This blow was like a wake-up call, allowing both sides to completely understand their weakness. The war has been fought to this extent, and the British and German sides have lost too much strength in the 4-year-long war of attrition! Now they are so weak that they can't even guarantee the escort force of the main fleet! Needless to say, the German fleet, after many attritions at sea, the Germans had even more capital ships than light cruisers! This time there were only 9 light cruisers that went to sea with the main fleet! There are also 2 of them that were commissioned in 1910! So much so that the officers and men of the German light cruisers joked that the branch with the highest casualty rate in the entire German Navy was definitely none other than themselves!

The rich peasant's house in Germany has been hollowed out by the war, and there is no surplus food in the home of the British tyrant! Britain in World War II in history had nearly 60 light cruisers of various types before the end of the war, nearly twice as many as Germany's 32 light cruisers, but the Germans only had to fight each other in the North Sea, while the British had to fight each other in the North Sea and the Mediterranean Sea at the same time! The light cruiser died quickly! This time the Grand Fleet came out...... The British didn't bring out enough light cruisers, only 15 ships, and these 15 ships were almost all the household goods that the British Royal Navy could use! More than half of the remaining 45 light cruisers have sunk to the bottom of the sea, while the other half are either on escort missions overseas or repairs in docks! …。

The light cruisers all died so simply, the destroyers couldn't even make a splash, and every time the torpedo boats and destroyers of the two warring sides died, one by one! And in order to oppose submarines, the British also pulled out the destroyers, which were already somewhat stretched, and deployed them on the transportation line, so the British fleet at this time was also completely exhausted in terms of auxiliary warships! In addition to a large number of capital ships that can still hold up the scene in the battle sequence of the two sides, there are not many warships left under the remaining ship species! What the? Americans, you say? All right. The Americans really have a lot of destroyers, but there is not a single light cruiser! That's right, you read that right, historically the Americans did not have new light cruisers of the 5000-ton class with the ordinary equipment of the Great Powers before World War 1. It's a lot of patrols.

In previous engagements, submarines simply could not effectively attack the main fleet, but this time, with the large reduction of escort warships on both sides. And the British are playing with pigs all over the board. The large number of auxiliary warships used for lightning strikes and counter-lightning strikes also gave the German submarine a chance, and in the midst of the chaos, the German submarine numbered U75 unknowingly delivered a fatal blow to the Royal Oak! If the Saxony has the slightest chance of making it back alive, then the Royal Oak will definitely die unless God sends it back himself! In less than an hour after the opening of the film, the British and German sides each lost two battleships, three of which were first-rate capital ships equipped with 15-inch guns. This kind of loss is too much for both sides to bear! …。

Even if you are desperate, you can't fight like this, right? Jericho and Hipper's hearts couldn't help but exude a piercing chill! After nearly three years of busy work on the slipway, the capital ship costing nearly 3 million pounds was easily handed away. This is no longer a war, it is a death! Jericho was afraid, it was impossible for the auxiliary warships at this time to protect their fleet from submarines, and who knew if there were other German submarines in this area? If the other party sinks a ship like this, the British will directly admit defeat. Still hairy? So he decided to re-distance himself and shrink the auxiliary battleships. And Hipper's side of the destroyers and light cruisers have been fought together, two or three small fish and shrimp, and the secondary guns on the capital ship have suffered heavy losses, and even Hipper does not dare to guarantee that he can deal with the decisive charge of the opponent's torpedo boats, since this is the case. Let's all talk about the smoke and disperse a little, stop hand-to-hand combat, such a loss is unbearable for both nerves! …。

At the end of the first round of the battle between the 15-inch bosses, the Germans had a slight advantage, and the two battleships exchanged 10 15-inch guns and 8 14-inch guns for the opponent's 16 15-inch guns. And in the back, the American Iron Turtles and the German Iron Turtles are equally killed! The USS York and Mackensen had a deal with two New Mexico-class battleships. The battle between the two sides was like twin brothers, because the Russians had built the Izmail-class battleships with reference to American designs, so the two sides were relatively similar in appearance, and both were armed with 12 14-inch guns. As the battleship with the largest number of barrels on the entire battlefield, all 4 battleships wanted to drown their opponents with a sufficient number of shells. If you simply calculate the number of shells fired from the main guns rather than the quality, the output of these four battleships is the highest in all navies! …。

It's so hard! It seems that the lethality of the 14-inch gun against the opponent is still limited. Even if they were close, it would be difficult for New Mexico and York to hurt each other's muscles. After all, their firepower is all 14-inch level...... Even if the 14-inch guns on the York are more powerful, they are still inferior to the 15-inch guns, and the protection is at the same level as the Bismarck-class. As a result, while the Bismarck-class battleships and the Vengeance-class battleships could penetrate each other, the Iron Tortoises still couldn't do anything to each other.

If the fight between the Bismarck-class battleships and the Revenge-class was a life-and-death fight between the underground black boxing arenas, then the Iron Tortoise was much better, and the two sides were competing for points, rather than completely destroying each other. It's not that I don't want to, but I can't. But even so, after a long time of fighting, the two sides can still be separated, the Germans' superb gunnery is stable over the Americans, and in the case of the same 12 tubes, the York-class battleships will at least hit about 3 to 4 percent more than the other side!

After nearly an hour of artillery fighting, the two New Mexico-class battleships were beaten with blue noses and swollen faces. Although the side chord was not penetrated, there was still a greater or lesser misalignment of the armor and the cracking of the back plate, and some water ingress appeared at the end of the end. However, this is nothing for the new American battleship with enough pumping power and a well-divided compartment. The superstructure was blown to the ground. But the problem of fire control and the main turret is not big, if the sidestring defense of the New Mexico-class battleships can be described as hard, then the frontal defense of the main turret can be described as invulnerable, and the Bavarian 15-inch guns can't penetrate up to 8km, let alone the 14-inch guns. However, the tragic thing is that the No. 2 turret battery of the New Mexico was hit, and the ......... was directly stuck.

The situation was better for the two York-class battleships, there was a little water in the head and tail, 2 turrets were blown off, the superstructure was ignited, and then there was nothing. After fighting for a long time, they couldn't do anything to each other, which made both sides very irritable. But at this moment, I don't know if it was a 15-inch shell fired from the Bismarck-class battleship, it actually flew towards the Mississippi in a daze, and the shell entered the water about 30 meters away from the target. Then it hit it like a torpedo, and the shell weighing more than 800 kg continuously hit the protection composed of 3 layers of highly elastic steel, and finally exploded directly in front of the ammunition depot of the No. 1 turret in the bow!

Accompanied by a violent explosion, a huge column of water surged up from the port side of the USS Mississippi. And even more tragic is that the shell entered the hull diagonally, destroying several watertight compartments directly from the longitudinal direction! It directly caused several compartments on the port side of the battleship Mississippi to be damaged, and even affected the ammunition depot not far away! It's not that the explosion could detonate the ammunition in the ammunition depot, but because of the shock of the distance, the ammunition depot was flooded! In just a dozen seconds, the 15-inch shell caused serious damage to the USS Mississippi.

However, as the pinnacle of the US Navy. The USS Mississippi said that the damage was still within the range of bearing, but it was obviously a little powerless to continue fighting, and the bow of the ship was already seriously flooded, and if it was fought for a while, it would be a serious head tilt and left tilt. In this case, it is obviously better to retreat first, and after greeting the New Mexico in front, the two American warships began to release smoke to distance themselves so as to buy precious time for the rest of the damage management. …………。

After the first battle, the two sides reopened their distance and fired at each other. But the bloody battle that followed was still going on, with the American fleet led by Simms covering 3 British Dreadnoughts and Scheer's 8 Dreadnoughts still engaged in brutal mid-to-close combat. (Two Nassau-class battleships are battling the remaining four dreadnoughts of the British.) The lineup of the Americans is, the 3 ship of the New Mexico class, the USS Ioda, two Pennsylvania-class battleships and 1 USS Nevada and 1 USS Florida

Although the American battleships are all iron turtle attributes...... But even if the turtle agrees, it must be divided into three, six, nine and so on. And the Nevada and the Florida are just the inferior turtles among them, the armor thickness is sufficient, but the armor quality is relatively poor, both battleships were built in the Second Sino-Russian War, and the armor used is also old-fashioned armor, and the internal compartment and layout are not reasonable. After all, it was the ultra-dreadnought of the US Navy in the early stage, and it is understandable that there are various problems. Especially the Florida, although the 14-inch guns were installed through the reserved gun ring, the resulting increase in weight greatly increased the draft of the battleship, resulting in a large reduction in the exposed part of the armor, and what was even more fatal was that the thickness of the armor belt of the Florida was relatively thin! And in this way, because the increase in draft is equivalent to a change of direction, the Florida's protective ......... is weakened.

And when the two sides are engaged in close combat in the middle of the process. The USS Florida and USS Nevada were already at a disadvantage against the Caesar-class battleships. The latter only needs a good chance to make these two old warships doomed!

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