Chapter 68: Attack on Zhoushan Port (2)

Three nautical miles after the fleet left the port, in order to ensure safety, all the lights were turned on, and then they headed for Zhoushan Port at full speed.

Normally, the speed of the three modified bird boats is about 11 knots when they are not assisted by sails, and the two submarines have a maximum speed of 8 knots, and the distance from Pinghu Tangjia Bay to Zhoushan Port is at least 74 nautical miles, so even if it is smooth sailing and full horsepower, plus towing submarines, it is absolutely impossible for this fleet to arrive at Zhoushan Port before dark, that is, within four hours at most, and conduct an attack.

However, Li Yongji's surprise fleet did not plan to go directly into battle tonight, but first arrived at Daishan Island, that is, a small island called Shatou Island in the west of Daishan County, and then found a place to lurk, and made final preparations to attack again the next night. The reason why I chose to leave the port at night was not because of the lack of time, but because it was more secretive.

Of course, it is better to attack directly, and the voyage is not enough, but unfortunately Li Yongji does not know when the fleet of the British and French forces will leave, and it is too dangerous to approach Zhoushan in advance, and it is easy to expose himself, so he can only stay in Tangjiawan and rely on the spies who infiltrated Zhoushan Island to provide intelligence.

In fact, the original plan was to directly send troops from Mojiagang in Tangjiawan to attack Zhoushan Port, but in the actual implementation, there was a little change.

It was also Li Yongji's negligence, and the spies on Zhoushan Island sent information about the movements of the British and French fleets as early as one o'clock yesterday afternoon, but at that time Li Yongji was training with the members of the Mother Frog Special Combat Team, and did not stay next to the communication radio, and by the time he finally finished the training and came back to find the recorded news, the time had already reached five o'clock in the afternoon.

At this point in time, it is no longer possible to directly engage in a surprise attack that night, after all, it takes an hour or two to prepare the supplies alone, and then even if the ship can leave immediately after two hours, the girls who are standing in the female frog team are already quite tired, and it is impossible to go into battle overnight.

It's not impossible to force them to fight, but if they fight forcibly, not to mention the physical attrition, their combat effectiveness will inevitably be greatly reduced, and the danger will be greatly increased, after all, it is a diving operation.

Due to the lack of time, Li Yongji originally wanted to give up this operation and find the next opportunity instead. After all, the fleet of the Anglo-French coalition can't run, and there are opportunities, but the girls of their own female frog special combat team are very precious!

These girls have undergone long-term training, have been exposed to a large number of modern products, and are themselves the most valuable underwater combat talents, and they are often with Li Yongji during this period, and they have some feelings, and the loss of any of them will make Li Yongjun feel distressed and uncomfortable.

Therefore, Li Yongji would not let these members of the female frog special combat team, who were still very naïve, take the risk of increasing their losses to force their attacks.

However, God seemed to be unable to bear to let Li Yongji's plan come to naught, and actually made the entire sky full of dark clouds.

According to experience, in such weather, even if it doesn't rain that night, there is a chance that it will rain during the day the next day, and the fleet of the British and French forces is not in a hurry, and it carries so many marines, I am afraid that it will not like to leave the port on a rainy day, and nine times out of ten it will be delayed for a day, and then leave when the weather is clear, this is their chance!

For this reason, Li Yongji temporarily revised the plan and made a two-stage assault method, that is, he quietly left the port tonight, anchored and hid on a small island closest to Zhoushan Island, and then attacked the nearest one the next night, so that nothing could go wrong.

After the fleet leaves the port, although it is not downwind and cannot sail as an auxiliary, it has an impact on the speed of the ship, but perhaps because of the bad weather, when the fleet is sailing in the sea, there are no other ships around, so it is absolutely secretive.

By the time the sky was bright, Li Yongji's fleet had already arrived at the Shatou Island that Mo Haihu said.

Shatou Island is an uninhabited island, which used to be a secret stronghold and transit place for the people of Mojia Village when they were pirates, so there is a simple dock built here, which can dock ships like bird boats, that is, green eyebrows in the past, and now, it has become an excellent forward attack base.

After arriving at Shatou Island, everyone hurriedly made the final preparations, but did not carry out launching training, but explained tactics on the ship, checked equipment, and rested well and changed the biological clock.

At the same time, Li Yongji got in touch with the spies on Zhoushan Island and learned that the British and French fleet had not left the port, and at the same time, when it was close to twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the sky was in a heavy rain, which did not end until two o'clock in the afternoon, and after this heavy rain, the sky became clear again. Although it cannot be said that it is cloudless, after all, there is still a trace of clouds, but I am afraid that there will be no more rainy days in the short term.

At four o'clock in the afternoon of June 6, 1860, after receiving the news that the British and French marines had re-boarded the ship, Li Yongji knew that this was the last chance to blow up the British and French fleet on Zhoushan Island.

At 8 p.m. on June 6, three bird boats and two submarines began to sail quietly towards Zhoushan Port, maintaining light control throughout the whole process, and relying entirely on radar, night vision devices and other modern instruments for navigation.

At half past twelve o'clock in the morning of June 7, the entire fleet arrived four nautical miles outside Zhoushan Port and began to anchor, after which the members of the female frog special combat team who carried out the first wave of attacks began to enter two submarines one after another, and then the two submarines dived under the cover of night and sneaked directly to Zhoushan Port.

After the two submarines walked for nearly half an hour, when the periscope could clearly see the big ships moored in Zhoushan Port, 100 members of the female frog special combat team wearing full diving suits broke out of the submarine, using underwater night vision devices and small underwater propulsion devices, carrying 100 50-kilogram special submarine bombs++ bombs, and swimming to their own targets.

Although most of the ships of the British and French forces were carrying torches, in such a dark night, the penetration of the fire was limited, and the girls of this group of female frog special combat teams were sneaking through the deep water area and did not show their heads at all, so even if some competent sailors did not sleep late at night and were still carefully observing the sea, it was impossible to see the situation under the water clearly.

In this way, the girls of this group of female frog special combat teams installed this kind of underwater timed bomb ++ bomb on the bottom of the warship, with an average of two to three bombs on each ship, especially large warships, such as those British third-class ships, that are specially installed four, and they are all placed in different places, if they explode together, it is guaranteed that it cannot be remedied.

You know, these fried ++ bombs weigh only 50 kilograms, but most of the charges inside are black + cable + gold, plus a small amount of T + N + T, and there are strong suction cups outside, which can firmly hold the bottom of the ship. Such a fried ++ bomb, against a wooden sailing ship, even the largest third-class warship, a maximum of two is enough, and four are installed, which is more than enough.

But in this way, the 100-man assault had limited results, and only 20 ships were planted on the bottom of the bomb++ bomb, but this was expected, so they returned again, took out another bomb from the submarine, and went back to the bottom of the other ships.

Each submarine of this assault carried 52 members, two of whom were pilots and the other 50 were real assaulters. At the same time, in addition to the necessary fuel, the submarine carried 500 50-kilogram underwater bombs.

In other words, this wave of underwater assaults, the frogman special combat team can go back and forth up to five times, and even if four bomb++ bombs are used against one ship, 125 ships can be blown up.

Although the combined fleet of the British and French forces had a total of 173 warships, most of them were armed merchant ships, and only 23 could really be called warships, of which 12 were third-class warships. In terms of scale, it is definitely the first in Asia, but this point of warship is not enough to see in the face of 500 modern underwater bomb++ bombs.

However, when the girls of the first wave had placed all 500 bomb++ bombs and returned to the bird boat mooring point by submarine, they said that it was for insurance, and in order to make the girls of the second wave have a good time and increase their experience points, in short, the second wave of attacks continued as usual.

After transporting the bomb++ bombs from the bird boat onto the submarine and replenishing some fuel, the second wave of female frog special combat team members replaced the girls who were already very tired from the first wave of attack, and boarded the submarine one after another.

The second wave of attack teams was also in no danger, and the other 500 underwater bombs++ bombs were re-released one by one, so that the 173 whizzing warships of the British and French fleets were placed under the bottom of the ship, which is equivalent to an average of 5.8 bombs placed on the bottom of each ship.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, the second wave of attackers also returned along the way, and then, without saying a word, Li Yongji led the entire fleet to turn around and leave.

However, Li Yongji did not go directly back to the base in Tangjiawan this time, but returned to the sea, found a place to anchor, and quietly waited for the departure of the British and French troops through the information of the Guò radar and spies.

Although it was a sneak attack on Zhoushan Port, because there were also many buildings near Zhoushan Port, and there were many Chinese coolies, plus if it was close to the port, it was difficult to ensure that everyone boarded the ship, so in order to pursue maximum damage, Li Yongji set two fuses for the bomb + bomb, one is a radio detonation device, and the other is a timed detonation device.

The so-called radio detonator means that as long as the distance between Li Yongji's controller and these explosive + bombs is kept within 80 kilometers, then as long as Li Yongji activates the radio detonator, these explosive + bombs equipped with radio detonating devices will explode immediately.

In addition, in order to prevent accidents, add more insurance, and install a timed detonation device on the bomb++ bomb. In the event of an accident with the radio detonator, then at two o'clock in the morning on June 8, these explosive++ bombs will explode at the same time, that is, regardless of whether the combined fleet of the British and French forces leaves the port before the time comes, it will explode on time.

Therefore, whether it was to control the explosion or to observe the effect, Li Yongji could not lead the team to leave immediately.

Wait, wait, wait, wait until nine o'clock the next morning, the combined fleet of the British and French forces finally began to leave the port one after another, and then they formed a formation, and then sailed north.

After discovering this situation, Li Yongji smiled quietly, and used the radar device to follow the fleet from a distance, walking unhurriedly, waiting for the best time to detonate.

By 10 o'clock in the evening of June 7, 1860, the combined fleet of the British and French forces had passed through Shanghai and entered the Yellow Sea, but they had no intention of stopping the ship and continued to rush overnight.

From the point of view of latitude, the current place of the United Fleet is almost parallel to Yancheng or Jeju Island, and the Yellow Sea area within this latitude is already deep in the ocean, and the time is late at night, and there will be no rescue teams around, which is the best time and place for detonation!

Looking at the time and the place is not bad, Li Yongji, who has been following behind the British and French combined fleet for about 40 nautical miles, ordered the ship to stop, then took a deep breath and pressed the detonating device fiercely.

The moment I pressed it, I saw a flash of red light in the distance, and then there was a thunderous bang!

Looking at the bright light in the distance and listening to the continuous explosions, the corners of Li Yongji's mouth smiled slightly.

The Anglo-French alliance is over, completely finished, and it is still unclear that it is dead!