"Prepare for battle!? Is our Germany going to start a war against Japan??" the sailor asked in surprise.

"No, no, no, no, it's not Germany, it's the Republic of China! It's the Republic of China that is in a state of war with Japan." Denitz made a "you know" expression and said, "According to the agreement, this submarine will only officially belong to us after arriving in Germany, which means that the ship is still in the Qiongya Navy sequence. Do you understand?"

The sailor smiled "hehe" and saluted Dunits: "Yes, Captain!"

"Collapse the snorkel, turn off the diesel engine, and start the motor!"

The sailors who were able to follow Denitz to receive the submarine were obviously elites. Although this was a new type of submarine they had never touched before, they still quickly and accurately manipulated the world's most advanced underwater killer into combat.-

The diesel engine is turned off and the motor is started. The submarine has only one periscope exposed to the water to observe the target. The entire body is covered by sea water and is quietly approaching the target.

As a submarine specially developed for underwater combat, the underwater performance of the xxi-class submarine is naturally nothing to say. The underwater speed of 17.2 knots was the best at the time, and it was even faster than the normal merchant ships. After all, no merchant ship would cruise at the highest speed. Unless the boss's brain was kicked by a donkey, it can be said that no merchant ship would survive as long as it was targeted by the xxi-class submarine.

"I remember there are still remaining torpedoes on our boat, right?" Dunitz turned his head and confirmed to the sailor beside him.

"Yes, only two torpedoes were used in the last live ammunition test. There are four in the submarine, two of which are coach bullets, and the remaining two are live ammunition." The sailor replied.

Since the xxi-class submarines given to the Germans did not use Qiongya torpedoes, but used German torpedo launchers, in order to conduct torpedo testing, the torpedo used was specially transported from Germany with Denitz's ship. It has not been used up in the test now, so naturally it was sent back to Germany with the xxi-class submarines, but I didn't expect it to be used here.

Dunitz nodded and smiled, "Let them not make mistakes, never fill the coach with bullets."

The sailor smiled and said, "Don't worry, captain, they won't make any mistakes! Everyone's hands are itchy, and they won't miss this opportunity. Now please indicate the target position."

Because Denitz occupied the periscope, he naturally needed to adjust the launch elements.

However, this time, Denitz said: "No, I'm just doing an observation. This time there is such a good opportunity, so we naturally have to test the sonar system of this submarine."

Unlike traditional submarines, xxi-class submarines can be aimed and attacked through sonar, and this kind of thing was simply unimaginable before him. In Roger's time and space, there was a movie called "Hunting U-517", in which two submarines used torpedoes to shoot underwater. The torpedoes have passed by repeatedly. There is no doubt that the director must have studied in China. Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain how to shoot such an unreliable plot. Under the technology at that time, the hit rate of the two submarines fired underwater will definitely not be much higher than the success rate of using a pistol to perform sex reincarnation surgery on a mosquito with a pistol.

This time the opponent was a merchant ship. Denitz and his men were a little unscrupulous. In their opinion, the Japanese ship opposite was a mouse waiting to die, while they were cats playing with prey. The Japanese merchant ship was simply a target ship used to test this xxi-class submarine. Even if it was played too much, it would not threaten them in turn. Merchant ships, no matter how hard they were, could they still pose a threat to the submarine? Everything was in their control.

Of course, at this time, Denitz and others did not know the glorious achievements created by their noodle allies in the future. Otherwise, they would never think so. At least for the submarine soldiers of the noodles, even attacking fishing boats is a risky and high-risk task. During World War II, our great Roman descendants showed people the mythical record of how fishing boats captured submarines! Of course, this situation only happens when the Italians were the side operating the submarine.

For Italians, there are only ones you can never imagine. Without them, if the opponent is them, then you will find that everything at a certain point is all scumbag.

When Denitz's xxi-class submarine approached a distance suitable for torpedo launch, the active sonar on the submarine began to work, providing information about Japanese merchant ships to the submarine. Soon, based on this information, the German submarine soldiers completed the preparations for torpedo launch.

"Speed ​​tube No. 1 and 2, launch!" Dunitz ordered loudly.

Two muffled sounds that followed meant that the torpedo was pushed out of the launch tube by compressed air. Then, the torpedo engine began to work, pushing the two death-god scythes galloping towards the Japanese merchant ship.

Generally speaking, if a country wants to start a war, it usually notifies its own merchant ships in advance to prepare in case they dock in the enemy's sphere of influence and are captured when the war begins. Of course, this is just a general situation, and it is our Italian children's shoes. They are a typical exception. When they are jealous of the Germans' achievements and declare war on France, they obviously forgot to say something to their merchant ships. As a result, after the declaration of war, the troops dragged on and did not mobilize, but the merchant ships docked in many colonies of Britain and France have already lost countless losses.

This time, the Japanese did not notify their merchant ships of the raids launched against Qiongya. However, unlike the Italians, they did this just to ensure the confidentiality of the raids, rather than the joke that Mussolini declared war with a slap in his head.

But this inevitably caused many Japanese merchant ships to be trapped. It is easy to say that those who take other routes are just a war between China and Japan. Other countries will not arrest Japanese merchant ships, and China does not have a vast colony as vast as Britain and France. However, the fate of Japanese merchant ships taking the Nanyang route is not so optimistic, just like the "Nanyamaru" ship in front of Denitz and others.

A sailor who was rubbing the deck seemed to vaguely see something on the water swimming towards his boat. He was wondering what fish could swim so fast, so he pulled the clothes of another old sailor in front of him and asked:

"Aliang, see if there is a shark over there."

"Shark?" The sailor named Aliang looked strangely along the sailor's hand. There was indeed a vague trail on the water surface, but it was definitely not left by the shark.

"Follower, that's not a shark at all! You've been out of the sea for a short time, and you'll be able to recognize it if you see it in the future."

"Not a shark, then what is it?"

When Aliang heard the sailor's question, he was stunned for a moment. He was very familiar with the path, but it was too long. He didn't think of it at first, but if he looked closely, it was just a torpedo he often saw when he was a sailor!

"Damn it! Torpedo, it's torpedo! We were attacked by torpedo! War broke out! War broke out!"

Aliang's sudden "crazy" behavior made the sailors around him puzzled. No one realized what was going on. He only saw Aliang running to the cabin wall like crazy and picking up a lifebuoy and putting it on his body.

Immediately afterwards, the sailors heard a loud noise, and the hull shook violently at first. Then they began to tilt and sink at a speed that could be clearly felt.

Looking at the unlucky people who were thrown into the sea, everyone knew what Aliang meant just now.

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While Denitz was enjoying the live ammunition shooting, Roger appeared in the Qiongya Meteorological Station. For the Qiongya Navy, which relies on aircraft carriers as its main combat force, they are afraid of night battles and bad weather. These two kinds of things will greatly limit the use of aircraft carriers. Carrier-based aircraft cannot take off naturally have all kinds of martial arts and cannot play out. These two situations have little impact on combat ships. Although the Qiongya Navy ships have advanced radar equipment and are not afraid of being raided by the Japanese in this kind of weather, it is inevitable that they will lose their fighter jets as a result.

"Dr. Cai, can you be sure that there are no large-scale storms in the southern part of Taiwan in recent times?" Roger confirmed to the weather station manager standing in front of him.

"Yes, I can be sure that there will definitely be no bad weather in the southern part of Taiwan* Bay within three days, and the possibility is not high within one week. But it will be hard to say if it is longer." Dr. Cai, who is responsible for providing meteorological information to the Qiongya army, gave his own answer.

In order to ensure the accuracy of meteorological information, Roger funded many meteorological stations in the Pacific Rim. During the war, his meteorological department could obtain relatively accurate meteorological information through a comprehensive study of the information sent back by these meteorological stations.

After coming out of the weather station, Zhu Qingyue, who was responsible for organizing the assembly task of landing troops, was already standing outside in front of Roger's car. When he saw Roger coming out, he took the initiative to open the car door.

When Roger saw Zhu Qingyue, he knew that he must have something to come to him. He said, "Get in the car and talk."

Zhu Qingyue nodded and got into the car. Knowing that Roger and the others were afraid of having to talk about some important things, Qi Lingyun also came over and drove the driver out of the car and acted as the driver himself. In fact, it was more appropriate for Xu Menglong to be the driver at this time. But he didn't know how to drive, so he could only go to the position of the co-pilot.

Looking at the four people sitting in the car, Roger said half-jokingly: "Okay, if you meet a Japanese assassin, they will make a lot of money and can kill the four big figures in Qiongya in one go!"

Xu Menglong turned his head and glared at Roger in dissatisfaction: "Master, can you trust our old Xu's job so much? The Japanese in Qiongya have cleaned up a few days ago. Even if they want to find trouble, can they still fly out of the prison?"

"That's all, can you take it seriously, Old Xu?" Roger smiled, then looked at Zhu Qingyue and asked, "What are you doing to come and ask me? Are the first wave of landing troops ready?"

Zhu Qingyue nodded and said, "The army's troops have been mobilized and are waiting to board the ship. The first batch of three divisions, Lao Song's "Xuanwu" Division of the Republic of China Guard, as well as the First Division and the Second Division of the National Defense Forces have all been assembled. The specific offensive target is not known below. The public statement is that we will mobilize them to Songhu through sea transportation."

"Since you have already assembled, you can't tell me soon. Why do you come to me personally? Now you can't wait?" Roger said teasingly. Although Zhu Qingyue reported that the troops were ready, they were not the first wave of landing troops. The first Marine Division of the Navy was responsible for landing. Because beach-grabbing operations were necessary to deal with Japan, the Qiongya Navy's subordinates formed four Marine divisions, which were specifically responsible for beach-grabbing and other amphibious operations. As for Zhu Qingyue's troops, they had to wait until they took the port before they could transport them. I don't know how long it would take to wait.

Zhu Qingyue pretended to shook her head, but soon revealed her true face: "I can't wait anything. Anyway, there is no such thing as my 'Qinglong' master in the sequence... But then again, Brother Luo, can we add my 'Qinglong' master? How can I do it if I don't have such a big deal to fight Taiwan *wan? Old Song's 'Xuanwu' master has passed, it's not good for me, the 'Qinglong' master to stay."

Roger glared at Zhu Qingyue and replied, "We don't have so many tank landing ships. If you want to get ashore, you will not turn the mechanized division into a light infantry division."

"This..." Zhu Qingyue was in trouble after Roger said this. Those tanks and armored vehicles were his most precious things.

"You, please wait honestly. After we take Gao*xiong down, we will unload your troops from the port. As for the matter of landing on the beach and consolidating the position, let them leave it."

"But this is the tough battle!" Zhu Qingyue said with a bitter face.

"So you dislike not having a tough battle, that's OK. It's not a tough battle anyway. So just give it to someone else. Taiwan, you'd better not go there."

"Okay, can't I be wrong?" Zhu Qingyue quickly apologized, and then was busy changing the topic. "Brother Luo, our brothers in the army are holding their energy to go to the island. They are about to set off tomorrow. Don't you go over and say something to them before leaving?"

Roger raised his wrist to look at the time, thought for a while and said, "Okay, there is still some time today, so let's go to the military camp." (Your support on this site is my greatest motivation.)

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