Chapter 658: The Decisive Battle of the Atlantic
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"They are deliberately depleting our air defense and anti-submarine forces!"
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"Maybe the enemy has a more cunning tactic!"
Otto looked back at Bundy and asked, "What do you mean?" β
Bundy thought for a moment and sighed, "Maybe they just deliberately let our fighter take off!" β
Otto didn't seem to understand what Bundy meant, and asked, "Our fighters took off and they retreated, maybe the enemy is not ready to engage in a large-scale air battle with us!" β
Bundy shook his head and smiled wryly, "How could they not be prepared?" You see, just now they used the ultra-low-altitude sea-skimming raid method to evade the detection of our army's shipborne radar system and destroyed our anti-submarine warplane by surprise in one fell swoop. β
Otto nodded approvingly, but didn't understand Bundy's words.
Seeing that Otto didn't see it, Bundy explained: "They deliberately let our fleet take off, intending to sit and wait for the moment when our fighters land!" β
Otto suddenly looked at Bundy in surprise, and his words suddenly dawned on him, and he said worriedly: "Oh no, our military aircraft group has all been lifted into the air to fight. ββIf the enemy is waiting for our aircraft carrier battle group to recover the fighters before attacking, then our aircraft carrier battle group will be in danger! β
Bundy nodded and said, "This is Li Dingxin's cleverness!" He knows very well the operation of our aircraft carriers. He knew that our aircraft carriers were all straight-through flight decks, and it was impossible to take off and land carrier-based aircraft at the same time. β
"It's so cunning!" Otto asked rhetorically, "So what should we do?" Let's withdraw a batch of fighters first! β
Bundy shook his head, snorted coldly, and said, "Don't you think we're too passive?" β
Otto asked, "What do you mean?" β
Bundy analyzed: "Li Dingxin must be preparing an attack aircraft group now, and when our aircraft carrier battle group begins to recover fighters, they will definitely come to raid." β
"So?"
"So we can't always be passively beaten, I decided to take the initiative!"
Otto thought for a moment and said, "If you expect it." At this time, the flight deck of the aircraft carrier battle group of the Chinese Emperor ** should be full of torpedo attack aircraft and dive bombers. β
Bundy touched his chin and thought, and said, "I decided to attack the enemy aircraft carrier fleet directly!" β
Otto worried: "It's just that the enemy aircraft carrier battle group is several times larger than ours, and there must be vigilance." Not to mention whether it will succeed or not, at the moment we are not sure where the real main force of the enemy fleet is, so how can we attack? β
Bundy smiled incomprehensibly and said, "I have already sent a submarine force out to investigate, and it is estimated that the news will be transmitted soon." β
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Just when Otto was surprised. A report came from the bridge.
"Discover the position of the main forces of the enemy fleet!"
Bundy was overjoyed and hurriedly ran over to check it out for himself. ββ
"Great! The main forces of the enemy fleet are in the K32 sea area. Enemy aircraft carrier battle group in the K47 sea! β
"Your Excellency, Commander. The 83rd detachment in charge of reconnaissance was completely wiped out, and this is the report they sent back at the last minute! β
Bundy just sighed, he was well aware of the magnitude and danger of the mission.
"Without further ado, immediately order the various air wings to launch an attack operation in the K32 and K47 sea areas!"
The order was given, the German fighter group quickly carried out combat deployment, and about 400 torpedo attack aircraft, escorted by 300 fighters, flew to the K32 area. Assault operations were carried out against the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. About 400 torpedo attack aircraft, escorted by a thousand fighters, flew to the K47 area. Attack on the Imperial Chinese Navy aircraft carrier battle group.
It can be said that three-quarters of the combat aircraft of the aircraft carrier battle group of the High Seas Fleet have been dispatched to prepare for a decisive air battle with the Imperial Chinese Navy.
"The aircraft carrier battle group air wing has completed the sortie operation. And what about our main fleet? Is it going to K32 or K47? β
Bundy shook his head, but smiled wryly, "Do you want us to die?" Knowing that the main force of the enemy fleet is over there, knowing that the other side can't be defeated, it is a stupid act! β
Otto was stunned and asked, "But haven't you already ordered the aircraft carrier battle group to attack?" β
Bundy let out a long sigh and said, "I need to make a great sacrifice to save this fleet!" β
Otto suddenly realized that Bundy had planned for a long time, and the deployment was so thorough just to delay the aircraft carrier battle group and buy time for the main fleet to retreat safely. ββ
"Isn't that too cruel! That's more than 2,000 fighters, all the elites of the Imperial Naval Aviation! β
"Do you think I don't know?"
Bundy roared almost irrepressibly, and his mood was extremely conflicted at this time, which made him lose his former calmness and quietness.
Otto didn't ask any more questions, he could understand Bundy's feelings.
"Order, the second and fourth fleets to escort the left and right, after the seventh fleet is broken, the other detachments quickly move from the K6 sea area to the northwest at full speed. βββ
At Bundy's order, the main forces of the High Seas Fleet quickly withdrew in the opposite direction.
Although the more than 80,000 German officers and men of the huge High Seas Fleet did not want to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese Imperial Navy, they fled like this, sacrificing more than 2,000 German naval aviation elites, and they were also resentful and guilty.
It's just that the Germans never expected it. Their Commander Bundy had the intention of saving the fleet, but he never thought that all this was under the control of Admiral Li Dingxin, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Chinese Navy.
It turned out that when Bundy sent a submarine death squad to reconnoiter the location of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, their whereabouts had already been grasped by the Imperial Chinese Navy.
Li Dingxin quickly dispatched a powerful anti-submarine hunting fleet and anti-submarine patrol planes to encircle, pursue, and intercept this German submarine force. Perhaps the Germans' will was too firm, or perhaps it was the skill of Colonel Alfred Kirby, the proud protΓ©gΓ© of the German submarine commander DΓΆnitz, that after paying the price of 23 U-boats being sunk, the Kobe submarine fleet personally commanded the German Navy's newly developed UZ1211 submarine to successfully evade the combined anti-submarine of the warships and aircraft of the Imperial Chinese Navy, entered the sea area where the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy was located, and obtained information related to the life and death of the high seas fleet.
After detecting the location of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, Colonel Bryant was immediately overjoyed and hurriedly sent the information back to the High Seas Fleet, which means that the High Seas Fleet is no longer passive, and after knowing the location of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, the High Seas Fleet will calmly carry out strategic and tactical deployment.
However, at this critical juncture. The passive sonar array of the submarine Carp of the Third Submersible Fleet of the Atlantic Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy suddenly discovered the UZ1211 submarine. The Carp submarine quickly sounded the combat alarm and launched a deep diving operation.
The Carp submarine quickly fired two red-headed self-guided torpedoes at the UZ1211 submarine, one of which was an auto-guided torpedo equipped with the latest magnetic anomaly detection device, which accurately hit the UZ1211 submarine, and the huge explosion sank the latest German submarine in an instant.
Moments before the UZ1211 submarine was sunk, Kobe Bryant decisively sent out the information he had. Once the intelligence is sent back to the High Seas Fleet, then the location of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy will be exposed.
But fortunately, the submarine Carp had already made a report to the fleet command before launching the attack. When Li Dingxin learned that a German submarine had entered the sea area where the main fleet was located, he was furious and scolded the anti-submarine fleet as a waste. However, Li Dingxin is a steady man, and he is very careful in everything, and the area where the main force of the entire fleet is located has always been under radio control, and more than a dozen communication notification reconnaissance and jamming ships are on alert nearby. Except for the fleet channel signal sent by the battleship Guanghua Emperor, which was not blocked, the other ships maintained radio silence and could not send signals, and could only passively receive orders from the fleet headquarters.
In this way, the information sent by Kobe Bryant in the moments before his death was directly intercepted by the nearest communication reconnaissance jammer ship to him.
Although the High Seas Fleet has replaced the latest codebook, the Imperial Chinese Navy still deciphered the latest code of the German Navy half a month ago. The reason is that after more than ten years of hard work, the Chinese Imperial Beiyang Science and Technology Heavy Industry finally succeeded in imitating the Jiaolong deep-sea submarine to build the Octopus deep-sea submarine.
On May 3, the 43rd year of Guanghua, the submarine Salmon of the Imperial Chinese Navy sank the German battleship Hanover in the North Atlantic. The German officer in charge of the codebook at that time believed that if the codebook was destroyed, there would be no time to escape, and he believed that the battleship was about to sink to the bottom of the sea at a depth of thousands of meters, and the Chinese Empire would not be able to salvage the codebook. So when he was greedy for life and afraid of death, he gave up destroying the codebook and let the codebook go deep into the deep sea with the battleship.
The Imperial Chinese Navy had always wanted to obtain the latest codebook of the German Navy, but it had tried more than a hundred times, and none of them were successful. In the spirit of trying, the submarine Octopus dived into the deep sea again, and as a result, successfully obtained the complete codebook from the battleship Hanover.
As a result, the Chinese Emperor quickly organized cryptographic experts to decipher it. Because the Chinese Empire vigorously helped the German army during World War I, and mastered the German army's previous codebook, after more than a month of intense decipherment work, the Chinese Emperor successfully deciphered the German army's latest communication codebook.
Therefore, when the White Bone Spirit intercepted the wireless telegraph of the UZ1211 submarine, it quickly cracked it. The clever signal corps of the Imperial Chinese Navy even imitated Kobe's tone and, according to Li Dingxin's instructions, sent information on the location of the main force of the fake fleet to Bundy, commander of the High Seas Fleet. Bundy and the German communications staff did not notice anything wrong.
When Li Dingxin learned through his radar that more than 2,000 warplanes of the German naval air force had flown to the air fire bags he had arranged, but the German High Seas Fleet was heading in the opposite direction in the direction of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Li Dingxin smiled, and all the officers and men of the Two Oceanic Fleets of the Imperial Chinese Navy laughed. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )