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Chapter 366 Skagerrak Sea Battle III

Although the local fleet of Saar arrived at the battlefield first, when Marshal Jericho saw that the other party had only three cruisers and no battleships at all, he couldn't help but curse the police commander who sent him a telegram. He didn't say it clearly in the telegram, which made him think he had encountered the main force of the other party's ocean fleet, causing the entire local fleet to hurry over, and it was such a small fish.

However, Xiaoyu was better than none. Seeing that his cruiser was fighting so miserably, Marshal Jericho ordered the shelling of General Sperer's fleet immediately. Seeing the arrival of the opponent's large force, General Sperer did not dare to stay anymore, so they had to give up the seriously injured "Elpin" to break westward.

General Sperer fought and retreated, but soon the cruiser "Fraunlob" that followed the flagship was severely damaged. A 305mm shell hit the stern of its ship, causing it to lose its power and the rudder of its stern. At this moment of crisis, the Yaman Empire's ocean fleet finally arrived at the battlefield, and the four "King"-class battleships that led to the speech began with their huge 330mm main guns.

The dense shells fell near the local fleet led by Marshal Jericho, forcing them to give up the shelling of General Spel and turn the artillery fire to the opponent's ocean fleet. Seeing the opponent's main fleet approaching, Jericho was not surprised but happy. This time he had decided to catch the small fish and go back, but unexpectedly, the big fish followed one after another.

For the main Yaman fleet that had been hiding in the port, the Saar Empire's navy was like a thorn on its back. Now he finally had the chance to fight a dignified battle, and Jericho also wanted to annihilate the opponent's fleet.

When the main fleet of the Yaman Empire was completely wiped out, the Saar Empire could unscrupulously use battleships to shell the coastal cities of the Yaman Empire and land in any place.

Jericho, who was eager to make contributions, immediately ordered the attack at full speed in the squadron, boldly interspersed into the opponent's fleet, attempting to disrupt the opponent's formation in one fell swoop and seize the initiative.

Unfortunately, Jericho didn't know that Schell had the same idea as him. Schell believed that the Yaman warships paid more attention to armor protection and had a greater chance of winning in close combat, so he also issued almost the same order as Jericho. Two large fleets hedged head-on at full speed, and multiple squadrons quickly interspered together and began a melee.

After the melee began, any tactics had lost their effect. There was no T-shaped position for you to seize. You might have just sent yourself to the side firepower of another enemy fleet. Therefore, each warship became a close-fitting battle, and the naval battle pattern seemed to have returned to decades ago.

In close combat, the Chinese ship with full caliber main guns suffered a little, while the former Chinese ships with many second-class artillery showed their might and relied on dense firepower to launch artillery attacks on the other side.

The Yaman Empire Navy had a large number of former Chinese ships, which made the fleet of the Saar Empire suffer a small loss as soon as it came up. Seeing that his side suffered losses, Marshal Jericho knew that he was a little too impulsive, so he quickly made remedies and ordered the fleet to withdraw from the battle, distance and then bombard the shelling.

The Yaman fleet led by Marshal Scher naturally would not let him do what he wanted. The entire fleet followed closely, trying to keep close to the opponent and use the advantage of the second-level main gun to win.

Marshal Jericho was extremely anxious and had never encountered such a thing in his combat career. Just when he was helpless, his eyes suddenly looked at the destroyer cruising on the periphery.

Although both fleets of the two countries brought some destroyers, this is to escort the main fleet of their country and prevent submarines from sneak attacking.

Jericho suddenly had an idea. Now both sides are fighting at close range. A flexible destroyer can use the advantages of torpedoes to attack them. This can make up for the lack of firepower on one side and distract the opponent. Therefore, Marshal Jericho immediately ordered the destroyer to join the battle and attack the opponent's warship with torpedoes.

Dozens of destroyers who received the order immediately drove at full speed, rushed into the battlefield at nearly thirty knots, and began to launch a torpedo attack on the Yaman Navy. The Yaman Navy was unable to make a mistake, and both cruisers were hit by several torpedoes and quickly sank.

Marshal Scher was very annoyed when he saw this situation and immediately ordered his destroyers to join the battle to attack the opponent's warships, and at the same time ordered all small artillery on the warships to concentrate on attacking the opponent's destroyers. All the warships on both sides finally joined the battle group, and a bigger melee began.

The warships of both sides fought desperately in the narrow sea area, with the exception of the "Furious" seaplane mothership of the Saar Navy.

This seaplane mothership is still very primitive, just flattening the entire superstructure of the freighter and laying a wooden deck, without any weapons and equipment. Even the seaplane it carries is a reconnaissance type and has no weapons.

The stereotyped Saars did not know how to make any changes and did not equip these seaplanes with machine guns for self-defense. Perhaps they believed that even if there was a machine gun, it would not pose a threat to the warship. It would be better to save these weights and install an additional fuel tank to increase the time left.

However, such a design also caused the embarrassment of the "Furious". In the era of the giant cannon ship, the newly born aircraft carrier only served as a reconnaissance role. When the war began, it had to withdraw from the waters participating in the war and watch nearby. Fortunately, both sides were fighting at close range, and no one in the Yamann Navy paid attention to this inconspicuous, supply ship-like guy.

However, the Yamann Navy did not pay attention to it, which does not mean that no one paid attention to it. At this moment, a submarine was observing the bulky mothership with a periscope.

"Old Guo, why do you think this guy doesn't have a turret?" The first mate Jiang Maochu looked at the 'Raging' in surprise in the periscope. Captain Guo Qichao came over to take the periscope and looked at it and laughed: "This is an aircraft carrier."

"Aircraft carrier? Why haven't I heard of it?" Jiang Maochu said in surprise.

Guo Qichao said: "This kind of mothership is also found in our navy, but it is very confidential. Of course you don't know. I also learned it accidentally when I went to the wild continent for training. However, our mothership is more advanced and much larger than this."

Jiang Maochu said: "This aircraft carrier is getting closer and closer to us. If he is allowed to move forward, the No. 1 test boat will be discovered."

Guo Qichao said: "Since this is the case, let's sink it. Anyway, the Saar and Yamann Navy are fighting now, and no one noticed this. Remember to kill all Saar sailors who fell into the water. The secret of No. 1 cannot be discovered."

The two torpedoes were quickly released from the borehole, and the electric torpedo splashed very little. Therefore, the sailors on the "Furious" who were still attracted by the naval battle in the distance were not found to have been attacked by torpedoes. After two loud bangs, the mothership modified by the cargo ship, which had not many watertight compartments, quickly sank.

Although the two explosions were not small, they would be covered by countless shelling sounds on the battlefield. Therefore, Guo Qichao was not afraid of being discovered. He immediately ordered the submarine to float up. Several submarine soldiers came to the front of the submarine, picked up the submarine guns that were brought in the submarine and shot them on the sea surface, killing all the Saar sailors who fell into the water. Then they retreated quickly, and the submarine dived again, and continued to observe the battlefield form.

This submarine is not owned by Yaman Navy, but the Seawolf Type 2 ocean submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy. It was a pure coincidence that they came here this time.

Originally, five Seawolf 2 submarines were under the mission of protecting the No. 1 experimental submarine. They passed here during the experiment and discovered the naval battle between the two sides before they observed it here. The No. 1 experimental submarine they were trying to cover was behind a small island not far away.

The No. 1 test submarine is Holland's latest masterpiece and is also the pinnacle masterpiece that concentrates many scientific research achievements of the Chinese consortium. The displacement of this submarine is as high as 3,550 tons on the water and 6,560 tons underwater. In front of the Seawolf 1 submarine that is still used by countries in the Western Continent, it is definitely a behemoth.

The submarine's water speed reached 16 knots and 7 knots underwater. However, the Chinese consortium did not have enough diesel engines to promote it. For this reason, Holland had to install four 2,500-horsepower submarine diesel engines, making the submarine a unique four-axis drive submarine.

Although this No. 1 experimental submarine is so huge, it does not have many weapons and equipment. Only the boat has four torpedo tubes at the head and is equipped with twelve ammunitions. The reason why there are so few weapons is because the No. 1 test submarine is a unique submarine jellyship.

There is a huge circular hatch at the rear of the submarine, which leads to the submarine's double-layer shell. In the wide mezzanine, there are four specially designed "Flying Fish" water reconnaissance aircraft.

In order to put the aircraft into the submarine, these reconnaissance aircraft designed foldable wings, which can take off using the flight tracks on the submarine, and land on the sea with their own floats and glide near the ship.

Since the submarine can be in a semi-submersible state, it saves the trouble of lifting the hanger and allows the aircraft to slide into the hangar on its own power. At this time, the two aircraft that are reconnaissance over the battlefield are about to run out of fuel, and they are returning to the mothership, while the other two have just taken off to replace their mission.

At this time, the submarine mothership must float on the water, which is also the most dangerous time. Because of this situation, the Seawolf 2 submarine, which serves as a warning, is afraid that the mothership will be discovered and risked to sink the "Furious".

At this time, the mothership was recovering the plane, while the two reconnaissance planes that had just taken off quickly climbed up to the height and soon hovered over the battlefield.
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