C2738 Unidentified fleet

After all, Prussia was a new industrial country, their foundation was far worse than France's. In order to prepare for this war, Prussia had exhausted almost all of his national power, so they managed to pull out an army that could compete with the French Army.

Prussia no longer had the money to invest in the navy. Even in such an important strategic location like the Eastern Frisian Islands, they did not have a single gun emplacement.

The limited cannons were concentrated in hamburger, Wilhelm military Hong Kong and other places, so the long coastline was completely unguarded!

Furthermore, Bismark's order to the navy this time was very simple. It was to guard and wait for reinforcements, and no naval vessel is allowed to take the initiative to fight the enemy, because the outcome of the battle will undoubtedly lead to death.

In order to preserve a bit of the future Imperial Navy Seeds, Bismark even left two troops on the west coast of Prussia. He was relying on the army to defend the long coastline.

It was because of the existence of this kind of perverse strategy of avoiding war in the Navy that Huo Fu's fleet ran rampant as if there was no one around.

The four important islands of Bolkum, Juste, Norderney, and Lange, almost without resistance, were easily overrun by the French, who were now ready to land from the Lower Saxon state across the islands and the continental straits.

However, Huo Fu's ambition was not only to get into battle with Bremei and the Hanover. These places did not have any political value, what he wanted was to get into the hamburger's free market.

By this time, the people on the Prussian coast had been awakened by the gunfire that had been going on for more than two hours. Numerous people had rushed to the coast and watched the war on the other side of the Strait in horror.

"My God! The French are coming... It's the French fleet. What should we do? "

"Why didn't our fleet come out to fight? Don't the Port William have a few warships? "

These simple farmers and fishermen would probably never know the difference between a pure Iron-armored Ship and a fake Iron-armored Ship with a wooden shell as its foundation.

These people did not understand the size of the battleships and the types of cannons. They did not even know that the navy required time and a huge amount of money to build it.

In this era, other than the British Royal Navy, France was the well-deserved second overlord!

"It's useless. The Port William's bell has already rung, and the military fort has entered its defensive state. "None of our battleships went out, none of them went out …"

As the sea breeze grew stronger and colder, these pessimistic and helpless Prussians could only kneel on the ground and pray that these tigers and wolves of France would not land in their homeland.

At the same time, they were also begging God to help the Prussian Kingdom to survive this disaster!

Prussian Nation's self-confidence was still slowly building up. The Franco-Prussian War had not ended yet, and at this time, there were many people in Prussia who were still feeling apprehensive.

In fact, many of them were afraid of failure. They were afraid that Napoleon III would be like his uncle, jumping up and down in Berlin.

But no matter how uneasy they were, there was nothing they could do. Facing this war, there was nothing they could do!

Just as the French Landing forces was burning and looting the Eastern Frisian Islands s and slaughtering the garrison forces, the Captain s above the sea suddenly gave the order to stop the artillery bombardment. The six main battleships quickly changed their formation and flew towards the northwest, vigilantly aiming at the black shadow that was faintly approaching from the southwest.

This was the most classic T-shaped battle formation of the naval battles. Whoever could take the upper side of the T-shaped battle formation first would have a larger shooting range.

This was an excellent tactic determined by the structure of the battleship, because the battleships were narrow and long, the cannons were concentrated on both sides, and both the bow and tail had only one small caliber defense cannon.

Because of the structure of this battleship, the firepower on the side was much greater than on the front side. In the naval warfare, whoever got the T-shaped line first would have the advantage of being able to shoot on the side first.

During the movement, the key to victory was to always ensure that one's side would be in the same formation as the other side. That was the key to victory in the battle of cannons!

Now that the unknown fleet had appeared in the southwest, Huo Fu let the battleship head northwest in advance, forming a long snake formation. This way the six battleships' Left side s could use all their cannons to fire at a large area.

The 140-and 150-caliber cannons were all on alert. The searchlights formed a snow-white pillar of light on the sea, and the silhouettes of the fleets in the distance became clearer and clearer.

Huo Fu was also getting nervous, because in his field of vision, he could see that the number of warships on the fleet was increasing.

Amidst the dark waves, one, two, three … More and more silhouettes of battleships could already be seen. Soon, there were more than ten silhouettes with independent silhouettes.

"My God! What kind of a fleet is this? It can't be Prussian! That was impossible … "Look at the number of battleships this fleet has!"

At this time, the lookout hand suddenly shouted, "There's a signal! The other side sent a signal... The other side has lighting signal s coming over … "

Anyone could hear the excitement in the lookout hand's shouts. They knew that their opponent had signaled them not to start firing as soon as they came up, which meant that their opponent was not an enemy.

"Oh God... "Great!" "It must be the British fleet. Since they did not choose to fire or change the array, but chose to communicate with them, it must be the British fleet!"

This fleet that suddenly appeared on the battlefield was none other than the Royal Navy. The flagship was actually the world's fastest naval vessel, the King's Battleship.

This was a huge being that could drain water to more than eight thousand tons, its power was the combined power of the wind sail and propeller, the pure white sail in the night was like a cloud pressing towards French Fleet.

"Captain, the other party has sent out a signal, British Fleet is here to escort the envoy to Berlin to mediate this war! The envoy is the British Duke of Newcastle! "

"A total of eleven battleships, the flagship is the Sovereign!"

Listening to the long translation, Huo Fu swallowed his saliva and cursed in his heart, "Damn it, these Englishman are really too rich, are they really as wealthy as the navy?"

"Just for the sake of sending the envoy here to show off his strength, eleven battleships came out in one go … "I'm on an expedition to Prussia, and I only have six battleships. The rest are cruisers …"

"You really can't compare to others!"

After muttering for a while, Huo Fu shouted back, "Send a signal to the British, convey my respect to the Duke and to the Queen's health!"

"Please forgive me, British Fleet. France and Prussia have entered a state of war and the sea has become a battlefield …"

"For the safety of the envoy, please do not enter the battlefield. Please choose to transfer the train from Holland to Berlin!"