At 7 p.m

Admiral Reinhardt-Schell ordered the German fleet to turn around and meet its opponent in a northeasterly direction, which coincided with a head-on collision with the British Grand Fleet.

The best scene of the Battle of Jutland appeared

The flares fired by the fleet illuminated the sky and the earth, and the shells fired by the main fleets of Britain and Germany were like a tsunami from the mountains, intertwined into a crimson net of fire in the night.

The ocean is boiling, and the artillery is burning to the ground.

Dozens of capital ships of the British Grand Fleet, full of anger, launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the German High Seas Fleet, and the overwhelming large-caliber shells continued to fall around the German battleships, splashing high columns of water, like cold water sprinkled in a pan, boiling endlessly.

Admiral Reinhardt-Schell regretted it after the first minute in the face of his opponent's superior firepower, knowing that the return was planted and that it was simply stupid to fight hard.

So he ordered a U-turn again, in order to delay the pursuit of the British battleships, which had the advantage in speed and firepower, and buy time for the main fleet to escape.

Admiral Reinhardt-Scheer, with a twitch on his face, gave the order to Admiral Hipper's battlecruisers and destroyers to launch a decisive assault on the opponent.

There's no way around it

Poor 4 battlecruisers, who had distinguished themselves in the battle, were outcasts, and they would face the frenzied retaliation of the British home fleet with extremely low chances of survival.

The 4 German battlecruisers that received the order did not flinch, and they launched a confrontation with the British fleet with their own modest strength,

as expected

The "De Fringer", "Seydlitz", "Von der Tann" and "Keeder" were hit by several bullets, badly damaged, and covered each other's retreat.

After the battlecruisers, the destroyers of the German Navy launched 4 assaults, firing a total of 44 torpedoes at the boiling sea theater.

Although the torpedoes did not hit the target, the British Grand Fleet finally allowed the German battleship to escape after a lot of delay after several turns in order to avoid the torpedoes.

Taking advantage of the precious time gained, the main forces of the High Seas Fleet accelerated their retreat to the southwest, but the British who did not give up followed closely behind.

The hateful Admiral Betty led six LinkedIn battleships to catch up with the Hippert fleet at 20:30 p.m., and the two sides immediately began to fire at each other.

The battered German battlecruisers "De Fringer", "Seydlitz", "Von der Tann" and "Keeder" were covered with scars, and this time the British fleet almost beat them to scrap metal.

The German 2nd Battleship Squadron came to support, but the six former dreadnoughts of the squadron were no match for the British battleships and were soon defeated.

The German former dreadnought "Pomerania" was hit by more than 20 large-caliber shells, which exploded all over the body, and then was hit by two torpedoes and sank, while the other German battleships took advantage of the night to run away.

By 20:40 p.m., the British fleet ceased fire, which became the last exchange of fire between the capital ships of both sides in the Battle of Jutland.

post-war inventory;

In this unprecedented naval battle, both Britain and Germany suffered a certain degree of losses, and the losses of the British Royal Navy were particularly large, with a total of 3 battleships, 6 battle cruisers, 5 armored cruisers, and 12 destroyers sunk, with a total displacement of 192,000 tons, 11,764 officers and sailors were killed and 421 were captured.

And in the original historical time and space

In the Jutland War, 3 battle cruisers, 3 armored cruisers, and 8 destroyers were sunk in the British Grand Fleet, with a total displacement of 113,300 tons, 6,197 officers and men were killed and 177 were captured.

Compare the two

There is no doubt that the losses of the British Royal Navy Grand Fleet are even greater today, and what is especially heart-wrenching is that the three "Queen Elizabeth" class battleships were sunk, one was heavily damaged, and the entire Fifth Battle Fleet lost its combat effectiveness.

Get to the bottom of why

The British battlecruiser's main turret ammunition door was missing, which remained open throughout the battle, and once hit by an enemy shell, the igniting fire quickly spread into the ammunition depot, which was a fatal flaw.

Hundreds of tons of ammunition in the ammunition depot were detonated, and even the most powerful warships could not carry it.

This tragic flaw was the main culprit for the almost total annihilation of the British First World War cruiser fleet.

Second, the German Navy used a new type of time-delay detonation fuse, which made the shells fired by the German fleet more destructive, which, combined with the fatal flaws in the design of the British Royal Navy's warships, caused this tragedy.

Let's look at the German side;

1 battle cruiser, 1 dreadnought, 4 light cruisers, and 9 destroyers of the German High Seas Fleet were sunk, with a total displacement of 72,200 tons, and 3,341 officers and sailors were killed.

Judging by the results alone, the German Navy suffered slightly greater losses than in the original history, but not much.

The Germans won a tactical victory, but the British navy's naval supremacy was not shaken and still had a great advantage.

Admiral Reinhardt-Scheer's last return to the rifle almost destroyed his own battle cruiser.

Although only one was sunk in the end, several others were smashed into tatters, and for a short time they didn't want to go to sea to fight again.

After this battle

The Entente quickly reached an island-for-arms agreement with the Ocean Empire, an unprecedented deal that the Entente handed over to the Ocean Empire, including the Portuguese Azores, the French Wallis and Futuna Islands, the British island of St. Helena, and a number of other islands located in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, a total of 22 islands, including the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which exit from the northwest end of the Strait of Malacca, are all geographically important.

The Ocean Empire handed over to the Entente a large number of weapons and equipment, including six "Queensland" class battleships, six Metropolis-class battleships, eight 20,000-ton heavy cruisers, 66 Brave-class and Kagetsu-class general-purpose cruisers, and hundreds of destroyers, as well as advanced time-delay detonation fuse shells, totaling up to 12,000 tons.

Due to the high price of large-caliber artillery shells for ships, this unprecedented deal was worth 253 million gold oceans, or about 130 million pounds, setting a record for a single arms transaction.

In other words, the Ocean Empire spent so much money to buy 22 islands, which is not just a transaction, but also takes into account political factors, so there is a large premium component.

The main purpose was to help the Allies win the final war.

It was clear that all sides of the Entente felt the serious threat of the German High Seas Fleet, and were willing to pay a heavy price for the rapid replenishment of first-line weapons and equipment at all costs, ensuring that Germany would be firmly blockaded in the fjord.

Once the German fleet was allowed to emerge, it would be a major blow to the Entente that would be irreparably heavy, and on this point, the interests of all countries were aligned.

So, the Portuguese generously took out the Azores, the French took out Wallis and Futuna, and the British, because they needed the most, took out most of the remaining islands in exchange for much-needed front-line warships.

Considering that the Entente did not have so many active soldiers to operate warships, the good men of the Royal Navy of the Ocean Empire did it to the end, urgently retiring 24,500 naval officers and men, who drove the mighty fleet to Europe, nominally participating in the war as volunteers.

The New York Herald commented on June 3:

The German fleet beat the jailers, but remained in prisons. And the jailer, with the help of outsiders, replaced the baton in his hand with a repeating gun, leaving the German fleet with little chance.

Such comments with implicit malice are provocative and will naturally be targeted.

As a result, the New York Herald published a solemn apology on the front page on 4 June, expressing shame at the newspaper's lax comments and solemnly apologizing to all parties concerned who had been hurt by this.

Germany's Berlin Welle radio station lashed out at this; The Ocean Kingdom tore off its hypocrisy and sent the most elite Royal Navy officers and men to join the ranks of the German High Seas Fleet, which was a shameful act that seriously violated the position of the neutral countries, and was bound to provoke strong opposition from the Allies.

Germany will consider launching an unrestricted submarine war, including the merchant fleets of the ocean kingdoms traveling to and from the Atlantic, and teaching them a lesson with iron and blood, some things cannot be mixed!

As the mouthpiece of the German Reich, the vehement rhetoric of the Berlin Welle news agency reflected the great anger of the German leadership, which had already considered the means of war to crack down on the blatant financing of the Ocean Kingdom.

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"Hehehe...... The words are very fierce, but the body is very honest, if the Germans had not been in the water in their heads, they would never dare to attack the imperial merchant ships now. Li Fushou put down the newspaper in his hand and said easily.

I don't know since when the Ocean Empire has become a very feared existence for the great powers of the world.

In June, the Battle of the Somme, which was unprecedentedly tragic in Europe, was about to be launched, which was an out-and-out "battle of hell" and a decisive battle.

At such a time, how dare the Germans have more rights and wrongs?

In Li Fushou's expectation, only by the end of the year, the Germans suffered defeats in the Somme and Verdun battles on the Western Front in Europe, and the losses in the Eastern Front were equally serious, seeing that the war situation was extremely unfavorable to the side of the Central Powers.

At that time, the dog will jump over the wall in a hurry, and then it will launch an unlimited submarine war, this seven-wound fist that hurts others and hurts oneself, now, it is not that time.

Gu Kaizhi has been inaugurated as the new head of the royal secretariat, and he replied with a smile; "Holy Wisdom, our fleet of ships transporting supplies to Europe has repeatedly reported encounters with German submarines, but each time after the Imperial flag was identified, these German submarines dived into the water in disgrace and did not launch any attacks."

"Kaizhi, now is the stage when the war situation is stable, and Wilhelm II is not crazy, so take this opportunity to send more supplies to Europe, so that our institutions in Europe will also stock up more, just in case."

"Wei Chen understands, and he will start to do it immediately" Gu Kaizhi bowed and received the order.

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