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"Spotting that the torpedo is approaching at high speed!"

The sonar soldiers shouted, and the US-German joint anti-submarine fleet was in a panic. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info╔╗

Qiao Sen swooped down on the command platform, grabbed the intercom and hurriedly ordered: "All ships are ready for anti-torpedo combat!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, three American destroyers and one German destroyer were hit by mines, and in an instant, the explosion was deafening, and a fiery red mushroom cloud rose into the sky, emitting a dazzling light.

Journalists from various countries on Jossen's destroyer were shocked at first, then took pictures one after another, and some personnel with cameras hurriedly recorded the picture.

Originally, this was a public show of joint anti-submarine warfare between the United States and Germany, and it was intended to embarrass the Chinese Empire by forcing the submarines of the Chinese Empire out of the sea, but it turned out to be attacked by the other side, and four destroyers were blown to pieces at once, and the officials of Qiao Sen and even the entire American and German fleets suddenly turned black.

"Damn it! She's still here! ”

Qiao Sen was angry, and immediately asked the sonar soldier: "Search for the target immediately!" ”

"The target is gone!"

"What? Gone again? ”

Qiao Sen couldn't wait to buy a piece of tofu and kill him, it was really a shame.

"Carefully screen, she must be nearby!"

"But I don't hear anything special other than the noise of the ocean and the noise of the fish."

"Their submarines must have some kind of mute function!" Qiao Sen thought so, and suddenly he asked, "What did you just say?" Fish noise? ”

"Yes! In addition to ocean noise, there is also fish noise! ”

The sonar replied in the affirmative. He didn't feel anything wrong.

"You pig brain! We've been bombing. How could there still be fish nearby! The fish should have been scared away a long time ago! ”

"However, it is also possible that the fish are not afraid of the sound of explosions!"

"That's a slim chance!" Qiao Sen said unhappily: "Even if I can't blow up the enemy's submarine, at least I'll blow up a few fish!" ”

Qiao Sen had no other way at this time, he couldn't shoot into the air, at least he had to fight back. ╔╗ If you can't even find the shadow of the enemy, it will be even more humiliating.

"Launch anti-submarine rockets and anti-submarine depth charges!"

The U.S. and German anti-submarine fleets quickly counterattacked, and one after another anti-submarine rockets roared into the sea area with an abnormal sound, and at the same time, anti-submarine depth charges were also smashed over.

According to Jossen, even if there really is no enemy submarine down there, it is just a school of fish there. He also had to attack, and that was for journalists from all over the world.

"Boom!"

A series of explosions rang out, and huge columns of water were stirred up on the surface of the sea, spreading wave after wave.

There's no denying it. Jossen's shit luck is still very strong. Although he did not determine the location of the Sturgeon submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy at all, he only miserably got it right.

In fact, the Sturgeon submarine did not start its engine at all, and the entire submarine was as quiet as a black hole, and did not make any sound at all. Unfortunately, a group of small sea fish that were supposed to be attached to a shark or whale mistook the Sturgeon submarine for a whale or shark, and as a result, they clinged to it, and the sound of the fish was locked by Jossen.

Although the violent explosion failed to hit the Sturgeon, unfortunately, two soundproof tiles on the bow of the Sturgeon submarine were hit and detached by impact debris. This caused the Sturgeon submarine to emit a faint metallic echo.

As a result, this faint echo was detected by the sonar of the American and German anti-submarine destroyers.

"Report, the echo is anomalous, like a metal echo!"

Qiao Sen was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly turned on the sonar soldier's headphones, listening confidently, and soon he relied on his years of experience to judge that this faint metal echo did not belong to a fish, but must be a submarine of the Chinese Empire lurking.

"Great! The fox's tail is finally revealed! ”

"Bearing 210, distance 920 meters. ╔╗ Depth of 75 meters, six pairs of depth charges are fired rapidly! ”

The order was given, and Johnson's flagship, the Fort York, quickly fired six pairs of depth charges, twelve of which fell into the target sea area in a ladder shape, and other American and German anti-submarine destroyers soon received the order. Pull out the single-column formation and concentrate on moving closer to the target area.

"It's a depth charge! The enemy has discovered us! ”

Inside the bridge of the Sturgeon submarine, sonar crews quickly reported the situation to Zhang Sen.

"Don't panic!" Zhang Sen calmly ordered: "Dive to one hundred and thirty meters!" ”

"Start diving!"

"100 meters! 110 meters! 120 meters! 130 meters to! ”

All the officers and men of the Sturgeon carried out Zhang Sen's orders in an orderly manner. The submarine dived quickly and stopped when it reached a depth of 130 meters.

Inside the bridge of the Fort York, Jossen also asked the sonar soldiers: "Sonar report!" ”

"The enemy submarine is not moving, the sound of air flow is heard, and the target is diving, about 130 meters!"

"130 meters deep! Six pairs of rapid fire! ”

The Fort York again fired anti-submarine depth charges, while four other destroyers fired more than a dozen pairs of depth charges into the area.

At one time, nearly forty depth charges fell on the head of the Sturgeon.

With so many depth charges concentrated in the same area of the sea, the density is so great that once the submarine lurks there, it is certain that it will be sunk.

The advanced radar and sonar arrays equipped on the Sturgeon submarine detected that a large number of depth charges were falling rapidly, and Zhang Sen immediately judged that the Sturgeon submarine had been detected by the enemy, so he did not dare to be careless.

"Two cars into four! Dive down to 200 meters! ”

"Two cars into four! Burn the wind! ”

"Dive down to two hundred meters! 120 m ...... 150 m ...... 200 meters to! ”

The Sturgeon submarine quickly departed, diving to 200 meters in the middle of the journey. ╔╗

Zhang Sen looked at the submarine wall above his head, and listened to the enemy's sonar hitting the submarine shell one by one, and the sound became tighter and tighter.

Sonar Soldier Report: "We're locked in! ”

"How did they detect us?" Zhang Sen suddenly fell into deep thought.

"I remember that just now there was an explosion fragment that accidentally hit us. It is likely that there are soundproof tiles falling off in the place where they were hit! ”

Zhang Sen nodded. At this point, this is the only explanation that makes sense.

Originally, Zhang Sen planned to continue to play a game of cat and mouse with the enemy, but now that the Sturgeon had been detected by the enemy, in order to be on the safe side, Zhang Sen had to withdraw from the battle sequence and return to the base to overhaul the submarine.

"Open the Fleet Channel!"

"Fleet channel on!"

Zhang Sen picked up the walkie and said, "This is the Sturgeon submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and I am Lieutenant Colonel Zhang Sen, the captain!" ”

"This is the headquarters of the North Atlantic Submarines Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, please talk about the Sturgeon!"

"The Sturgeon has been locked by an enemy anti-submarine destroyer and is on its way back from the battlefield, requesting support from the fleet! Repeat ......"

"Roger! Command approves your request! Please report your location! ”

"Black Ops 212! Repeat ......"

"Roger! The Salmon in Sea 211 and the Cod in Sea 214 will cover your retreat! Be sure to follow the route below to retreat! 330-240-180…… Repeat ......"

"Understood!"

Zhang Sen recorded the retreat route after the code word. ╔╗ Immediately hand it over to the decoder to decode, then mark the retreat route on the chart, and start the retreat according to the above one after another.

As the Sturgeon retreated, the US-German joint anti-submarine destroyer fleet on the surface locked onto the Sturgeon's weak metallic reflections. followed closely all the way, and kept attacking, but they were all skillfully dodged by Zhang Sen.

Soon, when the Sturgeon submarine entered the 214 area, the Cod and Salmon submarines were already in position, and the Sturgeon was informed that it was ready to evacuate while the chaos was in place.

Qiao Sen pursued all the way, he was very excited, he thought that this time he would definitely be able to find out the culprit of the so-called black hole in the Arctic Ocean for more than four months, and he even fantasized about the embarrassment of the Chinese Empire's submarines being forced out of the water, and fantasized that the Chinese Empire was condemned by international public opinion because of this. Fantasizing about what honor he deserved as the first to sink the powerful submarine of the Chinese Empire.

However, Johnson's excitement made him forget about one of the most crucial issues, that is, it was impossible for the Imperial Chinese Navy to send a submarine to the operation.

Qiao Sen had always thought that the sound of the fish was the sound of the Chinese Empire's submarines, so he told the other destroyers to pay attention to the special fish echo zone, but his luck came to an end.

"Here comes the torpedo!"

"Here comes the torpedo!"

The sonar soldier suddenly screamed in horror, shattering Jorgeson's dream.

"Multiple torpedoes are coming! 4 at 11 o'clock, 3 at 3 o'clock! ”

Qiao Sen was taken aback, and immediately understood that he was ambushed by the opponent's submarine, and secretly regretted his carelessness in his heart, but he did not forget to command the ships to evade it quickly.

Since the destroyers of the combined U.S.-German fleet had been pursuing the Sturgeon at high speed. So they confidently made a turn to avoid the torpedoes coming at high speed on the water.

However, to their dismay, they soon discovered that the incoming torpedoes had been chasing them. Some daring reporters immediately ran to the stern of the ship to catch the incoming torpedoes.

"What an eye-opener! For the first time, I saw a torpedo that would turn around like a snake and chase after the battleship! ”

Afterwards, Lan Mei, a reporter from the Chinese Empire, returned to China. ╔╗ exposed the situation in her Imperial Times column and caused a sensation.

Soon. Lan Mei's news was broadcast by Imperial Central Television in a new style of news, which immediately made viewers in the United States and Germany and other countries feel faceless.

"It can be seen that this is a completely new torpedo, which can follow the surface ship all the way to attack, making it impossible for the surface ship to dodge! The U.S.-German fleet suffered this loss, and as a result, it originally went to hunt the enemy's submarine, but it was hunted by the enemy's submarine, and this time the U.S.-German navy was greatly disgraced! ”

"In response to the fact that the navies of the United States and Germany and other countries believe that this mysterious submarine is a submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Qin Ming, spokesman for the Imperial Foreign Ministry of the United States, denied it at a press conference today, pointing out that the Chinese Empire will not waver in its firm pursuit of a policy of peaceful neutrality, and in response to this rude accusation made by some officials of the United States and Germany, the Imperial Government of China strongly condemns it and makes solemn representations, demanding that the American and German governments strictly control such slanderous remarks."

When asked whether the Soviet Union had obtained advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, Qin Ming said that the Chinese Empire was peace-loving, and its position on the issue of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union was unanimous, and he hoped that the US-German allies would cease fire as soon as possible and stop invading the Soviet Union, and demanded that the US-German alliance should treat Soviet civilians and Soviet prisoners of war well on Soviet soil. The Chinese Empire would continue to pursue humanitarian aid to the Soviet Union. ”

The Chinese Empire has always insisted that it was the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. Instead of the people's war to save Tsarist Russia from the propaganda of the United States, it showed that the Chinese Empire was on the side of the Soviet Union. However, the Chinese Empire has always used the atrocities committed by the Allies against civilians and prisoners of war in the Soviet Union as an excuse to accuse the Allied Powers of invading the Soviet Union as a crime against humanity, so as to incite the sympathy of the Imperial people for the Soviet people.

However, this sympathy was not shared by the people of the Chinese Empire, most of whom did not have a favorable view of the Soviet Union, and they hated the aggression of the former Tsarist Empire against the Chinese Empire more than the threat of the Soviets to the Chinese Empire. Therefore, the Chinese Imperial Government was still unable to win the strong support of the people by making a fuss about this issue, and had to think of other methods.

"Broadcast domestic news below!" The beautiful news anchor Huang Jinglei has always been the beautiful scenery of the news network. Every night from 7 to 8 p.m., more than 15 million TVs watch it.

The citizens of the Chinese Empire paid more attention to domestic news than to international news. The whole world is turned upside down, but they simply don't care. Maybe when the people of a certain country are slaughtered. They felt indignant, but soon when they heard that the bull market of a certain domestic ABC stock was crazy, they forgot the indignation they had just had.

It is precisely because of this mentality that the citizens of the Chinese Empire have always refused to participate in the war, fearing that their energy will be brought into the world war by the government, so that they will not have the energy to focus on their own career and life.

Jossen's anti-submarine destroyer fleet was ambushed, resulting in the loss of four destroyers again, while the Sturgeon escaped the enemy's sonar lock amid the chaotic sound of explosions and quickly returned safely to the Imperial Chinese Navy's submarine base in Britain.

After arriving at the submarine base, the top of the Chinese Empire attached great importance to this matter. A team of experts was immediately dispatched to investigate the situation in which the Sturgeon was locked by the enemy, and it was finally found that it was caused by the detachment of several soundproof tiles from the submarine's hull.

The anti-submarine operations conducted by the United States and the German Combined Fleet in the Barents Sea were declared a failure, and although their newly developed anti-submarine rockets were commendable, they failed to realize their plan to force the Chinese Empire's submarines out of the sea, which forced the United States and Germany to continue to suffer huge losses on the route.

Hitler met with Roosevelt again to discuss countermeasures. Roosevelt believed that it was better to be patient for the time being. Because the war against the Chinese Empire is now in time, the United States and the German allies are still unable to fight against submarine warfare. If we do not have the ability to counteract the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire, it is better to continue to pretend that we do not know and develop a plan to deal with them as soon as possible.

Hitler agreed to Roosevelt's proposal, however, in order to bring down the Soviet Union as soon as possible. Hitler demanded that the United States send an expeditionary force to the Soviet Union to fight because Hitler was too impressed by the fighting power of the Spanish, Italian, and Finnish armies.

Roosevelt agreed. It was decided to send an American expeditionary force to Europe to assist the German army in destroying the Soviet Union as soon as possible. However, Roosevelt also had the condition, that is, to acquire Germany's advanced military equipment and technology in the fields of missiles, jet aircraft, submarines, tank five, and ultimate battleships.

For Hitler, there was nothing greater than the occupation of the Soviet Union at this time, and the United States was far away in the Americas, had no conflict of interest with Germany, and was an ally, so Hitler agreed to Roosevelt's terms. In return, Roosevelt said he would resupply Germany with another batch of oil and industrial products.

The joint anti-submarine fleet of the United States and Germany lifted a stone to shoot itself in the foot, which can be described as losing face. Also in the Stalingrad direction, the Confederacy ** again suffered a setback.

On September 28, the Supreme Command of the Soviet Army decided to rename the Stalingrad Front as the Don Front, and the commander was Lieutenant General Rokossovsky; The South-Eastern Front was renamed the Stalingrad Front, and its commander was Colonel-General Yeremenko; The 1st Guards Army was expanded into the South-Western Front, under the command of Lieutenant General Vadudin. General Zhukov and the Chief of the General Staff, Colonel-General Vasilevsky, were instructed to secretly prepare a counteroffensive plan.

Throughout the month of October, there were fierce street battles in Stalingrad. The Germans fought house by house, finding their way through the ruins on the ground and underground, so they were also jokingly called the "War of Rats" by the Chinese Imperial Television Station, and even joked that "even if the Germans occupied the kitchen, they still had to fight the Soviets in the living room." ”

For Stalin, the city that bears his name must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Germans. He personally ordered Admiral Yeremenko to hold the city under any circumstances. Every house, as long as there are Soviet soldiers, even if there is only one person, must become an impenetrable fortress for the enemy.

For Hitler, the spiritual value of Stalingrad outweighed its strategic value and was imperative to capture it, and when the new Chief of the Army General Staff, General Zeitzler, carefully pointed out to him the danger of the long Don front on the northern flank of the 6th Army Group, he suggested that the 6th Army Group should be withdrawn to the Don meander.

But Hitler replied sternly: "Wherever the German soldiers go, they will be defended!" ”

After three months of bloody fighting until early November, the Germans finally advanced slowly to the banks of the Volga River and occupied 80% of the city, dividing the remaining Soviet troops into two narrow pockets, but the Soviet Red Army secretly helped the battle at night with the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

The powerful night attack aircraft of the Chinese Empire inflicted heavy casualties on the Germans each time, while the Soviets took advantage of the night to quickly recapture the places that were strategized by the Germans during the day, which made it impossible for the Germans to completely occupy Stalingrad.

In addition, the Volga River began to freeze, making it impossible for the Soviets to ship supplies to the defenders of the city. Despite this, the fighting near the Mamayev Heights and in the factory strip in the northern city remained fierce. Among them, the battles of the Red November Factory, the Tractor Factory and the Barricade Factory became known to the whole world. While Soviet soldiers engaged in gunfights with German troops, factory workers were on the sidelines repairing damaged tanks and other weapons, sometimes even directly on the battlefield. The tank was driven by volunteer workers of the plant. These tanks were often driven directly from the production lines of the arsenal to the front lines of the battles, and there was no time to even paint and install shooting sights.

On 11 November, the Germans launched a strong attack on a frontage 5 kilometers wide with 5 infantry divisions, 2 armored divisions and 2 engineer battalions, and the battle formation was highly dense.

Within a day, the Soviets and Germans fought an unusually fierce battle for every inch of land and every house, and both sides suffered heavy casualties. Although the Germans had reached the banks of the Volga south of the barricades, their troops were exhausted and their offensive was at the end of their strength, and Paulus was forced to halt the offensive the next day and reorganize his troops. The losses of the Soviet troops were no less serious, two divisions of the 62nd Army lost 75% of their troops.

In the battles from July to November, the Germans lost about 700,000 men, more than 1,000 tanks, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, and more than 1,400 aircraft in the battles on the Don, Volga, and Stalingrad.

The Soviet High Command began preparations for a major counteroffensive at the end of September, and Zhukov, who was in charge of the overall strategy of the Stalingrad region, began to secretly masse troops to Stalingrad on a large scale. By mid-November, the Soviet army on the north and south sides outside the Stalingrad area consisted of three fronts, 10 combined armies of various arms, one tank army, four air force armies, and several independent armies, tank corps, and brigades, with a total of 1,106,000 men in 143 divisions, 15,500 artillery pieces and mortars, 1,463 tanks and assault artillery, and 1,350 aircraft. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )