s: There were a lot of things yesterday, sorry.
Will make up for it.
The data in the previous chapter is wrong.
The data on merchant ships sunk by German submarines should be: more than 9,000 ships, with a total tonnage of more than 35 million tons.
I missed it, sorry.
The flames of World War I not only swept across most of the European continent, but even the Atlantic Ocean could not escape the disaster.
Although the decisive battles at sea such as Jutland, the Faroe Islands, and the Strait of Kythera are exciting, there are only a few such grand shows.
You know, the navy is a service that can "lose an entire war in an afternoon".
How can it often play decisive battles?
No great power on earth can afford it.
Therefore, on the main battlefield of the Atlantic Ocean, the most common form of war is the kind of warfare that looks very inconspicuous, neither majestic, passionate, nor romantic, and even very wretched.
However, the scope of this form of naval battle is very broad, covering almost every part of the ocean, and the number of times is very high, occurring almost every day.
Precisely because of its frequency, it caused the most casualties and losses to both warring parties.
In this protracted confrontation between breaking diplomatic ties and counter-breaking diplomatic ties, at the very beginning, it was the latter who had the upper hand.
Because the German submarines at that time were still very disciplined, abided by international law, and engaged in "restricted" engagements.
According to the relevant provisions of the Capture Act of International Law, German submarines first need to accurately identify the target to be attacked before performing a mission.
This requires the submarine to surface and send crews to board the target ship for inspection to confirm whether the other party is a legal target.
Only after it is completely confirmed that the target is an attackable object can the submarine sink it.
Before sinking a target, it must be ensured that all the opponent's crew members are given a chance to escape, and certain help should be provided if necessary.
However, when submarines fulfilled the above rules, their own tactical advantages such as concealment and suddenness were almost completely lost.
Therefore, German submarines had mediocre results in the early stages of World War I.
In fact, the confrontation between breaking diplomatic relations and counter-breaking diplomatic relations was not fierce at this time, but at this time the British did something stupid and smart.
They first built a camouflaged submarine hunter called a "Q-boat".
This kind of "Q ship" is modified from an ordinary merchant ship.
From the outside, it is no different from an ordinary merchant ship, but it is equipped with large-caliber artillery and anti-submarine bombs, and some are also equipped with torpedoes.
Its crew were all volunteers, drawn from the Royal Naval Reserve or the Merchant Navy.
This laoshizi is used to pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger, and is specially used for fishing.
The British built a total of more than 200 Q-boats of various types and fished all over the world.
Many German submarines were fooled, and more than 20 were sunk and more than 80 were damaged.
With this excuse, the Germans became completely shameless and launched unrestricted submarine warfare.
Once they lost their shame, the situation immediately changed greatly, and the results continued to increase.
Of course, judging from the development of the war, Erdezi will choose this tactic sooner or later, but because the British guys are smart, they have a pretty good excuse, and their reputation is different.
From the time when Er Dezi was shameless to the time before the United States entered the war, it became a nightmare for the British and French.
The entire Allied Powers lost more than 24 million tons of merchant ships and more than 200 warships of various types.
When German submarines were at their craziest, the Allies were sinking more than 2 million tons of merchant ships every month.
Until the United States entered the war, the United States sent a large number of warships to participate in escort.
The situation improved after Japan ordered a large number of escort ships from China and made them themselves, and they were gradually put into anti-diplomatic operations.
In particular, the Americans discovered the killer weapon of aircraft anti-submarine warfare.
After 1918, as a large number of temporary aircraft carriers from the United States joined the escort operations, the rampant arrogance of German submarines was gradually suppressed.
But after losing a number of submarines, the Germans also learned wisely.
They concentrated on operating at night and hid in the sea during the day.
With the reconnaissance technology at the time, Allied aircraft relied on visual inspection to detect submarines on the sea.
However, if the submarine just extended its snorkel and hovered in the sea, it would be difficult to detect it.
And the United Kingdom and the United States and other countries do not have sonar, and there are not many ways to deal with these German submarines that are hiding day and night.
They also need a large number of escort ships.
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But in any case, due to the use of aircraft carriers, the Allies succeeded in reducing the activity time of German submarines in half.
In order to fight against the hateful German submarines, the United States, Britain, France and other countries have thought of many ways and opened up a lot of imagination.
On the one hand, they introduced a large number of Chinese Water H-1 "Lionhead Goose" water patrol aircraft, and based on this, they developed their own long-range large seaplanes.
They deployed these seaplanes on both sides of the Atlantic and on the islands in between, and conducted armed patrols on the sea every day.
In addition, the Allied Powers also exploded many small anti-submarine ships.
The smallest of these simple hunting submarines only weighed more than a hundred tons.
They were only equipped with a 57mm rapid-fire gun, a few machine guns, and depth bombs.
These simple hunting submarines are low-cost, simple and quick to build, and can even be modified with fishing boats.
Britain, the United States, and France have at least several hundred of these ships.
Although they cannot go to the distant ocean, they can play "people's war" with a numerical advantage in offshore waters.
Now the east coast of the United States and the west coast of France are full of such simple submarine hunting.
These measures taken by the Allied Powers were still very effective, greatly reducing the space and time for German submarines to move, and reducing the loss of merchant ships from the highest of more than 2 million tons per month to less than 1 million tons.
By February this year, the loss had dropped to 800,000 tons, but this loss was still too great.
So after the Battle of the Kythira Strait, the Chinese Navy also sent a large number of ships to join the battle to hunt down the German wolves.
In early April 1919, in addition to leaving eight battleships, two aircraft carriers and some light ships to continue to control the Mediterranean, the Chinese Navy's other four aircraft carriers and most of its light ships were dispatched to the Atlantic Ocean to participate in the naming.
For the "Sea Wolf Hunt" operation.
By May, the newly commissioned aircraft carriers Sui Dynasty and Tang Dynasty also came with more than 40 light ships to help, well, mainly for actual combat training.
At present, the Chinese Navy's fleet carrying out escort missions in the Atlantic Ocean is centered on aircraft carriers, including six regular aircraft carriers Zhou Chao, Qin Chao, Han Chao, Jin Chao, Sui Chao and Tang Chao, and 14 temporary aircraft carriers. , the four seaplane carriers are the core force of anti-submarine warfare.
In addition, there are six battleships, eight heavy cruisers, 24 light cruisers, 48 destroyers, 60 frigates and 60 submarines, forming an extremely large anti-submarine force.
With the addition of China's counter-submarine forces, the situation in the Atlantic immediately changed.
Not only did China dispatch a large number of aircraft, but all its ships were equipped with sonar systems.
Not only did it suppress German submarines during the day, but even at night, there was no need to worry about German submarines fishing in troubled waters.
According to a Chinese sonar soldier: German submarines are actually easy to detect.
They either stay still and if they move, they can be heard hundreds of nautical miles away.
This cannot be blamed on the Germans for being stupid.
In this era, submarines have just begun to show their power, so there is no concept of "silence".
The noise of submarines is naturally so loud that they can be discovered hundreds of miles away.
Since the addition of the Chinese fleet, anti-submarine efficiency has been greatly improved.
In April, the Allied merchant ship losses dropped to 400,000 tons.
In May, it dropped to 200,000 tons.
On the contrary, German submarines suffered heavy losses.
In the past two months, 97 German submarines were sunk or captured, and more than a hundred were damaged, which was more than in the previous years combined.
At present, the total number of German submarines that can be used to break diplomatic relations is about 400, and it can be said that more than half of them have been casualties.
This was the result of the Chinese Navy not putting in all its efforts.
Wen Desi had already warned them not to work too hard and just get what they wanted.
His exact words were: If we finish all the work, what else will the friendly forces do?
Based on this principle, the Chinese Navy basically turned a blind eye and regarded this operation as actual combat training.
As long as those German submarines are not stupid enough to prepare to attack themselves, or enter the final cordon range, the Chinese navy will pretend not to see them even if they discover them.
Not to mention pursuit, as long as the German submarine retreats wisely, the Chinese fleet will never pursue it one more step.
Aircraft carrier Tang Dynasty.
The Tang Dynasty aircraft carrier is the fourth ship of the Han Dynasty class.
Construction started on March 1, 1916, launched on July 12, 1917, completed on October 15, 1918, and completed sea trials and adaptation training on April 10, 1919.
Enter the South China Sea Fleet.
He was then transferred to the Atlantic for anti-submarine warfare.
The Han Dynasty class is currently the largest regular aircraft carrier in the world, with a standard displacement of 33,200 tons, a full load displacement of 39,700 tons, a maximum speed of 32 knots, an endurance of 15 knots and 16,000 nautical miles, a total power of 120 megawatts and 161,000 horsepower, and a crew of 3,050.
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Its armament is mainly for air defense.
The entire ship is equipped with six twin-mounted 130mm high-level and flat dual-purpose guns, 10 quadruple-mounted 40mm anti-aircraft guns, and a total of about 50 twin-mounted and single-mounted 20mm anti-aircraft guns.
There are also 4,060 15mm anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft firepower.
The number of each ship varies.
Of course, the main weapon of an aircraft carrier is its carrier-based aircraft, not these artillery pieces.
The Han Dynasty-class aircraft carrying capacity is as high as 115, which is generally configured as follows: 2 fighter squadrons of 36 aircraft, 2 dive attack squadrons of 36 aircraft, 2 torpedo bomber squadrons of 36 aircraft, 5 reconnaissance aircraft, and 2 liaison aircraft.
In addition, there are 9 dismantled standby aircraft, 3 dive attack aircraft and 3 torpedo aircraft.
At this time, a two-plane formation composed of H-6 "Demoiselle Crane" torpedo bombers was flying towards the Tang Dynasty aircraft carrier.
Then the broadcast on the bridge sounded, ordering the deck to prepare for landing.
At the same time, the words "Prepare to land" also lit up. ” signal light.
The ground crew on the deck immediately got busy and hung three blocking ropes on the angled deck, and then the control tower sent a signal to allow landing.
The lead aircraft immediately took the lead and started landing.
After decelerating, it aimed at the runway on the angled deck and put the flaps to the maximum.
Then the plane lowered its landing gear and tailhook and rushed down to the deck.
With a bang, the plane's tail hook successfully hooked the first blocking cable.
The plane rushed forward for more than 20 meters before being forced to stop by the blocking cable, and the landing was successful.
The ground crew quickly ran over with a battery trailer, and some people immediately detached the tailhook and the blocking cable, started the hydraulic system of the blocking cable, and restored it.
Others hooked up the fighter plane to a battery trailer and towed it to the parking space to prepare for the next plane to land.
Two minutes later, another plane also landed.
The wingman pilot's skills were worse and he failed to hook the first and second blocking ropes.
Fortunately, he quickly adjusted the plane's position and finally hooked the last blocking rope.
So.
The plane came to a halt, and the ground staff hurried up to get busy before they had time to wipe off the cold sweat.
If none of the three arresting lines hooked the aircraft, the pilot would have to quickly pull up for a go-around, turn around and start again.
This is the biggest difference between carrier-based aircraft and shore-based aircraft when landing.
When landing, shore-based aircraft can slowly decelerate and fly levelly until they turn off the engine and slowly descend.
However, the carrier-based aircraft cannot shut down the engine when landing, nor can it slow down too much.
Once the tailhook fails to catch the arresting cable, it must be able to quickly pull up and escape.
After seeing that both planes landed safely, the ground commander smiled and asked the lead pilot: "Da Fan, how was this sortie?"
"It's certain that we killed a submarine."
The captain of the lead aircraft smiled and took out a film and shook it.
"Congratulations, Da Fan, you are so lucky.
This is already the third ship, hahaha."
The ground crew commander raised his thumbs.
This crew was extremely lucky, and they had already killed three German submarines this time.
"Okay, we have to go to the air command department to report, hand in photos, and we'll talk later.
I'll treat you tonight."
The captain of the lead aircraft joked with him for a few more words, then called on his crew members to run to the bridge. go.
At this time, the ground crew were also busy dragging the two aircraft to the elevator and sending them to the hangar for inspection and maintenance.
This is also a regulation.
Carrier-based aircraft are more delicate than shore-based aircraft and require routine inspection and maintenance after each flight.
If it were in the Pacific and Mediterranean, these tasks could be done on the deck, but here in the Atlantic, the sea conditions are so bad that the aircraft must enter the hangar quickly after landing, otherwise it may be blown out into the sea if left outside.
Well, this is actually a lesson.
When they first came to the Atlantic Ocean, the Chinese Navy did not pay attention to this situation and was careless.
Just like before, the planes were neatly arranged in the landing area on the deck.
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As a result, a strong wind blew, and the planes dropped dumplings.
Afterwards, it was calculated that a total of 28 planes were dropped from the four aircraft carriers at that time.
Fortunately, there was no one on the plane at the time.
Later, except when taking off and landing, they never flew down.
I don’t dare to put the plane on the deck to blow out the wind.
On the Han Chao, the staff officer was reporting to Yue Youyuan: "Commander, the Tang Chao reported that Unit 61 sank a submarine, and there are photos to confirm it."
Yue Youyuan nodded: "Well, it seems that this tactic of allowing torpedo aircraft and attack aircraft to carry anti-submarine torpedoes for attack is quite efficient and can continue to be used
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