Seeing that the Goeben began to accelerate and escape, the Indomitable lost its bow, and its sailing ability was greatly affected, and it was unable to pursue. Rear Admiral Hood immediately ordered the battlecruiser Invincible to stop attacking the German battlecruiser Moltke and instead pursued Goeben. At this time, the Invincible had already taken advantage of the damage to the Moltke's servo and grabbed the T-head position. (That is, use the side of the ship to block in the direction of the bow of the opponent's ship.) In this way, only the guns of the enemy ship in the bow direction can fire, and all the guns of the own warship can fire at the opponent. In this way, a single ship can almost get twice the firepower advantage of the opponent, and if it is a fleet confrontation and captures the T-head position, the advantage will be even greater. And in the previous salvo, two more shells hit the Moltke, one of which knocked out one of the Moltke's chimneys and caused a fire, and the other shell damaged the steering mechanism of the Moltke's A turret, rendering the Moltke's A turret completely ineffective. It can be said that if the attack continues, the Moltke will soon be completely incapacitated.

But now, in the eyes of Rear Admiral Hood, it was impossible for the Moltke to escape. It was only a matter of time before it sank. In contrast, the pursuit of the Goeben was more important. Therefore, he ordered the Indomitable to let the speed of the Indomitable, which had just extinguished the fire but had lost a turret but lost a turret, and the destroyer Hausen to stay behind and continue to attack the Moltke, which had lost its ability to handle and had been severely damaged, and he himself took the other warships to chase the Goeben.

With the loss of the C turret, the Goburn now has only half the backward firepower of the previous one, and can only fire two shells at a time during the escape. Such a density of firepower, coupled with the fact that the Goeben has now accelerated to about 26 knots, and the hull of the ship is shaking so badly that continuing to fire at this time is almost just to scare people.

However, the state of the Invincible chasing past is not necessarily particularly good, in order to obtain high speed, the Invincible's boiler is already running at overload, at a speed of 26 knots, the Invincible is also unstable, although the fire density is twice as high as that of the Goburn, but the hit rate is still ridiculously poor. Now the distance between the two warships is about 15,000 kilometers, and it is strange that at such a distance, at a high speed of 26 knots, shooting at a target at a distance of 15,000 kilometers, the hit rate can be good. So the Invincible fired ten volleys in a row, but failed to get even a single straddle. The Goeben's top speed was slightly higher than that of the Invincible, and at this time, this advantage gradually manifested itself, and now the distance between him and the Invincible was slowly increasing, and if the situation continued, the Goeben should have a good chance of escaping.

There were two cruisers on the Germans' side, and not long ago, when the British cruisers attacked the German battlecruisers, they also bravely stood up and engaged in an artillery battle with the British cruisers. Even when the Invincible began to pursue the Goeben, they tried to attack the Invincible to cover the Goben. However, the British side had more cruisers, and now there were four cruisers and four destroyers on the side of the Invincible, so the heroic actions of the German cruisers did not achieve much results, although in terms of single ship performance, the German cruisers seemed to be a little better than the British cruisers, but such a small advantage could not make up for the absolute disadvantage in numbers. Under the fire of four British cruisers, four destroyers, and the secondary guns of the Invincible, both cruisers were soon turned into flapsing torches on the surface of the sea.

But Rear Admiral Hood was not reconciled to let Goeben escape like this, although by this time he had already won, and the Germans had lost two cruisers, as well as one battle cruiser, well, although these three ships had not yet sunk, but it was only a matter of time. Moreover, the Goeben was also badly damaged, and after losing the cruiser that matched it, it probably had to find a way to sneak back to the German port, and its fuel was probably not enough to support it all the way back at high speed, so it would certainly use radio and home communication several times, so that the other British search fleet would most likely be able to catch up with it and destroy it.

However, watching the prey flee from the mouth, this is not the style of Major General Hood, although it is no longer possible to catch up, although the hit rate of the shelling is very low, but, as long as you are shooting, there is always a chance to hit, besides, God bless the king, maybe, you can hit one or two shots?

It seems that God is indeed blessing the British, and when the distance between the two sides has widened to 18,000 kilometers, the Invincible actually got a hit at high speed. At that time, the D turret of the Goeben had just fired two shells, and the fire of the firing shells had just been extinguished, and the observation post noticed that a small spark had exploded at the left of its D turret, which was generated when the shell hit and penetrated the steel plate, and then, more flames came out of that position, apparently, the guy just now, knocked out the German D turret.

This shell was not the deadliest, another shell landed in the sea less than three meters from the starboard side of the stern of the Goeben, and then exploded violently. Sometimes, a near-miss like this was more terrible than a direct hit for a warship, and the shell blew off one of Goeben's propellers, causing it to lose half of its power, and opened a large hole in the hull, and the sea water quickly poured in.

"Well done!" Major General Hood couldn't help but shout, "What a good job the boys!" ”

However, just as the saying goes, while Major General Hood was shouting, the whistling of heavy shells was heard in the sky, and the last two shells fired by the Germans just before the destruction of the D turret fell......

Later, the commander of the cruiser USS Yorkshire, Lieutenant Colonel Giggs, described that scene in his own memoirs.

"At that time, our ship was the closest to the Invincible, and our distance was only about six hundred meters. I saw a fireball suddenly rise from the A turret of the Invincible. Apparently, this was the result of an enemy armor-piercing projectile hit, and then, I saw a long tongue of fire coming out from the place where the A turret was pierced, as well as from the muzzle of the cannon. I was like, 'Oh no, this must be a shot from the A turret. Shoot. The medicine was ignited, and now the A turret is about to be completely finished. But I didn't expect what would happen at the time.

About ten seconds after that explosion, there was a sudden and violent explosion on the Invincible, and the explosion caused a wave of air that even shook our warship. I saw the entire Invincible snap in two, and then sink quickly. It was only a few minutes from the explosion to the complete sinking. Although I gave a big order for rescue, but ...... The ship sank so fast that there wasn't a single survivor on the entire warship......"

Based on this description, later generations deduced that this was probably due to the fact that the officers and men of Tower A did not close the passage from Tower A to the main ammunition depot in order to speed up the firing, and illegally stored more rounds in the turret. Shoot. Pill packets. So when the German shell hit the A turret, it detonated the fire in the turret. Shoot. The kit, and then the flames poured into the main ammunition depot along the open passage leading to the main ammunition depot, causing the main ammunition depot to detonate.

After the sinking of the Invincible, the cruiser "Purple Shirt" raised the command flag, and the captain, Lieutenant Commander Egier, gave the order to sink the German battleship at all costs. After losing the battlecruiser Invincible, which was the main force, and the fleet commander, Rear Admiral Hood, the British cruisers and destroyers continued to attack the Goeburn.

If it were normal, the battlecruiser Goeben would not have been afraid of these little things. The best thing a battlecruiser does is bully these little things. And even if there are too many small things, the speed of the Goeben can ensure that he can get out of the way. However, things are not ideal for the Goeben right now. His C turret and D turret were all wiped out, which not only caused him to lose nearly half of his firepower, but also caused the warship to have a huge firepower blind spot. If the enemy attacks from these directions, he will have to defend himself with a limited number of secondary artillery.

At the same time, the near-miss bomb caused it to lose nearly half of its power, and also caused a large amount of water to enter. This also made it impossible for him to evade the enemy on his own speed. Soon the cruisers of the British followed.

Since there was no way to escape, the Goeben began to turn in the hope of bombarding the cruisers with its main guns in the bow, but the steering performance of this battlecruiser was not good, especially after losing a propeller and entering a lot of water. In contrast, the smaller British cruisers and destroyers were naturally more nimble, so they quickly got into the Goeburn's main guns, with the cruisers coming forward first and firing at the Germans' secondary guns.

The battlecruiser also had the advantage of being larger, so it was more stable as a firing platform. When firing at the British cruiser with secondary guns, their accuracy of fire will be higher. Soon, the Purple Shirt was hit by several shells, the A turret was destroyed, the warship caught fire, and Captain Egil was seriously wounded. But the cruiser did not withdraw from the battle, but continued to close in and fire at the Germans, while also attracting fire to provide cover for the battle of other friendly ships.

The Yorkshire, which was close to the Purple Shirt, also poured all its firepower on the German gun emplacements. Soon, a complete firepower blind spot was knocked out. Of course, during this period, the Purple Shirt suffered several more shots, and the C turret also flew into the sky, and the hull of the ship was flooded so much that it tilted more than ten degrees in the direction of the port side. But his mission was accomplished, and the destroyers launched a final assault. They cut in from the Goeben's firepower and fired a large number of fish at very close range. Thunder. The Goben, which had limited mobility, was fished by seven or eight fish in a row. Thunder hits. Even a battleship with thick skin and thick flesh could not withstand such a blow. A few minutes later, the Germans gave the order to abandon the ship, and half an hour later, the battlecruiser Goeben sank. Just two minutes after the battlecruiser sank, the oil depot of the cruiser Purple Shirt exploded, and the acting captain immediately gave the order to abandon the ship.