Germanic Empire: Please call me Wilhelm III

The hatch of the U-9 submarine opened, and a young officer wearing the rank of major emerged from it.

Subsequently, several sailors rushed out.

“Oh God! It’s amazing to be able to come out and breathe. The smell inside is just too bad to smell! A sailor grumbled as he gulped in the slightly fishy air in the sea breeze.

“Less nonsense, put up the antenna and prepare to receive the telegram. We have been out for a month this time, and we have not achieved a single result. I don’t want to go back like that. The major officer scolded.

“Yes, sir!” The sailors replied.

The sailors set up antennas and received telegrams from the submarine command on their home soil.

Major officers and others took the opportunity to take a puff of their cigarette.

The space inside the submarine is small, and the air is already very turbid. If you smoke in it again, it is absolutely unacceptable. Therefore, the submarine force of the Germanic Imperial Navy stipulated that it was absolutely not allowed to smoke in submarines.

Therefore, every time the submarine floats, it becomes a rare opportunity for sailors to protect against the wind.

“Sir, the command has sent a telegram asking us to immediately rush to Sea Area 18 and join the other submarines. A fleet of ships departing from the Maple Leaf Colony will pass there. That fleet, there were at least twenty merchant ships. There was also a cruiser and several destroyers for escort. The headquarters wants us to find a way to finish them off! The communicator came out and roared.

“Haha! Great, finally come to life. Sea No. 18 is not far away, and we can reach it in two days. This time, be sure to make the sun never set and people pay! Everyone, get ready to go! The major officer ordered loudly.

“Yes, sir!” The sailors replied one after another.

Immediately get into the submarine and close the hatch.

The submarine began to head northeast.

In order to guard against the division of each sea area, the German Imperial Navy divided the entire Atlantic Ocean into hundreds of sea areas. When giving the order, it is only necessary to indicate which sea area it is, and the submariners will know.

The U-9 submarine, led by Major Widigan, headed straight for the target area.

At the same time, submarines from other nearby waters are also rushing to this area.

This time, the submarine force of the German Imperial Navy is preparing to launch a large-scale operation in this sea area.

This is the wolf pack tactics that the Germanic emperor August told the submarine forces of the navy.

The so-called wolf pack tactics refer to the submarines that hit a few or a dozen to set up an ambush in a certain sea area and wait for the prey to come to the door.

After that, a submarine launched an attack, attracting the attention of the enemy’s escort fleet.

Other submarines took the opportunity to attack those merchant ships and took advantage of the chaos to sink all of them. Then, evacuate this area from underwater. In this way, the purpose of destroying the sea transportation capacity of the Imperial Navy without setting to the maximum is achieved.

Two days later, the U-9 arrived at its target.

Although he doesn’t know how many of his peers arrived here. However, the only thing he can be sure of is that there must be many peers in this sea area. Submarines operating in nearby waters have rushed over.

Major Widigan was right in his guess, and there were indeed many submarines in this area, a total of 16.

Two days later, a large fleet of ships entered the sea.

The leader is a light cruiser of the Royal Navy of the Empire that never sets, the second ship of the Karoline-class light cruiser “Karlsberg”, which is a powerful warship with a displacement of more than 4,200 tons, equipped with two 152 mm main guns, eight 102 mm secondary guns, and a maximum speed of 28.5 knots.

Around the fleet, there are also six destroyers, all L-class destroyers of the Royal Navy of the Empire, although the displacement is only more than a thousand tons, equipped with four 102mm naval guns, but the speed is as high as 30 knots.

Guarded in the middle by these light cruisers and destroyers were as many as 24 merchant ships.

These merchant ships were loaded with iron ore, cotton, grain and other resources purchased from the Maple Leaf Colony.

After the outbreak of war, these resources became a scarce commodity. Especially after the Germanic Imperial Navy launched a strike on the sea transport routes of the Sun Never Sets Empire, the supply of these commodities became even more scarce.

On the light cruiser ‘Carlsburg’, the sun never sets, and Cadro, a lieutenant colonel officer of the Royal Navy, has a serious expression.

“Sir, there is a telegram from the country that we have entered dangerous seas. Over the past few months, several groups of our convoys have been attacked here by Germanic submarines. An officer reported.

“Order the ships, be vigilant and beware of underwater dangers!” Lieutenant Colonel Cardro ordered.

“Yes, sir!” The officer replied.

These cruisers and destroyers, which escorted the convoy, were on heightened vigilance.

They know that the country attaches great importance to these resources, and in order for the Sun Never Set Empire to win this war, they must transport these resources back to China safely. Otherwise, it would have been destroyed by the Germans. There will be shortages of various materials in the country. If you don’t get it right, there will even be a shortage of food.

Due to the drag of the speed of merchant ships, the entire fleet was only able to sail at a speed of 12 knots. This also increases the danger in disguise.

Finally, the sun went down.

On one destroyer after another and light cruiser, the searchlights with a high probability were turned on, searching back and forth in the nearby seas, looking for suspicious targets.

As soon as a suspicious target is found, destroyers will rush up and attack with depth charges.

It’s just that several suspicious targets were found, and they turned out to be just passing whales, not Germanic submarines.

But even so, the sailors of the Royal Navy of the Empire did not dare to take it lightly.

On the night of February 6, the sea was dark, only the light of the searchlights on the warships of the Imperial Navy that never set shone on the sea.

The sun does not set people do not know that they have entered the ambush circle of the submarine forces of the Germanic Empire.

One submarine after another, emerged from underwater.

“Sir, the fleet of the sun never sets is still twelve kilometers away from us, and we need to continue sailing to the southeast for half an hour before we can enter the best attack position!” Voyager report.

“Order the submarine to turn immediately, fill the torpedo tube with water, and be ready to attack at any time!” Major Widigen gave the order.

“Yes, sir!” The officer replied.

Immediately, the U-9 submarine began to turn around, looking for the best position to attack.

In fact, other submarines under the surface are doing the same thing.