"There's no way the French can deploy all their warships here, right?" The prince asked. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Previously, before our Saint-Istban's commissioning, they really didn't do this, the fleet would rotate often, but until now, the main forces of the French fleet have been deployed here for almost 45 days. At least 8 dreadnoughts and ultra-dreadnoughts are there all the time! Maj. Gen. House said.

"Holy." The prince couldn't help but curse in his heart, from Admiral House's words, he could clearly perceive two points, first, there were some problems with the secrecy of the navy, and the French action was obviously a possible "escape" action against the Austro-Hungarian fleet. And the second problem is that the situation is about to change, and eighty percent of it may have something to do with the Japanese Navy!

The end of the so-called strong crossbow cannot be worn by Lu Min. In doing so, the French are actually overdrawing the soft power of the fleet, and even Alexandria cannot support the actions of the entire French fleet, let alone moving the battle line forward for hundreds of kilometers to Crete! Supplies, the state of personnel, and the state of ships will gradually be consumed in a long period of deployment, which is not normal from a common sense! If the French are not stupid, then there is only one possibility, they are trying to get through the last period! So do your best to hold on here.

And the only reason that could make the French do this was that the Japanese fleet was coming! And when the Japanese fleet finally arrives, the entire Central Allied fleet in the Eastern Mediterranean will be nailed to the last coffin nail! Even if only two dreadnoughts come, the Allied fleet will no longer be able to make any waves, after all, the difference in the number of fleets is too great. A warship of the same period, no matter how good it is, can hardly withstand the attack of two enemy ships of the same class.

"To be honest, I don't have too good ideas now, and from the current point of view, the success rate of almost all plans will not exceed 6 percent! This is something that I have never encountered before. Ruprecht wrote in his diary, and what he didn't expect was that just when the situation in the Mediterranean gradually turned into a dead end, a small pebble fell into the vast Mediterranean, and then set off a ripple, when this stone was thrown out of the hands of the god of fate, no one could have imagined that the second large-scale naval 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, pointed to a sparkling sea in the distance and said loudly.

"Blind again, boy?" Under the mast, a bearded veteran said dismissively. Since the little guy from Marseille got on the boat, there have been more than 30 false alarms, and in his astonishment, the whole ship has been disturbed! Fortunately, people ignored him and only ignored him.

"I swear, I saw something!" The lookout shouted.

"Really? I saw it too, isn't that our supply ship? Anyone with eyes can see. The words of one of the veterans caused laughter from those present, while the destroyer Musketeer continued to follow its predetermined course and signaled to the transports that had come to deliver supplies.

While the two French ships were communicating with each other in flags, a slender tube quickly dived below the surface, and a moment later, the huge shadow beneath the surface of the sea disappeared, and at 65 meters underwater, a steel monster like a king cigar was slowly passing through the Strait of Antikythera. (The strait is located between mainland Greece and Crete, in the northwest of Crete.) ）

An Austro-Hungarian UB-12 submarine was quietly moving slowly underwater at a speed of 4 knots per hour towards the port of Castelly on the island of Crete. The French fleet was concentrated in Castelly and in the adjacent bay of Hunia. Captain of the UB-12 submarine Egon . Major Lerch was tired of striking ordinary merchant ships, and this time on the voyage, he was going to play a big one.

The submarine sailed slowly under the surface, all the officers on duty carefully walked around the cramped interior of the submarine, and occasionally some resting personnel also lay honestly in the hammocks, on the one hand, to reduce energy consumption, and on the other hand, to minimize sound.

The captain and the navigator made repeated calculations on a large-scale chart, and after half a ring, a curved course drew a great arc from its present position, and the arc ended in Castoli! One of the important anchorages of the French fleet!

"How far is it?" Captain Lerch asked.

"There are still 17 nautical miles, and there are still 2 and a half hours before sunset, and we can rub another 10 nautical miles or so and then we get to this point! Avoid the patrol boats near the French port, then float up to recharge, and take another folded line into the port. The navigator thought for a moment and said.

"The only question now is how we get in, the French laid mines, and there are shipwrecks as underwater obstacles. We had a hard time getting in at night. A non-commissioned officer said.

"It's not difficult, the French have a massive supply every 2 weeks. This replenishment will normally last more than a day, so there will be ships passing through the blockade area outside the port at night, and we will just keep up. Captain Lerch said.

"But we don't know the distribution of warships in the harbor." Said the co-captain.

"We don't need to know, just aim at the largest battleship in the field of view, we have only 10 torpedoes, only 4 torpedo tubes in the front, after a salvo, and then after attacking with two torpedo tubes in the tail section, we can go, I don't know which target we will hit? But what I know for sure is that as long as we can hit, we will definitely not lose! Captain Lerch said with a smile.

Not long after the French occupation of Crete, there was less time to begin to deploy the defense of the anchorage, and the large number of warships that were deactivated at the anchorage every day gave some bold people an idea, such as Captain Lerch, who had observed the movements of the Allied fleets and supply fleets near Crete on his previous voyages, and had also received information from other colleagues, and not long ago, after the Turks had sent hydrographic data on the main islands of the Aegean, which made Captain Lerch even more confident.

"So how do we get out? We may not have enough power to support the submarine to escape from the adversary. The Navigator said.

"It's okay, here's the schedule of the currents and the ebb and flow of the tides in the vicinity, and the low tide of tomorrow dawn will be around 5 o'clock. We can even turn off the engine and go down the current! Captain Lerch said.

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