General Duke has been paying close attention to the progress of the hunting operation U-571, the importance of this operation, self-evident, if you can successfully get the latest Enigma cipher machine of the German army, as well as the supporting code book, the Allies will be able to crack the German radio code communication, and know the deployment of the German army well!

A few years ago, the British Royal Navy had seized the German Enigma cipher machine, deciphered a large number of German communication messages, and made great contributions to the difficult defense of London, but just before the Allies launched the D-Day landing operation, the German army actually completely replaced the cipher machine and code book, and the Allies were equivalent to a person who could see through the enemy's deployment and actions, and suddenly became blind and confused.

Therefore, this time, from the encrypted communication messages of the intercepted U-571 submarine, combined with the situation detected by the radar, the Allies judged that the U-571 submarine could only drift at sea and wait for rescue because of the serious damage!

It can be said that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and in just a few hours, the Allied High Command approved the U-571 hunt planned by Naval Intelligence, and assigned General Duke to coordinate the resources required for the operation, cancel the leave of the S-33 submarine officers, and urgently carry out the U-571 hunting operation.

According to the original plan of action, at this time, it was time for the S-33 submarine to arrive in the target area and start the operation.

General Duke had no intention of resting, standing in his office looking at the huge map in a daze.

Tuk tuk!

There was a sharp knock on the office door, and General Duke's heart beat faster, and he turned around suddenly, took a deep breath, and said, "Come in!" ”

It was the adjutant who came in, he held a piece of paper in his hand, hurriedly walked up to General Duke, handed the paper to General Duke, and said: "General, the comprehensive intelligence of the Naval Intelligence Department shows that the German supply boats have accelerated and are rushing to the target area, and are expected to arrive 2 hours earlier than the original estimate. ”

General Duke gasped.

The German supply boats arrived two hours early, and in case the S-33 submarine was in action and floated on the sea, it would almost immediately become a live target for the German supply boats! With just one torpedo, the S-33 submarine can be blown to pieces!

"There is still no news from the S-33 submarine?" General Duke asked.

There was no need for the adjutant to answer, he knew that there was no news, and in the original plan, from the early hours of this morning, the S-33 submarine practiced radio silence, only receiving radio signals, and no longer transmitting radio signals.

The adjutant replied earnestly, "No, sir." Information has been sent to the S-33 submarine, but it is not known for sure whether they have received it! ”

This is exactly what General Duke is most worried about, but now, he has no choice but to hope that the S-33 submarine will save the day.

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Just when General Duke was sleepless all night for the S-33 submarine, the assault operation on the U-571 submarine had already been launched separately.

Major Gounan took Grace and Tank Jonad, Lei Rui took Trigg and Rabbit Kony, and controlled the bow and stern of the ship separately, Captain Hirsch took Masura, Captain Taylor took Signal Soldier Weiz, searching for cipher machines and codebooks respectively, and First Officer Henry took Justin and Keith to monitor these German prisoners in the control room.

When they grabbed a person, they kept asking him what his name was, what he did, and what position he held, but unfortunately these German soldiers were all silent, and they didn't know what to ask, and they looked confused.

Even the first mate Henry was helpless, so he could only gather them together and point his gun at them, so that they would not dare to act rashly.

Lei Rui was in front, the Thomson submachine gun was ready to fire at any time, he knew very little about the German U-boats, and he didn't know whether it was the bow or the stern here, and Major Gunan chose that direction, so he could only choose this direction.

From the control room, there was no one along the way, the captain's lounge passed, it was the officer's rest compartment, Lei Rui frowned slightly, the muzzle of the gun was aimed at one of the compartments with the curtain drawn, he clearly heard an obviously suppressed breathing sound inside, waited for a while, and saw that the other party had no intention of surrendering at all, and fired directly.

Woohoo!

The sound of the gun was mixed with a miserable scream, and it stopped abruptly, Lei Rui walked over, gently opened the curtain with the muzzle of the gun, and there was really a guy lying inside, holding a Walter P38 pistol in both hands, hanging on his abdomen, the safety had been opened, and the index finger of his right hand was still on the trigger, obviously lying here, just waiting for someone to open the curtain, and he could shoot it.

It's a pity that he didn't know until he was dying, it was his suppressed breathing that betrayed him, but if it was someone else, without Lei Rui's perception that was far beyond ordinary people, he wouldn't be able to hear his breathing.

Further along the way, the space in the U-571 submarine is even narrower than that of the S-33, and the smell is even more unbearable, the smell of diesel waste, fishy smell, and musty smell in the turbid air are mixed together, which is simply a kind of torture for a sensitive nose like Lei Rui.

I don't know if it was because of the failure of the submarine's generator, so that the ventilation device stopped working, which is why the smell inside was so unpleasant.

Lei Rui was in front, Trigg and Rabbit Kony were behind, and there was no suspicious place, and in the direction behind him, there were fierce gunfire and shouts, which showed that Major Gunan's team was engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the recalcitrant German soldiers.

After the officer's lounge, it was the galley, the gunfire behind him also stopped, and the silence in the submarine returned to death, Lei Rui just walked over, and behind the operating table in front, a person suddenly stood up, holding a bright kitchen knife in his hand!

Trigg and Rabbit Coney were startled, and they both exclaimed in surprise, but Lei Rui reacted quickly, and when the short-eyed guy just stood up and made a sound, his gun was aimed at him, and he shot him backwards and fell down with a single shot, and died completely.

The two behind him took a long breath in unison, but Lei Rui frowned slightly, a little strange, when he shot just now, a shot obviously did not hit this guy who was not long-eyed, and flew directly to the bulkhead of the submarine, and in the sound of ping, the bullet obviously bounced off, but in the middle, Lei Rui seemed to hear a muffled snort!

But he wasn't quite sure, there was no one else around, this guy who was shot and didn't have long eyes, he had already been shot at that time, and he wouldn't make a muffled snort, besides, this muffled snort sounded very, very low and ethereal, if there was no look, Lei Rui wasn't sure if he heard it wrong.

He walked over, found the dent from the bullet just now, stretched out his finger and rubbed it lightly, there was nothing abnormal, just the cold feeling of steel.

Was it just a hallucination? Lei Rui shook his head secretly, took a deep breath, raised his gun and continued to move forward.