“(The King of the North Atlantic, Section 7, The Doomsday of the Rice Flag[5])

At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the decisive moment of the Battle of Orkney Islands came, and General Lampard's fast fleet finally arrived at the battlefield.

In this protracted naval battle, although the American battleship squad, which was wandering in the northern part of the North Sea, also received an emergency call from the British Admiralty, in the eyes of John Niu, who was elegant on the surface and arrogant on the inside, only Lieutenant General Lampard's fast fleet was the only hope for the Royal Navy to achieve self-salvation.

Hope is just hope after all, the fact is that the fast fleet cannot shoulder the responsibility of saving the Royal Navy and sounding the horn of the British counterattack.

At 8 a.m., tens of thousands of naval officers and soldiers of the fast fleet were deceiving by Silame's superb tactical tactics and exhausted by the hundreds of nautical miles of the North Sea, which proved to be useless. However, in the face of the unprecedented crisis of the Royal Navy, General Lampard still made the decision to reinforce the main fleet of the Great Fleet.

This is a difficult decision. First, it is a voyage of more than 100 nautical miles. Although the fast fleet is equipped with the latest battlecruisers or magic-modified battleships, which can easily run at a speed of more than 27 knots, it is impossible to achieve high-speed advancement without any problems throughout the entire journey. Secondly, the main fleet of the large fleet is the pressure resistance. Once General Betty's main fleet fails to withstand the final strike launched by Heidi Sileme with all the strength of the German Navy, the fast fleet's "sending sheep into the tiger's mouth" will undoubtedly become the most absurd and funny joke in the history of the world's naval history. Finally, the Germans' underwater wolf packs, the Germans usually deploy their ocean-going submarines in the North Atlantic, but there is no shortage of three or five medium-sized submarines on the east coast of Britain to wait for opportunities to act in the posture of small fish and shrimps. The fast fleet arrives at the Scarborough area safely at night. It does not mean that they can return to Forth Bay safely.

At 14:00 pm, the fast fleet arrived at the battlefield through great difficulty. Before General Lampard could breathe a sigh of relief, bad news appeared frequently.

In order to arrive at the battlefield as soon as possible, the fast fleet that did not deliberately choose a favorable course lacked the favorable angle and opportunity to enter the battlefield when returning to the Forth Bay, so that when the Germans discovered reinforcements of the British Battle Patrol team at a distance of about 21,000 meters, the latter barely completed the process of changing the formation from the cruise formation to the battle line.

In addition to the late change of formation, the main fleet was in a bad state. The Balham Battle Patrol observer saw a "more tragic and tragic doomsday scene than the sinking of the British Isle."

‘In the vast North Sea, the z-flags are hung high in the gray-painted German battle lines, and the upright bows are constantly splitting the huge white waves. Balls of black smoke rise on the deck every twenty seconds. I know that it is the Germans tilting ammunition towards the battle lines of our British Empire, and the main battleship of the meter flag is either covered by water columns. Or dragging the thick smoke covering the sky and the sun, and can only appear and disappear on the storm of the surging waves in the North Sea in an extremely embarrassing manner.’

In addition, the Fast Fleet encountered at least eleven Frederick seaplanes. The Chief of Staff of the Fast Fleet "would only throw a wrench, hammer and other inconvenient gadgets" was undoubtedly Lord Purple Baron and his minions. The young pilots followed the unkempt Hanna-Xiao, referring to his unrestrained behavior of attacking a single-aircraft with twenty-six main battleships after he first discovered the main fleet of the British Fleet, and took the initiative to carry a small-caliber shell that had been modified by himself and started the dive bomber work.

The British Ai Ai Ai and the Germans were also confused. When the German fleet pounced on the fast fleet in black, the pilots discovered that the information of the Navy's Intelligence Service was incorrect. There were only nine battlecruisers in the battle line of the fast fleet. There was also a big guy missing.

This surprising discovery did not prevent the German pilots from performing acrobatics in the air. They could not hear the delicate earthquakes of the wooden shelves, and they could not expect to return to report intelligence to the flagship Bavaria. They just rushed towards the battle line of the fast fleet. After the fast fleet exchanged fire with the ocean fleet, German observatorys also discovered this problem, but no one knew the answer.

Late at night after the naval battle, Lord Alto Vedichen, the king of submarine, failed to ambush the battleship St. Vincent deep in the Fers Bay, and impatiently submitted a lengthy report to the German Admiralty Department. The British fast fleet King Kong battle tour disappeared for no reason, and the Warrior battle tour appeared at the end of the fast fleet battle line. The truth was revealed.

Following the magic wrench of the Battle of the Ritland, the Portsmouth Naval Battle raided Greater London and the Orkney Islands in the early stages of the Battle of the British Fleet. After Hanna Shaw fought against the British Fleet alone, the German Flying Team once again showed its power, attacking a fearless fleet that launched a battle line and achieved results.

In fact, the British were not unaware of the air attacks of their mortal enemy. After the Battle of Jutland, the British equipped their main battleship with some anti-aircraft secondary guns and anti-air balloons, but the main purpose of these weapons was to prevent the slow-moving Zeppelin from Germany from being unable to deal with high-speed seaplanes. So before the fast fleet officially joined the battle, they were caught by two German pilots' local aviation bombs and countless aviation machine gun bullets for no reason, killing seven British sailors and injuring twenty-one.

For the fast fleet, the most terrifying news was the maritime situation at this moment. On the battlefield, the main fleet of our side was entangled with the Germans and advanced rapidly along the southern coastline of the peninsula toward the southwest. The fast fleet dragged out a six-kilometer battle line in the Furth Bay. It was located on the southwest side of the two fearless fleets, about 20,000 meters away, and was heading towards each other at a speed of 24 knots.

The fast fleet flagship USS Balum, the British combat staff and navigator rigorously restored the battlefield of the Orkney Islands on sand tables and drawings, and the next moment was the commander's headache.

There are two options for the fast fleet. The first is to choose a left turn. Just like the Germans, the battlecruisers of the fast fleet are incorporated into the front or back teams of the large fleet battle line and follow the main fleet to act together.

This is the most beneficial solution for the large fleet, because the left-turning fast fleet battle line will form a vertical angle with the Germans for a period of time, which means the so-called T-shaped horizontal head. At that time, the Germans can only be forced to follow the fast fleet to turn left, relax or completely give up the suppression of the main fleet.

The main fleet ushered in a time of breathing and resting. Although the performance of the fast fleet's combat patrol is not as good as that of the Germans and cannot play a high-speed advantage in the narrow space, the two fleets moving towards each other are destined to have too long exchange of fire. The fast fleet can easily get rid of the entanglement of the Germans and meet with the main fleet. With the support of the nine combat patrols of the fast fleet and the distance involved, the large fleet may be able to last until the end of the naval battle.

Of course, the left-turning tactic is not without flaws. First of all, the rough guys of the fast fleet do not have the ability to accurately complete tactical steering tasks like a scalpel, allowing the fast fleet to join the main fleet battle line in a limited space and time. Secondly, the main fleet cannot cooperate with the fast fleet to take action - because the semi-dead battle line cannot force the sea acceleration, so that the fast fleet can slow down and merge into the tail of the battle line, and they are even more afraid to pay the price of losing speed and being slaughtered. The only possibility is that the fast fleet turns at a small angle, hits the main fleet's battle line head-on, or the fast fleet turns at a high angle, and builds a human shield wall at the front end of the main fleet battle line.

Not to mention how mentally retarded the two columns that affect the shooting of the second team's main gun in the battle line against the dreadnoughts, this sea of ​​stars, even if the strong are at peace with the weak battle cruiser, it does not cover the retreat of the battleship. In particular, the performance of the main ships of our own battle patrol team is notorious, and in particular the strength of the opponent's high-speed main ship is also famous.

The second option for the fast fleet is to turn right, keep a parallel course with the Germans, and cooperate with the main fleet to attack the Germans.

With the fast fleet's sailing attitude at this moment, the space for right-turning is still abundant, and the two-sided attack tactics in front of tactical master Heidi Sileme is also full of temptation and imagination, but this is still not a good choice.

At any time, separating troops at sea is a taboo for military strategists. Although the British battle patrol team, built on Fisher's theory of "Perfect Cruiser", did not have the obligation to participate in battleship duels, and the Battle of Jutland, which had a far-reaching impact on modern naval warfare, never had the hot scene of fighting between the battle patrol team and the main fleet, since the Germans discovered the potential of German battlecruisers to participate in the decisive battle of the battle line in the Orkney Islands, it would be inappropriate for the British to continue to adhere to Fisher's theory, especially the main fleet of their side is almost half-remembered.

Furthermore, the movement of the fast fleet and the Germans made the Royal Navy lack effective shelling time, and the terrible relative speed also made it difficult for the gunners of the fast fleet to accurately hit the opponent. As long as the Germans made up their minds to attack the weak main fleet, the Ocean Fleet did not suffer terrible losses, and the two sides of the fast fleet would be meaningless.

The Germans, who had the advantage of the number of main ships, divided a combat team to suppress and fight back. The Ocean Fleet's battle line was only about fifteen kilometers, and the two fleets heading towards each other had a relative speed of at least 30 knots, which made the nine battle patrols of the fast fleet severely hit the Germans in less than 18 minutes of free attack time. The difficulty can be imagined.

Faced with the crisis, Betty was unable to make a decision, and Lieutenant General Lampard, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, stood in the commander tower of the prestige, and frowned.

Just as the British Empire was dizzy, the Germans turned.

Nine battleships of the Third Battleship suddenly gave up attacking the British Fourth Battleship Fleet and turned to cross-cut the fast fleet's forward route to seize the T-shaped cross-head. The First Battleship Fleet and the First Reconnaissance Cluster not only did not fill the five-kilometer vacancy involved after the departure of the Third Battleship Fleet, but instead slowed down one after another, adjusting the firepower channel to deal with the two Iron Duke-class battleships behind the Third Detachment of the British Fourth Battleship Fleet, as well as the remaining Joe-5-class and two Giant-class battleships in the Second Battleship Fleet.
Chapter completed!