Is 718 really the Baja California Peninsula?

West Coast, USA. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Off the coast of San Diego, the patrolling cruisers Juno and San Juan, with seven small destroyers, shuttled through the darkness like ghosts, and no light source was visible except for foggy red crash lights.

The young Major Spruance walked into the bridge with a telescope in his hand and a somewhat solemn face.

Originally, with his qualifications, he could not command cruisers, but because the US Navy suffered unprecedented losses, almost all experienced naval officers died or were captured, and many junior officers were forced to be promoted.

"Where have we been?"

"The power failure just now cost us an extra 2 hours, so we expect to be back in San Diego until noon tomorrow." The same young navigator shook his head with a wry smile.

The Juno and the San Juan are the third batch of light cruisers improved from the Brooklyn class, with 4 triple L45152 mm naval guns, and the displacement has been enlarged to 9000 tons, and the steam turbine developed by the British was used for the first time in the light cruiser, the speed can reach 2 knots, but also because of the excessive pursuit of speed, the power is stuffed with a steam turbine and 20 boilers, which not only reduces the endurance to 5000 nautical miles, but also reduces the survivability a lot, and the bad thing is that due to design problems, The failure rate of steam turbines has been high.

"Arriving at noon?" Spruance frowned.

Very bad!

Because there are always Chinese aircraft carriers active outside the Baja California Peninsula, and as their land forces enter Mexico, the reconnaissance and surveillance of San Diego has also been strengthened a lot, so if they continue to advance along this route, they will definitely be exposed to the enemy's wings.

With 2 light cruisers and 7 small destroyers, it was almost impossible to get to San Diego without the blows of the planes! You have to change course, at least not in the daytime to run straight into the closely watched San Diego, which is no different from looking for death.

Spruance quickly walked in front of the chart, but the dense red dots on the chart made him difficult, each red dot represents the area where the Chinese warship was found, and then the red dots can be connected to deduce the general area of activity of the other party.

In order to obtain this detailed chart, for most of the year, the fleet has paid the price of damage to 26 destroyers and dozens of submarines, although the west coast can produce some small warships, even if the coastal shipyard is blown up, the inland river can still provide some, but it can not withstand this consumption, and the Panama Canal is now gone, so in the face of heavy patrol tasks, the navy has become more and more powerless.

The problem is that even with all the hard work to get the information, Spruance has no clue, because there is almost no gap between the red circles now.

Although there is no detailed data, it is speculated that Hua has deployed at least more than 15 light cruisers and more than 40 destroyers on the west coast of the United States, plus their coast guard patrol frigates and submarines, and there are about 100 warships operating outside the entire west coast, greatly reducing the scope of activities of the US ships. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

Now that the Army has lost Panama, the Navy is no longer afraid to go to sea to spy on it, which has led to the fact that intelligence is becoming more and more scarce.

In fact, he had suggested many times that the fleet should be assembled and left before the enemy landed, and the maneuver should be carried out by taking advantage of the vastness of the sea, and even if it was completely annihilated, it would at least be able to delay the enemy for a while, instead of waiting for death as now, but it is a pity that the idea of defending ships has permeated every corner of the west coast, making the United States the second Germany after the Battle of Jutland.

Entering and exiting the Port of San Diego, which is patrolled by planes almost every moment during the day, is undoubtedly a suicide, but where can it go now? Unless you turn back to the coastline to the north, you can simply .......

"To the west."

"To the west!"

Suddenly there was a sound of inhalation in the bridge, didn't Xiang Xi throw himself into a net?

"We went west, and the fleet spread out to pay attention to the search for submarines." Spruance didn't explain, and he couldn't explain the facts, because there were aircraft carriers off the coast of San Diego in the past, and there were also aircraft carriers off the coast of San Francisco in the future, and as long as it was dawn, the planes of the two motherships could completely go from San Francisco to the coast of San Diego, so the only way to go west and take advantage of the opportunity for the other party to focus on the offshore sea and gamble on luck.

The bow deflected rapidly to the west, and the waves that stirred up showed that the fleet had reached full speed, and in 3 hours it could help the fleet run about 70 nautical miles, perhaps avoiding enemy aircraft?

Spruance had no choice but to gamble, but he didn't know that just as he was heading west, a huge fleet of ships was approaching.

"Did you find anything?"

"Nope."

"Look again."

"Not really."

In the narrow cabin, seeing that the first mate in charge of observation kept shaking his head, Jin Hai had to bite the apple hard, sat down at the chart table, and looked at the battle record pasted on the bulkhead in a daze, not even paying attention to the juice slipping from the corner of his mouth.

In fact, even if he pays attention, he won't wipe it, anyway, submariners don't have people who love cleanliness.

The battle record sheet records all the achievements from the one arrow piercing three hearts on Sibilu Island to the near West Coast Battle, and the total number of zeros and zeros added up to 27 warships and ships of all kinds fell in front of No. 01.

First of all, the role of submarines in the Pacific Ocean is obviously not as effective as in the Atlantic Ocean, and secondly, the surface warfare has swept all the way, which has frightened the United States and the Entente to halt shipping in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, and the submarine force has no room to play at all.

In fact, what he wanted was to go to the Atlantic Ocean and try his hand at the German submarine force, but unfortunately the Panama Canal could not be repaired until at least March, so at the moment he could only continue to nest in the Pacific Ocean, where there was almost no target.

It seemed to feel the captain's mood, and the sailors around him were also a little lazy, and the yawning was incessant, only in the listening cabin, there was a pair of alert ears.

Suddenly, a faint and inaudible sound came from the earphones, and the listener quickly straightened up.

A moment later, a voice rang out.

"Captain, there seems to be a ship in front left."

"Left 15 degrees, torpedo compartment preparation, diving preparation!" Jin Hai, who was still listless just now, almost jumped and squeezed away the first mate, twisted the periscope to aim at the left front, and the sailors also stared at them with wide eyes and held their breath as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

A moment later, several black shadows appeared on the sea level, although it was still impossible to distinguish between friend and foe, but the shadow of the cannon could still be seen, so Jin Hai felt from the outline that it was seventy percent likely to be a US patrol fleet, because the navy did not have such a small destroyer in this area.

"Tank 1 and 3 are filled with water!"

"Periscope depth."

"Raise the communication buoy with a target speed of 26 knots, a distance of 5300 meters, and an angle of ......."

"Launch!"

A moment later, when the first two 10,000-ton warships showed their chimneys, Jin Hai did not hesitate to order the launch of torpedoes, very simply, Hua did not have a cruiser with three chimneys or even a capital ship!

"Bang bang ......." Six consecutive soft sounds came from the bow of the boat, and the periscope only caught the white waves less than 100 meters away, and then the shadow of the spear was no longer visible.

The oxygen torpedo has become the king in the dark and the big killer of the submarine force. After firing the torpedo, Jin Hai did not dive immediately, this distance was night again, and the periscope was deep enough for him to hold on until he hit the target without being discovered.

The first mate was anxiously counting the watch beside him, and when the second hand turned more than once, a violent explosion suddenly entered the boat.

"Send a telegram and summon a nearby patrol ship to intercept it."

"Tell the fleet to be careful."

"All tanks are filled with water, dive! Dive at full speed! ”

Although there was an explosion, but only one destroyer was hit, Jin Hai was obviously not satisfied, but if he wanted to launch a second wave of attack, he had to avoid the enemy ships that rushed over.

The sound of continuous explosions came overhead, and the shock wave of depth charges continued to hit the hull of the boat, but fortunately, the telegram had been sent, and these few lone American ships certainly did not dare to waste too much time.

Jin Hai guessed correctly, Spruance didn't dare to stay at all, but just dropped a few depth charges and left in a hurry, because he knew that the submarine must have sent a telegram for help, and if he didn't take advantage of this dark time to leave, he would be drowned by the Chinese warships coming from all directions.

Two hours later, when there was a hint of fish white in the east, Spruance and all the American sailors, who had thought that they had escaped from the enemy, were all stunned by the scene in front of them, only to see that below the horizon, a fleet of nearly 100 cargo ships suddenly jumped out of the sea, and more than a dozen escort warships pounced like hounds.

San Diego, U.S. Pacific Fleet Command.

It's messed up!

Yes, this command, which has become unworthy of the name, has not only become the West Coast Defense Command, but also a place filled with all kinds of shouts and noise.

The Chinese native fleet leaves the station!

The Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf fleets leave their positions!

The South Sea Fleet left the station!

Nearly a thousand transport ships left suddenly.

Where did it go?

"Damn, where are they!"

Vice Admiral Karl's throat was dry, but no one could answer his question, the point is, the fleets in the far east have set off, so where are the South American Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, which are close at hand? Are you still in the harbor, or have you arrived somewhere on the West Coast?!

I don't know, no one knows!

This kind of blind war made him extremely angry, as the commander-in-chief of the defense of the west coast, he was both helpless and angry at this lack of intelligence, and crucially, so far he has not received any accurate information that the Chinese will land there!

Is it San Francisco, which has good facilities and conditions, or is it a direct attack on San Diego, or Los Angeles, or maybe the Baja California Peninsula?!

It doesn't matter, it's important to know where the enemy is now!

"General, telegram!"

The staff officer hurriedly ran over, with a hint of excitement: "It was sent back by Major Spruance, and they encountered a fleet 230 nautical miles southwest of San Diego, and the fleet headed southeast. ”

"How many ships?"

"About 200 or so, he said, and at least 20 escort ships!"

"Southeast, really the Baja California Peninsula?!"

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