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Piaotian Literature of the Fourth Empire of China www.piaotia.com Chapter 702 The Disaster of the British and French Navy

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    The lucky escape made Lieutenant-General Howard, commander of the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, relieved.  However, looking at the chaotic sea, he had an ominous premonition in his heart.  The despicable Chinese Navy dispatched submarines to sneak attack the British and French navies. The British and French navies were completely unprepared for this and would obviously pay a heavy price for this.  After all, not every battleship has a destroyer willing to sacrifice itself to block torpedoes for them!

    "Order all destroyers and light cruisers to take action immediately to find those Chinese submarines and sink them all!" Lieutenant General Howard ordered.

    After the Chinese Navy started using submarines three years ago, the British Navy also started related research.  The United Kingdom has also designed its own submarines, but compared with the Chinese Navy's submarines, the performance gap is still relatively large.  However, there are some gains in countermeasures against submarines.  Enemy submarines can be sunk by dropping depth charges.  Although submarines attack in strange ways, they are also very fragile. If a depth charge explodes nearby, it will basically be a dead end!

    "Boom! Boom!" At this moment, a violent explosion came from the northern sea.  Lieutenant General Howard's face suddenly turned gloomy.  Because the battleship that was hit was the British Navy's HMS Defiance battleship.

    "May God bless the battleship 'Defiance'!" Vice Admiral Howard said silently.  He could only pray for God's blessing.

    It was the Chinese Navy¡¯s submarine No. 202 that attacked the battleship Defiance.  The captain is Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong, the deputy captain of the submarine brigade.  After passing through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, submarine No. 202 sailed north for a certain distance before surfacing.  When they surfaced, Submarine No. 201 had already begun to ask "Let?"  The battleship USS Barr attacked.  Of course Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong was unwilling to lose, and he immediately began to search for the target.

    The place where submarine No. 202 surfaced was not far from the battleship USS Defiance, only three kilometers away.  At this moment, being subjected to ¡®give?  The battleship USS Barr was frightened by the attack, and the battleship USS Defiance was accelerating and sailing north.  Submarine No. 202 is just ahead and to the left of the battleship Defiance.  If the battleship Defiance does not change its course, it will pass one kilometer in front of submarine No. 202.

    "Haha! The prey is coming! Prepare the torpedoes!" Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong ordered excitedly.

    Five minutes later, the battleship USS Defiance passed in front of submarine No. 202.  Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong immediately gave the order to fire.

    "Bang, bang!" Two low voices sounded, and two torpedoes rushed towards the battleship 'Resistance' quickly, leaving two long water marks on the sea.  At a distance of one thousand meters, two heavy torpedoes only need more than 60 seconds.

    On the decks on both sides of the battleship Defiance, there were already many sailors on alert. At the same time, dawn gradually arrived, and the sea was no longer pitch black.

    "On the right side, two torpedoes!" When the two torpedoes were still 400 meters away from the battleship USS Defiance, they were discovered by the sailors on the battleship USS Defiance, and they immediately shouted a warning.

    The battleship 'Defiance' immediately began an emergency turn in an attempt to avoid the torpedo.  However, the battleship Defiance is 160 meters long, so it will take a lot of time to complete the turn.  More than ten 76.2mm rapid-fire cannons on the starboard side of the Defiance also began to fire violently in an attempt to sink the torpedoes.  However, their approach was completely in vain.

    Twenty seconds later, two torpedoes hit the battleship Defiance one after another.  A torpedo exploded amidships of the battleship Defiance.  The British Navy's Dreadnought-class battleships have relatively weak armor. The armor on both sides is only 2.5 inches, or 63.5 mm, and the armor near the waterline is only 120 mm.  Such weak armor cannot withstand the attack of heavy torpedoes.  The weak armor was destroyed and several nearby compartments began to flood.  The damage control personnel of the battleship Defiance immediately closed the watertight doors and sealed the water-filled compartments, thus avoiding the risk of the ship sinking.

    The second torpedo hit near the stern of the ship, blowing up the steering gear and propeller of the battleship Defiance, causing the Defiance to lose its propulsion system and stop on the sea.  However, despite being severely damaged, the battleship Defiance was not in danger of being silenced.

    "Hell, we didn't sink that battleship! Prepare torpedoes!" Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong cursed secretly, preparing to launch a second attack.  At this time, the two destroyers of the British Navy had quickly rushed towards the location of submarine No. 202.

    "Captain, the British destroyer is coming, let's avoid the limelight first!" an officer suggested.

    ¡°No, this is a rare opportunity, sink the British battleship first!¡±Wu Hailong said stubbornly.

    "Bang! Bang!" A minute later, submarine No. 202 launched a second attack on the battleship "Defiance".  At this time, the two British Navy destroyers were less than 500 meters away from submarine No. 202.  The two destroyers opened fire wildly, and dense rapid-fire artillery shells fell around the No. 202 submarine, splashing water jets.

    "Emergency dive!" Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong ordered after the torpedo was launched.  At this time, they no longer had the extra energy to pay attention to the results of the two torpedoes. They first had to find a way to escape from the hunting of the British Navy destroyers.

    A large number of bubbles were discharged, seawater entered the No. 202 submarine, and the submarine began an emergency dive.  Within two minutes, the submarine dived to a depth of fifty meters underwater, and then began sailing south at a speed of 3 knots.

    At this time, the British Navy's destroyer had already rushed up.  After losing the trace of the Chinese submarine, they began to drop depth charges in an attempt to sink the Chinese submarine.

    "Boom! Boom!" Depth bombs exploded in the sea one after another, with huge power, forming water columns soaring into the sky on the sea surface.  Submarine No. 202 in the sea also suffered a big impact. The submarine's pressure hull made a "creak, creak" sound.  Fortunately, the depth charge did not explode near submarine No. 202, otherwise they would not be able to withstand it at all.

    "Dive another ten meters!" Even so, to be on the safe side, Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hailong ordered the submarine to dive again.  The maximum diving depth of the 'Shark Class' submarine is 70 meters, and 60 meters is not the limit.  Afterwards, Submarine No. 202 slowly left from under the sea and escaped safely.  And of the two torpedoes they launched for the second time, one missed, and the other accurately hit the battleship 'Resistance'.  The battleship, which had already suffered heavy damage, was completely sent to the bottom of the sea.

    During this process, other submarines also completed their attacks and began to evacuate under the encirclement and suppression of destroyers by the British and French navies.

    Ten submarines launched an attack, and except for one which was sunk by depth charges of the British and French navies, the remaining nine all left safely.  However, they achieved great results.  The British Navy's battleship HMS Defiance was sunk, and the French Navy's 'Give?  The battleship "Bar" was sunk, the battleship "Paris" was sunk, the battleship "France" was severely damaged, and the battle was lost. Of the intact battleships, only the battleship "Formidable" of the British Navy and the "Formidable" battleship of the French Navy were left.  The battleship 'Guba'.  In addition, two armored cruisers were sunk and a light cruiser was sunk.  Such losses caused the British and French navies to lose most of their strength.

    At this time, the light of dawn has dispelled the darkness, and there is a lot of water on the sea.  The frightened British and French navies were still searching for traces of Chinese submarines, and a large number of depth bombs were thrown into the sea as if they were free of charge.  However, it only killed some passing sea fish and was of no use at all.

    "Asshole! How did it become like this?" Vice Admiral Howard of the British Navy's Mediterranean Fleet could not believe what he was seeing. Three battleships were sunk and one was severely damaged. This greatly damaged the strength of the British and French navies.  Next, what they should consider is not how to block the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, but how to save their lives.

    At this time, huge pillars of smoke rose from the sea in the south.

    The sirens sounded, and the warships of the British and French navies still cruising in the main channel of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait sounded the sirens.

    The Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet, led by two 'Qin-class' battleships, the 'Qin Shihuang' and the 'Prince Fusu', entered the Bab el-Mandeb Strait and rushed north quickly.  Several light cruisers and destroyers of the British and French navies on the main channel were unable to resist and retreated one after another.

    "General, the main force of the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet is coming. What should we do now?" Lieutenant General Howard's adjutant reported with a look of horror.  The British and French navies have lost two-thirds of their battleships. How can they be an opponent of the Chinese Navy's Indian Ocean Fleet, which has two "Qin-class" battleships and two "Zhonghua-class" battleships.

    Vice Admiral Howard is also very worried. Now that the British and French navies have been greatly damaged, they are obviously no match for the Chinese navy. If they continue to resist, they will only die.  However, if it retreats and the Chinese navy enters the Red Sea, the army's logistics supply line will be ruined.  By then, the hundreds of thousands of British and French troops fighting in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will be dead.

    After hesitating for a few seconds, Lieutenant General Howard issued an order: "Report our encounter to the Navy Department truthfully. In addition, send a telegram to the four battleships cruising in the Mediterranean, asking them to immediately enter the Red Sea through the Suez Canal and prepare to fight with China.  Naval decisive battle! Let's go north immediately and join the reinforcements!" (To be continued. Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!)
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