Sir Fisher had high hopes for the battlecruiser as a solution once and for all to the two problems faced by the British Empire, which were never worried about defeat in the main decisive battle, but only about the opponent slipping out of their hands and the attack ships that were elusive in the ocean. When technological advances made it possible for capital ships to match or surpass cruiser speeds, Fisher decided that his opportunity had come, and a new type of warship with strong firepower and high speed was born. It's not that Fisher didn't think about defense, but the Sea Lord, who had the blood of the Royal Navy in his bones, decided that destroying the other party before they destroyed him was the only right option. The Perfect Cat is the nickname given to the Battlecruiser by this knight. Agile and deadly!

This conclusion cannot be considered completely wrong, and the British battlecruisers in history cannot be blamed entirely on the battleships, even in the avant-garde war of Jutland, the British super-dreadnought battlecruisers had the advantage against the German 11-inch gun battlecruisers before the Seydlitz. Although the defense of the British ultra-dreadnought battle patrol has a coffee table, it has a 9-inch main armor, and it is still difficult for the Germans' 11-inch guns to penetrate at a normal combat distance. In history, there were a total of 5 German battle cruisers, three 11-inch gun battle cruisers sank one tireless, and two 12-inch gun battle cruisers each received a head, and one of them was super dreadnought. That's the gap.

What is even more tragic is that the British set fire problem is not up to the mark, in fact, if all the rules of operation are followed, even if the German 12-inch guns can penetrate the turrets of the British, what can they do? You don't see that the Tiger was hit by more than a dozen shells of various kinds and was not sunk. Still alive? In other words, the British died by themselves, and Betty's sentence about damn battleships, the boys did a good job, is still a bit biased. The sinking of the British Battle Cruiser was due to many reasons. Artillery shell problems, personnel operation problems, fire prevention problems, and battleship defense problems and other factors have made the British war patrol famous for one shot.

In fact, there were some problems with the German battle patrol, first of all, the first problem was the problem of firepower, if it were not for the British fire prevention and mischief, and the operation errors. The 12-inch L50 is actually not very sufficient. If you look at the problem from the perspective of development, the King Kong-class battlecruisers, which are in the same vein as the Tiger, can be changed to 2 battles, but can you change it to 2 battles? If nothing else, just those 8 12-inch guns won't work. Of course. If you say that you can equip Lütsov with a 14-inch gun, I didn't say that.

Secondly, it is also relative to say that the German battle patrol has good protection, and the turret protection of the German battle patrol cannot be said to be good. Even the early bombardment shells of the British were knocked off without any pressure. If the British shells were a little harder, not to mention that they were hard cap-piercing shells like the Germans, as long as they could reach the level of the American imperialist M1916 armor-piercing shells, Lütsov's 12-inch side armor could also be penetrated. The Americans said that their 14-inch 45L main gun was not a big problem to hit Hood's 12-inch inclined armor!

But here's the thing. Now the situation has changed, although the fire performance of the British battleship has been improved to a certain extent, and the defense is better than the original, but under the influence of Xu Jie, the armor of the Germans has also improved, and the artillery has changed from 16 12-inch L50 to 32 350MML45! It's still Skoda's technology! This is definitely a model of becoming tall and handsome and rich from dick! The shells of the British were as sad as ever, and they did not improve as much as the Germans! If this is a fight, you can know what the situation is with your toes!

The two fleets had been engaged for less than ten minutes before they entered a white heat. A dense rain of bullets enveloped the fleet, not a burst of roars. However, it is different from the usual hits in naval battles. In this naval battle, multiple hits in a round and a half salvos abound! SHORTLY AFTER MOLTKE HIT HER OPPONENT, GOEBEN ACTUALLY HIT THREE 350MM SHELLS FROM THE PRINCESS IN A HALF-SALVO! The shell exploded on the side of the Celestial Princess, but at a distance of 13KM, the Celestial Princess's 9-inch armor was torn apart by the light, and the shell opened a hole of about 4 square meters at the waterline and drilled into the cabin above the Celestial Princess's transmission shaft and exploded, and the huge impact made the entire transmission shaft tremble like a tuning fork.

The other two shells hit turret 1 in front of Princess Celestia and the motor compartment between turrets 3 and 4. The shells that penetrated between the two guns directly blew the turret of the Celestia into a burning iron box, and the violent explosion ignited the shells and propellants that were to be fired, and the entire top cover was torn off by a huge shock wave, and at the same time, the high-speed battleship brought sufficient oxygen to the burning turret, and the whole fire immediately got out of control, and the flames spread from the bow of the ship. The shell that hit the motor compartment caused the Celestia to directly lose nearly 80% of its power, and the lights inside the entire battleship quickly dimmed.

"We hit the opponent, but we just couldn't beat it!" The Tiger's captain, Jeston, had a 12x telescope constantly watching the Seydlitz against it. At this distance, the officers and men of the British Navy also did a good job and hit very accurately, but apart from seeing the fireballs rising from time to time on the opposite battleship, they did not cause much damage to the opponent. Jace could even clearly see a shell explode on the side of the ship, leaving only a crack. "This battle can't be fought." Jace begins to doubt Betty's decision.

In addition to the Tiger barely resisting the opponent's attack with its 11-inch inclined armor, the remaining three British Super Dreadnoughts were actually fatal to engage the German fast battleships at this distance, although the British once again planned to replace all the armor with a height of 9 inches to 12 inches, but in fact, only the underwater part was 12 inches vertical, and a considerable part was still 9 inches. British artillery was still unable to inflict lethal damage on the opponent, while German artillery could easily penetrate most of the British battleship's defenses at this distance. The Grim Reaper has already begun to hover over the British battleship in order to choose which food is more palatable!

The Germans didn't let the Grim Reaper wait too long, and the four guns of the Lütsov once again erupted with deadly flames, and four shells flew towards the Lion in the distance, one of which crashed headlong into the lane of the Lion's second turret after penetrating the Lion's upper armor! A group of ammunition that was being raised was detonated by flames and flying shrapnel, and hundreds of kilograms of propellant and shell explosives exploded violently in an extremely narrow space, and a violent ability that could tear up a qiē began to destroy the one it could touch, although the fire door was closed in time, but a thick layer of steel plates obviously could not resist this powerful force, under the continuous impact of shock waves and debris, the entire fire door was torn open, and then a fire dragon rushed straight to the bottom of the magazine!

Rumble! A massive pillar of fire rose from the front of the Lion's hull and stabbed straight at the slender battlecruiser like a flaming spear. The power of the explosion quickly spread around, tearing apart everything they could touch, and in just a dozen seconds, with the No. 2 turret as the dividing line, the entire battleship was blown in two! The front half of the hull lost power and began to rapidly tilt to one side. And the back half of the hull plunged headlong into the water! Nearly 30,000 tons of steel sank into the water, forming a huge whirlpool, and the constantly rocking hull threw countless parts and officers and men out of the ship, and then fell into the sea. And eventually sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool! In just a few minutes, the steel behemoth, worth more than two million pounds, sank into the rolling waves of the North Sea.

The battlecruiser Lion did not live up to the good fortune of that plane, and there was not a single dutiful officer who dragged his mutilated body to fill the ammunition depot with water at the critical moment. Of course, this time it was useless to close the fire door and fill the ammunition depot with water, the luck was too bad, part of the ammunition being transported in the hoisting shaft was detonated, and there was no way to save it! The violent explosion surprised everyone on the battlefield, no one was quite big enough that the capital ship of the British Empire could be so fragile! No one thought that a duel that seemed to be evenly matched would be decided so soon! Ten minutes after entering the battlefield, the Lion was sunk by the Lyutsov!

"Damn, what's going on today?" Looking at the lion number that disappeared from behind him, Betty felt a deep sense of powerlessness envelop her, in countless nights his ally could have this duel today, but when this day came, it was the other party's slaughter of himself, he realized that the outcome of the war would be very tragic, and if he continued to fight, he would only lose more!

Sure enough, after the Lütsov freed his hands, the 8 main guns began to aim at the Queen Mary, which was barely supported by the Moltke's attack, the same class of the Lion battlecruiser was dying under the attack of as many as 16 main guns, and Betty, who found that the battle was not good, immediately ordered all the light cruisers and destroyers to enter the battlefield to cover the retreat of the fleet, according to experience, the decisive charge of up to 8 light cruisers and more than a dozen destroyers can definitely buy time for the fleet to open the distance, but in fact, in a large-scale fleet engagement, in the case of the complete suppression of the main fleet of one of the sides, and the proximity of such a charge, the value of such a charge is questionable.

Hipper's fleet can completely clean up these miscellaneous fish by itself, and hundreds of 6-inch and 88MM anti-mine guns can form an insurmountable fire net, but it is clear that Hipper does not have the leisure time now, and is even more unwilling to affect his results by dodging torpedo attacks. Four light cruisers and 19 destroyers of the German Navy bravely rushed forward to organize a torpedo attack by the British on their own ships. The mine-striking ships of both sides attacked each other with medium-caliber rapid-fire guns and torpedoes at almost zero distance, and the sound of dense explosions continued to come from the sea, and perhaps in a few breaths a torpedo boat was hit by a bullet and caught fire or even sank. And the commanders of both sides have no time to estimate the losses of these ships, and the battle of giants continues!

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