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The Third Empire - Chapter 636

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:49:00 AM


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Then, in the French West Indies, the local French fleet was disarmed, and the crossbow operation was a complete success in both regions.

However, this does not satisfy the British navy.

The port of Toulon is in France, and the British navy has nothing to do. However, the French navy in the French North African colony can win over!

June 5, early morning.

On the Mediterranean, the waves are not big.

Due to geographical location, the Mediterranean is not a sea, but a bathtub. Countries along the Mediterranean have absolute control over the Mediterranean. Specifically, France and Italy are definitely pioneers.

In the construction of warships, the specifications of their navy's warships are often formulated with reference to the sea conditions of the Mediterranean.

The night is quite quiet. The weather on this day is very good. The sky is very clear. You can see stars blinking.

The night will provide quite good cover. At this time, in the night, a submarine is sailing in a floating state.

Submarine u73, which slipped into the Mediterranean Sea half a month ago through the Strait of Gibraltar.

At present, the Strait of Gibraltar is still under British control. In order to ensure the interests of the Mediterranean, the British have set up layers of monitoring devices. As long as there is movement of the engine underwater, they can find it and then launch an attack.

Unfortunately, the British did not know that the German Navy had long mastered the characteristics of the sea water in the Strait of Gibraltar.

Because the Mediterranean atmosphere is controlled by the ocean current flow direction of the subtropical high pressure zone, the precipitation is less than the evaporation of rain, so the salinity of the Mediterranean Sea is higher and the density is higher than that of the Atlantic, but the sea surface of the Mediterranean is lower.

In this way, a density flow is formed in the Strait of Gibraltar. The sea water up to 400 meters below the water surface flows eastward and the sea water below 400 meters flows westward, which forms a density flow.

This density current is simply prepared for the German Navy. When they dive out of the Mediterranean Sea, their submarine turns off the engine, falls to a deeper area below the sea surface, flows out of the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean along the ocean current, and when they come back, they lift the submarine to a shallower area, turn off the engine, and flows back to the Mediterranean along the surface ocean current.

As long as you don't turn on the engine, it will be as quiet as a fish.

Of course, it is much more convenient for them now. With the surrender of France, they can call at a port in southern France at any time, and the sea power of the Mediterranean will soon fall into the hands of the German Navy, so there is no need to enter and leave Gibraltar dangerously.

What they don't know is that the Strait of Gibraltar has long been on the Chirac strike list. It's just a matter of time.

Now, submarine u73 is floating.

Now, German submarines have been installed with vent pipes, so they can start the diesel engine for navigation as long as the vent pipes are exposed.

However, it is very uncomfortable for submarine soldiers to often stay in small submarines. Therefore, as long as they have the opportunity, submarines will still float out and let submarine soldiers alternately breathe in the bathtub above the command tower.

In fact, during World War II, submarines were still floating for most of the time. They would only turn to submarine after finding prey.

Now, in the bathtub, the sailor Lucas is greedily breathing the fresh air mixed with the sea breeze.

In the submarine, even if there is a vent pipe, the air mixed with the smell of diesel is very uncomfortable.

The top of the command tower, also known as the bathtub, is often wet the sailors here when the waves are big. This is common in the rolling Atlantic Ocean.

However, it is rare in the Mediterranean. It is more like a gentle girl. Her every move and a spray are so elegant.

Everyone has only two minutes, and is also responsible for monitoring the surrounding sea conditions. Just when Lucas had just breathed a breath of fresh air, his eyebrows suddenly wrinkled. His eyes looked at the dark sea in the distance, with a little light on it. His ears stood up and listened carefully to the roar of the engine in the distance.

"Found a fleet!" Lucas shouted, "it's our nine o'clock!"

"Come on, battle alert!" With Lucas' notice, Captain Helmut immediately issued an order.

Several people on the bathtub ran down quickly. Finally, Lucas closed the hatch. This is a very common action, but it is the most important.

In battle, everyone's nerves will collapse tightly. At the same time, various accidents may occur, such as forgetting to close the hatch cover.

This is not without precedent. Once a submarine forgot to close the hatch cover. As a result, it never came up after an emergency dive.

Now, the German submarine soldiers are the most trained. They will never make any low-level mistakes!

"Fill the head ballast water tank, prepare to dive, raise the vent pipe and periscope, prepare to switch to the battery, and the diesel engine stops." Helmut gave battle orders one by one.

If you look from the outside, you can see that the bow of the submarine is sinking rapidly. The bow rolls a few waves and disappears into the sea. Then, there is the command tower.

When the command tower was submerged in the sea, the vent pipe was slowly erected on the side of the command tower, while the periscope stretched out from the middle.

The vent pipe does not provide air for the diesel engine, but provides fresh air for the submarine. When the submarine is attacking, it needs to turn off the diesel engine.

Because the diesel engine is too noisy, with the continuous development of underwater listening technology, the noise of the diesel engine will spread far.

However, the energy of the battery can not be compared with that of the diesel engine. When the battery is used, the speed will drop instead.

Helmut's eyes were fixed on the periscope. Now, he could only see everything on the opposite side with the help of the moonlight. His hands turned the periscope and looked at each other's fleet. He couldn't help saying in his mouth: "we found a big fish, bow torpedo tube, all loaded, fixed depth 10, ready to launch!"

The opposite is definitely the main force of the British navy in North Africa! The British finally dragged out their navy in the colony!

In the gap between each other's voyages, Helmut saw two tall warships directly to the deck, which were British aircraft carriers! Although he could not see clearly, Helmut could guess that it should be the British aircraft carriers eagle and hundred eyed giant.

If only we could kill one!

But then Helmut frowned. No, the other party was too fast!




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