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HMS King George V held the lead, her vast hull cutting forward through the still Atlantic with slow and deliberate power, while behind her, in disciplined alignment, came HMS Centurion, then HMS Ajax, and finally HMS Audacious, the four dreadnoughts advancing in perfect line ahead as though they were a single, extended blade drawn across the sea.
The range between the fleets continued to fall, narrowing toward fifteen thousand meters, until at last the Germans opened the engagement, their six battlecruisers unleashing their first salvos in controlled succession, great arcs of steel rising into the pale sky before beginning their long descent toward the British line.
Moments later the British answered in kind, forty heavy guns erupting together, the recoil shuddering through the decks as flame and smoke burst outward in blinding sheets, and for a time the air between the two forces became a place of rising iron and falling judgment.
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