Chapter 150: Shock Ministry
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Lutejeus looked at the engineer, and he was answered with a nod.
Then, Lütjens gave the order for the engine to be at full capacity.
With the slight vibration of the ship, 12 boilers, 4 turbines burst out with 178,000 horsepower. Peter the Great, under the shocked expressions of the Soviet crew, picked up speed again in the hellish eyes of the British crew!
Because it was a light load, the Peter the Great, with full output, actually ran at a high speed of 33.7 knots!
With the second acceleration of the Peter the Great, the seemingly dazzling pursuit of the British formation immediately came to an abrupt halt.
A minute later, the pace of the British formation seemed a little slower in the eyes of the Soviet crews.
Two minutes later, the British formation seemed to be a little farther away from them.
Three minutes, four minutes,............ Ten minutes.
Pull away, the distance is noticeably wider! They did not have the illusion that it was not that the British were slowing down, but that the speed of the Peter the Great was really improving!
Hualevsky was stupid, and so were the Soviet naval exchange officers below him.
All the Soviet crews, at that moment were stupid.
The blood in the whole body surged up to the top of his head at this moment. A stimulant electric current crept up from the tail vertebrae along the waistcoat directly to the back of the head.
They couldn't believe what was happening in front of them - in just ten minutes, the entire British formation was thrown out of a noticeable distance!
The Soviet officers, who had prepared for the worst a moment before, imagined being exiled to cold Siberia after returning home, rolled their eyes with difficulty and looked at each other with pale faces.
In this way, they seem to want to confirm from each other that there is an unequivocal answer - the formation of the British Empire, which has been thrown away. When they returned home, they no longer had to explain to Chairman Stalin a tragedy of losing face as a leader.
After all this ups and downs, Warevsky was suddenly a little overwhelmed, as if all this was not real in front of him.
Although he passed the initial sea trials, he determined that the German man-made warships were indeed very fast. But what he didn't expect was that the German man-made battleships were actually faster than the British battleships, which had always been proud of the navy!
Warevsky was in a trance, the Germans, when did they have this strength to surpass the maritime hegemon Britain?
This is a country that has been limited by the Treaty of Versailles for more than 10 years, should it have the strength?!
Fortunately, Germany and the Soviet Union were not enemies. Fortunately, they were allies of the USSR!
Equally overwhelmed, there were also those British sailors in the distance.
At this time, the Kent-class heavy cruisers, which had been built for more than ten years, were the first to show signs of falling behind. The long-term operation, coupled with the wear and aging of the main components, made it difficult to maintain the 32-knots high speed that had just erupted.
Of the British formation, only the Admiralty-class destroyers, also built for twenty years, were still in pursuit.
But the same reason for aging, coupled with the fact that the sea conditions in the North Sea were not particularly good at this time, the attempts made by the destroyer were not ideal.
In the North Sea, some winds and waves did not have much impact on a large ship of more than 30,000 tons, such as Peter the Great, but not necessarily a British destroyer of just over 1,000 tons.
At this time, the British Admiralty-class destroyer was barely running at a speed of 33 knots at full power, and could only watch in humiliation as the battleship flying the flag of St. Andrew's of the Soviet Navy at the same time flew away, until the distant shadow of the other party gradually disappeared into the faint sea fog of the North Sea......
"The Royal Navy has never been so humiliated, never before! The Spaniards failed to do it, Napoleon failed to do it, and Wilhelm II failed to do it! And yet today, the barbaric Slavs did it! As captain and fleet commander of the Kent-class heavy cruisers, Joseph's angry roar echoed across the open sea.
Although the opponent is only far ahead of their own in speed, this is also not allowed!
What's more, they could have thrown themselves off early in the morning, but they deliberately made a look of hindsight, and lured the British formation to rush over at full speed immediately with a seemingly hurried retreat.
When the British formation exposed its speed limit, the hateful commander on the opposite side gave the order to speed up when the British crews thought that the end was doomed, and when the crews on both sides were about to see the faces of the opposite crews, leaving behind a group of British sailors who looked at each other.
This is humiliation, naked humiliation! He gave himself a false feeling that he had exhausted all his strength, and thus did not hesitate to order a chase.
Then, he deliberately waited until the moment before he was about to catch up, and suddenly accelerated again and walked away.
In the end, the seemingly lucky British formation not only failed to block the "Soviet" warships and collect more information at close range, but instead exposed its own speed limits and was humiliated.
Brigadier General Joseph looked at the empty sea in front of him with a dead face, and all his strength seemed to be drained.
Next to him, the major staff officer, who had come to report many times, had also turned into a wooden man with a distorted expression.
An unreal fear attacked every British sailor present, and no one could believe that the Royal Navy, which had thought itself the best in the world for many years, was so easily suppressed by the other side from the most basic warship performance!
And it was suppressed by the navy of a continental-type country like the Soviet Union?!
After so many years, the situation of the British Navy being the only one is over! From the time the German Navy implemented Operation Rainbow, the wishful thinking of the British who thought that there was no more Royal Navy challenger in Europe was torn apart!
All the glory that used to be ended in a playful slap from the opponent!
There was a sharp throbbing in Joseph's heart, and he clung to it, his fingertips turning a little white from the exertion. He didn't know what kind of bastard could design such an abominable and outrageous game!
The real speed that the other party showed at the last moment silently humiliated every British crew member present who originally thought that the end was a foregone conclusion.
Caught up right away? Who said that others can't speed up this?
They're just trying to play a trick on themselves.
The next day, the front page of the British Times newspaper made a headline about the photo of the battleship that had been photographed from afar.
This was taken from the flank by a British Propaganda correspondent on the Kent class heavy cruiser, while turning on the Peter the Great. The elegance of this ship is perfectly shown in the photo: the slender hull, the neat and modern superstructure layout, and the three triple 12-inch guns form a war machine that combines violence and aesthetics!
In addition to the British Times, the German social worker newspaper, which feared that the world would not be chaotic, also launched a follow-up report after the Soviet warship was exposed in the UK.
In Reinhardt's own headlined article, "Shocked! The Red Behemoth Gets a Naval Weapon, and Britain Fears to Be the Biggest Loser", newspapers in various European countries have published similar commentary articles one after another with the attitude of watching the excitement and not making a big deal of it.
For a time, newspapers in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and other countries followed the example of the "shocking headline" invented by the German social worker newspaper, repeatedly exaggerating and commenting on the bad impact of this incident on the British Royal Navy.
Then, the entire British public opinion circle suddenly became a pot of porridge, messy and smelly!
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