Another World: Naval Storm

In addition, the submarine warfare that Leo was familiar with in the other world also appeared in advance. The submarines of the Drake Empire were larger and more powerful than those of the German army in the First World War in the other world.

When the Drake Empire's submarines ravaged the Atlas Sea, they sank approximately 1915 ships of various types from the Allied Powers including Tarun in 431 alone, almost cutting off the sea transportation lines on which the Tarun Kingdom depended for its survival. The arrival of Leo's fleet gave the Tarun people even more headaches.

Faced with the traceless submarine in the ocean, the Tarons racked their brains but could not come up with a feasible plan. They did have a lot of out-of-the-box ideas, but Leo's only comment was that the Tarons must have eaten too much dark food and looked up at the stars, and their brains must have gone bad!

For example, some staff officers of the Royal Navy of Talen believed that the Drake submarines must observe the target through periscopes before attacking. At that time, as long as their periscopes were destroyed, the Drake Navy's submarines would have no combat effectiveness.

Based on this, they formulated a battle plan to smash the periscope with a hammer, and prepared to recruit a group of experienced and capable blacksmiths from the Kingdom of Talen and the colonies to complete this task on a small boat.

"I..., go.... How did you idiots graduate from military school!?"

When the plan was handed to the Secretary of the Navy Fisher, he was so angry that he slammed the table and cursed the ancestors of these staff officers several times, then crumpled up the plan and threw it into the trash can.

Under Fisher's strong intervention, the Navy's staff finally got their wits about them. After carefully studying the attack methods of the Drake submarine, they found that when facing the Allied armed merchant ships, the Drake submarine often sank them directly with artillery or torpedoes without warning, while when facing unarmed merchant ships, especially neutral merchant ships, the Drake submarine first ordered the crew to abandon the ship, waited for them to board the lifeboats, sent people to search the ship for some supplies, and then sank it with artillery.

Based on the Drake submarine tactics, the Talens developed a slightly more insidious Z-ship tactic.

The so-called Z-ship is actually a submarine-hunting ship with powerful firepower, but it is disguised as an unarmed merchant ship. From a distance, the Z-ship is no different from an ordinary merchant ship, but it is equipped with artillery and anti-submarine bombs inside, and some are also equipped with torpedo tubes.

In order to deceive the Drake Navy, the Talens even had the creativity to install fake railings and hull plates on the Z-ship, and pile up some cargo boxes on the deck.

The captain of a z-ship is usually an active-duty officer of the Royal Navy of Tarrant, while the crew are all reservists, volunteers or merchant mariners of the Tarrant Navy.

Without the knowledge of the Drake Navy, the Z ship did achieve certain results. For example, Captain Cabel of the Talen Kingdom Navy once commanded the Z ship to sink four U-boats, becoming a household anti-submarine hero in the Talen Kingdom.

Cabel was the captain of the anti-submarine ship Barnbarr. He disguised the ship as a coal ship and then gave all the crew members strict performance training to make them look like real coal ship crew members. Many times, this could deceive the Royal Navy soldiers of the Kingdom of Tarun. With such tactics, the Tarun people made many gains.

The Barnbarr, which had been drifting for a long time, planned to abandon the mission before the supplies ran out. When returning to Talen, it finally encountered the Drake submarine again.

That day, the Barnborough was sailing on the sea as usual, when suddenly, a cannonball screamed and flew over the hull.

This situation was exactly what Drake submarines used to order merchant ships to stop. Caber was overjoyed, knowing that he had encountered another Drake Empire submarine, and immediately looked around. Sure enough, there was a submarine floating on the sea in the distance.

Cabell pretended to order the crew to lower the lifeboat. His acting was so convincing that the panic of the sailors made the observing Drakes laugh. Some of the crew actually boarded the lifeboat and sailed away, while he and another part of the crew hid on the ship with their guns loaded and ready for battle.

"Same as always, be careful!" the submarine's captain instructed the sailors preparing to board the ship.

"No problem, sir. I've done this kind of work many times before!"

The Drake submarine believed it to be true. The captain stood on the bridge and commanded the submarine to approach the merchant ship, ordering his men to prepare to board the ship and search for supplies.

When the Drake submarine approached, Cabel ordered his men to immediately raise the flag of the Royal Navy of the Kingdom of Talen, then removed the camouflage and aimed the artillery at the submarine.

The Drake sailors were shocked when they saw the flag of the Kingdom of Taren and realized that they had been deceived. However, many sailors were standing outside the submarine and could not dive quickly. Within just a few minutes, the submarine was hit by more than 20 artillery shells and countless machine gun bullets and eventually sank.

Except for a few sailors outside the submarine who managed to survive and became prisoners of the Talens, the rest of the sailors sank to the bottom of the sea along with the submarine.

Relying on the unauthentic z-ship tactics, the Kingdom of Tarun did achieve certain results, but this tactic can only work when the Drake people are unaware of it. Once leaked, it will be completely ineffective.

A spy from the Drak Empire lurking in the Kingdom of Taren accidentally discovered the secret of the Z-ship of the Kingdom of Taren and hurriedly sent the relevant information back to Germany.

The top naval officers of the Drake Empire were greatly shocked and immediately changed their previous combat methods, ordering the Drake Empire submarines to launch unwarning attacks on all Allied merchant ships, and no longer send people to board the ships to search and plunder, but to sink them directly.

After this, it was very difficult for the Z-ship to achieve victory. The Kingdom of Tarun converted more than 180 camouflaged anti-submarine ships, but most of them had no record until the end of the war.

"These bastards took advantage of our goodwill!" Dawson said angrily. He had just received intelligence from the Imperial Navy. The shamelessness of the Taren people refreshed his cognition. Such behavior of the Taren people would make the sailors on the merchant ship pay a huge price and more people would die.

"War means using any possible means, which means that the Talen people have been hit where it hurts!" Leo saw this very clearly. The power of unrestricted submarine warfare has been revealed, and the Talen people can't bear it. It was worth it for him to argue with Piltz and send out all the submarines of the Drake Navy.

"Dawson, now is your chance to avenge our comrades!"

"What's wrong? General!"

"Those bastards you mentioned sank another of our submarines!" From the God's perspective, the friendly forces' symbol flashed a few times and then disappeared completely.

"How could this be? Didn't the Navy Department already issue a notice? Where are they?" Dawson was no longer surprised by Leo's magical powers. As long as he could lead them to victory, he didn't care whether Leo was an angel or a devil.

"There are always some people who are stubborn and don't listen to orders! Southwest! Chase them, we can't let them get away!"