It was freezing cold, and the lights could not be turned on to prevent the Germans from scouting, so the night was particularly boring. Filling the fireplace with a bundle of firewood and sleeping with your sister in your arms is the best enjoyment.

Someone had been working on Minerva and Eurydice for half the night, and had just fallen asleep when he was woken up again.

"Admiral, enemy attack!"

Without being reminded by the goddess of wisdom, he also heard a continuous explosion: "What's the situation?" ”

"I don't know! Please take shelter in a bomb shelter for the time being. ”

At this time, the situation is unclear, and it is easy to cause a tragedy like he did when he besieged Prince Eugen, and the wisest choice is to go into an air-raid shelter and resist both shelling and bombing.

Out of the door, the alarm has been sounded everywhere in the port, due to the lack of manpower, many ship wives personally operate searchlights to scan the situation at sea back and forth. Except for a few friendly ships that were on fire, it was empty, as if the enemy had not come.

Xu Zhonglin took a look at it and judged the approximate situation: "I don't go to the air-raid shelter, it should be a German U-boat." Go ask why you got here. ”

Sissi quickly investigated the situation clearly: "Admiral, someone turned on the lights in violation of regulations and was gambling, the lights attracted the attention of the submarine, six ship girls were hit by torpedoes at the same time, two have been killed, and the others are about to be rescued." Judging by the power of the torpedo and the eyewitnesses, it should be a German U-boat. Six battleships were hit at the same time, and the number of submarines was at least six or more. ”

"! Aren't all waterways patrolled? What about the lightning nets in the port? Since the hull is in the water, why not pull the mine net? Xu Zhonglin was puzzled, but unfortunately there was chaos in the port, and no one answered him for the time being.

If the ship's hull is soaked in water for too long, it will affect the performance of the ship, and after the subspace is recovered, it will also consume a small amount of resources to repair, which is equivalent to the regular maintenance of the original world. Usually the correct thing for a fleet is to retract most of the ships and leave a small part in the harbor in order to be able to make a quick sortie. It's just that when the port is docked, if the berth allows, it will generally be parked at the edge of the pier. However, several injured shipwrecks anchored in the bay and parked in the bay, which was obviously an illegal operation.

The lightning protection net is that after the battleship docks at the port, in order to prevent the destruction of submarines and torpedo machines, a large metal net sunk to the bottom is pulled up around the battleship, and when the torpedo strikes, it will first hit the net and will not cause damage to the battleship.

Several admirals who were attacked hurriedly ordered the shipwrewn on the shore to summon the ship's hull to go to sea to rescue the four shipwrecks that were about to sink. Just when the hull of this batch of rescued ship mothers was summoned, a terrible voice came quickly:

"Torpedo!"

Xu Zhonglin stood on the air defense control tower and watched as more than a dozen torpedoes paddled into several rescue warships under the illumination of searchlights. The raging flames from the violent explosion were like the anger in his heart at this moment, burning inexhaustibly.

I knew that Germany would retaliate, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly.

Judging from Xu Zhonglin's direction, the admirals who were attacked were calling their friends, trying to get their shipwives into the water from a distance to rescue their shipwives.

There are more than a dozen towns in the Orkney Islands, where Scarpa Bay is located, and the location of Scarpa Harbor, where Xu Zhonglin is located, is originally very safe, within Scarpa Bay. As long as the three exit channels are blocked, the interior is a large natural bay. Scarpa Harbor is located in the deepest part of a 'U'-shaped cove, and there is Kirkwall Harbor, the largest port in the Orkney Islands, across the land to the east, so there is little need to worry about air raids. Xu Zhonglin: When they came, it took a wave of lips and tongues to obtain this feng shui treasure.

The outlet of the 'U' bay faces west, the water is long, the water is narrow, and the exit is very narrow, and it is now blocked by submarines, and the position is awkward.

The two admirals, who had suffered heavy losses, saw that their rescue ship was wounded again, and they did not give up, and contacted several admirals on the dock who were close friends, hoping that they would send the ship to launch the ship from the north and south sides of the bay to destroy the German submarine.

Xu Zhonglin looked at them pointing and pointing, and instinctively felt that it was inappropriate, it was dark now, the underwater situation was unknown, and if he went down rashly, it would easily become a tactic of adding fuel and being eaten by the other party in waves. This is the helplessness of meeting pig teammates, these two goods are patrolling and guarding tonight, it must be a dereliction of duty to be put in the face by the enemy, and now they have to drag others down, it is simply the old Tang next to Monkey King. But these Italian admirals were not familiar with his relationship, and now they were sure to be hated in the past.

It's like a lifeguard at a beach who takes his wife to work, but the wife falls into the sea with a shark next to her. The lifeguard pulled his good friend down to rescue him, and Xu Zhonglin was a colleague passing by playing soy sauce: Don't go down, it's dangerous! Your wife is hopeless.

Even if you're right, and the man listens to you. But at the funeral, nine times out of ten, the goods will say: It's you, you didn't let me go down to save people!

He would not do such a two-sided flattering thing, so he could only choose to remain silent.

There were three admirals who were more righteous, and rushed to the long bridge pier on the north and south sides with the ship's wife, and bravely went down to the rescue. All Xu Zhonglin could do was to instruct Rena and them to keep the searchlights in the harbor away from the two admirals' shipwives. Attempts were made to use reflection to block the detection of underwater submarines.

Unfortunately, it didn't work.

A destroyer who went to the rescue sounded the alarm before she died: "Mines, all directions!" Others must not come down. Admiral, I love you! ”

Before he could finish speaking, a violent explosion resounded throughout the bay, and the sea surface was like a volcanic eruption, and a huge column of water quickly surged. The destroyer was like a goddess scattering flowers, and the hull of the ship was torn apart, disintegrated, and thrown everywhere as the waves rose......

The tragic scene shocked everyone in the port, this shipwreck was undoubtedly a kind-hearted person, and she also passed on important information before she died. But such a good girl was sacrificed in front of everyone.

Qian Qian stood beside Xu Zhonglin and said, "Admiral, is there no way?" ”

Xu Zhonglin didn't know which ship's lady died, and he also wanted to help these lovely girls, but unfortunately reason told him that he couldn't!

"No, unless we wait until dawn to summon anti-submarine aircraft from other nearby ports. You immediately call the nearest anti-submarine ship to come and support and block the way of these guys. Contact each port to see which one has not been attacked, and we will rush over by land and summon the hull to outflank it there. ”

The German submarines remained under water, and the anti-submarine sonar search was already difficult. The harbor is too small, and a large number of mines have been laid, and any warship launched will die, and even if the specific location of the submarine is discovered, there is no way to attack, it is better to wait until dawn.

At this time, the worst thing is the fourteen ship girls who are struggling in the water, and this feeling of watching their ship sink and wait for death must be terrifying. Each ship's performance is different, and some calmly comfort their admirals and sisters, and explain to future generations. Some scolded why others didn't come to save her. Some impassionedly asked the people on the shore to avenge them later......

Whatever the kind, even those who scolded, everyone alive was sympathetic.

In a panic, Xu Zhonglin was out of sight and out of mind, and left the command post directly.

Behind her, Sissi whispered to Teresa: "If we encounter such an encounter one day, we must scold." The Admiral may feel better when he dies like this. ”

All the shipwives nodded silently.