Deng Jieqian is quite decisive in his decision, but he is very careful about this operation, this time, unlike the last time, the last time, the opponent's escort fleet is only 4 ships, as long as the first wave of saturation attack torpedoes, the 4 escort fleets are basically heavily damaged, and the problem is solved, now 2 heavy cruisers, 4 light cruisers, and a huge fleet of 12 escort destroyers, even if 31 submarines gather, it is impossible to kill them at one time, even if there are more submarines, after all, the angle, the position, The more fleets, the more unexpected scenes, for submarines, the fault tolerance rate is quite low, any omission may cause devastating consequences.

Then it is necessary to make a trade-off, in the reports sent back by the reconnaissance plane several times, Deng Jieqian is very clear that the two heavy cruisers should be the Minotaur-class armored cruisers built by the British Navy in 1905, and there are perfect pictures of various types of British warships in China, in the current era when dreadnoughts and battle cruisers play the main role, such armored cruisers of nearly 15,000 tons have basically become a swan song.

But it is undeniable that such two ships are powerful, in the time and space where Yang Yuanzhao is located, during the First World War, these two heavy cruisers also participated in the Battle of Jutland, although they did not play much role, but once the strongest cruiser in the British Empire, the glory of the armored cruiser, is still supported by them, from 1905 to 10 years, it is not particularly outdated, Britain has maintained a strong force for a long time on the battleship.

The power of the 2 cruisers is sufficient, and they are a threat to many cruisers. Unless you run into a nemesis Battlecruiser, but for submarines. Deterrence is almost equal to zero, so. In terms of choice, Deng Jieqian almost naturally gave up the first wave of attacking him, and chose the first wave of attacking small ships, the relationship between the angle of their escort fleet, the maximum number of attacks in the first wave was about 10, that is, the attack of 8 warships that had to be abandoned.

If you can't hit the opponent hard at the first time, you must withstand a wave of counterattacks from the opponent, at this time. It is not the number of torpedoes that restricts the power of submarines, but the angle of the submarine, and this must be taken into account, and the battle plan must also be as stable as possible. Two mounted cruisers occupy two places, and next, between trade-offs, two of the four light cruisers also occupy two places, relative to the threat of destroyers to submarines. The light patrol is a little worse, and the most important thing is that these two light cruisers are still a little old-fashioned. Although the launch pads with depth charges were added, they were not in the right number, much worse than the other two cutting-edge ones.

As for the choice of destroyers. There is not so much hesitation, first determine the plan. Then when the time comes, how to play smoothly. As long as the first wave of attacks is realized, the next step should be able to push step by step.

In 15 minutes, the battle plan was sent to everyone before, the attack position of the fleet was limited, the first wave of attack, only 21 submarines would be used, they were the most saturated attack, and the remaining 10 ships were ambushed, and when the other side counterattacked, they were blocked and confused, and in more than 3 hours, Deng Jieqian and the staff officers in the rear deduced more than a dozen plans, and the final plan could not be said to be perfect, but under the premise of ensuring safety as much as possible, As for the best results, it depends on the improvisation of the war.

Calm sea, calm waves, today is a good weather, different from the rainy weather, visibility is not high, easy to hide, under this weather, maybe the submarine is a little shallow, the naked eye may see through the water layer, but the Qin-class submarine uses some materials, so that he is not easy to be exposed in the calm water.

The radio waves are below the sea level, constantly transmitting, the first wave of 21 submarines have been in place, although the ship group is in flux, but the position of the escort fleet is relatively fixed, 21 submarines are in place one after another, the nearest is even only 200 meters away from the battleship, of course, his target is not this battleship, but the one more than 400 meters away, although it is said that in the first wave, the big guy has been removed, but such a huge body, a huge length of more than 100 meters, still very conspicuous.

One by one in place, in the periscope observed from a distance, did not see any changes, the ship slowly moved forward, this short few minutes, in anyone's mind, there is a feeling of living like a year, finally, of course, the last submarine is in place, in order to avoid a long night, Deng Jieqian decisively issued the order to launch.

It took only a few seconds for the radio waves to be sent to each of the attack submarines, and of course the reconnaissance planes that were also connected to this channel also heard it, and Herbert was excited, and after hearing the telegraph operator's report, he said loudly: "Go, go!" ”

I don't know if the captain is also anxious, the afterburner turned on in an instant, and the reconnaissance plane quickly began to accelerate from a speed of about 180 kilometers, and soon accelerated to a speed of 540 kilometers, 50 kilometers, and at most 6 minutes can fly to the sky above the combat sea area, and even because of the relationship in the air, after 4 minutes, they can see the battle situation on the opposite side, provided that they use the reconnaissance plane, special optical reconnaissance equipment.

Today is a good weather, the entire sea area, a glance cloudless, although for the submarine sneak attack is not the best weather, for observation, it is really a good weather, not even the clouds to obscure, because the first wave of attacks has begun, the reconnaissance aircraft do not even have to rise to more than 6000 meters in the air, but gradually downward, lower altitude, can be seen more clearly.

The reconnaissance plane is approaching rapidly, but it takes at least four minutes to reach a position that can be seen, and for a submarine sneak attack, let alone four minutes, one minute is an incomparably long time, and the battle may be clear in a very short time.

21 submarines, the first wave only fired 84 torpedoes, 6 launch tubes did not all launch out, the reason is very simple, the shooting area is not enough, the experience gained the day before, for the escort fleet of the trajectory of action, have a deeper understanding, do not use the range to increase the hit rate, this is at least save more than 40 torpedoes, this is an unimaginable ship group, the size of the ships add up to 60, the more torpedoes saved, the easier it is to produce results in the next rapid attack.

As before, before the launch, no one found the submarine, but this navy, it seems to be more trained, at least the reaction speed is much faster, not like yesterday, when the torpedo hits the battleship, there is not much change, before the torpedo just starts to fire, they hear the sound of torpedo firing in the sonar. The reason is very simple, to put it bluntly, this naval fleet is controlled by the whole British army, and the last fleet is the United States, Britain and the United States are both maritime powers, and they both have maritime traditions, but in terms of strength, the British still have the upper hand.

At least 10 destroyers have reacted, even if it is impossible to determine whether it is a submarine or a torpedo, they have already accelerated their speed, I have to say that their reaction is very fast, but unfortunately, the speed of the flying torpedo is far beyond their imagination, under the high speed of 65 knots, within 1000 meters, it may only be a few seconds, at this time, even if the destroyer can accelerate how much, when the torpedo is launched, it also takes into account the amount of advance of part of the part, and among the 10 targets targeted, none of them escaped the torpedo attack, At most, it used to be a vital location, but now, it has become a different location.

Of the 84 torpedoes, 33 hits, 28 of which were hit by 10 destroyers, and 5 hit the merchant ships that were close at hand.

No matter how the sonar listens, the sound of the Qin-class submarine is less than 110 decibels, coupled with the deliberate use of a slower speed, the sound is reduced to about 100 decibels, which is somewhat beyond the scope of the first generation of sonar in the United States, although they know that they are being attacked by submarines, but they don't know who the other party is, and they disperse to the destroyer, and can only drop depth charges in the possible area.

It has to be said that this escort fleet is quite outstanding in terms of anti-submarine configuration, and the destroyers are all of the specifications of eight depth charge launching pads, and in just one minute, in an area of 500 meters, at least 1,000 depth charges were dropped.

However, they still made a mistake, after they accelerated, they were 1,000 meters away from the ship's group, throwing depth charges, but the submarine was controlled to a considerable degree due to the sound, the nearest was less than 200 meters, and the farthest was not more than 600 meters, and after the attack, they took the initiative to go to the bottom of the group, the most dangerous place, and the safest place, where no one would throw depth charges.

It was this arrangement that allowed the first wave of attacks on 21 submarines to avoid the attack of depth charges, otherwise, with the crazy strength of the opponent to launch depth charges, there might be a little bit of friction and so on.

However, in this way, the 21 submarines responsible for the attack will not have a second wave of attacks, after all, the current ship group is like a fried cat, any slightest wind and grass will alarm him, the advantage of the submarine is a sneak attack, and no longer a direct attack, the destroyer and the submarine have an obvious imbalance, if the destroyer really scatters depth charges, the submarine will be really unlucky. (To be continued.) )