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    Compared with the panic of the British people, the British government is not worried at all. The key is that they believe in the four mine curtains too much. Although this thing does not really work, it is at least effective in the short term. The efficiency of the Chinese minesweeper fleet  No matter how high it is, it is impossible to clear the mine channel in a short time.  ”Ö”Ž Especially the English Channel, from Lands End to Brest, France, more than 50,000 mines stretching for more than 200 kilometers guard the door of Britain. This mine has a width of 60 kilometers. If you want to sweep it in the middle  It is not easy to create a channel, not to mention that there are not only mines here, but behind this mine belt there are hundreds of submarines and hundreds of destroyers and torpedo boats including France. These wolves on the surface and underwater,  It is possible to enter hidden mine channels at any time to attack minesweepers. In the view of the British government, it is definitely impossible for the Chinese navy to get through this mine curtain without breaking out of teeth.  Of course, this mine curtain will definitely not work against carrier-based aircraft.  So when a total of two hundred carrier-based aircraft, including those on the two Dingzhen aircraft carriers, appeared at Plymouth Naval Port, British Prime Minister Asquith and a group of cabinet ministers in London could only sigh and face the air  There is really nothing they can do about the enemy. Anyway, even if it is not a carrier-based aircraft, it will be a Liberator heavy bomber. Let them go!  Besides, there are no warships to blow up in Plymouth Naval Port. Now, apart from the destroyers and torpedo boats, the only remaining British naval forces are some steam-powered warships picked up from the garbage dump, such as the Old Monarchy and so on.  Of course, those carrier-based aircraft would definitely have no interest in bombing the battleship Sovereign in Plymouth Naval Port, but Plymouth Naval Shipyard could not escape bad luck. This is the largest battleship construction base in the UK. In half an hour, a full two  Hundreds of 250 kilogram-class aerial bombs, despite the ground air defense forces desperately blocking them, shot down four carrier-based aircraft.  But still a third of the bombs were accurately dropped on the docks by these dive-dropping Eagles. This bombing alone caused the Plymouth Royal Naval Dockyard to lose a quarter of its shipbuilding capacity.  But this point is meaningless. Even if they don't bomb, the British don't have enough steel to build new battleships, and they don't have enough workers, let alone enough funds. Even if they build them, they don't have enough fuel. Now Britain  The supply of crude oil has been completely cut off, and what is left must be used by destroyers and torpedo boats and submarines in the English Channel.  English Channel, on board the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Bellona.  The captain, Major Cunningham, looked at the sky with a look of sorrow and indignation. The sky was covered by a huge formation of nearly two hundred bombers. These bombers were flying south. He naturally understood that these bastards had just dropped bombs at Plymouth Military Port.  "Fire!" He said sullenly to the gunner of a 25mm anti-aircraft gun next to him.  "But Captain, we can't reach them at all." The gunner said weakly.  "I said fire!" Major Cunningham roared rudely. The gunner was startled and quickly aimed at the sky and fired. Of course, this was a waste of shells. These Eagles were flying at an altitude of five thousand meters.  It was impossible for the 25mm anti-aircraft gun to damage them, and the dense gunfire was like a salute to see them off. However, Major Cunningham's spirit was still admirable, and soon several destroyers were near him.  Those anti-aircraft guns also roared one after another, showing the unyielding spirit of the British Empire to the invaders.  Their behavior angered the Chinese pilots in the sky. These pilots had just blown their hometown into a sea of ????fire and were in a happy mood at this time.  How could these guys endure the provocation below? The ones that had already flown over were just like that, and the last forty or so Eagles all pounced down at once.  Although the bombs were gone, it was not stressful to shoot the open gun emplacements with a large-caliber machine gun. The dense bullets instantly beat the gunners on the destroyers to pieces. Major Cunningham looked at the gunner just now with grief and indignation.  The gunner's head was blown open by a bullet, which frightened the other crew members into hiding in the cabin. Only he stood bravely on the deck.  Fortunately, those Eagles didn't have a lot of fuel, so they didn't have time to fight with them, so they flew away after showing their majesty.  "Go away, you yellow-skinned monkeys!" Major Cunningham roared angrily at the retreating carrier-based aircraft group. What he didn't know was that just sixty kilometers away at this time, two super battleships, Huaxia and Yanhuang,  The huge fleet headed by it is slowly sailing into the secret safe passage in the minefield.  Because there was no aerial reconnaissance capability, the Chinese fleet was not discovered by a British submarine hidden underwater until it was nearly 30 kilometers deep into the minefield. The bad news was telegraphed as quickly as possible to the British fleet flagship HMS Hood at sea.  Of course, this was a steam-powered Sovereign-class ship that had been decommissioned and returned to service. The bad news then spread to the Admiralty in London. First Sea Lord Mux was dumbfounded.  &nbsp"Spies, there must be Chinese spies in our Admiralty. These traitors to the British Empire must be found. I will hang them!" The Marshal's roar immediately sounded in the Admiralty. Of course, the roar was a roar. Now  The top priority was not to find any spies. Before notifying the Prime Minister of the matter, he issued an order to the fleet in the English Channel in the name of the supreme commander of the navy to block the Chinese fleet at all costs.  After receiving this order, the entire English Channel was in chaos. Destroyers and torpedo boats rushed towards the exit of the minefield. At the same time, dozens of submarines hidden under the water of the channel also rushed towards the Chinese fleet.  In their opinion, such a large number of submarines would have to sink several Chinese battleships for an underwater attack. If they could sink a super battleship, it would be considered immortal. So almost all the submarines were directed at the two super battleships.  Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that their whereabouts had long been monitored by the Chinese sonar troops on the opposite side. Before these submarines could reach attack range, seaplanes took off from behind the fleet.  Regardless of battleships, battle cruisers, or even heavy cruisers, they all carry seaplanes, and the main task of these seaplanes is anti-submarine warfare. Even the Hongwu-class battle cruisers carry two of them. Each seaplane can carry four 50-kilogram missiles.  depth charges. At this time, the submarines of Britain and France only had hundreds of tons of primary cargo, and fifty kilograms was enough.  After taking off, the seaplane dropped nearly two hundred depth bombs into the sea according to the location of the British submarine indicated by the battleship below, instantly blasting the British wolves waiting for an ambush into a mess.  This was not over yet. Before the surviving British submarines could wake up from their fear, destroyers rushed up one after another at a high speed of thirty-seven knots, and then used catapults to continuously launch bombs into the British submarine ambush area.  After these destroyers passed by, the British wolves had turned into oil and garbage all over the sea. More than forty submarines were sunk under this brutal anti-submarine firepower. In fact, they did not know  What's more, this is because there is no runway for the carrier-based anti-submarine aircraft to take off, otherwise they would suffer even more brutal attacks.  After the British submarines were almost completely wiped out, the Chinese fleet continued to sail forward, and at this time the British torpedo boats were dispatched. These small torpedo boats had such a shallow draft that they did not need to care about mines. They could not touch the water four or five meters below.  Anchor mines in the depths, in fact, these torpedo boats are the most deadly opponents, especially when hundreds of them rush up together, it is even more troublesome. Almost all small and medium-caliber naval guns in the fleet are aimed at the torpedo boats rushing up from both sides.  , dense shells roared out, smashing the small boats to pieces like a violent storm.  Especially those twin 37-guns designed for anti-aircraft, dealing with such speedboats is like massacre, and the speed of over a hundred rounds per minute makes the British desperate.  However, despite the desperate attacks by the British speedboat crews, a few were still successful. One torpedo boat that escaped interception even fired two torpedoes at the battleship Huaxia.  Lin Yongsheng stared motionlessly at the torpedo tracks approaching rapidly on the sea surface. At the same time, the sailing Huaxia quickly took evasive measures, and then a escorting light cruiser rushed forward to block the torpedoes for the flagship, but the cruiser  Still a little late, one of the two torpedoes missed, and the other hit the Huaxia ship.  Seeing the flames that exploded on the waterline of the Huaxia, the remaining British people on the sea cheered almost simultaneously, but unfortunately, everyone was dumbfounded. This giant ship with a displacement of 40,000 tons only jumped slightly.  , and then continued sailing as if nothing had happened, even the speed was not affected in any way.  Hitting the super battleship Huaxia was the best result the British torpedo boat fleet could achieve. There were a total of two hundred torpedo boats participating in this wolf attack. In the end, less than thirty of them desperately escaped from this maritime cemetery. The others  All of them turned into pieces, and the results they gained were only the sinking of two destroyers, damage to two light cruisers, and the torpedo that hit the Huaxia that the British remembered for a century.  Next to go into battle is the British destroyer fleet. Due to the draft problem, they dare not enter the minefield to attack like the torpedo boats. All British destroyers are blocked on both sides of the exit of the channel, preparing to use dense torpedoes.  It dealt a fatal blow to the Chinese, but unfortunately, they didn't bother to play with them at all, because at this time, the refueling and reloading bomber group arrived, and also added torpedo attack aircraft.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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