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I don't know if it was an RP outbreak, but the 6th salvo of the two front main turrets of the Bismarck after completing the straddle fire (the C-type shells were also exhausted) actually hit one of two shots, one of which hit the No. 2 main turret of the battleship Rodney, but was surprisingly blocked by its 406mm thick frontal armor. This is mainly due to the fact that the thickness of the armor that this shell needs to penetrate is actually much more than 406mm, and even the 381mm caliber C-type projectile, which has an extremely enhanced armor-piercing ability, is still useless

However, another hit shell was a meritorious one, it almost missed the chimney of the battleship Rodney, but smashed headlong on the 24.5-inch Mark I torpedo tube next to it, causing the 622mm heavy shipborne torpedo in the torpedo tube to detonate, and this violent explosion led to the successive detonation of two eight-mounted 40-mm "ping-pong guns" and four (Note 1) twin-mounted 102-mm high-level dual-purpose guns not far away

After a loud noise that could be heard clearly even by the German warships more than 20 kilometers away, the second half of the battleship Rodney was already unrecognizable, although the hull was still stubbornly floating on the sea, and the three main turrets all arranged in the front half could still be used, but the radar, optical sighting device and command instrument were all damaged in the series of explosions, not to mention the large amount of steam escaping from the damage to the lower part of the chimney, which turned the surrounding area into a white expanse, and the battleship Rodney became almost completely "blind"

Admiral Lukins was thrilled to learn about it. The two rangers were ordered to stop shelling the battleship Rodney and concentrate their fire on the light cruisers and destroyers. On the one hand, this is to prevent those light cruisers and destroyers from rushing over and desperately trying to see that the defeat is decided, and they are unable to escape by the planes, because they have to readjust the fire control parameters for each fight, and maybe they will really be successfully approached, in case they suffer one or two torpedoes because of this, it is better to strike first and solve this hidden danger as soon as possible.

On the other hand, because the battleship Rodney has basically lost its ability to fight back, and because it is extremely slow, there is no need to worry about it escaping, and it has become pointless to sweep its superstructure. All it took was that the battleship Bismarck sent it directly to the bottom of the sea with a huge cannon. The 283mm main gun of the battle patrol is better used to deal with those light warships, and it is a bit wasteful to use the Bismarck's 381mm caliber main gun, although the high-explosive shell is not too expensive, but the average is 300 rounds (the barrel steel used in the main gun of the Bismarck battleship in this time and space has added a small amount of rare earth components to make the barrel life significantly improved.) Even if the heavy bomb and projectile were switched to, there was an increase. The service life is still stronger than the historical 250 rounds. I'll have to change the barrel once!

However, as the saying goes, "life is not as good as it should be, often eight or nine". Just when the Germans thought that victory was certain, the two salvos of Zuihou fired by the battleship Rodney before it was "blinded" were equally accurate, and two of the 16 shells hit the target. With the characteristics of the British fire control force after ten rounds and the attitude of the bow of the Bismarck against the enemy, it can be regarded as a rather extraordinary performance

Due to the fact that the distance was much closer at this time, even though the armor of the battleship Bismarck was much stronger than in history, it still could not be completely defended. One of them pierced the armor of the No. 2 main turret, but fortunately it could not penetrate further into the ammunition depot under this main turret, otherwise the victory would have been reversed in the blink of an eye, but it still really frightened the officers and men on the ship, and the No. 2 main turret of the battleship Bismarck could not continue to be used; The other destroyed a twin 105mm anti-aircraft turret and caused massive damage to nearby compartments, but fortunately, the gun emplacements on the battleship Bismarck were not as crowded as the Rodney, and did not cause a series of casualties

But the counterattack of the battleship Rodney also ended here, although the visibility near the ship was affected by the large amount of water vapor escaping from the broken chimney, but the captain of the Bismarck, Lindemann, immediately ordered to switch to radar-guided artillery fire, and although the Bismarck continued to approach the Rodney, although only one main turret was available, and the C-type shells on the ship had been used up, as the distance continued to close, even ordinary armor-piercing shells were enough to penetrate the important parts of the battleship's armor that were extremely thick.

When the distance between the two ships was reduced to 15 kilometers, the battleship Bismarck did not continue to approach, but began to turn, preparing to face the Rodney on the side chord to make full use of the main gun fire, after all, the gap between the two main guns and the six main guns was too great. Even the captain of the battleship Bismarck, Admiral Lindemann, did not expect that in this way, he inadvertently avoided the weakness of the German fire control system, which would greatly reduce the accuracy after ten salvos after the completion of the calibration, so that the accuracy of its shelling was restored to a very high level, and in this way, the situation of the Rodney was even more dangerous

3 minutes later, a 381mm armor-piercing shell pierced the frontal armor of the main turret of the battleship Rodney for the first time, and caused a violent explosion, and the design flaw of the three main turrets of the Rodney being too close to each other (that is, the second safety hazard in its design) was also exposed, obviously only the No. 2 main turret in the middle was dumbed, but the No. 1 main turret and the No. 3 main turret were also stuck and could not rotate, so that the counterattack ability of the battleship Rodney was even less worth mentioning

2 minutes later, another large-caliber armor-piercing shell hit the Rodney, which could only be slaughtered, the shell tore through its thick side chord main armor belt, drilled into the hull and exploded, causing a fire at the ship's oil depot, because the officers and men on the Rodney had suffered heavy casualties at this time, the fire could not be extinguished in time, and then 2 shells hit the Rodney, which intensified the fire on the ship, and finally detonated the main ammunition depot on the ship, accompanied by an earth-shattering explosion. This battleship, which could be said to be the strongest offensive and defensive strength on Shijie at that time, broke in two and sank into the icy North Sea

Prior to this, the battleship Tirpitz, which had been abolished by the main fire control system, had exchanged fire with the battleship King George V, which was also "blind" and could not turn freely, for a long time, and as a result, after the two sides almost ran out of the main gun shells on the ship, the slightly less injured Tirpitz finally hit the enemy ship, so that this "heads-up" would not become a joke.

Note 1: First to two bombs, and then the explosion of these two detonated the adjacent two, although the Nelson class has super protection, there are two major safety hazards in the design, anti-aircraft guns, torpedo tubes and many other facilities that are easy to detonate are crowded together is one of them, but then again, the mere fact that the battleship retains torpedo tubes can already be called a safety hazard (to be continued......