Chapter 360: Spelling speed

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In the vast sea, if you want to gallop, you often rely on the courage to ride the wind and the waves and the speed that overwhelms your opponent. Therefore, when countries fought hard to develop representative battleships of large ships and giant artillery, more cruisers and battlecruisers were launched at the same time, which constituted the backbone of the navy fleets of various countries.
For the ocean, battleships are very small. So even if you have more warships, in the face of the vast expanse of the ocean, you will be paid for nothing. It has always been the dream of the ocean empire to let warships patrol more seas at higher speeds and control larger seas with fewer ships.
Driven by this great dream, the world's naval powers are scrambling to explore high-speed warships, and have developed "the strongest warships in history" generation after generation. At least among the warships of the British Navy, the warships such as Hood have very high-speed maneuverability and have first-class firepower.
After the assault command was issued, the slower battleships King George V and Howe of the British fleet were immediately thrown away. After all, the USS Hood cruiser has a maximum speed of 30 knots, so now it can Easily drove the speed to a terrible 26 knots.
The maximum speed of the King George V class battleship is only 28 knots, so it can only be driven to about 24 knots during the pursuit. After all, no lunatic is willing to let the battleship ’s power boiler run at full load without approaching the enemy, which will cause The terrible consequence of overheating of the power unit.
The speed of cruisers and destroyers is generally high, but according to the fleet's allocation order, many ships are left to accompany the battleship forces, and only a few ships follow the Hood and Prestige.
So after an hour of intensive voyage, the British fleet has gradually opened the distance, forming two fleets in front and behind in a straight line. At this time, the British fleet was only 79 kilometers away from the German navy high seas fleet.
It's just that the two sides are chasing and fleeing one by one, so this not-so-distant distance is actually very far away. Because the German navy ’s ships are generally not long, they do not suffer much in terms of speed.
At this moment Lütjens was nervously looking at the chart, estimating the position and time that both parties might encounter. Around him, there is a huge fleet of German naval fleets. Even such a huge fleet, the current speed is still not slow.
It should be said that it is not slow. They are almost out of the limit speed of the fleet formation in the world. The entire carrier fleet is chopping waves at a speed of 23 knots. As an aircraft carrier fleet, this speed can be said to be a world record level. .
Now the problem is a bit serious for the German navy fleet. From 7 o'clock in the evening of the first day to 5 o'clock in the morning, the British navy has at least 10 hours to shorten the distance. It seems that the German navy It's hard to escape.
The two fleets played a speed race on the vast sea. At 8:03 p.m., Lütjens ordered the fleet to adjust its course and deviated from the sea to some angle in an attempt to avoid the British fleet.
But soon the British fleet adjusted its course as if it had long eyes, cut into the German fleet's route, and even shortened the distance by 1 km. At this time, Lütjens still had to rely on his own judgment to determine the position of the British navy's fleet.
"Not good! I always feel that there is a problem!" Lütjens walked around the chart table, suddenly suddenly realized that the ordinary hands shot: "I know! I know where their eyes are!"
He walked to the front of the chart and pointed to the first officer, saying, "They are following us with a submarine! Although the speed of the submarine is not enough, it will not be long, but they are following us on the adventure of floating on the surface of the water! Our radar Instead, the system was dark, and no one noticed anything wrong! "
"Order the special forces of the Naval Air Force to take off at night!" Lütjens smashed the table fiercely: "It is time for them to see our preparations! Get rid of all the enemy submarine tails!"
"Yes!" An aviation liaison officer Li Zheng walked out in salute.
Soon, under the guidance of several searchlights on the German aircraft carrier, two helicopters took off, these aircraft carried a deep-water bomb, and a high-powered searchlight, which was a special weapon recently equipped by the aircraft carrier. It is also a secret weapon for search and rescue and anti-submarine operations at night.
These planes soon got news that the two British submarines that followed the fleet were forced to dive to escape, and the British submarine's eye line arranged in advance was left behind by the German fleet, but this was already after 11 o'clock in the night. .
At 0 o'clock in the night, Lütjens received a telegram that made him sick like swallowing ten flies. The telegram was sent by a German submarine. The submarine found the British fleet in the waters near Denmark, that is, the fleet that went north to Norway. Now the fleet with two old battleships traverses the waters near Wilhelmshaven, The high seas fleet that was waiting for the Germans to escape fled the net.
In this way, Lütjens, who had planned to take another risk to change course again, was undecided. He did not dare to venture back to William Junction, so he did not dare to change the route again to make the fleet lean on the coastline-there are only two ways now, One is to venture to the Netherlands, and the other is to continue to go deep into the North Sea.
The road to fleeing to the Netherlands seemed foolproof, but Lütjens thought that this road was actually dangerous. The Dutch port can be used for supplies on weekdays. If you escape and be blocked by the British navy to fight at close range, this will really be no longer possible. If the British were to exchange a few battleships for the entire high seas fleet, the sale was believed to be acceptable to the Royal Navy.
And keep the route to continue to escape to the depths of the North Sea, anyway, you can also estimate the time of the fleet encounter, but if you turn at a right angle to escape to the Netherlands, in case the British pursuit fleet will take a short cut and catch a short side to catch up ... 2am Between 4 o'clock and 4 o'clock, the two sides encountered and went to war, and the German Navy may have nothing left.
It is not safe to escape to the ocean, at least until dawn to fight back, and now this situation is estimated to be almost dawn when the British navy fired. At that time, it's really not easy to say who is more advantageous. And Lütjens had to be constantly alert to the third British fleet led by the British Royal Ark, which had disappeared on the North Sea.
"The family is thick enough to play any way!" Lütjens said enviously. It is no wonder that Lütjens is very envious, because even after the fiasco in turn, the British navy did not move. In one move, three fleets were deployed and the Tianluodi net was placed. The two sides in the number of fleets did not seem to be an order of magnitude opponent.
"Keep the route! Continue to travel north!" Lütjens finally bit his alveolar and gave the order with the greatest courage of his life. At this moment, he seemed to see the illusion, in which he commanded a huge and beautiful battleship, entered the North Sea in the cold wind, and completed his tragic battle.
"One year ago! I said that I dared to run away in front of the British Navy, maybe I ran back to the Netherlands. But the head of state told me the truth-an army that dares not show its sword will always fail. Possibly! This time I chose the sword! As the frontline commander of the Imperial Navy, I want the sword today! "Lütjens said calmly while standing on the bridge.
This is his choice. This is the choice of the High Seas Fleet led by him. This road is extremely bumpy. A little wrong step is the end of the looting. It is also an opportunity for the German navy, an opportunity to fly to the top.
This is a gamble. If the German navy can take off the carrier aircraft after dawn, then the British navy will lose 80% of the time, and this defeat seems to be more traumatic than the previous few times. It may be really weak. .
And if the German navy is caught up before dawn, there will be few battleships in the entire fleet that can compete with the reputation of the Hood, and the entire army will be wiped out in a maximum of two hours.
In a fair battle, the winning person controls the North Atlantic and becomes the most powerful new hegemon in the European sea; the losing person loses sea power and faces a brutal blockade, and may eventually lose even the destiny of the country.
When Lütjens made this decision, Lieutenant General Holland, the commander of the British fleet, was also facing an important choice. At this moment of variability, German Admiral Lütjens and the British Navy Lieutenant General Holland has made the most important decision in their lives.
The submarines that were in ambush were expelled by the German navy, and Lieutenant General Holland is now blind like Lütjens. Without intelligence support, he can only judge the movement of the German navy by guessing, which makes it very difficult for the British navy to pursue.
"Order the fleet to maintain the same course!" Lieutenant General Holland finally issued an order to pursue the current route, but he also issued another crucial order: "Order two towed battleships to sail offshore the Netherlands, if The Germans fled into the Netherlands, and we rushed directly into the port to sink them! At any cost! "
For the British Navy, this decision is undoubtedly the most insurable. The only two choices for the Germans were blocked by Holland ’s fleet. Now Holland can be sure that Germany will not be able to run this time. It must be upright with him There was a fight.
However, the variable of this speed race has not changed. This variable is the time of the war. Whether the Germans can drag the start of the battle until dawn, no one knows this question.