At a depth of 30 meters, inside the Japanese Navy's I-26 submarine, Captain Sasaki Shosa turned his periscope and turned his gaze to the British destroyer.

From a distance, he saw only the vague figure of the destroyer.

The destroyer was at a great distance and slow, and it looked as if it was rescuing the overboard crew, having enough time to evade it itself after firing the torpedo.

After confirming that he was at a safe distance, Sasaki quickly turned his periscope to the prey on the surface of the sea, the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, and decided to attack.

After calculating the course and speed of the Prinz Eugen, as well as the distance from the submarine, Sasaki expertly calculated the amount of advance, and a series of launch parameters were then communicated to the torpedo launch bay.

Four Type 91 torpedoes burst out of the launch tubes, dragged a silvery-white wake, and fanned out into the sea directly in front of the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen.

At the moment when the torpedo was fired, the I-26 submarine retracted its periscope and dived urgently, and the entire crew held their breath and waited quietly for the result of the attack.

Sasaki Shaosa crossed his arms around his chest and touched the beard on his chin with his right hand.

I was able to harvest such a big prey, and I really have to thank those pilots of the HNA and the good luck of the German battleship.

Should I say that the German battleship was too lucky to survive the attack of so many naval aircraft, or should I thank the incompetence of the naval pilots?

One way or another, the good fortune of the German battleship came to an end when it met itself.

On the sea, just as the four torpedoes surfaced, the Prinz Eugen received an order from Chen Dao to go back to rescue the British crew who had fallen overboard.

The battleship made a graceful left turn on the sea, creating a graceful arc ripple on the sea.

"Torpedo found on starboard, torpedo found on starboard ······"

The sound of the alarm came into the bridge, and the captain Colonel Franz and Chen Dao instantly broke out in a cold sweat.

The two hurriedly looked in the direction of starboard, and happened to see four white ripples streaking across the sea in the direction of the starboard side of the battleship.

Chen Dao looked in the direction where the torpedo was coming from, and saw only the empty sea and sky, and then the voice of Colonel Franz was heard in his ears.

"It's a submarine, there are Japanese submarines nearby."

Chen Dao nodded in agreement with Colonel Franz's judgment, hiding under the dark sea to secretly shoot torpedoes, only a weapon like a submarine can do it.

Fortunately, the Prinz Eugen made an early turn and escaped this fatal assassination, thanks to her own order to rescue the crew who had fallen overboard.

In this war-torn world, there are still good people with good rewards.

Chen Dao was secretly glad at first, and a burst of uncontrollable anger rushed to his head with a thought in his heart.

"Nagumo, you bald, I remember you. First send out a group of planes, and then let the obscene submarines shoot black guns, you white-eyed wolf who can't be raised, you don't want to get out of the Indian Ocean alive. ”

Under the warning of the Prinz Eugen, the British destroyer urgently accelerated and rushed to the sea area prompted by the Prinz Eugen to search for the Japanese submarine.

The Prinz Eugen takes over from the destroyer and takes on the task of rescuing the crew from overboard.

The task of searching for the submarine and rescuing the overboard crew took more than an hour, and all the overboard crew members were fished out of the water, but the task of searching for the Japanese submarine was fruitless, and the British destroyer could only drop a few depth charges in anger, and then turned around, followed the Prince Eugen, and sailed to the southwest.

On the bridge of the Prinz Eugen, Franz said to Chen Dao: "The British destroyers have followed, and we are now heading at 210 degrees and sailing at a speed of 25 knots, and it is expected that we will be able to meet Admiral Hersmann's fleet in six hours at most." ”

Chen Dao nodded with a calm face, and his left hand pinched the knuckles of his right hand, making a gurgling sound.

Chen Dao and Colonel Franz did not know that the clear-coded telegram sent by Chen Dao before had already caused an uproar in the world at this time.

The person who received the telegram was far more than Nanyun alone.

Madagascar, India, and of course, Rear Admiral Hersmann, commander of the German Second Aircraft Carrier Group, who is searching for Nagumo in the Indian Ocean, are indispensable.

Further away Europe, the Americas, and Japan have also heard the rumors.

Based on the contents of the telegram, all those in the know deduced the probable circumstances of the incident.

The famous German General Rosen and Nagumo Tadaichi of the Japanese Navy were making an appointment in the northern part of the Indian Ocean, and for a time, countless eyes in the military circles of various countries in the world turned to the northern part of the Indian Ocean, paying close attention to the progress of the confrontation incident.

Among those in the know-how of the appointment, the most stressed was Rear Admiral Hans von Hersmann, commander of Germany's second aircraft carrier group.

After seeing the telegram, Rear Admiral Hersman commanded the fleet to turn around and move towards the direction of 63.1 east longitude and 15.4 degrees north latitude mentioned in the telegram, and at the same time sent reconnaissance planes to search the nearby sea area in a dragnet style.

By radio, Rear Admiral Hersmann quickly made contact with the Prinz Eugen, only to receive the bad news that the Prinz Eugen's fleet was under attack by a Japanese fleet.

Major General Hersman's heart instantly hung in the air, and His Excellency the brother-in-law was afraid that he would be more than lucky.

Soon after, Rear Admiral Hersman received a second telegram that the Japanese fleet had retreated, and that the Prinz Eugen was safe and sound, and that it was approaching the direction of the second carrier formation.

"Thank God, Admiral Rosen is safe and sound, I can concentrate on dealing with the Japanese fleet, you don't want to run away."

While waiting for news, the reconnaissance planes of the Hersman fleet spotted the traces of Nagumo's fleet, and the battle alarm sounded.

On the bridge of the USS Seckert, Rear Admiral Hersman clearly saw the pilots running onto the deck and into the engine room.

After staring at the fighters on the deck for a while, Rear Admiral Hersman looked up at the sky.

He had just received a report from the radar room that an unidentified plane had been spotted in the nearby sky, and that the plane was circling the fleet, and from the analysis of signal recognition, it should be a reconnaissance plane sent by the Japanese fleet.

It seems that the Japanese have also discovered us, and the real battle begins now, thought to Major General Hersman.

About 200 nautical miles southeast of the German Second Aircraft Carrier Formation, the Japanese First Mobile Fleet, Nagumo, received two reports one after another.

The first report was that the carrier-based aircraft formation of the aircraft carrier Soryu had returned, that General Rosen's battleship had not been attacked, that the attack aircraft group had sunk eight merchant ships and one destroyer, and that it had lost only four fighters, thus achieving a major victory.

The second report was sent by a reconnaissance plane, and two hundred nautical miles northwest of the fleet was found in the German fleet, in which there were two aircraft carriers.

After receiving the report, Nagumo breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart emitted the same emotion as Major General Hersman.

"Thanks to Amaterasu, General Rosen is safe and sound, and I can concentrate on dealing with the German aircraft carrier formation."

On the aircraft carriers Akagi and Kaga, the noise of high-speed rotation of the aircraft's propellers was quickly heard.

When Nagumo was busy with Rear Admiral Hersman, he didn't know that he had taken on a huge debt for someone, a debt that the I-26 submarine had attempted to steal with four torpedoes, and the creditor was preparing to come to collect the debt.