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(Always subconsciously write 12 o'clock as 11 o'clock, what's wrong with me?)

“(The King of the North Atlantic, Section 5, Fearless People Falling Like Meteors)

After the New Zealand Battle Tour sank, the most heroic maritime war during the European War continued.

The German battle line rushed over from the southeast of the North Sea stretched for more than ten kilometers, and a beautiful arc with a peak facing north was cut on the strong winds.

The front end of this arc of Germany was barely on par with the British Second Battleship Fleet running towards the depths of the Fers Bay along the peninsula coastline. The five main battleships at the top of the arc, the second team of the First Battleship Fleet, were in the south of the three British left-wing teams trapped in the quagmire of steering and changing formations, and were less than 12,000 meters away from the British.

The Ocean Fleet can finally exert the strongest strength of the T-shaped horizontal head.

The Battle of the Yellow Sea that broke out in 1895 was not effective firepower control and sight-seeing methods, and the distance between artillery battles that rely on direct aiming and gunner experience was only 3,000 meters; the Battle of the Russian-to-Mahjong-Mahjong-Cha, which broke out in 1905, expanded from three thousand meters to seven thousand meters due to the early artillery command system; in 1906, with the completion of the British Fearless battleship, the navy's combat methods underwent profound changes, and naval experts predicted that the battle would break out at a distance of about 13,000 kilometers.

After the outbreak of the European War, the combat distance was repeatedly refreshed, so in the Ridland Naval Battle that broke out in 1915, the main battleships of Germany and Britain fired at an extremely long distance of 18,000 meters but still achieved results. Now, the Ocean Fleet, which firmly occupies the horizontal head of the T-shaped character, has shortened the combat distance to less than 12,000 meters.

At this distance, the 350mm main gun and 380mm main gun equipped by the Ocean Fleet can explode any British battleship, and that is, the "" is the 305mm main gun equipped by the Caesar-class, Helgolan-class battleship, the Helgolan-class and Moltke-class battleships, and the 280mm main gun equipped with the Sāo-class battleships.

Although in 1917, with the improvement of the defense strength of the dreadnought and the increase in combat distances, the two main gun calibers, 305 and 280, were widely considered by naval experts to be unable to succeed. However, at a distance of less than 12,000 meters, even if they could not penetrate the low 13-inch waterline and main armor of the Royal Oak battleship, the German 305mm SKL/50 main gun and 280mm SKL/50 main guns could penetrate 10-inch and 8-inch homogeneous Knuber steel plates at a distance of 12,800 meters, respectively, but the penetration of the British Bellerofon-class battleship and the paper-only Canadian-class with only 710-inch armor.

Perhaps the British who were equipped with the new armor-piercing shell Greenboy could use the same caliber main gun to explode the 300mm waterline of the sāo-class battleship with main equipment and the 270mm main equipment of the Moltke-class battleship. However, the problem is that the British who took the steering and changing formations had no power to fight back. The British first and second battleships, which had formed battle lines, could fight back from some main guns. The problem is that they could not avoid the impact of the trembling hull on the degree of shelling.

The second armor-piercing bomb fell at a straight angle about 10 meters away from the port side of the South Africa. The relatively low rear mainmast lookout just ecstatically reported the news of "near bombs. 10 meters on the port side". The 280mm APC armor-piercing bomb weighing 300 kilograms playedfully set off again.

The extremely lethal armor-piercing bomb was bounced by sea water after contacting sea level, forming a "water drift bullet" that was rare in the era of the dreadnought. It smashed hard at the 7-inch upper armor belt of the South African battleship with an extremely strange trajectory. Fortunately, this armor-piercing bomb had already removed a lot of kinetic energy when it first rebounded. When the armor-piercing bomb hit the 7-inch armor belt, it was bounced away again, and even a near-lost bomb was not formed.

Compared with the first two armor-piercing bombs, the third armor-piercing bomb is much more powerful, and this armor-piercing bomb accurately hits the bottom of the chimney of the Second battleship of the South Africa battleship.

Unlike the protection concepts of Germany and the United States, even the sidewalk waterline belt main armor thickness that forms the core of the protection strength of a battleship also shows that the British naval designers, who have never considered the armor protection of the chimney base, have no choice but to consider the issue of armor protection at the chimney base. So the armor-piercing bomb penetrated the No. 2 chimney of the battleship South Africa battleship and exploded.

Thanks to the combat distance of less than 13,000 meters, the ballistics of this armor-piercing bomb are relatively straight, and they will not go deeper along the cracks of the chimney like big corner shells into the power bay of the "Great Power Sea Soul" below. However, it cannot be said that this armor-piercing bomb is worthless. After all, the fragments created by the explosion knocked the No. 2 chimney into a colander and triggered fires and smoke that could not be dispersed in the territory of the battleship South Africa. This made this super-dreadless ship, once boasted by Armstrong Shipyard, look extremely embarrassed.

In an instant, almost half of the Beihai knew that the battleship South Africa was shot. In addition to the damage of a main turret, the waterline was drilled out of a large hole, leaving only the battleship Berlelofon, which was struggling to survive, and the battleship South Africa that was too busy to take care of itself. The telegraph room of almost every main battleship of the Royal Navy was repeating the news that the battleship South Africa was about to fall, and the large fleet, including the battleship Revenge, suddenly lost its voice.

Will the battleship South Africa become the fourth or even the fifth battleship of the Royal Navy in this naval battle? If so, how can the Royal Navy, which has lost nearly a battleship squadron before biting the Germans, continue to fight? If not, why hasn't the battleship South Africa issued a report on incoming damage control?

In the memories of the chief of staff of the British Fleet after the naval battle, their commander-in-chief David Betty hid in the corner of the commander tower, flipped back and forth, the First Battleship and Fourth Battlecruising Fleet, which had been piled up into hills, and smoked half a pack of cigarettes in succession. It was not until the confidential officer reported the news of the minor injury of the South Africa and the news that the fire in the headquarters had been controlled that Betty stretched out his eyebrows that were about to be entangled.

At 12:32, the long turning and formation change process of the large fleet finally ended. The Indomitable Battleship, which the British threw at the last, walked out of the German fire collection circle with scars, tremblingly squeezed into the loose Royal Navy, stretching nearly 20 kilometers on the sea, and galloping southwest.

At this moment, several battleships and one battlecruiser that appeared at the end of the British battle line looked extremely embarrassed: their majestic main guns were blackened by smoke, and the seemingly solid superstructure and side armor were full of "entertainment shows". The scraped signal cables and colorful signal flags were flying randomly in the sky. The broken crane was hung upside down under the side deck by fixed wire ropes, and the anxious lifeboat occasionally continued the revived smoke.

‘Royal Oak was shot two times, the upper armor belt on the side was damaged, the bow cabin was slightly seeped, and more than 300 tons of water were inflowed, and medium damage was made; Canada was shot three times, two boilers and a coal storage bin were destroyed, the port generator set stopped operating, the speed dropped by four knots, ninety-three people were killed, and severe damage was severe; Singapore was shot three times, a gun on the port side was destroyed, the secondary artillery ammunition depot exploded, the left trestle exploded, the stern exploded and fired, and one hundred and three people were killed,

In addition, damage; the South African battleship was shot four times, the bow hospital compartment was penetrated, the part exploded and caught fire, forty-six people were killed, and minor injuries; the Belleluofeng was shot five times, the side waterline belt was damaged, the P turret was destroyed, the P turret was poured into the underwater ammunition depot, the total water inlet was more than 1,500 tons, the speed dropped by ten knots, and the total number of more than 300 people was killed, and severe injuries; the P magnificent was shot, and the upper deck on the port side was slightly damaged, no casualties, and minor injuries...'
Chapter completed!