At 13: 02, the cannon stopped, and there was a mass of death floating on the ocean, and the wounded cried, broken cloth scraps, soldiers’ bodies, burning oil and crackling wood blocks. The sea breeze fluctuated in the sea, and the lonely sea surface was swept low to clean up the smell of blood and smoke. Sailors with white flags were driving small boats and were red with blood, and they shuttled around the sea with long poles to find possible compatriots.
In this way, the smoke filled the North Sea and temporarily calmed down.
This temporary tranquility is not that the two steel fleets are exhausted or afraid of war, but that the smoke wall caused by continuous shelling seriously interferes with the observation of the two fleets, forcing them to temporarily rest in anger and accumulate strength to wait for the final decisive battle and ruin.
To sum up, both Britain and Germany suffered heavy losses in the second round of exchange of fire
At the front end of the battle line, the British battleship Marboro was in a state of being brave, and the bow of a 35 mm underwater bullet ship of the battleship Regent Louis Tebode was seriously damaged. The British battleship Revenge and the Bavarian battleship exploded each other strangely, and each of them had an armored chimney base, and each of them was damaged to varying degrees.
On the German side, the battleship King Albert couldn’t carry iron duke class’s 3 mm green bullet armor belt and some unimportant positions of his hull, which were successively shot and rocked in the North Sea.
Compared with the painless battle, the battle between the front squadron and the back team is much more tragic.
On the British side, they lost five battleships in one breath, namely, Canada, Bellerophon, Neptune, Royal Oak and Centurion, which increased the number of battleships damaged by the British Empire. Another battleship Magnificent was about to collapse, and on the German side, they also confessed that there were two battleships, namely, Rhineland Posen.
In view of the fact that David Betty and Heidi Selim will both "severely damage and annihilate each other’s fighting squadron" in this round of exchange of fire, and the main casualties are also in the middle of the battle, the squadron and the rear team’s naval community also defined the second round of exchange of fire in the Orkney Islands as "the rear team fighting in the battle line"
The battle between the rear team and the middle team in the battle line came to an end. When both sides got a 15-minute break, they took advantage of the smoke wall to make final adjustments.
Compared with the British Empire at the end of its rope, Heidi Selim’s hand is obviously superior to the opponent’s, but the Germans have not taken all the advantages. The fast fleet on the south side of the battlefield, led by General Lampard, is rapidly approaching the main fleet of the big fleet, and four American battleships on the north side of the battlefield are also leisurely. On the way south, Germany and the United States, two emerging naval powers, are destined to compete in the North Sea. "To be continued.
The second gun Chapter 11 Change the moment of history (11)
(This naval battle is high, and há has arrived)
"("King of the North Atlantic "section 7 at the end of the rice flag ri)
At 13: 02, the battle between the rear team and the middle team in the battle line came to an end temporarily, and a capital ship was destroyed in one breath. When the Royal Navy finally ushered in a 15-minute break,
In fact, there was a lot of wind and waves in the North Sea at that time, because the smoke wall produced by the long-term shelling of the main guns on the battle line was not enough to cover the battlefield for a quarter of an hour. David Bettie ordered two destroyer detachments accompanying the battle line to insert a total of 19 destroyers into the battlefield at high speed to cooperate with the capital ship to actively release smoke, so as to postpone as much as possible the time when the big fleet, which suffered heavy losses in the third round of exchange of fire, tried to gain more response.
The next step is to prepare for war, and the British navy, the planet’s most experienced country, is not the same as the accumulated experience over the centuries, although many rules and regulations seem inhuman and headstrong.
In just a quarter of an hour, the British did a lot of fruitful work in a round of crossfire, and the damage management team waded through the waist-deep seawater plugging board and the crater of the waste canvas hull. The fire brigade wore gas masks to put out fire hoses and sandbags to eliminate the hull fire; The mechanic desperately repairs the boiler in the oil pollution and soot in the power cabin and tries to maintain the speed of the battle line; The gunners drilled out the turret full of poisonous gas, carried hammers and welding guns to tidy up the twisted deck to save the stuck turret steering mechanism; The operator drilled out of the security room and climbed the mast nearly 100 feet high to repair the wire antenna damaged by flying shrapnel.
At the end of the British battle line, the patrol of the indomitable has lost nearly two-fifths of its crew, including the captain and the vice captain. Senior officers have to personally fight together with the original tools such as shovels and steel pipes transferred from his post to push the small boat with steam power communication, which was lifted by shells and deeply embedded in the stern of the ship, to the sea.
The Royal Navy’s handling is fruitful, but it is far from enough for this high-intensity naval battle. The British Empire does not lack the experience of correctly using the navy, but they lack the naval officers who correctly use these experiences.
In 1917, the decline of the Royal Navy not only reflected that it was always conservative and radical, but also evolved into a paranoid marine strategy. The German sea of people fought against the pride of the Chinese and the quality of officers and men also fell into the wind
The best example is that the battleship Magnificent was sunk before the last round of crossfire broke out. This battleship had the opportunity to participate in the third round of crossfire, but it was still lost in the sea.
The battleship Magnificent was overturned and sunk. On the eve of the end of the second round of exchange of fire, the battleship Magnificent encountered Germans crossing the bow and stern of the ship and was almost smashed by the German 35 mm main gun group.
After the North Sea boom stopped for a while, the stern of the Magnificent was ablaze with smoke, including the lookout Roy, and the officers of the warship tried their best to stop the fire from spreading.
Worse than the fire, the bow of the Magnificent was only covered with a thin layer of armor. As a result, the British sailors dubbed it’ the egg and the turtle were knocking at each other with hammers’. It happened that the non-key protective belt of their bow was easily riddled with German 35 mm armor-piercing bullets.
At 13: 29, more than 2,500 tons of water entered the port side of the battleship Magnificent. The hull leans to the left nearly ten degrees, and the main mast leans out of the joint of the hull base deck. From time to time, all the water pumps of the hull stop working, and the huge pressure of seawater continuously explodes. The poor watertight cabin almost overflows the smashed bow deck.
At this time, Sir Doverton Sturdee, the commander of the Magnificent fleet, abandoned his flagship again, just like the Royal Oak battleship, and moved the fleet headquarters from Magnificent to the South African battleship later. It turned out that this was not a good choice, or Sir Doverton Sturdee was a jinx in this naval battle. Twelve minutes later, the South African battleship sank and was set off by the Germans.
At 13: 32, the abandoned battleship Magnificent finally failed to support the North Sea, and the South African battleship had to make an emergency right turn to avoid collision more than 400 meters behind the Magnificent.
As early as the first round of the big naval battle, the South Africa sank in the crossfire. At this time, they still squandered their little luck and stubbornly stood in the North Sea and unexpectedly became the flagship of the first battleship.
At the moment, everything in the right-hand warship is tilted. The sailors in the cockpit are holding the handrail, grinning, and the boiler soldiers are stumbling with shovels. In the kitchen, the kitchen chef is chasing their tableware all over the floor, while the damaged pipe soldier Toynbee is on the left side of the warship to clean up the deck. This is how he records what he sees.
Battleship (South Africa) holds its steady by tilting. I can stick to the second deck on the port side, covered with rivet armor walls, and gape at the remnants of the battleship Magnificent from the back mainmast to the stern of the ship for 100 feet.
God, who would have thought that it was a 10,000-ton ship equipped with a 12-inch gun, which once dominated the sea? I can’t forget the magnificent ship today, because it was completely exposed to algae and its bottom was covered with ferocious propellers! ’
Shortly after the sinking of the battleship Magnificent, the third round of firefight broke out.
The Third Battleship in West Lyme took the lead in firing the first shot. One Bavarian-class and four king-class battleships tilted ammunition at the British, and five Caesar-class battleships were soon involved in the war.
After the formation was adjusted, David Betty fired back at the terrible 15-inch main gun group of the fourth battleship team and fired wildly at the Germans with powerful green bullets
From the first round and a half, the main gun hit the battle and entered the white-hot stage.
The first achievement was that the Bavarian battleship wore a gas mask around its neck, and the German gunner * * was wearing a strong fighting will and rumby gun skills, and the battle distance was 145 meters. In the first round of shelling, the Germans got a hit. A 3 mm capped armor-piercing bullet hit the second deck of the battleship Revenge. A 6-inch single-mounted sub-gun destroyed the sub-gun and detonated its ammunition depot.
The battleship King also achieved brilliant results later.
At 13: 39, the watchtower in front of the battleship Determined reported that the Determined had encountered a near-missing bullet with a distance of no more than five meters. The captain of Determined was well protected and had shock absorption facilities. The commander tower grasped the handrail of the commander tower and stared at the boiling sea outside the ship’s side in horror.
The captain didn’t hear the shell explosion, but it was several seconds before he saw the water column splashed by the shell explosion.