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

At 12:32, the British Indomitable Battlecruiser merged into the battle line of the large fleet, and David Betty and Heidi Silem issued an order to "suspend shelling and adjust the fleet formation".

In the UK, the poor performance of the Second Battleship Fleet caused the formation disconnection between the First Team and the Second Team, and the Second Team and the First Battleship Fleet. The Canadian battleship and the Bolelofon hull of the First Battleship were seriously damaged, making it difficult to maintain high speed. In addition, the course maintained by the large fleet did not allow them to meet with the ten battle cruisers of the fast fleet heading north as soon as possible. For this reason, the large fleet had to reduce its speed and shrink the disconnected battle lines before and after, giving the damaged battleship a chance to breathe, and slightly adjust the course while ensuring the combat distance. [] Please search for Piao Tianzi, the novel is better and faster!

In Germany, the long-term concentration of fire not only exhausted the officers and soldiers of the gun department of each main battleship, but also seriously reduced the artillery accuracy and artillery efficiency of the Ocean Fleet, but also accelerated the loss of the life of the main gun barrel. In addition, the Ocean Fleet also needs to adjust its course and speed at this moment, so that the battle lineups can keep up with the British pace, and let the German Iron Cross Flag strive to suppress the living space of the British Fleet between the German Battle Line and the eastern coastline of Scotland. "Please search for Piao Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

In order to commemorate General Bernhard von Oden, the captain of the large armored ship of the Schánhorst, who was killed in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the Deflinger-class battleship, the third ship of the Deflinger-class battleship, and the other twenty-six main battleships began their last round of artillery.

A short fire alarm sounded over the German battle line. The low forecastle of the Oden Battle Patrol, the air near the muzzle of the Bruno turret, which was arranged in a carriage, shrank sharply. Accompanied by the deafening sound of gunfire, the black muzzle burst out with dazzling light and orange-red fire fog.

The North Sea and the Ocean Fleet were quiet. The tired German naval officers and soldiers temporarily put down their affairs, took off their military caps and wiped the sweat beads on their foreheads. They either leaned on the cannon position, leaned against a shovel, or closed their eyes and gasped, accumulating the strength to fight again.

The North Sea, the side of the large fleet is about to usher in peace, but they have to withstand the last round of artillery attacks of the Germans.

German large-caliber shells splashed like rain on both sides of the battle line of the large fleet, creating a mass of water columns of dozens of feet in the ocean.

The war damage report was not heard for a long time. Just as the headquarters of the Fleet was relaxing, thick black smoke suddenly rose at the inconspicuous position at the back end of the British battle line.

Yes, the USS Canada battleship of the Armstrong Fleet, which once played with stunning swan dance steps off the Tyne River, had just won the Battle of Jutland and Portsmouth. The USS Canada battleship of the Arrogant Ocean Fleet failed to defend this glory. Offshore of the Orkney Islands, at 12:34 on June 21, 1917, this super-dreadless ship boasted by the designers of the Armstrong Shipyard made the Ocean Fleet start a new legend.

The Canadian battleship was shot. At a distance of about 14,000 meters, the Deflinger-class Battle Patrol No. 3 exploded with one shot and it was supposed to be the most solid and safest commander tower that was originally a dreadnought!

19141917 should be the most glorious era of the dreadnought. There were night battles and close battles like the Dogel Sands, there were typical battles of large ships and giant cannons like the Battle of Jutland. There were crushing battles like the Battle of Portsmouth and the Battle of Sochi. There were also melee battles like the Battle of Ustica, there were Jutland-style T-shaped horizontal heads, and there were also Ustica-style anti-T-shaped horizontal head tactics.

However, even though countless classic naval battles have been created in the past three years and countless classic naval battle tactics have been achieved, the naval battles during this period are still a "game involving statistics and probability".

This sentence is Heidi Sileme's prediction of the naval battle of the dreadnought in "On Asymmetrical Warfare in the Age of Battleships". This sentence can be understood as who can use more artillery to fire more shells in a shorter time to form a denser transfire area, or it can be understood as pursuing survival performance and subsequent countermeasures under a certain firepower density.

The British were loyal fans of the first theory. Almost every Royal Navy's main ship design adheres to the idea of ​​"maximizing firepower intensity and fire density", cut corners on armor weight and strengthens the saved tonnage on artillery.

However, the British who pursued maximization of output obviously forgot that the British Empire in the new century was no longer the premier industrial power of the past, and the fiscal and military expenditure could not support them to completely suppress the Germans in the cruel naval arms race. Moreover, in actual naval battles, the Royal Navy never played their limited numerical advantage.

Since the Royal Navy could not suppress Germany in the arms race and actual naval battles, the British could not expect the Germans to not attack back.

At 12:34, the 350mm armor-piercing bomb spanned 14,000 meters of sea and air, and arranged five 14-inch main guns on the short 201-meter hull, two command towers and main masts, and two chimneys with small iron box-shaped command towers found on the compact hulls of the two chimneys, and hit them hard.

The British exerted the firepower of the Canadian battleship to the extreme, so the one who sacrificed must be its protective power. Under the attention of the Canadian officers and soldiers, the hardening of the German armor-piercing bomb rushed straight towards their commander tower. After the earth was shaken, the 350mm armor-piercing bomb penetrated the Canadian commander tower with a nearly vertical corner. In the circle of less than 11 inches, about 280mm side protective armor.

The iron armor-piercing unit carved a large hole with a diameter of more than one meter on the armor wall on the side of the commander tower. The hardening of the armor-piercing projectile itself was broken by the cap fragments and the splashed iron pieces peeled from Harvey's hardened armor flying in the air.

Before the Navy officers and soldiers of the Canadian battleship, including working in the Commander Tower, could react, the armor-piercing bomb exploded and was in the closed Commander Tower.

The warhead, equipped with 18 kg of tnts, exploded in a narrow space, releasing terrifying power. The steering wheel, sand table, soldiers and documents in the commander's tower were overturned by the air waves at the first time, and then disappeared into the scorching high temperature.

After the explosion, the burning shrapnel continued to fly in the commander's tower, shaking and bounced, making a heart-wrenching friction sound until they lost their kinetic energy and fell on the floor mixed with black blood mist and were blackened by gunpowder.

Some air waves and shrapnel gushed out from the portholes that the commander tower was observing outside. The treks on both sides of the commander tower of the Canadian Battleship and the bow deck in front suddenly became in chaos.

In the previous battle, he was shot three times in a row. Two boilers on the port side and a coal storage bin were destroyed. The generator set stopped running. The speed could only be maintained at about ten knots. The Canadian officers and soldiers, who had no intention of giving up on this main battleship. The soldiers gathered at the commander tower with red eyes, pulled all the fire-extinguishing equipment through the pier full of sharp iron blocks and meat scraps, filled with undisgusting bloody smell and burnt smell of human body, and tried to get close to the commander tower wrapped in thick smoke and fire.

The sailors wanted to save the Canadian Commander Tower, but what else is worth saving in the Canadian Commander Tower that was shot by the Germans?

The captain was killed, the deputy captain was killed, the navigator was killed, and the gunman was killed...

The Grand Fleet Command has issued a long list of casualties for the Canadian battleship. Although a main ship usually has a command tower above the forecastle and a command tower at the rear main mast, after losing the command tower, the crew can still rely on the rear command tower below the rear mast to continue fighting. The question is who is going to command it? You must know that controlling a main ship and commanding a main ship are completely different things!

In order to preserve this battleship, the commander-in-chief of the Great Fleet, David Betty, had to carefully advance the battle line to the bombardment and let the First Battleship open fire to cover the Canadian retreat.

The First Reconnaissance Cluster was not willing to give up this excellent opportunity. Heidi Sileme did not need to remind him. The First Reconnaissance Cluster flagship, the Markenson, issued an order to gather fire. Three Markenson-class battlecruisers opened fire one after another. The 380mm large-caliber capped armor-piercing bomb quickly formed a terrible barrage around the Canadian battleship.

Perhaps because of the previous T-character t-shaped focal point, the first reconnaissance cluster with the strongest combat effectiveness in the German Ocean Fleet was in a state of failure in the battle to encircle and suppress the Canadians and was unable to reap opponents for a long time.

The German First Reconnaissance Cluster missed opportunities. At this time, the remaining ships of the British First Battleship and the Fourth Battlecruising Fleet, the second team of the Second Battleship, and the remaining ships of the German First Reconnaissance Cluster, the Bavarian-class, the four Helgolan-class and four Nassau-class battleships were all impatient and joined the melee with their respective main guns.

In this melee, the target of the remaining ships of the German First Reconnaissance Cluster was the British First Battle Fleet that had been crippled. The target of the German First Battle Fleet was the British Second Battle Fleet with a relatively loose formation. However, the British were concentrating all the firepower of the two main fleets to attack the weakest first detachment of the German Ocean Fleet, the weakest ring of the steel Great Wall.

In fact, Betty had already abandoned the battleship when the Germans gathered the Canadian battleship. David Betty, who had been led by Silame in this naval battle, keenly grasped Heidi Silame's only mistake and chose to gather four Nassau-class battleships with only 300 mm main equipment.

History proves that Betty's maritime gamble with the second team of the Second Battleship Fleet is worth it.

At 12:40, the Canadian was shot again, and fire spread around the battleship, with rising smoke columns thousands of feet high, so that they could be seen by merchant ships more than ten kilometers away.
Chapter completed!