862 Where Do You Get Your Confidence?

"The formation of the British is very scattered, and at the moment you can see 6 ships, 4 of which should be the latest battle cruisers of the British, and 2 more behind. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info seems? 1 more in the distance? "Major General Heppinghouse is a little unsure. But he couldn't get closer like Territ, because the mad dog-like ships on the other side were traveling at speeds of more than 27 knots! The average speed is already higher than that of the first light cruiser detachment, and if you don't run again, maybe the main fleets of the two sides will be stewed by Betty before they meet!

"Hold the grass! Betty, where did you get that much confidence! Didn't Hipper's lesson last time enough? After receiving the telegram from the reconnaissance detachment, Ruprecht complained in his heart. It was clear that Betty was already trying to squeeze the fleet's speed. The British sailed almost at the top speed of the Lion and Tiger, about 28 knots, which obviously exceeded the speed of the New Zealand and Australia behind them, and even left the Warrior behind.

"If you can't beat this, it's useless to catch up! It's just a death. "Even the prince felt unworthy of the officers and men of these British battleships, and it was unlucky to keep up with such a guy who would go crazy with such an advantage. On the eve of the pick-up, Scheer and his staff officers finally calibrated the speed and course of both sides, and at this time, the British battle cruiser formation was in the northeast direction of the group, with a speed of 28 knots and a straight-line distance of about 30 kilometers, at which the lookouts of the ships could already see the black smoke rising from the sea. If the British fleet were going to do it, then it would have to be at least close to about 18 kilometers! That means there's still 12 kilometers to run!

Now the speed of the German fleet is 24 knots, the British are happy about 4 knots, if the German fleet turns immediately, and then the British pull the distance in a straight line, it will take about an hour and a half, well. The staff of the fleet clearly expressed the state of affairs on both sides on the drawing board.

"The fleet remained in its original formation, and we sailed in a southeasterly direction. Reduce the speed by another 1 knot. The prince thought for a moment and ordered, southeast and then east, this route seemed to the British to be a complete escape route, and at this time the prince did not want to squeeze the stoker's physical strength too much, so he reduced the speed a little more, so that if nothing else, the first encounter between the two sides would break out in 1 hour! By this time, the British fleet had been running at high speed for at least 2 hours. The prince estimated.

It's impossible to run all the time at high speeds, even with fuel. In general, there is a 6-hour test, a 3-hour test, and a 1-hour sprint speed test. The so-called maximum speed of a battleship is generally run out of a non-full load, and if nothing else, the weight of the battleship in naval warfare is definitely greater than that during the test. After all, the so-called standard platoon is not even satisfied with ammunition. So even if the test speed can be reached, they will not last too long, you run for a long time before the war, because of the wear and tear of personnel and machinery, then the time that can be told for a while is short, if it is not for the estimate of the large fleet, Ruprecht would rather let the British run a little longer, run and run, the British battlecruisers will not have a speed advantage.......

Raeder is the "little brother". And the prince who is a traverser is even more detailed! In fact, the speed of the Bavaria-class battleships was not slow, and now it is no problem to run 26 knots, as long as the speed of the British BC can be reduced to 26 knots, whether it is because of the British's own manpower and machinery problems or because of water ingress or battle damage, as long as the speed can be reduced below this standard, it will be stable!

Even if the British fleet can run at high speed all the time, it doesn't matter, the fastest 4 battle cruisers will definitely distance themselves from the other ships, so when the real battle comes, the British fleet will become a refueling tactic! The other party came up little by little, so in the current situation, the prince is willing to go around with them again!

"The Germans seem to want to run! But they are not fast! An officer said after receiving information from the avant-garde. Again, the number of the German fleet was not described in the telegram, but the warlike Betty ignored this, and after requesting that the telegram be forwarded to Vice Admiral Jeram and Rear Admiral Moore, he immediately ordered the fleet to intercept it, and the British fleet immediately turned half a compass point and cut across the course to the German fleet!

Half an hour later, the British once again found that the German fleet had adjusted its course again, and this time, the Germans turned 4 compass points to the west, so that the course of the Germans changed from being far from the British coast to being close to the English coast! The huge fleet walked a huge zigzag in these forty-plus minutes! And the British fleet was followed by a son! This erratic course made the formation of Betty's fleet, which had already become a three-part part, even more scattered! And because of the problem of observation angle, the British found that after the German fleet changed its voyage, there was a time delay, and this delay caused the originally drawn distance to be widened again!

"The Germans are like cunning antelopes, keeping their distance from the cheetah by making frequent reversings, and by the time we found them changing direction, ten minutes had passed, and ten minutes meant that we had gone 5 kilometers in the wrong course!" In the logbook, Betty wrote:

"It's almost, it's time to fight!" And at this time, once again, after the British fleet was brought south, Ruprecht finally decided that the time had come for a decisive battle, and the situation was such that Betty's 4 battle cruisers were 22 kilometers behind him! The Warrior, New Zealand and Australia are about 6 kilometers behind Betty. The location of the other receiving fleet is unknown, but according to the radio side, it should not be at least within a radius of 30 kilometers! Well, when the prince ordered the fleet to turn and prepare for battle, only Betty's 4 battlecruisers could fight the German fleet at the first time!

"Let's get ready to embrace victory!" The prince looked at Betty's fleet in the distance, which was gradually clear, and said with confidence! And before the official start of the war, the German fleet made one last change of formation!

When the battleship Bavaria raised a series of signal flags, the battleship Saxony first began to turn, and then the Bavaria, Württemberg and other siblings. Three battleships, located in the other column, immediately followed in the aft, and 7 capital ships drew a huge U-shaped track on the sea.

At the same time, the formation of light cruisers to the east went directly to the front of the fleet. And the other two light cruiser formations formed two columns to follow behind the battleships, the third light cruiser formation was directly behind the main fleet, and the first light cruiser formation was on the side of the engagement, ready to intercept the light cruisers and mine-strike ships that the British might send at any time! "We've done the best we can, and God will do the rest." Scheer is also very satisfied with the formation of the engagement,

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