Rasputin of the East

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North Sea, near Jutland

The strongest at sea has always changed.

However, if you ask someone about the strongest type of ship in this era, they will answer with one voice.

battleship.

Well, considering the post-war relationship, it is natural, because the aircraft carrier, the type of ship that destroyed the battleship, did not show its true value, and the first aircraft carrier had not yet been launched.

Although there are surface aircraft carriers that can be said to be their predecessors, the ability to fly reconnaissance aircraft is limited due to the limitations of aviation technology itself.

And the battleships were rushing over the sea.

The German Imperial Navy, the first Darflinger-class battlecruiser.

“Sink the enemy submarine!”

“Damn things are all over the place, so should we say our path is exposed?”

“That’s right.”

“The best thing is that we have battlecruisers, but no British troops.”

Admiral Hipper moved his horse.

The battlecruiser squadron grabs the head of the enemy battleship squadron, and the British battleships already engaged with the German battleship squadron are thrown out one by one.

the most ideal.

“But I’m sure the British will guess this too, because it’s a classic tactic.”

“It would be.”

“It’s a standard, but it’s the standard, so you can see the most obvious effect. What’s important is how to attract the British fleet and how to succeed in this tactic against an opponent who is well prepared.”

The moment the battlecruiser squadron breaks in and grabs the enemy’s head during battle, the battle is almost over. It’s all vulgar anyway, so I can’t even run away.

“The battleship squadron will be led by Admiral Cher, but the problem is now…”

“Admiral! Enemy fleet has been found! It’s a reconnaissance fleet! 3 armored cruisers, 1 armored cruiser!”

There are still a few years left until the concept of light cruisers and heavy cruisers appear, and although it is being evaluated as an old-fashioned bridge, at the same time, it is too early for the new weapons of the concept to replace the old bridges to be completed. went to

“Take it down, it might be a lure, so if you see any signs of pulling it out, don’t pursue it and operate as planned.”

It was determined that it was highly likely to be a ploy to separate the battlecruiser squadron from the battlecruiser squadron and prevent the cruiser battleship squadron from supporting the battleship squadron in a timely manner.

It was a natural idea, because it was the tactic he was thinking of using against the British Navy.

– Kwaang!

The main gun blew out flames. The main gun, which had set up a water column several times, bit off the enemy ship shortly after.

“A hit on an enemy armored cruiser! Incapacitated with flames!”

“One enemy protection cruiser hit with a shot! sinking!”

Whether it’s counter-defense or whatever, unless it’s the same battleship, the battleship’s guns are literally overwhelming violence.

“The enemy will fire back and retreat.”

“It’s tempting, ignore it. After all, their fire doesn’t reach the allies’ range. Only shoot when within range.”

“All right.”

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Most likely it is a ship, and there is a high probability that a submarine squadron or torpedo boat is hiding.

‘It would be a submarine force rather than a torpedo boat.’

Immediately after departure, the submarines harassed the Kaiser Marines, and the destroyers had to double their sights and watch for the periscopes to pop out.

Of course, the U-boats also harassed the enemy fleet.

“Enlisted in the Ocean Fleet! Contact with the enemy’s main battleship squadron!”

***

The first König-class battleship, König, the flagship of the German Navy.

“Fire observation on enemy ships!”

“Enemy bullets fall!”

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Moments later, a shock struck the flagship.

“I was stalked!”

“shit!”

The British navy also ruled the five oceans. Response speed is not normal.

Admiral Cher sighed.

“If only the Bayern-class was commissioned!”

Although they are inferior to the Bavarian-class battleships and the Queen Elizabeth-class, the first-class power of the Royal Navy, if they were there, the German Navy would have overwhelmed the British Navy by now.

Of course, the Queen Elizabeth class is not here. Compared to the 13.5-inch guns of the KGV-class (unlike the King George V-class of World War II) and the Iron Duke-class, the König-class 12-inch guns were weak.

If the Bavarian-class equipped with 15-inch guns had been in this position, the Royal Navy would have been screaming and annihilated without the need for a battlecruiser squadron to appear, but they had to wait several more months before they could be commissioned.

It was the original fault of the German Navy, which had disrupted the development and production of large-caliber guns.

Still doesn’t push First of all, they have the upper hand in the number of guns.

After all, both battleships have enemies within their range. They succeeded in inducing the British Navy from using their overwhelming range, which was their strength, and that was enough.

The price paid to get there was never cheap.

Of course, both sides had a primary numerical value of 12 inches, and they were pouring shells at each other like crazy.

“Nasau attacked! Reduce speed! I am drifting!”

“Signal from Thuringia! I can still fight!”

Admiral Cher clenched his teeth.

I literally pulled everything together.

I hit it with the feeling that there was no turning back.

Can’t the honorable Prussian soldiers really beat those damn pirates?

– Kwaang!

A flash of light appeared in an instant.

“Enemy Bellerophon-class battleship crashes! It looks like an ammo detonation!”

“Yeah, it should be!”

Basically, it is a British battleship with thinner armor than a German battleship.

No, in the first place, Germany failed to produce a large-caliber main gun, so it chose to strengthen defense instead of attack.

However, even with that, the German Navy, which had thorough damage control ability based on the lessons of the Battle of Dogger Bank, focused only on rapid fire and was inflicting great damage over time to the British Navy, which neglected safety measures and accuracy.

In fact, the Royal Navy’s hit ammunition was extremely small compared to the amount of shells poured out, and this was the basis for the German Navy to approach the British Navy at risk and deliver effective blows even when the gun’s caliber was totally pushed back.

Temporarily, the scales of the war were in equilibrium.

“One enemy King Edward VII class, emitting graphite and breaking out of the ranks!”

***

British Empire ‘Grand Fleet’ temporary flagship HMS Canada.

“Hercules has been hit!”

Even without the officer’s report, Admiral Jellico knew the situation well enough.

The British Navy was clearly struggling. Hercules and Bellerophon blew up, and Neptune and Vanguard were drifting. Although it was a second-class power, it was a painful loss.

Their only reliable power was the 13.5-inch-class Super Dreadnought Battleships, including the Iron Duke-class and Orion-class battleships, and the 14-inch-class Super Dreadnought-class battleship HMS Canada, which had only one.

The rest are all 12-inch class or less, and even the 13.5-inch class battleships are not of much help in a situation where they continue to fight against the German Navy.

“Looks like our goddamn ships are in trouble today, damn it!”

Unable to avoid the hardship and pushed back, Jellico seriously thought about retreating.

That was then.

“Admiral! Smoke is observed from the southwest!”

“Are you acting?”

“It’s smoke! Large ship Hamyeong from Defense 210!”

After a while, a gunshot rang out.

“It’s the German Army! German battlecruiser Zeititz!”

A German battlecruiser squadron approached with a screaming cry.

“What the hell.”

Admiral Jellico laughed in disappointment.

HMS Canada, the fastest and most powerful in the fleet, but Zeititz is 4 knots faster than Canada.

Its firepower is only 11 inches, but it wouldn’t be a situation where he came alone.

Not surprisingly, after a while, the Darflinger-class battlecruisers also appeared.

caught the head

“Enemy Köhini-class leading ship Narrowing!”

“Keep shooting! Never stop!”

“Enemy battleship squadron fire!”

– Kwaang! Whoa, whoa, whoa!

With the explosion, a great shock was inflicted on the ship.

“Damaged the stack! The soot flows back into the engine room!”

“Fire on the middle deck! We’re bringing in the maintenance team!”

“Enemy König-class battleship slowing down! Graphite generation confirmed!”

Yes, they haven’t been defeated yet.

The battlecruiser squadron has not yet come within range, and the British Navy has the upper hand in both the power of one shot and the number of guns. At least not yet.

“End before the enemy battlecruiser squadron joins! Increase your shooting speed!”

The German fleet also suffered heavy losses from the British fleet. The cause of all this, HMS Ajincourt fired 14 12-inch armor-piercing rounds, struck the Kaiser-class battleship Kaiserin. The rudder was destroyed and the turret was damaged, and a single shell hit the engine room directly.

Shortly thereafter, Kaiserin struck a second round of HMS Erin’s 13.5-inch bombardment. A single shot hit the boiler room and caused an explosion, and after a while Kaiserin was quickly sucked into the water.

The price was brutal. As if to take revenge on his family, concentrated fire from the Kaiser-class nameship Kaiser and König-class Kronprintz (Prince) hit Ajinkot, and a majority of 20 12-inch shells hit Ajinkot’s hull.

Ajinkot was sucked into the water without even having time to leave the ship.

The next target was HMS Erin, who fought hard, including making König Albert incapable of combat with one volley of 12-inch cannons, but after continuous bombardment, the bridge, turret, and engine room were all destroyed and burned. and started drifting.

Of course, the revenge was successful, but the damage was not light even for the Kaiser Marine. Half of the fleet had already become incapacitated or sunk.

On the contrary, in terms of the cost of engagement alone, Britain was still superior.

Shortly thereafter, however, a squadron of battlecruisers arrived and began to pour shells at the head of the British fleet.

***

HMS Canada. British Navy flagship.

All compartments and decks were covered with either smoke or flames, and the hull hit by the 12-inch shells was cracking and cracking and spouting flames.

The engine room was damaged and the speed continued to drop, and even the firing speed of the turret was noticeably lower.

– Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Several armor-piercing rounds fired by Zeititz hit the hull at the same time. A turret with a damaged turret ring stopped rotating, and a shell hit directly aft completely destroyed the screw.

“Wow!”

Admiral Jellico, who had collapsed from the shock, barely stood up against the wall.

At the same time, eight guns from the four turrets, except for one that were damaged, fired fire all at once.

At least one guy was sure to take him away.

Explosions occurred one after another along the hull of Zeititz, who had not considered counter-defense in the first place, and was hit several times by a 14-inch shell that clearly exceeded its own firepower.

However, shortly thereafter, as if avenging Zeititz, a 12-inch armor-piercing round fired from the Darflinger class directly hit a Canadian bridge.

A devastating shock swept the bridge, the blood of staff and officers, the bridge was a sea of blood, and the flagship, covered in debris, was like a gunfight from the inside.

Admiral Jellico moved while crawling on the floor. His arms were twisted at odd angles as if the bones were out of alignment.

I crawled all the way to the Jeonseonggwan, but none of them responded as if they were broken.

No, I’d rather have it broken.

At that moment, a sound was heard from one of the Jeonseonggwan.

“Captain, can you hear me?”

“… yet one more volley is possible.”

“Yeah, cool! The last one… Let’s take it.”

A number of battleships were burning and sinking indiscriminately.

Aimed at one of them. What was that? I couldn’t even remember the exact name of the ship.

An enemy battleship still following the ship’s ranks and firing artillery at friendly ships in the back row, that was enough.

– Whoa, whoa, whoa!

Canadian 14-inch guns fired the last round. Simultaneously, the Germans’ confirmed kills poured down on the collapsing corpse of Canada.

The last thing Jellico saw before a steel storm hit the bridge was a German battleship that had been hit by a 14-inch shell and destroyed by steel violence that far exceeded its counter defense.