Shortly after Taranto's attack, the Duke's fleet had formed an encirclement of the decoy ships before the Italians in the port of Taranto telegraphed the Duke of Abqilu's fleet. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The power system of this battleship is really good and terrible! I guess it's already 23 knots, right?! Duke Abqilu looked at the target ship that was once again distancing himself in the distance, and said with some surprise.

How could he not be surprised? His flagship battleship Bollinger was designed to reach a speed of about 20 knots, and this time, in order to achieve a faster speed, the Duke of Abqilu limited the load of the battleship, and equipped it with more stokers in order to win this long-distance race, reducing the weight can be accelerated, and more manpower can keep the battleship at high speed for a long time, after all, the chain furnace is now only used on large merchant ships, and the boiler fuel is completely dependent on human flesh!

At this time, Major Frederick, who once again threw off his opponent, was also not happy, the Italians chased too closely, and they did everything to chase and intercept! First a detachment of 3 battleships and 1 cruiser followed behind his ass, and then to the north there was another fleet, which, in cooperation with the torpedo boats, squeezed itself towards the coastline.

Moreover, the ship has been sailing at full speed for more than 200 nautical miles, and the high-speed voyage of up to 10 hours has exhausted the battleship, not only the power of the equipment has decreased due to dust and carbon deposits, but more importantly, people can't stand it! Coal filling in a hot boiler silo is extremely damaging to personnel, with high temperature and humidity and the air full of dust. More than 20 stokers have already gone into shock, and now the cooks have gone down to be stokers, and if it takes a while, I'm afraid Major Frederick will also take the lead in wielding a shovel!

Although it was very difficult, the K decoy boat managed to run out of the Italian encirclement again and again, no way, the speed was fast, and the sprint speed of up to 24 knots had thrown off the Italian fleet many times. But alas, after all, the manpower was exhausted, and after a night of fighting, the Italian fleet was once again surrounded!

"It seems that this time I really can't run away!" Frederick looked at the situation in front of him and said with some despair, the coastline has extended to the northeast, and he will shorten the distance with the Italian fleet in the north by following the coastline, and the other party can intercept it in advance, and there are at least a dozen torpedo boats waiting for the opportunity to launch a lightning strike, and more and more torpedo boats appear on the sea.

When it was dark, the Italian ships did not dare to rashly launch an attack on the notorious 10,000-ton armored cruiser, but now, not to mention the dawn, the number of Italian torpedo boats has also gone up, as the saying goes, more ants can bite an elephant to death, and in the absence of a frigate, the commander in time is a real Mainz-class armored cruiser. If you face the siege of so many warships, you will still have tendons.

"The arrangement of the Italians is still very good, if General Scheer really breaks through from ****** Bay, then the probability of his success is no more than 3 percent!" Afterwards, Major Frederick wrote in his report.

Not only the Germans and Italians were in this area, but the Italian fleets stationed there immediately came out to watch as the two fleets passed through the waters near Malta. Now, for example, the Prestige, the flagship of the British Mediterranean Fleet, is in the field of vision of Major Frederick under the leadership of Captain Wells.

"This is definitely not the cruiser Prince Albert! The distance between the two guns in the middle of the hull of this battleship is obviously small, and if it rotates, the diagonal firing boundary is pitiful, and it cannot be a German cruiser at all! After a moment of careful scrutiny, Captain Wells, who had boarded the Mainz-class armored cruiser and observed it for two days, was able to make a high-definition large-scale model from memory when he returned, and soon realized that something was ...... wrong.

"The position of the chimney of this battleship also seems to be a little wrong, of course, the most shocking thing is that its speed is too fast, our current speed is 20 knots, while the other party's visual speed can be more than 23 knots!" A British officer next to him also noticed the problem and spoke.

"It's definitely a decoy! The Italians spent a night chasing and intercepting, but they didn't expect this to be the result! Hehe, what an irony! Captain Wells was stunned for a moment, but quickly figured out the key! The Italians have fallen for the trick of diverting the tiger from the mountain! However, the ship in front of me is indeed very doorway, and the tonnage is estimated to be tens of thousands of tons, why is it still so fast? This is definitely the use of new technology, a proper black technology!

And just when Captain Wells found out that there was a problem with the German battleship in front of him, the Italians also entered the final moment, several capital battleships were already in place, and the torpedo boats were also completed in detachment, ready to launch a lightning strike at any time!

"Alright, our mission is complete, we can identify ourselves!" Major Frederick breathed a sigh of relief after reading the information sent by Rear Admiral Scheer, his mission was finally completed, and Scheer's fleet had left Taranto Bay. This means that it is absolutely too late for the Italian fleet to turn around and chase after it!

"The Italians have struck with lightning!" It was at this time that the news of the discovery of a torpedo on the port side made Frederick's heart tighten! You know, the K decoy doesn't even have a machine gun! In the face of torpedo boats, it is also at the mercy of others, and this is still a power system test ship, if it is lost, the German Navy will be heartbroken!

"We are a German high seas fleet test ship, do not attack!" When the Italians were about to launch a lightning strike again, a sharp-eyed Italian officer saw the flag of the other party for the first time, so he ordered the torpedo boat formation under his command to stop the attack, but not all the Italians reflected, and the other 3 torpedo boats fired 5 torpedoes, but they were all dodged by the high-speed maneuver K attack ship!

The Decoy Boat K did not fly the flag of any country, so not everyone discovered it in a hurry, but soon, when the German naval flag was raised on the mast, all Italians felt a buzz in their heads!

And at this time, the telegram from the port of Taranto was finally delivered to the Duke of Abqilu, and after seeing the contents of the telegram, the Duke only felt a buzz in his head, and a cold air rushed up directly down his spine! "The Turkish fleet passed?" He was somewhat unconvinced of the content of the intelligence. "So what's in front of us? Sink it for me! Sink it! "The duke commanded like a mad tiger!

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