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Volume 31 Chapter 31 D?nitz on

After the Chinese submarine force arrived at the west of Bolling, for more than half a month, he spent almost every day in brothels, and several officers even jealous with the Italians. When this information was transferred to Port Bola through the General Intelligence Department, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian submarine force, Knight Franz von Tyri, was almost unbelievable.

The Austro-Hungarian Navy submarine forces learned from the German Navy, and Germany largely learned from China. A few years ago, the submarine forces of China and Germany were trained together. If you admire the achievements of the German submarine forces, you will naturally think that the Chinese submarine forces should not be underestimated. But who knows that this fleet, which was once considered extremely excellent, will be stranded in the gentle land of Italian women, and cannot be found.

The first time he received the information, Lieutenant Colonel Tyri asked someone to invite Major Kofamel of the German army. He pushed the telegram and photos to him from the table and said, "Waldema, can you tell me what the Chinese want to do? They are not here to fight, but here to play with women?"

"What are you doing?" Cofamel picked up the telegram and looked at the photo. He knew the Chinese submarine captain who was fighting with an Italian, but forgot what he was called, "Sir, I don't know what they want to do."

"But you let us be careful with them." Lieutenant Colonel Tyri was obviously not satisfied with the German answer. "Although our captain would also go to the brothel to find women and drink heavily, I don't think they haven't gone out to sea for more than half a month, and spend their days in brothels."

"Yes, I'm very strange about this," said Major Cofamel. "I was worried that Chinese submarines would enter the Adriatic Sea, but according to the reports of various boats this month, no strangeness was found everywhere. So I think they should be like Italians and French, who are only willing to ambush us near the Strait Defense Submarine Network, and they dare not take the initiative to go deep into the inner side of the Adriatic Sea to look for fighter jets."

Major Kofamel was a brave submarine officer. Although his reputation was not as good as his subordinates, Hesen, the legendary captain U21, had a remarkable record. He knew very clearly about the Chinese. As a member of the submarine force before the war. These yellow people were very smart and endured, and perhaps not geniuses in mechanical aspects. But those cumbersome and strict operating specifications made up for this shortcoming; and a sense of honor, which was also lacking in those yellow people, but each of them had an indescribable pride that once a Chinese official said that it would not take ten years. The performance of Chinese submarines would surpass that of Germany.

To be fair, China, which cannot even be made of steel for qualified submarines, is arrogant to make such remarks. But if you carefully recall everything about German active submarines, it should not be ridiculed. The Chinese people's understanding of submarines and their understanding of submarine tactics is indeed ahead of the Germans. Now all the rules of the submarine troops are given by the Chinese, and their shortcomings are just that they cannot realize what they want to achieve. Ten years later, when the Chinese have qualified steel and qualified motors, they can completely build more advanced submarines according to their own ideas. Such a group of proud Chinese people will fall into jealousy with the Italians, which is really hard to believe.

Major Cofamel played with the photo of the Chinese submarine officer jealously. He thought about the past. Now, he finally remembered who the person in the photo was dressed in a mess and fought. This was called Ouyang Ge. One of his brothers was the instructor of the submarine training school. The two had drunk alcohol before, but who would have thought that when we met again in a few years, we would become enemies.

Putting down the photo gently, Major Cofamel said: "Franz, I think we should stick to our previous strategy. Before the Chinese Ocean Fleet arrives, all boats will return to the port to repair it. When the Chinese Ocean Fleet approaches the Red Sea, the troops will attack again, waiting for them everywhere in the Mediterranean and sinking them."

"Where is the Red Sea?" Lieutenant Colonel Tyri nodded. He agreed with this plan. Since the Chinese were so generous to tell themselves the fleet information, they should sink a few more merchant ships to deserve the Chinese. "Can the submarines on the Atlantic reach the Red Sea? If they can ambush the fleet in the Red Sea, the Chinese would be shocked. No one could have thought that we could attack the fleet from such a distance."

"If there is no supply ship, it will not be able to reach it. Even if it arrives, it may not be possible to achieve any battle results. I think the focus of the attack should be in the Mediterranean rather than the Red Sea." Major Cofamel said his own guess, "But this is just my guess. This is the first time that the Chinese are transporting soldiers to France on a large scale. If they can deal with them like the Americans' troop carrier, their speed of re-energy will slow down or even be suspended. This is very beneficial to us, so I cannot be sure whether the submarines on the Atlantic Ocean will be dispatched to the Red Sea."

Although he had contact with the Navy Headquarters, Cofamel could not know the Navy's combat plan. After he finished his guess, he asked, "Have our ships all returned?"

"Most of them are back," said Tyri, who lit a cigarette for himself. "The last group of wolves has not come back. The four ships of ub68, u35, u27, u14 have not come back yet. In fact, they are back later. We don't have so many ships to dock them, and now there are many submarines parked outside the bunker."

The four submarines that Tyri mentioned were familiar with Cofamel. Lieutenant Karl Denitz of ub68 was a novice. He was previously a candidate officer on the cruiser and later transferred to the submarine force to serve; U35 was the submarine he had commanded before, and now it was commanded by Captain Lotal von Arnold de La Perrier. He was not only the ace of the Mediterranean submarine force, but also the ace of the German submarine force. So far, he has sunk 288 merchant ships, with a total tonnage of an astonishing 630,000 tons, exceeding the second-place 150,000 tons. What is even more surprising is that he rarely uses torpedoes in combat, and most of these more than 280 merchant ships were sunk with 88mm deck cannons;

Compared with the two newcomers who had just transferred to the submarine force in the middle, Captain Feinlan of the u27 and Captain Tepula of the u14 have been staying in the submarine force since the beginning of the war. The two veterans, like the legendary captain Captain Heson, have a deep battleship plot: they hope to sink more enemy warships than merchant ships, and think that merchant ships are something new. They all have records of sinking warships, but have few achievements in sinking merchant ships.

"Did they have news coming?" Major Cofamel was a little worried about the four submarines. He was very worried that the Chinese submarines would ambush them in the Strait of Otranto and ambush them with long-kiss torpedoes. Unlike the Admiralty's scammers, the Major believed that the Chinese self-guided torpedoes were useful, but they were only suitable for submarines rather than destroyers, and they could not be increased at will, nor could they be used in complex seas. These would destroy their sophisticated sound guidance system. Because of this, he applied to mobilize some of the remaining long-kiss torpedoes to the Mediterranean, but the Admiralty did not reply to this telegram.

"No news is good news." The lieutenant colonel glanced at him strangely, "You know, in order not to let the enemy's radio direction find traces, they can't send a newspaper, but can only receive it."

"Then I'll send them a message again, asking them to return as soon as possible, and be careful when passing through the Strait of Otranto." The major insisted. His intuition told him that dangers have been hidden everywhere in recent times, but he couldn't feel the danger. All he could do now is to be careful in everything.

According to the experience of World War II, the wolves' tactics can be used, in addition to the need for excellent submarines, they also require ports in the French Atlantic Ocean, spies from ports of various Allied countries, and more efficient long-wave radio stations.

The performance of submarines is okay, and spies are not a problem. Although the British Expeditionary Force controlled Calais and other places on the Atlantic port on the screen, the French Atlantic port Lecrotois was in the hands of the German army. After expansion, many German submarines on the Atlantic Ocean jumped out of the North Sea blockade network and obtained supplies and rest here. After all these were all ready, high-power radio stations for submarine communication were also built.

The spark gap transmitter emits long waves, with a wavelength of 4,000 meters. After the arc oscillator was successfully designed in 1906, the efficiency of the oscillator increased to 3,000 kW was 50 to 60%. It can use a wavelength of about 20 kilometers and can transmit radio signals throughout the Atlantic Ocean. Although the longer the wavelength, the slower the information is received, and the submarines cannot sail underwater for a long time, no one will question the reliability of long-wave radio stations. Those short-wave radio stations will always be unreliable for a few days in a year, which is intolerable for submarine combat.

When the telegram was sent by the long-wave radio station in the Bola military port, like several other submarines, the ub68 submarine on the side of the Malta Island also received the radio waves. Two long hours passed, and the communications officer who had finished translating the telegram delivered the telegram to the captain Lieutenant Dunitz, who was waiting for prey in the moonlight to a medium fleet.

"The wolf's den is urging us to go home again." The lieutenant was holding a telescope to observe the distance. It was the first mate Mussen who received the telegram. After reading it, he handed it to the captain Denitz.
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