The chart room on the Scharnhaus was much larger than that of other national battleships. In fact, as the flagship of the German Navy, the command center of the fleet was not on the bridge, but here.

After entering the command center of the German fleet, Yamaguchi Tawen and the Japanese observation group were most impressed by the wall in the chart room.

It was a wall with lattice lines painted on the surface, and each grid represented an area of one square kilometer. On this lattice-painted wall, there are models of warships, both German and British. The walls are walls of steel, and the bases of those models are made of magnets, which can be easily attached to the wall.

In fact, this wall is an "active" battlefield layout map, and the location of the model on the map clearly shows the specific position of the British and German ships on the battlefield outside at this moment. Every minute, the model on the wall "automatically" moves to "update".

The combat staff officers in the fleet, with just a glance at the walls, can easily know the specific locations of the warships of the warring sides in the naval battle that is going on outside.

The model representing the British battleship is all painted yellow, while the German ship is black, and the yellow warship model surrounds it, embedded in the wall with red chess pieces, and represents the approximate location of the mines laid by the German Navy here three hours ago. The models of the British battleships were so elaborate that each warship was scaled down to the same scale as its prototype, so that at a glance it was clear what type of warship it represented.

When the light cruiser Kanpur was damaged by a detonating ammunition depot after a minebreak, the model representing the Kanpur on the "battlefield situation map" automatically "fell" from the wall, and then a cold female voice came from the chart room.

"The Kanpur is sinking!"

When the Shane-class sisters approached the battleship Sovereign and fired its "chrysanthemum" from behind, the same female voice kept coming from the chart room, reporting the error number of the cannonballs falling next to the Sovereign.

When the German surprise lightning strike force appeared, and when the lightning striked, another "warship" fell from the wall, and it was the unlucky British destroyer. Then, as the female voice sounded at the same time, the name of the British ship injured in the mine on the wall, as well as the approximate location of the mine. At this time, the relevant officers next to him took out special red stickers and pasted them on the warships that were claimed to have been damaged by mines, to indicate that they were wounded warships.

In this room, the fleet commander and the staff officer of the first operation of the fleet directly commanded the entire fleet according to the battlefield diagram displayed on this wall. This kind of activity situation map, which allows you to directly understand the situation on the battlefield at a glance, has greatly improved the command efficiency of the fleet.

On this "map of the battlefield situation," which is constantly "automatically updated," a large blank spot appeared in the right front of the British 1st Battleship Formation that lacked cruisers and escorts, due to the fact that the corvettes on its right were heavily transferred to participate in the lightning attack against the German fleet.

This flaw was clearly laid out on the "battlefield situation map" on the Scharnhorst, and then the German naval combat staff officers in the chart room easily mobilized the torpedo boat mine attack unit lurking nearby, crossed the "minefield", and directly faced the lightning strike of the British 1st battleship formation from the defenseless blank area.

"Nelson, Ray One in the right side of the amidships!"

"Rodney, one mine in the front of the right side, two mines in the middle, big break!"

"Barham, one mine on the right side and one on the tail"

"Queen Elizabeth, Ray One in the front!"

"Barham, the No. 2 turret on the starboard side is three meters in front of the fence, and it hits a mine and breaks it!"

"Revenge, aft turret position, Strike One!"

The Scharnhorst, the closest British ship, is 18,000 kilometers, and the farthest is close to 30,000 meters. But at such a distance, the personnel on board knew more about the situation of the British ship at this moment than the British, who were being struck by lightning.

On the "battlefield situation map," the British battleships, which were originally lined up in two straight lines, had just finished their "spinning", and they had been forced to maneuver to evade because of lightning strikes, but this time they were forced to maneuver to evade the two Queen Elizabeth-class battleships that hit mines -- but this was a last resort, and if they did not evade, they would have to eat more oxygen torpedoes, and this was a difficult problem that had to be made to choose one of the two.

From the report of the "mysterious female voice", Yamaguchi Tashi knew that the battleship Rodney was basically no longer saved. After two waves of lightning strikes and four torpedoes, he was sentenced to death. And the Barham, which ate two torpedoes and ran into two mines in front and back, was also unlucky.

The Japanese Navy, who entered the chart room with Tawen Yamaguchi to "observe", did not understand the situation here at first, but after a few minutes, they came back to the "taste", and all of them were covered with cold sweat on their backs.

"What kind of terrible technology did the Germans prescribe, they actually grasped the details of the battlefield so precisely and clearly."

The Japanese who entered the chart room, except for Chiaki Matsuda and Tabun Yamaguchi, all the rest of them had the same thought in their hearts.

After entering this chart room, they saw the "self-righteous" sneak attack of the British Navy before the war, and also saw the German Navy make relevant arrangements according to the movements of the British. Five minutes before Commander Cunningham aboard the Nelson learned that the radar had been jammed with the radar, the Japanese officers, who were "watching" in the chart room, heard Raeder give a command that they did not understand.

"Shoot aluminum foil jamming band!"

It was the foil ribbon that jammed the British Navy's radar and blinded its entire fleet on this snowy night. This made it easy for the German Navy to get close and launch a sneak attack.

The battle continues.

In the "Battlefield Situation Map", after the German lightning strike troops retreated, the British fleet endured the pain of being "exploded" by the German Navy, and continued to advance, rushing out of the mine array laid by the Germans, during which another battleship touched the mine.

In the process, the destroyers on both flanks also turned around and rushed back, charging again at the Shane sisters, who were firing incessantly at the tail of their fleet, in order to save the lagging Sovereign-class battleship that was being beaten to the ground.

But the heroic actions of these expulsions were clear on the map of the situation, and the German Navy, which had been prepared, mobilized ten light cruisers and twelve destroyers in its hands to block the road, preventing another lightning attack by the British Navy.

In the process, the Japanese frightened the mysterious female voice in the chart room of the Bassanhorst, and constantly released corrections to help the surrounding auxiliary ships correct the landing points of the destroyers, so that these heroic British destroyers began to suffer fierce and accurate shelling at a distance of 20,000 meters. And when these British destroyers were forced to fire torpedoes in advance, Japan even heard the female voice instruct to point certain types of ships in the fleet to turn and evade.

It was a deeply unfair naval battle, and the British Royal Navy fought the German Navy almost blindfolded, and the outcome was self-evident.

Eventually, the British were defused by the Germans, whose only result was to damage the German light cruiser Nuremberg - the hit was in the bow. At that time, the "German god" calculated that the light cruiser Nuremberg was inevitably hit by mines, so he ordered it to turn its bow and take the initiative to meet the mines with the ship, and at the same time ordered the sailors located on the ship to retreat and close the relevant compartments

The torpedo of the British destroyer almost shattered the bow of the Nuremberg, but it remained on the surface. Later, the ship barely managed to enter the nearby Bergenburg and ran aground in the shallows of the harbor, which was the largest loss suffered by the German fleet that night.

After repelling this wave of lightning attacks by the British Navy, the German fleet led by the Scharnhorst continued to bite the British ship from the rear and opened fierce fire on the "Burst Chrysanthemum".

They pursued thirty kilometers in one artillery battle, while the two Shane-class ships even "risked" to pass through the mine arrays they had laid.

On a snowy night with extremely fine visibility, the British ships trapped in the mine array had no power to fight back, so they could only run forward with all their might to cross the mine array as soon as possible.

During this period, the captain's sixteen-inch guns did not stop firing for a minute.

The sister ships of the Scharn-class sister ships had 12o ammunition for each main gun in the regular state, and the Germans had 20 more on board.

During this period, after hearing two earth-shattering loud noises, they saw the two battleships "Monarch" and "Revenge" from the wall, which was lined up behind the British battleship fleet, and they were hit by the bombardment of the Shane sisters and the ammunition depot was greatly reduced.

The power of the Germans' 4o6 mm guns was astonishing, and the Japanese in the chart room learned from the female voice that the Germans had hit 11 and 13 bullets respectively on the two battleships at a distance of 18,000 to 15,000 kilometers, and then penetrated their ammunition depots and caused a massive explosion. What frightened the "unaware" Japanese even more was that the female voice on the two ships could clearly report where the 4o6 mm shells on the two ships hit the target.

(As for the caliber of the gun, I will use inches for British ships, and millimeters for Germany.) It's not that the imperial system looks tall or anything. It is really a very strange caliber for British ships, especially small-caliber guns,,, the caliber of which is expressed in metric famous 21-pounder gun is about 83 mm, 17-pounder gun is 77 mm, two-pounder gun is 4o mm, six-pounder gun is 57 mm (6 military artillery is to distinguish the model by the weight of the shell. Moreover, British artillery, in domestic military magazines, is usually called by inches or the weight of shells, and if it is replaced by a metric system, many military fans and World War II fans are not clear. ）

In line with the principle that it is better to cut off one finger than to hurt ten fingers, the Shane sisters, who fought more with less, relied on their opponents to "see themselves" and arrogantly played a game of two against one in the artillery battle.

First, they jointly conducted fifteen rounds of salvos at the battleship Sovereign, and it took seven minutes and twenty-one seconds to completely blow up the revenge-class battleship. For the siege of the Revenge-class ship Complex, three more rounds of shooting were used.

At this time, the commander of the British fleet, Canning, was faced with the most painful and difficult choice: either order his fleet to force a U-turn in the minefield, and at the risk of continuing to touch more mines, the whole fleet turned around and forced back the German battleships that exploded from behind.

Either you just have to keep going until you get out of this minefield and then consider making a U-turn.

As for the whole fleet to slow down, let the lagging ships catch up, this choice is extremely stupid. Because it was a snowy night with visibility of less than 10,000 meters, and the sister ships of Shane were shelling from 15,000 kilometers away. This situation made it impossible for the British to fight back unless they changed the fleet formation to a head-on attack and approached within 10,000 meters.

In the end, it was the British battleships that were in such a bad position that they could not have been worse.

In this dire situation, Commander Cunningham chose the former. The whole fleet endured painful sailing in a straight line and forcibly broke out of the minefield.

In the process, he lost the Sovereign, revenge, and the lagging Queen Elizabeth was severely damaged, and both aft turrets were destroyed. As for the Rodney and Barham, which were hit by too many mines and were almost unsaved, they became outcasts who "blocked" the advance of German ships. In the process, he even forbade the cruisers in the fleet to continue to lightning strikes German ships, on the grounds that he did not want to see a repeat of the tragedy of last year's Norwegian naval battle.

At four o'clock in the morning on 24 January, when Commander Cunningham, estimating that his fleet had broken out of the minefield, ordered the entire fleet to turn against the enemy, his battleship formation was already in a state of disarray.

The Sovereign and the Revenge were sunk by the sister ships of Shane, and the Barham soon followed.

The Balham fell to ten knots, and after breaking away from the formation early, it was even attacked by the "wheel girl" of the Scharn sisters, and ate eleven 4o6 mm shells successively, and was later torpedoed and sunk by the approaching German destroyers.

Although the Rodney was barely afloat on the water, the hull tilted and lost all power, and became a dead fish floating on the water.

The reason why the Rodney was not "humiliated" by the German ship was because Hannah and Linhan had already scanned the state of the warship, and his injuries were worse than those of the Barham. The power room of the boiler room was flooded with a large amount of water, and it had completely lost power, and even more so precious electricity. The attack of the four-torpedo was even more deadly, and the hull sank extremely quickly, and at this moment the hull had tilted fifteen degrees to the left, and the inclination angle was still increasing. At most, it will sink in another hour. In this icy night, the warship has completely lost the possibility of salvaging and repurposing.

Hannah had figured out that Guò Raeder had ordered the destroyer to fire torpedoes at the ship, but was dissuaded by Lin Han. The reason was that the ship could be used to lure the British battlefleet that was about to cross the minefield to turn back. In order to salvage the "dead fish" of the Rodney, the Royal Navy's operations will be even more restricted.

Hannah agreed with Lin Han's insidious idea, and in order to save shells, the two did not even order the main guns on the two ships to fire at the Rodney, and only washed the deck of the Barham with secondary guns, and then handed over the two arriving German-class pocket battleships to replenish their guns, and at this time, the fire of the two ships was aimed at the Queen Elizabeth, which was at the end.

At this time, the British fleet had already broken out of the minefield and was about to make a U-turn, when the two Shann-class sisters took advantage of the turn of the British ship to open fire again, and in the process of turning, they hit ten shells in a row, and the 30,000-ton battleship was completely destroyed, and three of the four turrets were destroyed by the German ships.

Although he swallowed a mine, ate ten 4o6 mm shells in one go, destroyed three of the four turrets, and flooded countless times, the King Elizabeth was not hit by a single shell in the process of hitting its ammunition depot, but at this time he was hit by a mine and too many bullets, and the degree had fallen to a pitiful fifteen knots.

During this time, the British capital battleships also fired at the German ships with their tail guns, but in this dark night when they could not see their opponents, their shells were completely blind, and they did not know where to fly at all.

After breaking away from the minefield, Cunningham commanded the entire fleet to turn the bow of the ship and rush head-on at the two German ships that had been exploding on it for dozens of minutes. The remnants of the cruisers and destroyers that accompanied them also bypassed the minefield and turned around and pounced on the German ships.

Commander Cunningham's confirmation that he was out of the minefield was entirely a "decision based on feeling", and it was also a forced move that he had to take because he was disgusted by the two ships that kept chasing the Boomers behind him.

Before straying into the minefield, Commander Cunningham had nine battleships in his hands, and the number of cruisers under his command also had a huge advantage over the opponent, and in terms of overall strength, it was clear that he had the absolute upper hand.

But in less than fifty minutes, his fleet was hit by mines, torpedoes, and enemy 4o6 mm naval guns. Among the nine capital battleships, the weakest ones were the Revenge and the Sovereign, which were sunk, the Barham and the Rodney were about to sink (still floating at sea at this time), and the Queen Elizabeth was constantly hit by the opponent across a minefield, swallowing ten shells in twelve minutes, only one of the four turrets was still functional, and the entire battleship was almost destroyed.

Of the remaining four capital battleships, the Nar ate a mine, which carried thousands of tons of water, and the degree was reduced to eighteen knots. The rest of the ships, the Malaya and the Warrior, were unharmed, and the Resolve also suffered a mine, which was reduced to seventeen knots.

As for the losses of other auxiliary ships, they were also not light.

The Royal Navy's home fleet, which was dominated by nine battleships, had lost more than half of its combat strength in less than an hour.

The ratio of the number of the main battleships of both sides has dropped from nine to two to four to two, and their own battleships are not in good condition.

It was a snowy night with extremely poor visibility, and the Royal Navy couldn't see their opponents, but their opponents could see them!

This is the home of the Germans, and they even laid mines on this battlefield in advance, God knows how big this minefield will be, and Commander Cunningham said that he would never fight a naval battle with the Germans in this dangerous sea area again.

The previous German mine-torpedo boats have been withdrawn, and God knows when those insidious "gadgets" will return. Judging from the fact that they did not come back after the attack, it is estimated that the Germans should have only these dozens of torpedo boats in this battlefield, and there were no spare torpedoes installed on the boats. However, it is located right next to the port of Bergen, which is less than 50 kilometers away in a straight line. It is highly likely that these insidious dinghy will return to port and replenish their torpedoes to strike again, and on this snowy night with poor visibility, Commander Cunningham really did not want his fleet to deal with this insidious Assassins again.

The time and place are all over the side of the Germans,

Such a naval battle simply cannot be fought!

Commander Cunningham now regrets very much that he did not bear the pressure of Downing Street and chose to attack on such a snowy night.

Escaping, retreating, is the best option for the current British fleet.

But the most deadly, and the most desperate point, is that the opponent's battleship is faster than his battleship, and even if he wants to escape, he can't outrun the opponent.

If his fleet only cares about escaping, the consequences will be the same as what happened before, and the situation will only be worse if they are easily "hanged" behind by German ships that are far superior to them, and then slowly bitten off one by one. In the Battle of Falkland in World War I in 1914, Cunningham still remembers the scene of the destruction of the German Spee fleet, but Commander Cunningham never imagined that the feng shui took turns, and the German fleet faced the embarrassment of not being able to beat the opponent and not being able to escape, and after a lapse of 25 years, the same situation actually fell on the head of the main fleet of the British Navy.

What makes him even more frustrating is that his fleet is not really unable to defeat its opponents, and it is only because of the seemingly ridiculous reason of "invisible" that it has fallen into such a dilemma.

Unable to run, unable to stay, unable to fight, such a depressing naval battle, such a bad battlefield situation, this is the first time that Commander Cunningham has encountered it, and he can only choose one that seems to be the least bad among a bunch of bad options.

At four o'clock in the morning on January 24, the British battleship was breaking away from the minefield and was about to complete a U-shaped U-turn.

At this time, both the Japanese and the Germans thought that the British would complete the U-shaped turn, turn around and charge to the death against the German fleet, and then engage in a confrontation after closing the distance to a "visual range" of 10 kilometers.

At this time, in the chart room of the Scharnhorst, the "Japanese friends" saw that all the German ships, including the Scharnhorst, also turned at the same time, and then all avoided the red chess pieces in the "battlefield situation map", behind the barrier representing the minefield.

"It's so treacherous and shameless!"

This was the thought that swelled up in the hearts of all the Japanese at the scene.

The cunning Germans did not even leave them a chance to strike a desperate blow from the British Navy. Hiding behind a minefield, they could still rely on their "visible advantage" to continue to bombard their opponents, while the British battleships had to risk passing through the dangerous minefield again, and then try to see if they could get close to a "visible" position ten kilometers away before exchanging fire.

Just when everyone thought that the British fleet would make another tragic death charge and force its way back to the minefield, the ships of the British Royal Navy on the map of the British naval battle situation suddenly dispersed like a stabbed hornet's nest when the U-shaped turn was completed by three-quarters, and then scattered in all directions.

"Ran away?"

At this time, in the naval battle that night, Commander Cunningham made the most unexpected choice for the Germans.

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