Even during the war years, there were still a lot of people on both sides of the Atlantic, because the war brought a lot of business, and a lot of trade could not be solved by just the exchange of goods, they also inevitably involved the exchange of people. So in the Atlantic, there are still transoceanic passenger liners.

And, in a sense, passenger ships are also much safer than cargo ships. On the one hand, this is because passenger ships are faster, which is naturally more difficult to ambush. Even before the war, when the average speed of a freighter in the Atlantic was 13 or 4 knots, the speed of a passenger ship was already 20 knots. And this speed is faster than the maximum speed of the submarine on the surface. Therefore, unless a passenger liner happens to hit the submarine's attack range with a few stupid heads, it will be difficult for the submarine to attack such a target. And the sea is so big, the chance of hitting a submarine headlong within the pitiful killing range of a small is actually quite low.

In addition, German submarines generally did not attack passenger liners, because they were afraid that an attack on a passenger liner would provoke the Americans too much. Even after the announcement of unlimited submarine warfare, the German Navy's submarines would still be open to the passenger liner net, because there would not be much material or anything on it, sinking it would be of limited significance, and on the contrary, it would bring a lot of trouble. Although the entry of the Americans into the war is now almost a foregone conclusion, in any case, it is always a little better for Germany for the Americans to enter the war a day later. So, under normal circumstances, German submarines would not have attacked passenger ships at all.

On June 20, 1917 (several months after the United States entered the war), a passenger ship called the Radiance set sail from New York Harbor to England. It was a passenger liner of about 8,000 tons, with hundreds of passengers on board, some businessmen and others medical staff from the so-called Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF).

After the outbreak of the war, with the increase in casualties, a large number of medical personnel were requisitioned by the army, so there was an extreme shortage of medical personnel in ordinary hospitals in British and French cities. So, they sent out invitations to doctors and nurses in the New World. They promised that they would pay the doctors and nurses higher salaries, and they promised that they would not be allowed to go to war. And they are not critical about the qualifications of doctors. For the sake of high salaries, many doctors, especially those who have just graduated from medical school, are often willing to work in the United Kingdom and France for a period of time, so that they can earn some money and easily obtain medical qualifications and more experience.

Shabar was also on this boat and he was the one who had just gotten the Bi. Karma. Proof. The ophthalmologist of the book did not find a good job in New York, because the better hospitals have high requirements for doctors, and a little guy who has just graduated is at most a chorre or something. Of course, starting from miscellaneous work and slowly working on qualifications, you can still become an attending doctor or even a higher-level doctor. Shabal, however, couldn't wait that long. Because he had a lot of loans in order to study, if he could only do chores in a big hospital, the pressure to repay the loan would be very great. If you go to a small hospital, at the beginning, maybe the income will be better, but staying in a small hospital is very detrimental to the improvement of the doctor's art, because the improvement of the doctor's medical skills is largely due to the accumulation of experience, and in the small hospital, the treatment means are insufficient, and the accumulation of experience is naturally poor. Shabal, who was quite ambitious, naturally did not want to waste his youth in a small hospital, so in order to repay the loan and for the sake of future development, Shabar took his heart and signed a contract with a hospital in London through the "Doctors Without Borders" organization under the guidance of several former seniors, and boarded the ship.

It's the fourth night of the Radiance's voyage. Shabar and several of his peers were squatting in the cabin playing poker, when suddenly they heard a loud noise, and at the same time, the playing cards on the small table in front of them also flew up, and along with the playing cards, several people sitting around playing poker, including Shabal, were also shaken to the ground.

"How?" Shabal thought as he struggled to get up from the ground. That moment earlier made his head a little dizzy, and the vestibular function seemed to be affected a little, so that he now had to hold on to the wall to stand firmly.

"Click!" A cracking sound rang out from above Shabal's head, and Shabal looked up to see that the ceiling above him was actually cracking.

"Run! The ship must have been attacked by the Germans and was going to sink! Shabar shouted to his peers, who were playing poker with him, and were just getting up, and then tried to open the door and go out. At this time, Shabar realized that the door could not be opened.

"Bastard, who locked the door!" Shabal shouted angrily.

"No, it's the door frame that's deformed!" Another doctor, Benson, shouted in a trembling voice.

"Whatever is going on with him, help! Otherwise, we'll all die here! Shabar shouted.

Several people rushed up and pulled the door together, to say that the strength of a few big men was still good, with a click, the door was actually half pulled down by them.

"Quick, get out, get on deck, the ship is sinking!" Shabal noticed that the floor seemed to be tilted.

The others didn't need to be greeted and fled in a hurry.

The ship tilted very quickly, and by the time a few people ran onto the deck, the deck had tilted more than thirty degrees, and it was almost impossible to stand. And the speed at which the ship is tilting is accelerating.

The crew had already thrown the lifeboat directly into the sea - the boat was about to sink, and it was too late to release the lifeboat as usual.

"Jump into the water, swim over yourselves, and get as far away from the boat as possible." A sailor shouted at them, and the people on deck jumped into the sea like dumplings, and were picked up by the sailors in the lifeboats.

Shabar swam to a lifeboat, and a sailor pulled him up. Shabal had barely gasped for breath when he heard the screams of the people in the lifeboat, and he looked in the direction of the boat, only to see the boat suddenly flip over and crash upside down on the sea.

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"Yesterday, an American liner was shamefully attacked in the Atlantic, and I regret to tell you that many Americans lost their lives in this attack. Prior to this, the Government of the United States had repeatedly protested to the Government of the German Empire to stop their brutal and unrestricted submarine warfare, but it was evident that the goodwill of the United States was regarded as weak, and the German Navy, instead of stopping their evil deeds, intensified ......"

The voice of President Wilson's speech came over the radio, and a hand reached over and pinched the knob of the radio and turned it off.

"Your Majesty, this matter was not done by us, we don't have submarines in any area at all." General Scheer said to Kaiser Wilhelm II with a pale face, "This must have been done by the British, and they framed us!" ”

"Hehe......" Emperor Wilhelm II laughed instead, "maybe the Americans did it themselves?" But now, these words are useless, the Americans are determined to go to war with us, and it is useless to say anything. General Scheer, how is the production of new submarines? ”

"Your Majesty, one hundred and thirty have already been produced." General Scheer replied.

"Sending these submarines out, can you cut off the Atlantic route?" Wilhelm II asked.

"Your Majesty, it is impossible to cut it off completely, but it will definitely make their transport volume shrink considerably, to the point where it can no longer be supported. Your Majesty, even if the Americans were to declare war on us, it would take at least eight months to prepare, but Britain and France would definitely not be able to support us for eight months under our blows. ”

Hearing this assurance, Emperor Wilhelm II seemed to be in a better mood. Then he reached out and turned on the radio, from which came the last words of President Wilson: "I ask the Reichstag to authorize me to declare a state of war between the United States of America and the German Empire as of this date." ”

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