The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Captain Rutte, who was less than 30 years old a few months ago, took less than three years to fully master a submarine, but during this period, the four submarines he commanded successively achieved amazing results without exception. , ranked second among the wolves of 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 drawn up by Dönitz himself. In addition to commanding his own captain boat u-181, he also had as many as six Type VII submarines to cooperate to form a new wolf pack. The group is responsible for tracking the formation of the ocean-going fleet aircraft carrier, waiting for the opportunity to start.

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

With a submerged displacement of 2100 tons, a maximum overall width of 8 meters, a maximum underwater speed of 17.2 knots, a huge range of 15000 nautical miles, and a submerged capability of 340 nautical miles, it can be said to be quite excellent.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 foundation of the Germans' consistent adherence to the sea wolf tactics.

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

At the multinational naval joint meeting, all parties agreed that it is not safe to rely on warships to confront directly. The advanced and powerful German submarine force should give full play to their strengths and use submarine groups to ambush behind the enemy in advance.Quietly track and find the aircraft carrier that will definitely be placed behind, and then wait for the opportunity to attack in groups, trying to kill all the aircraft carriers in one fell swoop, interrupting the enemy's long-range threats.

China's jet fighters put too much pressure on the navies of various countries!Can't prevent, can't stop.If you can't beat it, if you find it difficult, if you don't move, it will be the finale. For the navies of all countries, it is a nightmare existence!

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

At that time, it was a pitch-black night, the wind and waves on the sea seemed to be suppressed by an invisible atmosphere, and 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, relying on Captain Rutte's experience and intuition, it was firmly attached to the back.But the distance is getting farther and farther---even the cruising speed of the opponent is more than 20 knots.Far from being able to catch up with him.

However, Rutte chose to intersperse directly, and succeeded in catching up in a straight line. Then, that night, he took the risk of letting the submarine surface, stood on the deck himself, and took a peep or two with the night vision binoculars.

impression at the time.Captain Rutte will never forget it!He never thought that there could be such a big warship in the world!It was as if a sea fortress was floating, without a support column in sight, nor any exposed aircraft, nor a mess of lightning protection net support poles.Messy radar dish or something.

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

At that time, the lights on the aircraft carrier were shining, as if to show their existence intentionally, and the fighter jets with hot flames from their tails were ejected into the air, and the thunderous sound 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 cover was ubiquitous hidden detection methods. 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 all the top ten aces in the German Navy who can be called the number one in sinking tonnage have come, and each of them commands at least three or five submarines, as many as seven or eight submarines, in the vast Atlantic Ocean. , Open a wide net of death!

He has been eyeing the aircraft carrier formation for a long time, but has never had a chance to make a move. He patiently and quietly pushed forward. With the ultimate pressure resistance capability of the submarine up to 350 meters, he only used passive sonar to capture the unique noise of the opponent. The torpedo was close enough to make a surprise attack, and it seemed that it was about to launch a fierce attack. Suddenly, the opponent began to counterattack!

Captain Rutte watched helplessly as the submarine units that had rushed in were bombed one by one. The helicopters hovering in the air showed off their power and kept smashing the anti-submarine depth bombs on the pylons. The mountainous waves represent the sinking of submarines.

Being sunk in deep water, the people in the submarine will not have a chance to escape. In the silence of the radio, they cannot say a single last word. The deep Atlantic Ocean does not allow them to salvage and pay homage. They just disappear completely and completely. up!

Empathizing with him, Colonel Rutte felt heartbroken.This means that the precious German naval power is greatly weakened, and the previously carefully deployed tactics will fail!

Just throw in the towel?Then run away in desperation?

Captain Rutte turned the periscope and saw more and more anti-submarine helicopters circled in the low sky. They flew back after replenishing ammunition, and each searched along an area without dead ends.

And the destroyers and cruisers, which seemed lazy before, also suddenly became active. Just the maneuvering of a dozen ships actually formed an airtight lock net that echoed each other. How long did it take to seize the opportunity and cut the formation of wolves into pieces!

The fatal flaw of submarines means that it is difficult for them to grasp large-scale areas. A wave of strikes is followed by division, forming a posture of a battleship against three or four submarines.If it were the British and American destroyers in the past, the Germans would be afraid at best, and they could resist if they were in a hurry.But facing the Chinese, I saw that they actually used two anti-submarine aircraft and destroyers to form an air-sea integrated chain defense.Rutte felt that he seemed to have become a butterfly trapped in a spider's web, unable to struggle!

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

Rutte's keenness made him make such a judgment, and he issued a warning to other submarines without hesitation, and then ordered an immediate emergency dive, reaching the limit.Trying to get out of trouble.

But it's too late to wake up now!

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

Rutte's 181 boat dived downward at an angle of 15 degrees, and the depth reached 100 meters in a short time. The huge water pressure made the double-hulled hull creak and groan.The sound of the explosion overhead became more and more indistinct, the noise of the rumbling destroyer's propeller churning the seawater was not further amplified, and a wave of active sonar passed overhead, it seemed, it became safe.

Rutte clearly saw that the faces of the officers around him were relieved, his cold face showed no expression, and he whispered to the sonar officer to continue to monitor carefully.

Suddenly.A dull pop sound hit, hitting the submarine like a sledgehammer.The rumbling shock caused all the crew members to change color, and they were discovered!

Rutte yelled: "Dive at full speed!"

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

A big guy with a deep dive displacement of more than 3000 tons.The round drop-shaped single-layer pressure-resistant shell structure quietly shoots cold shots from about 350 meters, and the next moment the active sonar locks on the target, the two wire-guided torpedoes are released!

A dangerous guy with a speed of more than 50 knots, and his dexterity is like a predatory shark.When the 181 boat was only a few tens of meters down, it rushed over from the back and slanted, slammed into the abdomen fiercely, and exploded violently!

The explosion of the 240 kg charge close at hand directly crushed the solid body of the U-boat. Under the action of huge water pressure, the welded steel structure completely disintegrated, and more than 50 people inside had no time to escape. After screaming in despair, they were followed by Tear it to shreds!

The meritorious submarine commander, Wolfgang Rutte, sank together with all the crew!

His sacrifice only opened the prelude to the siege of wolves.In the sky, there are three twin-engine turboprop reconnaissance planes circling at low altitude, forming an overlooking reconnaissance force covering a water area with a radius of 350 kilometers. Together with dozens of helicopters close to the water surface, they form an airtight net, no matter in shallow water. The track left by the sailing submarine, or the exposed snorkel, periscope, and antenna, all cannot escape their eagle eyes.

Then there is the destroyer on the surface, which covers the surrounding area for 40 kilometers, and the underwater detection reaches a range of 300 meters. Active sonar waves like brooms, ultrasonic waves, and ray detection form a series of invisible and tangible snares. Find out all the submarines in the area, as long as there are no IFF beacons, just drop them with an anti-submarine deep bomb!

The bottom layer is a conventionally powered submarine at a depth of 350 meters. Their existence is more like picking up missing pieces. They mainly receive signals from above and rarely send out active sonar scans, but as long as they find a target, they act as Playing the role of a hunter, the torpedoes that suddenly shot out from the belly of the u-boat are almost perfect!

On the undulating sea surface, layers of explosive water waves surged continuously. More than a dozen destroyers dropped anti-submarine deep bombs like scattered flowers.

In just half an hour, the water area with a radius of 100 kilometers was cleaned up, and more than 40 German submarines were discovered and sunk. The threatening wolf pack fell apart under Zhu Bin's iron broom!

Looking at the added submarine icons with different numbers 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 hard. Don't they know that, they can only limit Can't the power under the water become the master of the battlefield after all?"

Chen Shaokuan suddenly became angry, and squinted at him, you are a full man who doesn't know how hungry a man is hungry!When did the Germans start to arm themselves?It’s only been four years since the navy’s large-scale reconstruction. They don’t have the perverted industrial production speed like yours, and their current scale is already against the sky!

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

The chain reaction of the crisis in the air and underwater has been extended to the German fleet, especially the reconnaissance planes that were compressed above the heads of the peripheral ships, making them realize that the battle is imminent and the enemy is about to come up!

Not only was Admiral Lukins not surprised by this, but he was stimulated and cheered up, ordering the air fighters to rush towards the enemy plane immediately, regardless of whether the opponent is a powerful jet fighter or something, get it down first and then talk about it!

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

The stealthy "Thunder Dragon" immediately issued an early warning, and then the early warning aircraft also responded to the enemy's movement. The "Yinglong" brigade of the two-aircraft formation responded immediately. After locking the target, release the medium-range combat ammunition to kill the leader, then increase the horsepower to climb up and occupy the altitude, and after leveling off, dive down boldly and penetrate into the enemy's formation, and start a crazy hunt!

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

The invincibility of medium-range combat ammunition has already set a precedent. After the attack and kill speed of close-range combat ammunition suddenly increased, it was not able to resist the slow bf109g. Burn and fall!

Before the swarms of fighters in the back could rush over, the first fighters were shocked and there were not many left. After more than 12 "Yinglong" fighters gathered in groups, they did not form a group to besiege them at all. Opportunity, immediately interspersed, forcibly broke through its formation, and shot down one after another with machine guns!

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-aircraft formation dispersed to form a blockade area with a width of hundreds of kilometers. The German planes that attacked in batches were cleaned up like chopping melons and vegetables in less than half an hour!

More than 100 fighters disappeared in a 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 a disaster! (To be continued..)