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The detonating ships quickly arrived at the predetermined location, which was about 500 meters away from the anchorage of the ships, so that the other ships could have room to place ships at a longer distance - the length of the detonating cable was one kilometer, which meant that the other ships had another 500 meters to connect. According to preliminary estimates, nine warships can be reached, Daihatsu, Daihatsu!

"The Cochran, the Devonshire, the Immortal, the Edward VII, the Sovereign, the Duncan, the Orlando, the Hogg, the Duke of Edinburgh, the think tank Chen Chi has a brain with a super memory, and his mind has already engraved the name, appearance and other data of every large warship in the expeditionary fleet. After a brief calculation, he found that only these nine battleships were within the connection range of the detonating cable.

Time waits for no one, just these nine, it's a pity that the Dreadnought of the expeditionary fleet is in the most core position, and the advanced pre-Dreadnought-class battleships are mostly in the inner circle, and most of the outer ring are old armored cruisers. The most gratifying of the targets are the three battleships Edward VII and the Sovereign and Duncan, and the remaining six Central Cochrane, Devonshire and Duke of Edinburgh are relatively advanced armored cruisers, which are not bad, and the remaining three are very old battleships, which are better than nothing.

Fourteen installation vessels, three battleships each placed two installation vessels, two installation vessels of the Cochrane and Devonshire, and the rest were one installation vessels. With the amount of 100 kilograms of high explosives used in each ship, the effect of two 200 kilograms of heavy torpedoes in a violent explosion at the waterline should be no less powerful than that of heavy torpedoes!

The closer they got to the target, the more nervous the crew became, and there were sailors underneath the ships who were hoisting their belongings on the deck, and although their attention was on the belongings, no one could guarantee that the enemy sailors would not notice the irregularities of the ships. And the first actual combat mission is such a big deal, and whoever puts it on it has to be nervous.

Nervousness can lead to stiffness and staccato speech. It's very easy to get a loophole, and the players know that, so they're trying to relax as much as possible. The most daring captain, Bai Xing, even greeted the sailors on another enemy dinghy from a distance of more than ten meters to relieve his nervousness.

The battleship had headlights for illumination, and they were bright enough to reflect the crew's faces clearly, but fortunately, the sailors still had the last shred of sanity. The headlights were not turned on in a state of martial law. Once the light of the warship moored on the shore emits light, it will become an excellent indication for the attack of enemy warships such as submarines, and since the Chinese submarine has applied actual combat and achieved rich results, all countries are studying how to deal with submarine attacks, and it is also one of the rules that it is absolutely forbidden to release bright lights at night. It is also a rule that has been passed down for centuries by the navies of various countries, if two warships meet, and in the dark of night, one warship emits a bright light, which will provide target designation for the guns of the enemy warship.

The dark conditions also provided excellent conditions for the installation ship, and the installation ship in which Chen Chi and the captain were riding approached the target, the battleship Edward VII. The dinghy dozens of meters away did not find anything abnormal. The next problem is more complicated, how to dock the boat next to the battleship and keep it connected.

The three-meter-long hemp rope is hooked to one end of the installation ship, and the other end is a paste pack, which is made of a strong chemical paste that allows the installation ship to be held close to the battleship, and the explosives placed on the installation ship should explode before the sea water disables it, which will not take more than ten minutes.

Chen Chi and Bai Xing completed the work in under a minute. The next thing is simple, the four crew members of the two installation ships will secretly dive into the water. Get out of the blast as fast as you can, then swim back to shore with your bare hands. The distance of 1,500 meters is not too difficult for these sea snakes, and this is a tropical sea, and the sea is very warm in June, so there is no need to worry about heat loss due to the low sea temperature.

The question is whether the installation vessel will be found to be abnormal after the team members leave. Will the sailors on the boats transporting the belongings come and inspect because there is no one on the ship? It takes at least one hundred and fifty meters from the target to leaving the explosion range, and it takes about five minutes to swim through this one hundred and fifty meters. Then all the team members who are out of the blast range will send a signal to the detonating ship that can be detonated.

Therefore, the crux of the matter lies in these five minutes, as long as the sailors do not notice anything abnormal in these five minutes. If the installation ship is not separated from the battleship, there will be no accident in the explosion, and those battleships that cost a lot of money and symbolize the strength of the country will suffer great losses because of the explosion.

Jimmy, the owner of the Maple Bar, owns a merchant ship, although it is only about 300 tons, which Jimmy purchased just last year to transport supplies to and from Burma's inland waterways and help the British army deliver supplies. Today the merchant ship happened to be moored at the docks, and Jimmy, who had not slept all night, got all the news in the bar, and he was clever enough to find a business opportunity in it. The bar was closed because the sailors were looting their belongings, and now there was no one drinking. But the goods plundered by the sailors had to be transported to those ships by small boats, and they were bound to deliver their precious goods to the ships, and only there was the safest place.

So in the middle of the night, Jimmy woke up eight merchant sailors and went to the docks to prepare for the transportation business. Sure enough, not only did it take half an hour for several officers to come to them, hoping to hire their merchant ships, and after some bargaining, the officers agreed to pay the bill with ten gold leaves the size of wine glasses.

It seems that he really robbed a lot of money, and even agreed to pay the bill with ten gold leaves, and this is still the cost of a round trip. After this batch was shipped, the second business, Jimmy, raised the price, twenty gold leaves! After a little thought, the visitor agreed to Jimmy's blackmail, his merchant ships were not comparable to those small boats and fishing boats, and the amount of goods transported was also large!

By 1:35 a.m., the merchant ships were already transporting the third shipment of supplies, hired by the officers and sailors of the British battleship Edward VII.

"This is a Buddha statue, what a rude bandit!" However, when these antiques were shipped back to London, there must have been aristocratic capitalists who were willing to spend a lot of money to buy them to enrich their apartments or castles. Jimmy, who was envious and jealous, squinted his eyes, and suddenly saw that there was no one on a fishing boat more than ten meters away, and it seemed that the goods in it had not been transferred.

Could it be the boat forgotten by the sailors? Jimmy immediately confirmed his idea, if that was the case, he could complete this task and move the goods from the two fishing boats to his own merchant ship, so that the goods would be his own! Now the cargo on the merchant ship has not been moved, and it cannot be made public, once those officers and sailors notice, it will not be their turn to make a fortune!

Looking at the two fishing boats, five minutes later, the cargo on the merchant ship was finally moved, and the sailors and officers were also transferred to the battleship, Jimmy rubbed his hands, and finally it was his turn!

Then Jimmy saw a huge fire coming out of the two fishing boats, and Jimmy was torn to shreds when he heard the explosion.

Two hundred kilograms of ******* explosives, its power is equivalent to a 533 mm heavy torpedo, theoretically, one kilogram of *** explosion can produce 4.2 million joules of energy, the explosive force is equivalent to the power of a high-explosive bomb (76 mm), can destroy 5 meters to 6 meters of concrete structure houses. A two-hundred-kilogram explosion can easily blow a destroyer in half (in modern times) and incapacitate a 15,000-ton battleship.

In fact, the battleship Edward VII was blown out of a huge crack about 15 meters wide in an instant after the explosives exploded, and the kinetic energy generated by the explosion shifted the battleship by more than ten meters and raged inside the battleship, fortunately the ammunition compartment was not detonated. However, the raging waters poured into the battleship violently, and within a few minutes the Edward VII tilted fifteen degrees to the left, and it was only a matter of time before it sank.

The Edward VII, with a full load displacement of 17,000 tons, quickly tilted due to the weight of two twin 305-mm guns and four single-mounted 234-mm secondary guns, and slowly sank under the impetus of the sea. One of the most advanced battleships before the appearance of the Dreadnought was about to disappear into the Andaman Sea, and it was a group of inconspicuous sea snakes that dealt the fatal blow.

In addition to this, the battleships Sovereign and Duncan also leaned rapidly in the violent explosion, and they were damaged in the same location and condition as the Edward VII. The Cochrane and Devonshire, which had worse armor thickness, were even more unbearable, under the ravages of two hundred kilograms, the two armored cruisers were swept off the sea by the kinetic energy of the explosion about three meters from the sea, and sank one after another within fifteen minutes after falling, and the damage management personnel did not even have time to arrive.

As for the Duke of Edinburgh and the old Orlando, Immortal, and Hogg, the Duke of Edinburgh escaped after more than an hour of rescue by the damage management personnel, but it was impossible to continue fighting in a short period of time and needed to be towed back to the shipyard in Pusmouth for reconstruction. And the three old ironclad ships became fragments after the explosion, and the entire hull was divided into several parts after the explosion of one hundred kilograms, and there was no possibility of repair.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )