"I will definitely live up to my mission! Tell all officers and soldiers that the outcome of this battle depends on whether we can quickly annihilate the opponent's fleet! Today's first goal! Defeat Hippel's fleet! I can only give you no more than 30 minutes! Kill them! Let those arrogant Germans know who is the master of this ocean in the past, present or future!" Thomas' passionate words rang out in the command tower of Queen Elizabeth!

"General, Thomas on the other side is coming." At this time, standing in the command tower, through the telescope, the officers of the German fleet could already see the silhouette of the British fleet in the distance. Looking at the large number of British main battleships, some people couldn't help but feel nervous under such a huge gap in force.

"Scared?" Putting down the telescope in his hand, Hippel took out a box of cigars from Havana from his pocket. This was a gift from an American officer. Hippel said while using cigar cuts to handle the cigars: "Don't worry, Thomas will not fight with us until the main fleets of both sides fight. If the entire British fleet is compared to a lion, only when the lion's limbs fix their prey, his most aggressive teeth will attack."

"So how do we deal with it?" the officer asked.

"Do not get rid of the lion's sharp teeth and break its limbs with the flow." Hippel said with a smile.

"Genius, Major General Bodick of the Armored Cruiser Detachment said he was ready for battle. Ask if he would join the fleet battle line now," a military officer reported.

"Then let's start!" Hippel said after looking at the British fleet that had been unsheathed in the distance.

This is not simply to let the armored cruiser team keep up with the battlecruiser team in front. The Germans' movements seemed a bit complicated. The four battlecruisers gradually distanced, and then the four Mainz-class armored cruisers were dispersed and inserted into the queue. The front was the battlecruiser Von der Tinn, then three armored cruisers, followed by three battlecruisers, and finally an armored cruiser. The two fleets were completely mixed.

"We are the main bait of the High Seas Fleet, and they are our bait, right?" At this time, an officer on the Moltke said, pointing to the armored cruiser in front.

"It can be understood this way." Captain Colonel Koch said.

"These things are too fragile. It is a miracle that they can survive the Queen's artillery for 10 minutes. Moreover, even if the distance is so far, the other party can still distinguish armored cruisers and battle cruisers through rangefinders. Don't look at the fancy paint on them." said an officer.

"This is not necessarily the case. Sometimes our rangefinders can be observed without any impact, but it does not mean that the British can do the same. In short, at the beginning, the British had to deal with eight, not four. To some extent, the firepower concentrated on us is half reduced!" Colonel Koch said.

Ruprecht naturally would not let Hippel sacrifice in vain, but when the main fleet could not withdraw enough troops, Ruprecht could not do much. After thinking about it over and over again, letting the armored cruiser help share the firepower became one of the few measures. Although it is theoretically operable from a technical point of view, the specific situation depends on the situation. Of course, when I feel that it is not very reliable, Ruprecht will naturally arrange second-hand or even third-hand preparations, but these back-ups cannot be developed now!

"Damn it! Our rangefinder seems to be apart from a point problem!" When the rangefinders of both sides had reached the distance to measure the target accurately, the British suddenly found that the German fleet in front of them seemed to have some problems! In the field of vision of the British's combined rangefinder, no matter how the knob is adjusted, the images of the two viewing windows could never overlap, and it was like dancing in the field of view! If the images in the combined rangefinder could not overlap, the data would naturally not be able to be obtained through the reading!

(I will briefly talk about the principle of the combined image rangefinder. When the rangefinder is used, the center of the rangefinder and the target are perpendicular. There are two lens groups on both sides of the rangefinder. They are responsible for acquiring the images. The left lens group is responsible for acquiring the images on the upper part of the target image, and the right lens group is responsible for acquiring the images on the lower part of the target image. Finally, after adjusting in the eyepiece, the upper and lower images overlap, the distance can be read out, and the readout distance is obtained by solving the triangle. If the image cannot be matched, it is naturally difficult to read out the exact position!)

This kind of zebra stripes is also famous in history, called Dazzle paint, and the British invented this paint in history. What’s more coincidental is that this paint also appeared in World War I! The Hundred-Eyed Giant aircraft carrier in 1918 was this kind of paint!

Although this painting is very innovative, the British felt good after testing it with their own image rangefinder, but unfortunately, this painting only works for image rangefinders and does not work for asana rangefinders used by Germans... Historically, the British created a painting that can only deal with their own. In this plane, Crown Prince Ruprecht decisively used this painting to deal with the British...

Of course, although there will be some difficulties when viewing and aiming, it is impossible to say that fire control cannot be performed. The British can still find the target by viewing and estimating, combined with the clip-on shooting method. Therefore, the simple dazzle painting cannot satisfy Ruprecht. He also prepared two other gifts for the British!

During the war, the size data of warships were very important secrets, because many times the rangefinder needed to determine the identity of the warship based on the length and mast height of the warship. Based on this, the Germans have also done corresponding camouflage work in history. Do you still remember the Hood in the Danish Navy Battle? In fact, Hood is suspected of being pitted by German camouflage!

Historically, if Bismarck painted in the Denmark Sea, you can see a large white paint on the front and rear of the warship. Is this a scribble by the Germans? Obviously not! That is all purpose, because the Germans found that when fighting from a long distance, the white paint is most likely to allow the hull to be integrated into the background color. In this way, when the other party observes, the head and tail of the hull will be shorter... So there will be a misjudgment of the length of the hull, and the result of this misjudgment is to doubt the identity of the ship! This is also the second insurance prepared by Ruprecht for Hippel!
Chapter completed!