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At 18:15, the sky gradually became dark and the sea breeze stopped completely. The sparse sea fog and the choking smoke finally brewed into a haze covering the Jutland Sea. The Ninth Destroyer, which belonged to the First Battlecruising Fleet, and so much so that the sailors in the Royal Princess watchtower could only look for the figure of the target ship in the dark light.[]

"The target ship was shot! The landing point is located at the edge of the lifting turret with a back-mounted turret at the stern of the target ship. The armor-piercing projectile penetrates its horizontal armor belt!" In the eyepiece of the observant officer on the Commander Tower of the Royal Princess, the huge shadow of the target ship seemed to jump suddenly, and a thick smoke suddenly burst out from the stern deck, and orange flames appeared in the smoke.

There was a lot of joy in the commander's tower of the Royal Princess. The Defringer-class battle cruiser is the most powerful first-class battle cruiser in Germany's history. Its defense and firepower are no less than that of a bulky dreadnought. Regardless of whether the armor-piercing shell can penetrate the upper armor belt on the side and then penetrate the artillery well again or the heavy defensive armor of the ammunition depot, at least one of the main turrets of the Defringer-class has damaged its combat power!

"Armor-piercing bombs, full turret half a cannon, and the launch is ready!"

In naval battles, the more fires are fired, the more water columns splashed on the side of the target ship, and the easier it is to observe. In the era of the Dreadnought, the combat distance is usually over 10,000 yards. It is not easy to measure the distance and scheduling the shooting at this distance. Therefore, the full turret half-cannon volley has become a common technology in naval battles of the Dreadnought in the Steam Age.

The British cheered and cheered with all their wicked de Fringer class, who was already injured, started a round of fire inconspicuous amid the grievances of the Captain of the Sedlitz, Moritz von Ogoti. After the shelling, it was called the most decisive bombardment of the outpost of the Jutland Naval Battle.

The bulky armor-piercing bullets are neatly arranged on the ammunition warehouse storage rack. Sailors wearing cotton clothes and special shoes carefully control the hydraulic grippers on the top track of the bulkhead to extract armor-piercing bullets and send the armor-piercing bullet warhead weighing 300 kilograms to the ammunition lifter. In the launch medicine warehouse, dangerous launch medicines are loaded in metal tubular containers. These launch medicines are also sent to the ammunition lifter and are sent to the ammunition loader together with the armor-piercing bullets. The sophisticated ammunition loader will adjust the loading amount of the launch medicine according to the data of the fire control command tower to ensure the accuracy of the shooting, and then place the launch medicines and the artillery shells directly facing the loading drum, and then push the loading drums from the push rods. When all this is done, the ammunition lifter will return to the ammunition warehouse to load the artillery shells and launch medicines for the second volley, and the loading drums are lifted to the artillery to push the armor-piercing bullets into the barrel.

After the loading barrel returns to the ammunition loading room, the artillery gate will be automatically locked. At this time, all safety chain devices have been released, and the "Fire Preparation Complete" indicator light in front of the fire control command tower gun captain is on. After each main gun captain has completed the shooting preparation repeatedly, a round of salvo aimed at throwing 2.4 tons of shells at the target ship can be carried out.

"emission!"

Accompanied by the powerful command of the gun captain, the four main turrets of the Deflinger fired a half-drill, and four armor-piercings were ejected. After a few seconds, the four idle main guns also opened fire at the target ship. Of course, the next shelling will not make the Royal Princess wait too long. Even under wartime conditions, the crazy German gunners can still make the four main guns with a diameter of 350 mm fire at 2.1 rounds per minute!

The good news of hitting the target ship has not yet been sufficiently fermented, and many staff members are still ignorant of the naval battle situation. At this time, four men rushed to the Royal Princess with the decisive aura of killing and decisiveness. At 18:17 on March 3, 1915, there was no wind on the Jutland coast of the North Sea, and the sky gradually darkened and the sea was foggy. Doomsday had already come, three 350mm armor-piercing bombs splashed around the Royal Princess, and broken shell fragments bumped into countless gorgeous colors on the hull covered with pearl white naval paint on the "Perfect Cat". At the same time, a 350mm armor-piercing bomb seemed to have crossed the air with a ball of fire, and smashed towards the Royal Princess like a broken bamboo.

With a touch, the two layers of ridiculous on the left side of the bow x turret of the Royal Princess, which combined were only 2 inches (50 mm) in total, were smashed by the armor-piercing part of the armor-piercing bullet weighing 300 kilograms like a piece of paper. The fine pieces flew into the air, rotating on the bow deck and flying!

In naval battles, the closer the combat distance, the more straight the trajectory of the shells is when the shells are shot. When the combat distance increases, the trajectory of the shells is higher, which means that under the conditions of rapid firing of the main guns, the shells will fall around the target ship with almost vertical trajectory like raindrops. When designing the drawings of the lion-level battle patrol, the awesome British Empire designers have never considered the issue of long-distance combat. If the 9-inch (229 mm) waterline belt of the Royal Princess playing the literal game is slag, then the "Perfect Cat" horizontal protection is set to two layers, each layer is only 1 inch thick, and the horizontal armor of only 2.5 inches (60 mm) above the servo can be called Tianwu Renren!

The matter is not over yet. The armor-piercing bomber exposes the "Perfect Cat" without bloodshed. The emperor's new suit about horizontal armor, which claims to be 9-inch gun well armor, then also caused great humiliation! The so-called 9-inch gun well armor of the Royal Princess is actually composed of a 6-inch (152) mm upper armour belt on the side side, a 3-inch (76 mm) gun well bombing machine and a loading barrel armor. The 350 mm smashed at the speed of sound was naturally penetrated by the cap armor-piercing bomb without any effort, and exploded in the ammunition loading room.

According to wartime practice, the ammunition loading room of each main gun must always be equipped with eight packs of launching medicine. The explosion of the armor-piercing bomb quickly detonated these launching medicines. More than ten ammunition loading hands stayed in the launching medicine room were instantly suffocated and died.

Below the Royal Princess launch medicine loading room is a launch medicine warehouse composed of four ammunition rooms and a transport room. Below is an ammunition warehouse for the placement of artillery shells. There are usually 4-inch and 2-inch watertight compartment explosion-proof doors between these compartments. The 50-mm watertight compartment armor and armor cover of the launch medicine loading room may not be unable to resist the energy generated by the explosion of armor-piercing bombs. However, the Royal Navy gunner opened the launch medicine warehouse in order to pursue the speed of artillery, which violated the "Safety Ordinance". The hatch of the bullet warehouse and the armored protective cover above the bullet barrel passage became the last straw that crushed the camel!

The fire spread along the passage between the launch medicine loading room and the launch medicine warehouse. Thirty-one sailors and the medical soldiers who rushed to the scene were burned to death in an instant. a The turret turret captain's order was exactly the same as Harvey, who was fighting the Lion, but this time welcoming the British will be tragic!

The fire water pump cannot stop the fire from spreading along the passage between the ammunition depots. Before the electric-driven ammunition depot was closed, the sea valve had not been opened, and the raging fire drove the damaged crew to retreat through the communication channel between the turret a and the ammunition depots b, so the turret a ammunition depot could no longer be avoided!

The oxygen near the turret was absorbed, and fourteen soldiers who were still fighting the fire were killed on the spot. With a rumbling sound, the Royal Princess trembled violently, and the shock waves generated by the explosion of the ammunition depot with more than 100 shells were gushing out of the hole chiseled out of the armor-piercing bomb. The top of the smoke was 300 feet (76 meters) away from the sea level. The flames were enough to illuminate the nearby water hundreds of meters of sea areas! The two coal bins near the turret, four boilers and a motor cabin were destroyed, hundreds of tons of sea water roared in at the first time, and the hundreds of tons of turret was thrown into the sky, and then it hit the bow heavily, smashing the horizontal deck of the bow directly!

The Royal Princess, which was running at high speed, instantly changed from a noble princess to a staggering old man. The hull was tilted forward and the speed dropped from 26.1 knots to 20 knots. In order to prevent the ammunition depot of the B turret B, the captain of the Royal Princess ordered the opening of the sea valve of the B turret, and the water was poured into the stern seal chamber to level the level. At this time, the sea water in the hull of the Royal Princess had approached 1,000 tons, and the speed dropped to fifteen knots.

The thick smoke lingers above the Royal Princess, and observation and counterattack have become a luxury. Even the big guys in the Commander Tower have to wear gas masks and continue to stick to their posts, because the Commander Tower's ventilation fan can no longer bring fresh air, and only the choking smoke is filled with choking smoke.

The Deflinger, who made a splash, was getting better. In less than two minutes, the Royal Princess was hit twice in a row. The No. 1 chimney and the engine room on the right below were completely destroyed. Accompanied by the harsh twisting of the steel plate and the white water mist leaked from the water pipes of the Parsons-style steam turbine, the Royal Princess hull was tilted 10 degrees to the right. The captain did not inject water into the left cabin to maintain balance, because the water inlet of the Royal Princess hull had reached 2,300 tons.

At 18:23, the Royal Princess's loss tube rescue was invalid, and the captain ordered the ship to abandon and all sea valves were opened. At 18:27, the Royal Princess, as the first sunken main ship in the fierce battle of Jutland, capsized and eventually sank into the cold silt bottom of the North Sea.
Chapter completed!