Chapter 477: The Enemy Appears Suddenly
Kim Sung-woo alone could not control the Copperfish, so he deliberately put poisonous food in the food in the Copperfish's restaurant, causing food poisoning for six people and being temporarily sent to the hospital. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
As the exercise was imminent, Chen Dachun, the captain of the Copperfish, did not want to delay the operation of the Copperfish, so he followed Kim Sung-woo's suggestion and temporarily transferred six replacements from the base.
These six substitutes were actually Kim Sung-woo's subordinates, who disguised themselves and attacked the real substitutes, and under the cover of Kim Sung-woo, they escaped Chen Dachun and successfully infiltrated the Tongyu submarine.
It wasn't until the exercise began that Kim Sung-woo finally got the opportunity, and he and six other subordinates suddenly made a move against Chen Dachun and others, and Chen Dachun and others were caught off guard and killed one after another.
However, Kim Sung-woo also lost a subordinate for this, and he was also the most critical fish and radium operator.
Having succeeded in taking control of the submarine Copperfish, Kim Sung-woo and several of his men planned to sail the submarine to the United States.
Kim Sung-woo had already sent a telegram to the CIA through the radio system on the Copperfish, informing them that they had successfully hijacked the Copperfish and were preparing to sail for the United States, asking the American military to pick them up.
After receiving Kim Sung-woo's telegram, the CIA was immediately excited and immediately reported it to Roosevelt and asked him to make a decision.
Roosevelt cautiously asked, "Is he reliable?" ”
Sobis replied: "Mr. President, he is very reliable!" We have been working together for many years, he is one of the leaders of the Assassin League, and recently the Chinese Empire carried out a great purge, our partners in the Chinese Empire, Li Hongzhang and others, have failed, and the Assassin Alliance has also suffered a heavy blow. However, Jin Chengwu was very deeply hidden and was not found, so I didn't think that he had been staying in the submarine force of the Chinese Empire, and he was still a captain officer, no wonder he was able to escape. This time, he managed to take control of a large modified submarine of the Great White Shark class, the most advanced in the Chinese Empire, which is very important to the American Navy if we can get it! ”
Roosevelt could not hide the surprise in his heart, and said: "If we can really obtain this Great White Shark-class modified submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy, then we will master their most advanced submarine equipment, and we can obtain a large number of the world's most cutting-edge leading technologies through reverse research." ”
"There are also radio cipher machines and codebooks of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and when the time comes, the intelligence of the Imperial Chinese Navy will be completely exposed," Sobey added. ”
Roosevelt nodded and said excitedly: "Immediately inform Mr. Kim Sung-woo and tell him that as long as he brings the submarine back safely, we in the United States will give him political asylum and at the same time give him endless glory and wealth." ”
"Yes! Mr. President! ”
Sobey received the order, but suddenly smiled bitterly: "But Mr. President, our radio can only transmit a distance of 500 kilometers at present, and the copper fish submarine controlled by Kim Chengwu is thousands of kilometers away, and we can only receive the wireless telegram from him for the time being, but we can't reply to him." ”
"What? Damn it! ”
Roosevelt was immediately annoyed, and he deeply felt the huge gap between the United States and China, a submarine of the Chinese Empire could conduct radio communication thousands of kilometers away, while the radio equipment that the United States had successfully developed with a lot of effort could only communicate within 500 kilometers.
The gap was so huge that Roosevelt felt a huge crisis while he was envious, jealous and hated the Chinese Empire.
If this continues, the Chinese Empire will only develop faster and faster, and the United States will fall behind even more, and the gap will become wider and wider.
"Order the Eastern Fleet to find a way to pick up the Copperfish!"
"Mr. President, are you sure you want to do this?" The dispatch of the Eastern Fleet may attract the attention of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and once they learn of the defection of the Copperfish, they may immediately think of us in the United States. When the time comes, the Chinese Empire will force us to return Jin Chengwu, and we may not be able to shelter it yet! ”
Roosevelt snorted coldly and said, "If you can't shelter, return Jin Chengwu to the Chinese Empire!" ”
Sobis asked again: "What about the Copperfish submarine!" ”
Roosevelt smiled: "Let's just say that it sinks, and the Chinese Empire can't do anything!" ”
The two guys immediately understood and smiled maliciously.
At first, Kim Sung-woo did plan to take advantage of the military exercise to quietly drive the submarine away.
But this time, Kim Sung-woo suddenly discovered that there was a brilliant warship in the Pacific Fleet.
As soon as Jin Chengwu saw this luxurious warship, he guessed that it was the Guanghua cruiser, which was the imperial ship of Emperor Li Weiguo.
Jin Chengwu knew that Li Weiguo was going to Guam, but he didn't know when, after all, it was high-level top-secret information, and it was impossible for Kim Chengwu to know his level.
He did not expect that Li Weiguo would go to Guam with the main force of the Pacific Fleet, let alone that Li Weiguo would be in the middle of the exercise.
Jin Chengwu immediately gave up his plan to quietly drive the submarine away, but planned to fish in troubled waters, directly sink the Guanghua cruiser, and it is better to directly blow up Li Weiguo, so that he will have revenge and hope for the restoration of the country.
It can be said that Kim Sung-woo has been completely blinded by hatred and completely driven crazy by the restoration of faith in the Great Qing Kingdom.
Kim Sung-woo decided to attack the cruiser Gwanghwa, which several of his subordinates opposed, believing that it was a dead end.
Let's not talk about whether you can get close to the Guanghua cruiser, even if you successfully get close to the Guanghua, launching Fish Ray to sink Guanghua may not be able to kill Guanghua Emperor Li Weiguo.
Once an attack is launched, after the Guanghua cruiser is attacked, the entire Pacific Fleet will be furious, digging into the ground and finding the copper fish submarine, and then these people will have to be buried with Kim Sung-woo.
But Kim Sung-go has made up his mind, no one can persuade him, and although his subordinates are dissatisfied, there is nothing they can do.
It's a pity that Jin Chengwu just approached the Guanghua cruiser, because the Saurfish "sank" Thor, causing all ships of the Pacific Fleet to be irritable in an instant, and the dense sonar scanning hit the protective wall of the Tongyu submarine, which made Jin Chengwu and several people frightened into a cold sweat.
Kim Sung-woo had several opportunities to attack, but he and his men were so nervous that they came up and fired six rays directly at the bow. It turned out that it was all an exercise warhead, and although it hit the Guanghua cruiser, it was a pity that there was no big explosion, just a few splashes.
As a result, Kim Sung-woo was furious and ordered several of his subordinates to quickly push out the live ammunition fish and radium from the magazine.
But everyone was nervous, and their hands were shaking.
Fish radium is heavy and requires several people to work together to carry and install.
But including Kim Sung-woo, there are just five of them, and they can't take care of it at all.
Seeing that the submarines of the Guam Submarine Squadron were "sunk" one after another and surfaced one after another, Kim Sung-go knew that soon the Pacific Fleet would find him, and if he did not float at that time, he would inevitably arouse suspicion, and he would not be able to run away if he wanted to.
Jin Chengwu had no choice but to give up the attack first, dodge the sonar scanning of the surface ships, and leave the battlefield directly.
During this period, the Copper Fish submarine received an inquiry order from the flagship Swordfish, and Kim Sung-woo replied according to the normal procedure, deceiving his superiors. At the same time, the Copperfish was sped away.
The Copperfish submarine sailed all the way to an uninhabited atoll (Bikini Atoll), and Kim Sung-woo decided to stay hidden, and he and a few of his men manipulated the submarine to dive all the way to the uninhabited atoll (Bikini Atoll), using the atoll to shield the Pacific Fleet's sonar scanning and detection.
He did not give up attacking the cruiser Guanghua, so he reworked his tactics.
Kim Sung-woo falsely claimed that the submarine was malfunctioning, and continued to mislead the Pacific Fleet to search and rescue in the opposite direction, secretly peeking at the Gwanghwa cruiser.
It turned out to really make him wait for his chance.
Seeing that the Guanghua cruiser appeared in the nearby waters, it was only protected by two frigates by its side, and it was relatively far away.
"Here's your chance! Get ready to get your hands dirty! ”
Jin Chengwu shouted, and his excited heart was about to jump out.
"Head, if we really want to sink the Guanghua, we won't survive!"
One of Scarface's subordinates said suddenly, his expression twisted and nervous.
Jin Chengwu said angrily: "You are still a child of the banner people, how brave and majestic your ancestors were when they entered the customs, how come you are in your generation, and you don't even have this bit of blood and guts!" ”
The Scarface's subordinate bowed his head and fell silent.
The other subordinates, you look at me, I look at you, their expressions are struggling, but in the end they still choose to obey.
"Fill it with radium! We don't have enough manpower, we only have one chance, whether we can hit it or not, we have to leave at full speed! ”
Kim Sung-woo pointed to the chart and assigned the task.
Soon, the Copperfish was activated, slowly approaching the Guanghua.
"The speed of the ship is approaching 4 knots!"
"No one is allowed to speak without my orders, but to do what is told!"
After all, Kim Sung-go has been on a submarine for ten years, and he has a lot of experience in how to attack targets and how to prevent being anti-submarine by the other side.
It is conceivable that if Kim Sung-woo successfully arrived in the United States with the Copperfish, not to mention how important the Copperfish's original equipment is to the American Navy, that is, Kim Sung-woo himself, in his ten-year submarine career, his technology is also the envy of the American Navy.
The more beneficial it was to the American Navy, the more it would be damaging to the Imperial Chinese Navy.
Due to the lack of manpower, Kim Sung-woo could only send three people to the Fish Ray Cabin first, and after filling all the Fish Rays, he left one person to wait for the launch order.
Then one person was in charge of sonar, one person was in charge of the submarine control room, one person was in charge of the submarine power cabin, and Kim Sung-woo himself was the observer.
Beneath the surface, the Copperfish is moving at a speed of 4 knots, which is slow, but minimizes the noise of the propellers and reduces the chance of being detected by the Pacific Fleet's anti-submarine sonar system.
It's just that what Jin Chengwu never expected was that Li Weiguo's cruiser, the Guanghua, was equipped with the most advanced sonar detection system in the Chinese Empire.
Although the Guanghua is a cruiser, the armor is thin, and the firepower is also symbolically installed with several main guns, after all, it is the emperor's royal ship, it is impossible to participate in the battle, and it will not be harmed, and this firepower is only used to prevent pirates.
However, after all, this is the emperor's royal ship, and the military naturally attaches great importance to it, and Li Weiguo attaches the most importance to his own life, so don't look at the Guanghua cruiser's decoration is very luxurious, in fact, it has a large number of life-saving means.
One of them is the installation of a powerful sonar array on the Guanghua.
The military knew very well that the Guanghua cruiser, as the emperor's imperial warship, would be difficult for the enemy on the water to approach, because there would always be a large number of warships around the Guanghua cruiser. When a small enemy strikes, these frigates can stop it. If a large-scale fleet attacks, the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy will block it, even if it is too late to block it, the Guanghua cruiser will use her terrifying speed, which is as high as 35 knots, and can easily escape in case of distress.
Capable of reaching a speed of 35 knots, in addition to the state-of-the-art steam turbine system installed on the Guanghua, the overall waterline design of the Guanghua is also derived from the classic design of later generations.
Unlike the vertical bow of traditional warships, the Guanghua cruiser has a scissor bow and square stern, which is more elegant than the Great Egret-class anti-submarine destroyers, with the least resistance in the water, so it can achieve a terrifying speed of 35 knots.
Of course, this speed can last up to five hours, but in an emergency, it can be very useful.
The enemy coming from the surface actually has no chance to threaten the Guanghua cruiser, so the only one who can threaten the Guanghua is from underwater.
Although the frigate is also equipped with a sonar system, which can carry out anti-submarine operations, it is not a panacea after all, and when the battleship is moving, it may produce some blind spots, such as the sound of the propeller of the warship's wake, which may cover up the noise of the submarine and not be detected by sonar crews.
Therefore, Guanghua has its own independent sonar array.
The array was arranged by Li Weiguo himself.
The sonar system installed by professional anti-submarine destroyers is an active sonar system, which uses maximum power to detect enemy submarines in seawater.
Like the battleships, battlecruisers, cruisers, hospital ships, supply ships, etc. of the Imperial Chinese Navy, their functions are not professional anti-submarine, so the installed sonar system is a passive sonar system, that is, relying on the ears of sonar soldiers to judge the abnormal sound underwater, if the enemy submarine is stationary, or sailing at an ultra-low speed, the noise is lower than the noise of the ocean, then the passive sonar can not be detected. (It is directly related to the accuracy and sensitivity of sonar equipment in this era)
However, on the Guanghua cruiser, Li Weiguo asked the military and the Imperial Academy of Sciences to work together to install the most advanced active sonar system and passive sonar system.
Since Li Weiguo only used the Guanghua several times a year, and the Guanghua would be idle most of the time, Li Weiguo asked that the Guanghua be modified once a year to apply the most advanced technology of the Chinese Empire to the Guanghua.
At this moment, the Guanghua cruiser is equipped with the most powerful and most advanced sonar arrays in the Chinese Empire and the world, including active sonar systems and passive sonar systems, all installed under the bow.
To this end, Li Weiguo deliberately proposed the concept of a spherical nose bow, that is, imitating the design of later warships, and installing a sonar array in the nose bow under the bow, and the Guanghua cruiser was the first test ship to carry out this design.
At this moment, in the sonar room of the Guanghua cruiser, more than a dozen sonar soldiers are busy with tension.
"Report, detect anomalous echoes!" A sonar soldier suddenly took off his headphones and reported loudly.
"Is it the sound of a whale?" Captain Zeng Feng, the officer on duty, immediately asked rhetorically.
The sonar soldier shook his head, apparently unable to make a proper judgment.
Zeng Feng then came to him, took the headphones and listened for a while, also frowning, and seemed unable to make a judgment.
However, after all, he is a duty officer, and his attainments and experience in sonar are far more superb than those of the sonar soldiers in front of him, otherwise he would not have been selected to serve on the Guanghua.
The officers and men who were able to serve on the Guanghua were all selected from the national elite.
"Maximum power! Active sonar reports the situation! ”
"Yes! Maximum power! ”
Zeng Feng ordered the sonar to turn on the maximum power, and the active sonar system constantly emitted sonar waves, sweeping over and over again into the sea.
"Active sonar report, detecting an unknown object approaching! It's slow, probably a whale! ”
Zeng Feng immediately closed his eyes when he heard this, and listened carefully to the sound coming from the headphones.
After a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes and shouted: "It's a submarine approaching at low speed!" Level 2 Combat Readiness! Report to the fleet channel to generate an inquiry! ”
"Yes! Level 2 Combat Readiness! ”
"Fleet Channel inquiry has been sent!"
The Guanghua was immediately on high alert, and the captain, Rear Admiral Li Junfeng, also picked up the phone when he heard the news and called the sonar room to inquire about the situation.
Zeng Feng replied truthfully, and the captain immediately and decisively ordered all officers and men of the ship to be on second-level combat readiness.
At the same time, in front of the radio station of the Copper Fish, Kim Sung-woo looked nervous.
He never expected that the Guanghua would find himself approaching him, and in desperation, he had to ask his subordinates to pretend to be the Blue Fish to reply.
"It's the Bluefish! Searching for the Copperfish submarine! ”
The reply from the telecommunications room made Li Junfeng breathe a sigh of relief, but as the captain of the Guanghua, he was still very cautious.
"Send a message to the fleet flagship to verify the location of the Bluefish!"
The battleship Thor, after Chen Shen received the inquiry from the Guanghua, his head suddenly grew three times.
He knew that the Blue Fish was not near the Guanghua at all, and the enemy submarine could not have a radio system, let alone know the fleet encryption channel of the submarine force of the Imperial Chinese Navy, so there could only be one answer, the submarine that was close to the Guanghua with the fake Blue Fish could only be the disappeared Copper Fish.
What he was worried about finally happened, something must have happened to the Tongyu, and there was only one purpose for approaching the Guanghua, that is, they thought that the emperor Li Weiguo was on the Guanghua.
Thinking of this, Chen Shen sighed, no matter what, he has decided on this black pot, and now he can only save the situation as much as possible, and don't make a mess.
"That submarine is not the Blue Fish, it is the Copper Fish, there may have been a rebellion on the Copper Fish, they are afraid that they are going to attack the Guanghua!"
"What?"
Li Weijun was immediately frightened, and hurriedly ordered the Guanghua to prepare for battle, and at the same time ordered the Pacific Fleet to immediately abandon the search operation and prepare to attack the Tongyu.
At the same time, inside the Bronze Fish, Kim Sung-go had already sensed that the matter had been revealed, so he gave up stealth and rushed towards the Gwanghwa at full speed, while ordering his men in the Fish Ray cabin to be ready to launch Fish Ray at any time.
On the other side, in the bridge of the Guanghua, Li Junfeng had just received a warning order from the fleet headquarters, and Zeng Feng in the sonar room reported that the "Blue Fish", that is, the Copper Fish, was accelerating to approach the Guanghua.
"Combat speed! Full speed away! Prepare for the main gun defense, live ammunition loading! ”
The Guanghua had no anti-submarine equipment, the only thing was a twin 128 mm 50 times the diameter main gun in the bow, as well as close defense guns and heavy machine guns in the amidships and stern towers.
These are all weapons to drive away pirates, and they can barely counter the fish radium, but the number is too small to prevent the fish radium attack.
The only advantage was the high speed, the combat speed order was given, the steam turbine accelerated suddenly, and the Guanghua accelerated to a speed of thirty-five knots in just three minutes.
At the same time, the Copper Fish also entered the attack position, and Kim Sung-go quickly aimed at the Gwanghwa, and made a judgment in advance, and then ordered the attack.
"Launch No. 1 and No. 2 Fish Radium!"
"Fish Radium No. 1 and No. 2 have been launched!"
"Left Rudder Fifteen! Launch of No. 3 and No. 4 Fish Radium! ”
……
"Left rudder thirty! Launch No. 5 and No. 6 Fish Radium! ”
…… (To be continued.) )