"The wind is blowing?" There is a saying that the leaky house happens to rain overnight. There is also a saying that blessings do not come together, and disasters do not go alone. Not long after Paul re-led the fleet into the smoke screen to avoid the blow, the thick smoke screen began to gradually dissipate, and the smoke that could have lasted for a long time gradually faded when the air currents blew. Maybe it won't be long before the whole battlefield will be clear, and in wartime, it will not be possible to replenish the smoke canisters and smoke bombs! Once the smoke clears, both Paul's fleet and the city of Denzer behind him will be reduced to ashes under the attack of the Russians! And it will take at least another hour for Hipper to arrive!

Offense is death, defense is death, and in short, Paul is left with the question of choosing a certain way to die. After several previous trials, Paul realized that the Russians lacked enough auxiliary warships, and even the number of destroyers was relatively insufficient, and the strength of a battleship detachment was actually only 16 auxiliary warships of various kinds, including a few old-fashioned pre-dreadnought light cruisers, but with a change of power, they could barely keep up with the speed of the fleet. The opponent's auxiliary fleet is not worth mentioning, and the Braunschweig is definitely handy with these ships. It seems like an opportunity!

"All the mine-striking ships followed the main force to launch a charge." Eventually, Rear Admiral Paul made a fortune, and before the smoke screen cleared, 5 Braunschweig-class battleships would use their bodies to win a chance for the large number of torpedo boats and destroyers behind them! A chance to wreak havoc on your opponent! Five quasi-dreadnoughts rushed out of the smoke screen and went out towards the battleships that were 2 generations more advanced than them and had a displacement of 10,000 tons more than 10,000 tons after they appeared.

ALL 150MM SECONDARY GUNS AND ANTI-LIGHTNING GUNS SENT OUT A DENSE RAIN OF BULLETS. Tearing all the Russian destroyers who dared to intercept to shreds, just one photo, less than 3 minutes. Two Russian destroyers were set on fire, and two huge fireballs rose into the air, and the huge explosion caused by the detonation of torpedoes and ammunition directly shattered the entire battleship.

Numerous shrapnel and powerful shock waves repeatedly hit the hull of the surviving Russian destroyer, and the flying shrapnel even killed and injured most of the people on a mine-struck ship. In the face of the advancing German fleet, the fragile defensive line on the periphery of the Russian fleet was torn apart in an instant. A bloody road was about to be killed, and when the distance between the two sides was less than 7KM, the roar of the four Gangut-class battleships rang out again. One by one, the fire dragons erupted and rushed towards the German battleships not far away. And this time. The Germans did not back down, but continued to advance, while fighting back in vain with only 11-inch guns.

Paul was anxious. Essen was no less easy, the airship unit in charge of the vigilance had spotted the plume of smoke that had appeared at sea level, and the German reinforcements were soon back, if not to get rid of the annoying guys. I'm afraid the situation will be critical. Essen didn't even need to look at the intelligence to know who was coming, except for Hipper and his fleet, there wouldn't be anyone in the entire Allied fleet who could come so quickly! They were one of the sharpest light cavalry in the Allied Navy. Although the auxiliary ships were very vulnerable, Essen was not in a hurry, and he concluded that the opponent's assault would have no effect except to delay some time and put himself on board!

The Russian fleet cut diagonally into the course of the Germans, and the first salvo severely wounded the Braunschweig, which rushed to the front, and a full six shells hit the poor battleship. The tremendous energy generated by the continuous collisions and explosions reduced the entire bow of the ship to pieces like a pair of raised hands, and the turret, mast and conning tower on the front were not spared. The powerful armor-piercing projectile destroyed the qiē that they could touch. Streams of flames and shrapnel rammed into the deck of the battleship. The entire bow of the ship was shattered, and a large amount of sea water poured into the battleship along the breach, and soon the front half of the ship was submerged in the waves. It was only a matter of time before Braunschweig was silent, and his commander had already left the world, no one on the bombed-out conning tower, and the entire German fleet had lost its unified command.

The German fleet, which had lost its command, was not messy, and they still dutifully covered the torpedo boats in the rear to attack the opposing fleet. They're in a race against time. Braunschweig's figure soon disappeared into the sea, and the Alsace, already wounded and badly damaged, soon followed in the footsteps of its flagship. The mighty Russian fleet only fired two salvos to kill the battleship, a shell entered from the bottom of the No. 3 turret, and successfully destroyed the fire door, and finally exploded at the ammunition depot, the violent explosion directly tore the huge battleship into two parts, a huge column of water rose from the sea, the second half quickly sank into the water, and the first half quickly tilted to the right under the action of inertia and slapped flat on the water.

In a very short period of time, the German Navy lost two warships with a gross tonnage of 30,000 tons, but their efforts were not unrewarded, the lightning strikers hiding behind the capital ships have been deployed, and these little ones with sharp blades will challenge the behemoths in the distance at close range. Just when the action was ready, the continuous sound of cannons from the rear of the German fleet suddenly changed the whole shape, and the Alexander III and Borodino finally arrived at the battlefield, and they still cut into the battlefield from the side and rear, directly attacking the unprotected mine-strike ships, at this time the two outdated battleships were in full fire,

Before the Germans launched their final charge, Essen had already received a telegram that 2 former dreadnoughts were about to arrive on the battlefield, and instead of letting these two battleships directly join the battle, he chose to insert the opposing formation from the rear and directly attack the vulnerable torpedo boats, thus completely breaking up the opponent's attack. At close range, Essen was more concerned about the torpedo boats that could reach nearly 30 knots than the old quasi-dreadnoughts.

The German fleet, caught in the middle of the attack, finally collapsed at this moment. If it was the hope of victory that supported them before, the opportunity to win big with a small torpedo, now the last hope of the German fleet was stifled. The two equally old Borodino-class battleships slaughtered torpedo boats and destroyers that had been bewildered by heavy artillery fire, starting with the 12-pounder guns and ending with the powerful 12-inch guns, which were constantly raining deadly bullets. In cooperation with Essen's team, the entire German fleet was in a desperate situation, and almost all the German battleships were releasing smoke to avoid the dense rain of bullets, but due to the distance and the sea breeze, all actions were useless.

Soon, in the confusion, the Lorraine was also hit, and the dense 14-inch shells lightly made a series of holes in its flanks, although the Lorraine filled the ammunition depot early to avoid the explosion, but the hull damage caused by the shells and the loss of the power compartment still made the battleship powerless. After struggling for 15 minutes, the entire battleship quickly turned to the right and disappeared into the sea. And with the quasi-dreadnought sinking, the loss rate of those lightning strike ships was even faster, and under the blow of crossfire, violent explosions continued to be emitted on the sea surface, and one after another hundreds or dozens of tons of warships were blown into pieces. Billowing smoke rose on the surface of the sea, and the heavy smell of blood mixed with the smell of various items after burning made people vomit.

There is no doubt that the battle has been carried out to this extent. The Russian fleet had already entered the rhythm of killing dogs, and the other 1 battleship of the Brunswick-class battleship did not escape the attack of the Russian fleet. The Prussia was eventually buried by intensive artillery fire. Turned into a pile of debris floating on the surface of the sea. The Hesse, on the other hand, managed to escape from Ascension because of the smoke screen or the negligence of the Russians. And the destroyers and torpedo boats that accompanied the assault also suffered heavy losses, at least more than 80% of the torpedo boats and destroyers did not return to the port, and in less than 2 hours of fighting, the Russian fleet destroyed at least nearly 80,000 tons of German battleships! Although these battleships are already obsolete products, this is undoubtedly a rather heavy blow to the German Navy! The quasi-dreadnought fleet of the German Navy was just like that, more than half of it was cleared!

However, after clearing the German fleet, Essen also had no time to attack the port of Danze, the airship in charge of reconnaissance had already sounded two alarms, and the Hipper fleet was only 15 nautical miles away from him, and the two sides would fight in half an hour at most. "Let's go. Today's harvest is okay. "Essen, who has become an old fritter, definitely knows what it means, Hippel is just a striker, God knows how many capital ships are followed by these fast battleships. What's more, after the engagement and ground bombardment just now, the shells of the Essen fleet have also been consumed by at least 40%. The number of armor-piercing shells is also somewhat insufficient, and there is no way out for desperate fighting.

"Retreat to our ambush zone, if we're lucky, we might have some unexpected gains, tell the submarine force, and entertain our guests well." Essen ordered. Then the two dreadnoughts went first, and the Gangut-class super dreadnoughts broke behind. Begin to evacuate the battlefield. Essen wants to go, but will Hippert allow it? It was clear that there was absolutely no reason why the Hipper's fleet, which was at least 25 knots or more, could not catch up with the Russians, and Essen's actions were merely delaying the fight between the two sides.

There was no time to take care of the overboard German officers and soldiers who were still struggling in the sea, and the task of rescuing them was left to civilian ships and a small number of auxiliary warships, and Hipper's current thinking was how to solve Essen. Although he couldn't eat the entire fleet, but in line with the idea of being able to fight one and count one, Hipper still rushed over without hesitation, according to intelligence, this time the Russians dispatched 6 capital ships, but two of them were Borodino-class battleships that were not very good in the Second Sino-Russian War, so Hipper really didn't have any pressure, if these two antiques were willing to come to death, he wouldn't mind.

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