"This will be our first result!" Through the telescope, Luknar finally found a suitable target, which, judging by its appearance, should be a transport ship with a displacement of up to 8,000 tons, and with a deep draft, it is a fat sheep. The speed is also very fast, at least about 12 knots on visual inspection. It is possible to keep up with the fleet movements.

After coming out of the colony, Luckner did not immediately go on a killing spree, although in the entire eastern coast of Australia, he could not run fast as he could beat himself, and he could not beat himself, but he was still very cautious through the Coral Sea and the Great Barrier Reef, and was ready to start in the waters of southeastern Australia, on the one hand, he did not want to expose his whereabouts too early, so as to provoke several Hood fleets that were waiting in Darwin Harbor, on the other hand, because Luckner put the target on Sydney Harbour, On the largest port in Australia, although he will not kill directly into the port like Al Barsha, it is still possible to catch a few big fish outside. And now, his business has come to the door.

At this time, Luknal's light cruisers were all flying the flag of the British Empire, and several transports behind were also repainted and camouflaged before departure, and some ships even built several fake chimneys and bridges to confuse their opponents, as if it were difficult to recognize the origin of these ships from the photos. As for the light cruisers, this kind of ship is not as ostentatious as large ships, and there are extremely large numbers, the British have more than 60 new light cruisers in history, plus the light cruisers of the pre-dreadnought period, the number is like a carp crossing the river, who can tell which one it is.

"High-speed them, we are a formation of British Far Eastern light cruisers. Ordered to conduct an investigation of the king's ships. Jump the radio to the public channel first, and if the other party wants to send a message, we will interfere with them. Then take advantage of the situation to destroy their antennas and tell the officers and soldiers that we will capture the ship in its entirety. Lucknar said with a smile.

"It seems that the war is finally coming." At this time, the captain of the Swan, Captain Merry, couldn't help sighing, he finally waited for the coal to finally be able to transport his shipload of goods to Canada, but who knew that not long after he walked out, he met the patrol fleet, and he never understood why the British were defending at his doorstep. Shouldn't they be chasing down the moles that are destroying everywhere in the ocean? But if you don't understand it, everyone is leaning on it, can you still say no?

Under the orders and coercion of this light cruiser, which claimed to be the Dublin. The Swan finally stopped, and then a group of sailors rushed up with guns in hand, and quickly rushed towards the wheelhouse, the telegraph room, and so on, at which point Captain Merry felt a little puzzled. But at this moment. From the cabin came a burst of gunfire, "They are Germans!" The staccato sound came from inside, but it was quickly drowned out by the sound of gunfire.

"Sir, give up pointless resistance, there is no point in resisting, there are all our people there." The officer said pleasantly pointing to the fleet cruising in the distance. "Tell me what's up there."

"300 tonnes of raw rubber, some aluminium ingots and iron ore, that's all." Merry looked at the German soldier with a rifle in his hand, and sensibly chose to give up. "Good. I'm very happy with our first prey." The officer said happily. "We will guarantee the safety of you and your crew."

And just like that, for the next 2 days. Lucknar with his fleet and a large number of supply ships and captives intercepted at least nine ships of various kinds in the vicinity, and all but three civilian ships in good condition and faster were sunk. The British, on the other hand, knew nothing about it, and one by one the ships disappeared into the ocean. It was not that the British were too inefficient, but that the radio communication range was already very limited in terms of the skills of the First World War, and the Pacific Ocean was not a key area for the British to defend, and most of the British escort forces were sprinkled on the Atlantic.

As for Hood's fleet, well, this fleet is indeed very strong, but at this time this fleet was broken in half, and several main ships continued to stay in the waters near Darwin to wait for the Germans to throw themselves into the net, while General Hood sailed towards the Indian Ocean with 3 fast battle lines, after all, there was already intelligence that Count Spey fled west with 2 fast battleships, and if they really got close to the Persian Gulf, I am afraid it would be very difficult to destroy them again. But what he didn't expect was that Spee's fleet turned around and headed southwest again, and the target was the British port of Perth!

After a two-day delay, Luknall finally left the south-eastern sea of Australia and headed for Perth, but even then his fleet would probably be about 10 hours late. Other officers had asked Lucknal if Count Spey would wait for his arrival, after all, two fast battleships were worth much more than four light cruisers, and in the eyes of ordinary people, there was no need for Count Spee to put himself in a crisis for the sake of four light cruisers, after all, if Count Spee wanted to go, Hood would never be able to catch up. But Luknal is confident about it. He was confident that his teachers would not abandon him and his colleagues.

Three days later, off the coast of Perth. In the afterglow of the setting sun, two huge figures made Luckner and his fleet cheer, Luckner was right, Count Spee did not abandon their brother, two fast battleships were waiting for their arrival at the predetermined location, and at this point, the entire German Far East fleet finally converged, and now, they have not lost a single battleship, but they have destroyed and captured at least 60,000 tons of civilian ships, which is a good start.

"Luknar, you're late, you have to know how risky it is for us to wait for you here!" Count Spee said displeased, because the former was his student, so Count Spee liked to call him by his name and not add a military rank to the end.

"I know what you've won, but this should never be an excuse to be late, we shouldn't look at the tactical level, if that happens you'll always be able to command a light cruiser formation, not a detachment commander like I did." Count Spee continued.

"What's next for us, Perth Harbour in the distance is a great target, and I think we need to pay a visit." Luknar first bowed his head and admitted his mistake, but no one knew whether he listened to it or not, and after the Earl of Spee's lesson, the guy who had sailed out of the city in history to break the friendship set his sights on the port of Perth, which was not far away.

"Naturally, we want to pay a visit, and before we leave the Far East, we want the British to remember us forever!" Count Spee said with a gloomy face. Lucknar has not been idle these days, and Count Spee has not been idle, although he deliberately does not expose himself, but he can always run into some ships that are not long-sighted, and from the point of view of appearance, the Scharnhorst is too similar to the British battleship, and the Earl of Spee is not kind to hang the British flag, so when Lucknar killed the Quartet, Count Spee also caught two Entente transport ships, of course, he refused to keep it, and directly scuttled it after a search.

From the mouths of the captives, it became known that the British army had launched an attack on the German colonies. It is said that he has landed on the land of German Guinea. And this is also the reason why Earl Spee decided to teach the British a good lesson, from the perspective of fleet strength, the current Far East Fleet is also strong, even if Hood knew that Perth was attacked, and rushed from Darwin, he would have already slipped away from the soles of his feet. As a result, washing the floor of Perth Harbour the next day became an inevitable choice for the Germans.

Early the next morning, the Australians in Perth Harbor suddenly noticed a fleet at the junction of water and sky, and under the escort of several light cruisers, two huge figures slowly became clear. While Australia, who was in port, was still wondering how Rear Admiral Hood's fleet had come here, the rice flag at the top of the mast was slowly lowered and replaced with the Black Hawk flag of the German High Seas Fleet! And then the roar of 18 350MM guns completely turned the entire port area into hell!

Before this departure, Count Spee had looted almost all the ammunition, and the ammunition depot had up to 120 rounds per gun, including 60 armor-piercing rounds, 20 semi-armor-piercing rounds, and 40 high-explosive rounds. Needless to say, armor-piercing shells are used to deal with the opponent's battleships, semi-armor-piercing shells are used against battleships such as patrols, and high-explosive shells are used for ground attacks and against unprotected warships. And this time, Count Spee decided to shoot all the high-explosive shells! That's more than 800 rounds of large-caliber shells!

For a time, columns of smoke rose from time to time in the entire Perth port, and in an extreme time, the berths, shore facilities, docks and other key departments of the entire port were covered by fierce artillery fire, and the sound of explosions one after another made people more than ten kilometers away feel the horror of war. The fire caused by the shells created an extremely strong updraft, and one can even see the violent air flow rising from the ground into the air with the naked eye, and then spreading out with an astonishing amount of heat. At first, people tried to extinguish the fire, but soon, as the people who rushed in were directly engulfed in shrapnel and flames, the Australians did not even have the courage to rescue. All they could think of was to run away and pray that they wouldn't send a deadly hail of bullets into the city!

AS THE DISTANCE GRADUALLY CLOSED, THE BATTLESHIP'S UPPER 6-INCH GUNS AND THE LIGHT CRUISER'S 105MM GUNS JOINED THE ATTACK, AND THEY AIMED AT THE SHIPS NEAR THE HARBOR, SWEEPING EVERY BERTH. Destroy any target they can see, this attack is much more complete than Al Barsha's attack on the port of Karachi! The Earl of Spee had plenty of time to blow the whole of Perth Harbour to smithereens. In less than four hours of shelling, the Spee's fleet not only used up almost all of the normal and high-explosive shells, but also destroyed nearly 60% of the secondary ammunition. And it's the port side side that the secondary gun is finished, turn around and shoot on the starboard side! Five hours later, Earl Spee waved his sleeve and left the devastated Perth Harbour behind.

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976 and the star constellation soaring in the universe for the reward~~~. (To be continued......)