Chapter 813： Preliminary preparation (1/2)
”My people got a news by chance. They saw 4 battleships in Liverpool with almost the same shape, with 2 huge turrets each in their intensive preparations. Next to this battleship, there are two more battleships. A fast ship, a large number of crew members are assembling cargo. This happened three days ago.” The prince said.
”A battleship with 2 turrets at the front and the rear? Or 4?!” General Boll understood the identity of the opponent at a glance. This is the British Queen Elizabeth-class battleship! Because in all current British battleships, the only battleships with two turrets deployed at the front and the rear are the Queen Elizabeth-class fast battleships and the Vengeance and battleships and the Tiger!
The British Dreadnought Battle Cruiser has two turrets deployed diagonally on the central axis. Both the Dreadnought and Super Dreadnought battleships have 5 turrets, and the Lion and the Great Princess have one turret in the middle. These warships do not meet the description on the appearance, and after excluding most warships, the range of these 4 warships is very small. You can continue to exclude.
4 Revenge class is impossible, because the British now only have 1 Revenge class in service.... Even if it has just recently served one more, the Vengeance-class battleship can’t make up four. As for the tiger? I really want to think that if everyone is at sea, separated by more than ten kilometers, the tiger and the queen may be confused. This is forgivable. But in the port, there is a tiger next to the three queens. If this can be mistaken, it can be called a Liao Zhai... General Bohr believed that the intelligence personnel of the German Navy would never make such a mistake...
”Well, we are now considering this question. Why did these four queens leave the Great Fleet in Liverpool? Of course, some people may say that he may be under maintenance. But from a common sense, these four warships will be more on the east coast of England. Okay, considering the two high-speed merchant ships next to me, I think the queens are going to go far. This is also an important reason I reminded Su Xiong the day before yesterday.”
”But we still need to verify, don't we?” Ball said with some guilty conscience.
”Verify? Don't worry, in the anchorage in the Shetland Islands, the British will install 4 substitutes that look exactly the same as the queen. Some information we need to obtain through other channels.” The prince said grimly. To be honest, the prince really did not have too high expectations for the German navy’s intelligence capabilities. Historically, the leak of the password made the Allies well aware of the German navy’s every move.
The most unbearable thing is that the Bold is Super Fearless after it touched a mine, and the British specially built a fake Bold to prevent this information leak. The media was also issued a password. However, the Germans obtained relevant information and even obtained photos. But the Germans think this is a trick by the British...
”So how do you plan to verify this information?” Admiral Ball's expression became even more embarrassing.
”It's very simple. Just 2 hours ago, I sent a telegram to General Su Xiong. He and his raid ship will pay attention to the abnormal situation in the Indian Ocean and try to contact us as soon as possible. And the Americans are also willing to help. They have camouflaged reconnaissance ships in the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, and they may not be able to find them in a short time, but it is impossible for the British to avoid all eyes.”
There are only two theoretical roads for the British fleet to go to the Indian Ocean. It goes through the Atlantic Ocean, bypasses Africa and then enters the Indian Ocean. If the British really go like this, would they want to catch two fast battleships that have just left the port in the Indian Ocean? Wash and sleep, the British ship conditions may be worse than the Suxiong fleet. After they arrived in the Indian Ocean, they estimated that the first thing they did was to go to Mumbai or another major port to make a ”big sword”. As for why Su Xiong can? Nonsense, Su Xiong's fleet caught a slow transport ship with a speed of less than 10 knots. The British caught a fast battleship that rose 25 knots away. Could it be the same?