(It's better to reduce production. One update is more than two thousand words, and every chapter will give you at least five or six hundred words for free, which is also a compensation. Now I think typing is a burden, and since the high point in my mind, I have never lost the passion of the past after the climax chapter...)

“(The King of the North Atlantic, Section 7, The Doomsday of the Rice Flag[6])

Just as David Betty and Lampard were hesitant, the Germans took the lead in taking the initiative in the naval battle of the Orkney Islands in their own hands.

The third battleships of nine battleships forced left turn and crossed the T-shaped cross-head of the fast fleet. In addition to the four magically modified Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, the Royal Navy does not have the problem of better performance than battleships, so the third battleship can cope with the fast fleet that cannot be accelerated due to the large angle of the battleships.

As for the main fleet, the first battleship, which was supplemented by three Markensen-class battleships, was not in a hurry to fill the position of the third battleship, but instead lowered the speed to avoid a head-on encounter with the British terrible 15-inch main gun group, and jointly with the First Reconnaissance Cluster continued to suppress the half-destroyed British battleship selection team.

The use of seven battleships and six battle patrols to deal with only two British Iron Duke-class battleships and three second battleship remnants were undoubtedly anti-aircraft guns to kill mosquitoes. The Germans unscrupulously showed off their extremely wealthy firepower. However, at the beginning of the outbreak of World War I, the British, who had an absolute advantage in the number of main battleships, were unable to take countermeasures.

If you want to save the battle line squadron, Betty can only order the fleet to slow down, but it is easy to slow down the fleet, and it is not so easy to speed up again to get rid of the Germans. You will lose your speed when fighting on the battle line. Just look at the tragic situation of the British First Battleship.

The Battleship Commander Tower of the Revenge and the Balum were in a state of chaos. In Betty's view, the failure of the Royal Navy was inevitable. The ending was nothing more than whether the Royal Navy died on kneeling or standing.

The so-called death on the stand refers to the rapid fleet turning left, converging with the main fleet as much as possible, allowing the Royal Navy, which had supplemented nine main battleships to fight with the Germans in a dignified manner, and withering in this gorgeous North Sea in a magnificent way.

If it were two years ago, David Betty, who was full of energy, would definitely choose to die standing. Even if the Royal Navy could not defeat the Germans, they would try their best to bite down one or two combat units of the Ocean Fleet, shouting, "The British Navy is never afraid to take responsibility. This generation of Royal Navy can die, but before it is heroic, it must be left with a fighting spirit that can support the next generation to stand on the ruins and rebuild the Royal Navy!", and led the ancient and young fleet to rush over and fight to the death.

Unfortunately, it is 1917. David Betty, the "Sea Cavalry" of the British Empire, is no longer young, no longer the bravery of shelling Alexandria and participating in the 1900 Far East Punishment War. As a front-line maritime commander, David Betty, who was dragged down by the fame of young people and the doting of the older generation, did not have the process of accumulating strength overseas for more than ten years, but he still grew up in the tempering of war again and again, abandoning unrealistic idealism and becoming the potential Navy King Arthur.

At around 14 o'clock, the entire British Empire collectively lost its voice in the way of using the fast fleet. No one dared to issue a final order. He did not dare to bear the responsibility for the destruction of the entire imperial navy, and he was even more unwilling to become a national and national sinner. So the ball kicked between the main fleet of the large fleet, the fast fleet, the Navy Department and the National Defense Commission, and in the end David Betty took it.

Yes, King Arthur of the British Navy chose to share the responsibility for Betty. This skilled old man did not inform the old fried dough in the Navy, the First Minister of Maritime Affairs Goff Karthorpe. He blatantly ordered the fast fleet to cover the retreat of the main fleet as much as possible while preserving itself. But just before Belfry summoned his secretary to draft a telegram, David Betty, the British Empire's "Sea Cavalry" had sent a nearly tragic farewell telegram, and he chose to kneel down and die unkindly.

‘Command. The fast fleet turns right and attacks the German battle line freely. After getting rid of the German battle line, please contact the American battleship team and advance towards Scapa Bay at full speed. The main fleet advances towards Furth Bay at full speed. Except for the ships of the First Battleship Fleet, other warships grant the right to operate freely. Good luck! At 14:04, the Grand Fleet Command, David Betty.’

Betty's order was cruel. He rejected the enthusiasm of the fast fleet and handed over the unpained battle line cover mission to General Lampard, making up his mind to save a combat squad that could be used at any time and a promising naval commander for the Royal Navy.

The rapid fleet was freed, but the large fleet was trapped in a hell of no return, especially the Second Battleship Fleet, which was granted the right to operate freely.

Although Betty did not say it clearly, no one could understand his subtext. Taking advantage of the time when the Germans divided a fleet to intercept the Battle Patrol team and the right-turning Battle Patrol team for more than ten minutes to cover it, it is a good idea to accelerate the remaining battleships of the main fleet from the main fleet to escape from the battlefield. The problem is that the second battleship that was crippled could not run at all. In other words, the second battleship became the tactical abandoned son of the large fleet, and the broken rear troops that covered the main fleet's safe retreat. The so-called right to freely operate was just a futile psychological comfort.

Perhaps more than three battleships of the Second Battleship Fleet, the Marboro battleship of the Third Team of the Fourth Battleship Fleet also lost its speed and gradually landed behind Benbao and Emperor Yin.

At the commander tower of the battleship Bavaria, Betty's unexpected choice caught Silem off guard, so much so that Heidi Silem wrote in his memoir:

‘It’s a kneeling death! Betty finally threw away the disguise of the Royal Navy’s invincibility, woke up from the dream that lasted for more than three hundred years, and made a pragmatic choice. Such David Betty is terrible. Fortunately, everything was settled when the Ocean Fleet first obtained the T-shaped head. Even if Betty and I had the next confrontation, I believe that by then, we, who are old, will no longer be the protagonists of this gorgeous sea...’

When interpreting David Betty's order, naval warfare experts evaluated that "a step is not a good chess". This sentence can be regarded as a compliment because it did cause trouble for the next action of the Ocean Fleet-German Third Battle Fleet had turned left for five or six minutes, but facing the fast fleet with the right turn, the third battle fleet's action of seizing the T-shaped horizontal head became worthless.

It is not that the third battleship cannot seize the T-shaped horizontal head. After all, the third battleship takes the lead in steering, and the steering radius of the battleship is usually smaller than the battleship cruiser with a longer hull. But the problem is that the steering space for the two fearless fleets is extremely limited. When the third battleship ends, it may only have two or three minutes to complete the steering of at least 180 degrees. Even if the British Battle Patrol team adjusts their course to the southeast direction, the combat distance between the two fleets running side by side on the North Ocean will not exceed 10 kilometers.

At a combat distance of 10 kilometers, German battleships and British combat patrols can ensure that the upper armor belts are destroyed each other, which is not worth the loss for the Ocean Fleet, which has an absolute advantage in protection.

It is also inappropriate to let the First Battle Fleet or the First Reconnaissance Cluster intercept the British fast fleet. The two seriously injured Nassau-class battleships in the First Battle Fleet can support the battle line without any resistance to the destruction of a large angle. The three temporary Markenson-class battle cruisers and the First Battle Fleet also lack the coordination.

As for the first reconnaissance cluster, its forces are extremely scattered at this moment. Except for the three Markensen-class battle patrols, Seidlitz and Moltke are blocking the shoreline and rushing towards the shoreline, only three Deflinger-class battle patrols can be mobilized at any time.

Betty's masterpiece has saved a lot of situations for the Fleet, but it cannot completely change the passive situation of the Royal Navy, as Heidi Sileme said:
Chapter completed!