Chapter 632: Underwater Confrontation
The main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the joint expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers were divided into three subfleets, and the distance between the two fleets became closer and closer soon after the third round of bombardment of the dreadnought battleships of the joint expeditionary fleet by the Sea Hawk bombers ended, and the distance between the two fleets was shortened to 10,000 meters.
Immediately, the main guns of the all-steel battleships that the fleets of the two sides had been waiting for a long time began to fire salvos at each other, making the cannon sound on the sea even more lively.
Under the sea, the submarine forces of the two fleets were invariably divided into four units, and from the middle and both sides of the three sub-fleets on the sea, they approached the direction of the other fleet, so the submarines of the two sides met unexpectedly under the sea surface.
Thanks to the sonar systems installed on the submarines of both sides, the submarines of the two sides had already discovered each other's submarines and were approaching the direction of their own fleets, and the submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy immediately met the other side to intercept the other side's submarines and prevent them from torpedo attacks on their own surface ships.
The main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy on the sea immediately accelerated to the vicinity of the dreadnought battleships and all-steel battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy when they learned that there were submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet sneaking under the surface of the sea, and the various groups of fast protection cruisers and destroyers did not care about being accidentally injured by the shells of the main guns of the opposing battleships.
If the submarine forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy under the sea intercept the opponent's submarines, there are some things that slip through the net. The Royal Chinese Navy's fast-defensible cruisers and destroyers would use depth charges to form a very tight protective circle around their battleships.
Submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet. Knowing that the opponent's submarine under the sea was also approaching its own surface fleet, he also notified the joint expeditionary fleet on the sea.
Now in the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. Most of the warships of Britain, Germany, and France have also installed sonar systems developed by their respective countries in order to deal with the feared submarines of the Chinese Empire, so they have received reports from their own submarines and are not too panicked.
It was just to order those warships of various types in the three countries to come to the battleship around the battleship in order to prevent the bombers of the Chinese Empire, turn on the sonar system, search for the Chinese Imperial submarines under the sea, and prepare to use depth charges to teach these Chinese Imperial submarines that had brought serious losses to the navies of various countries a hard lesson.
And the submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. However, it continued to swagger in the direction of the Chinese Imperial Fleet, and according to the current submarine sonar technology, it is impossible to accurately lock onto the enemy's submarine under the sea and carry out a precise torpedo attack.
However, what the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet did not know was that the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire had 2 submarines that belonged to the sky in this time and space, and the sonar system installed on them could accurately lock on objects in the ocean, so a hunt began on the bottom of the sea.
"What sound? It seemed like an explosion. ”
"Oh! My God! It seems to be 1 of our submarines, there was an explosion! ”
"What is this attacking us? Is it a depth charge? ”
In the middle of the 3rd sub-fleet of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet to the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, 1 submarine of the British Navy. Hearing the sound of a muffled explosion nearby, the British naval officers and sailors inside the submarine could not help but panic, it was obvious that the nearby British submarine had been attacked.
And the sound heard by the British naval officers and sailors on this submarine was the torpedo fired by the bayonet submarine. There was an explosion sound when hitting another 1 British Navy submarine.
The Joint Expeditionary Fleet, consisting of 48 submarines, followed the entire fleet from Europe to the region. After the discovery of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, all 48 submarines dived into the sea.
Now these 48 submarines are divided into 4 units. The Combined Expeditionary Fleet submarines attacked by the Bayonet submarine consisted of a total of 12 British Navy submarines.
The other 3 submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. There were also 12 submarines per share, 2 of which were made up of German submarines, and the other 1 was made up of 4 British and 8 French submarines.
The panicked officers and men of the British Navy submarine quickly replaced panic with despair, and even the time of despair did not leave much for the officers and men of the British Navy submarine, and the second torpedo fired by the Bayonet accurately hit the British submarine, and also blew a big hole in the British submarine, and the sea water soon filled the entire submarine.
The officers and men of the entire British Navy submarine did not even have a chance to escape, and sank to the depths of the sea with the submarine filled with seawater.
The remaining 10 British submarines in this group already knew that the Chinese Imperial submarine on the opposite side had fired torpedoes at them, and their own submarines had been hit by torpedoes, and they immediately panicked, although they knew that relying on the sonar system on their submarines to search for the location of the Chinese Imperial submarines, it was only an approximate location, but at this time, they could not sit still, so the 10 British Navy submarines fired torpedoes at the approximate location of the Chinese Imperial submarines detected by the sonar system, and fired back fire, 10 submarines of the British Navy, still thought that the sunken submarines of their own were blinded by the submarines of the Chinese Empire.
Since the submarines of the Chinese Empire can be blind, the submarines of our British Navy will not be so unlucky!
Don't say it, 10 British Navy submarines, in a panic, fired a total of 20 torpedoes at the approximate location of the Chinese Imperial submarine, although most of the torpedoes were fired in vain, but unfortunately, one torpedo magically hit a Chinese Imperial Q-class submarine, and the Q-class submarine was sunk at once.
In the bayonet submarine, Zhang Bin learned that one of his submarines was sunk by an enemy submarine 800 meters away, and shook his head helplessly.
Zhang Bin ordered the Bayonet to continue firing torpedoes at enemy submarines, striving to sink all the submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet on the opposite side of the road, and at the same time let other submarines of the Chinese Empire along the way. Torpedoes were also fired at submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet at a distance of 800 meters.
Subsequently, this group of Q-class submarines and S-class submarines of the Chinese Empire also fired torpedoes at 10 submarines of the British Navy. Since the submarines of the British Navy can be blind enough to sink the submarines of the Chinese Empire, then the submarines of the Chinese Empire. There is no reason not to sink one or two submarines of the British Navy.
However, luck will not always be on the side of the Chinese Empire, and the remaining 23 Q-class and S-class submarines fired almost 46 torpedoes, but none of them could hit the British Navy.
In fact, if the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet and the submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy search for the approximate location of the other side according to the sonar system, they will approach the enemy's submarine, and then wait until they get close to a certain distance, turn on the submarine's searchlight, and raise a periscope in the sea to lock on the enemy submarine. The chance of hitting a torpedo attack is still very high, but this certain distance refers to less than 50 meters.
Visibility in the ocean is very low, even if the submarine turns on the searchlight more than 30 meters below the sea surface, it can only see objects within 50 meters with the periscope, which is more than a place where the sea water is relatively clear.
However, now the submarines of the two sides that met on this road began to fire torpedoes at each other blindly, 800 meters away. Tried to sink the opposing submarine. However, this kind of blind launch torpedo, the hit rate is really very, very low, the torpedo launched by the submarine of the British Navy can sink 1 Q-class submarine of the Chinese Empire. It's already a blast of luck.
After that, the submarines on both sides of the road no longer had such super-explosive good luck, but the muffled explosions continued to sound under the sea. Let's not forget that there is also 1 submarine, and the torpedoes fired are not blind. It is equipped with a sonar system that can accurately locate the specific position of the opponent's submarine from a distance of 2 kilometers. Then hit the opponent with a torpedo and sink the opponent's submarine.
The reason why the Bayonet closed to 900 meters before firing torpedoes at the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet was to increase the hit rate, after all, the closer the distance, the higher the hit rate.
In the melee between the submarines of the two sides, the Bayonet, the flagship of the submarine force of the Imperial Chinese Navy, had been fishing in troubled waters, using torpedoes one after another to send the British Navy's submarines to the dark bottom of the sea.
Even the last few British Navy submarines felt that something was wrong, and the blind hit rate of the Chinese Imperial submarines was too high, and these British Navy submarines were not able to turn around and withdraw to the direction of the main force of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and they were all torpedoed by the Bayonet, according to the specific position provided by the sonar system, and these British Navy submarines who had no time to escape were also sunk.
When the Bayonet was hunting the British Navy submarines under the sea, another submarine that Lin Daxin got from the future time and space, the Sharp Knife, also hunted another group of 4 British Navy submarines and 8 French Navy submarines.
And almost at the same time that the Bayonet sank 12 British Navy submarines, the Spike also sank all 4 British Navy submarines and 8 French Navy submarines, and the other Q-class submarines and S-class submarines along the way did not lose a single one.
This way, the British submarine and the French submarine were attacked by the Sharp Knife torpedo, and they also launched a counterattack, of course, they also launched torpedoes blindly, but the god of luck did not attach any affection to them, and was sunk by the Sharp Knife, and did not hit a single submarine of the Chinese Empire, and the other submarines of the Chinese Empire also carried out torpedo attacks along the way, and did not hit any of the submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, and those enemy submarines were all single-handedly handled by the Sharp Knife.
From under the seabed on both sides of the surface fleets of the two sides, the submarines of the two sides that tried to get close to the other side's surface fleets did not launch blind torpedo attacks at such a distance, but kept approaching the submarines of the other side.
The submarines on both sides of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet are 12 German submarines, and these German submarines do not want to compete with the submarines of the Chinese Empire under the sea, fighting to the death, and the German submarines hope to get close to the fleet on the surface of the Chinese Empire and carry out torpedo attacks on the dreadnought battleships or all-steel battleships of the Chinese Imperial Navy, so as to give full play to the maximum role of submarines.
However, you don't want to start a submarine duel under the surface of the sea, and those submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy are bent on preventing German submarines from approaching in the direction of their own surface fleet.
In addition, although the Q-class submarines and S-class submarines of the Chinese Empire are equipped with sonar systems that cannot accurately locate the position of enemy submarines, the approximate position can still be detected by the sonar system.
As a result, the submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy on both sides of the Chinese Navy went straight to the German submarines with great momentum, and when the submarines on both sides of the middle two roads fired torpedoes indiscriminately, the Chinese Imperial submarines on both sides kept accelerating forward, and quickly shortened the distance of several tens of meters with the German submarines by using the search function of the sonar system.
Then the submarines of the Chinese Empire turned on their searchlights, raised their periscopes, and looked for the submarine of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet under the surface of the sea, and as soon as they found the submarine of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet from the periscope, the submarine of the Chinese Empire immediately fired torpedoes at it.
The distance between the submarines on both sides has been shortened so closely, and the Germans are not stupid, they will not wait to be torpedoed by the submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and these German submarines also turn on their searchlights, raise their periscopes, and look for the shadow of the submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy.
After the submarines on both sides approached to a very close distance, they almost installed bayonets on the submarines, allowing the submarines of the two sides to start a white-knuckle battle, and the degree of tragedy was not inferior to the bombardment of the dreadnought battleships on both sides, and even more than that, as long as the submarine was hit by a torpedo, there was no injury at all, only the sinking of one end, and there was no other possibility.
On both sides, the submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy still have 25 submarines on each road, which is equivalent to 25 to 12, and the submarines of the Chinese Empire occupy an absolute advantage, and soon 18 of the 24 German submarines on both sides were sunk, and the submarines of the Chinese Empire paid the price of sinking 12 of them.
Such a huge loss of submarines on both sides was only in less than 10 minutes, which shows the fierceness of the white-knuckle battle between such submarines.
The other six German submarines were lucky enough to break through the interception of the Chinese Imperial submarines and continued to approach the Chinese Imperial fleet in the sea.
Anyway, the fleet on the sea also had a way to deal with the enemy submarines, so the remaining submarines of the Chinese Empire on both sides did not turn around to chase the six fish that slipped through the net, and chose to continue to sneak in the direction of the main force of the joint expeditionary fleet.
The Bayonet and the Sharp Knife, knowing the results of their own submarines on both sides, did not move to the sides as planned to attack the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet on both sides, anyway, the enemy submarines on both sides had already suffered heavy losses, and the Bayonet and the Sharp Knife continued to bring the rest of the submarines on their own road, and also approached the direction of the main force of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet. (To be continued.) )
PS: Thanks to the brothers for the tips and tickets