Now, the opponent is in front of his right, and if he rushes directly to shoot artillery, then he can only bombard the opponent with the naval guns in front of him.

The bomb area is small and the hit rate is low.

In naval combat, the highest accuracy of hitting is, of course, to fire sideways, especially if your own warship and the opponent are driving in the same direction and at the same speed, you can hardly hit any amount of advance and just bombard directly.

Now, this is the idea of Landsdorf, he hopes that his warship can move to the port side of the opponent and sink it at close range!

The diesel engine at the tail roars, and compared with the steam engine, the power of the diesel engine is still limited, and it cannot make the German class reach a high speed of more than 30 knots, but the diesel engine has another advantage, that is, the starting speed is fast!

It takes time to heat up the boiler, and the diesel engine almost goes away when it catches fire, and at the same time, the diesel engine has to accelerate, which is a matter of a throttle lever.

Push the throttle stick to the head, and the diesel engine in the tail makes a violent roar, pushing the battleship, accelerate, accelerate!

Just after escorting the formation, it could only sail at a speed of less than 15 knots, and now, its speed is constantly increasing, 20 knots, 25 knots, 28 knots!

At the time of design, it was supposed to have a maximum speed of 26 knots, but when it came time for sea trials, due to the excellent design, this kind of battleship was able to soar to a high speed of 28 knots.

Other battleships of the same period almost all had more than 20 knots, so they could fight if they could beat it, and run away if they couldn't.

And now, it's time to catch up and fight!

At this time, the aircraft carrier Bayane was still sailing unhurriedly, and its huge silhouette was becoming clearer and clearer.

If you look at it from the perspective of this era, the 30,000-ton Bayarn is still tall and mighty, and can carry dozens of carrier-based aircraft, which can be regarded as the best among aircraft carriers.

However, from the current point of view of the German Navy, this kind of aircraft carrier is completely backward, needless to say in terms of speed, the deck is straight to the deck, although there are three lifts, but they are all on the deck, and when the lifts are activated, it is simply impossible to operate the aircraft on the deck.

This makes its deck operations quite slow, for example, it once took an hour to recover 20 carrier-based aircraft, and this efficiency, if it was on the battlefield, would have been bombed out long ago.

Normally, there was a fighter fleet, a reconnaissance fleet and an attack fleet on the Byann, but now, on deck, there is only one old biplane reconnaissance aircraft.

Although it does not have much vigilance before taking off, it is undertaking an arduous task after all, and every once in a while, it has to take off a reconnaissance plane to reconnoiter the surrounding sea area.

At this time, the lookout Paul, who was operating his telescope, casually circled the sea area, and suddenly found that there was a battleship behind his own port side, which was chasing him!

It was too far away for him to see the flags fluttering on the masts, and, as an intern, he was not familiar with the wide variety of warships of various countries, and could not distinguish the models by sight.

"Report to the captain that a warship of unknown nationality has been spotted behind us on the port side."

Rear on the port side? After getting this news, the captain on the bridge was stunned for a moment, could it be the two warships that were planned to converge with his side? It shouldn't be, it's not in the right direction, it should be in front of you!

"Immediately send a light identification signal, radio, and contact the other party in the special channel of the Navy." General Laborde said.

In the Bay of Biscay, there was no danger for the time being, and even General Laborde did not expect that it would be a German, he just thought it was one of his own warships.

He raised his binoculars and looked into the distance, but the wind direction was quite bad at this time, and the smoke coming out of the other party's chimney just drifted to the right front of the other party, and he couldn't see it clearly from his own side.

It's just a rough outline.

Light Recognition Signal!

At sea, how to communicate with each other, has always been a difficult problem to solve, in the beginning, or the use of carrier pigeons, fireworks and other ancient means, later, with the continuous progress, the international common flag and light signals, are quite commonly used.

Even though it's daytime, when the lights are aimed at each other, they can still be seen clearly, and then they can use the lights to communicate with each other, which is better than flags in complex situations.

Like now.

At the top of the bridge, the lights were rapidly sending identification signals to the German warships, which were unique to the French Navy, and as long as the other side responded according to the standard signal, it would be able to show that it was their own.

"Report, the other party sent a light identification signal." Here, Karl, the German lookout, had already discovered the other party's intentions and immediately reported to the bridge.

"Leave them alone, let's move on!" On the bridge, the captain of the ship, Admiral Landsdorf, said that his heart was very excited.

Now, your side has accelerated to a high speed of 28 knots, and as long as you drive for another ten minutes, you can drive side by side with the opponent, which is the best attack distance.

The other party was defenseless, and he was still releasing light identification signals to himself, which was simply giving himself a chance!

The rangefinder and radar are working at full speed, the ballistic solver in the command room is buzzing, and now they are ready to shoot, and the shooting elements have been calibrated!

Get closer, wait until you are driving side by side with the other side, and pour all your artillery fire on the top of the opponent's head!

"Report, the other party did not respond." Here, on the bridge of the French aircraft carrier, they have been waiting, but they just can't see the response of the other party.

"It may be that the other party didn't see our light signal, we can try again." The captain said.

General Laborde shook his head: "The reconnaissance plane will take off immediately, be fast!" ”

In his heart, there was a sense of foreboding, as an old sailor who had been floating on the sea for many years, he could see a lot at a glance without tools, such as the speed of the other party.

And now, he always feels that the speed of the other party is very fast, even more than 25 knots, and his own warship is not so fast, is it a Spanish warship?

Hurry up and take off the reconnaissance plane and go to reconnoitre!

Hearing the order, the PO390 reconnaissance plane on the deck finally stopped grinding, after the engine emitted puffs of black smoke, it was started, the pilot wore a flight cap, ready to push the throttle stick, and after the engine was fully open, it took off from the deck to reconnoitre.

This ancient reconnaissance aircraft, which has been in service for 30 years, has an open canopy, which is very beneficial for the observation of pilots.

It's a pity that the old biplane had not yet taken off when a sharp siren was heard.