In the first real battle, the Tiger tank played an alarming exchange ratio! 9 Tigers destroyed at least 17 vehicles of various types, 7 of which were Type 29 tank destroyers! Such a record was absolutely impossible for the Germans to imagine in the past! Even in the case of the greatest superiority of the Germans, a Type 29 tank destroyer could kill 2.5 German tanks! However, despite the impressive record, Nespel was unable to continue the pursuit, on the one hand, because the Tiger tank was a fierce tiger on the battlefield, but the same was true of fuel consumption, and the Tiger that had rushed all the way from the landing without supplies ran out of fuel quickly after a battle. And although not a single Tiger tank was destroyed, many shells still hit the load wheels or tracks, and 5 out of 9 Tiger tanks were out of the battle! As night fell, in order to avoid being attacked in the night battle, Max, who had already suffered a lot of losses in troops, decided to defend first.

Just when the Germans were gaining a foothold in southern France and both sides were accumulating strength for the upcoming battle, the well-planned German Navy's South Atlantic Storm operation finally kicked off, and the camouflaged assault ship forces and submarine forces responsible for breaking diplomatic relations and containing had cooperated with each other to show their sharp fangs on the Allied transport lines in the South Atlantic! And the guerrilla fleet of 4 main cruisers is also hidden in the depths of the ocean and is ready to go! An invisible noose began to slowly slip on the opponent! The target is not just the transport fleet of the Entente!

The Penguin raider has had bad luck these days, and according to intelligence, it has tracked several convoys of transports, and the area it is responsible for is the coastal area of Argentina, which is the only way from the Strait of Magellan to the Atlantic. As the war progressed, a large number of Allied merchant ships sailed north from here. But alas. The Americans implemented centralized escort measures, and large fleets of a dozen or even dozens of ships would be escorted by several destroyers or auxiliary cruisers or even light cruisers. Although the Penguin was improved from a high-speed cruise ship, it is the best camouflage assault ship in terms of hull strength and weapons! The raider had 4 seaplanes parked on the aft deck, and there was also a hangar where the aircraft could be serviced at any time, and a total of 12 guns of various calibers were placed on the deck, including 4 170MM naval guns removed from the old ships of the 1st World War! This gun was finalized at the beginning of the 20th century! It is no exaggeration to call it an antique cannon. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE 6 105MM GUNS AND 2 150MM SUBMARINE DECK GUNS. IN ADDITION TO THE SEA-TO-SEA ARTILLERY, THE SHIP HAD A NUMBER OF 20MM AND 40MM CANNONS AND 6 TORPEDO TUBES, 4 ON WATER AND 2 UNDER WATER.

Thanks to the huge hull and the size of a high-speed cruise ship, the ship can carry hundreds of various mines in addition to the above-mentioned weapons. as well as several light speedboats. Of course. The most commendable thing about this ship is its speed, which can reach speeds of up to 28 knots, thanks to its powerful power system! This is quite good for a ship of less than 20,000 tons, which can reach such a high speed. If it weren't for the fact that the hull structure was too fragile and the ship was not of good shape, the USS Penguin would have served as an aircraft carrier reserve! Moreover, this ship originally existed as an important node in the operation of breaking diplomatic relations, he could replenish the submarine with torpedoes and fuel, had a high-power radio station and a new cipher machine, and had strong communication capabilities. And it is also equipped with special electronic jamming equipment! It can be said that this is a masterpiece among assault ships! But alas! No matter how strong the assault ship is, it is impossible to fight against a light cruiser! Amateurs can't beat professionals!

So the penguins could only watch the fleets slip away in front of them. But there is an exception to everything. Just when the captain of the Penguin, Hoss, was depressed that he had only caught a few small fish recently, a slender figure appeared in view! The seaplanes that then took off reported the identity of the merchant ship. "It's supposed to be a high-speed cruise ship on the Grain God! Transporting tasks alone! "Exciting news from the reconnaissance plane! The Americans' transport fleet is divided into two types, one is a low-speed fleet cluster with escorts, and the other is a high-speed sea sailing alone with high-speed ships. If you get a speed of more than 20 knots, then you can basically avoid a submarine strike, and it is obviously not appropriate to equip a high-speed warship with a high-speed ship for cargo transportation. And the destroyer's endurance at high speed is insufficient, so in the case of unnecessary and insufficient warships. Some high-speed merchant ships are decisively single-handed! The Grain God is such a lone ranger!

As a lone ranger, the Grain God also has another title in addition to its identity as a transport ship, that is, an auxiliary cruiser! After all, if you go alone, you are afraid of encountering a robbery! As a result, the Grain God filled up both the high-speed transport and auxiliary cruiser skill trees at the same time! As the saying goes, it's a bit of a skill to mix it up. When the Penguin spotted the target. Major Hoss didn't expect this guy who seemed to be able to run away to be so tough!

"We seem to be targeted!" The Americans are not stupid, they are alert when they see the seaplane in the air, and when they find that there is an unidentified high-speed boat behind them, they feel that the comer is not good. The opponent is a frontal volley, and now the speed is faster than himself! Captain Billy, the captain of the ship, decisively raised the radio alarm, but unfortunately there was nothing on the radio except a rustling sound! "It's hard to get a stubble! The fleet is in combat readiness at the first level! "Captain Billy gave the order decisively!

I don't know if the Americans are unlucky, or the God of War and other sacrifices are in a hurry, at this critical moment, one of the engines of the Grain God has a problem, and the speed plummets to about 20 knots, in the face of the Penguin attack ship that is rushing at the highest speed of 28 knots, the Americans can only prepare for the worst, under the command of officers at all levels, the American officers and crews on the ship are making the final combat preparations, the shells are being lifted from the ammunition depot, and the soldiers wear steel helmets and life jackets, Rolls of cloth were piled up around the running positions and superstructures to reduce injuries from shrapnel supplies, while medical personnel prepared bandages and first-aid medicines. TO BE HONEST, THE GRAIN GOD WAS ALSO WELL ARMED, WITH 6 152MM GUNS AND 4 90MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS, AS WELL AS SOME SMALL-CALIBER RAPID-FIRE GUNS, AND WITH THESE WEAPONS, THE GRAIN GOD EVEN SANK A GERMAN RAIDER WITH A DISPLACEMENT OF 5,000 TONS IN A NAVAL BATTLE. That ship really wants to be called Thor! Before encountering the grain god, the mines laid by the Thor and the ship's naval guns had already sent 8 Allied transport ships with a total of 45,000 tons of merchant ships to the bottom of the sea! And after this war. Captain Billy was not only not afraid of encountering an enemy attack ship at sea, but had a glimmer of expectation! After all, real soldiers are eager to fight!

Thereupon. The first artillery battle of a battleship of more than 10,000 tons in World War II was actually carried out by two auxiliary warships converted from cruise ships! The two sides have similar tonnage, about the same volume, and the firepower is also sorry for the tonnage, and the guy who can't talk about armor protection started a fight! Because there was no defense in other places, except for a few vital parts, there was no defense, so both sides decisively used high-explosive shells and semi-armor-piercing shells! Two warships fought a naval battle in the late 30s of the 20th century in the 90s of the 19th century!

Rumble! When the Penguin's guns roared for the first time, Billy chuckled in his heart. "That's not right!" Looking at the smoke dissipating from the muzzle of the cannon in the distance and the huge fireball just now, Billy decisively guessed the caliber of the opponent's artillery, which was definitely larger than the caliber of his own 152 gun! "When did the Germans become so generous! The raiding ships are so generous! "A grenade weighing more than 70 kilograms landed less than 15 meters from the Grain God. The foredeck was soaked by the huge column of water from the explosion, but the most unfortunate thing was that the debris from the explosion in the water from the near-miss bomb knocked several holes in the thin hull plate and flooded several sealed cabins in the bow! Compared with warships, the sealed cabins of civilian ships are much worse in terms of quantity and design. In a few minutes, the poor merchant ship was in a few hundred tons of water!

"Closer! Move fast! Major Hoss exclaimed. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO BATTLESHIPS WAS QUICKLY CLOSER, AND THE GUNS OF BOTH SIDES CONTINUED TO ROAR, AND THE PENGUIN WAS CLOSER TO THE WARSHIP THAN THE CEREAL, ITS FOUR 170MM GUNS WERE ARRANGED ALONG THE CENTRAL AXIS. Moreover, there is also simple protection and a more advanced loading-servo system. THE 6 150MM GUNS OF THE GRAIN GOD ARE DEPLOYED ON BOTH SIDES. Neither in terms of quantity nor quality, it is no match for the former. The distance between the two sides was about 8 kilometers, and each other's shells swept through the air and rained on each other's heads with destruction and flames, and the civilian hulls really did not resist! Just a few minutes after the battle began, the Penguin was also broken. A 6-inch high-explosive bomb tore open the test side, and after the explosion, it directly penetrated several cabins, and the deck more than 20 meters long was swept away by a violent explosion! The fragile partition turned into fragments, and the decisive ones helped to crush the nearby German officers and soldiers! But the boat on the other side is even worse! Just a few minutes later. The entire upper deck has been turned into a sea of fire! As the two sides approached further, it went directly from stabbing with a gun to a close-range face-tearing battle! EVEN THE 20MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN WAS FLATTENED FOR DESIGN. If it weren't for the fact that it was still a little far away, both sides even planned to follow the example of naval warfare in the Age of Sail. The crew copied the gun!

IN THE MEDIUM-RANGE DESIGN, THE ATTACK OF THE 170MM HEAVY ARTILLERY WITH A MORE REASONABLE LAYOUT AND MORE FIERCE FIREPOWER QUICKLY OVERWHELMED THE OPPONENT, AND THE GUN POSITIONS OF THE GRAIN GOD WERE DESTROYED, AND EVEN A SHELL PENETRATED AN AMMUNITION DELIVERY CHANNEL.

The firepower of the medium-caliber naval guns is absolutely deadly for this kind of merchant ship, with very little armor protection, watertight coffee tables and limited damage management personnel, the attack of both sides can be described as bullets and bullets! In a short time, the two battleships were beaten like moving torches, and the flames spread across the deck, and the hull plates were covered with bullet marks and traces of incineration, and occasionally there would be a few pieces of burnt black minced flesh and dark blood stains or something! However, the Penguin quickly gained an overwhelming advantage! But it seems that the goddess of fate did not want to let this battle end like this, and just as Major Hoss was about to take advantage of the victory to seal the victory in one fell swoop, a 6-inch shell fired from the opposite side successfully pierced the thin steel plate outside the torpedo bay and detonated the compressed air used to fire the torpedo! The Germans were not stupid, and after discovering the ferocious firepower of the other side, they decisively threw the torpedo on the waterline into the sea to prevent the explosion. But the compressed air bottle was not thrown away!

The energy emitted by the detonation of more than a dozen cylinders was really terrifying, and the violent explosion directly tore apart the nearby deck in pieces! Even the back half of the bridge was blown to the ground. Major Hoss, who coincided with the great change, had to decide to evacuate first and save the battleship. But Major Hoss is not willing to go! Looking at the Grain God, which was gradually pulling away, Hoth decided to strike the final blow before leaving! The huge battleship has once again launched an attack on the already faltering Grain God! The bow of the ship was aimed at the side hull of the Grain God, and when it was close to 3 kilometers, the two torpedo tubes in the lower part of the hull opened violently, and under the impetus of compressed air, two torpedoes came out of the hull, and at this moment the God of Fate once again turned the wheel of fate, and the torpedo that was supposed to be an attempt to attack accurately hit the front of the hull of the Grain God, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives directly cut off the bow of the 20,000-ton ship! In just a few minutes, Billy, who had thought he had escaped, sank into the sea with the Cereal, and the ship sank so fast that the Penguin couldn't come to the rescue!

However, before the battle sank, the Grain God still gave the Penguin a big gift! Billy activated the backup radio and sent a clear telegram to the surrounding fleet! The explosion of the compressed air cylinder directly destroyed the jammer stored on the rear bridge, so the grain god was able to send the information. So although the Grain God finally sank with tens of thousands of tons of various materials, the Penguin that won by luck was not without danger, and at this time, it became the prey under the searchlight and could be hunted at any time!

The telegram of the Grain God rippled like a stone thrown into a pond. Many Allied transport ships received this telegram and forwarded it in order to inform friendly forces of the threat in this area. Because of the distance and the enormous pressure in Europe, the U.S. Navy has very limited forces in the South Atlantic. Except for the warships that accompanied the escort, there were no other warships cruising the seas. He hesitated when the commander of the TP35 transport flotilla, Colonel Bronck, was the closest American fleet to the target, with 4 destroyers, 2 auxiliary cruisers with some armament, and 1 light cruiser under his command. THE JUNO WAS HIS FLAGSHIP AND THE MOST FORMIDABLE WARSHIP IN THE KNOWN SEAS, WITH NINE 175MM GUNS. Armor defense is sufficient to block 6-inch L55 shells from medium distance. Speeds up to 33 knots! He considers himself the king of the seas!

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