It is precisely because of the self-confidence of the US Navy that since the outbreak of the war, they have been on the offensive, although they did not dare to approach Yanping Port after suffering a big loss, but sending warships to harass the east coast of Colombia has almost become a daily task, if it were not for the great pressure on the land battlefield, the Marine Corps has also been drawn in large numbers, it is estimated that the US Navy would have landed directly on the coast of the Republic of Colombia. www.biquge.info It is precisely because of this need that the main forces of the US Navy have already been transferred south to bases in Florida and Cuba, which is convenient for them to carry out the combat missions assigned by Mr. President.

The Colombian Navy was already weak, and after being attacked by the US military outside Yanping Harbor, it suffered heavy losses, and the US Navy only needed to send some auxiliary ships to complete the task when attacking the east coast of Colombia, and the capital ships had been waiting for it, and under an order from above, a fleet that was even more powerful than when it was beaten outside Yanping Port was quickly assembled, except for an older Chilshaji-class battleship that needed to be dealt with urgently, the remaining 24 capital ships were gathered in the Jacksonville Naval Base, plus various auxiliary shipsThe total number of ships even exceeded 100, and if it were not for the large expansion of this naval base by the United States during the 10-year preparation period, I am afraid that so many warships would not be able to accommodate it at all.

Since Cuba was already a colony of the United States, and the Chinese army had not been able to spare time to take it down because of its lack of troops, the US Navy could easily use the eyeliner in Cuba to obtain intelligence, and the Chinese Crusade fleet had not yet entered the Yucatan Strait, and the US Navy determined the course of their movement through a telegram sent by a Cuban fishing boat. Then, in addition to the 4 Illinois-class battle cruisers that were left to guard against possible Chinese attack ships, the other 20 capital ships all poured out, including 16 battleships and 4 battle cruisers, which were even slightly better than the Chinese Eastern Expeditionary Fleet in terms of tonnage, and if the auxiliary ships were also counted, the advantage would be even greater.

The only regret that President Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy had to regret was that because the submarine was too slow, it would have been too late to rush to the Yucatan Strait in advance, and if they wanted to use this new weapon to attack the enemy, they could only hope that there would be two ships that happened to be carrying out tasks in that area. The power of torpedoes is not comparable to that of artillery shells, even if they are huge battleships of 20,000 or 30,000 tons, it is estimated that they will not be able to carry a few, and if they can make meritorious contributions, the chances of winning this naval battle will be even greater.

However, the U.S. Navy did not know that China had long mastered the technology of sonar, the nemesis of submarines, and that the early submarines of this era had no awareness of noise reduction at all, so they were discovered from a long distance, and then, and then there was no more. The Chinese Navy's new-style destroyers have reached a maximum speed of more than 30 knots, while the underwater speed of the US submarine is only a few knots, and we do not know how the enemy discovered itself and did not think of turning off the engines, so as a result, it was completely unable to escape the pursuit of the Chinese destroyers.

After discovering that it could not escape, the US submarine could only do its best, but because the tonnage of the submarine was still very limited at this time, and there was only one torpedo tube, the US submarine in the state of escape wanted to attack the target behind it, and it had to turn around to do it, but due to the huge gap in maneuverability, this seemingly simple action could not be completed at all......

In the end, the US submarine could only suffer humiliation and death in vain under the depth charges fired by the Chinese destroyer, and it could not even make a return fire, and naturally it was impossible to cause any losses. And since there were no means of underwater communication in those days, the main American fleet, which was still on the way, was completely ignorant of this......

The two submarines whose design is not yet fully mature are not too great losses, and what really caught the US Navy off guard was the extremely fast speed of the Chinese Eastern Expeditionary Fleet, and the combat warships were just that, and the Chinese Navy has always paid attention to high speed in design, and the technology is also more advanced, and it is natural that the US military warships of the same type cannot be compared. But no one expected that even China's landing ships, transport ships and other non-combat ships would be terrifyingly fast......

It turned out that Li Hui had realized as early as the pre-war exercise that in order to take advantage of the United States, he could only cripple the United States as soon as possible at the initial stage, so naturally it would be impossible to wait until the navy had seized sea supremacy before carrying out the landing, but if he forcibly landed before seizing sea supremacy, once he was hit by the main fleet of the US Navy, the losses would be as great as one could imagine. Although eight Xuanyuan-class battlecruisers are enough to defeat all the capital ships of the US Navy, the US military only needs a few cruisers and even destroyers to rush to the vicinity of the transport ship, so that thousands of Marines can be killed without firing a single shot.

Due to the help of the system's optimization function, Li Hui adopted the same idea as the construction of Yanping Fortress, and specially designed a series of non-combat ships for the war against the United States, they have a common characteristic, that is, fast, the engines used are the latest models of steam turbines, and the ship type is also very targeted, so that they can generally reach a cruising speed of more than 12 knots, and once the horsepower is fully opened, it can run at least 20 knots!

If such a high-speed ship is civilian, it is undoubtedly completely cost-effective, but when used to transport troops during the war, the superiority is obvious. Soon after sailing through the Yucatan Strait, the Eastern Expeditionary Fleet encountered the main fleet of the United States unexpectedly, which would have been very difficult, but because of the super speed of the transport ship, Yang Yonglin, the commander of the Chinese Ocean Fleet, did not panic at all, he calmly ordered the fleet as a whole to accelerate towards the original goal, and at the same time asked the two Chinese light cruises that unexpectedly met with their American counterparts to the northeast to mislead the US military.

The U.S. Navy is not a fool, and after chasing for a while, it did not find the enemy's large fleet, and realized that the Chinese light cruiser was misleading itself, but several American cruisers that went to search in other directions also did not find the enemy, which made Vice Admiral William Soden Sims, commander of the U.S. fleet, puzzled, and even began to suspect that the Chinese fleet was not going to land on the US mainland, but was preparing to land in Cuba, and hurriedly sent a telegram to inquire, which immediately made the US troops in Cuba feel like they were facing a great enemy. Although the naval base in Cuba was not attacked, this does not mean that the enemy has not landed in Cuba, and the US garrison has such a small number of people and such a long coastline, which cannot be taken care of at all! (To be continued.) )