The launch ceremony of the British expedition to the Antarctic in Pusmouth Harbour attracted journalists from all over the world, and although many adventurers had traveled south since the 18th century in search of the fabled southern continent, they did not have much to gain due to the technical conditions of the time.

Between 1772 and 1775, the famous British Captain Cook sailed nearly 10,000 kilometers for three years and eight months, and finally completed the feat of circumnavigating the Antarctic for a week or even several times into the Polar Circle, but Cook was unable to discover land.

Not to be outdone in the 19th century, the Woolly Bear sent two research ships led by Belinsgauzin in 1819 to begin their journey of conquest southward. After two years and 21 days of arduous journey, the Russians discovered two islands near 69°53′ and 68°43′ south latitude respectively, which also set a record for the highest latitude of mankind to go south at that time.

However, the Englishman Weddell soon set a new record, and in February 1823 he traveled south to the sea near 74°15′ south latitude. Not to be outdone, the fashionable French chicken tried to surpass the Englishman Weddell in a high-latitude record between September 1837 and November 1840, but he failed. But the romantic Frenchman named the island he discovered on January 19, 1840 as Adreland, and named its coastal waters the Sea of Dilville, and later named a penguin, the Adré penguin, after his wife.

It is not difficult to see that white people in Europe have always been keen on the adventure of going south to find the southern continent, so when the British government spent a huge amount of money to form a huge Antarctic research fleet that had never been seen before, Portsmouth attracted countless people who watched the excitement of eating melons.

Different from previous adventures, since it has been rumored in recent years that the location of the Great Song Empire is on the southern continent, this "scientific expedition" organized by the British has attracted much more attention than any previous southward expedition.

The finely crafted industrial products of the Great Song Dynasty people have repeatedly fetched sky-high prices in the European market, and everyone knows what kind of commercial value it will be to open up a route to the mainland of the Great Song Empire.

Even if the descendants of the Orientals had a very strange constitution, and they prevented outsiders from going to the mainland of their empire, even if they relied on smuggling to bypass the colonial authorities of the Great Song Dynasty to obtain those industrial goods, it was still an extremely cost-effective deal!

Of course, after seeing the giant ships and cannons of the Great Song Imperial Navy, not many adventurers have any hope of successfully finding the location of the Great Song Empire, and the battleships sunk on the bottom of the Far East are enough to deter most speculators who have no ideas.

However, this time the fleet to the Antarctic for "scientific expeditions" is not comparable to the previous adventurers who are strapped for money, and the government funding and the influx of venture capital have allowed the fleet to have three ships with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons. Of course, the most eye-catching are the three newest pieces of equipment from the British Royal Navy - "torpedo boat destroyers".

It was precisely because of the intervention of the Royal Navy of the British Empire that many speculators who had been deterred from exploring the south before rekindled hope. Many people believed that the Great Song people would not risk confronting the British Royal Navy head-on to obstruct this "scientific expedition", and under the influence of this optimistic mood, many civilian ships that were not affiliated with this scientific research fleet also came to Portsmouth Harbour to prepare for departure, thinking that they would rub the St. George flag of the British Royal Navy, with the intention of sharing some scraps in the development of new routes.

Of course, not all the reporters gathered here came to cover this expedition that could be recorded in the history of natural science. There are still some people who believe that the Great Song people, who have always pursued a hard-line foreign policy, will not be able to ignore the British's practice of testing their bottom line by violating their constitution by using this kind of side-kicking method.

You must know that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Great Song Dynasty has Pete. Tian's hard-line nationalist exists, well, more people know this name not because he is a medical genius, but because he looks like a ruffian with a cigar in his mouth and a silver pistol and a human fight!

If, when the Queen's envoy speaks at the launching ceremony, a Song man who protests loudly or even takes more drastic action will be a great joy! This is the news that many reporters want, those tabloid reporters who cares about what high-latitude sea area this fleet is very deep in?

However, the progress of the matter was not as exciting as imagined by those who came to see the excitement of eating melons and white skins, and the ceremony was only attended by those aristocratic lords wearing wigs.

After nearly four hours, the ceremony was finally over, and the expedition fleet was slowly sailed out of Prussia Mouth Harbour led by a destroyer of the British Royal Navy, and the Great Song people did nothing more than the seemingly bluffing statement made before this. And those who were waiting to watch the excitement of eating melons and white peels also put away their sketchbooks, disassembled the cameras they had set up before, and began to think about how to write this sleepy sailing ceremony in a way that could arouse more people's desire to read.

However, the twist and turn of the peak appeared so unexpectedly, just as the British destroyer sailing out of Portsmouth Harbour had not yet become the size of a palm in the sight of the people on the shore, a huge column of water suddenly surged on the sea, followed by a muffled sound from a distance.

"Torpedo!" Someone in the crowd began to shout.

Cut, this person is afraid that he has lost his mind and gone crazy, this is the inland sea of the British Empire, who would have eaten the courage of an ambitious leopard and dared to attack the warships of the Royal Navy of Great Britain with a torpedo here?

Yes, when the first British destroyer was hit by a torpedo of the MK48 type launched by the USS Mississippi at a speed of nearly fifty knots, most people thought that the newly developed warship of the British had an accident. After all, this kind of warship, called the "torpedo boat destroyer", is said to be able to achieve a high speed of nearly 30 knots, and it is normal for the steam engine on board to have some accidents.

As the muffled sound came, the reporters on the shore set up their cameras one after another, and the pens in their hands slid on their sketchbooks. Well, after all, reporting on a serious warship accident in the British Navy is better than quoting the speeches of those noble lords, isn't it? In the hearts of many tabloid reporters, this can be regarded as a stop-loss after the Great Song people did not come forward to make trouble.

However, the recent rare sunny weather in Portsmouth shows that today is a good day to watch the excitement, and just when all walks of life have not yet prepared how to mock the new Russian warships of the British Royal Navy, another muffled sound came.

This time, it was another British destroyer on the flank of the research fleet, which was also a column of water that soared into the sky, and then it capsized irretrievably.

"Torpedo! Our warships were torpedoed! "The crowd started to stir.

Those aristocratic lords wearing wigs boarded the carriage and hurriedly fled the port, and at this time they finally believed that the people of the Great Song Dynasty had really exposed this matter without condemning and condemning!

The sudden attack blinded the experienced British naval officers, after all, none of them had ever encountered such an attack that could not be seen by the enemy before, although the news that the Russians were being caught everywhere in Liverpool had spread all over the city, but no one could have imagined that the submarine could really cause soul-to-soul damage to the warship!

I have to say that as a traditional naval power, the British still ordered something, and the only remaining destroyer hanging at the back of the fleet did not choose to return to port with its high mobility, but chose to rush to the attacked friendly forces, in the hope of buying a little time for those civilian ships to escape.

"Kill it! We have to send Portsmouth into a scare so that the semi-clones who remain in Liverpool are relatively safe. Abu gave the fire controller an order to continue the attack.