readx; Just as the King Arthur was cleaving the waves in the vast Atlantic Sea, an AR196 water reconnaissance plane marked with an iron cross in the sky was quietly hiding in the thick clouds above the King Arthur at an altitude of 7,000 meters for secret observation. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The captain of the King Arthur, Admiral Benes Stovan, and the officers and men of the ship did not know anything about this, and even the anti-aircraft lookout posts on the ship did not notice that this one was spying on their opponents, but everyone on the King Arthur was in high spirits and was preparing to teach the increasingly arrogant Germans a good lesson.

"I found a ship of an unknown country sailing in the sea below!" The German reconnaissance plane in the sky firmly submerged its body in the clouds, and the observer pushed open the glass-framed hatch on the back seat of the cockpit, which he did so so that he could better observe the situation outside and on the sea surface with his telescope. If you look inside a thick glass enclosure with a telescope, you might as well see it clearly without a glass enclosure. At this time, he was using a high-powered telescope to observe the warship sailing on the sea with an unclear flag flying below him.

"The unknown battleship is suspected to be the King Arthur, the lead ship of the King Arthur-class, a new British super battleship." After closing the hatch, the wind whistling in his ears suddenly stopped, and he shouted loudly to his pilot companion who was concentrating on piloting the AR196 in front of him.

"Akaman, make sure again, we'll be back in a minute." The pilot turned his head sideways to the observer as he piloted the warhawk.

"Okay, Ludente." Observer Yakman felt that what the pilot Ludent said was still reasonable, and in any case, as a member of the German Navy's naval aviation, it was necessary to show the dead fat man named Goering in Berlin, and our German naval aviation was not inferior to his air force at all.

"It's a rice flag! It's the British, these Anglo-Saxon bastards, and the guy below us has confirmed the characteristics and comparison intelligence, and there is no doubt that it is the King Arthur, the lead ship of the King Arthur class! Instead of pushing the canopy open again, Yakaman pressed his higher-magnification telescope to the glass and looked down, his shouting could not contain his excitement when the target was confirmed to be an enemy warship.

"Great, let's send a telegram to Admiral Leighton von Peter Boesmann aboard the battleship Hindenburg." Ludent was also happy, and it seemed that he and his companions behind him had completed the task of conducting radiation reconnaissance of the Atlantic Ocean with the Hindenburg as the center.

The AR196 relied on the speed of flying at 7,000 meters in the sky and a speed of more than 300 power per hour, as well as the fact that the other side has not yet sent carrier-based aircraft carriers, so this water reconnaissance plane was able to swagger around and turn its nose to fly back. King Arthur below was still in a state of ignorance by the chicken thief in the sky to monitor the whole process, in the morning King Arthur was the first to send one of his own reconnaissance planes to search for targets, and the plane has not yet returned, and the German reconnaissance plane has collected the situation almost and is about to return to the carrier ship Hindenburg.

However, the British's Hugh Pomarin Walrus reconnaissance/search and rescue aircraft, the engine kinetic energy is only 750 horsepower, and the ceiling is only more than 5,200 meters, and the bad thing is that its speed is only 200 kilometers compared to the speed of most World War II maneuvers of more than 500 kilometers, to be honest, it is really too bad. It is no wonder that the slow flight speed was not detected and knocked down by the Hindenburg, but fortunately, the walrus chose the right angle and timing today to avoid being destroyed.

When the two hostile fighters flew back, they happened to meet in the sky, and the AR196 had additional 20mm cannons on the wings in terms of combat strength, while the Walrus was a few self-defense machine guns with small calibers; No matter how you look at it, the German side has the advantage, and the British side is afraid that the rhythm of the turkey will change in the sky, but it is very strange that the pilots and members of the reconnaissance planes on both sides did not fire and shoot down the opponent after just a moment, but parted ways very tacitly and went back to their respective mothers.

Hundreds of kilometers to the opposite side of King Arthur was a huge warship. This battleship is the H-45 Hindenburg, a super battleship built by the Germans with all their might, and its huge body presses the sea water to both sides.

"What, the British battleship King Arthur is heading in our direction ... Well, I got it. Admiral Leighton von Peter Boesmann, captain of the Hindenburg, first froze for a moment when he received the news, and then locked his eyebrows and pondered for a while.

"How did the British find out about us?" The admiral did not get around the question of how the Britons of the King Arthur knew that the Hindenburg was in this position, and Admiral Layton seemed to have forgotten that both the opponent and his own side had carrier-based water reconnaissance aircraft.

"By the way, damn it, we forgot that the enemy would also send their reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter over our heads! What a mistake. But even if we were discovered by the British, didn't the British send aircraft carriers to follow the King Arthur, with the Hindenburg super battleship built by our Germans, even if we ran into the so-called cutting-edge King Arthur of the British, we were not afraid, and the 20-inch toothpick cannon of the British also wanted to penetrate the armor of Hindenburg? Don't be funny, the British should go back and practice for a few years. Layton thought for a while and was not so entangled, it is true that the King Arthur of the British without the company of aircraft carriers was not much of a threat, and its 510 mm main gun should wash and sleep if it wanted to damage the heavy armor of the Hindenburg several meters thick, and the admiral threw the nervousness and uneasiness just now to the country of Java.

"Order, the Hindenburg meet the enemy ship King Arthur at a speed of 25 knots." As the boss of this battleship, he gave the order directly.

"Understood, left rudder, speed adjusted to 25 knots." The navigator with the large disc steering wheel tapped the rudder position and shouted loudly from the bridge.

"The mission is the British ship King Arthur." In the bridge, several staff officers began to get busy, comparing the distance between the enemy and the enemy on a chart.

"Report, our reconnaissance plane is back."

"Suspend driving, and keep the boiler warmed up."

"Bring back the boys we went out to scout."

"Yes, Captain."

Ten minutes later, the AR196 was hoisted back into the aft hangar by a crane from the stern of the Hindenburg, and with a detailed debriefing from the pilots and observers, Leiden made the bold decision to sink the British pride King Arthur Super Battleship on the vast Atlantic Ocean.

With a length of 1524.1 meters, a width of 254 meters, a draft of 54 meters, and a full load draft of 64 meters, the only super battleship of the Hindenburg class, the Hindenburg uses its huge size to drive fast and slow on the sea, and the displacement of 1644000 tons squeezes out the sea water at the bottom of the ship to the surroundings.

This is the largest super-warship ever built by mankind, and it's big enough to be proud of all the naval powers in the world, and of course the country of a certain guy doesn't count here.

The original 4 3 units of 12 1300 mm super cannons with 50 times the diameter of the barrel are gone, replaced by a smaller muzzle and a longer barrel of 800 mm caliber, a shipborne version of the multi-pull train gun built by Krupp for the Mustache Führer. At the beginning, when the mustache proposed to build a 1300 mm main gun, the indignant Krupp leader Krupp slammed the door directly, and in the face of the mustache Führer's fucked up fantasies, the weapon designers present, especially the designers who designed the main guns of the battleship, said that the Führer should be under too much pressure and did not rest well.

Then, Dr. Nopel Dawsmann Alfund, the designer in charge of the Hindenburg main gun, proposed to use the existing main gun of the Dala train gun for shipboard verification and design, which satisfied the hobby of the mustache cannon and the giant ship, and also relieved the trouble of repeated design of the Krupp company. First the demonstration of 4 4-in-1 and 4 3-in-1 main guns, then 5 3-in-1, 6 3-in-1, and finally 7 2-in-1 demonstrations and designs, and finally through a series of seriousness and rigor, the Germans finally focused on the design of the main guns in 7 2-in-1.

That's because the seven twin guns can well solve the problem of the disturbance of the main gun barrels between the triple and quadruple guns, and can better reduce the recoil caused by a salvo of multiple triple and quadruple main guns, so that the battleship can move back half a meter or one meter or two meters on the water surface, and if the other seven main guns are double, they can be shelled in turn according to the situation without worrying about the ship's gravity instability caused by a salvo.

The 800 mm main gun in the body barrel is 71 times the terrifying number, this is the first time in the world of warships, although it is not as good as the 100 times the body of the main gun of the later generations of battleships, but thanks to the spread of someone in private primary electroslag refusion, self-tightening tube and other technologies, so that the Germans mastered this technology at once, but other countries have no way to master it. Germans don't just look rigid and rigorous, once they go crazy, they will make people feel smacked. The first time the Germans used this technology, the artillery was stretched by 56,800 mm, the ultimate firing range was greatly increased to 121 kilometers, the effective firing range was about 80 kilometers, and the weight of the main gun was reduced due to electroslag remelting, self-tightening tubes, etc., and still reached the tonnage of about 1,100 tons of a single barrel.