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    "How is the battleship? Can it continue to fight?" David.  Lieutenant General Betty raised his forehead and asked, a trace of blood seeping from his hands.  When the Princess Royal was hit just now, the huge vibration caused all the officers on the bridge to fall down. David.  Lieutenant General Betty was unlucky. His forehead hit the edge of the table, causing a bloody cut.

    "Medic, come and bandage the general! General, the ship was hit amidships, the No. 3 turret was destroyed, and the No. 2 chimney collapsed. The battleship's speed will drop to less than 20 knots!" the captain asked David.  Lieutenant General Beatty reported.

    "Damn it!" David.  Lieutenant General Betty cursed secretly. Battlecruisers simply did not have the strength to compete with battleships. If their speed was also affected, it would be almost a dead end.  Fortunately, during this period, the Royal Princess had completed its turn and started sailing westward.  The German Navy's First Battle Fleet does not seem to be targeting the Royal Princess anymore.

    The battlecruiser Tiger Tiger followed closely behind Princess Royal.  After the Princess Royal completed its turn, the battlecruiser Tiger Tiger became a key target of the German Navy.  The eight battleships of the First Battle Fleet of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet all set their targets on the Tiger.  'Tiger' performed poorly in the previous battle. Although it has found the feeling now, it faced the battleships of the German Navy.  No matter how powerful the battlecruiser is, it cannot compete with the battleship.  The battleship's main gun can easily inflict heavy damage on the battlecruiser, but the battlecruiser's main gun may not be able to tear through the battleship's thick armor.  Therefore, battlecruisers always suffer a great disadvantage in confrontations with battleships. Once they encounter an enemy battleship, they basically have no choice but to escape at high speed.

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" The dense artillery shells exploded on the sea on the right side of the battlecruiser Tiger, and towering water columns rose from the sea, making the British sailors on the battleship tremble with fear, fearing that the battleship would be hit.

    Some people even kept praying to God, praying to escape this disaster.

    At 6:00 pm, NO.King, a shell fired from the battleship "Tiger" hit the battlecruiser "Tiger". Although the "Tiger" battlecruiser was an improved version of the "Lion" class battlecruiser, the armor was slightly modified.  Reinforcement.  However, even this is unable to withstand 343mm armor-piercing bullets.  The armor-piercing shell hit the No. 1 main battery turret of the battlecruiser Tiger.  The shell easily tore through the turret's armor and exploded inside the turret.  The violent explosion directly overturned the main turret.  If the shells inside had not been fired long ago, and the British sailors had promptly closed the passage between the ammunition depot and the turret below, the battlecruiser "Tiger" might have been severely damaged by this.

    At 6:12, a 381 mm armor-piercing shell fired from the battleship "Bavaria" hit the "Tiger" battlecruiser again, which immediately dealt a fatal blow to the "Tiger" battlecruiser.  The shell hit the starboard side of the battlecruiser Tiger.

    "The waterline armor of the battlecruiser "Tiger" was no different from paper under the impact of the 381 mm armor-piercing projectile. It was easily torn open, and a hole more than three meters wide was blasted.  A large amount of seawater poured into the battlecruiser Tiger.  Although, after diligent command, the damage control personnel on the battlecruiser "Tiger" blocked the opening, hundreds of tons of seawater had already poured into the battleship, and the hull had already tilted.  In order to balance the hull,

    ¡°The captain of the battlecruiser Tiger ordered the port side to be filled with water.  However, this caused the battlecruiser's speed to drop to 16 knots.  In a fierce naval battle, such speed simply cannot catch up with the main fleet.  Therefore, David.  Lieutenant General Beatty ordered the battlecruiser Tiger to return to the British mainland for rest and recuperation.  However, the battlecruiser ultimately could not escape its misfortune. It was hit by two torpedoes launched by the German submarine No. 662 in the waters less than 100 kilometers away from Edinburgh, and eventually sank into the North Sea.

    Following the "Tiger" is the "Unyielding" battlecruiser, which is the "Indomitable" battlecruiser.

    ¡®The Invincible class, the first battlecruiser, is one of the earliest battlecruisers in service in the UK.

    'Indomitable' has a displacement of only 20,000 tons. Although it is equipped with four twin 5mm main guns, its armor is very weak. The waterline armor is only 102mm to 152mm, the deck armor is only 65mm, and the turret armor is only  178mm to 2mm.  It is obviously difficult for such weak armor to survive the bombardment of a battleship's large-caliber main gun.

    At 6:05 in the afternoon, when the First Battle Fleet of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet shifted the main target of the bombardment to the battlecruiser Indomitus, its tragic fate had already been decided.  At 6:18, during this round of salvos, the battleship "Saxony" and the battleship "Governor" simultaneously fired."Indomitable" was hit, especially the battlecruiser HMS

    ¡®Frontier Governor, the battleship ¡®Indomitable,¡¯ was hit by two shells.  One 381mm armor-piercing bullet and two 343mm armor-piercing bullets were enough to kill the Indomitable.

    The 381mm armor-piercing projectile fired from the battleship Saxony hit the bridge of the Indomitable.  Although the armor of the bridge is 254 mm thick.  However, under the bombardment of 381 mm armor-piercing bullets, it was simply unable to withstand it.  In addition, the German Navy's armor-piercing shells all use delayed fuses. The shells will not explode until the armor-piercing shells penetrate the armored command of the bridge, instead of exploding immediately after impact like the British Navy's armor-piercing shells.  This 381mm armor-piercing projectile is

    ¡®The Unyielding¡¯s bridge exploded, killing all officers including the captain.  Subsequently, two 343 mm armor-piercing shells also hit the "Indomitable". One hit the front deck of the "Indomitable". The shell easily penetrated the armor of the front deck and blew a big hole. Another armor-piercing shell hit the "Indomitable".  The stern of the Indomitable destroyed the main battery turret located at the stern of the ship.  This also caused the explosion of two 5mm artillery shells and hundreds of kilograms of propellant in the turret.  Everyone only saw a loud noise as an orange-red fireball erupted from the rear deck of the battlecruiser Indomitable. The entire rear half of the battleship was almost destroyed in the explosion.  It was later estimated that the ammunition depot of the rear main gun of the Indomitable was also destroyed in the explosion, causing the shells inside to explode, which caused fatal damage to the Indomitable.  The entire rear half of the ship's stern was destroyed. Command, 'Indomitable' lasted less than two minutes on the sea before sinking to the bottom of the sea. Of the 784 British naval officers and soldiers on board the battleship, less than a hundred successfully escaped.  , all the other people were buried at the bottom of the sea along with the battleship.

    The last battlecruiser "Indomitable" successfully escaped from the gunfire of the German Navy's battleship.  Seeing the battle cruiser "Tiger" being severely damaged, the battle cruiser "Indomitable" was directly sunk. Such a huge loss made David.  Lieutenant General Betty almost vomited blood.  Of the powerful British naval battlecruiser detachment, only the Princess Royal still has a certain combat capability, and the only one intact is the Indomitable.  Such a huge loss was enough for the Admiralty to directly send him to a military court.  Of course, David.  Vice Admiral Betty was also very resentful of the false information provided by the Admiralty. If the information provided by the Admiralty had not been that the main force of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet was still in the military port, he would not have led the fleet to pursue the German Navy's reconnaissance without any scruples.  Squadron, so that it ended up like this.

    Before the main battleship showdown between the two sides, the showdown between the battlecruisers almost ended with a complete victory for the German Navy.  The German Navy's High Seas Fleet reconnaissance squadron only paid the price of two ships being sunk and one being severely damaged, while the British Navy's battlecruiser squadron paid heavy losses.  This is undoubtedly excellent news for the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, which has boosted the morale of all German naval officers and soldiers.

    When David.  Vice Admiral Beatty led the British naval battlecruiser squadron to retreat westward and commanded Reinhardt.  Admiral Scheer ordered the main force of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet to approach westward, preparing for a decisive battle with the main force of the British Navy's Home Fleet. This was also the final decisive battle between the two navies.

    At this time, the German Navy's High Seas Fleet had 29 battleships and 5 battlecruisers available to participate in the battle.  The British Navy only had battleships and two battlecruisers.  Overall, the British Navy has little advantage.  With four invincible ¡®Bavaria-class¡¯ battleships, Reinhardt.  Admiral Scheer was very confident, thinking that he could defeat the British Navy's Home Fleet in one fell swoop, pull the British Navy from its position as maritime supremacy, and then replace it.  However, he never thought that although the German Navy had achieved a small victory, it was still too early to defeat the British Navy.

    British Navy Home Fleet Commander John.  Admiral Jellicoe learned that David.  After the battlecruiser squadron led by Lieutenant General Betty encountered the main force of the German Navy's High Seas Fleet, they were so depressed that they almost vomited blood.  On the one hand, John.  Admiral Jellicoe cursed the Admiralty and ordered the main force of the Home Fleet to prepare for battle.  On the other hand, John.  Admiral Jellicoe ordered five ships

    ¡°The squadron of Queen Elizabeth-class battleships rushed to the battlefield. He knew that without the addition of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleships, it would be difficult for the British Navy to win this battle.  At the same time, John.  Admiral Jellicoe did not forget to contact the American fleet to confirm when they would arrive on the battlefield!
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