Chapter 389: Mediterranean Storm (End)

PS: This chapter was released a little late, sorry.

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Eight Type 903 "SEAL-class" ocean-going attack submarines quietly followed the Italian-Austrian fleet like wolves hunting. Of course, there are more submarines in the Mediterranean Sea than these are the only ones that China has sent to the Mediterranean this time, but the other submarines are carrying out missions elsewhere, and now only these eight can keep up.

Project 045 submarine.

"Now start assigning targets......" Brigadier General Han Fengyu, commander of the submarine force, stared at the diplomatic image displayed on the screen and gave the order. Now it is about twelve kilometers away from the opponent, which is the best attack distance. Han Fengyu is now a commodore of the Navy, the commander of the first submarine column of the Pacific Fleet, and the commander of all submarines this time.

The periscope of Chinese submarines has long been equipped with the function of a camera head, which is connected to the display screen, so that everyone can watch it together, and the officers do not all have to crowd next to the periscope. In addition, cameras are installed in all four directions, so you don't even need to rotate them to observe the surrounding situation.

Soon, all submarines, with the assistance of computers, prepared their respective targets in accordance with the command and entered the target parameters into the guidance system of the torpedo. However, since the two sides are now killed, and the location of the submarines themselves, only six submarines are capable of firing torpedoes.

After all, it is a joint operation of the navies of several countries, and the Chinese Navy's current "Yu-2" line-guided passive acoustic torpedo can distinguish the voiceprint characteristics of its own ships, but it has not yet reached the level of being able to distinguish the voiceprints of friendly forces. Moreover, in the process of approaching the target, it is necessary to constantly input signals to adjust, and at this time the submarine can only move forward and cannot maneuver, which requires ensuring its own safety and not allowing the other party to find out, so the position is still very important.

After receiving a reply that the boats were ready, Han Fengyu gave the order to attack.......

"Launch!", "Launch!"...... Six submarines fired four torpedoes in the bow at their respective targets. 20 torpedoes dragged the wire and pounced on the target at a speed of 50 knots. More than ten minutes later, the torpedo approached within 1,000 meters of the target. The torpedo cut the wire, the passive sonar turned on, and it switched to autopilot.

A few seconds later, the torpedo followed the sonar's guidance and pounced on the maximum sound source.

A series of explosions suddenly sounded in the Allied ships that were engaged in a fierce battle with the British and French fleets, and more than a dozen columns of water suddenly rose on the sea.

An Italian destroyer that was firing jumped as if it had been kicked by an invisible giant, arching its middle part upwards and then falling back to the surface. Then, with a tooth-aching cracking sound of metal, it turned into two segments in plain sight.

At the same time, the three former dreadnoughts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Herzog-Franz-Ferdinand, the Radetzky, and the Zlini, as well as the four dreadnoughts of St. István and Tegerhof, the Italian Giulio Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci, as well as two temporary aircraft carriers and several light ships to escort them, were also recruited.

"Oh no, it's the Allied torpedoes! Submarines, there's submarines behind us! Damn, let the light ships go anti-submarine!" Duke Abruzzi reacted at once. Hurriedly ordered the light ships that had formed an anti-aircraft formation around the capital ship to go to the rear anti-submarine.

Now he is already numb, the Entente can now attack in three dimensions, there are large groups of planes in the sky, there are a large number of warships on the sea, and I don't know how many submarines there are under the sea. This round of blows made the Allies unable to take care of the end, and the fleet of the Allies suddenly exploded, and the formation was suddenly chaotic.

"It's a torpedo!Chinese submarine did it!hahaha......," exclaimed Admiral Milne, commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, excitedly.

Just now, the British fleet was pressed and beaten by the Italian-Austrian capital ships on the opposite side, and in the first ten minutes, the British lost four more former dreadnoughts, the Duncan, the Albemarle, the Dreadnought, and the Refusal, and the Bulao, London, Solemn, and Queen were seriously damaged. HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Edward VII were also badly wounded.

The British now really feel how fragile a fleet without super-dreadnoughts is, especially when the other side has super-dreadnoughts, it is simply a hanging. Of course, the artillery fire of the British also hit the other side, but it was not very effective. The 12-inch naval guns were a bit inadequate against the armor of dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts.

Just when Milne was in a hurry, the Chinese submarine was in a hurry, and he could finally breathe a sigh of relief now.

The British Navy is also worthy of being the number one navy that has ruled the earth's seas for a hundred years, and they quickly took advantage of the chaos of the opponent's formation, reorganized the formation, let the seriously injured ships break away from the battle line, let the rear patrol patrol come up, and continue to charge the other side with light ships.

Project 045 submarine.

"Twenty-two out of twenty-four, Commander Han!" the combat staff officer shouted happily. With a 91% shooting percentage, this is a score that is difficult to hit even in training.

"Hey, it's a pity that the position is not good, and I couldn't hit their super dreadnought......" Han Fengyu touched his chin a little unsatisfied, and soon he said happily: "However, it is already very good to be able to hit four dreadnoughts!"

"Commander Han, 6 enemy ships are coming towards us at high speed......" the sonar non-commissioned officer reported.

"Immediately turn, dive, retreat......"

Eight submarines immediately smeared oil on the soles of their feet, turned around and ran. The submarine is an assassin hiding in the shadows, and a blow to get away is the right way, and if you are stupid, you will go to face people head-on.

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Just when the Italian-Austrian fleet was attacked by submarines, the battle in the air gradually divided the winners and losers, and in front of the opponents who were ahead of the generation, the fighters of the Italian and Austrian countries were beaten to pieces.

They begin to chase after each other, but they are inferior to their opponents in terms of dive speed, level flight speed, and climb speed. He was quickly thrown away by the opponent, and then dived again. In order to better deal with these hanging boot ghosts biting behind them, the Chinese fighters adopted the method of cross-diving, diving down in groups of two and two, and dealing with each other's enemy planes behind each other.

At this moment, the fighters of Italy and Austria were even worse, and the losses were even greater than just now. After the Chinese fighters concocted the same method four times in a row, there were only about two dozen Italian-Austrian fighters left in the sky. Afterwards, the planes were frightened, and some of them abandoned their warships and scattered in a hurry, flying to land and fleeing the battlefield. There were also some brave pilots who rushed towards the Chinese attack plane group regardless of it, ready to pull a few cushions. However, the Chinese fighters did not watch dryly, and they did not care about the escape, and they quickly caught up with the enemy planes that were preparing to fight desperately, and easily killed them behind them.

After dealing with the Italian and Austrian fighters, the group of Chinese attack planes hovering nearby immediately began to attack targets on the sea surface. Eight squadrons of dive attack aircraft, each aiming at a target, began to prepare for a dive. And 6 squadrons of torpedo machines also set their own goals.

"Huhuhu......" 144 dive attack planes rushed down to their respective targets in turn.

"Da ......" The Italian-Austrian warships, which had long been prepared for air defense, fired desperately at these ill-intentioned planes. However, in the battle just now, the anti-aircraft firepower of the Italian-Austrian capital ships was also greatly weakened. Although the 12-inch naval guns of the British did little damage to these dreadnoughts and super-dreadnoughts, they only referred to the high-protection parts of the ship's hull, conning tower, and main turret. And places like superstructures and anti-aircraft artillery are not protected by armor, and they cannot withstand 12-inch naval guns.

At the same time, torpedo bombers also began to act, because China uses guided torpedoes with a range of 7 kilometers, so they do not need to face the silhouette of the ship like their counterparts at this time, and they have to shorten the distance to less than 2,000 meters, or even 1,000 meters before dropping torpedoes. The tactics of Chinese torpedo bombers have very low requirements for position, and they do not need to go directly to the silhouette of the enemy's strongest firepower, so they generally break through from the front and behind the relatively weak firepower, and they are generally launched at a distance of about five kilometers from the opponent, so they are much safer than their counterparts in other countries.

At this time, too, as soon as the dive attack planes on the sky began to dive, the torpedo bombers on this side had already flown close to the sea to a distance of four to five kilometers from the enemy ship, and then dropped aerial torpedoes one after another, and then quickly turned to break away.

"Boom, boom...... Boom, boom, boom, boom......" 144 bombs rained down, creating a series of explosions in the Italian-Austrian fleet.

To add insult to injury, before the dive bombing was over, the aerial torpedo also arrived. 108 torpedoes hit the target at a speed of 47 knots......

By the time this wave of air strikes ended, the Italian-Austrian fleet had been blown to pieces, and none of the six improvised aircraft carriers were spared, either sinking or capsizing, or were in flames and incapacitated. All the capital ships were wounded, the most unlucky ones were the Herzog Franz Ferdinand and the Radetzky. After being attacked by submarines and planes in a row, they were basically incapacitated, and the French saw the opportunity again, and the Francis and Paris happily rushed over with rifles and sent the two former dreadnoughts into the sea with a barrage of artillery.

The battered United Forces was besieged by two Royal Navy ships of the Sir Nelson-class and sank into the sea with great embarrassment, becoming the first dreadnought to be sunk by a former dreadnought in this campaign. Of course, it didn't have to feel lonely, and ten minutes later, the Italian Leonardo da Vinci was battered and besieged by three Edwardian VII-class ships.

The Queen Elizabeth was probably the most aggrieved of all, having been seriously wounded after eight bombs and five aerial torpedoes. At this time, several British cruisers rushed over with a fleet of destroyers, and they fired 42 torpedoes and hundreds of shells of various calibers at the super-dreadnought, which was already incapacitated, and made it sink to the bottom of the sea with great unwillingness.

"Buzzing ......" Just when the British and French fleets were beating the water dogs, the roar of engines sounded in the air again, and the British and French fighters finally arrived. At this time, only the school planes and some fighters of the Entente countries remained in the sky. The British and French naval commanders were overjoyed and immediately began to start rifling the enemy ships below.

"Boom, boom...... Boom boom boom ......" At this time, the familiar roar of heavy artillery was also heard from the rear of the Italian-Austrian fleet. China's capital ships have returned to their positions and are playing the role of "iron hammers" to attack the "iron material" of the Italian-Austrian fleet.

Under the attack from the front and rear and in the air, the seriously injured Ito-Austrian fleet could not withstand it at all, and ships continued to become members of the "deep-sea fleet".

"It's over, the Royal Italian Navy is over......," Duke Abruzzi, commander of the Allied Combined Fleet, closed his eyes in pain.

As a super-dreadnought, his ship, Andrea Doria, has naturally become the focus of HNNA's care. After eating 21 aerial bombs and 5 aviation torpedoes from Chinese, British and French fighters, they were already paralyzed on the sea at this time. The other capital ships of Italy and Austria were not much better, and the United Reich, which was in the best condition, had two of its front main guns blown up, its combat effectiveness was greatly reduced, and its speed was reduced to 10 knots.

As for the light ships, in several waves of three-dimensional offensives, few of them have floated on the surface of the sea, and the rest are all wounded. Now the Italian-Austrian fleet is cornered.

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"Hey...... Surrender!" Duke Abruzzi sighed in great pain and gave the order to surrender. It would be a waste of life to fight again at this time, at least to keep the seeds of the navy, this is the veteran's mind.

Although the Italian navy was much higher than the army, they were also Italians, and the Italian family tradition of "surrendering", although not as used as often as the army, was also quite skillful. As soon as the Shangguan gave the order, they immediately hoisted the white flag as fast as they could, and at the same time used light signals to signal "Surrender!" to the Allied fleet, and also used the radio to shout on the public channel: "Stop fighting! We surrender! Stop fighting! We surrender!"

"What? The enemy surrendered ......"

Seeing the enemy's signal of surrender, Gao Yujie was stunned for a moment, and then immediately ordered: "Hurry! Hurry up! Order all ships, hurry up and get close to the enemy ships and surrender!"

The ships of China, Britain and France made the same maneuvers almost at the same time, closing in at full speed on the remaining ships of Italy and Austria. Among them, the Regulus swooped at a speed of 27 knots towards the nearest Andrea Doria, the flagship of the Italian-Austrian fleet.

"Captain, there's a British patrol ahead, like the Defender, which is also approaching the target, just in the way of us...... "The navigator shouted.

", everyone wants to go together...... "Li Ang's eyes were red, and he said viciously: "Riding a horse, don't care, hit me over!

The armored cruiser Defender was slowly approaching the Andrea Doria with the white flag, and the captain couldn't close his mouth when he looked at the prey in front of him. Nima, this is a super dreadnought, although it was beaten badly, it can be used if it is dragged back for repair.

Capturing a super-dreadnought is a feat, and if you don't do it, you will become the captain of this super-dreadnought. The captain of the Defender was in YY when suddenly the first mate screamed.

"Oh no, China's super-dreadnoughts are crashing into us......"

"****!" The captain turned his head and looked at it, and couldn't help but scold his mother, but no, I saw a Fuxi-class super dreadnought ship crashing into it violently, and now it is only less than 5 kilometers away, and the other party still has no intention of slowing down or changing course, if he continues to move closer to Andrea Doria, he will definitely have a close contact with the other party.

"Oh God, these barbaric Chinese! Tell them to change course, damn it!" the captain's face turned green with anger. Of course, he understands that the Chinese are here to grab the spoils of war.

After a while, the first mate returned with an ugly face: "Captain, the other party replied, their battleship is out of control and unbearable to operate, let's avoid ......"

At this time, the captain also saw that the signal flag of "Our ship is out of control and unbearable to operate, please avoid" has been hung on the Xuanyuan on the opposite side, and he couldn't help but scold: "The **** battleship is out of control! Fuck the horse is unbearable! These shameless things!"

"What should I do, Captain?" the first mate sweated out.

"Damn, let's turn around, every battleship in the Royal Navy is precious now, we can't go crazy with them......" After thinking about it, the captain decided to give up this boiled duck.

There is no way, if the patrol collides with the super dreadnought, the loss is almost certain, and he still uses his own side to meet the bow of the opponent's ship, if he is unlucky, it is possible to be knocked and sunk.

The Defender reluctantly turned around.

"Detachment leader, the British ship turned to ......" there was a cheer on the Xuanyuan.

"I saw ......" Li Ang was actually sweating, he was also gambling, if the other party really didn't let him live or die, it would be a situation where both were damaged.

Ten minutes later, the Regulus stopped next to Andrea Doria, lowered the boat as fast as it could, and rowed towards its target......

Li Ang looked up to the sky and smiled: "Hahaha, captured a super dreadnought!"

After the surrender of the Allied fleet, China, Britain and France began to scramble without grace, except that they did not fire at each other, and all means were used. This is also something that can't be helped, how to divide the spoils, there is no agreement on this, basically whoever grabs it counts whom, how can you be polite?

According to the final statistics, in this rush, China grabbed two super dreadnoughts of the United Reich and Andrea Doria, and three dreadnoughts of the United Forces, the Prince Eugen and the Julio Caesar, and gained the most. Then there were the British, who captured the Caillo Duilio superdreadnought, the Julio Caesar, and the St. István, and the French, the United Forces and the Count Cavour, as well as two dreadnoughts.

"Damn, these French guys are really ......fast," Gao Yujie said with some indignation. No matter what the British say, they are also deadly, it is not a big problem to divide a little, and it makes sense, the Gallic chickens have not made any efforts.

"Hahaha, it doesn't matter, at least half of the ships they grabbed are no longer worth repairing......," Liu Haifeng said with a smile.

Ten minutes later, the Regulus stopped next to Andrea Doria, lowered the boat as fast as it could, and rowed towards its target......

Li Ang looked up to the sky and smiled: "Hahaha, captured a super dreadnought!"

After the surrender of the Allied fleet, China, Britain and France began to scramble without grace, except that they did not fire at each other, and all means were used. This is also something that can't be helped, how to divide the spoils, there is no agreement on this, basically whoever grabs it counts whom, how can you be polite?

According to the final statistics, in this rush, China grabbed two super dreadnoughts of the United Reich and Andrea Doria, and three dreadnoughts of the United Forces, the Prince Eugen and the Julio Caesar, and gained the most. Then there were the British, who captured the Caillo Duilio superdreadnought, the Julio Caesar, and the St. István, and the French, the United Forces and the Count Cavour, as well as two dreadnoughts.

"Damn, these French guys are really ......fast," Gao Yujie said with some indignation. No matter what the British say, they are also deadly, it is not a big problem to divide a little, and it makes sense, the Gallic chickens have not made any efforts.

"Hahaha, it doesn't matter, at least half of the ships they grabbed are no longer worth repairing......," Liu Haifeng said with a smile.