“(The third section of the North Atlantic Kings, life-changing play)

At 12:03 on June 21, 1917, at the Bay of Cromati on the south side of the Orkney Islands, the last large-scale maritime war broke out.

The German Ocean Fleet, which occupied a favorable position, took the lead in making the speech. The flagship Bavaria sounded the Anton turret located at the bow. The first 380mm hardened cap armor-piercing ejected out of the borehole, whistling through the conversation, splashing into the gap between the first and second teams of the British Second Battleship Fleet and the second team unintentionally pulled out, forming a huge destructive near-burning loss.

The water column soared into the sky, and then with a thunderous momentum, it unscrupulously baptized all the superstructures of the First Team Monarch Battleship and the Second Team St. Vincent Battleship, completely cleaning the wireless antennas, hinges, fireproof sandbags, cranes, lifeboats, second-class main guns, and trestles of these two main battleships.

As the last widow of the Orion-class battleship, the Monarch battleship still seems to have not been able to escape the curse of God. Without a single shot, the super-dreadnought ship was damaged to varying degrees of damage to its wireless antenna and the flag-flying mast. Before the backup antenna is re-established and the signal rope is repaired, the Monarch battleship will not be able to contact the friendly ships.

In addition, the battleship, which suffered unintentional disaster, also paid three sailors to be killed. The price of eleven injured was the price of three sailors near a 4-inch secondary cannon on the second-level deck of the Monarch. They were caught off guard by the water columns that washed the deck and were caught in the unfathomable ocean. Eleven other officers and soldiers were slightly injured.

The second team's battleship St. Vincent's battleship was obviously better than the former. The battleship St. Vincent was located in the opposite direction of the impact potential energy of the German armor-piercing bomb, so this battleship was only "chapter" and a sailor who reinforced the boat on the deck of the boat was scratched by the collapsed crane cable.

Of course, the losses of the Second Battleship Fleet are still within an acceptable range, but considering that this round of artillery fire is just a prelude to the large-scale artillery fire of the German Navy, the Royal Navy, who were still unable to fire the gun to fight back during the turn and change formation, were not happy again.

‘The battle distance of 18 kilometers. The first shell that was fired on the hull at a high speed fell into the large fleet. Silame's luck was a little better, right?’

Betty let go of her fist, bent down, and supported her arm on the edge of the square sand table in the commander's tower, staring at the sand table while annoyed.

The loss figure of St. Vincent was soon fed back to the commander tower of the flagship Revenge. Betty grabbed the telegram paper and his frown frown slightly sootheed, but the telegram sent by the Fourth Battlecruiser New Zealand destroyed Betty's heart that had just calmed down.

‘Bavarian, King, Caesar…’

Betty's eyes were back and forth on the telegram sent by the New Zealand Battle Tour, but he never found the ship shadow he took for granted. This was called Betty's bad premonition. Betty's azure pupils unconsciously contracted. His hands on the sand table were also clenched into fists.

‘The Germans’ battle line leader is not the first reconnaissance cluster. Silame, are you trying to make a decision in one battle?!’

By this time, Betty could almost piece together Heidi Sileme's overall plan: the beginning of the battle was still the tactical deception of Sileme, forcing the large fleet to divide the troops and lure the fast fleet into a safe "Fos Bay, and then all the main battleships were used to deal with the large fleet's own team.

The core of the Silem plan is the cooperation between the raid fleet in the southern North Sea and the oceanic fleet that stayed in Jade Bay and the potential ancestry of German battle cruisers.

Unlike Britain's battle cruisers. Financially tight ocean fleet designers focused on their protection and survival capabilities when designing each battle cruiser. This enabled German battle cruisers to perform battlefield reconnaissance, battle patrol decisive battles and destroy armored cruisers, while challenging traditional battleships and joining battle lines.

As a result, Betty had no doubt that Silame would incorporate eight main battleships, which were defined as fast battleships in the first reconnaissance cluster, rather than battlecruisers, into the German battle line.

However, in terms of the specific use of the First Reconnaissance Cluster, Betty underestimated his old rival Heidi Sileme. It should be noted that the three Markensen-class battle patrols of Germany's First Reconnaissance Cluster are equipped with 4 dual-equipped 45-diameter 380mm main guns, and the three DeFringer-class battle patrols are also equipped with 4 dual-equipped 45-diameter 350mm main guns. Betty takes it for granted that Sileme will use these six ships to strong firepower and protective power as well as the front of the sea monsters of traditional battleships. It is used to fight against the 15-inch main gun group that has become a climate in the large fleet.

But the fact is that Silem neither placed the first reconnaissance cluster in the head of the German battle lineup nor separated the first reconnaissance cluster, but mixed the three Markensen-class battle patrols, three Deflinger-class battle patrols with two Bavarian-class battleships and four Kings battleships, but instead stuffed the first reconnaissance cluster into the end of the battle line.

The strength distribution of the German battle line appeared to be strong at both ends and weak at the middle, so Silame's tactical intention was "Soul of the Great Power, Chapter 10 King of the North Atlantic! (Six)" and so called it out to destroy the tail of the British battle line as soon as possible.

It may be that Silame was aware of the Americans' attempt to fight undeclaredly, or it may be that Silame was afraid of the fast fleet running towards the northern end of the Furth Bay. In short, the Ocean Fleet did not mean to fight a protracted battle in the Skagerac Strait with him, David Betty, nor did it have the idea of ​​another major melee between Ustica. Instead, it wanted to take advantage of the number of German third battle fleets to form a stalemate with the Royal Navy's terrible 15-inch main artillery group, and use the first battle fleet to drag the relatively mediocre British Fleet's second battle fleet, and finally use the first reconnaissance cluster eight fierce battle cruisers to destroy their first battle fleet and the fourth battle cruise fleet in one fell swoop.

This goal is not difficult to achieve. It must be known that those who stay at the end of the Royal Navy battle line are all incomparable goods: the three battle patrols of the Fourth Battle Patrol are old guys who cannot beat ordinary battle cruisers or defeat ordinary battleships; although the First Battle Fleet has a relatively considerable Revenge-class battleship, it is hard to defeat four hands with two fists. Whether it is an export-selling to domestic sales ship equipped with 14-inch guns, the Canadian class, or the two typical export-selling ships that were tricked from South America, or the mediocre qualifications of the Berlelofon and the Magnificent, it is difficult to become a solid and reliable comrade-in-arms of the Royal Oak.

What's more, before the large fleet completes the formation change and turn, the first battleship and the fourth battleship fleet are facing the German Ocean Fleet, which occupy the horizontal line of the t-shaped one. Perhaps before the large fleet battle line is formed, the Royal Navy has already suffered a major defeat.

As soon as the Ocean Fleet fired its first shot, Betty vaguely saw the shadow of failure.

Once the German First Reconnaissance Cluster destroys seven battleships and three battlecruisers at the end of its own battle line, unless the large fleet is in the head of the team and the "Soul of the Great Power" achieves brilliant results, the morale of the Royal Navy will still fall into a completely collapse. Faced with a large fleet without fighting will and determination to fight, the Germans can summon the first reconnaissance Cluster to form a situation of more battles and fight less, and encircle and suppress the remnants of the large fleet that can only choose to retreat.

By then, even if the Royal Navy's fast fleet, ten battleships and four American battleships arrived on the battlefield, would not help. Faced with the fierce pursuit of the Ocean Fleet, Lampard might have little courage to fight to the death. As for the Americans, the Royal Navy really cannot count on too much.

The Germans quickly launched the second round of artillery. This time, the Germans slowed down their speed, and the 350mm cannons equipped by four king-class battleships also joined the most spectacular maritime ensemble of the 20th century.

At 12:08, bullets and rains crossed the sky like meteors, and then slammed into the side of the large fleet.

This time, without the report of the flagship watchtower, Betty could also observe the landing point of the German armor-piercing bomb. Through the low and narrow porthole in front of the commander tower of the Battleship of the Revenge, Betty found that more than a thousand meters away from the left front of the bow of the Revenge, mixed with black smoke was splashed out continuously, and large groups of water columns caused the uneasy North Sea to evolve into a boiling ocean in an instant!

‘Let the large fleet continue to change its formation and turn, and the friendly ships should pay attention to distance and avoid collisions. After the large fleet completes its turn, the first battleship and the fourth battle patrol team should pay attention to distance themselves from the Germans. The second battleship will concentrate firepower to destroy the four sāo-class battleships of the German First Team as soon as possible!’

The explosion woke Betty up. The sea cavalry who never gave in took a deep breath, tried to eliminate the fear in his heart, and accumulated courage and determination to fight with his old opponent:

"'Silem, since you want to deal with the tail of my battle line, then I will kill your first team. The war has just begun!'

In a moment, during the European War, David Betty, the best naval commander of the Royal Navy, made a decision that was almost a heroic man to cut off his arm. He chose to kill 3,000 enemies and lost 10,000 yuan in life-changing style to abandon the First Battle Fleet and the Fourth Battle Cruise Fleet, and concentrate on dealing with the four German First Team, the four sāo-class battleships.

Although cruel and bloody, this may be the only effective counterattack measure for the Royal Navy at that time. No matter how hard Betty tried, he could not change the fact that the First Battleship and the Fourth Battlecruising Fleet lost to the First German Reconnaissance Cluster. However, among the battle lines, Betty was confident that the Second Battleship of the Great Fleet faced the First Battleship of the German First Battleship, especially the four first teams with standard displacement of only 18,000 tons, and only equipped with four dual-unit 50-diameter 280mm main guns, the Sāo-class battleships with an absolute advantage.

General Lampard's fast fleet, the ten battleships of the battleships and the four Americans' battleships were only more than two hours away from the battle waters. As long as the strength of the large fleet did not suffer much damage, there would be a chance of recovery.

Betty issued a murderous and extremely side-effect order. As David Betty expected, in less than fifteen minutes, bad news about the Royal Navy came continuously.

The British Fourth Battlecruiser Fleet was shot in the Battlecruiser, and the fire on the deck soared into the sky; the ammunition depot of the Battlecruiser, the Sixth Team of the First Battlecruiser, exploded and disappeared on the northern ocean in less than a minute." (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!