More than a dozen warships on the sea quickly outflanked him, and when Paro saw this scene from the periscope, cold sweat poured out.

"Put away the periscope!"

"Dive and park now!"

Paro anxiously said to the captain: "Sir, the Chinese must have discovered us, we should leave immediately." ”

The captain sneered, "Leave? How to leave, our submarine has an underwater speed of only 9 knots, and the Chinese's new warship has a speed of more than thirty knots, can it run? ”

Paro hurriedly said: "If we don't leave, will we wait for death?" Sir, the other submarines will definitely flee. ”

The captain sneered, "Paro, you're so right. It is to make them run. I don't know how the Chinese knew that our submarine appeared here, maybe someone was found by negligence, but I believe that the other side does not know the number. The others ran away, and the submarine left underwater, as long as you look closely, some traces can still be seen on the surface of the current submarine sailing water. The Chinese go after them, then we can survive. Do you understand? ”

Paro opened his mouth, but did not retort. He knew that the attack power of the submarine was too weak, and it was difficult for the torpedo to hit the opponent's high-speed small warship, and the weapon carried by the submarine was a machine gun installed on it, which was okay to deal with merchant ships, and it was simply a death to deal with warships, even patrol boats were not something they could deal with.

During this period, the core tactics of submarine warfare were still sneak attacks.

Submarines were an extremely dangerous branch of the armed forces in this period, and in the earlier period when depth charges were not invented, if the submarine was discovered, as long as it dived, the other side had no choice. However, after the First World War, in order to counter submarines, Britain invented depth charges, which were used to attack at a fixed depth, which posed a huge and even fatal threat to submarines.

"Dive, eighty meters deep!"

The submarine is constantly diving.

Paro was also very nervous in his heart, and secretly prayed in his heart: as long as we hold on until dark, we will be safe.

Paro still recognizes the captain's command, stop and dive, then their submarine will be silently parked 80 meters underwater, and the other party will not be able to judge from the water lines and other aspects, and the naked eye will not be able to see it, so it can be said that unless the other party does not have God's help, 100% sure of their existence and specific location, then they are safe.

Suddenly, a wave of undercurrents hit the submarine, causing a violent shaking inside the submarine.

The captain and Paro looked at each other, and they knew very well that this was definitely not an undercurrent of the sea, but that the Chinese had begun to attack submarines not far from them with depth charges, which was the shock wave generated by the explosion of depth charges underwater.

The attack of the depth charge caused a panic among the soldiers inside the submarine.

"Quiet, the Chinese can't find us." The captain roared loudly to stabilize the morale of the army.

Paro's face was very ugly, and he couldn't help but say: "Sir, someone must have leaked the actions of our submarine force, and there must have been an intelligence leak in the submarine command." ”

The captain's face was extremely ugly

On the water, with the dropping of depth charges, columns of water continued to burst out on the surface, and oil stains and some submarine wreckage gradually floated, and several US submarines were injured and surrendered on the surface

On the heavy cruiser of the flagship "Shanghai", Ding Peng and Sa Shijun counted "eight, nine, and eleven." Sa Shijun frowned and said, "Eleven, including the one that is still holding up underwater, there are only eleven." That's not right. ”

Ding Peng sneered: "Eleven ships have been found, I think there should be no mistake in the twelve ships on the intelligence." The captives were interrogated separately and the exact number was asked. ”

Sa Shijun said: "What if you don't say it?" ”

Ding Peng sneered: "Kill a few, and say it if you're afraid of death." The anti-submarine detachment of the Pacific Fleet can achieve total annihilation, and we must do it too. If our South China Sea Fleet is to be upgraded to the Southeast Asian Fleet, we cannot afford to lose to them. ”

Sure enough, interrogating the captives, it was soon learned that there were indeed twelve submarines in this submarine formation.

"Find! Turn on all the radar and sonar to maximum power! ”

"If you can't find it, you won't leave, suffocate them!"

The time for which the submarine could survive underwater during this period was limited, and once the oxygen production was insufficient, the submarine had to float up, otherwise it would suffocate to death. So Ding Peng and Sa Shijun's anti-submarine detachment frantically searched in this area, searching over and over again.

Ding Peng gradually became anxious and scolded: "This son of a bitch's submarine must be a deep-water parking lurking." ”

Sa Shijun smiled bitterly: "That can only depend on whether the radar has a magnetic reaction." I think they're all dying, and even if one of the remaining trash fish survives, they won't have the courage to stay. ”

Ding Peng smiled bitterly: "That's what I said, but you don't know." The commander-in-chief said to Commander Li of our navy that the anti-submarine record determines the distribution of warships to be repaired by the Da Nang boss, and the capital ships repaired by the Da Nang boss are five battleships and two battle cruisers. ”

Sa Shijun gasped and said, "It's about a capital ship!?" According to the combat mission assignment, the Pacific Fleet will mainly deal with the enemy's navy in the Pacific led by Iraq and the United States, while we will be responsible for maritime threats in Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean. This capital ship has a lot at stake. ”

Ding Peng smiled bitterly: "Who said it wasn't? Our Navy itself lacks large warships. At present, foreign devils do not dare to enter the combat radius of our air force, and if this continues, our navy will be equivalent to an ornament, and if we want to make war achievements, we can only go out and have an ocean duel with the fleet of foreign devils, and one more capital ship is equivalent to one more killer feature. ”

"Find! Must find. Sa Shijun shouted, "Take a gun to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not leave." ”――

In the lounge of the Ministry of Defense in Nanjing.

Although Li Bufan is resting, where can he settle down?

In addition to Dannat's Anglo-Burmese army, there was basically no pressure on the army operations, even Dannat's Anglo-Burmese army was also besieged by most of the First Route Army, the main force of the Second Route Army and hundreds of thousands of troops of the 45th, 46th, and 47th armies.

However, anti-submarine warfare has a great stake, China's shipbuilding industry has just emerged, and there are not many ships that can buy enough for shipping, and Xiaoping has obtained more than 2 million tons, and he has gone south to fight in the Philippines and Southeast Asia and captured 1 million tons, which sounds like more than 3 million tons, which is a lot of it, but which of the great powers of Britain, France, and the United States has 10 million or 20 million tons of ocean-going merchant ships from time to time? The important thing is that China's shipbuilding industry is too late to build warships at that level, so where can we divide how many merchant ships can be built by manpower? This is going to be attacked, so what's the deal? In the future, won't all warships be used to transport supplies?

This is not only a problem of ships, a ship of strategic materials, which is also worth a lot of money, China's manufacturing capacity is that, and it cannot afford to lose.

"Commander-in-chief, rest assured, there are base vehicles to provide intelligence, and the enemy's submarines have nothing to hide." Chief of General Staff Li Huashan comforted.

Li Bufan snorted coldly and said, "That's not omnipotent. Didn't Ding Peng still have a fish that slipped through the net and didn't find it? ”

Li Huashan said with a wry smile: "At present, the radar researched by our experts is limited by all aspects, and the surname can only be regarded as unsatisfactory. However, in this era, there are no invisible materials, as long as you look carefully, there will definitely be a magnetic reaction, and you can't run. "The opposing submarine is in a state of silence, the sonar is ineffective, and that can only rely on radar. But in this era when the concept of radar was just emerging (there was already a rudimentary radar in this era, which was installed on the US [***] ship in 1922, it was only used to prevent ship collisions and collect enemy ships, and the function was extremely low), the anti-submarine radar acting underwater was far beyond the technology of the times, and even if there were senior cloning experts, they could only design a simple version, and the function was quite weak. If it's dynamic, it's not hard to find the target, but it's hard to tell if it's silent, and you might think it's a reef or something that's reacting.

Li Bufan sighed and said, "Let it be fate." It is also unacceptable to believe in such losses to the powers, as long as they lose enough, they will not dare to send submarines to their deaths. The British urgently mobilized 200,000 troops, and the French 100,000 troops marched eastward, and within a few days they would enter the Indian Ocean. ”

Li Huashan said in a deep voice: "We are not familiar with the shipping routes in the Indian Ocean, and if we want to wait for the rabbits, we are afraid that it will not be easy, mainly because we are worried that they will open up safe routes that are not public, so we will not be able to intercept them." ”

Li Bufan thought for a while and said: "Let the South China Sea Fleet control the islands around the Andaman area, and the reconnaissance planes will not stop reconnoitring the Bay of Bengal. The anti-colonial forces on the Indian side have begun to break the lines of communication, and Britain and France want to quickly reinforce them, so they can only use sea. ”

Li Huashan said: "I think if this happens, they will definitely mobilize a fairly powerful fleet to escort them." Our submarine powers also know this, and if the other side is well prepared, I think the probability of a successful attack will be greatly reduced. Unless "

Li Bufan frowned and said, "Unless what?" ”

Li Huashan said: "Unless the naval commander Li Haijun is asked to organize the main naval force to fight a naval battle in the Indian Ocean with Britain and France, and directly destroy their naval escort fleet, then their troop carriers will become a meal on the plate of our navy." ”

Li Bufan smiled and said, "Plate food? I love that term. ”

In a stretch of the Java Sea, 10 warships searched back and forth in an area, and several captured U.S. submarines were moored in the sea.

Ding Peng and Sa Shijun were both very anxious, and searched for more than two hours, and it was almost dark, if it was night, the other side would have a chance to escape, and if the other party dared to launch a torpedo attack from a potential shadowy place, the warship would be in danger.

"Report to the Chief of Staff, we have basically locked on the positions of the enemy's submarines 57 and 103."

Ding Peng and Sa Shijun were overjoyed, and immediately said, "How can you be sure?" ”

"The other party must have entered a state of silence, and we have marked the direction of the target that has reacted underwater, and it is naturally not if it has not moved, but the submarine must be suspended in the water and will be driven by the underwater undercurrent. For this reason, we determined that it was in the 57th and 103rd directions, and the original target was in the 42nd and 86th directions, which has been fully affirmed that it is the enemy. We tested the depth of the water, and the depth of the water in this area was more than 150 meters, but the underwater position of the other side was less than 100 meters. ”

Ding Peng sneered: "Then what are you waiting for? Kill each other. (To be continued.) )