"General, there are the British and merchant ships next to us, if we open fire on a German unarmed warship now, then we will take a huge risk, the German detachment is in the Atlantic! They almost ruined Lisbon last time! The deputy next to him reminded loudly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info This officer also realized that he had been tricked, and he was also very angry, but at this time, he couldn't act rashly now, otherwise the consequences would not be something they could bear! Maybe the Germans are just waiting for the Italians to open fire!

"General, our first task now is to immediately verify the identity of the other party, and at the same time immediately rush to Taranto Bay, maybe we can also block the Turkish fleet that is advancing eastward, otherwise, once the Turkish fleet enters the Dardanelles, our main forces will have to be used to contain this warship!" The deputy said sincerely.

"We have no reason to attack them! They were German ships, they could pass freely through this area, and they did not take any hostile actions, we only launched an encirclement under the influence of our subconscious! Admittedly, this was a trick of the Germans, but we have to say that there were no loopholes in this ploy ....... ”

"Have the torpedo boat go up and check it out, and we'll go after that nasty rat!" The Duke of Abu Qilu calmed his emotions and then ordered.

Major Frederick stopped the ship at the request of the Italians, but refused to allow them to come on board for inspection, and the Germans on it began to remove the camouflage from the ship's surface. And when confronted with the question of the Italian officer: why do you want to disguise yourself as an armored cruiser in Mainz? Here's how the major replied.

"As a German test ship, we don't set up our own cruisers, do we still disguise ourselves as Italian warships? We just wanted to make the trial a little more realistic, and it seems to have been a success! The Major sarcastically mocked the Italians mercilessly.

"Now that the identity has been verified, we will continue our sea trials. Please do not interfere with us in your fleet! After the flag, the decoy ship K restarted and began to head north, where they would head to the Austro-Hungarian port on the Adriatic Sea, where they would be resupplied and maintained.

"If nothing else, the German fleet will definitely sail to Turkey, and we will definitely not be able to chase it directly, I will now take the whole fleet to the Aegean Sea and see if we can block the opponent! Even if I can't destroy the Prince Albert, I'm going to try to destroy another German battleship, if they go together, the speed won't be very good, because that ship is supposed to be a merchant ship, and his speed won't be very high. ”

Although the duke's heart was hit hard, and what he said was a little backwards, but I have to say that his thinking is basically correct, now the north to search for the Turkish fleet will definitely not be able to catch up, according to the time estimate, the Turkish fleet has left Taranto Bay, and it will take too much time to search and pursue by itself, but the Turkish fleet can only choose one direction, that is, the Dardanelles, as long as the Italian fleet can now take a step ahead of the Germans, Then it is still possible to recover the decline.

But alas, this time the Italians miscalculated again, because only the cruiser Prince Albert rushed to the Dardanelles, while another raid ship was heading towards the Adriatic, and the Italians assumed that the Turkish fleet was moving at a speed of 15 knots, while in reality the cruiser Prince Albert reached a speed of 19 knots! He'll be there faster!

What is even more tragic is that until now, the Italian Navy has not detected the attack ship Seawolf, which is operating on the eastern coast of Sicily! This raid ship sailed on the sea like an ordinary merchant ship, and then secretly walked around the harbor, taking advantage of the lack of ships around, dropped dozens or hundreds of mines, and then pulled away!

However, no one would have imagined that the first large steamship lost by Italy in this war was actually sunk by a mine on the Seawolf!

The Maria, a fast cruise ship converted into a transport, departed from the port of Taranto at night and avoided the attack of the Scheer fleet at a high speed, unaware that the Scheer fleet had crossed the Strait of Messina and was rushing towards the Bay of Taranto.

At this time, the 8,500-ton cruise ship was heading for Tripoli with 2,000 heavily armed Italian officers and soldiers and about 500 tons of supplies. At this time, the ship was sailing at a speed of up to 18 knots! The Italians did not arrange escort ships for this ship, because there was not a single ship in the Turkish fleet that could run faster than the Maria!

"Captain, there's a ship over there that seems to have hit the rocks!" Sharply put down the telescope in his hand and pointed into the distance, in the distance, a ship had been tilted badly, and the people above seemed to have abandoned the ship and jumped into the water.

"It's the Sicily, and if I'm not mistaken, according to the plan, it should have returned from Tripoli just yesterday. O God, poor Sicily. The second mate exclaimed after careful identification.

Since it was a friendly force, it was natural to pull a hand, and when the Maria sailed at high speed towards the sinking transport ship, ready to save as many people as possible from the overboard, she did not see the remnants of the personnel on the ship waving to them not to approach the .......

The high-speed Maria unfortunately crashed into a mine filled with 150KG of yellow explosives! The huge hull crossed the mine, and when the hull hit the contact on the outside of the mine, 150KG of yellow explosives exploded near the keel of the Maria cruise ship under the action of the fuse! The violent energy compresses the seawater, and the seawater is almost impossible to compress, and the huge energy is transmitted directly to the bottom of the hull, accompanied by a loud bang, hundreds of degrees of high temperature and high pressure bubbles directly tore the double bottom of the Maria!

The terrifying shockwave was only slightly consumed, and the remaining energy even blew the nearby keel to pieces! You must know that the Maria cruise ship is not a warship, there is almost no underwater protection, and even the warships of this era cannot withstand a single mine attack! Don't you see the best super-dreadnought of the British in history when they went to war, and the Bold was also sunk by an old-fashioned trigger-type mine? And it has achieved a reputation ...... of boldness.

The shattering of the keel was only the beginning, and the remaining shock wave continued to tear the entire hull, several thick cracks quickly spread to the water part of the hull, and the raging sea water also poured in from the bottom of the ship to continue to tear at the already shattered hull. In just a dozen seconds, the cruise ship was torn in half by the violent explosion and the impact of the seawater! The bow part of the ship quickly sank into the book, and the whirlpool formed when it sank swept most of the people who escaped by jumping into the water to the bottom of the sea!

What was even more terrifying was that the violent vibration and collision inside the ship detonated the picric acid shells placed on the bottom of the ship, and when the second half of the hull was not completely sunk, a series of explosions came from the inside of the hull, so that no one had a chance to be spared! No one could have imagined that after the start of the war in Italy, a mine successfully annihilated a regiment ...... the Italians.

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