The Anglo-American fleet finally stopped evading, and the huge fleet began to unfold from the box-shaped formation, and a complete battle line slowly opened, like a giant dragon began to stretch its body! The accompanying frigates, like the claws and wings of a dragon, began to spread out in either direction according to their intended position. Jericho has chosen a very good location, they have moved as far away from the Norwegian coast as possible, reducing the strike power of German naval aviation to a minimum, and at the same time as close as possible to their own bases and submarine cordons, so that they can get reinforcements at some point in the future! Jericho has done everything he can, and the rest is up to the brothers!

"The commander of the German High Seas Fleet salutes the former sea hegemon!" Suddenly, a clear code telegram was transmitted through the entire battlefield. This telegram from the King was immediately received by the British. After receiving this telegram, Jericho's face changed slightly, and then he was relieved. "Scheer, are you so confident? The reporter replied that the commander of the Anglo-American Combined Fleet had returned the salute to the commander of the German North Sea Fleet, Scher! ”

Before the two sides fought, there was a mouth cannon, which is probably extremely rare in the history of naval warfare. This clearly meant that after this engagement, the German High Seas Fleet would replace Britain as the supremacy of the sea. And Jericho's answer was not ambiguous, "You can't get out of the North Sea for the rest of your life, and you still have the High Seas Fleet?" Let's change the name to the North Sea Fleet! "His heart is punishable!

After the mouth cannon is over, the two sides are not talking nonsense, and they are ready to officially open the film! The German fleet chose a more suitable angle and began to turn. The remaining 17 super-dreadnoughts of the German Navy were surrounded by auxiliary warships and pulled out a long battle line, and when both sides had completed their deployment, the two fleets began to sail in the same direction at a small angle. Scheer's idea was simple, everyone could just pull the battleship away and bombard each other as they had done before, but the British didn't seem to plan to play like that! This time the British fought more aggressively and more decisively!

"If this is desperate!" Suddenly, the British fleet once again adjusted course. The angle between the two sides quickly increased, and under the leadership of the battleship of Revenge, the entire British fleet rushed up with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai! And not only the capital ships went up. Even destroyers and light cruisers began to approach! In the first place, Scheer found out about the situation, but by this time the two sides had already exchanged fire. Larger maneuvers will make the front school shooting and settlement fall short! So in the end, Scheer decided to keep course for the time being, and then talk about fighting!

The four Bismarck-class battleships were immediately confronted by Frederick the Great and five Revenge-class battleships. This was followed by York and Mackensen facing off against two New Mexico ships, and both sides fought with the determination to succeed if they didn't succeed. In the past, everyone stood still and kept their distance, but this time it did not happen. Jericho also commanded the fleet to get as close as possible so that the 15-inch guns could penetrate the heavy main armor of the Bismarck-class battleships!

In the face of Jericho's attack, Hipper was not afraid, the rate of fire was fast, and the number of artillery was also large, so why be afraid? Like two samurai who have given up their defenses, they use all their strength to strike at each other! Scheer gave Hippel a Frederick the Great battleship that did cause some trouble for Jericho, although the Caesar-class battleships were 108,000 miles behind the Vengeance-class. If you catch and fight, revenge teaches Caesar to be a man in minutes. But in battleship engagements, it is clearly not possible to leave it alone. And when it came to allocating firepower, I don't know if it was because of a mistake or because of too much contempt for this battleship, the Royal Oak at the end of the team did not attack the opposite Frederick the Great, but attacked the Saxony together with the Sovereign in front!

Frederick the Great was like a wolf in a pack of lions, two lions fought, and the wolf trembled, but suddenly found that the other party did not take care of himself but scuffled with another lion in front of him. A GREAT SENSE OF HAPPINESS CAME TO THE FACE, AND THE FRIEDRICHES THE GREAT USED ITS OWN 8 350MM TRUMPET TUBES TO SHOOT ROWS OF CANNONBALLS AT THE ROYAL OAK NOT FAR AWAY! At this time, the distance between the two sides is close to an astonishing 12KM, plus today's weather is not bad, the observation and aiming state is very good, and the shelling is no different from training without interference! Having successfully pinched the opponent with a half-salvo, Frederick the Great abandoned the half-salvo customary of the German Navy and instead used a full salvo, and in less than half a minute, 8 shells flew towards the Royal Oak in the distance!

SOON, THE ROYAL OAK, WHICH WAS BEATING SAXONY WITH THE MONARCH, FELT UNCOMFORTABLE, AND THE HIT OF A 350MM SHELL MADE THE WORLD'S FIRST-CLASS WARSHIP FEEL QUITE STRESSED. THE TWO 350MM SHELLS HIT VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, AND ALTHOUGH THE FIRST SHELL DID NOT PENETRATE AFTER SMASHING ON THE MAIN LOAD, THE VIOLENT IMPACT STILL CAUSED THE ARMOR PLATE TO CRACK AND DISPLACE. A gap of 2 square meters appeared on the waterline, and a subsequent shell smashed next to the crack! The violent explosion pushed a lot of shrapnel into the gap, and then hit the partition of the motor compartment behind the main armor, and some of the larger fragments penetrated the compartment, destroying part of the pipeline inside, causing some of the compartment to lose power.

AND THE OTHER SHELL WAS ALSO MORE FATAL, AFTER PENETRATING THE ALMOST UNPROTECTED UPPER DECK, IT SMASHED DIRECTLY INTO THE MAIN HORIZONTAL PROTECTION, OF COURSE, THE 350MM SHELL AT THIS DISTANCE COULD NOT HAVE SMASHED THROUGH THE MAIN ARMOR OF THE REVENGE CLASS, BUT THE PROBLEM WAS THAT THIS SHELL WAS HIT BY THE MAIN ARMOR AND HIT THE GUN MOUNT NOT FAR AWAY. The thickness of the armor of the turret is not the same, it gradually weakens from top to bottom, and this shell hit the relatively fragile part of the No. 2 turret, at this time, it is impossible for the shell with little energy left to penetrate the opponent's defenses, but the shock from the violent explosion still makes the ammunition lifting equipment of this turret have problems!

In the confusion, the Royal Oak suffered a big loss, which made the British very dissatisfied! Tigers don't threaten you, do you think I'm a sick cat? The enraged Royal Oak immediately turned its gun and aimed at the Frederick the Great in the distance, although there are only 6 15-inch guns that can be used at the moment, but at a distance of less than 12KM, the 15-inch cannon is a bit of flesh for the Frederick the Great! Germany's early super dreadnought faced such an attack, but it was not good! Soon, the wild wolf who had just taken advantage of the fight between the two lions was beaten by the lion who turned around!

A 15-inch cannonball whizzed like a spear into Frederick the Great's sidestring armor, and with a violent impact and a tooth-aching sound of metal cracking, the 15-inch cap-piercing shell successfully pierced the Caesar's sidestring. The original German ultra-dreadnought side-chord protection has finally been broken down! With this shell all the way down, it plunged into the engine room in the rear of the hull. The high-speed engine was blown apart in an instant, but fortunately, the engine room was also split into two, which destroyed half of Frederick the Great's power, and allowed him to keep up with his comrades in front of him.

As the saying goes, a rabbit bites when it is in a hurry, not to mention a wolf, the angry wolf of the Frederick the Great was seriously injured and launched attacks on the Royal Oak again and again, but the 350MM artillery is still weak in the face of the 330MM armor inclined to 18 degrees at such a distance, and the Germans wondered if their own guns had a chance to hit the German armor of the same thickness at this distance, why couldn't this work? In fact, the reason is very simple, if you talk about the quality of armor, the British imperialist is still a little higher than Germany, whether it is World War I or World War II! The best performance of Krupp armor is only in the assumptions of some people in later generations.

Soon the lion of the Royal Oak dealt a heavy blow to the opponent, two 15-inch shells hit the Caesar almost simultaneously, and one shell smashed open the Caesar's No. 3 turret. The two main guns were blown into twists, while another shell hit the stern of the Caesar, completely destroying the armored helm bay. In this way, Frederick the Great became a wolf with a broken leg, and although it was theoretically possible to maintain course by adjusting the speed of the propeller, one of the propellers had already stopped. So the wolf, who had provoked the lion, could only stagger after the fleet, and moved farther and farther away from the main force.

"General, the Frederick the Great has been badly damaged and is breaking out of formation!" An officer pointed to the battleship in the distance and reported loudly to Hipper.

"I know that. Hopefully they'll hold on for a little longer. Hippert said unusually calmly. Even from the expression, it is impossible to analyze what this veteran of the German Navy thinks! "In fact, since the beginning of the war, the fate of Frederick the Great has been sealed, and even the fate of the Goeben, who died on the eve of the decisive battle. They are not suitable for this level of combat, and all they can do is to restrain the opponent's energy or cause some damage before they die. They have a limited role, but they are indispensable, we have an advantage in the quality of a single ship, but there is one less in number, the revenge-class battleships are very good, and we only have a chance to win if we catch the right fight! "Hipper is like a computer, calmly thinking about the strength of both sides, not only calculating the opponent, but also the warships in his fleet to be abandoned, and those warships to be retained!

The fall of Frederick the Great was only the beginning, the beginning of the fall of the gods! In this war, those warships that have experienced several battles and have retreated will fight to the death today, in order to better kill the opponent, they include the other party in their effective attack range, but at the same time, they also enter the effective attack range of the other side, both sides can use the sharp blade in their hands to open the opponent's armor and then seal the throat with a sword. From this moment on, the gods of war of this era will no longer be invulnerable!

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