Chapter 560: Submarines are raging

On the Whale II submarine, which was completely imitated by Yang Feng according to the Type 033, Captain Wang Bin was aiming at the Alfonso XIII through the guò periscope, and there was almost no difference in appearance between this export version of the Kunlun-class battleship and the original version, so the scene in front of him was somewhat weird, as if his target was a battleship of his own country.

In fact, he and the other three captains on this mission still did not understand why they had come to help the enemy attack the allied fleet.

"This's politics!" He scolded helplessly, and then ordered: "Launch!" ”

Two of the six torpedo tubes in the bow of the Whale 2 submarine were immediately opened, and immediately after that, two of the latest electric torpedoes, which had no track, sprang out at a high speed of 40 knots, and then followed an upward sloping track and plunged straight under the port side waterline of the battleship Alfonso XIII, three kilometers away.

Almost at the same time, a kilometer away, the submarine Whale III also fired two torpedoes at the heavy cruiser Empress Teresa.

Poor Rear Admiral Carlos had no idea that an attack from his allies was close at hand, and now he had only nine North American battleships left in his encirclement, including three North American light cruisers, and he had lost only one ocean-going destroyer, and soon he would have a brilliant victory.

"Americans are used to write honors for us!" His Excellency the Fleet Commander said reservedly.

At this moment, the first five-three-three caliber electric torpedo hit two meters below the waterline of Alfonso XIII, and the explosion of fire instantly arched from the port side, and the huge ship with a displacement of nearly 20,000 tons was thrown up fiercely, and Rear Admiral Carlos suddenly fell into the conning tower, and before he could understand what was going on, the second torpedo hit closely, and the fire of the explosion rose again.

However, the two torpedoes did not cause too much fatal damage to the Alfonso XIII, and most of the blast force on the side of the ship was released to the surface of the sea with the stirred up column of water. The sturdy waterline armor blocked the remaining strength, only a small crack was shaken open, but the perfect watertight design was enough to solve the subsequent water ingress problem.

But just when Rear Admiral Carlos was rejoicing in horror that he had escaped, the two torpedoes fired by the Whale III hit the heavy cruiser Empress Teresa almost simultaneously, for this heavy cruiser of only more than 7,000 tons, such an attack can be said to be deadly, let alone two, even one of them could not be stopped, as the flames of the explosion arched from the water, its waterline was torn open a large hole more than twenty meters long. Immediately, the water rushed in, and then the Empress Teresa began to tilt.

The inexplicable torpedo attack made the two warring sides on the entire sea all stunned, and everyone was dumbfounded looking at the sinking Empress Teresa, and even forgot about the battle, and Major General Carlos ignored the blood on his head, and directly threw himself into the window and stared at this scene with a look that opened the door of the house and saw his wife cuckolding him.

"Dive, submarine! American submarines! Captain Alfonso XIII beside him said with a trembling lip, and at this time, His Excellency was secretly congratulating in his heart that his warship was strong enough!

"Bastard. Sonar officer! Rear Admiral Carlos, who came to his senses, roared angrily, and the sonar officer on the battleship hurried over to tremble to bear the commander's wrath, but he was really innocent of this, whether it was a whale submarine or an electric torpedo. None of them can be detected by the primary version of the sonar that Yang Feng installed for them at the level of the late stage of World War I, after all, these are almost the technical level of forty or even fifty years later.

Little did Rear Admiral Carlos know that while he was scolding the sonar officer to the blood, all the Spanish warships across the sea were attacking the remaining North American warships and running to the rescue. The four electric torpedoes, launched by Whale 2 and Whale 3 at the same time, have already arrived.

But this time, perhaps too close, the sonar crew heard the sound of underwater torpedoes propulsion.

"Torpedoes. And torpedoes! The sonar man turned around and shouted heartbreakingly.

Rear Admiral Carlos raised his head in amazement, and before he could give the order, the familiar feeling under his feet came again, four torpedoes exploded one after another under the waterline of this battleship in just one minute, this time the Alfonso XIII was in a catastrophe, although the battleship was of good quality and there were no problems with the design, but six heavy torpedoes exploded under the waterline on one side in succession, and under the power of a full thousand two hundred kilograms of antimony and antimony, nothing was used, and the original rift was quickly torn to a terrifying extent, Hundreds of tons of seawater poured in in an instant, and the entire battleship immediately began to sink.

But the nightmare of the Spaniards was not over, just when their two light cruisers and three destroyers were rushing to reinforce them, the remaining North American warships saw the bargain, three light cruisers, four destroyers, and two torpedo boats rushed forward at the same time in the face of the enemy's dense fire, among which the two fastest destroyers fired twelve steam gas torpedoes at a Spanish light cruiser at the same time, although the hit rate of both sides in the state of high-speed navigation dropped significantly, but there was still a direct hit, In an instant, the cruiser, which was less than five thousand tons, was almost blown into two sections.

Rear Admiral Carlos watched this scene helplessly from the sinking Alfonso XIII, he knew that his fleet was finished, whether it was Alfonso XIII or Empress Teresa, and if he delayed any longer, he would not even be able to leave the remaining four warships, and after understanding this, he immediately issued an order to retreat in the name of the fleet commander to the remaining cruiser and three destroyers who were trying to come to the rescue, as for himself, he had to stay here as a prisoner.

The news that the North American Navy won a great victory off the Delaware Bay, sinking a Spanish battleship, a heavy cruiser, a light cruiser, and a destroyer quickly caused a sensation throughout the world, you must know that this is the first real victory won by North America or the United States Navy since the First Spanish-American War. Even the small fleet, which had been nearly wiped out, was portrayed by the newspapers as a deliberate self-sacrifice by leading the Spaniards into a submarine ambush.

As for the Allied powers, especially the Allied navies in the Americas, they immediately became vigilant, and in order to prevent attacks by new North American submarines and torpedoes, the Spanish and Argentine fleets, which were scattered along the coast from Canada to Norfolk, quickly withdrew and prepared to gather to deal with the new threat.

But in the process of retreating, the Argentine fleet, which was in charge of the blockade of Canada's coastal blockade, was ambushed by this new submarine, a heavy cruiser was sunk, and the battleship Rivadavia was torpedoed, although not fatal, but had to retreat to Havana for repairs.

The raging North American submarines suddenly turned the tide of the war in the Americas, and the fleets of the Allied Powers that had originally blockaded the coasts of Canada and North America all withdrew to their respective military ports, and no one dared to take any more risks to attack until they found effective means to deal with these elusive North American submarines.

Of course, except for a few high-ranking generals, no one in the Chinese American Fleet knew that the four submarines that had just finished wreaking havoc had sailed into a small bay just a few dozen kilometers away from their San Juan naval base, and then disappeared silently into a secret base that had only been built for a year.

In fact, for the Allies, these North American submarines are not difficult to deal with, they can be unscrupulous in addition to the advantages in performance, there is also a very important reason that the naval strength of the Allies in the Americas is too small, if the huge Chinese Navy can be divided into a part, not too much, and then there is a fleet with similar strength to the American Fleet to supplement the past, it is enough to suppress the North American superiority in submarines.

It can be seen from the position of these two battles that this mysterious submarine endurance will not be too large, that is to say, this is a very small submarine, which can also explain why it is so difficult to detect them, the smaller the submarine, the less noise the engine is, so as long as you avoid the US coastal waters and put the interception area a little farther away, but the problem is that in this case, there must be more warships, and it is not easy to intercept merchant ships in the vast Atlantic.

Unfortunately, at this time, the Chinese Navy really can't spare extra warships to reinforce the Americas, the most powerful navy in the world is currently exhausted, they need to escort reinforcements to Europe, in addition to ensuring that this route is open, and at the same time they also need to cover the landing of marines on Luzon, where there is also a Russian fleet dominated by two old battleships.

At this time, the landing operation had already begun, hundreds of warships of various types set sail from Cam Ranh Bay and Yazhou in the South China Sea, two huge aircraft carriers with unbeatable hegemonic majesty, battleships and battle cruisers guarding the wings, countless cruiser destroyers scattered around, and behind this fleet was a transport fleet composed of more than 100 landing ships, troop carriers, and even ro-ro ships, carrying a whole six divisions of the Marine Corps. (To be continued......)