On June 10, 1917, Berlin started a drama of forcing palaces, and the British standing across the North Sea were very sad and lost an expensive dreadnought ship inexplicably.

The Battleship of the Forbidden City sank. A violent explosion suddenly came from the depths of Scapa Bay, composed of Orkney Island, Hoy Island, South Ronasse Island and a group of small islands. The hull of the Forbidden City battleship of the Fifth Team of the First Battleship, which was stopped on the southeast side of Scapa Bay, broke and the sea water surged in. The officers and soldiers of the Forbidden City sank before they could open the Tonghai Valve and sank.

When the Battleship of the Forwards exploded, the torpedo officer of the St. Vincent, who was only separated from the Battleship of the Forwards, was lying in the spacious officer's lounge with his colleagues. Viat was holding a cup of coffee in his hand and chatting and laughing. After the explosion came from the port side of the battleship, the torpedo officer was quickly overturned to the ground by a powerful external force.

When Viat covered his arm, which was swollen quickly because he hit the steel plate of the warship, got up dizzy, he was surprised to find that the furnishings in the officer's lounge were all disrupted, the ground was full of broken mugs, overturned chairs, and tableware in a row, all over the ground.

The Fearless battleship of the Sixth Detachment of the First Battleship was closer to the Forward. Leto, the officer of the gun and artillery guarding the front mainmast of the Battleship, witnessed the entire process of the explosion of the Forward battleship.

“I joked in the fire control room that I found the Ocean Fleet in West Lame in the southwest.

I know that was a fantasy, because the Germans were busy suppressing the rebellion and driving away their emperor, and the German navy's god of war was also dragged by the rebellion at the port of Kiel. The German navy could not make provocation at this time. But my colleagues were all traditional British gentlemen with a sense of humor. They cooperated with my words and joked with each other. Adjusting the observer and telescope. At this time, I felt a strong and dazzling light came from the starboard side of the fire control room, followed by a violent explosion and a sudden burst of fire and smoke, which was about the same height as the main mast.

I felt a powerful force under my feet bounced away, and my forehead hit the calculation plate of the fire control room, and blood flowed. When I covered my forehead and got up again, thick smoke from the right had already occupied the entire fire control room. The thick smoke had the smell of gunpowder and burnt smell. I fell to my knees on the floor and coughed violently.

At this time, another explosion came from the starboard direction. I felt that the ship, which was nearly 20,000 tons under my feet, was like an insignificant toy, and it was violently rolling and moving across the ocean. Everything was tilting to the left, and the inclination was more intense than any large-angle turn we had experienced before, making us feel that the ship was about to overturn. The main mast above my head also made a heart-wrenching creaking sound, as if it could break at any time.

Fortunately, the Fearless did not overturn. Fire Control Officer Lawrence grabbed the calculation disk in the fire control room and asked what was wrong. We looked at each other with pale faces until the captain sounded the loss control report. We realized that something might have happened to a nearby ship."

Orkney Island. The Fleet Command Building also shook along with Scapa Bay. David Betty, who was flipping through the documents, looked at the coffee shaking in the mug, and felt a sense of badness.

Betty frowned slightly and walked quickly to the office windowsill, pulling up the blinds. The slightly drunk sea breeze in Scapa Bay brought a hot and choking smell. Betty effortlessly found mushroom-shaped smoke rising from the anchorage of the large fleet.

Betty could not see which battleship was exploding through the vast bay and the thick smoke that covered the sky, but the Admiral still swears.

"Damn it!"

Even if the explosion occurred, it had been serving for nearly ten years. In the traditional sense, the Fearless, which is no longer the main battleship of the large fleet, is also a Fearless ship that can be captured at critical moments!

Betty grabbed the military cap on her desk and rushed out of the headquarters building.

There were many officers and sailors gathered in the open space outside the building. They were shocked and rushed towards the other side of the bay like crazy, jumping high on the Shanghai embankment and trying hard to stretch their necks to look at the place where something was wrong.

The U.S. Navy Liaison Officer, who always acts in a frivolous denim style, stood on the steps of the headquarters building, looking at the smoke pillars soaring into the sky in Scapa Bay and jokingly said, "Look, man, the British are setting off fireworks!"

David Betty chose to ignore the pre-connection officer sent by the U.S. Admiralty Department, and walked towards the dock with great strides.

There were also many officers and sailors gathered on the Scapa Bay Pier, and there were many cruisers docked beside the pier. Destroyers and submarine officers and soldiers stood on the deck, sharing their views with concern.

"In less than a month, Scapa Bay had a ship collision accident between the fast fleet War Warfare and the Inconvenient Battle Cruise, and then the large light cruiser of the Brave went out to sea for training, and the bow was damaged by the wind and waves of the North Sea. Now another battleship exploded. Could it be that Scapa Bay had been cursed by the devil?"

"The devil's curse?" Betty asked back, his eyes a little cold.

The Navy is a modern aristocratic army, which has certain requirements for knowledge and education. Because of the special and unpredictable sea, the Navy is also a superstitious army, stubbornly following the customs that may have been passed down from the era of pirates, which lack scientific basis.

However, superstition is only aimed at subordinate officers and sailors, and the person who linked the devil's curse to the continuous occurrence of Scapa Bay "Sea Soul of the Great Power Chapter 7 Death of the Avant-garde (II)" must not be the captain of the brain and heart of a warship, even if he is just the captain of a destroyer!

The captain and other naval officers and soldiers did not notice the arrival of the Navy Command at all. It was not until an officer coughed softly that the captain and soldiers covered their mouths and were silent, making way for David Betty, who was frowning.

"Commander, the explosion was the Battleship of the Forward, the Battleship of the Port, and the Battleship of the Collingwood on the Starboard were damaged to varying degrees!"

There happened to be a destroyer with a boiler not yet turned off on the dock. Betty asked the destroyer that retained enough steam to re-activate the main engine to set off immediately for the accident. At this time, Betty's old partner Lieutenant General Lampard came in a hurry to report the accurate news.

The explosion is the avant-garde! Betty's heart sank and he actually had a hint of luck.

The Battleship of the Forward belongs to the Fifth Team of the First Battleship, and is the No. 3 of the St. Vincent-class battleship, with a standard displacement of more than 19,000 tons. It is equipped with five double-mounted 12-inch main guns and 20 single-mounted 4-inch secondary guns, with a side-side main armor of 710 inches, and a cost of 1.6 million pounds.

There is no doubt that this is a dreadnought that is enough to make second- and third-rate naval countries covet, and it is also an old battleship that was completed in February 1910 and served for seven years. As for the Dreadnought, since the high-intensity Battle of the Scargerac Strait, the old ship gradually withdrew from the main force of the large fleet due to severe wear and maintenance difficulties due to severe maintenance. However, the damage to the hull of the Collingwood caught Betty off guard.

The offshore destroyer with more than 200 tons increased its speed to 28 knots. It galloped on the ocean surface of Scapa Bay. Scapa Bay is a semi-enclosed sea area. The old captain with bearded sideburns is not worried about serious waves on the front deck. In addition to the existence of Betty and Lampard, the bold captain can speed up according to the order.

The thick smoke from the anchorage of the "Sea Soul of the Great Power" dissipated a lot of smoke. The Revenge-class battleships, the shadow of the Iron Duke-class battleships, continued to magnify and magnify in Betty's eyes. The second battleship that bypassed the reconstruction should be the first battleship where the Avant-class battleship was located.

"We have lost too many well-trained veterans in the Battle of Helgolan Bay, the Battle of Dogel Sands, the Raiders of Muderros Bay, the Battle of Skagrak Strait and the Battle of Portsmouth. The new officers and soldiers who came in were either students who graduated from the Navy in advance. They were retired for many years and were no longer suitable for the age of dreadnoughts, and even workers and farmers who had never contacted warships..."

After a long silence, Lampard took the lead in speaking. Lampard knew that his boss Betty had served as the Third Sea Secretary in charge of shipbuilding, and the 19151917 shipbuilding maniac, known as the miracle in the history of the world's naval forces, also had his efforts. Lampard also knew that Betty had been planning a decision to end the undefeated myth of Sylem and the Ocean Fleet.

From the perspective of the naval god's inheritance, Lampard agreed with Betty's point of view, but as a former deputy commander of the Rapid Fleet and a witness of "Skagerak's Gold", Lampard felt that he needed to remind the commander-in-chief of the Great Fleet.

"Commander, we have expanded too quickly in the past two years. Not to mention those first-class and second-class cruisers, three brave-class large light cruisers. The main battleships alone include five Revenge-class battleships, two Canadian-class battleships, three Prestige-class battleships and three Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, as well as two battleships and two battleships leased or purchased from Riben, Argentina, and Brazil. However, the Royal Navy is far from keeping up with the pace of fleet expansion in terms of fleet training, training of officers and soldiers and logistics support. Commander, we may not be as powerful as we imagined..."

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Therefore, the captain of the original Goddess of Dawn was promoted to the captain of the War War on the Line. The officers were also transferred from various fleets and even the clerks of the Navy. As for the sailors, there were mainly conscripts who had held merchant ships.

It can be said that most of the sailors of this warship are unqualified. The officers and captains have had experience in serving in the navy and commanded warships. However, the difficulty of driving a reconnaissance cruiser of thousands of tons and controlling a complex battleship is incomparable.

With such a team, the War-Welfare Battle Patrol accidentally entered the waterway of the Furth River in Scotland, stranded and damaged the hull. It is conceivable that it runs into the War-Forcing Battle Patrol during routine maritime training.

The encounter of the large light cruiser of the USS Brave is somewhat similar to the war patrol of the USS War. The land-breaking epoch-making product of the large light cruiser was originally designed for combat in the Baltic Sea. Although in Betty's hands, the problem of its high center of gravity was improved to a certain extent, it was still not suitable for sailing in the North Sea.

The captain of the Brave was an instructor of the military academy. This nerd who spent most of his life studying in the military academy seriously lacked the experience of sailing at sea. As a result, he led the new ship to the harsh weather in the North Sea. As a result, the surging waves in the North Sea quickly destroyed the bow of the Brave.

Betty seemed to be touched by Lampard's candidness, and Lampard decided to hit the iron while it was hot.

"And judging from Captain Collingwood's report, the Avant-garde is likely to have a mortal explosion. I'm worried that this has some kind of intrinsic connection with the greenboy we just installed!" (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!