Chapter 890: Hunting

If you want to ask the British if there is a better way, of course there is, that is, all the auxiliary cruisers fled in the direction of the Norwegian Sea, and the German fleet could not be stationed, so as long as it could be temporarily avoided, and then increase the difficulty of the German fleet's search, but unfortunately, most of the British did not choose this way! After all, it's not far from the door of the house now, and it is a victory to be able to go back! The temptation to go home is too great!

The radio lateral and positioning equipment on the battleship Moltke had locked on to the two largest sources, and the fundamental reason for the delay in taking action against them was that they wanted to determine the direction of the next stage of the British fleet's action. And now, the British have finally moved, and with the spread of radio signals over the North Sea, the British fleet, scattered in the blockade area, has finally begun to move.www.biquge.info They communicate and relay information to each other by radio. However, all of this was eventually reflected on the drawing board in the conning tower of the German battleship.

Every half hour, the German fleet would exchange information with each other through radio communication, and now, judging by the trajectory of the British auxiliary cruiser detachment that had been discovered but not yet hunted, they had begun to retreat in the direction of Shetland, but their retreat was not to go their separate ways, but to choose to concentrate together, gather at a certain point, and then everyone went home together!

The British were still skewed in their estimates of the size and performance of the German fleet, and they targeted mainly large armored cruisers and light cruisers, with the occasional chance of one or two battle cruisers. Rear Admiral Arbath Noth thought well, and everyone gathered, and the armored cruisers covered the evacuation of the auxiliary cruisers, while the remaining destroyers and other armored cruisers from the Shetland Islands came to pick them up. It's much better than evacuating. At least it's better to get together and cover each other.

But what he didn't expect was that the German fleet on the opposite side was too strong! All 5 battlecruisers are here! This fleet is enough to deal with the Betty fleet during the historical Battle of Jutland! (Not counting Thomas's fleet--! And it's going to be a lot of fun, and there won't be any tangles in the process!

The three battle cruisers, the Goeben, the Blucher and the Von der Tann, headed for the meeting point of the British route, and the Cedritz, having found that all the prey that could be identified so far had begun to evacuate, followed decisively. The speed of one side is about 15 to 18 knots, and the other side is soaring to more than 27 knots.

When Rear Admiral Arbath Nott's armored cruiser Black Prince and Rear Admiral Ace's armored cruiser HMS Hampshire met, there were already 6 auxiliary cruisers concentrated here, and then they suddenly spotted huge black shadows in the direction of Shetland!

The German battleships also came from all directions, and when they appeared in the view of the British, they did not converge, and the position at this time was about 15 kilometers northwest of the British fleet, and the Goeburn and the Cedritz were about 3 kilometers apart. Von der Tannen was blocked to the west of the British fleet and was in the best position. And Blucher was in the southeast direction of the British fleet. While two other light cruisers appeared to the east of the British fleet, trailing two auxiliary cruisers. The entire British fleet seemed to have come to an encirclement.

If it is to engage an opponent of the same level, then the best option for the German fleet is to immediately let out smoke and run away, which has no formation at all, and it is completely a rhythm of where to go! How to fight? But the problem is that now the combat effectiveness of the British fleet is simply too watery! No matter how you fight the Germans, there is no reason to lose, as long as the British can be included in the shooting range, then all that remains is to fire!

If there is no formation, then it is not convenient to communicate, and the biggest problem is the distribution of firepower. But fortunately, there are more targets, and the two armored cruisers of the British are too conspicuous, and the Goeben and Von der Tann, which are in the front, are aimed at the Black Prince and the Hampshire armored cruisers respectively!

"The overall situation has been decided, only A remains!" If the prince had been here, he would have said such a thing, and now it is true, when 4 German battlecruisers fired tons of shells, the outcome of this war was actually decided!

The Shetland Islands were already in view, and as long as the fleet sailed at full speed for 45 minutes, it would be completely safe, but now, the last dozen kilometers have become an impassable distance! The two leading armored cruisers were the first to be fired at, Von der Tann's guns were smaller, so the Hampshire was slightly longer, and the Black Prince, with the Goeburn in the care, had the rest of the time to be counted in minutes.

"Let's rush up and cover the brothers behind!" The courage shown by Rear Admiral Abasnot at the last moment of his life was amazing, but it was useless, the Black Prince's 10-inch cannon could not reach the Goben at all, and in a few shots of accurate and ferocious firepower, the Black Prince was not killed by the High Seas Fleet in less than three minutes as in history, but he did not support it for more than 20 minutes!

REAR ADMIRAL ABASNOT'S CHARGE WAS FINALLY ENDED BY TWO 350MM HEAVY ARTILLERY SHELLS THAT HIT ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY, ONE HIT THE MAIN GUN AMMUNITION MAGAZINE LOCATED IN THE FRONT HALF OF THE BATTLESHIP, WHILE THE OTHER DETONATED THE TORPEDO IN THE BOW TORPEDO COMPARTMENT, AND A SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS SPREAD FROM THE BOW TO THE BACK OF THE HULL, AND THE ENTIRE BOW WAS REDUCED TO PIECES IN A BURST OF FIRE.

And another armored cruiser, the Hampshire armored cruiser, also did not escape the fate of defeat, although the von der Tann's guns were smaller, but it was enough to knock open the 7-inch side armor of the Hampshire armored cruiser, when the von der Tann sent a shell to the hull of the Hampshire at a long distance, the German destroyers had already been unable to bear it, under the cover of dense bullet rain, 4 destroyers quickly approached the already somewhat overwhelmed Hampshire armored cruiser, Then at a distance of 3,500 to 2,000 meters, eight torpedoes were fired in a row, and after two violent explosions, the armored cruiser Hampshire slowly sank into the rolling waves of the North Sea with nearly 1,000 officers and men.

When the last two armored cruisers, which could barely jump, collapsed, the remaining auxiliary cruisers were completely desperate in the face of German battleships with a total tonnage of about 100,000 tons! All that's left is a one-sided slaughter, and it doesn't even take much time!

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