While Chen Dao was writing hard on the bandit's diary, he was on the sea 200 nautical miles southwest of Bergen.

Under the protection of the escort fleet led by the Royal Navy's battleship, the merchant ships Edinburgh and Tuna were sailing rapidly.

In the first class of Edinburgh, Montgomery and Colonel Hall had dinner and were chatting in the entertainment room.

"It's already dark, the German plane will not come, we can go home with peace of mind." Montgomery said

"The weather saved the rookie. If the bad weather lasted for a few more days, we could use the Norwegian terrain to teach him a lesson." Colonel Hall said unwillingly.

"God gave us bad weather for several consecutive days, which prevented the Luftwaffe from being dispatched and ensuring that we could retreat safely. We should be content. As for the German rookie, we can only say that he is lucky." Montgomery smiled and agreed with Colonel Hall's view.

"Where will we be sent when we return home? France?" asked Colonel Hall.

"Of course it's France, where else can we go besides France?" Montgomery shrugged.

"We left France in early April and landed in Norway on April 10. On April 25, that is, tomorrow morning we will arrive in Britain and then return to France. It took just half a month. What are we trying to do in the past half month? Armed march in Norway?" Colonel Hall said dissatisfied.

"No, we can treat it as a tourist operation and exercise our ability to land on the beach. We want to thank my dear Mr. Churchill, whom he said was planning and promoting the battle plan of Britain and France in Norway. He did not force us to fight to the end in Norway and then surrender gloriously like the 7th French Infantry Division. I am already contented." Montgomery teased.

"Yes, we can't be too greedy." Hall snorted coldly when he heard Montgomery speak of Churchill.

Montgomery covered her mouth and yawned. Hall knew that Montgomery was used to falling asleep shortly after supper, so he took the initiative to say goodbye. The two of them went back to their cabins to rest.

Montgomery was washing up in the cabin with sleepiness and preparing to go to bed, but he didn't know that a fierce sea wolf was staring at the fleet where he was in a green light.

Under the sea ten meters deep, Captain Prien, the captain of the German Navy's U-47 submarine, lay in front of the periscope, peeking at the black shadows on the distant sea with great energy.

At this time, it was already dark. With the help of the stars in the sky, Prien could only distinguish their types by the outline and size of the British ships.

There were at least four destroyers on the sea. Prien observed for a few minutes and concluded that once his submarine exposed his target, the consequences would be quite serious.

But when Captain Prien saw the three huge figures in the fleet, he felt unbearable. The three huge figures were probably troop transport ships or battleships. No matter which type of ship, it exuded a huge force.

Do it? Or don't? This is a problem.

After hesitating for a while, Captain Prien couldn't help but touch the first-class Iron Cross on his left chest.

Kirk Strait is one of the seven entrances to the Scapa Military Port in the UK. The strait waterway is narrow and changeable, with abnormal turbulent water flows, and huge and steep rocks are everywhere under the water. Not only that, just in case, the British Royal Navy also sank three old ships in the strait and set up an artificial barrier for the strait.

However, all difficulties and obstacles could not stop Captain Prien's U-47 submarine.

On October 13, 1939, Captain Prien commanded his U-47 submarine, after a night of scary secret sneak, successfully crossed the Kirk Strait, and entered Scapa Bay on October 14.

After two rounds of volleys, Prien fired a total of 6 torpedoes, successfully sinking the Royal Oak battleship of the British Royal Navy. More than 800 crew members, including the captain, died before they could escape.

Prien then commanded the U-47 submarine to escape the encirclement and interception of the Royal Navy destroyer, successfully crossed the Kirk Strait again, and returned to Wilhelmshaven, Germany on October 17.

Touching the medal on his chest, Prien recalled the scene when he landed in Wilhelmshaven in the early morning of October 17 last year.

On the dock, the military band played the Triumph. Marshal Redel and General Dunitz personally welcomed his return. Marshal Redel also personally awarded him a first-class Iron Cross, and all crew members were awarded the second-class Iron Cross.

Merits will not fall from the sky, you can only fight for them at great risk.

Thinking of this, Captain Prien made up his mind to attack the British fleet.

Turning the periscope, Prien quickly locked the target. A few minutes later, with the cooperation of various departments, Prien successfully measured the target's heading, speed and distance. The weapons on the ship calculated various parameters for the torpedo launch, and the combat command was immediately assigned to the torpedo compartment.

When he heard the torpedo compartment reply "ready", Prien issued a fire order without hesitation.

Three steam torpedo drilled out of the launch tube and dragged out three long trails on the sea and rushed towards the British fleet.

As soon as the torpedo was shot out, the U-47 submarine submarine was submerged 100 meters underwater and was silently dodging, relying solely on the listener's listener to monitor the movements on the water.

Not long after, the listener's eyes lit up, and then he gestured to Prien several times, indicating that a torpedo hit.

Prien waved his fist hard, then continued to remain silent, leading his subordinates and the British destroyers to continue playing hide-and-seek.

Unlike Captain Prien's excited expression, Montgomery and Colonel Hall rushed out of the hatch door one after another and ran outside to check the source of the explosion.

As soon as they stepped on the deck of the Edinburgh, they saw a hellish scene.

A raging fire ignited on the Tuna merchant ship, and the bow of the ship was raised at a forty-degree angle and slowly sank towards the sea.

In the dazzling firelight, the two of them could even see countless mosquito-sized black dots jumping into the water, and many of them were carrying bright flames.

"The Seventh Artillery Regiment, and the Thirty-Thirdth Artillery Regiment, they're done." Montgomery's eyes instantly became wet.

"Save people quickly." Colonel Hall shouted at the top of his lungs.

Amid Colonel Hall's shouts, the ships escorted the fleet rushed towards the Tuna, trying to rescue the crew members who fell into the water.

Before they could get close to Tuna, the Tuna hull suddenly emitted a series of explosions, plunging into the water and being swallowed by the sea.

Countless crew members and artillerymen were caught in the huge vortex, struggling, and wailing into the cold seabed.

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At 8 a.m. on April 25, after lurking under the water for nearly ten hours, the U-47 submarine rushed out of the water like a deep-sea monster.

Prien grabbed the escalator and ran up the podium, and the crew rushed to climb out of the submarine, lying on the deck, breathing greedily with the salty air mixed with the sea water.

The diesel engine is started, pumping the fresh and cold air into the submarine, and replacing the dirty air in each cabin.

After discovering that the Tuna was attacked, the British destroyer responded quickly to search for German submarines in the nearby waters, but they struggled all night but found nothing.

The sky gradually brightened, and the destroyers received the order to retreat, threw down a pile of deep-water bombs like anger and left in disappointment.

After the crew had enough rest, Prien issued an order to continue combat patrol.

Almost at the same time as Captain Prien, Chen Dao ordered the officers and soldiers of the battlefield investigation team to start loading the car and prepare to return home in the port of Bergen.

Chen Dao thought to himself: It takes at least one day and one night to return to Oslo from Bergen Port; it takes at least one day and one night to unload and load the ship in Oslo and then go to Hamburg; it takes at least one day and one night to take the train to the new station on the Western Front after getting off the ship in Hamburg. The final arrival of the station on the Western Front should be around April 28, which is on the premise that everything goes well. If there is a delay in the middle, it may be a little later. Let's just consider it to be arriving at the station on May 1. The French Battle was launched on May 10, and I still have enough time to run in the troops and teach my experience.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, after saying goodbye to Peterson and Liszt, who were coming to see him off, the train Chen Dao was taking slowly drove out of Bergen.

Three days later, Chen Dao, a city of Sterren, 20 kilometers south of Longdheim, walked off the train angrily and said to Major Schumacher: "Order the troops to get off the train immediately, and we go to Trondheim to kill the British troops there. Tell them that if you want to go home early, speed up the action."

Major Schumacher knew that Chen Dao was angry and didn't say much, so he hurriedly commanded the troops to unload the truck.

Chen Dao looked towards the direction of Trondheim in the north and thought angrily: I can't move Falkenhorst, can't move you? British man, wait for me, you can repay the blood debt owed by the Third Infantry Division in Vos Town.

Five days ago, the commander of the Norwegian Expeditionary Force in Germany, General Falkenhorst, received a report on the Battle of Stavanger.

After seeing the report, General Falkenhorst thought that if it weren't for this report, he would have almost misunderstood. The Air Force's investigation team was not here to conduct investigations, it was clearly to test the performance of new weapons, and it was also some powerful weapons that were not even the army.

If it weren't for the reports submitted by the SS, they would have almost missed them.

After some investigation, Falkenhorst learned that the battlefield investigation team had just set off from Bergen and was about to switch to Oslo to return home.

In the spirit of being shameful to use everything to waste, General Falkenhorst immediately made a decision to intercept the battlefield investigation team and let them turn to Trondheim, breaking the deadlock encountered by the Third Mountain Division in Trondheim, and allowing them to exert some of their remaining energy before returning to their country.

In this way, the train Chen Dao took turned north at Heneforth, the northwest transportation hub in Oslo, and headed straight for Trondheim.
Chapter completed!