"Damn it, we can't get rid of them!" Thomas threw away the telescope in his hand irritatedly. The Germans did not give the British a breathing time. After some maneuvering, the distance between the two sides was re-locked to about 15 kilometers. At this distance, the Queen's pressure on Bavaria's 15-inch heavy artillery was huge, while the British's 15-inch artillery could not pose a fatal threat to the Bavaria.

The British put the last wave of auxiliary warships into the fight with German auxiliary warships, and the confrontation between the main battleships was opened again! And this time, the British performed not much better than before!

"It seems that we have a soft persimmon this time!" Standing in the command tower of the Bavarian-class battleship, Colonel Max looked at the hull's tail blown up, and even the Duke of York with a tilted tail appeared.

"Come on, brothers! If we are lucky today, we can kill two queens!" Colonel Max encouraged. However, before he finished speaking, a huge explosion suddenly came from the Duke of York, and this time the hit was not made by the Deshao!

"It was the Brunswick hit." said an officer next to him.

"Damn Koch, this guy has been snatching me since he was a child! The same is true in high school, the same in college, and it is still the same now!" Max said dissatisfiedly, venting his dissatisfaction with the colleague and classmate on the Brunswick battleship!

Ruprecht's order was to keep a close eye on the queen and revenge, and to relax the attack on British battlecruisers when necessary, so, in this way, some unlucky guys will be taken care of by two German battleships. The Duke of York, who was injured by a backstab in the previous battle, naturally became one of the best targets! Subconsciously, most people are used to finding soft pinches!

Therefore, under the attack of two Bavarian-class battleships, the Duke of York became the first Queen Elizabeth-class battleship to be sunk!

"Pay attention to the rate of fire, don't be too fast, don't mix it with the Brunswick, so that no one of us can observe!" Looking at the Duke of York, surrounded by two red and black water columns in the distance, Colonel Max frowned. Although he expressed dissatisfaction with the other party's "stealing the head", the colonel still decided to abide by the "rules of the world" and kill the opponent with the highest efficiency as the criterion. The rate of fire was too fast, and even if there was dye, it was still troublesome to observe.

So, after the initial chaos, the two German battleships tacitly coordinated their attack speed. In an average of 20 seconds, a round of shells fell near the Duke of York!

"We were hit!" Accompanied by a trembling sound, a huge fireball rose from the waterline armor belt in the middle of the upper string of the Duke of York! A 15-inch shell from the Deshao accurately hit the hardest armor belt of the battleship! This time, the 330mm vertical armor belt could not block the shell fired from 15 kilometers away!

With the flames and violent collisions, a huge penetration injury was cut out from the thick armor belt! However, in the final stage, the shells also disintegrated due to the violent collision! Several large pieces of debris hit the gap of the dome behind the armor! A large piece of steel plate was removed from the support structure! Several steam pipes behind were cut off! Hundreds of tons of sea water poured in from the break, and when the cold sea water and the gushing out steam met, the boiling steam spread in the cabin. Under the action of thermal expansion and contraction, more pipes were shattered!

However, before the British damage team arrived at the damaged site for repair, in just 20 seconds, another disaster came on the Duke of York! And this time, two rounds! One shell hit the top of the Duke of York turret No. 1! The same 330mm armor naturally failed to block the incoming shells, and what was even more tragic was that the turret armor did not add to the dome armor!

The shell weighing more than 800 kilograms easily penetrated into the inside of the turret and collided with a 15-inch cannon! With the start of the fuse, the entire turret was swallowed up by flames and violent shock waves, and the violent explosion completely destroyed the turret. The 75 British Royal Navy officers and soldiers merged with their weapons forever and could no longer separate from each other. The flames began to spread around. The British were exhausted.

The other shell caused even more damage! This shell hit the reserve servo cabin of the Duke of York! More than a dozen Royal Navy officers and soldiers turned into ashes together with the last operating rudder of the ship! At this point, the warship finally could not operate! It began to slowly escape from the formation under the influence of its own power and ocean currents.

"The Duke of York is over!" Looking at the Duke of York, who had lost its power, Thomas closed his eyes in pain. Now, in just ten minutes, his own fleet and the German High Seas Fleet were doomed to an end! Seeing this situation, Brunswick rationally chose to aim his muzzle at other targets and handed it to the Deshao. As long as the latter disarmed the opponent's armed forces, he could solve it with the torpedo of the destroyer, which could save shells.

In the end, the Duke of York completed the last fifteen minutes of his life! During this period, the Duke of York hit the opponent at least 10 times! It completely destroyed all the main guns and more than 70% of the secondary guns. Subsequently, the German destroyer S185 became the executioner to kill the Duke of York. With the hit of 4 500mm torpedoes, the Duke of York launched a violent explosion and disappeared from the sea very simply!

Shortly after the Duke of York sank, the Revenge, which was also severely damaged, also ushered in its end! This warship was not due to being hit by ammunition depots or gun mounts, which could have hit a fatal blow, but was eventually sunk because of excessive hits that caused the water to get out of control. According to records from the British Navy, the poor battleship was hit by at least 20 main artillery shells, not only were the head and tail broken, and several cracks of more than 10 meters in length appeared in the middle of the hull! In the end, the Germans did not even have to use torpedo to finish the attack, and the warship had already sank to the bottom of the sea.

"His Excellency Commander, it is my glory for you to use my ship as a flagship. Unfortunately, you are about to leave less than an hour after you came to my battleship. We are unable to fulfill our friendship as a landlord." Lieutenant General Bernie said regretfully before the sinking of Revenge.

"Let's go together, we'll move to the Royal Oak, we need to keep going." Jericho said with a complicated face, and those who knew him could already see a trace of despair in him.

"No, I want to be with my flagship." Lieutenant General Bernie rejected Jericho's kindness.
Chapter completed!