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At that time, nineteen British battleships were coming from the northwest, rubbing their hands and rising morale. Including ten old masters, these old masters were also called "five-minute ships", which meant that they could only survive for five minutes under the firepower of Xinshu battleships due to various technologies.

These old ships were originally sealed off and were used as escort ships after the war to perform merchant ship escort missions. However, it is more appropriate to travel with merchant ships than to escort. The main purpose of these warships was to go to the Boston Shipyard in the United States for renovation. After the transformation, these old ships finally had the ability to sink a new type of battleship, and their main gun was changed to 356ark. Armor-piercing ammunition weighed pounds.

Since most of the ammunition used is exclusive to the United States, these old ships carried more than twice the normal ammunition and three times the reserve barrels, so the ammunition of these old ships was very sufficient in the subsequent battles. Not only that, the gun barrels of these old ships were also very durable, with only half of the reserve barrels worn out, and the shooting accuracy was very accurate. The only regret is that there are many inexperienced recruits among the crew, so the performance of these old ships is quite poor.

Several hours after the Slam Sinking, the old ships received a temporary order to abort the current escort mission and joined the pursuit of William III. In the subsequent performance, they gave the Germans an unexpected blow. The commander of the fleet, Lieutenant General Tovey, was sitting on the bridge of George III, thinking carefully about the current situation.

John Tovi was born in 1885 and joined the Navy in January 19000.

In 1902, he was appointed as the "Jacquel" and his reputation was to lead the destroyer "Slow Step" to perform well in the naval battle with the French. After that, he was quickly promoted and considered a new star in the Royal Navy.

After the end of World War I, after completing his Naval Staff School, he was transferred to the Navy to serve. In 1905, he was appointed commander of a small fleet and served at the Port of Sed, while he worked with Canning, who was then the base commander, to design a new type of training table that increased the time spent training at sea.

He then transferred to the Imperial War Academy for further study. After the further study, he was appointed as the assistant of the Second Sea Minister. At the outbreak of the war, he served as the commander of the Mediterranean destroyer force and served under Cunningham. He was the deputy to Cunning for ten years until a few hours ago.

After General Canning sank with the flagship, Tovey bravely stood up in chaos. He took on the heavy responsibility of commanding the fleet. Under his command, the British fleet slowly regained its courage, vitality, and luck, and sank a German ship. Now the second German ship is also in crisis. Tovey seemed to see the throne of the Navy Minister recruiting him.

Now he already knows that William III was hit by a torpedo, and his maneuverability must have been greatly affected, but it is not very clear about how much combat power the opponent has left. Now he has two choices, one is to sail eastward. Passing forward of William III and blocking the north of the German ship, so that all the side firepower can be used to form a T-shaped formation against the German ship.

Of course there is another option, which is to turn around and lead the fleet to escape. However, that option was filtered out by Tovey. There is no option to escape in the dictionary of the Royal Navy.

The other is to sail southeastward and approach William III from the west. Since it was shortly after sunrise, the sky in the east was light, which just set off the German ship and facilitated the artillery to aim at the target. After some trade-offs, Tovey ordered the fleet to speed up and drive to the southeast eastward to occupy the advantageous shooting position to the west of William III.

This may be because there is only one German ship. The steering is not limited by queues, so it is not worth occupying the word T head. But in fact, William III is already unmanipulated at this time and it is quite difficult to turn. If the interception is carried out in the east direction, the effect may be better. However, the British had a limited understanding of the situation at this time, so they did not take this measure.

808, Lieutenant General Tove issued another order, emphasizing that each ship cooperates with each other in battle. If the German ship is found to be slow to move, he can act freely. This may be because of the large number of participating ships and only one opponent, each ship needs to execute battle lines that lack flexibility. Once the German ship is found to be unable to act freely, the German ship needs to be resolved as soon as possible.

820, the Norfolk heavy cruiser once again reported the direction of William III. The ship corrected its course in this direction and headed towards the battlefield. The battle was about to begin, and the officers began to issue orders to their subordinates. British officers issued a series of textbook instructions to the sailors step by step, and the current combat conditions made them impeccable.

The Germans were making final preparations. Since the 150-meter-high level dual-purpose cannons and other small-caliber air defense weapons on the German warships did not have any armor protection, the shrapnel flying across the battle would pose a serious threat to the ammunition exposed to the deck and the sailors operating these weapons. Considering that these weapons did not have any threat to British battleships, Captain Linderman ordered the sailors operating these weapons to withdraw from their battle positions and hide in the cabin with light armor protection, and to be on standby as reserve personnel of other departments.

Finally, the 6 480mm main guns and 32150mm secondary guns were ready for battle. No one was too concerned about the number of people in the quasi-Chinese: it was no different from the number of enemies in this kind of battle that would be defeated. Anyway, they could only be sunk once at most.

Compared with the last battle cruiser Seedlitz, which was consistent with the title of "Unsinking Battleship", William III does not have the shallow sea sand bed outside the Jasper anchorage to rank at the bottom. There is only an abyss that is thousands of meters deep under her - this is a depth that is enough to make any surface warship doomed. Once it sinks, there will be no chance of salvage and repair.

843, the air defense officer of the USS Rodney was about 25.000 yards away. +: The figure of the USS Rodney appeared in the morning light, and Captain Hamilton only said a very simple sentence to the crew: "Go forward, good luck." At the same time, on the William III, an alarm sounded throughout the ship: 19 British battleships in the front left!
Chapter completed!