"We seem to be targeted, and two British warships appeared behind us. Judging from the ship's shape, it seems to be armored cruisers." In the shaking captain's room, Major General Su Xiong fell into deep thought as he looked at the information sent by Redel.

After two days of voyage, the Schánhorst and Gneisenau had successfully rushed out of the North Sea and entered the Norwegian Sea. At this moment, they were turning northwest and planning to cross between the Shetland Islands and the Faroe Islands into the Atlantic Ocean. At this time, the British fleet was gathering in the local area and did not head north. The battle cruiser formation did have the possibility of threatening itself. The four battle cruisers directly under Betty were not in the North Sea, but in Liverpool, which made Major General Su Xiong feel a little uneasy.

"Captain Von Legst suggested that we take action to kill the two guys behind," said an officer.

"What's the reason?" Su Xiong did not speak, but looked at the officer.

"If we maintain the current speed, we will not be able to escape the two warships behind us. He suspected that the British might be planning to use battle cruiser formations to intercept us. The two warships behind us can always keep in touch with each other," the officer said.

"The British did not declare war. Besides, if they wanted to do it, they could have done it in the North Sea long ago." Redel shook his head and said. "We cannot expose our identity and warship performance before we enter the Indian Ocean." Redel was very serious about the word "performance".

Everyone present immediately understood what Raidel meant. So far, the German fleet's confidentiality of the speed of warships was successful. Except for some officers on these warships who knew the exact speed of warships, ordinary sailors were not sure about it. If the Suxiong fleet was exposed, then once the British were prepared, both themselves and the high seas fleet would encounter additional difficulties.

"It's right. If they wanted to do it, they would have done it long ago. However, since they didn't do it in the North Sea, it would be even more difficult to do it on the Atlantic Ocean. There is no need to deal with them, but we also need to cause some trouble for them." After a brief thought, Su Xiong decided to increase the speed of the fleet to 20 knots. This speed is almost the speed of a conventional battleship, and it will not expose the extreme speed.

Under high sea conditions, the Schánhorst and Gneisenau, which have a heavy load displacement of nearly 30,000 tons, can ensure stable navigation, strengthen the bow structure, and arrange thin armored battleships to travel safely, but for the British cruiser behind them, this speed is a bit difficult.

8 nautical miles behind the German fleet are two armored cruisers, the Black Prince and the Cresey. These two armored cruisers have been in service for nearly 8 years. The steam engine and boiler pipelines have become somewhat aging, and the speed of 23 knots has become a theoretical figure. It would be nice to run 21 knots under normal sea conditions, but now, under high sea conditions, it is already awesome for the two warships to run 18 knots.

With the acceleration of the German warships, the two British warships also began to accelerate, but unfortunately, the increasing wind and waves turned the British's efforts into a bubble! Dongdong, the sound of hitting the hull like a heavy hammer kept coming, and the huge warship was shaking on the sea like a pendulum.

"Commander, the former main gun of the Cresey has already flowed into the water, we can't continue to speed up." An officer walked to the fleet commander Goodno and said anxiously.

"Our mission does not require naval guns. Tap them and keep reporting their locations." Goodnow answered without hesitation, but just before he finished speaking, the hull suddenly trembled suddenly, and the violent vibration caused many people in the commander tower to fall to the ground. With the sound of heavy objects falling, people familiar with the navy knew that something was wrong somewhere on the warship.

"It's the bow. Our bow was broken." A few minutes later, Goodno received a dismaying news. "Send a report that our warship has been damaged and cannot continue to perform the tracking mission, and inform the Admiralty of the last position of the other party." Looking at the increasingly smaller and smaller figures of the ship in the distance, Goodno couldn't help but sigh.

What Su Xiong and others did not expect was that at this time the British Admiralty was discussing what to do with these two warships. Yes, the British were indeed fighting the ideology of these two warships, but they did not see through the German conspiracy, but thought that it would be great if they could "buy" these two warships! Add two main battleships and then obtain the German warship technical information. The person who proposed this plan was the current Navy Minister Churchill!

"The value of these two battleships is comparable to that of one of our battleship teams. Even if we cannot join the large fleet in a short period of time, we can still obtain German warship speed, firepower and defense information from them. We will make up for the shortage of our main ships. What we need to pay is only 4.2 million pounds!" Churchill said at the venue.

The British did do this. The British ambassador to Argentina submitted a diplomatic note to buy the two warships, but the Argentine refused. In this way, some people had bad ideas. If it really doesn't work, they should be held first and then bought?

However, this idea was a bit too much after all, and the British government did not directly respond. The navy's approach was very simple. First, send a ship to follow, and then wait until the government agreed, and then send the main fleet to follow, and then detain the ship.

But how to say it? The British finally didn't need to ignite the fire. The two battleships sailed in advance to make the entire plan bankrupt. If they were two days later, they would probably be Betty's four battlecruisers, Tiger, Lion, and Queen Mary. (All of them were in service in this plane) In this case, it would be very difficult to get rid of them. If the British really wanted to be strong, they could only have a 2-for-3 fight...

But now, with the early sailing of Suxiong's fleet, the British's wishful thinking was completely broken, and Betty's battle cruiser formation was not in place at all. It is still on the west coast of Britain and has not been able to keep up with the opponent as soon as possible. Only Goodnow's two armored cruisers barely followed behind the opponent.

Although the British could still go north to intercept opponents, all this was based on Goodnow's stable tracking. But now, even this possibility has disappeared. Goodman's fleet could not catch up with the opponent in high sea conditions. The cannons could tolerate water inflow. Anyway, you don't need to make an output, but if the bow is damaged and the water inflow is severely infiltrated, there is no way... If you run down, the person will not catch up with the ship and sink...

So, Su Xiong and the others did not realize that they had escaped!
Chapter completed!