A Frenchman, to be precise, is a Frenchman who wears a Spanish coat and then an American coat. It is professional. Once the three parties reached an agreement, they acted immediately.

The mine-laying operation is carried out at night, so as to avoid being discovered by the British, and it is easy to escape even if discovered by the British. Even considering this, Bray specifically chose when there was no bright moon. In this era, the navy has almost no combat capability under such circumstances.

But working at night like this, there is another problem, that is, how to accurately locate in the dark night. Otherwise, it is stipulated to mine mine in the "Area No. 1" tonight, and mine in the "Area No. 2" tomorrow. But because it was too dark, it was difficult to determine the location. As a result, the mines that were supposed to be deployed in the "Area No. 1" were placed in the "Area No. 2", and then they were successfully positioned the next day and ran to the "Area No. 2". As a result, he was blown up by the mine that he had set up. Then who should I talk to?

As for the navigation method, it is actually not difficult. Just six kilometers east of Algecias is the port of Gibraltar. Use the lighthouse of Algecias port and the lighthouse of the fortress of Gibraltar, and another place in Spain. The lights on the location can easily determine the location of the ship.

After the Spaniards claimed to take back Gibraltar, the British navy naturally increased its alert level. Even at night, the British observation post remained vigilant.

This day is the first quarter of the moon. The moon came out early. Of course, the setting was also early. In the second half of the night, the moon had set, but the sun had not come out yet. Only a dark blue sky remained. Except for a few sentries, everything Fell asleep.

Private Hamm just came to take over. It said that we must be extra vigilant these days, because the situation is very tense, maybe something will happen. Therefore, Hamm is also very vigilant at his post. It's just that it's pitch black now, especially on the surface of the sea.

At this time, ears are more important than eyes.

In the darkness, the sea breeze came, bringing the sound of waves. Hamm listened boredly to the sound of the waves, and somehow remembered his hometown in Scotland...

At this moment, Hamm suddenly heard a "boom" from the sea, like a big fish jumping up and falling into the sea again.

"Maybe it's a dolphin." Hamm thought. In this bay, you can often see groups of dolphins jumping happily there. But it's all day, and it's night now, don't those dolphins sleep?

But this is a dolphin business, it has nothing to do with Hamm, and the sea is dark, so you can't see anything anyway.

"Boom!" There was another sound.

"It looks like those dolphins are very lively. They don't sleep honestly at night, and don't know what they are doing." Hamm thought this way, and soon his thoughts started to stray, not knowing where to go. Just like the later Virginia Woolf, one day in January, suddenly saw a spot on the wall.

At this time, the dark sea also began to change magically. On the dark curtain, jumping dolphins appeared, just like the dolphins that Hamm saw on the cliffs on the coast of Scotland when he was a child. The sea breeze at that time was also blowing like this, but the sea breeze in Scotland was much cooler than here. Unlike here, the wind was hot and wet...

Thinking about this, Hamm suddenly heard footsteps, and from the footsteps, he knew that it was Captain Hayrington who came to check the guard. So he quickly squeezed the rifle in his hand and made a look of loyalty to his duty.

Sure enough, he soon saw Captain Hellington carrying a lantern and turning out of the corner over there.

"Well, private, yes, very energetic!" Captain Hellington was obviously satisfied with Hamm's condition at this time. He stretched out his hand and patted Hamm on the shoulder. "Anything?"

"Sir, it's nothing, but the dolphins in the bay are very active tonight, they are always jumping around." Hamm replied.

"I heard that sometimes if a shark or killer whale approaches, the dolphins may often jump out of the water because of panic." Captain Harrington replied. Obviously, he didn't regard this matter as a big deal. Anyway, neither sharks nor killer whales can swim ashore to attack them.

This night, the dolphins were very busy, and they didn't gradually stop until dawn.

The next morning, a food-carrying ship from North Africa exploded suddenly when it entered the port of Gibraltar and sank quickly to the bottom of the sea. Immediately afterwards, the British patrol ship that went out to rescue people also exploded.

The huge explosion directly exploded the thin patrol ship into two pieces.

"Mine! This must have been done by the **** Spaniards, they must have been secretly laying mines on our waterway!" General Will, the commander of the fortress, jumped up.

The occurrence of mines on the channel of the Port of Gibraltar spread across Europe all at once. The British immediately summoned the Spanish ambassador and demanded an explanation from Spain.

Regarding the accusations made by the British, the Spaniard immediately said: I am not, I do not, don't talk nonsense! The Spanish publicly stated that Spain has nothing to do with the mine incident in the port of Gibraltar.

Then the U.S. Ambassador to France announced a press conference. At the press conference, the U.S. Ambassador announced that it was the warriors of the U.S. Navy who attacked the British in Gibraltar with mines. The US ambassador also stated that this is a counterattack to the crimes against humanity committed by the British Navy in the United States. The warriors of the US Navy will continue to launch such attacks in the future, and the scope of the attacks will never be limited to Gibraltar.

"We will fight in Gibraltar, we will fight in Ireland, we will fight in Scotland and Wales, we will fight in England, in the heart of the enemy—London. We will put the flames of war on the British brutally The tyranny of other nations will be returned to the British!"

The statements made by the Americans are quite credible in the eyes of most countries. The fact that the British burned Savannah has spread throughout Europe. The newspapers under the guidance of the Ministry of Truth are extremely exaggerated, describing the British as terrifying than Genghis Khan.

The entire European continent, almost all countries, and all media immediately followed suit and began to criticize the British for their brutality. Now the Americans claim that it is their navy who has sailed across oceans to avenge. Everyone thinks it makes sense, and they all think they like it.

Originally, when everyone still suspected that the Spaniards were laying mines on the route outside the port of Gibraltar, although Spain was considered an ally of France, there was generally no explicit accusation against him, but everyone also felt that without a declaration of war It is really not a gentleman to persecute the British in such a trivial way as laying mines.

But now, since the Americans claimed to be responsible for this matter, everyone believed it and even apologized for the Spaniards. And everyone also believes that considering the appalling crimes committed by the British in Savannah, no matter what means the Americans use to fight back, it is legal and just. Everyone now doesn't feel that the Americans use the method of mine to fight back. There is nothing gentler enough about the Americans' actions. Instead, they feel that the Americans' actions are too in line with the laws of Moses.

Even the British have some doubts about what the Americans say. They know that the United States itself does not have the technical ability to produce mines. Regarding the use of the maritime superiority of the naval power by the admiralty of the mines to create a lot of trouble, neither the British nor the French have the intention of spreading technology outside. So the American mines, without even thinking about it, must have been sold to them by the French.

Of course, the British know that the French will never admit this. This thing, mostly like the two colonial cruisers that the French later leased to the Americans, was transferred through Erdaomen. In short, it has nothing to do with the French.

If the Americans really did it, then why did the Americans choose Gibraltar instead of the British mainland? But after a little thought, the British have the answer.

The Americans have traveled across the oceans and they are not familiar with the hydrology of Europe. It is very difficult to initiate such an action. So they definitely need the help and cooperation of other countries to accomplish such a thing. The Spaniards are just hitting the idea of ​​Gibraltar. The Spaniards must have provided a lot of help for these Yankees. Considering that just before this incident, an officer's club on the Spaniard's side suddenly had to be renovated, and it was renovated at night, so they lit a very bright electric light on the spot.

"General, this is our lighthouse, this is the Spanish lighthouse, and here is the light used for decoration at night. When these three lights are on, ships on the sea at night can easily be based on the three The angle of the lamp is measured to calculate its exact position.” At the Gibraltar Fortress, Commander General Will was listening to technical reports from his subordinates.

"In other words, if we turn off our own lighthouses at night, will these Yankees be unable to accurately locate them?" asked another staff officer present.

"How could it be that simple. Even if we turn off our lighthouse, they will turn on another light in another place." General Will said, "The only way to do this now is for them to mine at night. How about us, I went to mine clearing during the day."

In the battle against the Barbary pirates, the French demonstrated their mine-sweeping capabilities. The British quickly learned about this, and through questioning witnesses, the British quickly understood the basic principles of the French minesweeper. So the British quickly copied their minesweepers.

So the British drove out the minesweeper, and the British minesweeper A went up. The British minesweeper swept out dozens of anchor mines, and then a passage into the port was opened, and then one entered the port. The ship struck another mine and exploded.

After the French knew that the British had also copied minesweepers, they improved their anchor mines. There is an anchor mine, in which two mines are connected by a rope that is not too strong. The anchor chain of one of the anchor mines was unfolded, and it would explode as soon as a ship hits it. For the other one, the anchor chain on its mine body was tightened, so the mine body also sank under the water. Only the first mine exploded or was swept away (during these two processes. The rope connecting them will be broken), and then after more than ten minutes or longer, the anchor chain of the second mine will be released, and the mine body will float to the bottom of the enemy’s ship. depth.

The effect of this is that when the minesweeper has just swept an area, perhaps more than ten minutes later, the area becomes unsafe again. Just like this time, a passage has just been cleared, and as a result, the ship entering the port along the passage hit an anchor mine that just floated.

In the evening, the "Americans" naturally moved out again and continued to mine outside the port of Gibraltar. Then, the British came to mine mines during the day, and the "Americans" came to mine at night, which was very busy.

Except for Gibraltar, all port cities in the UK have increased their vigilance-who knows if the "Americans" will sneak over ~lightnovelpub.net~ and drop a string of mines on your port's route? All ports across the UK have strengthened their defenses and even organized night patrols.

These actions have naturally greatly increased the burden on the British government, making the British government, which is already in a financial crisis, even more difficult. In response to the current situation, the British government has to rely on continuous issuance of national debt to solve the deficit problem. But because everyone is generally not optimistic about the United Kingdom, the sales of British government bonds have become a problem, so that they have to agree to provide high discounts to the banks that sell them. This is actually equivalent to assuming a higher interest rate, which is closer to one. This kind of drinking is the practice of quenching thirst.

This situation has actually led to the fact that in North America, the British can no longer send new reinforcements. Even the order to transfer back to the fleet has been issued. It's just that the fleet has not received such an order.

And when Britain's attention was focused on the mainland and Gibraltar, a merchant ship had just left Rotterdam for Cape Town. A cobbler named Philip boarded this ship, which is also a common occurrence. Nowadays, the economy in Europe is not prosperous. Some craftsmen have a hard time. Many people choose to go to America, India or Africa. This cobbler named Philip may be one of them.

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