Chapter 553 Amphibious Landing Ship
At dawn, at the Cartagena Base in Colombia, the Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet Command received a distress signal from the German fleet flagship USS North Rhine.
General Yi Suifeng, commander of the Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet, turned his eyebrows into a titanium, and he was very puzzled by the telegram for help.
Because this telegram was sent by the Germans, it was a pity that the Royal Navy Telecommunications Department used the British Navy's codebook to break it. The German Navy used the British password to seek distress signals, which was extremely funny.
"Since it's a call for help, what else can I add? The password is fine. Or is it the British Telecom secret?" Yi Suifeng was very puzzled and couldn't help but raise his middle finger. "Damn!"
The Fleet Chief of Staff Liu Xingan was speechless and looked at the telegram carefully. He suddenly said in surprise: "It's so weird. In addition to the beginning of the German North Rhine and these three children, the last signature of the telegram is."
"What is it?" General Yi Suifeng took it and saw that his chin almost fell to the ground. The signature on the telegram was British Lieutenant General St. St. What's even more strange is that the date is the old year, month and day.
"What day is it today?" Yi Suifeng asked blankly with his head raised.
Liu Xingan replied: "Today is," he said halfway through his words, and he also felt something was wrong, because today is the old and old moon blade.
"They aren't kidding!" Liu Xingan also stared at Yi Suifeng blankly.
"It seems that I haven't woken up yet!" General Yi Suifeng patted his forehead and said with his eyelids low, "I'm going back to sleep!"
Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Liu Xing'an shook his head, feeling his head was indeed a little confused, and said to himself: "It seems that I haven't woken up either!"
As soon as he turned around, the communications officer looked at him straight.
The communications officer asked: "Chief of Staff, what should we do?"
The chief of staff stuffed the communications fate into the arms of the communications staff and said, "The rescue of people is under the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard!"
After saying that, he shook his head again and said to himself, "I'm really dizzy, it seems that I haven't woken up!" Then he left the fleet headquarters.
There was only the communications consultant left in the office, but when he saw him smiled bitterly, "It would be strange if you don't dizzy when you shook your head so hard?"
Then he took a look at the communication training and left with a wry smile.
China's Coast Guard is not on the Atlantic Ocean, and the closest one is also patrolling near the Cologne Islands in the South Pacific. To this end, the Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet Command finally ordered the Third aircraft carrier fleet on Mais Island, Nicaragua, to quickly travel to the waters near Bermuda to search for survivors of the naval battle.
The third aircraft carrier fleet consists of Xingguo reconnaissance aircraft carrier 3 and ten destroyers, and its function is to investigate. After the third aircraft carrier fleet arrived in Bermuda, the blade frame Hawkeye reconnaissance aircraft carried by the aircraft carrier immediately took off to conduct maritime search operations. The radar system carried by the aviation also detects nearby waters, but it turned out to be white and nothing was left.
At the same time, when the Chinese fleet appeared in the Bermuda waters, the Second Squadron of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet also departed from the Gulf of Mexico and arrived in nearby waters.
The Second Squadron of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet is all old-fashioned battleships, all of which are Virginia-class battleships, the USS Virginia, and the USS Georgia. The USS New Jersey, and the USS Rhode Island. Tonnage, Tonnage, Tariff, and Griffin.
The sudden appearance of the US Navy has made the third aircraft carrier formation of the Royal Navy of China nervous. Because in recent times, the confrontation between the navies of China and the United States in the Caribbean has continued to increase, and the two armies are in a state of tension. If it were not for the two governments that suppressed it, it would be absolutely possible that the fire would be fired.
However, at this time, the Xingguo, the third aircraft carrier fleet of the Chinese Royal Navy, was equipped with reconnaissance aircraft. Without any attack ability, ten 2,000-ton destroyers alone could not fight against four American battleships. Once the fire broke out, it would be itself who suffered a loss.
So, Major General Li Kai, the captain of the Xingguo aircraft carrier, ordered the revocation of all reconnaissance aircraft to avoid the US Navy.
However, at this moment, the battleship of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet Second Squadron 2, the USS New Jersey, suddenly stopped. All motors stopped working, and the drainage system malfunctioned, resulting in a large influx of water in the bottom cabin. The battleship fell into a state of sinking.
The panicked US Navy shouted "Enemy attack!"
Major General John, commander of the US Navy's squadron, thought it was the scale of the Chinese Navy. He ordered the battle alarm to be sounded, and the side artillery fire of the four battleships aimed at the Chinese Navy.
Major General Li Kai was shocked when he saw this. If he had started, he would definitely suffer a loss. However, the other party's gun had already glanced at him. Although he was at a disadvantage, he could not have any reaction. He immediately ordered the battle alarm to sound.
Both sides were not polite. The muzzles pointed at each other one after another. Although only ten destroyers of the Chinese Navy's third aircraft carrier fleet had the ability to fight back, their momentum was not weak at all. Although the soldiers gathered, they were not afraid at all.
Seeing that the confrontation was already established, Li Kai could not withdraw. If he left under the other party's gun, he would not have to hang out in the Chinese Navy in the future.
"Telephone to the Fleet Command and request support!"
"Yes!" The communications consultant took the order.
Li Kai picked up the telescope and looked at the US fleet, but saw that the US Navy had already taken their place and the shells were loaded. He was waiting for the battle order to be issued.
"What are you doing!" Li Kai said depressedly: "Did they eat ** today?"
In the past, the Chinese Navy basically ran to the US territorial waters to show off its power and scare the US Navy, but today it turned over,
General Yi Suifeng was sleeping depressedly. After being woken up, he learned that his people were confronting the US Navy again, so he hurriedly ordered the Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet to rush to the confrontation waters immediately.
The order was issued, and the police in the Cartagena Naval Base kept ringing, and the ships of the Atlantic Fleet were prepared one after another, and then left the dock.
At this time, the Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet had five class battleships, five battlecruisers, two aircraft carriers, thirty destroyers, sixty-two submarines, as well as naval medical ships, supply ships, etc.
Since the base is still a distance from the Bermuda area, it takes nine hours to get to the Bermuda waters, so there are only five battleships and five battlecruisers, plus the second aircraft carrier formation.
At the same time as the Royal Navy Atlantic Fleet was released, the US Atlantic Fleet Command also received news and immediately sent the main fleet to the Bermuda waters.
At this time, Major General John, the Second Squadron of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, was inquiring about the situation of the battleship New Jersey. After investigation, it was found that the ship was not attacked, but was as if it was sucked by sea water for unknown reasons and could not move.
After confirming that it was not China's submarine attack, John breathed a sigh of relief and knew that the war would not break out. So he ordered the New Jersey crew to find the cause and solve the problem.
However, the next question arises again. Neither side will take the initiative to move the muzzle away, and a maritime confrontation is inevitable.
"I wonder how long will the confrontation last this time?" Major General John sighed.
The time of each confrontation was extended, and the last confrontation lasted for three days, causing diplomats from both countries to drool for three days.
"What if he cares?" said the adjutant: "Let the politicians deal with it."
The next day, reinforcements from both countries arrived one after another. The US Atlantic Fleet launched a battleship, cruisers and destroyers still arrived, and four columns were located on the west side of the Bermuda Sea.
In China, the five-class battleships of the Royal Navy, the Beijing Zhao7, the Sea Cucumber Wei, the Kulun Zhaodao, the Yili Zhaojiu, the Lhasa Zhaoxiao, the five battleships, the Sea Dragon King, the Honolulu, the Manila, the Li and the Guam, the old news, the two aircraft carriers, the Xinghua, the Xingguo 3, and twenty destroyers. Among them, the Xinghua aircraft carriers are all equipped with 3-bearing hornet torpedo dive bombers.
In comparison, both are Atlantic Fleets. The US Navy has an advantage in number. However, most of them are formerly fearless battleships, with only eight fearless battleships, and none of them are opponents of Beijing-class battleships. Pennsylvania-class and New Mexico-class battleships that the United States competes against China's Beijing-class battleships and Hawaiian-class battleships are under construction and sea trials.
So far, the battlecruisers under construction in the United States have not been completed. Compared with China in terms of battlecruisers, it is a weaker comparison. Of course, the US Navy did not realize the threat of the two aircraft carriers and just thought it was used for the navy's relatively fired artillery.
Therefore, the Chinese Navy wins in terms of quality. If there is a group fight, the Chinese Navy may suffer a loss because a good tiger cannot resist the pack of wolves. However, if there is a single fight, the US Navy is not the opponent.
The fifth confrontation between the Atlantic Ocean by the Chinese and American navies has hurt the officials of the two foreign ministries. A war of words is indispensable. Both sides want to put the blame on each other, but they are both restrained. It is okay to fight verbal battles, but they can't do it.
When the foreign ministries of China and the United States were fighting a war of words over the confrontation between Bermuda, Britain and Germany, the two old enemies, also launched fierce public opinion fortifications.
Both countries are related to the news of the battle between the Spey fleet and the Stedi fleet. However, the two huge battlecruisers seemed to have disappeared from the geographical location. Britain did not believe that the Stir would defeat the fleet, and Germany did not believe that the Spey fleet would be defeated.
In order to stabilize public opinion, the other party was severely damaged. The day after the British lost contact with the Stedy fleet, the British Navy was the first to announce that the British Navy Strong Fleet had completely wiped out the German Spee fleet, and it was widely publicized in major British media, and even went to France and Russia.
Germany was not willing to fall behind and immediately came out to refute it. It claimed that the Spey fleet destroyed the British Stedy fleet, and that the United Kingdom was misleading public opinion and should give people the right to know.
In fact, both sides were unsure of their own battlecruiser fleets, and they believed that their country's fleet might have encountered an unexpected situation, but they still maintained the last hope of victory.
The British Admiralty held an emergency meeting to discuss the issue of the Stedi fleet. None of the participants thought that the Stedi fleet would win. Because they all knew that the six battlecruisers led by Stedi were much stronger than the four battlecruisers of the German Spee fleet. If they had not been completely wiped out, the news would have been long since the communication failed. Even if the area they fought was not far from the British Bermuda Colony and the Lake Island Coal Station, and they could go there to repair and send back the message through the communication station there.
Navy Minister Churchill looked at the Minister of Maritime Fisher, and Fisher just shook his head helplessly and said, "It's not the worst yet. At least there is no news about the German Spey fleet, which means they may be completely wiped out!"
Churchill asked, "I heard that there was a storm in Bermuda that day. Will they be sunk by the storm together?"
Fisher shook his head and said, "It's so exaggerated! You can't think that Lieutenant General Stedi is a fool, right! Ordinary Storm can't do anything with our Gonlie cruiser, if as you said, the German Spey is so stupid!"
Churchill was very upset when Fisher said this, but he still held back. He said, "Since we have lost contact, it is not the worst result for us."
Then he said: "But. No matter what, we have made the people believe that we are victorious! The next question is, what if our fleet cannot come back?"
The participants looked at me and I looked at you, whispering to each other, and were reluctant to make up their minds. Churchill was disappointed and had to turn his attention to Fisher again. Although he couldn't get along with Fisher for many issues, he had to admit that in the Navy, Fisher's insights were unique.
Fisher said: "The most important thing at the moment is to prevent the German high seas fleet from breaking through the military blockade!"
Sure enough, Fisher immediately woke everyone up with one sentence.
That's right, the fact that Britain secretly transferred six battlecruisers to the Caribbean Sea to attack the German Spee fleet has been confirmed. The German Navy has made it clear that the number of battlecruisers in the British Navy is lower than that of Germany. According to the German Navy's idea, there is no reason not to take advantage of the British lack of fast mobile warships to break through the British blockade line.
Once the German Battle Patrol team breaks through the British Navy's blockade, the entire Atlantic Ocean will be under the attack of the huge German battle cruiser. Britain will have to bear immeasurable losses, and more importantly, it will be in a strategic passive position. Because the current battle cruiser of the British Navy cannot stop the German Battle Patrol team running into the Atlantic Ocean, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Churchill asked, "What are some good suggestions do you have?"
Fisher said: "The war on the ground has now become a stalemate. In order to break this deadlock, I suggest using amphibious operations to break the deadlock. The main trick is that we and the Russian coalition will work together to carry out the Baltic attack plan. I have made a plan for this and are ready to use amphibious combat ships."
"Ambulatory combat ship?" Churchill asked in confusion: "Why don't I know?"
Fisher smiled and said, "The Empire has no docks to build the sixth ships! During the time I was in China, I knew that the 6th Chinese Royal Navy Team had very good amphibious combat ships, that is, the sixth ships!"
Then Fisher took out several copies of the Baltic attack plan and China's board of ships 6 from his briefcase for circulating it.
Churchill looked at Fisher with dissatisfaction, then his big eyelids sank and his eyes fell on the document.
As we all know, the Navy 6 team has always been a powerful weapon for naval powers to attack countries on 6. If you want to quickly put the Navy 6 team on 6 grounds to fight, you must have a ship that can quickly board 6.
Earlier, navies from various countries used small ships to carry five to more than a dozen soldiers to board the 6th boat. This was the early boarding boat. However, with the development of shore defense turrets and machine gun weapons, this kind of small boat was really dead early, which was a tactic to add fuel to the fire.
Fei Haner saw China's 6 ships in China and believed that China's 6 ships fully agreed with the future Navy's 6 battle trend, so he was particularly concerned.
The prototype of China's 6th ship was to participate in the Navy 6th fleet during the 6th War of Qingdao Fortress. After more than ten years of exhibition and improvement.
Currently, the 6th team of the Chinese Royal Navy has more than a dozen boarding 6 ships and boarding 6 boats. However, the most advanced one is the Hippo boarding 6 ships.
The Hippo boarding ship 6 is transformed using floating dock technology. The displacement ranges from slim tonnes of work to slim mouth. There are one or two huge dock rooms in the boarding ship. There are a movable sluice lock on the ship or ship. The sluice lock is opened and the ship is partially sunk into the seawater. The loaded boarding ship or amphibious vehicle can drive out of the dock room.
The Hippo boards the 6th ship's empty load blade festival and full load blade festival can transport up to fully armed soldiers. If the armored combat vehicles and military vehicles are transported, it depends on the tonnage and volume.
The assault boat used by the Hippo-type boarding ship 6 is also unique. Because China monopolizes the global rubber production and the derived rubber industry, China has enough materials and low prices to produce and manufacture rubber boats.
Of course, the rubber boat was known by Western countries a long time ago, and can even be traced back to the sheepskin rafts in China. However, early rubber boats were only used as a lifesaving ship and were not converted into military use. Moreover, the early rubber boat technology was insufficient and required manpower, which was not suitable for the current KuaiDeng6 operation.
The assault boat used by the Royal Navy 6th Team of the Chinese Royal Navy was installed at the back on the basis of the rubber boat, so that the rubber boat could advance quickly at a short distance between the sixth ship and the mudflat, nearly twice as fast as other ships in charge, becoming a powerful weapon for the Navy 6th Team to quickly seize the mudflat.
However, although Churchill likes the use of equipment from these six teams in China, Fisher's Baltic plan was not the time to propose a combat plan to attack the Dardanelles of Turkey and submitted it to the British cabinet for discussion.
Since Fisher's combat plan conflicted with Churchill's Battle of Dardanell, Churchill directly denied Fisher's plan. In this way, the dispute caused disagreement between the two people with fierce temperaments, and eventually led to both losses.
Chapter completed!