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Chapter 483 The German main fleet arrives

The God of Luck did not take care of the Deutsch again.

The 283 mm shells were all knocked away. When they opened fire, the hull swayed slightly, so the muzzle was slightly off, and in this way, all the shells were knocked away.

The Southampton was unscathed.

The fourth volley shot was shot again. After the German fired in two rounds, the British warship also completed preparations.

The shells flew towards the Germans like heavy rain.

This time, because of the proximity of the distance, not only the main gun, but also the opponent's secondary gun opened fire, and the shells were too dense!

"Right 1," Colonel Stanger shouted, and he was no longer calm this time and had to avoid it.

"Boom!" A shell fell into the sea water and then exploded, rolling up waves several meters high, pounced on the deck, pouring several exposed people operating anti-aircraft guns into a cool heart.

"Boom!" Suddenly, a shell hit it accurately.

Fortunately, this was a 152mm secondary gun shell that hit the German strongest side armor belt. During the huge impact, the entire ship felt a shaking, but fortunately it was not penetrated!

The engine on the Germans made a rumbling sound, and the damaged diesel engine had not been started. Its speed was not high enough. Now, it seems that it is unlikely to escape this British attack.

On the Queen Elizabeth who had been torpedoed, Admiral Tovey looked at the German ship in the distance, and his eyes were extremely cold: "Continue to fire the volley and kill it!"

The opponent can no longer escape, and his side will use dense firepower to completely eliminate the opponent.

"Report, the Enthusiasm found a target on the sea surface fifteen nautical miles away on our port side." At this moment, a sound came from the radio and quickly reported it to General Tovey.

Port side, fifteen nautical miles? Admiral Tovey stood up, raised his telescope, and from the porthole of the bridge, he could see the sea on the port side.

Unfortunately, there were waves everywhere, and he could not see anything. He could only see some highlights on the sea, which looked like a fleet.

Then, he frowned. He had already seen the highlights on the opposite side, and the other party's naval gun was firing.

Are the Germans so perverted? At this distance, they actually opened fire?

Yes, Germany has fired!

The Germans opened fire at a distance of 10 nautical miles, and the hit was quite powerful, while the newly arrived formation opened fire at a distance of 15 nautical miles!

The flagship of the formation is the pride of the German Navy, the battleship Bismarck!

Originally, the core of the formation was the USS Adolf Hitler aircraft carrier, but now, this aircraft carrier, accompanied by two or three escort warships, is about twenty nautical miles behind the formation.

The harsh weather conditions made the Hitler aircraft carrier unable to release the carrier-based aircraft at all. The recovery of the fighter jet last night was already thrilling, and the deck was shaking violently. The officers and soldiers on the aircraft carrier could only wait for the weather to improve in vain.

In this era, carrier-based aircraft have shown strong combat power. Under its dive bombing, any warship is like paper-paste, and the duel of naval guns has been put into the second position.

After these days of battle, the German Navy has concluded this conclusion that the aircraft carrier will eventually replace the battleship.

However, on the Atlantic Ocean, battleships still have their own value.

For example, now, carrier-based aircraft on aircraft carriers cannot be released, so they can only rely on battleships!

When the carrier-based aircraft cannot be released, the aircraft carrier loses its function. It is absolutely inappropriate to press it up like this. It is simply a target for the opponent. Therefore, the aircraft carrier landed behind. In the current situation, it is destined to be a tragic sea war, just like the Jutland naval battle!

After receiving the news that their Germans were attacked, they accelerated and tried to meet with the Germans, and now they finally arrived.

There are still 15 nautical miles away. The 406mm naval gun on Bismarck is ready, and it is almost opposite now, so only the six naval guns on the two turrets in front have firing angles.

Time goes back five minutes.

At the forefront of the formation, the battleship "Scharnhorst" and the candidate Gus on the foremast lookout platform focused on observing.

This kind of battleship is a German-class subsequent warship.

After Germany and Britain signed the British Naval Agreement, the restrictions on the German Navy were legally lifted by the Versailles Peace Treaty on the German Navy and allowed Germany to build warships with a displacement of 35,000 tons.

The 10,000 tons of German class could no longer meet the needs of the German navy. Just the month of the agreement was signed, Germany started construction of the newly designed Schánhorst class.

At the beginning, this was just a German-class enlarged version, with a displacement of only 19,000 tons and a main gun caliber of 305 mm.

However, the design plan was subsequently modified, the displacement was increased to 35,000 tons, the dual 380mm main gun was installed, the maximum armor thickness was 360mm, and the steam turbine was replaced to increase the speed to 31 knots.

Historically, due to the development progress, three triple-mounted 283mm caliber main guns were finally used. We planned to replace them with a new gun after the 380mm cannon was successfully developed.

Now, the German naval guns are quite mature, so this battleship did not use 283mm naval guns, but the number of naval guns has been reduced. The original 283, which was a triple-mounted 380, became a double-mounted turret race, with the turret race exactly the same.

There are also many doubts about the division of this warship.

The displacement of this kind of warship is equivalent to that of British battleships, the 32 knots of high speed is equivalent to that of battlecruisers, the armor thickness is stronger than that of battlecruisers, and the firepower is equivalent to that of battlecruisers.

It is very similar to the Germans, but the result is that British battleships cannot catch up with them, and cruisers cannot defeat them, and battlecruisers will suffer losses when they compete with them. It is very suitable for breaking battles on the Atlantic Ocean.

Now, the ocean is surging. In order to see further, the lookouts are standing on high places, so the shaking is even more powerful. Ordinary people will be vomited after a few minutes of going up.

However, Lieutenant Gus had been persevering. Before joining the navy, Lieutenant Gus was already a crew member. He had long been used to this kind of bumps.

Suddenly, he found a wisp of smoke in the eyepiece, and turned the dial with his afterglow, with an angle of about 15 degrees on the starboard side, and he found the target!

So he immediately grabbed the phone and reported to the bridge, and all the telescopes on the entire "Sharenhorst" turned to starboard.

Soon, the target was confirmed, and the "Scharnhorst" reported to the flagship Bismarck with a light signal that an unknown target was found at 15 degrees on the starboard side.
Chapter completed!
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