Chapter 807 July Fire 2

Indian Ocean, Diego Garcia Island.

After thousands of Indian workers sweated and stationed in Mumbai in the Xinhua Navy. After gently expressing the need for some workers to rebuild the base, the Congress Party skillfully handed over tens of thousands of British armed Indian soldiers to Xinhua to deal with. Prince Li Zhen, who was well aware of his father's interests, immediately sent some prisoners of war to Seychelles and the Chagos Islands, and then the lion opened its mouth to requisition a large amount of grain, cement, steel and other materials from India in the name of munitions for the construction of naval bases in the two places.

Because of this incident, Commander Long also specially praised his son-in-law's excellent naval tradition "spirit" and supported the task of building the two places, especially the Indian Ocean base on Diego Garcia Island, without spending a penny on the empire and navy.

Diego Garcia Island is a huge circular island with a narrow entrance and a V-shaped shape. The lagoon in the center of the island is 24 kilometers long and more than 6 kilometers wide, with an average water depth of 13 meters. It is a rare natural port in the Indian Ocean. Therefore, after removing all the hundreds of aborigines on the island, the Xinhua Parliament has reached a consensus that it will be included in the uninorganized territory off the coast of Xinhua after the war, and the Ministry of the Navy is also determined to build it an important base in the Indian Ocean similar to Guam.

Although the construction scale here is very large, under the supervision of the engineers of the naval logistics department, in order to redeem themselves as soon as possible, the Indian prisoners of war also swept away the lazy style. In just a few months, they built this place in a decent way. If it hadn't been for the difficult construction of the seaport, it is estimated that there would have been several deep-water wharves.

Today's Indian workers are a little absent-minded, because they wake up and find that there are several warships moored in the lagoon, where only transport ships usually come and go, especially two of them, which is even more frightening.

The viscous light and heavy oil is continuously injected into the oil tank through the pipeline, and the tanker deck loaded with nearly 20,000 tons of oil has been piled up with used refueling pipes that are thicker than the waist. As the oil tank gradually became empty, the tanker's waterline began to rise slowly, which stunned many recruited temporary shippers. They couldn't figure out what kind of monster it was, and they actually swallowed so much oil in one go.

On the open-air platform on the left side of the bridge of Taiwan, Liu Haitao cracked the corners of his mouth with a cigarette. Looking at He Wenyu next to him, he said with satisfaction, "Ha ha, it's finally our turn to lead the strongest battleship."

He Wenyu smiled. Li Haitao, nicknamed Lao Liu, was the earliest navy like him. He had been fighting with the emperor from the east and west since Jiawu. He was the captain of the flagship Polaris, but these years later generations were star-studing, which covered the two of them a lot.

However, his surname is much calmer than Lao Liu. Although he is also very excited to lead the Taiwan, this task puts some pressure on him, because the headquarters requires them not to be found until they arrive in Cape Verde!

In order to achieve the goal, first of all, the size of the second task force fleet has been greatly reduced. In addition to the two Taiwan-class and two Qinshan-class battle support/supply ships in front of us, there is only one light aircraft carrier and two light patrols from Perth.

Secondly, the route also needs to avoid the islands along the way as much as possible. The only thing to be thankful is that before arriving on the coast of South Africa, the possibility of encountering the enemy is already very low, but after entering the Atlantic Ocean, you need to test your navigation ability.

"Wen Yu, do you think if Jellico learned that the port of Djibouti has been changed to Shanxi, will he jump?"

"Definite it!"

He Wenyu said with certainty that he would be surprised. Who would have thought that the Shanxi, which was claimed to have just installed the naval gun and had not yet been tested by sea. Now, as long as Shanxi stopped there, even if he was as shrewd as Jelico, could not know that the prince had quietly changed to a civet cat.

After I and Lao Liu entered the Atlantic Ocean, it was really lively.

"Let's go." Seeing that the tanker began to slowly withdraw the refueling tube, He Wenyu looked at his watch and patted Lao Liu on the shoulder: "Go to the base to send a telegram and report that we are safe. Starting tonight, we will disappear on the map."

..“ In front is Grand Cayman. The first group searches along the island, the second group enters the Gulf of Honduras to the left, and the fighters are on standby for support. Looking at the islands in front of him, Xiao Sheng turned on the radio.

"All eyes are wide open. There are U.S. bomber activities in this area, and we should also pay attention to submarines."

In the Caribbean Sea, 40 kilometers south of the Cayman Islands, a group of 16 dragon teeth and bumblebees suddenly dispersed. When there is no combat mission, the torpedo attack aircraft is the best scout on the aircraft carrier.

As the captain of the aircraft carrier torpedo attack fleet of Beiqi, Xiao Sheng first began to descend to the altitude. Dozens of white bars and three gold stars outside the cockpit told others how many combat take-off and landing missions he had carried out, and also achieved a proud record of three sinking.

The Cayman Islands under the wing are only composed of three islands, Grand Cayman, Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. As British colonies, there are no special resources here, but because it is located between Cuba and Honduras, it is a necessary place for the Caribbean Sea to enter the Gulf of Mexico. Its geographical location is important and has been praised by the United Kingdom. A must-see place in the Caribbean.

After Xinhua seized Panama, the United States quickly approached the United Kingdom and upgraded Grand Cayman Island to a military base. At least 10 destroyers and a large number of submarines are usually stationed here. Recently, many Curtiss D300 bombers have been deployed.

In terms of the speed of aircraft manufacturing, Xinhua is really not as fast as the United Kingdom and the United States. It is not that there is insufficient technology and resources, but that metal aircraft and biplane wooden aircraft are completely different. However, Xiao Sheng is not afraid of hornet-like enemies. Even if there is no Hornet escort, he is equipped with two 7.62mm self-defense machine guns. The dragon teeth are enough to deal with each other.

"Four o'clock, three submarines!"

Just as Xiao Sheng was flying low against Cayman Brac Island, the shouts of his comrades-in-arms came from the headphones. After he suddenly pulled the pole, the dragon teeth quickly swept in the direction of four o'clock.

On the sea, three whale-like submarines seemed to have found reconnaissance aircraft, and a large number of bubbles began to appear on both sides of the boat, which was the characteristic of submarine diving. In order to prevent the other party from escaping, Xiao Sheng immediately ordered a strafing and contacted the fleet behind him.

The 7.62mm machine gun did not pose a great threat to the submarine, but the 25mm cannon used to deal with torpedo boats and small warships on the subsequent Hornet fighter was very powerful. Only a string of small columns of water kept flashing around the submarine, and the wooden deck was smashed to pieces.

"Camel."

I don't know who shouted. Xiao Sheng, who looked up, only saw a large group of double-winged American-made camel F1 fighters in the direction of Grand Cayman Island. He had to let the fighters give up the attack and intercept the enemy aircraft first, and he took people over the submarine to wait for the support of the fleet.

After receiving the alarm, eight dragon teeth carrying four anti-submarine bombs rushed out of the deck first, and then four Weiqing-class destroyers quickly drilled out of the formation and rushed in the direction of the Cayman Islands.

Standing in the bridge of the flagship Zhongmeng, Fang Jin raised his telescope and continued: "Order Dongqi to take off two more reconnaissance teams. The first team will scout along Grand Cayman and Little Cayman. The second team will go to the Yucatan Strait and send a cruiser and three destroyers along the mouth of the Gulf of Honduras. Move forward and prepare all ships for air defense and anti-submarine.

Now most of the imperial naval generals like to use aircraft carriers as flagships, but Fang Jin is a weirdo. He likes aircraft carriers because of his strong combat capabilities, but when choosing a flagship, he only considers battleships.

The first battleship detachment is the combat force of the fifth mixed fleet second only to the first aircraft carrier battle group with three aircraft carriers. It is equipped with one aircraft carrier, four Guam-class battleships, four light cruisers and 12 destroyers.

The main purpose of his coming out this time is to escort the transport fleet.

A few days ago, an oil tanker was sunk by an American submarine when it entered the port, warning everyone. This is the crisis of the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, the back garden of the United States. Although it is not afraid of the other party's main fleet, it still needs to be particularly vigilant about the haunted submarines.

Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth arrival of the 41 transport ships behind, they were personally escorted by the First Battleship Detachment after research by the headquarters.

In fact, in addition to escorting the transport fleet, another purpose of this operation is to test whether Jellico will take a capital ship interception operation in order to try to consume part of the enemy's strength before the decisive battle.

70 kilometers is a little far away for ships, but it only takes more than ten minutes for planes. When the first wave of Longya carrier-based aircraft arrived at Xiao Sheng in the round, they were not in a hurry to attack, because as we all know, although the United States also built a large number of submarines after the beginning of the war, they were not as good as the technical force in Europe, let alone The trachea makes these submarines unable to potentially underwater for a long time, and can only last for about an hour at most, so everyone waits in circles in the sky.

With the first arrival of the two destroyers, the American sailors in the submarine finally couldn't stand the pain of lack of oxygen. When the bamboo-like periscope appeared on the sea again, Xiao Sheng immediately caught the small water lines on the sea.

Eight dragon teeth skimmed the sea at a low altitude of two or two groups. The 150 kilograms of airborne anti-submarine bombs were all improved with 203mm shells in stock. The power may not be enough compared with other bombs, but it is more than enough to deal with hundreds of tons of submarines.

32 bombs were the violent splashes of 32 regiments. The two American submarines that were the first to prepare for water seemed to have been thrown into the waves. The narrow hull was constantly twisted by the explosion, and after a moment, they disappeared on the sea with a large amount of oil.

The other one was also quickly sunk by the double L47/130mm rapid-fire gun on the destroyer. When everyone thought they could breathe a sigh of relief, not only a wave of Curtis D300 bombers with torpedoes, but also several American destroyers came in the distance.

Xiao Sheng frowned, and even he saw clearly that Britain and the United States were deliberately using inferior equipment in an attempt to achieve the purpose of delay through a continuous small-scale attrition war.

"Let's go, help the destroyer stop the bomber first." Xiao Sheng took a deep breath and quickly rushed to the Curtis D300 fleet.

(to be continued)