Greece’s Roman Road - Chapter 222

Mudros Bay on Limous Island, the sea breeze is blowing, the sun is rising, the sea is gleaming, sparkling, and it looks peaceful, and there is no trace of war at all.

The USS Trikupis and USS King George, as well as two destroyer warships, were quietly moored in the naval port.

On the deck of the battleship Trikupis, the crew was doing the morning clean-up work. The soldiers took mops and brushes, bent over to clean the deck, and looked busy.

“Sir, Xianlin telegram, found the Ottoman fleet.” The breathless correspondent, too late to pay attention to etiquette, ran straight to the commander of the fleet, Cantoriotis.

Cantoriotis, who was having breakfast, heard this, his face changed greatly, he threw down his knife and fork, walked quickly to the correspondent, took the telegram, carefully confirmed the content of the telegram, and then said with a serious face: “Sound the alarm. , gather all the staff and go to support immediately”

The correspondent immediately walked into the communication room next to the bridge to send a telegram, while Cantoriotis was walking back and forth in the bridge, considering the purpose of the Ottoman fleet that suddenly appeared.

The behavior of the Ottoman fleet made him a little puzzled. The maximum speed of the Greek destroyers could reach 26 knots. As far as he knew, the Ottoman fleet had been in disrepair and had suffered a serious drop in speed. It was impossible to catch up with the two Greek destroyers.

The destroyers in Greece are all cutting-edge warships that will serve within three years. Such warships are determined to escape, and the old warships of the Ottoman Empire cannot catch up, let alone sink.

But the enemy dispatched the entire fleet with great fanfare, with a clear target, two destroyers patrolling the Ottoman coastal areas.

The two invincible-class battlecruisers of the Greek Navy were purchased from the United Kingdom. Since they are purchased warships, their performance and parameters are certainly no secret.

At present, Turkey has ordered two super dreadnoughts in the UK. When choosing warships, the Ottomans must know the situation of the Invincible-class battlecruisers.

So now the Ottomans wisely gave up the idea of ​​dealing with the Greek war cruisers, and aimed directly at the Greek destroyers.

The eight 1,500-ton destroyers were all built by Greek shipyards. Naturally, the Ottomans did not understand their true performance.

In fact, such important parameters as the maximum speed of warships are very secret military secrets, and the Ottomans will naturally not know the speed of Greek destroyers.

In order to reduce fuel consumption, warships usually sail at cruising speed. Unless under special circumstances, warship commanders generally do not allow sailing at the highest speed.

Ships sailing at maximum speed for a long time will cause irreversible damage to warships.

Therefore, the maximum speed of a warship will not be known unless it is a coincidence.

Thinking of this, Cantoriotis was overjoyed, the enemy made a mistake, and this was the opportunity for the Greek fleet.

Although Ramizbey, who was under pressure, racked his brains and seemed to have come up with a plan to solve the Ottoman Navy’s plight, there was still an obvious omission in this cramming behavior.

Thinking of this, Cantoriotis immediately walked into the communication cabin and instructed the communication soldiers: “Power the Xianlin, let them hold the Ottoman fleet and create time for the main fleet.”

The two opponents used the bait strategy invariably.

The Ottoman fleet used a steamship intended to deal with destroyers patrolling Greece.

The Greek side used two destroyers as bait, but the purpose was the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire.

After 20 minutes of preparation, the entire fleet sailed towards the sea area where the incident occurred at a high speed of 20 knots.

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On the vast sea, the situation of Xinlin and Ramdo was miserable.

Since receiving the telegram from the flagship, the two destroyers on the decoy mission have not dared to directly throw off the Ottoman fleet at high speed, and have maintained a cruising speed of 12 knots, keeping a certain distance from the Ottoman fleet.

“Boom”

A few more shells exploded around the Xinlin, creating a water column that shot up into the sky.

The hull of the Xianlin suddenly vibrated violently, causing the entire crew to stumble.

Sergeant Herum watched in horror as a white water column appeared on the starboard side of the hull, and shouted loudly into the microphone: “Near Missing”

Colonel Chris in the command cabin sank in his heart. The violent turbulence of the hull made the unprepared Colonel Chris slump. The embarrassed Colonel Chris didn’t care to straighten his hat and shouted into the microphone: “All departments report damage. Happening”

In his heart, he cursed secretly: “Damn Ottomans, it’s really good luck”

After several rounds of artillery fire, Captain Chris had already figured out the strength of the opposing Turkey. In terms of artillery skills alone, it was really a mess.

They have been shelled for several rounds, and the pattern of each round of shelling is that there is no pattern.

The bullets landed in a mess, not at all like the standard of artillery skills that a regular navy should have.

So far, this near miss is the best result of the Ottoman fleet.

“No abnormality in the engine room”

“No abnormality in the boiler room”

“The steering gear cabin is slightly flooded and is being repaired”

The recovery from the microphone made Colonel Chris calm down a little.

The formation of the two destroyers fled to the northwest. The purpose was to cooperate with the commander’s decoy plan and lead the Ottoman fleet away from the Dardanelles as much as possible to create opportunities for the main fleet.

In the command module of the battleship Barbarossa Hayreddin, Ramizbey, who was holding a telescope, looked at the figures of the two Greek destroyers surrounded by the blast of water, his face gloomy.

After an hour of negotiation, Ramizbey also felt that it was difficult to ride a tiger.

The tonnage of the Greek destroyers has reached a displacement of 1,500 tons. The four destroyers in the Ottoman naval fleet, with a tonnage of only three or four hundred tons, are not the opponents of the Greek destroyers at all.

The two battleships and the armored cruiser Missidiya, which can threaten the Greek destroyers, cannot catch up with the Greek destroyers~www.mtlnovel.com~ In Ramizbey’s view, the tonnage reaches 1500 tons of destroyers , can be called a light cruiser.

“Stern torpedo, target, enemy battleship,” Colonel Chris said solemnly.

At present, the distance between the two sides is no more than 3,000 yards, and they have entered the attack range of the torpedo.

This is a very risky move. If it weren’t for the poor artillery skills of the Ottoman Navy, it gave Colonel Chris confidence. Under normal circumstances, those who dare to do this are absolutely lunatic.

The two triple-mounted 450mm torpedo tubes at the stern of Xianlin began to rotate slowly.

“The target is locked, the azimuth is 50 degrees to the right, the target speed is 11 knots, the distance is 3000, and the depth is one meter.”

“Ready to launch”

“The launch interval is 3 seconds”

“launch”

Driven by high-pressure gas, 6 fish sprang out of the launch tube in less than 30 seconds, flew overboard, and fell into the sea.

Penetrating the fish under the sea surface, the engine drives the propeller to start to rotate, pulling out six white tracks on the sea surface.

Captain Chris didn’t want the enemy fleet to shoot at his side so comfortably, and wanted to cause some trouble for the enemy, so he wanted to disrupt the enemy’s formation with fish.

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