Lütjens looked at the engineer, who nodded in response.
Then, Lütjens gave the order for the turbine to output at full power.
As the ship vibrated slightly, 12 boilers and 4 turbines burst out with 178,000 horsepower. The Peter the Great accelerated again under the shocked expressions of the Soviet crew and the ghostly looks of the British crew!
Because it was lightly loaded, the Peter the Great with full output actually ran a high speed of 33.7 knots!
As the Peter the Great increased speed for the second time, the British formation's seemingly dazzling pursuit came to an abrupt halt.
A minute later, the speed of the British formation seemed a little slower in the eyes of the Soviet crew.
Two minutes later, the distance between the British formation and them seemed to be getting farther.
Three minutes, four minutes, ten minutes.
The distance was obviously widened! They had no illusions. It was not that the British were slowing down, but that the speed of the Peter the Great was actually increasing!
Warevsky was dumbfounded, and so were the Soviet naval exchange officers below him.
All the Soviet crew members were stunned at that moment.
All the blood in the body rushed to the top of the head at this moment. A stimulating electric current climbed directly from the tail vertebrae along the vest to the back of the head.
They couldn't believe what was happening before them - in just ten minutes, the entire British formation was thrown a significant distance away!
The Soviet officers who had been prepared for the worst at the moment, imagining being exiled to cold Siberia after returning home, rolled their eyes hard and looked at each other with pale faces.
They seemed to want to use this method to confirm a certain answer from each other - the formation of the British Empire was thrown away. After they returned home, they no longer had to explain to Chairman Stalin a tragedy that had lost the leader's face.
After experiencing this ups and downs, Warevsky was suddenly at a loss, as if everything he was seeing was unreal.
Although he passed the initial sea trial and confirmed that the German-made warships were indeed fast. But what he did not expect was that the German-made warships were actually faster than the British warships, which had always been proud of their navy!
Warevsky was in a daze. When did the Germans gain such strength that they could surpass the maritime hegemon Britain?
This is a country that has been restricted by the Treaty of Versailles for more than 10 years. Does it have the strength it deserves?!
Fortunately, Germany and the Soviet Union were not enemies. Fortunately, they were allies of the Soviet Union!
Also at a loss are the British sailors in the distance.
At this time, the Kent-class heavy cruiser, which had been built for more than ten years, first showed signs of falling behind. Long-term operation, coupled with the wear and aging of major components, made it difficult for it to maintain the 32-knot high speed it had just exploded.
Among this British formation, only the Admiralty-class destroyer, which was also built for 20 years, is still struggling to catch up.
However, due to the same reason of aging, and the fact that the sea conditions in the North Sea were not particularly good at this time, the destroyer's attempts were not ideal either.
In the North Sea, some winds and waves have little impact on a large ship of more than 30,000 tons like the Peter the Great, but this may not necessarily be the case for a British destroyer of more than 1,000 tons.
At this time, the British Admiralty-class destroyer was running at full power and could barely reach a speed of 33 knots. It could only watch in humiliation as the warship also flying the St. Andre flag of the Soviet Navy flew away until the shadow of the other ship gradually disappeared.
Disappeared in the faint sea fog of the North Sea...
"The Royal Navy has never been so humiliated, never before! The Spanish couldn't do it, Napoleon couldn't do it, and Wilhelm II couldn't do it! But today, those barbaric Slavs did it!"
As the captain and fleet commander of the Kent-class heavy cruiser, Joseph's angry roar echoed on the empty sea for a long time.
Although the opponent is only far ahead of us in speed, this is not allowed!
What's more, they could clearly get rid of themselves early on, but they deliberately acted like they were late and used a seemingly hasty retreat to lure the British formation to rush over at full speed.
When the British formation exposed its speed limit, the hateful commander on the opposite side only issued the order to speed up when the British crew members thought the outcome was doomed and when the crew members on both sides could almost see the faces of the opposite crew members clearly, leaving a group of people behind.
The British crew members looked at each other in confusion.
This was humiliation, naked humiliation! He gave himself a false feeling, making himself think that they had exhausted all their strength, so he ordered the chase without hesitation.
Then, he deliberately waited until the moment before he was about to catch up, then suddenly increased his speed again and drove away.
In the end, this seemingly lucky British formation not only failed to block the "Soviet" warships and failed to collect more information at close range, but instead exposed its own speed limit and was humiliated.
Brigadier General Joseph looked at the empty sea ahead with a deathly expression, as if all the strength in his body had been drained away.
Next to him, the staff major who had come to report many times had also turned into a wooden man with a distorted expression.
An unreal fear struck every British crew member present. No one could believe that the Royal Navy, which had been claiming to be the best in the world for many years, was so easily suppressed by the other party in terms of the most basic performance of warships!
And it was still suppressed by the navy of a continental country like the Soviet Union?!
After so many years, the British Navy's dominance has ended! Since the German Navy implemented "Operation Rainbow", the British's wishful thinking that there will be no challenger to the Royal Navy in Europe has been shattered!
All the glory in the past finally ended with a playful slap from the opponent!
Joseph's heart felt a sharp stabbing pain. He clutched his heart tightly, and his fingertips turned white due to excessive exertion. He didn't know what kind of bastard could design such a hateful thing.
To an outrageous end!
The opponent's true speed was only shown at the last moment, silently humiliating every British crew member present who originally thought the outcome was certain.
He caught up immediately? Who said that? Couldn't others speed up?
They just wanted to play a trick on themselves.
The next day, the front page headline of the British Times was the photo of the battleship taken from a distance.
This was taken from the side by a reporter from the British Propaganda Department on board the Kent-class heavy cruiser while Peter the Great was turning. The photo perfectly shows the elegance of this ship: the slender hull and the clean and modern upper deck.
The architectural layout, coupled with three triple 12-inch guns, form a war machine that combines violence and aesthetics!
In addition to the British Times, the German newspaper Social Welfare, which is afraid of chaos, also launched follow-up reports after the British exposed the Soviet warship.
Driven by the title of an article written by Reinhardt himself, ""Shocked"! The Red Behemoth Obtains a Naval Weapon, Britain May Become the Biggest Loser", newspapers in various European countries published similar articles one after another with the attitude of watching the excitement and not taking it too seriously.
Review articles.
For a time, newspapers in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and other countries imitated the "shock headlines" invented by German social workers' newspapers, repeatedly exaggerating and commenting on the negative impact of this incident on the British Royal Navy.
Then, the entire British public opinion circle suddenly became a mess, chaotic and smelly!
