One issue after another, it is easy to pass, the previous issues, under the pressure of reality, have been resolved, a Wall Street loss, although it will not make the United States collapse, but has affected the overall situation of the United States, next, the pacification of the stock market, the financial market, and even the mobilization of industrial forces, will become a top priority for a long time to come.

In the midst of intense deliberations, trying to find a solution to the overall situation and eliminate the after-effects of Wall Street's losses, at this time, a bad news came, and the reason why the assembled battleships did not set off according to the specified time was not because of the slow reaction and lack of time, but because they were attacked, and a large number of battleships were sunk.

The survivors of the submarine attack and some of the survivors who escaped with their lives rushed to New York to help, and since they were in the United States, most of the fleet chose the coastal shipping lanes, which were the most familiar and closest to them, and these shipping lanes saved these soldiers.

The depths of the sea, and the shallow sea continental shelf, these are two completely different concepts, more than 300,000 tons of warships have been sunk, there are almost 20 10,000-ton warships, and the number of sailors exceeds tens of thousands, but the real death, maybe less than half, most of the others, have been rescued by the warships that passed later, or there are good water, directly swam ashore.

The farthest point is only about 10 kilometers, and for well-trained soldiers, a 10-kilometer swim in full armor is not necessarily a difficult thing, grabbing a life jacket, or something buoyant, and swimming ashore is not too much of a problem at all.

At the end of last year, when the German submarine was active, the warships he directly sank, the survival rate would not exceed 15%, even if there was protection, life jackets and rubber boats could not be protected, on the one hand, it was easy to lose heat for a long time in the sea, and if you did not pay attention to keeping warm and supplementing, you could not hold on at all, as for the rubber boats, there were very few people who came back, and the depths of the sea, especially in the high sea conditions like the North Sea, the wind and waves were larger, and the ordinary waves for merchant ships were unbearable for rubber boats. When a wave comes, you can overturn a piece.

The continental shelf of Qianhai, due to its proximity to the sea, the temperature is relatively high, with the blockage of the mainland, the wind and waves will be reduced a lot, which gives them a chance to escape, plus this is close to the coast of the United States, it is impossible for submarines to chase over, additional attacks, often after an attack, they leave, so that there are a lot more survivors, as long as they are not too unlucky, they are wiped out all at once, they can always save themselves or wait for rescue.

This is huge bad news, submarines, there are actually submarines, this is even more unexpected by the US military, the other party's boldness, it is simply madness, not only sent 4 capital ships, destroyed the whole of New York, so that the United States suffered huge economic losses, after the attack, left submarines, the admirals of the navy, their faces were stiff, even they, many years of military career, did not expect that the other party would send submarines, not to mention those fleets that urgently went to New York to support.

Originally, it was near the mainland of the United States, and no one could guard against submarines, and in the face of powerful submarines, they would definitely not be able to escape, and this loss might be even greater. The battleship is also down, and your submarine will still be murdered, and the Admiralty quickly deployed, and the entire east coast is moving, and at least 700 battleships equipped with sonar are engaged in a dragnet search near the submarine encountered on the east coast.

The United States is anxious, but Cheng Biguang is not aware of such a lively situation here, the battleship target is too big, it must leave the vicinity of the United States, sailing at high speed for almost more than 100 nautical miles, after leaving the hinterland of New York, choose to go north, the south is a mature route, and it is also a place where the United States searches more intensively, only to the north, close to the Arctic Ocean, can avoid the search of merchant ships and warships.

Under the high speed of 25 knots, the extreme test of the power system, China's power system, here has withstood the test, in full operation for 8 hours, there is no problem at all, the precision processing of high-speed machine tools, China's power system has a long life and reliability, all of which has been verified in countless machinery and the Scheer fleet, on the road, has also carried out more than 40 hours of high-speed sailing, only 8 hours of sailing, this is completely a small test.

After a long voyage, more than 200 nautical miles away from New York, I relaxed and left quickly at cruising speed, it was already afternoon, and it was far enough away from New York, as long as I was careful, there should be no problem.

At present, there are only two reconnaissance planes following the fleet, and the distance of such a search is somewhat close, only less than 80 nautical miles, if it is too fast, it will reduce the reaction time, and it has already left 200 nautical miles, and the safety performance has been greatly increased, as long as it is not too unlucky, the ship can escape.

According to the agreement, Cheng Biguang will rush to a place 400 nautical miles away from New York within one day, which is the core area of the Atlantic Ocean and is a relatively safe place.

After the replenishment must be completed, and then consider the rest, through the top-secret channel of the radio, Cheng Biguang has already contacted the supply fleet, they have bypassed the most dense area of the North Atlantic shipping lane, and went to the predetermined location from the north, at most by tomorrow night, they will arrive at the predetermined place, relatively speaking, his side is a little faster.

The results achieved by New York are far above imagination, which is a great promotion for them, and it is also a massive war achievement, but the corresponding is the madness of the United States, just looking at the loss of New York, Cheng Biguang's scalp is numb, the Americans are not soft persimmons, they will definitely do their best to retaliate, and in the next action, he must be careful to ensure safety in order to expand the results of the war.

The most dangerous hours have passed, night has fallen, the reconnaissance aircraft has begun to recover, the night reconnaissance aircraft has achieved extremely poor results, by the time the battleship has installed a semi-finished thing, the prototype of the radar has some effect, for dynamic targets, on the sea surface, more than 3 meters in a radius of things, there is a considerable detection rate, this is enough, as long as some moving ships are avoided, the night is safer than the day.

After confirming the safety, Cheng Biguang first contacted the country and roughly introduced the results obtained, his results were not as perfect as those of the United States, but the general results can be seen, for example, the Statue of Liberty, the first target, was basically destroyed, which is the results that can be seen with the naked eye. The second target, New York Harbor, most of the merchant ships and a large amount of supplies, as well as the port itself, were devastated, and it is not known what those ships were loaded with, but looking at the draft of those ships, you can know that most of them were loaded with supplies.

At the moment when the war is going on to the present, the big war on the land of Europe is about to break out, coupled with the activities of the submarine forces in the North Sea, their greatest possibility is military goods, and the loss of millions of tons of military goods is absolutely direct support for the ground battlefield in 1916.

The first two tasks must be completed, otherwise for the 4 capital ships, after a lot of hardships, crossing thousands of rivers and mountains to come here, there is no effect, the third task is incidental, can be the best, can not be just that, across two oceans, three continents, come to New York, who knows what accidents will happen, if faced with the threat of warships, maybe they will not attack for so long.

But the Americans' defense was really lax, and they were actually in the core position, allowing the fantasy class to attack without reservation for 2 hours, this is China's strongest warship, and it is also one of the most powerful warships in the world, attacking without reservation for two hours, even the barrel will consume a lot, and in the end, they have a total of 10,000 rounds of various types of shells, of which at least 3,000 rounds of various special ammunition are used.

More than 80 percent of the shells hit Wall Street, although Wall Street has countless skyscrapers, but in the face of the world's most powerful warships, especially the 8,000 rounds of special shells up to more than one ton each, Wall Street, the largest financial center in the United States, was devastated.

The telegram had just been completed, and even better news came that the eight submarines, having completed their attack on the fleet, turned away and sent them a telegram during the night. In the vicinity of chaotic New York, 7 battles were fought in a row, and at least 300,000 tons of warships were killed, of which 7 were mounted cruisers and 12 were heavy cruisers, although these were not battleships, plus the previous losses, the United States suffered great losses.

The reconnaissance aircraft is on the way back, this kind of water reconnaissance aircraft, can not consider the limit of the land, can float on the water, and then increase the volume, more than 40,000 tons of battleships, can accommodate the aircraft cabin a lot, plus can be folded cabins, this is enough to make the performance of the seaplane extremely outstanding, the limit can complete about 22 hours of cruise, although today, the cruise time is not short, from about 5 o'clock in the morning, to about 7 o'clock, it is already 14 hours, They also needed to return at night, and after the battleship arrived at anchorage, they would return to the battleship and complete their resupply.

Unscathed, the effect is huge, this is the result of this sneak attack fleet, so far, Cheng Biguang once again recognized Yang Yuanzhao's concept, asymmetric strike, if according to the previous concept of war, the capital ships of both sides, looking for opportunities, strategic duels, in the attack again and again, kill the main force of the other side, from the advantage to the victory, after the victory of the naval battle, and then land to get the results.

Like the samurai of the Middle Ages, the two sides faced each other, and even if one side wins, the other side is not much better, and after great attrition and a long time, the two sides can decide the winner.

However, asymmetrical strikes are different, relying on their own advantages in reconnaissance, combat effectiveness, and even speed, they do not choose the strongest place of the opponent's defense, but choose the weakest link of the opponent, and use their strongest place to attack the opponent's weakest place without any losses, but also be able to hit the opponent on a large scale, and their own losses are not big at all.

In addition to sighing, Cheng Biguang did not forget to send a report to the headquarters, which was waiting for the final result, and he was already in a hurry.

This is a long message, at least more than 2,000 words, even if it is a well-trained transmitter, it must be drafted in advance, and then several transmitters cross-check, confirm that there is no error, and then divide it into three parts, use 3 radio transmitters to send the report, just from the drafting process to the success of the telegram, it took 1 hour, and then the skilled transmitter, keep knocking on the transmitter, the message is sent out 20 times in a row.

Qingdao, China, where the current headquarters of the Navy is located, is almost brightly lit in the war room, and since eight days ago, Cheng Biguang's department completed the last replenishment and entered a state of radio silence, they have always maintained combat readiness duty, during which they have received several battle reports sent back by the submarine force, as well as the location of the supply fleet, and nothing is known about the location of the main battleship.

These four fantasy class, although not the entire Chinese Navy of the whole of the force, but is one of the most important forces, once they complete the combat mission, return to China, they will inevitably become the backbone of the Navy, although the Chinese Navy in equipment, has made great progress, in the main force of naval warfare, has also changed from battleships to aircraft carriers, but really tens of thousands of nautical miles sneaking, across two oceans, three continents, with almost impossible to complete such an artillery mission, is the only one, this is a valuable experience, It is the best heritage of the Navy.

As long as they digest and absorb their lessons and lessons, China's navy will build on the original foundation, go to the next level, be completely not afraid of long-range sneak attacks, and give full play to the asymmetrical strikes that Yang Yuanzhao has always advocated.

Familiar with the channel, the sudden sound immediately made the war room from a state of silence into a boiling, there has been no news of the forward fleet, Cheng Biguang, finally came to the news, and as soon as it came was a long news, at least 30 elite communicators, picked up the receiver, carefully recorded the news, and the senior naval officers who received the notice, also came to the war room one by one, from Cheng Biguang to fight, the headquarters, for Cheng Biguang always sweated, especially after entering the North Atlantic, close to the end of North America, they maintained a silent situation on the radio, did not take the initiative to contact, to prevent being discovered, now the news is coming, it should be after the battle, what kind of results will there be? Can I complete the pre-scheduled tasks? All these doubts will be explained in this long message. (To be continued.) )