967 Submarine and air cooperative operations
The Nine Dragons dropped bombs from a height of several thousand meters, and the bombs set off huge waves on the sea, but the bombs failed to inflict heavy damage on the enemy ships because of the large error in the bomb dropping.
After dropping the bombs, the Nine Dragons fighters immediately returned to the Muscat base and informed Liu Daming of the ineffective attack.
This was the first time that the Chinese Empire's planes attacked ineffectively, and in the previous two battles, one completely annihilated the Japanese fleet and the other completely annihilated the British fleet, both of which achieved crushing victories.
Liu Daming immediately held a meeting with Lin Gecheng to discuss the next battle plan.
At the meeting, Lin Gecheng first said: "Although the anti-aircraft firepower of the fleets of the three countries is strong, it is far from being invincible, and the reason why we did not launch an attack is mainly because the number of our Nine Flying Dragon fighters is too small, only 50 planes, and once we launch an attack, we may suffer heavy losses and have not been able to inflict heavy casualties on the enemy." ”
Liu Daming nodded and said, "So that means that if the aircraft carrier No. 3 and No. 4 arrive at Muscat, the situation will be much better?" ”
"Yes, that's true, but there is a problem, that is, Aircraft Carrier 3 and Aircraft Carrier 4 are still far away from us, and it will take at least ten days to come, and it is very likely that the fleets of the three countries will already know that we have entered Muscat, and in case of an attack on us, we may not be able to deal with it."
"So what do we do?" Liu Daming's face was a little gloomy, except for the two aircraft carriers that were relatively powerful in the Chinese Imperial Fleet this time, the remaining four warships were not at all the opponents of the surface warships of the Three Kingdoms fleet.
Lin Gecheng's face was not good-looking, he also knew that the strength of the surface warship was insufficient, Lin Gecheng sighed, and said: "Maybe we should withdraw from Muscat, mobile defense in the nearby waters, and wait for aircraft carriers No. 3 and Aircraft Carrier No. 4, in this process, the fleets of the three countries will inevitably show flaws, and there will be a situation where individual warships are left alone, and at that time, we will dispatch the Nine Flying Dragon fighters to sink them." ”
Lin Gecheng was talking, suddenly heard a hearty laughter from outside, with laughter, the door opened, a handsome young man walked in, everyone in the conference room turned their heads to look, this person is not a bystander, it is the commander of the submarine force - Qin Hui.
Qin Hui laughed and said, "I heard that the air force's attack has been blocked, it seems that you still need our hell-class submarines." ”
Lin Gecheng glanced at Qin Hui and said with a smile: "Who should I be, it turns out that the 'soft rice man' is here." ”
Qin Hui's marriage robbery by Yubing is well known, and the sister of the Blood Phoenix Special Forces has been labeled as "strong", "female and inferior", "yin and yang", "strong women and weak men", so everyone uses "soft rice man" to ridicule Qin Hui.
Qin Hui was not angry, pulled out his chest, and said proudly: "I have a beautiful girl who eats soft rice, but you haven't yet." ”
Liu Daming saw that Qin Hui and Lin Gecheng were joking, frowned, coughed, and said angrily: "Okay, don't mess around, let's get down to business, Qin Hui, are you planning to dispatch a hell-class submarine to assist us in attacking the fleets of the Three Kingdoms." ”
Qin Hui put away his smile and said: "Yes, I have this intention, I have considered the specific way of playing, I think that sooner or later, the Three Kingdoms Fleet will know the news about us in Muscat, because our movements are very big, it is impossible for them not to know, when they know the news, they will definitely come to attack, our Hell-class submarine is near Muscat, set up an encirclement, and wait for the arrival of the Three Kingdoms Fleet." ”
"In order for the Three Kingdoms Fleet to arrive as soon as possible, I hope to spread the news and let the Three Kingdoms Fleet know that we are ...... Muscat as soon as possible" Before Qin Hui's words were finished, Liu Daming interrupted him, Liu Daming waved his hand and said: "It is absolutely not okay to spread the news to attract the Three Kingdoms Fleet, I absolutely disagree, you all remember for me that against the Three Kingdoms Fleet, the preferred weapon is the Nine Flying Dragon fighter, followed by the Hell-class submarine." ”
Liu Daming's qualifications are above Lin Gecheng and Qin Hui, both of them are quite convinced of him, the two were silent, Liu Daming cleared his throat and said: "Now let me talk about the next stage of play, we will stay in Muscat, do not take the initiative to attack, send Nine Wyvern fighters every day to inspect the nearby sea, once they find that the Three Kingdoms fleet is coming, the hell-class submarine will immediately dispatch to strike at the Three Kingdoms fleet, weaken its air defense capability, and then dispatch the Nine Wyvern fighters to annihilate them all." ”
Liu Daming gave an order, and all units acted according to the order, and the next day, November 1, there was no shadow of the Three Kingdoms fleets on the sea, and this situation lasted for two days, and on November 4, a reconnaissance Nine Flying Dragon fighter suddenly sent back a message that all 22 warships of the three fleets were organized into a diamond-shaped formation and headed for Muscat.
The diamond-shaped team formed by these twenty-two warships was the formation that left the Nine Flying Dragon fighters with nowhere to go four days ago, and Liu Daming immediately ordered Qin Hui to lead four hell-class submarines to attack.
The four Hell-class submarines quietly left the port, and when the Huaxia Fleet dispatched the Hell-class submarines, it kept it secret and did not make much announcement, just to achieve the purpose of "stealth strike".
The hell-class submarine slowly approached the fleet of the three countries, and two aircraft carriers and four warships also left Muscat, and a big battle was about to break out.
Qin Hui's heart was not easy, according to the intelligence obtained before the war, most of the warships of the Three Kingdoms Fleet were equipped with simple sonar, although they were not as accurate as the sonar on the hell-class submarines, they could still hear underwater sounds, which was a great threat to submarines.
Three hours later, at two o'clock in the afternoon, the voice of the Three Kingdoms Fleet was heard by the Hell-class submarine, and after calculating the distance, it was found that the Three Kingdoms Fleet was about ten kilometers away from the Hell-class submarine, and Qin Hui immediately ordered the Hell-class submarine to enter the combat state.
Because the sea area here, the bottom of the sea is rock, not sediment, so the hell-class submarine can sit on the bottom of the sea without worrying about falling into the mud, so Qin Hui ordered the hell-class submarine to sink to the bottom of the sea, and wait until the fleets of the three countries approach, and then surface to attack.
The hell-class submarine immediately opened the ballast water tank, released water into the cabin, and the hull slowly sank, and finally sat on the bottom of the sea, where the depth of the seabed was 60 meters, which was within the tolerance range of the hell-class submarine.
Half an hour later, the warships of the Three Kingdoms Fleet entered the range of the hell-class submarine, Qin Hui ordered to float, the hell-class submarine could not launch torpedoes in the sitting and sinking state, so in the sitting and sinking state, the torpedo tubes were very close to the bottom of the sea, and the high-pressure gas ejected when launching the torpedo would form a reflection on the bottom of the sea, which would affect the stability of the torpedo.
The Hell-class submarine floated lightly and fired a torpedo, and the Hell-class submarine was equipped with the third-generation torpedo of the Chinese Empire - the Blue Whale Torpedo, and the torpedoes of the Chinese Empire were all named after marine animals.
The Blue Whale torpedo, with a caliber of 600 mm, an effective range of 4,000 meters, and a charge of 200 kilograms of high-energy explosives, compared with the previous two generations of torpedoes, this type of torpedo has a longer effective distance and greater explosive power, one is enough to sink a cruiser with a displacement of 8,000 tons.
Each hell-class submarine can launch eight torpedoes, Qin Hui did not reserve it, and directly launched all eight blue whale torpedoes, and the same is true for other hell-class submarines, this method of play was actually determined long before the war, after the hell-class submarine discovered the Three Kingdoms fleet, it launched all the torpedoes and completely disrupted the Three Kingdoms fleet, and then the Nine Flying Dragon fighters were dispatched to completely annihilate the Three Kingdoms fleet.
The four Hell-class submarines fired a total of thirty-two torpedoes and went straight to the Three Fleets, which discharged a diamond-shaped team, and the torpedoes of the Hell-class submarines attacked from their left flank, and the Three Fleets were caught off guard, and the first wave of four torpedoes sank a cruiser.
The loud sound of the explosion and the monstrous waves shook the entire fleet, and the fleets of the Three Kingdoms suddenly realized that there were submarines of the Huaxia Empire underwater, and the fleets of the Three Kingdoms hurriedly turned their course, hoping to avoid the submarines.
In the process of turning course, another cruiser was sunk, and the fleets of the three countries were even more panicked, and in the panic, the shortcomings of the lack of unity of fleet command were exposed, and the warships of the fleets of the three countries belonged to the three countries, and in the face of submarine attacks, the warships of the three countries went their own way, the German battleships retreated to the east, the French battleships retreated to the west, and the Russian battleships, on the basis of maintaining the original course, made evasive maneuvers, and wanted to rush into Muscat and fight to the death with the fleet of the Chinese fleet.
The Blue Whale torpedo is an unguided torpedo, and when the target position changes, there is basically no possibility of hitting, so in the process of the retreat of the fleets of the three countries, only one destroyer, "Blind Cat Meets Dead Mouse", was generally sunk by torpedoes, and the other warships were not damaged.
Although the warships of the Three Fleets were not damaged, the huge military formation of the original 22 battleships became three small phalanxes, including two German military formations, two battleships, three cruisers, and three destroyers.
French military formation, one battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers.
The Russian military formation, one battleship, two cruisers, three destroyers, the two sunken cruisers and one destroyer were Russian.
As a result, the original superiority in anti-aircraft firepower was gone, and Ringocheng gave an order, and 50 Nine Wyvern fighters immediately took off and went straight to the German military formation closest to the aircraft carrier.
The sailors on the German battleship soon saw the Wyvern fighters in the sky, and they operated the anti-aircraft guns on the one hand, preparing for battle, and on the other hand, they reported to their superiors.
The commander of the German fleet hurriedly sent the news of the attack of the Chinese fleet air force to the Russian fleet and the French fleet, hoping that they would immediately rush to support. (Nanyang overlord is coming to an end, the new book solicits everyone's opinions, please tell Canghai your opinions, please find it on WeChat-qietingcanghai, that is, listen to Canghai's pinyin, opinions on the new book, you can leave a message directly on the platform.) )