In the transport fleet of the Ming Empire, 7 freighters used the overall container transportation method. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoThis method is very convenient for loading and unloading, and once it was promoted within the Ming Empire, it was immediately praised by the shipping industry.

This centralized transportation method, which later appeared to be a genius, was also an epoch-making innovation at the time. And in this era, there is no difficulty in popularizing it.

Because of the preparation in advance, almost all the new ships in the Ming Empire, as well as some large old ships, can easily use this method to transport materials.

The difference is that the old ship needs to undergo some modifications, while the new ship can directly use this method.

At this time, Britain, a veteran maritime transportation power, realized that the Ming Empire had strictly required the uniform size standards of its transport ships in the past two years, which was a premeditated thing.

17 transport ships stretched mightily on the sea, because this was a surprise transport, so the Ming Dynasty troops who left the port from Weihaiwei were still very confident in their safety.

Because this was a surprise transport, and it was the first time that such an operation was carried out by sudden force, so even if the Japanese army obtained some information, it did not have time to make any advance deployment.

Moreover, the fleet deliberately chose a relatively remote route from Weihaiwei and made a slight detour.

In this case, the chances of encountering a Japanese submarine are slim. On this basis, General Zhang Rude also sent a large number of warships to escort the escort, which made the military transport ships on duty feel very safe.

In the past, there were occasional enemy attack ships, which also happened. Everyone is accustomed to such losses, and it is not surprising that at least all countries have a record of being sunk by the enemy.

So this time, everyone was not too nervous about rushing to transport materials. The entire fleet is about to sail from the Yellow Sea into the West Korean Gulf.

"It seems that we need to speed up! After all, this is a dangerous sea area, and it is likely that Japanese submarines are hidden. On the light cruiser Chaka, the commander of this operation heard the report from the observation post and asked his first mate.

"Sir! It is possible to order an increase in the speed of sailing! The first mate knew that the current speed was not the limit of the fleet, so he opened his mouth to reply.

"Speed up, up to the limit of 19 knots." The commander spoke, directly increasing the speed of the fleet to the point where it could not be higher.

His destroyers and cruisers may be able to run at a formation speed of more than 20 knots, but those transports loaded with supplies are not capable of doing that anyway.

Soon, the players who were transmitting the signals began to shake the red flag in their hands, and the signal lights also transmitted complex signals to each other. Then one ship after another, began to emit thicker black smoke.

The boilers burned as hard as they could, and the entire fleet increased its speed by two knots in a matter of minutes.

On the vast sea, these ships, which seemed very small, soon traveled a considerable distance, and the sea breeze blew on everyone's face, with a hint of comfort, and there was not much of the cruelty of war.

The smell of blood and the smell of death steaming in the smoke of gunpowder, under the blowing of the sea breeze, did not appear near this fleet, and it did not take long for them to see the coastline of the Korean Peninsula, and even the Djinn 1 bomber in the sky that was patrolling.

This kind of large bomber was converted into a patrol aircraft by the navy of the Ming Empire to patrol the sea. They often fly along the coastline to confirm the situation on the surface of the sea.

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On the other hand, Kosuke Utada, who was still complacent just now and felt that he could make persistent efforts to sink the second Ming Empire warship for the Japanese Empire, did not have a very good expression on his face.

The reason is actually very simple, if you are riding a bicycle and trying to chase a car on the highway at full speed, you can understand how Utada Osa feels right now.

To put it bluntly, his submarine is just a ship that can only reach a speed of 4 knots underwater. Now he is using these 4 knots to chase the speed of more than 17 knots of the Ming Imperial Navy transport fleet, how can he catch up?

If he had anchored on the route of the Ming army in advance, he might have fired a torpedo attack in the same way as he had attacked the heavy cruiser Fuxian Lake.

However, his current route was at least 10 nautical miles away from the Ming army's fleet. With the speed of his submarine, how could he have the ability to catch up?

At this time, Utada Kosuke really realized how bad luck he had at that time, and he happened to be on the route of the North Sea Division fleet of the Ming Empire.

If it weren't for his unfortunate luck, how could he have a chance to attack a fleet of warships that were faster than the transport fleet?

Unfortunately, right now, his luck doesn't seem to be so good. Because the distance of the Ming Empire's fleet was too far enough, he had no chance to expand his victory.

"I really can't catch up." has surfaced, looking at the Ming Dynasty fleet that is about to drive to its destination in the distance, the first mate of Utada Osa stood on the shell, put down the telescope and said helplessly.

"It seems that the use of submarines as a weapon still needs to be explored. Tactics must be in place to play their due role. "Utada was a clever commander, and he immediately discovered that brute force could not take advantage of the special advantages of submarine forces.

Because of the limitation of speed, the submarine force waits until it discovers the target and attacks, and the efficiency is estimated to be outrageously low.

"It's best to have a way to know the route of the Ming fleet in advance, so that you can be prepared for an ambush attack." Utada also knew that he seemed to have missed this attack, and said with a sigh.

Looking at the ships of the Ming Empire Navy that were just in the distance in front of them, the entire No. 108 submarine was filled with a sense of chagrin.

After all, he also had a knife in his hand with a murderous intention, but it turned out that he didn't run as fast as many parties, which was a very unpleasant thing.

Because in the past few days, the Japanese army has boasted too much about its submarine forces, and it can even be said that it is too superstitious about its submarine forces, so it has not taken the risk of deploying surface warships to the West Korean Gulf.

This allowed the Ming transport fleet, which had evaded the Japanese submarines, to be very safely sent to the waters near Dingzhou, which had not long been taken by the 1st Army.

There was a dock that had just been set up, a small loading dock made of buoyancy boxes, and because there were many troops waiting for supplies nearby, it only took two hours for the goods in the cargo ship to be unloaded. (To be continued.) )