Chapter 474: The flagship of the Pacific Fleet was sunk
Li Weiguo looked at Li Weijun with a smile. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
In his eyes, Li Weijun was too cautious.
This time, Li Weiguo went to Guam to inspect the island, and he only needed to take the royal ship and send two cruisers to escort it.
However, Li Weijun was too cautious, saying that the Pacific Fleet happened to have a routine training mission to go to the waters near Guam, so he asked Li Weiguo to take the flagship battleship Thor.
Now around Li Weiguo, there are hundreds of warships escorting the escort, what else can be dangerous?
I'm afraid that Li Weijun has been nervous because he has been too tired due to the intensive training of the fleet recently!
If Li Weijun really wants to tell him about any danger, he really can't say it.
Li Weijun suddenly smiled bitterly.
This feeling is just the intuition of a soldier, a special feeling that can only be possessed from blood and fire, fighting for death on the battlefield.
"Your Majesty, the anti-submarine confrontation exercise is about to begin, please speak!"
Li Weiguo smiled slightly, waved his hand, and said, "Forget it this time, the soldiers are already very nervous, if I teach them again, it will put more pressure on them." ”
Li Weiguo refused to arrange a lecture, and Li Weijun did not insist, he was indeed very nervous, after all, he was conducting a drill in front of His Majesty the Emperor, and it was false to say that he was not nervous.
This is a routine annual anti-submarine exercise, and the submarine formation is attacked by the Guam squadron under the Pacific Fleet's anti-submarine group.
The Director's Office of the Navy's Command Department did not have a plan, and the exercise was for the Pacific Fleet to attack the Guam Submarine Squadron before it arrived at the Guam Naval Base.
Of course, the Guam submarine squadron could not attack with live ammunition, but it would fire exercise shells without warheads, and as long as they hit the battleship, they would be judged to be sunk.
More than five ships were sunk, and the Guam submarine squadron was awarded a complete victory.
Similarly, to carry out anti-submarine warfare, the Pacific Fleet only needs to launch anti-submarine smashing eggs into the coordinate area and report it by radio to the director's office of the Navy's command department, which will determine whether the submarine has been hit or not based on the anti-submarine coordinates.
When more than two-thirds of the submarine squadron in Guam is sunk, the Pacific Fleet is awarded victory.
Of course, the anti-submarine smashing of the Pacific Fleet is not a live bomb, but a drill bomb, which will not harm the submarine.
The exercise actually began after the Pacific Fleet set off from Pearl Harbor, but Li Weijun expected that the Guam submarine squadron would not be able to run to the door of Pearl Harbor to set up an ambush, and the anti-submarine sonar system along the way was turned on, and no submarine signal from Guam was found.
But as he got closer and closer to Guam, Li Weijun became more and more nervous, and he knew that the probability of the Guam submarine squadron appearing was getting bigger and bigger, so he came over in advance to greet Li Weiguo.
Li Weiguo knew that this was Li Weijun deliberately making an excuse to let him go down, after all, this watchtower belonged to the post of a sentry, and Li Weiguo was standing here, which was delaying people to carry out their tasks.
Therefore, Li Weiguo went down with Li Weijun.
As soon as I arrived at the bridge command room, I heard a sonar report.
"Report, a suspected submarine voiceprint signal has been found twelve nautical miles to the southeast!"
"Increase the power and confirm the target!"
Five minutes later, the sonar room reported again.
"Report, identify the suspected target as a Swordfish-class submarine!"
"Are there other submarines around?"
"Report, no other submarines have been found around! Only this one! ”
Li Weijun was immediately overjoyed and said with a smile: "This Chen Shen, what kind of moth is he doing, just send a submarine, can he just admit defeat?" ”
Li Weiguo did not say anything, he knew that this level of anti-submarine warfare exercise was very unfair to the submarine force.
Because all surface warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy have voiceprint data about submarines of all levels of the Empire, when the sonar soldier detects a suspicious submarine signal, he only needs to compare it to basically determine whether it is a submarine of the Chinese Empire and which level of submarine of the Chinese Empire.
"Sink him!"
Li Weijun ordered four anti-submarine destroyers to quickly dispatch to the target sea area.
And the submarine also seems to be aware of being discovered and trying to dodge.
However, on the surface, the four Great Egret-class anti-submarine destroyers are extremely fast, and it is in vain for any submarine to try to compete with them.
Once targeted by the Great Egret anti-submarine destroyer, it will be impossible to escape.
"26:12, launch!"
"32:16, launch!"
Four Great Egret-class anti-submarine destroyers surrounded from all sides, demarcated the area where the target submarine was located as a grid coordinate, and then launched a concentrated fire strike.
A group of anti-submarine deep-water smashing eggs were quickly ejected and accurately landed around the moving area of the target submarine.
If it's a real fight, these anti-submarine deep-water smashing eggs are enough to blow up the submarine below.
But this is an exercise, and smashing eggs in deep water is not a live ammunition, so naturally it will not explode.
However, far away at Pearl Harbor Naval Base and Apra Naval Base in Guam, the office of the director of the Imperial Chinese Navy's Command Department will receive the radio coordinates of the two sides at the time of the confrontation, and then make a judgment.
Soon, a huge submarine surfaced.
This is the most powerful swordfish-class submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy, with strong attack capabilities, but it was sunk by radio notification from the director's department, so it unwillingly surfaced.
At the same time, Li Weijun's telegraph room also received a wireless telegram from the director's department.
"The director's ruling that the Blue Cuttlefish has been sunk!"
This was expected, Li Weijun just smiled faintly, and there were not many surprises.
Li Weiguo also felt strange and asked, "Chen Shen sent a submarine?" What kind of play is he singing! ”
"Ha, I guess I know I can't fight, and I'm ready to surrender!"
One of the staff officers couldn't help but blurt out.
"Bastard, how can you speak here! Go aside! ”
Li Weijun immediately scolded with a smile, he glanced at Li Weiguo carefully, and saw that Li Weiguo did not blame the staff officer for interfering, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
Li Weiguo naturally doesn't take it to heart, is it normal for a soldier to be straightforward and fast-talking, so he doesn't mind.
However, Li Weiguo remembered that this Chen Shen was undoubtedly the most outstanding among the submarine commanders of the Chinese Empire, and this person's character was also unwilling to admit defeat, so I am afraid that it was not so simple to admit defeat.
"I hope this Chen Shen can surprise me!"
Li Weiguo did not directly remind Li Weijun and others, but used this way to warn them euphemistically not to underestimate Chen Shen.
Li Weijun immediately understood what Li Weiguo meant, but he also had self-esteem, so naturally he couldn't be compared to Chen Shen, let alone in front of Li Weiguo, absolutely not.
"Your Majesty, look, the minister will definitely convince Chen Shen!"
Li Weiguo smiled: "Then I'll wait and see!" This Chen Shen is an expert in submarine tactics of the Imperial Navy, and if you convince him, then I will definitely reward you heavily! ”
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Li Weijun suddenly came to his senses.
However, at this moment, the ships around the battleship Thor sounded a rapid siren.
"What's going on?"
"The sonar room reported that twelve fish and radium were found, and the target was this ship!"
"What? That's impossible? Where does the fish radium come from? ”
Li Weijun's eyes widened, and he felt incredulous at the sudden arrival of twelve fish radiums.
At this moment, the frigates around the Thor opened fire on the surface of the sea, which was intercepting the twelve rays of fish that were attacking.
"The Fuxiang has successfully intercepted an incoming fish radium!"
"The Fukuzawa has successfully intercepted an incoming Fish Radium!"
"The Fuqing interception failed!"
"The Fuhui failed to intercept!"
"The Blessing has successfully intercepted an incoming Fish Radium!"
"The Fortune interception failed!"
……
"Eight rays of fish radium broke through the defense net of the escort fleet and are shooting at high speed towards this ship!"
Li Weijun didn't care to ask how the fish and radium came from, and hurriedly shouted: "The main gun is intercepted!" ”
"Yes! The main gun intercepts the incoming fish radium! ”
Bang bang bang! Bang bang bang!
Five twin 128-mm 50-fold radial rapid-fire guns and 10 quadruple 40-mm rapid-fire guns on the port side of the Thor opened heavy fire, and the shells fired intensively in the direction of the Fish Radium.
Boom!
After an explosion, huge waves were set off on the surface of the sea.
Since it was not a live project, the explosion was not very powerful, but it also set off waves several meters high.
"No fish radium breaks the defense!"
"Great!"
A number of cheers suddenly sounded in the command room, which was the pride of the Thor's powerful and incomparable near-fire power, and it was difficult for any fish radium to break through such a powerful near-fire net.
Just when the officers and men of the Thor thought that the interception was successful, six rays of fish and radium once again pierced through the huge wave just now and went straight to Thor.
"Fish Radium is coming!"
"Main gun protection!"
"It's too late!"
Li Weijun's face turned pale suddenly, but he still picked up the intercom and shouted: "All the personnel of the whole ship are ready to prevent the impact!" ”
This is the last resort, the moment the fish and radium explode, it will cause a lot of damage to the personnel, in order to reduce unnecessary damage, even if you know that you can't avoid the fish and radium, every captain and commander of the Chinese Imperial Navy, at the last moment, must warn the whole ship's personnel, prepare for the impact, and try to minimize the damage.
Li Weijun was obviously in the play, he forgot at this moment that this was a drill, and there was no warhead for Fish Radium, and after he gave the order, he pounced on Li Weiguo as soon as possible.
He wanted to protect Li Weiguo, and Li Weiguo did not refuse, allowing Li Weijun to stand in front of him.
duang! duang! duang!
The five Fish Radium hit the port side of the battleship Thor almost at the same time, but there was no warhead, so naturally it would not really explode.
It was originally composed of six Fish Radium, and the last Fish Radium was directly blocked by a frigate.
This is the ********, once in wartime, when the capital ship cannot dodge the fish radium, the frigate will sacrifice itself and go up to block the fish and radium.
There was a false alarm, but the officers and soldiers on the Thor were both frightened and unwilling.
"Where did this fish and radium come from?"
Li Weijun didn't care about Li Weiguo's presence, and roared loudly.
"Sonar report!"
"Fish Radium is coming from the direction of the Cuttlefish! It was the cuttlefish that launched! ”
Li Weijun suddenly said angrily: "What? Wasn't the cuttlefish sunk? They're shameless too! ”
Li Weiguo also felt strange, it stands to reason that the cuttlefish has surfaced, and the officers and men of the cuttlefish must know that they have been sunk, and it is impossible for them to launch fish radium again.
What's the problem?
Li Weiguo also wanted to know.
Soon, a wireless telegram from the director's office came, announcing that the battleship Thunder was hit by five rays at the same time, and that the battleship Thunder had been sunk.
Since the battleship Thunder was the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, the director's office directly judged that the Pacific Fleet had lost command.
This also means that Li Weijun and others are all "killed".
Li Weiguo suddenly joked: "Does this mean that I also died?" ”
Li Weijun looked frightened and embarrassed, and explained: "The minister didn't figure it out, the cuttlefish has obviously been sunk, how can it still launch fish radium, it must be the director's department who made a mistake, and the minister will ask again." ”
Soon, the director's department telegraphed back that the exercises had not yet ended and refused to ask.
Li Weijun was quite helpless.
However, don't forget that the Thor still sits on the Emperor of the Chinese Empire!
At the instigation of his subordinates, Li Weijun asked Li Weiguo to come forward.
Li Weiguo was also very strange in his heart, and wanted to know the answer, so he "reluctantly" used his privilege.
The telegram was sent to the director department in the name of the emperor's request for inquiry, but the director department was helpless, since His Majesty the emperor personally inquired, they could only explain the ins and outs of the situation.
It turned out that it was not the cuttlefish that acted alone, and below the cuttlefish, there was also a submarine swordfish.
The commander was none other than Chen Shen.
Chen Shen knew very well that all ships of the Pacific Fleet were equipped with sonar detection equipment, and in particular, they were very familiar with the underwater acoustic signals of the Chinese Imperial Navy's own submarines.
The only way Chen Shen could win was to ambush, which was the only tactic of the submarine against a large surface fleet.
So, Chen Shen had no choice.
However, in this kind of confrontation exercise, which was unfair from the beginning, Chen Shen had almost no chance of winning, and even if his submarine was ambushed, it would inevitably be exposed.
However, Chen Shen is an arrogant guy, and he will never bow his head and admit defeat easily.
So, Chen Shen racked his brains and finally came up with a bold tactical idea.
He knew that Li Weijun was a cautious and cautious person, and if he wanted to deceive Li Weijun, he had to invest enough capital.
So Chen Shen deliberately let the cuttlefish ambush the Red Army Fleet (Pacific Fleet) alone on the way, and he guessed that Li Weiguo would definitely relax his vigilance and be careless when he saw that there was only one submarine ambushing here.
At the same time, under the belly of the cuttlefish, the submarine Saury is hidden.
When the Red Army's sonar system swept over, the Swordfish submarine was completely silent, did not make a sound, and coupled with its close proximity to the Cuttlefish, it would deceive the Red Army's sonar detection, thinking that there was only a Cuttlefish here.
When the director determined that the cuttlefish had been sunk, the Reds would have let their guard down, as they had already detected that there were no other submarines around.
And at this time, taking advantage of the decline in the vigilance of the Red Army, Chen Shen ordered the Swordfish submarine to be turned on.
The Swordfish was turned on, and although the Red Army's sonar detected it, it was thought it was the cuttlefish, and there was no suspicion.
When the Pacific Fleet continued to advance and the battleship Thunder entered the range of the Saury Ray, Chen Shen immediately ordered the launch of the Rays to raid the Thor.
However, Chen Shen also knew that the anti-submarine firepower network around the Thor was very powerful, so he successively launched eighteen Fish Radiums, and the previous twelve Fish Radiums were launched continuously to lure the fire around the Thunder God.
The third wave of six Fish Radium was suspended for two minutes before being launched.
When the first two batches of fish radium were intercepted, they launched an explosion and stirred up the waves, just covering the six fish radium that came quietly behind, and the Thor was caught off guard.
This series of actions is interlocking, and any mistake in any link will lead to a total loss.
But Chen Shen did it, he successfully "sank" the battleship Thor, knocked out the flagship of the Pacific Fleet at once, and paralyzed the command system.
When Li Weijun read the contents of the telegram, he was immediately ashamed, and at the same time, he finally understood the power of the submarine warfare experts of the Imperial Chinese Navy. (To be continued.) )