At the same time that Prien's U-boat was rapidly sinking into the sea, less than ten kilometers away, a huge British battleship was speeding in another direction under the protection of several cruisers and destroyers, its sharp bow lifted high by the waves, and the huge guns pointed majestically to the position in front of it.

The fleet was not in a state of combat readiness, but the destroyers on the periphery were like a great enemy, after all, the waters were often infested with German submarines, and they had to be prepared for a possible torpedo attack. In addition to making the German Navy a powerful presence in the world's attention, another effect of those unnatural achievements was to completely wake up the British Navy.

The battleship had a very strange layout, with three huge turrets concentrated in front of the battleship, and as one of the Nelson-class battleships, the battleship Rodney had just been transferred back to Canadian waters, and was ordered to join the home fleet in preparation for another battle with the German Navy.

The British finally relieved their breath in Iceland, and in fact the British Royal Navy still had a huge numerical advantage in battleships, as well as an absolute superiority in tonnage and numbers of battleships. With these advantages, the British king and his staff felt that it was not impossible to regain sea supremacy, and Britain definitely had the strength to fight.

The North Atlantic seems to be forever grey, and the hues here are mixed with a bit of gloom that makes people feel uncomfortable looking at everything in front of them. The British, who had conquered the region, and the Germans who were now conquering it, saw it as a paradise of excitement, and all those who slept here seemed to have a grudge against their cold souls in every scene here, making everything here even more gloomy.

The roar of the engine, in the cabin of an old-fashioned aircraft with poor sound insulation, is definitely a very effective form of hypnosis, at least when on patrol duty, with rough waves below, the endless sea, and anyone who has been facing this environment after taking off from the airport will be tortured to drowsiness.

Although the plane is turbulent due to the air currents, although the cold outside will still be transmitted into the inside of the aircraft, making the temperature in the cockpit very low, but this does not affect the desire to sleep brought by boredom.

This B-17 long-range patrol and reconnaissance aircraft imported from the United States will definitely be able to sell at a very good price if it is in a country that advocates original imports and a certain time when it advocates original imports. However, the plane is clearly not valuable, it is just a small exchange material in the technical cooperation agreement between Britain and the United States.

And this plane is actually not the kind of beautiful original imported product, its sound insulation layer has been cut to the point of outrageous, the seat materials are very simple, and even its self-defense weapons are only simplified 4 30mm cannons, pilots who have flown this kind of aircraft have only one very ironic phrase for it: "grandma's broken bicycle".

There were British pilots who had climbed aboard such planes and were frightened by the huge seams in the skin that refused to take off, and there were others whose clothes were scratched by the upturned iron sheets in the narrow passages of the cabin -- compared to the Americans' own B-17s, this foreign-aided model simplified more than one process, and many of the edges were not blunted.

However, such aircraft can fly, and there are plenty of them. What's more, the United States only offers this disgusting model, love to do or not. Therefore, the British Coastal Patrol Squadron stationed in Iceland received 40 of these aircraft without temper and used them to carry out combat patrols on the near end of the Icelandic route.

The bombing bay of this aircraft can carry some small bombs, and the 30-mm cannon in the belly can carry out the mission of strafing the sea on its own, as long as the German submarine on the surface is detected, then this aircraft can carry out attacks.

Unfortunately, for some reason, there are fewer and fewer chances to find German submarines floating on the surface, but more merchant ships are sunk. With the roar of His Majesty the King of England, the frequency of coastal patrols has become more intensive, and the number of aircraft has increased.

Compared to the Germans, who invested in vast lands and built their own industrial facilities, it was understandably difficult for the British to build their own base in Iceland, which was poorer and less resource-rich. Most of the most basic, even bricks and planks, had to be transported from distant America - if Germany lacked anything, the British in Iceland had nothing.

From basic building materials, to hundreds of millions of rounds of ammunition, to various aircraft parts made in Canada, to large machinery to level land to build airports and other facilities, the British relied on the help of the Americans to gain a foothold in Iceland.

As a result, the British base in Iceland now had less than a third of what was needed to build the entire counteroffensive plan, and because of the attack of German submarines, it was in an embarrassing dilemma.

On the one hand, if you want to expand the size of Iceland's garrison, build more airports and docks, and increase Iceland's strategic significance, then you will have to invest more materials, and you will have to consume more food, ammunition, and oil, which will inevitably increase the burden on the entire route from the United States to Iceland.

On the other hand, the threat of German submarines became more and more serious and uncontrollable, and the introduction of new U-boats into the war made the British government-in-exile eager to expand Iceland very angry, and the United States also worried that once the Icelandic route was strangled and paralyzed by the German army, the investment in Iceland would eventually collapse quickly because of its size.

Now, in order to avoid this embarrassing situation, the whole of Iceland is now at an eerie standstill, with half-built barracks empty and damaged planes at the airport unattended. Only a few airfields and radar stations in the direction of Europe are still busy, and only a limited squadron of jet fighters still have enough fuel to maintain training and patrols.

Just as Prion missed a British battleship, so did this British patrol plane. The sleepy pilot's observer mechanically swept the surface of the sea with a telescope, finding nothing out of the ordinary. At this time, Prion had already dived to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean at a depth of 45 meters with his submarine.

However, their drowsiness was soon dispelled by the burning wreckage on the surface of the sea, and the captain hovered the plane high in the air, and the observer observed the burning sea with binoculars, and finally confirmed that it was a transport ship that had just been sunk.

So the captain grabbed his walkie-talkie and began to call the officer on duty at the ground command center: "I'm patrol aircraft No. 4, check the platoon list of the transport ship, near coordinates 537,449, we found the wreckage of a ship, ask for confirmation." ”

"This is the ground tower, we are confirming, please carefully check the nearby sea area and be ready to attack the German submarine!" In the headset, the officer on duty at the ground tower immediately gave an order. After a few more minutes, it was clear that the tower had found the information it wanted to know: "Patrol Aircraft No. 4, we have confirmed, a risky oil tanker should be nearby, please confirm if it is still there! Please confirm that it is still on the surface." ”

The captain smiled bitterly, and then immediately replied, "I think it was this ship that was sunk." Control tower. ”

"......" got the bad news, and there was a brief silence on the side of the tower, followed by a routine conversation, in short, another British supply ship was sunk, and there was no worse news than this.

However, the ground tower seemed to remember something, and asked Patrol Plane 4 not to cut off the communication: "Patrol Plane 4, wait a minute, there should be a detachment from the colony, there is no need for patrol aircraft to follow the escort, but there are German submarines near you, you better go there to help." The location is about 17 km away from you. ”

"Okay! Patrol Aircraft 4 understood. The captain flew the plane back to this suspicious sea area, and after still not finding any targets, he turned around and flew in the direction of the mission.

"This is patrol plane No. 4, and no enemy situation has been discovered! After changing the course, we will continue to fly westward, and we are done!" retracted his gaze looking at the sea, and after some communication, the captain put away the walkie-talkie listlessly, and then drove his plane stupidly and left this sea area.

At this moment, in the deep sea below the plane, a German submarine was cruising slowly, and from time to time schools of fish passed by it, and because of the noise, these schools of fish kept a considerable distance, and never approached this large creature that was very dangerous for them.

Standing in the captain's command position, Prion could only see his entire command room with the faint light emitted by sonar and other equipment. However, for a veteran who has been commanding submarine operations for many years, this environment is the most reassuring environment for him, and he held on to the handle to prevent falling, and ordered: "The right rudder is full, sail due east, let's go and meet the new submarines who are coming, and give these British a good insight into what real submarine warfare is!"

The fish next to the submarine suddenly seemed to be frightened, and made a dodging action as fast as lightning, and the propeller at the tail end of the U-47 submarine rotated a little faster, and the forward speed of the entire submarine also accelerated a lot with this obvious change.

In the tail of the U-47 submarine, the rudder swung to the right, and the entire submarine changed direction in the water, and with the fastest speed of an ordinary old submarine, it easily sailed towards the darkness in the distance.