802 starts with a legend

Caribbean, Lesser Antilles. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

In the secluded bay of the French Martini Island, a sailing ship with an ordinary appearance drifts silently on the sea, and the sailors in the dirty military uniforms that have turned gray talk quietly while cleaning the waterlogged cabin with leather buckets, and every time they see the busy figure coming and going from time to time, they feel indescribable excitement and surprise.

"Schredder, are you telling the truth? Did our Major really say that? ”

"Of course, this is what First Officer Jahn said to me personally."

"Could it be that First Officer Ion is lying?"

"Hi Paul, when have you ever seen that stubborn guy lie? He told me that the first thing our colonel said when he saw His Majesty was, "Your Majesty, give me a schooner to go to sea and fight, and let me beat the British to the bumble." ””

"Oh my God, didn't you think the Major was ...... here?" The sailor pointed to his head, and his fingers turned a few times: "Is there a problem?" ”

"Fool, if Your Majesty thinks there is something wrong with the Major, will we still be here?"

“……”

The sound of the soldiers' conversation drifted to the front of the deck with the sea breeze, and the first mate Jahn, who was reporting the situation, glanced at the soldiers and smiled at the captain of the ship, Luknar: "Major, you have become a legend in their mouths." ”

"Really? I love legends. Lucknar maintained his Prussian aristocratic demeanor, and seemed to be unaware of the words of madness and mental illness that had filled his ears since he went to sea, but he had answers to all questions about Ion, who was not only his good friend, but also the first comrade-in-arms who volunteered to accompany him out to go crazy.

"Of course, although they say that you are crazy, they already admire you very much in their hearts."

"Jahn." Lucknar's eyes rolled: "Let me tell you another secret, I once met General Scheer before meeting His Majesty, do you know what he said about me?" ”

"How?" Jahn was also intrigued by Lucknal's legend and asked, "Does he think it's great?" ”

"No, he told me I should go to the doctor ......."

"Haha......." Jahn laughed so hard that tears came out of his eyes.

Indeed, anyone who hears a naval lieutenant ask to refit a sailing ship to carry out a sabotage war against a traditional naval power with dozens of battleships and hundreds of other warships, I am afraid that he will think that he is crazy, not to mention that as long as people in their right senses know, it is not easy for Germany to find a sailing ship now!

Had it not been for the capture of the English galleon at his feet, it is estimated that even with the support of His Majesty Wilhelm II, Lucknar would not have been able to find a suitable ship. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

According to Major Joseph, who helped modify the Sea Hawk in the first place. "Sailboats? Where the fuck did you get your museum antiques? Bolivia or Congo! (Both are landlocked countries)

Lucknar ignored the leaning back of Jahn, the long boring voyage and the fear of being scared, the soldiers needed this kind of "joke", so he deliberately told everyone some of his things step by step, just to help the sailors adjust their psychology.

As Jahn left, the captain's second secret began to spread among the sailors, and there was once again a wave of surprise and laughter from inside the Sea Hawk. At this time, Lucknar had already locked himself in the captain's room, pulled out the cigar he had snatched during the previous raid, hung it on the corner of his mouth, and sat quietly in front of the chart.

He didn't know how long he had been until Jahn walked in with milk and bread, and he realized it was noon before he knew it.

Raiders are never short of supplies, and if they do, it means you're incompetent, so don't look at the Sea Hawk's tattered appearance and still have no people at the docks, but the internal reserves are extremely rich.

Seeing that Lucknar was staring at the chart during the meal, Jahn also took out a cigar and sat next to him, and asked curiously, "Major, where are we going next?" ”

Lucknar just drank a sip of milk, and after hearing the interrogation, he was slightly stunned, and said in his heart, he really didn't think about the next step!

It may sound like a joke, but the truth is that as a camouflaged sabotage ship, there is no way to have any goals, and it is far safer to stay at sea and swim back and forth than to find a harbor. In the eyes of outsiders, he is crazy, but he is not stupid! The purpose of staying here is to deal with Allied ships returning to Europe from South America or African coasts, not to go head-to-head with the Allied navies.

Besides, even if you want to fight hard, this broken ship, which has only two improvised rapid-fire guns, can't deal with destroyers or even torpedo boats.

If he really had any goal, then before going to sea, he did think about bypassing South America to the Pacific Ocean, and then meeting Admiral Spee and the legendary invincible Chinese Navy, but now this goal has been completely lost, because Admiral Spee and the Far East Fleet have entered the Mediterranean, and it is said that they are squatting outside the port of Marseille to bully the French, and the Chinese fleet has drilled out of the Panama Canal, just a few hundred nautical miles away in the fortress of San Lorenzo.

Luknal sniffed, quickly settled the bread and milk, and then suddenly pointed to Panama and asked, "Jahn, why don't you say those Chinese have done it yet?" ”

The sudden jump of the question made Ion's mind not turn around, and after taking two puffs of cigarette, he asked, "Major, is there anything strange about this?" Maybe they're not ready, after all, it's too far from the Far East, and it will take more than twenty days for cargo ships to go back and forth, and it will take a lot of things to maintain such a large fleet for high-intensity operations, so I think ....... ”

"Jahn, did you really graduate from the Hamburg Naval Academy?"

Before Jahn could finish speaking, Lucknar glared at him like an idiot. This sentence directly made Yahn burst into flames, and said with a straight face: "Major, you are slandering, I need you to restore my reputation." ”

"Well, I apologize." Lucknar was insincere, because from Jahn's eyes, he knew that there must be a ghost in the fact that this guy kept saying that he was a top student of the Naval Academy, pointing to the chart and interrupting with a smile: "Jahn, what you said is right, I think many people must also think that the Chinese fleet is held up by logistics at this moment and cannot fight as quickly as before, but have you thought about it, from San Francisco and San Diego to Panama, in fact, it is not far!" ”

San Francisco? San diego?

Yahn was confused and wondered, "Major, are you not wrong?" There is the United States, can the Chinese get supplies in the United States? ”

Luknall's expression became serious and nodded: "Jahn, do you know how many supplies the United States stockpiled in these two places before the Chinese landed on the west coast?"

Before landing, the United States had more than 3 million troops and a fleet on the east coast, especially in California, and according to normal calculations, they had to reserve materials to ensure that these troops fought for three months, but they did not expect the speed of the Chinese, so that within half a month, they advanced to Arizona and the State of Mexico, so that the materials stored in the first and second lines all fell into the hands of the Chinese.

Although California and Arizona are relatively poor, but Mexico and Texas are rich in products, the Chinese in the occupied areas of the implementation of a semi-isolation policy, prohibiting the Yankees from leaving their places of residence 20 kilometers, forcing them to continue to grow and raise livestock to meet the army, and in order to shorten the distance, they also directly purchase from Mexico, Colombia and other countries, so from these calculations, the materials they need to obtain from the homeland are not very large, just ammunition, oil and some special materials.

They now have the world's largest shipping fleet, and the routes are basically free of any attacks, even if they can reach 50 10,000-ton ships a week, a month is enough to store more than 800,000 tons of supplies, but if they also transport the captured American reserves to Panama, then this number may be several times more than that! ”

As Lucknar said this, Jahn's face changed slightly.

That's right, while everyone has been calculating the long route from China to Panama, they have been ignoring the fact that they can get food and some necessities directly from the U.S. occupation zone, which not only greatly increases speed, but also alleviates the problem of tight capacity.

Jahn knew that in the eyes of outsiders, Lucknar was a madman and adventurer full of chivalry, but in fact he was very shrewd, and he dared to propose a sailboat attack was actually well thought out, firstly, the sailboat was easy to camouflage, and secondly, no country would notice a sailing ship, even if it was encountered by a battleship in person, as long as it was far away from it and did not make any dangerous moves, it was estimated that people would not be of much interest.

So, after receiving a call from Luknar and listening to his details, he would agree to go to sea together to go crazy.

Behind the crazy adventure, there is a delicacy and meticulousness that ordinary people can hardly achieve, so when he heard Lucknar think that the Chinese received supplies from the United States, he actually believed it, but he still did not expect it to be so huge.

"That Li Mo is shameless, he has removed all the factories and mines in the occupied area, but have you found out? But there was no news of the grain being taken away! Luknall's eyes became more and more penetrating and said: "And now everyone's attention is focused on the fleet that returns to the Far East every day from the United States full of wealth, but there is never news of the fleet leaving for Panama from the United States, and even the food fleet has not appeared, do you think this is normal?"

In other words, after looting enough food for the army, will you support Panama, which is very close? ”

Jahn nodded affirmatively, if he was the commander, he would definitely send some to Panama, after all, Panama is not a grain-producing area, not to mention how many mouths such a huge fleet has, just the nearly 100,000 troops stationed in Panama will consume a lot of food.

"But ......, there's no information on that!" Lucknar took a breath, stood up and said affirmatively: "So I think logistics may be a problem, but it is not the root!" ”

"Then why don't they do it yet, one more day of delay, and the power of Britain and the United States will grow by one day."

"I don't know, but I'm sure they're waiting for something." Luknar muttered to himself, and when his eyelids lifted up the map, he suddenly thought of a possibility, and his heart jumped involuntarily.

"Let's go, to San Lorenzo, I want to see ...... for myself."

: Lucknar and the Sea Hawk, this person must understand if you like the era of giant ships and cannons. Hehe, but Hippo doesn't want to copy a lot of words in the book to cheat money, and friends who like it can search for his information by themselves, only two words!

Legend!

RO@。