Chapter 868: First Blood!
On the battlefield measured in minutes, the distance between the two British fleets was even closer, and by the time the British used up the last set of smoke canisters, the distance between the two British fleets had been reduced to about 4 kilometers. The only problem with the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is that the marshalling has not been re-completed. By this time, the guns of the German fleet had once again locked on Betty's fleet.
It cannot be said that Betty's struggle and the blood of the British auxiliary fleet were useless, and the real damage suffered by the British fleet was actually the destroyed left engine room of the Queen Mary. But this was enough for the German fleet, because the distance between the two sides was already close to 14 kilometers! The British had already overdrawn their auxiliary fleet in advance, overdrawn to hide their smoke canisters, and all that was left was a fist-to-flesh confrontation!
Thank God the weather is fine and the midday sun is like a balance that no longer favors anyone! In short, today is a suitable day for a decisive battle, at least that's what the prince thinks!
Now the entire German fleet received the best firing circle! The entire fleet was quickly distributed, with the Saxony aiming its guns on Betty's flagship, the Lion, the Bavaria aiming at the wounded Queen Mary, and the remaining five battleships splitting their fire between the other two battlecruisers.
"When the battleship at the head of the team starts firing at the reinforcing British fleet, the other battleships will reassign the target in turn, and we must ensure that every British battleship is taken care of!" After assigning the target, Scheer emphasized again in the telegram. This is also the result of the prince's special emphasis, because the cost of missing the target is a bit large.
For example, De Fllinger, who killed in the Battle of Jutland, began to be able to kill Queen Mary in seconds because no one cared about ......it. And also in the Battle of Jutland, the fatal wound of the Lütsov was also hit by the Invincible, which the Germans did not notice at first, two shells hit the bow of the ship, and then caused the torpedo compartment to explode, and finally there was too much water to return to ....... Of course, when the German fleet regained attention, the Invincible died quite simply. It's a pity that Major General Hood, this guy is also a fierce man, so he hung up .......
And when there was no interference, the German fleet burst out with shocking combat effectiveness, and even the prince did not expect that the first results would appear so soon! The two battleships, Württemberg and Baden, which were relatively far behind, aimed their guns at the battlecruiser Grandprincess, which was at the bottom of the line. Within a minute of Scheer's order, the two battleships fired 4 and a half volleys alternately, and the target was clamped one after another! In order to better distinguish the water column, the two battleships filled the shells with different colors of dye, which quickly colored the water column after the shells entered the water, making it easier for the fleet to observe.
"The deafening sound of cannon fire came from all sides like a tsunami, and when you looked outside, you could clearly see that orange and red fireballs covered half of the sky, and our warships were like ancient giants wielding their flaming swords at their opponents. After each artillery shot, the flames and soot had not yet dissipated, and the huge artillery was reset and reloaded, and the entire fleet was gradually obscured by the smoke from our own artillery fire, and sometimes we even had to reduce the rate of fire. The captain of the Saxony, Colonel Beckman, wrote in his combat diary.
"We've been hit!" Suddenly, the entire ship of the Celestial Princess was shaking, and the side of the battlecruiser was as if it had been hit by a heavy hammer, and a 15-inch armor-piercing bullet easily tore open the 9-inch armor belt of the Celestial Princess like a hot knife cutting butter, and the entire bullet body squeezed into the gap in the armor plate, and the huge impact force even brought out a crack several meters long. The 9-inch main armor only destroyed the shell's cap, the almost intact body of the shell smashed the dome armor, then the next door, and then, with a dazzling flash, 3 of the 4 motors in the motor compartment of the Celestia Princess were scrapped in an instant!
The raging flames and thick smoke instantly filled most of the engine room, and then spread along the pipes and corridors to the surrounding areas, and in a very short time, the surrounding more than a dozen cabins turned into a sea of fire, and most of the power of the entire battleship was lost in an instant. And this was only the beginning, and a few seconds later, another shell hit the poor British battlecruiser again. The shell blew the stern steering room to pieces, and the Queen Mary, which could not be operated effectively, soon came to an end for it!
"Kill him! We will be the first to sink the super dreadnought! "The high pillar of fire rising from the hull of Queen Mary in the distance made Colonel Beckman excited, and the battleship Baden, which attacked Princess Celestia with him, showed no weakness! Only half a minute later, a half-salvo of the Baden successfully covered the back half of Queen Mary's hull once again!
"Three shots in a row! It's nothing short of a miracle! "In the space of two or three seconds, three violent explosions were heard in the rear of the Celestia. Even in the daytime, the dazzling flash of light produced by the explosion of the shells makes people shudder.
"In an instant, almost the entire hull of the British ship was obscured by intense light, and then there was a series of explosions that stretched from the fourth turret all the way forward! It was as if fireworks were being set off on the deck of the battleship. Each violent explosion made the battleship tremble deeply, and even if we didn't know what was happening, we knew that the queen's time had come. The British soldier on a destroyer accompanied Princess Celestia recalled the situation this way.
The fire on the battleship was out of control, and each explosion threw a large number of debris into the air dozens of meters high, and the battleship was like an erupting volcano, and huge fireballs filled up from the deck. The violent shock of the explosion even ripped off the armor plate from the inside, and a bolt holding the steel plate even bounced onto the deck of a light cruiser next to it! Queen Mary's stern sank swiftly, the bow lifted slightly, the water flooded down the stern, the engine room had completely lost contact, and the boiler room was mostly flooded. The Queen Mary also gave up the struggle and gave up the signal to abandon the ship.
"Celestia is finished." Betty muttered to herself as she shivered as she lit a cigar, he needed to be quiet now. However, the Germans did not seem to understand the "bitterness" of the vice admiral. Just when the Celestia was completely out of the battle and a group of British destroyers and light cruisers began to transfer the personnel above, the Queen Mary, which was closely behind Betty, suddenly broke out with a loud bang!
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