In the first real battle, the Tiger tank played an alarming exchange ratio! 9 Tigers destroyed at least 17 vehicles of various types, 7 of which were Type 29 tank destroyers! Such a record was absolutely impossible for the Germans to imagine in the past! Even in the case of the greatest superiority of the Germans, a Type 29 tank destroyer could kill 2.5 German tanks! However, despite the impressive record, Nespel was unable to continue the pursuit, on the one hand, because the Tiger tank was a fierce tiger on the battlefield, but the same was true of fuel consumption, and the Tiger that had rushed all the way from the landing without supplies ran out of fuel quickly after a battle. And although not a single Tiger tank was destroyed, many shells still hit the load wheels or tracks, and 5 out of 9 Tiger tanks were out of the battle! As night fell, in order to avoid being attacked in the night battle, Max, who had already suffered a lot of losses in troops, decided to defend first.

Just when the Germans were gaining a foothold in southern France and both sides were accumulating strength for the upcoming battle, the well-planned German Navy's South Atlantic Storm operation finally kicked off, and the camouflaged assault ship forces and submarine forces responsible for breaking diplomatic relations and containing had cooperated with each other to show their sharp fangs on the Allied transport lines in the South Atlantic! And the guerrilla fleet of 4 main cruisers is also hidden in the depths of the ocean and is ready to go! An invisible noose began to slowly slip on the opponent! The target is not just the transport fleet of the Entente!

The Penguin raid ship has had bad luck these days, according to intelligence it has tracked several convoys, and the area it is responsible for is the coastal area of Argentina, which is the only way from the Strait of Magellan to the Atlantic, from which a large number of Allied merchant ships went north as the war progressed. But it is a pity that the Americans have implemented centralized escort measures, and a large fleet of more than a dozen or even dozens of ships will be escorted by several destroyers or auxiliary cruisers or even light cruisers, although the Penguin is improved with a high-speed cruise ship, and it is the best camouflage attack ship in terms of hull strength and weapons! The raid ship had four seaplanes parked on the aft deck, and there was also a hangar for aircraft maintenance at all times. A total of 12 guns of various calibers were placed on the deck, including 4 170MM naval guns dismantled from the old ships of World War 1! This gun was finalized at the beginning of the 20th century! It is no exaggeration to call it an antique cannon. IN ADDITION, THERE ARE 6 105MM GUNS AND 2 150MM SUBMARINE DECK GUNS. IN ADDITION TO THE SEA-TO-SEA ARTILLERY, THE SHIP HAD A NUMBER OF 20MM AND 40MM CANNONS AND 6 TORPEDO TUBES, 4 ON THE WATER. 2 below the waterline.

Thanks to the huge hull and the size of a high-speed cruise ship, the ship can carry hundreds of various mines in addition to the above-mentioned weapons. as well as several light speedboats. Of course, the most commendable thing about this ship is its speed, thanks to the powerful power system, this ship can reach speeds of up to 28 knots! This is for a ship of less than 20,000 tons. It's pretty good to be able to reach such a high speed. If it weren't for the fact that the hull structure was too fragile and the ship was not of good shape, the USS Penguin would have served as an aircraft carrier reserve! Moreover, this ship originally existed as an important node in the operation of breaking diplomatic relations, he could replenish the submarine with torpedoes and fuel, had a high-power radio station and a new cipher machine, and had strong communication capabilities. And it is also equipped with special electronic jamming equipment! It can be said that this is a masterpiece among assault ships! But alas! No matter how strong the assault ship is, it is impossible to fight against a light cruiser! Amateurs can't beat professionals!

So the penguins could only watch the fleets slip away in front of them. But there is an exception to everything, and just when the captain of the Penguin, Hoss, was depressed that he had only caught a few small fish recently, a slender figure appeared in view! The seaplanes that then took off reported the identity of the merchant ship. "It's supposed to be a high-speed cruise ship on the Grain God! Transporting tasks alone! "Exciting news from the reconnaissance plane! The Americans' transport fleet is divided into two types, one is a low-speed fleet cluster with escorts, and the other is a high-speed sea sailing alone with high-speed ships. If your speed is more than 20 knots, then you can basically avoid the blow of the submarine, and it is obviously not appropriate to equip a high-speed warship with a high-speed ship for cargo transportation, and the high-speed sailing endurance of the destroyer is insufficient, so in the case of unnecessary and insufficient warships, some high-speed merchant ships are decisively single-handed! The Grain God is such a lone ranger!

As a lone ranger, the Grain God also has another title in addition to its identity as a transport ship, that is, an auxiliary cruiser! After all, if you go alone, you are afraid of encountering a robbery! As a result, the Grain God filled up both the high-speed transport and auxiliary cruiser skill trees at the same time! As the saying goes, it's a bit of a skill to mix it up. When the Penguin found the target, Major Hoss didn't expect this guy who seemed to be able to run so hard!

"We seem to be targeted!" The Americans are not stupid, they were alert when they saw a seaplane in the air, and when they found out that there was an unidentified high-speed boat behind them. I even felt that the comer was not good. The opponent is a frontal volley, and now the speed is faster than himself! Captain Billy, the captain of the ship, decisively raised the radio alarm, but unfortunately there was nothing on the radio except a rustling sound! "It's hard to get a stubble! The fleet is in combat readiness at the first level! "Captain Billy gave the order decisively!

I don't know if the Americans are unlucky, or if the gods of war and other sacrifices are in a hurry. At this critical moment, something went wrong with one of the engines of the Grain God, and the speed plummeted to about 20 knots, and in the face of the Penguin attack ship that was rushing at the top speed of 28 knots, the Americans could only prepare for the worst, under the command of officers at all levels. The ship's U.S. officers and crew made final combat preparations, shells were lifted from ammunition depots, soldiers donned steel helmets and life jackets, other personnel piled rolls of cloth around running positions and superstructures to reduce damage from shrapnel supplies, and medical personnel prepared bandages and first-aid medicines. TO BE HONEST, THE GRAIN GOD IS ALSO WELL ARMED, THERE ARE 6 152MM GUNS AND 4 90MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS AND SOME SMALL-CALIBER RAPID-FIRE GUNS ON BOARD, USING THESE WEAPONS, THE GRAIN GOD EVEN SANK A GERMAN RAIDER WITH A DISPLACEMENT OF 5,000 TONS IN A NAVAL BATTLE, AND THE SHIP REALLY WANTED TO BE CALLED THOR! Before encountering the grain god, the mines laid by the Thor and the ship's naval guns had already sent 8 Allied transport ships with a total of 45,000 tons of merchant ships to the bottom of the sea! And after this battle, Captain Billy was not only not afraid of encountering the opponent's attack ship at sea, but had a trace of expectation! After all, real soldiers are eager to fight!

As a result, the first artillery battle of a battleship of more than 10,000 tons in World War II was actually carried out by two auxiliary warships converted from cruise ships! The tonnage of the two sides is similar, the volume is about the same, and the firepower is equally sorry for the tonnage. The guy who can't talk about armor protection starts fighting! Because there was no defense in other places, except for a few vital parts, there was no defense, so both sides decisively used high-explosive shells and semi-armor-piercing shells! Two warships fought a naval battle in the late 30s of the 20th century in the 90s of the 19th century!

Rumble! When the Penguin's guns roared for the first time, Billy chuckled in his heart. "That's not right!" Look at the smoke from the muzzle of the cannon in the distance and the huge fireball just now. Billy decisively guessed the caliber of the opponent's artillery, which was definitely larger than his own caliber of 152 guns! "When did the Germans become so generous! The raiding ships are so generous! "A grenade weighing more than 70 kilograms landed less than 15 meters away from the Grain God, and the huge water column from the explosion soaked the foredeck, but the most unfortunate thing was that the debris from the explosion in the water of the near-miss bomb punched several holes in the thin hull plate. Several sealed cabins in the bow of the ship were flooded! Compared with warships, the sealed cabins of civilian ships are much worse in terms of quantity and design. In a few minutes, the poor merchant ship was in a few hundred tons of water!

"Closer! Move fast! Major Hoss exclaimed. THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TWO BATTLESHIPS WAS RAPIDLY REDUCED, AND THE GUNS OF BOTH SIDES CONTINUED TO ROAR, AND THE PENGUIN WAS CLOSER TO THE WARSHIP THAN THE GRAIN GOD, ITS FOUR 170MM GUNS WERE ARRANGED ALONG THE CENTRAL AXIS, AND THERE WAS ALSO SIMPLE PROTECTION AND A MORE ADVANCED LOADING-SERVO SYSTEM. THE 6 150MM GUNS OF THE GRAIN GOD ARE DEPLOYED ON BOTH SIDES. Neither in terms of quantity nor quality, it is no match for the former. The distance between the two sides was about 8 kilometers, and each other's shells swept through the air and rained on each other's heads with destruction and flames, and the civilian hulls really did not resist! Just a few minutes after the battle began, the Penguin was also broken. A 6-inch high-explosive bomb tore open the test side, and after the explosion, it directly penetrated several cabins, and the deck more than 20 meters long was swept away by a violent explosion! The fragile partition turned into fragments, and the decisive ones helped to crush the nearby German officers and soldiers! But the boat on the other side is even worse! In just a few minutes, the entire upper deck had turned into a sea of fire! As the two sides approached further, it went directly from stabbing with a gun to a close-range face-tearing battle! EVEN THE 20MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS WERE FLATTENED FOR DESIGN, IF IT WASN'T STILL A LITTLE FAR AWAY, BOTH SIDES EVEN PLANNED TO LEARN FROM THE NAVAL BATTLES OF THE SAIL ERA, AND THE CREW COPIED THE GUNS!

IN THE MEDIUM-RANGE DESIGN, THE ATTACK OF THE MORE RATIONALLY ARRANGED AND MORE POWERFUL 170MM HEAVY GUNS QUICKLY OVERWHELMED THE OPPONENT, AND ONE GUN POSITION OF THE GRAIN GOD WAS DESTROYED. If it weren't for the fact that a US non-commissioned officer risked his life to flood the ammunition compartment, I am afraid that the outcome of the waiting merchant ship would have turned into a volcano, and the two sides would have fought for only ten minutes. The Grain God is already in full decline.

The firepower of the medium-caliber naval guns is absolutely deadly for this kind of merchant ship, with very little armor protection, watertight coffee tables and limited damage management personnel, the attack of both sides can be described as bullets and bullets! In a short time, the two ships were beaten like moving torches, and the flames spread across the deck, and the hull plates were covered with bullet marks and burn marks. Occasionally, there will be a few pieces of burnt black minced meat and dark black blood stains or something! However, the Penguin quickly gained an overwhelming advantage! But it seems that the goddess of fate did not want to let this battle end like this, and just as Major Hoss was about to take advantage of the victory to seal the victory in one fell swoop, a 6-inch shell fired from the opposite side successfully pierced the thin steel plate outside the torpedo bay and detonated the compressed air used to fire the torpedo! The Germans were not stupid, and after discovering the ferocious firepower of the other side, they decisively threw the torpedo on the waterline into the sea to prevent the explosion. But the compressed air bottle was not thrown away!

The energy emitted by the detonation of more than a dozen cylinders was really terrifying, and the violent explosion directly tore apart the nearby deck in pieces! Even the back half of the bridge was blown to the ground. Major Hoss, who coincided with the great change, had to decide to evacuate first and save the battleship. But Major Hoss is not willing to go! Looking at the Grain God, which was gradually pulling away, Hoth decided to strike the final blow before leaving! The huge battleship has once again launched an attack on the already faltering Grain God! The bow of the ship was aimed at the side hull of the Grain God, and when it was close to 3 kilometers, the two torpedo tubes in the lower part of the hull opened violently, and under the impetus of compressed air, two torpedoes came out of the hull, and at this moment the God of Fate once again turned the wheel of fate, and the torpedo that was supposed to be an attempt to attack accurately hit the front of the hull of the Grain God, and hundreds of kilograms of explosives directly cut off the bow of the 20,000-ton ship! In just a few minutes, Billy, who had thought he had escaped, sank into the sea with the Cereal, and the ship sank so fast that the Penguin couldn't come to the rescue!

However, before the battle sank, the Grain God still gave the Penguin a big gift! Billy activated the backup radio and sent a clear telegram to the surrounding fleet! The explosion of the compressed air cylinder directly destroyed the jammer stored on the rear bridge, so the grain god was able to send the information. So although the Grain God finally sank with tens of thousands of tons of various materials, the Penguin that won by luck was not without danger, and at this time, it became the prey under the searchlight and could be hunted at any time!

The telegram of the Grain God rippled like a stone thrown into a pond. Many Allied transport ships received this telegram and forwarded it in order to inform friendly forces of the threat in this area. Because of the distance and the enormous pressure in Europe, the U.S. Navy has very limited forces in the South Atlantic. Except for the warships that accompanied the escort, there were no other warships cruising the seas. He hesitated when the commander of the TP35 transport flotilla, Colonel Bronck, was the closest American fleet to the target, with 4 destroyers, 2 auxiliary cruisers with some armament, and 1 light cruiser under his command. THE JUNO WAS HIS FLAGSHIP AND THE MOST FORMIDABLE WARSHIP IN THE KNOWN SEAS, WITH NINE 175MM GUNS. Armor defense is sufficient to block 6-inch L55 shells from medium distance. Speeds up to 33 knots! He considers himself the king of the seas!

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