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After a long time, the British were hit again. The "Brave" battleship was hit by a millimeter shell and had to withdraw from the battle, but they still did not escape the fate of sinking. During the retreat, they collided with the "Loyal" battleship that came to rescue. Then the two ships moved slowly during the escape process and were both hit. One 4,276,543 people on both ships were rescued.

Generally speaking, the following situations occur in combat will lead to the collapse of the troops.

The enemy suffered little casualties, and our army suffered heavy casualties, and this exchange will surely continue.

The enemy has no casualties, and our army has suffered a lot of casualties. Even if we fight all the entire army, we cannot effectively damage the enemy.

The enemy suffered heavy casualties, and our army was about to be wiped out.

In the eyes of the British, they were facing the second situation. Since the war started, they have lost five battleships, and the Germans seem to have no damage. The commander of the British fleet, General Canning, began to consider whether to continue this hopeless war.

Could it be that these two German giant ships would return to Germany proudly with the honor of sinking five British battleships? If that were the case, the Atlantic Ocean would become the world of Germans in the future. Imagine if I faced six "William III" class battleships today, what would be the consequences?

Thinking of this, General Canning made up his mind to fight to the end and must sink these two German giant ships!

After giving the order to fight to the death, it seemed that the goddess of fate did not favor the braver British. The fourth and fifth battleships of the British were sunk one after another. An atmosphere of despair was spread among the British warships.

Just before the collapse of the British, a flash of flame suddenly appeared in the distance. The place that had been pitch black. After being repeatedly hit for thousands of times, a shell or bomb finally luckily penetrated the armor of the German warship and hit the weak hull under the armor.

The German "William III" was hit as a pilot ship. He had received hundreds of large-caliber shells attacks. The armor in many parts had been damaged. This time, a shell or bomb found the weakness left by the last (or several simultaneous) attack, and finally knocked on William III's hard shell. This shell/bomb directly reimbursed the turret, and the fire that followed allowed the British to see the direction of the attack.

However, the British Navy and the Air Force began a long marathon debate on whether this was an Air Force bomb or a Navy shell. In the local environment at that time, the British Prime Minister supported the Navy, to a certain extent. The Navy made more arguments, and the Navy paid a very high price, so it was normal to support the Navy.

However, decades later, when the first deep-sea submarine went to the wreckage of the "William III" to explore and take photos, the mystery was revealed. The first hit German ship should be an aviation bomb. The bomb directly entered the deck on the left side of the turret and then lifted the 4,200-heavy turret.

The British's efforts were rewarded. The German giant ship was also seriously injured. It seemed that the British could send the giant ship to the bottom of the sea at the next moment. However, the "Fetler II" came forward in time and stood in front of the "William III". The fire of the "William III" was miraculously extinguished with the efforts of the trauma officers.

Although a turret was lost, after emergency repairs, the "William III" magically restored its combat power. However, the rotation mechanism of the turret B was greatly shocked and could not rotate freely. It could only rotate 15 degrees on the left and 70 degrees on the right, but actually lost half of the ground firepower.

Many experts in later generations analyzed William III's amazing protection ability and finally concluded that

In a longitudinal top view, the hull of the "William III" is spindle-shaped, with the thickest middle and gradually thinning toward the ends of the head and tail. This form of hull can easily obtain reliable structural strength. In the horizontal direction, due to the arrangement of thick upper side armor and upper armor decks, the ship has a first main structural beam under the upper deck and a second main structural beam under the second deck, so that the ship has a double-layer upper main structural beam, rather than a single main structural beam under the main horizontal armor like most other national warships. The advantage of this is to make full use of the cross-section of the hull that is 15 meters high and 36 meters wide. The increase in the geometric torque of the bearing structure and thus increase the strength.

Warships of all countries have practiced integrating some armor into the structure, and the Germans have done the most extensively in this regard. The most typical case is the German-class armored ship. With the successful design experience of German-class armored ships, "William III" also incorporated a large amount of armor into its hull structure. Among them, the main horizontal armor inclined part of 110-120mm, the main horizontal armor horizontal part of 80-100mm, the horizontal inner armor of 20-60mm and the vertical inner armor of 30mm.

The German-class armored ship is a model for saving the weight of the hull structure while keeping the structural strength of the hull unchanged. While the weight of the hull structure remains unchanged by 17,691 tons, the "William III" incorporates the armor into the structure greatly enhances the strength of the hull. The clever structural design and high-quality shipbuilding materials have created a hull with extremely reliable strength for the "William III" warship, which is obviously different from most warships in other countries.

The entire ship of "William III" is divided into 28 main watertight compartments. From the 3rd and 24th compartments, it is the main armored fort area. The main body of the hull is fully armored, protecting 98% of the buoyancy of the waterline length %c and reserve buoyancy space. This is a big deal that no warship can do at the same time.

In the huge main armored castle of the hull, the Germans installed multiple armor and watertight partitions in the longitudinal and transverse directions. Taking the lower hull in the boiler cabin section as an example, in addition to the lightning protection isolation cabin with a width of 5.5 meters on both sides, the interior is divided into three watertight partitions arranged side by side, and two high-pressure heavy oil boilers are placed in each cabin.

The "William III" has two such cabins, separated by a sub-aircraft ammunition storage compartment. Under such arrangement, if a boiler cabin enters water, the warship will only lose one-sixth of its power, and the attack from one side of the warship will only allow the two boiler cabins of the warship to enter water, and lose one-third of its power.

In addition, unlike the battleships of other countries, relying on a large number of horizontal, vertical and horizontal armor, the ship also has a large number of watertight compartments in the upper body of the ship above the main horizontal armor. With the lower body, the entire ship "William III" is subdivided into thousands of independent watertight compartments of different sizes. Just like boilers, each important subsystem of the ship is placed in these compartments in the principle of minimizing risks as much as possible. From the actual combat situation, it is difficult for the British to destroy this class of warships with a single conventional attack method.
Chapter completed!