Tommy had just sunk a German submarine on his side, and before the soldiers on the deck could rejoice, they heard another gurgling sound, and a submarine appeared on the right and left behind them, and the muzzles had been adjusted and ready to attack.

Rumbling explosions came from both sides of the cruise ship, and although the shells failed to hit them directly, the water column still shook the boat from side to side, and it almost capsized.

"Everyone, hurry up! Be careful not to be thrown overboard! ”

The soldiers lying on the deck kept their center of gravity as low as they could, grasping at everything that could hold them in place, and letting the jets of water several meters high pour over their heads, unable to do anything at all.

At that moment, four more fishing boats, large and small, appeared on the misty sea, and the gunners on the top of the boats turned their guns.

With a rattling sound, the two submarines fired only one round of shells before they were forced to dive again.

"Tommy, how are you? You okay? ”

There was a shout from another pleasure boat, but it was none other than Tommy's older brother, Arthur Shelby.

"It's okay, leave me alone, kill those two submarines, and don't let them dive out of our reach!"

"Understood~!"

The four small boats that appeared around were ordered by Tommy one after another, and in the face of the two German submarines, they dropped depth charges as soon as possible.

These boats are equipped with sonar systems, but their effective range is only 300 yards, so if the U-boat dives to a position they cannot detect and fires torpedoes, there is no way to evade or counterattack in the first place.

With a muffled thud, depth charges tumbled off the slides and into the sea, and heavy shells gradually descended into the opaque water, exploding around the two submarines.

If they were lucky, the depth charges were able to easily shatter the U-boat's fragile hull, but the four bombs they dropped in this round did not hit the spot, and only one exploded close enough that the Germans hurried into the distance.

"Don't stop, keep dropping bombs! If the Germans are allowed to react, our advantage will be lost! ”

Tommy's words are right, the reason why these private ships were able to get the German submarine shot out of control as soon as they saw it was because they took the other side by surprise, and once the Germans were prepared, it would be a big trouble to launch an attack from a distance beyond their control.

Therefore, they can only exert their maximum combat effectiveness when they first meet, and even if they can't sink each other, they must cripple each other and be afraid.

The other four private ships were well aware of this, and they continued to drop heavy depth charges downward, and I don't know which one hit the submarine below the surface, causing a large, muddy crater to split on the surface of the sea, and a white column of water rose from the center of the shock, followed by a large, dull rumbling explosion.

Just as the column of water was about to fall in the air, another column of water suddenly rushed out of the sea, and this scene finally made the soldiers on the deck who were drenched in soup howl.

"Beautifully fried! Kill those German devils~! ”

That's right, one of the depth charges hit a submarine in its weakest position, triggering a torpedo inside the submarine to form a secondary explosion, which is why two jets of water exploded at the same location.

"Well done! Arthur, don't get into battle, all ships leave this area with maximum horsepower! ”

At Tommy's orders, several fishing boats stopped cheering, fired at full speed, and made a sudden move towards the north, leaving only the wreckage of the submarine rising above the sea emitting gunsmoke.

Tommy's side of the battle took place on other seas as well, and usually German submarines were caught off guard by these private boats armed with machine guns and depth charges when they first met, but the U-boats quickly gained experience and used their "wolf pack" attack mode to the fullest.

The lion and the rabbit did their best, under the concentrated attack of torpedoes one after another, one after another fishing boats were shot and sunk, and the soldiers who were transported on it floated on the surface of the sea with the wreckage of the fishing boats, just wanting to get away from this terrible sea.

Of course, cruisers and destroyers on the British side also arrived quickly and rescued the soldiers who had fallen into the water, and with the help of the regular navy, the U-boats could not take much advantage of them, so they had to dodge them so as not to sink themselves.

The first group of returning fishing boats and cruise ships looked in the shape of arrows in the air, and they had sailed out of the danger zone, dropped the soldiers on deck at the nearest port on the south coast of England, turned the bow of the ship non-stop, and returned to Dunkirk again.

The British government employees and soldiers were stunned by this scene, and they only saw one after another fishing boats, sailboats, and cruise ships docked on the shore, laid down all the soldiers, turned the bow and left again.

There were more and more of them, and some of them who couldn't squeeze into the dock simply started to disembark on the beach, but fortunately their hulls were lighter and not afraid of running aground, and some soldiers who jumped out of the boat stood in waist-high water to help push the boats back into the deep sea before leaving.

As for the sky over Dunkirk, because the German bombing destroyed the refinery in the last bombing, the thick smoke of gunpowder could not be dispersed for a long time, which also made it impossible for the German army to carry out effective bombing here, but did the coalition side a small favor.

But over the English Channel, there was still a constant exchange of fierce fire between fighter jets on both sides.

They shot at each other, passing each other, the whistling engines sounding over and over again like the horns of death, and some fighters handed their spears at the right distance like knights colliding with each other.

Booming explosions rang out from time to time, one after another smeared black smoke planes fell to the sea, some planes would eject the pilot before falling, open the parachute, and some pilots were not so lucky, they were killed directly in the cockpit, and died before the plane fell.

The British also made a bloody investment this time, they constantly sent fighter planes from the mainland to escort the ships on the sea, and also mobilized many ships of the navy to engage in fierce battles with German submarines below the surface.

In the process, the two sides suffered damage to each other, but the German navy was still more than a notch weaker than the army, and the British Empire, as an old maritime power, finally showed its superiority.

Gradually, due to heavy losses, the U-boats had no choice but to withdraw from the core engagement zone of the English Channel and seek other ways to attack.

However, while the naval retreat of the Anglo-French forces was in full swing, the fighting on land also yielded some results.

The British 4th Division, which was responsible for covering the retreat of the Allied forces, retreated south across the Leith River and re-established itself at Varnathon.

The Division's Twelfth Brigade strengthened the Fifth Division's right flank, while the other two brigades, the Tenth and Eleventh Brigades, became the reserve of the Fifth Division.

The day after the evacuation of Dunkirk officially began, a ferry called the "Queen of the Straits was also put into transport" and successfully carried nearly 1,000 soldiers to flee France.

You must know that the "Queen of the Straits" ferry was the first diesel-powered ship to cross the strait at that time, and it could transport back more than 900 soldiers in one round trip, making it the largest ship among civilian ferries in addition to troop carriers and warships.

However, it was this ship that was under the heavy care of the German bombers on the second day of the retreat, and the dense bombs rained down from the sky, and the poor "Queen of the Straits" was finally sunk by the 1st Group of the German Bomber Wing, and the surviving crew and more than 900 soldiers were rescued by the merchant ship "Rose".

In order to ensure the safety of navigation on the sea surface and reduce losses, Williams Herbert, the commander in charge of the retreating British Royal Navy, ordered that all large civilian ships should be completely suspended during the day and dispatched at night.