"Amur, please answer received, Amur, please answer received. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" on the radio, there were constant calls.

The sky was already bright, and the Red Caucasus, which had been racing at sea all night, emitted black smoke, and finally rushed to the predetermined sea area, but did not find the shadow of the Amur at all.

This could not help but make the personnel on the Red Caucasus very anxious, the captain Tikhonov held a telescope and kept searching the sea in front of him, while inside the radio, the telegram was still in a state of receiving, and the radio was replaced by a direct call.

No echo, no echo, what's going on?

On this heavy cruiser, all the people were pale.

"Captain, I propose to catapult our plane, conduct a search." On the side, the commissar said to the captain Tikhonov, and at this time, his face was also ugly.

This warship was a heavy cruiser that the Soviets had only launched in 32 years, but compared with what the Germans had built, a huge technological gap could be seen.

At the beginning, the Soviets installed the B-1-K 1931 60 times diameter 180 mm main gun for this warship, which was extremely powerful, surpassing the 203 mm naval guns of the West, but the rifling wore out extremely quickly, and even the barrel life did not exceed 10 rounds!

Later, with the help of the German Krupp company, the barrel of the gun was shortened to 57 times the caliber, the firing package was reduced to 37.5 kg, and the problem was alleviated by using a sparse rifling distribution, so that the life of the barrel reached 320 rounds and had actual combat capability.

At the same time, this warship is also equipped with catapults and aircraft provided by Germany.

True, in these days, warships were carried by aircraft, there were not many of them, only one or two, and on cruisers, catapults were used to take off, and then they landed in the sea water for recovery.

In later generations, steam catapult technology was difficult to break through, and only the United States had it in the world, and in this era, ordinary hydraulic catapults were enough to drive propeller seaplanes away.

In addition to helping the cruiser "Red Caucasus" to rebuild its naval guns, Germany also supplied 1 aircraft catapult supplied by Heinkel and used the company's HE55 seaplane.

As a carrier-based water reconnaissance aircraft, its main task is to reconnoiter on the vast sea surface, to discover the enemy's traces in advance, and to provide early warning for its own warships.

Catapult take off! After receiving the order, the seaplane pilot Kokorin was already seated in the cockpit within a few minutes, he fastened his seat belt, left the cockpit open, propelled by a huge hydraulic ejection, piloted the fighter and left the cruiser.

The machine gunner in the rear cabin, who was also acting as a lookout at this time, faithfully carried out his mission, constantly searching the sea here.

The Amur, whose speed is less than ten knots, can only run a hundred nautical miles even in one night, so as long as you search all the nearby sea surface for a hundred nautical miles, you will definitely find them!

With such an idea, Kokorin piloted this seaplane and flew in a circle in the sea around the cruiser, round and round.

The search at sea was the most boring, and after flying for more than three hours, the machine gunner in the back seat suddenly shouted: "Look, ahead!" ”

In the distance, a steamer was sailing, and black smoke was rising from the chimney, and from the outline of the appearance, it looked very much like its own Amur!

Pushing the joystick, the seaplane flew that way, closer and closer, closer and closer.

At that moment, suddenly, Kokorin quickly pressed the lever, and the seaplane made a huge arc and rolled quickly to the side.

A barrage of bullets, grazing the side of the seaplane, almost hit them!

"The Red Caucasus, the Red Caucasus, the Amur was spotted, sailing in the direction of the Scilly Islands, with armed men on it, firing at us!" Kokorin hurried to the rear.

They haven't been found just now, because they are always searching along the route of the Amur, who can know that this cargo ship has left the course and is heading in the direction of Great Britain!

The Isles of Scilly, the nearest island of Great Britain, these damned Britons!

Assumed, Kokorin had already mistaken the armed men who were firing at him above for the British.

The Amur was spotted and sailed towards the Isles of Scilly with armed men on it! Receiving this information, the captain Tikhonov clenched his fists: "Order the warship, sail at full speed!" ”

Sail at full speed!

10 heavy oil boilers, burning with all their might, black smoke constantly coming out of three chimneys, 4 Brown-Curtiss steam turbines, driven by high-pressure steam, output a maximum power of 55,000 horsepower, pushing the 9,000-ton warship, accelerating, accelerating!

After sprinting to a speed of nearly 30 knots, the tail of the Red Caucasus appeared turbulent, and the bow of the ship split the waves and sailed forward!

The British must not be allowed to get the Amur away!

The Soviet Navy was rather anxious, and at the same time, the British Navy, at its base in Plymouth Harbor, received a brief distress signal.

“SOS，SOS。” After a brief international distress signal, he was never reached.

After receiving the report, the commander of the base thought for a while and decided to dispatch a British Navy River-class frigate K215 Nith River, which was patrolling the nearby seas, to the area where the signal was sent to conduct search and rescue.

This is a frigate with a simple structure, 1 12-pounder gun and 5 6-pounder guns, which is all its weapons, in World War II, this frigate is mainly responsible for the transportation of ocean-going cargo, rather than a dignified battleship duel.

As for now, in peacetime, a search and rescue mission, it is a good choice.

After receiving the order from the base, the Nyth River started its horsepower and headed towards the sea where the signal was given.

"I really don't know which country's ship it is." On the bridge, Captain Robert said to his subordinates while holding a cup of coffee: "This is not a waterway at all, how could they come here!" ”

There was not much wind and waves at sea, and the coffee in his hand was served quite steadily.

"Report to the captain, a cargo ship was found in front, of Soviet nationality." The first mate shouted to him.

Cargo ships of the Soviets? Robert took his last sip of coffee and looked at the approaching cargo ship in the distance, when suddenly, a feeling of uneasiness grew stronger and stronger.

"God, there's a big hole in its side!" A lookout has spotted this unusual.