"Boom! Rumble! "The deck and the side were hit by shells one after another, and the air waves were rushing, and the light was soaring into the sky; The power of its explosion was so fierce that even the behemoth ship with a full load displacement of 32,000 tons trembled violently!

In the conning tower of the battleship USS Battleweary, the captain, Colonel Syl, listened to the report of the damage control force with a look of horror on his face. The open deck near the aft bridge was breached, and six compartments, including the radio room, were destroyed: the ship lost its ability to communicate and could only communicate with friendly forces by means of signal flags and lights. Another shell thunderbolted through the armor belt 1.5 meters above the waterline and swept through the main generator room at the front of the ship with a tsunami landslide. When the damage management forces arrived at the scene, all they saw was a roaring fire and molten and twisted metal fragments. The lights inside the battleship were largely extinguished, and the lights in some important compartments were barely restored by the help of spare motors; Although key equipment such as fans and condensers are still operating normally, the power redundancy of the water pumps is greatly reduced.

The open-air deck was punctured, and the 25 mm thick armor was designed to protect against shrapnel; The radio capsule was placed in this second-class protection area, and it was already ready to become cannon fodder in an artillery battle. However, the brazen penetration of the main armor belt was completely outside Colonel Sill's script. The Queen Elizabeth class, which was also designed by Woltz, although it also continued the belt main armor of the previous British battleships, but in its upper part it was a gradient zone from 330 mm to 152 mm; Based on the current draft and the location of the shot, it should have at least 280 mm of armor in the area of hit. However, at the current course angle, the opponent's artillery easily pierced it. And went straight to the position belonging to the core cabin!

"Boom!" The battleship shook. The light wave takes off. The warweary's main artillery group fired another round of imposing heavy fire. However, Ciel's mood did not improve in the slightest because of this exciting scene, but gradually fell to the bottom of the unfathomable abyss. At present, your main guns have formed a straddle fire on the enemy ship, which means that the lookout's judgment of range and direction is unlikely to have any major mistakes; At a distance of more than 13,000 meters and with a heading angle of more than 15 degrees, the opponent's shells are still as sharp as a divine sword! If it were a normal battle patrol, it would only be a blow up. Now what he expects is that only his 381mm cannon can be the first to deliver a fatal blow to the opponent!

"We hit! Long live the Royal Navy! A loud cheer suddenly sounded in the conning tower, and Ciel's heart was shocked, and he grabbed his binoculars and looked eagerly. I saw that the German battleship opposite me suddenly burst into a cloud of orange and red light; At a slight estimate, it seems to be near the front turret. Seeing this, Sil suddenly rejoiced in his heart: if he could destroy part of the opponent's firepower, then his advantage in firepower was very likely to gradually dominate the situation and eventually lead the battle to victory.

On the battleship Elector, German soldiers were fighting the fire in a mess of decks and cabins. A shell from the War-Weary suddenly hit the open-air gun mount of the No. 2 "Bertha" turret, and the German gunners, who were nervously loading the shells inside, seemed to be struck by lightning; However, after the thunderous sound of the heavenly fire died down, they found that they did not see the Heavenly Mountain as they had imagined, but were still staying in the closed cannon shaft of the mechanical ring. Since the King's design was designed to eliminate the focus on the protection of the upper armor belt and gun profile armor, the thickness of its gun mount is eligible to be thickened to a considerable 380 mm. And its defensive effect is indestructible in the current World War I period. Although the nearby sailors' quarters were torn apart by the blast wave of the explosion and flew into the sky. Even the hammock bracket was burned red, but the inside of the gun shaft, which really determined the combat effectiveness, was as usual, and the hydraulic press that had failed due to violent shocks could be quickly repaired. In less than ten minutes, the Elector resumed a half-salvo of four guns, which made Colonel Sier, who had just seen a glimmer of victory, instantly look like frost, and he wanted to devour the evil German battleship alive.

When it was, the artillery fire exploded, and the sky and sea were full of clouds and water columns and brilliant neon. In addition to the heavyweight duel of the four 15-inch gun-carrying ships, the rest of the capital ships of the British and German fleets were also in full swing: the Brave and the D-Fringel hit each other 4 and 5 shots, and the battle between the two sides was a chess match. In terms of firepower, the Brave Brave, which has checked the quality of armor-piercing shells from the source, has to rely on large-caliber heavy artillery to strengthen the first line, and in terms of armor, it is the De Frlinger with a large area of non-belt main equipment that is superior. The German sailors wanted to defend the honor of the Black Vulture Banner in order to prove that they were still the second only kings on the seas; The British sailors, shocked by what kind of terrible opponent the Betty fleet was facing, also vowed to cut down the stubborn enemy in front of them in order to avenge the defeat of the fast fleet. Although the two battleships were lit with flames like torches, and the hulls of the ships also tilted forward and backward in different directions, the fighting spirit of the officers and men on both sides became more and more vigorous, and there was only a frenzied flame in their eyes to sink the enemy ship.

One position behind, the confrontation between the Tiger and the Seydlitz also burst into brilliant skyrocketing sparks. As an improved version of the Lion-class battle cruiser, although the main armor of the Tiger is still 9 inches, its dome armor, main level and underwater protection are all improved compared to the Lion-class: this is evident from the fact that its main size is almost unchanged, and the total armor weight is more than 1,000 tons more than the latter. Due to the butterfly effect produced by this plane, the battlecruiser was also equipped with six 381 mm heavy guns, and although it was inferior to its opponents in terms of firepower density, every hit was like a thunderbolt and a tsunami. In the face of the Seydlitz, which is equipped with 8 305 mm Austro-Hungarian guns and has a balanced attack and defense with 300 mm armor in the main parts, the Tiger has been modified with 1 inch of dome armor in the slightest. After 15 minutes of fighting, both ships fought to the blood; The pain of the wounds not only did not deter the sailors on both sides, but only aroused their strong desire to defeat the enemy.

Behind the ship, the two sides have their own advantages and disadvantages. Armed with eight 343mm L45 guns, the Queen Mary finally had the upper hand against the Von der Thanen, while the Slag Australia was losing ground against the Balfoss, which was also part of the original war ranger. Bursts of abrupt orange-red flames rose from their respective ships, trying to kill and destroy the opposing team's personnel and equipment. The British Rapid Fleet, after a full rearmament and rearmament, finally gained the ability to fight its old rivals. Unconsciously, the eyes of the officers and men on the light warships on both sides were attracted to the pinnacle decisive battle at the front of the ship, because the battle here is the pinnacle that most determines the battlefield situation and is the closest to the power of the gods of mankind at present.

"Boom!" The battleship King's four 380mm guns erupted in an earth-shattering roar of thunder again; The 1.7-meter-long heavy cannonball danced and leaped, swept like lightning, and its momentum was as straight as a comet roaring, and the rainbow soared into the sky. An armor-piercing bullet emitted a piercing screech and rushed down from the air at speeds far beyond sonic waves; And in its flight trajectory, the 196.8-meter-long Queen Elizabeth is cleaving the waves at a speed of 18 knots!

"Khooth!" With a sharp bang, the incoming shell hit the frontal armor of the Queen's A turret in an impartial manner. The hood used to maintain velocity during flight shattered, and the hard quilt cap with a raised tip slammed into the 324 mm thick case-hardened armor, shattering the hardened layer and righting the body of the projectile that had fallen at an angle: it all happened in an instant. Driven by strong kinetic energy, the shell brazenly tore through the layers of steel armor in front of it and entered the turret interior. At this time, the delayed fuse located at the bottom of the projectile body was also activated, and the British sailors in the turret only felt a sudden flower in front of them, and then fell into an eternal blazing white.

"Boom!" The 26.5kg high explosives suddenly exploded, and the fierce and fierce waves rushed in all directions; Within the reach of the high-temperature shockwave, all the equipment and machinery were torn apart by an unimaginable force, and they were shapeless, and dozens of gunners were even more dead, leaving only flesh and blood clots scattered everywhere. Although the newly installed blast doors did the trick to prevent the fire from spreading into the ammunition depot like the last time, the turret was completely scrapped and there was no chance of re-firing without docking!

"General, turret A has been broken through and destroyed, and all the brothers inside are dead!" The voice of a soldier in charge could not hide his panic and fear from the microphone. Thomas, like everyone else in the conning tower, froze in his eyes with a look of disbelief in shock. In fact, from the front of his conning tower, he could already see the violently deformed shape of the A-turret, as well as the smoke and flames billowing from the hole in the front armor. In addition to the horror, a trace of fear appeared in Thomas's heart: as the core strike weapon of the battleship, the protection on the front of the main turret is undoubtedly the heaviest part of the Queen-class, and now even this part has been penetrated, so what safety does his own warship have in front of the opponent's artillery?

In a flash of light, Thomas had already made up his mind. For Britain, the battle was already the last chance to salvage its decline in armistice negotiations; Unless forced to do so, he must not give the order to retreat lightly. What's more, your own warships also have dome armor for life-saving purposes, even if the main armor belt of the same thickness as the front of the turret is penetrated, there is also dome armor that can be waterproof and bullet-resistant.

But what Thomas didn't expect was that a door to hell was slowly opening to him. (To be continued......)

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