However, although the German High Seas Fleet did not come out, their submarine table was very active. Since the Second Spanish-American War, after the American submarine sank the Russian battleship, the Germans have been concerned about this kind of small things that have not been paid much attention to before, coupled with the high-performance diesel engine and steel provided by Yang Feng at this time, the rest is nothing more than a matter of design, so many years have passed, the German Navy has built more than a dozen more mature U boats, including the Austro-Hungarian Navy used to sink the France, which was also built by Germany.

Since the beginning of the war, the British Navy has completely blockaded the ports along the German North Sea coast, although it did not affect the supply of goods to Germany, but it made the German Navy deeply ashamed, and the blockade of Britain with submarines in retaliation has become the most effective means.

These underwater wolves, although they have not yet evolved wolf pack tactics, have also terrified the British merchant ships at sea, coupled with the torpedoes whose performance is more mature and more powerful than the original history of the First World War, since the beginning of the war, more than 200,000 tons of supplies sent to Britain have sunk to the bottom of the sea together with the merchant ships that transported them.

Of course, they are all merchant ships flying the flags of Britain, France and Russia, and William has not yet reached the point where he will not even let go of neutral merchant ships, and at present, the main neutral merchant ships are basically hooked up with Yang Feng, or simply sailed from China, William does not want to offend his most trusted friend.

"The Germans are not good at playing, it is true that they have submarines, they have to be able to use them, and they are now at most at the level of primary school students, a little higher than the kindergarten level of the Americans."

In the General Staff of the Navy in Beijing, Yang Feng put on a military strategist and said.

Of course, he won't leak this thing about submarines. The submarines of the Chinese Navy have been in use for a long time at this time, and the first batch is still based on the drawings of the little shark he made back then, and all six of them have joined the active service, and are currently mainly engaged in training tasks, because for him, the practical significance of submarines is far less than that of surface warships.

He had no enemies in Asia, neither the British Far East Fleet nor the Russian Pacific Fleet were like scum in front of the huge Chinese Royal Navy, and at most after China entered the war, it was used to blockade the Gulf of Aden. But the problem is that in Kuwait there is still his Persian Gulf fleet! Two Hongwu-class battle cruisers are enough to do the job.

Of course, this did not prevent him from teaching his men wolf pack tactics.

"A group of several, if not a dozen submarines. First of all, they patrol in a dispersed safari mode, and when they find a target, they will notify other submarines to move closer to their side, but do not rush to attack, especially if the other side has an escort. Track during the day. Attack at night.

This kind of thing is a group of assassins, to put it bluntly. If you specialize in knocking on stuffy sticks in the dark, don't stupidly run out in broad daylight to engage in a duel with the enemy's warship! Emperor Yang spoke eloquently.

In fact, his generals were not very interested in submarines. Because of the outbreak of war in Europe, in order to deal with the possible participation in the war, Congress has approved a second round of military expansion plan, adding 16 Hongwu-class battle cruisers to the current 88th fleet.

In addition, the army has been expanded to 1 million, and now these big countries are embarrassed to greet people without a million troops, and even the Ottoman Empire has expanded its army to 1 million, and it would be too unreasonable for China to continue to maintain hundreds of thousands of troops.

Yang Feng did not deliberately promote this expansion in the back, and the capitalists in the Congress are not fools, they are all a group of old foxes, and now this shape is certain for China to enter the war, the only uncertainty is when to join the war and which side to participate, or when to participate in the war and which side to participate, in order to bring the greatest benefits to China.

Since this is the case, it is natural to prepare in advance, and in any way, a huge empire across the Pacific Ocean with only sixteen battleships is far from enough.

Even some parliamentarians felt that adding 16 more was not enough, that 32 battleships and battlecruisers were only the size of Russia's planned fleet, and that this was not enough to deter potential enemies, and that the Chinese battleships were too small, although they were fast, they were 17,800 tons and 280 mm guns compared with those battleships in Europe with a displacement of more than 20,000 tons and a gun caliber of more than 300 mm, and that the main guns of 17,800 tons and 280 mm were a grade weaker, and larger ones should be built.

Of course, they didn't know, in fact, there were already bigger ones, and the two super battleships of the Dalian shipyard had already been launched.

"The battleship has declined, the future world aircraft carrier is the master, continue to build the Hongwu-class battle cruiser, to put it bluntly, it will be used to escort aircraft carriers in the future, and in addition, it can be quickly mobilized to the place where our navy is needed for small-scale armed intervention, simply put, it is used to bully the weak in the future, so speed is the first." Emperor Yang went on to explain to his generals why he continued to build the Hongwu-class battle cruiser instead of building a large battleship equipped with three-five-six-millimeter guns like the combined forces class, as Congress had hoped.

During this time, the four battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were in the limelight, outnumbered and outnumbered to meet the enemy three times their size, and finally they were able to repel the enemy, and even sank an enemy ship with naval guns, and beat five perfect battleships into the shipyard, but they did not need to repair them at all, which is so strong, it can be said that they once again proved to the world the credibility of Yang's shipyard with their brilliant achievements.

"Don't covet their three-five-six main guns, our 280 main guns are not bad in terms of range and armor-piercing ability except for the less charge, as for the rate of fire, they can't be compared, if you want to talk about more charges, a three-five-six piercing bomb with a charge of more than 20 kilograms and an aerial bomb with a charge of hundreds or even hundreds of kilograms, who is more powerful? How much is a three, five, or six barrel, and the service life can be hundreds of rounds? How much is a bomber with an aluminum alloy skeleton and a wooden fuselage, and how many times can it be used repeatedly? We must consider the cost of fighting a war, and we can't just think about how passionate the artillery bombardment is. Yang Feng continued.

As he was talking, a staff officer hurriedly ran in and handed a telegram to Liu Buchan, chief of the general staff of the Navy, Liu Buchan's face changed when he saw it, and then he said to Yang Feng: "Your Majesty, the destroyer Snow Leopard, which was carrying out trade sanctions outside the Delaware Bay, was attacked by an American destroyer. ”

After he said this, everyone in the entire command hall was stunned for a moment, and then those generals and staff officers roared angrily one by one, and they all said in unison to severely punish these American gangsters, and Emperor Yang was very pleased to see the scene.

After so many years, he finally trained his subordinates to become qualified imperialists, and Chinese warships ran to the door of the Americans' homes to block the Americans' exports, and unscrupulously intercepted, seized, and even sank American merchant ships.

However, this kind of mentality is what he likes.

Stretching out his hand to stop the anger of his subordinates, Yang Feng took a closer look at the specific situation.

Half an hour ago, off Delaware Bay, the destroyer Snow Leopard of the Chinese Navy, intercepted an American merchant ship sailing from Philadelphia. However, the experienced captain of the Snow Leopard did not think it was right, and judging from the amount of cargo in the hold and the draft of the ship, it was obvious that the ship was a little too heavy, so he asked the merchant ship to sail to the Spanish port of Miami for further inspection.

However, this caused the anger of the American captain, and in the middle of the argument, an American destroyer patrolling nearby came over to protest, and the two sides couldn't help but get excited in the process of arguing, I don't know how the American destroyer fired, and the Snow Leopard fired back, and the two sides went back and forth to start an artillery battle, and now the Caribbean Alliance fleet cruising around is rushing to reinforce.

As soon as Liu Buyun finished giving a general introduction to the situation, a new report was sent over immediately, and the nearest heavy cruiser had arrived, and the American destroyer was wounded and fled into Delaware Bay, and the Snow Leopard was slightly wounded.

"What about the American merchant ship?" Yang Feng asked, this matter is a bit weird, it stands to reason that even if the Americans can't bear it, it is impossible to attack at this time, and there is no sign of war in the US government under the current situation, trade sanctions are only aimed at American industrial products, but the United States exports mainly agricultural products, which are not affected in the slightest, and because of the needs of the war, the supply of agricultural products in the United States has exceeded demand recently, and the price has begun to rise, it can be said that the farmers represented by Brian are desperately trying to get rich, and they cannot still want to fight at this time.

With the strength of the U.S. Navy, if they really want to fight, they will definitely be wiped out, although they are outnumbered on land, but without naval protection, the Caribbean Alliance still casually blockades their ports, and once there is a real war, it will not only be trade sanctions, it will be a total blockade, so that they can't even ship agricultural products, Brian and the American farmers are not so stupid!

There's definitely something wrong with that, so that merchant ship is important now.

"The merchant ship tried to run but didn't succeed, and has been captured by our people." Liu Buyun said hurriedly.

"Take it to Miami, unload it carefully, check it, if it's normal, there should be something else under these soybeans, like munitions or something." Yang Feng said.

"What if not?" Liu Buyun hurriedly asked.

"Then let it have." Yang Feng said lightly. (To be continued......)