Chapter 2226 Battle 3

"Quiet, the battle has just begun. This victory is nothing compared to what we want to achieve. Therefore, I hope that everyone can continue to work hard, for the empire and the High Seas Fleet!" Ruprecht made a quiet statement. said after the gesture. However, Ruprecht still subconsciously looked at the wall clock on the wall and recorded this time. Ten minutes after the war started, the first British battleship sank!

"Order all battleships to take up their positions in turn." Jericho looked at the sea in the distance, where the battleship Marlborough disappeared. Although there was no expression on his face, Jericho was still gripped by uneasiness and fear deep in his heart.

Before today, he had always firmly believed that if everyone stepped up to fight, no matter how elite the High Seas Fleet was, with an absolute numerical disadvantage, it would not be an opponent of the Grand Fleet in terms of artillery battle. Betty was defeated before. The Battle of Dogger Sandbank was just because the Germans used battleships to attack British battlecruisers. But now it seems that our super-dreadnoughts have nothing to do with the German 15-inch naval guns and the battlecruisers. What a difference!

And not long after the Bavaria achieved its first kill, a new member of the "Bavaria Family" also achieved his first kill in his service career! And this kill is also valuable, because Bavaria's No. 11 ship Meiningen faced a flanking attack by two British battleships at the same time, although they were both dreadnoughts!

After all, the British Grand Fleet still has a slight numerical advantage. The two dreadnoughts Boronofon and Reckless of the British Fourth Battleship Squadron can concentrate the 20 12-inch guns on the two battleships and attack Meiningen crazily. The tilting rain of bullets. It has to be said that even if the range measurement is wrong, the huge projection volume can still make up for this error. Every minute, more than 30 shells roar towards this "newcomer".

The British Royal Navy's tactical literacy is still very good. They coordinated each other's attack rhythm very well and did not let the water columns dropped by the two warships overlap. After the initial adaptation, the British also began to score hits.

Shortly after a 12-inch shell fired from the Boronofon was successfully deflected by the Meiningen's side armor belt, another shell flying from the Reckless hit the Meiningen's hull. A small fire was lit on the rear upper deck, and this made Rear Admiral Maufer on the Meiningen very unhappy.

"Damn it, this is a new ship." Major General Mao Fu said dissatisfied. After all, it is a new warship that has been in service for a short time. In terms of training level and the degree of integration of the warship personnel, there is definitely a big gap between this newcomer and his seniors. Moreover, he is fighting two warships at the same time, and the other side is constantly firing cannonballs. Although it was unable to cause fatal damage to the Meiningen, it still made the battleship somewhat confused. At least the water columns constantly rising around the hull made the Meiningen's sighting somewhat difficult, and in order to avoid the shells, he needed to constantly adjust his course in a small range.

However, as the German Air Force gradually gained control of the battlefield and allowed the corrective aircraft on the battleships to approach the British fleet, the situation changed! Because the conditions for observing aircraft in the air are much better!

"We have clamped the Boronofon again! Perfect flanking!" Because signal transmission and processing take time, Meiningen's corrective fire speed is not fast, about 45 seconds for one and a half salvos. Then, after the reconnaissance plane in the sky sent a telegram of the perfect landing point, the Meiningen poured out its fury towards the target like an angry lion!

"Keep the battleship's course unchanged! Don't worry about the British hit bombs! Kill the Boronofon!" Rear Admiral Mauve ordered loudly,

With the help of aircraft, the Meiningen finally scored its first hit at the 8th minute. A 15-inch shell landed between the No. 1 and No. 2 turrets of the Boronofon, causing a violent explosion. The vibrations distorted the deck and gun rim, and jammed the rotating mechanisms of the two turrets. And this undoubtedly greatly reduced the pressure on the Meiningen.

Then, Meiningen's performance began to gradually improve. During the fifteenth salvo, three shells were thrown on the hull of Boronofon, one of which hit the wheel at the rear of the hull. In the engine room, with the violent explosion, the entire cabin partition was blown to pieces, and what a coincidence, right next to the engine room was the fuel used in the generator room! Under the action of high temperature, gasoline is evaporated in large quantities. When the gasoline vapor in the air reaches a certain density, a spark turns the oil tank into a huge burning gasoline bomb!

The violent explosion not only destroyed the ship's propulsion equipment, but also cut off the fuel supply to the motor room. Without electricity, it would be impossible to put out the fire. As a result, the fire began to spread unrestrictedly within the hull, and the subsequent explosions even opened several large holes in the bottom of the ship. In the end, the Boronofon was forced to hang up a signal, indicating that it could not participate in the battle, and Prepare to withdraw from the battle.

And shortly after the signal was hung, several big explosions suddenly occurred inside the hull of this old dreadnought! A huge mushroom cloud rose hundreds of meters into the sky. Countless fragments and parts were thrown into the air. Of the more than 800 British Royal Navy officers and soldiers on board the battleship, only single digits survived. No one knows what happened in the end. It is generally believed that the fire in the engine room spread to the ammunition depot in the middle of the hull, causing the ammunition depot to explode. As for the real cause, it was concealed in the rolling waves of the Norwegian Sea.

"Is it sunk?" Not only the British were surprised, but even the German naval officers and soldiers on the Meiningen felt a little too idle. Why was there a battleship on the opposite side, and it actually died like this? ? Is this war too simple?

“Are all British warships crispy?”

"God must have used our hands to take care of the British just now."

"Okay, everyone, this is just the beginning! Today, we will definitely put our names in the annals of history. In order for the empire and history to remember us, we must continue to work hard!" Major General Mao Fu has seen the world. According to his words He said that if a British warship sank inexplicably, don't be surprised, just keep up your efforts and prepare to fight another one.

"Your Excellency, Commander, the Boronofon has also sunk." Lieutenant General Duff said to Jericho with a complicated expression.

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