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The canal is located on the west side of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, spanning the Isthmus of Suez, between the two cities of Sed Port and the Al-suways on the Gulf of Suez in the Red Sea. It is about 163 miles in total.

This canal allows north-south two-way water transportation between Europe and Asia without having to bypass the Cape of Storm (Cape of Good Hope) at the southern end of Africa, greatly saving the voyage. A voyage from the Port of London in the UK or the Port of Marseille in France to the Port of Mumbai in India. The Suez Canal can shorten the transportation of cargo between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea by land transportation respectively.

The famous international navigation canal of the Suez Canal. It is located in Egypt and is the main international shipping channel connecting the three continents of Europe, Asia and Africa. It connects the Red Sea and the Mediterranean, connecting the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean, greatly shortening the East-West journey. It is one of the dividing lines between Asia and Africa. Compared with the detour of the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, it is shortened by 5,500-8,009 kilometers from countries along the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean; it is shortened by 8,000-10,000 miles from countries along the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean; it is shortened by 12,000 miles from countries along the Black Sea. It is a process of international shipping.

An international maritime shipping channel of strategic significance undertakes 14% of the world's maritime trade every year. It was carved from 1859 to 1869. It runs through the Suez Isthmus from the lowest part, connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea. Along the way, it uses originally dried lakes and sanks and depressions such as large and small Kuhu Lake as a waterway. It is 161 kilometers long from Port Said to Port Tauffy, and the total length of the Red Sea section is 173 miles. The river surface is 160-200 meters wide. The river bottom is 100 wide, and can pass 11.6 draft, 6.5 tons of water or 15 tons of empty ships. The average passing time is 15 hours.

This canal is different from other canals, the longest lock-free canal in the world. Compared with other waters, the accident rate is almost zero and can be navigated day and night.

However, this does not mean that there will never be accidents in this canal, especially when a huge transport fleet passes through the ground. On October 5, 1916, a huge fleet appeared in the Suez Canal. The first part is its base, mostly brand new ships. They are full of large caliber artillery and shells. The second part is a slightly older large transport ship, which mainly transport fighter jets and airborne torpedo high-explosion bombs. The third part is an escort, mostly offshore frigates, old V-class and W-class destroyers + cruisers.

This messy hodgepodge really made Captain Giggs feel heartbroken. The only reliable one is the sailor, the real British sailor. With them, any broken ship can create miracles at sea. With them, everything is possible. However, deep in Captain Giggs' heart, what he worried about is that the voyage was too long and the smoke in his hand was cut off.

Before leaving, he sold a Chinese brand cigarette from a shop where the Chinese opened. This Chinese was very strange. Whoever sells cigarettes the more the better, but he only sells one pack of cigarettes at a time, and only sells once a day. If it weren't for his cigarettes being easy to smoke, the store would probably have closed down.

He tried to persuade him and said he would go out for two or three months, but the boss barely sold him a pack, but now it is less than twenty days, and there are only ten packs of cigarettes left. What should I do in the future? Captain Giggs is no longer used to the days without the Great Wall. He sighed, Captain Giggs sucked the cigarette butt hard and greedily took off the last little ashes.

The warm sunshine of the Mediterranean and the blue waters lost their appeal at this time. As the cigarette butts sank into the sea, Captain Giggs decided to smoke only six a day, no, only five a day, so that it can last for about forty days. As for what to do after forty days, I don't care. You can't smoke only four cigarettes a day.

Telegrapher Restel knocked in and sent Giggs a newly translated local telegram.

Captain Giggs took the telegram and saw a look, and a joy surged up. The telegram read:

"Fights broke out in South Asia, and the emergency transport fleet accelerated and prepared to approach quickly."

If this happens, you don’t have to worry about smoking anymore, it will be enough for you to come.

The emergency transport fleet has thirty-two merchant ships, arranged in six rows, with a distance of 4,000 yards, each with a distance of 3,500 yards, and a rectangular shape. The seven escort ships adopt a wheel-shaped escort system, which is the standard escort system and array of British standards. However, because the Suez Canal is too narrow, the fleet has now become a line. The escort fleet has to be put to one side, and no one would have thought that there would be attacks from Germany in such a place.

Before the telegram was sent, a large column of water rose up on the port side of the Fenny cargo ship at the rear of the troops. The torpedo explosion immediately came, and the German submarine appeared and began the attack. The good luck of the emergency transport fleet ended. The stern of the ship exploded. It sank suddenly, with all the crew members at a loss.

In the 'Dagama', Li De, the first mate who was in charge of looking up, shouted loudly; "Torpedo, starboard, two."

Giggs saw clearly, on the route ahead of the "Dagama", the rolling footsteps rushed over, and death was approaching.

"Left rudder fifteen. Quick! All unrelated personnel go to the deck to look out."

Giggs almost instinctively issued a rudder order. The stern of the "Dagama" was parallel to the torpedo's course and avoided the fatal blow. The torpedo did not hit the target, rushed over from a dozen yards on the starboard side, and exploded in the distant sea.

"Be careful of the flagship signal." Giggs issued another order. The exhausted sailors ran to the deck and watched the sea nervously. The 40mm anti-aircraft guns on the bow and stern of the ship also shook their muzzles and prepared to fire at the torpedo at any time.

The two destroyers cut off the submarine's retreat and dropped a series of deep-water bombs. In the canal area, the water depth is only a few dozen meters. With the naked eye, you can see the submarine moving at full speed. Although the submarine sank a merchant ship, it quickly sank into the bottom of the sea on the destroyer's ground.

The Dagama is a new ten thousand tons of free wheel. It was carefully divided into many ground compartments. The water gate blocked them so that it could drift on the sea like a cork. However, thousands of tons of water finally broke the steel cables on the rear deck, and lifted all the trucks fixed to the deck into the sea. A sailor was run down by the trucks that rushed forward, and his body was washed away without a trace. Everyone was stuck on their post. Every nail on the hull was raking under the pressure of the water. But the Dagama

Lived.

British sailors have an innate adaptability to the ocean. From any direction of the British Isles, they are all over the sea. British sailors sail on various routes of the world's oceans. With their courage and technology, they prove that they are worthy of being the best sailors in the world.

The battle sirens sounded again. The German submarine launched a second attack.

The "Dagama" was attacked by four torpedoes. Giggs dodged three, but finally one torpedo hit the bow. The violent explosion shook people down. When everyone struggled, the bow began to sink. Not far away, the German torpedo from the "Dagama" failed to hit the cargo ship "Arc". It quickly soaked in water, and the sailors were already jumping into the sea. The wind calmed down, and the waters were floating on the sea.

Li De led the damage management team members, dragging fire hoops and foam fire extinguishers, and rushed to the bow of the ship along the fore deck. The fire had emerged from the cargo hold, with ammunition piled up there. Fortunately, the sea water pouring in from the rupture almost flooded most of the cabin. Even if the ammunition did not explode, the hope of "Dagama" survival was small. Li De and his friends desperately devoted themselves to rescue and extinguishing the fire, and ignored the possible fate of the "Dagama" and the sailors in the future.

The escort of the emergency transport fleet attacked the German submarine and twisted. All the escort ships were fully engaged in counterattack. The explosion of the anti-submarine hedgehog bombs in the cluster mixed with the sound of torpedoes and echoed on the sea of ​​Ristel for a long time. An oil tanker was hit by a torpedo. The fire rolled over, and the black smoke column rushed towards the white sky, and the air was filled with the smell of diesel. This ship of diesel was supplied to US battleships.

A German submarine was injured by a deep-water bomb and struggled to float to the surface. Before the sailors inside jumped into the sea and fled. A British destroyer rushed forward and used his sharp bow to break through the submarine's pressure-resistant hull. The submarine sank into the sea again. It will never float. A German sailor did not escape their subway coffin.

The bow of the "Dagama" became deeper and deeper. A damage control team member was poured into the front cabin by thick smoke, and Li De was burned. The situation was serious. Giggs ordered the second deputy Linnaeus to steer, "No matter what happens, keep the course and stop the car." After he said that, he rushed to the front deck and started to fight the fire.

Captain Giggs wore an asbestos suit and drilled into the hot front cabin, holding his breath, spraying all the foam from the fire extinguisher towards the source of the fire. As soon as he took a step back, another sailor continued to spray. The thick smoke suffocated him, and the tenacious force of life made him hold on. After repeated struggles, the fire on the front cabin was controlled. The fire in the front cabin had been extinguished and the leak was blocked. Due to the power outage, people kept sucking the accumulated water in the front cabin with their hand pumps. Others cut off the fixed steel cables on the deck, and pushed the precious battleship parts and aircraft into the sea, hoping to reduce the load on the "Dagama".

The engine of the "Dagama" is still running, but the power cannot be restored for a long time. If the water pump is not finally used, it will sink sooner or later. Giggs carried an explosion-proof battery lamp and walked through the dark corridors, passing through the hatch doors and ladders. The steel plate was blown open, and the edge was as sharp as a knife. Giggs tripped by a corpse and his arm was immediately scratched.

He came to a watertight door, which was the distribution room, and electrician Becker was responsible for the electrical circuits of the entire ship. A sailor stood in front of the door. He recognized the captain: "Mr. Giggs," the sailor pointed to the steel door that was locked. "Becker brought a faucet from outside this door to put out the fire. The fire in the distribution room was very fierce, and the battleship shells were next door, which was extremely dangerous." He kicked the canvas water pipe sandwiched in the crack of the door. "He probably was afraid that he would not be able to extinguish the fire, causing the shells to explode, and the rope would almost lock himself in the distribution room."

"He's such a man!" the sailor said at last.

A sacred force surged in Giggs' heart. He summoned all the rescue damage control team members and said in a hoarse voice:

“Friends:

During both wars, I served on the sea. As a sailor, the concept of the motherland is vague. However, as a British sailor, the ocean is often the meaning of Britain. No matter which ocean you sail, the nearest coast may have been the land of His Majesty the King of England. America, Egypt, South Africa, India, Singapore and Australia. They were all British captains sailing across the sea to explore.

The sailors and the captain are the pride of Britain. Gentlemen, we must have the spirit of Mr. Becker, that is, the spirit of Admiral Drake, Black and Nelson back then, the true British gentleman style. The German rabbit is not our opponent at sea. Let's work hard and save the 'Dagama'!"

In an instant, the tired, hungry, and scarred sailors rekindled their strength. They pried open the door of the distribution room, carried out Becker's body, and quickly repaired the circuit. They blocked the last few ruptures, and when the entire ship resumed power supply, they used a large-caliber pump to pump the accumulated water out, and the "Dagama" stopped sinking.

"How is the situation in Dagama?" The flagship "Cicero" sent an interrogation. When the telegrapher Ristel handed the message to Captain Giggs, the submarine's attack had been repelled. The fleet of the emergency transport fleet was re-formed, containing the sailors who fell on the wreck and continued sailing eastward.

"Tell the flagship Dagama has been repaired and will join the formation to continue moving forward." Giggs dictated the call to Ristor. He continued to move forward, and there was no one who had any fantasies before. But no one was shaken. Although the Germans knew the existence of this fleet, they did not pay enough attention.

Finally entered the canal area and everyone could rest. The anti-aircraft machine guns everywhere in the canal area gave them great confidence. The roar of thunder-like cannons came from the east. Giggs knew it was the annoying "Condor", which was the nickname of the German Foxght-Wolf FW-200 bomber. It had four engines and a long range. The "Condor" took off from the Berlin Airport and found the emergency transport fleet according to the submarine report.

The "Condors" cut across the emergency transport fleet from the front of the route. Between the clouds, they could occasionally see their blue-gray fuselage and ten thousand-character emblem. They circled and chose the angle of attack. All the ships in the escort untied formations and arranged in a mess to prevent enemy planes from dropping bombs in horizontal or vertical rows. The "Dagama" kept tracking the sound of aircraft on the clouds at the 40mm Olikon anti-aircraft guns on each ship's bow and the anti-aircraft machine guns on the bridge. The cannons of the escort ships also pointed their heads towards the sky.
Chapter completed!