Chapter 984: Destroying the Japanese Army is not normal
There are more than 200 Allied submarines within 50 nautical miles in front of the Allied Combined Fleet, and they do not yet know that the current diving limit is only 200 meters, and submarines that can only rise to the surface of the sea at cruising speed can only be the prey of anti-submarine helicopters.
Most of the submarines here are P\O\V\H submarines of the British army, and only a few U.S. submarines are submarines, which is also the habit of each with war.
A large O-type Oxley-class submarine is diving 10 meters below the sea surface, and the underwater horsepower of this kind of submarine with a length of 283 feet is only 1,400 horses, which obviously cannot be compared with the German U-series submarines, and even more far from being compared with the high-speed submarine with an underwater thrust of up to 3,000 horses of the Swordfish class, which destroyed the Japanese medium-sized submarine, but it can be regarded as an advanced submarine among the Allied forces.
The pitch-black submarine was not coated with stealth paint like the submarine that destroyed the Japanese army, and it was not easy for ships sailing on the surface of the sea to spot the submarine, and an anti-submarine helicopter that could cruise at an altitude of 300 meters above the sea surface could see this huge underwater black shadow from a distance.
"Seagull 037 discovered the target, the British Oxley-class submarine, whose voiceprint identified as the Ottawa of the Mediterranean Fleet; Target locked, attack confirmed"
The helicopter pilot's report was transmitted back to the screen in front of Xu Fei, Xu Fei watched quietly, and an anti-submarine missile mounted on the left side of the anti-submarine helicopter instantly broke away from the hook and shot straight into the sea in an arc in the air.
A huge wave of seawater formed a column of water and rose into the sky, and less than a minute later, under the helicopter surveillance image, countless wrecks began to float rapidly on the already calm sea. And the huge underwater black shadow was tearing open and slowly sinking to the bottom of the sea.
"The target is confirmed to be destroyed, and Seagull 037 continues to look for the target." The driver's calm voice came as if he hadn't killed a submarine and the fifty-three British soldiers inside.
With the 037 being the first to spot the Allied submarine, other search helicopters continued to spot Allied submarines around. Allied submarines that had not yet known that there were submarine missiles in the world began to be destroyed, and the continuous rise of water columns and debris on the surface of the sea left the mark of these submarines that had been here.
In less than half an hour, the anti-submarine helicopter unit of the task force had already eliminated more than 90 Allied submarines, and some of the remaining were supposed to escort around their fleet, which the Japanese did not care so much about.
On the giant battleship Wellington of the Chinese Army, Cunningham and James, commanders of the British Mediterranean Fleet and H Fleet, who had arrived in small speedboats, walked into the bridge and said loudly when they saw Halsey Cunningham:
"Commander Halsey. We still haven't broken out of the storm area, and if we get to the outside of Port Said, we won't be able to restore communication, and we'll have to fight on our own. ”
"It's still a small thing to go it alone. All our radars are now ineffective, and carrier-based aircraft do not dare to take off rashly, and we will be very passive if we go to war. James took off his hat and tucked it in his armpit, and said in a deep voice.
Under the continuous electromagnetic interference of the Japanese army, none of the Allied electronic devices could be used. It is now less than 160 nautical miles from Port Said. Three hours later is the best time to attack, and if they miss the sights of the destroyed Japanese army, their plan for a sea assault will fail.
However, these Allied naval commanders did not expect that the original first mixed fleet of the Japanese army had already gone to the coast of Turkey, and the main fleet in front was the task force led by Xu Fei himself, and now it was less than seventy nautical miles away from them, and the normal attack range of the two fleets was about to approach;
The fleet that could destroy the Japanese army was not normal in the first place, if it weren't for the fact that one of these warships didn't want to escape. At this point, the task force can launch a full-scale attack.
Halsey frowned and pondered, this was a magnetic storm at the time of launching a general attack at sea. This was not at all what they could have expected, and he scratched the chart with his pen, looked up at Cunningham and James, and said:
"We can't use radar and communications, and the same goes for the fleet that destroyed the Japanese army, but we need to contact the submarines that have been detected in advance, otherwise we can't determine the number of the Japanese fleet in Port Said and where it is."
Although Halsey felt a little pressure in his heart, he thought that these thousands of warships surrounded the tiny Port Said, even if it was bombarded indiscriminately, as long as he shot down somewhere, even if there were only a few battleships left, it would be considered a victory, but he thought that there were not many naval officers and sailors left in this fleet, and he still couldn't help but feel a kinship in his heart.
This time, in order to avoid the death of the commander first, the Allies implemented the plan of echelon succession of command, that is, according to the arrangement of military ranks, the way of dying the superior and subordinate commanders.
"Alright, let's go back to the flagship, Commander Halsey, and we'll keep in touch." Cunningham and James nodded.
The two commanders of the British fleet left, and Halsey began to calculate how to contact the reconnaissance submarines that had lost contact, at which moment the two small submarines of the United States Army were tightly entangled in the anti-submarine nets outside Port Said;
In the anti-submarine command room of the port, two red lights flashed continuously, and an officer on duty turned on the deep-water monitor, smiled, and pressed the shore-based anti-submarine missile launcher.
The Allied reconnaissance submarine was captured and destroyed, and the slightest message was not reached, let alone delivered.
Xu Fei quietly listened to the news from all sides, he first took a look at the situation on the land battlefield in Egypt, because the Allied front troops were completely annihilated, the commander-in-chief Alexander couldn't bear the pressure and went crazy, and the deputy commander-in-chief Jacob didn't know whether he was blown up and burned to death or shocked to death on the front line;
Stilwell's efficient analysis quickly made the right decision to retreat the whole army, and by this time the large force had already withdrawn nearly fifteen kilometers under the cover of echelons, and the tank and armored groups had already run fifty or sixty kilometers.
On the way of the retreat of the Allied forces, the tanks and cars that were constantly blown up were burning violently, and the thick black smoke twisted and changed in the explosion of the bombs that kept falling from the sky.
"Order, the Treasure Island to go around the western direction of the enemy fleet under the cover of the battleship Kunpeng, five destroyers, five cruisers, and ten submarines, so that they would not flee west after the battle;
The missile launch bays of the remaining ships were opened and ready to fire at any time, and the fleet was reduced to a reduced speed and the enemy opened full fire after entering the forty nautical miles;
The carrier-based aircraft of the Kunlun is ready to take off, the early warning aircraft is ready to take off, and the early warning aircraft of the land aviation are ready to replace the early warning planes of the land aviation, and the tanker planes are ready at any time. Xu Fei said coldly as he looked at the Allied fleet under satellite surveillance. (To be continued......)