Chapter 482: Ambush of the British Ship
Hu Yuegang immediately reported the situation here to Major General Pang Hucheng, commander of the submarine force of the Chinese Empire. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Pang Hucheng gave the order to sink the British convoy. At the same time, Hu Yuegang was ordered to give up the continued attack on the Japanese Combined Fleet and hand over the remaining Japanese ships to the guerrilla formation of the Bohai Fleet.
Half an hour later, 11 warships of the Bohai Fleet arrived in the Tsushima Strait, they quickly surrounded these Japanese fleets, and after an hour of continuous shelling, most of the Japanese ships were sunk, leaving seven battleships, and announced their surrender.
At this point, the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire had completed the first stage of their strategic task -- to crush the combined fleet of the Japanese army.
Pang Hucheng instructed Chen Zhong and Chen Fangzheng to send three more submarines to outflank the tail of the British transport fleet.
Set up a submarine ambush position for this transport fleet of the British Navy.
Chen Fangzheng ordered the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire to go out on all fronts, hunt in the ambush positions, and prepare to strike at the second target, the British Far East Fleet.
The knot is not far away, and the star enemy is cold
The three naval fleets of the Empire all turned around and besieged the US Pacific Fleet from all sides.
The Empire's submarine forces were responsible for striking ships carrying reinforcements and supplies from India and Hong Kong in the South Pacific, and at the same time, attacking the British Far East Fleet in the East China Sea.
In order to enhance the submarine attack capability, each submarine was loaded with ammunition and entered an ambush position.
On the evening of November 9, the winter sunset turned the East China Sea red. Nine British transport ships, including the "Manchenerg", "Reickel" and "Clinslang". The column marched all the way from south to north.
The captain of the lead ship, "Manchenerg", Colonel Gidi Fensi, picked up the monocular and looked ahead, and was in a very happy mood.
They felt particularly relaxed about the escort of the transportation of materials. The combined fleets of Britain, Japan, and the United States were really effortless to deal with this little-known Chinese Imperial Navy in the East China Sea.
Although Chen Zhong is extremely tough in front of the world in the British Navy, it is nothing more than boasting without a strong naval fleet foundation to support it.
None of this could have frightened the Royal Navy.
The escort fleet of the transport fleet he led was no different from a sightseeing tour.
The front was approaching the Tsushima Strait, and in the telescope, Colonel Gidi Fenth, the combined fleet of the army, under the blow of the Bohai Fleet, announced its surrender.
He quickly reported to the commander of the British Far East Fleet, Admiral Fremantle.
Colonel Gidiphons said: "The combined fleet of the Japanese army was so vulnerable that it was actually crushed by the Bohai Fleet. ”
The enemy is not the main one
The knot is the place of Qiu Yang, and the moon is clear, and Sun Tong is troubled
The commander of the British Far East Fleet, Admiral Fremantle, was extremely shocked, and at this moment, they also received a signal from the Japanese base camp to the British army for help. Ask the British fleet to come and rescue them quickly.
The thick smoke and flames of Qiuyang Tong Xianyue Ke Gang filled the sea, some ships were half sinking and half floating, and the sailors on the ships were rushing to jump into the sea with lifebuoys.
As a result, the commander of the British Far East Fleet, Admiral Fremantle, ordered the Far East Fleet to advance at full speed towards the Tsushima Strait.
For hundreds of years, the British Empire's maritime supremacy has never wavered, and even Napoleon, who once dominated the entire European continent, was crushed in front of the British fleet.
At 7:23 p.m., just as Colonel Gidiphon was sitting at the table, sipping beer, there was a "pop" and the beer suddenly spilled on the deck, and he felt a slam in the middle of the ship, followed by a cracking explosion.
"What's wrong?" Colonel Gidiphons sped onto the bridge.
"Captain, we've hit a mine! The part that was hit was near the engine! ”
"Be calm, be calm!" Colonel Giddy Phonth shouted at the sailors who were already in a swarm.
But their warship has been sinking further, a large amount of seawater has poured into the cabin, the stern of the ship is slowly sinking, the golden light on the sea is flashing, calm as usual, they have not found the naval fleet of the Chinese Empire?
The sailors reported to Colonel Gidiphons that the ship's remedy had failed, and while Colonel Gidiphons gave the order to abandon the ship, the ships behind him were sinking rapidly.
They immediately called for help to the British Far East Fleet and reported to Admiral Philmantle that their transport fleet had collectively hit a mine!
However, the minesweepers did not find any mines in the nearby waters before this, which is too weird!
Colonel Gidiphons thought of many possibilities, but he did not think at all that this was a torpedo fired by the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire.
The commander of the British Far East Fleet, Admiral Fremantle, upon learning of this situation, urgently dispatched five cruisers to reconnoiter the southern part of the Tsushima Strait, and asked them to immediately go to the area of the accident to support Gidiphon's transport fleet.
These five cruisers are all large warships of 20,000 tons, and they have great firepower on board.
Hu Yuegang immediately reported the situation to General Pang Hucheng.
He analyzed that if their submarine was discovered, it would be almost impossible to escape.
Sun Di Yuanyue refers to the ghost gang of the Nuoyue Star Family
Pang Hucheng ordered to resolutely sink these five British cruisers! He also asked the East China Sea Operational Command to request fire support from the First Guerrilla Formation of the nearby Bohai Fleet.
Hu Yuegang ordered all submarines to be ready to launch torpedoes.
At 21:05, with Hu Yuegang's order, ten torpedoes rushed out of the launch tubes from five submarines at the same time, and then ordered all submarines to dive urgently.
Just when the periscope was out of water, he heard a series of violent explosions, and the five British cruisers, before they could figure out what was going on, were hit and began to sink rapidly.
General Philmantle was shocked by the sight of the British convoy and patrol fleet being sunk in less than two hours through a telescope.
Is it a mine? Why did our warships strike mines in the same position? How can there be so many explosions in mines?
The situation at sea is deteriorating dramatically.
The "Manchenerg", "Resikel" and "Klinslang" have sunk to the bottom of the sea, their mainmasts exposed obliquely on the surface of the sea, like drowning people struggling to die.
Thick smoke and fire filled the sea, and some of the ships were half-sinking and half-floating, and the sailors on the ships were rushing to jump into the sea with lifebuoys.
On the blazing sea, the shipwrecked sailors waved their hands and desperately cried for help to the British Far East Fleet.
The feud is not troublesome, referring to Yang Keyue and Sun Tong
"It must have been a torpedo fired by an underwater submarine!" General Philmantle suddenly thought of Vice Admiral Robert of the US Navy who had said that in the last confrontation in the Taiwan Strait, the submarine forces formed by the Chinese Empire's navy had already been put into battle.
It's just that the British naval intelligence department has never found any trace of the submarine of the Chinese Empire.
The land and earth department are noisy, and the main Tongyang Keshu is cold
Thinking of this, General Philmantle broke out in a cold sweat, so he immediately ordered the British Far East Fleet to stop advancing and sounded the battle alarm: "Watch the sea surface and search for enemy submarines!" ”