In the waters northwest of Sri Lanka Island, more than 200 Sea Hawk bombers on the four mythical-class aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire have just carried out the third round of bombardment of the dreadnought battleships of the Allied and Allied joint expeditionary fleets, and during the bombing of just 12 minutes, the bombers' bombs, plus the main guns of the dreadnought battleships, made the joint expeditionary fleet lose 12 dreadnought battleships, if you add the Provence-class dreadnought battleship Brenita that the French Navy has just lost, It's 13 dreadnought battleships, and the degree of tragedy has reached the point of jaw-dropping.

I also complained that some fleet commanders of the United Expeditionary Fleet began to be frightened in their hearts, in such a short period of time, there were such great losses, and anyone would be afraid.

What is even more depressing is that there is a 99 percent chance that those bombers of the Chinese Empire will fly above the head of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet again and start a desperate dive bombing, and the Joint Expeditionary Fleet will be able to resist a few more bombings of this scale.

The commander of the Italian naval fleet, Erebet, and the commander of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, Rusdit, simply sent a telegram to the commander-in-chief of the joint expeditionary fleet, that is, the commander of the British fleet, Bridget, suggesting a retreat.

Bridget also understood the feelings of these two, so the wording of the reply was very tactful, but Bridget was very determined to defeat the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy this time, and he would not order the entire United Expeditionary Fleet to withdraw from the battlefield because of the current losses. Anyway, the overall strength of the current Combined Expeditionary Fleet. It is still higher than the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

As for those bombers of the Chinese Empire, Bridget considered. It is still possible to rely on the anti-aircraft firepower of the warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet to resist the bombing.

As long as the situation is not irreparable, Bridget will never give up lightly and order the entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet to retreat.

Unlike the frustration, chagrin, and fear of the commanders of the naval fleets of various countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, the commanders of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire were extremely excited about the results of the bombing of the Sea Hawk bomber group, and in a short period of time, the Joint Expeditionary Fleet sank another 13 dreadnought battleships, plus 6 more dreadnought battleships were seriously injured and had withdrawn from the battle line. Now the comparison of the dreadnought battleships engaged by the two sides has become 28 to 31, and the dreadnought battleships of the Imperial Chinese Navy are no longer too disadvantaged in terms of numbers.

Considering that the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire has 7 provincial super dreadnought battleships, it has surpassed the joint expeditionary fleet in terms of dreadnought battleships and even in strength.

In the bridge of the provincial super dreadnought battleship Fengtian of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Sun Xitao stood in front of the observation window, looking at the combined expeditionary fleet of the Allied and Central Powers opposite, the battle line formed by their dreadnought battleships. A lot has been slimmed, and these are the credit of the Seahawk bomber group.

"Commander, now we and the United Expeditionary Fleet have almost a few dreadnought battleships. Now that we have been bombarding each other, we can basically win this naval battle, and the Sea Hawk bomber group of 4 mythical aircraft carriers is really powerful. This round of bombardment sank, plus the main guns of our dreadnought battleships. There were already 13 dreadnought battleships, and several more were seriously injured and evacuated from the battle line formed by the dreadnought battleships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. Yin Jian, the captain of the Fengtian, said excitedly.

Sun Xitao nodded and said, "Believe in the Sea Hawk bomber group of 4 mythical-class aircraft carriers. Now I have more confidence in the victory of this naval battle, but we must not be careless, the joint expeditionary fleet also has more than 60 all-steel battleships, and they will soon join the battleship bombardment, which is also a very powerful force, and our Imperial Chinese Navy has only transferred a total of 48 all-steel battleships this time, and the next battle will still be very difficult. ”

Yin Jian sighed and said: "According to the telegram sent by the commander of the four mythical aircraft carriers, Zhen Li, considering the complexity of the landing of the Sea Hawk bombers on the aircraft carriers and the cumbersomeness of reloading the aerial bombs, it will take at least 45 minutes to 1 hour before the next bombing, and it seems that we can no longer give the all-steel battleships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet a certain air strike, otherwise the next battle will be easy for us." ”

Sun Xitao said with a smile: "You can't rely on the Sea Eagle bomber group of 4 mythical aircraft carriers to solve everything, these 3 rounds of bombing have already caused the Sea Eagle bomber group to suffer very big losses, and in the face of the large number of warships in the joint expeditionary fleet, we have to rely on the main fleet of our Imperial Chinese Navy to completely solve them." ”

After a pause, Sun Xitao continued: "Now the distance between the fleets of the two sides is about to be shortened to 10,000 meters, and they have entered the range of all-steel battleships, so that our all-steel battleship formations will form a battle line, follow the dreadnought battleship formation, and conduct a salvo of the battleships of the joint expeditionary fleet. ”

If it weren't for the third round of bombardment of the dreadnought battleships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet by the Sea Hawk bomber group, which caused the formation of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet to be chaotic, the distance between the two fleets would have been shortened to 10,000 meters.

However, not long after the end of the third round of bombardment of the Sea Hawk bomber group, at about half past ten in the morning, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, the Entente and the Allied Powers combined expeditionary fleet, and the all-steel battleships of both sides also joined in the main gun bombardment, making the battle on the sea more intense.

Just as the all-steel battleships of the two fleets also joined the bombardment, a battle between submarines broke out beneath the surface.

In addition to the 36 Q-class submarines and 12 S-class submarines of the six main fleets, the Royal Chinese Navy formed a submarine fleet with the Sharp Knife, the Bayonet, 30 Q-class submarines and 20 S-class submarines. They also joined the decisive battle at sea, bringing the number of submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy to 100 in the naval battle.

The main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire in order to cope with the 3rd Route Detachment of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet. After being divided into 3 routes, the number of submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy reached 100. Divided into 4 units, from the middle and sides of the 3-way Royal Navy fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, they began to approach the Joint Expeditionary Fleet from under the surface of the sea, preparing to launch torpedo attacks on the warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet under the surface of the sea.

When the submarine force of the Chinese Empire was sneaking under the sea of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, the 48 submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet also coincidentally passed from the middle and flanks of the 3rd Route Subfleet of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet. Approaching the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The 48 submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet are 16 British submarines, 24 German submarines and 8 French submarines, although the navies of other countries also have submarines, but this time they did not send them, and the submarines of other countries are compared with Britain, France and Germany, and there is a big gap in performance, and the role of joining the Joint Expeditionary Fleet is not large.

The submarines of both sides wanted to go under the sea, giving each other a heavy blow. But in this way, the submarines of the two sides are under the sea, and they will meet unexpectedly, if the two sides do not have sonar systems. However, the sonar system of the Chinese Empire has long been equipped, and the submarines of Britain, France and Germany have now installed sonar systems. The 4 submarines on both sides are all running on the same route, and it would be strange if they didn't meet them!

However, the performance of sonar during this period. In addition to the sonar systems installed on the Bayonet and Sharp Knife that Lin Daxin got from the future time and space, the sonar systems installed on the other submarines were removed. Including the Q-class submarines and S-class submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, they can only detect the approximate position of the ship, and they mainly have to rely on periscopes to formulate firing elements before launching torpedoes at targets.

So it is not very easy for the submarines of the two sides to meet under the surface of the sea and want to sink the submarine of the other side.

In the submarine of the Bayonet, the commander of the submarine force, Zhang Bin, is still the captain of the Bayonet, and at this moment his expression is extremely serious, standing in front of the display of the sonar system, his eyes are staring at the bright spot of the Sharp Knife that is approaching the monitor, and he asked in a low voice: "How far is it?" ”

The second lieutenant sitting in front of the sonar system's display said: "Captain, it's 900 meters. ”

The Bayonet and 24 other submarines, from between the right and middle flotillas of the Royal Navy of the Imperial Chinese Navy, approached the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, and the sonar system of the Bayonet discovered early on that the Joint Expeditionary Fleet also had warships rushing towards the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

Zhang Bin immediately contacted his own warships on the sea, and learned that there were no warships of the United Expeditionary Fleet on the sea rushing straight towards the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, so it was obvious that on the display of the bayonet sonar system, the highlight of the approach to the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy must be the submarine of the other side.

Zhang Bin has always served in the submarine force, and now he has been appointed by Lin Daxin as the commander of the submarine force of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and he has a very thorough understanding of the submarines of the world, and he knows that relying on the submarines of various countries at present, fighting under the sea surface, except for the sonar system with excellent performance on the Bayonet and the Sharp Knife, which can lock the target more accurately, other submarines can only launch torpedoes to the approximate position to attack, and it is unlikely that they will hit the target.

So Zhang Bin ordered the Bayonet, which he was in, and the Sharp Knife, which was approaching the Combined Expeditionary Fleet from between the Left and Middle Squadrons of the Imperial Chinese Navy, not to be afraid of wasting torpedoes, and to sink as many submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet as possible, so as to reduce the number of submarines of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet to carry out torpedo attacks on the main warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The Bayonet and the Sharp Knife will strive to first eliminate the submarines of the two Combined Expeditionary Fleets in the middle, and if there is an opportunity, launch a torpedo attack on the submarines of the two Combined Expeditionary Fleets on the other side.

As for the submarines of the other Imperial Chinese Navy, they will not be idle, in order to prevent the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet from approaching the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, they will search for the approximate location of the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet according to the sonar system, approach the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and wait until they are close to a certain distance, raise periscopes in the sea to lock on to the enemy submarines and carry out torpedo attacks.

You must know that the periscope raised in the sea can observe at a very limited distance, which means that the other submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy will have to fight a bayonet-like submarine battle with the submarines of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

When Zhang Bin heard that the distance between the Bayonet and the submarine of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet had been reduced to 900 meters, he immediately turned his head and said to the first mate of the Bayonet: "Don't wait, according to the direction locked by the sonar system, immediately fire torpedoes at the enemy's submarine." ”

The first mate of the Bayonet nodded without hesitation and said, "Yes, Captain." ”

Then the first mate of the Bayonet shouted to the other officers and men in the submarine: "Fill the No. 1 torpedo tube with water, the torpedo water depth is set at 40 meters, and it is 4 degrees to the left according to the bearing locked by the sonar system, ready to launch!" ”

A moment later, with a muffled "tom-" sound, one of the bayonet's 533-mm steam gas torpedoes was sent out of the launch tube, and after only a certain distance ascent, it was in the sea 40 meters above the sea surface, and sped towards a British Navy submarine a kilometer away.

The submarine of the British Navy, like the submarines of other joint expeditionary fleets, had already discovered the submarine forces of the Chinese Empire on the surveillance screen of the submarine sonar system, and was approaching its own submarine group.

However, the British captain of this submarine did not care, he was worried that after approaching the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, it would be attacked by depth charges, and as for the submarine fighting with submarines in the sea, due to limited technical reasons, it is difficult to have any results, and the most effective way for the navies of various countries to deal with submarines at present is still the depth charges loaded on the warships.

It is a pity that the captain of the British submarine did not know that there were two submarines in the Imperial Chinese Navy, which were not products of this space, but came from future space, and the sonar system equipped with was much more advanced than the sonar systems of the current submarines of various countries, and could lock on to the target in the sea and carry out quite accurate torpedo attacks.

With a "boom," the 533-millimeter steam gas torpedo fired by the Bayonet accurately hit the British submarine it was aiming at, and at once blew up a big hole in the shell of the British submarine, and in the sea at a depth of 40 meters, the submarine exposed a big hole, and the consequences were self-evident, and it soon sank to the pitch-black seabed. (To be continued.) )