Bismarck

However, in the eyes of Lütjens and the gunner who knew the inside story, this beautiful smile against the brilliant artillery fire was so heartbreaking...

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The distance was already close enough. If it got any closer, he would be hit in the face. The opponent's reputation was also seriously damaged. Lütjens decided to turn around and engage in a naval battle with the British, and directly fire a salvo to knock down the reputation.

He just stood up and was about to give the order.

"Everyone, get down!" This was Bismarck's voice.

He suddenly saw Bismarck rushing towards him with a look of horror on his face. As if in slow motion, Bismarck opened his arms, hugged Lütjens, and then used the impact force to slam him hard into the bulkhead not far away.

Lütjens felt the back of his head hit hard by the wall. He groaned and felt dizzy. He was about to say something and ask why he did this...

Bismarck raised his head, covered Lütjens' ears with his slender hands, clenched his teeth, and then a powerful shock wave came over. The sturdy bulletproof glass that was originally used for protection instantly turned into a sharp killing weapon. A crew member who had no time to dodge was suddenly covered in blood mist, as if he was pierced by thousands of arrows.

Bismarck was of course hit quite a lot, but Lütjens under her was only slightly hurt by the shock wave because of her blocking.

The entire command tower was swept aside by the heat wave. A huge explosion came through the narrow windows. An armor-piercing shell actually hit the outer wall of the bridge directly.

It's like a person hiding inside a clock and someone outside is hitting it with a sledgehammer. Even if it doesn't penetrate, everyone's blood will boil.

After a long while, the shocked people in the bridge finally understood what had happened.

If this shell penetrates, everyone will go to see God.

Bismarck was also dizzy, after all, her "head" had just been blown off.

"Ah." She rolled off Lutjens and gasped in a low voice.

"Are you okay?" Lütjens asked as soon as he recovered.

"Nothing, just a headache."

"Take a rest first. I will give the orders." He said, "Go to the side and take a rest."

The military doctor quickly arrived and gave the wounded a simple bandage. The dead were also carried away. He saw Bismarck huddled in a corner with his head in his hands, and wanted to go up and ask.

Lütjens stopped him.

"She's fine, she's just shaken and needs to rest."

"Captain of Gunnery, it's up to you from now on."

"understand!"

"Turn the rudder and fight together!"

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Chapter 342: Tooth for tooth!

With its rudder damaged, it was difficult for the Bismarck to turn at high speed...

The emergency rudder, which was fixed by a steel cable, was completely inefficient at such a high speed. Instead, we had to worry about whether the roaring waves would break the tight, squeaking, trembling steel cable...

"Engine room, prepare differential steering!"

"Yes!"

Under the control of the engine room, the right main shaft of the Bismarck battleship reduced its speed output, and the huge battleship began to turn its body little by little.

But...this is also an obvious flaw.

The flaw is that Bismarck cannot shoot at this time, and the Bismarck's steering device is temporary, so the time window in which it cannot counterattack is even longer.

After all, the British Navy is not the Tsarist Russian fleet in the Battle of Tsushima. Faced with Togo Heihachiro's textbook-like great turn before the battle, they failed to seize such a good opportunity to defeat the opponent. The British will not miss it.

"Captain, the Bismarck has turned!"

"They actually turned around?!"

The two captains of the Renown and Prince of Wales, who were keeping an eye on Bismarck's movements, were overjoyed and issued the same combat orders at the same time.

"The turning battleship can't maintain fire control aiming or fire... Order! Fire at full speed!"

For a moment, accompanied by the roars of sixteen huge cannons one after another, clusters of water columns enveloped the Bismarck, which was turning with difficulty!

The Bismarck had just emerged from the ten water columns fired by the Prince of Wales when a ball of fire appeared in the direction of the Renown in the distant sky!

Six 381 armor-piercing shells smashed towards the Bismarck, which was turning with difficulty! At this time, Lütjens, who was standing in front of the porthole observing the enemy situation, could even roughly estimate the trajectory of the bullet just by looking at the six red-yellow tracers!

"Oh no, I guess I can't dodge this round!"

Lütjens grabbed the handle with one hand and put his feet firmly on the ground. When he was about to turn around to remind others, he inexplicably felt the warship under his feet sink.

He quickly looked up and saw from the window that the battleship beneath his feet inexplicably tilted forward, as if it was rushing from the crest of a wave to the bottom of a valley, with such force that the bow almost sank into the waves of the North Atlantic.

But it was this perfect forward lean that turned the beam of light that was originally going to hit the front main gun into just a "DUANG" sound, hitting the 200 mm armor on the top of the (modified) turret, and then bounced away, and finally fell into the waves of the Atlantic Ocean, turning into a spectacular but harmless water column!

"Are you okay?" Lütjens turned around and asked when he saw Bismarck standing up.

"It's okay, it's just a bump on my forehead. It didn't penetrate." Bismarck patted his forehead "indifferently" to show how strong he was...

"Hiss——" She took a breath of cold air.

Ugh, it hurts.

"Don't force yourself, the gunner will take over your main gun." Lütjens looked at the changing expressions on Bismarck's face with amusement, and knew that this girl was just trying to show off.

"Go and rest!"

"No, no need." Bismarck's face changed from embarrassed to calm. "Captain, I want to use my guns to teach Renown a lesson."

"The cannon of Renown just now almost penetrated the command tower. I will never let it go like this."

"I know. Never mind. The gunner will destroy it." Lütjens patted her shoulder.

The battleship finally completed the turn, and except for a few ricochets, this most dangerous window was completely unscathed.

"I have to do it myself." Bismarck looked at Lütjens stubbornly, his eyes flashing with a strong sense of revenge after being angered by the little beast.

She didn't know whether her armor could withstand the vertical hit of the shell if she hadn't strengthened the command tower. She only knew that her outer armor plate had been cracked and even a crew member had died!

If your reputation makes you angry, you will have to bear all the anger!

"Okay, you come." Lütjens did not insist.

"Prepare for bombardment!"

As the Persian cat's eyes were fixed on Reputation, the Bismarck battleship turned around and dodged another salvo, while slowly but firmly turning the four rear main guns that had originally had no chance to fire, and together with the four front main guns, pointed directly in the direction of Reputation!

The shell hoist started, and the last eight guided shells were stuffed into the barrel all at once!

If you want to come, come big!

Let you attack my bridge!

Let you hit!

Bismarck was screaming madly in his heart, and the anger from almost being shot in the head just now was suddenly released.

"Reputation!! Don't even think about escaping this time!!!"

She thought of the Battle of Narvik, where she had to escape because of the desperate resistance of the counterattack.

With a loud bang, all the firepower of the Bismarck battleship, with the anger of revenge and the obsession to protect everyone, poured towards Reputation in an unstoppable manner!

The knight's sword exists to protect!

Renown is still firing, but that's it...

"avoid!!!"

As the captain of the Renown shouted at the top of his lungs, the flames of revenge fell from the sky!

Eight shells flashed by with brilliant fireworks.

The impact point was accurately aimed at the armored hatch on the side of the Renown's bridge.

As Bismarck roared back, a guided shell she fired hit the command tower of the Renown perfectly!

Although the 305mm thick armor can barely withstand the attack of guided shells, it cannot stop the violent shock wave of the explosion...

Everything inside began to scatter, the bulletproof glass shattered, the armor wreckage fell off the hatch, and in the brilliant fireworks, the captain of the Renown, who was hit on the head by the wreckage, suddenly stopped shouting at the top of his lungs - on the importance of a bulletproof secretary.

The other shell had a falling angle and penetrated the rear deck of the Renown. After smashing through the rear horizontal armor of the Renown, it penetrated all the way to the end, smashing the stern of the Renown into pieces, and also blew off one of the main shafts of the Renown! !

Although the maid who was lame and had lost her command was still firing at the Bismarck with her six 381mm main guns, she had slowed down on the spot and her course was affected. She was no longer a threatening target!

If this wasn't the case in British waters, Bismarck would have sent him straight to the bottom of the sea!

The crooked track made the Renown's last desperate six salvos turn into a streak of water that flew all over the sky, but only resulted in six inaccurate water columns appearing sporadically on the sea.

"Bismarck! Well done!!"

In the bridge of the battleship Bismarck, the gunners and others who knew the true identity of the Persian cat shouted excitedly. Although the captain did not shout along, he grabbed her hand forcefully when he saw the slightly tired but still stubborn Persian cat...

"Well done! Now it's just the Prince of Wales!"

"Yes, I know. It's 23500 yards (21500 meters) away. We'll deal with it right away!"

On the other side, seeing the reputation of the Prince of Wales bursting into sparks in the command tower, Captain Li Qi was so angry that he almost bit his teeth.

"Reputation...quickly ask what happened!"

Soon the communications officer brought bad news.

"Captain, the bridge of the Renown has been destroyed and the commander is killed!"

"Damn it... Prince of Wales! Keep firing!"

The Prince of Wales' main gun turned around and prepared to fire!

Who knows... a tragic thing will happen...

The Prince of Wales fired a salvo, but only six guns were firing!

"What's going on? Why isn't the main turret A firing?!"

"Captain, turret A is stuck and can't be turned. The shipyard's technicians are repairing it..."

The report from below almost made Captain Li Qi spit out a mouthful of blood. But before he could calm down, the eight salvos from the Bismarck had already hit him!

Although all the guided shells had been fired, Bismarck and Prince of Wales didn't need any guided shells at this distance! Without the threat of Renown, Bismarck focused all his efforts and began to pour fire towards Prince of Wales, whose main turret was stuck!

Although the six main guns in the remaining two turrets of the Prince of Wales were also fighting back desperately, how could they possibly defeat Bismarck's eight 8mm main guns with CRH380 armor-piercing shells?

After all, it is only fourteen inches. There is no human rights if the gun is small.

Intensive and fierce rain of bullets fell one after another, landing around the Prince of Wales.

In just five minutes, the Prince of Wales was hit by four shells in succession! The bow, the side waterline, the bridge, and the rear main turret! However, due to the inadequate installation of the equipment, the Prince of Wales's counterattack was inaccurate. Before, when it was with the reputation, it could still shoot according to the data transmitted by the reputation, but now... only one shell hit the upper armor belt of the Bismarck by chance. Although a big hole was blown, it still failed to threaten the main armor and dome armor.

Looking at the tilted warship that could no longer exert its firepower, Captain Li Qi had no choice but to grit his teeth...

"Send a telegram to General Tovey. Our ship's turret has malfunctioned. Our reputation has been severely damaged. Please withdraw from the battle!"

Tovey on the Hood looked at the telegram with some depression.

"A battle train and a battle cruiser can't defeat her..."

"Forget it, let them retreat," Tovey said helplessly.

Bismarck is now in a joint air battle, so there is still a great chance that Hood, who takes a shortcut, will catch up with him.

"retreat..."

Looking at the instructions sent from above, Li Qi felt humiliated but also slightly relieved.

ps: I will also offer a bounty after the Rhine Exercise is over. I’ll tell you the exact amount later.

Chapter 343: For Britain, please stay in the Atlantic!

Because the British artillery system had very poor accuracy for the target in front, Bismarck was not hit by a shell until it was out of range. However, even if it was not hit again, Bismarck's current appearance was quite terrifying. The superstructure was densely washed, with black holes everywhere. Originally only one side was black, but now it was all the same color...

"Start repairs." After Bismarck told him that they were safely out of the battle, Lütjens sighed and began to order repairs. However, at sea, only simple things could be repaired.

The repair room converted from the hangar also suffered considerable damage in the shelling, so the first thing to do was to tidy up the repair room.

"How is your original form now?" he asked.

"The main guns are intact, but a few secondary guns and anti-aircraft guns were lost. The radar and sighting systems of the superstructure were also affected a bit, but the combat effectiveness should not be greatly affected."

"I don't even need to look, I guess the whole thing is unrecognizable." Lütjens said with a smile.