After an anti-lightning battle, Xu Zhonglin's main fleet was only 22,000 kilometers away from the two injured Scharnhorst-class battlecruisers at this time. The two battlecruisers had already opened their watertight compartments to fill the water, barely keeping their hull balanced, and stubbornly took the lead in firing this side. Just as Xu Zhonglin was about to give the order to sink the other party, Elena suddenly reported: "Admiral, there is a message from Caprela, she said, let you find a way to persuade these two battle cruisers to surrender." ”

This request made Xu Zhonglin frown, and Austria-Hungary took advantage of this time to have two battleships out of port further south. Now take the opportunity to destroy these two battle cruisers, and then pursue them all the way, and destroy those two battleships, this operation will be considered a complete success. But persuasion is different, at least you have to capture the other party first, which is much more difficult than sinking. If he wasted time and let the other party run out of a few battleships, Xu Zhonglin didn't know if the next battle would cause losses on his side. Even if he lost any of the capital ships, his operation this time would not be considered a success. Garibaldi has already been offended by him, and he will definitely take the opportunity to attack.

"We don't have time right now." Although he has a good relationship with the teacher, Xu Zhonglin is now responsible for his ship girls.

Seeing that he refused, Elena continued: "Brin told me that these two battle cruisers are of vital importance to Italy, and that you must take them prisoner. ”

"Why? Isn't there a better war patrol in Italy? Daugari and Amalfi's hulls are both armored weakened versions of the Veneto class, no worse than the Scharnhorst class, right? ”

Elena smiled bitterly: "Because of the cost!" It takes the same amount of resources to rebuild a battlecruiser like Dougary. The Admiralty could not afford much. It's like your Des Moines heavy patrol, everyone knows it well, and the blueprints are basically available here in Europe, but why are so few people using them? Speaking of this, Elena's beautiful chestnut eyes rolled at someone: "Because it's not cost-effective, transforming a Des Moines-class resource is enough to transform a prestige-level battle cruiser." But can Des Moines beat the prestige? So only a loser admiral like you would do that, and if you look at the Barcelisa and their hulls, they're enough to build an eight-thousand-ton cruiser. The strength of the Scharnhorst class is not weak, and the renovation price is much cheaper than that of Daugary, and we couldn't get it from Germany before, and now this sensitive time is the best opportunity. If it was a Bismarck-class battleship, we wouldn't dare, Germany would go crazy if it knew about it, but these were just two battle cruisers, as long as they could be persuaded to surrender, they should be able to solve the trouble through negotiations later. ”

it! Someone suddenly realized!

In a previous life, someone read an article in which the cost of a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser was about $4 billion based on the price index of 1:1787 in the 21st century and World War II. An Alaska-class battlecruiser or North Carolina-class battlecruiser costs about $7 billion.

What is this concept? The cost of the USS Ford, the first invincible ship in the universe to bomb the sky in later generations, was only $13 billion.

Even if only the price of gold is converted, the cost of a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser is 900 million US dollars. Equivalent to a 055 or Burke II.

When someone transforms, he only has six or seven boats under his hands, and he doesn't think about it, but he changes it when he sees that the resources are enough. This base can be enlarged to thousands of ships, and no country can afford to play, bankruptcy is certain. At the beginning, the Alaska-class cruiser was the best example, and even such a bold guy as Mei Dad built two and found that he couldn't afford to play, so he finally gave up.

Although the cost of resources in this world has been reduced a lot compared with the original world, it is obvious that the American imperialism of the original world is still unable to play, so it has to learn from the United Kingdom, and the old hooligans are notoriously cheap in building ships before World War II, and this phenomenon is also projected onto this world. This is one of the reasons why Britain in this world can still show off its military power despite having a large number of colonies.

But so what? Does the stupid bankruptcy have anything to do with him? Xu Zhonglin thinks that he is a very low-level and interesting person, and he will not do anything that has no benefits but has to take risks.

So his answer was very simple: "Tell the two teachers, we don't have time now." ”

As if knowing what he was thinking, Elena continued, "Caprela said that if you can capture one, the merit will be enough to take Margaret." ”

"Oh?!" At this time, Xu Zhonglin's interest immediately increased! In the end, it is a master and apprentice, Capreira still knows someone better.

Elena sighed: "The Scharnhorst class is really important to Italy, this is one of the best battle patrol templates. Please do your best. ”

Someone laughed playfully: "I guess the teacher must have said that if you only need to capture one, the merit will be enough to take one of you and Margaret, don't you say, little Irene?" ”

The queen's face turned red: "Phew! Stop dreaming, the ghost will follow you! ”

Haha, sooner or later, I want you to know who is talking about the 'honest and honest' in Japanese films...... Ahem.

Someone only hesitated for a moment before he had an answer, but he still couldn't help but tease: "Then if I take both ships prisoner, can I take both of you away?" ”

"Humph! Isn't it true that one and two ships mean the same thing to Italy? ”

Of course, Xu Zhonglin understands this truth, the Soviet Union defected one MiG-25 to the US imperialism and defected two, it is enough to fly two laps into the sky to see the performance. Therefore, he immediately ordered: "Sissi, Teresa, you should know the ship's mother on the other side, try to persuade them to surrender, they have no chance." ”

The two shipwresses happily agreed, but five minutes later, Xu Zhonglin received a bad result: "Admiral, the other party refuses to surrender." ”

In fact, there is no need for Teresa to explain, the shells scattered around have already shown the tough attitude of the two shippers, and two battleships were even hit by a few shells, but fortunately they did not penetrate, Xu Zhonglin could only be ruthless: "Shoot at close range, aim at their main gun turrets, knock them all out for me, I want to see how the toothless tiger resists." And all the secondary guns, all of them were knocked out with high-explosive shells, and I called a few light patrols to help them with the damage, and I forcibly dragged them back! ”

With Xu Zhonglin's order, the already close distance was narrowed again, and the six battleships bravely rushed to within 10,000 meters under artillery fire, the main guns at this distance were still very reliable, and the two battle cruisers were quite tenacious, even if the main guns were knocked out one by one, they were not moved, and still used all the remaining means of counterattack to calmly return fire, and the attitude of ignoring life and death could not help but make people awe-inspired. However, two fists were invincible to four hands, and he was quickly disarmed under someone's immoral group beating, and after a while, he completely lost the ability to resist.

The appetizers are out of the way, and then it's time for the main meal.

Due to a lot of delay, six battleships on the Austro-Hungarian side had already managed to break through to the outside of the port. There can be no further delay, a decisive battle must be made.