At the same time that the Marquis Bismarck concentrated his fire on the Ryan Ryder, the battleship Charlemagne and the cruiser Descartes were also doing their best to attack the German ships, but unfortunately the 12-inch guns on Charlemagne did not perform well, on the one hand, because of the small number of guns, the fire control was somewhat backward, and on the other hand, the distance between the two sides was a bit far for the French.

You know, in history, when Dewey beat the Spanish fleet, he even got as close as 1,500 meters! When the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1904, the distance from which the two sides began to exchange fire was only about 7,000 meters, note that this is the distance at which the exchange of fire began, not the distance at which the opponent could be effectively hit!

And the Marquis Bismarck's ability to hit the opponent at an average rate of one shot a minute at a distance of 6,000 meters is already a miracle! Even when Prince Ruprecht received the battle report from Hipper, it doubted whether the war report was adulterated. This record has never even been played in a drill! In the end, it can only be said that God bless Germany! This shows that the luck component is a bit big!

The battleship in the middle has been beaten to the ground, and apart from Charlemagne's 12-inch gunner, which may make Hippel feel a little threatened, the other cruiser Kadir has no sense of existence at all! WHAT EFFECT CAN A SLAG CRUISER WITH A MAIN OUTPUT FIREPOWER OF 100MM GUNS HAVE IN THE FACE OF THE MARQUIS IN ARMOR IN FRONT OF IT? And the distance of about 6,000 meters is already beyond the level of normal training of the French. If you don't hit, it's not normal!

"The French Navy is not very good, it is not more difficult to deal with than the Japanese, when I followed my own prince (Hipper is a Bavarian) to fight the Japanese, the other party jumped a few times, and now I see that there is no pressure to fight France!" Thinking of this, a slight smile appeared on the corner of Hipper's mouth.

"it!" Just as Hipper was a little fluttery, the A turret in the bow of the Marquis Bismarck jerked, and a huge fireball rose into the air. With a loud bang, Hipper even saw a cannon barrel blown off and then fall into the sea dozens of meters away.

After only half a minute, another fireball burst out from the side chord of the battleship, and an armor plate at the battleship's waterline was straight back about 1 foot! Although it failed to penetrate, the 12-inch shell still shattered the back plate behind the armor with huge kinetic energy, and tore a small hole in the hull, and flooded several compartments of the battleship, one of which was also contaminated.

The French were also lucky, according to the law of conservation of RP, when the Marquis Bismarck beat the Ryan Ryder, Charlemagne's 12-inch gun also hit the opponent twice in one minute! 5500 meters away! This record can be regarded as a meal in the eyes of the French!

"Concentrate your fire on the Charlemagne! Kill him! "The Lane Ryder has been so badly damaged that it has almost lost power, and it would be fine if it were to be left there, and if Charlemagne could be left, then unless the French were willing to draw warships from their own not very wealthy fleet, the situation at sea in the whole of Africa would be decided.

And it's the sinking of a battleship! What an honor! The first officer in the German Navy to sink a battleship is too face-saving to say! But soon, after the two sides PK, the Germans found that the battleship was a battleship, and it was hard to do it!

The sharp fire of the Marquis Bismarck, which turned the muzzle, quickly put Charlemagne under great pressure, and the 5.5-inch guns on the French battleship had no idea about facing the Marquis's heavy armor at a long distance. It was only possible to rely on 4 12-inch guns to counterattack, and the French could not have been favored by God all the time, and apart from a few amazing hits, the rest of the performance can only be described as mediocre.

HOWEVER, HIPPER'S SIDE IS NOT EASY, THE REMAINING 6 254MM HEAVY GUNS CONTINUE TO HIT THE OPPONENT, FROM TIME TO TIME ON THE FRENCH BATTLESHIP A HUGE FIREBALL, BUT RELYING ON THE THICK ARMOR, THE CORE AREA OF CHARLEMAGNE IS STILL RELATIVELY INTACT, 245KG OF HIGH-EXPLOSIVE SHELLS IN ADDITION TO LEAVING A FIRE ON THE BATTLESHIP THAT IS NOT VERY LARGE, THE EFFECT IS ACTUALLY VERY LIMITED.

According to Hipper's experience, if you want to completely destroy this battleship, then you can only fight the idea of the upper and more fragile armor belts and the head and tail armor belts. Even so, if you want to completely destroy this battleship, you need a fairly high amount of firepower, so if you can't penetrate the opponent's armor, deck washing is the best option!

So the two giants, just like boxers, you punch me and I punch each other, and no one can help anyone in a short period of time. The French heavy artillery theoretically could not penetrate the armor of the Marquis Bismarck, and the rate of fire was slow, and in the face of the heavily armored French cavalry, the Marquis had no temper. However, relying on a high hit rate and a huge amount of projection, the battle situation was tilting little by little in favor of the German ships.

"Your Excellency, another battleship of the Germans has returned, and they are attacking the Descartes!" An officer said in horror as he pointed to the battleship that was being baptized by gunfire in the distance.

In the distance, Major Scheer, who had missed the first engagement, finally returned with the Hamburg. When the second French transport ship exploded due to a mine, Scheer knew that it was very likely that things would get out of hand. And now he really did not dare to go deep into the minefield to rescue the French officers and soldiers who had fallen into the water. When the rumbling cannon sound was heard in the distance, a sense of excitement about the imminent battle surged into the brain, and he immediately rushed to the main battlefield without doing anything.

And when Scheer felt the battlefield, he was also taken aback by the situation in front of him, and the Marquis Bismarck, who originally thought that he would fall into passivity, had already paralyzed a French battleship, how long had it been? Scheer felt like it was only half an hour to be full! AT THIS TIME, THE MARQUIS BISMARCK WAS FIGHTING WITH CHARLEMAGNE, AND SCHEER DECISIVELY FOUND AN OPPONENT, HIDING BEHIND THE BATTLESHIP AND ATTACKING THE MARQUIS'S FRENCH SECOND-CLASS PROTECTIVE CRUISER WITH 100MM GUNS IN VAIN.

"It's simply the weakest opponent I've ever seen, and they're not even as good as the Yoshino we ran into five years ago." An officer who once served on the last generation of the Mainz said this about the French second-class protective cruisers! In the face of the attack of the Hamburg, the Descartes was crushed at the first time!

After the Battle of the Philippine Sea, the German Navy believed that the lethality of 6-inch guns in naval warfare was very limited, but this limitation depends on who to talk to. For example, now, raining high-explosive shells is a nightmare for the Descartes!

The shells easily tore through the armor of the gun gallery less than 2 inches, and the violent shock wave swept the deck of the battleship over and over again with shrapnel and flames. The crumbling chambers and twisted metal brackets, as well as the blood and wailing wounded all over the floor, made the entire battleship a living hell.

The second is more ~~~. Recently, the subscription is very watery-! The author is in tears-! (To be continued.) )