7：35。 A thick column of water suddenly rose from the side of the battlecruiser Indefatigable, which rushed to a height of more than fifty meters, followed by a dull loud noise.

The "......Boom" Indefatigable shook violently, as if it had been kicked hard by an invisible giant. 550 kilograms of high explosives were unleashed with terrible energy, and the underwater mine belt of the Indefatigable was destroyed with little effect. The high-pressure sea water tore a large hole in the underwater hull near the rear main turret of the Indefatigable with a diameter of more than three meters.

Due to the size of the breach, the damage pipe was not able to rescue at all, and even if the captain ordered an emergency filling of water to the port side, it only lasted a few more minutes. Ten minutes later, the nearly 20,000-ton battle cruiser capsized and sank into the sea, and only 55 of the more than 800 officers and men on board were finally rescued.

Just five seconds after the indefatigable was hit, the Queen Mary, who was in second place in the battle line, also suffered two "Yaksha" 600-mm torpedoes. I saw two huge columns of water rising in succession from the stern and the starboard side of the ship, and then I saw the Queen Mary suddenly shrug forward, then tilted to the left again, and then collapsed on the surface of the sea unable to move, and quickly leaned to the right.

Almost at the same time, the bow of the New Zealand was hit by a mine, and the bow waterline almost disappeared, turning into a large mouth, which was grunting and drinking seawater.

General Betty's face turned green. In less than half a minute, three capital ships were scrapped, and no one can stand this kind of loss. Betty could already imagine what would await her when she returned home.

"What are the lookouts doing, why don't you keep an eye out for the thunder?" he cried out in a hoarse voice. He could see very clearly that the three warships that were hit by mines did not take any evasive action, and they were so stupidly hit. This is simply an intolerable low-level mistake for a well-trained Royal Navy.

"Your Excellency, the lookouts said that they did not see any traces of thunder, and now our training is not too lax, and these lookouts are strictly derelict in their duties......" said the chief of staff, his face was also very ugly.

They wouldn't have known, of course, that they had wronged those poor British lookouts, and that it was not a problem with lookouts at all. Because the German ships fired "powerful Type 913 acid torpedoes" (the Germans called this kind of torpedo imported from China "Type 1913" torpedoes), the oxygen torpedoes have a hairy mine track, even if those lookouts stared at the eyeballs, they could not see the so-called "mine tracks".

Betty stared at the tragic scene in front of her with red eyes, her fists clenched, and her fingernails pierced her palms. After a few seconds, he said solemnly: "Order all cruisers and destroyers to launch lightning strikes against the main force of the German ships at any cost." At the same time release smoke, retreat...... Immediately report to Commander Jericho that we have been struck by a massive German lightning strike and have suffered heavy losses, so we can only temporarily retreat, and ask the main fleet to quickly support ......"

At this moment, the battle cruiser detachment that was still majestic when it set sail, the Indomitable that was the first to be exploded had only one bow left exposed on the sea, and the Indomitable was left with a butt on the sea, the propeller was still slowly turning, and the barnacles attached to the bottom of the hull could be seen.

The roll of the Tiger had reached 25 degrees, all damage control measures had failed, the fate of capsizing was irretrievable, and a fire broke out on the ship. At this time, the personnel were being evacuated, but the captain refused to leave the ship and tied himself to the steering wheel.

The Invincible's secondary ammunition depot exploded, turning into a blazing flare. In addition, the bridge was broken, the leadership team was completely wiped out, and the sailors who had lost their command were at a loss, and after the damage management was ineffective, the sailors abandoned the ship and evacuated under the command of the junior officers.

The Indefatigable had flipped all over in its entirety, revealing its belly like a dead fish. The Queen Mary was blown up, the propellers and steering gear were blown up, and it was completely incapacitated. After some rescue, the New Zealand finally did not continue to sink, but the hideous "big mouth" in the bow reduced its speed to less than 10 knots.

Now the British army is still complete, and there are only two ships left, the flagship Lion and the Royal Princess, but these two ships are also scarred, the command instrument of the Lion was destroyed and destroyed, and the main gun was also scrapped, and the combat effectiveness was less than half. And the Royal Princess is not much better, the movement mechanism of the two front main guns is stuck, which is considered a scrap, and the starboard side secondary gun is completely destroyed, only the two rear main guns can still shoot normally, and only half of the combat effectiveness is gone.

On the other hand, the German fleet has now maintained most of its combat effectiveness, and only the Von de Tann and the Cedritz have been abolished, and the remaining seven battle cruisers have maintained considerable combat effectiveness.

In this case, no matter how hard Betty tries, she can't save the defeat, and if she continues to die, she won't even be able to save the last two battle cruisers.

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At this time, three British seaplanes caught up from behind, which the main fleet sent to observe the situation. When they reached the sky above the battlefield, they saw this miserable picture.

The pilots were so stunned that they almost drove the plane overboard.

"Oh my God, the one that has fallen to the surface of the sea is our Tiger...... Queen Mary, how did it come to this?"

"What about the Indomitable, what about the Indomitable, and the Indefatigable...... Why didn't I see them......"

"That's the Invincible...... It's burning, almost unrecognizable. God, am I dreaming? Is this really our battle cruiser detachment?"

The British pilots screamed in disbelief, and then desperately sent a report to the main fleet.

"Dada...... Dadada......"

Suddenly, a rush of fire woke up the British pilots. Several German seaplanes swooped down on them viciously, and tongues of fire from their noses from time to time showed that these German planes were not just here to say hello.

"Damn, it's the damn 'sea urchin'......! Get out of here......" The British pilot glanced at the iconic three-pontoon and recognized the identity of these seaplanes. Suddenly, his face changed drastically, and he hurriedly turned to flee.

The German Navy is now equipped with a large number of AR-6 water reconnaissance planes, although this kind of seaplane is only a reconnaissance aircraft, but the performance is extremely advanced, they rely on the nose of the two machine guns, and the maximum speed of 280 kilometers per hour, even can compete with land-based fighters.

When the capital ships were bombarding, the reconnaissance planes on both sides were not idle, and they both tried to disperse each other. Although everyone is a water reconnaissance aircraft, the British "Spanlow" seaplane has much worse performance, with a maximum speed of only 180 kilometers per hour, and only one recoiler machine gun, which is not an opponent of the Ar-6 at all. After a few rounds, it was beaten out by German planes, and had to give up the skies of the fleet to the Germans.

Although these German water reconnaissance planes could not pose a threat to warships, they provided calibration services for their own capital ships, which was one of the reasons why the German ships overwhelmed the British ships in terms of hit rate.

Ahem, by the way, Germany's AR-6 water reconnaissance aircraft is also one of the achievements of Sino-German military cooperation, its prototype is the original time and space Japan's Type 95 water reconnaissance aircraft, the pilots evaluated its flight performance can be compared with the Type 96 carrier-based fighter, in the original time and space of the Sino-Japanese war, in addition to reconnaissance but also used for bombing and missile observation, and even with its flight performance and the Chinese Air Force fighter air combat, it is regarded as one of the best biplane seaplanes.

In the previous years of war, the seaplanes of the two sides also fought each other, but each time the British side was deflated, so the British pilots gave these AR-6 the nickname "sea urchin" in a feeling of envy, jealousy and hatred. The British pilot, who had long been beaten out of the psychological shadow, saw that it was the "sea urchin" who was chasing him, and he dared to stay wherever he could, so he directly smeared oil on the soles of his feet and slipped away.

The rear fuselage of the German aircraft led by the team has a personality paint, and on a white round background is written a big Chinese character - "鶸" in eye-catching red paint. German naval pilots know that the person who uses this symbol is the current German Navy's first ace, Second Lieutenant Fafnier.

"Hahahaha, I still want to run ...... when I see it" Looking at the British plane fleeing in a hurry, Favennier laughed arrogantly.

The observer in the back seat smiled and said: "Baron, if you kill 2 more planes today, you will break through 30, and you will be able to enter the top 20 in the country......" The title of Baron is not only Fafnier's nickname, he is really a baron.

"Cut, can you not mention that ranking. Ours is a reconnaissance plane, and the Air Force uses professional fighters!" Fafnier said depressedly. With that, he pressed the launch button.

"Dada...... Da ...... "A "Spanlow" in front of it plummeted down with black smoke.

"Baron, the remaining two are also handed over to you, and we will also let you brush up on some more results and try to catch up with the red plane of the Air Force, hahaha......"

"That is, the Air Force has a Red Baron, and our Navy also has a Baron Baron......"

The voice of the pilot of the friendly plane was heard on the radio.

Hearing this, Fafnier was even more depressed, the "red plane" of the Air Force had already achieved 90 results, and it was approaching 100 people. Relying on reconnaissance planes to catch up with such results is probably something that will not be possible in a lifetime.

"Bastard, everyone is a baron, why should I fly a reconnaissance plane? Why don't we have fighter planes in our navy? Even the Turkish navy has!" Fafnir said indignantly.

"Because we don't have aircraft carriers, we can only have seaplanes, Baron ......," the observer shrugged and said calmly.

"Even if there are no aircraft carriers, why don't they even have land-based fighters? I remember that China's and America's naval airlines all have land-based aircraft, phew, it seems that even Japanese monkeys have ......."

"That's China, the United States, and Japan, but we're Germany, Baron......"

"Damn, don't talk about it, the more you talk about it, the more angry you get......" Faveniel vented his anger on the remaining two "Spanlow", and the baron who was holding his breath was in good shape, and completed the task with just two shots. Three minutes later, there were only German planes left in the sky.

"31 ......" Fafnir was in a slightly better mood and said: "If I wait for me to become the commander of the Imperial Navy, I must equip the Navy with aircraft carriers and land-based aircraft!"

"Look below, baron, ...... at 11 o'clock," the observer cried excitedly.

Faveniel looked down and froze.

"Oh my God, did the Englishmen get all their possessions out?"