In the southern part of the Pacific Ocean, the waters are vast and calm. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoOriginally, it was never the main shipping route for merchant ships from all over the world. Especially after the opening of the Panama Canal, there are few boat tracks here.

However, after the Chinese Navy's aircraft carrier fleet attacked the Panama Canal and blew up the canal's gates, this originally remote route suddenly became lively. Sailing on this route were mainly American merchant ships. These merchant ships were requisitioned by the U.S. government to transport troops, weapons and equipment, as well as war materiel, to Australia and other Australian islands.

On the one hand, the United States built a west coast defense line on the west coast to prevent the Chinese empire from attacking the United States. On the other hand, it is to strengthen the military deployment in Australia as much as possible, so that it can hold back the Chinese Empire in Australia and buy more time for the United States.

Of course, the Chinese Empire would not allow the United States to arbitrarily transport these troops and supplies to Australia. Sending fleets to patrol these waters, or deploying ocean-going submarines to break up diplomatic relations in these waters, became the Imperial Navy's main method of dealing with the United States.

Of course, this was mainly due to the fact that the main fleet of the Imperial Navy was being repaired inside the shipyard. The main force of the Imperial Navy's Pacific Fleet, although it defeated the U.S. Navy in the Battle of Hawaii. And in the following major battles, the US Navy's Pacific Fleet was wiped out in one fell swoop. However, the long ocean voyage has affected the performance of many warships of the fleet. Aircraft carriers, in particular, need to enter the dock for repair and maintenance. This greatly reduced the number of warships that the Imperial Navy could use for a time. Otherwise, the Imperial Navy would have completed the blockade of Australia long ago. If the United States wants to send troops and transport supplies to Australia, it is simply impossible.

In addition, the Imperial General Staff actually welcomed such an approach by the Americans. It would be better for the Americans to send more troops and war materials to Australia, so that the empire could deal with these American troops closer to the mainland, than to land in the Americas in the future and fight these American troops at the doorstep of the Americans. Although the population of the United States is quite large, mobilizing tens of millions of troops is enough to reach the sky. If the empire can annihilate hundreds of thousands or even more American troops in Australia, this will create better conditions for the empire to land in the Americas in the future.

As for whether the United States will use this time to vigorously develop armaments. The Empire is not worried about this. The Americans are developing armaments, will the empire be idle? The military strength of the empire has always been suppressed by the United States. The United States is building aircraft carriers on a large scale, and the empire has not fallen. In the shipyards of the Empire, eight cutting-edge D-class aircraft carriers are also under construction. As the Empire's mass-produced aircraft carrier in this naval battle, the combat effectiveness of the D-class aircraft carrier cannot be underestimated. Even compared with the U.S. Navy's 'Essex-class' aircraft carriers, it will definitely not fall behind. Coupled with the strength advantage of carrier-based aircraft and pilots, the Imperial Navy will still have the upper hand. Even in the event of a large-scale naval battle with the U.S. Navy in the future, the Empire's chances of victory will be greater.

Let the United States keep sending troops to Australia and encircle them there. Even on the way to deal with them with submarines and cruisers, weakening the US Navy, became a plan of the Reich General Staff. This program has a name called 'bloodletting'. This means that the United States is constantly bleeding, and this process may take a long time. But as the United States bleeds more and more, in the end they will find that they are already in a very weak state. At that time, they wanted to defeat the Chinese Empire again, which was even more foolish's dream.

"Whoa!" A loud splash sounded, and a pitch-black submarine emerged from the sea like a big black fish.

The sea water slid off the hull of the submarine and fell into the sea with a 'boom' sound, as if it were raining.

This reminder of the huge submarine is the 'killer whale-class' submarine of the Imperial Navy, and it is also the main ocean-going submarine currently equipped by the Imperial Navy. The Imperial Navy is already armed with at least two hundred and forty submarines of this type. In addition, in the shipyard, sixty more submarines of this type are under construction or awaiting construction. That is, the armament program of submarines of this class reached a full three hundred.

After the construction of 300 'Orca-class' submarines, the Imperial Navy will not build any more submarines of this type. Rather, the construction of the next generation of real submarines began. Today's submarines can be called ships that can dive and fight at best. Most of the time, it is still sailing on the water. Only in case of emergency or combat will they dive. However, real submarines spend most of their time underwater, and only when they are charged, they need to float up, or charge through the exhaust pipe. In addition, real submarines will be faster underwater than on the water, and they will not have the same sharp bow as the 'Killer Whale-class' submarines and those that preceded them.

On the shell of this submarine, Q108 is written in white paint, which is the number of this submarine.

After the submarine surfaced, the hatch was opened. Although at that moment, the cold sea water inevitably fell inside, it still could not stop the enthusiasm of the submariners to get out of the submarine. Staying in a small space inside a submarine for a long time can be very uncomfortable. Therefore, the crew usually cherishes every opportunity to go afloat.

Several submarine sailors got out of the submarine and greedily breathed in the sea breeze that was waiting outside. This air is much better than the turbid air inside the submarine. Some of the crew members even started smoking. In order to maintain the air quality inside the submarine, smoking is prohibited inside the submarine.

A captain officer was the last to get out of the submarine, and he was the captain of the submarine, named Cheng Hai, who was only twenty-nine years old this year.

"Captain, come on, smoke one." A sailor handed a cigarette to Captain Cheng Haihai.

Captain Cheng Haihai was not polite, and directly ordered it.

"Dog *day*, I don't know what's going on this trip? It's been half a month since I came out, and I haven't encountered a single American merchant ship. Did we forget to look at the yellow calendar when we left the port? Captain Cheng Haihai scolded.

"Who knows! Perhaps the Americans were afraid of being killed by us and did not dare to take this route again. A sailor said.

Before the outbreak of World War I, the Reich received German colonies in the Pacific from Germany. Later, the empire began to build these colonies, and many of the islands built airports and ports. In some ports with good hydrological conditions, submarine bases have been secretly built. The submarine, which changed Q108, departed from a port in the Solomon Islands.

"Shit! Unless the Americans are going to give up Australia. Otherwise, they would not have stopped transporting troops and war materiel to Australia. As long as we hold this route, we will always be able to catch the American merchant ships. Captain Cheng Haihai disagreed.

After the Panama Canal was destroyed by the Chinese Navy's carrier-based aircraft, the United States had only two routes to transport troops and war materials to Australia, one was to detour through South America and take the South Pacific. The other is to take a detour to South Africa and take the southern Indian Ocean. On both routes, the Imperial Navy sent a large number of submarines. Half of the more than 200 ocean-going submarines are deployed in these areas.

It's just that both the southern Indian Ocean and the South Pacific Ocean are too vast. The American fleet, after being sunk a lot by the submarines of the Chinese Navy, also learned to behave. They often change routes, even on their own. In the vast ocean, it is undoubtedly very difficult to find their traces.

"Hurry up and change the next batch of crew members to come up and breathe." Captain Cheng Haihai said.

It is impossible for all the crew members in the submarine to come up at once to breathe, and they often need to be rotated.

"Yes, Captain." The other sailors hurriedly accelerated the speed of smoking.

"Lao Tzu doesn't believe in evil, and I don't believe in merchant ships that can't catch the Americans." Captain Cheng Haihai said secretly.

Those submariners didn't know that Captain Cheng Haihai actually had another identity, he was the youngest son of Imperial Navy Marshal Cheng Biguang. Although Marshal Cheng Biguang has retired, he is still a highly respected figure in the Imperial Navy. It stands to reason that Captain Cheng Haihai could have changed to an easy and safe job, but Captain Cheng Haihai still recognized himself as a submariner. In this regard, Marshal Cheng Biguang also supported it. In his opinion, there is nothing special about his son. The same should go to the battlefield for the country, whether it is as a submariner or otherwise, as long as you contribute to the country, even if you die on the battlefield, it should be.

"Captain, a telegram from the base." The first lieutenant came out.

After reading the telegram, Captain Cheng Haihai laughed.

"Haha, I knew our luck wasn't going to be so bad all the time. All the staff returned to their positions and set off immediately. Five hundred kilometers east of us, there is a flotilla of Americans. We need to rush and form a formation with a few other submarines and take out this fleet in one fell swoop. Captain Cheng Haihai laughed.

When submarines perform tasks at sea, they often choose to attack in formation composed of several submarines or even more submarines, which can greatly improve the hit rate. It is also a great threat to the enemy fleet. If there is not enough escort fleet, once it encounters such a submarine formation, it will often be strangled.

This tactic also has a resounding name, that is, wolves. In normal times, these submarines operate underwater as if they were lone wolves. As soon as the need arises, they form wolf packs and round up their targets. (To be continued.) )