Chapter 152: The British ship is coming
Just when Lee Jun-ho and the German delegation were engaged in intensive cooperation negotiations, the British Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet received an urgent telegram from the British mainland to find the main force of the African People's Army naval fleet and completely annihilate the main force of the African People's Army Navy. At the same time, shelling of shipyards with shipbuilding capabilities along the coast of the African People's Republic.
The Royal Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet, which received a telegram from the British mainland, immediately got busy, and the Royal Navy's African Fleet at this time had four Revenge-class battleships, namely the Oak, the Ramillis, the Revenge, and the Resolve. In addition, there were seven cruisers, twenty-four destroyers, and several frigates. In addition, there is the aircraft carrier USS Athletic. There are only 20 carrier-based aircraft. However, at this time, the African People's Army Navy was equipped with only a handful of warships.
However, at this time, the British Royal Navy officers believed that although the African People's Army Army and Air Force were strong, the navy was estimated to be their weakness, and even their warships were composed of old warships that captured the British Empire and Portugal, and they were very weak in terms of tonnage and firepower. Therefore, there is no need to worry that one-third of one's own fleet can completely annihilate the fleet of the African People's Army Navy.
When sending the Germans away, Shen Yan appeared in front of Li Junhao again strangely, and handed a piece of information in his hand to Li Junhao. The army couldn't beat itself, so it actually sent the navy to find a field. Then Lao Tzu is welcome.
"Commander, side mission, to destroy the British Far Eastern Fleet. 200,000 resource points will be rewarded, and the construction time of the navy will be shortened by half a month. One drawing of the Seahawk fighter of the aviation aircraft, one drawing of the Sea Shark-class torpedo attack, and one drawing of the Seagull-class bomber. Lisa said:
Subsequently, after the naval units of the African People's Army received Li Junhao's combat order, at nine o'clock in the evening, the naval fleet of the African People's Army began a secret assembly. At the same time, four or five submarines were cruising under the water around the assembly area. Closely observe the situation on the sea. As soon as there is information, it will be notified.
It was almost 11:30 a.m. when the African Navy fleet assembled in the Indian Ocean 100 kilometers away from Lindy City, formed a mixed fleet, and under the unified command of Navy Commander Aldrich, began to operate according to the plan deployed by Li Junhao and headed east.
Ten kilometers ahead of the fleet, two submarines were responsible for opening the way, and half of the submarines were moving underwater, with a high degree of concealment. So Aldrich put the submarine in charge of the vigilance patrol of the entire navy from the very beginning.
The British Royal Far East Fleet, which was approaching the coast of the African People's Republic at sea, also looked down on the inconspicuous fleet of the African People's Army Navy at all, and they sent battleships to be the old Retribution-class battleships, which began construction in 1913 and were launched into service in 1916, at this time the ships were already more than 20 years old. One of the flagship battleships of the Courage class is the Oak, which has a displacement tonnage of 28,150 tons and a full load displacement of 33,500 tons. The ship was armed with eight twin 15-inch 42-fold main guns, 16 8-inch 45-fold guns, and two 76-mm guns. 4 533-mm torpedo launchers. The speed is 21. 5 knots. The cruising capacity is 12. 5 knots.
The 15-inch main gun was powerful, had a long range, and could reach more than 40 kilometers, and was specially designed to attack battleships, which could break through armor hundreds of millimeters thick, and the British thought that it would be enough to deal with all the warships of the current African chimpanzee navy.
This time, Britain also dispatched two battleships of the same class as the Oak, 10 cruisers of more than 10,000 tons, and 32 destroyers, frigates, supply ships, and reconnaissance ships, with a total tonnage of more than 250,000 tons, more than two cuts more than the 100,000-ton displacement of the African People's Army Navy.
Compared with the main fleet of the African People's Army, the British have a great advantage in total tonnage and firepower, and the African People's Army Navy does not have a single battleship, only three heavy cruisers with a displacement of about 23,000 tons and a gun caliber of about 305 mm, so the main guns are weaker than the British fleet in terms of range and power. And the three British battleships had a great advantage over the four heavy cruisers of the Navy of the African People's Army, and the only advantage was the superiority of speed and rate of fire over the British fleet.
The cruisers of the African People's Army were eight or nine knots faster than the British cruisers, and eleven or twelve knots faster than the battleships. But the British torpedo boats had a speed of 28 knots, while Lee Jun-ho's cruisers had a speed of only 25 knots. A cruiser hitting a torpedo boat is equivalent to an anti-aircraft gun hitting a mosquito. Needless to say, the difficulties are not to mention. And the 14-inch torpedoes of the British were enough to shred. There were also two 120-mm rapid-fire guns on the torpedo boats. There are 8 35-mm rapid-fire guns, and the speed of the African People's Army Navy is difficult to exert. It will be a one-sided battle, and the African People's Army has not taken seriously the previous battles with the Army, which has always been weaker than our Navy. Their defeat is still washed away by our navy, so we didn't take this battle seriously at all. There are talking and laughing.
At more than five o'clock in the morning, the sky was already slightly white, and the British fleet swaggered from the Indian Ocean to the territorial waters of the African People's Republic, and the two reconnaissance destroyers were carrying out reconnaissance missions more than ten kilometers in front of the fleet, and in the distance behind them, they could see the tall chimneys of the three capital ships, including the Oak and the Revenge, and the watchtowers several tens of meters high, and behind them were lined up in four columns, and more than 20 warships of the British fleet were lined up in four columns, and the thick smoke from the chimneys of the British warships was wafting in the wind in the sky. You can see it very clearly.
A tall middle-aged British man was standing on the bow deck of the USS Oak, holding a telescope and gazing comfortably out to sea, his name was Phillips, he was forty-eight years old, with two thick British gentleman's beards, wearing the white uniform of the British Navy, he was the commander of this fleet, with the rank of admiral.
Standing next to the man was a very thin and tall British soldier, with a round face and broad eyebrows, this person's name was Elvis, the captain of the Oak, with the rank of colonel, equivalent to the rank of regimental commander, and the obscene figures of the two left a long shadow under the lights on the Oak.
"Admiral Phillips, we are almost near the coastal waters of that chimpanzee, and the warships of the British Empire will once again show their might in this lost land, and the time will come for those self-righteous chimpanzees to once again appreciate the power of the British Imperial Navy." The corners of Elvis's mouth outlined a sinister smile, looking at the coastline that could not be seen in the distance, and said grimly.