It’s a hidden murder! Weddigen was reluctant to move the greedy eyes away from the periscope and complained bitterly to those who covered their mouths and snickered.
"The old submarine is not here for transportation!"
The submarine periscope crosshair was biting the British enterprise light cruiser, and Weddigen almost reached the firing order. Unfortunately, the boxes of arms in the submarine aisle stopped it. In the next ten minutes, the narrow and dirty cabin of submarine No.29 became the vinegar jar of Weddigen’s adult.
Three days ago, Otto Weddigen led twenty medium-sized and ocean-going submarines to sail secretly from Helgolan Island, and a Norwegian merchant fleet broke through the blockade of the British Orkney Islands to the vast North Atlantic.
In 1915, the wolf pack tactics had become the trump card of the German submarine force, and many soldiers would make the ship strong. Weddigen passed by the incomplete Scarpa Bay in a low-key way, but it was gorgeous. This made Weddigen sad. After rushing out of the gap for several hours, the submarines 29 and 2 went to the Irish island. Two Edgar-class old armored cruisers of the British Tenth Cruiser Team ensured the secrecy of their actions. Weddigen jumped his feet and stopped on the west coast of Scotland. Weddigen once vowed to "miss or not let go" for the third time.
"Captain, if we don’t hurry, I’m afraid we’ll miss the joint of Irish dú lì Army!" Twenty minutes left from three o’clock in the morning, the staff officer turned over and woke up.
Weddigen finally stopped beijīng full of prison sā drooping eyes. J and ng light passed away to restore calm. Lieutenant Colonel casually opened the wooden box cover in the submarine passage and grabbed a rifle that had passed the gas Committee and skillfully pulled the bolt against the gas.
"A thousand committee rifles and a hundred thousand rounds!" Weddigen curled her mouth and threw this rifle with low evaluation and many problems back into the wooden box. She joked, "Our deputy commander is not expected to do business. I hope that the Irish living in Belfo Y and N can do a big job and not let us return to blood!"
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At three o’clock in the morning, dark clouds blocked the bright moon, the night in the North Sea was thick and the British coastline was quiet.
Blackwater River is just a stone’s throw from the mouth of the Thames, which is heavily guarded by the British navy. It has penetrated into the coastline of the British Empire, but it is also a reserved place for German imperial boats.
A powerful searchlight pierced the sea level like ink, and a flag destroyer with a herringbone crossed the estuary and swam to the river. At this time, the waves on the quiet sea suddenly appeared, and a boat got out of the sea and the searchlight flashed a few times.
The sea breeze mixed with a little coal smoke and the faint roar of the steam engine floated over. A Graudenz-class light cruiser deviated from the main channel explored by the boat and kept parallel across the hull coastline. The 15 mm main gun pointed out that the British Empire had followed the Graudenz for a light patrol. A Nautilus-class mine cruiser and a mine-laying ship also dispersed. The mouth of the Staur River diverged and the two main channels were ready to stand by.
Nautilus-class cruiser is a mine cruiser specially designed by Germany. It started construction in 1995 with a standard displacement of 22 tons and a speed of 2 sets of equipment. The mine depot can hold 2 mines. Most of the mine-laying ships are modified from 15-class torpedo boats and 195-class destroyers, each of which can hold 15 mines and then add a mine-laying submarine. This is almost the main force of imperial mine warfare.
Heavy mines were moved from the mine ammunition depot deep in the hull, and the stern mine deck was placed. The square mine deck guide rail of the square ship was opened, and the inclined slide was faintly visible. The trained sailors turned their heads and waited for the captain’s instructions.
The newspaper from Port William finally delivered a short order from the bearded old captain, Rhonda, holding the armband hat.
"The suffocation operation begins!"
Two minelaying ships set out on the Blackwater River channel, and the Z-shaped circular anchor mines continued to slide to the sea. Those heavy guys splashed one after another on the sea.
Ordinary anchor mines are usually composed of mine bodies and thunder anchors. The thunder bodies are black and Se spheres, which are not easy to be found. The warhead is filled with N-strong explosives, while the structure of the thunder bodies is easily washed away by the navy. Generally, the thunder bodies must be fixed with thunder anchors and thunder cables.
Compared with the ordinary anchor mine, the fixed anchor mine has excellent concealment. The fixed anchor mine is not claimed by the fixed mine, but the caisson is composed of heavy objects such as stones and iron blocks, which is similar to a ship’s ballast stone chain hanging from the mine body. After the fixed anchor mine is released, it usually sinks to the bottom of the sea. When it is calculated by a mechanical timer, the caisson will automatically fall off and float when the fixed time is over.
In a short time, 300 time mines have been laid at the mouth of Blackwater River by the ghost Nautilus, the mine cruiser and the mine ship. These mines will quietly lurk at the bottom of the sea and the harbor will be busy at noon.
The Stall River at the northern end of Blackwater River has always been one of the most important waterways in Britain, and Harwich Port, which is located at the intersection of Stall River and Orwell River, is also the best harbor in Britain. There are Harwich Peninsula and Nixto Cape on the sea side, which has always been regarded by sailors as "the safest port of Humber River on Thames".
It’s best to make a submarine raid on a low freeboard on a moonlit night by patrolling two Haworth class destroyers near Nixto Point. I never thought that a class offshore mine-laying submarine would slowly cut into the Staur River by rubbing ednnel near the Greek Sea Road on the east side of Harich Peninsula.
Class-1 offshore mine-laying submarine The German submarine family is an out-and-out little guy. The surface displacement is less than 2 tons. Six mine-laying pipes can carry 12 mines. The endurance is 7 nautical miles and 5 knots.
Expedition to Britain is indeed difficult for short-legged submarines, but there is no better choice. By April 1915, the empire had built a total of 190 submarines, in addition to 24 submarines that had been sold, retired and sunk, 12 medium-sized submarines in the Mediterranean operation, nine ocean-going submarines in the North Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, and five ocean-going submarines in the submarine command, 33 medium-sized submarines, 12 B-class offshore submarines and five E-class submarines.
It is unprofessional and also a great wave to mine attack medium-sized submarines. There are E-class and E-class submarines which are specialized in mine laying. Five E-class ocean-going submarines will be in the Irish Sea on the west coast of England and the short range selected by the Admiralty of St George’s Strait.
In order to ensure that the submarine can complete the relay supply and escort of a supply ship and several support ships sent by the Navy Department, this decision was not taken seriously before the suffocation plan, but it was widely defined as "a stroke of genius" in the post-war summary.
The lighthouse rebuilt in Harwich Port is not far away. This lighthouse was destroyed by the large-caliber main gun of the West Lyme Fleet in the naval battle in Shazhou, Dogel. It was only repaired in January this year. Going forward is the main channel of Harwich Port, which has submarine sneak attack and shelling experience of the main fleet. Harwich Port has a perfect anti-submarine and patrol system, but this can’t beat the submarine force.
Class-B mine-laying submarine enters semi-submersible state. The goal of the mine-laying suffocation plan for the central channel of Weiss Taur River in Harwich Port has never been the naval power of the British Empire, but the elimination of the British Empire’s Laisheng merchant ship!
In the same scene, England’s Cohen River, Crouch River, Heljing River Estuary and Walsh Bay, Firth Bay, Scotland, are repeated. These places are the eastern coastal areas of the British Empire, and the J and jīng China zone is often stormy. On this side of the North Sea, there are industrial regions and cities such as Harwich Military Port, Colchester, Ipswich, Malden, Felixstowe, Boston and Edinburgh, and more than 20 submarines are also lurking there.
Gorgeous dividing line
"At about 3: 12, patrol boat 234 of Harriet Fleet found the bait, and there was an exchange of fire between the two sides of the German submarine!"
At 3: 34 in the morning, Scarpa Bay Grand Fleet Command yawned, and the duty reporter in the naval newspaper room put a cup of bitter coffee to cheer up J Ο ng to translate a group of codes just recorded.
"Encounter a submarine? Let the Royal Navy become a laughing stock. Harriet Fleet, is this unbearable loneliness and lying about the military situation again? "
After the decisive battle in the North Sea, the British soil has been shocked. Every day, coastal residents move to the land. Almost every day, the big fleet receives a report of several kilograms to calculate the "discovery of German landing fleet and submarine". At first, the big fleet also mobilized several times in an emergency. After a month passed, the North Sea was safe. The big fleet understood the panic degree of those coastal watchtowers and temporary militia.
The reporter was not surprised by the report of finding the submarine. He buried himself in sorrow and continued to translate.
"At 3: 35, Harriet’s fleet was surrounded by four patrol boats, one light patrol boat, nine destroyers and four patrol boats against German submarines. At Nixto Point, the fleet was attacked by two former feared ships, two light cruisers and four destroyers. The main force of the fleet!"
"gone?" The reporter realized that Harriet’s fleet newspaper was vague and stunned for a few seconds before he suddenly reacted in panic, moved his chair and grabbed the newspaper and stumbled towards the staff room on duty at the headquarters.
"Oh, my God, the Germans are calling!" to be continued
Is the Thames or Scarpa Bay the fourth chapter of the second gun?
At 3: 10 in the morning, a 50-ton patrol boat, which was refitted from trawler and equipped with 4 mm cannon and powerful searchlight, was cruising towards the mouth of the Staur River!
"Jane, what’s that?"
Searchlight shines from the main mast of the patrol boat, and the dazzling light passes over the far corner of the main channel of the Stahl River. After a short pause, Hardy, a sailor who just wore a military uniform, grabbed his telescope and pulled it. Sergeant Jane Austen asked in a trembling voice.
"Hardy, don’t worry, it’s just some floating objects!"
The royal navy has been involved in seven seas for hundreds of years, but it does not show the powerful shipbuilding industry, huge capital ships and light ships, but rather shows the naval mobilization and war damage supplement in the state of war.
Before the outbreak of the European War, the Royal Navy formulated a core mobilization mechanism, that is, to keep a small J Ι ng reserve fleet composed of sealed warships and core crew.
Every year, the Royal Navy retires a large number of warships and officers and men. The core mobilization mechanism is that some of the retired warships are selected, and some of them are in good working condition and still have potential for excavation. They are compiled and sealed in some secret dry docks, and they are equipped with a small number of core officers and technical sailors. According to the feasible mobilization mechanism, once the war breaks out, the re-commissioned warships will soon recover their combat effectiveness.
Patrol boat No.234 is not in the core mobilization plan, but in the Constitution of 124, in order to strengthen the offshore defense and patrol power and ensure the military transportation of the British Empire Sea, the British Empire planned to recruit a group of trawlers and merchant ships at the beginning of the war and convert them into multi-way patrol boats, notorious Q ships and military transport ships.
It is the easiest step to recruit civilian ships with simple reconnaissance, mine clearance, anti-submarine and self-defense firepower. It is the most important thing in the 124 Charter that the commanders, gunners and sergeants of the navy department are the auxiliary warships to ensure the combat effectiveness.
Jane Austen, a sergeant appointed by the Admiralty to patrol boat 234, raised his telescope and joked to Hardy, a former sailor on the civilian ship who was caught in a panic.
"Look, the night in Great Britain is quiet!"
"But have you ever seen a tubular floating object moving towards the water?"
At 3: 12, the semi-submersible state of the German class mine-laying submarine near Harwich Harbor failed to find the South British patrol boat No.234 because of the visual angle problem, so the No.1 up periscope was discovered by two dedicated British sailors.
The patrol boat only had a 4 mm machine gun to fire, and the fire of the shè gun flashed across the night gun, waking up the port of Harriet in his sleep.
Even though Major General Charles Madden, commander of Harriet’s fleet, took various measures to try to boost the morale of Harriet’s fleet, this dignity and backbone were severely trampled by the Germans twice. Obviously, the fleet has lost its battle. It took patrol boat No.241 five minutes to get to the crossfire site, and it took three steam sturgeon-class destroyers of the reservation department nearly ten minutes to leave the water channel of Harriet’s port and deploy two Haworth-class destroyers at Nixto Point, and twenty minutes to block the possible retreat route of German submarines-
The class-4 submarine started to dive into the dark urgently, and the Se y Ι n shadow and periscope sèyīn disappeared. On the main channel, the No.4 mine-laying submarine was caught off guard by the patrol boat.
Deep diving is not a good choice. Although the depth of the main channel at the mouth of the Staur River is more than 3 meters, the hydrology of this water area is too strange for the Germans, and the width is too narrow. The mouth of the Staur River is far from enough for submarines to flash around.
At 3: 35, Major-General Madden gathered more than half of Harriet’s fleet-two Edinburgh-class patrol ships, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Heitai, two warrior-class patrol ships, a reconnaissance cruiser, nine destroyers and four patrol boats-and began to bombard and encircle the German submarine forces.
Four patrol boats and a reconnaissance cruiser are not wide, and the river is spread out in search formation. Dozens of searchlights make the river surface of the Staur River pale with weak water protection. Facing the hidden strong submarines, there is always natural fear and tension. The British gunner turns 76 mm auxiliary guns and two pounds of fast guns to fire at suspicious positions on the river surface. Destroyers and patrol boats walk up the Z-shaped stern deck of the Staur River, and small anti-submarine deep bombs are pushed to the river surface by those temporary civil crew tracks.
When the deep bomb goes into the river and reaches a certain depth, it triggers the fuze to explode, so the deep water comes with a heart-wrenching muffled sound. From time to time, a column of water mixed with light yellow Se river water and mud at the bottom of the river rises, and the Staur River suddenly boils.
After another violent explosion burst the water column, a little bit of broken wood, broken clothes and oil pollution floated on the Staur River, which was later confirmed to be the wreckage of submarine No.7.
Surface ships tremble and the Staur River cries!
"Damn it, why haven’t those two Caesar Frederick III battleships come to reinforce?"
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