In addition to the four large holes in the side of the battleship, the main gun on the left side of the No. 2 turret was also cut in half, and a shell that hit the bridge sent dozens of naval officers and sailors into the western sky. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info And the last shell directly hit the seaplane oil depot located at the stern of the ship, and a column of fire dozens of meters high rose into the sky. Even if the sea fog had not yet lifted, the German battleships were more accurate in their attacks according to this striking "lighthouse"!

"Rush out! Order all destroyer detachments to prepare for lightning strikes! In less than a quarter of an hour after the battle, Thomas had clearly realized that his five Queen Elizabeth-class battleships could not defeat the German fleet in front of him, and until now, Thomas believed that there were at least 8 warships on the opposite side, of which 4 were Bavaria-class! 5 queens can't do 4 Bavaria, not to mention that there are 4 ships behind to help sweep the formation! As for his Tiger and New Zealand, Thomas has no hope, it's good that these things can be optimistic about themselves, otherwise with their defense level, they will almost see the light and die!

At this time, the distance between the two sides was already close to about 9,000 meters, and Thomas's fleet pulled out the smoke screen for the first time! At the same time, the 3 light cruisers and 14 destroyers that had already been transferred bravely rushed forward under the cover of a smoke screen and launched a wave of sharp lightning strikes against the battle line of the Hipper's fleet!

"Block them!" Hipper looked at the destroyer hidden in the smoke screen in the distance and did not retreat at all, if he retreated a little at this time, the other party was likely to fight a bloody way under the cover of the destroyer! In the case that the Scheer fleet was not in place and the encirclement was not completed, Hipper would never allow the British fleet to rush in front of him! Even if you have to take a certain risk, you will never back down!

"This is their last madness! Hold them and we'll win! "The 4 light cruisers of the 4th light cruiser detachment with 6 destroyers were the first to go up, and then the other 8 destroyers followed, and at this moment Hipper also played almost all of his cards!

The light cavalry on both sides fought again, approaching each other at a high speed of more than 50 knots, the first to collide together was the light cruisers of both sides, at a distance of less than 4000 meters, the 175MM guns and 6-inch guns frantically thought about the opposite side pouring a rain of bullets, countless fireballs rose from the sea and intertwined into a fire web in the air, the battleships were like insects struggling in the spiders composed of flames, and the light cruisers were larger and could be seen as beetles. And the destroyers are the stream of mosquitoes.

The British destroyer Musketeer was taking a strange course on the sea, and after his friendly ship USS Cormorant was covered by a dense rain of bullets a few minutes ago, this destroyer with a displacement of only 600 tons was like a bird with a frightened bow, and the battlefield was shrouded in gunsmoke and sea fog, and the British on the ship could not even distinguish whether the destroyer not far away at the same speed was their own man or the enemy!

And the same is true of the Germans, after a wave of lightning strikes from both sides at a distance of 4,000 meters, the battleships of both sides disbanded the formation in order to dodge each other's torpedoes, more than 20 destroyers flew like headless flies, and from time to time there was a loud noise that made people tremble, it was the unlucky guy who was hit by a torpedo, and the light cruiser Emden saw with his own eyes a British destroyer was dragged out of the water by the huge impact generated by the torpedo explosion, and then wrung into pieces in the air!

As the minutes and seconds passed, the auxiliary warships of both sides quickly lost blood, and a British light cruiser was beaten into a sieve under the attack of 2 German light cruisers. The power compartment was pierced at least seven times, and the boilers and steam turbines inside were also smashed to pieces. Billowing smoke and white water vapor spread from the middle of the ship's hull, and the ship, which had lost power, could only be swept away by the current, waiting for its own end.

And another British light cruiser was hit by 3 torpedoes at the same time at close range! After a series of violent explosions, one fireball after another instantly wrapped the entire hull, and in less than half a minute, the light cruiser was blown to pieces, and the smoke and flames threw some fragments into the air hundreds of meters high, and then fell on several square kilometers one after another!

And a German cruiser was also plotted in this engagement, and 3 British destroyers fired at least 8 torpedoes from the side rear! At a distance of less than 600 meters, the hapless light cruiser could not dodge at all, and after dodging at least 5 torpedoes, the stern was hit by two torpedoes almost at the same time, and the violent explosion even dragged the stern out of the water, and the entire bow also sank forward with great force. When the broken stern fell into the water again, the huge force directly smashed the entire stern into pieces! Then, the ship quickly sank to the bottom of the sea, and in just two minutes, except for the top of the mast and the half-raised bow, the entire hull had returned to the embrace of the sea.

As for the death of the destroyers, it was even more rare, but the German destroyers were better, because they were relatively numerous, and in the case of a hasty encounter with the enemy, the goddess of victory always favored the side with more people ......and more artillery. After less than 20 minutes of fighting, only 3 of the 14 destroyers that the British participated in the battle withdrew from the battle with bullet holes, and all 6 battleships of one destroyer detachment were destroyed, and a total of more than 400 people survived no more than double digits! It can be called one of the deadliest battles of the auxiliary fleet detachment since the beginning of the war! Of course, the German destroyers also sank 7 ships, and if you consider the difference in the strength of the two sides, the British fought quite well!

Of course, the most troublesome blow for the Germans was not the destroyer detachment, but one of the British destroyers, successfully rushing to a distance of less than 3000 meters from the Sedritz under the cover of a smoke screen, and then fired 2 torpedoes, and then ....... I actually hit 1 shot! This torpedo hit the position under the No. 1 turret in the bow of the Sedritz, and the explosives up to 230KG instantly penetrated the three-story compartment outside the mine wall of the Cedritz! After the violent explosion, a large hole of 4 meters long was left on the side of the hull, which brought about 1,000 tons of water to the German battlecruiser! But fortunately, the lightning wall blocked the final impact of the explosion fragments, and there was finally no danger, the ammunition compartment was not flooded, and the artillery could be used improvised.

"General, the Cedritz was torpedoed." One of the officers said to Hipper, with some concern.

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