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Colonel Song Da, chief of staff of the Submarine Command, hurried into the command room and handed the just-translated telegram to Zhang Yiming, acting commander of the Nanyang Fleet: "Four battleships, three aircraft carriers, six heavy cruisers, and an unknown number of light cruisers and Destroyer! Near the Luzon Strait."

"Why..." Zhang Yiming glanced at Song Da, and said with a smile, "Is your hand itchy?"

"A little bit." Song Da swallowed, not hiding the greed in his heart at all, that's a lot of credit!During this period of time, the news that Japanese people are all over the world begging for sonar has exposed their cards. These little devils have no sonar on their ships!Isn't this a pie that fell from the sky?This Commander Zhao actually didn't let the submarine force take a bite, and gave it all to the naval aviation. Isn't this too partial?

"Our credit is indispensable." Zhang Yiming patted Song Da on the shoulder: "After this battle, you should be awarded the rank of general!"

"Commander, do you mean..."

Song Da's eyes lit up, and he thought to himself: "I know that you lunatic Zhang won't let the submarine troops empty-handed! After this battle, if you want to make meritorious service, you have to wait until the year of the monkey. How can you not hurry up? This is terrible. It is related to the future of the big guys and the allocation of the navy budget... Otherwise, Chief Zhao would not lead the team himself."

"Order the 60 submarines blockading Keelung Port to immediately set up an ambush in the Luzon Strait." Zhang Yiming walked to the chart platform and began to arrange tasks: "The [-] submarines near the Dongsha Islands are concentrated [-] nautical miles north of the Dongsha Islands to stand by. As long as any Japanese ships come over, they will all be sunk!"

"Standby is enough? What if the Japanese don't come?" Song Da frowned and suggested, "Or..."

"That's it, all sixteen submarines are placed 60 nautical miles north of the Dongsha Islands!" Zhang Yiming waved his hand: "Order all submarines to only attack battleships, aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers. We don't have many torpedoes, so we can't just waste them."

"Yes."

As soon as Song Da turned around to deliver the order, Zhang Yiming stopped him again: "By the way, there is the Second Fleet. Where are they now?"

"The Second Fleet just shelled Tainan an hour ago, and is now preparing to go to Guangzhou."

"What are you doing in Guangzhou? They don't have shells anymore?" Zhang Yiming frowned.

"It's Commander Zhao's order..."

"Cancel..." Zhang Yiming sneered: "Order to send the Second Fleet to the north of Dongsha to join the submarine force, and make them prepare for night battles!"

"What! Let the surface ships go to fight the Japanese at night?" Song Da was startled when he heard this, and stared at his lunatic boss with wide eyes.

At this time, Zhang Yiming straightened his back, with a kind of fanaticism in his eyes, and fought in front of the chart table with his hands behind his back, as if he was the master of the entire ocean.

"Song Da, let's send orders! Our surface ships are not flowers in a greenhouse. Their training is as hard as ours. There is nothing they can't fight! Moreover, the waters of the Dongsha Islands are only 200 nautical miles away from Guangzhou, and more than 1000 nautical miles away from Japan. .Our ship can be taken back to Guangzhou for repairs as long as it is not sunk, but their ship is not so easy to go home!"

"But the Japanese battleship..." Song Da reminded.

Zhang Yiming smiled deeply: "When it gets dark, those Japanese heavy cruisers and light cruisers will definitely abandon the battleships and rush into the South China Sea to find our main fleet for a decisive battle! Cruisers are fast, while battleships are slow, so the Second Fleet has a chance in Dongsha Fight the Japanese in the sea to the north. Besides, don’t we still have sixteen submarines?”

Chapter 0592 of the war of aggression against Japan! ([-]) Preemptive strikes

The starlight is like a brocade, pouring on the choppy South China Sea, bringing a little bit of silver light.

A strange-looking submarine shaped like an oversized canoe was floating, rising and falling with the waves of the South China Sea. On the barrel-shaped command module with an oval cross-section, stood two submarine officers in black waterproof jackets, One of them was looking southeast out to sea with large binoculars.The other person was facing the bow of the boat, with a lighted cigarette dangling from his mouth, chatting casually with the officers around him while smoking.

"Captain, it says that none of the Japanese warships have sonar!"

"Well, there should be no sonar." The officer holding the binoculars turned out to be the captain of this submarine named Chen Ming, who was a graduate of the second phase of the Changzhou Island Sea School Submarine Branch. The chief mate of the submarine also graduated from the second phase of the submarine branch school. His name is He Rong. He is a Cantonese with a witty personality and speaks casually.

"Hmph, I don't believe it! This must be a nonsense that Zhang lunatic came up with to boost the morale of our submarine soldiers." He took a puff on his cigarette and exhaled a few more white smoke: "The Japanese are stingy, but they don't care about it." Money? Crazy Zhang must have come out to lie to us! Those of us who work on submarines are locked in a stuffy tank all day long, and we can’t even tell the difference between day and night. We will inevitably feel war-weary, so Commander Zhang came up with this It's a clever idea to comfort us, but it doesn't fool me."

Chen Ming glanced at himself, the chief mate who talked a lot, and threw the binoculars in his hand to him: "Xiao Hezi, it's your turn to observe, watch carefully, I have to smoke a cigarette to refresh myself." Then he also took out a pitch-black pipe from his pocket, filled it with shredded tobacco, struck a match, and took a good puff. When he was about to take a second puff, He Rong, the first mate who always spoke with a Cantonese accent, suddenly Shouted: "Oh my God! It's a flash! I saw a flash on the other side. It must be a Japanese warship searching the sea."

Chen Ming hurriedly extinguished the pipe in his hand, took the binoculars in the direction of He Rong's finger, and began to observe with his eyes wide open.In this era, radar has not yet been invented, and ships rely on searchlights to detect enemies at night, but the searchlights cannot be turned on all the time, or they will expose themselves before they find the opponent, so they can only be turned on every once in a while.Suddenly, a flash of light flashed across the sea in the distance, and disappeared without a trace in an instant, as if it had never appeared before.

"It must be the Japanese ship, they are looking for our warship!" Chen Ming breathed a heavy sigh of relief: "Let's go down and inform other submarines, now we have work to do!"

Although I don’t know how many ships the other party has and what kind of ships they are, one thing is certain, they must be Japanese warships. The northern part of the South China Sea has long been designated as a war zone, and the ships of neutral countries are I won't come here in the middle of the night to play with searchlights.

Accompanied by slight knocking sounds, the encrypted message was transmitted through the endless night sky through radio waves.After receiving this radio wave, more than a dozen Chinese submarines departed from their predetermined search area and drove at high speed to the sea area where the Japanese fleet was found.

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The telegram from the No. 015 submarine awakened the Second Fleet of the Kuomintang Navy floating in the waters north of the Dongsha Islands.Now the battlecruiser "Selim Sultan" has been transferred to the First Air Fleet, but the Second Fleet still has not weak combat power, including a "Guangzhou" class air defense cruiser, two "Konigsberg" "class light cruisers, five 1928-type destroyers, six 1924-class torpedo boats (a type of light destroyer called a torpedo boat by the Germans), a total of fourteen ships.

The main guns of these ships have insufficient firepower, and the largest caliber is only 150mm, but their speeds are all above 35 knots, and they also have strong torpedo combat capabilities, especially the five destroyers and six light ones called torpedo boats Destroyers are equipped with two quadruple 533mm torpedo tubes and two 2mm triple torpedo tubes. In addition, there are 533 submarines lurking under the water waiting to surrender to the Japanese fleet.

So Chen Si was not worried about fighting night battles with the Japanese "Myoko" class heavy cruisers. With his [-] surface ships and [-] submarines, the number of his own ships reached as many as [-]!And how many ships can the Japanese dispatch?It's impossible for them to leave battleships and aircraft carriers behind, right?If there were only four "Miaoko" class heavy cruisers and a few destroyers to fight against him at night, it might be a meritorious service to the Second Fleet. What really needs to be worried about is the daytime.

With the powerful firepower of ten 200mm caliber main guns, coupled with the excellent gunnery of the Japanese Navy, the four "Myoko" class ships can completely knock down all the ships of the entire Second Fleet with naval guns at a long distance, and At most, he was attacked by submarines a few times, and if he was lucky, he would not even suffer any losses.It seems that before the four "Polish Legion" class armored ships enter service, the Chinese Navy will not have any artillery capabilities.Just as Chen Si squinted his eyes and imagined the powerful firepower of the "Polish Legion"-class 280mm main gun, the sound of hurried footsteps came from behind.

"Report, received a telegram from submarine No. 015, they found an unknown fleet approaching the waters where my fleet is located!"

The voice of the communications staff suddenly made the air in the bridge tense. Chen Si quickly walked to the chart and asked, "Where did you find it? Can you be sure that the other party is the Japanese fleet?"

"it's here."

The communications staff pointed to the Dongsha Islands: "About 40 nautical miles away from us, their speed is very fast, probably exceeding 30 knots, and 015 will be able to attack them in half an hour at most, and we will meet them in an hour. "

"In addition, according to the report of No. 015 boat, they have called other submarines to come, hoping that we can stop the Japanese fleet for a while, and the submarine force will arrive within two hours at most."

"Two hours..."

This time is not long or short, and I don't know how many ships the Japanese have come, but the speed of more than 30 knots should be able to exclude battleships and battlecruisers. The speed of the fastest battlecruiser "King Kong" class of the Japanese It's only 27.5 knots.

However, limited by the visibility at night and the long distance, the No. 015 submarine only found a fleet searching the ocean with flashing lights, and did not know the number and type of ships of the other party.

If all four of the Japanese "Myoko" class heavy cruisers have arrived, these two hours will be difficult.Of course, if these two hours have passed, the first effort in this Taiwan Strait war will be the naval forces!

"They came just in time!"

Chen Si applauded, relieved the tension of the people around him a little, and said with a smile: "It would be bad if the little Japanese hid in the deep sea and didn't show their heads. Now that they have come out, we are not afraid that we will not be able to sink them! As long as they survive for two hours , our submarine will arrive, and the guy who flies the plane until dawn will not let them go!"

"Order to re-formation, the flagship 'Fuzhou' (replacing the 'Selim Sultan'), 'Hangzhou', and 'Changsha' are organized into the first battle group; five destroyers are organized into the second battle pair; six torpedo boats are organized into the The third team."

"Order the second and third battle teams to spread out ten nautical miles to the left and right flanks to ambush, and wait until the first battle team has exchanged fire with the enemy ship and use torpedo surprise attack."

"In addition, the information on the discovery of the Japanese fleet will be reported to the Fleet Command and the First Air Fleet."

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"Report! A telegram was sent on No. 015!" In the command center of the Zhongshan aircraft carrier, the communications officer shook the telegram in his hand and shouted loudly: "A Japanese fleet with unknown situation is at 20.75 north latitude, 116.87 east longitude, near Dongsha The waters near the archipelago are currently heading north-northwest at high speed. It is estimated that they will encounter the Second Fleet in an hour!"

"Japanese fleet! So fast?" After listening to the communication officer's report, Zhao Zheng stood up abruptly, while the First Air Fleet was still in radio silence.Although Zhao Zheng already knew that Zhang Yiming had changed his plan and sent the Second Fleet to set up an ambush in the waters north of the Dongsha Islands, he did not break the radio silence to stop it.Because firstly, he was unwilling to expose the First Air Fleet; secondly, he also felt that the Japanese had little chance of finding the Second Fleet at night. If it was daytime, with shore-based aircraft covering it, the Second Fleet would naturally be safe.I didn't expect this small probability event to really happen now, but is this Japanese fleet the main force of the Japanese?Do you want to use an aircraft carrier to attack?

"Commander Zhao?" He saw Zhao Zheng's frown tightly furrowed.Lu Steyan, the German military adviser and headmaster of the Naval University, felt very strange. He stood up and walked to Zhao Zheng's side and said loudly, "What's wrong? Now that we know the enemy's whereabouts, we should quickly turn around and rush over."

"Teacher." Hearing what the other party said, Zhao Zheng shook his head slowly: "But we are not sure that this is the main force of the Japanese fleet. Maybe it is just a few light cruisers and destroyers, or even a Japanese bait! If we To bomb them after dawn, we have to sail about 120 nautical miles northeast, so that we may be within the attack range of the Japanese aircraft carrier." He paused here: "Mr. The battle between them emphasizes preemptive strikes, and the key to victory is to find the first strike first. By tomorrow morning, the Japanese will definitely send carrier-based aircraft and seaplanes to search for us. It is very likely that both sides will find the opponent at the same time... If we will If the planes are sent to attack the Japanese battleship formation, it is very likely that we will lose the opportunity to attack the Japanese aircraft carrier. If the Japanese aircraft carrier seizes the opportunity to strike first, we will lose the aircraft carrier, which is exactly what we cannot afford." Zhao Zheng said. He expressed his concerns in one go.

"Hehe! General Zhao. I know what you mean!" Hearing Zhao Zheng's words, Lu Siyan smiled: "At present, aircraft carriers and aircraft are far from mature. In various exercises, seven or eight out of ten times the aircraft sent by the aircraft carrier cannot complete the task, and various accidents will always occur. After all, both sides in the battle are moving at a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour, and the aircraft The speed is only more than 200 kilometers per hour. If the distance between the two sides is about 300 kilometers... that means that it will take at least one and a half hours for the plane taking off from the aircraft carrier to reach the sky above the target. If you count the preparation and take-off time, it will take at least two During this period of time, the opponent's aircraft carrier can move a full 100 kilometers, and it may have left the attack range of the opponent's carrier-based aircraft. Therefore, it is very likely that our two aircraft carriers will not be able to obtain Any results." Speaking of this, he gave Zhao Zheng another meaningful look: "This war will determine the key development direction of the navy in the next five to ten years, so aircraft carriers need achievements to prove themselves!"

After listening to Lu Steyan's explanation, Zhao Zheng nodded slowly. At present, there are also three small groups in the Kuomintang Navy, the so-called "fleet faction", "aircraft carrier faction" and "submarine faction".Uh, the old problems of the Chinese people will not be changed because of someone's time travel.

Now it seems that the aircraft carrier faction has the upper hand, but the aircraft carrier itself has not achieved any results in this war. In the previous sea battle in the Bohai Bay, it relied on shore-based aircraft to defeat the Japanese navy. This can only prove the value of the aircraft. The aircraft carrier cannot be proven... so Zhao Zheng is eager to let the aircraft carrier perform in this Taiwan Strait war.

"Teacher, you are right, our First Air Fleet cannot do nothing in this war!" Zhao Zheng took a deep breath, looked at his watch, and said with a smile: "It is 2 o'clock in the morning, four hours later Our plane will be dispatched!" He ordered loudly: "Direction northeast XX, speed 31 knots, go forward!"

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