In the naval arms race in the early days of the dreaded ship era, the British started to build three-class seven dreaded ships from Bellerophon class battleships to Saint Vincent class battleships and finally Neptune class battleships. As a result, the Nassau class battleships were blown up one by one by the German Nassau class battleships. The Nassau class battleships had only four 2 mm main guns, and the caliber and number of main guns were not comparable to those of the British. However, Germany’s advantages of rapid fire, shell stability and deep penetration were enough to pull back the game. At the first moment, John Cow with two or three millimeters of side water lines and five millimeters of horizontal armor was discouraged.

The arms race continues. Germany’s second feared ship, the Helgolan class, was born. The British hurriedly launched a giant battleship to compete with the giant battleship. The armament system Neptune class is similar, but the main gun shooting boundary has been improved. The 12-inch main gun has also been improved. The main armor belt on the side waterline of the giant battleship, the longitudinal watertight compartment, Of course, the so-called protection enhancement of British warships is only to restore the giant class to the dread 11-inch side waterline with main armor, which is enough to deal with the 35-mm main gun. Conversely, the Helgolan-class battleship 35-mm waterline with main armor is more than enough to deal with the British 12-inch main gun.
In 1999, the naval arms race entered a new stage, and the British Empire successively designed and started three new and formidable warships, namely, the hunting seat class, the King George V class and the Iron Duke class. The main guns of these three battleships exceeded 12 inches, so they were awarded the title of "Super Fearless Ship".
The first battle hunting-seat-class battleships have stronger firepower for the first time. The five main turrets of the inch main gun are arranged along the longitudinal axis of the hull. The waterline with main armor is upgraded to prehistoric times. The 12-inch ship Raytheon is equipped with a ballistic computer core central fire control system. The British King George V battleship keeps the 12-inch waterline with main armor and strengthens the side armor with central fire control system. At the same time, it is generally installed. In the final battle, iron duke class’s main gun rises from inch to inch, and the caliber of the 15-inch auxiliary gun also rises to 6 inches. However, the disadvantages of these three battleships’ insufficient protection have not been completely eradicated. The 12-inch side waterline with main armor is not enough to deal with the coverage area of the German capital ship’s 24 mm caliber main gun, which is even more chilling. The front armor of the 11-inch main turret and the 1-inch gun base armor make these so-called super-feared ships’ heavy turrets famous. It is almost a real cannon.
At the same time, Germany started to build two cutting-edge battleships-Caesar-class and King-class Caesar-class battleships, which kept the 12-inch main guns, but the number of main guns increased by five horizontal armor and the bow and side armor was strengthened; King-class battleship The first Bavarian-class battleship in 1998 and the first mackensen-class battleship in 7 years were patrolled before the Devingel-class warship, and it was said that the twin towers of the ocean fleet were equipped with 35 mm main guns, which greatly suppressed the caliber advantage of the British cattle main guns. The 90 mm level armor was also the peak of the fear of ships during the European War.
The life of Ares, the undefeated navy, is an excellent opportunity. It is so real that the German Empire is only a stone’s throw away from victory in front of the ocean fleet. Unfortunately, the emperor played a big joke on the ocean fleet. Some incredible coincidence, the probability of the formation of the vast sea is only ten thousand words. Unfortunately, the Germans are the damn columns.
After the grand splendor and countless noises, everything seems to have returned to the British to maintain the advantage of the number of main guns. The large fleet can throw itself into the side confrontation. There are 116 main guns, including 16 12-inch guns, 60-inch guns and 40 15-inch main guns, while Germany has 2 mm guns, 20 35 mm guns and 16 35 mm guns. The gap is enough to make German sailors want to cry.
It means that the ocean fleet can be passively beaten when it adjusts its course and unfolds its formation, although the fleet knows that it is necessary for them to survive this terrible and long nightmare and has not suffered too much loss. It is inevitable that the British defeat will be overwhelming, but it is another thing to know that the actual operation is one thing, and the British fleet will soon fall into the barrage like raindrops, and the formation will be out of line and the command will be out of order. This is that the ocean fleet will temporarily hand over its answer sheet.
When the ocean fleet is teetering, Franz von hippel will come out. The brewer in Vilheim, Bavaria has suffered from mental illness for a long time. The former royal cruise ship hohenzollern was the seaman, the former commander of the first reconnaissance fleet, and now the deputy commander of the ocean fleet and the commander of the third battleship fleet. The Imperial Navy will command four king-class battleships to bravely drill out of the ocean fleet array and obliquely rush toward the big fleet 19 yards away to try to attract the attention of the British. When the ocean fleet adjusts and develops its formation to complete its turn, it will win precious time.
In 1996, the North Atlantic guns stopped and the dust settled in the European War. In his memoirs, hippel said that he was most proud of five things in his life, meeting his wife; Pulling out and sheltering Heidi Selim, perhaps the greatest commander in the history of the German navy; Has had the first reconnaissance fleet with great military exploits; Pre-judging the danger before the peak of Ska Gerakl naval battle; Launch a death charge on the British fleet
Marshal hippel, who retired from service, listed these examples in a relaxed tone, which seems to trace back to other people’s stories. However, it is not difficult for readers to imagine the tragic and treading on thin ice when he will launch a death charge against a large fleet with 116 main guns.
"The encrypted message will be received from hippel …" The commander tower of the battleship frederick the great has been in a mess. Even the most experienced war staff and seaman can dig out the clue from the messy data and reorganize the fleet. Schell’s frown is locked and cruel orders choke his throat, but he is reluctant to shout out. At this moment, the deputy chief of staff of the young fleet pushes open the thick hatch of the commander tower and panics, "The deputy commander led the seventh detachment to launch a desperate charge on the British. This is his farewell report!"
"Deputy Commander …" Reinhard Scheer struggled for a long time before copying the paper as thin as cicada’s wings, and held it tightly until it penetrated the back of the paper. "You make me feel ashamed!"
Four king-class battleships of the Seventh Unit raised the battle flag for 22 knots and rushed obliquely towards the battle line of the British fleet. They approached the northwest course of the big fleet to catch up with the battle line of the ocean fleet and left the battle before it was formed and returned to the front end of the battle line of the ocean fleet. The general staff officer of the sub-fleet easily drew a chart representing the action line of the Seventh Unit, and the semi-isolated top was less than 13 yards away from the British. However, the drawing industry is easy, and the officers and men of the Seventh Unit need blood and life to pave the way in the actual naval battle!
"Are you willing to give up this bait for the four most advanced feared ships in Jellicoe and Germany?" The artillery splashed around the seventh detachment was not violent, but tireless. The third detachment had three iron duke class hippel ships. His seaman turned to the room side by side and waited for the British to make a decision.
"Commander Tower King’s two rounds of 35mm armor-piercing projectiles were all located 5 meters away from starboard". Almost the bow of the ship greeted the German Seventh Team of the big fleet. The counterattack firepower was almost negligible. The relaxed atmosphere was relaxed. The commander of the Iron Duke wandered around the tower, but the interest ended. The lookouts of the main mast of the Iron Duke found an annoying episode. "There is something wrong with the commander tower. The German Seventh Team doesn’t seem to turn 9 degrees to their big fleet and keep an included angle of about 6 degrees!"
"The Germans are crazy?" The captain of the Steady Iron Duke couldn’t help exclaiming that the seventh detachment didn’t adjust its course to regain the number disadvantage of the main guns, but stubbornly charged them obliquely. Did the Germans want to fight for more than 13,000 yards at a time when they were afraid of ships, repeating the miracle of the Austrian Lisa naval battle?
"What a hippel!" Captain Iron Duke’s voice just fell and Jellicoe’s praise came alternately.
Jellicoe clearly saw through hippel’s plan that he would face a choice whether to continue shelling the chaotic squadron of the ocean fleet or to turn the muzzle fire around. The former suspected that it would aggravate the German confusion, make the Germans late for the battle line and expect the unpredictable chance of hitting the main gun. The latter could hit the most powerful squadron of the ocean fleet in a short time. The seventh team eliminated the threat of the German 35 mm main gun.
"Even if the king-class battleship is surprisingly protective, this gift will be received by the big fleet!" Considering 1
It is self-evident that the distance of code engagement and the tilt direction of the balance of this distance shelling accuracy.
At 7: 23, the line of sight of the large fleet gathered in Jellicoe, the seventh detachment of the German Third Battleship, four king-class battleships, and four sub-fleets, totaling thirteen capital ships, fired at the seventh detachment. The third detachment was against the King, the first detachment was against the Emperor Hou, the second detachment was against the King, and the fourth detachment was against the border governor.
Less than 13 minutes after the gun instantly rose, the Governor of the Border was shot seven times, and 12 inches of it was hit twice by a cap armor-piercing projectile. The horizontal armor of the Governor of the Border was divided into three layers, namely, the horizontal deck layer, the top of the armor belt, and the flat protective layer was located on the side waterline with the main armor dome layer. The British 12-inch main gun was 2 yards away, and the horizontal penetration depth was only 5 mm. 1 Two armor-piercing projectiles only penetrated the 3 mm thick horizontal deck, and the second layer of the horizontal armor stopped, which damaged two compartments and caused a fire.
The flaming frontier governor was the lucky one in the seventh detachment. One armor-piercing bullet hit the general election emperor Hou. A 15mm single-mounted auxiliary gun saved the tonnage and the king-class battleship auxiliary gun was composed of an unsightly cannon profile and a frustum of a cone rotating shaft. The armor-piercing bullet cut into the general election emperor Hou’s 2mm armor belt at a strange angle, tore off the armor, and then drilled into the auxiliary ammunition chamber. The auxiliary gun rotating shaft was blasted with the cannon profile. Twenty-one sailors were killed and two compartments leaked water. A sealed cabin was sealed.
Before and after Wang Hao was hit by six one-inch armor-piercing projectiles, the front armor of the turret in Andong was immediately bounced off by 35 mm defensive armor, leaving only an ugly pit in the turret, but another one-inch armor-piercing projectile made a contribution. The shell penetrated the weakest horizontal armor belt of the ship’s stern, and only a layer of 3 mm horizontal armor was pierced, and the deep part of the stern of the battleship Wang broke out, resulting in serious water flooding in the stern.
The King was shot at least four times. Even if the Royal Navy shells exploded early, the power of the 15-inch shells could not be underestimated. The rough-skinned battleship King was shot in the stern and the stern successively, which led to the connection between the King and the No.1 and No.2 chimneys. The lifeboat and crane disappeared, and the telegraph room and chart room were destroyed. The latter rubbed against the horizontal armor joint of the gun seat of the non-lifting Dora turret of the King, and went deep into the armor-piercing part of the armor-piercing projectile. After the heavy armor-piercing part was bounced off by the protective armor of the King’s 35 mm bomb conveyor, it caused secondary damage. Two watertight compartments were implicated in bitter acid, which caused a fire and light yellow poison gas. The communication channel between the ammunition depot of Dora turret of the King and the compartment near the propellant room spread.
"Can’t you hold on?" The commander’s tower was filled with smoke and shrapnel flying. hippel was full of Liao, and his lips trembled slightly, and he gently spit out a few words.
The second gun Chapter 17 Peak Battle IV
Chapter 17 Peak Battle IV
When the seventh team left the team and launched a death charge on the big fleet, the big fleet did not hesitate to turn the muzzle and fire at the lonely German swordsman. Two different first-class opponents fought fiercely for 13 minutes from a distance of 1 yard. Only the Iron Duke was shot once in the big fleet, and the seventh team had already received 22 large-caliber armor-piercing bullets from the British.
King-class battleships have five 35mm main guns, one in the front, two in the rear and two in the backpack structure. Two independent turrets of lifting turrets are located in the midsection. Due to the insufficient steering angle of the seventh detachment at the beginning of the charge, the turrets of Dora, Caesar and Emil at the stern have not had a chance to fire. The hit probability of five main guns against the target ship 1 yard away can be imagined. The seventh detachment finally corrected the oblique charge course. The five main turrets can be fired, but Anton, The smoke wall caused by Bruno turret’s continuous fire greatly interfered with the rangefinder’s forced ventilation, which brought the speed potential to the extreme, and the king-class tremor hull also affected the main gun aiming, so the hit record of the seventh detachment remained terrible.
In the era of dread of ships, the sinking of a main ship could not be separated from two situations: either the ammunition depot was martyred or the hull was flooded too much. hippel was confident that the British super-dreaded ship was equipped with 15-inch and 12-inch main guns, and the thickness of the main guns was as high as 35 mm. The broadside waterline was equipped with Knuber hardened carburized armor; The turret front armor with a thickness of up to 35 mm and the gun carrier armor with a thickness of 35 mm make it impossible for the King Class to explode in the ammunition depot 9 km away, but the King Class can float on the sea surface for 35 mm. Obviously, this anti-sky armor thickness can’t cover the whole warship. The King Class is relatively weak. The mm stern armor, the 2 mm armor belt and the 1 mm water armor Achilles ankle can’t support the King Class once it is continuously penetrated into the hull by various negative factors such as excessive water intake and speed drop.
"Is it more cruel than Dogel Shazhou’s shock?"
Hippel unconsciously associated the bridge of the "Negative King" with the brutal battle of Dogel Shazhou in November, 2004. Obviously, the situation faced by hippel was worse than that of Dogel Shazhou naval battle. The two patrol boats of the West Lime Fleet in Dogel Shazhou naval battle and a quasi-patrol boat were just the British capital ship, and there was night to cover the strong support of the ocean fleet. In March, 2005, the seventh detachment of the North Sea decisive battle faced the thirteen capital ships of the Royal Navy. At this time, the first reconnaissance fleet was in a mess, and the ocean fleet was still ranked. There was still some time before the battle line was formed
"What can I expect … who?" Depression flashed across hippel’s face, and when hippel looked up again, his eyes were full of fortitude.
Although I don’t have the detailed data of German King-class battleships at hand, I can still get some clues from the excellent performance of German patrol in Dogel Shazhou naval battle. Jellicoe, commander-in-chief of the German warship’s unreasonable protection fleet, thinks that he has finished his psychological preparation, but after 13 minutes of fire, the fact that the German seventh detachment is still stubborn in the sea has given him a slap in the face.
Commander-in-chief of the big fleet barely maintained himself as a British gentleman and the world’s first naval power, and the sailors were reserved and grabbed the microphone and said to the fire control tower of the Iron Duke.
"The brave Royal Navy officers and men told me why the Germans are still floating on the sea?"
Abandoning the shelling of the ultra-long-distance ocean fleet, attracting the fire from the middle to the adventure. The seventh unit Jellicoe chose to be quite realistic. It is still a matter of time before the ocean fleet launches the battle line when the big fleet is delayed. The only question that is debatable is that the big fleet can achieve some results from the indiscriminate shelling. If the seventh unit, which is the strongest in the ocean fleet, strives to annihilate or hit the prey delivered to the door in a short time, then the big fleet may gain more advantages in the upcoming battle line decisive battle.
Jellicoe’s plan is reasonable, but he underestimated the productivity of German warships, underestimated the difficulty of fighting one more fire control, overestimated the fuze, pitted the British imperial naval guns for thirteen minutes, and the British took all the advantages, but the seventh detachment still stood in the ocean.
With the passage of time, the observation conditions of the large fleet became worse and worse, and the accuracy of shelling decreased. Although the opening scene of the side fire of the large fleet occupied a horizontal head was quite shocking, the smoke generated by the high-speed operation of coal-fired boilers and the smoke generated by the burning of muzzle propellants covered the sun, making the watchtower and rangefinder sailors jump and scold each other to force a whole fleet to fire. A battleship can certainly increase the hit probability, but when more than 30 artillery shells of three or four battleships splash down near the target ship together, the fire control is distributed. The present error is almost avoided, such as judging the landing point of one’s own ship’s shells from the boiling ocean, such as forest water column, and correcting the shelling angle. This technical problem is enough for the ranging tower to observe the sergeant’s hair.
The disproportionate hit rate of the engagement distance has made the artillery officer born in Jellicoe annoyed. When the fifth and sixth teams reported to him that they had hit the German Ocean Fleet continuously, Jellicoe finally broke out.
"Cheer up, everyone, and shoot at all targets while you can still see them, and collapse the damn seventh team!"
The flaming flames and smoke columns in the midsection of the King gradually faded, and the miserable situation was exposed. The flying bridge connecting the No.1 and No.2 chimneys collapsed in front of the soldiers, and a small part of it was twisted into a spiral shape at a strange angle. The crane and rescue boat were thrown into the sea, and a small piece of crooked crane arm nautical chart room disappeared directly, with tons of data or turned into ashes in the sea of fire or turned into flying scraps of paper. The newspaper room was cut off and a piece of shrapnel broke the commander’s tower antenna. The seventh detachment of the big fleet temporarily lost the joint damage of the soldiers and communications.
The armor wall of Dora turret bomb conveyor bounced off the armor-piercing projectile, and the heavy armor-piercing part caused secondary damage to the King. The shell destroyed the watertight compartment less than 4 mm, and the communication door penetrated through the thin communication channel floor. Dora turret propellant chamber only had one watertight compartment partition, and the dry compartment exploded. Even if the air spray fire-fighting equipment was turned on urgently, the bitter acid in the gas mist-dense fire site caused the fire and the pale yellow poison gas still spread, and it quickly broke through the two watertight compartments and the communication channel that were cut open.
At the end of the communication channel, the footsteps were messy. Captain Hardy hurriedly put on a gas mask and grabbed the fire hose, leading a group of families to throw themselves into the fire. The air watertight door near the fire was locked, and the communication channel door was also opened by a heavy water pump, and the water was injected into the watertight compartment. After holding the hose, the fire was slowly pushed to the center of the fire for ten minutes, and the fire was gradually suppressed. If there was no accident, the fire team could clear the fire source in ten minutes.
The exhausted captain of the damaged pipe finally rested for a moment to pick up the sticky gas mask. The face was blackened by the smoke, and then the color of the fire was printed and dyed. When the middle-aged captain of the damaged pipe took off his wet clothes and squeezed out a pool of water stains and gasped near the contact door, the unkempt deputy captain of the King, Mo Ning, unscrewed the contact door and turned it to lock it. After a hasty and hasty military salute, a not-so-wonderful news was passed.
"The second deck on the port side of the stern of the King Wei was shot, and there was a need for ten trained and damaged pipe guards!"
At 7: 36, the King-class battleship was shot again. The British themselves judged that the source of the 15-inch armor-piercing projectile was inclined to the second deck of the midship of the King. Because the main turret of the King adopted a backpack structure and two turrets were lifted, the ship’s weight center increased. The King-class fourteen single-mounted 15 mm auxiliary guns and ten mm auxiliary guns were placed, which were very easy to wave. The fuze of the second deck was unstable. The British 15-inch armor-piercing projectile diagonally penetrated a 15 mm auxiliary gun with limited defense force and then connected the armor of the first deck and the second deck.
The explosion caused air billow to twist the cannon profile into a ball and overturn it, leaving a solitary rotating platform. The heavy cannon profile deck rolled several times, wiping out several sparks and screeching until it hit another 15-mm cannon. At this time, the second deck on the port side of the King had become an adult purgatory, and large pieces of armor-piercing projectile fragments and iron pieces peeled off from the rolling cannon profile were invisible to the naked eye. The speed of flying on the second deck was unpredictable, and the soldiers brought up clouds of blood, fog, blood smell, thick black smoke and fire, which soon occupied this corner and spread to both sides.
"Where to find ten damage GuanBing? ！” Hardy, the captain of the detachment tube, could hardly lift his heavy arm to salute Smonin. He smiled grimly and barely stretched out five fingers.
The British artillery fire is quite fierce. Although the hit rate is not high, it can be missed. However, many ships are stopped after being shot in the port waterline. The flying bridge at the stern is used for fire fighting and emergency repair. The antenna worker Dora Turret is involved in the fire fighting of the damaged pipe team. Hardy’s damaged pipe team is like a high-speed spinning gyro driven by British artillery shells. Hardy can’t afford ten damaged pipe soldiers.
"Five people are enough!" Damage control is a compulsory course for naval officers and soldiers. Mouning transferred 15 gunners on starboard side into a temporary damage control team. He just returned from the watertight compartment of the ship’s stern waterline. He came to lead his family to the second deck, which splashed water columns and roared shrapnel like a whirlwind.
Second-class deck medics are wailing in pain on the deck. There is still room for rescue. Sailors and gunners are carried on stretchers, dead sailors are wrapped in grass and white, and they lose treatment. Maybe sailors are shot by red-eyed medics, which means death morphine.
The tragic situation on the deck made the temporary pipe damage team feel sad. Young people dragged heavy fire hoses and water pumps to bypass the busy medics and rushed to the fire. The performance of the British bitter acid-filled shells was not stable. However, the coins always had another side. The bitter acid burning fire was not easy to extinguish. The pipe damage soldiers had to endure the flame and high temperature. The fire hose approached the fire step by step. At this time, a 15-inch armor-piercing projectile exploded 10 meters away from the port side of the second deck, and it exploded and stirred the white water column. The watchtower of the main mast of the King was almost flush. When the tons of seawater reached its peak
After the deafening noise, the blood on the deck, the co-captain mourning, the temporary damage management team, the angel of death, the medical soldier, the wounded soldier who will not be brought back to the ambulance cabin and the dead wrapped in the shroud disappeared, life and death were wiped out, but the bitter acid caused the fire to continue.
"The British commander tower may have shot across this round of shells and almost covered us! I saw an armor-piercing bullet hit Anton’s turret. Fortunately, we Anton are strong enough! "