At this stage of the naval battle, it can be said that the German Hipper squadron has greatly changed the battlefield situation. Previously, the German warships hit the Royal Navy warships with an average of four bombs before being hit by one bomb. You must know the armor ratio of the German naval warships.
Britain is much stronger.
However, after the British Royal Navy's cutting-edge battleships arrived, the 15-inch cannon showed great destructive power, and this time the British Navy hit hard and accurately. The German Hipper Squadron Moltke and Tann were hit one after another
Shot.
The two main turrets at the front and rear of the Tann were directly scrapped. At the same time, the British battleship hit the German battleship Barham once. The Seydlitz was hit by a high-speed torpedo during the melee, which immediately caused a huge breach, but it still remained in the queue.
fight in.
At 16:15 on the afternoon of March 3, 1907, the British Second Light Cruiser Squadron notified British Commander Betty that a large battleship formation of the German High Seas Fleet was discovered, and that was the German main fleet led by German Commander Scheer, led by Ross.
The light cruiser TOEFL leads the way.
This is because after British Admiral Jericho broke away from the entanglement with the German High Seas Fleet, the German main fleet also accelerated its pursuit. About twenty minutes later, three battleship detachments of the German High Seas Fleet met the British Commander 12 nautical miles away.
The fleet commanded by Betty looked at each other from a distance.
At 16:40 on the afternoon of the 3rd, after recalling all British destroyers, British Commander Beatty ordered the squadron to make a 180-degree turning movement. At the same time, Beatty ordered all his ships to immediately retreat towards the home fleet, but in the end due to
Due to a failure in the communications system, this order was not received by the British Fifth Battleship Squadron.
This caused the already severely damaged British Fifth Battleship Squadron to fall directly into a terrible situation of a deadly battle with the main force of the High Seas Fleet. Then just ten minutes later, the superstructure of the British HMS Barham was hit by a 533mm high-explosive bomb.
The secondary battery on the side of the British battleship Malaya was destroyed, and the steering gear of the British battleship Warspite was hit by a torpedo, resulting in serious injuries. However, the ship voluntarily retreated without orders soon after, and returned to the British mainland alone.
All this was mainly because these cutting-edge British warships had more protective capabilities than the honest warships, and in the end they saved their own lives. In the end, none of them were sunk by German warships.
It seems that a communication problem was discovered, and the British Barham immediately turned around, and other British battleships followed suit. At this time, the German Admiral Scheer also gave up the pursuit of the British Fifth Battleship Squadron, and
The entire fleet was ordered to slow down to 15 knots so that the old ironclad ships in the German fleet could keep up with the large force.
It was such a wrong decision that the German High Seas Fleet, which could have taken advantage of the victory to expand its results, lost its best opportunity. You must know that once the British Fifth Battleship Squadron was eaten, Betty's battlecruiser formation would be
I lost an arm directly.
The emergence of such a situation also made the commander of the Far East Navy Liu Qinghui, who was paying close attention to the war situation, very depressed. If it were not the time to attack now, Liu Qinghui would probably order the Far East Navy to pursue the Fifth Battleship Squadron of the British Home Fleet.
However, after British Commander Beatty discovered that he had lost traces of the German fleet, he once again ordered to adjust the course and sail toward the northeast, and his target was undoubtedly the German Navy's main battleship HMS Border Governor.
However, at 17:10 on the afternoon of the 3rd, the German Hipper and the British Betty's fleet encountered again. The German Lützow, the German Seydlitz and the Derfflinger were once again attacked multiple times by the cutting-edge British warships.
hit.
Hipper immediately retreated hurriedly and took the initiative to try to rendezvous with the German Scheer fleet as soon as possible. However, after receiving the notification, British Admiral Jericho immediately determined the position of the German Hipper fleet and the position of the Scheer fleet.
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At 17:50 on the 3rd, the British Jericho Fleet discovered the German Scheer Fleet and ordered the fleet to turn to the northeast and attack in column. In fact, the British Jericho did this mainly to try to get the German Scheer Fleet to fight with the Germans.
Hipper's fleet is divided.
However, the Hipper fleet, which had been disrupted by the counterattack of the British Betty fleet, still had its own reconnaissance system. However, the reconnaissance warship failed to detect the location of the British Jericho in time, and instead thought it was the German Scheer fleet.
Soon after, the German Scheer fleet found that it had to face the British Jericho's T-shaped head, so it immediately ordered a turn on the spot. This was the largest overall 180-degree turn back in the history of human naval warfare, but it was shocking.
After the Land of Amazement was completed, the German Scheer's fleet changed from the rear to the front and began to break away from the British Jericho's fire coverage network.
Just when the German Scheer fleet turned to retreat, the German Hipper fleet crashed into it. Scheer had no choice but to turn back to help, but the two turns had already taken too much time. Such a fixed target gave the British
Jericho makes a great fighter.
However, even under such an advantage, the British battleship Invincible was finally hit by the German Derfflinger. In the end, a large explosion occurred in the ammunition depot. All 1,011 officers and soldiers on board the British ship died, and no one survived.
This time the British and German fleets encountered each other again. Both sides naturally began to fight to the death, but at this time the British Home Fleet was located east of the German High Seas Fleet. In the end, the German Scheer had to fight while passing through the British Jerry Squadron.
Mainly because they were worried about being surrounded by the British Home Fleet from both inside and outside.
However, as the time came to 19 o'clock, the German Scheer fleet successfully retreated again under the cover of the sky and the smoke of the battleships. The British Jericho fleet also took the initiative to withdraw, so that the two sides once again broke away from large-scale contact.
However, this time the flagship of the German Hipper squadron, the Lützow, was forced to abandon it because it was severely damaged and could not be repaired. Hipper also transferred to the less damaged battleship Moltke, but who knew that the British Jericho suddenly ordered the British fleet to
Re-turn 170 degrees.
Under the order of the British Jericho, the British minelayers Servant and Sorrow went to the waterway to start mines. In the process, the battlecruiser detachment commanded by the British Betty came into contact with the High Seas Fleet commanded by the German Scheer.
There were many brief exchanges of fire, but due to poor visibility and other problems, contact was quickly lost.
After nightfall, the destroyer formation of the German High Seas Fleet and the British Fourth Destroyer Group had more than ten encounters. In the process, four British destroyers were sunk, and the old ironclad Pomerania of the German High Seas Fleet was sunk.
sink.
After a day of fierce battle, the British Navy's Home Fleet lost a total of 3 large battlecruisers, 2 armored cruisers and 8 destroyers, totaling about 110,000 tons, while the German High Seas Fleet only lost 1 Dreadnought-class battleship and 1 battlecruiser.
, 4 light cruisers and 5 destroyers, totaling less than 60,000 tons, so the German Navy's results were significantly greater than the British Navy's.
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