Li Zhaoshui's plan was to occupy the island of Wee off the coast northwest of Sumatra, which is at the southernmost tip of the Burma Sea and at the northwest mouth of the Strait of Malacca. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAfter Li Zhaoshui prepared to occupy the entire island of Wee, he used the port of Sabang as a hiding place before this ambush of the British fleet, and a submarine port would be established here in the future.

Sabang Port is 1,000 miles away from Padang Port and 2,000 kilometers from Kolkata Port.

Li Zhaoshui took advantage of the British fleet to reach Medan and ambushed him when he was taken lightly.

The draft of the port of Sabang was too shallow, only 8 meters deep, to moor battleships and battlecruisers.

In the early morning of the 6th, after Zhang Wei and his entourage arrived at the periphery of Sabang Port, Zhang Wei transferred to a Sea Lion-class torpedo boat to dock.

At present, the port of Sabang is only a small port, which can only add coal for passing merchant ships, and there is no Dutch army stationed for the time being, and there are only 100 people in the entire port, even in the entire island of Wee. Zhang Wei released a battalion of troops from the system, and soon took control of the docks, only the owner of the port was a Dutchman, and the battalion commander arranged for the soldiers to hold him up. The workers are all local natives, and the battalion commander promised them that as long as they work hard, their wages will be doubled, which makes these natives very excited.

After Li Yunhai, Yang Yili and others landed at the port, Yang Yili announced that these natives could rest for 5 days, but they couldn't walk casually in the dock area, they had to stay at home, waiting for new orders, which made these natives even happier, and they could get wages if they didn't work, who didn't want to.

It was still very happy that Zhang Wei could occupy Wei Island without firing a single shot and not exposing his fleet. The next thing is that Li Zhaoshui is in charge, and Zhang Wei just cooperates.

The ten submarines that had been sent out to spy on the British fleet were now quietly waiting east of the Andaman Islands. Li Zhaoshui ordered them to let the British fleet over, and then cut off their retreat back to Calcutta, and if they fled back, sink them, and if they did, promptly report the type of fleeing warship and the direction of the escape; He also telegraphed to them that now that the Lanfang Kingdom had occupied Wei Island, and the port of Sabang was already under the control of the Kingdom of Lanfang, after they completed their mission, they could go to the port of Sabang to dock, rest, and replenish supplies.

On the morning of the 8th, the submarine reported that the British fleet had passed through the Andaman Nicobar Islands.

By comparing the remaining mileage with the speed of the British fleet, it was determined that the British fleet would reach the northwest mouth of the Strait of Malacca on the morning or noon of the 29th.

Zhang Wei also released the captains and chiefs of staff of all the warships that had been combined into the system, listened to Li Zhaoshui's arrangements for naval battles, and accepted orders together.

Li Zhaoshui was afraid that the other side might take advantage of the chaos to escape into the Strait of Malacca, so he decided to advance 100 nautical miles to ambush, the first wave of the attack was to be carried out by three submarine squadrons, the primary target was the large warships of the British fleet, if it was not convenient to attack, they would attack the small warships, if it was really not possible, they would attack troop carriers or cargo ships transporting baggage, anyway, they could not return to port with torpedoes, and this time all submarines should be opened; After firing the torpedoes, it was necessary to quickly retreat to the northwest in an effort to intercept the British warships that fled back and to avoid being accidentally injured in the ensuing naval battles. Li Zhaoshui and Yang Yili explained the location and method of attack to the captains of these submarines twice, ensuring that all submarine captains understood the steps and arrangements for this naval battle.

Yang Yili organized all the submarines, 2 Xinhua-class Type 101 submarines served as the chief and deputy captains, plus 8 Lanfang-class Type 101 submarines, a total of 10 submarines formed a small detachment; Lieutenant Colonel Liu Jianjun, the captain of the first detachment, served as the commander-in-chief of the operation, and the captains of the other two detachments had to maintain smooth communication and coordinate the timing of the attack.

Then Zhang Weicai took the captains of these submarines back into the system and told them to prepare for the submarines to depart at night.

Battleships and battlecruisers had to wait for the submarine to attack, causing confusion in the British fleet, to seize the T-shape, block the direction of the British fleet, and begin shelling the British fleet. As for the destroyers and torpedo boats, except for those who were left to escort the battleships and battlecruisers, all the others went after the British torpedo boats, destroyers, and merchant ships, and all those who did not surrender were sunk.

At 9 p.m. on the 8th, Zhang Wei released 30 submarines out of the system, and 30 submarines set off from Sabang Port in three teams to the Burma Sea 150 nautical miles away.

In the subsequent period of the 8th, submarines continued to report the position of the British fleet, and Li Zhaoshui and others continued to revise the route of the British fleet and the time it reached the ambush site.

At 3 a.m. on September 9, Zhang Wei and his entourage left Sabang Harbor on a Xinhua-class battle cruiser and headed for the ambush site.

At 9 a.m. on the 9th, the British warship was still 10 nautical miles from the site of the submarine ambush. There were still 30 nautical miles away from Zhang Wei and the others, and Li Zhaoshui ordered the fleet to continue moving forward 20 nautical miles at a speed of 20 knots.

At half past nine o'clock in the morning, 15 nautical miles away from the British fleet, the torpedo boats had blocked the surrounding waters, and Zhang Wei at this time released three battleships, four battle cruisers, and other destroyers and torpedo boats out of the system and began to marshall.

At this time, the British warship was still 5 nautical miles away from the ambush site of the Lanfang submarine.

The submarine formations are ready for the attack.

This time, the British convoy learned the lesson of the last time the Dutch fleet was attacked by mines, and divided the convoy into two parts, with a light cruiser formation in front of all the merchant ships, which was responsible for opening the way for the whole fleet; In the middle are troop carriers and baggage ships; Finally, there was the battleship formation, which was in the middle of the fleet and surrounded by destroyers, light cruisers, torpedo boats, etc., which were responsible for protecting the battleships; The entire British fleet stretched for almost 10 kilometers in front and back.

At 10 o'clock, the British fleet began to enter the ambush site.

The commander of the submarine fleet gave the order to spare the light cruiser formations and transport cargo ships at the front, focusing on attacking the battleship formations.

At this time, the Lanfang-class submarines all released periscopes and began to lock on to attack targets, while Xinhua-class submarines had active and passive sonars, so they did not use periscopes to observe and lock on to targets. All mines have been pressurized and are ready to fire.

At 10:15, the entire battleship formation entered the ambush range, and the distance between the British fleet and the Lanfang submarine formation was about 2,500 meters, and Liu Jianjun, the commander-in-chief of the submarine formation, issued an attack order.

At 10:16, 84 torpedoes rushed to their respective targets. The Lanfang-class submarine put away its periscope under the order of the captain, immediately dived, and moved to the northwest; The Xinhua-class submarine dived to a depth of 80 meters and turned to the northwest.

The observers on the British fleet observed a large number of arrow-shaped waves rushing towards the fleet, and began to feel like a group of dolphins playing in the water, and when they arrived at a distance of 1,000 meters, they found that it was not a dolphin, and suddenly it felt like a torpedo, but they did not find the other party's mine-strike boats, where did these torpedoes come from? Anyway, let's call the police first, and immediately the whole ship sounded a shrill siren, and the observer signaled the discovery of a torpedo; Observers on other ships also spotted the torpedo, which was only 800 meters away from the nearest warship.

Suddenly, sirens sounded on all warships, as well as the shouts of different personnel: "Torpedo, find a torpedo, quickly evade it." ”

Three British battleships were attacked by six torpedoes, three light cruisers were attacked by six torpedoes, and more than 20 other light cruisers and destroyers were attacked by two or four torpedoes at the same time.

At this time, MacDonald was already paralyzed on the ground in fright, which reminded him of the content in the intelligence, the current scene is very similar to the original Dutch fleet was completely annihilated, this is a mine attack, this is a torpedo, Lan Fang's navy must have used an unknown way to launch these torpedoes, it's over, the entire fleet will be annihilated, the navy is finished, the army is finished, and he is finished, tears flowed down the corners of his eyes. The captain of the battleship didn't see it, and he despised the army's performance very much in his heart, which was really a soft egg. The captain of the battleship issued the order step by step: "Turn left, 15 degrees, pressurize the boiler steam, increase the speed to 18 knots." ”

Other battleships and cruisers made similar evasive maneuvers.

Seeing that the battleships and cruisers were about to be torpedoed, several nearby torpedo boats and destroyers immediately adjusted their speed to block the torpedoes fired at the battleships and cruisers. The captain ordered: "Pressurize, speed up to 25 knots." At the same time, I thought to myself that this was the fate of destroyers and torpedo boats, and that it was also the mission of soldiers to serve the British Empire; It's just that I feel aggrieved in my heart, and I didn't even see the enemy, so the ship was destroyed and people died? The soldiers do not think about these at all, but simply strictly follow the order.

The first to come into close contact with the torpedo was a British torpedo boat, which blocked the torpedo fired at the cruiser, "bang", a deafening explosion sounded, and also splashed a column of water that soared into the sky, and the torpedo boat instantly turned into fragments, and none of the 8 members of the torpedo boat survived; Then there was a constant sound, "bang", "bang", "bang", this earth-shattering explosion, torpedo boats and destroyers were constantly sunk or smashed by torpedoes, and the column of water that rushed to the sky also blocked the view of the officers and men.

Battleships and cruisers also began to accelerate and adjust their direction to evade torpedoes.

Because the distance between the torpedoes and the warships was too short, and the distance between the warships was too large, the distance between the ships was specially widened for fear of being attacked by the mines, and it was impossible to block all the torpedoes fired at the battleship; Moreover, there are many torpedoes, more than 80 of them, and the torpedoes are fast, close to the speed of 33 knots; It is even more impossible to block all torpedoes in a short time and completely avoid them. Many of the crew members of warships could only watch the torpedoes hit their warships and could not do anything, so they had to close their eyes in pain.

The staff officer of the British escort fleet said: "Your Excellency, your Excellency, our fleet has been torpedoed by the Lanfang Navy, and the losses this time will be very great. ”

"Damn the Chinese, they know about the sneak attack, and they don't dare to fight the Royal Navy of the British Empire head-on."

"What do we do now?"

"There is no way, no one can do it, until now I don't know how these torpedoes are fired, I can only resign myself to fate. However, according to the combat style of the Lanfang Chinese, their navy is coming. ”

Explosions rang out from time to time in the fleet, and from time to time torpedo boats were smashed and frigates and destroyers were damaged, but it was only a matter of time before they sank, and some of the injured ships could not bear to give up, and were still shouting for the damage control team members to plug the loopholes.

The speed of the cruiser is still much faster, 3 completely dodged the torpedo, the other 3 were damaged, because the protection of the cruiser is very poor, the same was hit, the degree of damage is very different, 1 cruiser immediately lost power, the boiler compartment was flooded, and even the watertight compartment could not be closed, the hull of the 2 cruisers was damaged, the sea water poured in frantically, there was no possibility of treatment at all, the 3 light cruisers were gradually sinking, and the 3 captains immediately gave the order to abandon the ship. There was still too little life-saving equipment on the ship, and many naval soldiers felt that they had no possibility of being rescued, so they had to jump into the rough sea, otherwise they would sink with the warship in a while.

Although the battleship was heavily surrounded, there was still a large gap, and it was attacked by 6 torpedoes at the same time, and one side of the ship could not organize 6 ships to block all 6 torpedoes, and the battleship's speed was relatively slow, and it was impossible to make effective evasions, and in the end each battleship was hit by 2 or 3 torpedoes. Each battleship had one or two large holes of more than 1 meter in the waterline part, and the sea water was pouring into it frantically, and one of the battleships was hit in the ammunition compartment, causing an internal bomb explosion; One was damaged boilers and steam turbines, with insufficient power and a decrease in speed. In the absence of a way to seal it, only the watertight compartment can be closed. Due to the ingress of water in the hold, all 3 battleships were tilted to a certain extent, which also affected the speed, and 1 battleship with damaged boilers and steam turbines directly lost power.

In the end, 84 out of 45 torpedoes hit the target, 39 lost the target.

3 battleships in the British fleet were damaged; 3 cruisers were sunk; 7 frigates sunk; 11 destroyers were damaged, but they were about to sink, 6 of which were already sunk; 9 torpedo boats were smashed into pieces.

A submarine attack paralyzed the British escort fleet, which was really a small benefit.

The surrounding sea was stained red with blood, and there were fragments of warships, corpses and severed limbs of naval officers and men; There are also the officers and men of the Navy who are struggling in the sea after diving before the wreck, they are shouting for help, but now no one cares about them, lucky enough to grab a plank or grab a lifebuoy, the rest can only struggle in the sea.