Chapter 72 Submarine Sortie II

Sun Hao estimated that the tasks assigned to the submarine a few days ago may not have gained much, and now that he has changed his combat orders one by one, he has even less gain. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info However, the Seawolf submarine formation should be able to figure out the military strength of Arthur occupied by the Kou Kingdom and the Far East Fleet of Vladivostok of the Rakshasa Kingdom.

The British's fleet was sunk, and as long as the submarine had not leaked, no one knew that it was their own doing. Perhaps some countries will think of submarines when they see the sinking of the British fleet, but at present, no country attaches great importance to submarine forces, and submarines have not yet formed a strong combat effectiveness. If his own submarine sank all three fleets of the British, the whole of Britain would surely jump up.

After Sun Hao gave the order, he took out a cigarette, and when Miao Feng saw it, he quickly took out a lighter and lit it for him, and then turned around to convey the order.

Smoking a cigarette, Sun Hao's mind gradually formed a picture, countless British warships anchored in the port, each port has dozens of submarines of the Chinese Army are launching torpedoes in the port, only to see the British battleships continue to be sunk by the torpedoes launched by the submarines, those British sailors don't know what is going on, one by one standing on the battleship that was hit by torpedoes and about to sink and shouting in panic, countless British sailors are jumping into the sea like dumplings ......

Thinking, thinking, Sun Hao showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, stroked his chin sparse beard with one hand, and walked out of the war room with a high spirit.

With the activation of Huaxia's war machine, the entire city of Restoration City is now busy.

After Mayor Zhang Xiaoling gave the order, the labor force of the whole city mobilized to assist the logistics department to move the needed materials onto the transport ship.

Sun Hao came to Matou with the guard battalion and saw trucks speeding away, transporting truckloads of supplies to the ship.

Several docks were full of ships, both officers and soldiers, all busy.

Many women came to the docks to help, but they were tired and sweaty, but they did not stop to rest for a while, but continued to work hard.

After Sun Hao saw it, he had to admire these women from the Wuji Continent, all of them were tall and big, carrying hundreds of pounds of boxes.

Seeing that hundreds of people in his guard battalion were idle here, Sun Hao ordered them (them) to also go up to help, the strength of hundreds of people was not small, Sun Hao didn't want them to be idle like this.

At this time, Wang Fang, director of the intelligence department, drove a jeep to the dock and came to Sun Hao.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief Sun, the two fleets of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Jakarta, its East India Fleet have sailed out of port, and the destination may be the islands of Papua."

After Sun Hao heard this, he didn't expect that the Kingdom of the Netherlands was not slow, and it started to act so quickly.

"Let's go, go back to the war room!"

After finishing speaking, Sun Hao got into Wang Fang's jeep and prepared to go to the war room.

Half an hour later, the jeep arrived in the war room.

Walking into the combat command room, Sun Hao quickly walked to the map.

Looking at the map, Sun Hao saw that Jakarta was more than 3,000 kilometers away from the Papuan islands, and with the speed of the Dutch backward warships, it was very good to have an average speed of 20 knots. Even if they traveled day and night, without rest on the way, all at a speed of 20 knots, it would take them about four days and four nights to reach the city of Cannes in Papua.

Coupled with the fact that their warships must have rested on the way, it is impossible to continue like this at sea, and it is estimated that it should take about six days to reach the town of Cannes in Papua.

According to this estimate, it would take about three or four days for their fleet to reach the waters between East Timor and the Maru Islands. There are no islands for hundreds of kilometers around this sea, and it is a good place to annihilate them. However, Sun Hao thought that his submarine force had to monitor so many fleets, and it was not necessary to stipulate that the ghost branch submarine formation must wipe out the Dutch East India fleet in the designated sea area. As long as there is a chance, otherwise the enemy finds himself, he can be annihilated on the spot.

After deciding, Sun Hao called Miao Feng, the confidential secretary.

"The telegraph ordered the branch of the ghost submarine formation to track the Dutch East India Fleet, find a suitable sea area, and annihilate all on the spot, even killing all the Dutch soldiers above."

"Yes!"

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At six o'clock in the morning on June 12, 1909, the sky was completely foggy, and white smoke was shrouded everywhere, like steam. The sun slowly rises from the ridge and spreads the white mist into the sky. Winter colors.

The light changed from a dull gray to a fish white, a pink, and then a golden yellow, and the brilliance of the rising sun was also ever-changing and colorful. Shining on the fog, layers of color appear. The brightest golden color closest to the morning sun is darker the farther west it goes, and finally it becomes a fog.

Not far from the Fuming River wharf in front of Fuming City, there are hundreds of ships parked in the river, ranging from battleships as large as tens of thousands of tons, torpedo boats with dozens of tons small, and large and small warships covering the entire river.

A trace of mist rises from the surface of the river around the ships, and from a distance, these ships seem to be moored in the vast mist.

On either side of each battleship stood sailors in Type 07 uniforms, while the transports were filled with Army troops in Type 07 camouflage.

Sun Hao took Wang Yan'er and the guard battalion onto the Zheng Chenggong, the flagship of the Second Fleet, and looked at countless navies and armies with high spirits, and his mood suddenly surged. After more than two years of forbearance, his hegemony is finally about to begin.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief Sun, it's time to leave, whether it's right away, please instruct!" Lu Ping ran over, saluted in front of Sun Hao and said loudly.

"Let's go!" Sun Hao returned the salute and ordered in high spirits.

Whining! A long whistle came from Zheng Chenggong.

With the sound of the whistle, the large and small ships began to start slowly, and thick black smoke began to rise from the chimneys of the battleships.

Three hours later, both fleets reached the sea, and the huge fleet sailed for the northwestern peninsula of Papua in the face of the fishy sea breeze.

In the command room of the Zheng Chenggong, Sun Hao was looking at the map spread out on the table.

"Report to Commander-in-Chief Sun, all major submarine formations have reached the designated positions, but the ghost submarine detachment has not yet arrived in Moburn, Australia, and it is expected to take about four days." Confidential secretary Miao Feng walked in and reported.

Sun Hao didn't expect these submarines to be so fast, but it was not surprising that the branch of the ghost submarine formation had not yet reached the port of Meburn. It is normal for a submarine with a speed of only 20 knots to avoid the enemy so as not to reveal its whereabouts.

"Miao Feng, you said we should wait and wait for the submarine to arrive at the port of Meben to attack or start attacking tonight?" This confidential secretary has some military talent, and Sun Hao wants to ask her what she thinks. In addition, such a heartbreaking idea was also thought out by her and Long Wenshan.

"Commander-in-Chief, the lowly suggestion is to start attacking tonight, it will take a few days for the Ghost Branch Fleet to reach the port of Murburn, and the landing of our troops on the northwest peninsula of Papua, landing on the islands of Malu may be three days away, which has already alarmed the British, and if they take the fleet out of the port to threaten us, it will bring some trouble.

Rather than this, it is better to take advantage of their defenselessness and let the submarine formation sink the Indian Ocean Fleet in Burma and the Far East Fleet in Singapore tonight. ”

After Sun Hao heard it, he took out a cigarette and came out, and when Miao Feng saw it, he immediately helped him light it.

Miao Feng knew that Sun Hao liked to smoke when he was thinking about problems, so he had a lighter at all times.

Thinking about it, Sun Hao felt that what Miao Feng said was very reasonable. The British must have been wary of themselves when they learned that they were going to attack even the Dutch islands of Maru and Sulawi. This already threatens their interests in North Borneo, and perhaps the British will order these fleets to set off to confront them.

The speed of the submarine is not fast, and it is impossible to catch up with these surface warships, so it is better to take these warships and start when they are still in port, plus it is much easier to fight stationary warships than to fight sporting warships.

Those warships were anchored in the harbor, and they never imagined that they would be attacked by underwater submarines, which was completely humiliating. Because there were no submarine formations in this era, and they did not believe that submarines could sink warships from underwater.

It was also a century or two since the emergence of submarines, until the First World War, when the German Navy paid the most attention to the use of submarines and was the first country to launch submarine operations. During the war, Germany had a total of 350 submarines, and there was also a significant increase in the development of the main combat weapon of submarines - torpedoes. The famous "one ship sunk and three ships" in the annals of submarine history is the classic battle of the German submarine force.

Just an hour later, this explosive news quickly spread all over the world, and the international naval community was shocked: a "tether-hulled" submarine sank three 10,000-ton cruisers in just one hour, killing 1,459 officers and men;

This was something that people couldn't even think about before. It can be said that this famous battle in the early history of submarine development has promoted the transformation of traditional naval warfare thinking to a certain extent, and triggered people's re-understanding of submarine combat capabilities and combat use.

Submarines have been developed so far, but at present, countries have never imagined that they will one day become a terrifying underwater weapon.

After that, Sun Hao ordered all submarine formations to attack at one o'clock in the morning tonight, because everyone was already asleep at this time, and even the patrols and sentries were haphazard.

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