The old sailor suddenly said in a very mysterious tone: "Gold and silver jewels are not found only in Indians!" For example, this Aegean seabed has countless treasures! ”

"Hey, old Jack, you're not bluffing us!"

"yes, yes! Old Jack, where is this treasure beneath the Aegean Sea! ”

"You don't know?"

The sailors shook their heads.

"In the heyday of the Ottoman Empire, the Aegean Sea was the Ottoman Inland Sea, and a large number of merchant ships between Athens, Cairo and Istanbul traveled on this route, and a single pirate attack and a storm was enough to bury countless riches with the ships! Do you know how many there are in total? How much? ”

The old sailor's eyes searched the audience, but no one could answer.

"Countless!"

The old sailor sighed deeply, "Every year, there are many treasure hunts with hope, but the sea is vast, and most people end up empty-handed!" ”

"Oh......"

The sailors were amazed.

"But there were also people who found one or two sunken ships, some worthless, others with tens of thousands of gold coins and all sorts of jewels! Maybe...... Perhaps there is a shipwreck full of treasure chests lying at the bottom of the ocean directly below us, but who knows? ”

The sailors let out another exclamation of amazement.

The old sailor looked at these Egyptian sailors who could not read a few big characters with pride, in fact, all he knew was from the few ships he had been on, and as for how much basis he had, even he did not know.

At that moment, a sailor standing closer to the side of the ship suddenly shouted: "Look, what is that?" ”

The sailors ran over to look, but only the old sailor looked careless.

"What's all the fuss about!"

"What a big fish!"

The big Egyptian sailor from before gave an imaginative answer.

"Fish?"

The old sailor glanced in the direction that everyone was pointing, and this look did not scare him into collapse.

"Diving ...... Hidden...... Submarine! ”

He was stunned for two or three seconds before the old sailor shouted out out of breath, "Captain...... Submarine...... We have submarines in front of us! 500…… Ah no, up to 450 yards! ”

What is the concept of a size 450?

1 yard is equal to 0.9144 meters, which is converted to more than 400 meters, in the endless sea, such a distance can not be seen clearly without a telescope, and what makes the old sailor even more frightened is that a flag was quickly raised on the command module of the submarine, a black vulture cross naval flag that all the British hated!

"Germans, Germans!"

This shout made the whole ship completely panicked, you must know that in the propaganda posters of the British **, the Germans are a group of demons who kill people without blinking!

As for why the submarines of the Germans appeared here, the sailors did not know and did not have time to study them.

At this moment, there was a shout from the German submarine that was not very standard, because of the use of a loudspeaker, everyone on the ship could clearly hear the content of the other party's shout: "Stop!" In the name of the Imperial German Navy, we order you to stop your ships immediately, you have been captured by the Imperial German Navy! Stop the ship immediately, or we will use artillery and **! ”

It was true that in the ship's control room, the bearded captain could see through the telescope that the crew of the German submarine was untying the tarpaulin covering the ship's deck gun, which, although not powerful and had a limited range, was more than enough to deal with such a civilian ship of less than 10,000 tons and powerless.

"You can't stop the boat!"

The ship's employer, the well-dressed gentleman, suddenly appeared in the control room and shouted to the captain: "Rush up! Sink it! ”

"Are you crazy?"

At stake, the captain seemed sober (.2.), "We're going to be blown up!" ”

"No, its cannons can't sink us at once, but we can rush up and sink it! At such a close distance, the German submarine simply did not have time to escape back into the water! ”

The gentleman's tone left almost no room for negotiation, and the bearded captain was about to refute, but now the other party had already taken out a **** and pointed the gun at himself.

"Do as I say, it's the only way we can get out safely!"

The gentleman said this, but in fact he was unwilling to give up the contents of the safe to the Germans - in this case the ship would be stopped, and the Germans would come on board and plunder, leaving the crew and passengers with a few lifeboats, and then sink the ship with cannons or **.

This was all information that the gentleman had obtained from the British press, and although they were not entirely reliable, he was clearly reluctant to risk his wealth.

"Crazy! What a madman! ”

The bearded captain muttered scoldingly, but the current situation did not allow him to hesitate for a moment.

He pushed away the first mate who was at the helm and took control of the steering wheel himself.

Since the distance between the two ships was so close and his own ship was already in a state of high sailing, he did not need to give an order, but only turned the rudder sharply, and saw that the bow of the ship was quickly aimed at the German submarine that was far below his own.

Since the two ships had been moving in parallel before, the cargo ship was now heading towards the other party's hull with its bow, and if it collided like this, it would inevitably be the German submarine with a thin hull that would suffer.

The Germans apparently saw the signs as well, and a flash of fire on the deck of the submarine was followed by two booms less than a second apart, and a shell accurately hit the starboard side of the ship.

In the shrapnel and pieces of wood that flew in all directions at a rapid pace, several crew members collapsed in pools of blood before they could react.

"This bunch of mongrels ...... Fight! ”

Although the glass of the porthole of the control room was shattered several times, and the acrid smoke poured in, the bearded captain became firm at this moment.

His eyes were red as he stared at the German submarine in front of him, 250 yards - he could see with the naked eye the German crew who were busy loading their deck guns with shells; 200 yards - he saw a German officer in a white military hat on the submarine conning tower, what was the German thinking?

How will he respond?

Rumble...... Another cannon rang out, and this time the shell hit the ship accurately, but the bearded captain smiled with a hint of disdain, Germans, do you think you can sink my ship in this way?

150 yards - Captain Beard now turns the submarine too, but instead of aiming the boat at himself, he turns his own.

As this maneuver progressed, the deck gun of the German submarine quickly lost its firing angle.

"Want to run away? A herd of German pigs! ”

The bearded man smiled contemptuously, unless the Germans could dive completely in a very short time, they would never be the match for their own ship.

But suddenly, a blister suddenly appeared in front of the back of his current submarine, what was that?

A signal for the propeller to rotate at the bottom of the boat?

Or ...... "Impossible!" ”

The bearded man said to himself in his heart, "No one will shoot ** at this distance, because ** will pass through the bottom, and even if you can hit the target, you will be accidentally injured by a huge shock wave." Unless...... Unless the other person is a madman! ”

But he was wrong, and only a few seconds later, with a shocking bang, the entire ship was almost blasted into the sky - this is a very powerful German T-type**, even a large warship with a certain amount of armor has to try to dodge, let alone such a steel-hulled ship?

The bearded man had no chance to wonder why this was the case, and in such a violent explosion, none of the 42 crew members and passengers on board were spared, and in a matter of minutes, they sank to the bottom of the sea with the ship, leaving only floating pieces of wood and some debris.

However, the bearded captain finally guessed one thing correctly, and the commander standing on the submarine's control tower with an indifferent face was indeed a "madman"

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His name was Hessen, and he was the captain of the German submarine No. 21, and his name and number were well known in the German naval circles.

In the spring of that year, the brave captain commanded his 21 to break into the Irish Sea, considered holy by the British, despite the "sentry" on the sea

There are many underwater anti-submarine **, but he still managed to sink three British ships, and even sailed close to the British coast one night to shell a nearby British airfield.

Because of this near-crazy move, Hesson earned the "Crazy Man of the Seas"

Such a nickname.

However, Hesson's madness is much more than that.

In the face of the fierce offensive of the British and French troops, Turkey** sent a request for help from Germany, which then sent a group of submarines to the Mediterranean, 21 among them.

After a long voyage of 4,000 nautical miles and through the Strait of Gibraltar, which was blockaded by the Allies, Hesson commanded his submarine to sneak into the Allied anchorage near Cape Greece in the darkness of night and sink the British Navy battleship Triumph in one fell swoop

No. and "Dignity"

No., a miracle in military history.

Compared with the two powerful British battleships, this small British freighter is really not worth mentioning, looking at the remnants floating on the sea, there is no trace of victory joy on Hussen's face, after all, in this far away from the mainland, every ** is extremely precious.

He had the idea of scaring the British with two shells to make them abandon the ship, and then sending the crew up to find something of value, such as fresh vegetables, meat, and fresh water, and having the crew put some ** on the bottom of the boat, which was what the German submarine commanders often did.

When the current freighter was about to rush over and sink himself, Hesson immediately ordered his crew to go to the front compartment of the submarine, because only when the tail of the submarine was slightly upturned, it was possible to hit the ship at such a close distance.

On the other hand, this commander has a very special habit, as long as his submarine is out of port, he will definitely let the crew install a minimum depth ** in the rear ** firing tube, but before this day, no one knows the reason for his so.

Affected by the explosion at close range, the 21st was still injured, but Hesson was not worried, his well-trained crew quickly eliminated the fault one by one, and he habitually recorded the time, place and general process of the attack in his logbook.

After fully charging the battery, Hesson and his submarine submerged again in the water and continued their journey in search of prey...... A few weeks later, in an inconspicuous corner of the Times of London, a piece of news was published called "Barracuda"

The clipper went missing on its way from Cairo to Athens, along with the famous jeweler Stepike. Finger and his jewellery worth more than £2 million.

If you know about it, please inform the British police, you will be rewarded!