Chapter 740

Just as Prynne's U-shaped submarine quickly sank into the sea, less than 10 kilometers away, a huge British battleship was under the protection of several cruisers and destroyers, speeding in another direction. The sharp bow was raised by the waves, and the huge artillery pointed to the front position majestically.

The whole fleet is not in a state of combat readiness, but the destroyers outside are like a big enemy. After all, there are often German submarines in this sea area. They must play a 12% spirit to guard against possible torpedo attack. In addition to making the German Navy a powerful presence in the world, the other function of those adverse achievements was to wake up the British navy.

The layout of this battleship is very strange. Three huge turrets are concentrated in the front of the battleship. As one of the Nelson class battleships, the Rodney battleship has just been transferred back to the Canadian waters and ordered to join the local fleet to prepare the driver for another fight with the German Navy.

In fact, the Royal Navy still has a huge advantage in the number of battleships, as well as the absolute advantage in the tonnage and number of combat ships. By virtue of these advantages, the king of England and his staff feel that it is not impossible to regain the sea power, and that Britain absolutely has the strength of the first World War.

It seems that the sea surface of the North Atlantic is always gray, where the tone is mixed with some dark, people will feel uncomfortable when they see everything in front of them. The British who once conquered this area, and the German who are now conquering it, all regard it as an exciting paradise, and all the people who sleep here seem to have mixed the cold soul into every scenery here with resentment, making everything here more gloomy.

The roar of the engine is a very effective way of hypnosis in the cabin of the old aircraft with poor sound insulation. At least when carrying out patrol tasks, the sea below is rough and endless. After taking off from the airport, anyone will be tortured and drowsy.

Although the plane is bumpy because of the air flow, the cold outside will still spread into the interior of the plane, making the temperature of the cockpit very low, but this does not affect the boredom brought to people's sleep.

If the original imported B-17 long-range patrol detection aircraft from the United States is in a country that advocates original import and has a certain time of advocating original import, then the aircraft will certainly sell at a very good price. However, the plane is obviously not worth money. It is just a small exchange of goods in the Anglo American technical cooperation agreement.

In fact, this aircraft is not a beautiful original imported product. Its sound insulation layer is shoddy, and the material used for the seat is very simple. Even its self-defense weapons are only simplified four 30mm machine guns, The pilots who have ever flown this kind of plane have only one very ironic phrase to comment on it: "Granny's broken bicycle".

Some British pilots were scared to refuse to take off when they climbed on this kind of plane by the huge skin seams, while others were scratched by the upturned iron sheet in the narrow cabin passage - compared with the American B-17, this foreign aid model simplifies more than one process, and many edges are not passivated.

But they can fly, and there are plenty of them. What's more, the United States only provides this disgusting model. Do you want it or not. So the British coast guard squadron stationed in Iceland still took over 40 such planes without any temper and used them to carry out combat patrols at the near end of the Icelandic route.

This kind of aircraft can carry some small bombs inside the bomb bay. The 30mm machine gun on the belly of the aircraft can strafe the sea by itself. As long as the German submarine is found on the water, this kind of aircraft can carry out the attack.

Unfortunately, I don't know why, the chances of finding German submarines floating on the water are less and less, but merchant ships are sunk more and more. With the roar of his Majesty the king of England, the frequency of Coastal Patrol has become more intensive, and more planes have been dispatched.

Compared with the German investment in the vast land and construction of their own industrial facilities, the British in Iceland, which is more impoverished and less resourceful, can imagine the difficulty of building their own base. Most of the basic things, even bricks and boards, are transported from the distant United States - if Germany is short of everything, then the British in Iceland have nothing.

From basic building materials, to hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition supply, various aircraft parts produced in Canada, and large-scale machinery for leveling land and building airports, the British rely on the help of the Americans to gain a firm foothold in Iceland.

As a result, the British base in Iceland has only been built, and less than one third of the whole counter offensive plan is needed. Because of the attack of German submarines, it is in a dilemma.

On the one hand, if we want to expand the size of the Icelandic garrison, build more airports and docks, and increase the strategic significance of Iceland, we need to invest more materials and consume more food, ammunition, and fuel, which is necessary to increase the burden of the entire US Iceland route.

On the other hand, the threat of German submarines is becoming more and more serious and uncontrollable. The new U-type submarines are put into war, which makes the British government in exile who is eager to expand Iceland very angry. The United States is also worried that once the Icelandic route is strangled and paralyzed by the German army, the investment on the ice island will eventually collapse because of its own scale.

Now, in order to avoid this embarrassing situation, the whole construction of Iceland has fallen into a strange pause, half of the barracks are empty, and the damaged planes in the airport are ignored. Only a few airports and radar stations close to Europe are still busy, and only a limited number of jet fighter squadrons have enough fuel to maintain training and patrol. Just as Prynne missed a British battleship, so did the British patrol plane. The observer at the foot of the drowsy pilot mechanically scanned the sea with a telescope, and found nothing unusual. At this time, prion, together with his submarine, had dived into the North Atlantic Ocean 45 meters deep. But soon their sleepiness was dispelled by the burning debris on the sea. The captain flew the plane and hovered in the air. The observers observed the burning sea with telescopes and finally confirmed that it was a transport ship that had just been sunk. So the captain grabbed his walkie talkie and began to call the officer on duty of the ground command center: "I'm patrol plane No. 4. Check the arrangement list of the transport ship. Near the coordinates of 537449, we found the wreckage of a ship and asked for confirmation."“ This is the ground tower. We are confirming it. Please check the nearby waters carefully and be ready to attack the German submarines! " In the earphone, the officer on duty of the ground tower immediately gave the order. After a few minutes, it is obvious that the tower has found the information it wants to know: "patrol plane 4, we have confirmed that an adventurous tanker should be nearby. Please confirm whether it is still there! Please make sure it's still on the sea The captain gave a wry smile, and then immediately replied, "I think it was this ship that was sunk. Tower. ""... " After getting the bad news, there was a brief silence on the other side of the tower, followed by a routine dialogue. In a word, another British supply ship was sunk. There is no worse news. However, the ground tower seems to think of something again, asking patrol plane 4 not to cut off communication: "patrol plane 4, wait a minute, there should be a sub fleet coming from the colony. Originally, there was no need for patrol planes to follow and escort, but there are German submarines nearby, you'd better go there to help. It's about 17 kilometers west of you. "“ well! Patrol four, I understand. " The captain flew the plane back to the suspicious sea area, still didn't find any target, then turned and flew to the direction of the mission“ This is patrol 4. No enemy information! After changing course, we continue to fly westward, over! " Take back their own look at the sea, after some communication, the captain listlessly put away the walkie talkie, and then angrily driving his own plane, left the sea. At this moment, in the deep sea just below the plane, a German submarine is cruising slowly. From time to time, there are schools of fish passing by. Because of the noise, these schools of fish keep a considerable distance and never get close to the big guy whose volume is very dangerous for them. Standing in the captain's command position, prion can only see his entire command room with the weak light from sonar and other equipment. However, for an old man who has been commanding submarine operations all the year round, this kind of environment is the most reassuring one for him. Holding the handle to prevent him from falling down, he said, "full rudder on the right, heading due east, let's go to meet those new submarines who are coming, and show them what a real submarine war is!" The fish next to the submarine suddenly seemed to be startled, and made the action of avoiding as fast as lightning. The propeller rotation speed at the end of the u-47 submarine became faster, and the forward speed of the whole submarine also accelerated a lot with this obvious change. U-47 submarine's tail, rudder swing to the right, the whole submarine in the water to change direction, with ordinary old submarine the fastest speed, easily toward the distance of the dark, drove past.