How far can the 280-millimeter guns on the armored ship Lützov hit? The Germans' excellent steel-making technology and artillery casting technology enabled this kind of cannon to push its own shells 30 kilometers away; although this range is not the first in the world, it can definitely be said to be a bully when used against an American destroyer equipped with only 127-millimeter guns.

"Boom!" Almost at the same time, all the six 280 mm guns on the German battleship spewed dazzling flames, even in the daytime, such huge flames and smoke and dust were still clearly visible, even in the rough North Sea, the huge wave of air emitted by the projectile was still like a wind, blowing away the haze in people's hearts.

Moreover, the salvo of six 280 mm cannons fired at tenths of a second interval from a few hundred meters away may be a spectacular sight for civilians that will never be seen in a lifetime. So when the Lützov fired a salvo, Kohler and some civilians standing on the deck were so frightened that they fell to the ground, and in their eyes, this was probably the most powerful warship in the world.

Don't laugh at these people's ideas, even if the British battleships are powerful, not many civilians can see with their own eyes the sight of the ten guns of the King George V-class battleship firing at the same time, so these German personnel feel that the battleship in front of them is the world's first battleship, which is definitely not a compliment, but a heartfelt sigh.

What's more, although the battleships of the British Navy were better, they were someone else's thing, and they would not let out their own roar for the Germans who were far away, and although their own battleship was inferior to the British things, it was really sailing in front of it, and it really shot angry shells for the humiliation it had suffered!

When have the Germans been so uplifted since 1919? Since the High Seas Fleet turned into a rainbow and sank to the bottom of the British sea, when have the Germans had such a hardened style in the Atlantic? Opened fire on American warships? And just to get angry with a group of inconsequential German civilians, they opened fire directly? Kohler sat on the deck, looking at the naval guns still smoking in the distance, and for the first time felt that being a German was not a disadvantage.

Nearly 20 kilometers away, on the American destroyer, the first mate and the captain were still regretting that they had not been able to grab an objective sum of money, but they soon suffered a thrilling round of "catastrophe from heaven". With a loud whistling sound, the shells fired by the Germans from a distance of 20 kilometers flew precisely around the destroyer, setting off a huge column of water for a destroyer.

"Did the Germans open fire? What the hell is going on? Didn't we let each other's ships go?" The captain of the American destroyer looked at the huge column of water rising in the distance, and was surprised for a long time before he spit out such a sentence that he didn't know who he was asking. I just intercepted a transport ship, and I only fired a cannon to intimidate, so I can't attack directly with the main gun, right?

And he is just a small destroyer, and it is a bit overkill to attack with the main guns of a heavy cruiser of 280 mm caliber? Do you want to play so hard? Who is on the transport ship? Isn't it the lover of the German Führer who happens to be there? Why are you so unlucky?

A series of question marks passed through the mind of the American captain, and at last he remembered that his current situation was very dangerous, so he quickly came back to his senses and ordered: "Quick! Speed up, change the course, and fill the rudder left! Avoid our previous course! Hurry!"

The tonnage of the destroyer is relatively small, and the sailing speed is faster, which is a typical small and good U-turn, and within a dozen seconds, the destroyer deviated from the original course with the roar of the engine, and turned the bow in the direction of due south by the wind and waves.

At the same moment, on the armored ship Lützov of the German Navy, the middle-aged captain was standing on the bridge, and behind him, the weapons officer was reporting the results of the attack: "The first salvo did not hit the target, the impact point was far from the target, is the second round of firing carried out?"

"Keep firing!" The 280 mm caliber gun, the range and power are indeed amazing, but it is obviously a little inappropriate to deal with a ship of the size of a destroyer, at least at this time, the embarrassing situation of only 6 main guns on the Lützov is a bit prominent, and the small fire density makes the Lützov a little powerless in terms of the time interval between continuing the attack and the density of firepower.

In fact, the solution was not impossible, that is, the front and rear main guns fired only one cannon at a time, and then reloaded and fired in turn, forming a cycle, but this made up for the interval of attack, but the density of fire was more sparse - in short, this small boat-mounted small number of cannons was not without its drawbacks, so it was not a particularly successful cross-border warship design.

Of course, in terms of power, a cruiser with a failed design is much better than a destroyer, so attacking a destroyer with an armored ship is a bully in any case.

The so-called layman looks at the lively, and the insider looks at the doorway. Although the overemphasis on cross-border firepower in the design of the armored ship led to some problems, in the eyes of a group of German civilians on the Hercules transport, there was no such professional thing at all, and they were still immersed in the shock of the second salvo, and they were deeply proud of the strength of the German war machine.

Some people are proud, of course, some people have to be tired of dealing with the dangerous situation of wanting to scold their mother, although the German artillery school radar is far from advanced in terms of accuracy to the extent of where to hit, after all, in the North Atlantic sea, not only the carrier-based aircraft on the aircraft carrier will not be able to take off from time to time because of the wave problem, whether the cannon on the battleship can hit the target, it is also a certain type of lottery with a relatively large chance of winning.

However, German artillery has always been known for its accuracy, and the German Navy's ability to handle guns to make the British feel threatened is enough to prove their strength. Under the guidance of the artillery school radar, the German Navy not only adjusted the firing parameters at the distance, but also corrected some of the firing elements after the change of the enemy's course.

The second salvo of shells almost formed a cross-impact around the destroyer of the United States Navy, and the one closest to the destroyer almost hit the destroyer's tallest mast. Such accurate long-range artillery bombardment really caused the American sailors to break out in a cold sweat, and if they were hit by a 280-millimeter shell, they would have to swim back to the east coast of the United States in the white and cold Atlantic waters.

"The Germans' shells are open, can't we be so accurate?" the captain of the American destroyer shouted at his lieutenant as he looked angrily at the huge column of water from the shells not far away that had not completely subsided. Then he seemed to remember something, and immediately waved his hand: "Let me find the sentry post for the air search! Don't let go of the place where there are clouds! Look carefully! The other party must have a calibration plane! Find it for me! Quickly!"

For the old destroyers patrolling and anti-submarine on the east coast of the United States, such an advanced thing as radar is not yet popular, and even if they know that there is such an advanced equipment as radar, the US Navy does not have a radar device in its hands that can direct artillery to aim at the target, and for them, radar is only a device for discovering opponents, not a shooting aid that can be accurate to 10 meters.

It can be said that Accardo's radar research, which he began to invest in as early as 25 years, finally made Germany lead the rest of the world in this kind of equipment, and the German navy was invincible not by relying on aircraft carriers as weapons, but by relying on radar devices to achieve victory after victory in naval warfare. If there was no radar, then the combat effectiveness of the German aircraft carrier fleet would have been greatly reduced, and it was even possible that it would be annihilated by the British battleship fleet in the North Sea.

At a time when all the military powers of the world were trying their best to make their cannons have a longer range and thicker armor, the Germans focused on radio applications, infrared, etc. So when everyone had heavy armor and powerful cannons, everyone was surprised to find that the Germans had a lot of new equipment that could make or break the war.

Seeing that the Germans' aircraft carriers are extremely powerful, the Americans and the British have the ability to build their own aircraft carrier fleets, and even produce them faster, but even if the US aircraft carriers are really launched, will they be able to have the combat capability of the German aircraft carrier fleet? Closing these gaps is not as simple as a short one-year aircraft carrier construction cycle -- the Germans have gone ahead for 10 years, and the Americans want to chase after them, how easy is it to talk about it?

Just as all the soldiers were raising their heads and craning their necks in search of the non-existent artillery calibration plane on the anti-aircraft positions of the American Navy destroyers, the German armored ships had just fired their third salvo, and the sound of the huge shelling extended into the distance, knocking on the hearts of the German diaspora on all the Project 317 Hercules transports.

This is not a routine act of intimidation and revenge, if that is the case, a salvo will be sufficient, even if it is to curry favor with the German expatriates on board, a round of shelling can definitely buy hearts and minds.

When the German naval artillery fired a third salvo, a seemingly ridiculous word popped up in Kohler's mind: "As a matter of course." Similar to the arrogance and tradition imprinted in the bones, the German Navy warships in front of them seem to regard all provocations against the Third Reich as intolerable, and their warships are not firing for these German expatriates, but for the rise of the entire German nation!