No one in this world is stupid, U47 doesn't know how the other party guessed their own plan, but this Far East young lion is undoubtedly right.

Germany's admiral system was different from other countries, and they had professional submarine admirals. This group of admirals does not contract with other types of ship girls, and is only responsible for submarine operations. In the original plan, Germany just wanted to use this part of the admiral and the submarine ship to gradually blockade each other.

This Far Eastern lion cub is wrong, their group of ship girls can really fly, and the vehicle they take is the Bv-222 Viking large water transport plane.

With a fuselage of 30 tons and a maximum take-off weight of 49 tons, this large seaplane is a true sea monster. The most amazing thing is that this thing has a long stay time of up to 33 hours in the air, and can take off and land in most sea areas.

A normal Viking can carry 14 members, but most of the submarine girls are petite, lightweight, and not afraid of injury. So a Viking can carry about 40 submariners.

The next thing is simple, the Orkney Islands are made up of more than seventy islands, large and small, but only about two dozen are inhabited. The terrain of the island is complex, with many caves and cliffs. Just find a deep-water cave on the seaside, these petite submariners, generally with a displacement of less than 2,000 tons, have space to release their hulls, and can also use some abandoned small civilian docks, or even build their own simple docks, the petite size of the submarine means that the draft is shallow, and the hardware demand for the port is lower than that of civilian transport ships and fishing boats.

This German attack was not accidental, it was a careful battle plan made after more than half a month of reconnaissance and preparation, plus some intelligence gathered in the past. Otherwise, how could these flies have been on the loose for so long? U47 knew that there were now more than 300 of his companions hidden on the entire Orkney Islands. Led by four powerful Admirals and a dozen other Admirals, the Captains are well-resourced and heavily armed with the aim of filling the entire Orkney Islands with mines.

Of course, if it were just these newcomers of Britain, France and Italy, Germany would not have been so excited. It's just a very good excuse.

The Orkney Islands are strategically located in a stable triangle with the Shetland Islands to the northeast and the Faroe Islands to the north. To this day, there are still a large number of ships of the British home fleet stationed on the other two islands. If this could be used as a pretext to lay a large number of mines around the Orkney Islands, this important strategic point would undoubtedly be abandoned.

As for the number of mines, how many are to be arranged? According to the four admirals, there should be no upper limit. There are so many that it takes more than ten years for the opponent's minesweepers to clean up, or even never clean up.

This tactic of sealing the port with mines was very common in World War I and World War II in Xu Zhonglin's previous life. Mines are cheap in construction and powerful, and they are the most cost-effective weapons for naval warfare. In the latter part of World War II, the United States launched a mine blockade war that was extremely tragic for Japan, which was the famous 'Hunger Campaign'. In just four months, more than 12,000 mines were laid on the main shipping lanes of Japan's major ports.

These mines played a huge role, and after the war, it was calculated that every 20 mines could sink a Japanese ship, which was more efficient than any weapon.

Of course, the main way the United States delivered mines in that campaign was by airdropping them from airplanes, and here the Germans intended to use the tactic of submarine 'copycats'.

Xu Zhonglin is worried about this, but it is one thing to know, and it is very difficult to really arrest him.

The total area of the Orkney Islands is 975 square kilometers, which is only half the size of a county in Xu Zhonglin's previous life. However, this place is already sparsely populated, and it is an archipelago terrain, with undulating landforms and crisscrossing rivers, so there are no conditions for large-scale hunting.

Everyone looked at the map and frowned, the current ability of the dozens of people in Escarpa Harbor had no hope of completing this task at all.

Xu Zhonglin rubbed his aching head: "Let's talk about our own thoughts." ”

Cato was a little incredulous: "Are you sure these guys are hiding on the island?" ”

"Or else? Such a large group of ships will not disappear out of thin air, during the day we turned the bay upside down, according to statistics, all the ships combined only found a dozen submarines, could it be that the mines everywhere were only released by these dozen submarines? ”

Lisa Gratini shook her head: "Even if we know that they are hiding on the island, it is useless, the island is too big for us to catch." ”

Yes, I know that the other party is right under my nose, but there is no manpower and no army to want a carpet search, which is tantamount to a fool's dream, so angry.

Lily sighed with emotion: "This German submarine commander is so powerful! It's only been a long time since we've been here that these guys have gotten to our death holes, and there's nothing we can do. It would be nice if the army of the integrated division where the British had been stationed had not been evacuated. ”

What's the use of talking about that now?

Cato could only say helplessly: "It seems that the only thing left is to block the port and expand the scope and frequency of patrols." ”

Xu Zhonglin also smiled bitterly: "There are still not enough people." I counted that there are more than 70 large military and civilian ports in the Orkney Islands, not counting the small fishing villages dotted along the coastline, and almost every place near the water here can meet the conditions for submarines to go to sea. Not to mention that we also have to patrol the North Atlantic and cut off the German shipping lines. In the past, I always thought that submarines were slow and weak in self-defense, so they were of little use. I didn't expect these little guys to be so powerful in the hands of the Germans. ”

Lily agreed: "yes, Guard. In the future, our town guard will also have this kind of professional submarine admiral. ”

Xu Zhonglin couldn't agree with this.

Lisa was a little unwilling: "Is there really no way?" ”

"Of course, there is, to concentrate all the manpower of Britain, France and Italy, to abandon most of the islands, and to reduce the area of defense. It is still possible to concentrate on the best shipping lanes. The British can also be asked to help intercept the transport lines, and they will provide us with basic reconnaissance and intelligence resources to reduce the scope of our search. In this way, we have a clear purpose for each sortie, and it is not easy to be ambushed by the Germans. In this way, our aircraft carriers can even get out of the reconnaissance mission and harass the Norwegian coast. ”

"Ah, to live with those disgusting Britons!" Miss Lisa Gratini exclaimed.

This is discrimination, what happened to you in the British?