At 8:57 a.m., after seven and a half rounds of firing from the Bismarck, the first hit of its main gun finally arrived. www.biquge.info A 450 mm armor-piercing bullet pierced through the sky as if it were flying out of the sky, spinning wildly and slamming into the back of the Rodney's hull. In an instant, a violent tremor like the collapse of the sky and the earth pierced the whole ship, and Admiral Forbes, who was in the command tower, lost his center of gravity and staggered, relying on the support of the young adjutant next to him to avoid a side fall!

"The damage management force immediately reported the damage to the warship!" Forbes, who had stabilized his figure, immediately shook off the adjutant's arm and yelled at the microphone with an anxious expression. The armored command tower he was in was located in the middle of the battleship, and behind it was a wide bridge seven or eight stories high, and the damage damage that occurred at the rear of the hull was completely invisible, and he had to rely on the damage management personnel to come to the scene to give answers. At this time, Forbes couldn't help but worry about him, after all, the power of the opponent's main gun was two levels higher than the ship's 16-inch heavy gun; Although the Rodney was known for its strong armor at the beginning of its service, this sturdiness was only relative to the main guns it carried!

"Boom!" While Forbes waited nervously praying, the Rodney erupted in a new salvo. The salvo of nine 406 mm guns was equally impressive, showing the formidable nature of the world's first ship. Seeing the raging and continuous fire clouds on the right side of the foredeck, and the snow-white water foam that shattered and flew on both sides of the bow, Admiral Forbes was a little sure in his heart: judging from the current situation, the hit just now did not affect the core combat power of the Rodney.

"Report, the ship was shot in the rear of the chimney. All three transport boats and cranes were destroyed, and two 40-mm bangbang guns were badly damaged; The two secondary guns in the middle and rear of the starboard side were inoperable, and a fire broke out in front of the main mast. The ship is initially estimated to have 40 casualties, and the fire brigade is currently working hard to extinguish the fire! "In a few moments, the damage management department sent a specific damage report to Forbes. Forbes was relieved to hear this, the shell did not fall in the core area of the warship, which is a great blessing in misfortune. Otherwise, an armor box consisting of 324 mm/18 mm vertical and 125 mm horizontal in the power compartment of the Rodney may not have an immunity zone in the face of 18-inch shells.

But Forbes also understands that he can't always be favored by God. No matter how much the core module was compressed during the design of the Rodney, the total length of its ammunition magazine + power + auxiliary engine exceeded 50% of the total length of the waterline; The main turret, main rangefinder, central fire control room and other equipment and areas towering above the deck are also the core of the combat effectiveness of this giant ship, and any damage to any of them will greatly reduce the combat effectiveness of the warship. Therefore, the best way for the current British fleet is to cripple the opponent first with intensive artillery fire and lose the ability to effectively return fire. No matter how powerful a warship is, it is an out-and-out salted fish after the damage of important equipment one after another!

"Now it's up to the Warrior to play. I hope that our sailors will be able to use the full strength of their daily training! Forbes looked at the Bismarck, which was also surrounded by a column of water on the distant sea, and whispered in his heart.

"Boom!" Bismarck's steel body of more than 53,000 tons suddenly trembled, and even the stokers in the deepest part of the hull clearly felt the strong vibrations coming from all directions. A 381-mm shell burst into the wind and slammed into the left side of the battleship, and in an instant thunder exploded, flames danced wildly, and all the hull debris near the explosion point was torn into scattered pieces, and then swept over the surrounding decks and the sea like a torrential rain. The one of the twin 128 mm high-level dual-purpose turrets closest to the blast center was directly squeezed into a wave shape under the impact of the raging waves, and the gunners inside instantly suffocated. When the German soldiers forcibly cut through the twisted iron door and entered the turret, they saw only the corpse of the robe with the whites of the eyes bulging out and the expression of pain and hideousness!

Just as the Germans were grieving their soldiers, the Bismarck was hit by British ships one after another. A 381-mm shell from the Warrior hit the main armor belt of the ship's hull, and the huge residual momentum it carried made the battleship shudder, but this time, the shell hit was accompanied by not a deafening explosion, but a piercing screech like the tip of a knife cutting through a plate.

The quilt-stripping hat defense, plagiarized by Fang Yan from the Italian designer, finally played a role in this traditional naval artillery duel. After the incoming British shells penetrated the outer layer of 70 mm steel plate + the middle layer of 250 mm foamed cement, the blunt hard quilt cap located in the front part of the projectile body was completely shattered. When it hit the last layer of 280mm armor at a wide angle, there was nothing left to help it straighten the angle and shatter the hard carburized hardened layer on the outside of the armor.

In the end, the 381-mm armor-piercing bullet that was only left in the body flew and disintegrated without suspense in the final impact; Even the fuse located at the rear of the bomb body was not spared, resulting in a 22kg charge in the chamber in front of it becoming a completely damp firecracker.

Another shell from the Rodney hit the rear bridge, and the powerful force of the 406-mm shell directly swept away the rear radar room and a 14-meter baseline main rangefinder above, and the surrounding officers' cabins were also severely damaged. In just a few minutes, more than 30 wounded people were taken to the warship hospital under the Bismarck's B turret, and the smell of blood mixed with the smell of alcohol spread sharply, and the military doctors appeared a dark red color of flesh and blood in front of their eyes.

Hearing the report of damage from his subordinates, Karls, the commander of the German fleet, sank like water. It was indeed inevitable that this situation would occur: he was now fighting one against two, and the innate limitations of the fire control system made it impossible for the ship to disperse its fire to another British battleship. And the British ship that was ignored could naturally shoot without distraction, and in a state of no pressure, give full play to its own artillery skills.

In the avant-garde battle of the Battle of Jutland, Germany's most powerful battle cruiser, the German Battlecruiser De Fringer, was ignored due to the British misallocation of firepower, and this battlecruiser also took the opportunity to brush up on the results. The British Super Fearless Battlecruiser Queen Mary was directly killed in the ammunition depot, and even the British flagship Lion almost followed in its footsteps, if it weren't for Major Harvey's desperate order to fill the ammunition depot with water, the Lion would definitely die!

Today, the overlooked HMS Warrior is a 25-year-old ship that has been in service for 25 years, but it has undergone two major modernizations to achieve world-class fire control, shell penetration and lethality. And after so many years of running-in, the British sailors' gunnery could not be so clumsy, and allowing this ship to be exported would obviously bring absolutely unnegligible trouble to the Bismarck.

Admiral Kars, however, has his own deeper considerations. The Warrior's artillery fire was fierce, but the Bismarck was by no means the unshutting of Queen Mary's fire-fighting crunch; And the latter's shells have the power to split mountains and seas, which is enough to smash through the defenses of the target warship. As long as this fight continues, the first one that will not hold out will almost certainly be the British Rodney. At that time, even if his superstructure is washed, because the core cabin is not damaged, he can still escape and move into self-preservation!