After bandaging the wounds, Colonel Hart helped the Tiger to the third main turret of the Tiger. After the shooting command system was destroyed, the main guns on the ship were not immediately in a situation of fighting on their own. As long as communication is kept open, the shooting commander could still calculate the volley parameters through the sighting data of each turret. Unfortunately, the communication center on the ship was also seriously damaged. After Betty's team turned, the two combat patrols used the ship's tail to fight the enemy. Only the main guns in the rear could concentrate firepower to attack the old-fashioned dreadnoughts at the rear of the German fleet.

After entering the main turret No. 3, Colonel Hart personally took action on the rangefinder and used the remaining conditions for the communication lines of the main turret No. 3 and No. 4 to achieve partial fluctuations of the six main guns at the stern of the ship.

After several rounds of shooting adjustments, the shells fired by the Tiger hit the new target of the Rhineland after withdrawing from the German battleship, the Nassau. The first shell hitting the enemy ship exploded a large hole in the armored belt on the side. After a round of shooting, the second shell penetrated the German ship's No. 1 turret. A few seconds later, a violent explosion suddenly occurred in the front of the German dreadnought. Almost everyone thought that the first dreadnought that the Germans designed and built was over.

Looking at the black smoke that soared into the sky, Colonel Hart clenched his right fist, and his excitement was about to break his wound.

But in a blink of an eye, a surprising scene appeared: the "Nassau" was like a fuse that was about to burn out, and it was extinguished at the last moment. Its front deck was lit up in the sky, and the black smoke rolled in. The two huge and thick double-mounted turrets were no longer in shape. The bridge and the front of the hull seemed to be deformed, but the hull did not fall apart in the end, nor showed any signs of immediate tilt. The tall column mast still stood straight behind the bridge.

Colonel Hart sat in front of the rangefinder blankly, and the entire turret was as quiet as a grave.

Is the German Dreadnought a immortal monster?

The battle between the two main fleets is still ongoing. Other German dreadnoughts are bombarding the counterattacking British warships with extremely high efficiency, "Iron Duke", "George V", "Conqueror", "Thunder", "Ajinkut" and even the closer "Princess Royal" have been injured and hung up. No one knows which warship will follow the footsteps of "deadly" and "Emperor", but it is certain that for every heavy blow or even sunk a German main ship, the threat to the British fleet will be reduced by one point.

"The turret reversed by 5 points, the elevation angle is maintained at 11 degrees and 35 points, and the shooting is ready... Everyone acted. Regardless of whether the guy still had combat effectiveness or not, we knocked off the two main turrets behind it as soon as possible, and then attack the next German dreadnought!" Hart's sonorous and powerful roar instantly brought the gunners' attention back to his eyes. Although the strike just now was extremely beautiful, even Betty was not qualified to slap the chest and say that he could clean up two German dreadnoughts in succession. Colonel Hart's words were just an incentive. Inspired by this, the gunners who were originally in deep disappointment immediately became full of energy. They completed all the preparations for the re-firing in less than a minute.

Colonel Hart took a deep breath and decisively pressed the firing button of the triple main gun's volley.

The majestic sound of cannons was like a war drum, instantly making everyone in the turret excited. Before the shells fell, Colonel Hart yelled: "Armor-piercing bullets are loaded!"

The gunners then moved the spare shells piled in the gun room to the loading tray, waiting for the smoke from the gun bore to be drained. The bore was opened, and they quickly pushed the shells into the bore and then put them into bags of silk-wrapped launching medicine bags. At about halfway through these work, Colonel Hart, who personally operated the rangefinder and the turret commander who was watching the bounce point in front of the turret observation window, had already determined the hit of the shells through visual inspection.

The turret commander clenched his fists and shouted: "We hit the enemy ship! We hit it! What a god of war is coming! Long live Colonel Hart!"

Hart's mouth curled slightly, and a smile appeared on his face, which had become pale due to blood loss. Instead, he did not stop to celebrate like the gunners, he used the rangefinder to carefully calculate the shooting parameters after the relative displacement of both sides.

"The turret turns 4 minutes, the elevation angle is raised to 11 degrees and 37 minutes, and the shooting is ready..."

Under the personal operation of the turret commander, the huge and heavy turret turned a very subtle angle counterclockwise, and the three large-caliber naval guns in parallel structure slightly raised the elevation angle to accurately send the 635 kilogram warhead to the head of the enemy ship.

The "Tiger" whose shooting command system was damaged and the "Royal Princess" were still firing, and the German warships opposite were not relaxed. However, when the "Rhineland" withdrew from the battle and the "Nassau" was severely damaged, only two German dreadnoughts were still attacking the Betty team. Their muzzles were aimed at the "Tiger". The water columns of shells continued to rise around the new British battle patrol. After continuous cross-fires, the 11-inch armor-piercing shells shot from the German ship finally found Betty's ship again. One shot hit the stern of the ship, blowing up several upper cabins at the stern of the ship. One shot drilled into the secondary artillery on the right side of the turret No. 3, sweeping the part that had been destroyed by artillery fire again. Although these two shells did not seriously damage the hull, the obvious explosion sound and the trembling feeling of the hull still terrified many crew members.

Colonel Hart didn't think much about it, just waiting for the three groups of gunners to report the "ready" command one after another. He took a last look at the rangefinder and decisively pressed the firing button.

On the sea ten kilometers away, there was no new explosion in the German dreadnought "Nassau" whose main turrets of No. 1 and No. 2 were completely damaged. The towering mast was tilted forward slightly. The reason why the previous main ammunition depot did not send the nearly 20,000 tons of warship into the sea was because the German dreadnought placed shells and launching medicines in separate rooms. When the launching medicine depot under the main turret of No. 1 was ignited by the explosion, the double partition connecting the launching medicine depot and the launching medicine depot happened to be closed. After the fierce battle, the inventory of launching medicines was only half of the normal situation. The extreme situation considered by the designer on the drawing board actually became a reality in the naval battle. This miraculously saved the "Nassau" and its experienced and outstanding crew members.

The Nassau not only lost half of its main guns, but also greatly reduced its protection ability. The death of the ammunition depot in the front exploded the longitudinal partitions of most watertight chambers in the front of the hull, which meant that the front half of the warship had lost its original watertight function. As long as the external armor belt below the waterline and the outer wall of the hull were penetrated, it was still facing the danger of sinking. So when the shells fired by the Tiger fell near, it was the German crew members who were frightened and anxious. After weighing the trade-offs, the ship was

Colonel Von Daville ordered the correspondents to hang out the signal flag of "This ship withdraws from the battle" and called on the nearby large torpedo boats to cover it with artificial smoke. However, the injured "Tiger" obviously recognized the severely damaged German dreadnought. After it turned, only the rear main gun could attack "Nassau", but the two ships had 10 13-point 5-inch guns. The fierce and precise artillery fire allowed Colonel Daville and his crew to bear suffocating oppression at all times.

Just when the Nassau was in danger again, the large torpedo boats that had attacked before were like magical weapons falling from the sky. The three 1911-class rushing in the front row were the first to project torpedoes 3,000 meters away. At this distance, two combat patrols and four light patrols of Betty's team could easily turn and avoid them. The function of this batch of torpedoes was to disrupt the array of Betty's team and create a chance to kill the large torpedo boats that followed. Seeing the German torpedo attack, Betty's captains did not dare to act rashly. The huge and conspicuous contoured "Tiger" and "Royal Princess" quickly turned. The four light cruisers poured fire into the German torpedo boat group while carefully avoiding them in advance.

In this era when naval gun sighting mainly relies on manual ranging calculation, even with the assistance of mechanical calculators, re-measurement of the target position is quite complicated. The sudden turn of the "Tiger" made "senior range finder" like Colonel Hart feel at a loss. When he calculated the new shooting parameters, the "Nassau" had cunningly hid behind the tactical smoke screen released by the light ship. Without being able to observe the bounce point, it would be difficult to pose a threat to the "Nassau" again unless it hits the shot.

Looking at the gradually disappearing figure of the "Nassau", Colonel Hart gritted his teeth and pressed the shooting button. At a loss, he sighed and asked the turret commander to turn the horizontal angle of the turret backward by 1 degree and 30 minutes, preparing to attack the last dreadnought ship in the German main fleet.

Before the fire was opened again, the phone next to Colonel Hart rang. The communication line on the ship was previously cut off by German artillery fire. It seemed that the technicians had repaired the main line. He hesitated for a moment and grabbed the phone.

What came from the receiver was the voice of Captain Major General Onoha.

"Hey, Colonel, I did a pretty job just now!" said Major General Onoha. "General Betty asked me to convey his respect to you."

"It's a pity that we couldn't sink it. It would be great if I gave me a few more minutes of steady shooting." Hart replied somewhat frustrated.

"If our shooting command room hadn't been destroyed, we would have sunk it long ago." Onoha comforted, "You can persist with injuries and still kick it out of the battlefield. You deserve a Victoria Cross."

Colonel Hart was already past the age of asking for comfort when things went wrong. He said seriously: "Sir, what are we doing now?"

Onoha did not answer directly, but said, "I asked Captain Green, the military officer, to come to you, and you can have about twenty minutes of rest next."

"What does it mean?" Colonel Hart's eyes widened unconsciously. If he wanted to retreat, how could there be a twenty-minute break?

"The situation has changed a little, you will know it when you come to the bridge." Onoha said mysteriously.
Chapter completed!