After the Chinese submarine force reached the west of Brin, the front line of the blockade, for more than half a month, they spent almost every day fooling around in brothels, and even a few officers were jealous of the Italians. When this information was transmitted to the port of Bora through the General Intelligence Department, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian submarine forces, Franz Murphy. Feng. Knight Tiri is almost unbelievable.

The submarine forces of the Austro-Hungarian Navy were learned from the German Navy, and Germany learned to a large extent from China, and a few years ago, the submarine forces of China and Germany were trained together. admiring the achievements of the German submarine force, it is natural to think that the Chinese submarine force should not be underestimated, but who would have known that this fleet, which was once considered extremely excellent, would actually run aground in the gentle countryside of Italian women and could not get out.

As soon as he received the information, Lieutenant Colonel Tiri asked Major Kofamier of the German army to be invited, and he pushed the telegram and photos from the table to him, and said: "Waldemar, can you tell me what the Chinese want to do?" Didn't they come here to fight, but to play with women? ”

"What for?" Cofamel picked up the telegram and looked at the photograph of a Chinese submarine captain he knew who was fighting with an Italian, but for a moment forgot his name, "Sir, I don't know what they want to do." ”

"But you told us to be on guard against them." Lieutenant Colonel Tiri was obviously not satisfied with the Germans' answer, "Although our captains will go to the brothels to find women and drink heavily, I think they will not go to sea for more than half a month, and spend their days in brothels." ”

"Yes, I'm also very weird about that." Major Cofamel said, "Originally. I was also worried that Chinese submarines would enter the Adriatic Sea, but according to this month's reports from boats, nothing unusual was found anywhere. So I think they should be like the Italians and the French, they are only willing to ambush us near the submarine network in the strait, and they don't dare to take the initiative to go deep into the Adriatic Sea to find fighters."

Major Cofamel was a brave submarine officer, and although his reputation was not comparable to that of his subordinate, the legendary captain Hussen of the U-21, his record was also remarkable, for the Chinese. As a person who entered the submarine force before the war, he knew very well. These yellows are intelligent, enduring, and perhaps not mechanically geniuses. But those cumbersome and strict operating specifications make up for this shortcoming; There is also a sense of honor, which is also lacking in those yellow people, but each of them has an indescribable pride - a Chinese officer once said that it will not take ten years. The performance of Chinese submarines will surpass that of Germany.

In all fairness. It is arrogant for China to make such a statement, but it is not possible to carefully recall everything about the German submarines in service, which should not be ridiculed. The Chinese's understanding of submarines and submarine tactics are indeed ahead of the Germans, and now all the procedures of the submarine force are given by the Chinese, and their shortcomings are just that they cannot achieve what they want to achieve. Ten years later, when the Chinese have qualified steel and qualified motors, then they can build more advanced submarines according to their own ideas. Such a group of proud Chinese. It's hard to believe that they would degenerate into jealousy with the Italians.

Major Cofamel played with the photo of a Chinese submarine officer jealous. Thinking about the past. Now, he finally remembered who the disheveled person in the photo was, this was called Ouyang Ge, one of his brothers was an instructor at the submarine training school, and the two of them had drunk before, but who would have thought that if they met again in a few years, everyone would actually become enemies.

Putting the picture down gently, Major Cofamel said: "Franz, I think we should stick to the previous strategy, before the arrival of the Chinese ocean-going fleet, all the boats return to port for repairs, and when the Chinese ocean-going fleet approaches the Red Sea, the troops will strike again, wait for them all over the Mediterranean, sink them." ”

"What about the Red Sea?" Lieutenant Colonel Tiri nodded, he agreed with this plan, since the Chinese were so generous to tell themselves the information of the fleet, then they should sink a few more merchant ships to be worthy of the Chinese's attention. "Can a submarine on the other side of the Atlantic reach the Red Sea? If we could ambush the fleet in the Red Sea, the Chinese would be surprised, and no one could have imagined that we could attack the fleet from such a distance. ”

"If you don't have a supply ship, you can't reach it, and even if you do, you may not be able to achieve anything, and I think the focus of the attack should be in the Mediterranean rather than the Red Sea." Major Cofamel said his speculation, "But this is just my speculation, this is the first time that the Chinese have sent soldiers to France on a large scale, and if they can be dealt with like American troop carriers, then the rate of their troop increase will be slowed down or even suspended, which is very beneficial to us, so I can't be sure whether the submarines in the Atlantic will be transferred to the Red Sea." ”

Despite his connection with the Navy Headquarters, Kovamir had no way of knowing the Admiralty's battle plan, and after he finished his guesses, he asked, "Are our ships all back?" ”

"Most of them are back." Tierry said, lighting himself a cigarette, "There is still one last pack of wolves that have not returned, and the UB-68, U-35, U-27, and U-14 have not yet returned." Actually, it would be better for them to come back later, we don't have that many slipways to dock them, and there are still many submarines parked outside the bunkers. ”

The four submarines that Tyri said were all familiar to the Kofamel, the UB-68 Karl. Second Lieutenant Dönitz was a novice, having previously served as an alternate officer on a cruiser before being transferred to serve in the submarine force; The U-35 was the submarine he had previously commanded, and now it was run by Lothar. Feng. Arnol. Morality. Pull. Commanded by Captain Perrier, he is not only the trump card of the submarine forces in the Mediterranean, but also the trump card of the German submarine forces, so far, he has sunk a total of 288 merchant ships, with a total tonnage of an astonishing 630,000 tons, more than 150,000 tons in second place, and what is even more surprising is that he rarely uses torpedoes in combat, and most of the more than 280 merchant ships are sunk by 88mm deck guns;

Compared with the above two newcomers who only transferred to the submarine force halfway, Captain Finnland of U-27 and Captain Tepra of U-14 had been in the submarine force since before the start of the war, and these two veterans, like the legendary captain Captain Hesson, had a deep battleship plot: they wanted to sink more enemy warships than merchant ships, thinking that merchant ships were the work of novices. They all have a record of sinking warships, but they have very little record of sinking merchant ships.

"Do they have any news from you?" Thinking of these four submarines, Major Cofamel was a little uneasy, he was very worried that the Chinese submarines would ambush them in the Strait of Otranto, using long-snouted torpedoes to ambush them. Unlike the Admiralty, who cursed Chinese liars, the major believed that the Chinese's self-guided torpedo was useful, but it was only suitable for submarines and not destroyers, and it could not be arbitrarily increased in speed and range, nor could it be used in complex sea conditions, which would destroy its sophisticated sound guidance system. Because of this, he applied to mobilize some of the remaining long-snouted torpedoes to the Mediterranean, but the Admiralty did not reply to this telegram.

"No news is good news." The lieutenant colonel gave him a strange look, "You know, in order to prevent the enemy's radio direction finders from discovering the tracks, they can't send reports but can only receive them. ”

"Then send them a message again, asking them to return as soon as possible, and to be on guard when passing through the Strait of Otranto." The major insisted. His intuition told him that there was danger everywhere in the recent period, but he couldn't feel where the danger was, and all he could do now was to be careful.

According to the experience of World War II, wolf pack tactics were used, requiring not only high-performance submarines, but also ports in the French Atlantic, spies throughout the Allied ports, and more efficient long-wave radios.

The performance of submarines can be improvised, spies are not a problem, and the ports on the Atlantic side, although the British expeditionary force controls Calais and other places that protect the English Channel, but the French Atlantic port of Le Rottois is in the hands of the German army. Submarines, spies, ports, these were all in place, and high-power radios for submarine communications were built.

The spark gap transmitter originally emitted a long wave, with a wavelength of 4,000 meters, but after the successful design of the arc oscillator in 1906, the oscillator efficiency increased to 3,000 kilowatts was 50 to 60 percent, and it could work with a wavelength of about 20 kilometers, and could transmit radio signals throughout the Atlantic. Although the longer the wavelength, the slower the reception of information, and the fact that a submarine cannot remain underwater for long periods of time, no one doubts the reliability of long-wave stations - those shortwave stations are unreliable for several days of the year, which is intolerable for submarine warfare.

When the long-wave radio station in the port of Bora sent the telegram, the UB-68 submarine on the Maltese side, like several other submarines, received the radio waves, and after two long hours, the communications officer who had translated the telegram delivered the telegram to the captain of the ship, Second Lieutenant Dönitz, who was waiting for his prey in the moonlight, a medium fleet.

"The wolf's den is urging us to go home again." The second lieutenant was now holding a telescope to look into the distance, and it was the first mate Mossen who took the telegram, which he hastily read and handed to Captain Dönitz.

"Yes, after tonight, we can go home." Ensign Dönitz did not answer the telegram, he put down his binoculars and looked at the sky again, and although the moon was shining, it was covered with clouds, and perhaps in a moment it would hide in the thick clouds. (To be continued......)