On June 61, Teland needs a decisive battle!

Chalk brushes were drawn on the blackboard, triangles were marked in circles, and then two large thick arrows were directed to the center of the battlefield at the same time. ※※※※※I ※ want ※※ net ※ (5) ※ (1) ※ Ο※ ΝΕΤ※※ In an instant, a simple combat schematic diagram was completed in Lan Jianshu's hands.

is still wearing a naval uniform with the rank of major general, and there are still no wrinkles on his clothes, but Lan Jianshu still has some regrets in his heart, when the war gradually escalated, he retired from the front line because of his recent years and became a tactical lecturer at the Dalian Naval Academy.

But when he saw the young and energetic faces of nearly 100 people sitting in a circle in front of him, he felt that he was not wronged, because he was transferring the experience, knowledge, inadequacy and glory of the old navy to a generation of navy people.

Passing on the torch from generation to generation, incubating over a hundred years, is the foundation for the Navy to become stronger and stronger.

"Instructor Lan, is this a situation map drawn by yourself, or is it backed up by intelligence?" A young Naval Academy stood up after seeing the situation map, because today the blackboard is not a boring old battle example, but a real battle that may have taken place in the North Sea!

"I made a phone call, and they told me." Lan Jianshu blinked mysteriously, and the students all laughed heartily, everyone knew the previous identity of the instructor, so it was not unusual to be able to get this kind of news.

"Instructor, since Britain and Germany actually sent bait at the same time, can it be said that whoever executes the order thoroughly will be able to seize the initiative?"

"Yes." Lan Jianshu nodded to the student, pointed to the two arrows under the chalk that were close to the middle, and said with a smile: "Two bait, only one can succeed in the end, so this classmate is right, it is possible to win completely if you execute the order, but." ”

Lan Jianshu paused and said with a smile: "No matter who they are, it is impossible for them to run away as soon as they see the enemy, so it is destined to have a confrontation, and then one side will feign retreat and attract the enemy to the main fleet behind him." ”

"So instructor, who do you think will succeed?"

Lan Jianshu knew the thoughts of these little guys, and shook his head: "I don't know, the war is full of suspense and unpredictability, so I, like you, can only look at this picture now and wait!" ”

"Instructor, I have a question, you said before, the North Sea is foggy all year round, and the weather is gloomy, if it happens to be in this kind of weather now, so that the two decoys do not find each other, but pass by and rush in front of the enemy's main force, what will happen?"

Lan Jianshu looked at this young non-commissioned officer with a whim, and was also surprised by his imagination, and asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Report to the instructor, my name is Chen Ce." Chen Ce saluted.

Lan Jianshu didn't continue to ask, but suddenly turned around and picked up the chalk, and casually drew countless lines between the two main fleets, and the students were a little stunned when they saw this scene, not understanding what the instructor meant, and the whispering began to gradually become louder.

After the entire situation map was in chaos, Lan Jianshu turned his head, pointed to the blackboard and asked Chen Ce, "What do you see?" ”

Chen Ce looked at the blackboard blankly, the messy lines had no regularity at all in his eyes, and when he was about to say that he didn't know, an idea suddenly flashed through his mind, and he immediately replied: "Chaos!" ”

"Yes, chaos!"

Lan Jianshu threw away the little bit of chalk that was left, clapped his hands and smiled: "I know you guys are very strange that I just drew a ghost talisman like me, but now Chen Ce has answered correctly." ”

"I've visited England and Germany, and I've conducted friendly exercises with the German Navy in the North Sea, so I know a little bit about the hydrology, which I mentioned in my lecture to you earlier." Lan Jianshu straightened his waist, looked at the young people in front of him and said: "The hydrology of Beihai is not good, the wind is high and urgent, and in this season, there will often be heavy fog during the day, and even if you use a telescope, the visibility is lower than meters, so Chen Cegang's hypothesis is very likely."

So what happens when this happens?

Actually, I don't know, because as I just said, naval warfare is full of suspense, luck and change, no one can really master it, what you have to do in the future is not to master it, but to learn to use the conditions around it as much as possible to strive for victory.

Going back to this picture, whether it is Britain or Germany, throwing the bait must be to catch a big fish, and the bait is impossible to defeat the prey, so it is bound to bring both main forces to a certain point in the middle! ”

"Collision!"

Lan Jianshu fiercely instructed the center of intent: "One thing is very clear, when you take a battleship and more than 200 warships to crowd in a sea area of fog gate, not only to hit the opponent, but also to protect and respond to the partner, then even if your brain has strong computing power, even if your staff is powerful, it is impossible to cover everything."

It's like a dice, you fill it with mercury and you can roll as many points as you want, only to find that the table in front of you is uneven and has many small pits.

All that's left for you is much unpredictability, and when these unpredictability boil down to being, it's chaos! ”

"So instructor, if you are in command, once the collision discovers that the enemy's main force is actually on the opposite side, how will you solve this chaos?" Chen Ce asked curiously.

Lan Jianshu liked this young man a little, as if he saw another Li Xiuyan, and said with a smile: "If it were me, I would get rid of all the side details, no matter whether the bait is or not, even if it is brought to the opponent's main force, I should immediately bring the battle situation directly into a decisive battle, and use the artillery fire of the main ship to clear the chaos!" ”

"Instructor, so Germany and Britain are in a decisive battle this time?" As soon as several students heard about the decisive battle, they immediately stood up excitedly.

"I don't know, I really don't know." Lan Jianshu shook his head with a wry smile, looked at the window on the west side, and said faintly: "It depends on whether Prussia and Britain have the intention of a decisive battle!" ”

"Near-missed!"

Sergeant Martin shouted loudly to remind his comrades that, as a deck lookout, after getting through the hectic initial phase, he could already distinguish from the black spots that could rain down on him, and what he needed to discern from the black spots that flew in the reticlature for more than ten seconds that could cause damage to himself and the battleship Conqueror beneath his feet.

What shocked him was that the other party obviously only had 5 battlecruisers, and all the naval guns added up to only 40 naval guns of 280 mm and above caliber, and the density of ammunition seemed to be no less rare than the 20 battleships on his side with more than 100 naval guns.

Of course, he didn't know that this was the long-term result of Germany's pursuit of large ships and small guns, because Germany thought that the future decisive battle place was the North Sea, and the number was not the British opponent, they needed to make a fuss about the accuracy and speed of naval guns, so when China selected the triple installation of the Guam class, Germany still chose the double for the Bavarian class, because the accuracy of the double assembly is higher than that of the triple assembly. 【 I want: super fast update 】

In terms of battle patrols, the principle of trotting small on large ships, stability first, and speed as a supplement was fully implemented, so although the caliber of the ship's guns was small, the speed was much higher than that of the British main fleet.

As Sergeant Martin shouted, the surrounding sub-gunners lowered their heads one after another, and a 305-millimeter shell landed exactly less than 30 meters next to the side of the Conqueror, and a huge column of white smoke rose into the air, more than ten meters high, and was stirred up by the seawater.

The Conqueror had just breathed a sigh of relief and had just survived another round, but in the distance, the Lützov was hit by a 343-mm shell on the main armor of the side line, but fortunately the British armor-piercing shell had a problem with the fuse and exploded without penetration.

Many shells landed beside the five German war cruisers, and at the same time as a few flames exploded, countless columns of water with yellow-green roots (caused by dyeing after the bitter acid explosion was exploded) rose into the sky, and the Hipper fleet was like a windsurf in a storm.

"General, the Lützov is fine, it's just a little scratched, but one of the von der Tarn shells is damaged." The communications officer kept shouting loudly, and he couldn't whisper because the explosions outside were too dense, but the bad news he brought with him woke up Hipper.

Hipper was well aware that the situation was getting worse by the minute, and that 20 British battleships had more than 160 heavy guns, all of which were of the rank of inches or more, and if they continued to stay, their good fortune might disappear in the next second.

"Gotta leave!"

Hipper looked at the Conqueror with some unwillingness, the result of the first 8 rounds of 40 naval guns salvo did not cause fatal injuries made everyone a little frustrated, and now in order to deal with other British ships, they had to spread their firepower, and the hope was slim, so they had to leave.

"Turn the rudder, us."

The order was still lingering in his mouth, and the corners of Hipper's eyes twitched, only to see a huge fireball suddenly rise from the back deck of the battleship Conqueror, which he had just been thinking about, it was so bright and dazzling.

"It's the Lützov! The Lyzov hit him! ”

"We kicked it off!" These were the words of the Lutzov gunner, who later survived, recalled: "We were hit, and there was an explosion and a shake in the hull, so the trajectory of the shell was deflected, but who would have thought that it just crashed into it like that and kicked the Conqueror's turret No. 5 away."

In fact, the gunners did not know how much damage the 305mm delayed armor-piercing shells fired by the turret had caused, and the British once again paid the price for the thin horizontal deck and the lack of protection in the design concept.

The armor-piercing projectile that entered from the side of turret No. 3 was supposed to be blocked by the horizontal deck, but here only 67 mm of armor could not stop the heavy artillery shells, and the 400 kg armor-piercing shell deflected after penetrating the horizontal deck, tearing apart the protective wall of the 203 mm turret shaft.

Originally, the shell that exploded in the well should not have caused the tragedy that followed, but the problem was that there were several packs of firing on the winch in the well at that time!

The British paid the first price for simplicity and indifference, and compared to Germany, China, and even the United States, which began to use metal sealed containers to lift the launch yà, the open firing yà pack, which was only wrapped in several layers of silk, was simply a better explosive than a cannonball.

When these pieces of firing bags were detonated, the blazing flames entered the bomb compartment on the bottom floor without a blast door, and the situation was a disaster!

According to the foremast lookout of the Conqueror, he recalled: "There, a flame shot into the sky, as if a volcano had erupted, and the explosion lifted the hundreds of tons of turrets up to 600 feet high, and then the rear mast and chimney were pulled in, collapsing like a tree that had lost its roots, and a crack nearly five meters wide was torn open on the left side of the hull, and the deck quickly began to tilt." ‘

The third ship of the Orion-class battleship fell into despair, and Ensign Sampson desperately pulled on the watertight hatch, which had been reddened by the fire, and tried to close it, but with all his efforts failed, and the ship began to make a tooth-squeaking sound as the sea water poured into the cabin along the hatch.

The captain immediately gave the order to abandon the ship, the alarm bell sounded from every cabin, and countless sailors rushed to the deck like crazy, and when the sloping deck sank vertically little by little, less than 130 of the ship's 752 officers and men escaped.

All the officers and men of the home fleet saw this scene, and no one expected that in the case of absolute superiority in strength, the first unlucky person would make themselves, and when the fourth battleship detachment began, the standard displacement tonnage, with 10 343 mm guns, was like an overturned whale, and when the big belly sank a little, the guy who caused this tragedy had begun to accelerate and flee south.

Numerous shells chased Hipper's ass, one of which even hit the stern of the von der Tann and almost destroyed the rudder, but fortunately the German sailors rushed to repair it in time, and the speed was restored to 24 knots after 4 minutes.

At this moment, Rear Admiral Berdick chased Sinclair's ass and finally arrived at the battlefield, and after seeing the signal of "evacuate immediately" from the flagship, he didn't even have time to take a breath, so he immediately turned the rudder, and took 4 scarred light cruisers to chase 5 battle cruisers that were also ploughed by cannonballs and began to accelerate their withdrawal, and the remaining destroyers also scattered and fled.

During this time, Hipper sent a telegram to Scheer: "The Englishman is behind my ass. ”

Jericho already knew at this time that Hippel was actually a bait, originally he was not a person who was easily provoked, compared with these 5 prey and the main force of Scheer that had been discovered, the loss of a battleship was not too costly, not to mention that he could not refuse the temptation to destroy the German main fleet, although he was usually a little conservative, but Vice Admiral Hamilton's words before departure made him change a little.

"Johan, we must destroy Germany and do whatever it takes! Because we can no longer afford the pressure of fighting on two fronts. These are the exact words of Lieutenant General Hamilton, and it is said that they are also hints from the Prime Minister.

So he immediately ordered the pursuit to continue, and sent a telegram to Betty to retreat, intercepting Hipper halfway.

His tactics were very simple, that is, to let Betty entangle Hipper when he retreated, so that Scheer would have to fight a decisive battle even if he didn't want to fight, and for Britain, as long as he could destroy the German navy, even if he paid the price of half of the loss of the home Grand Fleet, it was worth it!

The electricity from the flagship Ramii spreads rapidly, but Jericho doesn't know that he doesn't need to urge Betty to flee because he's in big trouble.

"Woohoo." The shrill whistling made Quiss's face pale, and he could no longer remember how many cannonballs had flown past the top of the mast, and a full three minutes had passed since the straddle was formed, which meant that the Germans on the opposite side were only close to luck.

The four twin 343mm guns of the Queen Mary were still roaring with their companions, and the black and red fireballs were constantly flashing in Quest's eyes, but he now hated this battle line a little, because it meant that the battlecruiser with the advantage of speed was fixed to a certain point.

In the distance, a flame rose again on the German King Albert, and Quies raised his binoculars to look, and the cannonball hit the flank of the opponent's rear bridge, and several German sailors who were caught off guard were thrown off and fell into the sea, but when the smoke gradually dissipated, he found that the cannonball still did not cause much damage to the other party.

"Damn it." Quest hammered down the guard hard, he didn't know it was the first explosion point he had observed, but except for a few that caused damage, the guys on the other side, who didn't look bigger than him, always survived and continued to fight back.

"We damn cannons are a bit of a commander today, Betty frowned and said to the staff officer, he was actually depressed to death, his heavy artillery was obviously more than the other party, and the weight was greater, but he couldn't complete the lore score, which was a torment for any officer.

"Get closer!"

Faced with the situation of being out of reach and unable to kill, Betty issued a typical Nelsonian order, full of British style, and even a little reckless, although later some people said that it was this order that destroyed the Queen Mary and buried the entire naval battle, but some people praised him, because they saw Betty's calmness and fearlessness.

Betty is really not a hot-headed reckless man, although he is short-tempered and aggressive, but he is an excellent admiral, and at this time Rear Admiral Thomas's battlefleet is less than 5 minutes away, plus three battleships and his heavy artillery group, he really hopes to sink or severely damage one or two German battleships, if he succeeds, then it will completely change the situation of the later battle, just a faint figure hanging over Europe makes him hate to return!

Li Mo, the Far Eastern arsonist in the mouth of Europeans!

Because he sold the Rheinland to Germany, and also developed the L47/380 mm heavy gun with Germany, so that the major obstacle that had historically plagued the Bavaria-class battleships was solved two years earlier.

The Bavarian class is Germany's trump card, although from the fifth ship because a lot of resources were consumed by the army, Germany can actually no longer continue to expand its navy, but the first 4 are still good battleships in Europe, not even one!

From the perspective of displacement, the Bavarian class is far inferior to the Guam class, but this is mainly because of the surprise caused by the endurance requirements of the two countries, the difference between the standard row and the full load of the Guam class is nearly 8,000 tons, and the former is only more than 4,000, and the extra fuel is all fuel, and the firepower and protection standards of the Guam class are designed according to 406 mm, so it will appear large.

Although it is not a key protection, the Krupp armor and the German protective compartment arrangement have always been ahead of Europe, so even Li Mo thinks that the Bavaria-class is a good battleship.

The Württemberg fired a sixth salvo, but the ship was still making no gains at full speed, much to the disappointment of the gunner at the 4th stern position, Ramsen, whose recollections were later published in the newspapers.

"I was disappointed because I missed the opportunity again, because at that time we had a speed of about 19 knots, which would be very bumpy in the sea, and the bow was in the battle line at that time, and my perspective was not very good, but I did not give up because I always believed that in the next second I would succeed."

Ensign Lamsen's dream came true, and with the Württemberg squeezing into the line of battle and slowing down to 16 knots, Scheer finally completed the formation after the initial confusion, at the cost of at least 17 shells on five Caesar-class ships, and the inferior British fuses and armor-piercing shells once again helped the Germans, much thicker than the Caesar-class, and the long-range 343 mm guns were not fully exerted.

"The goddess of fate seems to have deliberately tormented England after the start of the war." These are the words written by The Times after getting the course of the naval engagement.

2:27 p.m.

When the Conqueror on the other side of the battlefield had already exploded and began to sink, the Württemberg's hideous muzzle locked onto the Queen Mary, and Ramson and the others fired a salvo of the eighth round.

"A black dot came out of the purple-red smoke, and after drawing a wonderful arc in the sky, it landed exactly between the two chimneys of the Queen Mary, and the explosion occurred after I blinked my eyes about a moment, and the fire and smoke were mixed with a large amount of white smoke, and then I knew that it could not go!" So said the Württemberg lookout.

Yes, the Queen Mary was fatally damaged, deflecting the bow of the ship and being pierced by a 380-mm shell fired by the Württemberg through the horizontal deck and straight into the boiler room, where the explosion destroyed two boiler rooms and reduced its speed to 15 knots.

But that wasn't the main reason for Mar's sinking, as the Württemberg struck the Queen Mary again just 50 seconds after Betty's eye twitched and ordered the Queen Mary to withdraw from the battle.

This time, the armor-piercing shell passed directly through the main armor belt next to the bow turret, if it was a battleship, then the thickness of the armor defense here was at least equivalent to the caliber of the gun, but this was a battle cruiser! Battlecruisers who sacrificed protection for the sake of firepower and speed!

The 9-inch (228 mm) armor was no different from papier-mâché under the 380 mm shells, which drilled inward along the wound until they came to rest next door to the shell.

Corporal Murphy stared blankly at the cannonball falling overhead being stuck in the middle of the steel, he didn't know whether to rejoice or run away, and he didn't know why the cannonball didn't explode, but by the time he finally remembered the danger, it was too late.

There was something wrong with the fuse of the shell, and it was 20 seconds late to start working, and the moment Murphy had climbed the ladder to leave the cabin, a huge flame suddenly exploded behind him, and the flames from the explosion flooded him like water, and at the same time, it also tore through the 30 mm thick armor plate and entered the bomb compartment.

The 151 343-mm shells were detonated one by one, enough to melt the steel and the impact was enough to break through all the armor and steel plates around it, and when they broke through the horizontal armor, the whole battlefield seemed to be set on fire!

There was a thunderous roar of joy on the Württemberg, Scheer clenched the handrail excitedly, the clouds over the German fleet seemed to have begun to dissipate, while the Betty fleet fell into the ice cellar, the faces of the soldiers were like ashes, the staff officer's hand holding the retreat telegram sent by Vice Admiral Jellicoe was frozen in mid-air, and when the west wind blew away the smoke from the position of the Queen Mary, the 26,250-ton monster had disappeared into the sea, and only 15 of the 1,266 officers and men on the ship were rescued.

Rear Admiral Thomas stared blankly at where the Queen Mary had disappeared, at the large gap in the center of the battle line, not knowing whether he should enter with three St. Vincent-class battleships or re-queue.

At that moment, Britain's confidence began to waver, and Nelson's spirit, the maritime supremacy that began in the Victorian era began to sink gradually because the Queen Mary and the Conqueror on the other side of the battlefield were sunk continuously, and it took the Prussians more than 30 years to finally catch up, and they stabbed Britain's pride with thick barrels, excellent gunsmithing, and a cold machine-like efficiency style!

"Get out of here!"

Betty didn't even read the telegram from Jericho, she ordered an immediate evacuation, and the wronged Rear Admiral Thomas led the battleship formation without even hitting a single shell, and then began to run away again, but the big problem was that his partner was at 24 knots, and he only had 20 knots!

Fortunately, the German fleet was not fast, and he could only be chased by shells all the way back.

At this moment, if you remove the low clouds over the North Sea, you will see that two huge fleets are rapidly approaching the middle, Jericho is begging Betty to entangle Hipper on the way back, regardless of losses, and then force Scheer to fight a decisive battle, while Scheer wants to let Schipper intercept Betty in the middle, take out the British battle cruiser with the main fleet, and then retreat.

For Hipper and Betty, Long Guozhang later had a very classic saying: "The two bandits were going to grab a vote, but they didn't expect to be beaten up and couldn't win, so they could only go home and move the rescuers." ”

Although there is a deviation, at least Hipper sank one, but there is nothing wrong with it, because almost all of Hipper's 5 battle cruisers were wounded, the serious Von de Tann lost two turrets, and the stern also poured 600 tons of seawater, and the speed dropped to 23 knots.

2-0, now Germany leads!

But everyone knows that this is not over yet, the loss of two ships will not make Britain cry, and it will not allow Germany to gain control of the North Sea! Therefore, under all kinds of thoughts, one after another speed light cruisers with destroyers, like the galloping light cavalry on the ancient battlefield, rushed out from both ends to the end to kill, and countless pillars of smoke pierced the sky.

"Enemy ships!"

4:10 p.m.

After nearly an hour of running wildly, Hipper and Betty met again, and both of them wanted to cooperate with the main force to stop each other! Although the purpose is different, the result is the same.

Betty is full of anger, can't win a battleship, can't she win the same battle cruise?!

Hipper was so excited that one of the battleships had been sunk by himself, not to mention the poorly protected battlecruisers!

Ten minutes later, the two formations that were supposed to be decoys broke out first, like two long steel dragons separated by 16,000 yards, slowly approaching.

"Boom, boom."

The first to fire was the battleship Tiger, not at Hipper, but at Rear Admiral Bernice's four Wiesbaden-class light cruisers, who had been so rampant that they had run in the wrong direction.

Luck seemed to be back in Betty's hands, and in just two rounds, a 343mm shell hit the Wiesbaden at a speed of 23 knots from 15,000 yards away, and the high-explosive shell would face similar armor and wooden planks, so it smashed directly through the steel plate and entered the internal explosion.

The smoke and fire from the Wiesbaden attracted a lot of shells, and the gunners of Betty's fleet almost treated the small light cruiser as if it were a capital ship, venting their frustration and anger in their hearts.

In just a few minutes, the Wiesbaden had turned out its gray belly, but amazingly, the German watertight technology was so good that the light cruiser was overturned by at least five 343-mm shells and dozens of secondary shells, and then held out for an entire night before being torpedoed by a British destroyer.

The instant destruction of the Wiesbaden made Hipper's eyes red, and when the Elpin began to fire and smoke as soon as the Elpin began to burst into flames, he was furious and wanted to fly over and smash the other party immediately.

The flames were still burning, and the British gunners looked at the front with indifferent expressions, but the muzzles of the guns were aimed at the Elpin, and in one fell swoop, like a giant smashing an ant with a hammer, they did not want this little result, but to tell Hipper, you can't run away!

"Fire!" Hipper's eyes widened, and he threw away half of his cigar and drew one again.

Almost at the same moment, Betty also gave the order to fire, and Rear Admiral Thomas in the distance was smiling, with three slower St. Vincent-class battleships, dodging the shells behind him, and raising the barrels at Hippel.

At 2:35, when Rear Admiral Thomas entered the central battlefield with 3 battleships, Hipper was taken aback because no one told him that Betty still had battleships.

The German telegraph operator also made the fatal mistake of only informing that there was a battle patrol formation intercepting, but forgetting that the report was also mixed with 3 battleships!

When Hipper and Betty were entangled with each other, Scheer and Jellico, who were 23 nautical miles apart, had already received the news that Scheer could not come back, and Scheer would have to fight, and Betty would not come back, and Jerrichonin would have to fight a decisive battle!

God took two red apples and gave them to Germany and England fairly, but the problem is that the two apples were originally taken out by themselves, and they were also adulterated with poison!

Delicious ruddy apples mixed with poison, but they stuffed their own mouths in the back!

Later, someone said something like this, "Almost the same battle plan, almost the same rotten adaptability, and almost the same intense battle**, plus mistakes, confusion and luck, let us see a naval battle that is still haunted by our dreams today!" ”

23 nautical miles, it doesn't even take an hour to engage the battle!

Jericho took a deep breath and, after arranging his uniform in front of the faint reflection on the glass, ordered the standard-bearer to give the famous Nelson signal: "England, everyone needs to do their duty." ”

After Scheer knew that the bait had become a poison against himself, he aroused the ambition to fight with Jericho completely, and he chose and copied the flag of Admiral Long Guozhang, who became famous in World War I in the naval battle of Sibilu Island in the early twentieth century: "Germany, waiting!" ”

Two signal flags that have also been spread all over the world and have been regarded as lifelong mottos by countless naval people have lifted everyone's spirits! Nelson's inspirational legend and the hard, icy Prussian killing machine have finally collided in the North Sea!

Nearly 60 capital ships!

217 warships!

Converge into one voice.

"Fight!"

ps: It's not very good to divide chapters, so it's finished, hehe, ask for votes to support!

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