Those who are unwilling to accept defeat know that neither Ukraine nor Belarus, nor St. Petersburg can afford to lose. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOnce all these places are lost, the war is basically over. Except for the Americans, who could take refuge for the time being, all the countries on the continent of Europa would fall under the iron heel of the Ming army.

Faced with such an urgent situation, as the leader of the anti-Ming alliance, the Americans could no longer sit still. Even if their homeland was under threat from the Ming army at this time, the Americans must provide enough help to their allies to stabilize the battle line, and must not let the Ming army end the fighting on the main battlefield within the year.

The Americans knew very well in their hearts that once their European allies were defeated and surrendered. Then the Americans will face an attack from the whole world. The protection of the two oceans cannot stop the whole world from fighting. At that time, unless the Americans have mastered the ultimate weapon, they will not be able to escape the threat of national exile.

The Americans, having made up their minds, began to mobilize their war machine. They transported a large number of troops and all kinds of equipment and materials to the European theater in one large transport fleet after another. Even if they can't stop the Ming army from sweeping through Europe in the end, the Americans will have to buy themselves enough time.

Their secret ultimate weapon has already made a breakthrough in technology, but it will take time to turn it into a combat-ready weapon. And now, for all the belligerents, the most important thing is time.

Since mid-February, ports on the East Coast of the United States have been bustling with people and roaring machinery. The largest transportation program in history is about to set sail!

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The waves of the vast sea are surging, and the raindrops the size of soybeans are desperately lapping on the sea, splashing countless waters. The sky was cloudy, and the howling wind whipped up layers of waves crashing against a submarine that was all black and breaking the waves.

This large ocean-going submarine numbered 527 is one of the latest new submarines to enter service by the submarine force of the Ming Navy. This is one of the ships that have been transferred here from the Pacific Theater. After the war situation in the Pacific gradually turned calm, the Ming navy soon turned its attention to the vast Atlantic.

As the Ming army continued to gain superiority in the European battlefield, European countries under great pressure continued to ask the Americans, who were the leaders of the anti-Ming alliance, to increase their investment in the battlefield. When the United States saw that the war situation in Europe was showing signs of collapse, they were forced to greatly increase their support for Europe in order not to face the encirclement of the whole world alone. This is true both in terms of supplies and soldiers.

The war has been fought to such an extent that it is no longer possible to withdraw from it.

The Americans were sending reinforcements to the European battlefield, and it was naturally impossible for the Ming army to watch it. For Zhang Cheng, who wants to settle the fighting on Europa within this year, the massive reinforcement of the Americans is a huge threat. Not to mention the large number of American troops, those huge supplies are enough for the armies of many European countries to survive again.

Therefore, strikes on the transport lines of the Americans were quickly put on the agenda of the Navy.

The Ming Navy has been attacking sea transportation lines in the North Atlantic. It was only after Zhang Cheng stepped up his attention that this kind of crackdown was unprecedentedly increased. Especially after the Ming army recaptured the Azores and occupied the Iberian Peninsula. The Ming navy captured many good ports in these places and had very good forward attack bases. Their crackdown on the North Atlantic route has also intensified.

After the news came that the Americans had begun to send large-scale reinforcements to the European theater, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered the Navy to strengthen the blockade of the North Atlantic route. The Navy has mobilized a large number of combat ships from all over the country to join the Atlantic Fleet, which is specially designed to strike the routes from the United States to Europe.

The new ocean-going submarine USS Whale Shark, numbered 527, was one of the ships transferred from the Pacific theater to the North Atlantic. The commander of this submarine and his crew are very famous, and its commander is the famous Ming army ace submarine commander Lieutenant Colonel Fang Renxu.

Fang Renxu, who got the Golden Spike Sabre when he graduated from the Naval Academy, was the record holder for the tonnage of battleships sunk by the Ming Navy. Although his record for the total tonnage of ships of all types sunk has long been broken by his colleagues, the tonnage of the military warships of the Allied navies that died at the hands of Fang Renxu is unbeatable, and it is estimated that no one will be able to surpass his record by the end of the war. The main warships of the allies that were sunk by Fang Renxu were numerous, and all of them were well-known.

Fang Renxu, who had received the Order of Baoding and the Order of Glory, had been promoted to a lieutenant commander for his outstanding performance, which was simply a miracle given his age and seniority. You must know that the military is one of the most valuable places for seniority.

Originally, he had already received an order to return to the naval command as an operational staff officer of the submarine force. This order is very targeted, as long as Fang Renxu has no irreparable mistakes during his tenure, then he will inevitably become the commander of the submarine force of the Ming Navy in the future!

But Fang Renxu rejected the appointment from Zhang Cheng. He hoped that he would still be able to continue fighting for his country on the submarine until the end of the war. Zhang Cheng agreed to his request and personally ordered him to be transferred to the Atlantic Fleet as the commander of a submarine detachment.

Some people may think that Fang Renxu is too stupid, he can leave the dangerous front line to drink tea and blow air conditioning in the office, and he still has a great future waiting for him. I don't want this kind of good thing, but I want to go to the dangerous front line and continue to fight. If one day his submarine is sunk, he won't even be able to find the body.

Fang Renxu reacted very calmly to this kind of rumor, and when a friend asked, he replied very simply: "It's not for me to prepare to take over as commander-in-chief of the navy, what are you going to do when you go back?" ”

No matter what everyone said, Fang Renxu finally arrived at Angra Sangra in the Azores with a brand new ocean-going submarine. Here was the station of the submarine detachment under his command.

The Azores archipelago was a gathering place for pirates for hundreds of years, and the Ming Dynasty roamed everywhere, full of ships sailing from the colonies to the mainland. Countless pirates have set their sights on these transports. Thus began a century-long game of catching thieves among officers and soldiers at sea.

Until the Ming Navy carried out a large-scale extermination operation against those pirates who were like flies and secretly supported by various countries, and seized the archipelago in one fell swoop, it has always been under the direct jurisdiction of the Ming Navy.

At the beginning of the war, it was taken away, but now it has been recaptured by the counterattacking Ming army. Attacking from this strategically located location is a great threat to the North Atlantic routes of the allies.

When the Americans began to reinforce the European theater on a large scale, the entire Atlantic Fleet of the Ming Navy was mobilized to launch a fierce attack on the Allied North Atlantic routes. The submarine detachment commanded by Fang Renxu also joined this large-scale naval battle.

At this time, it was the beginning of March 1943, and six submarines of the submarine detachment under the command of Fang Renxu were cruising about 750 nautical miles northwest of the island of Ireland, waiting for their prey to come to the door.

Because the Ming army had already occupied the Iberian Peninsula, long-range bombers taking off from places like A Coruña were enough to cover the western seas of Ireland. This forced the Allied transport fleet to make a detour north to avoid the attack of the Ming army's long-range bombers.

Although the Allies stationed a large number of warships to escort each large convoy, the Ming army's four-shot long-range bombers were generally dispatched in groups, and they were arranged in a deadly air defense formation, using machine guns and cannons loaded on the bombers to defend the area. Hardly any Allied firepower could break through such a dense hail of bullets.

Moreover, the nickname of these long-range bombers of the Ming army is called the Flying Fortress, and their bodies are far stronger than you think. Most importantly, these long-range bombers are not too much of a threat to transport fleets on the sea because of the height of their bombing. But these bombers were all part-time reconnaissance aircraft. As soon as they spotted the Allied fleet, they would send out the information, and it would not be long before the Ming submarine forces and raiders would swarm from all directions.

The Ming army not only sent a large number of submarine forces to attack the Allied sea transportation lines, but also continuously sent many high-speed warships to act as attack ships to attack the slow transport teams. Even after the Atlantic Fleet was greatly strengthened, it began to send many warships, including large warships, to attack the transport fleet.

In short, Zhang Cheng's task to the Ming Navy was to do everything possible to wipe out the Americans' supplies and troops at sea. Cut off the hand of the Americans reaching out to the European continent and lay the groundwork for ending the fighting on the continent within this year.

A single torpedo might be able to sink a troop carrier, sending thousands of soldiers into the sea to feed the fish. But if you wait until these thousands of soldiers have landed before trying to destroy them, it will not be as simple as a torpedo. Under this huge conversion ratio, the Ming Navy launched a fierce attack regardless of the cost of casualties.

In the early hours of 7 March, Fang Renxu's submarine detachment received a telegram order from the Admiralty ordering them to go to the waters between Ireland and Iceland to intercept and attack a large convoy of transport ships numbered WS79. It was a huge fleet of transport ships that attacked from places like Boston. It consists of forty-two large transport ships and a strong escort formation.

The 42 transports were loaded with flour, beef and mutton, aluminum ingots, steel ingots, fuel oil and other vital supplies. Their destination was Hamburg, Germany. These hundreds of thousands of tons of supplies were very important to the Allied officers and men on the front line, and in order to ensure the safety of the transport fleet, the U.S. Navy sent a heavy cruiser USS Macon as the flagship, as well as three light cruisers and nine destroyers to provide protection. (To be continued.) )