Damn it, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but cursed in his heart, how narrow can the waterway between the Miao Island Islands be?
To say narrow, the water channel at Scapa Naval Port in England is narrow, right? Mines, sunken ships, iron chains, and anti-submarine nets make the narrowest part only a few meters.
But just a few years later, Captain Bryan of Germany drove U-47 and entered the harbor in the middle of the night, sank a battleship, came out again, and escaped unscathed!
There is also the Strait of Gibraltar, one of the narrowest straits in the world. It is as narrow as a needle nose, and the middle is crowded with British destroyers. However, in order to support the Italian and North African battlefields, Germany has U-boats in the belly of the destroyers.
Traveling back and forth underground, in and out.
How do people do it?
Take a look at our Bohai Strait. The map is hanging there. If you make a rough visual inspection based on the scale below, you will see that a small city can fit in any of those "narrow waterways"!
The widest section in the north, if you calculate it mentally based on the scale, it is not 40 kilometers but 30 kilometers, which is more than enough to fit two Nanjings! Is this reasonable?
I want to explain that the level of the North Korean captain and the German captain are different and cannot be compared, but is this true?
The waterway of the Yangtze River is narrow, right? It's only a thousand meters. There are shoals, small sandbanks, and mines on both sides of the river. But my Qiu Qiu still drives a submarine and hangs out every once in a while at night. He even sank a Qing Dynasty destroyer.
, got the medal!
When it comes to personnel level, Xiang Xiaoqiang doubts whether Qing Dynasty destroyer captains can be even half as good as the tried-and-tested British captains.
Destroyers mainly rely on acoustic detectors to catch submarines. However, this kind of thing has been monopolized by the British after World War I. I don’t know if this technology has spread in this time and space.
But Xiang Xiaoqiang knew that even in the early days of World War II, the effective range of that thing was only more than 2,000 meters, and it had to be in very good sea conditions. How about now, several years earlier?
And that thing is very troublesome. It doesn’t work if it’s too far away, and it doesn’t work if it’s too close. It doesn’t work if it’s too fast, and it doesn’t work if it’s too slow. And it doesn’t work at all when the submarine floats to the surface. In the era without radar, it can only
Depends on visual inspection.
Therefore, a common method for submarines to "sneak across" is to sneak near the strait during the day, surface at night, and take advantage of the dark moon and high winds to fully activate the diesel propeller and pass through at full speed.
The submarine is so low that as long as the moon is not too bright at night, it cannot be seen at all.
Day, Xiang Xiaoqiang secretly cursed in his heart, even I, a military fan, know this common sense, but you real navy people don’t know it? Damn it, pretend not to know!
"Your Excellency," a general wearing an exquisite blue-black general's uniform stood up and bowed slightly, "please allow me to say a few words."
"Oh? Oh, hehe, okay," Chief Yang said in a daze, "Oh, you are... oh no, just say it."
Shen Rongxuan interrupted at this time:
"Master Yang, this is General Qi, the commander-in-chief of the Navy's submarine force."
After Shen Rongxuan made such an introduction, he also emphasized the word "Navy". Everyone murmured that this deputy commander of the navy did not even recognize his own general. No matter whether Deputy Commander Yang made a mistake or not, the professional feeling he just gave people
The light was instantly canceled out.
Vice-Chang Yang also felt that the atmosphere was abnormal, glanced at Shen Rongxuan and General Qi, and said unhappily:
"Well, tell me."
"My lord, my lords," Commander Qi bowed to the left and right and said, "The Bohai Strait, as the lord said, is really tightly sealed. But as the saying goes, 'a hundred dense and one sparse', there are seven waterways in total in the Bohai Strait.
, at least three of them have relatively vast sea surfaces. As for the Puppet Qing Dynasty, not every island in this string of Miao Island Islands is garrisoned. Only Beihuangcheng Island, Daqinxiang Island, Tuoji Island, and Changdao are stationed.
Observation posts are only installed on the larger islands. As for patrol ships, there is only a simple military port on the southernmost Long Island, where three to five destroyers are usually parked. Regular patrols between the islands are usually only a few
A torpedo boat is here to carry out the operation, and destroyers are not usually dispatched."
He paused, smiled slightly, and continued:
"My Lord Deputy Chief also believes that the 'tight blockade' mentioned by the Vice Chief is true. But Lord Deputy Chief may only be talking about surface ships. It is true that for traditional surface ships, such a blockade can be said to be tight.
However, submarines are a new weapon that only appeared in the past twenty years. The deputy chief is a senior and is busy with government affairs all day long, so he may not know much about it. The biggest feature of submarines is that they can move in a concealed manner. Even if they are floating, they can only reach 30% of the power.
One part is exposed on the water, and the target is extremely small. In addition, it can completely submerge when passing through blocked waters, making it more difficult to be discovered by the opponent."
Commander Qi's words were not very respectful. He said that Vice-Commander Yang was a "senior" and "didn't know much about him". On the one hand, he was insinuating that his professional level was low, and on the other hand, he was implying that he was a traditional big-ship and artillery person. See,
Less than the advantages of emerging ships.
There was a reason why he dared to speak like this to Shangguan.
The navy of the Ming Dynasty, like the navies of the United States and Japan, both belonged to the "separation of political and order" system, that is, the military and political system and the military order system were integrated.
The highest organ of the military and political system is the Ministry of the Navy. From the Lord of the Navy and the Undersecretary to the accountants and typists below, they all belong to the civilian establishment. They are usually only responsible for administrative work such as army building policies, military budgets, policies and laws, officer promotions, and logistics management, as well as
It speaks on behalf of the navy in the DPRK. Generally, it has no involvement in the affairs of the fleet below.
The highest organ of the military order system is the Naval General Staff, which is the place that can actually command wars. Daily operations and training of fleets are under the control of the General Staff. It can command and mobilize major fleets, designate campaign battle plans, and draw from different fleets as needed.
Deploy different ship types to form a task force, etc.
Undersecretary Yang is from the Navy Ministry, and Commander Qi is from the General Naval Staff. Although the Undersecretary of the Navy is administratively higher than the Commander-in-Chief of the Submarine Force, people in military affairs can never control those with military orders. Secondly, this Yang
The deputy commander's own level is really not that good, so Commander Qi can ignore him.
However, in front of so many outsiders, who were also members of the Navy, Commander Qi still gave Shangguan the necessary respect. Although these words were not disrespectful, they were also said in a polite manner.
Deputy Commander Yang was very unhappy. He felt that as a superior, his authority had been challenged. He snorted, put on his airs and said:
"Commander Qi, you said that I don't understand submarines? As the deputy chief of the Navy, how can I not understand every type of ship in the navy? During the World War, I was in the Navy Department. Yes, Germany's
Restricted Submarine Warfare', submarines did have some limelight for a while. However, later the Allies adopted the fleet escort system, and submarines were immediately helpless. Yes, submarines are an emerging ship type, but Commander Qi, don't forget, this' emerging ship type
'It is also recognized as an obsolete type of ship. With the invention of acoustic detectors, submarines have nowhere to hide on the sea. Now they are mostly sneaking around, like thieves. If they have a chance, they will do something. If they don't, they will stay at home and do nothing.
Huh, as the commander of the submarine force, you should know this situation better than me, right?"
Xiang Xiaoqiang sat down and listened to these words, dumbfounded.
"Submarines are going to be obsolete." This argument is indeed a common view among navies of various countries after the end of World War I.
After the failure of the German submarine war in World War I, everyone's idea of "giant ships and artillery", which had been slightly shaken, became solid again.
Traditionally, naval battles mainly rely on battleships. British Admiral Chatfield has a famous saying: "The battleship is like the 'queen' on the chessboard, the ultimate master of the sea. Losing it means losing the game."
Of course, if it's Chinese chess, it's the "rook", the same thing.
In modern times, torpedo boats have emerged. They are cheap and plentiful, have small targets, are extremely fast, and carry deadly torpedoes, scurrying around the sea like mice, which brings great consequences to expensive and bulky battleships. threaten.
Fortunately, torpedo boats could not sail long distances. Later, equally flexible destroyers were developed to kill torpedo boats, and the status of battleships became stable again.
During World War I, submarines showed their prowess again. Although they were not fast, they were invisible and could travel long distances. Surface ships had never dealt with such a thing, and there was basically nothing they could do against it.
Later, a fleet escort system was adopted, which concentrated merchant ships to sail together and sent destroyers to escort them. The chances of submarines were reduced. Later, acoustic detectors were invented. Submarines were also lagging behind at that time, and they had to get very close when firing torpedoes. , so the acoustic detector is still very useful.
In addition, Germany was defeated and all remaining submarines were scuttled, which brought an end to submarine warfare. In people's minds, this kind of thing was at an end. As a result, the navies of various countries returned to the "cannon club".
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Thinking of this, Xiang Xiaoqiang couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Out of date? Haha, it's early!
A few years later, how did Germany almost break Britain's neck? Submarine!
Decades later, what would the Soviet Union rely on to confront the American aircraft carrier battle group? Submarines!
When a nuclear war breaks out, the end of the world comes, and the land is scorched, how can we launch a second strike against the opponent? Or submarines!
During the Taiwan Strait Missile Crisis, why did the US aircraft carrier that had entered the Taiwan Strait suddenly withdraw? It is said that it was discovered that two nuclear submarines were missing from the Qingdao Naval Base in China!
If Hitler hadn't been like you members of the Artillery Club, short-sighted and only recognized battleships and refused to build large numbers of submarines, World War II would have been won!
Alas, what should I say? This may be the trouble of time travellers.