"There are already 3 boilers that are unusable due to water ingress or pipe breaks, coupled with the lack of maintenance and maintenance for a long time, as well as the quality of the coal, our fastest speed is only 13 knots. If we run into our opponents again, we will have to fight to the end. Count Spee, who served as the chief gunner of the Kaiyuan cruiser, reported to Yang Yonglin.

3 months! It's been 3 months, and since the last simple maintenance and upkeep in Weihai, the armored cruiser hasn't docked for three months! During this time, the Kaiyuan cruiser sank eight Japanese Navy transport ships in the Yellow Sea, sent 1,500 Japanese troops to the sea to feed fish, and burned 3,200 tons of various supplies.

The warship then ventured through the Tsushima Strait to Motosan. When the Japanese fleet was searching for traces of the Kaiwon in the Yellow Sea, outside the Wonsan landing site, the Mainz used dense shells to blow up half of the landing field, and at the same time destroyed 4 transport ships that could not evade!

And when the Japanese fleet took a shortcut from the Korean Strait to the Sea of Japan, the battleship actually passed through the Shimonoseki Strait and then entered the Seto Inland Sea! After making a big fuss, he even ran out of the rich waterway! The performance along the way can be described as terrifying!

When the cruiser Kaiyuan sent a merchant ship with a gross tonnage of more than 5 tons and 3,500 Japanese Navy and Army soldiers to hell, the battleship had not even encountered the opponent's main fleet, and then the battleship began to hunt lone transport ships in the East China Sea, and completed three replenishments!

If nothing else, the battleship might have been able to hold out for a longer period of time, and even rely on a few more cases for rough maintenance, but for some reason, the Japanese fast fleet managed to catch the Beiyang cruiser off the coast of Shandong!

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese fleet successfully blew up the barrel of the main turret at the tail of the Kaiyuan, and destroyed at least 5 secondary guns, and the armor belts at the bow and tail of the hull also knocked several large holes, of course, the final result was that the Kaiyuan fled again under the cover of night, and the Matsushima would never return to Japan.

The Japanese gunners once again carried forward their spirit of death, and the Japanese battleships inherited the long-standing tradition of lighting firecrackers! The Matsushima, Mikasa, Kawachi, and Mutsu are possessed by their souls at this moment! The self-detonation of the Matsushima in this plane is absolutely inevitable! It is the culmination of the security problems of the Navy ammunition depot in the big daily newspaper! The indiscriminate stacking of shells and the lack of arson facilities in the teleportation path make it all a logical fit!

DURING THE ENGAGEMENT, A 280MM SHELL MANAGED TO IGNITE THE 120MM SHELLS AND ****** PILED UP NEXT TO THE GUN EMPLACEMENT! Then a violent explosion poured into the ammunition depot with raging flames! With an earth-shattering bang! The Matsushima has completed the reincarnation of fate!

(By the way, when everyone is saying that the British BC firecrackers are a historical tradition, why not take a look at the Japanese Navy's firecracker tradition?) The British were seconded during the war, and how many famous Japanese warships were destroyed in a non-war state? This once famous warship is so unclear that it makes people think deeply! It is said that the Japanese are fine, why don't you think about the problem of your own ammunition depot? ）

After the end of a big war, the remaining two Japanese battleships did not dare to chase after it, saying that you are waiting, I still have brothers! And after this battle, the Mainz was finally on the verge of running out of oil. The battleship's non-core protection zone had been beaten beyond recognition, and because of the British, the battleship could not dock in neutral ports, and the northern ports were also mined under the cover of the Japanese fleet. The next two supply failures caused the Mainz supplies to drop sharply.

"Maybe in the last battle, even if the battleship can support it, but the amount of ammunition is probably no longer enough! The ammunition stock of all artillery is only a little more than 3 percent, and we can get food and coal by robbing Japanese transport ships, but what about artillery shells? Hipper said to Yang Yonglin more than once that to this extent, even if everyone is high-spirited, but the worst must be considered.

"When we encounter a neutral ship again, I will send you and your comrades away, this war is over, your country has done its best, and the rest is Yang's business." Yang Yonglin knows very well that the other party can accompany him to fight until now it is not a simple problem between buyers and sellers.

Long before returning to the East China Sea, during a replenishment at sea, the German officers of the auxiliary supply ship told Schell and others that their mission had been completed and that they could evacuate with the ship at any time. In the eyes of the average person, the state has already agreed, so why should these servicemen go into a battle that is doomed to defeat? Hector's challenge to Archisus was a hero, but it was also considered futile. From a rational point of view, it is of little significance for Scheer and the others to continue to stay.

"I'll wait a little longer, let the wounded and those who are willing to leave first." In the end, Schell decided to stay, God knows if he could continue to resupply next time, maybe this was his last chance to evacuate, and finally more than 20 wounded and more than a dozen people willing to evacuate among the more than 100 German naval officers and men boarded the supply ship and embarked on the journey home, while Schell, Hipper, and others continued to be on the Mainz.

"Why did you stay?" Watching the transport ship finally disappear into the sea, Hipper asked.

"I'm experiencing, you know? The moment I joined the Imperial Navy, I decided that sooner or later I would leave this pond in the North Sea! The North Sea is too small, I don't like it, I like the feeling of sailing and fighting on the ocean, and I have to gain experience in order to live longer in the future. The Earl of Spee said with a smile, and then the conversation changed: "What about you?" In the future, when you go back, it is quite possible to command a battleship, what will happen to you? ”

"I will stay in the North Sea, although the North Sea is small, but it has the most powerful navy in the world! They will be the only opponents to worry about in the high seas fleet, I mean the opposite of you, I don't look at the size of the place, but to see if there is an opponent of sufficient weight! ”

To be honest, after going through so many things, Hipper's dislike of Japan reached a certain level, and naturally he did not have a good impression of the British! And the feeling continued to ferment over the next few days! Because of the British, their own supplies were cut off.

For a period of time, Hipper's daily diet consisted of hard bread and jerky, the former soaking in water to soften it, and the latter needing to be powdered with a file and then put in water before eating! "I feel like I'm eating wood and stone every day! Maybe one day I'll die not from the shells of the other side, but from these damn food! Hipper complained more than once.

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