When the battlecruiser Prestige turned into the brightest fireworks on the sea, both sides of the battle at sea saw the scene.

Now the scene has become two against two, two so-called 'German battle cruisers', two British war cruisers of grandfather age, and one vote is turning to the approaching British light cruisers.

Watching the prestige explode into the most dazzling fireworks on the sea, what Vice Admiral Holland, the captain of the Hood at that time, thought, no one knows in later generations, but at this time, the entire Royal Navy's fast fleet still unswervingly carried out his previous order to turn and lightning strike.

Thirty years later, Lin Han, the undisciplined "King of the Sea Copy", under the pen name of "Tian Fangshu", published a best-selling science fiction novel "The Legend of the Galactic Heroes", in which the male protagonist, the famous "Golden Lion" Reinhardt's emperor's battle for fame, his opponent was a vice admiral named Holland, when he faced the Emperor Reinhardt with the halo of the protagonist, this Vice Admiral Holland also "stupidly" gave the order to turn in front of the enemy when the fleet was exploded behind the opponent. And at that time his chief of staff also objected, interestingly, the name of this chief of staff was Hawke.

For a long time after the end of the Norwegian Naval War, the name of Vice Admiral Holland almost became synonymous with the general and sinner of the defeated army, but Captain Hawke, who proposed to "escape" at that time, was remembered by later generations, and many Britons would have been what would have happened if the commander-in-chief was Captain Hawke during the Battle of Norwegian.

However, according to Captain Hawke's idea, it is equivalent to letting a vote of light and heavy cruisers in front of the 406 mm guns of German ships, and light and heavy patrols are no better than relatively rough skin (of course, not as good as battleships). Even a close miss can inflict severe damage on it. If there were no battle cruisers to threaten the opponent on the side to share their firepower, the light and heavy cruisers of a single vote launched a lightning charge against the German ships with eleven warships, and although the cruiser formations of the Royal Navy at that time had a large advantage, their positions were extremely poor, scattered but not concentrated, and the local positions were at a disadvantage. If he really fights according to his vision, it is very likely that the end will become a refueling tactic, and the charge of the cruiser fleet, which cannot form a concentrated force, will become a refueling charge, which will only be in the process of charging. Concentrated fire by German ships. Eat them one by one.

At the same time, due to the surprise attack of the German ships, the boilers have been boiled to the best state and the power is full, while the British ships are all in a cruising state. away from burning the boiler to the maximum. There are still twenty or thirty minutes to heat up and pressurize when the horsepower is at full power. The speed of the entire fleet is far from optimal. In such a situation, if the cruiser launches a lightning charge, there is no fire support from the side to interfere with and pull the opponent. The next ten minutes of battle will be even more dangerous.

However, human beings have always judged heroes by success or failure.

During the Russo-Japanese War, Heihachiro Togo made a crazy and gambling U-shaped turn in front of the enemy, because of the great victory in the Battle of Tsushima, which was called a "classic" by later generations, but in fact it was an order that was severely criticized by many naval commanders.

On the night of the Norwegian naval battle, Vice Admiral Holland's instructions were actually understandable, but the construction of the Hawk ship was very "crazy", but the loser was never qualified to defend himself.

From the very beginning, Lieutenant General Holland was faced with a choice of "rotten", choosing one of the two worst and worse endings. Of course, in fact, he had a seemingly "good" choice at that time: that is, regardless of a qiē, the whole fleet spread its legs and fled, with the strength of the German ships, he could only bite off a battle cruiser with a small number of cruisers from his fleet that night.

However, the Royal Navy, with its offensive-dominated ideology, was clearly unlikely to choose this "so-called best" option at that time.

So, after seeing the Prestige being combined by its opponents and bombarded in just three minutes in several volleys, Vice Admiral Holland could not make any effective choice except to encourage the whole fleet to rise up and continue to charge in the communicator.

When the Scharn sisters joined forces to fire wave after wave of guns on the Prestige, the Hood, which was about twenty-five kilometers away, continued to fire at the lead Scharnhorst, despite the fact that its hit rate was greatly affected when turning.

Eight minutes after the naval battle began, the Shane sisters joined forces and began firing on the Hood. However, due to the long distance, the Hood was maneuvering, and the bad luck, in the first three minutes, the two ships joined forces to fire six salvos one after another, and only hit the opponent with one bullet, and this blow hit the right deck of the opponent's side of the left postboard, and after penetration, it flew out from the starboard side, and only exploded after falling into the sea.

As more and more flares were fired into the sky, visibility at sea became stronger and stronger, and in the eleventh minute after the battle began, after twenty consecutive salvos had all missed, the Hood, which had been constantly correcting its trajectory, finally made a hit 21,000 kilometers away, and the blow from its front main gun hit the Scharnhorst.

Unfortunately, when its shells were fired and still in the air, the Scharnhorst "happened" to make a maneuver evasion, and as a result, the shell that should have hit the front of the turret hit the external radar on the Scharnhorst, and the overpowered shell easily shattered the radar and passed through the ship and fell into the sea, causing little damage to the Scharnhorst.

The reason for this result was that Hannah, the soul of the ship on the Shane, was "cheating" again, and the shells fired by the Hood from a distance of 21 kilometers still needed to be in the air for nearly thirty seconds. At fifteen seconds later, she accurately judged that the shell was going to hit, so she personally manipulated the rudder of the Shane to force it to change direction to evade.

When a battleship engages in a long-distance artillery battle, under normal circumstances, even if the captains of both sides know in advance that their warships will be killed by the opponent, they usually do not choose to evade, because maneuvering to avoid will affect the speed and direction of travel of the ship, and the correction number obtained by shooting in front of them will all be scrapped, which will affect the hits of the subsequent artillery battles, but the gains outweigh the losses.

However, Hannah did not want to allow herself to be lightly wounded, and although Shane's turret was more than enough to withstand the blow, the turret of the ship's gun was violently shaken by the bullet. Even if she could still fire, the mechanical structure would be not lightly damaged, and she didn't want to take that risk, and more importantly, when the Hood fired, the Shane sisters, who had turned their guns to the Hood, also fired one after another, and Hannah had already judged that both her and Linhan's Griff would each get a hit in this round of fire.

Eleven-minute and twenty-first seconds after the battle began, a small spark erupted from the Scharnhorst, and a few seconds later, about 20,000 meters away, the swollen parts and bow of the Hood. Two dazzling lights burst out at the same time.

A blow from the Shane. The 406 mm shell passed through the next compartment of the chart room, killing all the sailors inside, but fortunately it was another dud. Otherwise, the people in the chart room will not escape catastrophe.

And the blow from the Grid. Hit the amidships. The bomb hit the sailor's cabin, where it blew out a huge mouth and killed a large number of sailors. And before these two bombs. Hood was also hit twice, both of which were later hit by the pocket battleship Deutschland.

At this time, the Scharnhorst, which was maneuvering and evading, did not turn the rudder to correct back to its original angle, but continued to change direction when evading, and began to change angles, and performed a maneuver with and out of entanglement. Judging by the direction of its next travel, even if the Hood and other ships completed the change of direction, they could only form a trailing pursuit state instead of the previous 90-degree angle lightning strike state.

The Scharnhorst was ready to get out of this kind of active pursuit-style artillery battle.

"The enemy cruiser fleet was already approaching, and thirty seconds later, the Gnay also maneuvered to the left, turning to disengage."

At the same time, Grid, who was following behind him, also received an order from the lead ship. By this time, the British ship was about to complete its turn. As far as the results are concerned, Hannah and Raeder are very satisfied.

With the approach of the distance, coupled with the previous long-term artillery correction, the first ship that was targeted by the opponent the most has been rained down around the Scharnhorst, a large number of eight-inch shells mixed with six-inch shells continue to fall, Shane has eaten nearly ten shells of these two calibers, although the damage to the main body of the ship is slight, but the ship's secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns, the external facilities are not small damage, continue to entangle, even if it is not mine, the taste of being "deck washed" is not pleasant

The German ships were too numerically inferior to the British ships, and both Hannah and Raeder wanted a score of four to zero, not six to one, eight to two, and so on. The German navy was too thin, and Hannah's goal was to bring all the warships back to Germany. There were also ten British battleships trailing behind, and it was dangerous for the light cruisers in the fleet to be injured at this time, especially if they were hit by the opponent's torpedoes.

Under Hannah's command, the Gerzon also began to maneuver and turn dozens of seconds later, changing course and planning the lightning offensive that the British cruiser fleet was about to begin.

Since the German battleships had burned their boilers to the maximum at the beginning of the artillery battle, the whole fleet was moving at a maximum speed of thirty knots - although the entire fleet could theoretically be driven at a maximum speed of thirty-two knots, the maximum speed was affected by the harsh sea conditions in the Norwegian Sea, and the maximum speed was reduced. Similarly, the British fleet was similarly affected.

Due to the speed advantage, except for a few warships that may be threatened by this lightning strike, the rest of the ships can successfully turn and disengage before the opponent enters the lightning strike distance.

In the twelfth minute after the start of the artillery battle, the entire German fleet began to turn away from it, and tonight's battle, in their opinion, had earned enough, and it was time to withdraw. From the point of view of dodging the enemy's lightning strikes, the timing of the retreat of the German fleet was just right.

But before retreating, the leading three ships continued to aim all their main guns at the Hood, and all the main guns on the leading three ships poured shells at it with all their might.

The turn affected the hits of the German fleet, but it also affected the hits of the British ships, which were about to complete the change of direction. But for the remaining three minutes, the two sides exchanged shelling rounds for several rounds, all of which failed.

However, in the fifteenth minute, a shell fired from the Shane hit the bridge of the Hood, and the 406-mm shell easily tore through the bridge of the Hood more than three hundred millimeters of armor, and then exploded in the command room, killing everyone including Vice Admiral Holland.

And with this blow, the Hood also used up all its character,

Seconds later, a blow from the Gridd's hit hit the top of the Hood's second turret, and the Hood's poor top armor could hold off the blow, and the shell exploded in the shaft, opening the entire turret and detonating the three shells and cartridges that had just been raised, turning it into a red-hot purgatory on earth.

But the real fatal blow came in the seventeenth minute, from the 283 mm tail gun of the German pocket battleship, which entered from an incredible angle, narrowly avoided the thickest part of the armor, and penetrated the Hood's secondary gun ammunition depot, causing a martyrdom, and the detonation of the auxiliary gun ammunition depot caused the main gun ammunition depot to detonate. (Note: Historically, the Hood was killed by the Bismarck, and there are many theories, but the more credible theory is that the auxiliary gun ammunition depot was broken down and exploded, and then the main gun ammunition was detonated.) And there have always been big problems with the design and layout of the armor of the Hood's secondary shell ammunition depot)

More than ten seconds later, the battlecruiser Hood, like the other ship in history, followed in the footsteps of the Prestige, and was broken into two with a bang.

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(p This chapter is written at someone else's house.,Can't check the information.,Written in a hurry.,The quality of the writing is not too good.,I'll revise and revise it when I go home at night.,Change it back.,Update it first.,Let's talk about it first.,Everyone looks at the future first.,During the New Year.,Socialize everywhere.,The writing environment is not good.,There are many things at home.。 That's all there is to it. )

In the new week, I don't want to reward everyone for the New Year, just ask you to give a thumbs up after reading it. These chapters updated during the Spring Festival will be rewritten and rerevised when I return home on the sixth day of junior high school. (To be continued......)