Chapter 193: Jiaolong Appears

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The sea area south of the Mozambique Channel.

Today is a rare good weather, although the sun has not yet jumped out of the water, the morning sun has already smeared the sea with a layer of gold.

The Dreadnought and its battleships and cruisers formed a three-line column heading south, having just finished cruising the Mozambique Channel and preparing to return to Cape Town.

As the British Empire reduced its naval power, the total tonnage of the Atlantic Fleet in the African Straits had more than doubled that of the Chinese Navy, and because the Chinese Navy was far from the mainland, the advantage gained in the early days of the war had long since been reversed, and now the Chinese Navy has not launched an offensive against the British Navy for a long time, and the British Navy patrols are becoming more and more frequent throughout the Mozambique Channel.

In fact, this is equivalent to cutting off the material transportation of the Eastern Empire to the South African colonies, and it is not difficult to understand that in the southern African theater, the offensive of the Chinese and Transvaal forces was like a strong crossbow, and within two months of occupying Cape Town, they had to retreat strategically.

The Dreadnought is a fully heavy artillery battleship that has just been completed in the British Empire, with a displacement of up to 19,000 tons, this behemoth is a veritable sea giant, the most advanced and heaviest tonnage battleship in the British Empire today, and the dreadnought equipped with a full set of radio systems is called by Queen Victoria as a steel fortress on the sea to defend the honor of the British Empire.

There is no doubt that the Dreadnought is like an invincible giant, cruising proudly in the Mozambique Channel.

Captain Dreadnought is also Vice Admiral Nelson, deputy commander of the British Atlantic Fleet, the youngest senior officer of the British Navy, who is not yet 50 years old this year, but has repeatedly made meritorious contributions in the contest with the Chinese Navy, he is active in thinking, not the traditional old-fashioned and serious Imperial Navy commander, and his early experience in serving in the Hong Kong Navy made him contact with the tactical thinking of the Eastern Navy very early, which also made him roughly understand the true purpose of Chinese tactics when competing with the Chinese Navy.

In the bridge command room, the wireless telegraph clicked, and the fleet's connection with Cape Town was never interrupted, which also made Nelson have to express the profound significance of radio technology from China to the development of the navy.

"Your Excellency General, I heard that the armistice conditions proposed by the Chinese are very harsh?" Standing in the military cabinet beside Lieutenant General Nelson was his closest staff officer, Colonel Clegg, a very handsome officer with blue eyes as deep as the sea.

Nelson nodded silently, and in Warsaw, the Chinese and his allies proposed a series of harsh conditions for an armistice, including China's takeover of Hong Kong; Brunei, India, and Canada are independent and self-governing; Australia is divided into two regions, the Oriental immigrants and the European immigrants and aborigines live separately from the east and the west according to the demarcated boundaries, and each of them exercises independence under the will of the people; The British recognized the legitimacy of the autonomous administrative regions of the East such as Singapore, and so on.

When it came to Europe, the Allies proposed that the standing armies of Britain and France be limited to less than 100,000 men, that the ratio of the total tonnage of the navies of Germany, France, and Britain should not be less than 21:1, and that at the same time, various restrictions should be imposed on the tonnage of a single warship, and that more than half of Britain's colonies in Africa should be ruled by the Germans.

The Allied countries had not yet counted the military reparations, and the Allies had filed claims against Britain and France for war expenses of 20 billion Chinese dollars.

Britain and France were no longer able to take care of Ottoman Turkey, and the Allies even proposed that the peoples of the Ottoman Empire should be given the right to be independent, and that Turkey should only be allowed to retain a small part of the territory near Istanbul and part of Asia Minor. …,

Such harsh conditions were unbearable even for the most moderate advocates of a decent end to the war in London, and the Liberal government, which had sent a mission to Warsaw, was criticized from all quarters.

"The scope of the Chinese Navy's activities is limited to the East, as long as we can blockade the Mediterranean, even if the Chinese Army joins the Western Theater, the long supply lines will seriously weaken their combat capability, and the Western Theater will become their Waterloo." Colonel Clegg's tone was as firm as his gaze, and like many admirals, he was convinced that the British Empire would win the war.

Nelson nodded slightly, he knew that the military had put forward a Baltic landing operation plan, and when the Chinese army entered the western battlefield, the Allied coalition forces would land in Poland through the Baltic Sea, and together with the Polish armed forces resisting German and Austrian rule in the eastern Polish region, the remnants of western Russia, and the opposition forces in Poland, open up the second battlefield in the eastern sector, as long as it can hold out for half a year, the German-Austrian coalition forces that have lost their eastern aid and the Chinese elite army that has joined the Western European battlefield will fall into an extremely disadvantageous situation or even be annihilated.

Now the coalition forces have already begun to coordinate with all parties to prepare for the grand plan of this Jedi counteroffensive.

In order to win in the face of danger, Nelson believed that if the second battlefield was successfully opened, the Allied bloc that felt that victory was within reach would suffer a heavy blow, especially for the Allied front-line soldiers who thought that the war was about to end, the blow to their morale would be fatal, and the strategic vision of the military commander who planned this Jedi counteroffensive campaign was very clever.

"I hope your prophecy will come true." Nelson smiled and looked at the blue sea, and in the east, the red sun gradually jumped out of the sea.

A dull loud "boom" came faintly from the west, and Nelson frowned and asked, "Did the Hogg meet a Chinese ship?" ”

Two nautical miles to the west was the formation of cruisers Hogg escorting the main fleet.

The news soon came over the airwaves.

"Your Excellency, the Hogg has been attacked by an unknown object and is sinking!"

"The Hill and the Eastern Trailblazer exploded violently!"

"The West discovered a formation of Chinese warships!"

Almost without thinking, Nelson said coldly: "Order all the detachments to move closer to the Hogg and prepare for battle!" ”

The Hogg is a heavy cruiser with a displacement of more than 8,000 tons, the Hill and the Oriental Pioneer are both Hogg-class cruisers, and the entire detachment has more than 6,000 combatants and sailors.

Moreover, the Chinese fleet, which had been relying on land-based artillery to shrink into various ports, was struggling to find an opportunity to compete with them.

The dreadnought is like a giant, moving at full speed, and the cleaving waves are amazing.

From the telescope, soon found a small black dot, that is the Chinese Navy warship, the black dot is getting bigger and bigger, the unicorn pattern on the high flying unicorn flag has been clearly visible.

On the dreadnought, the steel armor above the huge glass of the command room was slowly falling, and Nelson stood straight at the front of the command room, the shadow of the steel armor slowly enveloping his rocky face.

One after another, orders were transmitted from the command room to the various sub-fleets through radio waves, and the battleships and cruisers responsible for attacking the Chinese fleet followed the dreadnoughts and drew countless white lines in the blue sea to rush towards the Chinese fleet, and another cruiser sub-fleet sailed towards the Hogg and other ships that were slowly sinking.

It's just that no one noticed that at this time, small black dots clinging to the sea surface on the blue sea in the south loomed. …,

Periscope, the clairvoyant of Chinese submarines - Type 3 periscope, represents the improved periscope of clairvoyance crystallization of imperial optical technology.

In the Jiaolong submarine at the front, Deng Shichang, the commander-in-chief of the submarine formation and the captain of the submarine, excitedly looked at the dozens of black spots that were getting closer and closer, and said hey: "Don't go!" Eat a big meal! ”

Although the Imperial Navy has been tirelessly secretly developing military-type submarines, the 19 submarines led by Deng Shichang who secretly came to the African Strait under the cover of the supplementary fleet are the latest Jiaolong-class submarines with offshore combat capability and a displacement of more than 500 tons, with a double-shell structure and the latest diesel engines.

However, the speed of the Imperial submarines is still far lower than that of surface ships, and the submarine attack tactic can only be to ambush the enemy ship near the route that the target must pass through. The sea is vast, and there are countless routes, and the submarine formation led by Deng Shichang has carried out several such wait-and-wait operations, but each time they have returned empty-handed.

Even senior generals in the Navy Headquarters have expressed doubts and pessimism about the practicality of submarines, believing that it is acceptable for submarines to attack merchant ships, and that their real use in combat is only on paper.

Deng Shichang, who was automatically invited into the submarine combat unit since the submarine was installed in the navy, also held his breath, but he didn't expect that he caught a big fish this time, how could Deng Shichang not be excited?

"Brigade, we don't have many torpedoes." The officer next to him had to remind Deng Shichang that when he had just attacked the British cruiser squadron of the Hogg, the submarine formation had already cast most of the torpedoes, after all, each submarine only had four 500-mm torpedo tubes and carried a few torpedoes.

Deng Shichang's eyes stared at the "Dreadnought" that was getting closer and closer, and said coldly: "Torpedo preparation!" The submarine is ready for a speed dive! ”

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, although he has never coordinated operations with the Imperial Navy battleship formation, and there is no way to contact the Imperial Navy fleet in the western sea, Deng Shichang believes in the ability of every senior Imperial Navy commander to capture fighters, and also believes that every captain of his submarine team, after his own attack, they will definitely not retreat according to the original plan.

"Yes!" The commander gave the order, and the doubt immediately turned into obedience, and in the narrow hull of the entire Jiaolong, there were immediately all kinds of commands and busy figures for combat preparation.

The submarine quietly approached the British battleship, the periscope sticking out of the water for a while, and then disappearing under the blue waves, the flashing lens, like the eyes of a hungry wolf, glowing green, greedily snooping on the target......

"Boom," the Intrepid suddenly shook violently, and in the command room, Nelson, who was observing the Chinese warship formation in the distance, stumbled and almost fell.

"What's going on? Cab! Fort! Power cabin! ......" Colonel Clegg immediately grabbed the wired telephone microphone leading to the various areas of the ship, and shouted one area after another, "Report back!" Requite! ”

"Boom" was another loud bang, and then a continuous explosion was heard from under the cabin.

Colonel Clegg was simply mad, he was not yet at the combat distance with the Chinese naval formation, it must have been the negligence of the soldiers on the ship who detonated the munitions in the ammunition room, but could there be such a stupid Royal Navy soldier? Unless it's a spy for the Chinese.

Nelson's face was cloudy, and he suddenly thought of something, and shouted: "Order all warships to turn on their searchlights and observe whether there are any traces of submarines on the sea within five hundred yards!" In his anxiety, he had forgotten that this was not a night battle.

"General, let's abandon ship!" Colonel Clegg, who listened to the reports from various regions, found that inexplicably, the explosion of the Dreadnought caused the nearly 20,000-ton steel fortress to slowly sink. …,

"Send my orders first! The Chinese may have used submarines! Nelson gritted his teeth and said the worst he had guessed.

Submarines, since the United States Civil War for the first time used in combat, Britain and France and other countries although not too much attention, but are also actively engaged in research and development, but Britain, France, the production of submarines because of such and such problems can not be used in actual combat for the time being, if, China is once again at the forefront of naval technology, then ......

Nelson didn't dare to think any further.

However, the cruel truth cannot be changed by refusing to believe it, and soon, a destroyer spotted a Chinese submarine that was approaching, and after a burst of artillery fire, it lost its tracks.

Even more deadly, the Chinese fleet in the distance was rapidly approaching, and the British were also cornered.

The dreadnoughts that are slowly sinking, the Admiral Nelson who abandoned ship and escaped in a small motor boat, the heavy artillery fire of the approaching Chinese gunboats, and the underwater submarines that can give their own warships a fatal blow but are elusive......

All of this foreshadows the eventual outcome of this Mozambique Channel encounter......

In February 1885, when the British and French representatives at the peace conference were threatening to leave Warsaw, the Battle of Mozambique, which shocked the whole world, completely destroyed the British and French faith in war.

Britain's largest and most advanced intrepid Dreadnought sank into the vast ocean almost without firing a shot in actual combat since it was put into service, and the Chinese Navy achieved the glorious result of sinking and capturing more than 130,000 tons of British warships at the slightest cost.

The terrorist attack power of China's Jiaolong-class submarines has made the headlines of all the major newspapers around the world, and with it, there are also terrorist reports that the total tonnage of the Chinese Navy has exceeded 1.5 million tons, and it may be said that at the same time that a Chinese warship is sunk, three or even four new warships will be launched off the east coast of China, and the Chinese Navy has long surpassed Britain to become the world's first hegemon.

The British and the French were immersed in great pessimism, and they waited in fear for when the Chinese navy would open up the road to the ocean with such an unconventional weapon as the Jiaolong submarine, when the warship legion of the Eastern Empire would pour into the ocean, which had always been ruled by Europeans. [To be continued "This text is provided by.] If you like this work, you are welcome to ◣◥ to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, your support is my biggest motivation. A girlfriend is required to be more than ninety percent new, and the factory date is between 1988 and 1993. All parts are complete, the chip is not damaged, and it is still within the warranty period. Model: safe and environmentally friendly. Length: 160 or more. Mass: no more than 60kg. The appearance is neat and flawless. A female certificate ISO9002 certification is required. Practical energy saving and no noise. Please contact me if you are willing. Website: Sanda does not slip and does not pit you pit who relies on the mother herself for 90 years of manufacturing, identified by the State Bureau of Quality Supervision as a high-quality product, 23 years of operation without failure; The performance is stable, and only three packs of instant noodles can be driven every day.