Chapter 2245 Hipper's efforts 3
However, perhaps God believes that Hippel has not suffered enough disasters in this battle. Shortly after the Hippel fleet bit the Duff fleet, two huge figures appeared on the back of the Hippel fleet! Unfortunately, the battleship St. Vincent and the Avant-garde battleship have completed rest. Although the speed is still not high enough and cannot catch up with the Duff fleet in a short time, it can pose a threat to the Hippel fleet. Judging from the situation, the situation is like this. The Duff fleet is at the front, the Hippel fleet is behind, and the Hippel fleet is behind two British dreadnoughts! The unlucky Hippel happened to be attacked!
"Let the Helgolan and Oldenburg deal with the British dreadnought behind. Damn, if they were in better condition, those guys would have sank to the bottom of the sea!" Hippel ordered with a pale face. Soon, something even more difficult for Hippel to happen! Just now, the four British super fearless ships commanded by Duff had already left the dreadnought and began to move closer to the Thomas fleet at full speed! Now, the British fleet, which had obtained two additional warships, finally had sufficient troops to restrain the opponent while allowing Duff to support the main fleet!
That's right, when Duff gave this order, the four dreadnoughts were actually abandoned. Even if the Hippel fleet was in a bad state, they were not able to stop the four broken fearless ships! But what does it matter? The four most powerful of the remaining forces of the large fleet can be re-entered to the battle! This has an extremely important impact on the battle situation on the front line!
As for whether these dreadnought ships can be abandoned to intercept Lieutenant General Duff? Not to mention whether this can successfully get rid of the enemies before and after, even if Hippel really stops the Duff fleet through a series of maneuvers? Duff can completely leave 3 super fearless ships to drag Hippel, and then let the remaining 5 warships support the main battlefield!
So, in Hippel's view, the current situation is close to a dead end. It seems that no matter how you operate, you cannot stop all eight British warships!
"I have never thought that when we already have the advantage, I will encounter such a difficult problem. It seems that my future king will miscalculate." Looking at the Duff fleet that had begun to leave in the distance, Hippel couldn't help but smile bitterly. Originally, Hippel believed that at the beginning of the battle, facing the Thomas fleet was the worst situation, so Ruprecht arranged for him a lot of life-saving things, such as new camouflage, as well as the armored cruiser team, destroyer and smoke as cannon fodder in cannon fodder. Although the final result was heavy, Hippel insisted on it after all. The most important thing was that he also completed the mission!
However, what I didn't expect was that after going through the most dangerous stage of the plan, Hippel could still encounter such a difficult thing! The British fleet that needed to be intercepted was twice as many as our own! This could no longer be smoothed out with the performance and tactics of the warships!
"Order, the Goben and the flagship will leave the formation and intercept Duff's super fearlessness. The two Helgolan-class battleships will hold back the British's fearlessness!" Hippel said firmly.
"General, our result is likely to be that neither side can beat us!" An officer said in shock.
"Our life and death are not important. What is important is that they cannot meet with Thomas! Our mission is to procrastinate and sacrifice! This is our mission, responsibility and glory!" Hippel said.
After reporting the order to the two Helgolan-class battleships behind through the flag language, the two remaining German battlecruisers began to accelerate! A large amount of coal was sent into the boiler, and the temperature in the boiler began to rise. After reaching the critical value, the injector at the top of the boiler began to spray heavy oil, and the heavy oil was gasified and ignited during the fall! A large amount of softened water turned into high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor and then sent into the steam turbine. The steam engine produced in Bremen began to drive the propeller wildly.
24 knots, 25 knots, 26 knots! Two German battlecruisers rushed towards their opponents at a speed of at least 6 knots beyond the Duff fleet. They pointed their naval guns at the British King George V at the tail of the British fleet!
"Boom!" The explosion sounded again from the rear of the team aroused the alertness of Lieutenant General Duff. He looked at the ghostly guy behind him angrily. When he turned his head, he happened to see a dazzling flame burst out from the hull of King George V of England. Needless to say, the warship was hit again!
The shells fired alternately by the two German battlecruisers successfully covered the British super fearless ship at the end of the team. Even though both sides were fast, the Goben still formed a spurt in the seventh round of volleys, and hit the first in the ninth round of volleys, and then hit the poor battleship again in the eleventh round of volleys!
Due to positional relationship, the two 350mm shells hit the stern of King George V of the British King. One of the shells successfully penetrated the armor belt of the stern and injured the transmission shaft of the battleship! After a wave of unsettling metal fractures and vibrations, the British had to turn off the power system of the transmission shaft.
The other shell was even more deadly! This shell entered the water 20 meters away from the British warship, and after traveling 25 meters in the water like a torpedo, it successfully tore open the armor of the British King George V's hull, and then hit the rear of the turret No. 4 less than 5 meters away from the tail! With a loud bang, the entire rear of the hull seemed to jump! The vibration and impact generated by the explosion directly tear a gap at the bottom of the ammunition depot of the No. 4, and the flames spread to the ammunition depot bit by bit. In desperation, the British could only choose to add another 800 tons of water to the warship to ensure temporary safety!
The water injection in the ammunition depot only made King George V of England no longer worry, but this shell that almost exploded against the bottom of the ship also brought other damage to the British Super Fearless! A 6 square meters of hole was torn open on the side of the hull near the bottom of the ship. Thousands of tons of seawater poured into the hull under the pressure. The stern of King George V of England, which did not adopt a subdivided compartment design, began to sink rapidly. Whether the British used a water pump, blocking, or other methods, the position was so downward and huge scars. The hull gradually sinks, and the bow gradually raised, and even in the rangefinder, it can be clearly observed that the warship had a serious tail tilt!
Chapter completed!