"What's the situation!" For a moment, the eyes of both Germans and French were drawn to the explosion and rising smoke in the distance! No one knew what was going on in the distance, and although it happened suddenly, there was still a shred of sanity on both sides, and neither of them moved in the first few minutes after the explosion.

"Battleship accelerates, distance!" Hippert immediately ordered, although he didn't know what was going on in the distance, but it was still necessary to take some precautions, and the experience on the battlefield had given Hipper a near-instinctive sensitivity to the crisis! He can clearly realize that today's things may not be good! And for the cruiser Marquis Bismarck, it is the upper deck to open the distance and attack the opponent with accurate artillery fire, otherwise it is only 2500 meters, waiting for the opponent to wash the deck with rapid-fire guns ?!

And in the face of the German battleships, which were gradually accelerating and preparing to open the distance, the nerves of the French, which had already collapsed to the limit, were once again greatly stimulated! Pierre then accelerated, but unfortunately neither Charlemagne nor the two cruisers behind him were far inferior to the Marquis Bismarck.

"Hell! Tell the French to come out quickly! At the same time, Schell, who was wandering around the perimeter of the minefield, sent another telegram to the French. But another French transport ship, which was lucky enough not to hit a mine, not only did not immediately leave the danger zone, but went to save people.

Under Scheer's desperate gaze, 8 minutes later, another loud bang rang out! The transport ship that went to the rescue was blown to pieces by another mine! And even more deadly, at the same time, a telegram was sent to Pierre. "We've struck a thunderbolt!" And it is precisely because of this telegram full of ambiguity that the whole situation is completely out of control!

Who planted this mine? Is it the Portuguese or the Germans? If it is the former, then it is naturally a misunderstanding, and if it is the latter, it is a declaration of war. Although France is weaker than Germany, it is absolutely impossible to watch its two transport ships blown up and remain indifferent! And at this time, Vice Admiral Pierre automatically made up the whole process - it was a mine laid by the Germans, and their fleet drove our transport ships into a minefield, it was a murder!

When Pierre's brain made up the whole process, then the engagement became inevitable, and in less than 3 minutes after the explosion of the second transport ship, the Charlemagne raised the battle flag! Then, with the violent shaking of the hull, the four 12-inch guns on the Charlemagne fired the first salvo at the Marquis Bismarck 6,000 meters away!

When things can't be solved with mouths, then solve them with fists! The French can't wait for the Hamburg to come back and start a war, don't look at 3 to 2, the French don't have a score in their hearts, so, no matter what, concentrate their firepower to take down the battleship in front of them.

But alas, this time the French encountered the most experienced and ruthless fleet commander in the German Navy, and the most powerful cruiser, and at a distance of 6 kilometers, the first salvo of the armored cruiser Marquis Bismarck, equipped with a new rangefinder and early fire control equipment, frightened the French!

8 254MM HEAVY GUNS FIRED AT THE SAME TIME, AND A HUGE FIREBALL INSTANTLY COVERED THE HULL OF THE ENTIRE BATTLESHIP WITH A LENGTH OF MORE THAN 150 METERS, AND WHEN THE SOUND LIKE THUNDER HAD NOT YET ARRIVED, 8 FIREBALLS WITH A DESTRUCTIVE AURA HAD ALREADY FLOWN TOWARDS THE PROTECTIVE CRUISER LANE RYDER!

In a matter of seconds, the best of the French cruisers in service was surrounded by huge columns of water, and perhaps because of its proximity or luck, the Count Bismarck managed to catch its target in the first round of attacks. AND ONLY HALF A MINUTE LATER, THE SECOND SALVO WAS HIT, AND 2 SHELLS WEIGHING 245KG HIT THE CRUISER LIKE A HAMMER!

The side chord of the Lane Ryder, which was successful in the first hit, tore a big hole, and then hit its head on the 4-inch thick dome armor, in terms of defense, the Lane Ryder is not even as good as Edgar, the latter is at least 6 inches of armor, and this battleship is still using ordinary steel-faced iron armor, and the angle of inclination is not very large, the armor-piercing shell that has adopted the passivation process did not explode early, and after easily piercing a hole in the dome armor, this shell directly blew several boilers in the power compartment into a mess!

Hundreds of degrees of high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor gushes out of the breach at an extremely high speed. Burning everything in the entire cabin, in a matter of seconds, the boiler room became a hell of a family, and the Ryan Ryder lost nearly half of its power!

And this was only the beginning, another shell blew a 5.5-inch gun to pieces, and the flames from the explosion spread down the lower deck of the ammunition hoist, and although the ammunition depot was not detonated, the raging fire had already begun to spread.

And while the French officers on the Lane Ryder were busy rescuing the battleship, the armored cruiser Marquis Bismarck, which had already entered the state, once again delivered at least 2 rounds of 254MM shells to the cruiser in less than 2 minutes!

The doubling of the number of main guns brings more than just a doubling of the projection, with more advanced rangefinders and fire control equipment, at a distance of 6 kilometers, the cruiser Marquis Bismarck easily beats the battleship that is more than an era behind itself! By design, the Marquis Bismarck could already be seen as a slow-moving von der Tann! And Ryan Ryder's status in the rivers and lakes is not as good as the Japanese 10,000-ton armored cruiser in the previous life. It's not too much to say that it's 20 years behind!

Before this engagement, no one could have imagined that an 8000-ton battleship would be beaten and incapacitated in just over ten minutes! During this time, the Marquis Bismarck hit the opponent at least 15 times or more! An average of one hit per minute! The Ryan Ryder, which did not have a waterline armor belt, was beaten with thousands of holes, and even had 3 large holes of several square meters torn out of the waterline!

The entire superstructure of the battleship turned into a sea of fire, with death-like shells constantly striking the dying struggler, yellow-green flames began to spread across the deck, and countless shrapnel wantonly harvested the exposed French naval officers and men.

The French did not fail to try, and when they were just wounded, they were still extinguishing the fire and draining the water under the command of the officer, but soon, the raining shells made the French completely desperate. The speed of their rescue is far from keeping up with the speed of the other party's destruction. In the distance, the battleship that was constantly spraying tongues of fire pulled the cruiser into the abyss of death step by step like a terrifying sea monster with 8 giant tentacles!

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