It was almost 1 o'clock in the morning, and the bright moon was still hanging high in the dark blue sky. The stars around it were twinkling and bright, like brilliant jewels scattered in the vast universe.
In the Gulf of Guinea below the bright moon, the vast sea surface has high winds and huge waves. The huge tidal force brought by the moon pushes the seawater from one high point to another, superimposing and accumulating layer by layer.
A wall of water formed by huge waves formed and swept away overwhelmingly, like roaring lions, rolling and roaring in a high-pitched neighing sound, rushing towards the next target.
Under the water, there is a completely opposite scene. The quiet underwater world is deep and peaceful, and schools of fish wandering around appear and disappear, playing or chasing...
But under the calm surface, there are dangers. A Bryde's whale appears. After a huge turbulent wave, all the black fish enter its mouth.
Three violent jets of water spurted out from the breathing hole of the Bryde's whale. It gained a lot from this hunt. After swinging its tail fin violently a few times, it wandered towards the bottom of the sea.
About 30 meters below the Bryde's whale, six conventional submarines appeared on the seabed. They formed a linear queue and remained silent and motionless on the seabed.
They are the six remaining submarines in the alert formation that Cleaver captured. They carry about 1,200 of his cronies on board, most of whom are crew members of the original Dark River Company submarine force.
They have extensive experience in submarine operations.
According to Cleaver's order, they stayed here silently to avoid being hunted by the Crisis Plan's pursuit fleet.
In comparison, they did not have any advantages. The pursuit fleet not only had absolute sea and air supremacy, anti-submarine aircraft, but also destroyers to encircle and destroy submarines, and submarine hunting submarines to use submarines to fight against submarines.
Under the trinity of anti-submarine warfare, any dimension is enough to destroy these six conventional submarines.
On the turbulent sea, two destroyers entered the silent sea area of 6 conventional submarines diagonally. They dropped a large number of towed sonar and passive line array sonar on the sea.
At the same time, in the starry sky, two anti-submarine patrol aircraft appeared directly above the six submarines. They both turned on infrared scanning equipment and used hoisting sonar to conduct all-round detection of the entire sea area. .
In the command hall of the Supreme Military Executive Committee of the Crisis Planning Agency, Li Jianfeng and Snet quietly stared at the large communication screen in front of them. At this moment, a secret anti-submarine cable was projected on it.
Secret messages showed that the six conventional submarines captured by Cleaver were silently on the seabed about 800 meters above the sea surface, which was almost the maximum diving depth of this type of submarine.
After thinking for a few seconds, Li Jianfeng ordered the destroyer to drop depth bombs to the silent position of the submarine. The depth bombs were calibrated to a depth of 600 meters.
After receiving the order, the two destroyers immediately dropped more than 20 depth bombs into the predetermined sea area. Three minutes later, the depth bombs exploded one after another about 200 meters directly above the six submarines.
Under the quiet deep sea, as groups of firelights flashed, water balls mixed with light burst one after another. The top of the six submarines became a feast of fire and water balls competing to explode.
Although the calibration area of the depth charge was far away from 200 meters away, the rapid shock wave still caused a big impact on the submarine. Wave after wave of shock waves were superimposed and rushed towards the submarine. All six submarines were without exception. There was violent shaking.
Two of the submarines experienced burst pipes and water pressure imbalances.
Despite this, Cleaver, who was a submariner, remained calm and composed, and his men did not show any signs of panic. For these submariners, this situation was simply a common occurrence.
Cleaver knew very well that when the depth charges were being dropped, any attempt to restart the aircraft and attempt to maneuver for evasion would be re-targeted and would attract more depth charges.
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There is no way to hide now. They are already under the bed, and they may be able to escape with luck.
In the command hall of the Supreme Military Executive Committee of the Crisis Plan, Li Jianfeng and Snet were still staring at the disappearing water balloons on the monitor screen.
Below are the six conventional submarines lying silently on the seabed. Their sonar signals are exceptionally clear.
"They haven't turned back on yet," Snart said with some concern.
"It seems that Clifford wants to try his luck." Li Jianfeng said.
After he finished speaking, a faint smile flashed across his lips, then he picked up the encrypted communication device and continued to order: "Attack formation, calibrate 700 meters! Bearing 10!"
"The attack formation understands!"
Soon, another round of depth bombs was dropped from the destroyer. As balls of water mixed with fire exploded, the hulls of the six implanted submarines swayed even more, and one of them directly hit the ground. Rolled onto its side on the seabed.
Only 10 seconds after the attack, Li Jianfeng and Snate noticed that the overturned submarine started its engine. After struggling violently for a few times, it finally righted itself.
At the same time, the other five submarines also started up one after another, and they headed towards the northwest waters along the seabed...
"Clever couldn't hold it any longer." Snart sneered. He looked at the map and then continued, "It seems that he wants to sail out of the Gulf of Guinea from the northwest waters, then go all the way north and detour around the Mediterranean, and finally reach the Dark Sea. River Company.”
After a moment, a trace of confusion appeared on his face: "I'm wondering, why did he choose the distance instead of the nearer and not go from the west?"
"To the west is the Atlantic Ocean with wide water surface, which is very conducive to anti-submarine warfare, but going north is different. The narrow channel and complex sea bottom and water pattern characteristics are very conducive to hiding submarines." Li Jianfeng replied.
"So what now? We want them to go south, but they're going the other way."
"They'll be heading south soon."
After Li Jianfeng finished speaking, his eyes were fixed on the submarine force led by Clifford on the big screen.
Sure enough, 3 minutes later, the submarine force turned around. After traveling westward for about 30 nautical miles, they galloped southward along the west coast of Africa...
Snate looked at Li Jianfeng in surprise. Li Jianfeng smiled lightly, raised his hand and pressed lightly on the table. Three light spots appeared on a small monitor screen in front of him.
Snate understood that these three light spots were the sonar signals of an aircraft carrier formation and two submarine forces. They were respectively deployed at the connection between the Gulf of Guinea and the Atlantic Ocean and in the Atlantic Ocean west of the Gulf of Guinea.
Control the sea areas heading north and west respectively.
Cleaver's submarine force must have detected the three fleets waiting for them, so they quickly changed their course.
Now, there was only one way before them, and that was to sail south along the west coast of Africa.
There were no obstacles along the way, but it was the result Li Jianfeng hoped for.
As Cleaver's submarine force sailed south, Li Jianfeng quickly ordered a pursuit formation composed of two aircraft carrier formations and one submarine formation to pursue them closely.
After the deployment was completed, Li Jianfeng breathed a long sigh of relief and took a sip of water, but his eyes still did not leave the densely packed monitoring screens.
He looked at his watch. At this moment, a full hour had passed before the time stipulated by the Tiberians to quell the submarine force, and there was only one hour left before the ocean-going fleet filled with red soil resources was taken over. hour.
He was quite confident that he could annihilate this submarine force within one hour, not to mention that there were still two hours left.
This is indeed the case. If the pursuit fleet launches a general attack, in the face of absolute strength, they will be buried in the sea in just a few minutes.
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But this is not his ultimate goal. What he wants is for the ocean-going fleet carrying nearly 500 million tons of red soil resources to return safely to its home port.
This is the ultimate purpose of this plan.
But now, there is only an hour left before the destiny of this ocean-going fleet is taken over by the Tiberians. Fortunately, the crew of the ocean-going fleet cooperate very well, and the ups and downs of each other's "commotion" make the entire ocean-going fleet on the deck. Chaos.
It was a certainty that the takeover would be postponed.
However, Li Jianfeng knew very well that this drama could not be maintained for too long, otherwise, the Taibo people who had lost their patience would definitely intervene, and then sacrifice would be inevitable.
The most important thing now is to force Clifford to submit and implement the strategy given by Miyazawa and his party, otherwise, all efforts will be wasted.
Thinking of this, a trace of sadness flashed between Li Jianfeng's brows. He rubbed his face, and his anxious eyes returned to the monitoring screen.
"Why, the chief of general staff doesn't have confidence in my strategy?" The voice of Miyazawa and his party came from behind Li Jianfeng.
At this moment, he and Liu Hanyang were being led by a sentry into the command hall.
The two of them said hello to Snet and then walked up to Li Jianfeng.
"It's not that there is no confidence, but the situation has become very complicated. If we are not careful, we will lose everything." Li Jianfeng looked serious, and his words were filled with deep worry.
Miyazawa and his party laughed lightly and looked at the monitoring screen in front of them. He noticed that a white light spot was speeding south along the west coast of Africa. Behind it, a larger blue light spot appeared. Dots followed closely.
The white dots are Cleaver's submarine force, and the blue dots are the pursuit fleet.
"How long will it take for Clifford's submarine force to reach the scheduled sea area?" Miyazawa and his party asked.
"45 minutes." Li Jianfeng replied.
The faces of Miyazawa and his party immediately became serious.
He looked at his watch and his expression became even more gloomy. This was a full 20 minutes later than originally expected. This also meant that there was less than 1 hour and 15 minutes left before the time set by the Tiberians to destroy this submarine force. .
"We have enough time to annihilate this submarine force, even within 5 minutes!" Li Jianfeng withdrew his gaze from the big screen, a hint of gloom flashed across his face, "But it's not long before the Tiberians take over the ocean-going fleet. There is not much control left.”
Once the Tiberians take over control of the ocean-going fleet, they want to take it back unless they start a war!
Everyone present understood that except for the big killer weapon that maintained the strategic balance between the two sides, the people on earth were no longer able to fight it.
Destroying the "strategic mutual trust" agreement signed with the Tiberians means all-out war.
"How long can the crew on the ocean-going fleet maintain the riot?" Snate asked Li Jianfeng worriedly.
"Based on the current situation, it will be up to 1 hour, maybe even shorter."
"Can you fight for another half hour?" Miyazawa and his party asked anxiously.
Before Li Jianfeng could reply, an urgent coded message appeared on the communication screen.
The secret message showed that a mecha unit of the Tiberians was gathering on a tugboat of the ocean-going fleet, and they were preparing to use force to clear out the "rioting" crew members.
The faces of Li Jianfeng and others immediately became solemn. He looked at the pursuit fleet following Cleaver's submarine force on the surveillance screen, and immediately picked up the communication device.
"Pursuing the fleet, I order you to immediately begin a force attack on the enemy! Remember, act in accordance with the previously deployed strategy without any deviation!"
"Wait! Clifford hasn't reached the scheduled sea area yet!" Miyazawa and his party stopped him loudly.
"A poor enemy must find a desperate way! Maybe a poor way can create opportunities for us!"
(End of chapter)
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