My Italian Chapter 627

The Tunis Strait is an important throat, and it is also a sea area that Italy focuses on investigation. Especially after the French formation went to sea, the number of ships and airships patrolling here has also increased. Even yesterday, a small Italian warship boldly came to the sea off Tunisia.

For this reason, the French side taught the opponent severely, and the opponent fled in embarrassment before they were willing to give up.

The lesson is the lesson, but since the other party dared to come, it is obvious that they are not afraid of France's maritime strength in Tunisia. This makes the reinforcement formation preparing to cross the Tunis Strait less likely to choose, unless they are willing to face the Italians' sight.

At this time, the night has become an excellent cover, which can cover these figures quietly passing through the place.

The sound of beating motors sounded off the coast of Tunisia, and a small patrol boat carefully observed the surrounding movement in the night. Its searchlights are constantly shining around.

At this time, in this patrol boat, more than a dozen French naval officers and soldiers opened their eyes wide and observed the movement around them.

"Nothing was found, everything is normal."

"No suspicious situation found, safe."

After the officers and soldiers of the patrol boat continued to observe the surrounding waters to ensure safety, the transmitter sent a safe secret message under the captain's signal.

Tonight, more than one patrol boat came out to inspect. In fact, starting from Bizerte at the end of the western section of the Tunisian strait, to Sfax, which has already exceeded the Tunisian strait in the eastern section, the French side has arranged many ships. Carry out patrols in our own seas. The reason why the French are so aggressive is because there is a formation that wants to pass through here in the dark.

And the best way to pass through here is to use the cover of night to rush through the sea off Tunisia, and cross the strait in one fell swoop before sunrise tomorrow.

And Lieutenant General Studi thought the same way. At this time, he was leading the British and French reinforcement fleet through this sea area.

"Report, the French side sent a telegram, and found no abnormalities on the Tunisian side of the strait. In addition, Lieutenant General Dufournell sent a telegram, asking whether to speed up now."

On the flagship at the moment, Lieutenant General Studi was listening to the communication officer's report on the situation.

"Tell Lieutenant General Dufournell not to worry now, increasing the speed late at night may cause unnecessary harm. The speed of 14 knots is enough for us to leave before dawn."

Lieutenant General Studdy asked the communications officer to convey his meaning.

At this time Lieutenant General Studi had already waited for the French formation. After a brief exchange, the reinforcement formation became a reinforcement fleet. And Stirdy was promoted to fleet commander and British formation commander, and the French commander was Lieutenant General Dufournell, who also served as the fleet chief of staff.

In addition, after some friendly exchanges and discussions, the two agreed that it was too dangerous to take the northern passage near the island of Malta, and only the southern passage near the Libyan Sea was the best choice.

For this reason, Lieutenant General Studi deliberately reported to the Mediterranean Fleet led by Admiral Cardon, and informed him of his own course of action.

Of course, it is not enough to rely on the reinforcement fleet to pass through the Tunis Strait by itself. France's sea power in Tunisia also needs to detect the route in advance to ensure that the fleet can slip through the strait safely without being discovered by the Italians.

Looks good so far, they're lucky.

That's right, luck is one of the guarantees for the success of an action. As long as you are lucky enough, sometimes a seemingly unreliable plan will succeed by accident.

So far, Lieutenant General Sturdy has considered himself lucky.

With the help of the French colonial navy, the joint reinforcement fleet formed by Britain and France sneaked across the Tunis Strait under the cover of night.

At this time, Italy still knew nothing about the reinforcement fleet slipping through the Tunis Strait, because most of its attention was attracted by the Mediterranean Fleet.

At this time, there were few ships off the coast of Libya. Italy was the first to create an **** formation because of the harassment of British warships in Malta.

Therefore, there are very few ships in the Libyan waters at this time. Except for the fishing boats in the offshore, there are only some smuggling ships haunting here.

That's right, it is a smuggling ship. Although Italy and France have fallen into a state of war, the two countries have already fought in Europe. But how should I put it, if there is demand, there will be sales, especially after the two countries cut off the economic and trade exchanges on the surface, many people have noticed the huge profits.

In Europe, due to strict supervision, smuggling is not too serious, but in Africa, where the supervision is weak and sparsely populated, this kind of smuggling is becoming more and more rampant.

Those adventurers who wandered in the gray area smuggled oil-fueled vehicles and their parts and components from Libya to Tunisia, and then loaded tobacco, olives, wool, wine and other materials from Tunisia, smuggled them back to Libya, and then passed The transport fleet returned to the mainland.

This back and forth, the doubling of the huge profits is enough to tempt all the daring people. A sage surnamed Ma once said that as long as there is 100% profit, people will ignore all laws.

The smuggling between the two countries around Tunisia and Libya shows the truth of his words.

At this time, a smuggling boat disguised as a fishing boat appeared on the sea.

Boxes of sea fish are placed on the deck of the ship, which looks like a fishing boat full of harvest, but if you open the cabin, it is full of bags of auto parts. Several crew members, under the leadership of the captain, are driving this outrageously fast fishing boat towards Tunisia.

Running smuggling, speed is the most important.

First of all, it needs to be faster than the anti-smuggling ship, in order to be able to deal with it calmly when encountering official forces, so as not to get all the stolen goods. Second, speed or profit. Smuggling also requires efficiency. When the price of a certain product fluctuates, the ship that can bring back the goods in the first time will always get the most generous returns.

The gray merchants wandering in this sea area understand this truth, so these smuggling ships are willing to have sufficient horsepower for their ships without affecting their cargo.

Of course, these are not enough, and the crew needs to be more vigilant. Pay attention to any movement around you at any time, maybe where the anti-smuggling boat will emerge from.

At this time, at the highest point of the smuggling boat, the captain Saba kept looking around.

"What's the matter with you, captain?"

"I feel something is wrong."

"What's the matter?"

"My gut tells me something is wrong right now."

Captain Saba's words made the crew members nervous. The intuition of their captain is very trusted by everyone. One time before, something was wrong, and it turned out that three anti-smuggling ships surrounded them. If it weren't for everyone's high vigilance and early discovery, they would definitely be sent to the desert to mine.

Just like that, when everyone was nervously paying attention to the surroundings led by Captain Saba, suddenly a crew member yelled. "Note that there is a plume of smoke ahead of us to the left, and a ship is approaching us."

After being reminded by the crew member, Captain Saba also noticed it later.

As a captain who has been drifting at sea for half his life, his rich experience immediately made him feel wrong.

"This column of smoke is wrong, it's a warship."

The experienced captain Saba immediately saw the situation, because the warships were all burned with the best anthracite coal, and their smoke columns were completely different from those of the economical merchant ships. So experienced people can see it at a glance.

"Captain, what shall we do now?"

As soon as they heard it was a warship, the crew immediately became nervous. No matter which side the warship was, they would be vigilant when facing their suspicious fishing boat, and no matter where the smugglers were, they would be caught.

"Turn the bow now, and let's rush to the shallow sea area."

At this moment, Captain Saba gave the order immediately, and he himself steered the helm to steer the ship. They just want to stay away from these battleships now, and they don't want to be discovered by them.

But this wish has not been discovered by God today.

At this moment, ships in the distance have appeared on the horizon, and the tall warships were seen by Captain Saba through the telescope.

"Just playing, this is a warship of the Allied Powers. It's still a battleship."

At this moment, Captain Saba's face was pale, and cold sweat was already breaking out on his forehead. Because as long as you are not stupid, you will know that the battleships that suddenly appeared, or several battleships, must be carrying out some secret missions. It is strange that I bumped into each other by accident. Maybe in order to keep it secret, they even throw people and boats to the bottom of the sea to feed the fish.

"Full speed, leave quickly."

At this moment, Captain Saba hoped that the other party did not find them. As long as he could escape here, he would go back immediately and surrender to the customs.

But unfortunately, the wish of the Saba captain came to nothing, and they have been noticed.

I saw a destroyer chasing them from a distance. Its extremely high speed made Saba and the others, who were trying to escape, seem to be doing futile work.

Facing the menacing destroyer, Saba and the others lost their desire to escape. From what the other party saw, the speed was as high as 30 knots, how could they run a smuggling boat with a maximum speed of 19 knots.

"Everyone pretend to be innocent, we are fishermen who go out to fish."

At this moment, the people on the smuggling boat tried their best to look like fishermen, and now they could only hope that the other party was just checking.

"collapse"

However, the sudden explosion of shells from the side made everyone on the smuggling boat fall into despair. Obviously, the opponent had no intention of boarding their ship at all, and just wanted to sink them and destroy them.

"Go ahead and run."

Sitting and waiting to die is not the idea of ​​these smugglers who dare to smuggle. At this moment, the desire to survive is filling their brains.

And this smuggling ship swayed from side to side, trying to influence the opponent's shelling.

"Crash ~ collapse ~ collapse..."

Afterwards, several consecutive cannonball explosions sounded around the ship, indicating that the position was still effective. But as long as you are clear-headed, you will know that unless the other party suddenly has a power failure, otherwise this is just to slow down the death of yourself and others.

"Ram, come and take the helm."

Saba also knew this truth, after handing over the rudder to the deputy, he plunged into the captain's cabin. After opening a dark cabin in the captain's cabin, he took out a Marconi latest radio station.

The smuggling ship also needs to keep in touch at all times, and it is normal to bring a radio station.

Then Saba showed a fierce face and sent a telegram.

A few minutes later, a clear-coded telegram was sent around.

"We are in the waters off the coast of Libya at latitude 34.652 and longitude 14.15496. We encountered a British and French fleet consisting of seven battleships from the northwest. The other party is chasing and killing us. Please pay attention to avoiding the passing ships. Good luck to everyone. I'm Captain Saba."

At this moment, not only passing ships received this telegram, but Tripoli, Palermo and other places also received this telegram. Of course, the first to receive the telegram was the British and French reinforcement fleet that was close at hand.

"Lieutenant General, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com This is a clear telegram we just received."

The communications staff handed the telegram to the fleet commander Lieutenant Admiral Studi with a strange expression on his face.

"Cough cough cough..."

Lieutenant General Steddy, who was drinking black tea, choked on the tea.

"This is the enemy's reconnaissance fishing boat. It's just a usual cover-up method. It's too low."

The Lieutenant General, who had recovered, put down the telegram with a tone that had already seen through the opponent's conspiracy.

"So what do we do next?"

"Send a telegram to Admiral Cardon. We are now exposed, and we will move closer at full speed. Send our location to the admiral as well."

"As you order, Commander."

(end of this chapter)

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