Just in John? When Tovey was entangled, the German battleship Tirpitz opposite him, eight 381 mm caliber main guns also spewed dazzling fire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Apparently, the German battleships were trying to sink the British warship. As more and more cannons were fired, John? Tovey felt tremendous pressure from the enemy's side.

A full 16 381 mm cannons, plus 9 280 mm guns, formed a fairly dense net of fire from the shells.

With such a dense net of fire, it was only a matter of time before the British battleships in this large net hit.

When the German Navy found out where their shells had landed, very close to the location of the British battleships on the sea, the temptation turned into a real attack.

Lütjans gave the order to attack with all of them to open fire: "Let the battlecruiser Gneisenau also open fire!" We're still in the ascendancy! ”

The current German fleet is determined to run away, so of course it can't let the British fleet follow him.

Whether it was intimidation or a genuine attempt to sink the British battleship, Lütjans finally gave the order to open fire, hoping to use intensive fire to drive away the British battleship following behind him.

Rows and rows of artillery opened fire, but the British fleet surprisingly did not return fire. Then all you could see on the sea was the raging waves and the muzzle flames of the German cannons, which were constantly shining.

In the distance, around the British fleet, huge columns of water continued to rise, although no shells hit, but this passive situation, the British fleet was not comfortable.

Seeing his fleet constantly being attacked by the Germans, as the commander of the search fleet, John? Tovey finally couldn't help it.

"Send a telegram! Find out where General Somerville and General Charles are now! I need to measure the distance! Immediately! Nervous, he commanded.

Then, the British admiral, weighing in his mind, whether to order his warship to open fire and return fire.

Although you can use the night to conceal yourself, it is obvious that the enemy is already aiming at you, and the effect of concealment is really questionable.

But if you fire, then the opponent will see the flame of their own gun, and they can correct their shooting parameters, and they may hit more accurately.

After struggling for about a minute, John? Tovey finally made up his mind to continue to get close to the enemy ship and open fire again at the moment of sunrise in the east.

He had confidence in his sailors, and he knew that at a distance of about 10 kilometers, his battleship could make a starting hit.

Once the enemy ship is seriously damaged, then his attack will be considered effective. When the wounded battleship of the other side is caught up by the mainland and the intercepting fleet, it will inevitably be sunk.

After making a judgment, John? Tovey gave the order to continue approaching the other party: "Steady! Don't open fire to expose yourself! Aim for the enemy's muzzle flame and be ready to fire! ”

On the other side, Lütjans was also very nervous, he knew that the British navy on the opposite side had not fired its guns until now, and was planning to use the night as a cover and get close to the German fleet.

"Let all the artillery, under the original firing parameters, be shortened by one kilometer!" From the command position, the artillery commander of the Bismarck commanded loudly.

There were already two volleys, and the Bismarck did not even hit the other side with a single shell, which made all the German navies hold back an inexplicable resentment.

Seeing that the enemy was approaching frantically, but he did not have the ability to stop it, this was really a very depressing thing for the German naval officers and men.

Fortunately, the speed of the German battleship was quite fast, otherwise it would have been really possible to be pulled into the distance between the two sides by the other side.

"Boom!" The battleship Tirpitz opened fire again, and the second salvo adjusted the firing elements, and the shells whizzed towards the distant target.

This salvo finally made a boring naval battle begin to become colorful. The bad luck of the British, once again, came in the Sunday naval battle.

One of the shells fired from the battleship Tirpitz hit the poor battlecruiser Prestige.

The deadly shell, with great speed, slammed into the rear mast of the battleship Fame, tearing through all the steel bars that stood in its way and shattering everything nearby.

Then, instead of being stopped by the fragile mast, the cannonball slammed into the building behind the Prestige with great kinetic energy.

The armor-piercing bullet was equipped with a time-delay fuse, so when it hit the bottom of the mast, it did not explode immediately.

And in the building behind the Prestige, the shell really exploded, flying half of the mast at once, and also taking away one of the sights of the anti-aircraft gun.

The clash of steel made a sharp sound, and the shattered iron filings flew everywhere in the air, forming a dazzling fire.

As if it were a firefly, it exploded and burst out with dazzling sparks, revealing its slender figure in the night sky.

On the bridge of the Prestige, the captain was frightened into a cold sweat by this hit, if it wasn't for the place where it was hit too closely, this shell would be deadly enough.

But his joy did not last long, for the fire at the tail burned little by little, illuminating the embarrassed smile on his face that had not yet receded.

Originally, this explosion did not cause any fatal injuries to the Fame, but the fire brought by the explosion suddenly exposed the Fame to the entire German naval fleet.

"It's over! The enemy has hit the Prestige! "This is a concept in my head, John? Tovey realized that the Germans had a surprise advantage before sunrise.

The battle was fought to this point, and as the commander of the Navy's search fleet, John? Tovey knew that the winner was decided.

If he continued to insist that his fleet follow the German fleet, he would probably be wiped out here.

But such a retreat, still unable to explain the reason for his retreat, the so-called according to the British navy's standards of fighting against the enemy, John? Tovey still thinks he should play it once.

"Command! Shoot back! We can't be beaten so passively anymore! "John, who knew that his fleet could no longer use the night to hide his figure and could not turn and retreat? Tovey, this time the fleet can only be forced to fight.

"Boom!" The battleships of the British Navy, which had long been aimed at the German fleet, also erupted in blazing flames this time.

The battleship Prestige was the first to fire, and the shells fell on the battlecruiser Gneisenau, which was close to the center of the German fleet.

This attack scared Lütjans into a cold sweat, because the shell closest to the Gneisenau was only less than 70 meters away from the battlecruiser Gneisenau.

Being able to hit such a close point of impact at the first time of fire shows that the quality of the British naval gunners is also very good.

There was a loud bang, and the battlecruiser Hood also fired its own cannonballs, the flames of the guns churned in front of the battleship, and the shock wave spread from the muzzles blew away the huge waves that were coming from the Atlantic.

Eight shells rushed towards the German fleet, and then hit the flagship Bismarck, the foremost of the fleet.

The first hit, two shells hit the Bismarck, and the gunners of the battleship Hood proved their strength with practical actions.

It's just that these two shells that hit the battleship Bismarck did not bring fatal damage to the battleship Bismarck.

The same problem, the location of the hit was too high, one hit Bismarck's radar, directly hit the radar antenna, and the other shell hit Bismarck's crane, blowing up the crane arm of Bismarck's reconnaissance aircraft on the starboard side......

Although it seems that the Bismarck was hit by two shells and burst into flames, in reality the battleship was unharmed, and even the armor belt was intact.

But, after all, it was the flagship that was hit, and the nerves of the German Navy, which were already tense, suddenly tightened even more.

"Fire!" With a command, the battleship Bismarck fired its last salvo before dawn, and the eight shells were aimed at the Hood, the flagship of the British Navy's search fleet.

It is a pity that this salvo, the battleship Bismarck still did not manage to write its own miracle. All 8 shells missed the target, forming a sidecar in front and behind the battlecruiser Hood.

Standing on the bridge, Lütjans looked depressedly at the pitch-black sea in the distance, anxiously waiting for the final result.

His battleship had just been hit by a shell, and although the losses were not large, it also scared everyone into a cold sweat. If you get hit again, and you get unlucky enough to affect your speed, it's really bad.

It is impossible for a fleet to stay to protect a slow-moving ship, so if a ship is hit and slows down, that ship will be brutally abandoned.

And now it seems that the Bismarck has become a key target for the other side's strike, and it is simply a matter of time before it is hit.

The heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen of the German Navy in the distance opened fire at this time, and 8 guns of 203 mm caliber flew over the long sea and hit the British Prestige at once.

With the fire as an aiming reference, the Prinz Eugen fired a third salvo and finally hit its target.

However, it is a pity that the Prinz Eugen is equipped with a smaller-caliber 203 mm main gun, which really does not have the ability to penetrate the armor of British battle cruisers.

As a result, although the shells exploded on the deck of the battlecruiser Prestige, they were only visual, and had no practical effect.

However, the fire on the battlecruiser Prestige became even bigger in an instant because of the explosion of the shells of the Prinz Eugen.