Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Unfortunately, the scene of the destroyers turning their guns to scare the cargo ships was captured on camera and sent to the newspaper. The media, which did not take the matter seriously, immediately reported the incident with added fuel and jealousy, causing an uproar among the public.

The army supported by taxpayers actually turns its guns on taxpayers?

Is this a rebellion? !

Several shipping associations in the United States immediately announced that all ships under their jurisdiction would stop shipping and go on strike to prevent ships from being sunk by their own troops; strikes and protests also occurred in other industries.

"These idiots! Are they crazy?!" President Roosevelt looked at the newspaper article and felt the blood vessels on his temples throbbing. After looking at the name of the newspaper, Roosevelt's brows suddenly tightened. "These hateful Jews!" He had long known that the Jews in the United States were flirting with the Jews in Europe, and they would do things to cause trouble for the United States from time to time. Just like this newspaper, it was also published by these Jewish newspapers.

Sometimes Roosevelt really envied the dictatorial rule of the German Crown Prince. If the Jews in Germany dared to be so unbridled, all their property would have been confiscated long ago, and the whole family would have been dragged into a concentration camp to work hard. It's a pity that he is the president of the country, so he can only think about this kind of thing.

He immediately convened a meeting of the Admiralty Department and severely reprimanded all senior officials. "They didn't even find a German submarine, but they vented their anger on the people? What are they going to do? Do they really want to fire or something?" Fortunately, these guys still have the last shred of sense and don't really fire. Otherwise, if Germany doesn't have to fight, the United States will be in chaos.

A series of officials from top to bottom were dismissed from their posts and kicked out of the military. The Navy Commander-in-Chief personally apologized to the media and repeatedly promised that such a situation would never happen again. This matter finally settled down.

But the threat from German submarines has not been eliminated. "General Ernest, what happened to the German submarines? How come not even one of them has been sunk yet?!" In just two days, the tonnage of ships sunk by German submarines has exceeded 100,000 tons. To do this If this continues, America's maritime transportation lines will collapse before long.

Ernest also had a headache about this matter. The destroyer, the nemesis of submarines, could not catch the elusive German submarine. "Maybe the German submarines used some new stealth technology."

Roosevelt waved his hand impatiently, interrupting his explanation. "I don't care what new methods and technologies they use, I only want one result, which is to sink those damn submarines! Send them all to the bottom of the sea!"

"We are stepping up the development of more advanced sonar and radar, but these will take time." Ernest said helplessly. "Currently, the only way is to increase the number of patrol ships." The North Atlantic coastline of the United States is more than 2,000 kilometers, and even if one patrol ship is deployed every two kilometers, it will require a thousand patrol ships. This is not a small number. But Ernest felt that the gap of two kilometers was too big, and he wished he could deploy one ship every 500 meters to form an iron wall!

Roosevelt thought about it for a while, and suddenly had an idea. "Can we learn from the combat experience of the Q ship in the last war? Lead the German submarine to the bait?"

During the last war, the German submarine force launched a series of attacks on merchant ships of the Allied Powers, seriously threatening the "sea lifeline" on which Britain relied for survival. The two sides launched a desperate struggle to protect and destroy sea lines of communication.

In the early days of the war, German submarine captains strictly abided by the rules of engagement. They first stopped the merchant ship with warning shots. If it was found to be an enemy ship, they would wait until the crew and passengers left in lifeboats before sinking the merchant ship. When submarines face small and medium-sized merchant ships, in order to save torpedoes, they usually surface and use deck guns to sink the merchant ships.

This approach caused the German submarines to lose their greatest combat advantage of concealment.

The British quickly took advantage of this opportunity and developed a unique anti-submarine equipment - the Q boat.

The Q ship is an anti-submarine ship disguised as a merchant ship. Its mission is to deceive, trap and sink German submarines. In appearance, the Q ship is no different from an ordinary merchant ship, but it is equipped with anti-submarine weapons such as artillery, torpedoes, and depth bombs. This camouflaged anti-submarine ship is based in Queenstown, Ireland, as its home port, hence the name Q ship, which is also known as the "bait ship" and "mystery ship."

Q ships are generally modified from freighters with a displacement of 1,000 to 5,000 tons. The purpose is to ensure that when discovered by a German submarine, its captain will determine that the Q ship is a valuable target and will not use torpedoes when choosing attack methods. Instead choose the deck gun.

In order to deceive opponents, Q ships usually pile large wooden boxes, planks, etc. on the deck to cover the weapons on the ship, and use canvas to camouflage the hull. Sometimes the Q ship will change its painting at night, or even temporarily modify the superstructure of the hull at sea. There is also a group of well-trained "actors" on the Q ship. After discovering the German submarine, the crew will run around in panic on the deck, and some crew members will lower the lifeboat to "escape." After being shelled, the crew would light dried seaweed to release thick smoke, and use modified pipes to emit large amounts of steam to create the illusion that the hull was directly hit by the shell, luring the submarine closer.

On June 23, 1915, the Q ship achieved its first victory. The Q-boat "Taranaki" converted from a tugboat operates in conjunction with the British C-24 submarine. The former lured the German U-40 submarine to approach and surface, while the latter hid behind it and launched torpedoes to sink the German submarine.

On July 24, 1915, the German U-36 submarine encountered the Q ship "Prince Charles" in the waters north of the Hebrides. The U-36 submarine approached the "Prince Charles" and ordered it to stop sailing. When the U-36 submarine was 600 meters away from the "Prince Charles", the latter suddenly raised the British naval flag and fired its guns. The U-36 submarine was hit by multiple shells and sank. This is the first independent victory achieved by the Q ship.

As of January 1917, 9 U-boats had been sunk by Q ships, while the British army had only lost 2 Q ships. However, as Germany launched "unrestricted submarine warfare", the number of submarine attacks on merchant ships without warning increased significantly, mostly using torpedo attacks. Changes in the German rules of engagement have significantly reduced the combat effectiveness of Q ships. From February 1917 to the end of World War I, only 3 German submarines were sunk by Q ships, and as many as 23 Q ships were sunk.

As a temporary anti-submarine means, the Q boat has limited direct results, but it buys time for the development of effective anti-submarine techniques and tactics. The existence of the Q ship forced German submarines to spend a lot of time identifying targets, which virtually prevented many merchant ships from being attacked. In order to ensure their own safety, German submarines prefer to use a limited number of torpedoes to carry out attacks, which also reduces the number of attacks they can launch, objectively improving the security of British sea lines of communication.

Ernest shook his head. "I'm afraid it's useless, Mr. President. Today, German submarines are practicing 'unrestricted submarine warfare'. They all attack with torpedoes underwater. So far, there is no record of German submarines surfacing and attacking with deck guns." He only said I know about the German U-shaped submarines, but I don’t know that the German army has put into service a new type of super submarine. This new type of submarine has canceled the deck gun and cannot surface to attack.

Roosevelt sighed depressedly, and just as he was about to say something, his secretary hurried in. "Mr. President, something big happened in the Panama Canal!"