"The ammunition depot has been flooded!" This phrase is simply the best news that Colonel Karpf has ever heard today!

"Well done team! They saved the Marquis Bismarck! Colonel Karpf shouted excitedly.

"No, Colonel, the compartment below has been destroyed, the nearby passages have been blocked, and the damage management team is still looking for other routes." The answer the colonel received was beyond his expectations.

"There are still people alive in the ammunition depot?"

“…… I'm afraid not, Colonel. The access to the outside has been blocked, and the ammunition depot has been filled with seawater, so whether or not there was anyone alive before, I am afraid that there is no longer one. ”

"......" Colonel Karpf lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then calmly pulled his uniform as if he had accepted everything calmly, raised his head and said in a loud voice, "Well, our lads have done the best, and God will decide the rest." ”

After the forward ammunition magazine was filled with water, the No. 1 turret had completely muted fire, and the Marquis Bismarck lost 1/3 of its firepower, and the increased weight of the bow caused the hull to roll and further reduce the speed. In the face of the powerful British battle cruisers, the fate of the Marquis Bismarck, the officers and men of the ship, and himself could only be left to God in the end.

The situation of the Hohenlohe in the rear of Bismarck was not much better than that of the Marquis Bismarck, the whole ship was also in flames, and even more fatally, a shell was hit at the base of the bridge, and all the personnel in the command tower, including the captain, were seriously injured, and now the heavy cruiser was commanded by only a captain.

But the Hornlohe continued to carry out the previous order: follow the Marquis Bismarck and continue to fire at the British ship!

However, at this time, it was not entirely the Germans who were passively beaten. After joining up with the heavy cruisers, Rear Admiral Maas's 8 light cruisers continued to join the battle. Although the 150mm guns did not do much damage to the British, the shells that rained down on the head and face seriously interfered with the aiming of the Celestia, otherwise the Hornlohe would have been badly wounded.

And then arrived on the battlefield to meet Betty's 4 city-class light cruisers, which made Rear Admiral Maas find a target to vent his anger, Lao Tzu can't beat the battle cruisers, Lao Tzu can't beat you?! Ordering the six light cruisers to turn their guns on Goodenough was a violent beating.

This made Betty very embarrassed, Goodenough's side was pressed to the ground by the Germans, but it was not good for Goodenough to withdraw on his side, because although the German light cruisers could not penetrate the armor of their battle cruisers, the 150mm shells still hurt when they hit the body! He still needs Goodenough to help him share the pressure.

Such an embarrassing situation once again made Betty can't help but curse the Germans' warship is really ****** tough. This is different from what the script says, shouldn't you kill 2 heavy cruisers in 20 minutes, and then name the light cruisers one by one? Now it's been 30 minutes of fighting, and the German warships have burned into a torch, and they are still firing back!

Betty can't really be blamed for this situation, Betty is actually quite correct in closing the distance with the idea of a quick solution. However, who called the British shell fuse sensitive? In the historical Battle of the Gulf of Helgoland, when the Lion beat the Ariadne, a small cruiser, it could not kill the 3,000-ton protective cruiser.

Hitting Ariadne's armor at a vertical angle that was only 25 mm thick would have caused the shells to explode prematurely and not penetrate, and it was rumored that any shells would have detonated if they touched the cable, and finally the Ariadne had to be held up at sea for nearly 2 hours after being hit by a considerable number of 343mm shells before it flipped over and sank

So it's really not Betty's pot to be in such a situation now, if all the shells of his battleship were replaced with Greenboy, it is estimated that the battle would have ended long ago.

But the current situation forced Betty to urge Rear Admiral Moore to move faster, but after all, she is one of the most outstanding admirals of the Royal Navy today, and Betty's brain can still think rationally. It's useless to urge, the Invincible with a three-expansion reciprocating steam engine can run about 24 knots, and the New Zealand with a steam turbine can run 25.5 knots, no matter how much you urge, these two ships can't fly over.

Fortunately, after waiting for another 20 minutes at most, these 2 battlecruisers will be able to arrive on the battlefield, and the German fleet in front of them will be annihilated in one fell swoop! Betty was secretly ruthless in her heart.

For Betty, those 20 minutes were short, but for the Marquis Bismarck, it was so long. In these 20 minutes, the Marquis Bismarck was hit again by several shells, and the front of the rear No. 2 turret was hit by a 635-kilogram shell, although the shells did not penetrate the turret, but the shock and explosion caused the turret rotation mechanism to jam, the two naval guns were damaged to varying degrees and could not continue to fire, and more than half of the crew members in the turret were killed and wounded in the shock wave.

The battered side armor could no longer support it, several armor plates were deformed and cracked, the hull and hull were twisted and deformed, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured into the ship from these breaches, and the Marquis Bismarck, which had already had a bow tilt due to the filling of water in the ammunition depot, not only had its bow tilt aggravated, the bow sank by 1 meter, but also had an 8-degree roll.

Colonel Karpf had to order an emergency water filling of the ship, and after balancing the stern and side water, the bow roll of the Marquis Bismarck was reduced to 0.5 meters, and the roll was restored by 4 degrees. However, by this time, the hull of the Marquis Bismarck had been filled with 1,130 tons of seawater, and the entire freeboard was depressed by 2 meters.

When towering three-legged masts and several thick plumes of smoke appeared again on the sea not far away, the Germans despaired.

"5 battle cruisers? The British have really made a bloody investment this time. Inform Rear Admiral Mars to leave, if you don't leave, you won't be able to leave, and our ship will drag the British ship until the last moment. "Looking at the British battlecruiser slowly emerging from under the sea level, Colonel Karpf looked very calm at this moment, God made a decision, his fate was sealed, then at the last moment, he would maintain the glory of the Royal Navy of the German Empire and die.

"We sing aloud today,

Drink the cold wine.

I'm leaving,

Just make the glass crunch. Standing in the conning tower, Colonel Karpf sang softly as he watched the British battleships burst into brilliant cannon flames.

"Let me hold your hand again,

Hold your white hand.

Goodbye, my sweetheart,

Goodbye, my sweetheart,

Goodbye, cherish a lot. ”

Everyone in the bridge was slightly stunned when they heard the captain's singing, and then they all joined the chorus.

The singing was carried through the radio and microphones inside the Marquis Bismarck, and all the sailors began to hum softly, and then the voices grew louder and louder, and these voices converged so that the whole battleship resounded with a mournful song.

"We're on our way!

We're on our way!

We're going to England!

England!

The battle flag is already flying on the mast!

That symbolizes our invincible strength!

We will start victorious,

Don't let the British be arrogant!

Let me hold your hand again,

Hold your white hand.

Goodbye, my sweetheart,

Goodbye, my sweetheart,

Goodbye, cherish a lot.

We're on our way!

We're on our way!

We're going to England!

England! ”

After Germany declared war on Britain, the lyrics were written by His Majesty the Emperor himself, and the composer Hermann? Composed by Lens, the officers and men of the Royal Navy of the German Empire learned the war song for less than 1 week resounded over the Helgoland Bay at this moment!

In the midst of the song, the only 2 remaining 210-mm naval guns of the Marquis Bismarck continued to fire! As if to accompany a song, it resounded through the sky!

Just as all the officers and men of the Marquis Bismarck were preparing to fight to the death, the Lion's lookout post shouted in surprise: "Three masts! The De Fringel! Large cruisers of the Germans! There's also a lot of smoke in the back! ”

In order to install a more sophisticated firing command post and sighting equipment, the D-Flinger class was too conspicuous as the first class of battleships of the German Navy to be equipped with a smast.

"Retreat, inform Major General Moore to turn around immediately." Betty looked at the German battleship not far away, which was burning, its hull tilted slightly, and its freeboard was depressed, but it was unwilling to sink.

"Lieutenant General?!" Colonel Chatfield, the captain of the Lion, shouted: "That German ship is about to sink!" And the Lion was not afraid of those large cruisers of the Germans! ”

"The purpose of this operation was a retaliatory attack on the light ships of the German Navy, and our mission was to meet the attacking forces, not to engage the Germans in a decisive battle. If it's going to be a decisive battle, then next time bring the entire Grand Fleet! Betty said flatly, but his clenched fists showed how unwilling he was at this time.

With so many plumes of smoke below sea level, is there only one De Fringer? How can it be? For the vice admiral who was promoted as quickly as himself and controlled all the main mobile forces of the Royal Navy of the German Empire at a young age, Betty knew that if the other party was not as rumored to be able to climb to his current position by just relying on being a classmate of the German emperor and gaining favor, then he would definitely bring out all 6 large cruisers! Because if it were me, I would do it!

Moreover, now German destroyers are scattered throughout the Helgoland Bay in pursuit of their own destroyers, and if they are damaged by the large cruisers of the opposing side, the regrouped German destroyers will immediately pounce and bite themselves. And they can't let the precious battlecruisers lose here.

"Next time, I must fight you with dignity." Betty looked at the more and more clear and towering three-legged mast not far away, and secretly made up her mind in her heart.

The officers and men of the Marquis Bismarck, who watched the British battleship slowly begin to turn and detach, watched the British leave without reacting at all, and then noticed that a fleet behind them was approaching.

"It's De Fringle! It's the first reconnaissance fleet! It's Lieutenant General Hipper! ”

The excited sailors waved their hats at the huge silhouettes that were becoming clearer, cheered hoarsely, and then sat down on the deck as if they had exhausted their strength. Mixed emotions came up after the aftermath of the catastrophe, and these young people, who had shown endless courage in the bloody battle, curled up like helpless children at this moment, buried their heads in their arms and wept bitterly.

They were saved. (To be continued.) )