Just when the British Iron Duke and other battleships beat the German refurbished goods, the other refurbished goods and the battleship Frederick the Great, which had just rejoined the battle line from the end, packed up the British dreadnoughts enough! Although on paper these warships have an absolute projection superiority, but because of the problem of personnel and the aging of the battleships themselves, these battleships are not as good as the Jutland Sea War, and the decline in personnel can be attributed to the loss of blood by the British Navy in the previous battles, and the loss of each battle is not only a large amount of equipment but also more valuable human resources. And Britain, which carried almost the entire Entente naval battle, was also in vain. A large number of experienced combatants were replenished to the Super Dreadnought, while the personnel on the older Dreadnoughts were overwhelmingly new or reservists.

As for the equipment? The British had long stopped producing 12-inch guns, and almost all of their production capacity was used to maintain the replacement of 13.5-inch guns and 15-inch guns. The 12-inch guns were almost always used in stock or improvised, and they were not expected to achieve any results anyway. Therefore, in the case of personnel and equipment can be called sad, the combat effectiveness of these warships can be imagined, you must know that the battleships of the Jutland period in history have been decommissioned, although in this plane because of the lack of warships, the earliest dreadnoughts are still in service, but the combat effectiveness of these warships can really be described as low.

"The opposing dreadnought fleet has little combat power, and it does not pose an essential threat other than to share some artillery fire and cause us some minor troubles." A German officer who served on the Nassau commented. Even in a 2-on-1 situation, the improved and upgraded Nassau-class battleships still have a solid advantage. Because of the problem of artillery wear and tear and low personnel. Caused the artillery walk enormous. So much so that even washing the deck became impossible. Looking at the entire battlefield, the situation was best with the three Nassau-class battleships at the tail of the line.

First of all the bad luck was one of Britain's first dreadnoughts, the Intrepid, which had ushered in an era and finally came to the end of its life. Facing its contemporary, the battleship Nassau. The Dreadnought was no worse than the other party at the beginning of its service, but in the face of the super-dreadnought version of Nassau, which had been replaced with 8 14-inch guns, this battleship that was already a little overwhelmed with the old gun power system was not an opponent at all, and the two sides had only been doomed to its demise after just over 40 minutes, and if it weren't for the fact that 2 to 1, the battleship would have sunk faster!

THE ENTIRE SIDE CHORD WAS COVERED WITH LARGE AND SMALL HOLES, AND THE 14-INCH NAVAL GUN LIGHTLY PENETRATED THE 300MM THICK ARMOR BELT OF THE DREADNOUGHT. Then the fragile dome armor and various facilities behind it were stirred into a pile of fragments, and bursts of violent explosions came from the hull from time to time, and the holes in the side chords led the battleship into the water. The result of outdated and old damage management equipment and a group of rookie newcomers can be described as tragedy. Although they work hard. But the result was doomed from the start, and the Dreadnought eventually sank because too much water entered the sidechord and the reverse water injection was improperly inadequate. The result was the destruction of the battleship. And after the battle of the Dreadnought. Another thing made the rear team even worse, the Frederick the Great rejoined the battle line from behind, causing the already crumbling rear guard of the British main fleet to collapse in an instant!

The second victim was the battleship Gorgeous, which was almost made according to the mold of the Dreadnought, naturally unable to resist the returning Frederick the Great, although the latter could only use 6 guns, but still managed to hang the old battleship in a one-on-one situation, and even completed it faster than the Nassau, ending the Magnificent in just over 20 minutes. A 350mm shell pierced the ammunition magazine directly under the main gun of the Gorgeous Amidships. The British didn't even have time to fill the water. Before he even reacted, he directly detonated the propellant below, accompanied by a loud bang and a series of explosions. This battleship with a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons was finally broken into 2 sections!

If nothing else, the end of the 6 former dreadnoughts of the British will be very tragic, but at this moment, the British gave up the encirclement and suppression of the remaining 4 dreadnoughts and began to focus their attention on the middle, because when the Nassau-class battleships violently attacked the dreadnoughts, the No. 2 ship of the Helgran-class Thuringia was almost unable to hold on, and after destroying the Helgland, the battle in the middle was 5 to 4, with the cooperation of the Iron Duke, the Thor successfully damaged the Thuringia, and it didn't take long, The Thuringia will also be sunk.

At this time, the situation on the entire battle line was very bad, and the 4 King-class battleships and 2 Caesar-class battleships had already concentrated all their firepower on the 5 revenge-class, so they were still at a disadvantage. In the middle of the battle line, another 1 Caesar-class battleship and 3 refurbished Super Dreadnoughts fought against the attack, and if the Thuringia were destroyed again, it would be 5 to 3! There is a possibility of complete collapse in the middle of the fight. By that time, even if all 4 dreadnoughts in the rear were destroyed, the collapse in the middle still made the Germans feel that the gains outweighed the losses. After all, the precious ultra-dreadnought is much more valuable than the dreadnought. So Frederick the Great decisively aimed its guns at the Iron Duke, and handed over the remaining 4 dreadnoughts to the two Nassau-class battleships!

With the addition of Frederick the Great, the mid-section of the battle line on the verge of collapse stabilized, but it was clear that the Thuringia could not be saved. Three shells in quick succession pierced the stern dome. (The stern waterline armor was submerged due to the ingress of the water, allowing the British shells to challenge the sloping part of the dome armor.) Although the battleship still has about half of its boilers ready to use and the engine room is working properly, he has completely lost his ability to maneuver, and has broken away from the battle line under the action of ocean currents, and gradually falls behind, and just like the original takedown of the Helgland, the hyena-like British mine-strike ship is ready to take out this lone giant ship. The Germans were sparsely numerous auxiliary warships. It was not enough to cover the fleet, let alone rescue the doomed battleship.

"Let the light cruisers come up and pick up the rest of the men, they've done their best!" Scheer ordered after receiving the telegram from the Thuringia. "Your Excellency Commander, the Thuringia refuses to evacuate, they will continue to fight until the last moment!" Before Scheer's order could be forwarded, one of the staff officers took out another telegram in which the captain of the ship, Colonel Lana, had decided to sink with the ship.

"The battleship is no longer under control, but our naval guns are still available, and we have decided to fight until the last moment, to be able to participate in the largest naval battle in the world and fight to the death to our glory, as a pure soldier, the best ending is to make sacrifices for victory. Leave the glory of victory to your comrades. Keeping the threat of death to myself, as the captain of the Thuringia, it is my honor to be able to walk through the most glorious moments of my life with this battleship. "Colonel Rana rejected Scher's kindness and decided to fight to the end.

Colonel Rana fulfilled his promise, and until it was sunk by the wolf-like mine-strike ships, the Thuringia's four main guns were still pouring fire on the Thor, and although the success was very limited, his courage and determination to fight to the death were respected by the British Royal Navy. Before Thuringia was destroyed, at least 4 destroyers were destroyed with secondary guns and another light cruiser was heavily damaged. But with the departure of the Thuringia. The situation in the middle of the German fleet began to deteriorate again, and the addition of Frederick the Great only made up for the Thuringian losses.

If nothing else, the 4 German Super Dreadnoughts would eventually collapse under the blow of 5 British Super Dreadnoughts, but at this time, a shell fired from the 4th ship of the Nassau-class battleship, the Posen, entered the water 20 meters from the side chord of the Marlborough, and because of the angle, the shell was not bounced off the surface of the water, nor did it plunge headlong into the bottom of the sea, but crashed into the middle and rear of the Marlborough's hull like a torpedo. THE BRITISH 343MM ARTILLERY SUPER DREADNOUGHT HAS REACHED A RELATIVELY GOOD LEVEL OF PROTECTION AGAINST NAVAL GUNS, BUT THE UNDERWATER PROTECTION IS STILL RUBBISH, NO MATTER FROM THE DEPTH OF TDS OR THE THICKNESS OF THE ARMORED BULKHEAD, THESE SUPER DREADNOUGHT LEVELS ARE STRONGER THAN THE DARING THAT SANK WITH A THUNDERBOLT THAT YEAR. A small-yield torpedo may be able to prevent it, but a bullet in the water will definitely not stop it!

A waterborne bullet tends to cause more damage than a torpedo, as it can tear through most of the neighborhoods with ease, and is not diminished by empty pockets and depth. The spear-like shell lightly opened a large hole of 4 square meters in the side of the ship, and then pierced through the empty compartment and the direct partition of the tank. And finally plunged headlong into the ammunition depot behind the lightning wall! The sad Marlborough once again repeated the results of its predecessors. The explosion of the ammunition depot is something that God can't save! In less than a minute, a huge fireball erupted from the middle bullet, directly blasting the hull more than 20 meters wide into two, and the powerful shock wave carried fragments and flames and smashed up into the three decks, and the water vapor and smoke screen condensed in the air into a huge mushroom cloud. Under the effect of the powerful explosive ability, the Marlborough was detached from the water in the middle, and then broke into two pieces and smashed into the sea.

The Posen's stroke of genius brought the mid-course engagement of the fleet back into balance, well, it was a balance, and if you look at the situation of the ships, the British fleet with more barrels and strong charges achieved greater results, while the four German ships that fought with it were covered in bruises, and the situation was worse than that of the British counterpart. So far, the two sides have been fighting on the battle line for nearly 3 hours. Visibility was drastically reduced by the smoke screen caused by the constant fire and the smoke from the chimney. As a last resort, the two sides had no choice but to temporarily stop attacking, distance themselves, and wait for the smoke to clear before resuming fighting.

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