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Vice Admiral Holland, the commander of the first British fleet, may not have been unaware of the Admiral's plan, but he was completely unaware of being an outcast, and instead was bent on fighting a good battle and leaving the main fleet useless in order to restore the honor of the Royal Navy.

Vice Admiral Holland's Jihua was to let Rear Admiral Walker lead two heavy cruises, the Norfolk and the Suffolk, out of the Danish Strait for long-range patrol and search missions, and once the German fleet was discovered, it was immediately reported its speed and course and followed outside its range; And he personally led two capital ships to take up the interception mission, and with the movements of the German ships detected by the former, he could seize the advantageous position of the T-shaped head in advance. Once engaged, the two capital ships of the British army used all their broadside firepower to defeat the two Bismarck-class battleships, and the two heavy cruisers that followed joined the battle to concentrate their firepower on the Prinz Eugen, and at the same time summoned the six destroyers not far away to rush to reinforcements, and after killing the Prinz Eugen, everyone attacked the two German battleships together.

In this way, even if the strength of the British capital ships is slightly inferior, as long as they seize the advantageous position of the T-shape, they may not suffer a loss when bombing, and with the participation of those 6 destroyers, the British side only needs to damage the German ships, reduce their speed and steering flexibility, and then let the torpedoes make up for the knife, while the German fleet must rely on naval guns to sink the British warships, which is undoubtedly much more difficult, and at the same time, the steering maneuvers carried out in order to avoid torpedoes will also force the German warships to repeatedly readjust the fire control parameters, thus greatly reducing the accuracy and rate of fire of the naval guns.

If this tactical arrangement is realized. The British were supposed to win a big victory, but unfortunately, a series of accidents made the reality far from what was expected: the Norfolk and Suffolk discovered the German ship early on, and followed it all the way. Unfortunately, it suddenly snowed heavily on the sea (although it was still autumn, the Danish Channel was very high, and the battle took place in late May, and there were still snowflakes on the sea), and the British radar was not very useful in bad weather, so the target was lost.

When the radar on the British heavy patrol rediscovered the target. Both ships have been thrown out of the way by the Germans. The two capital ships that arrived in a hurry were detected by the radar of the German fleet. As a result, the two British heavy cruisers were left out of the battlefield, and the British could only fight the German two battleships and one heavy cruiser with one battle cruiser and one battleship, and the British side failed to seize the advantageous position of the T-head. The two sides have not yet exchanged fire. The British army was already at a disadvantage

And unlike in history, because the British Royal Navy was powerful, the commander of the German fleet, Admiral Lukins, had always tried to avoid engaging British warships and did not give the order to open fire, so that he lost the first opportunity. The British Royal Navy in this time and space has been greatly damaged, and if it can seize this opportunity to take out two more capital ships, the German Navy can even fight it head-on. You must know that if these two capital ships are killed again, Britain will only have three capital ships in the real sense, and Germany's two battleships have an advantage in performance, plus the 30,000-ton Shane sisters, they may not be able to fight, not to mention that the British still have sea lines of communication and overseas colonies to protect, and it is very doubtful whether these three battleships can be concentrated at that time.

Even considering Britain's strong shipbuilding capabilities, Lukins is very confident, because the British shipbuilding Jihua started later than Germany, and the time difference of at least one year in the middle is enough for the German Navy to destroy the British Royal Navy. With one aircraft carrier in the Far East ready for Germany, a second to be completed in a few months, and both super-battleships launched (although it will take at least a year to complete), the once invincible Royal Navy will be completely defeated when they return from China

Therefore, when the shipborne radar on the battleship Bismarck found the target, Admiral Lukins immediately ordered the fleet to enter a state of imminent combat and accelerate the approach of the two British capital ships, and the British shipborne radar was much more affected by bad weather than the German cargo, so the detection range was much shorter, and when the German naval guns opened fire for the first time at a distance of 25 kilometers under the guidance of the radar, the British did not detect the enemy at all.

For naval warfare in the era of battleships, the side that fired first could gain a great tactical advantage, because they could adjust the fire control parameters without interference, while it was much more difficult for the attacked side, knowing that the fire control parameters had to be readjusted every time the course was adjusted, and the test firing before the adjustment was not only low in hitrate, but also often slower in rate of fire, and it was not possible to fire the gun when changing direction to avoid it (because it was almost impossible to hit, wasting the life of the shell and barrel). However, after the parameters are determined, the shelling can be fired in less than 1 minute (the 381mm guns of the Bismarck-class battleships can be fired in less than half a minute), and the accuracy is much higher, and the impact of the first strike can be seen.

In fact, in the previous Battle of Toulon Bay, Britain was able to sink all 9 French capital ships at the cost of only one capital ship being seriously injured before the French Air Force entered the war

Because of this, and the radar and fire control systems used by German warships are better than in the historical Battle of the Danish Strait, the battlecruiser Hood, which successfully rushed to a distance of 16,000 meters before being hit by a German ship (but because it detonated the main turret ammunition depot, it was killed with one shot) was hit at a distance of more than 22,000 meters from the battleship Bismarck, and the German armor-piercing projectile weighing 900 kg smashed into the deck of the Hood from a high altitude at a near-vertical angle, The horizontal armor, which was only 80 mm thick, could not stop the Bismarck's new 381mm armor-piercing shells, which penetrated the deck and exploded violently into the hull, igniting an inextinguishable fire.

Half a minute later, Bismarck fired her 4th salvo, which all failed, but Tirpitz's 3rd salvo paid off, the fragile horizontal armor of the battlecruiser Hood was penetrated again, and directly detonated the main ammunition depot of the Hood, the largest displacement Shijie ship in British history was blown into two at once and sank into the sea, because the warship sank too quickly, only 3 of the 1436 crew members were rescued (to be continued......