Seeing the frightened and anxious looks of the staff officers beside him, the fear in Forbes's heart flashed away, and he raised his eyebrows and shouted angrily: "Gentlemen, are you so afraid? The Royal Navy has always only had the muzzle to meet the enemy, and there is no rudder to flee in panic! Drake and Lord Howard in Calais, Sir Nelson in Trafalgar, in the face of adversity, they never hesitated and cowardly, and with courage and perseverance they created the most brilliant and shining immortal poetry in the history of the Anglo-Saxon nation! ”

Every name Forbes says is a legend in the history of the British navy: the first two broke the Spanish Armada in 1588, starting the royal navy to dominate the ocean, and the latter buried the Napoleonic emperor's ambition to dominate the world through a complete victory in 1805, and for the next 100 years the whole world submitted to the gods of the St. George's Cross flag, and no longer dared to give birth to a head-on challenge. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 At this critical juncture, I felt even more impassioned, and all the officers in the command tower were shaken, and their fear of the German heavy battleships gradually turned into a raging fighting spirit.

"No matter how large the caliber of the main guns of the new German battleship is, the displacement is only at the level of the Hood. After equipping the cannon and the high-power power crew, how much armor can be used for protection? Today is the moment for us to burst the biggest warship bubble of the century! Well, gentlemen, now tell me, are you members of the Royal Navy, are you soldiers of His Majesty? Forbes asked loudly as he looked around with his eyes like lightning. Aye！ The British officers rushed with enthusiasm and pride and shouted in unison in response.

"Boom!" When the sky suddenly exploded, a thunderous roar shook the sky, and the foredeck of the battleship Rodney suddenly rushed out of the fierce waves of fire, and the rolling muzzle flames rushed out more than 50 meters away in the blink of an eye, as if a brilliant cloud was stretching on the sea. Witnessing the earth-shattering roar of the salvo of 9 406mm L45 heavy guns of their own battleship, the British sailors finally broke out into a long-suppressed cathartic cheer, and they also have a powerful sea war machine, and this time they are sure to sink the evil German battleships in this sea!

Following the Rodney, the Warrior and the Malaya also erupted in their first salvos, and the dazzling waves of purple and gold red erupted in an indescribable majestic movement. In the Battle of Jutland 24 years ago, these two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships were the core of the British Grand Fleet, and saved the battle patrol detachment from the brink of destruction as a savior. After nearly a quarter of a century of vicissitudes of the sea, history has once again pushed two old meritorious warships to the cusp of the decisive battle at sea, they are the last mainstay of today's withering and declining Royal Navy, defending the power of the British Empire with the sunset heat at the end of their service life!

Unlike the heroic posture of the first three battleships fighting back, the Royal Oak, which was at the end of the detachment, was silent. As it did not undergo any modernization during its service, the elevation angle of the Royal Oak's main gun remained 20 degrees when it was built in 1916, and its shells were also the original Green Bullet 4RCH finalized in 1919; This made her maximum range only 21,700 meters, which was simply not enough to reach German battleships at a distance of 23 km. Compared to the Rodney, which is 11 years younger than her, and the Warrior and Malaya, which have undergone two major modifications, the Royal Oak, which belongs to the R-class, is undoubtedly the weakest presence on the British battle line.

The loud bang was deafening, the water column was surging, and the time of five minutes quickly passed between the fingers of the commanders of both sides. The distance between the two fleets gradually approached to 21 km, and in a small maneuver they fully entered the standard battle line engagement phase. Rodney and Warrior 2 against Bismarck, and Malaya and Royal Oak against Tirpitz. This scene reminds people of a summer afternoon at the end of May 1916: the most elite battle patrol detachments of the British and German navies are fighting hard in the Jutland Sea, and the rolling thunder of artillery fire seems to shake the star dome!

However, unlike in the last battle, the battleships have been greatly distanced. With the rapid development of optical rangefinder and fire control calculation technology in the interwar period, the normal engagement distance of capital ships has increased from 10~13km 25 years ago to more than 20km today. As long as there is enough visibility on the sea, the capital ship can even strike preemptively from a distance of 25km. At this time, after several rounds of tentative firing in the early stages, the accuracy of the artillery fire on both sides was greatly improved; When a column of rushing water less than 100 meters away from the port side of the warship collapsed and dispersed, Major Otto, the gunnery officer of the Bismarck, found that the shells of his ship had also fallen near the right front of the target!

"The next round of full salvo of the main gun, time correction +1s, distance correction +200, front and rear correction -150, roll compensation -3.6 degrees!" Otto's brain made a decision in a very short time, and he shouted to his subordinates behind him. Several young non-commissioned officers immediately flew their fingers, quickly entered Otto's password parameters into the boxy mechanical shooting computer in front of them, and skillfully performed various operations on the console full of switches and knobs. With a squeaky sound and vibration, a string of firing elements was solved by the machine twenty seconds later, and another non-commissioned officer immediately grabbed the microphone and transmitted the latest firing parameters to the turret.

The police lights flashed and the color was blinding crimson. At this time, in the three main turrets of the Bismarck, it was a tense scene of full work: the automatic lifting machine lifted the 1.5-ton heavy shell from the depths of the ammunition depot along with the propellant, and then stuffed the barrel along the track with the push of the robotic arm, and the solid and heavy wedge bolt was then slowly raised, and the airtight lock was achieved with the assistance of the brass propellant in front. After the tedious reloading, the 2,200-ton turret began to rotate to a predetermined horizontal angle according to the latest firing Zhuyuan, while the 140-ton cannon was lifted to the corresponding elevation angle by a hydraulic press, waiting for the final spark to ignite.

When the police lights in the turret turned from red to turquoise, an earth-shattering thunderbolt suddenly exploded in the sea and air. Nine huge bombs were fired at a speed of 725 m/s in the 100-meter-long red light, and spun wildly and swooped down on the British battleship 20 kilometers away. Otto's eyes stared at his target without blinking, while silently reading the seconds in his mind. When he read the 34th second, a towering white wave blurred his vision, and in the midst of it, there was a flash of orange-red light containing black! (To be continued.) )