The twin carrier battle group entered Asia from the Strait of Malacca and continued eastward, gradually approaching the mouth of the Yangtze River. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It is impossible for such a huge two-aircraft carrier battle group to enter Asia without attracting the attention of the Japanese and Japanese maritime powers in Asia.

However, this is a fleet flying the German flag and followed by huge merchant ships, and it seems that the two-carrier battle group is sailing into Asian waters only for the escort of the merchant fleet.

This merchant fleet is very large, hundreds of transport ships are not a joke, in case of an accident on the ocean, the loss is too great, so it is normal to have a fleet escort.

At this time, Japan and Germany were secretly negotiating and were about to establish an alliance. Since the two-carrier formation belongs to Germany, there is not much attention paid to the entry of this two-carrier battle group into Asia.

The Japanese Navy was not unaware that the American aircraft carrier was bought by the Europeans and eventually fell to Germany.

It is obvious that the Japanese are willing to see that Germany has great strength, and the stronger the so-called alliance, the better, and no one wants to form an alliance with some weak and small countries.

The Japanese were not the British Empire, nor France, and it is understandable that both of them were worried about the strength of Germany.

No matter how strong the German navy is, it will not affect Asia, and it will not have an impact on the maritime hegemony of the Japanese and Japanese, not to mention that the two countries are about to become an alliance.

Therefore, in this matter, the Japanese navy was paralyzed and did not send naval ships to follow this two-aircraft carrier battle group.

The two-carrier battle group, flying the flag of the German Navy, was still training while marching, swaggering eastward.

On this morning, the twin aircraft carrier battle groups had sailed to the open sea of the merchant sea.

At this time, the Japanese army was fighting with the Chinese army, and the battle was in full swing.

In this battle, the Japanese army mobilized a huge naval fleet to cooperate in the operation, and sailed four aircraft carriers, the "Kaga," the "Ryusho," the "Fengxiang," and the "Akagi," to the southeast coast of China, and dispatched carrier-based aircraft to support the Japanese army's operations in Shanghai.

In order to open up the Yangtze River route, the Japanese army began to dispatch planes to bomb the Yangtze River Nationalist Army's blocking line in late August, and groups of planes took off from the Japanese aircraft carriers and flew over Jiangyin, sinking almost all the ships of the First Fleet of the Nationalist Navy and opening up the Yangtze River route.

In future operations, Japanese aircraft carriers often appeared along China's southeast coast to coordinate combat operations on land. The Japanese authorities arrogantly clamored that China would be destroyed within three months.

At this time, the Japanese aircraft carrier "Longxiang" was in the sea north of the Zhoushan Islands in Zhejiang.

The "Longxiang" was one of the main ships of the 3rd Fleet of the Japanese invasion of China, and committed heinous crimes in China.

The ship is 175 meters long, 20 meters wide, has a full load displacement of 13,000 tons, and can carry a total of 48 fighters, attack aircraft and bombers. It was completed on May 9, 1933, and was one of the newest aircraft carriers owned by the Japanese Navy at that time.

The geographical location of the Japanese Ryūchamp is very important, it is the key point of the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea, and chokes the throat of the north-south route.

The "Longxiang" was anchored here, posing a great threat to the defense of the Chinese army on the southeast coast, and even Nanjing, the capital of the Nationalist Government, was often bombed by planes on the "Longxiang".

The Japanese army believed in its own air supremacy, so the aircraft carrier "Longxiang" swaggered and cruising in China's coastal waters with little defense, despite being within the attack range of the Chinese air force.

At this time, Chen Lei, commander-in-chief of the two-aircraft carrier battle group, had already received instructions from Fengtian, encountered a Japanese aircraft carrier along the way, and sank it easily.

Feng Tian told Chen Lei that if he encounters several aircraft carriers, he can't do it hard, and protecting the transport fleet is the most important task. However, if you have the opportunity, you must not let it go, and you must be careful to conceal it.

Moreover, it is better to use submarines to sink the Japanese aircraft carriers and give the Japanese navy a little fear.

The reason why Feng Tian did this was mainly because the equipment loaded by the transport ship was too important, and it was related to the entire shipbuilding business of the Northland Volunteers.

Another reason why they did not want to engage in a naval battle with the Japanese navy at this time was because the Japanese and the United States had not yet started a war, and if the Japanese navy had been severely damaged, there would have been no so-called Pearl Harbor incident.

Therefore, in order to take advantage of the immediate advantage, it should not affect the trend in the future.

It is precisely because of this order that Chen Lei, commander of the twin aircraft carrier battle group, formulated a tactic to keep the aircraft carrier battle group away from the coastline and find out the target of the Japanese aircraft carrier in time through reconnaissance by carrier-based aircraft.

When the two-carrier battle group sailed to the waters off the Zhoushan Islands, the adjutant came to report: "Report to the commander, the reconnaissance plane has found the Japanese aircraft carrier Longxiang near the Zhoushan Islands, and ask for instructions." ”

The commander of the two-aircraft carrier battle group had been waiting anxiously for a long time, and as soon as he heard that the target had been discovered, Chen Lei immediately issued an order: "The aircraft carrier formation continues to march, order the five submarines on the left flank to attack immediately, and after the aircraft carrier battle group leaves, be sure to sink the Longxiang." ”

The submarine is concealed, and the sinking of the Japanese Wondron will not be detected, and it can be successfully withdrawn from the combat site.

And the two-carrier battle group needs to protect the huge transport fleet, in case of a naval battle, it will cause unnecessary losses.

Besides, since the commander-in-chief Feng Tian did not allow him to engage the Japanese navy at this time, Chen Lei felt that this tactic was the best.

The twin carrier flotilla continued to advance, while the five submarines on the left flank broke away from the fleet and headed for the target.

Five submarines were enough for the Longxiang to sink to the bottom of the sea, and Chen Lei left with peace of mind.

When the twin aircraft carrier formation and the transport fleet disappeared into the sea, the Northland Volunteer Navy submarine had already locked onto the target.

The Japanese Navy Longxiang aircraft carrier was defenseless, and was only escorted by a light cruiser by his side, thinking that this sea area was their world, and of course they would not have thought that there were submarines under the water that would kill them, and there were quite a few of them.

The submarine formation was ordered by the commander, and four of the five submarines fired torpedoes almost simultaneously to attack the aircraft carrier Longxiang, and the other submarine attacked the light cruiser.

The submarine is launched inward in the open sea, and in the face of the vast sea, the attention of the Japanese navy is not in this direction at all, and even if there is a threat, it will come from the direction of the coastline, and of course it will not think of the danger behind it.

This is terrible, every torpedo fired by the submarine hits the target.

Suddenly, a loud explosion pierced the silence of the sea, and thick smoke rose into the air.

The huge explosion almost tore the aircraft carrier Longxiang to pieces, the aircraft carrier jumped and immediately began to tilt, as for the planes on the aircraft carrier, some were overturned by the air wave of the explosion and fell directly into the sea, and the other planes stranded on the deck could not stabilize at all on the inclined deck, and the dumplings generally fell into the sea in turn.

The Japanese sailors on deck were in extreme confusion, some climbed into lifeboats to escape, others jumped into the sea in a panic.

The five submarines completed the attack and quietly left, while the aircraft carrier Longxiang and the light cruiser continued to sink, and I am afraid that there is no salvation. (To be continued.) )