The Fernandez, who was standing on the transport ship, did not retract his gaze. Suddenly the little thing disappeared, and then two white lines appeared on the sea. The puzzled Fernandez pulled a passing sailor and asked, "Look at what that thing is
What?"
The sailor saw Fernandez with the rank of captain and saluted very respectfully: "Yes, sir."
He looked along Fernandez's finger and immediately took a breath: "Oh my God, it's a torpedo, avoid it."
Unfortunately, his shouting could not reach the cab at all. They could only watch the two torpedoes getting closer and closer to them. The two people with wide eyes watched as one of the torpedoes' waterlines headed straight to their ship.
The two of them rushed towards the side, and as the white line hit the ship's side, the two of them had closed their eyes.
The expected explosion sound did not come. Seeing the torpedo slide past the bottom of the boat, the two of them felt exhausted. But before they could recover, a huge explosion sounded behind them, violently
The air wave almost overturned the two of them. If it weren't for their too nervous just now, they had clamped the railing tightly with their hands, and they had been pushed out of the ship and fell into the sea.
It turned out that their transport ship was not immune to the torpedo fuse, but because Zhao Qi was inexperienced, he miscalculated the draft of their transport ship.
Since this transport ship was loaded with personnel, the draft was relatively shallow, and the torpedo with a fixed depth of five meters was rowed from the bottom of the ship. Unfortunately, the Sar Empire ironclad ship "Benbao" on their other side was not so lucky.
The draft of the "Benbao" with a full load displacement of 10,770 tons reached nearly seven meters. As a result, the torpedo that was originally shot at the transport ship was wrong. The torpedo missed the transport ship with a shallow draft, but it plunged into it.
The ironclad ship, the torpedo's round head, was installed directly on the hull under the waterline, and exploded below its waterline.
At this time, torpedoes were not widely used, so warship designers from various countries paid more attention to anti-aircraft capabilities. In order to free up more water displacement, they were used to strengthen the armor thickness of the anti-aircraft part. The hull below the waterline had almost no armor.
The weak underwater hull encountered a torpedo specially used underwater locations. The huge explosion power suddenly tore a large hole more than two meters wide below its waterline. The surging sea water suddenly poured into the hull.
The "Benbao" tilted quickly.
Another torpedo launched by No. 0101 hit another transport ship. This transport ship is quite tragic. It transports the army's artillery and ammunition, so the draft is deeper. The torpedo explodes almost at the bottom of its ship, not only tearing the bottom of the ship.
A big hole was opened and the shells piled up in the cabin were also ignited.
The temporary cargo tanks converted into cargo ships are relatively large, and there are not so many military ships that need to consider for isolation, fire prevention and watertight compartments. Therefore, the shells in the cabin were ignited one after another, and huge explosions came one after another. The transport ship was directly bombed into
Fragments.
"I hit it, both hit it." The listener on No. 0101 reported loudly.
"That's great." The crew cheered in a low voice, squeezing each other's eyes excitedly expressing their inner excitement.
"Float to the depth of the periscope, let's see the situation." Zhao Qi wanted to continue to expand the results and immediately decided to float up to find out the situation.
After seeing the attack of No. 0101, several other submarines fired torpedoes one after another. Explosions came one after another, but unfortunately, each submarine had only six torpedoes. After firing all the torpedoes, the submarine troops had to leave angrily.
At this time, the sea surface had turned into a purgatory. Nineteen transport ships and four warships were hit. Because the transport ships had few watertight compartments and low resistance to sink, all of these nineteen transport ships sank.
Due to its good resistance to sinking, only the ironclad ship "Benbao" and the cruiser "Conqueror" were hit and sunk.
General George, the commander of the Eastern Continental Fleet of the Saar Empire, looked as if he was so angry. The fleet suffered such a huge loss, but he didn't know where the attackers came from. Fortunately, the ammunition of these attackers seemed to be insufficient, and they attacked for less than twenty minutes.
There was no more movement.
Now the entire fleet is rescuing people who fell into the water, and the warships are soon overcrowded. After preliminary statistics, at least 3,000 people died and disappeared from sailors and transport ships of the Saar Empire.
There were so many people on the warships that could no longer head towards the Persian Empire, but Admiral George did not want to give up his mission. In the end, he decided to let all the transport ships throw ammunition into the sea and make room for personnel.
After allocating two ironclad ships and six cruisers to protect these full-bodied transport ships and the two injured warships to return to Tamsui Port, the remaining ten ironclad ships and twelve cruisers brought as much supplies as possible to continue to go to Ah
Bass Harbour advances.
Two days later, the fleet returning to the flight encountered the No. 0103 submarine, which had not been caught, and the crew, who had already itchy, launched an attack in the darkness of the night, not only sank the two injured cruisers, but also sank them again.
A transport ship caused the mixed brigade, which had already suffered more than half of the casualties to lose more than 500 people.
"The submarine report is sent back, and it is a great victory." Wan Yong said to Sun Xiaohu excitedly with the telegram.
Sun Xiaohu, who had been restless, breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "What is the reaction of the Saar Empire?"
Wan Yong said: "The Sars did not protest to the empire. It seems that they have no idea where the attack came from."
Sun Xiaohu nodded: "Even so, we should have some illusions to confuse these Saar people. After all, the young master doesn't want outsiders to know the existence of the submarine."
The Eastern Continental fleet of the Saar Empire continued to advance and soon approached the Port of Abbas. Sun Xiaohu took out another secret weapon. He first sent an unarmed boat to send a letter to the Saar Empire, claiming that it was
It was located in a war zone, and the Chinese territorial navy laid mines, hoping that the Saar Empire fleet would not advance again to avoid accidental injury.
The mines brought out by Sun Xiaohu this time are also the latest masterpieces of the Weapons Laboratory. They are divided into anchor thunder and drifting thunder. At this moment, all mines have been laid out according to the pre-planned range.
As the commander of the Saar fleet, General George had never heard of such a weapon. He believed that this was an excuse for the Chinese territorial navy. The Chinese territorial fleet was simply afraid that the Saar Empire fleet would enter the coast of the Persian Empire.
Admiral George, who determined that the other party was a scare, arrogantly rejected Sun Xiaohu's kindness, saying that the Saar Empire's navy had the right to operate in the high seas, and they did not need any advice and would not change their itinerary.
This result was exactly what Sun Xiaohu was happy to see. Without the drag of the freighter, the Saar Empire fleet drove at full speed and continued to move forward at a speed of twelve knots. The unaware Saar people soon entered the minefield.
Admiral George stood on the deck with great enthusiasm. In his opinion, as long as the powerful Sar Empire warship entered the coast of the Persian Empire, the cooperation of the army would also make the Chinese leader retreat without the need for the cooperation of the army.
Just as General George was fantasizing about what kind of reward he would receive after making this meritorious service, the explosion came faintly from the front of the fleet.
The huge explosion woke up Admiral George's fantasy, and he immediately ordered the reason to be found.
The sailors blew the flag and got a reply soon. It turned out that there were many black iron bumps floating on the sea. A cruiser accidentally encountered one, and the iron bump exploded, blowing out the bow of the cruiser.
The big hole is being repaired at this time.
Admiral George immediately thought that these iron lumps were what the Chinese territorial navy called mines. Only then did he realize that the Chinese territorial navy was not alarmist, but a warning to him.
Admiral George immediately ordered the sailors to search the sea with a telescope, and soon found dozens of the same iron lumps. The Admiral ordered the sailors to send a small boat to capture the mines and study them.
A small boat slowly rowed over, and the sailor wanted to grab the iron branches protruding from the mine and lift it up to the water surface. Unfortunately, he didn't know that the top of these iron branches was the fuze of the mine.
Because the mines were too heavy, the sailor used a lot of force to lift the mines up the water surface. The mines were too heavy. When he lifted the mines up, his strength was exhausted and he had to put them on the boat.
Just when the sailor put the mine on the boat, the fuse at the bottom caused an explosion due to touching the bottom of the boat. The huge explosion tore the entire boat to pieces. The four sailors on the boat disappeared along with the boat.
Seeing such a tragic scene, even if the officers issued strict orders, the inexplicable Saar sailors did not dare to go into the water to catch thunder. The helpless General George had to order the fleet to reverse, withdraw from the minefield first, and then take a detour.
OK.
After circling for 400 nautical miles, the Saar Empire fleet finally appeared outside the Abbas Port. Unfortunately, the Chinese corpse had been replaced here at this time, and the Southern Ocean Fleet led by Sun Xiaohu was also waiting outside the port.
"This is the jurisdiction of the Chinese territory. Please leave immediately." Seeing the fleet of the Saar Empire approaching, a cruiser from the Southern Ocean Fleet leaned over and uttered a flag-tongued towards the Saar Empire.
"Tell them that we are here to visit the Port of Abbas of the Persian Empire and let them go," replied General George, and the sailor immediately sent his words into flags.
"This place has become the controlled area of the Chinese territory. If you are willing to visit the Chinese territory port, we will be happy." After uttering such a flag, the Chinese territory's fleet opened a waterway, as if we welcomed the other party into it.
Originally, General George thought that the other party would never give in, but unexpectedly, Sun Xiaohu was unreasonable and welcomed them into Hong Kong.
Originally, General George wanted to be tough once, but he didn't expect that he would not give him a chance. As for entering the port, General George didn't dare. If he entered the port, wouldn't he let his fleet and shore artillery attack him?