In the early hours of 29 November, a large number of freighters still stranded in the harbor began to leave the port in large numbers under the "good persuasion" of Canadian soldiers with submachine guns in their hands, and the words were clear enough: the German aircraft group might arrive again in an hour, and if the freighters did not want to be completely destroyed, they must be evacuated from the port as soon as possible. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAlthough there are still German submarines lurking outside, and the escort warships are not capable of destroying them, at least the freighter in front of them has been attacked by a round of torpedoes, which has greatly consumed their attack weapons, so the freighter is generally safe to leave the port......

Clever people understood as soon as they heard it, but everyone was very reluctant to use it as a shield to attract torpedoes, so they walked slowly one by one, hoping that the ships in front would only be able to consume the torpedoes of the German submarines as soon as possible. In fact, the torpedo consumption rate of German submarines was faster than they expected, most of the 12 submarines only had one-third or even one-fifth of the torpedoes left, in the face of the dense departure of the fleet, the intimidation effect was limited, as long as they held their strength to rush over, they could quickly break through the interception, but no one was willing to sacrifice themselves to achieve others, so the evacuation speed was quite slow, for more than an hour, the nearly 200 ships stranded behind started two-thirds, making Thomas anxious but helpless.

At 12:37, the German lightning detachment that was advancing at high speed had arrived at the scene, they thought that they were going to deal with one or two teams at best, but suddenly faced the dense green light spots on the screen, everyone gasped, how many ships are there?

"Order all ships: bow to the enemy, line up in a line of arc horizontal ......" When he was only more than 6,000 meters away from the ship group, Lieutenant Commander Marcas excitedly gave the order, when he was initially promoted from the position of destroyer captain to the captain of the north, he had been very excited, thinking that his opportunity to show his skills had come, thinking about how exciting it would be if he could personally take out a battleship or aircraft carrier. In the first few operations, they all took advantage of the excitement and returned home, not to mention firing torpedoes themselves, and even air defense had to be covered by other destroyers or cruisers. The officers and men of the whole ship complained, and they demanded to change careers to the S-boat unit, at least they could fight happily there, right?

Now, the opportunity has finally arrived!

Ten minutes later, with Beishang and Oi as the core, 24 S-boats launched a majestic goose wing array around the two warships, with a distance of 12 kilometers - very much like the elite archers before the two armies started the battle in the Middle Ages with cold weapons.

"Torpedo ready! Maximum range! ”

"Launch!"

Eight H9s flew out of the two four-pack torpedo tubes in the first row of the two four-pack torpedo tubes on the left and right sides of the Kitakami and rushed into the icy North Atlantic, and after entering the water, the torpedoes rose to the designated depth -- generally 3-6 meters, and the thermal power of oxygen combustion drove the propellers to rotate rapidly and swoop forward.

The scene at that moment made Marcus in a trance, as if he saw sharp arrows covering the sky and the sun rushing towards the enemy charging team. 24 S-boats fired 72 H9 torpedoes in this round, Oi and Kitakami fired a total of 16, a total of 88 torpedoes went straight to the Allied fleet, this is not an ordinary torpedo, all weighing 2.85 tons, the number one killer in the torpedo world who kills whoever touches.

"The S boat will be reloaded, and all the northbound and large wells will be launched!"

The two heavy mine-striking ships, which had a total of 40 torpedo tubes, were launched under Marcas's orders. Now, a total of 152 torpedoes are advancing in the sea outside the small port of St. John's.

What's even more chilling is that such a terrible enemy is still reloading!

All the German officers and men waited quietly on the warship to see the upcoming fireworks, and no one dared to rush forward, not to mention that the lightning detachment did not have a warship that could block the H9, even if the 10,000-ton treaty heavy cruiser hit the H9, it would sink with one shot.

"Guess how many boats you can hit?"

"One of four, at least 40 ships!"

"I'm betting on one out of three, 50 ships!"

"Boom!" Even if the "Boom" is launched at the maximum range, the H9 can run at a high speed of 34 knots, and the lightning detachment was only more than 5,000 meters away from the edge of the cargo ship when it was launched just now, and this distance was completed at once.

"One, two...... Eight ...... Eleven ...... Twenty ......" counted to 26 ships, all the German officers and men were already uncountable, because the explosions were so dense and dazzling that it was impossible to distinguish the ship that sank it, and all they knew was loud noises and fires after fires.

"Torpedo...... Torpedo! "There were a lot of torpedoes outside, and the sailors on board screamed, and they tried their best to dodge, but the torpedoes were so fast, so inconspicuous, and there were boats on the left and right, that they either couldn't dodge the torpedoes, or they could only collide with others.

The sound of explosions, screams, and cries for help converged into a tragedy of the coming apocalypse.

Even if the torpedo in front of the freighter passes through because of the gap, it will then find a suitable target to destroy, and the result of being hit by the H9 is only one - sinking. Two destroyers, with their less luck, were torpedoed in two directly......

Marcus, who was full of joy and his eyes were about to narrow into a slit, turned his head and told the telegraph staff officer: "Use the Morse telegram code to send a telegram to these nerd geese, the main fleet of the German Navy is here, just rush out if you want to die." ”

"Liar, deceitful, how can there be any main fleet, at most some destroyers, rush over and win...... Gathered here, only everyone died together. ”

"But they have a lot of torpedoes!"

"Boom" was another loud bang.

Maccaste glanced at the radar screen again, the dense green light spots just now were obviously much sparse now, and he had a pain in his flesh, sinking so much that it was all money! But in the end, I can only comfort myself: "Life is like this sometimes......"

Fearing the interception of the torpedo and lightning strike detachments, these freighters hesitated and did not dare to rush out, and several brave destroyers wanted to destroy the enemy forces on the opposite side.

At 1:06 a.m., Lieutenant General Bei received a report and nodded again and again: "Well done!" Fortunately, the lightning detachment taught these cowboys a lesson with torpedo night, otherwise they would have slipped away and I wouldn't have been able to catch them, so should I go to shell the port or go after the freighters? ”

"Sir, although some of the freighters have returned, there are still daring people rushing out, and some destroyers are still trying to attack the lightning detachment."

"How far is it from them?"

"At least 20 km!"

"Simple...... The heavy cruiser sprinted at full speed to deal with the flies, fired a salvo from all the battleship guns, set 22,000 meters from the ruler, and told the Yankees that we are coming! ”

"Boom" seven battleships with great power on the axis lined up in a horizontal line, fired a salvo with naval gun fire, splashed dozens of columns of water in the harbor of St. John's, and even two shells were particularly lucky, and hit the target directly -- the result was, of course, a single shot......

"Send a telegram to these freighters in clear code...... If they stop and anchor and surrender to our troops, I will guarantee them the status of captives and enjoy the relevant rights, and those who dare to destroy ships or goods will be regarded as guerrillas and will not enjoy all the rights and interests of the Geneva Conventions, and will be summarily executed after being captured! Lieutenant General Pei gave the order murderously, and the staff officer who gave the order shrugged his shoulders and went to send a telegram without saying anything.

At 2:24 a.m., the cold telecommunications staff officer shuddered and handed the telegram to Lieutenant General Ingram, who was on the side, exhausted from a hard day's work.

“…… The main German fleet suddenly appeared outside the port of St. Johns, intercepting the fleet and sinking a number of freighters, in order to avoid needless sacrifices, the rest of the freighters have decided to surrender, some of the freighters returned to the port and went ashore to take refuge, the Germans are now attacking the port with naval artillery fire, and our army urgently needs to continue to reinforce! ”

"It's over......" Ingram sighed, more than 300 ships and nearly 5 million tons of supplies on the island of Newfoundland were all finished!

"Wake up Admiral King and General Marshall for a meeting, the Germans are about to land......"

When Admiral King, who was woken up in a hazy way, heard that there was an urgent military situation, the first thing he did was to ask Ingram: "How many ships have run out?" ”

Ingram shook his head hesitantly and handed the telegram to the latter, and after reading the telegram, Admiral King, who had always been tough, suddenly had a sour nose, tears were in his eyes, and began to hold his head and cry: "300 ships, 300 ships, how can I explain to the president?" ”

The young staff officers in the surrounding circle all sobbed in a low voice, the loss of some supplies was nothing, but such 300 ships and 5 million tons of supplies were thrown together, even the wealthy United States could not withstand it.

Marshall sat silently in his seat, Arnold stared blankly at the ceiling as if he could see the plane through the roof, and Eisenhower was silent, suddenly remembering the scene when he was forced to withdraw his troops from Africa, and then crying out loud.

"Let's have a meeting......" When Admiral Kim regained his composure, Li Hai opened his mouth first, "The president is not in good health, don't tell him such exciting news for the time being, and the British side must maintain ...... as much as possible."

Everyone nodded silently.

"The enemy is shelling the port of St. John's, and from the current situation, there is no doubt about a landing operation, and now the key is to hold the island of Newfoundland." Admiral Kim took a deep breath, "I don't think we have no chance, at least we have 2 Canadian divisions on the island; At the very least, after dawn, the Army Aviation can launch an attack; At least, General Cunningham's fleet is in the process of arriving for reinforcements......"

"Is it possible to put the enemy ashore and use the army forces to drag the other side and prolong the time that the enemy is stranded on the island of Newfoundland, so that we can mobilize superior forces to extinguish the German army?" Ingram made a suggestion that caught everyone's eye, and the discussion immediately began around it......