Chapter 976: Detonate a fuse

"It's impossible for the French to deploy all the warships here, right?" the prince asked.

"Before, before our San Esteban was put into service, they did not do this. The fleet would rotate frequently, but until now, the main force of the French fleet has been deployed here for nearly 45 days. At least 8 fearless and super Fearlessness is always there!" Major General House said.

"I rely on it." The prince could not help but cursed in his heart. From General House's words, he could clearly perceive two points. First, there were some problems with the Navy’s secrecy work. The French action was obviously aimed at the Austria-Hungarian fleet. The "jailbreak" action. And the second problem is that the situation is about to change, and 80% may have something to do with the Japanese Navy!

The so-called strong crossbow can not wear Lu Zhen at the end. The French were actually overdrafting the soft power of the fleet, and even Alexandria could not support the operations of the entire French fleet, so it would be even worse if the front was moved hundreds of kilometers to Crete! Supplies, the status of personnel, and the status of ships will gradually be consumed during a long period of deployment. This is not normal from a common sense! If the French are not fools, then there is only one possibility, they are trying to survive the last period of time! So try my best to hold on here.

And the only reason the French can do this is that the Japanese fleet is coming! And when the Japanese fleet finally arrives, the entire Eastern Mediterranean Central Allied fleet will be nailed to the last coffin nail! Even if there are only two dreadnought ships, the Allied fleet can no longer make any waves, after all, the number of fleets is too far apart. The battleships of the same period, no matter how good they are, can hardly withstand the attack of two enemy ships of the same level.

"To be honest, I don't have a good idea right now. From the current point of view, almost all the plans will not have a success rate of more than 60%! This is something I have never encountered before." Hitt wrote this in his diary, and what he did not expect was that when the situation in the Mediterranean was gradually becoming a dead end, a small stone fell into the vast Mediterranean, and then caused a ripple. , When this stone was thrown from the hands of the God of Destiny, no one would have thought that the second large-scale maritime battle since the beginning of the war broke out!

"Look over there, there seems to be something?" The lookout of the French Mediterranean Fleet destroyer Musketeer who was cruising in the northwestern waters of Crete said loudly, pointing his finger at the sparkling sea in the distance.

"Dazzling again, kid?" Under the mast, a shaggy veteran said dismissively. Since this little guy from Marseille got on the ship, the number of false alarms has exceeded 30 times. In his surprise, the entire ship was disturbed! Later, fortunately, people ignored him, and only regarded his words as deaf ears.

"I swear, I saw something!" the watcher said loudly.

"Really? I saw it too. Isn't that our supply ship? Anyone with eyes can see it." A veteran's words caused a roar of laughter in the audience, and the Musketeer destroyer still followed the scheduled route Go ahead and send a signal to the ship that comes to deliver supplies.

When the two French ships were communicating with each other in semaphores, a slender tube quickly dived under the water. After a while, the huge shadow under the sea disappeared. At 65 meters underwater, one was like a huge ship. The cigar-like steel fish is slowly passing through the Antikythera Strait. (This strait is located between mainland Greece and Crete, in the northwest of Crete.)

An Austro-Hungarian UB-12 submarine quietly sailed towards the port of Castelli on the island of Crete at a speed of 4 knots per hour. The French fleet is mainly concentrated in Castelli and another adjacent bay-the Gulf of Nia. Major Egon Lersey, the captain of the UB-12 submarine, is tired of hitting ordinary merchant ships. This time, he plans to play a big one.

The submarine was sailing slowly under the water. All the personnel on duty walked carefully inside the narrow submarine. Occasionally, some resting personnel also lay down on the hammock to reduce energy consumption and minimize sound.

The captain and the navigator repeatedly calculated and plotted on a large-scale chart. After a while, a curved course drew a huge arc from the current position, and the end of the arc was at Castelli! One of the important anchorages of the French fleet!

"How far is it?" Captain Lersey asked.

"There are still 17 nautical miles, and there are still two and a half hours before sunset, we can still go further about 10 nautical miles, and then we get to this point! Avoid the patrol boat near the French port, then float up to charge, and then walk a broken line, Enter the port." The captain thought for a while and said.

"The only problem now is how we get in, the French have laid mines, and there are shipwrecks as underwater obstacles. It is difficult for us to enter at night," a non-commissioned officer said.

"This is not difficult. The French will have a large-scale supply every two weeks. This supply will normally last for more than a day, so there will be ships passing through the blockade outside the port at night, and we can keep up. Now." Captain Lersey said.

"But we don't know the distribution of warships in the port." The deputy captain said.

"We don’t need to know, we just need to aim at the largest warship in our field of view~www.wuxiaspot.com~ We only have 10 torpedoes and only 4 torpedo tubes in the front. After a salvo, we use the tail After the two torpedo tubes are attacked, they can leave. I don't know which target we will hit? But what I can be sure of is that as long as we can hit, we will definitely not lose!" Captain Lersey said with a smile.

Not long after the French occupied Crete, it took less time to deploy anchorage defenses, and the large number of warships that stopped broadcasting at anchorages every day gave some bold people ideas. Captain Lerch was such a person. During his trip to sea, he specially observed the activities of the Allied fleet and supply fleet near Crete, and also obtained information from other colleagues. Not long ago, the Turks sent hydrographic data on the main islands in the Aegean Sea. Later, this made Captain Lersey more confident.

"Then how do we get out? Our battery may not be enough to support the submarine's escape from the opponent's pursuit." The captain said.

"It doesn't matter, there is a schedule of nearby ocean currents and ebb tides. The ebb time at dawn tomorrow will be around 5 o'clock. We can even turn off the engine and go out along the ocean current!" Captain Lersey said.

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