On Soud Island, the southernmost tip of the Faroe Islands, the British officers and soldiers were finally in a daze. According to Greenwich time in the same time zone, it was only 4 pm. Under the deep night, the bright moonlight covered the islands and the sea with a hazy silver gauze, and the Sandwich coast became freckles covered by the curtains. Here, almost all the things that could be burned became coke, and there were cold remains and remains everywhere, only the ruins with smoke and prisoners of war dragging their wounded bodies still left some warmth.

The British officers and soldiers deployed south of Sandevich were in a mood like the tortured coast of Sandevich. They were overwhelmed by the rapid attack of the Germans, and then they became deeply worried about the existing defensive deployment. They originally thought that the German team would stop a large-scale attack after nightfall, so that the British troops on the island would have a chance to deal with it, but the Germans did not play by the routine at all. Under the guidance of the ship's searchlight, hundreds of German soldiers crossed the bodies of British troops who died in the shelling and attacked the ridge of the south side of Sandevich with great decisiveness. The British troops stationed here only lasted for more than twenty minutes before collapse.

The British thought that the German army attacked the high ground quickly to protect the landing ground, but they made a wrong judgment. After a short rest, the German team rushed towards Kvalbar like a tiger down the mountain. When the German army had just launched the landing war in Soud Island, the British troops had more than 3,000 troops in Kvalbar, which was the strongest defense line on the island. In order to prevent the German fleet's artillery, the British Royal Marines built a large-scale defense system here. The trench alone dug more than 40 kilometers. On average, the length of the trench excavated by each soldier was nearly twenty meters. It was only because of the limitations of objective conditions such as hard surface and sparse vegetation, which was unable to build a field fortification comparable to the Western Front. However, during the day

During the battle, the British commander drew more than a thousand soldiers from Kvalba to help Sandevich. As a result, the troops were devastating shelling from the German fleet as soon as they crossed the ridge. Kvalba's defenders were reduced by one-third, and their morale was greatly shaken. The German troops who went down the mountain attacked the British defense line in one go, and the two sides launched fierce close combat along the trenches. Although the Germans could not get support from naval guns and aircraft in such a battle, they obviously overwhelmed the British army in momentum, and had much more automatic and semi-automatic weapons, pistols, light machine guns and grenades than the British Marines, invincible in the positional battle.

In less than an hour, more than half of the British troops' positions in Kvalba were lost.

Sir Grierson, the British Marine General and the commander-in-chief of Soud Island, personally supervised the battle and brought reinforcements from the southern defense line of the island. These new forces were timely invested in tactical counterattacks, which curbed the German offensive momentum. The British Marines wanted to use this counterattack to expel the German army, who was at a disadvantage, from Kvalba, but the German naval infantry was very fast from attack to defense, and the combat units cooperated tacitly and quickly stabilized their positions based on the trenches dug by the British army, and used the dense firepower of gunfire to make the British troops who had overstrikes pay a heavy price.

At this point, nearly half of the British troops commanded by Sir Grierson have suffered casualties, while the German support troops are still landing on Soud Island continuously, one is rising and the other is getting worse, and the battlefield situation is extremely unfavorable to the defenders...

On the coast of Sandwich, landing crafts and small transport ships were busy shuttled between the German fleet and the harbor, transporting combat personnel and equipment to Soud Island. The German landing forces pushed the front line to Kvalba, and the British could only threaten the German landing ground in Sandwich with sporadic artillery fire. In addition to the combat echelons transported from Thors Port, the landing troops from Germany also went directly to the Sandwich Port Port to gather the German officers and soldiers of this era, although they were known for their perseverance and hard-working will, they were not cast by steel, after all, they were not a body made of steel, with long bumps and physical and mental fatigue. According to normal circumstances, it would take at least one to two days to rest. Now that the line of fire is on the line, it is not a continuation of the routine. In the event of a bad situation, it is a stopgap measure to deal with the insufficient landing force.

Whether it is good or bad depends entirely on the commander's planning.

Most of the German boats that transported troops and equipment to land on land were small tonnage and shallow draft. Under the direct protection of large and small ships, it was not easy to become targets of enemy submarines or high-speed torpedo boats. However, the transport ships carrying combat troops and combat materials were different. The more than ten ships that first unloaded empty cargo had returned to sail, but there were still more than twenty medium-sized ships of various types on the sea surface more than ten kilometers offshore. The fully armed German soldiers climbed down the side of the ship along the rope ladder, boarded the small boats waiting beside them, and then headed to Sandevich. The cranes on the cargo ships kept transferring boxes and bags of combat materials to light

Ships are transported from them to landing beaches. Around these busy ships, the German Navy's large torpedo boats are all-round and multi-level maritime defense. There are almost no old class 1898 among them. There are not many class 1906, which is known as the "naval war horse". There are as many as ten in the 1911 class, which is not very active in the support operations on the other side, and even the latest 1913 class. The difference between new and old battleships is not only in tonnage, speed and number of weapons. The latter two are large in size and load-load, and have been given the role of multi-functional ships at the beginning of their design. They are equipped with

The primary model of underwater detection instruments was prepared and was equipped with deep-water bomb drops, which could carry 10 to 40 deep-water bombs. Since the outbreak of the war, German naval ships and aviation forces have successively sunk 37 Allied submarines, which only accounts for a small proportion of the huge submarine group of Allied countries. During the same period, the Allied countries' ships sunk 41 German submarines. From the absolute figure, the Allied countries' anti-submarine performance was superior. If calculated based on the total number of attacks on the Allied submarines, the situation reflected is very different. German naval ships and aviation forces have invested more than 200 anti-submarine operations in the past four months.

, consumed tens of thousands of shells and more than 3,000 anti-submarine bombs, and the anti-submarine operations of ships and aircraft were much more active than those of the opponents. The reason why the Allied Navy achieved more results was closely related to the strategic deployment of German submarines. Among the sunken German submarines, most of the German submarines were lost in the North Atlantic Ocean, and the enemy ships were killed due to mechanical failures, which accounted for a significant proportion. The Allied submarines were basically sunk during combat missions in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, and the number of submarines sunk in the submarine state was 29, while Germany had only 11. Compared with the two, the highest difference was divided.

In order to guard against night attacks by British submarines and high-speed torpedo boats, German light ships, which were on guard and escort missions, were always highly vigilant about the surrounding sea surface. The searchlights of large torpedo boats deployed on the outermost periphery were on, and the gunners had loaded the shells and could open fire at suspicious targets nearby at any time. Despite this, the alert defense network of German ships was far from being airtight. The loopholes observed in the naked eye made the conscientious officers and soldiers always stayed there, hoping that their transport ships could finish the mission as soon as possible.

At around 5 o'clock, a large German torpedo boat that was on guard on the northern sea of ​​Xiaodimen Island discovered a periscope on the sea surface. Since the German submarines deployed in this area had relatively fixed positions, the sea conditions did not allow experienced German captains to enter the restricted area. Therefore, the 1911-grade German large torpedo boat immediately opened fire with a 105mm main gun. The gunners' rapid fire was very accurate, and several shells fell near the periscope. However, unless the periscope was destroyed, it would be difficult to pose a direct threat to the submarine whose main body was about ten meters underwater. The periscope disappeared quickly. The nearest large German torpedo boat rushed over and saw the location where the periscope appeared. The dull roar of the shell explosion made thousands of German officers and soldiers nervous.

40 minutes later, the most pessimistic situation that the Germans could predict was still the case. The 4,600-ton fast cargo ship "Elsey" was hit by a quietly attacking torpedo. The violent explosion tore its rudder, propeller, and a large hull at the rear. In just two minutes, the cargo ship with more than 800 tons of ammunition and 30 military motorcycles sank into the seabed with a bow facing upwards. Nearly half of the 49 crew members failed to escape in time.

The sinking of "Elsey" made the German naval officers and soldiers involved in the escort feel ashamed and angry. The two large torpedo boats immediately followed the torpedo tracks in reverse, but their passive detection equipment did not find anything under the water. This means that the British submarine cunningly shut down the engine after the attack. Faced with the cunning attackers, the German captains had their own way to deal with it. They calculated the approximate position of the target based on the torpedo tracks and the combat habits of the British submarines, and then divided the area into several pieces, and used signal lights to summon friendly ships to "hun". As deep water bombs were thrown into the water one after another, dull explosions came one after another, and the sea surface was constantly rolling with splashing foam. When the 99th deep water bomb was dropped, oil traces and debris finally appeared under the beam of the searchlight.
Chapter completed!