Chapter 412: Risking Death to Reconnoiter (Part II)
It was just getting dark, and the guards brought food, a wooden bucket filled with water, and a wooden bowl with black bread. Seeing that the food was delivered, Lin Nan was not polite, he also needed to replenish his nutrition and prepare for the prison escape operation at night.
Picking up the black bread, Lin Nan smiled and shook his head, this bread was only the size of a fist, hard as a stone, Lin Nan doubted whether this bread could break the lock on the prison door.
In order to conserve his strength, Lin Nan had to eat, he used a wooden bowl to take out a bowl of water from the bucket, tore the bread into small pieces and soaked it. The bread that had absorbed the water gradually softened, and Lin Nan ate his dinner like porridge with water.
After eating only such a small piece of black bread in one day, Lin Nan didn't feel full at all, but at this time he had nothing to eat. patted his stomach, Lin Nan secretly sighed, after going back, he must go to the restaurant to have a big meal and make up for himself.
After dinner, Lin Nan continued to lie on the bed and pretend to sleep, and the time passed minute by minute, when the bell of twelve o'clock faintly came from the church bell tower in the distance, and the footsteps of the guards happened to disappear around the corner.
Lin Nan's eyes that had been closed opened suddenly, now he had two hours to escape from prison, once the guards made their next round, they would definitely find an anomaly, and he had to escape from here within this time. Turning over, Lin Nan took out the small glass bottle from under the bed, he opened the cap, and a pungent smell wafted out, which was the aqua regia specially provided by the special forces, which is said to melt all metal objects.
Holding back the pungent smell, Lin Nan carefully dripped the acid under a few iron bars on the window, and the acid touched the roots of the iron bars, making a slight snorting sound, and a puff of white smoke came out.
Lin Nan moved a little farther away, dodging the drifting smoke, and when there was no more smoke, Lin Nan leaned over again, only to see that the roots of the iron bar had been eroded for the most part, and it was as slender as a toothpick. Taking off his shirt, Lin Nan wrapped it around the iron bar to prevent it from making too much noise, Lin Nan shook slightly, and the root of the iron bar broke in response. Seeing that the bottom of the iron bar was broken, Lin Nan showed a triumphant smile.
The bottom of the bar is broken, but the upper part is still connected, and the human body still can't get in and out. Lin Nan held the two iron bars with both hands, his arms were strong, the green tendons on his arms burst out, and as the bean-sized droplets of sweat slipped down his face, the iron bars could no longer withstand such a huge force, and slowly bent to both sides, giving way to a barely accessible space.
Lin Nan wiped a handful of sweat, put his shirt back on, grabbed the window frame and reached out with his feet, and his body jumped out of the gap lightly. Jumping out of the window, Lin Nan hid in the shadows to observe carefully, and saw that no one was passing nearby, so he was silent and quickly ran towards the dock.
To leave the port, Lin Nan had to find a boat, but now that the port is heavily inspected, it is difficult to get out. As he navigated the docks between the cargo, his shadow concealing his figure, he soon spotted a Sahr military transport ship preparing to set sail.
A smile appeared on Lin Nan's face, and he silently dived into the water and quietly swam towards the transport ship. The iron anchor was pulled out of the silt at the bottom of the sea, and with the help of a winch it was quickly lifted, and the chains attached to the iron anchor dragged along the deck with a clattering sound, and no one noticed a tall figure gradually rising with the iron anchor.
The iron anchor was in the shadow of the bow of the ship, so no one saw the extra figure on the iron anchor. The ship was pulled out of its berth by a tugboat, and it began to accumulate steam and slowly headed for the main channel of the port.
The sailors on the deck all returned to their posts, they were either on duty in the wheelhouse, or went back to the cabin to rest, and when the deck was silent, Lin Nan grabbed the edge of the boat with his backhand, he pressed his waist, a harrier turned over, and his feet landed lightly on the deck.
Seeing that there was no one around, Lin Nan felt towards the cabin. Walking through a cabin, Lin Nan's nose twitched, he smelled the aroma of food, gently pushed open the hatch, and Lin Nan dodged into the dark cabin.
His eyes adjusted to the darkness, Lin Nan found that this was the ship's galley, and when he opened the locker, he saw that it was full of bacon and roast chicken, and there were strips of white bread in the lattice, apparently this was a place to prepare food for the officers on the ship.
Seeing these foods, Lin Nan's stomach suddenly screamed, he found a piece of cloth, wrapped a few loaves of bread and two roast chickens, and closed the cabinet again so as not to be found, and then he quickly left here.
The ship was manned 24 hours a day, so even at night, the canteen served food on time, and it was easy to be spotted if you stayed there all the time. Found the most secluded lifeboat at the stern, Lin Nan hid under the canvas covering the lifeboat, took out the food and feasted on it, today he only ate a piece of black bread, and did so much exercise, now he is really hungry.
After eating, Lin Nan slept in the lifeboat for a while, and when the transport ship was far away from the port of Tunis, he took apart the thread of the trouser hem, took out a small flat instrument from it, pressed the red button in the middle, and Lin Nan waited for his answer.
Two hours later, a submarine of the Southern Ocean Fleet approached the transport. Lin Nan's little instrument was a signal transmitter, and the submarine in charge of receiving him hurried in after receiving the signal.
This time, there were ten submarines responsible for receiving Lin Nan, and they were distributed over a vast area in the middle of the Mediterranean, and this submarine happened to be nearby, and after receiving the signal, it quickly rushed over. It's just that this kind of signal search is also a new technology in the Chinese Empire, and the positioning is not very accurate, so the submarine took so long to find him.
The submarine picked up Linnan and sank the transport ship with ease, and with the reconnaissance information, Linnan returned to Istanbul, the temporary station of the Southern Ocean Fleet.
The intelligence that Lin Nan brought back was quite valuable, the objects were identified, the staff officers re-studied the aerial photographs, and they found more than forty hidden anti-aircraft guns.
Of course, the most important thing for the staff gate is to observe those anti-air balloons, and after careful observation, they found that the distance between the balloons is as high as more than 150 meters, and it is not difficult to enter and exit during the day.
But if the plane enters in the dark night, the steel cables are almost invisible, and if they cross these steel cables in an invisible situation, the plane will definitely suffer heavy losses, so Sun Xiaohu has a headache.
In the end, the General Staff came up with a way to have several Exocet reconnaissance planes as pilots, loaded with flares, which entered the harbor from a high altitude without balloons, and used flares to illuminate the planes behind them, so that the attacking troops could be illuminated so that they could avoid the steel cables on the balloons.
Everything was ready, and in the early morning of December 25, all the ships of the Southern Ocean Fleet began to set sail. In order to confuse the enemy, Sun Xiaohu deliberately sent two cruisers and two destroyers to protect a convoy of transport ships and sailed towards the Grand Duchy of Sardinia.
An hour later, the formation of Chinese-class battleships also set sail, and as a decoy fleet, they divided into two groups under the protection of destroyers and headed for the middle of the Mediterranean.
The pilots of the Allied reconnaissance planes were blinded by the multiple arrows of the Southern Ocean Fleet, and they did not know what the Chinese Navy was going to do; after receiving the situation that the other side had made a large-scale sortie and its movements were unknown, the Allied navies did not dare to take risks, but only sat in the harbor and stepped up inspections, not daring to act rashly.
After two days of round-and-back voyages, the intelligence department of the Allied forces completely lost the news of the aircraft carrier formation of the Chinese army, and at this time, Sun Xiaohu personally led a task force composed of three aircraft carriers, which was heading for the port of Tunis, escorting them in addition to two cruisers and two destroyers, as well as six submarines.
It was nearly dusk, and the Southern Ocean Fleet, anchored two hundred nautical miles north of Tunisia, was ready for battle. Seeing that the time was almost up, Sun Xiaohu gave an order, and the 'Eagle's Nest' first put down all the Exocet reconnaissance planes.
Six of these reconnaissance planes were filled with flares, and the other six Exocet reconnaissance planes were loaded with bombs and operated together with the attack planes to increase the effect of sneak attacks. Due to the limitation of the size of the navy's carrier-based aircraft, they cannot be equipped with airborne radar, and in order to be able to carry out night operations, the first six Exocet reconnaissance planes are all piloted by elves, and the captain of each team is also elven.
Because elves have 20 times the eyesight of humans, and they also have night vision, which can greatly increase the safety of night flights. Fortunately, the proportion of elves in the air force is relatively high, and more than thirty elven pilots can be made up on three aircraft carriers.
It's a pity that you can't let all the planes that attack be piloted by the elves, if you can get all the elves to be pilots, you don't need to mount flares on the plane at all, relying on night vision alone, you can be invincible at night in this era without airborne radar.
As the Exocet reconnaissance planes rose off from the water one after another, 127 Swordfish attack planes, also loaded with torpedoes and bombs, took off one after another from the two 'Gunshou' class aircraft carriers, and they soon formed an air formation and flew toward the port of Tunis under the escort of 31 Sailfish fighters.
In this era, aviation has not been in operation for a long time, and flying at night is still a very difficult thing. These excellent Chinese Navy pilots did not dare to be careless, and all of them stared wide-eyed, staring closely at the red light on the tail of the previous plane, fortunately they did not need radio silence.
In reminding and contacting each other, coupled with the elves who ignore the night, the group flies quite smoothly. Under the guidance of the captains, the group of aircraft that took off on the aircraft carrier flew at low altitude and low speed in a relatively loose formation, and it was not until half an hour later that the elf pilots of the leading planes saw the coastline hidden in the darkness, and the port of Tunisia finally arrived.
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