The sea breeze is howling, it is the time of high tide, and the tide is surging and rattling.

If you act at this time, you can often drown out the roar of the motor.

Klaus is obviously a famous admiral of the British Navy, and in addition to his failure in China, he is still very influential in the international community, and he knows the tides of the ocean well.

He immediately seized the opportunity and quietly ordered the ships of the British fleet to move slowly in the direction of the exit.

The night obscured the Victorian livery, the sea breeze and the sound of the tides drowned out the roar of the motors, and everything was going on in secret.

The British Navy was cautious, and its nervous heart was raised to its throat, for fear that the Chinese Navy would suddenly come out and hit them in an ambush.

The seven British ironclads did not take the lead, but let the five cruisers open the way, in fact, they planned to sacrifice these five cruisers, because Klaus knew very well that the Chinese Navy would definitely deploy radium near the exit, and there would be encounters, so he had to leave the ironclads to deal with it.

With a loud bang, the Neptune cruiser "Neptune" touched radium.

A huge hole was instantly blasted open by water radium in a certain part below the bow waterline, stirring up a huge wave more than ten meters high, and the fire light generated in an instant was particularly eye-catching in the dark night.

"How is that possible?"

The British watched as the bow of the "Neptune" touched a large amount of radium and slowly sank, and all their heads were full of question marks.

Neptune, as a vanguard, although it was a mission to die, was not unprepared. The British installed huge iron plates in front of the bow to radium, just as they did in Manila Bay.

Originally, this method was foolproof, but it turned out to be wrong.

I saw that the iron plate in front of the bow of the "Neptune" was in good condition, but the back was blown up.

What the hell is this!

The British, including Klaus, were incredulous.

However, they did not have time to ponder why, because the explosion would have attracted the attention of the Chinese navy on alert in the surrounding area.

"The Neptune got out of the way, and the Orion made up. Accelerate the breakout! ”

This was Klaus's contingency strategy from the beginning, and the Neptune quickly accelerated to the side, and a few nautical miles away was the reef of Scarborough Shoal, most of which were less than a meter deep, and would have avoided sinking if it ran aground there. If the battleship can be repaired in time, it can also catch up with the fleet and break through together, otherwise it will run aground on the island and reef forever, as a fixed battery, and fend for itself.

The Orion continued to explore its path. It was an accident that all the British troops took the Neptune. The lights were dark, and the British army just wanted to break through quickly, and they didn't have time to think about why.

However, only a few minutes later, the Orion once again touched radium and exploded, emitting a brilliant fire.

This time, the British troops on the warship behind them saw clearly, and the location of the explosion was not in the bow, let alone on the iron plate, but near the amidship waterline.

"It's not radium!"

"It's that thing attacking us!"

What is that thing. No one in the British said clearly, they had only seen it in Manila Bay. At that time, it was two Chinese Navy Fish and Ray boats that suddenly attacked, launching Fish and Ray and sinking two British warships. But they didn't know it was called Fish Radium Boat and Fish Radium, so they kept calling it "that thing".

It's just that. This time, the British only saw the light of the explosion, but they did not see the kind of fast fish and radium boats nearby.

A cloud of suspicion hung over the heads of all the British naval officers and men, and they were so frightened that they could not see their fingers in the night. It only exacerbated their fears.

"It's a ghost, let's go quickly, or we'll all die here!"

A British sailor on the cruiser "Ajax" suddenly screamed in horror. He rushed to the first mate of the pipe wheel like crazy, and pushed the airlock to the end, and the entire warship quickly accelerated.

"What are you doing? Stop! ”

"Damn it! Pull him away! ”

The British sailor was quickly stopped, but the Ajax veered its course in the chaos.

This is a very dangerous thing, you must know that the Chinese Navy may have laid water radium underwater, and the captain hurriedly slowed down and turned around, but the huge hull is not so easy to say turn around and turn around.

With a bang, the "Ajax" hit the "Dorsetshire" next to it, and all the British troops on the ship fell to the ground in an instant. They thought they had hit the water radium, and immediately screamed, and some sailors even jumped into the sea to escape.

The British troops on the "Dorsetshire" were also so angry that they were about to collapse, and they were not loaded with radium, but they were hit by their own people. Due to the design of the ramming angle of the British ships, the bow ramming angle of the "Ajax" hit the rear of the port side of the "Dorsetshire", and at once it penetrated a large hole, and a large amount of seawater poured into it, causing the Dorsetshire to sink rapidly.

The captain of the "Ajax" panicked instantly, and hurriedly ordered the reverse, but the steering driver was turning, and this sudden reversal caused the stern of the "Ajax" to be thrown to the other side and deviated even more from the course.

In the dark night, the British ships were divided into two groups, one after the other in an orderly manner, the "Ajax" made such a fuss, crashed and sank the Dorsetshire, its own desert reversed, and then collided with the Norfolk coming behind, both ships were seriously damaged, a large amount of seawater poured into the hold, the situation was critical.

History has proved countless times that the ramming angles designed by battleships in these years never sank enemy ships in regular naval battles, but often sank friendly warships.

A series of collisions and accidents immediately plunged the entire British fleet into chaos.

Fortunately, the British army had strict training in peacetime, which was reflected at this moment, and the British ships in the rear saw that the front was not good, and quickly played the lights to stop advancing.

But in this way, the lights of the British fleet undoubtedly exposed the fleet

"A bunch of rubbish!" Klaus hung his chest, eager to go up and kill the fools who commanded the battleship.

Carthus hurriedly said: "We have to find a way quickly, we have been exposed." ”

How could Klaus not know this, but he had no choice but to be a dead horse doctor now.

"Strange, the Chinese Navy doesn't seem to have moved yet?"

"Yes, our warships have touched radium, and it stands to reason that the Chinese Navy should have known about it, but I haven't seen their shadows."

In the dark night, you can only hear the sound of the tide and waves, and without lights, the visibility is less than 10 meters, and you can't see anything.

Klaus's brow furrowed. Look into the night.

If the Chinese navy comes to fight, he may not be worried. But so far, there has been no movement from the Chinese Navy, which has made him nervous.

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon!

The more he could not grasp the movements of the Chinese navy, the more frightened Klaus became.

Klaus looked at Carter and asked, "What do you think is going on?" ”

Carter understood that Klaus would lose his judgment by asking this, so he could only reply: "The Chinese have always been cunning, I suggest giving up the action!" ”

"Abandoning the action?"

Klaus almost burst into foul language, and really wanted to kick Carter away, which was clearly the old fox's self-preservation tactic. Knowing that Klaus would not retreat, he had to persuade him to abandon the action. In this way, if something goes wrong, the blame is all on Klaus himself, and Carter leaves it all out.

"Probably, the Chinese Navy has already left!"

Well, Klaus's reason is even more self-defeating. But if he wants to retreat to Scarborough Shoal, it will definitely not work, because if he misses tonight, it will be more difficult to break through in the future.

In fact, not only Klaus was blind, but the Chinese Navy in the darkness in the distance was also stunned for a while.

The original battle plan was to wait for the British Navy to crash into the pocket array that the Chinese Navy had laid on the periphery. The Chinese Navy will concentrate all warships, fish and rays and submarines for encirclement and annihilation.

As a result, the British Navy itself was in disarray, which made the Chinese Navy Commander Chen Shaoyi feel that the problem was thorny.

What Chen Shaoyi was most worried about was that the British Navy was out of order, in that case, the British ships would be running around, and it would be difficult to completely intercept them in the dark. A great number of fish will escape.

All this is arranged by the total annihilation of the Asian Fleet of the British Navy, otherwise there is no need to go to great length.

Seeing the chaos of the British fleet, Chen Shaoyi had to change the battle plan and immediately ordered the Fish and Radium Boat Formation to take the initiative to attack. Taking advantage of the chaos of the British fleet, launch a raid on the Fish and Radium boats.

The tonnage of the fish radium boat is small, so you don't have to worry about the water radium at a depth of five or six meters in the water. Coupled with its high speed, it was very easy to approach the British fleet under the cover of night.

Previously, the British ship touched radium, and the brief flash of fire had already exposed the approximate location of the British fleet, so the Chinese Navy's fish and radium boat formation could easily lock on to the target.

The Fish Radium Boat did not accelerate directly to the British ship, but slowly approached the middle. Although the motor roared, the sound was very small and almost muffled by the sound of the tide, and the British sailors on the British ship were panicked and did not detect the danger at the first time.

The safe launch distance of the Chinese Navy's Fish and Radium Boat is one thousand meters, but that is under the condition of the high-speed impact of the Fish and Ray Boat, and now it is quietly approaching the enemy ship, and the speed is very slow, so the safe launch distance is only four or five hundred meters, because there is night cover, the British army cannot see it at all, and even if it is discovered, it has enough time to turn around and retreat.

Originally, the night was too dark, and even if the fish and radium were launched at four or five hundred meters, it was difficult to see the target clearly. However, some British sailors on British ships turned on the lights in a panic, originally to prevent British ships from colliding, but at this moment they have become targets in the eyes of the Chinese Navy.

Sou!

Sou!

Sou!

One by one, the fish and radium were quickly launched, and after traveling several hundred meters in the sea, they surfaced and rushed towards the British fleet at high speed.

A total of fifteen Fish Radium were fired in the first round, but the accuracy was not high because the target was too vague. Most of them missed, passed past the British ship, and rushed to the beach in the distance.

Only two Fish Radium hit two British cruisers "York" and "Exeter", respectively.

Boom! Boom!

With two loud bangs, the amidship waterline of the USS York and the stern waterline of the USS Exeter were hit by fish radium, respectively, and exploded with a bang.

I saw that the hulls of the two British ships were instantly blasted open a huge gap, and the fire and smoke erupted, and the sea water quickly poured into it.

Two huge, fiery mushroom clouds rose into the sky, instantly lighting up half of the sky.

"It's the Chinese Navy, over there!"

Under the bright light, the British sailors finally discovered the Chinese Navy's fish and radium boats four or five hundred meters away.

"Hurry up!"

When the British sailors saw the fish and radium boats, they immediately thought of the kind of small fast warships they had encountered in Manila Bay, and they were immediately frightened and bloodless, and hurriedly opened fire.

Knock knock! Knock knock!

The British ships had already been loaded with shells, but they had never had a target.

At this moment, the British sailors were already like frightened birds, almost firing frantically, trying to destroy the Chinese Navy's Fish and Ray Boat formation.

At the moment when the two British ships were hit by bullets and exploded, the light of the mushroom cloud also allowed the Chinese Navy Fish Ray Boat Formation to see the location of all British ships in the vicinity, so that the second round of Fish Ray was launched.

This time, all 15 Fish and Radium boats fired in double bursts, shooting all the Fish and Radium at the British fleet, and then hurriedly turned around and immediately withdrew, because the British ships were already overwhelmed with shells.

Boom! Boom!

A column of water was stirred up on the sea, and the small fish and radium boat was galloping in the huge waves, and a fish and ray boat was unfortunately hit, which exploded in an instant, and the whole ship disintegrated.

This is the first Fish Radium boat lost by the Chinese Navy since the outbreak of the naval war.

However, this loss was very small compared to the heavy losses suffered by the British fleet.

In the second round of Fish Radium volleys, thirty Fish Radium were fired at the British fleet in a dense manner. This time, twenty-one Fish Radium successfully hit the target, and three British ironclads and one British cruiser were shot again.

Among them, the ironclad ship of the Monarch was the worst, it was hit by six fish radiums one after another, and the port side of the entire hull was blown open six large holes in the blink of an eye, and the sea poured into it fiercely, and the entire battleship quickly ****, and it overturned and sank in less than a minute and a half.

Two rounds of Fish and Radium attacks, more than half of the warships of the British Asian Fleet were hit, and the light ship was opened a gap in the hull, and it must immediately sail to the shoal and run aground, otherwise it will sink. The heavier one didn't have time to sail to the shoal and ran aground, and sank in a matter of minutes.

The sudden huge blow made Klaus completely desperate, and half of the battleships were shot, which was beyond his psychological capacity.

Knowing that this was the end, he should not have come to Scarborough Shoal in the first place, but should have let the cruising fleet evacuate and let out seven ironclad ships to fight the Chinese navy to the death.

But now, the main force of the Chinese fleet has not yet appeared, and the other side has only dispatched a dozen small ships, causing more than half of the British ships to sink.

This battle can't be fought!

It's completely one-sided torture!

The corners of Klaus's mouth twitched, and then a mouthful of old blood spurted out, and he fainted.

The long-term pneumonia has not been cured, and in the past two days, he has been fighting with the Chinese Navy repeatedly, and he has been so angry that he has been angry, and he even vomited out of his lungs before.

This time, Klaus passed out and never got up again.

He was the first lieutenant admiral officer of the Royal Navy of the British Empire to be to death, and he went down in history.

Carter took over the command, and at this moment he suffered more than anyone else.

There was no way, Klaus fell, and Carter, as a deputy, had to take over the command. He was very reluctant to take over command, especially at this time, when taking over command would mean taking responsibility for defeat.

But Carter couldn't help it, he couldn't do much now, but wanted to live.

That's right, just trying to live. (To be continued.) )