In the Pearl Harbor Naval Base in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States, there are 2 New York-class super dreadnought battleships, 6 Delaware-class dreadnought battleships, 2 Florida-class dreadnought battleships and 2 Wyoming-class dreadnought battleships of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet, as well as 2 Chishach-class all-steel battleships, 1 Illinois-class all-steel battleship, 4 Virginia-class all-steel battleships and 4 Connecticut-class all-steel battleships, as well as 2 ironclad battleships, 8 large fast armored cruisers, 18 fast protection cruisers, 26 destroyers, 36 torpedo boats and 8 submarines.

These hundreds of warships, large and small, are the main force of the Pacific Fleet, which the US Navy is preparing to send to Japan to join the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet.

In addition, there are dozens of warships of the US Navy in Pearl Harbor, which are also affiliated with the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy, but these warships are not the main warships, and the warships with the largest displacement are only one old large armored cruiser, these warships are the US Navy's Pacific Fleet preparing to stay at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, after all, as the most important naval base in the United States, Pearl Harbor also needs a fleet to guard.

In the bridge of the USS Kennedy, the flagship of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, the New York-class super-dreadnought battleship, Kennedy's captain Duncan took a telegram and walked to the side of Henry Tell, the commander of the Pacific Fleet, and said: "Commander, the Japanese have sent another telegram urging our Pacific Fleet to rush to Japan's Tokyo Bay as soon as possible and join their combined fleet. ”

Henrytel waved his hand and said indifferently: "Don't pay attention to the Japanese, they are afraid that the navy of the Chinese Empire will attack their combined fleet, and they want our Pacific Fleet to protect their combined fleet and their homeland." ”

Duncan hesitated and said, "Commander." The combined expeditionary fleet, consisting of the navies of the Entente and the Central Powers, as well as our American Atlantic Fleet, has been departing from Europe for several days. According to the resolution of the nine-nation meeting, our Pacific Fleet should be together with the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy. In the vicinity of Japanese waters, to contain a part of the forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and when a naval war breaks out between the Joint Expeditionary Fleet and the Imperial Chinese Navy, our Pacific Fleet and the Combined Fleet of the Japanese Navy must take the initiative to launch an attack on the Imperial Chinese Navy. ”

Henry Tel smiled bitterly, then looked at the surroundings without anyone else before saying to Duncan: "To tell you the truth, I am just preparing to wait for the main naval force of the Chinese Empire to fight a decisive battle with the Entente, the Central Powers, and the United States formed a joint expeditionary fleet. Studying the question again, the strength of the Imperial Chinese Navy has been fully proven in naval battles again and again, and I am even afraid that the Joint Expeditionary Fleet will be defeated this time, and at that time, our Pacific Fleet will be the only maritime force for us in the United States to resist the landing of the Chinese Imperial Army on the US mainland. ”

Henrytel's meaning is obvious: if the Allied powers, the Central Powers, and the United States formed a joint expeditionary fleet are defeated in a naval battle, then there is no need for the main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet to go to Japan. Let's honestly study the problem of how to defend the West Coast of the United States!

Duncan also smiled helplessly after hearing this, he and Henry Tell had fought against the Northeast Navy, the predecessor of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and the memories left behind were definitely not good, plus the prestige of the Chinese Imperial Navy over the years. I can't complain that Henry Tell has such worries, in fact, not only Henry Tell, Duncan also has such worries.

Duncan sighed and said, "But how do we explain to the country? And how do these countries explain to the Entente and the Central Powers? Among the G-9 meetings. We in the United States agreed to the whole plan. ”

Duncan automatically filtered Japan, for Japan. The United States does not need to give them any explanation.

Henryttle said: "There will be no pressure on us at home, and Admiral George Dewey, Secretary of the Admiralty, has the same worries as I do. The reason why I let the main force of the Pacific Fleet continue to stay at Pearl Harbor is also the consent of General George Dewey, General George Dewey will help us withstand all the pressure from the country, although General George Dewey also agrees to declare war on the Chinese Empire, but he also does not want the strength of our US Navy to be consumed in this war, in order to defeat the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy, our Atlantic Fleet must go all out, but our Pacific Fleet should still be leisurely. ”

After a pause, Henry Tell continued: "We can tell the Entente and the Allied Powers that the fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy has been discovered in the waters near Pearl Harbor, so that the main force of our US Navy's Pacific Fleet cannot leave Pearl Harbor for the time being to join the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy. ”

Duncan nodded and said, "In that case, I think we can send a telegram to the Entente and the Central Powers now, explaining the situation of the Chinese Imperial Navy fleet in the waters near Pearl Harbor, and at the same time, I can also tell the Japanese that the Japanese in the province send several telegrams a day urging our Pacific Fleet to depart." ”

Henryttle pondered for a moment and said: "It is enough to send a telegram to the Japanese directly, and then send a telegram to the country, write it as just said, and let the country convey it to the Entente and the Central Powers, which will also relieve some of the pressure on General George Dewey." ”

At this moment, a lieutenant commander of the US Navy ran into the bridge of the USS Kennedy in a panic, and after seeing Henry Tell, he immediately ran to Henry Tell's side and said urgently: "Commander, in the waters near our Pearl Harbor Naval Base, there are traces of the Chinese Imperial Submarine, and a destroyer patrolling the nearby waters of our US Navy has just been hit by a torpedo, and now it is very likely to have sunk, and the news is that the destroyed ship that was hit has just been sent back." ”

Henry Tell and Duncan couldn't help but look at each other, just now they were about to make up a fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy that appeared in the waters near Pearl Harbor, but it turned out that the waters near Pearl Harbor really appeared in the waters of the Chinese Empire, and it was also the submarine of the Chinese Empire that once terrified the entire world's navy.

Rewind to 20 minutes ago, under the surface of the sea more than 20 nautical miles from the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. One S-class submarine No. 185 of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire was quietly parked more than ten meters below the sea. The periscope of the submarine has been raised.

In the last decisive naval battle between the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy and the combined expeditionary fleets of the Allied and Allied powers, the submarine forces of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Imperial Navy suffered heavy losses. So the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire found that because the enemy's warships were equipped with sonar systems, submarines had played an extremely limited role in the sea war, so the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire listened to the suggestion of Emperor Lin Daxin, except for the submarines equipped with the six main fleets, other submarines would no longer gather together to participate in the decisive battle at sea, and these submarines would be in the vast sea, implementing new wolf pack tactics. After the United States and Japan joined the war, the submarine force of the Chinese Imperial Navy dispersed hundreds of submarines throughout the Pacific Ocean to attack all the ships of the United States, Japan, the Entente and the Allied Powers, and blockade the Japanese mainland and the West Coast of the United States.

The S-class submarine No. 185 arrived near Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands of the United States, along with several other submarines. Look for prey.

Shortly after arriving, a prey appeared on the radar of submarine No. 185, and then submarine No. 185 dived into the sea and quietly approached the prey, and then stopped in the sea. Relying on the sonar system and periscope, he patiently waited for the prey to approach the attack range of the torpedo, and finally when the prey was about 800 meters away from the 185 submarine. Project 185 submarine fired 2 torpedoes of 533 mm, one of which hit a US Navy patrol destroyer. Ten minutes later, the American destroyer disappeared into the sea. Only a few dozen officers and men of the US Navy on this destroyer remained, floating above the sea.

The sinking of the US Navy destroyer gave the main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet more reason to continue to stay at the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, but then the face of Henry Tel, the commander of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, became more and more gloomy.

On the day of the sinking of the first U.S. Navy destroyer, two other U.S. transport ships were torpedoed, both with a displacement of 5,000 tons, one carrying shells of various calibers for naval guns and shells from the West Coast of the United States to Pearl Harbor, and the other carrying supplies for the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet.

Immediately, the U.S. warships guarding the harbor in Pearl Harbor dispatched seven or eight fast-protection cruisers and destroyers equipped with sonar systems to search for the submarines of the Chinese Empire in the waters near Pearl Harbor, but after two days of searching, nothing was found, and during these two days, two more U.S. transport ships were torpedoed and sunk by submarines.

What made the Americans even more depressed was that an American fast protection cruiser, which was responsible for searching for submarines, was also torpedoed and sunk by the target it was searching for.

In this case, Henry Tell immediately scattered some of the warships that were going to Japan, searching for traces of the Chinese Imperial submarines, and if the Chinese Imperial submarines were allowed to be so arrogant, it is not known how many American transport ships loaded with supplies were sunk in the waters near Pearl Harbor.

Dozens of U.S. Navy warships divided into several formations and launched a dragnet search in the waters near the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, but they still found nothing, and fortunately, no U.S. transport ships were sunk in the waters near Pearl Harbor.

Although there were no Chinese Imperial submarines in the waters near Pearl Harbor, the main force of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet remained honestly in the base harbor, waiting for the outcome of the battle between the second joint expeditionary fleet and the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

It turned out that the submarine of the Chinese Empire in the waters near Pearl Harbor saw that the US Navy's Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor had sent dozens of warships at once, divided into several groups to search for them, and immediately left the waters near Pearl Harbor without hesitation, preparing to go to other waters to continue searching for prey.

In just three days, in addition to 7 Japanese transport ships and 18 American transport ships were sunk, 1 Japanese Navy destroyer, 1 Japanese Navy offshore gunboat, 1 US Navy fast protection cruiser, 2 US Navy destroyers, and 1 US Navy training ship were also sunk by submarine torpedoes.

The gains of the Japanese were basically obtained by the submarines of the Chinese Empire outside the Bay of Tonkin, while most of the gains of the Americans were achieved on the west coast of the United States, and the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire did not suffer any losses.

Under the sea surface in the waters near the west coast of the United States, in the flagship submarine of the Imperial Chinese Submarine Force, the Bayonet, the first mate of the Bayonet held a telegram in his hand and said to Zhang Bin, commander of the Imperial Chinese Submarine Force and also the captain of the Bayonet: "Several submarines in the waters near Pearl Harbor have withdrawn from the search range of the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy and are preparing to wait for several routes between the ports on the west coast of the United States and the Hawaiian Islands, and continue to look for prey that can be attacked." ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said: "The mission of our submarine force this time is to attack the sea lanes of the United States and Japan, and the transport ship is the primary target of our submarine force, as for the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the US Navy, we do not need our submarine force to deal with it, we have the main fleet of our Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire to deal with it, and the most fundamental principle of the wolf pack tactics adopted by our submarine force now is to avoid the real and make a mistake, find a soft persimmon to start, and try not to launch an attack on the enemy warship, of course, the lone enemy warship, Do what you want, if you can not let it go or not let it go, I hope that no one will get dizzy and launch a torpedo attack on a number of enemy warships. ”

The first mate of the Bayonet said with a smile: "If we can find the enemy's lone warship on the radar in advance, we only need to ambush in front of its course, so that the sonar system on the enemy's warship cannot search for our submarine, and then wait for the enemy warship to get close to our submarine, we can let the submarine launch a torpedo attack, but if there are multiple enemy warships, even if one can be sunk, the submarine is likely to be destroyed under the attack of the enemy's remaining warships. No one will take the risk easily. (To be continued.) )