The remaining 4 battleships are not too much to say less and less, if you want to say continue to pursue the American fleet, it is obviously not good. And if you give up Majifen and attack this "tail" he left behind, it is a bit unfinished, and now the question is to continue the rapid assault or to pick up the Hipper fleet and prepare to go home after beating these 4 ships? Tycho was a little bit of a problem. After some consideration, Tycho sent a telegram to Hipper, telling him to leave as soon as he could, and the American fleet went north, and then began to concentrate its fire on the remaining four ships.

The overwhelming firepower advantage made the remaining American fleet have no idea, the New York and Utah went forward, but the speed was too slow, and the successive shells directly hit the two early iron turtles full of holes, and a Greek battleship Athens next to it was torn to pieces under the siege of 3 Spanish-class battleships, this 2-handed battleship purchased from China finally failed to survive the last years of the 1st World War, and was destroyed under the attack of as many as 20 main guns, because there were too many bullets, So much so that even the attacking side does not know how exactly the other side sank, whether it was the destruction of the ammunition depot or because of the problem of too much water? And because of the fierce attack, there were not many survivors on this battleship, and less than 200 people survived with a crew of more than a thousand! And just when the Allies were happily whack-a-mole, the Tennessee, which had been heavily damaged before the war, secretly aimed its main gun at the Veneto Super Dreadnought, perhaps because the Italians thought that the battleship had lost its combat effectiveness, so they didn't pay much attention to him in the final siege, and this gave the other side an opportunity!

The USS Tennessee fired with the remaining 8 14-inch 45L guns. In the case that the main rangefinder is destroyed and most of the optical instruments provided by the main gun are also destroyed, it is said that it will not be too accurate, but I don't know if it is the reason for God's favor or other factors. The Tennessee actually hit the Caraccino, which was attacking the New York, and what was even more unexpected was that this shell was actually a water-in-water bullet! The underwater defense system of the Veneto is also meticulously crafted, but it is still not enough to see in the face of a bomb in the water, which can be called a BUG.

The shell pierced the Caraccino's underwater protection system as lightly as a spear, and exploded after piercing the last armor plate, and the explosion occurred in the vicinity of Caraccino's secondary gun ammunition depot, and the violent explosion produced a large number of fragments and sparks. The remaining ammunition in the ammunition depot was detonated after tearing open the outer partition, perhaps due to the intensity of the fighting at the beginning, when there was not much ammunition left. (At the beginning of the Italian feints, secondary artillery was used to attack ground targets.) So the power of the explosion is also relatively limited. But a huge breach was made in the amidships, and a large amount of seawater poured into it, and in just a few minutes, the displacement of the Caraccino increased by almost 1,500 tons!

However, this damage is still within Caraccino's tolerance, and the Tennessee never has a chance. The Longxiang and Caraccino refocused their fire on the half-dead battleship. And the remaining Allied warships were also divided into several teams to clean up the remaining American warships. Less than 15 minutes after the sinking of the Athens. There was also a series of violent explosions from the amidship of the Utah hull, orange fireballs continued to erupt from the hull, and thick plumes of smoke began to pour out from the breach in the side of the ship, and the entire battleship was interrupted by a violent explosion and sank into the rolling waves of the Atlantic Ocean.

Next up was the USS Tennessee, the king of the US Navy's active warships, which held on until the last minute, and half an hour after the two Italian capital ships were on fire, the last usable main gun on the Tennessee was also destroyed, and the entire battleship was like an Asura field. Flames and smoke. Blackened, twisted armor and mutilated corpses have turned the ship into a hell. The vast majority of the officers and men were killed before the ship sank, and the current Tennessee did not even have a single working anti-lightning gun. Eventually, when Tycho determined that the ship was no longer capable of fighting back. Three destroyers went up and torpedoed the flagship of the American fleet, and the four-way torpedo accurately hit the sidechord of the Tennessee, and after a series of violent explosions, the 32,000-ton standard displacement ship finally disappeared into the sea.

The New York quickly followed in the footsteps of its comrades, and shortly after the Tennessee disappeared from the waterline, the New York's deadline had arrived, but it was not sunk by heavy artillery or torpedoes, but by the Americans who found that they could no longer evacuate. According to the surviving American officer, their war was over, and he now thought about how to return home safely with the rest of the people, in this case, rather than being a target for death, it was better to sink himself directly, and this move did save many American Navy officers and men.

So far, the US Navy has lost 3 capital ships, which can be described as a heavy loss, but this matter is obviously not over! At this moment, far from the battlefield, the battleship Bismarck, which had suffered medium damage, was attacking the battleship Pennsylvania, which was uncontrollable, and when the Pennsylvania discovered the traces of the Bismarck, it decisively ordered the armored cruiser in charge of towing to cut the steel rope and then enter the battle. The armored cruiser could only light a few fires on the Bismarck with high-explosive shells from a distance. The Pennsylvania, on the other hand, fought back with a relatively intact firepower. However, because the ship is almost impossible to operate, its firepower is only a little more than half! But even this made the half-crippled Bismarck feel very tricky.

Although the opponent is only a fixed target, for the Bismarck, which only has 6 main guns that can be used, there is still a problem of insufficient firepower on his side, and he does not dare to get too close, so he can only use a 15-inch gun to shoot from a distance. The two sides engaged in an artillery battle that lasted for half an hour, and the sad Bismarck's forward waterline was partially broken twice, causing a certain amount of water ingress, but the Pennsylvania was not comfortable, and the stern was hit no less than 8 times! The massive amount of water ingress caused the entire tail of the giant ship to sink into the sea, and the two turrets in the tail were completely dumbfounded. But even so, the battleship persisted and refused to sink.

And just as the Germans were estimating how many shells they would have to waste to send the iron turtle to the bottom of the sea, a ghostly figure slowly approached the Pennsylvania! And then 3 torpedoes were fired at a distance of less than 800 meters! At this moment, the submarine forces of the Italian Navy once again made history! After hiding a French battleship near a French port, the Italian submarine named Leonardo da Vinci sank another Allied battleship, and this battleship was the last capital ship lost by the Entente in World War 1! The Germans were very dissatisfied with this, in private, the German Navy believed that this result should be the German Navy, after all, it was the German heavy artillery that paralyzed the opponent, and then fought for nearly an hour, and the Italian Navy just made up the knife once! The Italians, on the other hand, said that without their own three-torpedo, the Bismarck was very likely to collide with the American fleet heading north, and at that time, the battleship Bismarck, which had a speed of only 16 knots, would probably have to be completely confessed!

At this point, the battle was almost over, and relying on the time gained by the rearguard fleet, the Majifen fleet ran out at least more than 20 nautical miles. Then, after joining up with the remaining three battleships of the Sims fleet, Hipper, who received the telegram from Tycho, had already left the Sims fleet. And the converging American fleet had no intention of continuing to stay in Portuguese waters, and withdrew at full speed. Only Tycho was still a little unwilling, and he tried to continue to chase his opponent, but sadly, his fleet ran headlong into the submarine cordon of the Entente, and it stands to reason that he should not be afraid of submarines when there are more auxiliary warships to escort him.

However, Tycho was overly optimistic about the situation on the battlefield, and the Caraccino was left behind because it was too slow after being heavily damaged. It just so happened that Tycho thought it was very safe and did not leave enough destroyers for this battleship, and because of this mistake, the Caraccino became the last battleship to sink in World War 1, and a French submarine hidden in the shallow sea ended the former Italian naval flagship with 4 torpedoes! And this incident became the biggest stain on Tycho's military career. After losing one capital ship, Tycho also gave up the idea of continuing to pursue the American fleet, and began to look for the German fleet, shrinking the formation, and the war had reached this point, the Central Powers had already won the victory, and the rest was required to be stable, so the Central fleet became very cautious.

It should be noted here that although the Caraccino was the last battleship to be sunk, it was not the last capital ship to be struck by lightning, and after the success of the Italians in grabbing the head, the angry Germans could only choose to leave, and the Bismarck would first go to the northern ports of Spain according to the predetermined plan, and after a short rest and recuperation, it would join the Allied fleet, but at this moment, the Bismarck, which was alone and only damaged in power, had been targeted by a British submarine, and after several twists and turns, The British submarine successfully launched an attack, as a result of which the Bismarck, caught off guard, was hit by a torpedo. Caused a turbine room to be flooded. And another torpedo explosion caused damage to the bow of the ship, and added hundreds of tons of water intake, fortunately on the other side. There was no overturning. But even so, thanks to the good watertight compartments, the battleship Bismarck finally staggered to the port of Punta Barres in northern Spain with 5,000 tons of seawater at a speed of less than 8 knots.

At 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the Tycho fleet and the Hipper fleet converged, and at noon the next day, the entire Allied fleet arrived at the port of Cape Barres to join the Bismarck, but now the problem arose, the Bismarck was too badly damaged to move for a short time, and this port lacked equipment to repair large warships, so until the armistice, the battleship did not leave the port!

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