stonecrandall Chapter 890
Chapter 890
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“”Ah, cut!”
Looking at the mist all over the sea in the early morning, Nimitz suddenly sneezed.
He rubbed his itchy nose and asked the staff officer beside him nonchalantly:”Where are we now, how far are we from the Bermuda Islands?”
The sea conditions in the Atlantic Ocean have never been good. Although the Atlantic Ocean is smaller than the Pacific Ocean, there are far more shipwrecks every year than in the Pacific Ocean.
The reason for this is probably mainly related to the complex ocean currents in the North Atlantic!
When it comes to high winds and rough waves, the whole world can’t compare to the North Atlantic. Of course, the situation in the South Atlantic near the Drake Passage is also quite bad. It is naturally impossible to sail on such a sea with calm waters, so Nimitz didn’t care about the foggy weather in front of him. It is normal to have fog on the sea in the morning, and there is nothing strange about it.
However, such a thick fog is a bit unbearable!
Affected by the fog, the sailing speed of the German fleet was inevitably affected. They dared not run too fast, because when sailing in foggy weather, once they ran too fast, they would be at odds with each other. They can’t see each other for a while. What if one of them is too fast and the other is too slow, and they collide with each other? That’s not a good thing!
Because the ships in the fleet are basically large warships starting at 30,000 tons, once a collision occurs, it will inevitably cause heavy losses to both sides. In later generations, the Eagle Sauce Navy often neglected important waterways and collided with passing merchant ships.
Although the Eagle Sauce’s navy is the best in the world, their destroyers have a tonnage of up to 80,000 or 90,000 or even tens of thousands of tons, and the hulls are built with the best steel. The cost of a warship is as high as hundreds of billions, while the cost of the merchant ship on the opposite side is only a few hundred million. The value of the two sides differs by dozens of times!
However, in several collisions, the merchant ships basically won, and the Eagle Sauce’s warships were smashed to pieces, causing heavy casualties.
And the cause of this The reason is very simple, because merchant ships are larger, and when a destroyer of less than 10,000 tons collides with a merchant ship of tens of thousands of tons, the merchant ship naturally has a huge advantage.
Therefore, no matter how advanced the Eagle Sauce’s warships are, they will definitely not be able to ram the other side.
However, nothing is absolute, and the Eagle Sauce people don’t always lose in ramming.
Occasionally, they also win.
A few years ago, when the Eagle Sauce people were sailing in the Foot Basin, they directly rammed and sank a small fishing boat of the Foot Basin people…
Nimitz didn’t dare to let his warships ram and sink it for fun like the Eagle Sauce people did. If he accidentally rammed and sank a ship, it would be difficult to search and rescue in such a thick fog. The number of soldiers on a battleship ranges from one thousand to two thousand. If one ship sinks, thousands of people may die!
The navy is an aristocratic branch of the military. Their soldiers are worth much more than land soldiers, so they can’t afford such losses. Ordinary sailors are okay. To say something, the key is that the ship has a large number of technical arms and some talents. If these people are lost, it is not easy to replenish them!
The German Southern Fleet has more than 100 ships, the number of warships exceeds 40, and most of the rest are landing ships, supply ships and transport ships.
So many ships gathered together, if a collision occurs accidentally, the ships behind must be urgently evaded. At that time, it may collide again when evading, resulting in a chain reaction and a large group of collisions!
If such a thing really happened, Nimitz’s previous exploits on the battlefield would be wiped out in an instant!
Moreover, the foggy weather, reefs and icebergs on the sea, etc., have become more threatening to the fleet, so he had to be careful and slowed down the speed of the fleet to less than eight knots, sailing on the sea at a very low speed!
Originally, the place where they fought with the joint fleet of the foot basin was not too far from the Bermuda Islands, only about a few hundred kilometers.
If this distance is sailed at a speed of 18 knots, it will take at most one day.
However, because they were busy chasing the fleeing Japanese troops, they were delayed for some time and were unable to move westward immediately. When they gathered and prepared to set out, the sea fog came again, which greatly affected their combat progress.
So looking at the fog rising from the sea at this time, Nimitz was obviously not in a good mood
“Report to the commander, we are currently about 160 kilometers away from the Bermuda Islands. At the current speed, we will arrive at the Bermuda Islands in about 12 hours!”
Hearing this news, the expression on Nimitz’s face finally looked a little better!
Half a day, this is acceptable, they will probably arrive at the destination on December 25, that is, before Christmas!
“Tell the Marines to work harder and take over the Bermuda Islands before Christmas. That way, our people can celebrate Christmas on the island!”
Christmas is the most important holiday of the year for Westerners, and its status is almost the same as that of the Spring Festival in China.
Originally, at this time, the soldiers should take a holiday to go home and accompany their wives and children, but because we are in a war period and the situation is tense, they have to go out on missions, so they can’t stay at home to accompany their families.
However, at such an important time, if the soldiers can go to the island to rest for a while and celebrate the holiday, it is not bad. At least it can boost the morale of the army!
After Nimitz’s order was passed down, it really aroused cheers from the German soldiers.
To be honest, it feels pretty bad to stay on a troop transport ship at sea for a long time.
Calculating the time, the Southern Fleet has been on a month and a half since it set out from the Azores. Although it has landed… The fleet set out two weeks ago, but drifting on the sea for two weeks was really bad luck for the Marines squeezed in the landing ships and troop transports!
Although the Marines can adapt to life at sea, this kind of life is not easy at all. Every time they go out on a mission, the soldiers will lose a lot of weight. Moreover, once a naval battle breaks out, they can’t help at all. They can only watch in fear, fearing that they will lose the battle!
Once their escort fleet loses, they will become fish on the chopping board of others, at the mercy of others!