"Torpedo bay No. 1! ready!" shouted the sailors, waiting intently for the commander's order. When they heard their captain shout the word launch, they pressed down the water-filled launch valve in their palms.

Because of the huge force that squeezed the torpedo out of the launch bay, the entire submarine trembled slightly, which was the most familiar hint to the soldiers on the submarine, indicating that the enemy ships were about to be unlucky again. They were undoubtedly in a happy mood, because this was the last torpedo in their submarine.

The torpedo was propelling rapidly in the sea, the splash from the propeller looked very good on the surface of the sea, and on this straight line that represented death and killing, the other end was a moving freighter, which looked like it was at least 7,000 tons, and it was definitely a big fish.

"Boom!" The torpedo hit the unsuspecting target accurately and cruelly, and the huge explosion caused a column of water tens of meters high on the sea surface, and the distorting force of the sea water broke the entire transport ship, and the poor transport ship did not even have time to put down the lifeboat and swimming ring, and quickly sank to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

"Well done, gentlemen, we can now return home. Prion left the periscope with his eyes and handed the grip in his hand to his adjutant: "Pay attention to the surface of the sea and be careful of the other party's retaliation." ”

"Captain, who are we fighting against? Why are we fighting the Japanese one moment and the Americans the next?" the adjutant took the handle of the periscope and asked Prion beside him with a frown. They sank the Imperial Japanese Navy's battleship Yamashiro off the waters northwest of Australia, but they were then ordered to halt their attacks on the Japanese Navy and instead attack American shipping routes. Dönitz also ordered them not to wear any insignia of nationality and to leave the belligerent waters immediately after the attack.

The order also clearly stated the intensity of the attack on the U.S. Navy transport fleet and prohibited overly aggressive sneak attacks. He even demanded that Prion not attack American warships, but only merchant ships -- so Prien, who had received the order, led his troops to start attacking the American transport fleet.

Poor Prien, unable to get the reward for sinking the battleship Yamashiro of the Japanese Navy, or even the disclosure of this record, Dönitz could only promise him that after the end of this war, if the imperial diplomatic strategy was not violated, then the fact that Prien had sunk the battleship Yamashiro could be made public with the consent of the Führer.

However, the reward of the Führer's special instructions was delivered to Prien as soon as possible, and the telegram was only a few short sentences, but it excited everyone on the entire submarine for more than ten days, and it only read: "I sincerely thank you for your outstanding contributions to the Empire, and I only express my highest gratitude to you on behalf of myself." When you return home, you will enjoy a vacation of up to one month, and you will receive a personal bonus from me!—Reich Führer Accardo Rudolph. ”

But Prion had nothing to complain about, he was born in Germany, trained at the German Submarine School, received the most advanced submarine tactics in the world, and used his abilities in the ranks of the German Navy without any care, which in itself was much more fortunate than many people.

For example, poor Japanese Navy submarine forces are now lining up to deliver rice and white flour to Kauai, and if Prien were to be asked to do such an errand now, he would definitely think it was a personal discrimination and insult to him. If the German Navy's submarine formations were compared to a group of vicious sharks cruising in the depths of the ocean, then the Japanese Navy's submarine forces were just a pond of cute koi.

"We're going back like this?" For most German Navy submariners, it was definitely a very frustrating thing to run out of ammunition and be forced to return, after all, it was a golden opportunity to be able to add to their own achievements in the Pacific Ocean, where the hunting environment was so good that there was nothing to say. However, Prien received information that a supply ship was already sailing in the South Atlantic, and that he had to join the ship and rush back to the Gibraltar naval base, which Spain had leased to Germany.

If you have not forgotten the Lend-Lease Treaty promised by the Franco Group to the naval base in Accardo during the Spanish Civil War, then it is not difficult to understand why after the German Navy defeated the British Navy, Spain changed its style of riding on the wall and fulfilled this treaty, and when the German Army landed on British soil and forced the British royal family to flee abroad, the Spanish Franco group stood firmly on the side of Germany.

Therefore, with the help of a German army regiment, after capturing the British naval base in Gibraltar, the Franco group did not hesitate to give this port to Germany, and it became the closest German naval base to Australia. What is even more gratifying is that the British lost so quickly that they did not even have time to destroy the facilities here before they were surrendered to the German navy.

As a result, the German wolves and the pocket detachments in the South Atlantic had their own new ports, and they did not have to return to France to resupply, freeing up more time for a denser strike on Allied supply lines.

Accardo's planned demonstration voyage against Japan turned into an ultra-long-range successful assassination, killing the Japanese Navy's battleship Yamashiro in one fell swoop, which tilted the balance of war in favor of the United States at a rapid pace, which was not the same as the tug-of-war between Japan and the United States that Accardo had expected, and was also inconsistent with Germany's fundamental interests in the Pacific.

So Dönitz took matters into his own hands, using the "ingenuity" of the Germans to solve the problem in the simplest way - since the two sides of the scale could not be balanced, then it was enough to add or subtract weights and let it continue to be balanced. And since it can't add any bargaining chips to the Japanese, then reducing the strength of the Americans can also achieve the goal, right?

Prien faithfully carried out this plan to compensate for the losses he had inflicted on the Reich by sinking the Japanese warships, and six German submarines were ordered to head north to attack American ships in the waters east of Hawaii. Apparently they were very lucky, the Americans, like the Japanese, did not have a good way to carry out anti-submarine missions in millions of square kilometers of sea, and the Germans once again got the results they wanted.

"The next batch of torpedoes will not arrive in Australia until one month later, and there is nothing too good for us to wait here, and according to the order of the Führer, in fact, we were ordered to carry out an ocean-going voyage, and obtaining some of the charts of Australia is considered to have been completed very successfully. Prion spread his hands helplessly, saying that he also felt pity: "I also want to hunt in this kind of place, but the logistics are really troublesome, isn't it?"

Everyone grinned, after all, they had sunk about 100,000 tons of warships in less than a month, including one of the main battleships of the Japanese Navy, which was already unique in the German Navy, and there was no need for them to be discouraged, because they were the well-deserved king of submarines.

"There is no day or night for us, searching to sink the enemy in the open sea! We have waves on our heads, and we let the dampness seep into our bones, and we hold binoculars to guard the enemy ships!" Suddenly, the valve men in a corner hummed their own war song, a song specially written for the German Navy's submarine forces, and a song that all submariners must hum when they return victorious.

"The diesel engines are spinning at full speed, but the waves of the sea are even rougher, our submarines are so small, and the sea is so vast! The success or failure of the battle depends on every member in a leather jacket, from the captain to the ordinary soldier!" the helmsman and sonar soldier on the side also laughed, nodding their heads and singing their hearts to the melody.

"Motherland, it is so far away! Motherland, I greet you! For you I will travel in all directions, just to defend you!" This paragraph is Prien's favorite lyrics, so he also hummed along, after all, this is a moment of victory, all the ammunition on the submarine, with a dazzling victory, is something that everyone is looking forward to.

"Death was hidden in the torpedo tubes, rushing towards the enemy, and the U-boat continued to advance. It has been two weeks since I left the voyage, and the destination is still not in sight! The boring days passed day by day, and the prey still did not appear. The first mate sang along, but he was interrupted by laughter, for they had been out for more than two weeks, and their destination had already arrived.

"A huge convoy rode the waves and pressed head-on. The success or failure of the battle depends on every member in the leather jacket, from the captain to the ordinary soldier!" After the last stanza was sung, the American transport ship in the distance was no longer visible, it seemed that there had never been a battle here, and the Pacific Ocean was still very quiet, as if all the fighting had nothing to do with it.

This untold battle was the final battle of two elite German submarines in the Pacific, with the two 100,000-ton submarines leaving the waters they fought one after the other, while the remaining six submarines would shrink their size little by little until they were completely scrapped in Australia.

Of course, there is still blood and rain in the Pacific, the Japanese Navy is recuperating, and the US Navy is also waiting for an opportunity. They are all preparing for a larger war, trying to force each other to submit in the fastest possible time.