Chapter 81: The Battle of the Sea
It was Bismarck who fired the first shot.
This cutting-edge battleship, which had not yet been launched, fired a half-salvo with her twin 15-inch naval guns.
The left barrels of the four turrets fired together, aimed at the Hood......
Is this the fate of history?
"At the limit distance of 36,000 meters, Lieutenant General Lu Teyans is very confident!" Shen Lang chuckled lightly and watched the play with his hands folded.
Princess Audrey glanced at him curiously, and the girl whispered, "Your Excellency Wales, how do you know that the commander of the Germans is Lütjans?" ”
Shen Langxin said that the education of Her Royal Highness the princess is not enough, Lu Teyans is the commander of the Führer's High Seas Fleet, this time Bismarck, Tirpitz, Scharnhorst, and Gneisenau are all out of the four ships, which can be regarded as the realization of his own plane, Lütjans originally had no chance to realize the plan, as the commander of the fleet, of course he has to stand on the command platform of the flagship like Vice Admiral Horan!
Originally, in time and space, the Bismarck took the Prinz Eugen, a battleship and a heavy cruiser configuration, which was able to kill the Hood in seconds, and then was beaten by Rodney, George V and other HMS girls before losing and sinking.
You must know that the 15-inch guns of the sisters of Bismarck and Tirpitz can only be regarded as the lowest in the naval guns of the same period.
I have to say that Hu Dejiang didn't go out to worship the second master, so he would be so back.
Normally, even if she is a war patrolman, she should be able to carry Bismarck's 15-inch gun to interact with each other, but they have just been modernized!
But you can't be anxious to raise Lori, and now Audrey has been brought by him from her original gentle and elegant personality to become interested in the military, which is already gratifying, but she can't extinguish her enthusiasm.
So Shen Lang turned into a narrator and explained the little princess's puppet whispers.
Colonel Richie saw the two men in the corner talking to themselves, and although he was a little upset, he did not open his mouth to reprimand.
This Nima is a princess!
I really don't know if she's the biggest or the biggest I'm on this battleship!
If Shen Lang hears the old man's heart, he may be very considerate and tell him, I'm sorry, I, Shen Lang, as the man of the Prince of Wales, am the biggest!
The range of 36,000 meters may not sound like much, but if you convert it into kilometers, it is 36 kilometers, and at this distance, the battleship on the surface of the sea is only a small dot in the line of sight of the telescope.
The battle distance of battleships is generally between 10,000 and 20,000 meters, and then the hit rate of naval guns will rise in a straight line.
So Bismarck's half-salvo was still far from Hood and basically did not pose a threat.
As the flagships opened fire, the battleships of both sides opened fire.
Both sides gathered fire towards each other's flagships, and suddenly beside Hood and Bismarck, huge waves surged as bullets rained down.
The explosion of ammunition weighing a ton caused countless aquarium to fall into bad luck, and even if they were far from the center of the explosion, they would be stunned and shocked to death.
Shen Lang is now a ship man, with a battleship radar bonus, and his eyes are many times better than the internal force in the physical state, and he can clearly see that those raw seafood are dying one after another, and he can't help but swallow a mouthful of saliva, it's a pity, these sales money can be at least hundreds of thousands!
If the sailors on both sides of the war could know someone's complaints, they would definitely use a wrench to teach him to be in awe of the sea battle!
The battle patrol formation had reached a top speed of 29 knots, and the two sides projected each other for 6 rounds without a single shot.
The German warships were all cutting-edge ships, and the speed could easily exceed 30 knots when light and heavy, and now everyone was fully loaded, full of ammunition and fuel, so naturally they could not run at the highest speed, but they also had a speed of 29 knots, which was basically the same as the mobile formation of the Hood.
Nelson and Rodney, the two original BIG7s, are actually a little behind at this point in time, including the Nagato class of the book family and the Colorado class of Merrican, but as the only two "old-timers" in the Royal Navy equipped with 16-inch cannons, they are equivalent to heavyweight boxers, and they naturally have to rely on their heavy artillery to make contributions in this battle.
The idea is beautiful, but unfortunately times have changed!
Because of the Führer's strict orders, in addition to the Second and Third Air Forces, which were raging in Dunkirk, Goering also mobilized the Fifth Air Force to the front.
An air force has more than 300 bombers and more than 500 fighters, which is quite powerful.
Outside of Shen Lang's field of vision, a huge fleet of 107 Stuka and 216 BF-109s is rushing towards the sea area of the naval battle!
The area of the English Channel is too close to the land of both sides!
Land-based aircraft can radiate the nearby sea areas very well, you must know that in the next few months, the Führer's air force crossed the sea and attacked, and a tragic air battle broke out in Britain, so whether it is a fighter or a bomber, the range of land-based aircraft is much higher than that of carrier-based aircraft, and they have enough fuel to put into the battlefield of naval warfare.
This was something that did not happen in the Battle of Jutland that year.
Otherwise, wouldn't Raeder have lost his mind and sent all the best of the High Seas Fleet to shell Dunkirk?
This was actually a trap from the beginning, a genius idea of using the air force to ambush the native fleet of Dahu!
Upon hearing the news that the High Seas Fleet was going to attack the Dunkirk landing grounds, the British had no choice but to send a fleet to meet them, otherwise it would be absolutely impossible to stop the Germans' cutting-edge warships from wreaking havoc with the air force alone.
If it is bombarded indiscriminately by dozens of thick and large pipes, I am afraid that all the hundreds of thousands of allied troops will be turned to ashes, which is unacceptable to Churchill and King George in any case!
The first to do the work was the Prinz Eugen, whose 203-mm shell smacked into the face of the Counterattack, one hit the turret and was bounced off, but the other pierced the radar room, killing all the officers and men inside, but fortunately the shell did not explode, but only passed through the cabin, otherwise it would have caused great disaster.
This is where the metaphysics of naval warfare lies, as with the opening of the Prinz Eugen, the warships of both sides began to make contributions, and Bismarck's 380-mm shells finally pierced the armor belt of the Hood during the 16th salvo, burrowed into the lady's ammunition depot, and detonated more than 300 tons of shells.
And then...... And then there is no more!
The battle patrol group was hit head-on, and the flagship Hood broke and sank quickly, including the commander of the formation, Vice Admiral Holland, and the captain of the ship, Colonel Cole, 1,418 people were killed, and only 3 survived.
Then the Germans possessed the soul, and the Tirpitz also hit the Prestige, causing the No. 1 turret of the Prestige to lose its combat effectiveness, and the other shell, although it was a close miss, caused the Prestige Lady's steering gear to get stuck and unable to turn......