All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

Ye Bai thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. After all, overall, the number of pirate warships would exceed that of the Yuntong Island Fleet. This kind of constant wolf-like harassment would make the Yuntong Island Fleet exhausted. Handle.

If the pirate forces learn that Yuntong Island has dispatched a main fleet, they may also dispatch the main fleet tit for tat. It will be fun then.

"The telegram sent from the intelligence station only said that Yuntong Island had dispatched a main fleet, but did not mention the specific fleet size. It only said that there was more than one aircraft carrier. Let the reconnaissance planes be dispatched first to get a clear picture of Yuntong Island. Let’s talk about the size of the fleet."

Let's not talk about Ye Bai's military quality for the moment, but he attaches great importance to the intelligence before the war. The first thing that comes to mind is to dispatch a reconnaissance plane to detect the situation of the main fleet on Yuntong Island.

This has been done before, but as a result This time, Lütjens shook his head directly and put forward a new suggestion:"Commander, send a reconnaissance plane to conduct reconnaissance, but you can't avoid the air search radar equipped on the Yuntong Island battleship. Not to mention causing misunderstanding, it can easily cause chain reaction."

Ye Bai frowned again. He really didn't think about this problem. If he directly launched a war against Yuntong Island's main fleet, he would be exposed. It doesn't matter. But at the moment, he just wanted to find out the situation. Specifically, whether to fight or not. , haven’t decided yet

"So do you have any good suggestions?"

"Commander, aerial reconnaissance by reconnaissance aircraft is not advisable. It is better to conduct reconnaissance from underwater. Ye

Bai's eyes lit up and he said quickly:"You mean to mobilize the submarine formation for underwater reconnaissance?""

As soon as he finished speaking, Ye Bai's eyes dimmed a little, and he said helplessly:"Although our submarine fleet has all been converted into XXI-type submarines on 21st, both the surface speed and the underwater speed have reached 18 knots. But it still can't keep up with the main fleet of Yuntong Island and cannot conduct close reconnaissance.

With a mysterious smile on his face, Lütjens said softly:"Commander, we don't need to conduct close reconnaissance of the main fleet on Yuntong Island. We only need to track the transport fleet returning from the resource point. If we If the previous guesses are correct, the main fleet on Yuntong Island will definitely merge with the transport fleet."

"Although the speed of the submarine formation is not as fast as that of the surface warships, it is still much faster than the mere 10 knots of the transport ship. There is no problem in following them all the way. You just need to pay attention to the movements of the pirate fleet. Once the pirates attack the transport fleet, the submarine formation will need to Stay away immediately to avoid being affected by the battle."

At this time, Ye Bai finally understood what Lütjens meant, and said with the same smile:"You will be responsible for this matter. Send out a submarine formation to target the transport fleet for me, and tell them that everything will be done in the same way. The main focus is tracking and surveillance. No attack is allowed without orders from the headquarters. Once the main fleet of Yuntong Island is discovered, report it immediately."

"Yes, Commander."

In the Chinese fleet, there are a total of 2 submarine formations and 40 type XXI submarines. It's not that we don't want to build more, but based on the current size and combat methods of the Chinese fleet, 40 submarines are enough, and there is no need to build more submarines." Expanded in scale.

Through the transmission platform in the small space, one XXI submarine was transmitted to the outside sea. After all 20 submarines were transmitted, under the command of the formation commander Prien, they launched a massive Heading towards the distance.

Without the AIP system, the submarine cannot submerge underwater for a long time. Therefore, when there is no war, the submarine sails on the surface and recharges the battery at the same time. When necessary When the time comes, it can dive immediately.

Compared with other submarines of the same era, the XXI submarine's underwater endurance is quite amazing. It can submerge 365 nautical miles at a speed of 5 knots and has a submersible time of more than 70 hours.

After dispatching the submarine formation, the Chinese fleet also began to move, but they did not sail directly to the transport fleet. Instead, they moved slowly on the flanks at a speed of about 20 knots, keeping in contact with the transport fleet. A distance of about 200 kilometers.

A few hours later, the communications crew on the Yanhuang received a telegram from Prien. The telegram said that the submarine formation had successfully found the transport fleet and sent several submarines to submerge. method to conduct close tracking.

The large force followed the transport fleet a little further behind. Because it was not known when the main fleet of Yuntong Island would arrive, Prien was prepared to use a relay method to track and monitor, and must not Let the transport fleet escape their radar monitoring.

It is much more convenient for the XXI submarine to track and monitor the transport fleet. It can be detected directly by radar. It does not even need to raise the periscope, and the risk of exposure is much smaller than that of other submarines.

Except for Following Prien's telegram, the carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft launched by the Yanhuang also reconnoitred the surrounding sea areas. According to the reconnaissance aircraft's reconnaissance, the pirate warships scattered around also began to take action.

A large-scale pirate fleet It is taking shape. It seems that the existence of the transport fleet has also been discovered. The warships are gathering and preparing for an attack. I just don't know if these guys who are full of robbery know that there is a main fleet of Yuntong Island coming at high speed to meet them..Although resource points are important, there are other forces in the surrounding waters. Therefore, when dividing these resource points, whether it is No. 308 Island or Yuntong Island, they occupy the resource point closest to the main island.

This resource point It is the farthest place from Yuntong Island, about 1,000 kilometers away. Even with the speed of about 27 or 8 knots of the main fleet of Yuntong Island, it will take 2 to 3 days to get there, unless Day and night.

Therefore, the pirates who have begun to gather still have plenty of time to prepare for battle. As for the outcome, it depends on whether the transport fleet can hold up until the main fleet of Yuntong Island arrives.

According to Prien's report, this The transport fleet is not small in size, with more than 10 transport ships. The strength of the escort fleet is also completely beyond the specifications, with more than 60 warships escorting it.

However, most of the warships in this escort fleet are warships belonging to Blue Star camp players. There is no need to look at the flags hanging on the masts. Under the radar detection equipped on the XXI submarine, the camp they belong to is undoubtedly exposed. After all, only Blue Star players belong to the same camp as the Chinese fleet. Yuntong Island belongs to the neutral camp, which is clearly visible on the radar display screen.

Today's Blue Star players are no longer as pushy as they were at the beginning. There are fewer and fewer players whose ships are still at the destroyer level. Most players have successfully upgraded their ships to the light cruiser level. Even Heavy cruisers and escort carriers have appeared.

However, this time, among the players escorting the Yuntong Island transport fleet, there were no players of that level. Most of them were light cruisers and a small number of destroyers.

The escort warships on Yuntong Island are just the opposite. Most of the 10 or so warships dispatched are destroyers, and the rest are heavy cruisers. There are no light cruisers. It is probably because of the players who took the escort mission. Most of them are light cruisers.

The strength of such a convoy fleet is quite powerful. If some small-scale pirate fleets dare to come, they will simply give away their lives thousands of miles away and give away food for nothing.

But again, as pirates who make a living by plundering, they are never fools or idiots. When it comes to head-on battles with the main fleet, they may be far inferior, but when it comes to plundering, they are experts.

There are not many warships that truly belong to the pirate force, and they are certainly no match for the escort fleet, but they have privileges. They use their privileges to quickly recruit many pirate warships with refreshed systems from the surrounding waters.

This is also a feature of the world of navigation. In a sea area, the number of pirate warships that the system will refresh is actually determined by the number of players active in the sea area. The more players there are, the more pirates the system will refresh. The more battleships there are, and vice versa.

Now that there are nearly 50 Blue Star players in this escort fleet, the system will definitely spawn a large number of pirate warships around it, which is equivalent to adding a group of effective forces to the pirate force.

After spending most of the day, the pirate plundering fleet finally completed its assembly and was ready to plunder the transport fleet.

After confirming that the pirate fleet had begun to gather, Ye Bai stopped asking Ramsey to send out reconnaissance planes to monitor the pirate fleet, just to avoid alerting the enemy. This was because a few reconnaissance planes had frightened the pirates and did not dare to take the initiative. , then Ye Bai’s work would have been in vain.

Although the specific size of the assembled pirate fleet was unclear, based on previous reconnaissance results, Lütjens still gave a rough guess, estimating that the size of the fleet would not be less than 70 ships, of which destroyers accounted for Almost one-third, the rest are mainly light cruisers and heavy cruisers.

The number of aircraft carriers should be around 3-4. It is unknown whether they are escort aircraft carriers or light aircraft carriers. In addition, there should be 3-4 battlecruisers and 1-2 battleships.

The scale and number of such a fleet are obviously much stronger than the escort fleet of Yuntong Island. Even without the aerial bombardment provided by those aircraft carriers and just a frontal artillery battle, the escort fleet of Yuntong Island is no match.

Regardless of the number of light and heavy cruisers, especially light cruisers, the pirate fleet was much larger than the escort fleet, but those few battlecruisers and the first battleship appeared, which was simply unmatchable by the escort fleet.

There are also those aircraft carriers, even if they are all escort aircraft carriers, the total number of carrier-based aircraft has reached about 100. In one wave, about 50 carrier-based aircraft can be dispatched to bomb the escort fleet. If there is another artillery attack from the surface fleet, the escort fleet will not be able to withstand it..