Lin Youde was amused when he saw the British fleet: of course, there were three minesweepers at the front, and the warships that followed closely behind were the destroyers Purple Quartz -- or more appropriately, they were river cruisers.

Last time and space, the Purple Quartz was ordered to evacuate overseas Chinese on the eve of the battle of crossing the river, and then broke into the preparation area for crossing the river of the mud-legged army, and the arrogant British did not expect that the mud-legged men on the shore would open fire, and after being shelled, they thought that as long as they returned fire, the artillery on the shore would not dare to fight again, but they did not know that the mud-legged army did not bird its toothpick cannon and continued to shoot, and then the panicked Purple Quartz ran aground on the shallows.

Later, in order to rescue the Purple Quartz, the British Far East Fleet Command sent the heavy cruiser London to the rescue, but the British heavy cruiser was different from the two deathmatches in the Pacific, the heavy cruisers of those two were prepared for the decisive battle of the fleet, and the British heavy cruisers followed the design ideas of their colonial cruisers, emphasizing versatility, seaworthiness and speed, and the armor was as thin as paper.

Of course, the treaty re-patrols during the naval holiday period were not very well armored because of tonnage limitations, so the waters near Guadalcanal and Savo Island would become iron-bottom bays, and the treaty re-patrols of the two sides were almost exhausted in the night battles in this sea area - paper defense against paper defense, and everyone was fighting seven wounds.

But the defense of Britain's treaty re-patrol was also lowered to a level among all treaty re-tours.

The British Kent-class heavy cruiser main armor belt was only 114 mm, and the coverage of the main armor belt was very limited. Her outer armor at the waterline was only 1 inch thick (later strengthened, by the way, the main armor belt and the waterline armor are different concepts, so many boats have the text "adopt the inclined main armor belt" in the description, but the outward appearance looks like the broadside armor is still vertical, because the inclined armor is inside the waterline armor).

Although there is additional armor in places such as ammunition depots and engine rooms, the name of the king of paper defense of this type of ship will definitely not escape. The London class built after the Kent class actually belongs to the same "County" class cruiser in terms of classification, strictly speaking, it should be called the second batch of production type of the County class heavy cruiser, so the London class also inherited the characteristics of paper defense, to put it bluntly, the British designed this heavy patrol when they still dreamed of the queen ruling over the waves, and never thought that the people of the colony would dare to fire at the invincible Royal Navy.

In short, the London class, like her predecessor, the Kent class, is nothing but good-looking and relatively rare.

Lin Youde thought that the London would also appear with the Purple Quartz, and staged a different version of the "Purple Quartz Incident" in this time and space, but he didn't expect to see the shallow gunboats Roberts and Abbe Colombi following the Purple Quartz.

If you think about it carefully, it is not surprising that these two ships appeared here, after all, they also participated in Operation Torch and the Sicilian landing in another time and space, and Lin Youde also got the information that two ships were transferred to the Mediterranean Sea in 40 years - the British probably considered that these two ships were too slow but the target was not small, and they were easy to be attacked by the Luftwaffe, so they transferred them from the port of Ireland where they were originally stationed to the Mediterranean.

"One purple quartz and two Roberts, the British are surprisingly stingy this time." Lin Youde muttered in a low voice, "But the two shallow-water gunboats are very suitable for this mission, after all, there are fifteen-inch main guns on them, and the power is much greater than the eight-inch guns of the heavy patrol." ”

While Lin Youde was muttering to himself, the lieutenant who led his guard squad said in a nervous tone: "The battle is about to start, so you can hide it too." ”

"Oh, good." Lin Youde then remembered that he should be hidden, after all, with the power of Oh Sauce, without relying on the increase of the magic guide armor, it is still quite difficult to resist the direct attack of the fifteen-inch gun, Oh Sauce may not be injured, but the impact will definitely make her faint temporarily.

"Oh-chan!" Lin Youde shouted to the girl who was still fishing by the river, "Come here." ”

Oh-chan looked back, then thrust the rod into the river and trotted over.

Lin Youda went into the foxhole dug by the guards during the time after arriving, and lay on the edge of the pit to continue to observe with a telescope.

At this time, the signal corpsman reported: "The reconnaissance plane said that there were large enemy ships behind this group of enemy ships, but they were parked in the staggered area ahead. ”

"Probably waiting for this team of pathfinders to come and see the situation." Lin Youde said that he learned the classic tone of a Japanese officer in another time-space anti-Japanese drama and said, "The British, cunning and cunning." ”

The nullah of the Suez Canal is so narrow that not to mention large ships and small boats may not be able to make a turn on the river. If a ship enters the canal but has to return the way it came, it can only turn to a few lakes along the way, such as Lake Tiemsakh next to Ismailia, and the Great Bitter Lake, not far from where the Germans forced their way across the canal.

With the exception of these lakes, boats have to make a U-turn through the specially built interlacing area of Guò, an area dug to solve the problem of congestion in the waterways, where the nullah of the Suez Canal is divided into two parallel channels that act as roundabouts in the city's transport system.

The British were now parked there, ready to retreat at any time, and if this small advance party could reach the vicinity of the German pontoon bridge, the British would probably immediately enter the channel and attack Ismailia with artillery to support the British army in retaking the city.

As for the use of British warships as batteries, Lin Youde would not consider it at all. The navies of various countries have their own characteristics, the battleship rushes to the beach to make a battery, that is another time and space The Japanese Navy likes to think about it, the glorious British Imperial Navy will not rush to the beach and the lobster soldiers on land, and the Red Navy of Soviet Russia who likes land warfare is another time and space, how to fight at sea for the time being, the results of the Red Navy on land are simply amazing, and at the end of World War II in another time and space, the black military uniform and sea soul shirt of the Black Sea Soldier left a deeper impression on the German Army than those Red Army elites with the name of the guards, Known as the "Black Death".

So there is a joke: the Red Navy lost at sea, and while running shouted on the radio: X's kind of you go ashore.

Lin Youde couldn't help but be a little excited as he watched the two Roberts and one purple quartz gradually enter the range of his artillery, this time he had already won a huge victory on land, and he didn't mind adding a few more sea results to his victory. Later, when it was publicized, it was able to claim that the British "battleship" Roberts class had been sunk, and the people would not mind how you sank these battleships, nor would they mind that Roberts was just a pocket guy with heavy artillery, and they would rejoice when they saw the result, and felt that they had won another "North Sea victory".

Lin Youde was thinking about it, and the artillery battalion opened fire.