As soon as Lin Fei gave the order, Qin Hui, the commander of the Demon Beast-class submarine formation and the captain of the Ghost Shark Boat, immediately formulated a battle plan with Shangguan Yunlong, the commander of the Sumatra and Java fleets, and at this time, Shangguan Yunlong had already arrived at the battlefield in person on the Emperor-class cruiser Guangwu.

Qin Hui and Shangguan Yunlong decided to follow the style of the naval battle in the Sulu Sea, with the Emperor-class cruisers luring the British battleships into an ambush circle, and then the Monster-class submarines broke out and sank the British battleships.

On 20 June, the Guangwu and Zhaolie Imperial ships began to lure the enemy against the British warships, while the Ghost Shark Boat, the Mirage Boat, the Candle Dragon Boat, and the Giant Ray Boat set up ambush in the predetermined sea area.

At 9 o'clock in the morning of 20 June, the Guangwu and Zhaolie Imperial ships began to approach the British warships cruising on the east side of Phu Quoc Island. ”

The British battleships replied: "If your fleet dares to fire at our fleet, our fleet will sink your ship." "The British battleships have been combined at this time, and two battleships and four cruisers have formed a large fleet, and such a fleet must not be afraid of two Emperor-class cruisers.

Hu Fanghai immediately ordered: "Open fire on the British battleship." "At the moment of the order, the 240-mm main guns of the Emperor-class cruisers immediately opened fire, and the shells exploded on the surface of the sea, splashing a column of water, despite the fact that the shells did not hit, and there was still some distance from the British battleships.

The British battleship immediately began to return fire, and two shells flew over the head of the Emperor-class cruiser, and Hu Fanghai immediately gave the order to turn and retreat.

The two Great Emperor-class cruisers retreated to the ambush circle of the monster-class submarine, but the British battleships did not catch up at all, they just fired a few shells from behind, then turned around and sailed north, Hu Fanghai did not dare to turn around and launch another provocation, so he had to retreat, and used the blue bird machine to inform Qin Hui: "The plan to lure the enemy failed." ”

Qin Hui was disappointed for a while, so he had to order four monster-class submarines to surface, on the one hand, turn on the internal combustion engine, charge the battery, and on the other hand, use the Blue Bird machine to contact Shangguan Yunlong.

Qin Hui said directly: "The failure of this lure to the enemy is likely to be because we have too few troops to arouse the interest of the British army in pursuit. ”

Shangguan Yunlong thought for a while and nodded slightly, "This is indeed our mistake, I will send two more Great Emperor-class cruisers to lure the enemy together." ”

"Commander Shangguan, it is very likely that our strategy of luring the enemy will no longer work, this is the trick we used during the naval battle in the Sulu Sea, the British are not fools, the same pit, they will not fall into it twice."

"What you say makes a lot of sense, so what tactics should we use?" Shangguan Yunlong was very worried, after all, the speed of the monster-class submarine could not catch up with the British battleship, and luring the enemy to ambush was almost the only way for the monster-class submarine to defeat the enemy.

Qin Hui was confident, "We scattered the four Demon Beast-class submarines and cruised in the waters around Phu Quoc Island, and your Emperor-class cruiser is responsible for reconnoitring the enemy ship, and after detecting the enemy ship, it will immediately report to us, and we will immediately set up an ambush in advance according to the course of the enemy ship, because our position is scattered to various sea areas, so there is a high chance that one will be in front of the enemy ship, and an ambush is also possible." ”

Shangguan Yunlong's eyes lit up, "This method of yours is very good, let's do it." ”

In the next day, the Demon Beast-class submarine and the Emperor-class cruiser began to act according to Qin Hui's method, and the four Demon Beast-class submarines were first scattered to various sea areas, and then the Emperor-class cruiser conducted reconnaissance.

On this day, there were some changes in the British ships on the sea, that is, there were many more small steamships, most of which had a displacement of three or four hundred tons and an extremely shallow draft, and were obviously used to launch landing reconnaissance operations.

These small steamships dodged far away when they saw the Emperor-class cruisers, and the Emperor-class cruisers did not hit them, there were so many such small ships in Britain, and it was useless to fight, and no one thought at this time that these small ships would have a huge impact on the war situation.

On 22 June, after two days of searching, the Kwangmu finally spotted the traces of the British fleet, which was approaching Koh Rong Island in the north of Phu Quoc Island, as if they wanted to reconnoiter the defenders of Koh Rong Island.

The Guangwu ship immediately notified the monster-class submarine formation, Qin Hui looked at it on the chart, and immediately laughed, this British fleet formation turned out to be within the range of his ambush, Qin Hui slapped his face, and said with a smile: "This is simply a godsend, my ghost shark boat has to add one more result." ”

Qin Hui said and tore off the nameplate of the King of Demon Beasts on his chest, "After this battle, I must change the nameplate, what is it called......"

While thinking about it, Qin Hui gave the order to the navigator, and the submarine immediately dived to a depth of thirty meters and headed in the direction of the British fleet.

During the submersion, the towed antenna has been floating on the water, which allows the ghost shark boat to always talk to the Emperor-class cruiser, and during the call, the Emperor-class cruiser informs Qin Hui of the course of the British fleet, and Qin Hui adjusts his course according to the report of the Emperor-class cruiser.

After twenty minutes of travel, the navigator excitedly reported: "Captain, in another twenty minutes, we will be able to meet the enemy ship." ”

Qin Hui smirked, "Very good, torpedo chief, prepare for torpedo launch." ”

As soon as Qin Hui's words fell, he suddenly heard a loud "bang" from the left front of the ghost shark boat, and with this loud noise, the entire ghost shark boat was shaken, and the boat shook violently, Qin Hui stretched out his hand to hold the command platform, so he didn't fall.

But the others were not so lucky, the hydrophone operator was so shocked by the loud noise that his ears were bleeding, and he fell out of his seat with a crooked body, and he had already fainted; The navigator fell to the ground with a "plop", and when he fell, he held his hand on the chart work table, and brought down the charts, rulers and compasses on the platform, and smashed his face full of flowers......

It took a while for the submarine to stabilize, everyone stood up in embarrassment, Qin Hui grabbed the microphone and asked the torpedo compartment: "What happened, did the torpedo explode?" "The loud bang just now can only be made by an explosion.

There was no movement in the torpedo compartment, Qin Hui looked at the torpedo chief, and said anxiously: "Hurry up and go to the torpedo compartment to have a look." "The torpedo chief needs to be aimed with a periscope, so before the battle is launched, it is necessary to go to the command module.

The torpedo chief hurriedly ran to the bow torpedo compartment, but at this moment, the helmsman suddenly reported: "Captain, the hull of the boat has begun to tilt, and the current angle of the first tilt is close to five degrees." ”

Almost at the same time as the helmsman reported, Qin Hui obviously felt that the hull of the boat began to lean forward, this is a manifestation of a large amount of water entering the bow, how could the bow of the boat enter the water, could it be that the explosion just now blew up the hull?

Qin Hui hurriedly ordered, "Fill the ballast water tank at the stern of the boat, maintain the balance of the hull, damage the control team, and immediately go to the bow of the boat to find out the cause of the first captor." ”

"Understood!" The helmsman and the damage control detachment immediately began to act, and at this moment, the torpedo chief rushed back, "Report to the captain, the torpedo compartment in the bow has been completely flooded, I did not open the watertight hatch, through the porthole I saw that the sailors inside were all ...... All sacrificed ......"

"What!" Qin Hui's heart was like a knife for a while, every sailor on the ghost shark boat was like a brother, and he was talking and laughing with them a few hours ago, but now, they closed their eyes forever, how would their parents, wives and children face that cold death notice......

Qin Hui quickly calmed down, "Now I order, immediately turn on the bow drainage pump, empty the torpedo compartment of the stagnant water, and immediately send out a message that our boat was injured by an unknown explosion." ”

At this moment, a faint smoke suddenly appeared in the command room, this smoke was very pungent, it was obviously produced by the burning of rubber products, there was a fire on the ghost shark boat, Qin Hui's heart instantly rose to his throat, and he hurriedly ordered, "Damage control detachment, immediately find out the location of the fire point and extinguish the flames!" ”

"Understood!" The damage control detachment agreed loudly, and Qin Hui felt that the situation was serious, so he gave another order: "All personnel unrelated to the voyage should immediately stop the current operation and put into the damage control operation." "On submarines, mechanics, torpedo chiefs, and so on, have no work to do when they are sailing, and these people are people who have nothing to do with the voyage.

In addition to the personnel who maintained the normal navigation of the submarine, everyone was involved in damage control, and the fire point was quickly identified, it turned out that the battery compartment was damaged in the explosion just now, and a rubber pipeline caught fire.

As the flames rose, the warning light of insufficient oxygen in the boat sounded sharply, and Qin Hui hurriedly ordered all the staff to wear oxygen bags, which contained sodium peroxide, which reacted with the carbon dioxide exhaled by people to generate oxygen, but the oxygen bags could only be used for twenty minutes.

Before Qin Hui could take out the oxygen bag, the helmsman issued a report again: "Captain, the fire has affected the bow pump and the stern pump, both of which have failed, and the bow of the boat cannot be changed, we must ...... it immediately" The helmsman swallowed the word "abandon the boat" hard, this word is very difficult for every submarine sailor.

Qin Hui knows very well what he is facing now, the water pump is unusable, which means that the sinking of the ghost shark boat is inevitable, will this submarine that has made great achievements sink here?

At this time, the first tilt of the ghost shark boat was even more serious, Qin Hui knew that it could not be delayed any longer, the first tilt of the submarine was not at a constant speed, but accelerated, and it was very likely that it would capsize in the next instant.

"All abandon the boat!" Qin Hui gave this order, and then opened the rescue cabin, fortunately, the depth of the submarine is only thirty meters now, and people will not be deflated by the water pressure when they leave the submarine.