Herbert's words are said in German, but they can be selected, as a Herbert crew, each of them can speak German proficiently, in fact, in China, the popularity of German is not low, the first batch of scientists and engineers in the northwest of the year, basically are supported by Germany, in order to really learn things, in order to master more skills, many young people have learned German, this crew is like this, and 2 of them are the background of studying in Germany, although Herbert said that the voice is not high, but heard, Cramped cabin, there is no soundproofing at all.

At this time, there is still a certain distance from the battlefield, a distance of several nautical miles, there is no such thing as an optical telescope, it is difficult to find out what is happening in the distance, like fried beans, this is the sound of depth charges, depth charges are natural enemies for submarines, what is the result, even they have no bottom in their hearts, now, Herbert's words in a lost voice represent that the battle situation is surprising to him, this surprise has a bad side, but more of a good side, listening to the tone, it should be the latter.

According to Herbert's words, they almost understood that if the submarine on the Chinese side had lost too much, he would never say so, and the reason for saying this must be that the submarine had achieved excellent results, and deep down, the attack power of the submarine had been upgraded again, and it was impossible to make Herbert so surprised, then the submarine must have achieved certain results, and it was impossible to determine what happened below, A little worry in my heart before, in this case, disappeared without a trace.

Herbert is also a strong-willed person, but after a simple distraction, he recovered, although he was a little strange, why China's submarine forces would achieve such great results, he quickly woke up from the distraction, and immediately began to calculate how many results there were, only less than 5 minutes, only 2 destroyers were attacked by 3 torpedoes, sank into the water, and the rest are still here, counting back and forth, there are two destroyers missing.

Herbert had some doubts in his heart, could it be that the intelligence of the reconnaissance plane was wrong before, there were two destroyers missing, with his understanding of the optical reconnaissance system of the reconnaissance plane, so far away, at such a high distance, and he could see so clearly, a warship of more than 1,000 tons, it was impossible to miss it, China came to the North Atlantic for the submarine to fight, but it made all the preparations, and sent more than 72 reconnaissance planes.

With the help of the optical reconnaissance system, the reconnaissance plane can observe a radius of at least 4 nautical miles around, and at the speed of the reconnaissance plane, it can quickly search a fairly large area, which has almost solved the problem of submarine reconnaissance.

Although the submarine is powerful, it is a pity that he must hide in the water, if there is no water, the submarine can not even deal with a small gunboat, under such a premise, the submarine can only rely on the intelligence system and its own reconnaissance, so the timeliness can not be guaranteed, from New York to London merchant ships, you can accurately judge the location of the merchant ship at a certain time, can only be estimated and predicted, with a general direction, will choose to search, so that often miss the target.

With reconnaissance planes, even if they cannot supervise merchant ships all the time, this is not a hardship for reconnaissance planes, but circling back and forth is easy to arouse the vigilance of merchant ships, so reconnaissance planes adopt the method of staggering for half an hour or an hour to withstand this fleet. Merchant ships are not airplanes, the fastest speed does not exceed 20 knots, how much can it run in half an hour, 20 nautical miles up to the sky, and then there is a vague position, which is enough for submarine operations.

In this case, the information obtained by the reconnaissance plane will be very accurate, in this case, it is impossible to have an omission, could it be that the Chinese side deliberately concealed it, but soon, Herbert dispelled this idea, because what we have seen so far is that the escort fleet has a total of 10 destroyers, 4 light cruisers and 2 mounted cruisers, compared with the escort fleet reported before, only 2 destroyers are missing, and in terms of general combat effectiveness, the lack of 2 destroyers can be regarded as a considerable weakening of strength, but not too much. Even if China deals with existing ships, it is enough to prove the strength of submarines, and there is no need to deceive people.

Could it be that it was sunk, this thought naturally flashed in Herbert's heart, although this idea is even more unreliable, it only took a few minutes to sink two destroyers, which is quite difficult for submarines, but after having such an idea in his heart, Herbert also looked down, and it was always so convenient and quick to find the answer through the results.

The strength of the optical reconnaissance equipment on the reconnaissance plane is amazing, it is already over the battlefield at this moment, and the closer distance is enough for him to clearly see most of the scenes of the battlefield, a fleet of only 60 warships, which looks huge, but it is relatively ******, and it is only a very small part of the sea.

The first time, he didn't find it, Herbert was not discouraged, and continued to search, more carefully, more slowly, and sure enough, on a calm sea, he saw countless throws, at this time, it was the place where the battle situation was staggered, and it was quite normal for there to be throws on the sea, but this time it was a little different, there were no ships around.

Herbert immediately intensified his investigation of the surrounding area, it was normal to have no ship, after all, the ship would go, and compared to the moving ship, the projectile could only follow the current, and it could not prove that it was a sunken destroyer.

Under the observation of the optical telescope, drawing circles next to the floating debris, I finally found something different, in the distance of the floating debris less than 300 meters, several British officers who were struggling to swim, they were either wearing life jackets, or paddling rubber rafts, in short, trying their best to save themselves.

Between Britain and Germany, it is the enemy, the British naval costume He knows very well that around there, there are no injured ships, there are so many survivors of throwing objects and obvious naval clothing, there is only one possibility, these two destroyers, in less than 5 minutes, have been sunk, not have begun to sink, but sunk into the sea, this is the fundamental reason for the loss of two destroyers.

As an officer of the Navy, Herbert knew very well that to be powerful, it was necessary to have a high-power torpedo, and it was necessary to hit the vital point, the destroyer was only more than 1,000 tons, and it was not difficult to sink it, maybe the battleship's large-caliber naval guns, hit the vital position, one shot was enough, but if it was to be sunk in less than 5 minutes, even a battleship was unlikely to be so fast.

Perhaps, the submarine on the Chinese side, while the ability to resist sonar is excellent, the torpedo is also powerful enough, this is probably the only way Herbert can think of to explain, the Chinese submarine not only fought head-on with the escort fleet, but also won the victory, looking for these two destroyers, it is not important, the key is to look at the results of the submarine, in fact, in addition to looking for the position of these two destroyers just now, he also looked at the situation on the entire battlefield, in the place where his eyes can see, there are at least 10 ships, seriously damaged, Most of them were on fire, sinking at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This is equivalent to saying that most of the escort fleet of the entire ship group has been dismantled, such an impossible task in the eyes of Herbert and other German officers, and even the Admiralty, has been almost completed by the Chinese side, how long has it been, such a great result, is it really so powerful that the Chinese submarine is really so powerful, such a sea wolf sees, must avoid the fleet, the Chinese submarine not only did not retreat, but head-on, in 5 minutes, basically disintegrated the opponent's attack power.

12 destroyers, 4 light cruisers, now only 2 light cruisers are intact, such an attack power is amazing, although the number of submarines exceeds 30, but the submarine against the destroyer, this itself is a mouse and cat against the enemy, the submarine only has one chance to attack, once the destroyer catches up with it, it will be over.

Herbert knew that even if the submarine suffered heavy losses, but in a frontal attack or a sneak attack, it could fight like this with a fleet, and this submarine was already qualified to enter the German sequence, why was he so powerful, and how much he lost, he wanted to know this question.

Herbert also knew that at this time, it was impossible to ask this question, he couldn't understand these questions in his heart, the situation of the battle below this time had changed again, the fleet composed of two mounted cruisers and two light cruisers was breaking through, in the end could they run out? It would be nice to take them down as well

As a former naval officer, before 1905, in the era when dreadnoughts had not yet appeared, the two mounted cruisers were almost the most powerful of the cruisers, Germany started late, and at the beginning was to catch up with the British capital ships, on the battleships, a lot of effort was made, but on the contrary, it was on the loading cruise, the strength was very small, and the patrol was there, but compared with the world's mainstream, even Britain, the world's top cruisers, it was not a little worse, even later, when the Jutland Sea Battle was later, The number of German war patrols was also far less than that of the British, for the simple reason that Germany did not have many overseas colonies, and there was no pressure to maintain the colonies, so it did not get a lot of war patrols.

But such a patrol that suppressed Germany, if he could explain it to here, it was definitely what Herbert was willing to see, there was no better chance than now, and the existence of submarines that could threaten it did not exist, as long as the number of submarines was a little larger, in the necessary position, blocking the route of the patrol to escape, then maybe it would really have a good result. (To be continued.) )