But just after the war between the British Royal Home Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet began, the Far East Navy's Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, the three light aircraft carriers Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang, and more than 60 coordinated warships of various types, had been staying silently in the Mediterranean.
, all set sail for the Atlantic Ocean.
In order to avoid this operation being discovered by the Portuguese Navy, the Far East Navy's Northeast Aircraft Carrier Battle Group temporarily stopped when it arrived at the Strait of Gibraltar and waited until night before continuing to move towards the English Channel.
But that afternoon, the German High Seas Fleet and the British Royal Home Fleet had already launched their first sea battle.
In any era, any nation, any country, any powerful tactics are always inseparable from people. Different people and different personalities can do very different things.
The Battle of Jutland was the climax of the cannon and giant ship doctrine. However, in this naval battle, the weaknesses of the giant battleships were also fully exposed in this naval battle. Now the control of the North Sea is firmly controlled by the British. From World War I
In terms of the overall strategy, the British have won the victory chips, but the Germans have also given full play to their advantages.
Because from the performance of the warships of the two countries participating in naval battles, it is easier to see the different design philosophies of Britain and Germany.
When the British built warships, they mainly emphasized speed of action and firepower, which was basically the same as in the Far East, but they sacrificed armor protection. The German naval warships, on the other hand, focused more on better protection on the basis of reducing speed and armament.
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In addition, Germany's construction technology is obviously better than that of the British. The armor-piercing bombs equipped on German warships are equipped with timers, so that the armor-piercing bombs will not explode until they pass through the shell of the British warship, which is very destructive.
Battleship shells often explode as soon as they hit the armor.
In addition, the gunpowder used by the British Navy is flammable and explosive. At the same time, the British Royal Navy generally does not take the initiative to close the door of the ammunition compartment when transporting ammunition. This is also a fatal mistake, because compared with the German Navy,
In terms of fire protection system, the German Navy is much superior to the British Navy.
In fact, the reason why the Germans did this was also taught by the British. During the land battle of World War I, the Germans gradually noticed that ammunition storage rooms and ammunition transport machines could also cause major fires in the ammunition depot, so they immediately carried out fire protection on these two parts.
It is precisely because of this that during the Battle of Jutland, the British shells would only explode in the turrets of the German warships and would not cause further damage. The vertical channels that have been protected in place can prevent the fire from spreading downwards.
Go to the battleship's ammunition depot.
It was precisely because of such a small change that the British Royal Navy did not notice this problem. At least three battlecruisers were lost in the Battle of Jutland, mainly due to shells fired by German battleships. Finally, the British battleship
The explosion in the turret caused a series of explosive explosions down to the gunpowder deck.
However, not a single German naval warship was lost due to such defects. Of course, there are many differences. Among them, the containers used by both sides to transport propellant packages are also very different. The Germans have a very different understanding of launchers.
Gunpowder is usually transported in sealed metal containers, but the careless British only wrap the gunpowder in silk bags.
You must know that the upper decks of German warships can provide better protection in long-range artillery battles. Even if torpedoes explode on the reinforced sides of their warships, they can only cause minor damage.
At the same time, another point is that the German army's communication signal technology, equipment for detecting enemy warships and night sea attacks also greatly surpassed the Home Fleet, one of the main British fleets, and the designers of the British Navy almost surpassed their own
All attention was focused on the speed of the battleship and the research of large-caliber cannons, which inevitably led to the neglect of other necessary improvements in the battleship. However, in this sea battle, the British Royal Navy also gradually realized its obvious shortcomings.
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So on the afternoon of March 3, 1907, the British Home Fleet, which had arrived in advance in the waters east of Norway and near the Jutland Peninsula, met the German raiding squadron that was raiding the British mainland along the coast.
In this Battle of Jutland, the German Navy's strategic thinking was to follow Admiral Scheer's plan and use any possible opportunity during the surprise attack to carry out necessary surprise attacks against the British naval forces responsible for monitoring and blockading the German coast.
Launch an attack on the mines and submarines on the coast of Great Britain. Only by killing a large number of the British home fleet can the final plan be realized.
Therefore, the main purpose of this operation is to annihilate the British maritime power in batches. Only when the results can be accumulated step by step until the naval strength of both sides is equal, the German Navy Admiral Scheer will assemble all German naval forces and try to find an opponent.
The British navy's unfavorable fighter planes carried out its decisive battle at sea with the Grand Fleet.
However, since the British's battle plan was to directly engage the German navy in a decisive battle, the German Admiral Hipper, who was responsible for the sneak attack on the British coast, found that he had already encountered the British Royal Navy's home fleet before he could lure the enemy deeper.
He was surrounded, so he had only one choice at that time, which was to take the best option, because if he didn't escape immediately, he would have to face the British Royal Home Fleet coming from three directions.
However, German Admiral Hipper made an undoubtedly suicidal decision, which was to attack the British Home Fleet. You must know that the German High Seas Fleet only had 18 main battleships, while the British Home Fleet had 33 battlecruisers.
Moreover, Commander Jellicoe of the British Home Fleet, this time personally led the main fleet to the northwest of the squadron commanded by German Admiral Hipper. The distance between the two sides was only 60 nautical miles. If Hipper and the British Home Fleet exchanged fire at this moment, it would be inevitable.
Attracts all surrounding British battleships.
But Hipper did this in order to arouse the anger of the British, and then gradually took the initiative to show weakness and lead the British Home Fleet in the direction of the main force of the German High Seas Fleet. Facing the huge British Home Fleet battle group, the German Navy
Hipper seemed to have forgotten one thing, and that was the huge firepower and high movement speed of the British battleships.
After receiving the news, Commander Jellicoe of the British Navy's Home Fleet was overjoyed, because he believed that his fleet was completely confident of annihilating the German squadron that appeared in the sea ahead. It didn't matter even if the opponent was a bait, as long as he fought quickly
Make a quick decision, eat this bait in one bite, and only the German navy will be lost.
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