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12:16。 After discovering the arrival of the British home fleet, Scheer ordered the seven battle cruisers led by Hipper, plus most of the destroyers, to continue to pack up the battered British fast fleet, while his main fleet spread out in a horizontal formation and met the British fleet.

12:25。 At this time, the British capital ships were lined up in columns, and when the two fleets approached a distance of 28 kilometers, Jericho ordered the fleet to turn right and pull out the battle line.

12:27。 The two sides approached 25 km, and Schell ordered the main German fleet to also turn to the left, keeping the same course as the British fleet. As a result, the horizontal formation of 21 dreadnoughts and 10 dreadnoughts of the German army immediately turned 90 degrees on the spot, turned into columns, and formed a battle line.

Both sides unanimously put the latest battleships at the front of the battle line, and then lined them up from the strongest to the weakest. The slight difference was that the British put two wounded Battlecruisers Lion and Princess Royal at the end of the battle line, while the Germans put ten Dreadnoughts at the end. The Bavaria, which was in first place in the German battle line, was exactly in line with the Royal Oak, which was second in the British army, and the rest were all lined up one after the other, one against the other.

At this time, the number of capital ships on both sides forming the battle line is about the same, the British is 32, and the German 31, of course, this is just about the same quantity, not to mention the quality, the ten former dreadnoughts of Germany are basically the life of the knife.

12:32。 The two fleets were 22 kilometers apart, and the Revenge, which was at the top of the British army, fired the first shot at the Bavaria, firing the first shot of the decisive battle between the British and German navies. Immediately after, on two parallel battle lines of more than 30 kilometers, heavy artillery on both sides fired in unison, and the earth-shattering sound of artillery filled every inch of space, and the beacon fire spewed out from the muzzles reflected the air and sea water.

This was a decisive naval battle between Britain and Germany. It is also the largest and most powerful naval battle in the history of mankind, and it is also the only decisive battle in which the main fleet of the two warring parties is fully dispatched in this war. This is a collision of more than a million tons of steel and flames, and the winner will gain complete strategic initiative and completely control the sea power in the North Atlantic.

It's a big battle between both sides, with the winner getting all the glory and the loser getting nothing. This was a battle that would determine the fortunes of the country, so the officers and soldiers on both sides played with their lives.

Hundreds of heavy shells flew towards each other with each salvo, and dozens of tons of steel and gunpowder were exchanged at every moment.

12:35。 The first hit of the main duel between the two sides appeared. What is more surprising is that it is not those cutting-edge super-dreadnoughts that have achieved this achievement, but an old German former dreadnought, the Prussia. Against it was the battlecruiser HMS Princess Royal.

The Royal Princess has been wounded in the battle patrol duel in front, the movement mechanism of the two front main guns was stuck, which is considered a scrap, and only the two rear main guns can still shoot normally, only half of the combat effectiveness. Even so, it still had four 343mm guns at its disposal, while the Prussia only had four 280mm guns, and the difference in firepower was extremely noticeable.

But no matter how powerful the heavy artillery missed, it was in vain, and the Royal Princess fired four volleys at the Prussia, all of which missed. But the Prussia's counterattack was much more accurate, with a broken shot in the fourth salvo and a hit the target in the fifth.

In the pre-war shipbuilding race in China, Germany was clearly at a disadvantage. They have much fewer capital ships than the British, and their manufacturing capacity is not as good as that of the British, Germany can only start construction of a maximum of five capital ships at the same time, while the British can start the construction of nine capital ships at the same time, and this gap cannot be changed in a short time. In order to try to narrow the gap as much as possible, Germany naturally hit the idea on the former dreadnoughts. On this plane, due to the extra-large "self-dry five marks", Germany has obtained more advanced main guns and fire control and observation systems. So starting in 1910, the Germans successively upgraded their 20 former dreadnoughts, replacing them with new main guns and turrets, as well as fire control and sighting systems. Although it can't be compared to a real dreadnought, it at least has a fight.

The ten dreadnoughts dispatched by Germany this time were five each of the Braunschweig-class and the Deutschland-class, making them their strongest dreadnoughts. These ten former dreadnoughts previously used 283 mm 40 times the diameter main gun, the elevation angle could only reach 22 degrees, they could only fire 240 kg of light shells, and the maximum range was only 18 kilometers. These former dreadnoughts were replaced with new 280 mm 45 times diameter guns and new turrets, with an elevation angle of 30 degrees, which could fire 330 kg of heavy bullets, greatly increasing their power, and with the addition of a new fire control and sighting system, the effective range was increased to 25 kilometers, and the hit rate was also significantly improved.

It is precisely because of these magic changes that a former dreadnought can achieve such good results.

This 280-mm shell of the Prussia fell almost vertically, and thanks to the British habit of cutting armor, the horizontal armor of the Lion Cruiser was only a pitiful 1-2. 5 inches, the 330-kilogram armor-piercing incendiary bomb penetrated the deck of the Royal Princess almost effortlessly, penetrating several floors of compartments in a row and exploding in the boiler room. Not only did it destroy several boilers, but it also turned the entire boiler room into a flaming hell. The power of the Royal Princess suddenly decreased sharply, and its speed fell below 15 knots, and it could no longer keep up with the battle line.

12:37。 The British won their first victory, when the King George V hit the Frederick the Great with a shot and destroyed a secondary gun. The Crown Prince had the advantage in the battle with the Irish, and in this battle between the genuine version of the Fuxi class and the copycat, the copycat was completely exploded. The Irish missed, while the Crown Prince hit three shots in a row. The British desperately reduced the bad habit of armor also continued to the copycats, if they were replaced by genuine Fuxi, it would not be a big problem to suffer from these three guns, but the copycats would be miserable. The rear main gun ammunition depot of the Irish was punctured, causing the ammunition to detonate quickly. The Irish was blown up in the middle and sank into the sea in a very miserable way.

12:38。 The British also hit the underwater part of the Pomerania with a shell from the Neptune, which exploded in the torpedo compartment after penetrating the ship's plank, and the torpedo blew a hole more than three meters in its starboard side. Seconds later, the German-class ex-dreadnought disappeared into the sea in a burst of explosion.

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The main fleets on both sides were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire, and the exchange of fire between the fast fleets on the other side was even more brutal. Seven German war cruisers with a large number of light ships swooped down viciously on the British Rapid Fleet, which suffered heavy casualties, and the British Rapid Fleet was not willing to end there, and they put up a stubborn resistance under the leadership of Rear Admiral Thomas.

And before the main exchange of fire just now, Jericho also asked eight armored cruisers to come up with most of the light ships to reinforce them. Now the British lineup is three Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships, 8 armored cruisers, 10 light cruisers and 40 destroyers. And the German lineup was seven battle cruisers, 13 light cruisers and 80 fleet torpedo boats (including destroyers).

At present, the most numerous torpedo boats in the German army are the P-100 that China bought them, which is a large torpedo boat, or small destroyer, specially designed for Germany. In fact, it is the 1935 torpedo boat demon used by Germany in World War II, and it is also their own thing, but Mr. Wen gave it to them twenty years in advance.

The German battle rangers ignored the immobile war-weariness and concentrated all their main guns on the Malaya and Balham. At the same time, 80 fleet torpedo boats, led by light cruisers, charged the British fleet. Although most of the torpedo boats of the German fleet were smaller than the tonnage of British destroyers, they could not hold many people.

The German oxygen torpedoes had a long range, and the torpedo boats also had a numerical advantage, and soon about 50 torpedo boats broke through the British artillery interception, reached the firing position, and fired torpedoes at the British fleet.

These torpedo boats are generally equipped with 6 torpedo tubes (two triple packs), and this wave of torpedo salvo fired about 300 610 mm heavy anti-ship torpedoes. For a time, the sea was full of flying torpedoes. This time, because it was to deal with a large number of light ships, half of the torpedoes were adjusted to a depth of 3 meters.

In the previous battle, the Germans' torpedoes had already made a deep impression on the British, and the British ships were immediately shocked when they saw the other side launch the torpedoes, and hurriedly began to evade them urgently.

Of course, the oxygen torpedo is not completely devoid of tracks, but its track is very short and light, and it can only be detected at a very close distance. In particular, the German Yaksha torpedo has been modified by the Chinese devil, and the propeller design is much more reasonable than the Japanese original, and the track is even less obvious.

And most importantly, the well-structured propeller avoids the cavitation effect caused by high-speed rotation, and the reason why Japan's oxygen torpedoes did not perform well in the original time and space was largely due to the unreasonable design of the propeller. Because their torpedo fuses are highly sensitive, and the constantly bursting cavitation bubbles make the torpedoes always vibrate during operation, and most of the oxygen torpedoes are triggered by the cavitation vibration, and they explode in advance before reaching the target. And after the Chinese magic reform, the stability of the Yaksha has completely exploded the original Japanese version, for example, none of the torpedoes used by the German army this time exploded in advance, and if it is replaced with the original Japanese torpedo, at least one-third of it will be wasted.

And now when the sun is shining, the sunlight reflected on the sea surface has caused great trouble for the lookouts, making their warning distance greatly reduced.

"Boom, boom...... Boom Boom Boom ......"

A few minutes later, columns of water were rising around the ships of the British fleet, and muffled explosions continued to sound.

Because the light ships were in the forefront, they were the first to be unlucky.