Super Emperor of the Late Qing Dynasty

Chapter 425: Royal Navy vs High Seas Fleet

You can search for the latest chapters in Baidu for "Super Emperors Search Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty (www.soxscc.com)"!The two sides started a fierce confrontation, and amidst the loud noise, water jets rose into the sky.

As the distance approached, the army had a warship shot.The "Luzov" fired and hit the "Lion", the "Maoqi" hit the "Tiger" twice, and the "Royal Princess" hit the "Luzov".

The "Tiger"'s counterattack all went 2,000 meters away and landed near the "Regensburg" light cruiser on the flank, which made the ship very puzzled-why a small light cruiser incurs such favor.

1 The "Royal Princess" was hit by two 12 auspicious-inch shells fired by the "De Flinger" and the shooting director was destroyed. The shooting hit rate instantly matched the "Tiger" with bad eyesight.

In order to win time and change the unfavorable situation, Betty ordered the destroyer to carry out a torpedo attack.

The "Queen Mary" hit the "Cedritz", causing one of its turrets to fail, and the "Queen Mary" was now completely side-fired.

The "Queen Mary" hit the "De Fringer" but was also hit.A violent explosion occurred.

The "Lion" was hit on the Q turret. The Q turret instantly failed, and the flames went straight to the propellant storage. If the 70 tons of gunpowder there exploded, the end of the "Lion" can be imagined.The only surviving turret officer, Major Harvey of Giliyong, regardless of personal safety, ordered the injection of water into the ammunition warehouse to avoid the destruction of ammunition.

Jericho once again ordered the battleship team to speed up.

The "Tireless" was hit three times on the starboard side of the "Von de Tann" with 11 Geely-inch artillery. The fire broke out. During the evacuation process, it was hit twice near the front turret, and a big explosion occurred in a short time.Only a few of the 1,026 soldiers on it survived.

Hipper changed the balance of power between the two sides in only twenty minutes. At this time, Betty had to use four scarred battlecruisers against Hipper's five battle cruisers that hardly suffered much damage.

"Damn it! How can the gunfire power of soldiers of will be so great? Isn't this the patent of Gaul?"

"The damn monkey must have guided them!"

Betty's face was very ugly at this time. He was six to five and was crushed and beaten. The soldiers of the Will not only maintained their original characteristics of high armor, but even their firepower was much higher than before. The key speed It's not slow.

"General! Our ships have suffered serious losses, why not consider showing off to lure the enemy?"

The staff member asked cautiously at this time, now that the situation is very unfavorable for them, and his own reinforcements are coming, and there is even a main battleship fleet behind, there is no need to fight hard with the will soldiers.

"No! The Fifth Squadron is coming soon, we must persist!"

"Order the fleet to turn left over two compass points (approximately 22.5 degrees), to intercept Hipper's forward path for me, and encircle Hipper after the battle fleet comes up."

Betty shook her head and ordered decisively.Jiujiu Chinese www.99zw.net

Regardless of the disadvantage of his own ship, Betty ordered to continue to approach the German ship and shoot.At this time, the morale of the Royal Navy's officers and soldiers was still high, and they were still trying to destroy the Hipper fleet.

Sure enough, the Fifth Battleship Squadron (Balham, Malaya, Warrior, Warspite) arrived in time and fired quickly with its 15 auspicious-inch artillery from 19,000 yards away.

Although the hit rate is extremely low, it greatly deterred the Will Army and the Navy.

And it wasn’t just the Fifth Fleet that came. Jerick also sent Major General Hood to lead the Third Battlecruiser Squadron (Flagship "Invincible", "Indomitable" and "Indomitable" battlecruisers) to support Betty.

The Fifth Battleship Squadron greatly changed the situation on the battlefield. Prior to this, the Will Army hit an average of four rounds of Royal Navy ships before being hit by one.

After the Royal Navy’s cutting-edge battleship arrived, the 15 auspicious-inch cannon showed great power, and it was beaten fiercely and accurately-the "Mauchi" and the "Von de Tann" were shot in succession, and the latter had two main turrets. They were scrapped, but their counterattack only hit the Barham once.

"Report to the general. There is a message from the cruiser that the north has discovered that the main force of the Will Army's high seas fleet is less than 15 nautical miles away from us."

Just when Betty wanted to eat these hard bones with all his strength, he received bad news.

"Damn! Order the fleet to retreat to the main battleship immediately."

Betty's face became very ugly. At this time, the Royal Navy's battleship was still more than 30 nautical miles away from them, and it was impossible for him to hold on for too long.

However, due to the failure of the communication system, this order was not received by the Fifth Battleship Squadron.The Fifth Battleship Squadron was directly caught in a deadly battle with the main force of the High Seas Fleet: within ten minutes, the "Balham" superstructure was shot, the side of the "Malayan" secondary artillery was destroyed, and the "War exhaustion" steering gear failed. Severely injured (the ship was forced to retreat shortly afterwards and returned alone).But the super protective capabilities of these new warships saved their lives, and none of them was sunk.

The Jericho fleet spotted the Willis Army Sher fleet and ordered the fleet to turn to the northeast.But Betty’s previous counterattack disrupted Hipper’s reconnaissance operations, who failed to detect Jericho’s location in time, so Scheer never had a clear judgment on Jericho’s location.

Soon after, Scheer discovered that he had to face Jericho's T-shaped head, so he ordered to turn in place-the largest "overall 180-degree backward turn" in human history was completed amazingly, Scheer's After the fleet becomes the former.

After a brief encounter with himself knowing that he was lost, Major General Hood’s ship "Invincible" was hit by the "De Flinger" and the ammunition depot exploded. Hood and the 1,011 officers and soldiers on board died, and only 6 survived. .They desperately escaped from Jericho's firepower.

Scheer retreated under the cover of the destroyer's smoke, and the two sides gradually separated from contact.

Betty’s battlecruiser detachment made contact with the German ships, and there were several brief exchanges of fire. Although they suffered heavy losses, they wanted to hold the retreating Willing Forces and the navy, but they quickly lost contact due to poor vision.

The defender of the High Seas Fleet of the State of Will and the 12th Squadron of the Fourth Destroyer of Geely had an encounter. 4 Royal Navy destroyers were sunk and the old iron-clad ship "Pomerania" of the State of Will was sunk.

After this last fight, Shuan Fang couldn't find the other side's trace.

With the return of the Royal Navy's home fleet to base, the Battle of Jutland officially ended.In this naval battle, the brave people of the will have achieved their goals-a relatively small price has caused greater losses to the opponent.But the Royal Navy won't be fooled anymore after being fooled...