"Damn, they surrendered so quickly! We didn't even have the chance to fire!" Major Staff said furiously. Just when the Marco Polo cruiser was still struggling on the sea and the Italian Navy had not given up protecting its army colleagues, the Zara transport ship carrying 3,000 Italian Army lowered the national flag and raised the white flag!

"Captain, what should we do? We can't take thousands of prisoners to Turkey, right? If we let them go, then maybe in the afternoon, they will take another ship to North Africa." An officer next to him was also a little depressed. After the warships carrying supplies, artillery and horses were sunk, all the supplies on it were finished, but what should we do with these 3,000 Italian troops? They sank the ship directly and then shoot to death? This matter must not be done like this!

In fact, during the Battle of 1, the sea battlefield was still very gentlemanly. For example, when Earl Lukner captured too many prisoners, he used the captured ship to release the prisoners, and as long as the other party expressed that he would not disclose the count's whereabouts when he was at sea. For example, some German attack ships on it also gave an additional salary when releasing the captured personnel......

So, it is definitely not possible to just hold these people to death in the water, but just putting them back like this is not a waste of work? Staff was so unwilling!

"We always have to make these Italians pay something!" Staff said to himself.

"They seem to be engineer troops. Maybe they can't fight, but if we can take some people away, then we can build a port in Turkey faster!" said an officer next to him.

"That's it. We have to hurry up." Just as Major Staff agreed to this suggestion, Schell once again sent a signal that a warship transporting arms and supplies had sunk, and the other three ships gave up their resistance without any hope of resistance, and these ships naturally could not be wasted. Schell planned to use these ships and mines to seal the port of Taranto!

"Arranging personnel to take over the ship, Prince Albert will provide fire cover, we sank these three ships on the waterway of the port of Taranto!" Schell conveyed an order with a telegram.

Most of the captured Italian personnel left on lifeboats, some were taken to the Swordfish, while the other part operated three transport ships to return to Taranto under the threat of German soldiers and blocked the port with shipwrecks. Although this method was old, it was really useful!

"Busy Port of Taranto! It seems we are right this time!" After the morning mist completely dissipated, Scher's fleet also arrived at the periphery of the Port of Taranto. At this time, another fleet sailed out of the port under the guidance ship, and this time they happened to hit Scher's muzzle!

"It seems we don't have to sink the ship ourselves, just sink them! Now open fire!" In the surprise eyes of the Italians, the Scher fleet launched the first round of attacks! The armored cruiser of the Prince of Albert was responsible for suppressing the turrets on both sides of the port, while the Swordfish rushed over directly and attacked the fleet struggling to leave the port within less than 2,000 meters!

"We started shooting from 1,800 meters, then gradually approached, and even reached a distance of 500 meters! In the end, our 150mm cannon basically fired on the other party's forehead! The Italian ship was very unsolid. The first ship was a coal ship, which was a large ship with about 8,000 tons of dwt. It was already very drafty and lacked buoyancy. It took us less than 5 minutes to solve it. It was just that two holes were opened on the side of its ship, and it quickly overturned, and in the end, only half of the stern was exposed to the water."

"The second target should be a ship transporting ammunition. After discovering us, he tried his best to avoid it. Unfortunately, a shell from where he flew directly hit the ammunition on the ship, and a loud noise like thunder rang throughout the battlefield. The shock wave generated by the explosion formed a visible air wave spreading around! The scene at that time was too terrible, and the violent explosion even tore a troop ship behind it into pieces! The scene at that time was too terrible. God, you will definitely forgive our unintentional actions, is that right?"

"The fourth and fifth ships did not make any attempt to rush out of the port. They retreated back into the port, but when they returned, they blocked the torpedo boat they wanted to come out. The entire channel was in chaos." A few simple strokes outlined the chaotic scene at that time. The Italians were blocked at the door of their house without any precautions and beaten up.

The chaotic battlefield situation made the balance of victory more inclined to the German fleet. There were no large warships in the port of Taranto, and when the torpedo boats could not go out, the only thing that could be relied on was the shore defense turret!

Just when the Swordfish attacking ship was blocking the port of Taranto, the transport fleet that was preparing to leave the port was being killed and was already preparing to be super gods, the cruiser Prince Albert was also suppressing the artillery outside the port of Taranto. The Italians did not expect that the war would break out at their doorstep, and even more unexpected that the "Turks" fleet would directly attack the military port. The naval artillery personnel were unable to be full, and very few could reach the artillery position in a hurry.

The result is that the truly powerful large-caliber coastal defense artillery failed to work, and the 6-inch guns and 4.7-inch guns were the main forces of resistance. Although the shells fired by these guns did not have any practical effect. Scattered shells fell into the water, and some unlucky gun positions were suppressed by fierce ship guns before they could fire a few shots.

"Forget it, save some shells, let's attack the two warships installed!" Scher was very disappointed with the performance of the Italians. Their shore artillery was not worthy of his waste of precious shells to suppress. The two warships installed were blocked by the breakwater. Only one or two exposed masts were seen, but the tower crane next to them marked the other's position.

The main rangefinder rotated slowly, and the tower crane was clearly printed in the field of view. After calculating the distance based on the height of the tower crane, the 8 10-inch main guns slowly turned and began to cover and shoot the two warships next to the tower crane based on the situation of prior reconnaissance! The distance between the two sides was 8,500 meters. Although the distance was a little farther, this time they were shooting a fixed target!

"Fire!" The four gun barrels suddenly shrank back, and the shells with a total weight of 1 ton flew out of the barrel at a speed of nearly 800 meters per second. With a harsh whistling sound, they landed around the target like a doomsday meteorite! A shell directly hit the bottom of a tower crane, and exploded the tower crane, which was more than 30 meters high like a hot knife cutting butter!

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