Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 695 No way to escape

On board the Kaifeng frigate, the captain He Pingdao was quite annoyed.

"Isn't this a fool's errand? One of our cargo ships was sunk by a Qing submarine under my watch. We have to give an explanation to the higher-ups." He Pingdao said unwillingly.

Ye Huachen, the political commissar on the ship, comforted him and said, "It is absolutely impossible for our frigate detachment to watch over every ship sailing in the Mediterranean Sea. transport ships, but the number of our frigates is limited, and the pressure of our previous missions must be more than three times greater."

He Pingdao said with anger in his eyes, "We must catch these bastards hiding in the water!"

Ye Huachen nodded and said, "The Qing army deployed at least [-] submarines in the Mediterranean Sea. We guarded the Adriatic Sea before. The fleet was to guard against these Qing army submarines. Unexpectedly, some submarines were released to escape."

He Pingdao was full of fighting spirit: "As long as they are caught by us, these submarines will have no chance of being alive."

The Kaifeng frigate immediately rushed to the sea area where the incident occurred, and at the same time released a towed sonar to search for enemies in the water.The Jinan-class frigate she belongs to can be said to be the largest number of first-class main battleships currently being built by the Ming Navy.She is also a class all-rounder.Jinan-class frigates can engage in multiple tasks such as air defense, anti-ship and anti-submarine. Although they cannot be the main combat role in a battle, they can perform their own jobs very well.

More importantly, the cost of Jinan-class frigates is very low. Although a series of new technologies such as sonar and radar are adopted, there is even no room for future upgrades.Using new technologies such as modular and segmented shipbuilding methods, the Ming Dynasty exploded 191 Jinan-class frigates within one year, and installed a large number of them in various fleets, especially the Atlantic Fleet on the front line.There are more than 40 frigates cruising in the entire Mediterranean Sea, and there are more than 30 Jinan-class frigates along the Bay of Biscay to the North Sea.

It's just that He Pingdao's luck was really bad. After he led the Kaifeng to the sea area where the incident occurred, he began to search for the enemy on a large scale. No trace of the enemy was found, and I chose a direction to chase, but the enemy was not chased either.

This kind of thing made He Pingdao extremely aggrieved, but there was nothing he could do.

He deeply understood how important the route he guarded was to the Ming Dynasty, even though the Ming Dynasty usually over-transported some supplies to prevent losses or shortages.Therefore, the sinking of one or two transport ships had no impact on the logistics operations of the Ming Dynasty's front line.

Bai Mingxiu had already considered this issue when building the current transport fleet of the Ming Empire, so he designed an effective maritime logistics system.

Having said that, He Pingdao still hopes to find this enemy and execute him on the spot.

But something that bothered He Pingdao soon appeared.More than a day later, more than 70 kilometers to the southwest, another Ming merchant ship was bombarded by Qing army torpedoes.This time it did not cause the ship to sink or capsize, and the hull suffered some damage, but the sailors were very experienced in damage control and immediately controlled the hole.

The second attack put more pressure on He Pingdao.

"This group of sea mice turned out to be in the opposite direction from us. We looked for the wrong side."

A hunting and chasing game between frigates and submarines began. Dmitri didn't know who was chasing him, but he knew very well that once he was guarded and heard his position, he would be very miserable.

"Deploy carefully, act boldly." This is Dmitry's motto.

Successfully attacking two Daming merchant ships in a row caused great trouble to Daming's maritime logistics business, and even Demetri himself was full of a sense of accomplishment.However, this meager sense of accomplishment does not mean that he will be proud or conceited.Dmitri clearly knew the difference between the HL-32 submarine and the Ming's frigate.

The reason why his submarine can be hidden so well is because he is very far from the Daming frigate.The submarine route marked by Demetrius on the sea chart also played a surprisingly indifferent role. When the Ming army launched reconnaissance and search in the usual way, Demetrius used the Ming army's thinking pattern to hide behind the Ming army's escort. In the next day, the ghosts and ghosts appeared, and they specially picked the waterway that the Ming army was unlikely to use, and escaped to the sky.

The HL-32 submarine has achieved good results. Since it is a submarine with a relatively small tonnage, its self-sustaining ability at sea is not strong. Successive battles have consumed a lot of energy of the crew on the HL-32 submarine. , and all the food on the boat can't last for too long, so HL-32 is going to return to its naval base, make corrections and reload, and then set off again.

"Although we have only sunk and damaged a few ships now, and have not had much impact on the direction of the war, as long as we can always maintain a leading position in the Mediterranean Sea and even seriously threaten the capital ships of the Nanming Navy, that At that time, the European region will be very limited by the various military supplies sent by Nanming, which will be of great benefit to the Western Qing Empire." Demitri was thinking like this.

After successfully hunting down the merchant ship and escaping the pursuit of the Ming Navy frigate, the HL-32 submarine was finally ready to return to its home port.

However, something happened to Dmitri's horror.

"Captain...you see." The watchman didn't know what to say anymore.

Demetrius snatched his seat, stuck his eyes firmly on the lens of the periscope, and saw the horrifying scene at sea.

A large-scale Ming Navy fleet has blocked the Stor Bay Naval Base, the home port of HL-32.

"This……"

This is not the scariest thing, the scariest thing is that on land, a group of soldiers in uniform of the Ming Dynasty are actually operating there. It was originally intended to cover up the fact that it was a submarine base, and nothing conspicuous on the ground was built. It's just a small fishing village.

"How did the Ming army know that our home port is here?"

At this time, Demetrius suddenly thought of a shocking fact: "Could it be that their army has already fought from Italy to Montenegro? The Balkan Peninsula has fallen into the hands of the Ming army?"

The more he thought about it, the more he shuddered, but the most terrifying thing happened to him.Because his submarine finally narrowed the distance from the Daming ship. In this position, the sonar of the Kaifeng frigate in charge of escort received the underwater acoustic signal of the HL-32 submarine!

(End of this chapter)