Chapter 7 Dogger Shoal Cry (6)
[After reading this chapter, you may want to scold why it is not the Chinese people's great power, why does a Chinese man go to Germany to talk about the great power, what is the great power, and what is the great power, and only one thing is to say, first of all, it must be a great power, so that it has a great power, which belongs to the spiritual level. It is said that this book is too historical, but in fact I want to say that this book is too yy, because Xiyi, the navy, and the navy, did not hesitate to work hard to promote it!]
"God, that's the location of the Moltke boiler cabin..."[]
At 18:30, the officers and soldiers on the von-de-Tann-class battle patrol and the Blüchel large armored ship saw a heartbreaking scene. A 343 mm heavy armor-piercing bomb hit the flagship Moltke, the bait fleet. The solid bullets weighed dozens of tons easily tore open the port side of the Moltke, and tear a crack of more than ten meters long on the solid hull. The dark and cold sea water in the North Sea surged in, and the Moltke battle patrol hull was paused, and the forward steps quickly staggered.
Captain Blücher, Colonel Alexander Edman, turned his back and silently gestured a cross: "Tianyou Moltke, the most outstanding strategic genius of God's will!"
The Tiger and Queen Mary's battle patrol artillery were still fierce. The martyr's twilight Blüchel and the staggering Moltke were getting closer and closer, and there was a vague trend of catching up. At this time, the searchlight light flashed on the cylindrical mainmast of the Moltke's battle patrol. Colonel Edman turned his head anxiously to see the signal soldiers.
"Blüchel, von der Tann completed the steering action and drove eastward to fire freely. Moltke..." The old-fashioned German signal soldiers' sapphire pupils became wet, and they choked and translated the flagship lights: "The Moltke's boiler was damaged and could not keep up with the fleet. Immediately take over the defender and cover the retreat!"
"Silem, Principal Reiche is not wrong with you!" Colonel Edman said in a deep voice with his fists clenched.
As a student of Principal Ernst von Reich, Alexander Edman and his boss Franz von Hippel were fortunate to listen to the 1897 Kiel Naval Academy cadet paper defense. The young and frivolous Wang Heidi proposed the concept of "asymmetric combat" that was amazing. After the defense, Principal Leacher bluntly spoke to him and Hippel: Although this young man from Kiel had minor problems such or such
, but his vision is broad and his sense of smell is even more commendable. The deepest part is that he contains a passion that he has never noticed himself. This force is enough to support him to shoulder the mission to save the crisis! On the rise of the German Navy, Heidi Sileme is far more important than the genius of the Plunhei School, Wolfgang Weigener, who is as famous as him, Bernhard von Oden and Erich Redel among the three musketeers of the Kilsea School.
The stunning at the thesis defense meeting in 1897, the hustle and bustle of 1898, the end of Germany's East Africa in 1912, the turbulent Turkish order in 1914, Colonel Edman, who was slight and gentle, witnessed Wang Heidi's vague ignorance and slight words from the beginning to the vague ignorance and slight words after returning to the local area in 1914, and then to the full satisfaction of the Battle of Helgolan Bay on August 23.
"Signal Soldier, to the flagship lights: Long live the Moltke!" The sound of cannons outside the commander's tower roared, and the collapsed situation could not tolerate any hesitation or pretentiousness. Colonel Edman turned his body and faced the gradually falling behind Moltke and closed his heels, raised his white gloves that were stained with dust and gave a solemn military salute.
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The injured Moltke battle patrol was obviously a soft persimmon, with more and more shells being Guan Gu, and he mercilessly knocked it out of trouble.
"Deputy Commander, you can actually choose Blüchel as your new flagship. Moltke will never regard you as a deserter..." Captain Magnus von Lewentzow had worked with the blood-stained young man in front of him for half a year. He could not bear to let the talented admiral break the shoal of Doger and tried hard to persuade Wang Heidi to leave the ship.
"College, have you seen that flag?" The ink-like night sky of the North Atlantic Ocean was rich with a choking smell of gunpowder and a pungent bloody smell. Under the cool moonlight, the Blüchel was shuttled through the British gunfire and passed by the staggering Moltke. Wang Heidi pointed to the naval flag with the German Iron Cross and the Black Hawk hanging on the main mast of the Blüchelle Battle Patrol. He looked up at the night sky with fire, as if he wanted to see through the space and time of the century: "A long time ago, the empire united and danced to sway materialism. As a child in peacetime, I don't understand what war is, what responsibility is, what blood and persistence is. The first time I heard Frecy recall the painful six-week war, and listen to Blunt's naval flag about his reserve, I wandered away from his external jokes;
The Keir Naval Academy’s not heavy naval history courses, and the increasingly frozen and numb heart trembled because of my understanding of my father; in 1894, it was a little bleak in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, Sherman’s death and Oden’s pride shattered the strings in my heart; in 1914, Turkey ordered me to return to the local area to go to the battle tour of the Sedlitz, and stood under the naval flag of the Sedlitz and listened to the deep horns of the ocean fleet, and then woke up like a dream. In 1914, the war, countless military victory and the political ties that followed, I wandered at the intersection of my life, and hopelessly chose to fight hard. Colonel, since I figured out what I didn’t understand before, or because of the false political and national conditions, I couldn’t retreat!”
Queen Mary hit the Moltke's battle with a 343mm armor-piercing blast. The impact of the explosion completely destroyed a double-mounted 305mm main gun and two 150mm secondary guns in the unit. Most of the chimney No. 1 behind the forecastle was cut off, and a watchtower was hung. The signal cable and searchlight cylindrical main mast collapsed. The sky-summing fire and rolling black smoke rose from the hull and spread deep into the hull along the communication pipeline.
"All the damage control team members are concentrated in the hull, and the water pump is pouring water into the K turret ammunition depot!" Faced with Zhang Huang's helpless staff and the damage control captain, Colonel Lewentzo looked calm and continued, "Commander, what do you understand?"
"The sea soul of a land nation, a sea soul of a great country who is brave enough to explore the ocean!" Wang Heidi, who was wrapped in bandages, paused word by word.
Principal Lewentezo's bearded face trembled slightly, and he sighed heavily, and finally gave up Wuwang's persuasion. A wicked smile appeared on Wang Heidi's pale face, and silently added to the heart:
"Thanks to this time travel, allowing me to follow this indomitable ocean fleet, follow this country that is a continental nation but is brave enough to explore the ocean, follow this group of indomitable warriors, and seek the soul of the great power together!"
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The naval battle continued. At 18:49, the Lion, Royal Princess, and Invincible Battle Patrol joined the battle group. David Betty's flagship Lion Battle Patrol rushed to the Moltke battle patrol, the Royal Princess, Invincible, Queen Mary and the Tiger Battle Patrol chose their opponents to fight according to Betty's instructions.
At this time, the battle patrol von der Tann and the large armored ship of Blücher finally completed the steering action, forming a 45-degree angle with the oncoming First Battle Cruise Fleet. This also means that the battle patrol von der Tann and Blücher can exert all sidewave firepower and fight against the First Battle Cruise Fleet (the bow A turret of the Invincible and the turret), which can only be used by the main guns of 16 bows, and the situation of the decoy fleet has greatly improved.
At 18:50, a heart-wrenching alarm sounded from the buzzer of the Von-de-Tann battle patrol. The officers and soldiers on the ship opened their mouths or covered their ears at the same time. They stared at the direction of the British fleet with revenge and anger, waiting for the fire of the Von-Tann!
At 18:51, the German fleet was silent for more than half an hour and finally launched a fierce counterattack. The first round of artillery attacks of the USS Von De-Tann hit the British USS Immortal. The 305mm heavy armor-piercing bomb easily tore open the waterline belt of the USS Immortal's battle cruiser, which is comparable to an armored cruiser and a watertight compartment partition less than 4 inches, and plunged into the inner part of the USS Immortal's hull.
The Invincible is the first battle cruiser in Britain and even the world. The main gun of the battleship and the speed of the cruiser. Since the Invincible started construction in April 1906, the warship has attracted the attention of the whole world and is in the limelight. However, the good times did not last long. A week after the Invincible started construction, the old enemy Germany soon launched a copycat battle patrol - the von der Then.
Regarding battle cruisers, the design concepts of the naval design departments of Germany and Britain were completely opposite. With the similar caliber of the main gun and the full load displacement, the British chose the speed at all costs. The maximum speed of 26 knots was enough to make the unprotected cruisers serving in the British Empire colonies look unpopular, while the Germans devoted all their energy to protection. The waterline was armoured, and the thickness of the command tower and turret armor was no less than that of the British Fearless battleship.
Since the start of the construction of the Von Det-Tann battle patrol, German and British newspapers have fought a verbal battle, accusing each other of being a copycat product, while the one on the world's first battle patrol. After endless insults, the Invincible and the Von Det-Tann battle patrol formed an eight-year hatred. At 19:21 on November 14, 1914, at the heart of the Dogers shoal in the North Sea, the brutal Von Det-Tann battle patrol used a 305mm armor-piercing bomb to end this grudge.
The solid bullet smashed a big hole on the port side of the Invincible. The sea water of the North Atlantic surged passionately into the inside of the hull, swallowing everything along the pipe door. It cannot be said that the Royal Navy's pipe-damaged sailors did not work hard. In the Invincible cabin, countless Royal Navymen shouted "God bless my king" and jumped into the cold sea water and terrifying vortex, struggling to plug the leaks, waterproof canvas, and rigging into the hole. However, the Invincible battle patrol cut corners and the poor pipe-damaged design made the situation irreversible.
At 19:01, the British failed to plug the leak, and the sea water overflowed the second deck of the Invincible.
At 19:12, Captain Invincible ordered the abandonment of the ship.
At 19:21, the captain confirmed that the last crew member had evacuated and stubbornly locked himself into the captain's room. In desperation, the British Nottingham had to fire two torpedoes at the Invincible under the tragic and desolate melody of the "Song of the English" sung by the sailors.
At 19:25, the Invincible Battlecruising was the first sunken main battleship in the fierce Dogel Shoals, and was buried with its captain in the mud of dozens of meters deep in the cold Dogel Shoals in the North Sea.
Chapter completed!