"The deputy captain, the German 350 armor-piercing projectile pierced through our waterline belt main armor and knocked on a large hole with a diameter of nearly three meters. The engine compartment behind the turret was hit, the engine stopped running, and two other adjacent compartments were inlet!"

The power system of the engine room has been interrupted, and nearby water pumps have stopped operating one after another. The deputy captain who rushed to verify the situation has to hike the water and explore the upper passage not far from the engine room under the leadership of the team leader of the loss of the pipe.[]

In order to make up for the shortcomings of horizontal armor, the Buddy War patrol was laid in the engine room. A layer of dome armor for space exchange for survival was laid above the boiler room and ammunition depot. However, this corner cuts were completely bankrupt after the 350mm shell pierced through the engine room. When the deputy captain walked into the narrow communication channel on the upper part of the engine room, the passage was filled with leaking water vapor, coal smoke and sea water pouring in. Without the need to damage the captain, the deputy captain could see that the life of the Buddy War was hanging on the line.

"Deputy Captain, the explosion of the armor-piercing bomb caused the communication doors between several nearby sealed compartments to be damaged. Because the hole is too large and the leak-blocking work is not progressing smoothly, it may be flooded by sea water at any time, so..." The deputy captain insisted on continuing to move forward, and the captain of the loss management could not stop it, so he had to continue to persuade in vain.

"The captain sent me here to verify the situation, but it seems that there is no accident to verify it, so I will stand here and fight side by side with you. If death is the fate that the Britannian navy cannot escape, I, deputy captain of the Ultimate Navy, and Lieutenant Colonel Edward Cameron, are willing to share this glory with you!"

The deputy captain of the Buddy and took the waterproof flashlight from the captain of the loss control and jumped out of the cold sea water of the engine room without hesitation. The heroic spirit of the deputy captain moved many members of the loss control team who were still in a row. Many Royal Navy sailors followed the footsteps of the deputy captain, grabbed the plug and jumped out of the whirlpool of the engine room without hesitation, gritted their teeth and endured the invasive chill, and tried to swim towards the torn hole.

The waters of the North Sea in late winter and early spring are cold, and human ambitions are not enough to resist the ruthlessness of nature. Even if these lovely officers and sailors can complete the leak-blocking work, most of them will lose their young lives, and the rest will have to amputate their limbs or lie on the hospital bed for the rest due to severe frostbite.

"But..." Captain of the Loss Control jumped down, and a rough voice rang out throughout the engine room: "Who the hell cares about these things!"

****

The joy of accurately hitting the British Untired at a distance of more than 10,000 yards has not yet fermented, and the bad news of the German being shot has come one after another. The tremor caused by the armor-piercing bomb hitting the hull seems to be just the beginning, and the explosion continues to take place in the next ten seconds.

A long wound was cut out of his arm that hit the corner of the table, and blood was revealed unscrupulously. The smell of blood was ripped in the commander of the German Command. The captain of the German who had lost too much blood took out a handkerchief and bandaged him hastily, tried to get up from the thick deck, stumbled and moved towards the microphone that fell on the steel plate.

"The commander tower, Emil's turret was shot, and the armor-piercing projectiles in the bomb-receiving machine exploded. The damage team has rushed over!"

The microphone was filled with the tragic sound of the Dora turret captain. The USS Deutschman, who was still energetic a few seconds ago, was stunned. The inside phone and microphone of the warship with black paint was cut out by him.

The two battle patrols of the Germans were the New Zealand and the Devourish class battle patrols. This is a fast battleship that can be regarded as an enhanced armored cruiser in a sense. The four 12-inch main guns have relatively considerable firepower, but they can only scare people in front of the large and round rear Sedlitz type battle patrol. However, as a few failures in the history of German military industry, the Devourishibaba is obviously not in this rank.

At 7:04, a 305mm armor-piercing bomb hit the upper armor belt on the starboard side of the Emil turret at the stern of the German ship. The British armor-piercing bomb with picric acid was rarely not exploded early. The German 100mm upper armor belt and 100mm gun well armor were continuously penetrated, the launching medicine in the ammunition conveyor was detonated, and the ammunition loader and the ammunition loader in the launching medicine room were swallowed one after another. The continuous explosion forced the 50mm armor protective cover above the ammunition depot to face the most cruel test, because it was enough to end any major battleship's ammunition depot and launching medicine depot.

Fortunately, the Germans did not pursue the ultimate speed of fire like the British. Good fire protection design and fire protection discipline saved this German warship.

The Germans did not have the habit of preparing the launching medicine in the ammunition loading room. The two layers of armored protective covers, the ammunition depot and the launching medicine loading room, are only opened when the ammunition conveyor is working. The launching medicine in the launching medicine storage room is even placed in a waterproof, fire-proof and anti-static brass metal container. Therefore, even if the launching medicine of the shells in the ammunition conveyor is detonated, the last layer of armored protective cover is slightly distorted and deformed due to the shock wave, and the fire did not eventually spread to the ammunition depot.

The effects of the 305 armor-piercing shells and the 350 shells that were fired with the fired medicine were superimposed. The internal organs of the German gunner were instantly shattered, and dozens of young lives ended. The thick smoke and poison produced by the juicy acid burning of the 305 armor-piercing shell spread along the ventilation system. The sailors who were shocked unconsciously inhaled a large amount of high temperature and harmful gases, which burned the lung lobes and damaged the central nerves. The damaged tube team members and medical staff with gas masks had to carry the injured and coma sailors to retreat from the communication channel between the Dora turret lifting the turret at the stern of the ship and the Emir turret ammunition depot. As the communication doors between the two ammunition depots were closed, the sea valve was opened, and the possibility of the Emir ammunition depot being destroyed no longer exists.

The German was lucky enough to steal his life, but he was already dying. The boiler, which was simply repaired, broke down again due to violent tremors, and the bow of the ship filled with plugs seeped again. The ammunition depot at the bottom of the Emil turret was engulfed by sea water. Although the sea water could be drained, the fire near the ammunition depot was completely extinguished. In order to maintain the balance of the hull, the captain of the German ship had to order water injection into the two dry compartments on the port side to level the level. Until then, the hull had nearly 1,000 tons of water inlet and its speed dropped to 20 knots.

****

At 7:047 on March 4, 1915, the first ray of dawn that scattered on the northern ocean, which not only meant that the darkness that plagued the navy all night collapsed, but also opened the opponent's trump card hidden in the fog.

In order to better observe the landing points of the shells and form a cross-fire as soon as possible, the two most combat-capped steel fleets on the planet simultaneously used the full turret and half-air shooting tactics. After the shrill buzzer, the air on the deck of the Luzov seemed to solidify, and 4 350mm armor-piercing shells gushed out of the thick cannon barrel of the main turret. The astonishing recoil made the entire warship officers and soldiers still groaned. The 31,054-ton platoon of steel giant ships seemed to have stopped for a moment, and they jumped slightly on the cold sea.

The choking smoke spread from the hot barrels of the two main turrets of Bruno, and lingered near the main mast. A few seconds later, the old opponent, the 343mm armor-piercing projectile, which had nearly lost water columns of splashed by the old rival, the Lion Battle Cruise, arrived as scheduled, and its height was even level with the Luzov Watchtower.

The dusty lookout soldier had no time to take care of his wet military uniforms, grabbed the telescope and cursed to check the landing point of the British 343, and fed the news to the Commander Tower.

"Commander Tower, at 7:04, the Lion opened fire at Luzov, three long shots and one near missing shots, and the shrapnel seemed to scratch the profile of an 88-cannon in the middle."

"Connect the damage control team of Section B and let them verify the information of the watchtower!" Wang Heidi, the commander of the First Reconnaissance Fleet, sat on a shaking chair, and the slightly damaged pocket watch was grabbed in his hand. The calming medicine box in the left pocket of the dark military uniform was faintly revealed. Major General Paul Henry, the captain of the Luzov, glanced at the lieutenant general whom he admired, tried his best to imitate the calm expression of the lieutenant general, raised his head and gave his deputy captain a command. At this time, the range-finding tower reported the results of this round of shooting:

"Commander Tower, at 7:04, Luzov opened fire at the Lion. Three near-lost bullets, one armor-piercing bullet may cause near-lost bullets, or directly hit the bottom of the ship. The Lion suffered obvious tremors and displacement. The specific results cannot be confirmed!"

As the flagship of two fast fleets, the fate of the two battle patrols is the fate of the two battle patrols. Although it was not the first time they hit the opponent, the news that the arrogant Lion Battle Patrol was shot still relieved the officers and soldiers of the Luzov. The good news was promptly reported, and the small commander tower was filled with ease and confidence. However, the noisy sound of the watchtower sounded again.

The panic, surprise, confusion and stubbornness in the voice of the lookout soldier hit everyone's eardrums through the small telephone microphone.

"God, please tell me this is not an illusion!"

Along the rising sunlight in the east, a super fleet of 20 dreadnoughts appeared in the tube of the Observatory Telescope. They sprayed thick coal smoke and hung the traditional Nelson Z-shaped combat flag, which was turning from six columns to a 10-kilometer battle line.

The lookout was unforgettable and subconsciously looked for reinforcements from his side. So he saw another stunning scene. In the southwest, a steel fleet with seventeen main battleships came over the waves. The iron cross hanging on the top of the main mast and the black hawk flag fluttered high and clanged, and the hull painted on a dark background was bathed in the golden sunlight.

The cold hull, the tight gun barrel, the towering main mast, the black chimney like a forest, and the long battle line, the German nation's newly nurtured heart of the ocean, the lookout was intoxicated, and the lookout who faced the British 343 and 381 shells but was unafraid of the lookout's tough face flashed quickly, and the confusion of the young people, and then turned into joy, the stubbornness of the Germans!

"Is this the British Empire's trump card?"

He was really tired of the British hiding their heads and tails. The large fleet in the northwest direction did not have a new ship that was secretly revealed. Wang Heidi finally breathed a sigh of relief, and with the enthusiasm of participating in history and rewriting history, he made a disdainful voice.

"Is this the trump card of the German Empire?!"

Leading ten fast battleships to war, losing a lion-class battleship, a Queen Elizabeth-class battleship lost its combat power, and the German battleship, which was predicted to have withdrawn from the battle or sunk, appeared in front of him in a swagger. The seventeen main battleships, although the Ocean Fleet did not have a new ship that was secretly revealed, still made the "sea cavalry" who had commanded many naval battles feel depressed. The courageous heart that was trained in the Nile River and the Far East Qing Kingdom did not cool down. Betty stepped into his heart with a not-so-great feeling, clapping his hands and jokingly.

"This is the trump card of a naval power!"

After the Dogel Shazhou Naval Battle, Kirifuka Fujimoto, a Japanese warship designer who marveled into the large fleet with the British-Japanese alliance relationship, wrote in his diary. Putting aside the former dreadnoughts, armored cruisers, light cruisers and destroyers, a sea area of ​​less than a thousand square kilometers actually gathered fourteen super dreadnoughts, twenty-three dreadnoughts, and thirteen battlecruisers. This is almost twice the total maritime powers of the United States, Japan, Italy, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the first and second-rate powers who are determined to compete for the sea!

"On this planet, I'm afraid that only these two countries have the strength to win the supreme throne of the ocean, and the settlement of ownership should be the pinnacle of this steam era!"
Chapter completed!