Chapter 623: Australian Raiders: Hunting and Diving (Medium)
Navy special line network exchange platform.
Butterfly Dance 11112: "Hello Uncle Long!"
Dragon's Takeoff: "...... Hey, comrades, how ......"
Mu Musan 8888: "Uncle Long, I heard that you hugged your grandson?"
Dragon's takeoff: "Hehe, just hugged ......"
Butterfly Dance 11112: "Uncle Long, when will you take us to brush up on the copy?" This time we played Australia, Singapore and Malaysia, we haven't even caught a single hair of these herring fish, and we feel like we're going to become salted fish." ”
Hunting and fluttering military flags: "Come on, you, the herring fish has nothing to do, is it possible that ......the black fish has something to do?"
Revelation 1935: "That's it, there were only a few ships in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, and they were all killed by water birds and yellow ducks, so we were just playing soy sauce ......"
Daming 75: "Forget about the water birds and yellow ducks, it's always our family, but even the crows come to grab food, it's too much!"
When they say "water birds", they mean the HNA and "crows", they mean the air force. The "Yellow Duck" refers to the surface fleet, and the nickname comes from the "Little White Fleet" livery of the year.
At that time, the livery of the Chinese surface fleet was very cool, with white sides and red underwater parts, and the superstructure was the blind "local tyrant gold". Just because of this incomparably sassy "local tyrant gold" livery and the golden bow emblem, the local tyrant atmosphere can't be covered.
Note that the golden dragon and other golden parts on the bow emblem of large Chinese ships are really gold-filled, and the legend that "there are ten taels of gold on the bow emblem" is not unfounded nonsense. In order to boost the morale of the people, he specially approved the transfer of a batch of gold from the treasury to make gold leaf, which was used to make the bow emblem. Of course, there are certainly not as many as ten taels, but there are two or three taels of gold on the bow emblem of a ship.
Submarines do not have this kind of treatment, so the officers and men of the submarine force call them "yellow ducks" with envy, jealousy, and hatred.
In this war between China and Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, because the other side's naval strength is weak, there has been no naval battle.
The Australian Navy's only battleship, HMS Australia, an obsolete cargo built before World War I, was sunk by the Chinese Air Force in an air raid on Sydney Harbour on April 20. In the following half month, two heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, seven destroyers, five submarines, and three New Zealand destroyers of the Australian Navy were also destroyed by Chinese surface ships and aircraft.
At the same time, the blockade of sea and air passages is also carried out by surface ships and aircraft. And the submarine force looks like a soy sauce player, and there is nothing to do at all. Because China is not Germany, there is no need to sink the merchant ships of the three countries, and if it is to be captured, this submarine cannot be compared with surface ships.
It is rare to have a battle, but they can only be spectators, so the officers and men of the submarine force are very depressed during this time.
So as soon as this "Dragon's Takeoff" was launched, it was surrounded by everyone, asking for news, asking for battle, and so on.
Why is this so popular? Because the main body of this ID is Rear Admiral Qi Feilong, commander of the submarine force of the Pacific Fleet, he is very old, and he is one of the first batch of submarine troops in New China, and he has participated in all of them from the Sino-Japanese War, the Sino-French Annam War, the East India Riot War, and the First World War. Moreover, he is not only a senior official of the submarine force, but also previously served as the head of the submarine academy, the president and other positions, and many people here are his students.
"Hey, don't worry, everyone, if there's something, how can our submarine force just play soy sauce. ”
The dragon's takeoff paused, and then typed out another line of words: "Let me tell you a message, all those who are in the 3-2 and 3-3 sea areas, report your current status to the headquarters." The notification has been sent to your mailbox......"
Mu Mu San 8888: "Wow, Uncle Long, is there a copy?"
The end of the stars: "Uncle Long, is it okay for 2-2?"
The crowd immediately clamored.
Dragon's takeoff: "We will assign tasks according to the situation...... This network is convenient, just send a mass email, and you don't need to notify them one by one. Okay, I'm off, you guys go on, goodbye......" He finished typing this line and went offline.
"Okay, I'm offline too!" He is in District 3-2, so he naturally has to sign up immediately, and it is likely that there is a "copy" to brush.
"Captain, there is a notice from the headquarters asking us to report the condition of the boat immediately......" At this time, the voice of the chief of communications rang out.
"Okay, I see!" The central management system that he clicked on made a report on the current stocks of fuel, supplies, torpedoes, and other materials, as well as the health status of personnel, as well as the "Logbook" of the last three days.
Then he found the instructor and the first officer, and after the three of them signed together, they sent it to the confidential mailbox of the headquarters. This signature is an electronic signature, in fact, it is a QR code, everyone's is different, enter a twelve-digit password in the signature column when signing, it will be automatically generated, and it cannot be modified.
Subsequently, Taiming and the others began to wait anxiously.
About half an hour later, a new order came. The three of them leaned over to take a look, and they all smiled.
He immediately turned on the intercom and said to all the officers and men of the boat: "Comrades, we have been doing our daily work here for so long, and now we finally have a job to do! Now we are all in good spirits!" He then issued a series of instructions to various posts.
The Mako Shark, which was traveling at a low speed of 5 knots, immediately made a 70-degree left turn, turned around and gradually began to accelerate, and then it headed for its destination at a high speed of 25 knots.
Not only the Mako Shark, but all the Chinese submarines cruising in the nearby waters hurriedly turned around and headed for the northeastern waters of the Marquesas Islands.
The wolves under the sea are gathering.
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The sea area northeast of the Marquesas Islands.
Located about 400 kilometers from the Marquesas Islands, this is one of the main waterways from the Panama Canal to Australia, and most of the ships coming out of the Panama Canal to Australia pass through this area.
At this time, there is a large fleet of ships heading southwest in this area. It is a very large fleet, with at least 100 large and medium-sized merchant ships, all of which fly the flags of Australia and New Zealand. And around this merchant fleet, there are more than forty warships escorting it.
Among them are three light aircraft carriers and two battleships, six cruisers, and more than 30 destroyers and frigates.
HMS Sydney Jewel is a large Australian ocean-going luxury passenger liner with a displacement of 30,000 tonnes and a capacity of 1,500 passengers. This passenger liner was ordered from the United Kingdom in the twenties, and the facilities on board are also very advanced and luxurious, and it is a very famous luxury passenger liner in Australia, mainly running the route from Australia to Europe.
After the advent of giant passenger airships and intercontinental airliners, the business of ocean liners around the world has been affected. Most of the rich people went to take airships and airplanes, after all, the speed of navigation and aviation is not an order of magnitude at all. In the past, there was no way, and if you wanted to travel intercontinentally, you had to take a boat, but now that you have a way to reach your destination in a few days, why would it take an extra month or two to go, isn't that stupid?
As a result, the world's ocean passenger transport industry has been hit hard, and intercontinental shipping has become more and more developed in recent years, so that many ocean passenger transport companies have closed down or changed careers. A large number of ocean-going passenger ships are either sold cheaply to shipbreaking yards, converted into cargo ships and converted to freight, or short-distance passenger transportation. But these methods are only suitable for old ships, small and medium-sized and lower-grade passenger ships, and those newly built ocean-going luxury passenger liners cannot play the same game.
The cost of these luxury liners is very high, and the operating costs are also high, and if you play like this, you will lose all your money. As a result, many ocean-going luxury passenger liners have also been forced to change their business models, either turning into full-time yachts for vacation and leisure, equivalent to a mobile amusement city, or throwing away the noble and glamorous shelves and opening them to the middle and lower classes.
The Sydney Jewel opted for the latter, open to the lower middle class. Although air is more than ten times or even dozens of times faster than sea transportation, the fare is also relatively expensive. The average middle and lower class people still can't afford it, but these people are generally short of money, but they are not short of time, so intercontinental shipping still has business, at least for now.
But this time, the passengers on the "Sydney Jewel" were not ordinary, it was a group of Australian Army officers and soldiers. This is the officers and soldiers belonging to the 6th Australian Division, a full 2,000 Australian Army!
Yes, the fleet was loaded with Australian and New Zealand troops who were being driven home, and although the British, for some reason, agreed to leave the North African battlefield and go back to defend their homeland, it would not be so easy to return. The nearest path is, of course, to take the Indian Ocean route, but this route has been blocked by China and its allies, and there is certainly no going back.
The only thing left was to take the Atlantic route around the ocean, although the United States offered to help. They agreed that the Australian and New Zealand troop convoys could dock in American ports for supplies, that the Panama Canal would be opened, that they were willing to lease a fleet of merchant ships to help them transport sick men and supplies, and most importantly, that they were willing to escort the fleet.
On the bridge of the Sydney Jewel, Thomas stared at the sea ahead with a melancholy expression. He was an experienced captain who had been running on this line for more than a decade, but he was not at all sure about this voyage, despite the escort of American warships around.
"Captain, these Yankees are really cunning, it would be much safer if we were allowed to fly the American flag, and Chinese would never dare to attack American merchant ships......" The first mate said indignantly beside him: