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However, although William III escaped a disaster, it does not indicate his disaster. After three hours of continuous shooting, the 480-meter cannon was finally unable to continue working. In fact, the continuous shooting time of the main gun of the millimeter battleship was less than 45 minutes.

The main gun did not fail for such a long time to continuously fire. The quality of the Germans' manufacturing project was very good. However, the Germans were not gods after all, and they could not create 480 guns with unlimited continuous shooting. As a result, the artillery fire of the two multinational battleships showed signs of weakness. Due to the advantage of the number of ships, the British have always used rotational firing, so the firepower would not decrease at all.

The steelmaking machinery was tired, so what about the personnel? After five hours of fighting, the personnel on the German ships were exhausted. Although the Germans had the most powerful battleships, they still could not provide a more comfortable working environment. In the face of the powerful British fleet, they could only grit their teeth and hold on.

At this time, the roar of bombers came from the sky, and the long-range bombers of Britain and Germany began to bomb again. Because it was dark, both countries used large bombers, hoping to kill the enemy's battleships with their number advantage. Compared with that, the British battleships were large in number and very neatly formed, they were attacked more.

German long-range bombers only need to adjust their course, led by the chief aircraft and took the lead in dropping bombs. Then dozens of aircraft opened the bullet cabin and threw the bombs along the direction of the British battleship formation. At the same time, the British could only use a few large-caliber machine guns to attack such large aircraft.

There were immediately countless colorful ballistic trajectories in the sky, and sharp sounds pierced the sky. One or two German planes were hit by goose meat, and a rain of fire was drawn on the sky. The British did not cheer for these things after seeing them. They fought for four hours and began to become exhausted.

The German warships are much better. In order to avoid accidentally injuring their warships, British aircraft can only choose to drop bombs parallel to their warships. In this way, Germany's air defense firepower is simply to attack fixed targets. In addition, for air defense, the air defense firepower of Lian III is extremely fierce.

Heavy anti-aircraft guns are 16 double-connected 105-meter sk-37 anti-aircraft guns, all located on the deck of the first upper building, with 4 front, back, left and right. Six of them can shoot directly into the airspace in the front, and the other 6 can shoot directly into the airspace in the rear, and there are 8 seats on both sides that can be directly against.

The medium-sized anti-aircraft gun is 32 double-mounted 37mm 83 guns, all of which are arranged on the superstructure and can rotate 360; the rotation speed is 4 degrees seconds. The actual firing rate of the former is increased to 80mm 83 at 45; the maximum range is 8500. The elevation angle is 85; the range is meters.

The light anti-aircraft gun is a 984-mounted 20-meter 65 gun, with a maximum firing rate of 120:45; the range at the time is 4900, 85; the range at the time is 3700 meters and the rotation angle is also 360;.

It is particularly important to point out here that the "William III" class ground air defense firepower is all mechanically automated, while the previous battleship air defense artillery was all manually operated. The advantage of manual is that it can maintain combat effectiveness when the battleship power system is damaged, and the biggest disadvantage is its slow response.

Compared with the Allied warship anti-aircraft guns of the same period, the manual 105-meter guns had a reaction speed of only half that of the 134-meter guns of the British "George V" class. The 37 guns were even more excessive, only one-third of the 4 guns. In other words, the anti-aircraft guns of "Long Live the Emperor" had only one-third of the response ability to emergencies.

Such a powerful configuration makes it feel inferior to any battleship at the same time. The British battleship Elizabeth at the same time had 16 133mm/50-caliber high-level dual-purpose secondary guns; the 32-4840-meter and 20-meter anti-aircraft guns were about one-fifth of that of William III.

Under such powerful firepower, British aircraft suffered a severe blow, and from time to time, some aircraft were volleyed by air defense firepower and turned into fireworks. However, due to their flexible movements and proper protection, German warships did not suffer much damage at all. This undoubtedly frustrated the British pilots.

"Well, after flying to the combat site, we started to pass through the death corridor under the leadership of the long aircraft. It was really a death corridor. Once the mechanism was adjusted, we were hit by the anti-aircraft artillery fire of the German warships. And that was really a big guy, strong and powerful. If you look at our warships, you will know how powerful this guy is. I think I am like a person holding a submachine gun, and the opposite is an enemy company, and everyone takes a photo and hears the heavy machine gun."

"Once again, planes were shot, and the luminous light of bullets was everywhere. These little guys were beautiful and dangerous. I was very nervous and touched the cross and he gave me strength. So when we dropped the bomb, I calmly put the bomb drop button. As I thought, there was no reaction below, but one minute later, I saw a spark below, and I knew that we hit it, the strongest battleship named after the German emperor, the world's strongest battleship!"

Excerpted from the UK

At 10:24 pm, the "William III" was hit by a bullet, and the shell hit a ~+)m65, which then ignited a fire, causing 75 deaths. The biggest problem was that there was a loophole in the air defense part of the bow of the ship, and British aircraft began to bombard the area indiscriminately.

The British air strike did not receive many positive comments later. On the contrary, they were criticized for paying 75 aircraft and 671 pilots. However, decades later, during the same deep-sea expedition, people gained many unexpected gains. One of the revelations was that the contributions of British pilots were largely ignored. The number of bombs on the "William III" was higher than the shells in it, and the threat was higher than the shells in it.

After all the British long-range planes flew away, half of the air defense firepower of the "William III" was destroyed, and most of the people operating the machine gun were killed. At least 20 heavy bombs were born on the hull, but even so, "William III": lost its combat effectiveness, and even after a period of rest, the B turret, which was originally a bit unstoppable, recovered its rotational ability, and the gun barrel was also restored after emergency treatment.

This is simply a ship that is not sunk!
Chapter completed!