"What? You say it again!" Two hours later, Bernd and his sailors were rescued by the cruiser Ereli on patrol. Hearing Bernd's explanation, Tugai, the captain of the Ereli, felt that it was incredible. He could not tolerate this kind of merchant ship robbery happening under his nose.
"Where is your ship hijacked? What is the maximum speed? Did you see them sailing in which direction?" Tugayi came to the front of the chart and began to calculate the possibility of overtaking the other party.
"It should be at this position!" Bernd pointed to the chart, "My Hailar has a top speed of 18 knots with full cargo. I saw them driving eastward!"
"Push at full speed!" Bernd threw down the compass and shouted loudly.
"Hahahaha! Cheers!" Cassandra, everyone is celebrating the success of the first "robbing".
"General Ozturk, your method really works! Drive the ship a few nautical miles east in front of the sailors, and then go back to the north! It's amazing! We never saw Turkey when we returned to the port. The shadow of a warship!" said Captain Philip, holding up his cup. Both he and Ozturk were the heroes of this operation.
"Presumably the Turkish captain's nose is crooked!" Kemal was also very happy. The large amount of funds and goods on the ship greatly eased his urgent needs. "Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, we keep the money on the ship. Seeing that you can bring your freighter back to Germany, it can be considered as a repayment of part of the military expenses!"
Oli nodded in agreement. The Turkish Navy has not yet dared to inspect the German ships. "But what about the Hailar?"
Kemal looked at Ozturk, "Of course he drove back to the sea, and then let it float by itself! Hahaha..."
A week later, the Turkish navy discovered the empty "Hailar" at sea. Not only was Ereli's Captain Tujai, whose nose crooked, but also the ship's owner, Senator Yumit, gritted his teeth. He pressured the Navy through Congress to find out the matter as soon as possible. In addition, reactionary spies were also dispatched to search for the whereabouts of the missing cargo. Unfortunately, they could not find anything.
A month later, Captain Philip once again led the team to "rob" the merchant ships "Aken" and "Sinop". Simple and effective misdirection tactics caused the Turkish navy to rush into the air twice. The poor Turks finally noticed that when the fourth merchant ship "Finique" was hijacked, they finally divided their forces and searched in different directions.
"Huh! These cunning pirates, it will make them feel good to be caught by me!" Tugai said viciously, and he and his cruiser Ereli pursued north this time. When night was approaching, he finally saw the lonely figure of the "Finique" in the telescope, "Baby, so you are here! Let me find it!"
"Baby, you are finally here! Let me kiss you!" Captain Philip stared at the periscope and muttered softly at a place less than a nautical mile ahead of the left of the Ereli.
The two torpedoes ran silently towards the Ereli with white waves.
Boom...boom...
The Ereli's bow and center were hit by torpedoes one after another. A huge water column was stirred up on the side, and then the hull began to tilt. Five minutes later, as the sailors jumped away, the 9,000-ton Turkish cruiser sank into a blue-black In the waves. Although some lifeboats and lifebuoys were left behind by the "Finike" in the distance, more than 200 Turkish sailors were still buried.
In the cold water, Tugai thought that his warship had been touched by a mine, but he did not give up. The cold water made him come up with a brilliant idea.
On a light rainy evening, a lonely merchant ship sailed on the Aegean Sea. The deck of this merchant ship was covered with thick canvas, which seemed to be cargo that could not be exposed to rain. In the command room, a middle-aged man was observing the surrounding sea intriguingly. This guy was Tujiayi who had soaked in the sea for more than an hour two months ago. He hid a few cannons on the merchant ship, ready to fight Captain Philip's submarine. But it has been a month, and his goal has not appeared for a long time, making him impatient to eat.
At this time, the sailor on the watchtower suddenly reported that there was a situation in the front right. Tugay saw a strange-looking thing floating out of the sea through the telescope. He hurriedly ordered the sailors to prepare, "Quick! Lift off the canvas and prepare the cannon. !"
On the submarine not far away, Captain Philip also saw the strange situation of the merchant ship through the binoculars, but there was a strange smile on his mouth.
"There are cannons hidden in them. Do they think this will kill us? The bow torpedo will be launched immediately!"
laugh...
A torpedo strung out at the head of the submarine.
"Captain! One of the torpedo tubes failed!" the torpedo room reported.
"Hurry up and fix it!" Captain Philip shouted down, now only expecting this torpedo to hit the target.
Tujiayi on the opposite merchant ship also found the torpedo, but there was no time to turn to avoid it. He closed his eyes and began to pray for God's blessing.
One second... two seconds... ten seconds later, Tujiayi opened his eyes, and he was still alive. On the other side of the ship, the torpedo flew away.
"Damn! It must be that the ship has too shallow draft and the torpedo is set too deep!" Philip was extremely upset. The drizzle weather affected his sight, so that he did not notice that the ship was not loaded with heavy objects at all. Actually went through the bottom of the boat, it was the leak of the house that happened to rain overnight.
"Deck artillery preparation!" Philip had to let the sailors return to the deck. The escape was not in line with his character. Besides, he didn't think he could hit his own small submarine with just a few cannons on board.
Boom...boom...
Several water jets rose far away from him, and he mocked the Turkish soldiers' artillery contemptuously.
boom!
The rapid-fire gun on the submarine hit a huge merchant ship not far away, but it hit the side of the ship and did not cause any harm to the people on board.
"Aim at their command room!" Philip had no plans to capture the merchant ship at this time, and there should be nothing of value on it.
boom!
The second gun hit the command room on the front of the merchant ship. Fortunately, Tugay had already ran to the deck and commanded the sailors to fire the cannon. Looking at the command room with billowing smoke, he knelt and thanked Allah again. bless.
Although there were far more artillery guns on merchant ships than submarines, the rapid-fire guns on submarines made up for the lack of quantity in terms of firing speed and accuracy, and the two sides fired fiercely at each other.
boom...
Thick smoke finally came out from the deck of the merchant ship, the shells piled on the side of the artillery were ignited, and there was a violent explosion, but the Turkish warship had arrived.
"Quick! Dive!" Philip also found a plume of smoke appearing in the distance.
It was the Turkish Navy's only remaining cruiser Bursa in this area that came to support. The Bursa has a displacement of only 8,500 tons, which is slightly lower than the cruiser Ereli that was sunk before, but it is smaller in age and faster than the Ereli. More importantly, Izet, the captain of the Bursa, was not as hassle-free as Tujiayi. He had long guessed that the attack on the merchant ship was a submarine, and he knew that the submarine had to surface every time. So after Philip's U-006 dived, he did not stop to assist the merchant ship in Tujiayi, but searched towards the east. When U-006 floated up to ventilate and charge, he did not force it to attack, but watched from a distance. Izet's purpose is to follow U-006 and find its lair.
"Well! I want to follow us, so let's give it a good look!" Philip also discovered the motive of the Bursa that had been following him, and he decided to turn around and kill the Turkish cruiser. But what made him depressed was that the torpedo tube that failed the boat first had to be returned to Cassandra to be repaired.
"Everyone is ready to dive! A depth of 10 meters!" After charging up, Philip took his U-006 and drove past the Bursa quietly.
"Target distance, 2000 yards! 1/3 speed forward!"
"Target distance, 1500 yards! Stop!"
"Target distance, 1000 yards, torpedo ready!"
"Target distance, 600 yards, torpedo launch!"
A white torpedo track appeared on the sea.
"Right full rudder!" Izet spotted the torpedo launched by U-006 and directed the Bursa to turn quickly.
"Put away the periscope and move forward at full speed!" Philip pounded the bulkhead helplessly, and the Bursa escaped her torpedo with ease. If it weren't for a broken torpedo tube, if it weren't for the U-007 engine overhaul today, the cruiser wouldn't be arrogant.
"Turn right 15 degrees, and the tail torpedo is ready!" Philip decided to try again.
Five minutes later, the torpedo grazed the Bursa starboard side.
However, it was getting dark shortly afterwards, and Bursa's Captain Izet was worried that the torpedo track could not be seen at night and ordered a return. Philip also returned to Cassandra with a grievance.
A few months later, the reactionary government still discovered the submarine docked in the port of Cassandra through spy infiltration, and then dispatched a naval fleet headed by the Bursa to attack Cassandra to eliminate the submarine force against the Aegean Sea. The threat of air routes.
The battle of Cassandra was about to start.