On the west coast of Africa, the temperature is not low at all, even if it is almost December, in order to ensure that the other party is detected early enough, Schell raised the detection balloon early, even if this detector is only able to be in the air of about 100 meters, but it can expand the field of vision several times, plus the use of northwest technology, the lens is a telescopic equipment produced by Germany, which can be the first time to find ships 45 nautical miles away.

In Scheer's fleet, in addition to the sounding hot air balloon, there are also small airships, but compared to the sounding balloon, the volume of the airship is too large, easy to be discovered by the other party, if the other party is 45 nautical miles away, they find the sounding balloon, and turn to escape, no matter how powerful the battleship is, it will not be able to catch them.

The fleet continued northward, an hour, two hours, three hours, and it seemed that it was lucky not to meet the other side to search the fleet, just when Scheer thought that God was on his side today, but luck was not always with him, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, deep into the danger zone 175 nautical miles, almost about to pass out, the detection balloon found in the northwest, a search fleet.

The sounding balloon quickly determined the size of the fleet, as if this was no ordinary search team, as far as they could see, there were 6 warships, and at least 23 ships of various sizes, which could be two fleets together.

It's unlucky, one search team, and two search teams, these are completely different concepts, close to 30 ships, even if the Scheer fleet is extremely powerful, it is not easy to deal with it, but 45 nautical miles, for the two sides traveling at high speed. There is not much time left to think about, and at most it will take more than an hour to meet.

"Up!" Scheer was a few seconds later. The decision was made, and the brave will win when they meet on a narrow road. Even if it fails, thousands of miles of sea frontier, all the way from the Far East, in order to return, you always have to meet, sooner or later.

Sirens sounded on the 9 warships, and the sounding balloons were also put away, if the opponent did not have strong enough telescope equipment. If they don't keep looking at this area, under the current sea conditions, the distance they find will be within 10 nautical miles, or even 8 nautical miles, which is enough for a high-speed warship.

In the middle of this, Scheer also specifically asked the command system to help, because it was not a duel on the battle line, and the 9 warships did not need to be crowded together. Only separation is the best option, and when the time comes, the distance between the nine ships will form a distance of 3-5 nautical miles, taking the form of a semi-encirclement approaching each other. Further compress the opponent's space, in this case, the power of the salvo cannot be exerted. The only way to do this is to use the command system.

Wu Jing, this one is only 20 years old. A soldier who has been in the army for 2 years is in charge of this duty. He adjusted his breath slightly, and came to Europe, where the command system was about to go to the battlefield for the first time, although in the exercise, the command system had performed well enough, but it was in the exercise, and this time it was really on the stage.

One side deliberately, the other side did not find that the distance between 45 nautical miles, with the full efforts of both sides, gradually approached, especially in the middle of an hour, this area also fell for almost 15 minutes of light rain, this rain came at the right time, the light rain, obscuring the sight of both sides, so that the battleship was a little closer, approaching within 8 nautical miles.

Mark is in a very bad mood, as the captain of the destroyer USS Billy, the captain of the 19th search team, he is bored here, he has been searching for half a month, his spirit is tired enough, search and search, there is a target, it is called search, there is no target, it is just repetitive labor, hundreds of nautical miles around, back and forth, it has already turned dozens of circles, for an illusory possibility, will Scheer's East Asian fleet come back, the fleet of the Entente is blocked in the Baltic Sea, the 9 capital ships of Scheer's fleet, unless it has wings, Otherwise, they will not be able to fly at all, and they will only be able to be annihilated by the concentration of forces and superiority by the Entente, and if they are a little smarter, they will not come back.

Fortunately, his fleet, as long as he completes this round of inspection, can go to the port to rest for 10 days, tired for so long, he can finally rest, although there are at least more than 200 nautical miles from the harbor, but his heart, almost flew over.

While he was thinking about it, the alarm suddenly sounded, and Mark was taken aback by the alarm, and then shouted at him, asking his subordinates what was going on.

Because of a rain, the Scheer fleet has approached about 7 nautical miles, only to be discovered by the search fleet, the lookout in charge of the lookout, looking at the 9 huge capital ships, was startled by these sudden appearance of battleships, these fleets, at a glance, are capital ships, at this moment, almost all the capital ships of the Entente are in the Baltic Sea, sporadic activities in the Mediterranean, it is impossible to appear here, although it is relatively hasty, can not see the other party's form, but it is friend or foe, he is in a panic, I didn't have time to report, so I sounded the siren directly.

The poignant siren startled the entire fleet, and those civilian ships began to move closer to the destroyers, no matter what happened, the warships were always the last umbrella.

After more than a minute, Mark asked to understand everything, and he was also startled, 9 ships, the same number as the capital ships of Scheer's fleet, Scheer's fleet, which I thought was impossible to appear here, appeared here in a grand manner, and rushed towards him, thinking with his toes, he could figure out what Scheer wanted to do, he was also an experienced officer, and immediately gave an order, ordering all ships, divided into different directions, to leave immediately, and to escape as much as they could.

Mark knows very well that their fleet is not the opponent of the other side at all, and even said that the entire search fleet of this generation of blockade on the west coast of Africa, together, is not the opponent of the Scheer fleet, the capital ship, only the capital ship can deal with, not even tens of thousands of tons of former dreadnoughts, let alone him, their role is to discover each other, report to the Admiralty, so that the Admiralty can calmly drop the fleet, annihilate these 9 warships, and lay the foundation for the next decisive battle at sea with Germany.

Mark didn't delay for long, but from the time he received the signal to the time he gave the order, there were only less than 5 minutes, but for a high-speed battleship, in 5 minutes, a battleship like the Fantasy class had already traveled more than 2 nautical miles, plus the search fleet that was still moving forward before it had time to turn around, the distance between the two sides had narrowed to about 4 nautical miles.

4 nautical miles, a little more than 7 kilometers, this distance, for most of the naval guns, is a very suitable range of attack, originally, the Scheer fleet was ready to get closer, saw that the opposing ships began to disperse, ready to flee, immediately issued an attack order.

As soon as the order was issued, Wu Jing immediately began to integrate the shooting elements according to the data in all the observation posts, the excellent performance of the computer, under the program that had been prepared, it only took a few seconds to complete the calculation, and then the position classification was sent to different artillery, although, this command system, the calculation power is limited, in addition to the salvo, at most 4 targets are controlled, but it is already quite good, 9 ships, divided into 4 parts, jointly attack 4 destroyers, each destroyer is aimed at at least 20 guns, After balancing the bullet point, the hit rate is already quite high.

Sure enough, after one round, two of the 4 targets were directly hit, the 15-inch gun, even if it was a high-explosive shell, not an armor-piercing shell, for a destroyer that did not have enough protection, and even a relatively old destroyer, it was also fatal, one shot hit the front, directly a 1500-ton destroyer, the front class A was interrupted by half, covering the turret in front, the fire burned for almost 5 minutes, this destroyer sank, and the other shot was even more Caspian Sea, directly hit the rear, Not only did it penetrate the powder room, but it also broke a destroyer in two.

A wave of attacks hit two shots, or a fast, small destroyer, the effectiveness of the aiming system can be seen, Mark's eyes suddenly, how can it be so accurate, and it is all warships, he seems to understand the other party's intentions, the speed of the warship is fast, if you scatter and escape, it is the most likely to escape, the rest does not matter, the merchant ship is up to 15 knots, the fishing boat is only less than 10 knots, even if you escape, you can catch up, the opponent's warship, I really don't know what power system is used, it actually has a speed of at least 25 knots!

Mark wanted to escape, but also as much as possible, but unfortunately, the ideal is beautiful, the reality is cruel, 9 capital ships, only 4 rounds of shooting, less than 1 and a half minutes, to complete the attack on 6 giant ships, the speed is so fast, it is simply beyond imagination, they can't even surrender, as long as they are grazed by a 15-inch gun, basically there is only one option: silence.

When the 6 warships were sent to the bottom of the sea one by one, the Scheer fleet continued to attack other ships with great might, whether it was a cargo ship or a merchant ship, of course, it would not be so wasteful, using the main gun, the absolute advantage in speed, plus they had just completed the turn, wasting time, one-on-one pursuit, 15 minutes later, on the huge sea surface, only wreckage remained, a search formation of 29 ships was completely wiped out by Scheer's fleet, and they couldn't even send out any information.

After doing all this, the Scheer fleet did not stay in place and risked rushing through the defense line, even if it was to completely annihilate the other party, there was not much time, maybe 7 days at most, 3 days at the least, provided that he could break through this defense line, he had to hurry up.

The Scheer fleet immediately turned north, and went away at maximum speed, leaving behind a piece of wreckage, and the lives of thousands of Englishmen, although some were not killed at that time, but were directly hit by the ship's guns, it was impossible to live, and the rest of the lucky ones, relying on a plank, barely floated on the sea, and in the wind and waves of the next few days, a large number of people died, and in the end, no more than 5 people survived. (To be continued.) )