Chapter 4080: The Battle of the East China Sea
After emergency communication, Britain, Japan, and the United States issued an order to attack the Huaxia Emperor's ** team five hours later, forced by the situation. Pen&Fun&Pavilion www.biquge.info(.. )
Fisher, the British First Admiralty, sighed, shook his head at Churchill and said, "I admire your courage very much, but we will definitely pay a great price for the Japanese if we fall for it." ”
Churchill frowned and said, "Mr. Marshal, maybe you are right, but I would rather go for a gamble!" ”
Two hours after King Edward VII of England gave the order to attack, US President Taft, under great pressure from public opinion, ordered the US Pacific Fleet to begin attacking the East China Sea naval fleet of the Chinese Empire.
On November 6, 1909, at 5:32 p.m., Vice Admiral Yoshino Okawa of the Japanese Combined Fleet ordered his fleet to first attack the Bohai Fleet of the Chinese Empire.
Before the current military exercise in the East China Sea, Chen Zhong worked out the strategy and tactics of long-distance combat by the fleet and the submarine force lurking under water.
Because, the number of submarines with attack types is not too many, and the submarine forces of the Chinese Imperial Navy at present, the submarines in service can only carry a maximum of 6 torpedoes each.
Therefore, before the military exercises, the submarine force conducted many formation drills in accordance with the "wolf pack tactics" formulated by Chen Zhong.
The "wolf pack tactic" of this submarine was created by German Navy Captain Dönitz in the late World War I and was successfully applied in the early stages of World War II.
Dönitz was captured by the British during a battle due to a breakdown of a submarine, during which time Dönitz realized this "wolf pack tactic".
Before the crossing, Chen Zhong studied at West Point Military Academy and did in-depth research on the submarine tactics first used by the Germans in World War II.
The "wolf pack tactics" created by Dönitz were based on the personality and survival style of the wolf.
Wolves are one of the most ferocious, cruel and cunning animals in the world. All kinds of wild animals, domestic animals, and even people are the objects of its attacks and prey.
Wolves are extremely fast and usually move in packs, allowing them to hunt animals larger than them.
When wolves are hunting their prey, they take multiple roads to pursue their prey, and often these prey encounter obstacles in their running, and these pursued prey have to turn.
At this time, the wolves that have been chasing their prey will outflank them from both sides of these prey.
In this way, no matter how fast the pursuing prey runs, it will not escape the pursuit of the wolves.
Chen Zhong was very appreciative of Dönitz's submarine "wolf pack tactics" in those years, so in the early days of the establishment of the submarine force, he ordered Rear Admiral Pang Hucheng of the submarine unit to put this set of tactics into submarine tactical training.
The core of this "wolf pack tactic" is that in combat, when a submarine finds a target, it immediately notifies the submarine command of the enemy's speed, course, number, etc.
He retreated backwards while keeping his distance, and then the submarine command ordered the submarine group around the target to go and besiege him.
Assemble the submarine forces into a wide concave, which is like a big pocket for the entry of the enemy flotilla.
The submarines in the concave formation approached the enemy ships like pockets from the flanks and back of the enemy fleet.
After the pockets are tightened, the concentrated submarines will attack the target like a "wolf pack", which can especially make the enemy fleet's forces lose sight of one and the other, thus inflicting a devastating blow on the enemy fleet, which can greatly improve the success rate of the attack, kill the enemy to the greatest extent, and reduce the danger of one's own side.
Chen Zhong ordered more than 200 warships of the East China Sea Fleet, the Bohai Fleet, and the Hainan Fleet to engage in a decisive battle with the combined fleets of the United States and the United States from the front.
and draw a battle formation from the Bohai Fleet to meet the combined fleet of the Japanese army. This battle formation is a guerrilla formation battle formation with a total tonnage of 200,000 tons composed of 11 ships.
Acting together with this guerrilla formation, there were also more than fifty submarines of the Navy's submarine group.
These attack submarines, loaded with ammunition, quietly approached the Japanese Combined Fleet before the decisive battle began.
In the early days of the Japanese Combined Fleet's attack on the Bohai Fleet, the Bohai Fleet began to retreat rapidly backwards.
The Japanese fleet saw that the Bohai Fleet had been kept at a great distance, and seemed unwilling to engage the Japanese in a head-to-head confrontation.
Yoshino Okawa, the commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, saw this scene and said with a smile: "Chen Zhong's fleet is nothing more than that. ”。
Although, before Yoshino Okawa led this combined fleet of the Japanese army to the East China Sea, Katsura Taro, who was far away from the Japanese base camp in Tokyo, repeatedly instructed not to underestimate the enemy.
Although we were fighting in conjunction with Britain and the United States, Chen Zhong's naval fleet was quite proficient in the tactics of naval warfare. The slightest negligence may fall into Chen Zhong's trap.
However, Yoshino Okawa, a self-righteous fellow, believed that Chen Zhong's naval fleet in the East China Sea was nothing more than a bluff, but in fact it was vulnerable.
At this moment, after the Yoshino Okawa Japanese fleet began to attack, the Bohai Fleet began to retreat in a hurry, and it was even more indispensable, laughing that the Bohai Fleet was not his opponent at all.
As a result, Yoshino Okawa ordered the Japanese Combined Fleet to move forward at full speed, pursue the Bohai Fleet, and seek an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with it.
While the Japanese army was advancing rapidly, the First Submarine Group, which was personally commanded by the submarine commander of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and all its attack submarines, began to quickly move closer to this Japanese combined fleet and carry out group operations.
This combined fleet of the Japanese army, with a total of 47 ships and seven battleships above 2,000 tonnage, should be said to be very strong in combat effectiveness.
The submarine brigade commanded by General Pang Hucheng saw that the large Japanese fleet had gradually entered the submarine encirclement, and the submarine force was like a shark smelling blood, and immediately swam over.
At this moment, it was 19:10 in the evening, and night fell, and forty-seven warships of the Japanese Combined Fleet knew nothing about it.
Beneath the cold sea, the hunting wolves began to attack. Immediately afterward, the sound of explosions sounded one after another on the surface of the East China Sea.
The submarine sometimes dives into the water, sometimes surfaces, sometimes at the front of the fleet, sometimes pounces on the stern, attacks, dodges, and attacks, and the sea is littered with wreckage corpses, and the air is filled with the smell of scorched gunpowder, and its scene is horrible.
But the disaster continued, and three hours later, the guerrilla formation of the Bohai Fleet in front began to turn around and rush towards the Japanese Combined Fleet after watching the Japanese Combined Fleet being attacked by submarines.
The eleven warships of this guerrilla formation of the Bohai Fleet lined up in front of the Japanese fleet, and dozens of artillery pieces hit the Japanese army together, and this kind of shelling lasted for nearly two hours, and the Japanese combined fleet suffered the most violent heavy losses!