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Volume 2 Iron Torrent Chapter 1108 Peerless Sea Battle 6 Hunting and Submarine B!

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    Captain Rutte, who is just a few months shy of turning 30, has spent less than three years fully mastering a submarine. However, during this period, the four submarines he commanded have all achieved astonishing results without exception.  , ranked second among the wolves in the entire German Navy, was awarded the Iron Cross, and was personally commended by Hitler!

    This time, he also joined the unprecedentedly large wolf pack attack tactics formulated by D?nitz himself. In addition to commanding his own U-181 captain boat, there were also as many as six Type VII submarines to cooperate to form a new wolf pack.  The group is responsible for tracking the ocean-going fleet aircraft carrier formation and waiting for the opportunity to strike.

    What is different from the past is that, stimulated and influenced by the Chinese navy, the Germans started upgrading submarines long in advance. The vii and ix submarine plans that originally required large-scale construction were stopped after less than one-third of the progress.  In 1940, all were replaced by the construction of the xxi series submarines with larger displacement, faster speed and better performance.  Boat No. 181 is one of them.

    With a submersible displacement of 2,100 tons, a maximum full width of 8 meters, a maximum underwater speed of 17.2 knots, a huge range of 15,000 nautical miles, and a submersible capability of 340 nautical miles, it can be said to be quite outstanding.  In contemporary times, except for Chinese submarines, the submarines of other countries are far inferior to the Germans in terms of diving depth, and the development and utilization of torpedoes are also inferior to them.

    This is the basis for the Germans to always adhere to the Sea Wolf tactics.

    The small group of wolves commanded by Captain Rutte has been active in the southern Atlantic for a long time. This time, the long-prepared battle has allowed them to assume the important task of assaulters.

    At a joint meeting of multinational navies, all parties agreed that it was not safe to rely on warships for direct confrontation. The advanced and powerful German submarine force should give full play to their strengths and use submarine groups to ambush behind the enemy's rear in advance.  Quietly track and look for the aircraft carrier that will definitely be placed behind, and then wait for the opportunity to launch a fierce attack, trying to kill all the aircraft carriers in one fell swoop and interrupt the enemy's long-range threat.

    China¡¯s jet fighters put too much pressure on the navies of various countries!  Can't prevent it, can't stop it.  If you can't defeat it, if you find it difficult, just stop moving. Once you use it, it will be the finale. For the navies of various countries, it is a nightmare-like existence!

    Captain Rutte commanded his team, and everything went smoothly in the early stage. At one point, his No. 181 boat even approached the destroyer cruising behind and got through the seemingly dense blockade net.  Through the periscope, I saw a huge aircraft carrier taking off and landing at night from a distance!

    It was a pitch-black night, and the wind and waves on the sea seemed to be suppressed by the invisible atmosphere. The deep and mysterious Atlantic Ocean was unusually calm, cold and hard, like frozen ice.

    U181 carefully followed the track left by the huge fleet after it passed by, and relied on Captain Rutte's experience and intuition to steadily follow it.  But the distance was getting farther and farther - even the opponent's cruising speed was more than 20 knots.  It was far beyond what he could catch up with.

    ¡°However, Rutte chose to penetrate directly and successfully catch up in a straight line. Then that night, he took the risk of letting the submarine surface, stood on the deck in person, and took a peek or two with a night vision telescope.

    The impression at the time.  Captain Rutte will never forget it!  He never thought that there could be such a big battleship in the world!  It was like a floating fortress on the sea, with not a single support column in sight, nor any exposed aircraft, nor a mess of lightning protection net support poles.  Messy radar antennas and the like.

    Huge, well-proportioned, full of aesthetic lines of mechanical creation, even if it is just a blurry picture from a distance, Captain Rutte has to admit, that guy is really beautiful!

    At that time, the lights on the aircraft carrier shone brightly, as if they were deliberately announcing their presence. Fighters with fiery flames ejected from their tails were ejected into the air. The thunderous noise hovered in the sky for a long time, which was shocking!

    Rutte resisted the temptation to attack at that time. After several months of entanglement, he knew very well how terrifying his opponent was. Behind the seemingly loose appearance was the ubiquitous hidden investigation method. The seemingly sweet target was actually a deadly bait!

    Today, the number of wolves led by Rutte is much larger!  Not only his team, but also the top ten aces in the German Navy who were able to call the number and the number of sunk tonnage were all here. Each of them commanded as few as three or five, as many as seven or eight submarines, on the vast Atlantic Ocean.  , opening up a wide death net!

    He had long been eyeing the aircraft carrier formation, but he never had a chance to make a move. He patiently and quietly pushed in. With the submarine's ultimate pressure resistance of up to 350 meters, he only used passive sonar to capture the opponent's unique noise, and kept holding on.  We were close enough for torpedoes to strike, and we were about to launch a fierce attack. Suddenly, the opponent started to counterattack!

    Captain Rutte watched helplessly as the submarine squadrons that had rushed in were bombed one after another, and the helicopters hovering in the sky showed off their power.?The anti-submarine depth bombs on the pylon were smashed in, and the astonishing explosion caused a mountain of waves, representing the sinking of submarines.

    Being sunk in deep water, the people in the submarine would not have a chance to escape. In the radio silence, they could not utter a last word. The deep Atlantic Ocean did not allow them to salvage and pay homage. They disappeared completely and completely.  Got it!

    Feeling the same, Colonel Rutte felt heartbroken.  This means that the precious German naval power has been greatly weakened, and the previously carefully deployed tactics will also fail!

    Just give up?  And then run away in despair?

    Captain Rutte turned the periscope around and saw more and more anti-submarine helicopters flying in wider and wider circles in the low sky. They went back to replenish their ammunition and then flew back, each searching an area without blind spots.

    The destroyers and cruisers that seemed lazy before suddenly became active. Just the maneuvers of a dozen ships actually formed an airtight network that echoed each other. With high-speed maneuvers of more than thirty knots, it was useless.  How long did it take to seize the opportunity and cut the wolf formation into pieces!

    The fatal flaw of submarines means that it is difficult for them to control large-scale areas. A wave of attacks is followed by division, forming a posture of one warship against three or four submarines.  If it were the British and American destroyers in the past, the Germans would be afraid of them at most, but they could still resist if pressed.  But when facing the Chinese, I saw that they actually used two anti-submarine aircraft and destroyers to form an integrated air-sea chain defense.  Rutte felt as if he had become a butterfly trapped in a cobweb, unable to escape!

    "Something's wrong! This could be a trap!"

    Lutte¡¯s acumen allowed him to make such a judgment, issue a warning to other submarines without hesitation, and then order an immediate emergency dive, pushing to the limit.  Trying to get out of trouble.

    But now it¡¯s too late to realize it!

    With Zhu Bin¡¯s ability, how could he leave such a big gap for himself? All previous arrangements were just tactics to lure the enemy.  That's fine as long as the Germans don't come. Now that they're here, don't expect to escape again!

    Rutte¡¯s 181 boat dived downward at an angle of 15 degrees, and soon the depth reached 100 meters. The huge water pressure made the double-hulled hull creak and groan.  The sound of explosions overhead became increasingly blurry, and the noise of the rumbling destroyer propeller churning the seawater was no longer amplified. A stream of active sonar passed overhead, and it seemed that it was becoming safe.

    Rutte could clearly see the relief on the faces of the officers around him. His cold face showed no expression at all, and he whispered to the sonar officer to continue monitoring carefully.

    Suddenly.  A dull boom struck, hitting the submarine like a sledgehammer.  The rumbling vibrations made the crew members all change their colors and they were discovered!

    Lute shouted: "Dive at full speed!"

    It¡¯s too late!  And he didn't understand that the location scanned by active sonar was not the ship above, but a Chinese conventionally powered missile submarine that had been silently lurking in deeper waters for a long time!

    A big guy with a deep submersible displacement of more than 3,000 tons.  The round drop-shaped single-layer pressure-resistant shell structure quietly fires a cold shot from about 350 meters away. The moment the active sonar locks on the target, the two wire-guided torpedoes are released!

    A dangerous guy with a speed of over 50 knots, the weapon is as dexterous as a predatory shark.  When the 181 boat only rushed down a few dozen meters, it rushed over from behind, hit it hard on the abdomen, and exploded violently!

    The explosion of 240 kilograms of explosives at close range directly crushed the solid body of the U-boat. Under the action of huge water pressure, the steel welded structure completely disintegrated. The more than fifty people inside had no time to escape. After shouting in despair, they followed  Torn to pieces!

    The meritorious commander of the Royal Submarine, Wolfgang Rutte, sank together with all the crew members!

    His sacrifice only opened the prelude to the wolf pack being surrounded and suppressed.  In the sky, there are three twin-engine turboprop reconnaissance aircraft hovering at low altitude. The overlooking reconnaissance force covers a water area with a radius of 350 kilometers. Together with dozens of helicopters close to the water, they form an airtight snare, no matter in shallow water areas.  The tracks left by the sailing submarine, or the exposed snorkels, periscopes, and antennas, could not escape their eagle-eyed observation.

    Then there are the destroyers on the surface, covering 40 kilometers in the surrounding area, with underwater detection reaching an amplitude of 300 meters. Broom-like active sonar waves, ultrasonic waves, and radiation detection form a series of invisible and tangible snares, covering this area.  Find all the submarines in the area. As long as there is no identification beacon, we will hit them with an anti-submarine depth bomb without saying a word!

    The bottom layer is a conventionally powered submarine with a depth of 350 meters. Their existence is more like filling in the gaps. They mainly receive signals from above and rarely send out active sonar scanning. However, as long as the target is found, they act as  The hunter'sThe color, the torpedoes suddenly fired from the belly of the U-boat, almost every time!

    On the undulating sea, layers of explosive water waves kept rising, and more than a dozen destroyers dropped anti-submarine depth bombs like flowers. From time to time, the bombs flickering in the air reflected each other, which was slightly spectacular!

    In just half an hour, the waters with a radius of 100 kilometers were cleaned up. More than 40 German submarines were discovered and sunk. The threatening wolves fell apart under Zhu Bin¡¯s iron broom!

    Looking at the submarine icons with different numbers added one after another on the holographic screen, Zhu Bin sighed in admiration: "The gap, this is the gap! I don't understand why the Germans always stare at the submarine and use force. Don't they know better? They can only limit it.  Can¡¯t the power under water become the master of the battlefield after all?¡±

    Chen Shaokuan immediately became angry and glared at him with squinting eyes. You are a full man but you don¡¯t know an hungry man is hungry!  When did the Germans start arming themselves?  It's only the fourth year since the Navy's large-scale reconstruction. If they don't have the abnormal speed of industrial production like you, their current scale is already outrageous!

    The threat in the rear was basically eliminated. In the front, seven or eight German U-boats cruising in the channel between the ships of both sides were also cleared, and a smooth channel was forcibly expanded.

    The chain reaction of crises in the air and underwater seemed to have spread to the German fleet, especially the reconnaissance planes that were compressed above the heads of the peripheral ships, making them realize that the battle was imminent and the enemy was coming!

    Not only was Admiral Lukins not surprised by this, but he was invigorated by the stimulation. He ordered the air fighters to immediately pounce on the enemy plane. No matter if the opponent was a powerful jet fighter or something else, he had to deal with it first!

    In the air at this time, there were at least more than 130 carrier-based propeller fighter jets, swarming towards the direction of the clearing "Yinglong" fighter jets.

    The stealthy "Thunder Dragon" at high altitude immediately issued an early warning, and then the early warning aircraft also reported the enemy's movement. The "Yinglong" brigade of the two-aircraft formation responded immediately. Several groups at the forefront of the conflict said nothing,  After locking the target, release a mid-range combat bomb to kill the leader, then increase the power and violently climb to occupy the height. After leveling, dive down fearlessly, penetrate the enemy formation, and start a crazy hunt!

    A jet fighter with a speed of Mach 2 would be a one-sided slaughter against a propeller aircraft with a maximum subsonic speed of Mach 0.7!

    The medium-range combat bullets have become unpreventable for the first time. After the attack speed of the close-range combat bullets has increased suddenly, it is no longer something that the slow bf109g can resist. In the sky, there are bright flames, explosions one after another, and large swaths of metal fragments.  Burning and falling!

    Before the swarms of fighters behind them could rush over, the leading fighters were shocked and were beaten to the ground. Only a few "Yinglong" fighter planes gathered together and came in swarms, and they were not allowed to form a group to attack them.  When the opportunity comes, he immediately crosses over, forcibly breaks through its formation, and shoots down one after another with his cannon!

    The speed gap between each other is too big!

    Ten minutes later, the number of "Yinglong" and "Flying Dragon" fighters increased to more than 40. The two-plane formation spread out, forming a blockade area hundreds of kilometers wide. The troops rushed out in three groups and killed them one after another.  The German planes that attacked in batches were sorted out in less than half an hour like chopping melons and vegetables!

    More than a hundred fighter planes were gone in the blink of an eye!

    The Germans were stunned, including General Lukins, who were speechless. They had never seen such an efficient and one-sided battle. It was simply a disaster!  (To be continued)
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