Chapter 1230: Two-line attack

The Baltic Sea, the least salty sea in the world, looks particularly blue, but like the North Sea, it is even influenced by the North Sea, which is not only often foggy, but also has quite high waves, even the battleships of Scheer are slightly bumpy here.

It is the actual influence of high sea conditions here, sea conditions are the key, most of the British warships are suitable for fighting in high sea conditions, this point, Germany is far inferior, warships are like this, often focus on one aspect, have to ignore the other aspect. Fortunately, at present, the wind and waves in the Baltic Sea are barely high, and the fantasy class and Orion have changed to take into account the sea conditions, although they may not be as completely adapted to the sea conditions of the North Sea as the British design, but it is not that a little wind and waves will lose their effect, and the waves will not affect the overall situation.

From the arrival of the Scheer fleet to now, it has been almost four or five days, the main warships of Britain and Germany have fought in the Baltic Sea, and the entire Nordic countries have made shrinking turtles at this time, even if they are inclined to Britain and Sweden, they do not dare to face the big war between the two, and those who have the right to know and know about this big war in the Baltic Sea are amazed by the strength of the two powers.

More than 70 capital ships, but the tonnage of the capital ships is more than 2 million tons, plus other warships, 4 million tons of warships in the huge Baltic Sea to catch and kill, the number of sailors on both sides of the war is more than 400,000, this is a naval battle, not a land war, hundreds of thousands of navies, millions of tons of warships, fighting on the sea, this is the greatest power that human beings can show. At a time when the second-rate powers, led by Japan, were still pursuing the era of dreadnoughts, Britain and Germany, the two major naval powers. Already fighting with the concentration of capital ships, just miss a little. It is enough for a second-rate power to eat, this is the Yingde in the peak era. It has capabilities that far surpass those of other countries.

Scheer's fleet, smoothly crossing the strait, and by radio contact, the direction of Sweden, where the High Seas Fleet was currently approaching, had been entangled by Jericho's fleet, and although it was currently in mutual temptation, it had fallen to the upper hand.

You know, in addition to the Scheer fleet, other high seas fleets. Their training syllabus is 6,000 meters is the first gun, and the British is 10,000 meters, although in the absence of a better sight, under the premise of higher sea conditions in the Baltic Sea, more than 6,000 meters is basically equivalent to giving in vain, but in the long-distance temptation, in most cases, the German fleet is passively beaten.

In the middle of the fight. Jericho also tried to attack, and out of hundreds of shells, 6 hits, not in important places. As the two sides grew closer, Tirpitz also knew that the final moment of the decisive battle might have arrived. If they don't make a decision, they may die of suffocation. Passive beating, unable to fight back. until it was sunk.

Tirpitz has been hesitating, he doesn't know when Scheer will end, hold on any longer, two or three hours is no problem, but if it continues, once it is forced into a corner, it will be very dangerous for the high seas fleet, maybe he will have to fight Jericho to the death, and it is unlikely that all the crew will fall into it, but it is certain that he will suffer a big loss.

Do you want to fight, in this case, it is really a head-to-head showdown, but it is safer, the two sides have damage to each other, as long as the luck is not too bad, the balance can almost be done, at most a small loss.

At this time, Scheer's telegram came, within 30 minutes, sink 5 battleships, such a brilliant result, so that Tirpitz was excited, the most important thing is that Scheer has already come, according to their previous location, Scheer and Jericho's fleet is a little more than 10 nautical miles, plus this half an hour they attracted, it is estimated that half an hour, they will be able to enter the attack range.

21 to 18, coupled with the training advantage of Jericho's fleet, Jericho can press the high seas fleet to the death, and always have the upper hand, but now, if the high seas fleet adds 9 capital ships, it can still send 5 capital ships into the sea in half an hour, one-on-one situation, Tirpitz's heart immediately became bigger, not only formulated the next defensive counterattack plan, but also formed an attack camp.

After more than 20 minutes of fighting, when it was determined that the Scheer fleet was less than 12 nautical miles away from the main theater of operations, the high seas fleet suddenly changed its combat methods, and the original non-stop dodging and grappling as the main combat method suddenly changed, and when it retreated to a certain area, it began to form a unified camp and began the prelude to a counterattack.

The German fleet suddenly changed its attitude, not only no longer dodging, but toughened, it stands to reason, Jericho should be happy, if the German fleet continues to dodge like this, God knows how much time, he will be able to catch the other party, maybe from now until dark, there will not be too many chances, once it is dark, no matter how confident he is, it is not easy to catch the other party, the dark night, will give them a chance to slip away.

After preparing so much and paying so much, Jericho will not only have such a result, now the other party has changed, as long as he is not running, with his confidence in the fleet, as long as he has a few hours, he can lay the victory, not necessarily the whole German fleet can be left, but if he stays part, there is no problem at all to achieve victory.

Jericho was excited, but he had another heart, and sent a small team of light patrols, in the direction of the Baltic Straits, and then rushed to the high seas fleet, he must seize this rare opportunity to achieve the results he deserves.

The old battleship formation, the war between them, can never be completed in a short time, this is also the reason why Jericho has a heart and does not think much about it, even if Scheer's fleet is strong enough, if he wants to defeat the blocking fleet in a short time, it is an impossible task, he has such an extra mind, more to prevent accidents, maybe because of the clouds and fog at sea and missed.

Because the Scheer fleet knew the location of the high seas fleet, it directly reached the maximum speed, because it was only delayed for half an hour, plus the two sides were entangled, it was a distance of 20 nautical miles at most, which was only more than half an hour for the Scheer fleet to enter the core area.

The light patrol formation that happened to collide headlong, this light patrol formation, although I have not seen the strength of the Scheer fleet, but after such a long time, the form of the 9 capital ships has long been familiar, and four of them are still enlarged versions of Orion, such an obvious target, of course, it can be seen at the eye.

The British fleet had a large number of destroyers and light cruisers to run to the front of the capital ship formation to release torpedoes, which had no effect on the Scheer fleet at all, and it was better to retreat early than to fight less than 10% of the luck.

Of course, they returned directly to the main fleet and informed Jericho of the arrival of the Scheer fleet. Jericho was almost taken aback when he received the news, he didn't expect that a casual move of idle chess actually had an effect, if it wasn't for the light patrol formation, maybe the other party really formed a flank attack with the high seas fleet, even now, the other party was faintly at a distance of 10 nautical miles, forming a flanking situation with the high seas fleet.

Scheer was 12 nautical miles away, moving towards this side at high speed, the purpose was very simple, that is, to cooperate with the high seas fleet, to kill the Jericho fleet, although he sank the 5 battleships of the blocking fleet, but if he could gnaw a bite of meat on the main fleet of Jericho, he would definitely do it.

The Scheer fleet is rapidly approaching, and Jericho also sees the severity of the situation, although he doesn't know how the Scheer fleet broke through the layers of defense and rushed to the front, but with the Scheer fleet, what he has to deal with is 27 capital ships, 27 against 21, of which there are 9 powerful ships, the original Scheer fleet above the ordinary warships, not to mention whether it can be defeated, the immediate loss is definitely to be eaten.

Although Jericho is not as talented as Betty, he can become the captain of a battleship, the commander-in-chief of the home fleet, and he is not a reckless man, seeing the Scheer fleet and the high seas fleet approaching step by step, he almost immediately retreated, although the British Navy suffered huge losses, in Jericho's view, as long as there is no loss of the capital ship, it doesn't matter if the other battleships lose a little, at most it is the loss of personnel.

Jericho didn't know that Scheer had already sunk 5 warships in a short period of time, otherwise he would never have decided so easily, no matter what, the two sides had already disengaged. In fact, from a strategic point of view, the war was already over when the Scheer fleet crossed the Baltic Sea and entered the war group, and Jericho headed for the Swedish seas, with the current relationship between Sweden and the Entente, there was only one step left to join the Entente, and although the High Seas Fleet and the Scheer fleet were strong, they were not strong enough to ignore the port defenses.

When it was confirmed that the other side was resolutely heading towards Swedish waters, they immediately avoided further contact, both sides were very restrained, even if the attack was far apart, only some ships were slightly damaged, each side sank a few small boats, the rest of the damage was not great, after the British turn, the Schell fleet did not continue the pursuit, but made peace with the German high seas fleet, and the two sides disengaged.

A large-scale naval battle caused by the return of Scheer's fleet came to an end here, more than 70 capital ships, hundreds of large and small warships The duel ended in the defeat of the British, dozens of battleships of different sizes, plus capital ships, the total loss was hundreds of thousands of tons, the most important thing is personnel, Scheer's fleet aimed too fast, and the speed of sinking the battleship was also extremely fast, most of the time, there were few survivors, even if the British were wealthy, more than 10,000, close to 20,000 losses, It was also a huge attrition, even on top of the loss of battleships. (To be continued.) )

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