"How's the fleet ready?" Admiral Boll personally came to the naval port of Kiel to inspect the preparations of the Scheer fleet, and at this time, at the three berths 4, 5, and 6, three ships, one large, two small, were lined up, and a large number of supplies and supplies were sent by crane to the deck of the ship, and then they were put in the place where they should be placed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The Prince Albert is ready, just send the remaining 150 tons of shells and ******. The camouflage assault ship of the Swordfish is also ready, and now it is almost ready to install mines. The Seawolf attack ship was still a bit short of a few days, and it could take three days for the personnel to arrive, so we decided to send the Suleiman Sultan and the Swordfish first. Scheer replied.

You read that right, although the Germans can't fall out with Italy on the surface, they are doing their best to help their allies! They had prepared not only one armored cruiser Prince Albert for the Turks, but also 2 assault ships, and the Germans had already decided to use this opportunity to teach the Italians a lesson that they would never forget!

The Prince Albert was certainly the mainstay of the fight against the Italian Navy, but this battleship alone was obviously not enough, not to mention anything else, ammunition, various accessories and tools must always be prepared. And the Swordfish that accompanied this 10,000-ton cruiser was the warehouse that the prince moved! With a displacement of 8,000 tons, the merchant ship had a maximum speed of 17 knots, and in addition to carrying the cannonballs and various supplies needed by the Prince, it was also an assault ship.

It was armed with 8 150mm guns and 6 88mm anti-mine guns removed from decommissioned German battleships. At the same time there were 4 torpedo tubes. MOREOVER, THE GUN ARRANGEMENT OF THIS BATTLESHIP IS ALSO VERY AVANT-GARDE, WITH TWO SINGLE-MOUNT 150MM GUN EMPLACEMENTS IN THE BOW, MIDDLE AND REAR OF THE HULL, AND TWO OTHER GUNS DEPLOYED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HULL, WHICH MEANS THAT THE SIDE CHORD OF THIS BATTLESHIP CAN CONCENTRATE THE FIREPOWER OF 7 150MM GUNS. Although this firepower could not fight the cruisers of the 2nd rank of the Italians, it was enough to deal with cruisers of the 3rd rank and all sorts of miscellaneous fish.

Of course, the most valuable thing is that the improved assault ship also had some armor protection, and the Germans installed a layer of dome armor with a thickness of 3 to 2 inches in parts of the ammunition depot and power compartment. Even on the outside of the hull there was a thick layer of hull plates for auxiliary defense. At the same time, it also blocked part of the sealed cabin of the hull to increase the sinking resistance, and the flammable and explosive materials on the original ship have naturally been removed.

In addition to robbery, the Yin Man is also his job, and the attack ship is also equipped with 820 rounds of various mines, as well as three minefields. Get ready to take time out to explore Italy's major ports! In order to increase the difficulty of the Italians in clearing mines, this batch of mines included anchor mines, floating mines and other models, and the production date spanned about 20 years, almost all the old mines in Germany's existing stockpile.

As for the Seawolf, which is not ready until now, it is a thoroughbred assault ship, unlike the Swordfish, which has assumed the nature of semi-escort and has to fight alongside the Prince Albert when necessary, the Seawolf is all about breaking friendships, moderately reliable weapons, plus enough cruising power, of course, there is also one point that it must not be conspicuous.

It was a steamship with a displacement of only 5,500 tons, and the type of ship was also mass-produced by German shipyards. According to the prince's estimates, the Brom-Forss shipyard alone produced about 23 merchant ships of the same type, and many of them were sold abroad. It is not for nothing that this ship sells well, one of the most important points is that it is very fuel-efficient, such a ship consumes only 10 tons of coal per hour when cruising at 2 knots, and the boiler is not picky about coal at all, and even lignite can make do with it!

And this ship has a loading capacity of 4,000 tons of coal, that is, if sailing at an economic speed, this ship theoretically has a range of 20,000 nautical miles, and more importantly, some of the sail rigging retained by this ship can still sail on sail power when there is no coal in time. The sheer amount of loading allowed the ship to be equipped with a large amount of supplies and fuel, which in theory would have been enough for the ship to use the supplies and captures it had carried before the end of the war!

Because the main target of this ship was unprotected merchant ships, and the combat area was also in the Atlantic Ocean outside of Gibraltar, Italian warships generally did not sail their ships there, so there was no need to think about confrontation with warships. SO THERE WAS BASICALLY NO DEFENSE, AND THE WEAPONS WERE RELATIVELY COFFEE TABLE, ONLY 4 OLD 150MM GUNS AND 6 88MM AND 50MM GUNS, AS WELL AS THREE TORPEDO TUBES. It's a perfect assault ship, unassuming, long enough, and firepower enough to take on most targets.

The raid ship would only operate in the Atlantic Ocean west of Gibraltar, targeting Italian civilian ships, and there would be several German camouflaged reconnaissance ships to carry out reconnaissance, and all captured materials could also be placed at Turkey's disposal, of course, most of them would be shipped to Germany as funds and collateral for Bavaria to support Turkey's war in Africa.

These warships probably require about 2,000 officers and men to control, and it is naturally impossible for these people to let Germany out, after all, these are battleships "bought" by Turkey. And it is also a trouble to transfer 2,000 experienced naval officers and men from the German Navy at once, after all, the German Navy is now preparing for a major construction! At least 6 dreadnoughts! Tens of thousands of officers and men are needed on the battleship alone! There are also port personnel and auxiliary personnel, there are not enough human resources in the first place, how can it be possible to give Turkey 2,000 people at once?

So only 1,000 of these officers and men were German officers and men, and the honorary commander, stoker and handymen were all Turks, and these 1,000 people were also a problem for Turkey! The Turkish Navy is undermanned! It's a little hard to make it up!

"The preparations are well done, and in three days you will take the Prince Albert on a cruise with two other cruisers." Admiral Pol seemed pleased with Scheer's work, and after checking the combat readiness of the battleship, the admiral commanded in the captain's room.

"Sail in three days? Aren't we going to get ready to go to the Mediterranean? If it were the same time, we would have barely had time to come back for supplies! Scheer was taken aback. And Your Excellency, you have not come up with a way to break through the Italian blockade in the Mediterranean Sea so far, and I think that at such a juncture, the aimless sailing of the fleet is simply a waste! ”

"Who's to say it's purposeless?" Admiral Pol smiled and said, don't worry, everything is arranged in the Admiralty, and this attack will have at least about 70% of your chance to break through the Italian blockade and send you in, it is our business, how to fight you. ”

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