Chapter 1229

On the quiet sea, a transport ship full of black coal mines is sailing slowly. Because the ship carried a lot of heavy coal, the speed can be described as crawling. It was driving carefully, trying to send the cargo to its motherland.

On the ship, more than a dozen crew members are drinking sake. This kind of transportation work has been a routine for them. In this year, they have been on this route for at least dozens of times, and they can hardly be more familiar with it.

The sea of Japan is an important waterway between China and Japan. It is full of freighters travelling between Japan and Yingkou and Fushun. Some freighters transport guns and ammunition produced by Japan to Northeast China, while others transport coal resources snatched by Japan from Northeast China and Shanxi to Japan.

These freighters could be connected in a straight line every day. This line was the lifeline of Japan during the war, and it was the most important transportation and supply channel to maintain the local industrial production of the Japanese Empire. Power generation and steel-making are all coal consuming industrial activities. Because of the lack of oil, Japan is more dependent on coal than anyone imagined.

Another thing that exhausts Japan's transportation capacity every day is food. Because most families in Japan have to allocate labor to participate in war activities, food has gradually begun to rely on the occupation of food producing areas in China and South Asia for supply and replenishment. In addition to the troop carriers and the occasionally passing gunboats, the whole sea of Japan is a busy scene.

This coal ship is a little bit cautious forward, because of a slight overload, this is not a big ship is particularly heavy. The Japanese sailors on board feel the sea breeze, taste the poor sake and feel the beauty of life.

"Ah, if the day can be so carefree every day, maybe no woman will be very happy." After sipping sake with his mouth, a senior officer over 50 years old sighed to the captain beside him: "I heard that the war on the front line has been very disadvantageous. Have you ever thought about going to the battlefield?"

"Without my family, I've been a fisherman for generations. I'm lucky to have a transport ship of my own. Helping the military transport free of charge in wartime is to avoid military service. How can I go to such a dangerous place on the front line?" The captain's family is very good. He worked hard to avoid going to the front line to die, so he would not take risks: "I am already loyal to your majesty, isn't it?"

"What about the front line? You have some contacts with the military. Do you have any latest news? " The chief officer gave a wry smile, drank a mouthful of muggy wine, and then continued to ask, "I heard that the Navy and the army are also not very optimistic."

"I've heard that the base camp is adding troops to Manchuria, but I haven't heard the news that the war is unfavorable. You know, the military has always been very strict in the management of this kind of affairs, and few real news comes out. But since it's a surge, it's not good news. Who's heard of a surge to the front instead of a newspaper hype? If you think about it, those stupid people in the base camp have been shouting for a long time since they won, haven't they? "

"Yes! If they win, even if it's just a small victory, they will boast about it and stick gold on their faces. "After hearing this, the adjutant nodded and became more lonely:" my second son is still in Manchuria. I really don't know if this time will be more or less bad. "

All of a sudden, a sailor on duty ran into the cabin where more than a dozen people were having a drink. He cried out in panic: "hurry up! Come on! We seem to have seen something extraordinary! Something big happened! Captain! Captain

The captain frowned and stood up. He waved his hand and motioned to everyone to follow up: "go and have a look! See what's going on that scares my sailor out of his mouth. "

So they walked around the iron stairs and onto the low bridge, and immediately saw the scene in front of them: life buoys floating on the sea, some pieces of wooden deck, some oil stains and other debris. There should be a ship sank here, and it's a Japanese ship with the name of Japan written on the lifebuoy, a transport ship named "qifanwan".

"Qifan pill? Why does the name of transport ship qifanwan sound so familiar? " The captain thought for a long time about what kind of ship the sunken transport ship was. He was familiar with the name, but he couldn't figure out for a moment where he had seen the transport ship.

"Qifan pill? Didn't you meet me once in Lushun? A troop carrier of the army was refitted from a passenger ship. You said that the ship was too big The first mate suddenly remembered the origin of the ship and said to the captain.

But when he finished, he felt as if he had been stuck in his throat by a fishbone. He found that he could not say another word: the sunken shipwreck, the sevenmaru, was quite huge. It was full of people who left Japan or returned to Japan at any time. Now that the shipwreck has sunk, how many people have been killed? That's really only God Tianzhao himself knows.

"Strange! Why didn't you get a call for help? " The captain looked at the sea in doubt and asked to himself. He didn't expect anyone to answer his question. He was just lamenting that he had missed an opportunity to save people.

However, it was as if someone deliberately wanted to answer his question. After he asked this question to himself, he saw something moving on the sea. The Japanese captain was stunned. Then he rubbed his eyes and looked again. He saw a white billowing spray, which was rapidly approaching his ship“ Nani He narrowed his eyes to see what was the thing that was fast approaching his boat. But when he saw what it was, he was scared to fall on the deck by the side of the boat“ Fish, torpedo He pointed to the direction of the torpedo and yelled at his men. However, the torpedo did not slow down because of his yelling. Only two seconds later, it hit the side of the Japanese coal carrier“ Boom The huge explosion broke the slightly overloaded Japanese transport ship into two pieces, and then the Japanese ship sank to the bottom of the sea because of its heavy weight. In less than ten minutes, the sea calmed down again. Out of the sea, there were white waves and all kinds of clutter floating around. No one could see what had happened here“ I said, Captain, when we fight these unarmed ships that don't even have escort ships, we have to record them and convert them into combat records. Is that really good? " A sergeant with a notebook recording the appearance of the sunken Japanese coal carrier raised his head and asked captain Prynne. From the tightly guarded Icelandic route and the east coast of the United States to the Far East, Germany's 20 submarines felt that they had come to heaven again: since they changed the war zone countless times, attracted the attention of the Allied forces, and finally set up tight defense and escort ships in various waters, they had never encountered such a relaxed hunting environment. Yes, the German submarine commanders will fight in Japanese waters and become "hunting.". Because they found that Japan has not deployed enough anti submarine forces in this sea area, or more intuitively, there is no Japanese anti submarine destroyer in this sea area. Prion and his partners have just sailed into the sea of Japan in the past few days, each submarine has made amazing achievements: they have sunk dozens of Japanese transport ships, some carrying coal, some carrying people, and some carrying food. However, these slow and loose Japanese ships simply did not take effective measures. The Japanese did not even know what happened. All they could do was to let gunboats patrol the nearby waters and record what happened. A few days later, the Japanese side finally confirmed the existence of the German Navy submarine force. However, they still have nothing to do with the German submarine force. Even the number and scope of activities of the German navy have not been summarized clearly“ These Japanese are really strange. They had just been sunk in the vicinity a few hours ago, but there are still ships passing by. "The sergeant recorded and described the characteristics of the sunk coal carrier, while looking at some pictures of older Japanese ships, trying to find similar ships for collation“ In any case, this is a very suitable sea area for submarine activities. " "I don't know why the Americans used the far east base to attack Japan's shipping lines when the Soviet Union was still alive. Fortunately, we came here, otherwise we really wasted such a pleasant place," prien said with a smile to his first mate A transportation line disaster in the sea of Japan has begun. What the Japanese base camp can't believe is that with the help of a German submarine secret base with incomplete facilities in the Far East and 20 submarines, it is easy to strangle Japan's fragile maritime supply line. The whole Japanese sea and sky turned upside down. Every Japanese officer was in a mess. Looking at what happened, they didn't know what to do. Germany's strong power left no good solution for all who knew about it. It seemed that there was only one way for Japan to choose: to "defeat Germany"《 For those who want to read the latest chapters of this book, check it out, or visit it on your mobile phone