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During the filming of "Cannon Sound in the Atlantic", the most troublesome problem for Li Yaoyang was the German U-boat.

He can't go and negotiate with the Germans and lend me your U-boat for filming, right?

It's not okay to miss this, because the main theme of this drama is the confrontation between submarines and warships, and it can't all be left to the audience's imagination that there is a behemoth under the water to deter, right?

When it comes to U-boats, that's definitely an indispensable part of a stop.

It can be found in all the waters of the Atlantic Ocean and is a nightmare for every non-German ship!

On March 2, 1916, a British merchant ship loaded with coal was sailing to its destination in the vast sea.

By this time, the European continent was already in the midst of war, and the English Channel was not safe, and the merchant ship could be attacked by German warships at any time.

He had to get the supplies safe before he was found.

However, a German submarine had long been waiting on the fairway.

German submarines, Maxim machine guns, hounds, and the aircraft carrier Fury were all new weapons that emerged during the First World War and became famous in the First World War.

After the outbreak of World War I, in order to blockade Britain, the German army sent a large number of submarines to attack various merchant ships, hoping to cut off British supplies.

On March 2, 1916, the British merchant ship, which was moving at full speed in the Ingillette Channel, had already been spotted by a German submarine.

However, the people on the merchant ship did not seem to feel that they were already in danger.

On the deck of the merchant ship, merchants were busy coming in and out, and from time to time there were a few young people taking pictures with cameras.

For the German soldiers, this British merchant ship was simply vulnerable, like a piece of fat that had reached the mouth.

In fact, the German Navy had deciphered a telegram from Britain long before that.

The telegram showed that a merchant ship named the Farnborough was to transport coal and other supplies through the English Channel on March 2, 1916.

The German High Command immediately drew the route of the merchant ship on a map and issued an order to capture or sink the British merchant ship Farnborough.

Seeing that the British merchant ships were getting closer, it was customary for German submarines to fire torpedoes to sink them.

But the Germans, determined to win, suddenly decided not to use torpedoes, but to capture the ship alive.

At that time, submarines were equipped with artillery, which had a lot to do with the way of fighting at that time.

At that time, the tonnage of German submarines was relatively small, and the number of torpedoes they carried was relatively limited.

So in order to save torpedoes, submarines at that time would instead surface to attack merchant ships with naval guns.

Therefore, the German submarine slowly came out of the water and fired a cannonball in the direction of the merchant ship with its artillery, and the people on the merchant ship were in chaos.

German submarines took advantage of the situation and approached merchant ships. However, the Germans did not have any idea of this ordinary-looking merchant ship.

In fact, it was an anti-submarine ship carefully developed by the British specifically to deal with German submarines, and he also had a special name called Q ship.

When the German submarine soldiers thought they were about to win a great victory, the Farnborough rolled out several cannons as if by juggling, and a Royal Navy flag was raised, transforming the merchant ship into a warship.

The huge artillery was impartially aimed at the German submarine, and the British light and heavy weapons opened fire together, and even the German submarine that was shot one after another did not have time to escape, and was scarred by the explosion, and sank into the sea.

In fact, the intercepted telegram was a decoy from the British.

Since then, Germany has long fallen into the trap of the British, and the British have taken the lead in intelligence.

The British deliberately let Germany know that such a merchant ship was going to pass through the English Channel, and the Germans intercepted the fake telegram and sent a submarine to intercept the ship.

The Germans waited for the rabbit, originally thinking that the victory was in hand, but they did not expect that the whole army would be wiped out and buried in the English Channel.

In the face of the sudden Q-ship tactics of the British, the German submarines, who were caught off guard, obviously suffered a big loss.

However, it is not difficult to see another side behind this, that is, the emergence of Q-ship tactics precisely reflects the huge deterrent power of German submarines during World War I.

However, before the start of World War I, the navies of various countries did not realize how capable submarines were, and they only used submarines as reconnaissance ships, using periscopes underwater to spy on enemy movements, or using submarines as defensive weapons to block incoming surface ships.

Even Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was obsessed with the navy at the time, was convinced of this, and he only wanted to strengthen the German army's powerful surface forces, but did not see the hidden strength of submarines.

Wilhelm II, the last emperor of the Second German Empire, was a hot-tempered, competitive man who always liked to talk about the world's countries and walked with his head held high and bluffed.

Wilhelm II was an avid naval enthusiast from an early age, collecting naval uniforms and sometimes involving naval warships.

Because William II is the grandson of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and was raised by the Queen herself when he was a child, William II was named Marshal of the Royal Navy after he became an adult.

Wilhelm II firmly believed that the navy represented the advanced level and economic power of a country, and therefore demanded that Germany develop the navy vigorously.

He later said, "The future of Germany is at sea, we will hold the trident of the sea god, and I will fight for the territory in the sun."

However, Wilhelm II's idea clashed sharply with Chancellor Bismarck, who insisted that Germany should develop an army to counterbalance France.

As soon as the navy was developed, it could affect relations between Britain and Germany.

But the opinionated Wilhelm II did not listen to Bismarck's advice at all.

He ordered the iron-blooded chancellor to resign and intensify efforts to develop naval warships, claiming to create a German high seas fleet capable of dominating the seas.

At that time, the British warfare method was often to drive the Royal Navy to the enemy's harbor, destroy the enemy's navy and occupy the harbor with huge ships and cannons.

Since the coastline of Germany was very short, it was easily controlled by the British.

Therefore, after the outbreak of World War I, Wilhelm II believed that the German High Seas Fleet should wait for the Royal Navy to attack in German ports, use submarines to consume part of the main force of the British Royal Navy in the coastal waters, and then send the High Seas Fleet to fight to the death.

However, Wilhelm II could not have imagined that the sophisticated British, expecting that the German High Seas Fleet would not dare to go to sea, would not sail warships to German ports, but blockaded the entire North Sea.

In this way, Germany's sea traffic was completely blocked by the British, much to the distress of Wilhelm II.

But soon a fortuitous incident occurred, and an older British cruiser was sunk by a German submarine.

After the warship was sunk by a submarine, it opened up a new path for the navies of all countries around the world.

This made Wilhelm II see the potential power of submarines, and it was undoubtedly the best choice to use submarines to fight at the moment when they were blockaded by the British.

In the face of huge surface ships, German submarines looked like a small thing, but in fact they were very powerful and were real underwater ghosts.

Having tasted the sweetness, Wilhelm II quickly changed his mind.

In February 1915, Germany began a large-scale submarine sneak attack. These underwater ghosts ruthlessly devoured all kinds of ships on the sea, and in 1915 alone, they sank 431 ships of all kinds in the Allied countries.

In the face of the invincible German submarine force, the British were very troubled.

Due to the limitations of the technical forces at that time, it was difficult for the surface ship units of the Royal Navy to detect submarines operating underwater, and the surface ships were in the open and the German submarines were in the dark.

On September 21, 1914, a German submarine U9 was on a hunt in the North Sea.

Soon after the U9 went out to sea, it encountered bad weather, and the sea surface was too windy and rough.

In order to escape this bad weather, the U9 submarine sank to the bottom of the sea to hide from the wind and waves.

At dawn on September 22, 1914, the weather improved.

The British cruisers the Booukill, Hogg and Crécy sailed west in a column.

Colonel Drummond, the captain of the lead ship, the Aboukir, picked up the monoculars and looked ahead, in a very happy mood.

After all, more than a month after the outbreak of one station, the Anglo-French army had already achieved a great victory in the Battle of the Marne.

The German army's plan for a quick victory was completely bankrupt, and the situation at sea was even more gratifying.

For hundreds of years, the British Empire's maritime supremacy has never wavered, and even Napoleon, who once dominated the entire European continent, was crippled in the English Channel.

Since the beginning of the war, the German Navy's vaunted High Seas Fleet has not been seen at all, and the North Sea remains the Royal Navy's free area of operation.

At this time, Captain Drummond was carrying out the order of Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill to blockade the North Sea.

Whenever they encountered a German warship, they were all destroyed.

These three British cruisers were relatively old and had a low speed, coupled with the arrogance of the British Royal Navy and the fact that they had not suffered the losses of German submarines at that time, so they were a little careless.

Soon the British fleet was discovered by German submarines, and the German submarine captain prepared the U9 submarine for battle.

But there were only 6 torpedoes on the submarine at this time, facing 3 cruisers, so he decided to hit one of them first.

Soon the Apkir was torpedoed, a large amount of sea water poured into the cabin, and the stern of the ship was slowly sinking, but the sea was still calm as usual, and the German battleship could not even see a shadow.

The other two warships thought that the Apkir had hit a mine, so they gathered together to lower their lifeboats to rescue the sailors who had fallen into the water.

A German submarine that had already sunk a ship could have returned, but the speed of German submarines was much lower than that of surface ships.

And now, in the face of this mouthy prey, how can the Germans not be excited?

So the submarine captain decided to attack the other two cruisers.

At this time, the Hogg was concentrating all its efforts to rescue the people who had fallen into the water, and it was unsuspecting.

The German submarine fired two more torpedoes at the hull, only to hear two violent explosions, and the Hogg sank in a daze.

When both warships were in danger of destruction, the third warship seemed to understand but it was too late, and the German submarine fired the last two torpedoes at him, and the torpedoes rushed forward at a speed of 45 knots, and the Cressy suddenly became black smoke and sank.

After this submarine attack, the British Admiralty also issued a special order, that is, whether the British warship was hit by a mine or suffered a submarine attack.

If it is damaged, other ships cannot come to the rescue, but must immediately move away from the ship and use small ships or lifeboats to save them.

In this way, 3 heavy cruisers were sunk in one hour, and the great power of German submarines shocked the world's navies.

The German submarine, which had always been underestimated, showed the world its formidable prowess.

German submarines were repeatedly successful, much to the excitement of Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was bent on dominating the seas.

Although Britain had blocked the North Sea, rendering the German High Seas Fleet useless, German submarines could easily cross the blockade line from the sea, dealing a fatal blow to Allied merchant ships and surface ships fighting alone in the English Channel and the Atlantic.

The British were very troubled by German submarines, and they believed that the reason for the success of German submarines was that they were highly concealed.

The British themselves had submarines, but they were not willing to use them against Germany, on the one hand, due to the fact that Germany had the highest quality steel in the world, so the performance of German submarines was quite good;

On the other hand, the British always did not attach importance to submarines, believing that submarines were just a trick on the ocean.

In fact, the level of submarine development of the British was not lower than that of the Germans, but the superiority of its surface ships was unparalleled in the world at that time.

So at this time, let the British take the initiative to give up their advantages and develop a new unknown combat capability, at least he is not so motivated.

Germany, on the other hand, could effectively strike Britain through submarine warfare, which provided him with a solution that would provide a clear solution.

In the face of the powerful German submarines, the British were powerless.

Soon, a proposal entitled "Rebuilding the Q Boat to Deal with Enemy Submarines" was sent to the desk of Admiral Winston Churchill.

After reading this, Churchill immediately ordered the Q ship to be built according to the design of the drawings and put into battle as soon as possible.

And as a camouflaged submarine hunter, the main function of the Q ship is to lure the German submarine to bring him to the surface.

At that time, the rules of international naval warfare stipulated that manned merchant ships could not be fired, so when dealing with merchant ships, German submarines usually sent people to board the merchant ships for inspection, and then drove all the people on board to sink them.

The Germans basically implemented such rules of international law at the beginning, and the British took advantage of Germany to launch the Q ship refit program.

There are those that use fishing boats, some are converted with merchant ships, and even those that are converted with barges, etc.

In order to enhance the camouflage effect, the British Navy also selected a group of sailors to act as actors, and repeatedly rehearsed the panic and hectic when encountering German submarines.

The sailors, who were a little fairer, put them in ladies' clothes and used all kinds of means to confuse the German submarines.

When everything was ready, the Q ship set off, and so was the story of the sinking of a German submarine by the British Q in March 1916.

After the successful sinking of the German submarine, the British Navy gradually became arrogant, and sometimes they even ignored all the rules of the sea!

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