"What's that?"

"God! It's a torpedo, it's a torpedo—"

The wooden battleship Barr was filled with the panicked shouts of two lookouts. The alarm bell sounded, and the flag soldier desperately waved the flag in his hand downward!

But it was too late, the sailors on deck were too late after being alerted!

The Bannermen and Lookouts watched as three 'long arrows' with white water marks slammed into the side of the battleship Barr, slamming into the waterline.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Three successive roars, flames accompanied by fragments of wood bursting in all directions. The battleship Barr, which was moving at a constant speed, was like a train derailment, and its whole body was shaking violently, and its direction seemed to be about to deviate. After gliding some distance on the sea, it spread out on the surface like a dead fish.

The explosion of three torpedoes completely destroyed the watertight compartment at the bottom of the Barr, and hundreds of tons of seawater poured into it, and the sinking of the Barr was inevitable!

Two miles away on the sea, the submarine surfaced, and Liu Yang used his telescope to look at more than 100 French sailors struggling on the sea due south.

"Signal!"

Sure enough, on the west road, they encountered a second returning French warship. And it's still a non-ironclad wooden battleship.

……

Little by little, time passed.

The Triumph and Joan of Arc hovered day and night at the Lingdingyang exit. In the blink of an eye, it was already the third day after the naval battle!

The French fleet seemed to be very beautiful, and two ironclad ships blocked the elite of the Nanyang Naval Division, more than twenty warships, in the Lingding Ocean, and did not dare to come out. The Najiyuan is still on Baili Island. But no one knew that on the Triumph, the French admiral Kinimmond was circling around the command room like a trapped beast.

"Why? Why didn't the Casal and the Barr come back? No news at all? ”

"Send warships to find them. Tomorrow, I'm going to see them appear in front of me! ”

There is a lot of pressure on Kiningmond right now. Less than ten days after the blockade of the waters of Guangzhou, he had already unequivocally lost two cruisers. Two more battleships are missing, plus the losses of Bakali in the Battle of Hongji. The French fleet had already lost four warships, and two more were heavily damaged and stopped in Da Nang, which has not been repaired to this day.

For the French expeditionary fleet, which had a total of only twenty-two capital warships, the losses of six warships were already more than a quarter of the number.

Now the detachment of the Fujian and Taiwan seas, six warships, is already very tricky. If it weren't for the fact that it contained two 2,000-ton ironclad ships, this detachment might not be able to suppress the surviving fleet of the shipmaster and sailor in Mawei Harbor.

And in Kiningmond's view, the most important thing is. Guangzhou is so close to Hong Kong. The French fleet could blockade Canton, but did not dare to blockade Hong Kong under the colony of the British Empire. Moreover, there are so many foreign cargo ships in Guangzhou Bay. In this era, the main force of China's foreign trade cargo ships has always been foreign ships. Even if there is a Nanyang shipping company under the rule of the new Qin, it is as small as dust compared to the real international shipping tycoons. In addition, a considerable part of the 'business' of the Nanyang Shipping Company is to work for Qin Jun's own work, and its real external freight exchanges, the main route is also in South China!

If the sea route is not passable, it can also be regulated by inland water transport in Guò. It can't cause major upheaval in the short term.

If the French warships could not blockade the waters of Guangzhou, Fujian, and Taiwan for more than a month, they would really not be able to exert overwhelming pressure on the Xinqin government. But will the fleet continue to blockade for the next twenty days?

The Qin and Vietnamese armies had launched counteroffensives against Da Nang and Ha Tien. Will the Army be able to hold out for twenty days? Kiningmond had no idea in his heart.

Irritable in his heart, he received the news that the two battleships Barr and Casal were 'missing', and his anger can be imagined.

The will of the admiral cannot be violated.

The communication ship brought the news from the Triumph to the gathering place of the French fleet. It's still the leeward haven of that island.

Major Bhopal commanded his gunboat Leyadh and Lieutenant Commander Messer commanded his cruiser Kirpe in both directions west.

Their hearts were a little heavy, but they didn't think that the two battleships Bar and Casal were already unlucky. The French kept a close eye on the Qin battleships. Coupled with the help of the British, the French would never have missed one or two Chinese warships and let them escape and cause trouble for themselves.

So the two French officers, Bhopal and Messer, preferred that the two warships had a mechanical failure or had accidentally run aground somewhere. Therefore, the two battleships once again passed through the ambush circle of the sea wolf!

Three equilateral triangles that converge a thousand meters away, Liu Yang's submarine is a top one, located in the north, and the other two submarines are in the south. After discovering that there were two warships or merchant ships coming from the east, Liu Yang still chose to 'fight'!

A high pole more than two feet long was erected on the top of the submarine, and a red pennant was hoisted on the top.

Then less than five minutes. The other two submarines also raised high poles and raised red pennants!

Before the invention of radio. That's what the Seawolf Brigade relies on to get the message across.

Then Liu Yang raised a black pennant on the high pole. This means combo.

……

Half an hour later, the figures of two French warships appeared on the fairway. All three submarines sank underwater. Float at a distance of 1.5 meters from the surface of the sea.

At the moment when the two French battleships entered the ambush circle, three torpedoes, three more torpedoes......

Now the submarines of the Seawolf can carry up to three torpedoes each, and the small body of the submarines cannot withstand it by itself.

At this moment, each of the three submarines is firing twice in a row, unleashing its attack power to the fullest!

The six torpedoes were divided into two groups, the front and the rear, each cutting a white chain of water on the surface of the sea, and rushing at a speed of 400 meters per minute towards the target, which was advancing at a constant speed of eight knots.

The speed of the torpedo out of the warehouse is to calculate the speed of the target in advance, which is technically the amount in advance. But the speed of 400 meters per minute is really slow.

Three submarines form an equilateral triangle, but two warships don't necessarily have to pass in between. And there is a distance between the warships, which is wrong, Liu Yang is only 300 meters away from the cruiser Colpe, and the two submarines in the south are 500 meters away from the Riyadh gunboat, which means that it takes more than a minute for the torpedo to run in front of him! That's too much variable.

Like the Baal last time, didn't the lookout find out!

"Torpedo, torpedo—"

The alarm bell sounded, and sure enough, it was spotted by the lookouts on the two warships. It's just funny that the lookouts on these two warships found two torpedoes from the north, not the four from the south. Because it's morning, it's sunny in the south.

"Bang bang......" machine guns opened fire first.

Messer stood on the podium, his face very solemn. "Right full rudder, right full rudder!"

It was not one torpedo that came, but two in front and behind. Look at the contacts, if you don't find them, when they fall on the fore and middle of the side side, respectively. It's no wonder that Messer is not stressed!

"Boom-"

The Riyadh gunboat spewed out a shell that landed a hundred meters from the submarine. But a sense of urgency that gripped the heart rose from the hearts of everyone in the submarine.

"Dive, dive—"

Too late to observe whether the target was hit, Liu Yang shouted urgently. "To the south, to the south at full speed—" The closer you get to them when the French battleships are bombarding, the safer it is.

The cruiser Kolper, with all its right rudder, avoided the torpedo at the front, but the torpedo with the contact point in the middle still grazed the rear tail of the cruiser Kolpe. With the roaring sound of explosions, the sea water was stirred up dozens of meters high. The speed of the Kirp immediately slowed.

But Liu Yang's submarine must also float.

The Riyadh gunboats fired again and again at positions between 200 and 500 meters from the cruiser Colp. In just a few tens of seconds, five shells have already fallen. The nearest shell was less than thirty meters away from the submarine, and the turbulent sea water immediately shook the entire submarine violently, as if a human hand was holding a piece of flesh and shaking it. There was a 'thud' and moaning of the hull' under the shock wave, and some of the crew members were overturned to the floor!

Liu Yang could only float up and continue to venture underwater, he didn't know if his submarine, which had experienced a ravage, could withstand the underwater pressure.

Thankfully. The last torpedo was fixed very strongly, the torpedo was fine, the insurance was fine, otherwise, the submariners would have died here.

Pressing on the dewatering pump with all its might, the submarine began to slowly float towards the surface. In the lookout's line of sight, he could clearly see streams of water splashing on the surface of the sea.

Bhopal was about to order the gunners to continue firing when he heard the lookout on the mast shouting: "Look! Look! The enemy is under the sea, and they are going to float! Is it a submarine?! ”

Messe also heard the shouts of his ship's lookout, and hurried onto the open bridge, looked to the left side of the ship, and caught a strange sea surface in the telescope.

"I'm going to capture them alive!"

Messer was excited, annoyed, and sad. He could already think of what happened to the Barr and the Casal.

"Lower the dinghy, lean in, and take them prisoner!"

The only submarine in the world loaded with a steam engine boiler is in France. But the submarine proved to be a wrong idea. Messer did not believe that the Chinese could produce a more advanced submarine than the French. So he decided that the submarine was artificially powered. It's not as fast as a dinghy at sea.

Bhopal also had a smile on his face. Today, when the war began, I finally saw the captured Chinese soldiers. As a proud Gallic rooster, Bhopal unconsciously felt a touch of pride and pride in his heart at this moment.

But just as he was about to order the Riyadh gunboat to turn around, at that moment, a sailor on the bridge cried out in horror.

"Torpedo! Torpedo! They're on the port side! On our port side! (To be continued) R580