When the German destroyers came out in pursuit, Tyrit's warships rushed out to chase them.

At this time, 2 German light cruisers rushed out from behind Heligoland.

The British caused one of the German cruisers to turn around and sail towards Wilhelmshaven with 50 casualties.

At this point the British turned back to the west and found a lone German destroyer, which was quickly smashed into a pile of flaming wreckage.

Keith, who was also heading west, saw Goodenough's cruiser approaching through the morning fog, and he was so surprised that he thought it was an enemy ship, and sent a telegram for help.

Tyrit arrived quickly, and thanks to his timely recognition of each other, a fierce battle between friendly forces was avoided.

Admiral Ingnoll had ordered the German battlecruisers to rush to Heligoland if necessary, but he apparently forgot about the tides.

It was not until the afternoon when the tide was high enough to sail out of the Gulf of Yard, when five German light cruisers in this area came to take part in the attack.

Goodenough's warships sank 1, and before the remaining ones could escape, Betty's battlecruisers rushed from the northwest and sank 2 with 13.5-inch guns.

The two surviving German light cruisers, battered and bruised, managed to slip away and encountered a battle cruiser arriving from the Gulf of Yard.

The battlecruisers hurried to the scene of the battle, and by the time they finally arrived, all the British warships had already left.

The British preempted the surface battle, sinking 3 enemy light cruisers and 1 destroyer, killing more than 700 enemies and taking 400 prisoners.

The British warship suffered only minor damage, with 35 casualties. As the German Army swept through Belgium and northern France, the news of the victory of the British in the Great War greatly lifted the Allied people.

But the British Admiralty officers, knowing that they were sorry for the fleet, changed their plans at the last minute without informing the commander at sea, which almost led to the sinking of the British warship by the British warship.

The German Admiralty was similarly aware of its ineffective command, and despite the alert that the British were going to ambush them, the German warships that were enough to destroy the attackers at their own gates were either too late to strike or could not come out.

The German Emperor was shocked by the loss of his own warships and personnel, and from then on decided to take control of the fleet's operations into his own hands.

He told Ingnoll that he would not be allowed to sail without his consent. Mines were laid in the waters of Helgoland, a detachment of battleships was put in combat readiness, and the battlecruisers were moored off the bay of Yad without extinguishing their fire, ready to counter the second attack of the British.

The confidence that the victory at Heligoland gave to the Royal Navy was soon lost to German submarines.

In September 1914, German submarines sank 4 British cruisers in the North Sea.

The hulls and compartments of the cruisers built in 1901 and 1902 did not have the ability to withstand German torpedoes, which had been improved with high efficiency.

These warships sank quickly and suffered heavy casualties, and the British fleet's operations in the North Sea were affected by excessive care.

They were especially cautious in pursuit, as the enemy could lead Royal Navy units to minefields or submarine ambushes.

The final losses of the German Navy were: 3 light cruisers, 1 destroyer and 1 minesweeper sunk; The British Navy had 2 light cruisers and 3 destroyers seriously damaged.

In this battle, the British command was unable to fully realize the battle plan due to the violation of the rules of Operation Shade (the German command realized that the British Navy had gone to sea based on the sudden increase in radio communication between British ships);

The coordination between the groups of ships was poorly organized (the support forces were put into battle too late) and the communication between the teams was poorly organized (the cruisers of the support team failed to meet the detachments of light forces).

The battle took place at a time when World War I seemed imminent in Western Europe.

Both the British Home Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet entered combat berths, and the main combat power of the British Home Fleet was concentrated in the Grand Fleet, which was commanded by Admiral John Jellicoe, with the main base in Scapa Bay in the Orkney Islands and the auxiliary base in the Scottish Harbor.

The Grand Fleet consisted of 20 first-class battleships and 4 battle cruisers, and its main role was to prevent German warships from escaping into the Atlantic, defend the North Sea, monitor the High Seas Fleet, and annihilate the German High Seas Fleet when a favorable opportunity arises.

The influence of sea power on the war was felt from the very beginning, and from the outbreak of the great war, the power of the naval blockade, although slow and imperfect at first, gradually strengthened, and finally became more and more relentless like a giant python.

The British used their great maritime power against Germany and greatly benefited from its geographical location.

The British Isles are just across the sea from the western side of the European continent, encircling and blocking the North Sea and Germany's route to the Baltic Sea.

On the eve of the outbreak of war in 1914, the British Royal Navy was far more powerful than the Imperial German Navy.

The Royal Navy has a total of 21 dreadnought-class warships, and the British "Queen Elizabeth" dreadnought is equipped with eight 380 mm guns, with a range of about 13 kilometers, which is three times the range of guns on ordinary warships.

The German Navy's main high seas fleet, with 14 dreadnoughts, was blockaded in Kiel and Wilhelmshaven after the outbreak of the war.

The location of the British Isles held the exit from the North Sea, and the German High Seas Fleet had effectively become the possession of the British Grand Fleet, which had the effect of blockading Germany by anchoring only one fleet there.

Obviously, the high seas fleet, which is at a disadvantage, will not come out to challenge the large fleet assembled there.

On the other hand, the threat of minefields, submarines, etc., also prevented the Grand Fleet from entering the Gulf of Yard to attack the German fleet, and the British aim was to lure out the high seas fleet and destroy it.

The Germans, on the other hand, wanted to use stratagem to annihilate the various parts of the Grand Fleet one by one, one by one, in order to weaken it to a level that they could deal with.

For the two largest fleets in the world, much of the war was spent in tiresome standby, with the British fleet on standby at Scarpa Sound on the Orkney Islands and the gloomy bases at Cromat, Scotland.

The German fleet, on the other hand, hid behind the artillery of Helgoland and the minefields of Helgoland Bay, and stood by in Bremerhaven and Wilhelmshaven in the Gulf of Yard, while older ships were deployed in the Baltic port of Kiel.

As the land continued to retreat, the British navy became more and more vocal in its quest for war.

Brigadier General Case, commander of the British submarine force, received a report that every evening German light cruisers escorted destroyers to Helgoland Bay for night patrols, and that the cruiser and destroyers met at dawn 20 nautical miles northwest of Helgoland Bay to escort them back to port.

Seeing this law as an opportunity for the British fleet, Keith drew up a plan to surprise the enemy, using submarines as bait, placing powerful surface reinforcements outside the horizon, and luring the Germans to the sea west of Helgoland Bay.

Due to Case's repeated insistence and the gradual dissatisfaction of the middle and lower rank officers under the traditional dignity of the British Royal Navy, Admiral Jericho, the commander of the British Grand Fleet, had to agree to Case's plan to lure the enemy.

With his own detachment of 3 submarines and 2 destroyers, he went to German waters, pretending to encircle and annihilate the German destroyer detachment, in order to attract a large German army out of the nest, and then annihilate them together.

The whole plan called for a quick fight and a quick withdrawal, minimizing exposure to the enemy's gates, and ending the battle before German reinforcements arrived.

In order to be safe, Case requested that the First Light Cruiser Squadron be transferred from the Grand Fleet for close support, and also applied for the main force of the Grand Fleet to be used as a backing.

However, Admiral Jericho did not allow a small assault to interfere with the normal patrol of the Grand Fleet, and he simply refused this "non-divisional" request.

Just before the operation began, Jericho reviewed the battle plan and determined that the assault forces were insufficient to deal with the contingencies, and that the long-range support group far away at the mouth of the Humber River would not be able to provide timely support.

After the departure of Keith and Territ, he ordered Vice Admiral Betty to lead the 1st Squadron of Battlecruisers "Lion", "Queen Mary" and "Princess" and 6 light cruisers under the command of Commodore Goodnov to join the 2nd Squadron of Battlecruisers and follow Territ to the Gulf of Helgoland.

Just after midnight on August 26, 1914, the 8th Submarine Detachment departed from Harwich Harbor for the war zone, and Keith took command of the destroyer USS Silent Hound.

Tyrit also boarded the flagship "Lin Xian" at 9 a.m. on this day, and the light cruiser "Lin Xian" had strong firepower and high speed, but it had only been in service for 15 days, and various equipment still lacked running-in and adjustment.

So when the Tyrit fleet set off on the 27th, the combat state of the "Lin Xian" was still worrying.

They arrived in the early morning of the 28th in the Helgoland Bay and found the dark shadow of the German destroyer detachment on the foggy sea, and the low visibility caused by the fog made the British submarine only find 6~7 of the 16 German ships.

And the visibility of about 5 kilometers also did not allow the Germans to notice the torpedoes fired by the British submarine, and the unfortunate German destroyer "V-117" was unfortunately hit, and the Germans reacted quickly and immediately adjusted the formation.

Lieutenant Commander Varys, commander of the German destroyer detachment, immediately ordered a search formation to pursue westward, and at the same time radioed an alarm of "enemy submarines in the bay," and the Fifth Mine-Strike Squadron anchored on Helgoland Island was immediately launched, preparing to set off to destroy the British submarines.

At 7 o'clock, the surface ships of the two sides made their first contact, and the German detachment of the first mine-striking ships, which had been searching westward for two hours without results, suddenly discovered the Tyrit fleet that had penetrated the fog to the south.

The two German light cruisers "Stettin" and "Frauenlob", which were tasked with protecting the destroyer formation, and the fifth destroyer formation not far away, a total of 18 large and small ships joined the battle group.

Hidden in the thick fog, his fleet began to move towards the dark shadows in the center, and fired first, the balance of strength between the two sides was so balanced.

This also gave the well-prepared Tirit fleet an advantage in the initial artillery battle.

At the same time, the "Lin Xian" and the "Fraunlob" fell into a bitter battle, although the "Lin Xian" was significantly superior to the opponent in terms of data comparison, but its shortcomings of too short a run-in time affected the combat effectiveness.

Two 102-mm guns jammed, another was damaged, the torpedo tubes were scrapped, and for a time only one 152-mm gun in the bow of the ship was able to return fire, and the scene was extremely passive.

Fortunately, it hit the opponent's vital point, so that the "Fraunlob" had to drag the right-leaning hull out of the battle.

As the British had calculated, their sortie attracted a number of German ships, and if they could continue according to the established plan, the victory would be almost 100% on their side.

Brigadier General Territ put down his binoculars and couldn't help but feel proud, but it was at this moment that his good days ended:

Also due to the problem of visibility, he did not notice that a large number of reinforcements were coming near the German fleet.

During the fierce battle with Fraunlob, the Lynsian had a hole in its boiler pipe, and by this time the speed was less than 10 knots, and Tyrit decided to use the gap between battles to make emergency repairs.

At 11 o'clock, the speed of the "Lin Xian" had been restored to 20 knots, and all guns except for two 102-mm guns were back in service.

When the engines roared again, the German counterattack was about to begin.

The German light cruisers were originally dispersed, so they all arrived separately and went into battle, the first to appear was the "Strasbourg".

Commodore Tillit's flagship, the Lynsen, and four British ships beside him became the primary targets of the German Navy's formation of seven cruisers rushing from the flank.

The five destroyers, including the "Lin Xian," were originally five against two, and they were quite comfortable attacking the two cruisers "Stettin" and "Fraunlob" that had rushed to the aid of the German Navy in advance.

However, the arrival of the new forces of the German army turned the tide of the battle at once, and seeing that the momentum was not good, the "Linsen" quickly sent a signal for help to Goodnov's cruiser formation, which was already on the way.

While Tyrit was tired of dealing with the marquee attack of the German ships, Betty, the British supreme commander of the operation, and his five battle cruisers and four destroyers were hovering 48 kilometers to the northwest, and he could not sit idly by while Tyrit was besieged.

But he also knew very well that the Germans would be able to dispatch battle cruisers and even a battlefleet soon in the afternoon, when the self-preservation of his five battlecruisers was still in doubt, let alone rescue, and the balance of victory was tilting in favor of Germany every minute.

At this time, nearly 80 large and small ships were fighting on the sea, and the Germans had a slight upper hand at the beginning of the battle due to the close rescue distance and the improvement of the emergency response mechanism.

The "Linsen" ended its short service after a violent explosion under the combined attack of several German cruisers, and Commodore Tierriet, who served as the decoy, completed his decoy mission, and the German fleet engulfed him.

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