The Third Reich: The Return of the King

Chapter 597

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“General, the German warships are rushing towards us!”

Just as the battleship Hood was hit repeatedly and was at a loss, the soldiers on the ship found that the German warships turned around and rushed towards them at high speed!

“What are they trying to do?”

After hearing the news, Major General Holland was stunned for a moment, and quickly grabbed a telescope to check.

You don’t know until you see it, and you will be shocked when you see it!

From the splashes under the bow of the Bismarck, you can see that the opponent is extremely fast!

And the opponent rushed towards them at such a fast speed, what exactly are they trying to do?

Isn’t the German fleet retreating at this time?

Aren’t they the British army chasing and the German army running away?

Why is the Bismarck the other way around?

Conspiracy!

There must be some conspiracy!

Major General Holland immediately became alert and felt that something was wrong!

“General, we haven’t hit the Germans with a single shot so far, but the Germans have already hit us with three shots. If the situation continues as before, we will obviously suffer more. So it may not be a bad thing for us if the Germans rush over at this time!”

The gunner on the Hood stared at the Bismarck battleship approaching, gritted his teeth and said to the captain

“Well, that makes sense. The closer the distance is, the closer it is to the combat range we usually train. Our hit rate is bound to increase significantly, and then it will be the Germans who will be hit!”

Because the distance between the two sides was very far, although the battleship Hood was hit by three shells, the Germans fired at least 6 salvos. From the hit rate alone, the German hit rate was not high, only about.6%.

And if the Germans enter the distance of 1 km, according to the British army’s usual training level, at this distance, their hit rate can reach more than 1%, which is almost twice that of the Germans!

So if the Germans really enter this range, then the British army will definitely be able to greatly improve their hit rate and suppress the Germans in the bombardment!

Therefore, Major General Hood made up his mind and simply gambled big!

“Full left rudder, full speed ahead, the Hans want a one-on-one duel, so we’ll satisfy them!”

Major General Holland thought of the naval battle in the Mediterranean that day. In that naval battle, the Hood was the first to be hit by the Italian Navy, causing damage to the hull. However, the injury of the Hood did not affect the morale of the British soldiers. Instead, they united from top to bottom and fought one against four. One warship chased the entire Italian fleet and sank one and damaged three!

Now, Major General Holland seemed to have returned to the Mediterranean battlefield that day. Although the Bismarck on the opposite side had demonstrated their strong strength in the previous battle, Major General Holland was still eager to fight and had no intention of retreating at all!

He believed in the strength of his soldiers and the strength of this world-class ship!

……

“General, the British didn’t, but instead accelerated and rushed towards us!”

The British’s actions were immediately discovered by the German observers and reported to Lütjens.

In fact, even if he didn’t say it, Lütjens would have discovered it, because the opponent had only one battleship, so Lütjens’ attention was always focused on the Hood battleship!

Every move of the opponent could not escape his eyes!

“”That’s good. The best working distance of our fire control radar is 15 kilometers. Beyond this range, the performance of the fire control radar will be unreliable. It was mostly luck that we were able to hit the Hood at a distance of 20 kilometers. However, as long as this guy enters the range of 15 kilometers, hum, I think they will be surprised!”

The commanders of both sides have made up their minds to start the final decisive battle after entering the best range of 15 kilometers, so they did not choose to change direction, but chose to go towards each other at the same time, and each other’s speed was increased to the extreme!

The distance of 3 kilometers disappeared in just a few minutes when the two warships were driving at high speed!

Just after entering the distance of 15 kilometers, when the soldier responsible for measuring the distance reported the number of 15 kilometers, Holland and Lütjens gave the order to open fire at the same time!

“Fire!”

“Full speed shooting!”

Boom boom boom!

The two warships had adjusted their positions while sailing, so all the main guns joined the bombardment at this time. At almost the same time, 17 main guns fired together. The black shells dragged out a trail of white smoke, made a sharp whistling sound, and rushed towards the enemy ship!

Boom boom boom!

Although the distance was much closer, it was still far away, so most of the shells from both sides fell into the sea.

However, after the distance was shortened to within 15 kilometers, the German army, with the help of the fire control radar, had increased its hit rate to More than 30% of the German ships were bombarded. Three of the shells fired by the six main guns on the bow hit the Hood. One shell hit the No. 1 turret of the Hood, knocking it out and crashing into the hull behind it, killing and injuring a large number of sailors!

The second shell hit the deck in the middle of the battleship. After easily tearing open the first deck, it crashed into the inner cabin of the Hood, blasting a huge 15X12 hole inside. It looked like a mine was dug in the Hood, with broken steel plates and hanging corpses everywhere. It looked extremely terrifying, like purgatory!

The first two shells hit the deck of the ship, and the third shell was the most deadly.

This shell grazed the hull of the Hood and hit the outer hull of the left midship. It penetrated into the main armor belt at a very small angle. With a loud bang, a large piece of the Hood’s main armor fell off and fell into the sea! The

70-meter-long area on the left side of the Hood lost the protection of armor!

On the other side, two of the eight shells fired by the British army could have hit the Bismarck, but were blocked by the front and rear Phalanx systems. It was intercepted at 1,200 meters in the air!

The dense array that can intercept the attack of 2 times the speed of sound ship missiles is easy to deal with the shells that fly to the end and the speed is less than 500 meters.

So, a scene that stunned the British army happened: none of the shells they fired hit the enemy, and the two shells that were most likely to hit the target exploded in the air when they were about to hit the target!

This situation made all the British soldiers on the Hood stunned!

The Royal Navy has dominated the ocean for hundreds of years, and has never encountered such a situation!

The enemy can actually intercept their shells!

“General, let’s retreat quickly. The enemy is too terrible. We can’t………”

The first mate beside Holland was already scared silly. Seeing Bismarck was like seeing a monster rushing towards him. He had lost the courage to fight her!

Gulung!

Major General Holland swallowed hard. He looked at the first mate and other soldiers and found that they were all looking at him eagerly, expecting him to give the order to retreat.

These soldiers were already scared out of their wits. They didn’t have the courage to continue fighting!