Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 568
"However, if the Beiyang Fleet attacks in two directions, our forces will be dispersed, and our warships will suffer heavy losses." Deng Shichang, deputy chief of staff of the Ministry of the Navy, immediately took over the other party's words.

The conference room fell into silence again. The key now is to grasp the route of the fleet's attack. Before this information is obtained, everything is empty talk.

At this moment, Dai Li came to the conference room and put the just-deciphered naval telegram on the conference table.Sure enough, as Lin Jianzhang expected, the navy did not choose to attack Jeju Island directly, but first detoured south to the Philippine waters, and then suddenly accelerated northward to Jeju Island.Current intelligence shows that the United Fleet is less than half a day away from Jeju Island!
"I don't have time to discuss too much. I ordered the Beiyang Fleet to speed up and sail towards Jeju Island. It must arrive there before the United Fleet arrived. The branch will attack the western military port." Lin Jianzhang issued the final order.

"Yes!"

On the one hand, the main force of the Beiyang Fleet rushed to Jeju Island at full speed, on the other hand, the Third Submarine Brigade of the Empire has quietly scouted the fleet to the southern waters.

"How far are we from our first destination, Jeju Island?" In the cabin of the extremely luxurious Yamato battleship built.Navy Minister Yamamoto 56 asked Lieutenant General Takasu Shiro, his staff officer, while drinking sake.

"General, we will reach the waters of Jeju Island in 70 nautical miles!" Standing aside, Takasu Shiro did not dare to neglect, paused, and then said: "Your Excellency, I really don't understand, it only takes [-] miles to get there from Nagasaki. In the sea, it’s only half a day’s journey. Why do you have to stay outside for two days, and come here after a big circle around the Pacific Ocean, and the submarine hunters have to seal the route along the way? I think this is a bit too careful, after all, the Pacific Ocean The central part is still our territory, and it is very difficult for the Chinese to detect our intentions in such a short period of time. Besides, the enemy would never have thought that we would choose this path." He smiled slightly at this point.

"No! Takasu-kun." Hearing what the other party said, Yamamoto waved his hand slightly: "Sometimes things are not what you think. You know, the Chinese spy agencies and maritime investigation capabilities are very powerful. I guess the size of the other party The fleet should be waiting for our arrival somewhere at this time. Especially their aircraft carrier formation is the trump card of the Chinese." He suddenly raised his head when he said this: "By the way, the trace of the other party's aircraft carrier has not been found yet. Is it?"

"No sir." Takasu Shiro shook his head slightly, "According to the information just obtained, the Chinese aircraft carriers are not in the Weihai Navy Port, Hainan Jungang, or Fujian Military Port. At the same time, there are also Zhonghua-class battleships missing. But We haven’t seen any of these ships leaving the port in the past month. However, there are reports that the Chinese have recently widened the wharves in Wusong Port and Zhoushan Port, and there have been more and more oil tankers heading there recently, so I suspect that they are hiding there. It’s just that , where the Chinese have strengthened their vigilance, so our spies cannot infiltrate, nor can we thoroughly ascertain the exact information.”

"Understood! Then what we need to pay attention to now is the Chinese submarines." Yamamoto nodded slightly, then he suddenly raised his head and said loudly: "You tell me the commander of the submarine hunting team immediately, call their The warships are lined up on both wings and the front of the joint fleet. In addition, the anti-submarine nets are lowered. In short, I don’t want our fleet to be discovered by the other party here.” Speaking of this, Yamamoto shook his fist heavily.

"Before arriving at Jeju Island, all our fleets must maintain radio silence and communication control. In short, I don't want any news to be leaked! Do you understand?" Yamamoto suddenly became extremely severe.

Taking advantage of the gray weather in the evening, a huge Beiyang Fleet entered the naval port of Jeju Island.At the same time, Lin Tai, the commander in charge of this operation, had sent a large number of submarines to cruise near the southern part of Jeju Island, but he did not find the fleet mentioned in the intelligence, so he immediately shifted his target to the depths of the southern waters. The submarines and planes began to conduct large-scale reconnaissance along the waters from Jeju Island to the Philippines.But they found no trace of each other at all.

Lin Taizeng was a little bit at a loss, and immediately issued an order, requiring all submarine forces operating in the nearby waters to immediately find out the specific whereabouts of this huge fleet.Soon the order was sent by radio.So the guerrilla sea wolves near the Pacific Rim immediately acted and searched the entire sea area with a dragnet.However, due to the large area around the sea area and the relatively small number of submarines, after searching for a period of time, no clues were found.Faced with this situation, Lin Taizeng fell into fear. He was worried that the intelligence was wrong. The navy did not go to Jeju Island at all, but went straight to a weakly defended area along the coast of China. In that case, the matter would be too serious.

But at this moment, an unexpected discovery came.Not long ago, a submarine named Shark Hunter, which had just entered into service for the first time to participate in a combat patrol mission, was hastily sailing out of the Wusong Port exit to perform reconnaissance missions near the southern islands.They are going to replace the Blue Whale that is performing the blockade mission there.After sailing out of the military port, the boat began to dive, and at the same time turned off the engine, and drove south quietly with the help of ocean currents.

When traveling to an area 60 nautical miles away from Jeju Island, the boat's radar found several small spots.The distance from these points is about 75 nautical miles at a slow speed of 6 knots per hour.Seeing this situation, the captain immediately ordered to speed up and leaned up quietly.After three hours of chasing, they finally found the trace of the other party.This is a small escort formation, with a total of six cruise ships, but it is escorted by eight destroyers, and it is playing the plaster flag!

Obviously, in the eyes of the Shark Hunter, this was a big prey, so he immediately ordered his submarine to continue diving, and then quietly touched the opponent, preparing to grab a vote.They traveled around the warship for more than half an hour, and finally caught the fighter.It's a pity that because the Shark Hunter was still a novice, they were overly nervous during the battle, so when they were preparing to shoot, a destroyer suddenly turned its bow and rushed towards them.

"Damn, I was discovered by the other party!" The Chinese captain shook his fist heavily. "Dive urgently, I don't want to be hit by the opponent's depth charges!" He said while knocking on the operator's head.

Soon the submarine sank rapidly, and did not stop until it descended to a depth of 80 meters.Now all the people in the submarine stopped moving, and they looked over their heads very carefully.Waiting for the dense depth charges to drop from the sea.Fortunately for them, however, their submarine took correct evasive action.So the destroyer, lacking sonar, didn't see the submarine, and certainly didn't drop depth charges.However, the destroyer still cruised for a long time before leaving slowly.When the Shark Hunter surfaced from the deep sea, there was only an empty sea in front of him.

"Chase!" The captain gave the order decisively. After all, it would be a pity for him to slip away from such a piece of fat, so they turned on the radar and continued to chase according to the marked position.

In this way, after an hour of chasing, the submarine finally caught up with the opponent's fleet near Jeju Island.However, to the surprise of the Shark Hunter, they found countless bright spots through the radar.So the captain immediately ordered the submarine to quietly follow the cruise ship and get up.Outside the anti-submarine net set up by the opponent, through the periscope, he found countless big guys leaning north, that is, the direction of Jeju Island, "We hit the United Fleet! They are in the southeast of Jeju Island! "

Immediately after receiving the news, Lin Taizeng sent the Beiyang Fleet to assemble in that direction, and at the same time called the Ministry of Air Force, requesting air support from the air forces staying in North Korea.In addition to the threat of Chinese submarines under the water, it is not calm in the sky.

Just when the joint fleet entered the waters near Jeju Island, the two large airports in Seoul and Incheon, located in the south of North Korea, were busy.Both sides of the airport are full of various Chinese combat aircraft.The ground crew is quickly installing heavy bombs on the plane.Twenty or ten minutes later, hundreds of various dive bombers and fighter jets entered the take-off position, and the Chinese Air Force waited for the take-off order with rare uneasiness and nervousness.

"How's the preparation going?" Fu Chongguang, commander of the Tenth Air Force, who was in charge of the bombing command mission, came to the control tower of Seoul Airport in a black car.There is the temporary headquarters of the Chinese bomber wing. Through the glass window of the tower, Fu Chongguang can clearly see the operation of every plane on the ground.

"Report to the army commander, everything is ready, and the fighter plane is ready to depart at any time!" The wing leader reported loudly to his officer. "However, according to the information just received, the human fleet has deviated about 30 nautical miles to the left. Our fighter jets have insufficient range to guarantee the safety of the bombers. So I suggest that this suicide-like behavior should be stopped."

"This is an order from the headquarters, not my personal suggestion." Fu Chongguang waved his hand, "Our task is to delay the other party, not eliminate the other party, and we only need to harass the other party as much as possible. Of course, we can get results Words are the best. Anyway, we are not the protagonists this time." After speaking, he swung his arms heavily: "Let's all go!"

At [-]:[-] in the morning, the formation of Chinese Lanxiang dive bombers and Sirius bombers respectively took off from Seoul Airport under the command of Fu Chongguang. After gathering in the air above the airport, they flew towards the predetermined course.The other two tactical flight wings commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Malanyu took off from Incheon Airport. They joined up with the other two wings in the air. Under the guidance of , finally found the sailing fleet.

(End of this chapter)