708 Hell, Attack!
From a geographical point of view, it is a good choice to set up in Burma, India and the Middle East, but Burma and India are both British colonies, and the British will never allow Lin Fei to intervene.
As for the Middle East, but where Britain, France, Germany and Russia competed, the great powers had deep grievances against each other, so Lin Fei could successfully provoke Britain and Germany to go to war, and it would be extremely difficult for Lin Fei to insert his own power in the Middle East.
Faced with this situation, Lin Fei could only wait and see what happened, waiting for the opportunity.
Although it is impossible to use Hell-class submarines to attack the British mainland, it is still feasible to attack Burma, from Aceh to Yangon, the largest port in Myanmar, there are 1,000 kilometers, counting the 1,000 kilometers of return, and the Hell-class submarines still have 2,000 kilometers of maneuverable endurance available, which can completely deal a heavy blow to merchant ships entering and leaving Burma.
Yangon, Myanmar's largest port and the UK's third-largest port in Asia after Mumbai and Kolkata, transports nearly two million tonnes of rice to the UK every year, making Yangon the world's largest grain export port.
Not only rice, but also tens of thousands of tons of silver, zinc, tin and other ores are also transported from Yangon to the United Kingdom, as well as forest resources, nearly one million cubic meters of wood are transported to the world through Yangon every year.
Once the hell-class submarine attacked the transportation line in Rangoon, it was bound to deal a heavy blow to the British.
Qin Hui was extremely excited when he heard that Lin Fei had allowed him to use wolf pack tactics to attack Burma, and solemnly assured Lin Fei: "I, Qin Hui, promise that I will not let any torpedo miss, and that every torpedo will hit the enemy's transport ship." ”
Lin Fei was very relieved and asked Qin Hui to carry out the operation, but Qin Hui said worriedly: "Your Majesty, there is an insurmountable difficulty in attacking the transportation line in Yangon, that is, our Hell-class submarines only carry eight torpedoes, and we now have eight Hell-class submarines, so in this way, we can only sink a total of sixty-four British merchant ships." ”
"As soon as these torpedoes are gone, we will have to return to our base and replace them with new torpedoes, and Rangoon is too far away from our base for a long delay, and I am afraid that we will not be able to carry out an effective strike."
Lin Fei ignored this problem, and didn't think of a solution for a while, so he didn't speak, Qin Hui hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I have already thought of a solution, that is, to secretly occupy Andaman 61 Nikkba Island. ”
"This small island is located on the Bay of Bengal, only 300 kilometers from Yangon, and if we can arrange a secret base there, the continuity of fire will be greatly enhanced, and the equipment of the base will not be much, only torpedoes and torpedo equipment will be enough."
Lin Fei hurriedly asked Xiyun to bring the map, and found the Andaman 61 Nikkba Island on it, this small island is really as Qin Hui said, it is only more than 300 kilometers away from Yangon.
Lin Fei thought for a while and said, "But this small island is more than 800 kilometers away from us, and I'm afraid it won't be easy for us to defend here. ”
"Your Majesty, please rest assured, I have already reconnoitred before the war, this small island is inaccessible, and there are wild people on the island who have not escaped ignorance, you may not believe it, those wild people can't even use fire, and as for the British, there are none."
"Okay, I'll send troops to land on Andaman 61 Nikkba Island as your forward base, and I'll arrange for the Leopard-class high-speed transport ship to go, its speed is faster than your Hell-class submarines, it should be ahead of you, by the way, you don't send out all eight Hell-class submarines, just send out four, I'm worried that the British fleet will come directly."
"Yes, I understand!" After Qin Hui finished speaking, he put down the phone and began to actively prepare, in the process of preparation, Qin Hui thought of the sinking of the ghost shark boat, which was sunk by a British mine.
This time, Qin Hui carefully assessed the possibility of being sunk by mines, and found that this possibility would not exist, because the British did not know that the hell-class submarine was going to be dispatched, so it was impossible to lay mines, even if the British laid mines just in case, it was useless, because the sea near Yangon was too big, and it was impossible for the British to lay mines.
Qin Hui led four hell-class submarines—the Qinguang King Boat, the Chujiang King Boat, the Song Emperor King Boat, and the Wuguan King Boat—to Yangon, and the Leopard-class also set off at the same time.
The underwater speed of the Hell-class submarine is fifteen knots, while the speed of the Leopard-class high-speed transport ship is twenty knots, so the four Leopard-class transport ships arrived at the Andaman 61 Nikba Island ahead of schedule, and each of the four Leopard-class transport ships was loaded with forty tiger shark torpedoes, which is the kind of Zhiyuan ship that sank Deng Shichang, as well as a hundred marines.
At this time, there were already marines in the Huaxia Navy, but the number was relatively small, and they all fought with ships.
The Marines landed on the Andaman 61 Nicholbar Island, and immediately selected the harbor for the torpedoes, arranged the cranes and other equipment for the torpedoes, and then they were stationed on the Andaman 61 Nicholbar Island for a long time, as for the food problem, there is no need to worry, the Andaman 61 Niche Island is located in the tropics, the island is full of all kinds of fruits, and there are many wild beasts in the woods, which is enough for the Marines to eat.
Before the departure of the hell-class submarine, Lin Fei issued a telegram to the world, in view of the fact that Britain sent troops to occupy our Chinese territory, our Chinese Empire has no way to strike at all British military ships and military personnel.
Lin Fei's telegram did not arouse the vigilance of the British, but caused the ridicule of the British, who had the idea that the long-range attack capability of the Chinese Empire was extremely poor, and they would never be able to hit the British.
On November 13, Qin Hui's King Qin Guangwang boat was sailing in the sea, and the navigator reported: "Captain, we are already close to the Yangon route. ”
The hell-class submarine is equipped with an inertial navigation system with a gyroscope as an element, according to this navigation system, the navigator can calculate the course and range of the hell-class submarine, and then mark the position of the hell-class submarine on the chart.
Qin Hui heard the captain's report and ordered loudly: "Release the towed antenna and receive the latest instructions from the superiors." ”
On the previous monster-class submarine, Lin Fei used a towed antenna, which can be used to send and receive messages at any time, while on the hell-class submarine, although there is also a towed antenna, Lin Fei ordered to reduce the use of towed antennas, or rather, try not to use them.
The reason is related to the development of the world's radio technology, under the impetus of Lin Fei's blue bird machine, the world's radio technology has made tremendous progress, and it is now 1900, according to the history of Lin Fei's era, the radio technology at this time has a certain scale, and now with the promotion of Lin Fei, the technology is even more progressive.
Under these conditions, the British have come up with a radio detector, this kind of thing can detect electromagnetic waves, if the Hell-class submarine uses a towed antenna, the electromagnetic waves it emits may be detected by the British, and the British may roughly determine the range of the Hell-class submarine, so as to evade, and even hunt.
At this time, the anti-submarine weapons of all countries in the world have also made great progress, and the depth charges have entered the navy service on a large scale, because the underwater explosion power is hundreds or thousands of times that of the explosion power in the air, and the charge of the depth charge is extremely large, so the lethality of the depth charge to the submarine is extremely great, as long as one of the hell-class submarines explodes within 100 meters, it is enough to cause serious damage to the hell-class submarines.
In order to prevent being detected by the enemy, when the hell-class submarine is sailing in the water, the towed antenna is put away, so that it is convenient to isolate the outside world, and only by releasing the towed antenna can it receive news from the outside world.
The Hell-class submarine quickly released a towed antenna, and soon received a brief message - on November 10, the Western Front of the Huaxia Army successfully recaptured Pu'er, and the British army withdrew into Burma in disarray.
It turned out that after Lin Fei sent a hell-class submarine to attack Burma, he immediately ordered Qi Lei, the commander of the Western Front, to organize troops to recover Pu'er, and Qi Lei immediately dispatched an elite force of about 3,000 people, united with more than 10,000 ethnic minority fighters from the surrounding tribes, and launched a fierce attack on Pu'er City, as a result, Pu'er City was quickly conquered by the Huaxia Army, and the multinational coalition forces in the city fled in embarrassment.
When the crew on King Qin Guangwang's boat heard the news, they were all very excited, the army had recovered Pu'er, and the navy could not show weakness, Qin Hui ordered in a deep voice: "Take back the towed antenna, all units are ready for battle, repeat, retract the towed antenna, all units are ready for battle, this is not an exercise, repeat, this is not an exercise!" ”
The chief of staff beside Qin Hui persuaded softly: "Captain, it's too early to prepare for battle now." ”
"Not early." Qin Hui said casually, his tone was extremely resolute, although Qin Hui was usually an easy-going person, but in the military, it seemed extremely "arbitrary".
Two hours later, the sonar chief suddenly sent a message: "Report to the captain, in the north direction of our boat, an unknown sound target has been found, according to the analysis of the sound situation, the target that made the sound is about eight knots, and it should be a large transport ship with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons." ”
Qin Hui immediately ordered: "Float to the periscope depth." ”
King Qin Guang emptied the ballast water tank, adjusted the rudder angle, and slowly floated to the periscope depth, the periscope slowly rose, Qin Hui held the periscope handrail, turned the periscope to search the water surface, and soon a huge merchant ship appeared in the periscope, the merchant ship had a very deep draft, obviously full of goods, and above the merchant ship, a British rice flag was flying high.