As Thomas's order was given, the British warships began to accelerate, leaving the Queen Elizabeth behind. Thomas, who commanded the fleet, also walked to the gangway with heavy steps, and glanced back at the commander's mast, which was easy to see and difficult to see, before transferring to the destroyer. On several occasions, when he saw the oil-stained but slightly immature young face on the deck of the Queen, he almost blurted out the order for the fleet to immediately turn cross-cutting and fight to the death with the Germans in this sea, but the composure of reason was always firmly entrenched in Thomas's heart. Compared to a Queen, what he should do is to bring the remaining warships back to China intact; If this fast fleet is buried here, then the sea power belonging to Britain will really be lost!

"General, war-weariness has sounded the flag, they have lost the ability to communicate radio." On the deck of the destroyer, a de-camp reported to Thomas in a heavy tone. Thomas nodded slowly and said, "Then move closer to the Brave and prepare to raise a new flag there." In addition, let the destroyer fleets hurry up to complete the loading of torpedoes and launch a new round of torpedo raids at any time. ”

The coal mist was billowing and the water was rushing into the sky. The British destroyer with Thomas on board flew through a steel shipwreck, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the tall and majestic side of the Gangyong was in sight. After thanking the destroyer's officers and men, Thomas jumped onto the cold damp gangway near the surface of the sea and climbed up the deck. Although the Brave had also suffered heavy damage in the previous battle, leaving Thomas in sight with little trace, there was no need to fight again. The Brave Brave, whose communication signal was not damaged, was up to the task.

Artillery roared. The roar of an explosion, different from that of artillery fire, came from afar. Thomas, who had just stepped onto the deck, felt like a hammer in his heart, and the look in his eyes suddenly dimmed. In order to give the main fleet a chance to escape, the officers and men of the Queen Elizabeth refused the order to evacuate and sink themselves, and instead decided to fight to the death, which made Thomas, who had left them alone to flee for his life, feel as if he had overturned a five-flavor bottle. According to what the lookout observed, the speed of the German fleet should be around 25 knots, and it would only be half an hour to include the Queen, which had stalled sharply, into the effective strike range!

"Report! A telegram was sent from the seaplane carrier Engedin that our reconnaissance aircraft had discovered the main force of the German High Seas Fleet: the opposing side was located at 13 degrees 46 minutes west longitude. At 57 degrees 17 minutes north latitude, heading south-southwest, there were tentative estimates of 18 to 22 battleships! One of the lieutenants ran into the conning tower and shouted to Thomas. The Command Tower, which had just settled down, made another uproar, and Thomas pulled the charts on the table in front of him: in a few moments, cold sweat was running down his forehead. Combined with the direction transmitted back from the current navigation room, the main force of the opposing side actually touched a place only 50 nautical miles away from them: once the main force of the Grand Fleet arrived to reinforce him, the main fleet of the Germans could enter the battle diagonally from the northern flank, thus turning this surprise attack into a battlefield for the decisive battle between the two fleets again!

"Inform the Trafalgar of this immediately." Thomas immediately pointed at the lieutenant and shouted the order. According to this latest military situation, not only do you need to change course again to avoid the opponent's edge. The support of the Grand Fleet will also be completely lost.

"Boom!" Shortly after Thomas ordered the fleet to turn, a huge burst of light erupted from the rear deck of the warweary, which was located at the rear of the fleet. Thousands of tongues of fire were like golden snakes, and the billowing smoke soon rose to a height of hundreds of meters. Even across a large bridge, Thomas could quickly determine where the Weary had been bombarded. Thomas, who had just returned from the position of his flagship, could not help but feel a nervous state that while the German shells would almost certainly ricochet at the current chase due to a large increase in the angle of incidence on their own armor, the blow to the deck was clearly outside the scope of this vertical protection. Although the aft deck is not part of the main core compartment and has no equipment such as boiler motors and ammunition, the rudder, propellers, and propellers are physically necessary to be located in this area. Once there is a problem with these three key equipment, it will undoubtedly be a devastating blow to the war-weariness under the current form!

Thomas's anxiety soon became a harsh reality. After the Brave completed its turn, the Warweary, which had suffered a heavy blow just now, did not follow, but continued to deflect to the right after turning the predetermined angle! Seeing this, Thomas's soul was at risk: the German fleet was currently chasing after the rear, and there was a great tendency to not give up until it was all wiped out, but now the war-weariness was turning the bow of the ship and sailing towards the opposing fleet in a gesture of surrender!

"General, the warweary's main steering engine room has been destroyed, and the battleship can only rely on the auxiliary rudder for extremely slow maneuvering; Colonel Sil told us to retreat first, and they stayed behind with the Queen to help us fend off our pursuers! Amid the cries of grief and rage, Thomas sat down in his seat, only to feel that the scene before him instantly changed from a bright color to a blurry darkness. The surrounding officers were shocked when they saw this, and hurriedly called the medical staff to inject drugs and stimulate physiotherapy; After a while, Thomas, who was lying on his seat, slowly woke up, and before the people next to him could speak, two lines of tears welled up in the corners of his eyes. At this moment, he could finally understand the pain that Betty and his old friend Jericho had been suffering, and with the unprecedented low situation of the British Navy, this pain would inevitably continue in his heart!

The water is surging and the coal mist covers the sky. A large column of water rose around the two British battleships, and every minute a dazzling orange fireball exploded violently over their hulls. The deck burst and rolled, and the bridge shattered and twisted; The passage of the cabin was blown to pieces, and countless shrapnel metal and stumps and severed arms were swept into the sky like a storm under the influence of the rushing air waves. The sea of fire on the hull of the ship rushed, roaring and raging, and finally became one in the purple and red waves that were constantly exploding, rolling and burning between the sky and the sea like a divine torch.

Hipper stepped out of the conning tower, protected by 380 mm heavy armor, and stood in front of the King's nautical chamber as usual. From this area, you can see the Queen Elizabeth 8,000 meters away. At this time, all the main guns of the battleship had been muted, and only the two 152mm secondary guns on the side were still unwillingly reluctantly putting out a weak resistance like a dying beast; The battleship had long since come to a halt on the surface of the sea, and the rushing waters were lapping against its lowered aft deck one floor.

"In 15 minutes at most, we'll be the end of the battle in front of us." Raeder walked slowly to Hipper's side, and said in a tone of lightheartedness, "The other British battleship seems to have been fatally hit by its steering gear, and can only keep making futile circles on the sea; We achieved a decisive victory with just a wave of torpedo fast attacks with destroyers. "Although the underwater core module area of the British Queen Elizabeth-class is equipped with a 50 mm longitudinal partition of mine protection, and the overall defense has been greatly improved compared with the predecessors who ran naked before, but the law that a battleship is afraid of torpedoes no matter how high its kung fu is, has not changed in any way. After being hit three torpedoes, the Warweary began to sink irretrievably: despite the efforts of the British sailors to plug the leak and pump the water, the waterline of the battleship was still rising at an alarming rate!

"Half a year ago, I was designed by the British to lose 2 valuable battle cruisers; Today, it can be regarded as barely redeeming the honor. Looking at the British battleship in the distance, Hipper said slowly, "Although this is a victory by virtue of the performance of the battleship, the end of the era of sea power belonging to the Saxons has long been decided by God, and Betty and Thomas can't complain about me." ”

Raeder smiled when he heard this. From Hipper's words, he could fully hear the unspeakable regret of the person in front of him: as a traditional fleet commander, Hipper was undoubtedly more eager to gain the first opportunity through a naval dispatch and game that only belonged to the navy, as he did in the decisive battle in the North Sea, so as to win the naval chess game. However, with the addition of aviation forces, the series of intricate maneuver dispatches were reduced to useless because the fog of the battlefield was lightly removed, and only the simple and crude and most primitive mechanical duel of naval guns against naval guns and armored steel against armored steel remained. It is foreseeable that this new air force will be used more and more in the next naval battle: whether it is early reconnaissance or guiding warships to carry out ultra-long-range preemptive strikes, the aircraft soaring in the sky will play a key role.

"It is reported that the position of the British Grand Fleet has been detected by our reconnaissance aircraft, and the bearing is 60 nautical miles south-southeast; However, they also seem to have spotted the presence of our main fleet, which is now heading in a southeasterly direction away from us. A staff officer ran briskly up the bridge and said to Hipper. A hint of complexity flashed in Hipper's eyes, and he immediately said: "Send a signal to the British to surrender immediately, and we promise to give them regular prisoner treatment." Messenger to the fleet, I hope that the German sailors, when they are in a desperate situation, will fight to the last moment, like the British on these two ships, to defend the glory that belongs to the Black Vulture Cross Flag. From now on, we will be the new masters of this vast ocean, and only by maintaining the courage and courage at all times and never fearing can we truly hold this trident that only belongs to the god of the sea! (To be continued......)

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