Chapter 1108 Peerless Sea Battle 6 Hunting Submarine B!
Captain Rutt, who was less than 30 years old, had a total of less than three years of real mastery of a submarine. However, during this period, the four submarines he commanded had achieved amazing results without exception, ranking second among the entire German naval wolves, and was awarded the Iron Cross Medal and received Hitler's personal commendation!
This time, he also joined the unprecedented huge wolf pack attack tactics drafted by Denitz himself. In addition to commanding his own U-181 captain boat, as many as six Vii submarines cooperated to form a new wolf pack, responsible for tracking the ocean-going fleet aircraft carrier formation and waiting for an opportunity to start.
Unlike the past, due to the stimulation and influence of the Chinese navy, the Germans began to upgrade submarines a long time ago. The Vii and IX submarines that originally needed to be built in large quantities were stopped after only less than one-third of them. In 1940, they were all replaced with the construction of the Xxi series submarines with larger displacement, faster speed and better performance. The No. 181 boat is one of them.
The submarine displacement of 2,100 tons, a maximum of 8 meters in full width, a maximum underwater speed of 17.2 knots, a huge range of 15,000 nautical miles, and a submarine capacity of 340 nautical miles, can be said to be quite excellent. In contemporary times, except for Chinese submarines, submarines in other countries are far inferior to those of the Germans in terms of submarine depth, and the development and utilization of torpedoes are not as good as them.
This is the foundation of the Germans' consistent adherence to the sea wolf tactics.
The small group of wolves commanded by Captain Rutt have been active in the southern Atlantic Ocean since a long time ago. This long-term battle made them shoulder the heavy responsibility of the assaulter.
At the joint meeting of the multinational naval forces, all parties agreed that relying solely on warships to confront each other head-on is not safe. Advanced and powerful German submarine forces should play their strengths and use submarine clusters to ambush the enemy's rear in advance. Quietly track and find the aircraft carriers that they will definitely be placed behind, and then wait for an opportunity to launch a fierce attack, strive to kill all aircraft carriers in one fell swoop and interrupt the enemy's long-range threat.
China's jet fighter jets put too much pressure on the navies of various countries! They can't be prevented or stopped. If they can't fight, they can't find difficulties, and if they don't move, they will be the finale. For the navies of various countries, it is a nightmare existence!
Captain Rutt commanded his squad, and everything was going well in the early stage. At one point, his boat No. 181 approached the destroyer cruising behind and drilled in from the seemingly dense blockade net. Through the periscope, he saw a huge aircraft carrier taking off and landing at night from a distance!
It was a dark night when I couldn't see my fingers. The wind and waves on the sea seemed to be suppressed by the invisible atmosphere. The deep and mysterious Atlantic Ocean was extremely calm, cold and hard, as if it was frozen ice.
u181 carefully tracked the voyages left by the huge fleet, and steadily attached to the back with Captain Rutt's experience and intuition. However, the distance was getting farther and farther away--even the other party's cruise speed was more than 20 knots. It was far from something he could catch up with.
However, Rutt chose to interject directly and successfully chased after him. Then on that night, he took the risk of letting the submarine surface, stood on the deck himself, and peeped at one or two with a night vision telescope.
The impression at that time made Captain Rutt unforgettable for his life! He never thought that there could be such a large warship in the world! It was like a sea fortress floating, with no support pillars, no exposed aircraft, and no messy lightning protection net support poles, messy radar antennas, etc.
The huge, well-proportioned and full of mechanical creations, even if it is just a blurry picture from a distance, Captain Rutt has to admit that the guy is really beautiful!
At that time, the lights on the aircraft carrier were shining, as if they were intending to show their existence. Fighters with gusts of fire from the tail were ejected into the air, and a loud thunderous sound hovered in the sky for a long time, which was shocking!
Rutt resisted the temptation to attack. After months of entanglement, he knew very well how terrible his opponent was. Behind his seemingly relaxed was omnipresent hidden reconnaissance methods, and the seemingly sweet target was actually a fatal bait!
Today, Rutte led a larger number of wolves! Not only his squad, but also the top ten aces in the German Navy who can call the number and sink tonnage have arrived. Each of them commands as few as three or five submarines, and at most seven or eight submarines, opening up a wide network of death on the vast Atlantic Ocean!
He had long been eyeing the aircraft carrier formation, but he had no chance to attack. He patiently rushed in quietly. With the maximum compressive resistance of the submarine up to 350 meters, he only used passive sonar to capture the opponent's unique noise, and was always close to the distance that the torpedo could attack. He was about to launch a fierce attack. Suddenly, the opponent began to counterattack!
Captain Rutt saw that the submarine teams that had already rushed in were bombed one by one, and the helicopters hovering in the air showed off their power and kept smashing the anti-submarine deep bombs on the hanger in. The astonishing explosions burst out the waves like mountains, representing the sinking of submarines.
Sinking in deep water, the people in the submarine would not have a chance to escape. In the silent radio, they could not send a last word. The deep Atlantic Ocean could not allow them to salvage and pay tribute, and they disappeared completely and completely!
I empathized with it, Colonel Rutt felt heartbroken. This means that the precious German naval power was greatly weakened, and the tactics carefully deployed before would fail!
Just admit defeat? Then escape in shame?
Captain Rutt turned the periscope over and saw that in the low altitude, more and more anti-submarine helicopters were getting bigger and bigger. After going back to replenish the ammunition, they flew back and searched along the area without blind spots.
The seemingly lazy destroyers and cruisers suddenly became active. The maneuvers of just a dozen ships formed a mutually echoing and airtight lock net. With more than thirty knots of high-speed maneuvers, it didn't take long to seize the initiative and cut the formation of the wolves into pieces!
The fatal flaw of submarines means that it is difficult for them to grasp large-scale areas. After a wave of attacks, they will be divided immediately, forming a warship against three or four submarines. If it were the previous British and American destroyers, the Germans were at most afraid and could resist if they were too anxious. But when they faced the Chinese, they saw that they actually formed an integrated air-sea chain defense with two anti-submarine aircraft and destroyers. Rutt felt that he seemed to have become a butterfly trapped in a spider web and could not struggle!
"What's wrong! This may be a trap!"
Rutt's keenness made him make such a judgment, and he did not hesitate to warn other submarines, and then ordered him to dive immediately and reach his limits to try to get out of the predicament.
But it was too late to realize at this time!
With Zhu Bin's ability, how could he leave such a big gap for himself? All the previous deployments were just a strategy to lure the enemy. It would be fine if the Germans didn't come. Since they came, don't expect to escape again!
Rutt's 181 boat dived down at a 15-degree angle, and soon the depth reached 100 meters. The huge water pressure made the double-shelled ship's hull squeaking. The explosion sound on the head became more and more blurred. The noise of the rumbling destroyer propeller stirring the sea water was not further amplified. A ** active sonar passed over the head, and it seemed to be safe.
Rutt clearly saw that the officers around him showed relief on his face. His cold and hard face did not have a trace of expression. He whispered to the sonar to continue to monitor carefully.
Suddenly, a dull explosion sound came, knocking on the submarine was like a thousand pounds of sledgehammer. The rumbling shock made the crew members change their color and were discovered!
Rutt shouted: "Diver at full speed!"
It was too late! And he didn't figure out that the location where the active sonar swept was not the ship above, but a Chinese conventional-powered missile submarine that had been lurking silently for a long time in deeper waters!
The big guy with a deep diving displacement of more than 3,000 tons. The round water droplet-shaped single-layer pressure-resistant shell structure quietly fired from about 350 meters. The next moment when the sonar was actively locking the target, the two line guide torpedoes were released!
The dangerous guy with a speed of more than 50 knots was as clever as a predator. When the 181 boat rushed down for only a few dozen meters, it rushed over from the thorn behind it, crashed hard into the abdomen, and exploded violently!
The 240 kilogram charge exploded at a distance, directly crushing the solid body of the U-boat. Under the huge water pressure, the steel welding structure completely disintegrated, and more than 50 people inside had no time to escape. After making desperate screams, they were torn to pieces!
The meritorious Wangsai submarine commander, Wolfgang Rutt, sank with all the crew!
His sacrifice simply kicked off the prelude to the encirclement of the wolf pack. In the sky, three twin-engine vortex reconnaissance aircraft hovered at a low altitude, forming a 350-kilometer water cover, and combined with dozens of helicopters close to the water surface to form an impenetrable snare. Whether it is the tracks left by submarines sailing in shallow waters, or the exposed snorkels, periscopes, and antennas, they all cannot escape their Hawkeye observation.
Then there was the destroyer on the water surface, covering the surrounding area for 40 kilometers, and underwater detection reached an amplitude of 300 meters. Active sonar waves, ultrasonic waves, and ray detection, forming invisible and practical snares to find all the submarines in this area. As long as there is no enemy-to-me recognition beacon, you can smash the anti-submarine deep bombs without saying a word!
The bottom layer is a conventional powered submarine with a depth of 350 meters. Their existence is more like picking up the missing pieces. It mainly receives the signals above and rarely sends out active sonar scans. However, as long as the target is found, it will act as a hunter. The torpedoes suddenly emitted from the belly of the U-boat are almost the same!
On the undulating sea surface, layers of explosion waves continued to surge. More than a dozen destroyers threw anti-submarine deep bombs like flowers. From time to time, the bombs that flickered in the space reflected each other, slightly spectacular!
In just half an hour, the radius of 100 kilometers was cleared and more than 40 German submarines were found and sunk. The huge wolves that threatened were falling apart under Zhu Bin's iron broom!
Looking at the submarine icons with different numbers added on the holographic screen, Zhu Bin exclaimed: "Gap, this is the gap! I don't understand why the Germans always stare at the submarine. Don't they know that the power that can only be limited to the underwater will eventually become the master of the battlefield?"
Chen Shaokuan was immediately angry and stared at him with his eyes squinted. You kid are a full man and don’t know how hungry men are! When did the Germans start to be armed? It’s only been the fourth year since the large-scale reconstruction of the navy. Do they have the abnormal industrial production speed as fast as you, and the scale of the current one is already amazing!
The threat from the rear was basically lifted. In the front, seven or eight German U-boats cruising on the channel between the ships of both sides were also cleared out, and a smooth channel was expanded.
In the air, underwater crisis chain reaction continued to push to the German fleet, especially the reconnaissance planes compressed above the heads of the outer ships, which made them realize that fighting was imminent and the enemy was about to come!
Admiral Lukins was not surprised by this, but was stimulated to cheer up and sent an air fighter to immediately rush towards the enemy plane. No matter whether the opponent is a powerful jet fighter or something, let's get it done first!
At this time, there were at least 130 carrier-based propeller fighters in the air, swarming in the direction where the Yinglong fighter was cleared.
The "Thunder Dragon" invisible in the sky immediately issued an early warning, and then the early warning aircraft also feedbacked the enemy's movements. The "Yinglong" brigade of the dual-machine formation immediately responded. The teams on the tip of the conflict did not say a word, locked the target and released a medium-range combat bullet to kill the head, then increased their horsepower and climbed up to the occupation height. After the adjustment, they dived down without fear, penetrated into the enemy's formation, and launched a crazy hunt!
A jet fighter with a speed of Mach 2 is a one-sided slaughter against a spiral aircraft with a maximum speed of Mach 0.7!
The mid-range combat bomb's inability to defend against has already made a precedent. After the attack speed of the close combat bomb's sudden increase, it is not something that the slow bf109g can resist. In the sky, the flames were shining and explosions were constantly coming, and large pieces of metal fragments burned and fell!
Before the group of fighters rushed over, the first fighter was shocked and there were only a few left. After gathering more than 12 "Yinglong" fighters, they did not give them a chance to form a group to siege. They immediately interspersed, forcibly broke through their formation, and shot down one by one with machine guns!
The speed gap between them is too big!
Ten minutes later, the number of "Yinglong" and "Flyinglong" fighter jets increased to more than 40. The two-plane formation was scattered, forming a blockade area of hundreds of kilometers wide. The troops rushed out in three groups and killed the German aircraft that were attacked in batches. In less than half an hour, they packed up like chopping melons and vegetables!
More than one hundred fighter jets disappeared in a blink of an eye!
Chapter completed!