Up to now, in this era, Britain and the United States have not yet manufactured, high reliability, enough to be applied to military radio, but in civilian use, the use of radio, can even be traced back to decades ago, as early as the era of the Titanic, on merchant ships, the radio system has been installed, but this system is not very reliable, the radio of the Titanic, among the surrounding ships, only a long distance received the signal, otherwise, the loss of the Titanic will not be so big.

No matter how unreliable, it is also a method of contact, the most important loss rate is very high, but there is always a success, most of the merchant ships of the Entente countries are equipped with radio systems, radio signals send out messages, or can still be accepted, in many because of the drop, or omission, and have no effect on the message, if you are lucky, you can still receive a correct, radio penetration, speed, in an unreliable state, there is a very low probability of doing it.

Deng Jieqian, in 7 days, a total of 150 merchant ships were sunk, unlike battleships, two or three torpedoes, it is enough for a battleship to sink to the bottom of the sea, but against merchant ships, two or three cannot have a direct effect, although the management loss of merchant ships is not as good as that of warships, once attacked by torpedoes, it cannot be reversed, but the huge volume, countless cabins, it is impossible to sink in a short period of time, plus such a merchant ship, as long as two torpedoes hit, basically it cannot be reversed, the number of torpedoes carried by the Qin class is very large, But it is impossible to have more, for each 10,000-ton merchant ship, more than 5 torpedoes are fired in a row, so compared to most of the warships that were attacked by sneak attack and could not even send a telegram, these merchant ships were hit to the sunk, as little as 10 minutes, and at most 30 minutes, during this time, the merchant ships had enough time to send the telegrams, and sent them many times, and even most of the crew members on the merchant ships escaped from the sky after the ships were sunk.

The escape here is not to escape from danger, but to prepare at a critical moment, such as using a life jacket, or a rubber raft, leaving the merchant ship, you can float on the sea, however, escape and escape, whether you can survive depends on luck, this is the wind and waves, the huge Atlantic Ocean, even if the crew, with the help of life jackets, drifting on the sea, without satellite cloud images, navigation systems, or even perfect rescue systems and signals, jumping from the ship is almost deadIf you encounter other merchant ships, it is easy to do, but if you don't meet other merchant ships, you can only watch your fate.

The liquidation of Deng Jie's cadres was regional, and the appearance of a large number of reconnaissance planes made it impossible for the reconnaissance to have any blind spots; in such a situation, except for a small number of merchant ships that were lucky enough to avoid the submarine and were still alive, the rest were almost cleaned up, and in this case, no merchant ships came to the rescue.

Therefore, although Deng Jie's cadres did not attack those who fell into the water, no more than 10 percent of them were really rescued, and a large number of sailors and sailors were buried in the Atlantic Ocean, and even their bones could not be recovered, but when they were about to sink, most of the messages sent were transmitted to distant receiving stations, and more than ninety percent of them were left without knowing what to do, and the remaining less than 10 messages, but almost without exception, they were all decisive messages, the escort fleet was attacked, the losses were exhausted, and the merchant ships were torpedoed and sunk.

In a short period of time, the radio receiving stations of the Entente countries in various places received a large number of radio signals, which were incomplete when deciphered, and there was only scattered information, which was meaningless in a single word, but when put together, it was meaningful.

For example, a group of 30 merchant ships and 4 escort warships judged that 6 percent of them sent back information, then there must be a major incident, and then through uninterrupted radio calls, after the radio of this ship group cannot be contacted, the possibility of problems is greatly increased, and in a short period of time, more than 100 ships sent back signals, who do not know that something big has happened, but without a complete message, they can only analyze from the same ship group.

Just like the deciphering code of later generations, when a large number of similar messages came, they also used the method of splicing and guessing, and roughly guessed that these ships were already more than lucky.

But this matter, no one dares to draw conclusions, after all, the highest record, a group of ships, more than 9 percent have sent back messages, if according to this to splic, will this group of ships, more than 9 percent encountered problems, and even was sunk by ambush, this is not a two, it was finally determined, more than 100 merchant ships sent back radio signals, in a week or so, one after another received more than 120 letters, in the middle, as long as half of the ships were sunk, it was really piercing.

In a sense, even if most people think that these ships are more than lucky, but until the last moment, no one dares to be sure, even vague, some intentions dare not mention, although in the eyes of the vast majority of people, these ships have been shipwrecked, and even in order to counter these attackers, they are still in the Baltic Sea, with the German high seas fleet large-scale confrontation, sent a large number of destroyers and light patrols, to search the relevant sea areas, unfortunately, there is no gain.

Today, however, two unmistakable messages appeared, belonging to two different groups of ships, one with 20 merchant ships and the other with nine, but there was nothing wrong with these two ships, and the clear messages brought the greatest bad news, not only describing the terrible situation in which they had been attacked and all the escort forces were lost, but also the sinking of their ships and the loss of most of the regiments.

These two conclusive telegrams prove that so far, at least 25 merchant ships have been sunk, and the tonnage of these merchant ships together is as high as 300,000 tons, which is not a small number, and in the past, when the German Seawolf operation was the craziest, it was only about 30-400,000 tons a month, and now it is only how long, and it has been determined that it has exceeded 300,000 tons, and it has not been determined how many?

It seems that these two telegrams became the last straw that knocked down the camel, and then, one after another, the bad news was attacked at the end close to the UK, and the surviving ships basically did not continue to go to the UK, but turned around and returned, and it took at least dozens of days to return from the North Atlantic close to the UK, which is also the fundamental reason why there is no definite news back, but when these surviving merchant ships encountered warships, this exchange was fast.

Compared with civilian ships, warships are self-contained, transmit information faster, and even in some cases, relay methods can be used to transmit information, at a speed of about 35 knots per hour, it is not difficult for destroyers to cross the entire North Atlantic.

The return of destroyers one after another, bringing news of survivors one after another, finally confirmed that the number of sunken merchant ships was 169, with a total tonnage of more than 1.2 million tons, and there were some vague figures, and the final loss may be more than 1.6 million tons, and the most important thing is that it was supposed to arrive in London, England 10 days ago, and needed to replace the previous Mediterranean fleet to go to the Mediterranean, there was no news.

Whether it's Storm Trek, or something else, you know, the Minotaur is the ultimate in patrolling, although its status is now replaced by the battle patrol, but it gets equipment and personnel, it is absolutely top-notch, even if it is a little delayed, it can't be as much as 10 days, right?

This thought sounded in the hearts of the officers of the Admiralty of Cause and Effect, like maggots on the tarsal bones, which could not be removed, and the sinking of two 15,000-ton warships was not a trivial matter, especially at present, under the premise that 1.5 million tons of merchant ships might be sunk, this is a major event that pierced the sky.

But in the end, the illusion was shattered, this huge ship group, because of the large number of escort fleets, even if Deng Jieqian was ambushed by the whole army, and because more energy was focused on the escort warships, so the merchant ships escaped a little, about 10 ships, although their directions were different, but a few days, they also let them report to the warships, and then the unfortunate news one after another, if there was only one report, maybe the British Navy would not believe it, but when the number of reports exceeded 5, the British Navy knew, The two Minotaur were not spared, and were sunk by German submarines, sinking forever in the North Atlantic.

The Minotaur-class cruiser, in the British Navy, no longer belongs to the capital ship, and the battle cruiser has taken his place, but it does not mean that this battleship is not important, the battle cruiser belongs to the ranks of the capital ship, and it is a deterrent force in the navy, and it will not be used easily, but the installation patrol is different, the former main force of the navy, and now, the dreadnought era, has become an inconspicuous existence, but for most of the cruisers, it has a suppressive effect, not to mention this Minotaur class, it has also been modified by the United States, and the strength is above, Compared with before, it has been improved, and in this case, 2 warships that have just completed the refit and are equipped with a full set of sailors have sunk into the sea, which is a greater blow to the British.

What kind of force can attack the ship group like this, these escort fleets are equipped with sonar, but according to the information received so far, none of the escort fleets reacted, those submarines seemed to suddenly appear out, and the sudden torpedo attack on them, even the attacked torpedoes, there was not much waterline, and by the time the escort warships found out, it was already too late, and it was no longer possible to dodge.

Why did Germany suddenly appear such a fleet, what kind of force did the Germans use to resist the sonar search, and what was that torpedo, if this problem was not solved, I am afraid that the Entente and Britain would really have trouble sleeping. (To be continued.) )