Pirates

After the start of the Turkish Civil War, the reactionary army once had the upper hand, while the army of the Young Turkish Party was in a defensive posture. Out of extreme disappointment with the Young Turkish Party, Kemal established a new party, the Turkish Democratic Party. At the beginning of the war, he announced an alliance with the Young Turkish Party to fight the Turkish government forces. As the war continued to heat up, Chen tian recruited two more groups of retired veterans in East Prussia. At this time, he sent more than 4,000 troops to Turkey, 15 aircraft, 30 pilots and nearly 100 maintenance and technical personnel, weapons. Ammunition is also continuously transported from Germany to Cassandra.

In front of Chentian, it was the huge military expenditure of the mercenary group. He looked at the books reluctantly. Originally, his various investments as a whole have begun to turn losses into profits, especially the airplane factory, Thomas post office and tractor factory, which can bring him millions of marks every month, but As the scale of the Turkish war expands, military and pension expenditures are also increasing. If the war continues for a long time, his account books will be even more ugly.

"Zac! I really want to grab the bank!" Chen Tian grasped Zac's shoulder and shook forcefully.

"His Royal Highness, I'm in my sixties, so don't toss me like this!" Zach looked at Chentian like a poor rabbit. He was already ready to retire due to his age.

"Then how about we print counterfeit banknotes! Print fake British pounds, fake francs, and holiday yuan?" Chentian scratched his head vigorously, but couldn't think of a good way. Originally, war is a huge consumption to a country's economy, let alone one person to bear it.

"Your Majesty, don't blame me for talking! Your investment situation is already good, why did you join the Turks in the war? They are so far away from us, even if they fight, they have nothing to do with us!" Zach looked at Chen. Tian said this way, a little distressed.

"Zach, don't you understand! With my identity and character, I am not suitable for participating in German politics at all! Being able to cultivate my own power in Turkey is very important for the future of me and Germany!" Through Thomas' intelligence agency, Chen Tian had long learned that the crown prince's focus was on the German political circle. With many members and eyes and ears, it was difficult for him to make a difference in politics, so he had to look for another opportunity for development. Kemal's arrival gave him hope. This man not only has outstanding military talents, but also can be made in internal affairs. Compared with Lenin and the Russian Revolutionary Party, Kemal is a more trustworthy ally, so Chen Tian decided to fully invest in this potential stock.

Thinking of Lenin, Chentian began to worry about another thing again. It seems that leaving Lenin in Germany to avoid being wanted by the Tsarist Russian government seems to be a bit of an intrigue. This guy not only developed his own power here, but also instilled communist ideology into the German mass class. In the past two years, workers' strikes occurred from time to time in East Prussia. Chentian had to work hard to settle these strikes. Prussian capitalists have already criticized this. He had to find Lenin and clearly told him not to engage in political activities in Germany in the future, otherwise the covenant between them would be cancelled, and the East Prussian labor movement calmed down. This incident also reminded Chen Tian. He was ousted from power by the so-called revolution in the World War I. He could not only focus on the economy and the military, but also began to build up the mass base. Beginning last year, he began to improve the welfare of East Prussian farmers and workers, including reducing working hours, raising basic wages, building welfare facilities, lowering agricultural product tax rates and subsidizing farmers' income, etc., and at the same time, in order to take care of the interests of capitalists, Chen Chen The day had no choice but to let the East Prussian local government and even himself subsidize the capitalists, such as tax reduction or exemption from factories with well-treated workers. In this way, the workers, peasants and capitalists are satisfied, but the income of the East Prussian local government has dropped, and even he himself spent a lot of money on this. It was in this situation that the poor prince would bother for money.

Kemal in Turkey is even more depressed. His army has grown to more than 10,000 people. The monthly salary of soldiers is a lot of expenditure. Fortunately, Chentian is still providing financial assistance to himself. But this is not a long-term solution. After leaving the Young Turkish Party, all expenses of the hired corps will be borne by itself. In addition, German materials need several months to bypass the Strait of Gibraltar and cross the entire Mediterranean Sea to arrive by sea. Air transportation by plane requires refueling midway, and large amounts of ammunition cannot be transported by air. The problem before him is to occupy a base that can provide supplies and ammunition as soon as possible. It is a pity that the cities around Cassandra are under the control of his ally, the Young Turkey Party. This geographical location is very good for training the new army, but it is not conducive to developing their own territory.

The sound of a steamer's whistle awakened Kemal, who was scratching his head, from his thoughts. Through the window, he saw a German steamer slowly approaching the pier, but there were two dark objects behind the ship. He was crawling out of those two things that looked like but not ships. He rubbed his eyes and found that this was indeed not his illusion, and quickly put on his coat and ran to the dock.

When he arrived at the dock, there were already many soldiers watching, and Ollie was chatting with the people who climbed out of the two strange boats.

"Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, this is..." Kemal asked strangely.

"Let's go back and talk in detail!" Oli took Kemal and the man back to Kemal's office quickly.

"Philip Schonel, Captain of the German Navy, belonging to the submarine unit of the German Baltic Squadron, was ordered to come under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Ollie!" The man took off his poncho-style coat, revealing the German navy uniform.

"Kemal, the commander here! Are those two submarines you mentioned just now?"

"Yes! These two are U-shaped submarines that we launched just last year, numbered U-006 and U-007!" Philip stood upright and answered.

"Can they really dive into the water?" Kemal did not know much about submarines as well as airplanes.

"Yes, Lord General! Our U-shaped submarine can dive to a depth of 30 meters, and is equipped with three torpedo tubes, two in the bow and one in the stern. The boat can carry a total of 10 torpedoes, and We also brought 30 torpedoes with us on the transport ship."

"They... can launch torpedoes underwater?" Kemal's eyes widened.

"Yes, we can attack with torpedoes almost undetected by the enemy!" Philip answered with a proud chest.

"Captain Philip, don't mind telling us about the tactics of submarines!" Kemal walked to the window again and looked at the two submarines at the dock. While listening to Philip's explanation, he thought of another thing in his heart.

At present, most of the Turkish navy is in the hands of the reactionary "Muhammad Alliance" and the commercial comprador class "Free Alliance". They are Turkey's richest nobles and merchants, and their merchant ships frequently travel between Turkey and Greece. In the Qin Sea, as several cruisers and destroyers of the Turkish Navy cruised in the Aegean Sea, Kemal had never had the idea of ​​hitting these merchant ships before, but the arrival of Philip and his submarines gave him new ideas and made him rich. good idea.

After a detailed plan, Kemal and others decided to attack and rob the reactionary merchant ships.

In order to obtain the regularity of the activities of Turkish merchant ships and warships, three flying teams of the mercenary regiment conducted a week of reconnaissance at the exit of the Dardanelles 100 nautical miles southeast of Cassandra, and finally they set the target of the first robbery It is set on the Turkish merchant ship Hailar.

On a clear evening, the captain Bernd in the captain's cabin of the "Hailar" was dangling his big pipe, looking at the vast sea between the North Sporades Islands and Lemnos. The "Hail" is a steam-powered merchant ship with a displacement of 7000 tons, which mainly travels between Istanbul and Athens. The owner is a wealthy businessman in Turkey and a member of the current ruling "Free Alliance". Bernd knew that such a cargo was worth millions of pounds, but he never worried about accidents. Not only because of the dozens of heavily armed crew and several machine guns on board, but also because of the two most powerful cruisers in Turkey-Bursa and Ereli, and several other destroyers in this sea area. It seems that for a long time No thief dared to challenge this Turkish navy fleet.

Two nautical miles ahead of the left and front of the "Hailar", under the calm sea there was a pair of eyes staring at the Turkish merchant ship, which was full of money and Greek cargo. Captain Philip quietly watched "Halar" approaching him, calculating the opponent's speed and heading, and suddenly he closed the periscope and shouted loudly:

"Put away the periscope and go up urgently!"

Woo...oo...

The sirens in the submarine sounded harshly, and the red wall lamps flashed and urged the crew to move quickly.

"Quick! Get on the front deck and prepare for the artillery!" Philip commanded one after another calmly. This U-shaped submarine is equipped with a 75mm rapid-fire gun on the front deck to deal with unarmed small ships.

The crew of the "Hailar" watched in horror as a huge "whale" suddenly floated on the bottom of the sea, but this "whale" had a particularly smooth line and a large "fin" on its back.

"Oh my God! What is that?" Bernd saw through the binoculars that it was not a whale at all, and people kept crawling out of it, uncovering what was covered by the canvas on the front of the thing, and it turned out to be a cannon. The muzzle of the cannon turned quickly and quickly aimed at himself. Seeing the gun muzzle reddened, he closed his eyes tightly in fright. "God bless!"

After the two shots, Captain Philip grinned as he looked at the messed up crew of the Hailar.

"Signal soldiers, use semaphores to tell them that we are Aegean pirates, let them abandon the ship!"

Soon, while praying to Allah, Bernd left with his sailors in a boat.

A few minutes later, two rubber dinghies were also put down on the submarine. A dozen sailors quickly boarded the "Hailar" and started the ship, heading towards Cassandra.