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Chapter 488: Underwater Wolves

Historically, because of the failure of the surface troops in Germany, Hitler was quite disappointed with Redel, so he placed all his hopes on the submarine troops, trying to make Britain surrender by blocking Britain's maritime transportation lines.

But now, the situation is different. The German surface fleet is constantly showing their strength, first weakening Britain to the same level as its own, and then completely hit the morale of the British Navy in today's naval battle.

At the same time, Germany did not give up on the development of its submarine force.

Now, there is no need to compete for resources. The batch of Spanish gold intercepted last time is enough for Germany's consumption in recent years. Therefore, Germany is catching up with all aspects and is constantly building submarines.

Now, Germany's viib submarine has developed into a viic submarine. The construction number of the two submarines has exceeded 80. This kind of submarine is specially designed for the Atlantic Ocean, and the subsequent construction number will exceed 200.

Now, there are more than a dozen patrolers nearby, and they are all rushing towards this side.

Whoever arrives at the battlefield first will have meat to eat!

In terms of size, wolves are not big, they are not as big as tigers and leopards.

However, "tigers are afraid of wolves." Tigers are animals that feed alone, while wolves live in groups. The bloodthirsty wolf pack makes all the giants in nature shudder. Under their repeated siege, even the king of beasts will be unable to survive.

Genghis Khan at that time realized the principle of leading troops to fight from the wolves.

The submarine's wolf pack tactic is to form a team of multiple submarines and launch underwater attacks on enemy warships and transport ships in turn like wolves.

A single submarine cannot effectively attack the opponent's sea target, but it can concentrate the power of several submarines to attack a maritime target, and use the attack power of several submarines to destroy heavy ships.

In the early days of World War II, the German Navy used the "wolf pack tactic" to organize groups of submarines to attack the Allied's maritime ships, destroying the Allied's maritime transportation lines, causing the Allied forces to suffer significant losses.

Later, the failure of the wolf pack tactics also proved a truth that it was unwise to completely entrust the navy to the submarine. The battle for maritime power will ultimately be achieved by surface ships.

Submarines are an important part of naval weapons, but they are not the ultimate pillar.

On the submarine u-90, Captain Kleshmay stared at his periscope with cold eyes. In later generations, he was also one of the ace captains, and now he is very lucky.

His submarine followed Prien's U-47 and was the second to arrive on the battlefield. After carefully observing the situation on the battlefield, he activated his horsepower and seized the position. Finally, the huge battleship, the Barham, came to his attack range.

"The bow of the boat, four torpedoes, one second apart, launch!" He issued an attack order to his sailor.

Unlike Prien, due to limited experience, for insurance, he did not carry the powerful t11 hydrogen peroxide torpedo, but only ordinary electric torpedoes.

Even so, he had to aim at the opponent's battleship. If he didn't do it once, he would come twice or twice, and even if he had all his 14 torpedoes, he would still have to attack the opponent's battleship!

Four torpedoes came out of water one after another, heading towards the opposite Balum at a speed of 30 knots.

At this time, the Balum had been hit by the Bismarck. Smoke came out of the upper part of the warship, and a group of sailors were rescued and carrying out damage control.

"Boom!" When the explosion sounded at the bottom of it, no one noticed it. They thought they were hit by the ship's cannon again. Under the continuous shooting, everyone's ears were buzzing, losing their basic position judgment ability, and they did not even judge that it was an explosion at the bottom of the ship.

"Boom, boom!" Then, there were two more explosions, one second apart.

Four torpedoes, three shots, were a pretty amazing result in the battle!

After three explosions, three large holes were blown up at the bottom of the Ballum, and the sea water quickly poured into the bottom. There were too many watertight tanks that it had no time to carry out more rescues and began to sink quickly into the sea!

The battleships built in the World War I era attached great importance to water surface protection, but the protection of torpedoes was the worst, because the hit rate of torpedoes in the World War I era was quite low and there was almost no need to consider it.

But now, whoever neglects underwater protection will pay a heavy price! During World War II, almost all old ships built by Britain during World War I would enter the shipyard and thicken their underwater parts in order to prevent them from being attacked by torpedoes.

And the current British Navy has no chance to do this at all. They don’t have enough warships in their existing ones, so where would they go to the shipyard to modify it?

The Baalem entered the water very quickly. In just a few minutes, the entire hull sank into the sea. Then, there was the superstructure. In more than ten minutes, only a huge vortex was left on the water.

The Nelson was not much better than the Barham. After being hit by five torpedoes, the hull was inclined by more than twenty degrees and completely lost its combat power. Now it is completely helpless.

The main battleship is only one of the Kings. This warship and the Royal Oak are both in the Revenge class. They are the follow-up warships of Queen Elizabeth class and are also the old ships of World War I. Although the displacement is more than 30,000 tons, their actual combat power is limited.

Now, this one is the main warship left, and Captain Colonel Fisher was extremely angry.

He knew that today's war would mean the complete decline of the British Navy. If there were no blood transfusions in the United States, the British Navy would probably become a near-shore navy from then on and would no longer be able to challenge Germany's maritime hegemony.

As an officer of the British Navy, he was very sad and angry. It was precisely because of his grief that he made the decision to continue fighting.

Now, combat is completely unfavorable to the British fleet, and retreat is important, but even if his battleship protects several cruisers, what's the use of destroyers retreating?

Maybe, in retreat, you will still be killed. Instead of running away, it is better to fight upright!

"Target, Bismarck, open fire!" He continued to issue a battle order. Now, Bismarck is injured and is still smoking. If he can sink Bismarck before being sunk, it will be worth it!

The pride of the Royal Navy made him muster up the courage to fight in a dignified area and never stop until death!

In the sky above my head, Stuka's whistle came again.
Chapter completed!
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