Chapter 1741: 14. Yam Liza (10)

For any sailor, especially the sailors in the north, sailing in winter is not a pleasant thing. In the eyes of the layman, the polar night, aurora, magnificent ice floes, and seals seem to be the whole of the winter ocean, but the sailors know that dense fog, ice floes, storms, high sea conditions, bitter cold and humidity are the winter sea life The most important component of
Due to the unique topography of the fjord, the calm winds in the fjord in winter are much better than the North Sea or the North Ocean. In contrast, the fog time is more and the duration is longer. Coupled with factors such as the freezing of the port in winter and the need for repairs, ships in the fjord are mostly moored in the port in winter, and the shipping business is handed over to floating ships. The impact of these ships that can fly above the clouds is relatively small. As long as the port is properly guided and controlled, the crew will not make mistakes and basically will not affect normal air transportation tasks.
The "Great Artist" is slowly climbing, and this floating merchant ship that runs exclusively from the St. Petersburg to Portsmouth route has become more busy after the war. Since neither the Principality nor Lapland has officially declared war, the international community has not imposed trade embargoes or economic sanctions on the two countries. From a legal point of view, ships of various countries can still dock at the ports of the two countries. However, due to the influence of public opinion and government policy guidance, all routes to Lapland have abnormal enthusiasm, but few merchant ships running on the Principality route, so the Principality Merchant Fleet shoulders the important task of foreign trade. These merchant ships are loaded with specialties and primary industrial products of various Principalities. They arrive in the ports of various countries to sell on the spot, and then buy various industrial products and luxury goods (those rich people will not treat themselves at any time), a round trip of income In addition, government subsidies are also considerable.
However, this is also limited to those businessmen and fleets with backgrounds. It is important to know that only those people who dare to do foreign trade business in wartime.
"Be careful, Valoja. All the luxury goods are on board. If something goes wrong, the customer will kill us all."
Captain Saloychev muttered, and the helmsman hurriedly straightened his spine loudly. This ship is not a warship, but the tradition that the captain is above all else still applies. The absolute authority can even determine the life and death of the sailor. Being corporal punishment is a very common thing because it makes mistakes. In severe cases, it may be killed alive, wrapped in a layer of cloth and thrown directly into the sea (that is, the sea burial). After landing on the beach, it is nothing to report a "violent death". Too.
The captain's great authority is certainly awesome, but the helmsman is even more afraid of the threat in the captain's words. Everyone knows who can spend a lot of money to buy foreign luxury goods during the war, and what kind of people will be customers in various departments such as port, shipping, anti-smuggling, customs, border defense and navy. If the big men are irritated, this boatman is afraid that no one will survive.
After all, this fearful voyage is almost over. As long as we return to St. Petersburg to unload the goods and settle the payment, we will be able to relax for a while. As for the next voyage or something, let me worry about the next one.
Just as the "Great Artist" rushed out of the clouds and returned to the sunny sky, a shadow suddenly projected into the cockpit of this cargo ship, and the ship captain and crew had not yet recovered. A floating cruiser with a Lapland navy flag was also displayed on the side.
"The target ship has turned off the engine and the marines are boarding."
"Very good. Don't abuse the captives, give them lifeboats, blankets, food and water."
"Observe!"
The herald soldier ran out of the bridge and looked at the merchant ship surrounded by three light cruisers. Parsifal hummed the glory march happily.
Since successfully crossing the front line and entering Lapland Bay for the assault, the Parsifal fleet has captured and sunk 23 commercial ships with a displacement of up to 120,000 tons. All kinds of precious tobacco and alcohol captured from ships, hand-embroidered, main and side foods have greatly enriched the quality of life of the crew, and the entire fleet was a little bit reluctant at one time. After the war, the members of the fleet referred to this period as the "happy hunting season". Some captains even demanded the shelling of St. Petersburg. This was not out of patriotism, nor was it too much temptation for merit, purely because St. Petersburg was completely at night. No light control is implemented, navigation buoys and light ships are lit as usual, and port facilities and cities are also brilliantly illuminated, which is an excellent target.
Parsifal could certainly not agree to this request. His purpose was appropriate stimulus and appropriate humiliation, forcing the Principality to issue some instructions to Major General Kolchak to advance the entire strategic plan. Bombardment of the capital of the Principality here will only make the Principality completely mad, irrespective of the escalation of the war, and at the same time will also turn the international public opinion that was originally beneficial to Lapland.
Therefore, there must not be a single shell falling on the land of Saint Petersburg.
"That being said, the nobles of the Principality are really patient. We have all achieved this point. They have not exerted enough pressure. Should they burst into the port to sink the ship or mine?"
In the bold speech of Parsifal, the flagship large cruiser "Von de Tann" began to lower its altitude, and this new warship slowly melted into the dense fog.
The "Von de Tann" was a large floating cruiser that Lapland ordered from the Empire before the war. At that time, the Empire had signed the "Naval Arms Control Agreement", and the design and construction of all large battleships had been frozen. In order to avoid wasting the tonnage balance, some ships used for technical verification are prepared to be dismantled and returned to the furnace. The "Von de Tann" is one of them. Just as Lapland came to place an order, the atmosphere between the Principality and Lapland became more and more tense, and the empire simply sold this large cruiser to Lapland, and now with several other small ships with obvious technical verification properties Together they became the backbone of the Lapland floating fleet.
The large cruiser "Von De Tann" was an attempt of the Imperial Air Force to fast battleships and battlecruisers. Like Albion, the empire needs to be able to respond quickly to emergencies in the homeland and colonies. This requires a high-speed, long-range, heavy firepower, construction and use cost lower than the main ship, that is, the battle cruiser Or fast-response battleships like high-speed battleships.
In order to verify whether this kind of ship can be built and whether the actual use can achieve the designer's "economical" goal, the Imperial Air Force ordered the construction of the "Von de Tann" and tried to pass this large cruiser To complete the argument.
Because there was not much time for launching, the entire battleship was not only equipped with new equipment, but also signs in various official languages ​​of the empire were everywhere. There were also some equipment that surprised the Lapland naval officers. For example, shipborne radar and radio communication equipment rely on the advantages brought by these two weapons, so that the entire fleet can use the fog to pass through the public defense line and enter the Lapland Bay smoothly. Then he hid in the thick fog and attacked repeatedly within 20 nautical miles from St. Petersburg.
Parsifal was not worried at all about the intention of the Congress to find his own. If such an obvious adjustment of the tigers and mountains could not be seen, Parsifal only gritted his teeth. It has long been known that the upper echelons of the Principality are all idiots with low IQ. He might as well land directly in St. Petersburg, and ask His Majesty the Tsar and his minister to immediately end this slapstick war.
If you think about it carefully, this is actually a tempting plan, and he is very likely to realize it.
The "Von de Tann" is a large cruiser, and its main gun caliber is only 210mm, but it is equipped with four triple-mounted main gun turrets, that is, 12 210mm main guns, plus 16 155mm high-level secondary guns, On firepower, it is almost possible to break the wrist with the principal ship of the Principality, and its armor protection ability is not far behind that of the early fearless ships. Coupled with a vote of light cruisers and destroyers, it is not impossible to strike in St. Petersburg.
But this can only be considered, no one, including Parsifal himself, will see such a thing happen.
So he can only continue this kind of hunting, until the attack is caused by quantitative change and qualitative change, or the Principality's patience is exhausted, or attacking a certain target...
While he was still figuring out what target he should attack~EbookFREE.me~ Herald soldier ran in with a weird expression on his face.
"Your Mightiness."
The Herald suppressed his emotions, handed the folder to Colonel Ramsay, and reported loudly:
"The light cruiser "Elbin" called, and they found a 6,000-ton passenger and cargo ship. According to the rules of engagement, they issued an order to stop the ship for inspection. But the ship not only turned around and accelerated Fleeing, ignoring the warning bombardment and shooting at the'Elbin' with rifles and submachine guns."
crazy.
This is the only impression of the entire audience.
Although the public often performed unexpectedly under the blessing of vodka, for example, a drunkard gunner hit an enemy ammunition depot with a gun, and the gunner publicly claimed to give him a kilogram of vodka, he can shoot the artillery. It extends thousands of kilometers... but the probability of such a miracle occurring in actual combat is very low, and even if a rifleman drank a whole barrel of vodka in one breath, rifle bullets could not sink the cruiser.
Ignoring the warning and fighting back with light weapons can only explain two things. First of all, the captain and passengers of this ship are very brave, more courageous than all the merchant ships they have encountered so far. Secondly, what was carried on that ship was not ordinary prohibited material, but something directly used for military purposes: army, weapons, ammunition. This is what the Parsifal fleet has been expecting.
For a moment, the commanders of the Parsifal Fleet had a strong interest in the ship's identity and the cargo carried, but they did not forget their identity, position, and mission.
"There is no need to waste time."
Parsifal shook his head as if to get rid of a fly that upset him.
"Notify'Elbin', sink the ship."