The sea rushed and roared, like a flash flood, and swept through the interior of the warship; In a matter of minutes, the Bold was filled with more than 1,000 tons of seawater, and continued to roll out to other chambers in an unstoppable trend. The clumsy underwater defense structure of the British battleship was exposed at this moment; Although the sporadic water pumps are still fighting for fate, they are undoubtedly a drop in the bucket compared to the overall water intake speed of the battleship.

In a column of water and surging flames, the 23,000-ton behemoth began to tilt slowly but irretrievably to the port side. More and more sea water flooded into the ship, submerging from the first ankles to the shoulders of the British soldiers, forcing them to evacuate one compartment after another. Cannonballs slammed into the steel hull of the Daring, bursting into clouds of red and glittering fire. The British sailors began to jump into the sea like dumplings, and then swam desperately away from the battleship; Although their hearts are full of unwillingness and grief, the current situation is no longer remedy by human factors!

With the roar of artillery fire and the thunder of light, this mythical battle has lasted for nearly thirty minutes. Compared to the peak state at the beginning, the firepower of both warships suffered a certain loss in the fierce battle, and the spectacular scene produced by the light of their guns was much worse than before; However, it is from this moment that the truly decisive results will gradually be revealed. This is not only because the shells that hit at this time will be the last straw that crushes these already wounded battleships, but also because the firepower projection base that has been accumulated before will increase the probability of some critical hits in a large way. In the other plane, the Bismarck exploded Hood's character in just a few minutes, which is almost impossible to replicate in actual combat; In the vast majority of cases. The capital ships need to engage in a long period of early firefights. In order to truly harvest the key winners and losers of the final word.

In the middle and rear of the dreadnought column. The German battleship Silesia, with a standard displacement of 17,000 tons, was engaged in a fierce struggle with the British Avant-garde, with a standing displacement of 19,560 tons. From time to time, a burst of light burst out on the two warships, stirring up a vigorous pillar of fire tens of meters high in a thunderous roar. The eight 305mm L50 guns on the British battleships were powerful, and each hit was like a thunderous landslide; The 10 283 mm L47 guns of the German battleships were superior in the rate of fire, and with the rapid sweep of the deck of the 150 mm secondary guns, they also beat the opponent into flames, and the number of casualties skyrocketed. Although the mainstream of historical development is undoubtedly the royal road of large caliber, in this particular period. However, it was the German battleships with smaller guns that gradually gained the upper hand over the scene over time.

"Boom! Rumble! "The waves were raging, the waves were falling, and the Avant-garde was hit by two 283-mm shells in a row; The first of these hit the amidship waterline, and the British battleship's 254 mm thick belt main armor finally came into play, bouncing the shell into the sea and exploding, causing only minor injuries to a few sailors from its near-missed fragments. However, the latter shell did not have such luck. The shells crashed into the unprotected forward bridge, and the eight 102-mm secondary guns, which were densely arranged on both sides of the bridge in a field shape, were destroyed in an instant. Nearly forty gunners were killed instantly, and the secondary ammunition stacked next to it was also detonated.

Accompanied by a series of dense and continuous explosions. The bow of the Avant-garde suddenly lit up with a brilliant cloud of fire several times more brilliant than the explosion of the 283-mm shell just now; The entire forward bridge exploded, and all sorts of debris shot into the sky. In a billowing fire and smoke. The front chimney of the battleship burst to pieces, and the tall triangular mast that stood on the bridge collapsed like a sawn tree; The Command Tower, the Navigation Room, and the Central Fire Control Room were all devastated, and less than ten officers and soldiers were successfully rescued from the ruins of the sea of fire by the damage control team! Just as the highest-ranking navigator surviving on the Frontguard was considering whether to use a smoke screen to retreat under the current fire control and command loss, a subsequent shell from the Germans directly cut off all the ways of life of the Avantgarde.

The Avant-garde is the third ship of the St. Vincent class, and its five twin main guns are arranged in the same way as the Intrepid Ancestor, the ancestor of the mountain; However, in order to save armor and reduce expenses, the important parts of this class of battleships were not stronger than those of the Dreadnought. St. Vincent not only cut the main armor from 280 mm to 254 mm, but the turret seat plummeted from 280 mm to 229 mm on the Dreadnought; When the British Admiralty enjoyed its cost of £180,000 cheaper than the Dreadnought, its fatal curse was planted at that moment.

At this time, a 283-mm shell burst through the armor of the gun mount on the port side of the ship at a rare direct angle, and sent out an explosion that shook the whole ship. The fierce fighting that had taken place had caused the British sailors, who were desperate to rain more shells at the other side, completely opened the obstructive blast door that connected to the ammunition depot, and the blast and fire were able to penetrate the bottom layer in an instant. Moments later, the port side hull of the avant-garde suddenly exploded like a balloon that had been blown up, and the purple waves like volcanic lava mixed with a large number of debris danced vertically and horizontally, and the main turret of more than 500 tons above the explosion point was thrown into the air like a toy to a height of 50 meters. The entire battleship quickly tilted to the left and completely disappeared into the sea in less than five minutes!

Fragments crackled and fell into the sea, splashing water; Broken wood rises and falls, and oil stains are dotted. A few British sailors who had narrowly escaped stared at the surging and tumbling whirlpool not far behind them, forgetting that they were still immersed in the sea; It wasn't until the wind-blown waves swept in that they sobered up a little, as if they had been drunk, and began to parade through the sea and roar and wave desperately at their own destroyers. However, just as they were fighting against the waves, and their hearts were full of anger and pain, a monstrous blazing light burst out of the British column, like a blazing sun, which illuminated them so that they could not open their eyes!

At 14:07, the German-made 350-mm naval gun, which has the most powerful penetrating ability on the planet, finally let out a decisive roar after the 35th minute of the confrontation; A 600kg armor-piercing bullet fired from the Saar roared and thundered, crashing into the amidships, sideside waterline of the British battleship Magnificent. Since the British George V class and Bellerophon class each built 6 ships, the current British Third Battlefleet is composed of two George V classes such as Trafalgar and Ark Royal, and two Bellerophon classes of Magnificent and Nile, of which two slightly weaker dreadnoughts jointly attacked the German Caesar-class battleship Saarland. The bombardment of 16 305-mm naval guns certainly caused the lone Saar to be hit by bullets, and the wounds continued to accumulate; However, in front of the heavy guns of the German super-dreadnoughts, these two British dreadnoughts also had no immunity zone at all!

At a distance of 10km, the 350-mm hard cap armor-piercing shell effortlessly tore through its 254-mm-thick main armor and pierced through the coal seam and thin dome armor protection all the way to the stern ammunition depot. The detonation power of hundreds of large-caliber shells instantly shredded the surrounding wall compartments and detonated the main ammunition depots in the amidships and forward parts of the ship in a very short time. The spectacular nature of this £1.6 million, 18,800-tonne fireworks is nothing short of extraordinary: the fiery glow of gold, purple, orange and red flashes brilliantly, and tens of thousands of debris of all kinds fly in the air. The hurricane roared, the air waves rushed, and the earth-shattering roar immediately rolled out, like the world-destroying thunder in Zeus's hands exploded in his ears!

The heat is surging and the fire is in full swing. On the 22,000-ton battleship Sovereign, Claire, a first-class sailor, is engaged in a fierce battle with the fire demon in the ruins; Several mutilated flesh and limbs lay at his feet, and the strong smoke and smell of blood suffocated him. Although the explosion of the Magnificent was a shock and anger to every British sailor, the grim shape facing the current fleet could not be distracted in the slightest. In the confrontation with the German Helgoland-class battleship Oldenburg, the Conqueror did not have the upper hand, but took the lead by virtue of its gun caliber superiority; At a time when the Grand Fleet is being frustrated and disadvantaged, it is even more necessary for them to do their best to destroy the enemy in front of them, and then rescue the friendly ships from fire and water.

"Boom!" Claire, who was fighting the fire on the deck, suddenly heard a dizzy buzzing sound in her head, which was the earth-shattering muzzle storm caused by the full salvo of 10 stout and majestic 343mm guns of her own battleship. He gripped the rubber line of the water dragon with both hands, but his eyes shifted to the distant battlefield where the artillery fire was flowing, looking for the bullet hit of his own ship in the other side's battle. After a while, a magnificent column of towering water rose violently; A bright and dazzling explosion erupted on the target German ship, and the hit site seemed to be in the turret seat! "Now the Germans are finished." Claire screamed excitedly, and then waited with anticrative antiquity to see a spectacular and brilliant fireworks.

However, after twenty seconds, the target German battleship still did not move, except for the triple turret that was hit, the rest of the guns still rushed out a red light wave that was clearly visible from a distance of 10 km. Claire felt a great sense of frustration and loss in her heart, and the strong gap between expectations and reality made her chest and lungs stagnant. After a while, the hull of the ship shook violently in a piercing screech, and a huge explosion immediately swept away; Just when Claire thought that this was another ordinary hit, a violent tremor ten times that of the previous one suddenly came from the sole deck of her feet! (To be continued......)

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