Bay of Helgoland.

After this naval battle lasted for two hours, the British finally ushered in the hope of victory, with twice the number of superiority and heroic tenacity, until now, there are only seven German battleships left on the opposite side of the battle, and the others have sunk to the bottom of the sea with bruises, because of the depth of the sea in this area, most of these sunken battleships are mostly exposed to the water, looking like monuments standing one after another, and the flags that are still dancing fluttering in the cold wind.

Of course, it was not only the German battleships that were involved, in fact the losses of the British and French fleets far exceeded those of the Germans, including the hapless battle cruiser Daring, which was forced to run aground on its own, ten British and French capital ships were sunk in front of the Germans' homes, plus a large number of cruisers and destroyers, and the entire Helgoland Bay was like a battleship graveyard.

These sunken sea monsters have had a very severe impact on the warships of both sides that are still fighting, because the sea area where they could have galloped at will has become like a group of reefs, and two battleships have sunk because of their collision with them, including a British heavy cruiser, this unlucky cruiser was hidden under the water because of a 305mm gun barrel hidden under the water, and the whole bottom of the ship was torn apart, and now the two British battleships are almost stacked on the sea. It's extremely funny to look at.

However, it has reached this point, and naturally no one can retreat anymore, although both the British government and the French government, which lost two battleships, are in distress at this time, but for the sake of the final victory, they can only let go.

As for the German High Seas Fleet, from Prince Heinrich to ordinary sailors, they were already determined to fight to the death, and they had no way to retreat than the British, and in order to strengthen the conviction of his subordinates, Prince Heinrich even gave orders to the logistics personnel left behind in Wilhelmsport. The requisition of a group of merchant ships directly blocked the channel of Wilhelmshaven was actually tantamount to playing a game of breaking the kettle and cutting off one's own back road.

"Your Highness, it's a great honor to be able to fight with you." Having already hit more than 4,000 tons of piercing shells from the main guns of British battleships, Schell said to Prince Heinrich with a solemn face that he knew that the flagship of the High Seas Fleet would not last long.

Prince Heinrich did not answer him immediately, but held his telescope and stared at the direction of the German land to the east, and soon said with some relief: "Reinhardt, our reinforcements are coming. ”

Scheer was stunned for a moment, staring at the sea with wide eyes. I didn't find out where the reinforcements he said were.

"Not at sea, in the sky!" Prince Heinrich said, pointing to the eastern sky.

"Airship?!" Scheer looked in the direction of his finger and exclaimed.

In the southeastern sky, countless airships, under the heavy clouds, were flying in the snowflakes that were still falling sporadically, this was the fastest support that William could provide to his brother, and he sent all the airships he could find, the total number reached one hundred and sixty, but not all of these airships carried aerial bombs. Because it is rarely used, there are not many such things in the warehouses of the Germans, and the vast majority of these airships are still coagulated qiyou shells, although this thing has not been tested on warships and does not know how effective it is. But even now at this point, I don't care about these things.

However, just as Prince Heinrich and Schell were excited about the reinforcements, they suddenly saw a huge ball of fire rise from the position of one of the main turrets in front of them, and at the same time, countless shards of steel swept around like cannonballs, followed by an earth-shattering explosion. The battleship of the Deutschland jumped upwards suddenly, and the two of them instantly flew up and crashed headlong into the bulkhead. Prince Heinrich immediately fainted, and Schell struggled to get back up. Through the blood left on the eyelids, the sea surface was getting closer and closer, and dozens of seconds later, as the vibration came from under the feet, the entire deck of the battleship was completely submerged, only the top of the turret was still hidden in the waves.

The Deutschland sank.

At the same time as the Deutschland sank, a terrible siren sounded on all the British warships at sea, and it was clear that the British had also spotted the German airship heading overhead.

It's a pity to see that on the remaining nearly 100 British and French warships on the sea, those officers and sailors can only look at the group of airships that are getting closer and closer, looking at each other, very simply, they don't know what to use to deal with the enemy in the sky, at this time no one has imagined the airship bombing the battleship on the sea, these air monsters with a speed of no more than 200 kilometers drop bombs from a height of several hundred meters to a moving target that is only a few tens of meters wide and can reach a maximum speed of more than 60 kilometers.

"What are they here for? Celebrate our victory with fireworks? Jericho on the Edward VII looked at the German airship flying and said with a sense of humor.

"Victory? I don't think we've won anything. Admiral May looked at the sunken battleship all over the sea and said with a wry smile, as if to set off the atmosphere of the commander's words, the inside of a British battleship suddenly exploded because of the spread of fire, and the entire starboard middle was almost torn, and the flames that erupted from the inside were indeed very similar to incomparably bright fireworks.

Jericho immediately shut up, a victory that set back the strength of the Royal Navy by six years is indeed difficult to be happy, not to mention that there are still six battleships in the High Seas Fleet to fight on the sea, if you compare the number at this time, the British Royal Navy has only fourteen capital ships left, and the Russians and the Germans eleven are all second-rate navies on a horizontal line, as for the first-class, naturally needless to say that it is the Chinese Navy.

Of course, now is not the time to sigh, because at this time the German airships have been pressed into the sky over the battlefield like a black castle, this kind of air monster that is almost the same size as the battleship has brought a great sense of oppression to the British sailors below, many people even forgot about the battle, one by one stunned to look at this spectacular scene in the sky, but to their surprise these airships did not drop bombs.

"Bomb a battleship? Does it make sense to do this with our fifty-kilogram coagulated qiyou bombs? The High Seas Fleet is finished, even if we give them support, they don't have any hope, since this is the case, there is no need to waste, the British have better goals behind them, do not forget what is the most important thing for Germany now. On an airship in the sky, Hall, who had been promoted to lieutenant general, looked at the battlefield below through the window and said lightly.

At the same time, Admiral Mei below also understood the intentions of these airships in an instant.

"Quick, notify the landing fleet behind, disperse immediately, don't gather together!" He hurriedly shouted at Jericho.

In the rear of the British main fleet, thirty-two landing ships were still waiting in the mine passage for their capital ships to clear the obstacles, these landing ships were the most closely protected, in the middle part of the long line of British and French fleets, in front of the main fleet, behind were troop carriers under the protection of cruisers and destroyers, and on the left and right were German minefields, completely protected in the safest waters. The sailors and the infantrymen on the landing ships even stood bored on the deck looking at the looming battlefield ahead, and the fire and smoke made the young British lads full of blood and longing, not knowing that they were about to be doomed.

Even when the airship appeared in the sky, the captains of the landing ships who had received the order still did not realize that the Grim Reaper was smiling at them, and they were casually directing their landing ships to start, forming a column in the limited space of the mine passage and sailing forward, ready to gradually distance themselves from each other during the voyage.

And at this very moment, Lieutenant General Hall was already preparing to attack.

"All airships are formed in the form of bombing trenches, and the eight airships are arranged in horizontal formations at intervals of 20 meters, and each group is arranged in columns at intervals of 40 meters." The old executioner, who had bombed London, gave orders to his airship formation with ease.

With the small flag waving rapidly in the hands of the signal soldiers, those airship pilots who had played countless times immediately manipulated the air beasts in their hands and began to reorganize in the sky in an orderly manner, and the airship group began to rapidly elongate and gradually turned into a giant phalanx nearly five kilometers long and more than four hundred meters wide.

"Without precision, what's the big deal, we have density." Hall in the command cabin of the airship sneered and said that this is the reason why he changed the target himself to the British landing fleet, in the chaotic battlefield of the Elbe estuary, it is difficult for him to effectively attack the British warships, after all, the accuracy of the airship bombing is limited, if it can accurately hit those twenty or even thirty knots of rage, the course of the battleship is uncertain is called Arabian Nights!

And those battleship cruisers with perfect armor protection are not what he can deal with small bombs and coagulation qiyou shells for ground personnel, even if they really hit, they will not cause any damage to the other party, and the coagulation qiyou shells are indeed huge, but it is impossible to burn the armor of the battleship, and bombing fixed fortresses can play the tactics of sea of fire, but in this sea, no matter how high the temperature or pumping air is meaningless.

But if it is a landing ship confined to a narrow passage by mines, it is different, these battleships with a speed of only 20 knots simply do not have enough room to evade, and in order to reduce their own weight and facilitate the landing on the beach, a large number of wooden materials are used, which also makes the original chicken-rib-like solidified qiyou bombs suddenly useful, you must know that even the decks of these landing ships are still wooden. (To be continued......)