"Captain Huntslek, this is the last box, sign it here if it's all right." The Moroccan merchant said, pointing to his signature on the lower edge of the manifest.

"Do you have any good wine here?" The captain took the pen from the merchant and signed his name on the manifest.

"There are some Girezzes who can give you a special price if you want them." The Moroccan took back the manifest from the captain's hand, glanced down, and then handed it to the retinue standing behind him.

"What Girez?" The captain asked, tilting his head in confusion.

"Girrez is Girrell, good wine." The Moroccan crossed his fingers and made a drinking gesture.

"It's the name of the Spaniards, it's actually sherry." Not far away, Kobisky reminded that he was directing sailors to remove the hooks from their nets.

"Sherry? Is there any whiskey? Huntslek looked at the Moroccan merchant.

"No, the French just moved all my stock." The merchant shook his head helplessly.

"Well, how much is a bottle."

"Five marks."

"Why don't you grab it?"

"I'm a legitimate merchant with a clear price, and you can choose not to buy it."

"Well, give me fifty bottles, that's fifty marks, that's a deposit." The captain took out a wad of banknotes from his uniform pocket, counted a dozen and handed them to the supplier.

"That's not enough... Well, well, when do you want the goods. Seeing the captain's eyes widen, the merchant decided to compromise for the time being.

"The sooner the better."

"Then tomorrow morning, I'll have the goods delivered, and remember to settle the rest when the time comes, Captain Huntslek." The merchant smiled and stretched out his right hand to shake hands with the captain.

The Moroccan arrived in a large rowing boat, manned by twenty strong North African oarsmen, and the merchant returned to the rowboat with his attendant, who turned back and waved warmly to the captain.

"See you later, Abdul." With a big smile on his face, the captain waved his arms as if he were saying goodbye to a close friend.

"This Moroccan is a slippery head." Kobisky was done with the work at hand.

"But he can get a lot of good things, and in addition to the needs of the officers' cafeteria, the rest of the wine will change hands in Italy, and the price will be at least doubled. I've asked someone about it, and it's easy to get rid of the goods because of the shortage of supplies there. The captain put his elbow on his companion's waist and said with a mysterious expression.

"Okay, I'm not very good at this, but I advise you to be careful, Feng. Colonel Camp is not easy to fool. ”

"Don't worry, I won't violate military regulations, the lieutenant colonel can't catch me." The captain smiled and hooked his friend's shoulder.

"When you heard that there might be a fight this time, aren't you nervous at all?" Leaning on the bulletproof fence of the anti-aircraft artillery crew, Captain Kobisky pulled out a cigarette case from the pocket of his uniform.

"What's there to worry about, aren't we here for this? Look around, what a beautiful battleship it is. Captain Huntlek pulled out a cigarette from his friend's cigarette case.

"The problem is that the warship is about to face the first actual combat, but there are still a large number of systems and equipment that have not yet been commissioned."

"That's why I'm not worried at all, we can play a deterrent role at most in this operation, of course Marshal Raeder knows the situation of this ship, he will definitely not risk this precious warship." Huntslek comforted his companion and then pulled out his lighter and lit the cigarette.

"Like I said earlier, let. The Barr's operational readiness is only 90 percent complete, and our fire control system still has problems and needs to undergo some necessary tests. I have written all the details in the report. "Vice-Captain Hendrick. Feng. Colonel Camp solemnly reported to the commander of the detachment.

"My superiors are aware of these difficulties, but they can only give us two more days at most. When the time comes, anyway, let's. The Barr was to go into battle with the fleet. The Nelson's engine malfunctioned, and she had to be replaced from the blockade. "Commander of the detachment, Volner. Major General Stephen pushed a document in front of him to Colonel Kemp.

"Captain Calvez is temporarily unable to carry out his duties, the General Headquarters has agreed that you will temporarily take his place, congratulations, Colonel Kemp, you are now the acting captain of the Barr." The rear admiral stood up and shook hands with the newly promoted acting captain.

"I'm flying to Toulon tomorrow for a meeting, and hopefully you'll be able to do the rest of the work before I return. I believe that you have the ability, Colonel, to remember that the Führer is always following the course of the plan, and the Navy must not let him down. The commander of the detachment puffed out his chest and raised his right arm.

"Hey! Reinhart! ”

"Hey! Reinhart! "Feng. Camp hurriedly raised his hand in return.

Watching the Squadron Commander board his shiny transport boat, the Acting Captain finally let out a long breath. Captain Calvez in the Turbulent. Dysentery in the city of Nice was a joke, and what I thought was a simple intestinal disease caused a series of complications, and the poor commodore almost lost his life because of diarrhea. Fortunately, the Navy sent the latest antimicrobial drugs by plane, which dragged the captain back from the clutches of death, but he was almost only half a life left.

Camp had long anticipated today's meeting, as he was the best candidate for acting captain. The experienced deputy captain of this battleship has absolute authority, and it is believed that not a single officer or officer of the whole ship will object to his replacement of the captain.

"Let's. The Barr. Standing on the wide foredeck, Camp looked up at the majestic bridge, the forty-seven-year-old admiral, who could hardly suppress his excitement at the moment.

At this moment, he finally got his wish and became the captain of a battleship, although he was only the acting captain, but Kemp was confident that with his talent, he would soon be able to remove this ugly prefix.

The most powerful battleship in the history of the French Navy, quietly docked in the Terrilla. In Nice Harbour, at the top of her towering mast, a huge German naval cross flag flutters in the wind.

As for how this battleship came into the hands of the Germans, there is a very interesting story to be told behind this.

As the Germans approached Saint-Nazaire, her sister ship, Richelieu, fled the port in a hurry with a shipload full of military and political personnel and refugees.

Let. The Barr had also been prepared to escape, but it ran into trouble during the power system test, because the workers were in a hurry to get to work, many pipes and lines were not tested, and as a result, soon after the boiler was started, three of the four steam turbines had problems one after another, the temperature in the engine room rose sharply, and several steam pipes were ruptured.

At this moment, it was obviously too late to return to the dock for replacement and commissioning, the vanguard of the German army was already less than twenty kilometers from the port, and light reconnaissance planes of the German Army had already appeared in the sky over the city of Saint-Nazaire.

The first captain of the battleship was French Captain Pierre. Let. Ronak, who immediately decided to stop the unnecessary rush repairs, gathered the shipyard's technicians to discuss whether the battleship could be allowed to leave the port with the existing power and the two port tugs that had been prepared.

At the meeting, Lieutenant Commander Rear Admiral Rodlec du Bertichick and Naval Engineer Dr. Gaskey made a new suggestion that the ship should be scuttled directly in the dockyard, so as to prevent the pride of the French Navy from falling into the hands of the German invaders.

In order to build this huge ship unprecedented in the history of the French Navy, the Penauère shipyard that built Jean-Bar did not have a suitable slipway before, they deliberately chose a suitable river bank upstream of the shipyard and specially built a new cement cofferdam, which is surrounded by a thick cement wall. The Barr completed preliminary construction and outfitting.

In the original plan, while the warships were being built, the local river management department would dig a suitable passage between the dock and the main channel of the port.

However, due to bureaucracy and several accidents in a row, the progress of the project was far behind the original plan.

The French thought that the Germans would give them enough time to complete the ship, and that the dredging of the channel became less urgent in the eyes of the government bureaucrats, so they redeployed valuable manpower and equipment to the fortifications of the southern military port.

Therefore, until the day before the arrival of the German troops, this channel had just been hastily completed, and it had not even had time to send people to inspect and accept, let alone send ships for sea trials.

Now put in Jean. Captain Ronak was faced with a difficult choice, and if he insisted on breaking through, he would have to risk the ship running aground in the shipping lane. (To be continued.) )