The main force of Jericho's fleet is 35 nautical miles northwest, and the battleships that have been traveling at high speed are moving rapidly, and they have reached the end of the 10,000-mile voyage, and the focus of the two sides is on the Baltic Sea, and it is Scheer's fleet that can break through the defense of 30 capital ships, which is still limited to time. This is a very risky thing, but it is necessary to go all out, any choice, may cause different results, among them, only one is ultimately correct, he is like a tightrope spider, in the tightrope maze, looking for a right way.

His brain was spinning frantically like clockwork, and Scheer looked at the charts, constantly calculating the positions of both sides, moving trajectories, and then making simple adjustment commands. The decision has already been seated before, so it is necessary to rush forward without hesitation, even if there is a sea of swords and fires ahead, the necessary adjustments still have to be made. To make this operation better, among the Scheer targets, the biggest enemy is Betty, and now Betty has been separated and has 1.5 hours, then the next thing to deal with is Jericho.

Although Jericho was a full-fledged fleet commander, he had his limitations, as a commander trained in the British Imperial Navy, he was almost as stubborn and old-fashioned as the traditional British commander, believing that Britain was the most powerful, and these were the objects he could exploit.

As for Betty's influence on Jericho, don't be kidding, he is a few years older than Betty, and in the strict naval sequence, he doesn't dare to give orders to his superiors, even if his superiors are all optimistic about him and regard him as his successor, Betty can't do it. Even if they did, they wouldn't have succeeded.

Both sides are peerless celebrities. They were unimaginable geniuses who had grown up in the Anglo-German navy, if the two sides fought on a level playing field. It is difficult for Scheer to win, and even fall behind, but in terms of human nature, Scheer is completely different from Kitasato, Betty is too young, and the previous road is too smooth, even if he gets to his current position, second only to Jericho's detachment commander, but in addition to his outstanding talent. In terms of personality, he still does not have the qualities that a high-ranking general should have, and the title of irascible Betty is well-known in the navy. An excellent battleship captain, the commander of a detachment, was given the title of irascib, which in no way could be called appropriate, he was not the captain of a destroyer, a light cruiser. He was the commander of the battleship, the commander of the battleship formation, and should be calm and wise, and not irascible.

The fleet turned on at maximum speed. Every minute was a race against time, and even during the period, I encountered a warship belonging to the Entente and fought something. Basically, it doesn't stop, which shows the advantage of the chain of command. A round of shells, within 5 rounds. Accurately hit the intercepted ship, even if it couldn't hit, it was gone, and the high speed of the Scheer fleet was not afraid of their pursuit at all.

But things changed a little at a distance of 25 nautical miles from the main fleet, almost an hour's voyage from the mouth of the Baltic Sea, when a flotilla of at least 50 ships rushed towards them at high speed.

The high-resolution telescope and reasonable lookout height made the Scheer fleet discover this fleet 15 nautical miles away, and the alarm bell sounded, even if the fleet was 15 nautical miles away, this distance, even the battleships did not pose much threat, but then, at a speed of more than 25 knots on both sides, a minute is a distance of one knot, and at most ten minutes, it will enter the attack range.

"Hit!" Scheer gave the order without hesitation, the highest level of alarm sounded, this is the preparation of the whole army's alert, if according to normal terms, the heavy cruiser with 12 ships and other warships cooperate with the fleet, it is enough to stop him, and even if he is entangled, he can be entangled for several hours, but it is a pity that they ran into the Scheer fleet, not to mention the strength of the fantasy class and Orion, even if it is a command system, it is definitely black technology.

"I need to attack within 5 nautical miles to ensure the hit rate of the first wave!" After the whole army was ready, Scheer gave the order.

The maximum range of the Scheer fleet is 15 nautical miles, and the lethal range is within 12 nautical miles, such a hit rate is absolutely shocking to the world, but after watching the other party's heavy cruise, there is no new heavy patrol, most of them are 5 years ago, or even 10 years ago, the largest caliber naval gun is only about 240 mm, such a naval gun, at all, can not be lethal to targets 5 nautical miles away, although it is said that it can be hung far away, but it will expose the true strength of the Scheer fleet, It was only an hour away from the mouth of the sea, and after it was exposed, it was no longer possible to attack the main fleet.

In 10 minutes, under the premise of high-speed approaching by the two sides, they quickly approached and entered a circle of 5 nautical miles, and 9 battleships, marching at high speed, began to fire their guns.

The range of the battleship was far above the heavy cruise, although they were traveling at high speed, they were ready to evade at any time, and the movements of the opposing battleship could be seen by visual inspection at 5 nautical miles, and when the battleship's naval guns sounded, they began to evade at high speed.

This is not a battleship, it must stand on the battle line, this is a heavy patrol, a light patrol and a deportation, each has its own method of attack, the former can use a cannon to attract the opponent's attack, the latter, you can use speed to rush to the front, for a battleship with thick armor, torpedoes are the best attack weapon.

It's just that this time, they didn't expect that with their attack, they could threaten the battleship, three kinds of ships, divided into more than a dozen parts, and even the heavy patrol was divided into three parts, scattered attacks, using the method of loitering.

"I knew it!" Scheer calmly looked at the changes in the battle situation, if the other party was still gathered together, he might waste a little time, hundreds of thousands of tons of battleship group, it is not so easy to break through, but the other party chose to disperse, then sounded the death knell of destruction, in his mind, calculated the direction slightly, and began to give orders.

All the battleships turned together, aiming at the three old heavy cruisers in front, as far as visual inspection, the range of 5 nautical miles, enough to see very clearly, covering the three ships are all 10 years ago, and the combat effectiveness is still there, but compared to the capital ships, it is basically zero.

Rushing straight to a squad, the commander of the fleet, who was in charge of the attack, was overjoyed and ordered all the ships to move closer to this side, destroyers and light cruisers, and if they could threaten, to fire torpedoes as close as possible.

The speed of the battleship was extremely fast, so fast that the opponent had not yet reacted, and in 3 minutes, it had already entered an area of 3 nautical miles, which even the old heavy cruiser had the ability to threaten the battleship, in fact, the heavy patrol had already begun to prepare, and several rounds of attacks in a row were launched.

For a certain speed, even a scattered battleship, an experienced gunner can make a hit, and in the range of 3 nautical miles, converted into a metric system, that is, a little more than 5 kilometers, which is the range of heavy guns.

In the first three rounds, it actually hit a shot, which was unexpected by the British, because the opponent's battleship did not make any evasive actions, and did not even return fire, but unfortunately a large-caliber shell hit the battleship's frontal armor, the fantasy-class battleship, with unparalleled attack power, also has a strong protective force, the frontal armor is enough to resist the attack of 14-inch guns, not to mention 240 mm shells, even if it is an armor-piercing projectile, it has not broken through the surface hardness of the battleship, It was directly bounced off by the cable-stayed armor, and there was no damage of any kind.

The commander of the blocking fleet looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, he suddenly realized that the purpose of the other party was to get close to the distance, and then hit with one shot, and was about to order the heavy patrol to evade, but it was too late, to withstand the attack of the heavy patrol of the heavy artillery, and then attack the heavy patrol with the main gun at close range, although they had not personally experienced the power of the 15-inch gun, but the thick muzzle told them that this was definitely not a good thing.

In fact, in the process of approaching, the command system has begun to aim, the first hit rate has increased from 15% to 85%, the closer it gets, the proportion is also increasing at a high speed, until it reaches a position of 2.5 nautical miles, the closest distance is close to 5 kilometers, the other party has also discovered the crisis, and is about to leave when the first wave of artillery sounds.

The distance was too close, with the help of the command system, not a salvo, all the batteries freely hit different targets, 9 ships, divided into 3 parts, with the help of the command system, carried out an indiscriminate attack, and finally hit 11 shells.

A salvo, 90 shells, only 11 hits, it seems that the proportion is not high, more than 11%, but the final result is amazing, 11 rounds of 15-inch large-caliber armor-piercing bullets, using the technology of tungsten core armor-piercing bullets unique to the northwest, if you don't hit the core, it's okay, after hitting the core, the destructive power is amazing.

The command system that hit extremely high, 11 shells, 6 of which hit the core, an average of 2 shots per battleship, but the hits were not long, one of them hit 4 shots, and the other 2 shots each.

It was the 4 hits that were quite amazing, the 4 armor-piercing shells, respectively in the power compartment, the center of the ship, the weapons compartment, the main battery hit, the front two shots directly pierced two large holes near the waterline, and the back had a huge explosion, a chain of blows, so that this 10-year-old, 12,000-ton heavy patrol directly lost its life, the fragmented heavy cruise, could not slow down the sinking speed at all, the big hole that was penetrated, and in the martyrdom, the mouth was more expanded, crazy absorption of seawater, 5 minutes later, This heavy patrol sank.

Not only did one sink, but the other two were no better, they were directly hit hard, losing their power and combat effectiveness, although they had not sunk yet, but everyone knew that if the Scheer fleet continued to attack, they would not be able to hold out for 2 minutes. (To be continued.) )