In Europe in May 1909, the resurgence of the Ottoman Empire's military power became the focus of close attention of political leaders of various countries, although Italy had achieved great success in the previous attack on Tripoli in North Africa, and the Ottoman Empire's North African territory from Tripoli to Benghazi ports were captured successively, but after the landing, the Italian army fell into an unforeseen and difficult land war.

The local harsh field environment made the Italian army extremely slow to march in depth, and the local armed forces composed of Arab cavalry and Ottoman army, although the weapons and equipment could not be compared with the Italian army, but the depth of defense and the complex terrain of the local area greatly offset the advantages of the Italian army, and the Italians still stayed on the coastline for several months of attack.

On the 18th, the Ottoman Navy easily broke through the Italian Navy's defense line in the Mediterranean, and ambushed an Italian fleet in the Ionian Sea at the Italian doorstep, and the battle situation announced by Istanbul on the 21st showed that the Italian Navy lost at least 1 battleship, 1 cruiser and an unknown number of naval supply ships, and another battleship Admiral Sangang was also observed in the military port of Crotone, The hull was subjected to extremely heavy shelling and was towed back by a tugboat.

Just as the European countries began to reassess the combat strength of the Ottoman Navy, the Italian Navy, which hurriedly returned from Greece to the western line of the class to round up the Ottoman naval fleet, suffered inexplicable losses again, and the battleship Sicily was damaged by a mine in front of its own house before it was resupplied in the Gulf of Messina, and the rudder on the tail of the battleship was completely destroyed, as a result, the 15,000-ton battleship could only be towed back to the dock for repair, and the construction period was at least 6 months.

Vice Admiral Graziani of the Italian Navy had to resign voluntarily to avoid impeachment by Parliament, but before the War Ministry could appoint a new commander, the other transit ports in Malaysia were shelled with unprecedented intensity......

In the early morning of the 22nd, the Ottoman fleet suddenly appeared outside the port of Valletta in Malaysia, and bombarded the port indiscriminately, and the whole shelling lasted for nearly half an hour.

The shelling hit two large munitions depots located at the rear of the port, and since there were no warehouses for military purposes in the area, these two depots were only converted from warehouses, which naturally could not defend themselves against bombardment from 305mm heavy guns, and even the high-explosive shells of 150mm rapid-fire guns could easily destroy such civilian buildings, and one after another detonation, and finally turned into a super fire that lasted for several days and could not be extinguished.

Vice Admiral Graziani, who was about to return home to report on his duties and accept rotten eggs, was unexpectedly reinstated because of this sudden raid, and three days later, because it could not find a naval general who could go to the post immediately, the War Ministry considered repeatedly rejecting the resignation of the Italian veteran and demanded that the fleet be assembled immediately to encircle and annihilate the Ottoman navy, and if necessary, even bypass the Greek coast and attack the Ottoman Empire itself.

When the Italian Navy dispatched the main force to complete the assembly and began to search the Mediterranean Sea intensively, the Ottoman fleet, which had almost run out of ammunition and needed urgent maintenance of its warships, quietly returned along the shipping route north of Benghazi, while the three Chinese intelligence ships were far away and opened up a safe channel in the Mediterranean, which was not very spacious.

On June 3, the Ottoman fleet, which had secretly entered the Antalya military port, did not usher in the ceremony of the hero's return, and after the intense supply, because the Orhan the Great had to leave for repairs at the large shipyard in Istanbul due to the destruction of a main turret and two 150mm secondary gun profiles in a fierce battle with the Italian Navy, Rear Admiral François soon received a new combat order, and at the same time received the first diesel-electric hybrid submarine of the Ottoman Navy in the port.

There is no doubt that the submarine was sold by the Chinese government under a contract between the two countries six months ago, but since Britain has refused to open the Suez Canal to allow any weapons to enter the Ottomans, the submarine was in fact transported by a large bulk carrier, and even the Ottoman fighters in the entire submarine had to listen to the command of the accompanying Chinese officer corps.

The submarine sold to the Ottoman Empire belongs to the third generation of Seawolf 98II submarines, compared to the original only 150 tons of Type I submarines, today's Seawolf 98 submarines have a displacement of 350 tons, using diesel and dual-battery hybrids, and a cruising range of 8 knots reaching an astonishing 2000 kilometers, which is enough to support quasi-modern warfare.

However, this time the Chinese Navy is ready to brainwash the Ottoman Navy, naturally not the wolf tactics of later civilizations, the Ottoman land is quite large, but the finances are not good, the tonnage of the submarine is not large, but the technical advantage is completely cross-era, now the latest British Holland C-class submarine, the relevant performance is not as good as the export version of the 98II class, not to mention the Northern Fleet trial voyage of this type of submarine because it is the test type of the Northern Fleet, however, the quotation of this type of submarine is far beyond the ordinary destroyer.

The Ottoman Empire's current financial resources, raising three battleships is almost the limit, and it is simply unable to pay gold coins to buy a large number of submarines, not to mention, the Ottoman Navy does not have much experience in submarine training, and currently relies entirely on the Chinese side to provide officers for training, so the real value of submarines here lies in carrying more dangerous frogman operations.

"Frogman homework?" As an army officer, he was skeptical about providing the Ottomans with the skills and training that had once flourished in the Far East, because although the frogman attack was inexpensive and could be extremely effective, it was also a series of problems such as tactical leakage.

"Ruidong, even if the Europeans learn frogman tactics, I'm afraid it will cause trouble in Europe, the Far East, with the control of our navy, there will be no room for the opponent to play at all, and we also made a decision after full consideration!" Xu Shoushan patted the pile of materials in front of him, "The Ottoman Navy has achieved a preliminary victory, but it is entirely possible that the battle with Italy will be wiped out, even the intelligence ships on the front line cannot predict the actions of the Italians!" ”

After Zhou Ruidong listened to the explanation, he no longer asked the question of the navy, anyway, that large piece was naturally handled by Lu Han and Xu Shoushan, and the problem of this naval battle was naturally solved by the Ministry of Military Affairs......

"The west coast of the Panama Canal has been completed, and the overall project is estimated to take two years, and now the first issue is that we must firmly grasp this important hub...... Therefore, the size of the South American detachment should be further increased, relying on Hawaii to build a security barrier covering the country, what the chairman is worried about, I am also deeply shocked after careful consideration, and the Americans estimate that they will not forget our humiliation on the west coast for a long time! ”

Soon, Xu Shoushan achieved a brand new mission! R1152