Chapter 2240 Head-to-head 3
"The King of the True is over like this?" Lieutenant General Bernie stared at the King of the True, who was blown into pieces in the distance, and said in a daze. He was a little distrusted! The warship with the best defense and the strongest firepower in the British fleet was overwhelmed like this?! This is incredible? How did the Germans do it? How did they penetrate the side armor of the Revenge at a distance of 15 kilometers and penetrate the dome armor and the ammunition depot together?
Can the Germans eat all the defenses of the Revenge level at a distance of 15 kilometers with a heading angle of 20 degrees? Obviously it is impossible! What really caused the death of the King Quan was a shot. Let's go back a few minutes ago!
When the Thomas fleet once again used its position and quantity advantages to suppress the German Fourth Battleship Squadron, the Bavarians had already entered the battlefield! In addition to avoiding the Thomas fleet's attack, the fourth battleship Squadron also gave up a position for the Bavarians behind it! The shooting range of the Thomas fleet was not good, so before the two sides met, the German fleet decisively poured most of the firepower on the Revenge class!
A 15-inch shell shot from the Württemberg completed the first kill of the German fleet against the Revenge-class battleship! Ruprecht's efforts to optimize the trajectory of the shell in the water were not in vain, but this time it finally got a reward! This shell was 15 meters away from the hull of the King of the Lord. If it was a normal shell, it had already sunk into the seabed or deviated from the course before hitting the Revenge. However, after taking off the hood, the shell was still shot straight towards the British battleship in the distance!
This shell finally penetrated into the hull under the armor belt of the Junquan! It easily tore open the hull plate, then the empty warehouse and the liquid tank next to the tank, the shell penetrated the underwater protection system of the Junquan with a total of 4 meters, and finally hit the reinforced armor belt of the Junquan Depot! Even though it was at the end of its strength, the 15-inch armor-piercing projectile still easily opened a hole in the armor of the ammunition depot like a hot knife cutting butter, and then hit the launching medicine depot at the lower part of the ammunition depot!
The ammunition depot may not necessarily die. After all, the ammunition depot is not necessarily full of shells. And if the temperature is just too high, then there is still hope of survival if the water is injected. However, this shell hits the launch drug depot! The British launch drug depot did not want the Germans to add a metal sleeve outside the silk launch drug depot. The hundreds of tons of launch drug depot were directly ignited by the flying shrapnel! So, at the moment of the hit, the fate of the Junquan number was locked, and the life of this warship could only be calculated in seconds!
"The King Quan sank very suddenly. The German Bavarian-class battleship had just entered the battle. Although we realized that we would be at a disadvantage, we never thought that the situation would be so bad! The explosion occurred from the lower part of the turret of the turret of the turret of the turret. I was on the Royal Oak and could clearly see the scene on the turret. In an instant, the lower part of the turret of the turret emitted a dazzling light! It was as dazzling as a sun! The explosion speed exceeded the human reaction time. Then, this dazzling ball of light rose from the water! It cut the entire battleship into two ends from the position of the turret No. 3!"
"But that's not the end. The light ball expands rapidly! Wherever it passes, it is blown into pieces! The cabins and hull are directly swallowed! The entire warship falls off the hull piece by piece like rotten wood! A few seconds later, perhaps more than ten seconds later, a shock wave like a typhoon swept across the sea with a large number of debris! Even though we were together with the King Quan for more than 700 meters, it was still affected! The debris hit the hull and made a tooth-sourcing metal collision sound, and we had to avoid it! Then, the remaining fragments of the King Quan began to quickly sink to the bottom of the sea. A huge fire light also soared into the sky! In the end, no one on the warship survived!" A British officer on the Royal Oak recorded the last moment of the King Quan after the war!
"It's over, we're sure to lose! Our most powerful battleship is like paper in front of the Germans! We can't win!" On the Revenge, a British officer looked desperately at the place where the King Quan disappeared. Two minutes after the explosion, and fragments still took Mars from the air, scattered on the sea! The officer was a little crazy. He shouted aimlessly and danced to release the fear and worry in his heart. In the distance, 12 Bavarian-class battleships were entering the battlefield! Even though Thomas' fleet and the British First Battleship Squadron were there, the Germans were not afraid! The British had no confidence!
"Come, bring this gentleman out of the command tower! We don't need cowards here!" Admiral Jericho, who had arrived in the command tower of the Revenge, said loudly!
"Gentlemen! Even though the situation is so dangerous, even if some of us cannot see the sun tomorrow! But the duty of the Royal Navy makes us fight to the end for our country! We cannot surrender! We are the last backbone of the British Empire, now, return to our respective posts! Keep fighting!" Jericho said loudly.
"Send a telegram to Thomas! Ask them to join us immediately to fight the elite of the German Navy! Now, the German main fleet has only 15 warships! Our number is similar to theirs! The part of the large fleet can be reorganized soon! We still have the advantage!" Jericho's resolute face and decisive style restored the British a certain morale, and Jericho made his final efforts!
What is the situation now? So far, there are 3 battleship-level battleships in the main battleship sequence of the German High Seas Fleet that have completely lost their combat effectiveness. The battleships are the battleships of the USS Von der Thenen, the Battlecruiser Moltke, and the Rainland fast battleship. The Thuringian is in a bad situation. Although it can open fire, it is difficult to keep up with the fleet.
The remaining two battlecruisers of the Hippel fleet temporarily withdraw from the battle and are being repaired and restored. The two Helgolan-class battleships of the Fourth Battleship Detachment will take a while to join the battle. In this way, only 15 battleships can be put into the battle line immediately, and there are 4 more ships that can rejoin the battle at a certain point in the future.
And what about the British? Haha, their situation is even worse! The current British fleet cannot maintain the numerical advantage that they barely maintained before!
Chapter completed!