The deal between the two sides was quickly completed, and after a group of Germans and Japanese prisoners boarded the American battleship, Prince Ruprecht really did not dare to stop, and immediately led the armored cruiser Mainz to the south! At this time, both House and Ingnorr, the two real commanders were too seriously injured to be able to control, and were sent to the American ship to be transported to Tianjin for medical treatment, and the traverser became the real master of the battleship.

"What if we run into a Japanese ship?" Count Spee asked.

"If it's small, kill them!" His Royal Highness the Prince said without hesitation.

"Will this further escalate the situation, after all, our previous actions can be regarded as self-defense counterattack, and if we take the initiative to attack afterwards." Hippert said with some concern.

"The British will help us with the mud. As for the Japanese? The worse you beat them! The more honest they are! The victor is never to blame! ”

At this time, His Royal Highness the prince's thoughts were finally understood, regardless of the outcome of the Sino-Japanese War, he had settled a matter on his mind, and the reputation of the Mainz armored cruiser and the Bavarian Ship Design Bureau was also counted, right? There's no way, the traverser is just that, and he wants to go crazy for money!

And just as the Mainz was speeding south, it ran into an unexpected guy, a slender cruiser following behind him! Outwardly, it seems to be a cruiser of the first rank of the British, and in the present Far East, traversers can determine that this battleship should be an Edgar-class protective cruiser. Don't say it, although the firepower and protection of this cargo are garbage, the speed really doesn't have to be said, and I couldn't shake it off at a high speed of 19 knots!

"The other party just followed without any action?" Ruprecht asked.

"That's right, they've been keeping a distance of about 3 nautical miles." Hipper said. "But they're trying to get in touch with us, and they want to talk to you."

"Talk to me?" His Royal Highness the Prince sneered, "Write back to them, we are on a combat mission, and we hope that the British Navy will uphold the principle of neutrality, and if there is inappropriate behavior, we will maintain the right to complain!" ”

On what basis does a cruiser captain talk to himself? And what can he guarantee? To do so is a waste of time! Why don't you get busy with some serious things when you have this time, like, well, knock out this Japanese transport ship in front of you?

Not long after the rapid sailing of the Mainz armored cruiser went south, it found a Japanese transport ship and several gunboats, judging from the appearance, about more than 2,000 tons, and the draft was very deep, which should be transporting something. And a couple of gunboats next to it are not worth mentioning.

"Raise the battle flag and send them to hell!" Ruprecht ordered. Whether it is prestige or rank, he is the real master of this battleship, and no one dares to refute his orders, and will not refute them! When it said that it would bear it in the event of an accident, the officers and soldiers who had just held back their evil fire and could not vent their evil fire were eager to tear the broiler in front of them into pieces!

"Dazuo, it's a German battleship! They're coming at us! On the transport ship Awa Maru, a Japanese army major pointed to the murderous cruiser Mainz in the distance and said!

"How so?" The Awa Maru, under the cover of several gunboats, was supposed to transport an artillery brigade to Incheon. According to the Japanese thinking, the Qing Kingdom would never be the first to move, and this point of escorting the fleet was just a formality, and what they didn't expect was that. The Japanese Navy actually confronted the Germans by mistake, and after being beaten violently, the angry Germans just found themselves!

One of the gunboats went up and signaled its identity to inquire about its origin. And Ruprecht naturally doesn't bother to talk nonsense with them! Battle flags and shells are the answer! As a result, the Japanese Army was pitted by the Japanese Navy in this way! As soon as the gunboat that went up to inquire revealed itself as a Japanese battleship, it was covered in a dense barrage of rapid-fire shells, and in just a few minutes, it was reduced to ashes with a loud bang!

"Are the Germans crazy? Did they come to some kind of agreement with the Qing State? "Nozu Michikani has no rules in the face of this almost certain death situation, a total of three gunboats and a transport ship, and the tonnage together is not as big as others! That's a hairy one!

THE 75MM ON THE GUNBOAT AND THE OLD-FASHIONED PUSH GUNS FOUGHT BACK IN VAIN, AND FOR MAINZ, THIS LITTLE GUY DIDN'T HAVE TO BOTHER AT ALL, AND TOOK THINGS AWAY DIRECTLY, AND THE TWO GUNBOATS INSTANTLY TURNED INTO OVERSIZED FIRECRACKERS IN THE RAIN OF BULLETS!

"Raise the white flag! We surrender! Nozu Michikan suddenly ordered, now the only way to survive is to admit cowardice, he is not a battleship, and the other party should also be merciful, right?

"Stop shelling! Save shells! Solve them with torpedoes! Ruprecht looked at the Awa Maru in the distance, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth! In order to avoid all possible troubles and political disadvantages, the means of the traverser are completely short-lived! What else are you doing with shells? Give them a chance to surrender? It was impossible for the traverser to take this slow-moving ship south, and if they sank the battleship with the white flag raised, it would probably cause diplomatic pressure. So, you must kill him before the other party surrenders!

The Mainz quickly approached only a few hundred meters from the other side, and while the Japanese were scrambling to raise the white flag, 2 torpedoes decided their final fate!

"I'll go! It's an ammunition ship! "A huge fireball rose from the sea, and the small ship of more than 3,000 tons was completely blown to pieces by the ammunition detonated by the torpedo! The flying debris and flames directly hit the armored cruiser Mainz 700 meters away, although it did not cause much damage to the hull, but the scorching air and the surging shock wave still made people feel the fierceness of the explosion!

"The Germans seem to be really angry!" The British cruiser, which was tracking from a distance, witnessed the short but brutal massacre, and the captain of the Edgar, Major Williams, put away the binoculars in his hand and said.

"Are we saving people who have fallen into the water?" An officer next to him asked.

"There should be no living people. We immediately went south to Qingdao, where there was a telegraph office, and we needed to report the matter immediately. Williams is also relatively clear about the ins and outs of this matter, although Japan is the younger brother of Britain, but Britain obviously cannot directly confront Germany and Russia because of this matter! Blame for it and can't make it! I'm just a small person, so I'd better leave these things to the top to decide!

As a result, the Edgar abandoned its pursuit of the Mainz and turned to the Liaodong Peninsula, while the Mainz headed south in the starry night and rushed to Shanghai to join the main force of the fleet led by Tirpitz. Although the exchange of fire caused by the unusual accident is over, the consequences begin to ferment, and as time passes, when the high-level leaders of various countries know about it, a storm is about to sweep the world!

Thanks to the book friend zhouyu1976, Windsor, 51012576, zr Zhao Rui for the reward~~~.