My Italian: Chapter 647 Spey Fleet Middle

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The sun was shining brightly on the blue sea, and at noon a fleet was sailing. It can be seen from the flag flying on the ship that this is an Australian transport fleet.

The fleet has eleven ships, mainly loaded with various blankets, leather, and some food and other materials. They just departed from Sydney early this morning. This is to prepare for Kolkata after going north to the Indonesian archipelago.

Today's Australia is basically based on a farm economy, and it is not a country sitting on a mine, so it mainly relies on animal husbandry.

And with a land of more than 8 million people, there are enough Australians with less than 5 million people to be big farmers, so don't live too much.

Of course, the arrival of the war made Australians show their loyalty to Great Britain, and thousands of Australians were conscripted into the army and went to the battlefield.

Of course, the Australian Navy is also being called up, but the ones being called up are mainly more advanced ones. For small warships like the Agile that served in the 1990s, they can only be reserved for **** missions.

For Captain Philip of the Agility, the **** mission is too ordinary, but for the sailors of the Agile who have only joined the army for a few months, it is great to be able to participate in the **** mission. Not too dangerous, but also able to get exercise, and not tiring, it can be described as the perfect task.

But soon, whether it was Captain Philip, who was eager for meritorious service, or the rookie sailor who had only been in the army for a few months, they didn't care about this anymore.

"There is a smoke column in the east, and a ship is coming."

The lookout reported his new discovery loudly.

To the east of the report by the crew of the Agility, the lookout of the Pierre, the forward of the Spey fleet, was also reporting his findings.

"Report, a fleet was found in the west. Through the observation of the telescope, it is a transport fleet. There should be one or two **** warships."

As a reconnaissance cruiser, Pierre's firepower is not strong, but it is quite good in speed and reconnaissance. Its maximum speed of 29 knots is much higher than that of ordinary cruisers. In addition, the ship installed an optical detection instrument more than 3 meters long in Shanghai. These are all optical instruments equipped with warships of more than 10,000 tons, which will allow the Pierre to detect opponents earlier and understand the situation earlier.

Therefore, in front of this professional maritime reconnaissance ship, there is no way to hide traces of ships such as the Agility.

"Send a telegram to the fleet to inform us of the situation here."

Spey, who was more than ten nautical miles behind him, called back and ordered him to monitor the fleet, and they would arrive soon. Obviously, Pace does not intend to continue to hide, and wants to take down this Australian transport fleet.

The Pierre, which received the order, began to follow the fleet, which was still at a loss, from afar.

On the side of the transport fleet, the crew on the Agility felt strange seeing the plume of smoke lingering in the east without seeing the ship.

"What's wrong with this ship?"

"Is there a power failure?"

"Or let's go and see what's going on."

Don't blame the Agile crew for not thinking this could be an enemy, because it was so unexpected. Who would have thought that an enemy would appear near the east coast of Australia, not to mention these crew members, even Captain Philip, who hated not being able to go to the battlefield, never thought of it.

"Turn around, let's go over and see what's going on."

Following Captain Philip's order, the Agility turned away from the escorting convoy and headed eastward.

"In some cases, the plume of smoke has become more intense. It seems that a fleet has converged."

Before the Agile got closer to see clearly, the lookout hurriedly reported the new situation.

"What fleet?"

Hearing this, Captain Philip raised his binoculars to observe. At this time, including him, the entire crew of the Agile had not yet realized the danger.

At this time, Lieutenant General Spey, who had just arrived, rushed towards this fleet with a battleship.

"It's a warship, and these ships are warships."

At this moment, the watchman who finally saw the ship clearly cried out in surprise.

"Why did you encounter a battleship here, and you couldn't send a telegram to notify me? Could it be..."

At this moment, Captain Philip still felt that the situation was very strange, but soon his professional knowledge made him think of a chilling possibility, and at this moment his whole face became uneasy.

And at this moment, the watchman who saw the flag on the opponent's battleship clearly also let out a trembling scream. "This is the enemy, they are warships from Germany and Italy, and they are rushing towards us!"

At this moment, the screeching of the lookout caused confusion among the crew on board. They were only recruits who had only been in the army for a few months, and it was normal for them not to know what to do in the face of emergencies.

Fortunately, officers such as the first mate and bosun of the Agility have served for many years and know how to appease these newcomers.

As for Captain Philip, after discovering the enemy ship, he issued several orders in a row. "Immediately send a telegram to the fleet. We found an enemy fleet in the southeast of us. I suspect that the opponent is the German and Italian fleet that was hiding before. Tell them to disband the formation and flee immediately. Also send a telegram to Sydney and tell them the fourth transport fleet. At the position of longitude 152.75162 north latitude -33.14726, the German and Italian fleet was attacked. At the same time, the warship was ordered to turn, and we sailed north."

That's right, after the captain Philip reported the situation and the fleet disbanded and each fled for their lives, he planned to turn the bow of the ship and try to escape.

Although it is a fine tradition of the British Navy to strike at the enemy, this does not mean that it is allowed to act recklessly, at least for now, if this tradition is adopted, it means suicide. As for the Royal Australian Navy, which has just been established, of course it knows how to adapt.

After all, blocking the opponent's entire fleet with hundreds of tons of Agility, there is no reason to do so other than death. The opponent only needs a few minutes to send Agile back to the west.

It is unclear whether Sydney received the telegram from the Agility, but the Pace fleet was definitely the first to receive it.

"Report, radio waves have just been found near us, the content is unknown."

"Okay, I see."

For this radio wave, Pace knew without thinking about it. The other party must be reporting his location and specific situation, and he didn't care about it.

He knew that even if Sydney received the news, it would not pose much threat to him.

Because he has been to Sydney, he is also very familiar with Sydney's coastal defense situation. The largest caliber of its current coastal defense facilities are two 240mm coastal defense guns. However, these two guns are the artillery of retired warships in the last century, and they pose little threat to themselves. As for other coastal defense guns such as 152mm and 127mm, let alone.

Of course, if the main force of the Australian Navy is in Sydney, then Lieutenant Admiral Spey is looking for a dead end. Before the war, the Australian Navy had a powerful strength of one battle cruiser, one battleship, five cruisers and more than a dozen other ships.

But now its main force has already been withdrawn, and the rest of UU Reading www.uukanshu.com are warships like the Agility that can only be used for second-line missions such as escort. With these warships, he can also block the attack of his Pacific Fleet, even if Nelson is resurrected, he can't do it.

"Order the ships to attack and sink all the merchant ships."

Looking at the fleeing merchant ships, Lieutenant General Spey didn't have much time to waste. He didn't intend to capture these merchant ships, but to sink them all directly.

As for the result, there is no need to think about it. How could a merchant ship with a run of about ten knots escape the pursuit of a battleship with more than twenty knots, so in the next two hours, all the transport ships of the fourth transport fleet were sunk one after another.

As for the agile number, which turned around and ran away when the situation was not good, it really escaped. The reason is simple, you can't outrun the tiger, but you can outrun your teammates. When the tiger cleans up his teammates, he will run away and disappear.

Although they will have big troubles later, at least their lives are saved for now.

After solving the transport fleet, the Pace fleet rushed to Sydney.

(end of this chapter)