Chapter 1388: The Last Calm
Although the distance from China to the Atlantic Ocean is a little longer, there is no place with sparse routes. With the choice of the raid fleet, there are basically no problems and it is very comfortable to walk. However, the distance from the Caribbean Sea to the coast of New York is not much, but the mental pressure is huge. Sometimes, when the route is just confirmed, the speed is added up, and it is only safer at night. During the day, you must be on high alert and deal with problems at any time.
Now, it is less than 10 hours away from New York. At night, even the busy coastal areas outside New York will have very few people, especially in the second half of the night, even the New York patrol fleet will not appear. This basically means that there is not much danger. Although you must be vigilant and focused in your mentality, the top leaders, including Cheng Biguang, have a little bit of peace of mind.
The continuous journey made every soldier a little tired. Although the submarine was a little better, the 10-day long wait was more or less irritable. After careful consideration, Cheng Biguang decided to take a 4-hour rest.
These four hours are not random decisions. The time they followed was at around 3 pm. After resting for 4 hours, it was 7 pm. Then after 9 hours, it was at most 10 hours. They would arrive outside New York. The time was around 5 pm in the morning. It was the most exhausting and one of the best time for sneak attacks. Even if there were problems, one hour of preparation was released. For a flight that was only more than 200 kilometers and not too long, it was completely free of fantasy level. It was very likely that it would arrive at around 4 pm and less than 5 pm.
When you arrive at night, you will definitely not choose to attack. For the sake of the accuracy of the attack, you choose to sneak attack in the early morning when the sun rises, and you will wait for more than an hour at most. At this time, they will have almost no possibility of problems.
In a place close to New York, resting for 4 hours. Although it was too late after 3 hours, it was a relatively dangerous decision. The reason for choosing this is not only the reason for resting, but also the more important reason is that February 3 is a special day.
February 3, 1916 was a very meaningful day for China. This was the Spring Festival in 1916. The Spring Festival was the most important festival for the entire Chinese nation. It was originally a day for family reunion, but they were sent to the other end of the earth to fight for China's destiny. They also wanted to use this day to become a special memorial to China. China has not appeared on the world stage for too long. In the past 50 years, there has been only humiliation. Only with real battles can we rebuild the image of the Chinese and the image of a great power.
Such a day that is remembered in the hearts of all Chinese people, but for Americans, when all Chinese people retreat, only a very small number of people will know that this is a very meaningful day, but there will not be many of these people, and they will not have thought that the Chinese would choose to attack on this day.
However, Cheng Biguang and the Chinese Command were very clear that from this day on, this day would also become a very meaningful day for the United States. When the fleet raid decision was made, I had imagined that it would be great if it was really arrived at this point, but no one could guarantee that it would be so accurate. If the vast sea boundaries can be determined in a week and accurate to that day, it would be basically impossible. Cheng Biguang did not deliberately adjust on the road, but he still arrived on February 3rd, the Spring Festival. It was really lucky.
In 4 hours, there were no accidents. For them, the place they chose was quite remote and a relatively quiet place. There was no promotion of ocean currents, and the monsoon was a bit chaotic, which was not suitable for the navigation of merchant ships. In addition, it was the United States again. Inertial thinking was the safest place. Any enemy ship that arrived here would be besieged by the huge warships around them. They did not expect that anyone would boldly choose this place.
The reconnaissance aircraft have been flying in the sky. The excellent performance of the water Five reconnaissance aircraft has made countless military achievements on the way to come. Now, it has not even let go of a windsurfing. Half of them are on guard and the other half are resting. As for the senior officers, they are full of vigilance and have no problems. As for the night, when the night falls, when the watch points to 7 o'clock, a fleet of 4 ships and 8 submarines immediately starts to set off.
When marching at night, and the speed must be accelerated, the submarines choose to float up and join the main fleet. In terms of war, the outer seas in New York have always been very busy, but the busy ones are New York's fixed waterways, which can use some ocean currents. Therefore, most ships follow that direction. China, which has conducted detailed investigations in New York, certainly cannot follow that waterway. They chose the most remote and least likely to encounter ships. All warships are ready for battle. Once they encounter any ship, they will firmly sink as soon as possible.
The sea outside New York shrouded in the night is peaceful and quiet. No one knows that a fleet with great destructiveness that will even make Americans feel unforgettable damage is about to arrive. They will completely tilt the Chinese people's anger to the largest city in the United States. At this time, the entire United States, from top to bottom, and even the Allies, did not expect that four super battleships would come. In order to keep it secret, even Germany did not know that China planned such a sneak attack on the United States.
Germany never thought that he would use his main battleship to attack the United States because his entire energy and maritime warships were limited to the Baltic Sea. That is, after the return of the Scher fleet, he gained the upper hand in the confrontation with Britain. With the relationship between Britain, it was impossible to send the entire high seas fleet to the United States. But the United States is a naval power after all, with huge manufacturing capabilities. Destroyers and light patrols are serving in groups. Until now, even Britain doesn’t know how many destroyers and torpedo boats the United States has in service. Germany can only put it aside for such a powerful country.
China's sudden attack, in a sense, pierced the illusion of the United States. The strength of the United States is more of a geographical advantage. If you dare to take risks, it will have a huge blow to the United States, just like now.
In 9 hours, after all, Cheng Biguang's plan had a certain margin, and the average speed of one hour reached 22 knots. In the middle stage, the battleship formation and the submarine force were far apart, reaching a speed of 25 knots, and the submarine caught up from behind.
Look at the watches in your hand. At four o'clock in the morning, where they are located, at the already designed attack position, the straight line distance from the central area of New York was 19.7 kilometers. At the other end of the anti-bolt, they completely avoided the waterway, and there was even a reef between them and New York.
But the United States did not know that intelligence personnel had figured out the location of the reef a few years ago. In the name of fishing and salvage, they opened a waterway, a waterway that could pass through 45,000 tons of warships. From the start of the raid fleet, they would gradually approach, until they were 8 kilometers away from the port. This means that from the port, in the case of extreme artillery battles with a range of 20 kilometers, China could attack New York from the shore to the inland 12 kilometers.
New York is the largest city and financial center in the United States, but New York in this era cannot be compared with later generations. The American population has just exceeded 100 million. The huge United States has flourished in all aspects and has not been concentrated in big cities too much. Even Los Angeles has only hundreds of thousands of people. New York is the same. It has a population of less than 500,000 and a distance of 12 kilometers. It is enough to shine the most important part of New York.
Of course, the four fantasy classes arrived first. They maintained enough speed and set a speed difference of 2 knots from the submarine. At present, the distance between the two sides is no more than 18 nautical miles. At this moment, there is at least one and a half hours before dawn. They can wait.
In the silent and even thorough night, all the officers and soldiers had reached their positions. The target of the attack had already been issued to every key area. Once dawn, the attack would be started. According to the calculation of the sun's height and the collection of situations in New York in the past three years, this time was determined at 6:39.
At about 6 o'clock, the submarines that rushed over first met with the fleet and then sneaked. Before entering the area of the island and reef, they were guarding against some torpedo boats that might pass through the island and reef. According to the requirements, they would do anything to intercept them.
However, when the Star of Qi rose and the day was about to come, no one in New York discovered that an army of steel was about to show his fangs at him.
In Cheng Biguang's hand, a radar watch was walking slowly. The radar, which was originally born in 1957, became a Chinese brand. It is China's strength in the field of mechanical processing and high-precision machine tools. Once it focuses on it, not many mechanical products are China's opponents. This radar watch is known for its accuracy and difficulty in wear and tear, and has become an important tool for senior officers.
As soon as the sky was far away, a ray of sunlight appeared. The sun finally radiated light slowly under the horizon. The arrival of day did not synchronize with the rise of the sun. The sunlight would bring light to the earth in advance through the refraction reflection of the atmosphere.
At this moment, New York is just a sober city that has just been alerted by the sky and has not yet completely recovered. There are only a few important streets where cleaners are cleaning the streets. As for most urban functions, this recovery period is as long as 2-3 hours. However, today, its sober period is destined to be advanced. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!