Chapter 124: The March War XV
After the Yellow China Fleet had endured the storm for fifty or sixty hours, the wind speed began to weaken in the early morning of the 15th. Huang Zhonghua, who couldn't wait, immediately ordered the fleet to anchor and gallop with the whole army to reinforce Uruguay.
In the Uruguayan shipyard, Professor Yuan stared at the red eyes and breathed a sigh of relief as he watched the rising sun leap out of the sea level. It was not until the morning of the 15th that Uruguay and the fleet became in normal contact. At eight o'clock in the morning, the fleet was only a hundred nautical miles from the mouth of the Rio de la Plata.
Although the troops rushing to the aid were not many, it was a huge support for the Chinese gathered at the shipyard. Just when Yuan Ye breathed a sigh of relief, an even more gratifying news reached Uruguay.
In the early morning of 15 July, two Pixiu ships broke into the Valparaiso military port, Chile's largest military port. The sinking of three Chilean cruisers, three ironclads, six other warships, and the Chilean Navy received a fatal blow.
The submarine port attack by the Naval Resistance Force was more successful than the German submarine attack on Scapa Bay in England a few months ago. In that sneak attack, German submarines sank the British battleship HMS Royal Oak. However, the attack of the Naval Resistance Force almost destroyed Chile's naval power, not only the tonnage of the sunken warships, but also the strategic significance was even greater--- Chilean navy has already existed in name only.
The principle of attack by the submarine of the Maritime Resistance Army has always been non-risk-taking. But the attack was an absolute gamble. Ever since his victory over the Chilean fleet, Li Guang had been haunted by the heavy casualties, and after the battle, the General Staff began to plan retaliation. The "idea" for this attack came from Li Guang.
Of course, the so-called creativity is actually plagiarism. First, it copied the attack of German submarines on Scapa Bay in England, and then copied the attack on Pearl Harbor in the small book. The former has been happening for months, the latter has not happened.
For the entire Maritime Resistance Force, if you want to retaliate against Chile, there are actually not many means, and the means to choose are other than submarine sneak attacks or submarine sneak attacks.
During the several days of the voyage of the two Pixiu submarines to Chile, the interrogation of the Chilean Navy on the island of Stone Statue has been intensive. During this period of time, Li Guang's anger in his chest did not weaken at all. Joy and anger are invisible, that is the cultivation of a big man, and Li Guang can't do it. Li Guang couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and the Chilean prisoners of war began to suffer.
The commander was so angry, and the warriors were naturally angry. The whole interrogation process was simple and crude, and the so-called interrogation was almost entirely violent, with no interrogation skills. More than 300 people were killed in this battle, and such a heavy loss made not only Li Guang angry, but also the soldiers were furious when they saw the Chilean prisoners of war, and they couldn't help but be a little heavier.
Ever since Li Guang proposed the retaliatory action, the only source of information needed in the general staff's battle plan was prisoners of war. If you want to delve into the department that hurt the Chilean prisoners of war the most, it must be the rookie staff of the Naval Resistance Army.
The rookie staff of the Naval Resistance Army lacks experience, and it is unable to make a list of all the information it wants to know at once when it formulates operational plans, and it is often only after this step that it comes up with the information needed for the next step. As a result, Chilean prisoners of war began to be tortured in turn and pressed for information.
Fortunately, there are many prisoners of war in Chile, so I will say this and that. In the past ten days, a battle plan for a surprise attack on the Valparaiso military port, Chile's largest military port, has gradually been perfected.
The retaliatory actions of the Pixiu 1 and Pixiu 2 submarines and the German submarine attack on Scapa Bay are not only similar in shape, but also quite coincidental in detail. In October 1939, the German Navy submarine U-47 boldly infiltrated the British Royal Navy base in Scapa Bay and sank the battleship "Royal Oak" in one fell swoop. This successful battle has become a legendary story in the history of the Navy -- not only because of its strategic importance, but also because of the wonderful process of accomplishing this combat mission.
The whole process of this attack was much clearer to the Naval Resistance Force than the British. Captain Prien had just refitted the U47 submarine in Uruguay a little more than a month ago, and the entire battle had been compiled into a teaching material by the Naval Resistance Force.
At that time, the German U47 submarine was tailing a British auxiliary ship into Scapa Bay. And the Pixiu submarine simply followed a Chilean coastal defense ship into the Valparaiso military port, and the smooth operation was incredible.
When the German submarines attacked Scapa Bay, they also spent a lot of effort searching for British warships. The two submarines of the Maritime Resistance Force did not waste even a minute when they entered the military port -- the Chilean warship was neatly docked on the dock of the military port.
The process of sneak attack is as simple as hitting a fixed target. Within three minutes, twelve large warships of the Chilean Navy were destroyed.
The Navy's plan for a sneak attack was actually extremely risky, the sneak attack was successful, and the two submarines escaped without incident. The reason for all this unbelievable success is no longer due to the advanced submarines of the Naval Resistance Army, nor to the rich combat experience, nor to the perfect intelligence and careful combat planning. The core reason is that the Chilean political axe and the military deliberately concealed the news of the defeat of the navy, and the middle and lower officers and soldiers of the Chilean navy did not know the losses in the battle of the stone statue island on the 15th day, and the guard guard of the Valparaiso military port was not strengthened at all as in peacetime.
The two submarines escaped from the military port and entered the open sea for two full hours, and the Chilean Navy did not even have a single battleship to pursue them.
The splendor of this victory immediately shocked the whole world, and this sneak attack sank a total of three Chilean cruisers, three ironclads, and six other warships, and the Chilean Navy suffered a fatal blow, and the loss of the main combat ships reached 70%.
At this moment, the Chilean political axe and the military could no longer keep it secret, and for a time there was a lot of chaos in Chile.
There has never been such a glorious example in the history of submarine warfare, and the Maritime Resistance Force began to become famous in the world with this submarine sneak attack. The sensation caused in the world was even more intense, and the course of this attack was deeply studied by the navies of the world, and even at some later time the report of the battle was bought back by the Germans and Americans at a considerable price to study it.
Professor Yuan released the news as soon as he learned of it. This news is even more shocking than the news of the defeat of the Chilean Navy by the Naval Resistance Army last time. Chile, one of the three great powers in South America, was completely wiped out by its navy.
The attitude of the Uruguayan political axe took a sharp turn on this day, and the most intuitive result for the shipyard was that at noon on the 15th, the Uruguayan army, which was about to move, was transferred back to the barracks, and the warships that were monitoring along the river were also transferred back to the military port. The siege of the shipyard was resolved without a fight.