Chapter 470: Attack under the fog

When the state apparatus of the British Empire is accelerated, it will burst out with tremendous energy in a short period of time. Although many ships were sunk by German planes and artillery, many more civilian ships joined the rescue mission. Many of the rescuers came for the sake of their loved ones. At this time, there were hundreds of thousands of British troops waiting to retreat in Dunkirk, and the relatives of these guys were looking forward to their return.

On the pitch-black sea, there are occasional undulating waves that reflect a little light that has been broken by the waves, and more stars in the distance. On the sea, the sounds of the night seemed to be shattered by the white waves in the area, and only the ethereal sound came into the ears.

But the 105mm guns on the backs of the thirteen steel behemoths that suddenly emerged from the sea were smashing the fragments of those lights on the surface of the sea even more. Dozens of white threads intertwined from the steel behemoth intertwined with the British ships that were convoy and transport.

"Torpedo! Get out of the way, it's a torpedo! The shout was drowned out by the loud sound of the explosion. Thirteen Type VII submarines with swastika emblazides attacked the few escort ships from different defenses, and only began to attack when they were fully loaded with soldiers. This time there were only six destroyers and one cruiser escorting nearby, and there were also quite a few such as minesweepers. The warship carrying the soldiers had a deep draft, and even some poured, and under the fire of torpedoes, there was simply no room to dodge.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Explosions rang out continuously, and the sky and sea were burning. Huge fires rolled up on the sea, and the burning ships kept screaming and diving, but the orange flames swaying from the oil floating on the surface of the sea swallowed up the screams again.

The surprise attack sank two destroyers of the British, three were damaged, and the cruiser dodged five torpedoes and also suffered two. Several civilian ships were also sunk at the same time. In the waves, those merchant and civilian ships intersected with the trajectory of the torpedo from time to time and became victims. Thin shells, some even wooden, did not withstand the attack of large-caliber torpedoes. Directly torn to shreds in the sound of explosions.

At this time, they did not have time to take into account the soldiers who fell into the water and struggled to call for help, and in the first hit, half of the German submarines that threatened the warships were eliminated, except for the six submarines that continued to attack with torpedoes, the other submarines that were far away from the target, set up the 105mm guns on the submarines and continued to bombard the large troop transport merchant ships, and the 20mm cannon also lowered the muzzle and continued to strafe those fishing boats.

The warships of the British also began to fight back, and without the use of depth charges, direct naval bombardment could threaten submarines. If not, the submarines' torpedo attacks would have been meritorious from the beginning, but I am afraid that these submarines would have had to dive and escape. The British were determined that even if the shells hit the civilian ships in the dark of night, they had to attack, otherwise even the weak submarines would be a massacre against the unarmed merchant and civilian ships. When the time comes, I am afraid that I will sacrifice more.

The shells kept falling, and one of the German submarines was injured and began to dodge, but the few British ships left did not have time to chase, and they needed to urgently avoid the white waves of torpedoes.

But there were more submarines involved in the attack, and soon two more destroyers were sunk, and the remaining two were also wounded, only the cruiser was hit by another torpedo and continued to hold on. But four minesweepers and other ships came in to join the attack. The British had more ships, but in a hurry it was impossible to get over in time in the torpedo-ridden strait, and they had to rely on themselves.

Two more ferries were hit and began to sink, and the screams from the sea blew like a gust of wind onto the coast.

"How did the Germans get in on the submarines? How did they get from those minefields and the detection of our fleet? "Bertram, the commander of Dover Naval Harbor, who is in full command of the evacuation? Vice Admiral Ramsay, at this time was roaring loudly. He had stayed awake all night staring at his red eyes, and there was no longer much of an English gentleman.

The British mined the English Channel, and it was precisely because the dense mines could not be cleared that even this time they had to take a detour. Coupled with these warships constantly cruising at the mouth of the strait, how did they avoid these? Ram couldn't think of it.

Of course, it was Meng Xiang who activated five spies to collect information on the distribution of some mines and the layout of the British fleet, and then slowly used the latest submarines to slowly probe a relatively safe channel in advance. Even with this detailed information, which amazes the Germans, it is still relatively safe. Fifteen German submarines still lost two, and only thirteen came through.

They lurked in place by the sound of explosions during the day, only to show their fangs at night.

The Germans could only send this team of night wolves to attack for the time being, the British century-old navy was not foolish, and the English Channel was really so old that even a slightly larger fish could not swim in.

Even if the Germans had a fleet that was not weak, it was not possible to rush into the mine-filled strait in a short time. This takes time, and Meng Xiang didn't remind him in advance.

The encircled 400,000 British and French troops are only less than 320,000 at this time, and in the coming days, Meng Xiang still has a few tricks to start. He didn't want to wipe out the Anglo-French forces in his heart, because the changes would be too great for his guess to decide. Of course, it will not be easy to let them all go, at least 300,000 people need to be left, and letting go of tens of thousands of soldiers will not hinder the overall situation.

Meng Xiang needs Britain and France to be extremely weakened, but they need to involve the Germans for a while, after all, Soviet Russia is still being cleaned up, and the idea of American isolationism is flourishing, Meng Xiang has been thinking about it for a long time, but he still has not figured out the specific ideas for the future trend. There are too many variables, and many things are too much to change, and it is easy to slip away more opportunities from the vanguard that has not yet had time to prepare.

So he needs to follow the trajectory of the original history and make it change more tactfully. This is also the reason why he did not supply the Germans with night combat and bombing aircraft.

So far, however, the British have not withdrawn more than 10,000 troops.

The large amount of supplies piled up in Dunkirk was not intended to be left to the Germans, and the Allied troops who remained here could still enjoy good treatment. However, many people were a little disappointed, alcoholism, fights, and robberies were common, and there were definitely more broken empty bottles than shaved soldiers. The Anglo-French forces, which saw a glimmer of life in the despair of the war, were now afraid of the unsafe strait. Before, the chaotic situation of rushing to get on the ship suddenly became orderly, and even the soldiers who were boarding the ship were a little hesitant to listen to the miserable cries coming from the sea.

The journey home was fraught with risk.

Although the submarine finally tossed and broke away before the British warships arrived. This led to the acceleration of the evacuation, but in one night, the British withdrew only more than 4,000 people. But many more disappeared into the icy sea.

When the British were almost desperate, a turning point came, and on the 28th there was a heavy fog, and the harbor and the sea were covered in fog. The prayers of the British at Dover Bluff on the other side seemed to have touched their God, and the foggy day brought good luck to the Allies. Goering still ordered the planes to attack, but to no avail. The German bombing in the sky was out of order, and the target below could not be seen, and the blind bombing did not work at all.

The Anglo-French forces took the opportunity to repair and fortify the port.

The temporary trestle bridge, which was pushed into the sea by the car, was constantly extended, so that the soldiers no longer had to struggle to wade through the water. All the wooden beams, door panels, and planks that could be found were gathered together to set up a gangplank. With the addition of more civilian boats, there are more and more boats, which can come directly to the shore and pick up soldiers to board the big boats.

However, after being attacked by German submarines last night, there were many fewer large ships, but there were more ships, and some of them even dared to carry soldiers directly across the English Channel.

The foggy weather not only affected the Air Force, but also the Army's attacks. The German offensive was sluggish due to the fog, but the British took advantage of this to strengthen the fortifications, and the hearts of the wounds from yesterday's rocket artillery were somewhat scarred. War is like that, there is no way to get out of it, it can only endure. They are soldiers, not civilians. Whether it is to shoulder the responsibility on their shoulders or to save their lives and return home, they need to fight their way out.

The Germans did not wait quietly for the fog to dissipate, they moved forward little by little. At this time, some heavy artillery shells can hit the sea surface directly on the strait. They calculated the coordinates of the port, and from time to time they fired a few shots.

But none of this affected the evacuation of the British, and after two or three days of exploration, the British also mastered a lot of evacuation skills, and the evacuation was speeding up, especially when the German air force was unable to do it at this time. The brigade of Anglo-French troops withdrew to the beachhead to wait for the pick-up of ships. After two days of chaos, the order of the evacuation seems to be much better. Groups of soldiers lined up in columns, and under the gaze of the machine guns in the distance, they had a bit of a gentleman's taste. And not far from the team, there are still brick-red butterflies lying quietly in the sand.

The soldiers knew how terrible these things were, and tried to stay away. The screams of the wounded soldiers who tried to clean them up still echoed in their ears. If it weren't for the passage blasted out by the artillery at any cost and the loss of several passages launched by some construction machinery, I am afraid that it is not known how many soldiers will be lost there. However, these demon eggs are like landmines, as long as you don't touch them, you won't be damaging them. This also made the soldiers in line much more regular.

With the deterrent presence of these butterflies, the Allied soldiers did not have the leisure to play football and sand sculpture games on the beach as originally advertised in history, and death was so close that few people could leave it alone. However, they listened to the roar of the engines of the German planes overhead, but they were not too nervous. Even if the Germans swooped down, they couldn't see much of the view. Can they still waste bombs?

"Okay, the smell of chocolate cake is already coming out." Room 167 replied. As a spy lurking among the British, he received orders from his commander. This time, it was to guide the Germans' planes. For the evacuation of Dunkirk this time, Meng Xiang has already activated eleven spies. Two were exposed and one died. But more spies are needed to control it in the future.

The radio transmitter he laid out was in an old car that was still smoking. He had found these launchers from nearby marked locations. These were all arranged in advance by the Meng Xiang faction at the beginning of the outbreak of World War II, and some of the earlier arrangements were already started before the beginning of World War II. This is not difficult for Meng Xiang, who has a historical golden finger. Knowing the location and approximate time, you will have more ample preparations.

With the collision of several giants in Europe, the transportation routes by sea are becoming more and more difficult. Many of the weapons sold to the Germans by copycat companies were prepared in advance and sent to secret warehouses near Finland and Norway at the green light during the Soviet-Finnish war. Norway has countless harbors, sparsely populated and forested seaports, and it's not hard to hide.

At the beginning, several warehouses were also set up in Spain, because Spain still owed a lot of money to copycat companies, and there were Germans who arranged it in it, but they did not pursue it too much.

But as the war intensified, transportation became more and more difficult. If it weren't for the fact that there was still a neutral flag to use, I am afraid it would have been sunk. At the beginning, Switzerland and Sweden imported a lot of BF-109E, and at the same time brought it to the Germans. Britain and France were still sitting in war at that time, and they refused to offend Sweden and other countries casually.

There are also a lot of goods transported by the identity of the Americans, and the ships of the Americans are constantly shuttling in them, earning high profits. There are not many copycat companies or a few shadow companies under the umbrella company.

Moreover, more often than not, it was the Germans who transported it themselves, and they naturally had their own passages. They are nervous about the source of goods, not the problem of channels. The British even dominate the seas, and they don't live on all the shipping lines.

However, it was a little more troublesome as something that Meng Xiang smuggled by himself. Meng Xiang had to start more cows to shuttle through it. The amount of cows transported is also good, but even the Germans cannot afford to use so many cows. Meng Xiang also has a headache, others have a headache because of the lack of submarines, and his headache is a lack of personnel. If it weren't for the relatively small staffing needs of the cows, it would be difficult for him to support such a team. But if you want to expand it further, it's not easy to do. At this time, the attackers on the Assassin submarine sometimes had to ride cows around the sea. When there are no more talents to use, this channel can only be used as an auxiliary.

At this time, Meng Xiang already had a new path, not anything else, or relying on the base. The fourth base car has already been transported into the Mediterranean.

The upgraded base vehicle already has a diving function, and the depth within three hundred meters does not hinder its stealing. However, because the speed in the water still maintains the speed of walking, the slightly faster Roma is still needed. It's just that now I'm not afraid of inspection, and if there is a problem, I sink directly into the sea from below. The new No. 4 base car was launched directly in Laizhou Bay and traveled tens of thousands of kilometers accompanied by the Roma before coming to the Mediterranean.

By the time the Anglo-French forces were evacuated from Dunkirk, the Roma had docked at the Libyan port of Sidl.

Libya at this time was still a colony of the Italians. Relying on the arms trade made by the Italians, copycat companies cheaply carved off large swaths of land in Libya's Sirte Basin, which was Libya's largest oil-producing area in later generations. It's a vast desert area, and neither the Italians nor the locals are very concerned about it. Meng Xiang didn't mind more land allocation.

Although the Western world is the strong, the protection of private property is still in place. If you take away someone else's thing, someone will take it away another day. Therefore, it is not a special case, and there is generally no law of unconditional compulsory expropriation. This is one of the reasons why the Germans occupy most of the world's industrial concentration in Europe, but they cannot support Soviet Russia, Britain and the United States. It was possible to take away the property of the state and the government, but the Germans were relatively less involved in the looting of private individuals than the Japanese and the Russians.

How much industry could there be in the Asian region occupied by the Japanese? The Japanese, who mainly rely on their own support, are naturally weak in the face of the United States, which is the largest in the industrial world. If they also have Europe, which occupies half of the world, relying on their locust predation, the combat power they will burst out is amazing. I am afraid that in the end, if the Americans win, they will be greatly injured and will not be able to afford to collapse.

It was the looting of World War II that made Soviet Russia struggle for ten years and leap to the second place in the world.

In the future, even if Libya is in the center of the war in North Africa, it will not have much to lose in the face of old customers from Germany and Italy, or Britain and France, which regard themselves as gentlemen. Therefore, Meng Xiang bought the land through legitimate channels and occupied the pit first. It doesn't matter if Britain and France know about copycat companies, they don't have special circumstances, and they won't deal with these mysterious organizations that don't know the details.

The new No. 4 sub-base is located in the Sirte Basin, both to secure this future energy base and to facilitate the war in North Africa in the near future. The energy of the base depends on the extraction of oil, and the large amount of oil and gas resources in Libya can not only supply the electricity of the base, but also continuously increase the number of accounts for the base.

Although the base has been upgraded, because the function has not yet been unlocked, the control radius is still 10,000 kilometers, and Libya can cover it, but South Africa and Nigeria cannot. Europe can be arranged, but the government there is too strict, and the base is not easy to hide. And in the shadow of the great army, it is difficult to develop.

A new fifth sub-base is also halfway there, also targeting Europe. Not on the European continent, though, and its final home will be northeastern Greenland.

Although it is a Danish territory and the hometown of Santa Claus, it is inaccessible, even in later generations, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 people, and it is concentrated in a dozen towns on the coast. The perennial absence of people, coupled with the towering icebergs, makes the base hidden the best. Moreover, Meng Xiang also took a fancy to Greenland's resources. Although there are not many places to live in more than 2 million ordinary kilometers of land, it is rich in natural resources, and only 31 billion barrels of oil in the northeast make Meng Xiang unwilling to give up.

To the southeast of Greenland are Iceland and England, to the southwest are Canada and the United States, and to the east it is also close to Soviet Russia. It's much closer than Huaxia thousands of miles away. If it weren't for the perennial ice and snow on Greenland, I am afraid that it would have been occupied by various countries long ago, and it would be Denmark's turn. However, these bad weather did not affect the camping of the base in the slightest.

Although these arrangements are remote, they can supply most of the sales of copycat companies in Europe in the future, and they do not need to be shipped thousands of miles away.

And the new base car is also being produced in the tank factory of the main base, waiting for the new layout of the commander Meng Xiang on the world chessboard. At this time, Dunkirk was just a toss on the edge of a ditch, and it did not have much impact on Meng Xiang, who controlled the base and countless future world nodes. However, in order to be more beneficial to the future layout, Meng Xiang continued to reach out to help the Germans fight a victory with only a few regrets.

Since he had known that there was foggy weather, he had naturally been prepared for a long time. The arrangement of Room 167 is only one of them, and the radio transmitter acts as a signal source to continuously transmit signals, allowing for long-distance reception and confirmation.

"One kilometer to the left to attack!" The order was delivered in time, and the whistling of the remaining 88 rocket artillery pieces immediately pierced through the dense fog and attacked the densely populated area. With the advance of the German army, even the short-legged range of rocket artillery was already almost reaching the sea.

"God!" The Allied soldiers shouted wildly, and the terrible nightmare came again. The flames evaporated the dense fog and immediately showed the people the sight of hell again. The newly consolidated front began to loosen again, and the soldiers lining up on the beach rushed forward in unison, away from danger. In the chaotic procession, from time to time, the wings of butterflies and flames were stained with blood. But none of this can stop people from fearing the reappearance of hell behind them.

Although the accuracy of the rocket artillery is not good, on such a foggy day, no matter how accurate the artillery is, it cannot calibrate the target, but the rocket artillery with a large area is not afraid, and because of the fog, it makes the counterattack of the allies more difficult. As the distance was pressed, even rocket artillery could directly cover the artillery positions of the Allied forces. Explosions and heat waves continued to disperse the fog.

"Attention everyone, we have reached the sky above the target, ready to drop the bomb!" At the same time, the German guidance plane, which received signals from other signal sources, began to warn the bomber group behind and took the lead in dropping the butterfly bomb.

Butterflies flutter in smoke and fog before finally stopping in Dunkirk's harbor and beaches.