.Chapter 109: Ambush begins

The US military attacked nuclear submarines and showed up on its own initiative, pushing Safemo into a dilemma.

Although in Zhou Yusheng's combat plan, the submarine closest to the aircraft carrier battle group was responsible for sneak attacks, and the other three submarines were responsible for diverting the US anti-submarine forces, the submarine forces had an unwritten rule, that is, when using wolf pack tactics, they first attacked enemy submarines.

Attacking US submarines or warships paralyzed on the sea?

If you attack a warship, the "Sea Dragon" has to consider how to deal with the crazy counterattack of the US submarines. Although according to Safimo's idea, the torpedo was directly attacked and the "Sea Dragon" immediately maneuvered and avoided it after launching a torpedo, the maximum submarine speed of conventional submarines is far inferior to that of the attack nuclear submarines. At the same time, the "Sea Dragon" could not survive even if it could leave the torpedo in time.

First of all, attack the submarine, and it is very likely that you will miss the opportunity to attack the warship.

Safimo had no choice but to stand firm and wait for Zhou Yusheng's instructions.

At this time, Zhou Yusheng was waiting for news about the aviation army.

Although all four submarines have been deployed, if there is no accident, the "Sea Dragon" has arrived near the US aircraft carrier battle group and can launch an attack at any time. Because the US military did not immediately increase its anti-submarine power and the Navy Command did not receive any war reports from the participating submarines, Zhou Yusheng had reason to believe that the submarine was acting as planned and there were no unexpected situations. However, before the aviation army seized air supremacy, the safety of the submarine was not guaranteed, and even the smooth launch of the attack could not be guaranteed, so Zhou Yusheng did not rush to issue attack orders.

As the captain of the submarine, Zhou Yusheng is very patient.

As the third round of missile attacks began, the second US e-3d early warning aircraft was successfully shot down, and the fighter fleet successfully broke through the US air defense line and began to drive out the coalition anti-submarine patrol aircraft that entered the battlefield. Zhou Yusheng contacted the Navy Command and issued a brief combat command using the ultra-long-wave radio.

Because the bandwidth of ultra-long-wave radio stations is very limited, the amount of information transmitted will not be too much. In order to shorten the communication time and allow the submarines to participate in the war to accurately understand the combat intentions of the headquarters. When the submarine was floating and reporting their whereabouts, Zhou Yusheng used a communication satellite to send a very simple code to the submarine.

According to the order of floating up during communication, Zhou Yusheng used abcd to number four submarines. In terms of attack methods, English letters are also used as codes. A represents long-range attack with anti-ship missiles, and b represents attack with torpedoes. Finally, the attack order is indicated with Arabic numerals.

Just use two letters and one Arabic numeral to allow four submarines to launch attacks in an appropriate manner in order, and to know the attack methods of other submarines to facilitate coordinated operations, and to cover each other after the attack is completed.

It only takes several minutes to send four sets of codes for ultra-long-wave radio stations.

Before receiving the combat command, the sonar of the "Sea Dragon" detected the noise emitted by the anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

Because it is located south of the aircraft carrier battle group, the six P-3cs that arrived first arrived all came from the Busan Strait, so the anti-submarine patrol aircraft was above the head of the "Sea Dragon".

What surprised Safimo was that the anti-submarine patrol aircraft did not drop the sonar buoy, but dispersed in the south of the aircraft carrier battle group.

Three flew north and three flew east.

The situation was clear at a glance. The US military still believed that the danger came from the north and the east, and no submarine lurking in the south was found.

Safimo breathed a sigh of relief, but the combat orders he received immediately made him nervous again.

The anti-submarine patrol aircraft has not yet gone far. Doesn’t it mean to be self-invested?

Although anti-submarine patrol aircraft cannot intercept the torpedoes launched by the submarine, they will definitely be able to quickly take countermeasures and even discover escaped submarines.

In cooperation with attack nuclear submarines, the coalition's anti-submarine patrol aircraft can easily sink the "Sea Dragon".

Fortunately, the "Sea Dragon" is not the first submarine to launch an attack. According to Zhou Yusheng's arrangement, three submarines far away from the aircraft carrier battle group will first launch an attack, use submarine anti-ship missiles to attack large warships in the aircraft carrier battle group, attract the US military's attack nuclear submarines, and then the "Sea Dragon" launches a fatal strike and torpedoes to attack the US aircraft carrier aircraft carrier. According to this plan, when retreating, the "Sea Dragon" has the opportunity to sneak attack the US military attack nuclear submarines and cover the three friendly boats to leave the war waters. However, the order does not mention the retreat, the "Sea Dragon" can also leave the battlefield alone after completing the attack mission. What should be decided by the captain.

According to this combat plan, the possibility of the "Sea Dragon" exposure is not very high.

Safimo only needs to wait patiently, and after three friendly boats launch anti-ship missiles, attracting the attention of the US anti-submarine forces, then launching torpedoes to aircraft carriers more than 20 kilometers away.

What happened next surprised Safimo again.

Less than ten minutes after the arrival of the six anti-submarine patrol aircraft, the three heading north first turned south and flew south from the sea where the "Sea Dragon" was located. Then, the three anti-submarine patrol aircraft flying east also quickly turned and retreated south from the southeast direction of the "Sea Dragon".

The US military actually took the initiative to withdraw the anti-submarine patrol aircraft!

In addition to being surprised, Safimo knew that the time was coming to attack the aircraft carrier battle group.

The three submarines lurking on the periphery took action first, and within three minutes, each launched five submarine anti-ship missiles.

Due to the diameter of torpedo tubes, the submarine anti-ship missiles are not very powerful. The five anti-ship missiles launched by the 040 type are "club" types introduced from Russia, and the anti-ship missiles launched by the 039 type are domestically produced C-802 types. The former's xing ability is slightly more advanced, but it is still not as good as the anti-ship missiles above the air.

At this time, the energy of the anti-ship missile is not important.

The US aircraft carrier battle group has been completely paralyzed and cannot intercept incoming anti-ship missiles. As for the attack nuclear submarines under the sea, they are even more unable to deal with anti-ship missiles.

Unless there are US fighter jets over the aircraft carrier battle group, you can only pray that these missiles will fail.

There are no fighter jets from the US military on the battlefield.

If fighters cover the aircraft carrier battle group, six anti-submarine patrol aircraft would not hurriedly leave the aircraft carrier battle group.

The three conventional submarines made this move like stabbing a hornet's nest.

About five minutes after hearing the sound of the anti-ship missile coming out of the water, the side sonar array of the "Sea Dragon" detected the sound of the US submarine when it launched a long-range anti-submarine missile.

The first counterattack was the Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarine located west of the aircraft carrier battle group.

Because it is at least 60 kilometers away from the "Sea Dragon", Safimo does not need to worry about being discovered by the US military.

Immediately afterwards, two Los Angeles-class attack nuclear submarines located in the east of the aircraft carrier battle group began to accelerate, approaching the three conventional submarines south of the Sea Dragon.

Perhaps because the distance is too far, these two attacking nuclear submarines are not in a hurry to launch anti-submarine missiles.

Safimo knew very well that the most threat to the "Sea Dragon" was the "Virginia" class. As long as the submarine was still near the aircraft carrier battle group, the "Sea Dragon" might be counterattacked.

Since you have been waiting for several hours, it doesn’t matter if you wait for another few hours.

The battle between submarines is not as fast as air combat. Even the battle between nuclear submarines and conventional submarines will last for a long time.

Wait patiently and soon received the reward.

Because the three conventional submarines turned to avoid after launching the missiles, and the three US attack nuclear submarines were too far away, the battle site had moved more than 20 kilometers south when they could use heavy anti-submarine torpedoes. When the US attack nuclear submarine arrived, they had to search for the hidden conventional submarines first again before launching an attack. Searching is a very long process and cannot be achieved overnight.

If the captains of the three conventional submarines were a little ambitious, they would use this opportunity to counter-ambush.

In this battle, the advantage is not on the attack on the nuclear submarine, but on the conventional ship.

In order to catch the escaped enemy boats, the three US submarines had to sail at high speed, which caused very obvious noise. Even if the three conventional submarines had not been very good, they could still find US submarines and choose favorable ambush positions for the next half hour.

Of course, fighting is not that simple.

The captain of the US military has a lot of experience and must know the hidden dangers caused by high-speed pursuit. Therefore, when chasing, the three attacking nuclear submarines are using active attack sonar to search the surrounding waters and strive to find the enemy first. However, this is still not enough to ensure that the enemy is discovered first. Therefore, the three submarines, one in front and two behind, are the one that goes south from the west of the aircraft carrier battle group, and the other two follow closely behind. If the submarine in front is attacked, the two submarines behind can counterattack. Even if the opponent attacks the two submarines in the back first, the one in front can take advantage of the speed advantage to quickly get rid of the opponent, turn outside the range of the torpedo of the opponent, and then launch a counterattack.

However, without the initiative, the disadvantages of the US military are still very obvious.

At this time, the "Virginia" class attack nuclear submarine became very important.

Compared with the "Los Angeles" class, the maximum speed of the "Virginia" class has no advantage, but the maximum quiet speed exceeds twenty knots, so it can quietly follow the "Los Angeles" class to prevent the "Los Angeles" class from being ambushed and launch an attack at critical moments.

Safimo has never commanded a nuclear submarine, but in previous exercises, he has fought against nuclear submarines many times.

In submarine warfare, the battle is to discover the enemy first and attack the enemy first. Because nuclear submarines have very obvious speed advantages and relatively obvious submarine depth advantages, when fighting against conventional submarines, even if they do not attack the enemy first, they can still regain the initiative in counterattacks.

That Virginia class must be behind three Los Angeles class ships, and the active attack sonar was turned off.

Because the noise emitted during full speed of the Los Angeles class was very loud. The Sea Dragon retracted the drag sonar, so the Virginia class was not discovered.

At this point, Safimo had to make a choice.

Take action before a friendly boat is attacked, or take action after a friendly boat is attacked?

The former can help the friendly boat get out of trouble, but cannot guarantee the successful completion of the ambush mission. The latter can guarantee the successful completion of the ambush mission, but it will cause the friendly boat to fall into danger.
Chapter completed!