After a long sailing, a ship arrived at the port of Spain. The passenger ship from afar was carrying a group of sailors wearing German naval uniforms. The ship returned from Australia, and almost all of the German officers and soldiers on it were elites of the submarine force.

These people walked down the stairs in groups of three or five, talking and laughing. There were several German naval officers on the dock to greet them. As soon as they got off the boat, they received the treatment they had always dreamed of. They were enough to eat, drink and have fun in Spain, and there was also an ocean-going war medal representing honor.

They are the soldiers with the richest experience in ocean combat in the German naval submarine force. It can be said that what they carry is the future and hope of Germany's battle for the ocean. According to the plan, they will be responsible for cultivating ocean combat forces for the Third Reich Naval Submarine Force, imparting their experience in ocean-to-ocean cross-regional combat, and evolving the German naval submarine force from a local navy into a global navy deployed by the world.

For this plan, Prien led ten submarines to leave Germany and traveled across the ocean to Australia, completing a combat deployment across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Facts have also proved that it is not easy for a navy to expand its combat range. This requires many people to make their own efforts and strive for this goal for a long time.

After arriving, only eight of the ten German ocean submarines still had combat capabilities. In order to ensure the normal operation of this submarine force, some repairmen and engineers must be deployed with the army. In the end, the damaged submarines must be demolished and parts must be removed to repair submarines with smaller failures. All this is based on the German submarine model specifications and the general parts. It is conceivable how important equipment standardization is to ocean logistics support.

Over time, Prien led a submarine back, and the remaining submarines began to be scrapped and damaged due to failures. The repair ships departed from Germany could only transport some consumable parts to Australia. Once the submarine had a larger failure, they could only use one to remove and repair another method to ensure that someone could go to sea to fight.

In order to balance the strength of the US Navy and the Japanese Navy, Akado ordered the German naval squadron in the Pacific to start attacking the US transport fleet with all their might. However, because the US anti-submarine defense was in place, German submarines did not achieve any decent results except sinking some merchant ships.

They mainly attacked American transport ships and sneaked into the large ships on the route with very slow speeds. These ships were filled with supplies transported by the United States to the front line. Each sinking of one was very sad for the American soldiers on the front line.

Now, only three of the seven submarines can still go out to sea to fight, and the German sailors who lost their combat submarines were ordered to return home. They are heroes, so they must have received the triumph of the hero. These people were allowed to travel in Spain or France for three days, and then return to the base and report to their superiors.

When Akado knew that the Japanese Navy was retreating on Kauai Island, he knew that his purpose of letting Japan and the United States consume each other should be a failure. His plan to check and balance Japan and the United States was really too sloppy and did not keep the Japanese in a good state and consume the US Navy fleet.

"Welcome to come back safely!" The head of the German official came to a German submarine captain who was disembarking. He stood at attention and raised his arms with a smile: "Long live the Head of State Akado Rudolph."

"Long live the head of state!" The German captain also raised his arms, then smiled and took a step forward, hugging the German officer in front of him: "It's great to be back alive. I'm glad you can pick me up. Come on, I'll introduce you to me. This is my crew."

The commander in front of him was the commander of the German port rented in Spain. He and the captain were once classmates from college. They had a good relationship. When they went to Australia, he sent the fleet away from Europe and embarked on a journey to the Pacific Ocean.

"The Head of State thanks very much for using your courage to accumulate valuable experience in ocean-going submarine warfare for the empire. Everyone has a holiday, and each person can spend 1,000 imperial goldmarks in Spain or France." The officer smiled and shook hands with these submarine sailors one by one, saying the news that made everyone cheer.

"How is the current situation in the submarine force in Australia?" Sitting in the car returning to the base, the officer asked about the situation of his acquaintance's troops in Australia. After all, it was far away from the base, and it was very difficult to find someone to ask him in person. Although Prien returned a lot of news, the latest news still had to ask the latest people who came back, right?

The captain who came back mentioned that Australia was not very happy. He thought about it and said slowly: "Actually, the conditions there are very bad. The Australians only provide us with freshwater and a small amount of support. The Japanese are approaching the East Coast and the situation is very dangerous. We lack ammunition, so we gave up many good attack opportunities. The submarines themselves are also poorly repaired and maintained. The soldiers are fighting on their beliefs."

His words are not an exaggeration at all. In the battle of Australia, German submarine officers and soldiers were almost fighting on their own beliefs. They demolished a submarine and used the parts inside to repair the remaining submarines in good condition. There were fewer and fewer submarines available, but they still went to sea on time to attack designated American transportation targets.

Since the war between the United States and Germany began, ships to the Middle East have been hit by German submarines. In contrast, the originally safe route from Spain to Pacific Australia also had to withstand the blockade of US naval destroyers. The German Pacific submarine squadron, which was originally lacking in parts, was completely in an embarrassing situation of shortage of food and bullets at that time.

Some scarce parts were not replenished, and no new torpedoes were sent. The submarine squadron could maintain the normal operation of five submarines at the beginning, and now there are only three. Even so, these three submarines should still carefully choose their attack targets when sailing, so that their precious ammunition will not be wasted.

"How is the scrapped submarine handled?" The officer asked this question as his old classmate complained about how his submarine was demolished due to a minor failure.

"We dismantled all the parts that can be removed on it, finally opened the Tonghai Valve, and watched their submarine sink to the bottom of the sea with their own eyes. That was our old friend for many years. Do you think we would deal with it hastily? When we watched it sink, we were singing military songs." The captain replied.

"I have a telegram from Berlin, which was sent by the Imperial Propaganda Minister, a speech to the media. You have to take a closer look. Then if someone interviews, you have to use this standard speech to answer the other party's questions." The officer handed the captain a document and said, "I heard that you will be promoted to a colonel and teach at the Submarine Academy. Congratulations."

"To be honest, if I could choose, I would rather drift on the sea." The captain of the submarine smiled bitterly and said, "People who have fought on the sea are disdainful to return to the land to live a stable life. I still hope to take my soldiers to fight on the cold seabed. There is the place I really like, without intrigue or messy things. If you have the ability, you will survive and make achievements; if you don't have the ability, you will die for granted."

The officer who greeted them laughed: "I knew you would say that, but unfortunately, you are now the most precious talents of the empire. Please teach in school with peace of mind."

Sighing, the captain of the submarine nodded as if he accepted his fate: "Sometimes I really envy that guy Prien, the Australia he went with us, and I heard that he is still on the sea and is living the battle life he likes?"

"This guy is even more proud now. I heard that he burned, killed and looted all the way on the East Coast of the United States, just like a bandit. The US government offered a reward, giving a high price of 5 million US dollars, as long as Prien's head!" As the commander of the port, the news is still very well-informed. Prien has now sunk a transport ship with a total tonnage of more than 100,000 tons between Iceland and the East Coast of the United States, making the whole United States furious.

The new submarine, renamed the U-47, became a ghost living in the North Atlantic Ocean. The destroyers of the US Navy have detected this terrible weapon more than once, but no one can sink it. The submarine came and went without a trace, playing dozens of British and American destroyers like idiots, causing the British and US Navy to suffer a lot.

Like the UK, Germany has invested its new weapons on the battlefield of the North Atlantic. However, unlike the UK's extremely low-reliability meteor fighter, Germany's new submarines are very reliable. Compared with the British, the weapons invested by the German army in war are more mature and more deterrent. Just after Prien's submarine began to fight, the transportation efficiency between Iceland and the United States was reduced by more than five%. This is just what a new submarine does.
Chapter completed!