The first appearance of the Qin-class submarine in Europe showed a powerful attack power, even Deng Jieqian, he had to admit that the attack was quite perfect, a huge transport fleet composed of 22 merchant ships and 4 destroyers, with a transportation capacity of more than 300,000 tons, was actually sent to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean at one time, which has never been encountered in the past two years.

You know, when the German submarines were attacking before, in most cases, it was a single submarine sneak attack, or several submarines hunting, such a hunt even when the sonar did not appear, the efficiency was only, to a certain extent, the limit was only seven or eight ships of small merchant ships The fleet was attacked by the sea wolf, which could cause the total annihilation, and in most cases, the merchant ships could escape when they were attacked by submarines, and even the probability was very high.

But the Qin-class is different, this is a submarine specially developed for submarine tactics, not only each has a strong attack power, but also has super joint combat capabilities, especially the speed of 16.5 knots underwater, without surfacing the surface, you can catch up with most of the merchant ships, just this point, the submarine is worthy of the merchant ship killer.

It was the outstanding performance of the Qin-class, which had just appeared in the North Atlantic, that caused more than 307,000 tons of results, including four warships of about 8,000 tons, which was not only a huge military achievement, but also a huge blow to the Entente.

With the intensification of World War I, the world shipping market has become a market full of gold, especially when most of the merchant ships of the Entente have been sunk, the entire Entente has waved orders, and ordered merchant ships in all places in the world that can order merchant ships, and before the Entente countries declared war on China, the Entente countries even placed orders for China. You must know that in addition to the talented merchant ships, all kinds of other products, even such as battlefield meal kits and clothing, the Entente countries did not leak anything to China, which can be seen. The importance of merchant ships to them.

Even when the Entente declared war on China, there were 29 ships on top of China's slipway, and British orders ranging from 30% to 80% were paid, which were justifiably taken over to China, and it can be regarded as making up for the loss of China's seizure, and by now, the price of merchant ships has risen very much.

Cutting-edge merchant ships, 10,000 tons. The approximate price is 3 million US dollars, from this price is fire, not to mention personnel and goods, not to mention the loss of time cost, just the 307,000-ton fleet was sunk, which represents a value of nearly 90 million US dollars sunk, just this little bit shows the strength of the Qin class, enough to hit Britain on a large scale. Not to mention 300,000 tons of munitions, according to the reserve price of even 300 dollars per ton. Another 90 million, plus personnel warships, in just over an hour, the British side's losses may exceed the losses of the past two or three months, and this is just the beginning. A painful beginning for the Entente.

It was attacked by surprise and sunk in its entirety, but it lasted a long time, and the last pursuit of the two last merchant ships lasted for an hour. In the course of an hour, in such a long time, it is definitely possible to send a distress signal outward.

In fact, at the time of the attack, more than one ship to the British and American side, the radio telegraph and distress signal, but unfortunately a radio signal in this era is not obvious, at that time the possibility of receiving almost zero, perhaps, in the future, after the passage of time, there will be hobbyists or radio base stations to receive information, but now, the radio station that receives the information, will also receive the information of the packet, the correct is an accidental phenomenon, the wrong is the norm.

This is also a fundamental reason restricting the development of radio, but also the Entente and other countries, did not apply radio to naval command on the fundamental reason, any slightest omission, may cause serious consequences, the original joint command, but for the simplest mistake and lost position, the Entente in most of the ocean-going ships, have installed radio, but these are just a simple help, in the event of danger, you can call for help, with the simplest information for help, compared to complex, Long messages that are prone to omission, SOS's distress signal, appear to be a little more effective.

The signal of victory was sent here by Deng Jieqian, to other submarines, and also to the ambassador who was anxiously waiting in Berlin, to be honest, as the German ambassador, he knew very well how much damage Germany had suffered after the use of sonar, and the Seawolf troops that were active in themselves were either sunk into the Atlantic, or returned to the Baltic Sea to recuperate, and occasionally went out, but there were not many sinking figures, but the losses continued to increase.

Although when negotiating with Germany, the ambassador to Germany behaved quite toughly, but he still had no bottom in his heart, and he only understood in Europe how strong the Entente countries were at this moment, Britain and the United States, whether it was the number of ships or the heritage, let him be careful, this was the first time China went to the North Sea to fight, and something went wrong.

Now, when the intelligence comes back, it is superfluous to worry, the four warships sunk at one time, and the 307,000-ton merchant ships, what is more amazing than the real results, no matter what method this submarine force uses, whether it is lucky or inevitable to win this result, as long as there are these, the German side, I am afraid, will never talk more.

Unbeknownst to the ambassador, though, this was only the first step in his surprise today, with more to come. At the time of Deng Jieqian's huge fleet of 307,000 tons, there were 19 submarines, divided into four teams, and they were fired at the merchant ships of other routes.

Among them, there are two teams that have already set their sights on the target, a group of 8 merchant ships and 2 destroyers, a fleet of 13 merchant ships and a group of 3 destroyers, both of which are not carrying military supplies, and the merchant ships used are also of different tonnages, which are not as huge as Deng Jieqian's eyes before, but they are the best targets that can be found in a short time.

Maybe it's the relationship between too few submarines, maybe it's not very lucky, these two attacks have achieved good results, but they are not all annihilated, in the first attack, the destroyer was killed, today almost 9 destroyers were killed in one day, this is also the North Atlantic route, the most destroyers were killed, but the 21 ships of the two ship groups, in the end only 15 were taken, 6 escaped, and the final sunk tonnage was only about 98,000 tons.

In addition, the first day of the operation, 400,000 tons of sunk number was obtained, which was not only a huge start, but also made the supply of Britain and the Entente in Europe have been greatly affected, especially the ship regiment attacked by Deng Jieqian before, 300,000 tons of military supplies, representing the entire European Allied army, more than 10 days of consumption, now there is no more, the Entente has to continue to mobilize materials and merchant ships, and then transport things over.

It was about 6 o'clock in the afternoon that the last detachment finally found the target it had been looking for for a long time, because the reconnaissance planes supported Deng Jieqian's unit and the other two detachments, and the last detachment that did not enter the combat position until after 4 o'clock missed that target, and after 5 o'clock, most of the reconnaissance planes began to return home, and in Germany, they could land at night, but the ability of the reconnaissance planes would be exposed, so according to the regulations, it was impossible to dispatch reconnaissance planes again at 5 o'clock.

This detachment can only rely on itself, fortunately, the previous goal is relatively clear, within a hundred nautical miles around, not only 4 ship groups, they through analysis, continue to the east, after deviating from the position of 20 nautical miles, and finally encounter another fleet, but unfortunately this fleet has 8 escort fleets, including 2 light cruisers, only 6 submarines of the detachment, in consideration of the nightfall, plus the strength of the other side, chose a surprise attack, not encirclement.

6 submarines, at close range, two rounds of launches, 72 torpedoes, directly covered this part of the sea area, and then, after the launch, it didn't matter, whether it was a warship or a merchant ship, which one was hit, and they didn't even care about the results of the battle, according to radio contact, within the next half an hour, there will be 4 reconnaissance planes, passing nearby, through radio contact, let them go around, just take a look.

In fact, 72 torpedoes, the hit rate was very high, and in the end 41 hits, more than half, such a hit rate can be described as amazing, did not deliberately aim at the warship, so among the 8 escort warships, 2 were injured, one of the destroyers was seriously injured, did not lose power, but reduced by about 80%, the next journey, can only be towed.

Half an hour later, the plane sent the final battle report, which ship group of 35 merchant ships, 18 were sunk, and 7 were seriously damaged, on the efficiency of sinking, it seems that this raid, the effect is higher than that of Deng Jie's cadres, the final confirmed sinking figure is about 210,000 tons, plus the previous submarine force arrived in Europe for the first time, it achieved a sinking effect of 600,000 tons, which is more than the most rampant waves in which month, Sinking numbers over 20 days are high.

The first day of the attack, after entering the evening at 8 o'clock, ended perfectly, because there were still more supplies, torpedoes or something, and more than 7 percent, the submarine did not return to Germany to rest, but anchored on the spot, waiting for the day when night fell and the sun rose, hoping that tomorrow would be a good day, and there would be more and more outstanding results. (To be continued.) )