Felix looked like he was focused on what he was doing. Feng. Admiral Luckner, with his ears pricked up, heard Vice Admiral Speer's whisper, and his heart couldn't help but be surprised. Based on the general's low exclamation, he came to a conclusion.

"It looks like this time we're going to have a real confrontation with the British Empire's home fleet!"

As soon as I thought about it, Felix. Feng. Captain Luknall couldn't help but feel a burst of excitement in his heart, with a little anticipation and nervousness in his heart.

As a young officer in the German Royal Navy, he had an instinctive fear of the might of the British Empire's home fleet. As an emerging maritime powerhouse, although their warships are better than the enemy in all respects. But as an emerging maritime power, they do have a considerable gap with the old maritime empire, the United Kingdom.

"But they must be defeated, otherwise Germany ......"

On the map of Europe, Germany, a European troubled child, is always surrounded by a group of European countries that look at him with colored glasses, how can he feel danger from time to time? Therefore, a safe outlet to the sea is the inevitable path to Germany's rise.

With Vice Admiral Speer's order, the warships of the "decoy fleet" that had just won the battle were high-spirited, and their speed was raised to the extreme.

The fleet was closely behind the British Home Fleet at an average speed of 20 knots, and their close pursuit not only made the British "avant-garde fleet", demoralized by the sinking of its flagship even more panicked, but also frightened them by the threat of wolves that would not know when to poke out their claws from the bottom of the sea.

This continued until about 18 o'clock in the afternoon, when the tide of battle was reversed.

At about 6 p.m., John. The main force of the British Home Fleet led by Jericho entered the battle from the northeast. According to the report of the avant-garde fleet, his main fleet was already under the tight protection of destroyer patrols, and this time the wolves had no chance of attacking.

Moreover, the "wolf pack" of the German Ocean Fleet was already far behind the surface warships at this time. Their extremely slow speed, even at the surface of the sea, gave them little chance to take part in the great feast of the battleships.

Soon, the position of the German "Ocean Fleet" was discovered by the group of the main warships of the British "Home Fleet".

John. Jelliko immediately ordered the entire fleet to change its battle formation, adopting the usual "T" prefix tactics in naval warfare, and the 24 battleships quickly lined up in a 15,000-yard combat row and swooped down on the German "Ocean Fleet" in the southeast.

At this time, the British avant-garde fleet, which had been defeated, also reversed course according to his orders and engaged in a fierce battle with the German "decoy fleet" led by Speer.

"Boys, give me a beating of these treacherous German devils!"

The commanders of the British battleships saw in their binoculars the "avant-garde fleet" that was engaged with the German Speer fleet not far away, and had just suffered a great loss in the "wolf pack" tactics of the German submarines, and their anger erupted into foul language.

The roar of the cannon resounded over the sea, and no one paid attention to the white columns of water caused by the shells that fell on the side of the battleship. Nor did they pay attention to the raging fire on the battleship that was hit, and the hordes of sailors who jumped into the sea to survive.

Above the sea, there was a collision between the main forces of the German Ocean Fleet and the British Home Fleet, two naval forces that would make no country in the world dare to underestimate.

Among them, there were 148 British ships (excluding 3 battlecruisers and 5 destroyers sunk), 28 battleships, 6 battlecruisers, 34 cruisers, 1 seaplane carrier, 73 destroyers, and 1 minelayer.

German ships 93 battleships 22 battleships, 3 battle cruisers, 6 cruisers and 62 destroyers. (2 battle cruisers, 5 light cruisers, 10 destroyers to protect the support group of seaplane carriers)

"Mr. Admiral, we can't hesitate now, now is the time to put the air power into battle!"

Speer held up his binoculars, and the situation on the sea made him a little worried. Because at this time the warships on the side of the German Ocean Fleet were in an extremely tactically disadvantageous position.

The losses suffered by the British fleet did not affect the numerical superiority of the main forces of its home fleet. Jericho, a veteran general of the maritime empire, successfully used the "T" prefix tactic to give full play to his naval artillery firepower.

On the other hand, the young apprentices at sea, the battleships of the German Ocean Fleet lined up one after another, because the front blocked the firing range behind, so the power of the artillery was greatly hindered. Even more unfavorable was the fact that the avant-garde fleet, which had turned ahead of time, had already begun to penetrate into the rear sea of the German fleet.

Or the death of the Bader Navy inspired the courage of the British naval battleships, and a group of destroyers fired a decisive charge against the German cruisers' gunfire, and torpedoes were fired at the German capital battleships.

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Speer's flagship, the "Lütsov", was finally unable to dodge the dense tuna-like torpedoes. At 18:20, a torpedo hit the port side of the battleship. In a violent tremor, the sea beast dragged the smoke from its body to slow down.

The price it paid was paid for the fact that 2 old British armored ships were also hit by German battlecruisers. One was reduced to a flying pile of debris in a violent explosion, and the other was blown into two pieces by the German Navy's 305-mm naval guns and was slowly sinking into the sea.

It should be said at this time that the Germans, though they were immature in their tactics at sea, were also much inferior in numbers to the British. But it is indisputable that the British fleet at that time was somewhat more advanced than the British in terms of armor protection, ranging and sighting devices, and armor-piercing shells. Even gunpowder, which was delivered in a metal-tight container, was far better than the raw silk medicine packets used by the British Royal Navy.

Therefore, although the "Lütsov" suffered a torpedo, this did not give it the luck to withdraw from the battle, but after simple repairs, it still galloped on the battlefield at a speed of 20 knots.

The commander of the Ocean Fleet, Reinhardt. Scheer was also mindful of the fleet's tactical disadvantage, and he also thought it was time to balance the disadvantage.

"Order the Sea Hawk to dispatch immediately!"

With Reinhardt. With a shout from Scheer, a support group only 20 nautical miles from the battlefield came alive. The 50 "Mosquito water attack planes" of the first air attack echelon, which had long been on standby in the sea, were supported by the sea with their twin engines, and their pontoons drew two white trails, and then rushed into the sky one after another.

The cranes on the 15 tanker-converted seaplane carriers began to get busy, and one by one the planes were lifted from the hangars and then turned their "arms" into the sea.

This is the second attack wave.