"Sonar report!"

"A suspicious submarine has been spotted approaching in the southeast!"

"It's about 10 nautical miles away!"

"Approaching us at 5 knots!"

The Heron anti-submarine destroyer spotted the unknown submarine approaching, and the adjutant quickly reported it to the acting captain of the second prince.

Finally the prey came to the door!

After waiting for more than a month, the second prince looked forward to the stars and the moon, and finally looked forward to the pirate.

"Quick, take out the pirate submarine, and I'll be done!"

The second prince couldn't wait to give the order, and the adjutant shook his head, knowing that the second prince was not a soldier, so he picked up the intercom.

"Combat status!"

"Combat status!"

The red light flashed throughout the Heron, and all the sailors quickly took their positions.

The main gun turned abruptly, the muzzle was raised, and the shell was loaded.

Anti-submarine catapults were in place, and groups of deep-water smashing eggs were rolled out of the ammunition depot.

Within 20 seconds, the officers and men of the Heron quickly switched from a cruising alert state to a combat state.

"Sonar report!"

"The enemy submarine is located in the 10th sector and is about to enter the 7th sector!"

"6 meters deep!"

Area 10 is a gridded area centered on the current anti-submarine destroyer and extended to the entire two-dimensional plane. By evenly dividing one square nautical mile into an area, it is then numbered. The advantage of this is that it is convenient to measure the position of enemy ships or submarines, and the artillery can easily determine the target for attack.

It's the same with anti-submarine, find the area where the enemy submarine is located, and then you can drop deep water smashing eggs nearby.

The adjutant picked up the binoculars, and sure enough, he found a periscope sticking out of the sea in Area 10, which seemed to be investigating.

"Left rudder 45, full speed ahead, the main gun is ready to meet the enemy!"

The Heron adjusts course and prepares for battle.

Beneath the surface, the Viking submarine Sullock, is cautiously approaching the ship to spy on information.

In the periscope, Captain Rand suddenly spotted the Heron turning around and speeding in his direction, while the main gun was raised.

"Isn't it, you can see it from all this distance?"

Rand was startled, and hurriedly ordered to put away the periscope and dive urgently.

At the same time, the Heron spotted the opposing submarine diving and hurriedly opened fire.

Boom! Boom!

The 128-mm 50-caliber main gun opened fire, and the shells instantly penetrated the sea surface and exploded around the Stuffy Fish.

The blast wave spread underwater, and the Stuffy Fish trembled violently, shaking the pirates inside the ship to the ground.

Rand was scared into a cold sweat, but fortunately he was cautious and dived in advance, otherwise the cliff would have made people dry and sink directly.

Soon, the Stuffy Fish dived to a depth of 30 meters and adjusted its course, hoping to escape the search of the Chinese Imperial warships.

Soon, however, Rand noticed a strange sound hitting the submarine's hull.

Rand had heard it before, but he didn't care about it, thinking it was the sound of some kind of fish in the ocean, such as dolphins and whales, and of course Rand had never heard the calls of dolphins and whales.

Bite!

Bite!

"Strange! What is this sound? ”

Someone asked suddenly.

"It feels louder and louder, more and more urgent, and it seems to be getting closer and closer to our submarine!"

"We're not going to hit whales!"

Rand was also wondering, and was really worried about hitting a whale, so he ordered a turn.

But the tinkling sound was still there, and it was getting faster and faster, hitting the hull of the submarine.

This fear of the unknown made Rand and the others highly nervous.

In fact, so far, the submarines of European and American countries, almost all of them have been accompanied by the sinking of the submarine, and no one has survived, so the British do not know what method the Imperial Chinese Navy used to slaughter the British submarines.

At the same time, on the Heron, the second prince listened to the adjutant's explanation and knew that the pirate submarine had been locked, and he seemed very excited.

"The submarine is in the 4th zone! Depth 30 meters! Heading towards Zone 1! ”

"Calibrated 30 meters! Deep-water smashing is ready! ”

"The 30-meter deep-water fuse is calibrated!"

"Deepwater smashing is ready!"

"Launch!"

"The enemy submarine has entered Area 20!"

"Launch!"

At the sound of an order, the Heron anti-submarine destroyer quickly ejected deep water eggs around Area 4.

In the blink of an eye, the four groups of anti-submarine deep-water smashing eggs were ejected, and they landed on the sea surface in the southeast, northwest, and northwest directions of the 4th zone, and then sank rapidly, and when they reached a depth of 30 meters, the deep-water pressure fuse was triggered.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Each group of two deep-water smashed eggs, a total of 8, exploded at a depth of about 30 meters underwater, forming a violent shock wave underwater.

Hearing the explosion, Rand and the other pirates were dumbfounded.

They wonder why they put away their periscopes, how can the other party still find themselves? Now it has dived to a depth of 30 meters, and with today's light intensity, you can't see a depth of 30 meters on the surface of the sea!

Something that would have never been discovered was discovered!

Hell with this Nima!

Rante and the others just had a flash of thought in their hearts, and the next moment a huge explosion shock wave rolled in, and the entire Stuffy Fish submarine suddenly trembled violently, and everyone was instantly shaken to the ground, and they fell dizzy in various difficult postures.

The circuit exploded, sparks jumped, and fires broke out in many places. The water pressure pipe bursts, and the water jets in all directions.

The entire interior of the Stuffy Fish submarine was in a mess, and the lights flickered on and off.

Rand got up from the ground, his head bleeding from his head.

"Damage Report!"

"Motor No. 2 is damaged!"

"Flooding in the stern compartment!"

"The bridge command cabin has multiple circuits damaged!"

Rand breathed a sigh of relief, fortunately he wasn't hit directly, otherwise he would have died.

"Max Dive!"

Rand had to give this order, everyone's hearts were tight, the maximum depth of diving, theoretically is the maximum safe depth that can be dived, but in reality, no one wants to dive to that depth, it is too dangerous, unless life is at stake, it is a last resort.

Right now, Rand just had to do it.

In his opinion, as long as they dive to a depth of 49 meters, it is impossible for the warships of the Chinese Empire to attack submarines again, after all, this depth cannot be shot into by shells.

However, in less than half a minute, Rand was sad.

He heard the explosion again, and the hull of the submarine amidship was instantly shattered, and the sea water poured into the frenzy.

In the blink of an eye, the sea water was up to the neck.

Fack!

Knock knock!

Rand struggled a few times, and sank to the bottom of the sea with the submarine in great pain.

A few minutes later, the Heron sonar room reported.

"No echo from enemy submarines was found!"

"Judging the sinking of enemy submarines!"

There was a burst of cheers on the bridge, and the second prince was so excited that he was about to shed tears.

Staying at sea for more than a month is more uncomfortable for the second prince than hell.

Now that he has finally completed the minimum task, he can go back to deal with his father, Emperor Li Weiguo.

It's just that sinking a pirate submarine is really cool!

Do you want to sink another pirate submarine?

The second prince inexplicably came up with this thought, and even he himself was startled.

Just then, a report came from the telecommunications room.

"Report, the Heyue ship sent a telegram that a large number of pirate warships and submarines have appeared around, asking us to be ready for battle!"

Not long after, dozens of pirate warships appeared from the sea in all directions, and the entire ship regiment and escort fleet suddenly became nervous.

"Why are there so many pirate warships all of a sudden?"

The second prince looked surprised and a little nervous.

The adjutant smiled: "Your Highness doesn't have to worry, you can fight if you can later, and if you can't fight, you can run!" Our battleship is a destroyer, and the fastest speed can reach 32 knots, and even the shells can't catch up with us! ”

This is a bit exaggerated, but it does reassure the second prince a lot.

It's just that the second prince also has to be faced!

"Who said we were going to run? You can't run if you beat it? How can we abandon the ship? In the future, I must not let the people poke my backbone and scold me! ”

"Yes! We listen to Your Highness! We will fight to the end! ”

Hearing the second prince say this, the officers and soldiers of the Heron were immediately excited.

Ahem!

The second prince rolled his eyes suddenly, he was just talking, but the officers and men of the whole ship took it seriously, which made the second prince want to cry without tears!

This time, the Vikings seem to have struck.

There are ironclad ships, cruisers, frigates, and submarines, which are coming from all directions.

The heavy cruisers Heyue and Guiyue, the light cruisers Mercury and Mars have sounded the battle alarm at this moment, and even the destroyer Caolu is also involved in the battle.

In the area of dozens of nautical miles around the entire ship group, the sound of artillery roared, and columns of water rose into the sky.

The second prince had never seen such a big scene, and his nervous heart was about to jump out.

On the other side, Vice Admiral James personally sat in charge and commanded the pirate regiment to attack the Chinese Imperial Convoy from all directions.

"The prince of the Chinese Empire is on that battleship?"

"On the Heron!"

"Very well, concentrate your fire on the Heron, and if the Heron does not surrender, sink him!"

Each of the Pirate Regiment's ships received James' order to focus on attacking the Heron.

Seeing more and more pirate warships speeding towards the direction of the Heron, the second prince suddenly felt a little scared.

"Well, I think the pirates seem to be here to take care of us!"

The adjutant next to him also found out about this problem, and said with a wry smile: "I'm afraid it's for His Highness!" ”

The second prince was puzzled: "How do they know that I am on this battleship?" ”

The adjutant rolled his eyes: "Your Highness, haven't you forgotten that recently, you have been writing articles to the newspaper twice in three days to publicize your great deeds of suppressing bandits!" ”

The second prince was stunned, the feeling was that he was too pretending to be B, too showy, he was a little cautious, and got in touch with the Central News Agency, and planned to let the newspaper vigorously report his heroic deeds, but the pirate group knew about it and lured the wolf into the room.

Thinking of this, the second prince suddenly said with a bitter face: "Then what should I do!" ”

The adjutant had no choice but to say: "In this case, we can only run!" ”

At the sound of the order, the Heron turned around and ran.

The pirates all want to capture His Royal Highness the Second Prince of the Chinese Empire, and even if it is just to sink the Heron, it will be famous all over the world. And standing in James's position is to export evil anger for the British Empire and boost morale.

However, the pirates sadly discovered that the Heron was super fast, 10 knots faster than the pirates' fastest frigate.

"Fack! Don't let him run! ”

James watched the battle from behind, and was startled when he saw the Heron turn around and run away at a speed of more than thirty quarters.

This was the first time James had seen the destroyers of the Chinese Empire sail so fast, and he couldn't help frowning.

"Let Ammid move quickly, make sure to stop the Heron! Whether it's captured alive or sunk! ”

Deputy Pat hurriedly persuaded: "General, Ammid is our last hole card, and it is not clear whether there is an ambush of the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy nearby, and it is too risky to rush out!" ”

"I can't take care of it! This adventure is to capture or kill the second prince of the Chinese Empire! ”

James paused and continued: "However, my intelligence shows that the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy is in Australian waters, and Michelle has been monitoring them, so you can act with confidence." ”

Parr persuaded again bitterly: "General, the news from Australia has been here for at least a week, which means that once Michelle discovers that the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy is gone, it will be a week before the news arrives to us." During this time, if the main forces of the Chinese Imperial Navy suddenly come from our rear, then we are in danger. ”

James hesitated, but he quickly made a decision.

"Now the situation is very unfavorable to our British Empire, the new capital ships of the Chinese Empire have been completed and put into service, but our new capital ships will not be put into service until two years at the earliest. This time, we pretended to be pirates to harass the Chinese Empire, just to delay time for the Imperial Navy. However, in the past month, we have suffered heavy losses in every sortie, and the anti-submarine destroyers of the Chinese Empire are so powerful that our submarines will surely die if they come into contact with them. Surface ships have also lost a lot, and at this rate of attrition, we will be completely wiped out in no more than half a year. Therefore, we must seize the second prince of the Chinese Empire as much as possible, and only by arresting him can we have bargaining chips and continue to delay time. ”

As a vice admiral of the British Empire, James's analysis of the problem naturally had to be considered at the strategic level.

At present, the British Empire's dreadnought battleships are being built intensively, and they were deliberately misled by the Chinese Empire before hesitating, resulting in the construction and dismantling of new ships, and the dismantling and construction of new ships, which was delayed for a long time. And during this time, the Chinese Empire's dreadnought-class battleships were put into service, twelve dreadnought-class battleships, which was equivalent to thirty-six former dreadnought-class battleships, which brought huge strategic pressure to the British Navy, and if the Chinese Empire suddenly made a move, the British Imperial Navy was not an opponent at all.

This is exactly what the British Empire is most worried about, so James pretended to be a Viking regiment to strategically contain the energy of the Chinese Imperial Navy and buy time for the British Imperial Navy.

I have to admit that the British idea is beautiful and correct, but the reality is cruel, and the Chinese Imperial Government naturally understands this truth, so it will exterminate the Viking group in one go, and then it will take action against the British Empire.

James thought he was very smart, and with great effort, he played a tactic with the Imperial Chinese Navy, and finally tricked the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy to the vicinity of Australia, and then James took the main pirate force to the waters of the Qizhou Ocean, preparing to capture the second prince alive.

But he could never have imagined that this was also a scam set up by the Chinese Empire, and the scientific name was Jiangji. (To be continued.) )