Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 786 Hunting Submarines

Unlike the officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy of the United States who have rich experience and a long history of heritage, these officers and soldiers on the submarine of the Xinming Navy may have never been on a boat more than a year ago. The war they know is Charge forward with a rifle in hand.

The arrival of Bai Mingxiu also opened the era of the real construction of the Xinming Navy. Bai Mingxiu did not bother to let the Xinming Navy have a powerful comprehensive surface fleet at this time, because the main task of the Xinming Navy is not to communicate with the Royal Navy of the United States. The Navy engages in a decisive battle across the oceans.Their main combat mission is to protect marine activities in the newly developed territorial waters and offshore areas, such as mariculture, such as a certain limit of maritime shipping (inward) and the like.Therefore, Bai Mingxiu formulated the development path of "air-submarine fast" for the Xinming Navy without any pressure: the navy is equipped with a batch of Xiaolong Navy fighter jets delivered by Bai Mingxiu, mainly for attacking the sea; the main fleet has 1000-3000 tons Composed of submarines with different displacements, the main task is to attack US ships in the first island chain; missile speedboats are small in size and large in number, and they will run away when they hit them.

The most powerful thing is that Bai Mingxiu created this air-submarine rapid development strategy for the Xinming Navy, which is also a systematic combat idea.The guided missile speedboats of the Xinming Navy are gradually becoming self-produced, all thanks to the industrialization of 200 factories in Bai Mingxiu's second main mission.However, these missile speedboats do not have strong search capabilities themselves, and their missile range is relatively short, basically no more than 80 kilometers.But these guided missile speedboats can be attacked by the radars of Xiaolong in the air, and even other aircraft and ships.Bai Mingxiu built a relatively basic version of the data link system. The information transmission efficiency is very low and the amount of information is small, but this system can almost realize the combat.

There is no doubt that the strength of this system of combat has truly endowed the Xinming Navy with the strength of asymmetric warfare.

In this sea area, there are currently two Xinming submarines performing tasks, namely Qiansha-04 and Qiansha-05.Bai Mingxiu gave the Xinming Navy a total of 18 AIP submarines in one breath. With the submersible shark as the prefix of the boat name, they also formed the most important combat force of the Xinming Navy.These submariners have undergone a lot of training and now finally have preliminary combat effectiveness. They came to the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea to fight against the Royal Navy of the United States.

For the submersibles, the battle with the Royal Navy of the United States is also very intense.They tightened their strings and did all their homework to defeat their strong opponents.After all, the submarine shark submarine is the most important war asset for the Xinming Navy, and there is no room for loss.

Lu Zhao, who had just been captain for only a few months, waited patiently on the Submarine Shark-04 boat.

"Captain, there are more and more U.S. destroyers operating near us. The U.S. military has also learned. They dare not send large ships here and let them face the risk of loss. Instead, they invest a large number of destroyers. Kill us here."

Lu Zhao agreed with the deputy captain's words.

The submerged sharks have achieved multiple results during these days, sinking a total of four US warships, including a cruiser, two destroyers and a Japanese sea protection ship.It is obviously impossible for the U.S. military to sit back and watch Xinming submarines continue to endanger their "freedom of navigation", so they will inevitably surround and kill Xinming submarines.

Lu Zhao is facing a very difficult choice. If the anti-submarine ships of the Royal American Navy in this sea area are always active like this, then as long as he attacks an American ship, other ships will know where he is, so the speed will not increase. The high submarine shark-04 will become the attack target of the US ship, so it will be difficult for the submarine shark-04 to escape; and if the US military operates in this area for a long time, the submarine shark-04 will lose its chance. A careless mistake can also give away the position.

This is the strategy of the Royal Navy, using a large number of anti-submarine ships to create enough pressure, while also squeezing the living space of submarines.

"We moved slowly, withdrew from this sea area and returned. As for the enemy ships, I think our air force will naturally deal with them."

At a very low speed, the Submersible Shark-04 boat led by Lu Zhao was sailing underwater.Submarine sharks are very quiet. Even the destroyers of the Royal Navy of the United States have good anti-submarine detection equipment, but it is difficult to catch these submarines with sound-absorbing tiles and low-noise Stirling engines.

The hydrological environment in this area is also very complicated. Lu Zhao has accumulated some experience after sailing in this sea area for a long time, and has some confidence to use his knowledge to compete with his American counterparts.

When Submarine Shark-4 approached a US ship, Lu Zhao ordered: "Pay attention to the course, let's go around, adjust the depth, and enter the sound shadow zone."

In summer, the surface temperature of seawater is high and the temperature of deep water is low. When the sound wave passes through the seawater, it bends downward, forming a sound shadow area.The sound wave shoots downward like a V, and then turns back upward. At this time, the submarine hides in the sound shadow area of ​​the sound wave, and can be very close to the surface ship without being detected by the sonar.

"That's not a destroyer, it looks like a light cruiser."

The captain of this light cruiser was the captain of the destroyer Pratt, who had been sunk by the battleship Lion. He never thought that he would be targeted again.

"The torpedo is set to depth, and the launch tube starts to fill with water."

"emission!"

The four torpedoes on the bow of Submarine Shark-4 were pushed out of the weapon holes one by one, and fired towards the light cruiser where Pratt was.The light patrol of the submarine was being detected, and the sonar department immediately heard the sound of the approaching torpedo that made them shudder.

"Torpedo! Dodge quickly!"

But at this time, Submersible Shark-4 was already very close to the US Navy light cruiser, and the speed of the heavy torpedoes she launched was quite amazing. Before the light cruiser had time to complete its evasive action, three torpedoes hit in a row The three parts of her bow and midship caused serious damage to this light cruiser, and a lot of water flooded in!

Pratt's eyes were tearing: "Why is this again?"

But at this time, Pratt was also decisive: "Immediately send a message to the other ships in the formation, the mouse is here with us, we must catch him!"

But no matter what, his ship could not escape the fate of sinking. The hit of three heavy torpedoes can be said to directly declare the death of this light cruiser. The overturning began.

Platt also escaped to the lifeboat immediately, but he was already desperate. Two of the ships he led were sunk in two years. Even if it had little to do with him, he probably would not be re-appointed by the Royal Navy. As the captain - after all, luck is like this, it's better not to harm the ships of the Royal Navy of the United States.

(End of this chapter)