Chapter 637: Unstoppable
Compared with the panic of the British people, the British government is not worried, the key is that they believe too much in the four thunder curtains, although this thing does not really work, but at least in the short term it works, no matter how efficient the Chinese minesweeping fleet is, it is impossible to sweep out the mine channel in a short time. ≈∞
Especially the English Channel, from Cape Lands to Brest, France, stretching for more than 200 kilometers of more than 50,000 mines guarding the gate of Britain, this mine width of 60 kilometers, it is not easy to sweep out a passage in the middle, not to mention that there are not only mines here, behind this mine belt there are hundreds of submarines and hundreds of destroyer torpedo boats including France, these surface and underwater wolves, can enter a hidden mine channel at any time to attack the minesweeper, In the eyes of the British government, if the Chinese Navy wants to break through this thunder curtain without collapsing, it will definitely not be able to fill its mouth with teeth.
Of course, this thunder curtain defense carrier-based aircraft will definitely not work.
Therefore, when a total of 200 carrier-based aircraft, including the two aircraft carriers in Dingzhen, appeared at the Plymouth Military Port, the British Minister Asquith in London and a group of cabinet ministers could only sigh, they were really helpless in the face of the enemy in the air, anyway, even if it was not a carrier-based aircraft to bomb, it was a Liberator heavy bomber, so let them go! Besides, there are no warships to bomb in Plymouth Naval Harbor, and now the British naval force is nothing more than those destroyers and torpedo boats, and all that remains is steam-powered warships that have been picked up from the garbage heap, such as the old monarchy.
Of course, the battleship Sovereign that bombed Plymouth Military Harbor, those carrier-based aircraft must have been uninterested, but the Plymouth Naval Shipyard could not escape the bad luck, the largest battleship construction base in Britain, in half an hour dropped a full 250 kilogram bombs, despite the desperate efforts of the ground air defense forces to block and shoot down four carrier-based aircraft. But a third of the bombs were still dropped on the docks by the Eagle of these dive-dropping bombs, and the bombing alone cost the Plymouth Royal Naval Shipyard a quarter of its shipbuilding capacity.
But this point is no longer meaningful, even if they do not bomb, the British do not have enough steel to build new battleships, and there are not enough workers, let alone enough money, even if they are built, there is not enough fuel, and now the supply of British crude oil has been completely cut off, and the only remaining bit must be used for destroyers, torpedo boats and submarines in the English Channel.
English Channel, on board the destroyer HMS Belona of the Royal Navy. The captain of the ship, Major Cunningham, looked at the sky with a sad and indignant face, and the huge formation of nearly two hundred bombers was obscuring the sky and the sun, and these bombers were flying south, and he naturally understood very well that these bastards had just finished dropping bombs at Plymouth Military Harbor.
"Fire!" He said with a gloomy face to the gunner of a two- and five-millimeter anti-aircraft gun next to him.
"But Captain, we can't reach them." The gunner said weakly.
"I said fire!" Major Cunningham roared in a very ungraceful manner, and the gunner was startled, and hurriedly aimed at the sky and opened fire, of course, he was just wasting shells, these eagles were flying at an altitude of five thousand meters. Twenty-five-mm anti-aircraft guns could not have hurt at all, and the dense sound of artillery was like a salute to see them off, but Major Cunningham's spirit was admirable, and soon several destroyers were in his vicinity. The anti-aircraft artillery also roared one after another, showing the indomitable spirit of the British Empire to the invaders.
Their actions angered the Chinese pilots in the sky, who had just blown their nest into flames, and were in a good mood. How can these guys endure the provocation below, and the ones that have already flown over are like that, and the more than forty eagles at the back all pounced at once. Although the bombs were gone, there was no pressure to shoot at those open gun emplacements with large-caliber machine guns, and the dense bullets instantly beat the gunners on the destroyers to the ground, and Major Cunningham watched with grief and anger as the gunner's head was suddenly blown off by bullets, so frightened that all the other crew members hid in the cabin, and only he stood bravely on the deck.
Fortunately, those eagle-style oils were not very much, and they didn't have time to fight with them, so they flew away immediately after showing their majesty.
", you yellow-skinned monkeys!" Major Cunningham roared angrily at the distant carrier-based aircraft group, what he didn't know was that at this moment, sixty kilometers away, a huge fleet of Huaxia and Yanhuang battleships was slowly sailing into the hidden safety passage of the minefield.
Because there is no aerial reconnaissance capability, the Chinese fleet was not found by a British submarine hidden under water until it was nearly 30 kilometers deep into the minefield, and the bad news was transmitted to the battleship Hood, the flagship of the British fleet, at sea, by telegram as quickly as possible.
"Spies, there must be Chinese spies in our Admiralty, these traitors to the British Empire, we must find out, I will hang him!" The roar of His Excellency the Marshal immediately sounded in the Admiralty, and of course the roar was angry, and the immediate task was not to find any spies, and before he could inform His Excellency of this matter, he issued an order to the fleet in the English Channel in the name of the Supreme Commander of the Navy to block the Chinese fleet at any cost.
After receiving this order, the entire English Channel was in chaos, destroyers and torpedo boats rushed to the exit of the minefield, and at the same time, dozens of submarines hidden under the channel also rushed up against the Chinese fleet, in their opinion, such a number of submarines underwater attack, how can they sink a few Chinese battleships, if they can sink the class battleships, it can be said to be immortal, so almost all submarines rushed to the two class battleships, but unfortunately what they didn't know was, His whereabouts had long been under the surveillance of the Chinese sonar soldiers on the opposite side, and before these submarines could enter the attack distance, seaplanes behind the fleet took off.
Whether it is a battleship or a battle cruiser, or even a heavy cruiser, they all carry seaplanes, and the main task of these seaplanes is anti-submarine, and even the Hongwu-class battle cruisers carry two, each seaplane can carry four 50-kilogram depth charges, at this time the submarines of Britain and France are some primary cargo of several hundred tons, and 50 kilograms is enough. After taking off, the seaplanes dropped nearly 200 depth charges into the sea at once according to the position of the British submarine indicated on the battleship below, instantly blowing up the British wolves waiting for an ambush.
This is not over, before the surviving British submarines woke up from their fear, and then one after another destroyers rushed up at a height of thirty-seven knots, and then used catapults to continuously pop up depth charges at the ambush area of British submarines, and after these destroyers drove over, the wolves of the British had turned into oil and garbage all over the sea, and more than forty submarines were sunk under this ferocious anti-submarine fire, in fact, what they didn't know was that this was because the carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft on the aircraft carrier had no runway to take off, Otherwise they suffer even more brutal blows.
After the British submarines were almost completely annihilated, the Chinese fleet continued to sail forward, and at this time the British torpedo boats were dispatched, these small torpedo boats had a very shallow draft and did not need to care about the mines, they could not touch the anchor mines at a depth of four or five meters underwater, in fact, these torpedo boats were the deadliest opponents, especially when hundreds of ships rushed up together, it was even more troublesome, almost all the small and medium-caliber naval guns in the fleet were aimed at the torpedo boats that rushed up from both sides, and the dense shells flew out with a whistling, It was like a raging storm that smashed the dinghy to pieces.
In particular, the double-three-seven guns, which were designed for anti-aircraft use, were like a massacre against such speedboats, and the projectiles of more than 100 shells per minute made the British desperate.
However, under the attack of those British speedboat crews, there were still a few successes in the end, and one torpedo boat that evaded interception even fired two torpedoes at the battleship Huaxia.
Lin Yongsheng motionlessly looked at the torpedo track that was approaching the sea, and at the same time, the Huaxia that was sailing quickly took evasive measures, and then a light cruiser on guard also rushed forward to block the torpedo for the flagship, but the cruiser was still a little late, one of the two torpedoes missed, and the other was in the middle of the Xiaxia.
Looking at the flames that exploded on the waterline of the Huaxia, the remnants of the British on the sea cheered almost at the same time, but unfortunately they were dumbfounded one by one, and the giant ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons only jumped slightly, and then continued to sail as if nothing happened, and even the degree was not affected in any way.
Hitting the Huaxia-class battleship was already the best that the British torpedo boat fleet could achieve, and of the two hundred torpedo boats that participated in the wolf attack, less than thirty of them finally escaped from this sea graveyard in despair, and all the others were reduced to pieces, and the result was only to sink two destroyers, damage two light cruisers, and the torpedo that hit the Huaxia that reminded the British of a century.
The next to go into battle should be the British destroyer fleet, because of the draft problem, they did not dare to enter the minefield like torpedo boats to attack, all British destroyers were blocked on both sides of the exit of the channel, ready to give the Chinese a fatal blow with dense torpedoes, but unfortunately, people did not bother to play with them at all, because at this time the bomber group that refueled and reloaded arrived, and torpedo attack aircraft were added. (To be continued!)
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