to the Nelson.

The gunners skillfully adjusted the direction of the muzzle, and the nearly 750 kilogram shell was stuffed into the barrel again. They could roar again when the distance measurement was completed.

On Prince Eugen, Chen Dao was chasing Somerville in a grief.

The Blüchel sent a report that the damage failed and the ship had to be abandoned.

The stern of the Blücher was already lifted off the sea surface. The crew received an order to abandon the ship and put down their lifeboats in an orderly manner. Some anxious crew members lined up impatiently, jumped directly into the sea water, and then swam towards the lifeboat.

The crew of the Blüchel was racing against time. They had to flee the warship before the Blüchel sank, and the lifeboats had to flee the vortex area before the Blüchel sank.

Fortunately, the British warships had already discovered that they had misjudged the target at this time. They were not concentrating their firepower to attack the Blüchel, leaving more hope for life for the Blüchel crew.

Chen Dao withdrew his gaze and turned to the British destroyer opposite him.

He walked to Captain Brinkman, the captain of the Prince of Eugen, and said in a deep voice: "There are three destroyers left on the other side. How long will it take to kill them?"

"Ten to fifteen minutes," Colonel Brinkman said.

After a brief contact, Prince Eugen and Admiral Hippel rushed to the southeast and northeast directions respectively, attacking the British destroyers in the center of the battlefield from both wings.

The British local fleet dispatched a total of seven destroyers, two of which left to protect the USS Kewei aircraft carrier, and the remaining five followed the main force of the fleet to participate in the battle.

After the battle broke out, the five destroyers faithfully fulfilled their obligations with the pride of being a member of the Royal Navy, with allegiance to the empire and the king. They rushed towards the German fleet at a high speed of more than thirty knots, firing sixty torpedoes in a row, disrupting the position of the German enemy ships.

After releasing the torpedoes, they avoided the torpedoes fired by the German army, flew 120mm naval guns, and fought with the German destroyer rushing towards them.

The anti-aircraft gunners on the ship even fired 40mm anti-aircraft guns, fighting with four German destroyers.

Behind them, four light cruisers led by the Galati were not willing to fall behind, and provided support to the destroyers with their 152mm main guns.

After a war, they sank the German destroyers Z19 and Z21, and the destroyers Wenze and Wavern were also sank by German warships one after another.

The other three destroyers were also injured.

The three destroyers saw two heavy cruisers diagonally cut to the left and right wings. The crew members on the ship were baptized by death and blood. At this time, their feverish minds were gradually awakened.

The instinct of survival defeated the desire for honor, and the three destroyers turned around and fled without hesitation, wanting to escape from the encirclement.

However, high speeds of more than thirty knots cannot escape the tracking of shells.

Two powerful opponents quickly seized the wings at a speed no less than them.

Prince Eugen took the lead in firing, with two twin 203mm main guns on the bow pointing to a medium-range destroyer and a light cruiser that covers firepower behind the destroyer.

The three dual-equipped 105mm high-level dual-purpose cannons on the port side fired shells at the escaped destroyer at a speed of about five or six seconds.

The Veteran destroyer suffered two rounds of six 105mm guns, and immediately became the "Old Sick".

The buildings on the right and above the ship's side were riddled with holes in the 105mm armor-piercing bombs.

At the bow of the ship, the once arrogant triple torpedo launcher has now become unrecognizable and has turned into a pile of twisted and wrapped scrap steel pipes.

The bulkhead on the right side of the bridge turned into honeycomb coal, and the glass on the front disappeared, leaving only hollow window frames and glass fragments.

At the middle and rear of the ship, rolling black smoke emerged from the bullet holes in the chimney, blacking a large area of ​​the hull building on the right rear.

The two 120mm naval guns at the bow of the ship were still making unnecessary resistance, but the two 203mm shells immediately shut up.

The turret of the "Laoyan" was overturned together with the first floor, and two 203mm high-explosion bombs followed one after another hit the bridge in a dangerous building. It was completely razed to the ground.

After the 203mm high-explosive bomb in the third and fourth rounds were swept, the chimney of the "Lao Dysfunction" disappeared. Only one of the two main guns at the stern of the ship was left, but then flew into the sky in a tragic explosion.

The 105mm high-level dual-purpose cannon lived up to expectations. The heavy rain-like shooting successfully detonated the "Laoyan" boiler. White steam, fiery red flames and black smoke mixed together and sprayed out, with several charred human-shaped objects in the middle.

During this round of explosion, the destroyer "Lao Dang" completely turned into a flat-topped ship floating on the sea.

Seeing that he had successfully cast the destroyer into scrap iron shells, Brinkman turned his target to another seriously injured destroyer, the Wild Swan.

The Wild Swan has now become a swan that was shot into an arrow. Without the elegance of a swan, it is somewhat ugly as an ugly duckling.

Not only chimneys, but black smoke and steam rushed out of the various gaps of the Wild Swan.

The hull was like a mud-footed giant, sometimes fast and sometimes slow, driving on the sea one by one.

There is no mercy on the battlefield, Prince Eugen successfully played the role of the killer.

A row of 105mm armor-piercing bombs straited into the waterline of the Wild Swan ship, and a row of water inlets were chiseled out, ending the Wild Swan's meaningless escape operation.

Lowering the muzzle, Prince Eugen's stern C turret fired a deadly volley.

The 203mm shell easily penetrated into the stern of the Wild Swan and detonated its deep-water bomb.

The spherical shock waves diffuse from small to large in the air and are swiftly spreading, carrying countless ship parts and steel debris.

Chen Dao clearly saw a cabin door passing by the sea, making seven or eight water floats. Then he sank into the bottom of the sea.

Four or five human-shaped objects flew into the sky, and then fell into the surging sea like dumplings.

After the explosion, the only third of the ship's head of the Wild Swan, with a torpedo tube and the only 120mm cannon, poured it into the sea on its back and quickly sank into the water, leaving only a large piece of oil and various wreckage fragments.

Chen Dao looked around the sea and could not find the shadow of the third destroyer.

Brinkman kindly reminded him that the destroyer had been sunk by Admiral Hippel.

"We killed all the British destroyers, and all the instability factors have been ruled out. The real decisive battle is the following." Lütjens said.

Chen Dao nodded, turned to look at the surrounding sea area, and muttered in a low voice.

Brinkman's left ear trembled a few times, and he vaguely heard "Why haven't you come out yet? Hiding deep enough."

Could it be that the Schánhorst and the Gneisenau are hidden nearby?

Brinkman immediately dispelled his speculation that the two warships would take at least four or five hours to arrive, and it would not be possible to appear here.

Who is hiding? What is General Rosen waiting for? Brinkman's mind is full of question marks.

Without time to ask Chen Dao, Brinkman immediately commanded Prince Eugen to join the new round of battle.

"That's the Tirpitz? It looks so miserable?" Chen Dao exclaimed.

"Its b turret was hit, and debris invaded the bridge. People outside the armor protection in the bridge may suffer heavy losses." Lütjens said.

The moment Prince Eugen turned around, Chen Dao saw a huge dent on the front armor of the turret on the head of the Tirpitz.

A huge crack was also torn at the connection between the front armor and the top armor, and two huge gun barrels were lifted up and one was drooped down.

B Behind the turret, there was a steel plate owing to the lower right of the bridge, which looked like a scar from a distance.

Who did it? He dared to take such a heavy hand at Tirpitz? Chen Dao turned his head and looked at the British army array in the distance, trying to find out the culprit who hurt Tirpitz.

Somerville burst into laughter in excitement on the battleship Nelson.

The Nelson battleship successfully completed its gorgeous turn, and all nine 406mm main guns were put into battle.

After the first and second rounds of the shooting, the three main guns of the ship Nelson successfully hit Tirpitz in the third round of volleys.

Somerville saw a black dot flying into the sky with his own eyes, and it must have hit its main turret on the head of the ship.

With the power of the 406mm shell, the turret will definitely be completely invalid. Unless you return to China for overhaul, don't think about firing again.

However, with the Royal Navy, it will certainly not have the opportunity to return home to repair it.

A few more rounds of volleys can sink it, four or five?

Although the Nelson also received two shells, it did not hurt the vital points and did not affect the performance of combat effectiveness. Somerville was confident that he could deal with the opponent.

"Report, the destroyer formation was completely wiped out, and the light cruiser formations Galati and Kenya were seriously injured and lost their combat effectiveness. Request to withdraw from the battle." A staff officer shouted to Somerville.

Somerville's attention was all focused on the battleship opposite at this time, and he had no time to take into account such trivial matters, and said simply:

"Exit is allowed. Where is the Suffolk and Norfolk?"

A moment later, another adviser replied: "They have arrived at the battlefield and are fighting fire with a German-class armored ship."

Somerville nodded with satisfaction, then his eyes lit up. He clearly saw black smoke coming out of the middle of the hull of the battleship opposite.

"I hit it again! Long live Nelson!" Somerville couldn't help but shout.
To be continued...