The two most powerful fleets on the planet have finally met, and for the sake of the future of the two countries and the victory of the war, the mighty existence of millions of tons of steel has finally revealed their hideousness and horror in front of the world! Like the ancient gods of war, these steel giants wearing heavy armor and holding the most powerful weapons in human history are making the final preparations before the battle, and the collision is inevitable, and all the warships turn into their battle positions in the order of hundreds of drills before the battle! The formations of the two sides were very similar, they were like the phalanx of the ancient Roman Empire, with billowing smoke above their heads and the waves of the North Sea under their feet, and the navies of the two sides finally waited for a peak duel, a battle that all naval officers and sailors dreamed of! Both the British and the Germans, shouted loudly on their ships, vented their feelings, and then walked to their positions without hesitation under the orders of their officers.

"Jericho? Old friends, we meet again! We are finally on the opposite side of the battlefield! I wonder how you would feel in the face of such a lineup? I saw your courage and decisiveness and masterful command skills in the Caribbean, and I hope you will not let me down today! Looking at the British naval battle line that was gradually stretching in the distance, Scheer shouted loudly into the sea outside the window!

At this time, Jericho, who was staring at the German High Seas Fleet at the same time, finally discovered the strangeness! The opponent began to line up in 4 columns, although its scale was obscured by the battleships in front and could not be seen clearly, but its number was definitely not much less than his own, and at the beginning Jericho thought that the other party had also incorporated some of the former dreadnoughts into the battle sequence. But when the German fleet unfolded, there were 4 Caesar-class battleships in front, yes, but what were the 4 battleships in the back? 4 ships larger than the Caesar appeared in Jericho's field of vision! There are four of them! The 10-gun behemoth turned the turret above it. Chilling fangs bared at the British fleet!

"Damn it! Scheer's purpose is the Grand Fleet! Thinking of this, Jericho felt a chill rush from the soles of his feet to his head. There are 4 more super dreadnoughts! Its combat effectiveness level has increased the combat power of the German High Seas Fleet by at least about 5 percent! When did the Germans have 4 more super-dreadnoughts? How come the intelligence services have no news at all! Didn't you say that you already had the other party's password?

"Betty's telegram was problematic, it was simply impossible to sink 4 German capital ships." Just when Jericho was a little crazy, Lieutenant General Goodnow, the chief of staff next to him, put down the binoculars in his hand and said with a gloomy face.

"What do you mean?" Jericho asked, looking at Goodnow in some surprise.

Behind these four capital ships that suddenly appeared, it was supposed to be the Lytsov and the Seydlitz, two battleships of the same length as the four unknown ones. But there are only 4 turrets. In terms of length and appearance, these two battleships fit well with the Lyutsov and the Seydlitz! And I don't think that General Betty can destroy 4 German capital ships lightly, it's unrealistic. Goodno paused and continued.

"And I don't think the German Navy can have 6 more battleships at once! It is impossible to start construction of six ships at the same time in the fastest year of German shipbuilding. So the Hipper fleet may have only 4 capital ships! And the Scheer fleet concentrated almost all the belongings that the German High Seas Fleet could get their hands on! They have only one goal! That's our Grand Fleet, and the situation is very bad for us! ”

"Damn, Betty is already more than 30 nautical miles away from us! I'm afraid I won't be able to arrive for a while, this guy can't even count how many warships the other party has! "Look at the situation in front of you. Jericho was unusually irritable. After many battles, Jericho was still relatively clear about the performance of the two fleets, and he did not think that his two extra dreadnoughts could stop the German fleet! All he could do now was stall for time and wait for Betty's fleet to arrive!

It was a fancy-free collision, and although the British didn't spot their opponent at first, there was still plenty of time to set up their formation, with two straight lines drawn out and still getting closer. The two sides fired the first salvo at a distance of 15KM, and a total of more than 300 large-caliber guns spewed tongues of fire and smoke that instantly covered the entire fleet! The pinnacle of naval warfare in the history of the world began here. Every minute, hundreds of tons of shells will be thrown out, flying towards the opposing fleet with a fire of destruction.

"KEEP GETTING CLOSER, WE NEED TO LOCK THE ENGAGEMENT DISTANCE AT ABOUT 12KM! What we want is not to crush, but to completely defeat the British fleet. Schell looked at the British fleet in the distance and ordered that only by entering this distance could the German 14-inch guns have a greater certainty of penetrating the British armor!

"Order Betty to quickly lead the fleet closer to the Grand Fleet, and tell them that we have discovered the main force of the German High Seas Fleet! The opposing side has 16 capital ships of various types. Scheer has more combat power than we can imagine! Jericho thought for a moment and ordered. Betty's 8 battleships can't beat Hipper's 6, and Jericho also doesn't think that his 18 battleships can beat Scheer's 16, as for Suzhì and Courage? Didn't Jericho think that the world's first-class German Navy would be undertrained, courageous? Scheer dared to bring the main fleet to challenge the British Empire's Grand Fleet, which in itself was a kind of extremely courageous expression!

Although the situation was unfavorable, Jericho did not think that the British would lose the battle, and as long as Betty returned in time, he might be able to flank Scheer. Even a Trafalgar victory is not out of the question! The premise of a qiē is whether Betty can return in time! But what is not beautiful is that just before Jericho sent the report, a cannonball fired from the Moltke scraped the antenna of the fast battleship Queen Elizabeth! Blown the entire radio transceiver to pieces. As a result, Betty did not receive this life-and-death telegram in the first place! By the time the other ships received it and forwarded it to Betty, it had already been 45 minutes!

What does 45 minutes mean? It means that as many as more than 300 large-caliber naval guns on both sides have fired thousands of tons of ammunition, which means that during this time, the Jericho fleet will bear the onslaught of the Scheer fleet alone! The German fleet unstoppably closed the distance, braving the rain of bullets from the other side, and soon approached about 13KM, and at this distance, it was not difficult for the British to calm down with their improved and strengthened super-dreadnoughts!

AT THIS DISTANCE, THE GERMAN NAVY'S 350MM HIGH-SPEED SHELLS, AS WELL AS THE ULTRA-FAST RATE OF FIRE, WERE BROUGHT TO THE EXTREME! The British 14-inch guns took about 35 to 40 seconds to shoot a round, while the German Navy only took about 25 seconds to complete, and when the collapse was formed, the German fleet at full speed was even more projected than the British, who had more guns!

I don't know if it's a fateful arrangement, Scheer's flagship King is exactly opposite Jericho's flagship Iron Duke! These two officers, whom they had known since the First Sino-Japanese War, had fought side by side as comrades-in-arms and had been very good friends, but today, they must use blood and fire to make a break with the past! THE 14-INCH NAVAL GUNS OF THE KING CONTINUED TO ROAR, FIRING A SHELL WEIGHING 635KG AT THE IRON DUKE IN THE DISTANCE, AND THE IRON DUKE DID NOT SHOW WEAKNESS, 10 343MM GUNS SPEWED OUT DEADLY TONGUES OF FIRE!

With the advancement of fire control technology, once the battleship is caught on the target, the probability of hitting is quite high when the relative course and speed do not change much, and there is even an extreme situation where 4 guns hit 3 guns. As soon as the two sides fought, it was filled with the smell of blood. THE KING CLASS IS WORTHY OF THE PINNACLE OF THE GERMAN NAVY BEFORE THE WAR, WITH 10 350 GUNS HAVING A NEAR-PERFECT WALK, AND IN THE SECOND ROUND AFTER THE FORMATION OF THE COLLAPSE SHOT, TWO 350MM HEAVY ARTILLERY SHELLS FELL ON THE IRON DUKE!

Jericho felt a shaking of the hull, accompanied by a loud bang, a huge fireball rose from behind the conning tower, and the No. 3 turret located in the amidship of the hull was pierced by a 635KG armor-piercing shell, and the fragments and armor fragments from the explosion of the shell swept across the collision, completely destroying the two guns, while the other shell hit the upper armor belt of the Iron Duke, and after the shell lightly penetrated the armor, the flue behind it was blown to pieces! Puffs of smoke and flames began to spread across the ship's amidships.

AT THE SAME TIME, THE IRON DUKE ALSO MADE A HIT, BUT EXCEPT FOR THE ONE THAT HIT THE FRONT OF THE HULL AND CAUSED A SMALL FIRE, THE OTHER SHELL WAS RICOCHETED OFF BY THE 340MM THICK INCLINED ARMOR OF THE KING, LEAVING LITTLE TRACE EXCEPT FOR A SHALLOW CRATER THAT WAS BURNED BY THE FLAMES.

Listening to others is one aspect, but when I meet it, it's another feeling, at the beginning, Jericho's gap in firepower and protection between the two sides is only a few jù and reports, but when I experience it myself, the huge gap brings a feeling of fear and helplessness that still makes him feel a slight shock in his heart! You can't fight like this! Jericho knew it very well.

And just as he was about to take the next step of action, a sudden loud noise from the end of the team made his heart sink suddenly, and a column of smoke hundreds of meters high rose from a distance, even in the flames of the artillery and the smoke from the chimney, this column of smoke full of flames was so dazzling! No need to ask, Jericho also knows that an unlucky guy has been destroyed!

In principle, every warship should fight with the enemy ship opposite to itself, but in fact, it is full of too many variables, and in history, due to the interference of various factors, Betty's 6 battleships will have the problem of firepower distribution errors when they fight the opponent's 5 warships, not to mention a big battle like 18 to 16! Sometimes it's too late to distinguish the target you need, just aim and hit it directly, what so much nonsense!

I don't know if the German fleet is more closely arranged, or the British fleet is a little scattered, or on the contrary, the King-class No. 4 ship, Prince William, is right on the opposite side of the British dreadnought Neptune! Super dreadnought fights dreadnoughts! And it is also Germany's cutting-edge super-dreadnought attacking the British dreadnought 7 years ago! Add to that the close distance, and the results can be imagined!

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