"Your Excellency, our radio operators have received a strange set of signals. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info"As the fleet sailed near Crete, a staff officer reported to Scheer.

"Then it seems that we may have been exposed, but I don't know when they will come back!" Scheer sighed and said helplessly, radio communication in this era is still very primitive, and before the time of the sub-band, a radio station sends a signal known to the whole world. Interception is very easy, of course, if it is not Morse code, it is somewhat difficult to decipher. In this era, warships have not yet popularized radio, and ordinary civilian ships are even more impossible, so the biggest possibility is that this is a signal from a camouflaged reconnaissance ship!

The Mediterranean Sea is the busiest sea in the world, and many foreign merchant ships can be encountered at all times. Therefore, camouflaged reconnaissance ships are well hidden. Italy is, after all, a great power, and it is still easy to get a few reconnaissance ships to control a certain area of the sea.

"Avoiding the main route, we move north." Scheer looked at the dense routes on the chart, and then decided to avoid the edge for the time being, but alas, this time it seemed too late!

At the same moment, the cruiser Hopewell Pisana, a battleship of the 2nd rank Agile that was cruising in the Mediterranean, also received this telegram, and at this time, they were less than 40 nautical miles away from Scheer's fleet!

"We've found out where this battleship is! They're here! "An officer marked the location of Scheer's fleet as described in the telegram and prepared to move north!

"The Germans came out a little early, our mine-laying fleet has not yet been dispatched, and if the Aegean Sea cannot be blocked, the other side can easily withdraw it." An Italian officer said with some concern.

"It should be said that the Germans are ready to withdraw at any time." Jericho threw away the pencil in his hand and strode towards the map.

"It is very likely that the Germans came out this time because of political pressure, and they may not have the idea of going deep into the Mediterranean to break diplomatic relations. At present, we are the only one in all the fleets that can go north to lock the opponent's retreat in advance, since the minelayer is not in place, then this gap will be plugged by us! Jericho said proudly.

At this time, Jericho was not the man who would take charge of the entire British Grand Fleet, and North Churchill said could lose the war in one afternoon, and his conservatism was largely due to the great responsibility on his shoulders. And not cowardice. Now, Jericho was just a captain, and the outcome of the battle had little effect on the British Empire. And the Empire also needs data from this engagement, so Jericho is desperate to fight this one!

"I'm afraid we won't be able to beat our opponents." An Italian officer said with trepidation that he had served on the battleship Italia, and that he had witnessed the entire process of the destruction of the battleship, and that he could empathize with the strength of the Prince Albert!

“……。” Jericho was immediately speechless, he was scared like this before he fought? If he were a British officer, Jericho would have locked him up in a small black room. "We're just holding the opponent back, you know? Hold them back. I will immediately send a telegram to the Duke of Abu Qilu asking him to arrive immediately. ”

The commander of the fleet had already made up his mind, and the Italians could not refute it no matter how much they had an opinion, so Jericho began to sail northeast with two battleships. They are ready to block the way where the German fleet will meet the Aegean Sea!

Jericho was not in a hurry to fight, and the knightly heads-up battle was indeed what he wanted, but if he could wait for the rest of the Italian warships to arrive, it was not impossible to fight together. Jericho picked up a coin.

"Let God decide our fate, head-to-head, back-to-back." With that, the coin drew a beautiful arc in the air......

At this time, to Jericho's surprise, his whereabouts were also discovered by a German camouflage reconnaissance ship flying the Danish flag. Originally, he really just wanted to go in a circle, but now, the situation is different, because the other party only has these two warships in the nearby seas!

"You're killing yourself!" Scheer looked at the telegram in his hand and sneered. The Prince Bismarck was in South Africa that year, but it was a French battleship and a new cruiser! Take it in under an hour! How dare you come? Who gave you such audacity? The prestige of the German battleship was made. Whether it was the Qing-Japanese War, the Philippine Naval Battle, or the West African Naval Battle, the German second-generation third-class cruiser made a name for itself with naval guns in the sea of blood and fire! And this time, as a rising star in the German Navy, Schell naturally will not give up this opportunity!

Jericho wants to find Scheer, and Scheer is now looking for Jericho. Both sides know each other's location. And now the distance is very close, the autumn is crisp, the wind is calm, it is indeed a suitable day for PK! In October 1902, the two men who later took charge of the world's most powerful sea power began their first fateful duel!

"High-speed moving target detected at 2 o'clock!" The two sides sailed against each other, and soon, the lookout on the Agile spotted a column of smoke rising high and the slightly blurred shadow of the ship below!

"It's coming closer!" When the lookout gave another briefing, Jericho stood up! "It has to be it! It rushed up on its own initiative! That's the best outcome, isn't it? Jericho said excitedly. Prepare for the battle, get the Pizzana a little further back, and find the right opportunity to get back on the road! ”

"The one in front should be the Agile that I just bought from the British, and the one in the back should be a second-class cruiser, no problem." Scheer said as he looked at the battleship that was approaching him in the distance.

"It really doesn't look like an Englishman warship." As the distance drew closer, Schell finally had a chance to take a closer look at the unmasked opponent. This battleship is very different from the previous British warships, if in terms of data, the tonnage of weapons of this battleship is a little too large, and from the appearance of those long 190mm heavy guns sticking out of the gun gallery on the side of the hull, which makes Scheer's heart slightly weak.

"These cannons are as worrying as shark teeth. I have never seen the British install so much heavy artillery on their own battleships. Those guns that were close to 8 inches could be used as secondary main guns on cruisers and battleships. But on the Agile, it is densely arranged on both sides like a 6-inch gun! Perhaps this is the source of Italian confidence? Scheer wrote in his memoirs.

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