The champagne bottle thrown by Lady Woodgate made a graceful arc in the air, and then ...... Then he missed the bow of the ship. It fell straight and shattered on the ground. Although to be honest, it is much more difficult to miss the ship than to hit it in the face of such a large bow that is close at hand, in fact, the platform where the ceremony is held is the workbench that the workers use when they work, and it is on this platform that the painters paint the ship. So the platform was so close to the bow that Mrs. Woodgard didn't even have to throw the bottle out, she could just hold the bottle in her hand and smash it on the bow. Instead, there was only a small gap between the table and the bow, just enough for the bottle to fall through. So it's not easy to throw the bottle into that gap accurately, and the difficulty is not much different from the difficult big kick clearance that the players of the Chinese national football team often perform on the opponent's goal line.

According to the rules, after the champagne is smashed, the balloon is released, and then the boat is loosened and allowed to slide into the sea by gravity. The release of the balloon and the descent of the boat are all controlled by a single button. The control room was a bit far from the slipway, so the controller there only saw Mrs. Woodgate throwing the bottle out, and the rest was not very clear, so he pressed the button, and the balloon flew up, and the boat slid down......

Mrs. Woodgate turned her head and saw that her husband's face did not seem very good. Although it was the first time she had done this, Lady Woodgate knew something about smashing champagne. She also knew that it was very unlucky for this kind of thing to happen when the ship was launched. This means that the ship will be very unlucky. In general, the crew and those associated with the voyage are always the most superstitious.

"Honey, I messed up." Mrs. Woodgate whispered to her husband.

"It's okay, anyway, in this war, there will always be unlucky ships." Sir Woodgate replied in a whisper. Anyway, neither he nor his wife would go to sea on such a cargo ship, and if this ship is going to be unlucky, let it be unlucky.

So the cursed cargo ship, named the Boreas, completed the launching ceremony and began its legend.

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More cargo ships, more destroyers were launched, and the good times of Captain Hafs and the rest of the German submarines were gradually over, and now all but the high-speed merchant ships were still traveling alone, and the other ships were under the protection of the escort fleet. The proliferation of destroyers using the latest American-made active sonar made it more difficult for the Germans to attack, but also to get out of an attack. Every time when the submarine shoots fish at the merchant fleet. After the thunder, it will almost immediately be attacked by the destroyer, the speed of the submarine is limited, once it is targeted by the destroyer's active sonar, it is difficult to get out, and in the end it is often blown up by the depth charge dropped by the destroyer.

Captain Hafs, who was targeted by two destroyers in an attack just two weeks after his last voyage, was able to escape with his U-92 with his experience, but the U-92 was also badly damaged by depth charges. Therefore, Captain Hafs had to end his sortie early and return to the military port of Kiel.

Within two days of their return, Captain Hafs learned that the situation at sea had changed considerably in the more than a month between their last return for leave and their early return from this damaged ship, and that the large number of destroyers equipped with active sonar and depth charges had caused the losses of the submarine force to skyrocket, and now to the point where one submarine was lost for every two merchant ships sunk. When the U-92 returned wounded, Captain Hauffs and his sailors were worried that the delay would allow Captain Elson's submarine to catch up and surpass their own sinking record. However, they don't have to worry about it now, because Captain Elson's U-35 submarine lost contact three days ago and is presumably sunk.

Captain Hafs suddenly remembered the tactics in that novel, so he wrote a long letter to it.

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Now that Captain Hafs is Major Hafs, he is no longer commanding his own U-92 submarine, but now has a cluster of fourteen submarines under his command, and his task is to lead this group to cut off the route from Africa to Britain, and to test the feasibility of the wolf pack tactics he proposed.

Hafs divided his submarines into two teams, the first team consisted of four submarines, and they were mainly responsible for reconnaissance; The second team consisted of the remaining ten submarines, which were mainly responsible for interception missions.

Hafs put the first team in front, about two hundred nautical miles from the second group. They will be spread out along the route, responsible for monitoring whether there is a fleet passing by, and will report information such as the size, speed, course and other information of the passing fleet to the newly established submarine warfare command center by radio. The command center then synthesizes this information to arrive at an optimal interception point. Then the second team was informed, and the second group of submarines, under the command of Hafs, rushed to the target area and, under his command, launched an attack on the British flotilla.

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It was the first time the ship had sailed from the South African colonies to the British, and a brand new vessel, with a mostly new crew and a new captain, controlled the ship on this treacherous route.

However, the voyage of the North Wind was simple, as long as it followed the other twenty or so ships. It's just damn it, when it came time to qualify, the North Wind was tragically lined out. Obviously, under the premise that at any time there was a possibility of being attacked by German submarines, it was always dangerous to line up on the outside.

"Fortunately, there are still escort warships." Andrew, the new captain, said to himself as he looked at the two destroyers sailing not far away. By this time, the sun was about to sink to the bottom of the sea, and the sky was full of fiery red or deep purple clouds.

"Tomorrow is going to be a good day." Andrew said to himself that he was sure of it. However, he would never have imagined at this time that there were not many people in this fleet who would have the opportunity to see the sun tomorrow.

In fact, earlier today, this huge fleet was discovered by the submarines of the first team. However, the submarine did not rush to occupy a place and launch an attack, but observed the convoy from a distance, and after the convoy was far away, it surfaced and reported the information it had received to the submarine warfare command center by telegram. So a big net has been opened in front.

As the sunset put away its last rays, the stars began to shine in the deep blue sky, at first only a few of the brightest, but as time passed, the fainter stars gradually appeared, and finally the whole canopy was covered with sparkling stars. And by this time the night had become thicker, and the blue sea had melted away during the day, and had melted into the whole night, and the black velvety sky, and looking out from the boat, there was nothing to be seen except for one or two lights that had been lit on the other boats to avoid collisions, not even the splashes of the waves that had been split by the bow of the ship. They all melted into the thick night.

However, from the perspective of submarines, the situation is still a little different. The sky was still a little brighter than the sea anyway, and there were still one or two anti-collision lights on the night ships and the escort warships, so Hafs could barely detect the fleet heading towards them.

Four submarines have been waiting here for a long time. By order of Hafs, all the submarines surfaced, and they divided into two groups and outflanked them from the left and right sides.

Hafs's U-92 was placed on the right flank, and after spotting the flotilla, his submarine, along with several other submarines, headed for the merchant fleet. Unlike the merchant fleet, for the sake of 100% concealment, there are no lights on the submarine. This also made Hafs unable to see other submarines, and naturally, he could not give any orders to these submarines. But now, there is no need to give any orders, the only instructions have already been given, and that is: "When you find the enemy fleet, immediately outflank it and launch an attack." ”

Hafs set his sights on a merchant ship, which, from the perspective of a submarine, looked like it was sailing in a sea of stars against the backdrop of the stars.

Hafs roughly estimated the distance and angle, and then gave the order: "Fish One, Fish Two. Thunder. Tube, launch! ”

Two fish. Ray shot at the boat, Hafs gave the order to turn the submarine in another direction, and then he began to count in his mind: "In another minute or so, fish. Ray should have hit. Captain Hafs thought. It's just that the sea is so dark that he can't see anything, so he can't see the fish. Ray's tracks.

Dozens of seconds passed, and the explosion did not happen. "Hell, it was crooked, and I didn't hit a single one." Hafus scolded.

It was at this time, aboard the North Wind, that the sailors on duty heard a bang on the side of the ship, as if something had hit the ship. But the sailor couldn't see anything, and the sailor thought, maybe an unlucky turtle had been hit by our ship.

In fact, it was a fish launched by U-92 that hit the North Wind. Thunder. I just don't know why this fish. The mine didn't explode, it hit a small hole in the side of the ship of the North Wind and stuck in it because the little hole was basically fished. Ray himself blocked it, so it didn't leak much water, so it didn't attract attention, and it wasn't until after dawn that the sailors found out about this, and they were all scared into a cold sweat.

Another fish. Ray actually didn't deviate much from this fish. Ray swept past the tail of the Boreas, then under the influence of the wake, turned in a different direction, and then crossed the entire fleet. In the end, it hit one of the destroyers escorting the convoy and blew the small warship, which was no more than 1,000 tons, into two on the spot. However in Hafs make fish. Ray didn't hit the judgment when this fish. Ray is wandering through the entire formation.