The sailors of the Japanese transport fleet that were attacked from Yamamoto Isoroku to the front lines took it for granted that only the United States had the ability to send submarine forces to ambush them in the South China Sea, so Midway Island was placed in the crosshairs of the combined fleet by Yamamoto. Little did they know that the submarine force that was waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack on its transport fleet in the South China Sea was the submarine force of the Xuebing Army.
No wonder the Japanese look westward. It is too difficult for a country with a shallow industrial foundation to build a large-scale navy. Moreover, the warlord army of the Xuebing Army took five years to build a two- to three-hundred-ton navy. Starting with torpedo speedboats, then building Ming-class submarines of five to six hundred tons, and then building Song-class submarines of one to two thousand tons. The journey of the Xuebing Army to the deep blue was not smooth, but fortunately it was stumbling along the way and finally made it. If If Yamamoto Isoroku had the opportunity to go to Haikou, he would be surprised to find that the Xuebing Army is not only developing an ocean-going fleet in the Arabian Sea, but its offshore fleet is already quite large.
Three Songshan-class destroyers with a displacement of about 5,700 tons have been built, and the main ship of the Taishan-class heavy cruiser with a displacement of 12,000 tons, Taishan, has completed the welding work on the hull and is now undergoing deck work. , As for submarines, there are as many as twenty Ming-class submarines, and thirteen Song-class submarines have been launched. Plus the three that are about to be completed in the dock, the total number will be close to forty. Forty submarines are not too few, but Whether it is the Haikou Fleet or the Dongshan Fleet, the most numerous ones now are Swordfish torpedo boats. This type of torpedo attack ship is quite mature in technology. The Dongshan Fleet has equipped nearly a hundred of them, and the Haikou Fleet has also been organized into four. This brigade has a total of fifty ships.
The German Dönitz used a single type of submarine as a wolf pack to hunt the American and British transport fleets and escort fleets in the Atlantic Ocean unscrupulously. With a weak naval force, he gained a strategic lead, causing the United Kingdom and the United States to suffer a lot. As a time traveler, Ouyang Yun naturally cannot be unaware of wolf pack tactics and the reasons why wolf pack tactics ultimately failed. That’s why he vigorously developed torpedo boats and thought of using the speed advantage of torpedo boats to cooperate with the submarine force. Form a wolf pack to maintain deterrence in the South China Sea and surrounding distant seas, and establish a wolf pack advantage in the waters near the jurisdiction where small ships threaten large ships.
The establishment of radar stations and supply docks in these coastal cities such as Sanya, Haikou, Yangjiang, Shanwei, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Tainan, Wenzhou, Taizhou, and Zhoushan allowed the wolves led by Xu Kai to obtain supplies calmly and obtain Japanese goods as soon as possible. News of the transport fleet, then, the submarine lurking in the fixed sea area was like a shark that smelled blood and dived towards the route that the Japanese transport fleet must pass, and a large net was opened instantly...
When Yamamoto Isoroku was being scolded bloody by Emperor Hirohito on the phone, in an area of sea about fifty kilometers away from Laoag, Luzon Island, Philippines, in the war room of a Song-class submarine that remained suspended, Xu Kai He and first mate Zuo Dayang each held a bowl of vegetable porridge that had been cooling for a long time. While drinking, they were listening to their trainees summarizing a raid launched not long ago.
The one who was speaking was Feng Guang, the chief of the torpedo operations section. Feng Guang said with a very serious expression: "...I wasted a torpedo. This is a painful lesson..."
Feng Guang is only twenty-three years old, but he graduated from Haikou Submarine School with a serious official accent, and his tone of voice sounds very old-fashioned. Because whenever he sums up his experience, he must have learned "painful lessons", so he was given the nickname Feng Guang. , the troops lacked actual combat, and when they entered the battle for the first time, the torpedo operators were inevitably nervous. They clearly fired two torpedoes, but they fired three torpedoes. The Song-class ship carried a total of eight torpedoes when it entered the sea. The torpedoes were used After that, we can only find supply points for replenishment. Although the Haikou Fleet Headquarters did not issue hard targets for this trip, when Xu Kai and the others discussed in private, each ship had assigned combat missions, wasting a torpedo. , maybe it will affect whether they can complete the combat mission, and if other submarines have completed it, they have not met the standard. This will be unacceptable to the S-002 ship, which attaches great importance to honor.
The reprimanded torpedo operator's face turned red, tears glistened in his eyes, and he almost cried. Seeing this, Xu Kai put down the bowl and comforted him: "Okay, it's your first time, so it's inevitable to be nervous."
"Commander, another target is coming." The excited voice of sonar soldier Zhang Youhai suddenly sounded in the war room. Xu Kai immediately stood up and said: "Enter the post and prepare to fight." Then he walked to Zhang Youhai and listened from his ear. He took off the receiver and put it on, listened quietly for a while and said: "There are quite a few, Zuo Dayang, dive down immediately and send the signal."
"Yes." Zuo Dayang immediately ran to the cockpit,
Three oil tankers were sunk in the waters between the Philippines and Taiwan. After receiving the report, Koizumi Toshiichiro did not dare to take it lightly. While dispatching an anti-submarine fleet composed of six destroyers as the main force to the waters, he called Masaharu Honma, He hoped that he could use part of the Soryu escort fleet to patrol the waters. At this time, what Zhang Youhai detected was the anti-submarine fleet sent by Koizumi and a Japanese transport fleet that they caught up with on the road.
Ten minutes later, S-002 surfaced and sent out a warning wave, and then headed northeast at the highest water speed.
The shape of the Song-class submarine imitates the post-modern semi-drop shape (commonly known as the big nose). The submarine speed of this shape is not much different from the speed on the water. However, because it can only rely on the battery to provide power when underwater, it must If you are traveling a long distance, you can only choose to sail on the water.
While the submarines of other countries are still similar in appearance to surface ships, so their speed is greatly limited, Xuebingjun's half-drop-shaped Song-class is already far ahead of the world. In terms of speed alone, the Song-class The water navigation speed is already comparable to those of heavy cruisers.
Ordinary Japanese didn't know this, and Koizumi didn't have the opportunity to see it in person, so when there were six destroyers providing anti-submarine protection, they took it for granted that American submarines would not risk another sneak attack, so along the way, Japanese merchant ships The sailors became more courageous. When they had free time, they gathered on the deck to look at the blue sky and blue sea, and then looked at the anti-submarine fleet accompanying the voyage. Their tense heartstrings were relaxed as never before.
The frequent dispatches of aviation units by the Taiwan Strait Aviation Corps once made Masaharu Honma afraid to send the aviation units on the Soryu aircraft carrier to reinforce Paranaque, which led to the failure of the 6th Marine Division to snipe the US-Philippine coalition forces breaking out of Manila, and even more Because of this incident, Honma was often scolded by the military. However, when His Majesty the Emperor was furious, Honma did not dare to let it go anymore. At the same time, he was worried about repeating the fate of the Phoenix aircraft carrier fleet. The whole army was destroyed, so he simply sent out the entire Canglong aircraft carrier fleet.