Chapter 165 Battle of Madagascar 6

Conrad, the wounded French governor in Madagascar, was taken to the hospital for emergency treatment, not so much as being treated for his injuries but by the saturation of the public bombardment of the African People's Liberation Air Force.

After receiving Conrad's report, the French government panicked, and Albert Lebrun, as the president of France, panicked after receiving this information. He hurriedly summoned all his think tanks to his office and held an emergency meeting.

In the end, the result of the discussion was to gather all the main French naval forces in the Indian Ocean and fight the damned main forces of the African People's Liberation Army Navy in order to annihilate them in the Mozambique Channel in one fell swoop. As a noble old European power, how could it bow to the newly independent countries of the colonies.

As a result, the French navy in various parts of Africa received orders from the French government for a while, and these warships began to gather towards the Mozambique Channel.

As all the intelligence personnel of the African People's Republic, they quickly learned of this information and reported it to the intelligence department of the African People's Liberation Army as soon as possible, so the headquarters of the African People's Liberation Army Headquarters received this information and quickly issued a combat order to the navy. Total annihilation of the French Navy in Mozambique.

So the whole Navy got busy. The sea haze in the Mozambique Channel region of Africa has not yet dissipated. Thick clouds stopped the sun from rising. The waves gently blown by the sea breeze slapped against the hull of the Q-class submarine with the port number 078, and the whole submarine shook slightly. There was no sound of the waves blowing in the sea breeze and the dullness of the submarine diesel engine.

Captain Beauwell. Sachs stood in the submarine's conning tower with an anti-fog telescope and watched through a window to see the situation around him, due to the serious shortage of middle and low-ranking officers in the navy. As the first batch of old people in the Navy to reflect the enlistment, plus their own hard work. was appointed as the captain of the ship by the commander of the navy, Jarvis, or I am afraid that he would still wipe the shells of the naval warship.

Since the order to retake Madagascar was issued, the Air Force assumed the main force of the offensive in the early stage. But the navy, another important force in the three services, also began to act. The Navy's submarine forces have frequently operated around the island of Madagascar, attacking all warships or ships that travel between France and Madagascar, especially after the French Government has issued an order to fight with itself. And this time it was the turn of the submarine No. 078 to go to sea for a cruise.

How to say it, the submarine forces of the African People's Liberation Army Navy started earlier than other surface ships. In addition, Li Puyu knows the role of submarines very well. So now the submarine forces of the Navy have developed, growing to almost two hundred submarines. Among them, the main submarine Q2 class submarine. The remaining submarines are of the Q1 and Q3 classes. We Beauwell. Captain Sachs commanded the latest Q3-class torpedo attack submarine. The German U-boat got its name because the German word for submarine is Untersee-boot. Li Puyu followed suit. The class of the submarine was named after the first initial of the Chinese submarine.

In order to prevent a major accident, Li Puyu deployed 50 such Q-type submarines around 50 nautical miles of Madagascar Island to reconnoiter the situation. Although a submarine can last about a week, every cruise takes time. So Li Puyu sprinkled fifty submarines in this palm-sized place.

But the 078 submarine has been patrolling the sea for half a day, not to mention the French fleet, that is, not even a single cargo ship has been seen. This makes Bowell. Saxophone was really depressed. Am I going to work in vain today?

"The captain is northwest of me, and the fleet is coming towards us. The number is unknown. However, according to the sonar data, it can be judged that it is the French fleet. At this time, Carlisle, as his deputy, came to Beauwell. Said in front of Sachs. Carlisle was a standard Red Guard Naval Academy student. Because there is currently a serious shortage of large ships in the Navy. They were temporarily sent to the submarine force as reserve officers to study as deputies. Sooner or later, I'm leaving.

But at the moment, these are not what he has to think about, what he has to think about is the things in front of him. So Beauwell. Sachs decisively gave the order to dive urgently. At the same time, he ordered his deputy Carlisle to send a telegram to the naval headquarters to report what he had discovered.

Soon the alarm sounded in the submarine for an emergency dive, and the red light for the dive notification in the boat began to flash.

"Bang dang!" When the last diver entered the submarine, the soldier in charge of closing the submarine's valve turned the valve to tighten the submarine's diving pressure cap. Sachs is already in the position of the periscope.

"Order the submarine to immediately dive to a depth of fifty meters and raise the periscope! Everyone immediately returned to their posts, and the submarine immediately shut down and went into hibernation! Lao Tzu wants to see your true face" As a series of orders were issued, the submarine soon entered a strange atmosphere before the battle, and the submarine suddenly became silent, only the sound of heavy breathing came from time to time. Although the sailors of the submarines, like their captains, were from a systematic background with a wealth of experience in naval warfare, all the soldiers entered their respective posts and got busy.

"The periscope has risen!"

Beauwell. Sachs decisively gave the order. At the same time, he grabbed the armrest of the periscope with both hands, and brought his eyes to the lowered periscope to see that the sea was still gray, and the visibility was not very high, only about one or two thousand meters away, so he had to wait and see what was going on.

Seeing this, Beauwell. Sachs frowned and said to Carlisle, "Immediately notify the sonar room to confirm the number of other ships, as well as the tonnage and model of the ships as quickly as possible." Don't ask Commander Jarvis when we don't know. ”

"The captain can currently confirm their number and tonnage, one ship of more than 30,000 tons, two ships of more than 10,000 tons. Six ships of less than 10,000 tons, and twelve ships of more than 3,000 tons. Twenty-two ships of about 2,000 tons. He is less than ten nautical miles away. Carlisle said:

"Grandma is a bear, I finally let Lao Tzu wait, this is the French fleet. Tell the commander what we got this time. At the same time, inform the submarines operating around us that they are coming closer to us, and I intend to take his vote. Otherwise, my heart is itching. "Beauwell. Sachs says: