Banfield weaved through the dark shadows of the warships, and although he looked up at them from the water, and the outlines of the ships were not so clear in the night, Banfield immediately found the target he wanted most. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

There were not many large warships in Alexandria at this time, and the two chimneys of the former dreadnought, which were different from the armored cruisers, provided Banfield with a good identifying character.

Banfield operated the nearest former dreadnought of the leech phase, and the huge shadow of the battleship hung over their heads. Banfield and his teammates threw their bodies close to the massive side of the battleship, hiding their bodies in the shadows, stifling their heavy breathing, they were too tired. After soaking in the seawater for 3 hours, the long operation in the seawater also greatly consumed their physical strength.

Although it was already midnight, there was still the sound of sailors walking on the deck from time to time overhead, it should be the ship's personnel patrolling, and the occasional noise made the two of them nervous.

Time was running out, and after feeling a little bit of strength in his body, Banfield and his teammates dived underwater again, removed the warhead from the leech, and then lowered it vertically to the bottom of the seabed directly below the battleship, and then Banfield twisted the valve, and four sharp probes popped up diagonally from the small hole in the front of the warhead.

The leech's warhead is actually a mechanically triggered mine-drifter with an electric floater, which can be placed directly under the water in order to avoid disturbing the enemy with the noise made by fixing the warhead to the bottom of the ship, and to help the soldiers of the underwater demolition team save their physical strength. The electric flotation will automatically activate when the set time comes, and then drive the warhead to float, and the probe will detonate after hitting the bottom of the opponent's ship.

It was already past 1 a.m., and there was not much time left for Banfield to evacuate, so after setting the time, Banfield and his teammates mounted leeches and began to evacuate.

Although they knew the route when they entered, it took Banfield and his teammates a lot of time to fumble their way through the night and dodge the occasional passing ship in the harbor. By the time the 8 men got out of Alexandria and re-arrived at the meeting point, they were already late.

By this time, the leeches had run out of power and had been emptied of compressed gas cylinders and sunk to the bottom of the sea, and just as Banfield thought that UB-103 had left, and his team had to swim back to Alexandria, find a way to infiltrate the city, and then try to connect with the local intelligence services, the sea water churned again.

"You're late." With the help of sailors, the exhausted Banfield and his party climbed into the submarine, and Captain Singul looked at the embarrassed Banfield with a smile and said.

"Then why don't you leave?" Banfield, who was weak, trembled slightly with the hot coffee brought by the sailors, and retorted weakly.

"If I don't get you, my mission is to continue hunting in the Eastern Mediterranean region, and I think there's the best chance near Alexandria." Xingul said disapprehantly.

"Huh." Hearing this answer, Banfield chuckled, lowered his head and took a sip of hot coffee, feeling his strength come back a little, then raised his head and said seriously, "Thank you." ”

"What about action?" In response to Banfield's thanks, Singul nodded slightly, and then asked.

"At 6 o'clock, Alexandria was very lively."

"It's a pity, we can't see it." Xingul shrugged: "There is still some hot food in the kitchen, let's rest after eating." We're leaving. ”

Outside Alexandria, the Mediterranean Sea is quiet at night.

As the morning sun poured into Alexandria, the calm harbor area gradually woke up, and the decks of the warships in the harbor were crowded with Royal Navy officers and men who had risen and washed up.

The soldiers who caught the water leaned on the railing, poked them back and forth in their mouths with toothbrushes a few times, then spit out the water in their mouths into the sea, and then wiped their faces with wet towels soaked in water to finish washing, and then chatted with their comrades about what they would eat this morning.

The sailors of the battleship Prince of Wales were doing the same thing, but the soldiers standing on deck suddenly heard a dull crash from the bottom of the ship.

Before they could react, the shock of the violent explosion tossed everyone onto the deck. On the deck of a nearby ship, the sailors were horrified to see a huge splash of water rushing up from both sides of the Prince of Wales, and the sailors who were still washing opened their mouths in confusion and let the water from their mouths flow to their chests.

Unlike the 400 kilograms of explosives that exploded at the bottom of the ship, the shock wave from the torpedo explosion on the side of the ship was absorbed by the side of the ship, but a considerable part of it was dispersed in all directions, and the shock wave of the warhead that exploded on the bottom of the ship produced even greater destructive power.

The sailors of the nearby ships saw the middle of the Prince of Wales bulge upwards as if it had been held by a large hand, the sturdy hull arched like a thin steel plate, and the middle of the hull creaked with a tooth-aching sound.

The splash dissipated, the middle of the Prince of Wales lost its support and smashed back into the water, and the sea water carried away by the shock wave made the middle of the hull lose the support of buoyancy for a while, and under the buoyancy of the two sections of the hull, the middle of the Prince of Wales twisted again in the opposite direction.

Under the action of the force of the two stages squeezing towards the middle, the superstructure, which had been broken and cracked by the tension before, was squeezed together this time, and in the sound of metal breaking and twisting, debris and smoke gushed out in the middle of the hull and flew into the sky.

This is not over, the explosion hit the bottom of the sea and was bounced back with the shock wave of the backflow of the sea water once again on the bottom of the Prince of Wales, the hull of the Prince of Wales arched again could no longer support under the repeated twisting, and when the shock wave dissipated, the nearly 15,000-ton former dreadnought was twisted in two from the middle.

The ingress of the middle of the Prince of Wales, which did not close the watertight door while moored in the harbor, caused the battleship to sink rapidly in the middle of the battleship, and the two warped sections turned the hull into a V-shape

The water depth in Alexandria was only 13 meters, and the dull sound of the heavy hull hitting the bottom of the sea soon made the hearts of the officers and men on the nearby ships jump sharply, and it was only then that they reacted to what had happened. However, by this time, only the Prince of Wales was left with a tall bridge and chimney standing on the water.

The officers and men who had been huddled on the deck to wash were all thrown into the sea by surprise, and the otherwise calm sea in Alexandria was filled with fragments of battleships, the corpses of sailors and their toiletries.

The same explosion occurred three times in the port area, and the explosion not only caused the sinking of four battleships, but also caused huge collateral damage from scattered fragments.

Debris from the explosion flew into the sky and then rained down into the sea and into nearby warships. The officers and men of the Royal Navy who were huddled on the deck to wash were instantly smashed to the deck, and the washing water mixed with the blood of the soldiers flowed on the deck.

The bodies of the sailors thrown from the exploded sunken battleship smashed on the bridge of a nearby battleship, and the torn corpses slapped by the hard bulkheads left a bright red mark on the bridge.

Large and small debris also caused different degrees of damage to other warships, the London was smashed by the fragments of the exploding ramparts, a room-sized debris slapped on the deck of the London, while causing a large number of casualties among officers and men, this fragment cut off one of the front main guns of the London and also deeply inserted diagonally into the deck in front of the main turret of the London, blocking the rotation angle of the front main turret.

There was chaos in Alexandria, and the Royal Navy Mediterranean Fleet was inflicted heavy losses before the enemy even saw it!

4 drifting mines, 4 battleships sank, many battleships were damaged, and the number of dead and wounded was nearly 3,000! On September 21st, the eight members of Banfield's squad achieved a result that delighted the entire Imperial German Navy's naval forces!

Of course, since the attack took place in distant Africa, the British blocked the news at the first time, so the European side only knew that the Mediterranean fleet of the British Royal Navy had been attacked, but it was not clear how much damage had been suffered. But this will not affect the next move that the Germans have already planned.

On September 23, two people who should not have been here sat in the office of the commander of the Mediterranean Fleet and talked in the headquarters of the German Navy's Mediterranean Fleet in the port of Pula.

"The British still squeak and refuse to announce the damage, and they think they can really cover it up?" Admiral Diedrichs, who had already stepped down from his post as commander of the Mediterranean Fleet and returned to serve in the General Staff of the Navy, said sarcastically.

"The 4 explosions in the harbor were audible throughout Alexandria, and the British must have suffered losses. And the more they cover up, the greater the losses. Admiral Haus, commander of the Croat-Slovenian Kingdom Navy, said with a smile: "It is possible that your country really sank 4 of their battleships. ”

"If that's the case, we'll be more sure of what we're going to do next." Diedrichs nodded: "But no matter how big the British losses are, we must continue to carry out our plan, if it goes well, the sea control in the Eastern Mediterranean will completely fall into the hands of the Alliance." ”

"And that would change the political and war situation across the Mediterranean." "We are very happy to be part of such a strategically important operation," Howes said with a smile. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your generosity, and Your Excellency, for your cooperation." "We'll let the British know that the attack on Alexandria was just an appetizer and the next thing was the main meal," Didrichs laughed. ”

"I can't wait to taste it." House laughed along.

"I can't wait any longer, too."

Outside the window, inside the port of Pula, 3 dreadnoughts and 19 ex-dreadnoughts are ready to go. (To be continued.) )