Chapter Seventy-Four: Submarine Sortie IV
Jakarta, the colony center of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, is the largest city in the South Seas and a famous seaport in East Asia. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć INFO is located on the northwest coast of Java Island, on the north coast, at the mouth of the Chirion River, bordering the Bay of Jakarta, longitude 106°49ā² east and latitude 6°10ā² south.
Jakarta is a famous city with a long history. Hundreds of years ago, it was already a famous seaport for the export of pepper and spices, called Sunda Galaba, which means "land of coconut groves", or "the world of coconut groves".
In 1527, the Muslim chieftains led the Indonesian people to defeat the fleet of Portuguese colonists and regain Gondagaraba and renamed it Jayagarda, which means "City of Victory" and "Fortress of Glory", from which the name of Jakarta evolved.
Jakarta was an important trading port in the early 15th century, and after 1596, Indonesia was ruled by Dutch colonialists, and Jakarta was the headquarters of the Dutch East India Company during the colonial era. Trade covers Asia, Europe and Africa, and there are still many large-scale integrated markets in Jakarta today.
The port was heavily defended by the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and the powerful Dutch South Sea Fleet was located, with more than 100 ships of all sizes parked in the port.
Since the Kingdom of the Netherlands acquired the colony of Indonesia, it has undoubtedly been like a beggar suddenly getting a million meters for the Netherlands, a small country with few resources and few resources.
However, the sea coachman who had already sunset was not willing to be taken away by other countries, so he arranged a lot of warships in Indonesia. However, the Kingdom of the Netherlands has fallen into the west, and now there is not even a real first-class battleship, and the former powerful East India Fleet and the South Sea Fleet are all fleets composed of first-class cruisers, destroyers, gunboats, and so on.
Although it was already one o'clock in the morning, the port of Jakarta was still brightly lit, and countless workers on the docks were busy carrying war supplies onto the ship, and many soldiers in Dutch Army uniforms were walking onto the transport ship with their heads held high.
At the suggestion of Odom Rabe, the supreme commander of the Dutch navy in Indonesia, the Kingdom of the Netherlands will once again transport 20,000 army officers to the islands of Papua. This will not only strengthen Papua's defenses, but also suppress the mysterious Ming forces.
But no one thought that the fleet that secretly transported soldiers this time had long been targeted. At this time, at the bottom of the port of Jakarta, 12 submarines of Huaxia were ambushed.
The captain who led the team this time was Liu Yingying, who was originally ordered to secretly attack the Nanyang Fleet that sank the Kingdom of the Netherlands, but unexpectedly, he encountered so many troop carriers.
Liu Yingying knew that Sun Hao could be said to hate the Dutch very much, and the hatred of the commander-in-chief represented the hatred of all the officers and soldiers in China. Therefore, Liu Yingying not only sank all the Dutch Nanyang Fleet this time, but also sent these troop transports to the bottom of the sea, including those of the Dutch Army.
"Captain, these Dutchmen don't know when they're going to go?" Vice captain Li Haiqin looked at the periscope and seemed a little impatient.
"The equipment of these Dutch people is also too backward, and we in Huaxia use cranes to move materials at the wharf, and most of them also use manpower, so the speed is very slow. Just be patient, they'll have to set off sooner or later. Liu Yingying said unhurriedly.
"Captain, I personally estimate that the Dutch Nanyang Fleet will definitely not all be dispatched to escort the ship, if this is the case, our small team will definitely be divided into two again."
"Yes! However, I had a plan in mind, if all the Dutch South Sea Fleet was sent to escort the convoy, then we would not divide our forces. If they only send half the force to escort the convoy, we will leave four submarines in the bay port of Jakarta, and we will definitely destroy all the Dutch Nanyang Fleet and troop transports. ā
Time passed quickly, and just as the officers and men of the submarines were drowsy, the Dutch battleship finally moved.
More than 30 Dutch warships sailed out of the port of Jakarta Bay at 1:16 a.m. on June 13, 1909, followed by dozens of merchant ships transporting troops, and some gunboats around the merchant ships.
Liu Yingying saw that the combined fleet did not send all escorts, so she ordered four submarines to attack the Dutch warships left in the port of Jakarta Bay, while the other submarines followed the Dutch convoy out of Jakarta.
Two hours later, it was past five o'clock in the morning, a light mist had risen on the sea, and some seabirds had also flown out of their nests and cruised on the surface of the sea in search of food, with a few cheerful chirpings from time to time.
The speed of the Dutch escort fleet is not fast, and it is not as fast as the submarines of the Chinese country, and the submarine force has already surrounded the Dutch escort fleet. Speaking of encirclement, in fact, the hole in this encirclement is extremely huge, and it only forms an encirclement on the surface.
"Generate electricity, the submarines left in the port of Jakarta Bay immediately attack! Everything is based on their own safety, and how much can be sunk. Liu Yingying knew that now was the best time to attack, because there was fog on the sea at this time, and it was still a time when she was sleepy. Wait any longer, and it's going to dawn.
"The enemy ship was traveling at 10 knots per hour and in a direction of 46 degrees." Li Haiqin observed in the periscope and said to Liu Yingying, the captain beside him.
The adjutant beside him hurriedly raised his head and repeated to the personnel above the stairs: "The enemy ship is traveling at a speed of 10 knots per hour and in a direction of 46 degrees. ā
"Give the order to attack, first sink all the Dutch cruisers and destroyers, and then attack the Dutch troop carriers and gunboats on their own." Liu Yingying knew that as long as those cruisers and destroyers were sunk, and those gunboats of tens of tons were not to be feared at all, plus the Netherlands had dozens of guns, and the number of its own submarines was only eight, it was simply difficult to solve them together.
As long as he sank the main battleship of Korholland, those gunboats would surely flee in all directions. At the speed of the gunboats, it was a little difficult for the submarine to catch up with them. As for those troop carriers, they are as slow as snails, and you can slowly pick them up.
"Aim for it."
"Depth alignment."
"Aim for it."
"Depth alignment."
"900 meters away."
"15 meters deep."
"The torpedo is up to 45 miles per hour."
"The torpedo is up to 45 miles per hour."
"No. 1 to No. 2 torodoes are ready for fan-fire."
"No. 1 to No. 2 torodoes are ready for fan-fire."
"Number 1 is ready."
"No. 2 ready ......"
After the order to attack was given, the sailors in the submarines began to get busy. I saw that they skillfully operated the submarine, and soon completed all orders.
"Ready...... Launch! Liu Yingying had some sweat on her forehead, but she was a little nervous, this was the first time she had led a submarine formation to fight! To say not to be nervous is false.
"Torpedo No. 1 launched!"
"Torpedo No. 1 .......!"
When a sailor operating the torpedo heard the order, he decisively pressed the launch button.
"Phew...."
The torpedo flew out, with a small sound of water, and fired towards the moving Dutch cruiser St. Lotus.
At the same time, seven other submarines also fired torpedoes one after another, and eight submarines had a clear division of labor, each of which attacked its own target.
A series of torpedoes with a slight splash trail under the sea surface, after these oxygen torpedoes are launched, not only the traces are very small, but also the speed is very fast, with the snail speed of this era battleship, a distance of several hundred meters, it is difficult to dodge at all. Coupled with the faint fog on the surface of the sea, it was difficult to spot them.
"Torpedo No. 2 launched!"
"Torpedo No. 3 .....!"
After hearing the order, the sailor operating the torpedo fired again decisively pressed the launch button.
The Dutch warships were unsuspecting and unaware of the fact that there were eight powerful submarines lurking beneath the water.
Death has come, but they don't know it yet.