However, the British did not make any mistakes! The fierce shooting of the two British light cruisers had already turned the upper deck of Rostock into a sea of ​​fire, and all the secondary guns had been destroyed by more than 80%, and the light protection area at the stern of the battleship was also riddled with holes. In order to balance the hull, it had to be injected in reverse. If Rostock was considered an agile leopard before the battle, then its reaction is no better than an elderly lion now! Don't forget that there are jackals who want to wait for an opportunity around!

Finally, a British destroyer finally rushed up the wreckage of his peers and fired a 421-inch torpedo at a distance of less than 6oo meters. After two loud bangs, the German Navy lost the first battleship with a displacement of more than 5ooo tons in this battle!

However, no matter what, the German light cruiser and destroyer team finally successfully blocked the British's desperate attack. After losing 5 light cruisers and a dozen destroyers, the British fleet retreated with scars. The opposite German fleet also lost 2 light cruisers and 5 destroyers and returned to the team. When the auxiliary warships of both sides were separated for the time being, the battle between the main fleets had already reached a fever pitch!

"Fire!" Accompanied by the fire of the muzzle, the eight 15-inch heavy artillery on the Saxon battleship once again sprayed out huge flames. In the distance, the British Fearless Bold, who was caught with him, was already bruised and bruised in the battle just now. The five double-mounted 343mm turrets on the hull had been finalized by 3 and a half. The British battleship in the distance used its last three cannons to resist stubbornly, but this kind of shooting that could not even be completed was not very effective except for interpreting its will and determination.

8 shells once again enveloped the unyielding British battleship. The moment the shell fell, a series of loud noises broke out again on the Dabang. A 15-inch shell successfully penetrated the sub-art gun depot located under the armored belt of the Dasan. Accompanied by the explosion like a volcanic gushing, the warship continued to tremble in the loud noises of flames and thunder. Even if it was more than ten kilometers apart, the German officers and soldiers on the Saxony could clearly see the warship tilting to the left with a telescope!

"Okay, this guy is finished! Next target!" Captain Saxon's captain Colonel Bockman was no longer interested in wasting precious shells on this sunken battleship. He hesitated for a moment, and ordered Saxon to aim his naval gun at the battleship in front of the Bold - and this battleship was the flagship of the British Royal Navy, the Iron Duke!

On the other side of the battlefield, three battleships of the German Fifth Battleship Detachment also achieved the first kill in this naval battle soon. With the cooperation of the Possen and Nassau, the British dreadnought Collingwood was sunk, and the power chamber and servo cabin of the battleship were completely destroyed. After the British fleet gave it up, the German destroyer went up and ended the pitiful life of the warship with torpedo. So far, before the Air Force bombers arrived, 21 British battleships had lost 4 ships. Now the number of main fleets of both sides was 17 to 19!

At the darkest moment of the British Royal Navy Fleet, the only highlight of the British was the Revenge-class battleship located at the forefront of the battleship. Although the Revenge-class status in the Royal Navy battleship in the British Royal Navy was lower than that of the Queen Elizabeth-class battleship, in this naval battle, the most capable and able to resist was the Revenge-class! With the main force of the entire British Fleet being suppressed, the Revenge-class not only did not fall behind in the confrontation with the Helgolan-class battleship, but also gained some advantages!

As the artillery of the Helgolan-class battleship roared again, the 8 armor-piercing bombs flew to the Determination battleship in the distance. After a few dozen seconds, balls of flames exploded on the wide side-stringed armor belt of the Revenge again. In this wave, the Helgolan's performance was not bad! Two shells hit the target.

With the violent collision of shells and armor, the 33ommm armor belt of the Determination successfully knocked a 35ommm shell into pieces, and the other shell hit the two armor plates. With the noise that could almost make people crazy, the violent collision shattered the back plate and support structure behind the armor plate. The huge shell also drilled in half and left a crack more than one meter long. Unfortunately, the fragments after the explosion of the shell were finally blocked by the dome armor behind the main armor of the Revenge. Although some water was in, the damage was not great.

"Damn, we can't penetrate their defenses. These guys are too strong, and there are dome armors behind them." Lieutenant General Bainke, who was standing in the command tower of the battleship Helgolan, looked a little pale. How many times has this been? There were four times that he observed on this battleship that had hit but not penetrated. If the entire fleet was combined, then there would probably be more than one dozen, right?

Now Lieutenant General Bainke felt the sad feeling that the British could not penetrate the armor even after hitting many times. This war experience was simply too bad!

"The Revenge-class battleship is definitely the most difficult existence in the British Royal Navy. It is not as tall as the Queen, but its defense is too strong. In addition to the possibility of breaking through some parts of the gun mount and the front of the turret, our 35omm shells are almost unable to penetrate the core area at normal combat distances. Even the Bavarian-class 15-inch heavy artillery can only break through the side string main armor and dome armor at a relatively close distance."

After the war, not only Major General Bainke, but also German officers who had experienced the hard shell of the Revenge class, such as General Schell, Commander of the High Seas Fleet, Lieutenant General Nordman, Commander of the Second Battleship Detachment, and Lieutenant General Schmidt, Commander of the Third Battleship Detachment, all favored the Revenge class defense. The high evaluation from the commander of the Three Bavarian-class Battleship Squadron is probably the highest praise for this level of British battleships?

Of course, Revenge is not only powerful, but also its artillery! You should know that in history, when the British used German warships to test the penetration depth of the new armor-piercing shell, they penetrated a 35mm thick steel plate at a simulated distance! With the British shells weighing more than 87o kilograms, even if they could not penetrate, such heavy shells would put great pressure on the hull. This time, the Helgolan-class battleship, which fought against the Revenge class first, experienced the pressure brought by the British 15-inch heavy artillery!

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