Since the Goburn and the Yew did not sink as suddenly as the Invincible did, the sailors still had time to leave the sinking ship. However, considering that in the other direction, the Indomitable and Fighting Dogs were still fighting the German Moltke, so the British left only one destroyer to rescue the sailors who were floating on the sea in life jackets, and of course, this destroyer also had the task of rescuing all the people who had fallen into the water, and if the Yew had not sunk, then use fish. Thunder Repair Gun.

However, there were too many people floating on the sea, there were more than 400 people on board the Yew, and more than 100 died in the battle, but now there were more than 200 people on the lifeboat and on the sea. The men were rescued on board first, and then it was the turn of the Germans. It's just that the destroyer is too small, with a displacement of just 1,200 tons, while the Germans Goeben is much larger, with 1,400 sailors, although many were killed in the battle, but the rest is still more than 800 people. Not to mention that if these people are put on board, will these guys honestly try to rob the ship, there is no place on the small destroyer that can hold so many people, especially when this destroyer is already a little overloaded after saving more than 200 British sailors.

"Alas, we are gentlemen, and the rules still have to be followed. So, we threw all the lifeboats at them and let them stay in the lifeboats themselves. When our fleet returns victoriously, there will naturally be a spare space. Harry, the captain of the Iris, thought so, and ordered: "Throw all the lifeboats to the Germans, and let them stay there honestly." Then he frowned at the German sailors in life jackets, floating on the sea.

"Damn, it's the end of September now. The water temperature in this sea area is not high, and if a person soaks in such a sea water, he will be doomed for half an hour at most, no, no, at most twenty-five minutes. Harry thought so, and then ordered: "Let's scoop up the Germans who were soaked in the water and let them squeeze them on the deck......"

Hundreds more were fished aboard the Iris, and by this time the deck was already crowded with people, some of whom had even hung themselves on the outside of the deck's railings with their belts, and the barrels and masts were full of Germans. Today's Iris destroyer has definitely met the requirements of the military parade of the White Elephant Country in later generations, and has become a destroyer that has been opened.

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By the time the British cruisers rushed back, the battle was actually nearing its end. Although the Indomitable lost a large part of its bow and could not travel at high speeds, its firepower was perfect, while the Moltke lost its steering gear to the point where it could not be maneuvered at all, and its rudder was stuck in one position and could only circle in place. In this way, when it was engaged in an artillery battle with the Indomitable, the Indomitable would always find a suitable position and use its full firepower to face the Moltke with the side of the ship, while the Moltke's movement was completely involuntary. So in an artillery battle, the Moltke was not an opponent at all. In the counter-fire, its A turret was knocked out first, and then another armor-piercing projectile pierced its main armor, destroying two boilers, causing it to lose a quarter of its power. Fifteen minutes later, the Indomitable shells hit the Moltke again, causing a fire, which was difficult to control and had a tendency to spread to the main ammunition depot, which of course resulted in the Moltke losing all its main gun fire, although the ammunition depot exploded and the danger of sending the ship to the bottom of the sea was immediately avoided.

After discovering that the Germans' main guns were firing mute, the Indomitable closed the distance and fired heavily at the Moltke. In the next 20 minutes, the Moltke was hit three times, one of which caused the Moltke to enter the water on the starboard side, and the other two shells completely destroyed the Moltke's power system, causing the giant ship to be completely paralyzed on the sea.

By this time, there was no point in fighting. Originally, they should have stopped shooting if they didn't have a good attitude, and very gentlemanly gave the Germans some time to escape from the doomed battleship, but at this time, they received the news that the Invincible had been sunk. Thereupon......

"Since the Germans did not raise the white flag to surrender, keep shooting!" The captain of the Indomitable gave such an order.

Of course, this order is completely legal, if the Germans raise the white flag, the British, who have always been gentlemanly, will definitely cease fire, but now that the British are firing at full power, the main guns and secondary guns are all beckoning to the Germans, who can run out and raise what white flag? Now that the Germans had no strength to resist - their main and secondary guns were all dumb. The Indomitable simply approached a distance of a thousand meters, and fired continuously with its main cannon at the Moltke's waterline, and at this close distance, the hit rate was almost as high as if it were being shot at the door of the head with a gun. The secondary guns of the Indomitable were beaten at the Moltke's bridge. At this time, the cruiser Fighting Dog and the destroyer Hausen also joined in, firing wildly at the Moltke with their guns.

Under such firepower, there is simply no possibility of anyone on the deck, and it becomes impossible to hang the white flag on the mast, or abandon the ship or something. The destroyer Hausen also fired several fish at the Moltke at very close range. Ray, under such a blow, the Moltke began to tilt rapidly, and in only twenty minutes, it had already tilted nearly thirty degrees. The Germans had to abandon the ship and flee under artillery fire. Because such an inclination means that soon the warship will be reversed - and the ship will always turn faster and faster - and at that point, someone will definitely be able to escape.

So in the face of the incessant artillery fire of the British, German sailors in life jackets poured out of the cabin one after another, hoping to jump into the sea, and then they were blown up by shells that hit their heads and faces.

After another ten minutes or so, the Moltke's deck was almost perpendicular to the sea. Then it spun sharply, flipped over all at once, and slammed back on the surface of the sea, causing a huge wave of water.

The British stopped firing, and everyone looked intently at the great ship, which was about to sink, and watched its ochre-red bottom reflect the glittering light in the sun. And the more than a dozen people who were lucky enough to escape from this battleship are as hard as the five little strongmen in the Saint Seiya, or the Germans who can't die like Tom Cat don't have such leisure, they are struggling to swim far away, because it won't be long before the ship will sink, and such a large battleship, once it sinks, will cause a huge whirlpool on the sea surface, dragging everything floating on the nearby sea surface to the bottom of the sea.

After a few more minutes, the bow of the Moltke began to sink, and its stern was slowly erected out of the water, except that the two huge turrets at the stern were gone. The turret of the battleship is fastened to the hull by its own gravity, so when the hull is turned over, the turret sinks first. This is also the reason that many times, the wreckage and turret of the sunken warship are not in the same place.

At this time, the sound of a whistle sounded from this warship, like a dozen trains sounding together, which was the sound of the air in the hull being expelled from various gaps in the hull under the pressure of the water. At this time, another creaking sound was heard, which was the sound made by the keel of the ship as it was slowly twisted. At this time, the stern of the ship had been lifted very high, and the huge gravity was twisting the keel.

When the stern of the ship was raised to about thirty degrees, the ship made a loud click, and the entire hull was broken in two sections from the middle. The battleship, broken in two, sank to the bottom of the sea in less than two minutes, leaving a large whirlpool in the sea and dragging the two German sailors who had not had time to swim too far. But come on, at least these two are still not as good as Wuxiaoqiang or Tom.

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On the evening of the day of the battle, the Times published a special bulletin: "My valiant navy annihilated the German attack fleet."

In this report, the bravery and fearlessness shown by the British Royal Navy, and the spirit of Nelson who must fight the enemy are highly praised, especially Rear Admiral Hood and his Invincible, after giving a fatal blow to two enemy ships, were sunk by the last shells, which will more or less have a bit of Lord Nelson's flavor.

More importantly, however, the threat posed by the German raiding fleet was removed. Although the Germans also had some so-called special cruisers disguised as merchant ships continuing to carry out raid missions. But those special cruisers, in essence, are nothing more than merchant ships equipped with cannons, and they can attack some individual merchant ships at most, and they have no combat effectiveness in the face of a merchant fleet escorted by warships. At least, now on the routes, there is no longer a need to use battleships and battlecruisers.

Coupled with the use of radio direction finders, these attack ships were constantly being found and sunk one after another. The routes of the British seem to have completely returned to safety.

It was also at this time that the Anglo-French forces finally repelled the Germans at the Marne. The British and French, who had large colonies and were able to produce large quantities of rubber, began to produce their own full-body hazmat suits, and used mustard gas on the battlefield many times. Of course, the Germans also unceremoniously retaliated with mustard gas. However, the Germans have always lacked enough rubber, which makes the proportion of full-body chemical hazmat suits in the German army significantly lower than that of the British and French. So the results of the gas war were clearly not in favor of Germany. If it hadn't happened since then, perhaps the British and French would have planned to fight their way to Berlin with mustard gas.