At present, on the side of the Ohu Kingdom, they have not yet fiddled with the battleships of the new road, except for a few old cruisers and torpedo boats, there is not much naval strength at all, and the military presence of the Chinese Empire in Honolulu is only the strength of the shore artillery force, which is not bad, and as for the navy, there are only some light gunboats and torpedo boats.

Fang Xiaoyu stared at the map without saying a word, and Liu Junguo said, "Let's send all the submarine forces over." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "But the latest battleship of the Boston Empire, the middle and upper six torpedoes can still drive normally, and how many torpedoes our submarines have in total is too reluctant." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "It seems that we can only rely on the air force, and we will order Honolulu to repair the temporary airport within one day, and we will transfer planes from the Savage Continent tomorrow morning." ”

Liu Junguo nodded: "In this way, we can defend it with a two-pronged approach." ”

Fang Xiaoyu said: "I'm not worried about whether I can defend it, I'm worried that once the war with the Boston Empire starts, it will inevitably pull us into the war situation in the Western Continent, and we will become a participating country, then there will not be much profit to be made, but we will have to lose money." ”

"Young Master, aren't you going to participate in this big battle?" Liu Junguo asked.

Fang Xiaoyu shook his head: "Of course we have to participate, only the victorious country can get enough benefits after the war, but we can't participate now, the strength of the powerful countries in the Western Continent is not much lost, their blood has not been drained, we can only participate in the war when they are exhausted, I think the Boston Empire is also playing the same idea." ”

Zhang Haiyang said: "It is true, although we are very eager to fight, but the longer we know that the Tao is neutral, the greater our gains. ”

Fang Xiaoyu said with a smile: "Okay, don't feel wronged, fight this battle first, and then I will give you a new batch of warships." ”

Zhao Qi and Qian Yulin, the two old partners, are still in command of the same submarine, the difference is that they are now using the new Seawolf 2 submarine, with this huge submarine, Zhao Qi feels that he is much happier to breathe.

At this time, their submarine was sailing on the surface of the sea, and the pointed barracuda-shaped hull was breaking through the waves in the blue waters, attracting many small fish around them. Zhao Qi stood on the low bridge and looked around with a telescope.

Although the Seawolf 2 submarine is equipped with active sonar, the distance of the sonar is relatively close, and it cannot detect things in the distance, not to mention that the sonar is very power-intensive, and with the huge battery of the Seawolf 2, it does not dare to let it work for a long time, so the task of searching is still to be completed by people.

"Lao Zhao, it's time for a shift change." Qian Yulin climbed out of the submarine, intending to replace Zhao Qi and the two crew members who were watching.

Although they have to endure the cold sea breeze and the large waves that rise from time to time, because they can breathe fresh air, this is still very attractive to submariners who have been stuffy in the submarine and smelled the smell of diesel.

The two sailors happily took their companion's binoculars and looked around. Zhao Qi still held the binoculars and did not put them down. Qian Yulin smiled: "I said Lao Zhao, don't you want to go down." ”

Zhao Qi said slowly: "There is a puff of black smoke in the distance, looking at the situation, the area is not small, maybe it is a fleet." ”

"Oh?" Qian Yulin took a soldier's binoculars and looked at it, "I look like it, should we dive and dodge." ”

Zhao Qi nodded: "Okay, let's dive down and observe them." ”

"Urgent dive." As the order was given, all the sailors were busy, and the four water tanks of the submarine were filled with water at the same time, and as the bubbles around the submarine rose like a boiling pot, the submarine quickly disappeared into the boundless sea.

The submarine maintained a low speed, and Zhao Qi slowly stretched the periscope out of the water, carefully observing the situation.

"Bring me the Navy Atlas." Hearing Zhao Qi's words, Qian Yulin carefully took the thick atlas, this kind of naval atlas was specially equipped by the Chinese Imperial Navy for submarines, which contained the side and front graphics of all the ship types of the countries in the world, so as to help the submarine be able to identify the other party's warships when they were scouting.

Zhao Qi carefully flipped through the atlas and compared it in the periscope: "That's right, eight battleships and twenty-one cruisers are all here." Immediately send a report to Honolulu to discover that the Boston Empire's Eastern Ocean Fleet, a total of four 'Mississippi' class battleships, four 'Pennsylvania' class battleships, ten 'Orlando' class cruisers, six 'Newark' class cruisers, and five 'Olympia' class cruisers, the fleet is sailing at a speed of ten knots, heading due west, and is expected to go to the kingdom of Oahu. ”

Zhao Qi put down the periscope and smiled: "After notifying the headquarters, please contact if there are any of our companions nearby, we are going hunting." The dispatcher was very skillful and immediately sent out the two messages separately.

After a while, the dispatcher said: "The captain's headquarters has called, asking us to continue to monitor and not act rashly, and there is also a message that we are the only submarine patrolling nearby, and the other submarines are not yet in place." ”

Zhao Qi said: "It's not in place, so this time we have to eat alone." ”

Qian Yulin said: "I said Lao Gao, don't be too excited, this is a whole fleet, are we sure that we can do it ourselves?" ”

Zhao Qi said: "I remember before leaving, I said that once we go to war with the Boston Empire, we will go to the west coast of the Boston Empire to lay mines, and let you load the submarine with some mines, you haven't forgotten." ”

Seawolf 2 submarines can use torpedo tubes to lay mines, so Zhao Qi made such an arrangement. Qian Yulin said: "Naturally, you did what you asked, and we didn't have a single torpedo in the tail torpedo compartment, and there were twenty-four mines in it." ”

Zhao Qi smiled: "Great, we will attack the Bostonians tonight, whether we can make meritorious contributions depends on these mines." ”

The 'Mississippi' class battleships in the Boston fleet are the first class of former Chinese ships designed by Bostonians, due to lack of experience, the speed of this type of warship is not high, even if it was later replaced with steam turbines, but unfortunately because the design structure of the warship has been fixed, its maximum speed can only reach 14 knots.

As we all know, warships cannot always travel at the highest speed, because that will cause the boiler and the transmission shaft to overheat, which is easy to cause the boiler explosion and the transmission shaft mechanical damage, so in order to take care of these old warships, the entire fleet can only move forward at a speed of ten knots.

It is precisely because of this that the Seawolf 2 submarine, which can reach a maximum speed of 12.8 knots on the surface, can track from a distance and not be thrown off.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and in order not to lose the Boston fleet, Zhao Qi had to order to increase the speed to the highest and slowly approach the other party.

Fortunately, after the sky darkened, the short bridge of the submarine did not attract the attention of the other party, and the smoke from the tall hull and chimney of the other party became an obvious mark, so that the submarine would not be lost.

When the moon rose, the Boston fleet finally decided to take a break. The boiler can not be used all the time, which will overheat, easily cause damage, and shorten the service life, so it is necessary to rest at night, not to mention that in this era without radar, it is easy to run aground when sailing at night.

The Boston Navy came to a small coral reef island called Garanto, which is an uninhabited island, there is no fresh water on the island, and the area exposed to the sea is very small, and the most famous place here is Garland Bay, which is surrounded by small islands.

Garanto Island is like a large crescent, and the inner arc of the crescent is Garland Bay, where the water depth reaches 20 meters, enough to moor large warships, and if it were not for the lack of fresh water on the island, it might have become an important naval base for a certain country.

Because the water was deep enough to allow large warships to pass even at low tide, the Imperial Boston Navy used it as a temporary anchorage and decided to rest here for the night before hitting the road tomorrow.

"Check the ammunition." Taking advantage of the night, the 2001 submarine commanded by Zhao Qi slowly moved forward in a snorkel state and slowly approached the anchorage of Jialan Bay. With Zhao Qi's order, the two torpedo rooms, one in front and one behind, began to check the ammunition.

"Twelve torpedoes in the front torpedo room, all in ready condition." "Twenty-four mines in the rear torpedo room, all in a ready state." The ammunition situation was quickly reported.

The price of carrying mines is that the 2001 submarine on this voyage carried less than half of the torpedoes, but today the mines are right.

Zhao Qi walked to the sonar officer and said: "From now on, everything depends on you, in order not to expose the target, we can't raise the periscope, everything is up to you to listen, remember to put the mines on the sea surface on the outside of the opposing fleet, don't let their warships touch the mines in advance, as long as we can complete the minelaying, it will be half the success." The sonar man nodded, indicating that he was determined to complete the task.

In order not to expose the target, the submarine retracted the snorkel and began to use the battery to provide forward power, and the submarine slowly slid through the water, gradually passing the narrow entrance of Garland Bay.

The submarine was moving very slowly, and it was very dangerous to sail in such shallow waters, and all the crew sat intently in their positions, and they pricked up their ears to listen, lest they miss the sonar man's command.

According to the sonar officer's briefing, the submarine carefully bypassed the two coral reefs and entered the bay. "Arrive at the intended location." Sonar reporter reports.

Zhao Qi, who had been guarding the sonar crew, immediately gave the order, and the crew at the stern of the boat quickly began to lay mines through torpedo tubes.

The sonar man listened attentively, and commanded the installation of waterproof mines at any time, because it was low tide, the water depth here was only thirteen or fourteen meters, and the submarine had to be very careful during the submarine operation, not only to be careful not to touch the bottom, but also to beware of the part of the nearby warship several meters below the waterline.

Fortunately, the submarines were all veterans, and they relied on the accurate judgment and rich experience of the sonar crews to arrange 24 mines in place without danger, and none of them exploded in advance, and the mines laid by the submarine No. 2001 gradually blocked the narrow entrance to Jialan Bay.