At this time, Germany has verified the excellent results of submarines and other weapons, and determined the large-scale purchase of new weapons such as submarines and reconnaissance planes from China, although a lot of money has been invested, but the future compensation is not small, plus Deng Jieqian's troops will be active in the North Atlantic in the next six months, until the first batch of German submarines are delivered, and can even accept some German submarine officers and men training, which has almost solved the biggest problem of Germany at present, the problem of destroying the communication lines of the Entente countries. As long as this submarine remains strong and is not cracked by the Entente in various ways, Germany will be quite safe.

Because of this, in accordance with the previous agreement with the Chinese side, it began to announce in a high-profile manner that a new generation of submarines had been successfully developed, which could effectively counter the sonar of the United States, and announced the merits of this ocean-going submarine force, including the Minotaur dozens of large and small warships, more than 200 ocean-going freighters, with a total tonnage of more than 1.5 million tons, and achieved the 1915 winter battle plan, which dealt a heavy blow to the Entente.

Of course, this feat cannot be publicly announced to the outside world, but it is not carried out in secret, between the Entente and the Central Powers, both sides have huge confrontations in different fields, and the same is true in the field of intelligence, although there is no way to completely destroy the intelligence network of the other side, but roughly within what level, intelligence will be leaked, but Germany knows it, this is to confuse the Entente, of course, it is impossible to keep it strictly secret, through this method, penetrate to the side of the Entente.

The sinking of dozens of warships, as well as the tonnage of 1.5 million tons of merchant ships, such a huge merit is enough for this submarine force to ascend to the sky in one step, Germany also took out the highest level of medals, but the commendation personnel were not announced, which is very normal for the two major groups, submarines, the secret is not right, the offensive is strong, it is easy to produce outstanding results, their commanders are almost absolutely secret, only after the real out, in other troops, such as battleships, Or when the fast fleet unit is a general, the previous combat exploits will be promulgated, and sometimes in the navy, or in the army, the generals who suddenly appear are often out of these two forces.

The reason why it is so secretive, and other troops will not be like this, the reason is very simple, these troops have specificity, after the assassination of the commander, it is easy to have a relatively large impact on this force, which is also the Entente and the Central Powers are willing to do, so the credit of the Chinese troops, in this way, unknowingly became a part of the German submarine force, completely covering up the possibility of being discovered.

In fact, the British did not suspect this information at great cost when they got this information from various sources, after all, the first thing they suspected was Germany, and Germany made a reward, and there was no problem at all.

Their own losses, even their own figurative, but from the intelligence department to get the real figures, this may be the sadness of the British side, there is no reliable radio, for the naval battle, they need 10 days, or even a month, to be able to gradually according to the situation, feedback back the information of the naval battle, this is a little bit of help for the record, for the naval battle itself, there is no use at all, not even a rescue can be done, in the lack of adequate preparation, just with life jackets and rubber boats, It is extremely difficult to survive in the rough seas and extremely terrible sea conditions in the Atlantic, which is also the fundamental reason for the high rate of war losses in naval battles or sabotage wars before World War II.

This wave of attacks by Deng Jie's cadres not only dealt a heavy blow to the merchant fleets of the Entente countries, but also dealt a heavy blow to the military forces, 120,000 tons of ships, more than 7,000 sailors, which basically leveled the previous losses, the most important thing is the merchant ships, 1.5 million tons of merchant ships, more than 200 ships, and more than 7,000 sailors, these are familiar hands, although the American and British sailors and sailors are huge, but the real losses, not so easy to replenish.

Britain is through the German side of the celebration report, know the true number of this wave of losses, although it is not accurate, but after comparing with their existing number, basically formed a more accurate figure, the loss of personnel is slightly biased, the German side is only according to the approximate estimate, the British side is more accurate, under the premise of not being able to confirm the whereabouts, can only locate the missing first, but slowly, with more and more accurate news, the number of missing people is getting fewer and less, and more and more people are dead.

The representative of the British Admiralty and the Ministry of Commerce sat there, his face gloomy, and in front of him and the Admiralty Minister, there was a list, a list of lost sailors, although it was said that the merchant ships were the responsibility of the shipowners, but under the premise of the current war and military control, it was almost equivalent to saying that the military requisitioned these ships, and this was also sunk for military purposes, and these dead must be compensated.

A month later, when the exact news was obtained, the people were almost dead, although there were ships to search for similar areas, but the vast ocean, searching for uncertain locations of merchant ships and survivors, to find it was really a needle in a haystack.

Even in later generations, under the dual guarantee of the global GPS positioning system and communication system, searching and rescuing the survivors of the wrecked merchant ship is a very serious matter, and even the probability of success is not high, let alone in this era.

In the end, among the sunken ships this time, the losses of sailors and sailors were as high as 95%, and the Chinese submarine did not continue to start after sinking for various reasons, which could not save their lives, and even reached this 5% survival rate, or a little luck, there was a group of 12 merchant ships, fortunately avoided the search of the reconnaissance plane, and when Deng Jie's cadres returned, they arrived at that part of the sea, and happened to meet the rubber boat team that returned through the current, and rescued 4 rubber boats, And boldly moved forward, searched that sea area, and rescued a total of 121 people, if this number is missing, the total loss will be higher, maybe 97%, or even 98%.

Sending away the dissatisfied representatives of the Ministry of Commerce, the Admiralty looked at the losses at hand, the losses of the military, there is a special department to deal with, not the Secretary of the Navy to deal with it, but the gap of 1.5 million tons of merchant ships is a huge hole, how to make up for this.

At present, the price of merchant ships is quite high, liberal capitalism, most of the commodity prices, are controlled by the market, this is the basis of capitalism, even since the European war, most of the resources are under the premise of military control, for the price of certain products, it is impossible to have too large an impact, among them, the price of ships is a very important factor.

Since the beginning of the war, the price of merchant ships has increased significantly, and now, it has risen to a very high level, and the 10,000-ton giant ship, before the war, was only about 1.2 million US dollars, and now it has increased to more than 3 million US dollars, that is, after the appearance of sonar, the Entente greatly suppressed the German sea wolf tactics, which has slowly declined, and now, the Minister of the Navy is very clear that as long as the news of the loss of 1.5 million tons of merchant ships of the Entente spreads, the price of merchant ships will definitely rise.

Knowing this, but unable to change, the reason is very simple, these 1.5 million tons of merchant ships, it must be supplemented, the United States sent millions of troops, and now it has received a considerable number of prisoners of war from China, these need to be replenished weapons, plus the United States is almost single-handed, supporting the entire European war, in this case, there are 1.5 million tons of merchant ships missing, this is a fatal thing.

According to the cost of a 10,000-ton merchant ship of 3 million US dollars, this is 450 million US dollars, for Britain, this loss is huge, it can be said that it has a huge blow to Britain, even if money is not a problem, now the key problem is that money can not buy goods, the production ship needs time, need to occupy the dock, which Britain can no longer meet.

Before, because there was no relationship with China to declare war, they could also order Chinese merchant ships, but now, the two sides are already in a state of war, they confiscated China's things, and obtained a huge harvest, but China also confiscated their orders, although the harvest is much higher than the reduction, and now, they take 450 million and do not get 1.5 million tons of merchant ships.

This matter could not be solved only by the efforts of Britain, and in addition, a considerable part of the lost merchant ships still belonged to the United States, and the Americans must be informed of this matter.

At this time, the United States is digesting China's wealth, and the United States is huge, with 12 billion US dollars obtained from China, of which the amount of cash is very small, only more than 200 million, which is a huge amount of wealth that cannot be attached to ordinary people, but for the country, it is inconspicuous, and the rest of the harvest is basically all kinds of materials.

China's materials, which can be said to be irreplaceable resources, are hard currency, of the 12 billion, nearly half are medicines and silk fabrics, these commodities that other countries have no way to produce, after the Entente blockade of Chinese products, have begun to rise in price, and the remaining half, although not irreplaceable, is the necessities and consumables of life, to a certain extent, the cost and selling price are lower than those produced by the United States itself, and the quality is better.

In order to obtain enough funds, the United States has used some operations to sell some of these things, and most of them are still sold slowly, and it is expected that when these products are sold in a year or two, the final amount of money will reach about 15 billion, even if it is obtained in a short period of time, it will exceed more than 5 billion dollars. (To be continued.) )