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 Yamamoto placed the island in the crosshairs of the combined fleet.
Little did they know, it was the submarine force of the Xuebing Army that was waiting for an opportunity to attack its transport fleet in the South China Sea.
No wonder the Japanese look westward - it is too difficult for a country with a shallow industrial foundation to build a large-scale navy. What about the warlord arm of the Xuebing Army? It took five years to build a two- to three-hundred-ton navy.
Starting with torpedo boats, 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 has been stumbling along the way. 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 20 Ming-class submarines, and 13 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 regardless of
Whether it is the Haikou Fleet or the Dongshan Fleet, the most popular 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.
The brigade has a total of fifty ships.
The German Dönitz formed a wolf pack of a single type of submarine and hunted the American and British transport fleets and escort fleets in the Atlantic Ocean unscrupulously. He gained a strategic lead with a weak naval force and caused the United Kingdom and the United States to suffer a lot. As
As a time traveler, it is impossible for Ouyang Yun not to know the wolf pack tactic, and he also knows the reasons why the wolf pack tactic ultimately failed. That is why he vigorously developed torpedo boats and thought of using the speed advantage of torpedo boats to form a joint force with the submarine force.
In order to maintain a deterrent effect on the South China Sea and surrounding distant seas, and to establish a wolf pack advantage of using small ships to threaten large ships in the waters near the jurisdiction.
Sanya, Haikou, Yangjiang, Shanwei, Xiamen, Fuzhou, Tainan, Wenzhou, Taizhou, Zhoushan - the establishment of radar stations and supply docks in these coastal cities 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. A big picture opened instantly...
When Yamamoto Isoroku was scolded bloody by Emperor Hirohito on the phone, in a sea area about fifty kilometers away from Laoag, Luzon Island, Philippines, in the war room of a Song-class submarine that remained suspended, Xu Kai and
First mate Zuo Dayang each held a bowl of vegetable porridge that had been cooling for a long time. While drinking, he was listening to his trainees summarizing a recent raid.
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. When they entered the battle for the first time, the torpedo operators were inevitably nervous. They fired three torpedoes when they could easily handle it by launching two 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 Command did not issue hard targets for this trip to sea, when Xu Kai and the others discussed in private, each ship had assigned combat missions. A torpedo was wasted.
, maybe it will affect whether they can complete the combat mission. And if other submarines have completed it, but 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 was red, his eyes were glistening with tears, and he was about to cry. 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," sonar soldier Zhang Youhai's excited voice suddenly sounded in the war room. Xu Kai immediately stood up and said, "Get into position 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. What Zhang Youhai detected at this time 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 course.
The appearance of the Song-class submarine imitates the post-modern semi-drop shape (commonly known as the big nose). The submarine with this shape is similar to the underwater navigation and the above-water navigation. 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 navigation is greatly restricted, Xuebingjun's half-drop-shaped Song-class is already far ahead of the world. In terms of navigation alone, the Song-class
The water navigation speed is 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
The fall of the Cavite prisoner of war camp. Because of this incident, Honma was often scolded by the military. But 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 same fate as the Phoenix aircraft carrier fleet.
Facing the annihilation of the entire army, they simply dispatched the entire Canglong aircraft carrier fleet.