The red sun is shining, the splendor is dazzling, and the blue sky is thin with clouds, which is a rare sunny climate in the southern part of the Norwegian Sea. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe main fleets of Britain and Germany collided head-on in this sea area, and staged a bloody confrontation that was not as large as the Battle of Jutland, but not less intense.

With Admiral Forbes' order, the battered Rodney began to pull up a large area of earthy yellow smoke on the starboard side of the sea, and the thick smoke and dust blocked its view from the German ships in the distance, and the scarred battleship was finally temporarily pulled back from the brink of destruction.

However, the specific condition of her ship still made all British officers and men anxious. The water ingress in the engine room continued to deteriorate, and the raging waves flooded compartment after cabin. Even though the captain mobilized all available men to drain and plug the leak in the freezing waters of January, the Rodney's right-hand freeboard continued to lower and soon reached the point where it needed to be refilled to avoid capsizing.

In this case, no matter how angry and sad Admiral Forbes was, he could only choose to change the flagship and abandon the newest and strongest capital ship of the British Navy. Although the British Navy had an unwritten rule since the Battle of Trafalgar that the fleet commander should share the victory with the flagship, it was only a rule that could be broken at any time. At present, the battle between the two sides has only completed the first round, and there is still a lot of time to fight each other, if Forbes clings to the badly damaged and lost the ability to radio communicate, it will be really irresponsible to the country and the fleet!

However, just as Forbes and a group of staff officers were preparing to transfer in lifeboats, the signalman of the Rodney finally made a mistake for the first time in his busy schedule. Perhaps too anxious to go to the inside of the ship to support the drainage work, the signalman just hung up the Forbes command of "destroyer group assault" and did not repeat it with lights in strict accordance with the regulations, as a result, because the smoke was too hard when the Rodney withdrew from the battle, the destroyer group and the cruiser fleet in front did not see this order, and still sailed in order.

It was precisely because of the interruption of the transmission of this order that the artillery battle between the two battlefleets continued because of the inertia of the battlefield. And for the few remaining old British battleships that were completely unable to withstand the giant shells of the German ships, every 1 minute under the enemy's guns, they were one step closer to the hell of death!

"Boom!" The Bismarck's majestic artillery group erupted in an earth-shattering roar again, and seven shells weighing 1.5 tons were like comets, rolling through the sky in anger and rushing towards the battleship Warrior. This old ship, which had participated in the Battle of Jutland, was instantly shrouded in the rushing tsunami, and the violent tremor brought by the near miss, which made the soul of the British sailor, who was still a little high-spirited just now, tremble violently, and instantly woke up from the ideal world of his unilateral shelling and target shooting just now. The tonnage of the enemy ship is 40% larger than its own, and the firepower is almost twice that of its own, no matter how you look at it, the Warrior is suddenly in an extremely disadvantageous position!

Just two minutes later, the Warrior was hit hard with a retaliation. A 450-mm armor-piercing shell pierced through the 324 mm frontal armor of the Warrior A turret with a sharp and piercing hissing sound, and although this shell did not detonate in a very rare occurrence, it still smashed a lot of equipment inside the turret, and the Warrior's firepower was weakened by a quarter.

A short time later, another shell hit the rear waterline of the ship like a thunderbolt, and the violent explosion made the battleship with a full load displacement of 36,450 tons tremble like a tuning fork, and a large amount of seawater poured violently from the breach. The British soldiers were horrified to find that the actual damage caused by this blow was far beyond their normal understanding: the huge cracks in the steel that rolled up viciously, and the twisted and broken bulkheads of the ship's hull were all very different from the destructive power of the 15- and 16-inch shells they were familiar with!

"Boom!" The cannonballs roared into the sea, the water column was like a giant dragon and the clouds were towering, and the lifeboat in which Forbes was riding was violently tossed and almost overturned on the sea. The hull of the Warrior exploded once again with a brilliant orange-red flame, and thousands of debris shot out of the violently exploding side of the ship like a volcanic eruption. Nearly 200 square meters of the ship's quarters on the starboard side were completely torn off, along with two twin 114-mm secondary guns and one eight-pack 40-mm bang-bang gun. The raging flames quickly replaced the explosive flames, and the deck raged wildly, burning so fiercely that it was impossible to extinguish with human power!

"Damn the destroyer, what the hell are they doing?" Seeing that the Warrior was also shattered and miserable under the obscene power of the German ship's 18-inch bomb, Forbes could no longer contain the anxiety and rage in his heart, and jumped and shouted. The reason why he ordered the destroyer fleet to assault after the destruction of the Rodney was so that the Warrior would no longer suffer the fire of the German battleships like the Rodney; Now, however, for some reason, it backfired, and the Warrior faced off against the German battleship. Although Forbes is mentally prepared to play with the Germans today, this does not mean that he has to accept this senseless loss!

Braving the deadly fire of a meteorite, Forbes, who frantically urged his subordinates to sail, finally approached the Warrior. He rushed along the gangway from the sea to the bridge at full speed, and then loudly ordered the battlefleet to turn two compass points to the left under the stunned gaze of the captain and other officers, and at the same time expel the fleet to launch a lightning strike. After a delay of nearly 10 minutes, Forbes' order was finally carried out. However, at this time, the Warrior was no longer the intact body he expected, and her combat effectiveness, like the Malaya in the rear, was greatly reduced compared to the best condition.

"The British finally couldn't help but flip the table." Looking at the light ships speeding towards him in the distant sea, Karls, the commander of the German fleet, put down his binoculars and sneered. In the traditional plane naval battle, the dispatch of a lightning strike ship group is a means adopted by a fleet to disrupt the battlefield in order to get rid of its disadvantageous position in normal artillery battles: due to the huge threat of torpedoes to ships, the attacked side has to carry out a wide range of maneuvers and evasions according to the track of the opponent's warships and torpedoes, which makes the positions and formations of both sides reshuffle, and the previously inferior side also has the opportunity to seek a turnaround in a new game.

However, there is clearly a price to be paid for doing so. The Lightning Strike is a high-risk game with your head pinned to your belt, because these small ships have no defense, but they have to brave the full firepower of the opposing fleet, rushing to a very close range of 3, 4 kilometers or even less than 1 kilometer. Even if it was just an injury and a slowdown, it would be fatal to them.

Just as he was about to give a-for-tat order, Kars's heart suddenly moved. As far as the eye could see, the vast majority of the light ships of the British fleet seemed to be rushing towards them, and the commander of the opposing side seemed to have considerable expectations for this round of attack, and was ready to use torpedoes, an asymmetric weapon, to inflict heavy damage on his two battleships or even leave them here.

The corners of Kars's mouth hooked up an imperceptible arc, and he said to the herald beside him: "The fleet turned to the right by 6 compass points, the speed was increased to 29 knots, and the destroyer deployed an interception array on the port side. At the same time, a telegram was sent to the 3rd Fleet in the port of Bergen, and they were ready to sort. Tell General Merkel that one British battleship has been heavily damaged, seriously slowing down the actions of other ships - his mission is to help the British solve this source of evil! ”

The machinery sounded, the hull vibrate, and the chief steering officer at the stern of the Bismarck carried out Kars's order at the first time, maneuvering the rudder to direct the water stirred by the propellers to spray out. The massive hull of the ship, like a prehistoric beast, then began to turn on the surface of the sea, and the stern of the ship gradually formed an arc of white current. The Tirpitz followed in the rear, and the two German battleships quickly completed this maneuver of steering acceleration. At the same time, the eight destroyers sailing in front slowed down appropriately, naturally forming an ideal formation to escort on the left flank of the battlefleet. The German sailors were gearing up, ready to bombard the invading enemy ships head-on with artillery fire.

"How could a German battleship still have such speed? The first ship has already been confirmed to have been hit by 15 large-caliber shells from our side, impossible! Inside the bridge of the USS Warrior, Forbes slammed his fists on the table and yelled at a microphone. Just now, the rangefinder at the top of the mainmast gave the preliminary data of the German battleship's steering maneuver, but this made the Admiral Forbes on the other end of the microphone instantly exploded, and his red eyes made the captains who were familiar with him next to him have a trace of fear and strangeness.

Forbes was not shocked and outraged: the British fleet fought for the price of the Rodney's heavy losses in exchange for the Bismarck being hit by multiple shells. If the latter can maintain a high speed of nearly 30 knots, doesn't that mean that she has not suffered any substantial damage at all? So what is the point of the sacrifice of the Rodney and the hundreds of officers and men on board?

Even more frightening is the deep message it contains. No matter how bad the luck of the British fleet is, at least 4~5 of the 15 shells can hit the core module; And this could not cause the enemy ship to stall, which is enough to prove that the opponent's defense level is at least the same as that of the Rodney, or even surpasses. How could the British Navy sink such a warship?

"It seems that only the last resort of torpedoes remains." Forbes took a deep breath and gritted his teeth in his heart and muttered to himself. At this time, even if the core compartment of the two German battleships was not damaged, the secondary guns on the deck must have suffered a heavy blow, and the anti-lightning attack capability would not be as good as before the outbreak of the battle. Your side has more than twice the number of auxiliary ships, so you may not have a chance to hand in good luck!