The three all-steel battleships of the Italian Navy, such as the Cuthima, Silvio and Valero, were on fire because the warships were hit, and the smoke rose more than ten meters high, and the three warships were obstructed by the smoke, which made it very difficult for the Italian gunners on the warships to aim, so the three warships were under the escort of the protective fast cruisers Umberto and Rickli, which had been cruising around the two battle lines of the Italian Navy, and the three all-steel battleships on fire retreated. After preparing to extinguish the fire, he returned to the battle line and continued to fight with the warships under Lin Daxin's command. 》x.

If the three warships on fire remained on the battle line, it would be equivalent to being beaten, but they could not fight back, and the gunners could not even take aim, so how could they open their guns, even if they barely opened their guns, they did not know where the shells would fly.

Beneath the surface of Manila Bay, the Bayonet and the Sharp Knife have not been idle, constantly changing their positions, and at the bottom of the sea 50 meters underwater, the radar on the Guò submarine monitors the operations of the two fleets.

The radar soldier on the Bayonet suddenly said to the captain Zhang Bin: "Captain, come and see, some of the enemy ships have broken away from the formation and are heading in our direction!" ”

Zhang Bin walked quickly to the small screen of the radar and saw that there were five bright spots that had broken away from the area of a number of bright spots and approached the direction where his submarine was located.

Zhang Bin's eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered: "Dive to 20 meters!" ”

Then the bayonet submarine rose to a distance of 20 meters from the sea, Zhang Bin ordered the periscope to be raised, and then Zhang Bin found the three all-steel battleships slowly retreating with thick smoke. It appeared that the personnel of the warship were trying to extinguish the fire, and two protective cruisers cruised back and forth around the three all-steel battleships, occasionally dropping a depth charge into the sea. Defend against the attack of your own submarines.

What a chance! You can't miss such a great opportunity!

Zhang Bin said to the submariner in charge of the radio station: "Contact the Sharp Knife immediately and prepare for a joint attack!" ”

Subsequently, Zhang Bin and Li Dong, the captain of the Sharp Knife, agreed on the radio to carry out a torpedo attack on the all-steel battleship of the Italian Navy that was extinguishing the fire, and it was two submarines attacking at the same time.

After the agreement was over, Zhang Bin ordered: "Approach the enemy ship on fire!" ”

After a while, the first mate of the Bayonet reported: "Captain, 3000 meters from the enemy ship!" ”

Zhang Bin ordered: "Keep getting closer!" ”

After a while, the first mate reported: "2,000 meters away from the enemy ship!" ”

Zhang Bin continued to order: "Keep approaching!" ”

Soon the first mate reported: "Captain, 1500 meters from the enemy ship!" ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said, "Stop moving forward and dive up to 10 meters!" ”

Moments later, the first mate reported: "I have dived to 10 meters above the surface. ”

Zhang Bin said again: "Contact the Sharp Knife." Did the Sharp Knife reach the attack position? ”

After a while, the submariner in charge of the radio reported: "The Sharp Knife has sent a telegram, they have arrived at the attack position, asking when to attack?" ”

Zhang Bin nodded and said, "The No. 1 to No. 6 torpedo tubes are all aimed at enemy ships. Start filling the water! ”

Two minutes later, the first mate reported: "Captain's torpedo tubes No. 1 to No. 6 have locked onto the enemy ship, and the water filling is complete!" ”

Zhang Bin glanced at the watch he was carrying, which was given to him by Lin Daxin. Then Zhang Bin ordered: "It's 8:07 now." 3 minutes after informing the Sharp Knife, start attacking, and then immediately retreat! ”

Three minutes later, the submarines Bayonet and Sharp Knife launched a torpedo attack on three all-steel battleships at a distance of 1,500 meters from the three all-steel battleships and two fast-defending cruisers.

Both submarines used the tactic of attacking 6 torpedoes at the same time, and 12 steam gas torpedoes formed 12 white waves on the sea surface, which were quickly fired at the 3 all-steel battleships that were on fire.

After the torpedo was released, the two submarines did not bother to check their results. Immediately accelerate away from the location where the torpedo was released and dive to avoid enemy artillery fire and depth charges.

2 fast protection cruisers guarding around 3 all-steel battleships on fire. The Italian naval officers and sailors above quickly spotted the white waves of 12 torpedoes and immediately shouted to the sky.

"Oh my God! Torpedo! Fast! There are torpedoes! ”

"Shoot! Knock out all the torpedoes! ”

The officers and men of the Italian Navy of the two fast-defending cruisers immediately fired heavily at the torpedoes from the rapid-fire guns of the warships.

The Italian naval officers aboard the Cuthima, Silvio and Valero also spotted the torpedoes fired at their ships and shouted in horror as most of the men were helping to extinguish the fire, with only a few 76mm rapid-fire guns firing at the torpedoes in an attempt to stop the torpedoes approaching at high speed. At such a close distance, the three all-steel battleships could not even make evasive actions, and could only hope that the rapid-fire guns could stop these torpedoes.

It is a pity that the efforts of 5 Italian warships hit only 4 torpedoes moving at high speed, 1 of the other 8 torpedoes deviated from the target, and the other 7 torpedoes all hit the target.

The most unlucky Queen Elena class all-steel battleship Silvio, the left hull was hit by 4 torpedoes in a row, blowing up 4 large holes a few meters in the left waterline armor of the Silvio, the damage management personnel of the Silvio were simply unable to save the Silvio who was injured so badly, and the turbulent sea water poured into the hull of the ship, so that the Silvio soon became tilted 30 degrees, and not long after the captain gave the order to abandon the ship, The all-steel battleship Silvio, with a full load displacement of 13,995 tons, slowly sank into the sea after a rollover. The Silvio became the first all-steel battleship sunk by the Italian Navy's Second Expeditionary Fleet, and the second warship sank, with fewer than 350 of the 650 Italian naval officers and sailors on board, escaped.

The all-steel battleship Valero, also of the Queen Elena class, was hit by 2 torpedoes, and the fatal thing is that one torpedo magically penetrated the Valero's 203 mm waterline armor and exploded inside the Valero's hull. A nearby magazine containing dozens of 305 mm rounds of ammunition was detonated.

Even the Valero, which also has a full load displacement of 13,995 tons, could not withstand so many 305 mm simultaneous explosions, in a deafening explosion. Half of the hull of the Valero's all-steel battleship was almost blown to pieces, and it didn't take 3 minutes to sink to the bottom of the sea, and none of the 650 Italian naval officers and sailors on the warship successfully escaped, even some of them jumped into the sea to escape, and they were all sucked into the sea by the whirlpool suction generated when the Valero sank, and disappeared into the sea with their own warship. The Valero became the third warship to sink in the Italian Navy's Second Expeditionary Fleet.

The last 1 torpedo hit the Queen Margaret-class all-steel battleship Kshma. The Kahima had just extinguished the fire on the deck, and the torpedo blew a hole in the Kahima's waterline armor below the surface on the left side of the hull, but after the efforts of the Kahima's damage management crew. Successfully sealing off the incoming holds, the captain of the Khima ordered the other side to be filled with seawater, keeping the Khima balanced, but the Valero, which carried nearly 2,000 tons of seawater in its hull, was only less than 16 knots left.

In a short period of time. The attack of 2 submarines sank 2 powerful all-steel battleships. 1 more powerful all-steel battleship was seriously damaged, so the 2 fast-protection cruisers Umberto and the Rickly, which were escorting 3 all-steel battleships to extinguish the fire, rushed to the position where the two submarines released their torpedoes like crazy, and each threw dozens of depth charges into the sea, but it did not have any effect.

The Bayonet and the Sharp Knife had already taken advantage of the high speed under the water and fled far away, like two wolves in the depths, searching for their next hunting target.

At this time, the warships of the Northeast Navy had completed the tenth salvo of the main guns, although they did not sink a single warship of the United States Navy or the Italian Navy. However, this round of main gun salvo hit the warships of the Sino-US and Italian joint fleets with more than a dozen main gun shells, causing considerable casualties to the US and Italian warships.

And the 10th round of main gun salvos from the US ** ship and the Italian warship did not seriously damage any warship of the Northeast Navy.

Lin Daxin saw the attack of 2 submarines through the guò high-powered telescope. When the two Italian Queen Elena-class all-steel battleships Silvio and Valero sank, and the Queen Margaret-class all-steel battleship Khima was seriously damaged, she immediately happily slapped the armored wall of the bridge of the Shenyang, "Ouch! Lin Daxin screamed and shook his hand, and when he was excited, his strength was too big, and Lin Daxin slapped his hand red.

Lin Daxin shook his hand and happily said to Sun Xitao and Ma Yan beside him: "Zhang Bin and Li Dong's two submarines are beautiful!" When I come back, I want to celebrate the success of all the officers and men of the submarine detachment! Send a telegram to Zhang Bin and Li Dong to tell them to be careful! ”

Sun Xitao said with a smile on his face: "Now that the Italian Navy has sunk these two all-steel battleships, it has made our advantage more obvious. ”

Ma Yan, the captain of the Shenyang, said: "Principal, it seems that there is no need for 2 submarines to attack the battle line of the US Navy and the Italian Navy, as long as 2 submarines can mend the seriously damaged enemy ships, our advantage will become more and more obvious!" ”

Lin Daxin nodded and said with a smile: "Sue Zhang Bin and Li Dong, look for an opportunity to mend the injured warships of the US Navy and the Italian Navy." Hehe, 2 submarines can't be our killer, and it's not bad to be our mending knife! ”

Sun Xitao and Ma Yan both laughed in agreement, saying that what Lin Daxin said made sense.

The bayonet submarine did not see the results of his own and the sharp knife, Zhang Bin received a telegram from Lin Daxin in the submarine, at this time the bayonet submarine had dived into the sea 80 meters below the position, at this time Zhang Bin knew that his submarine and the sharp knife together the joint attack achieved very great results, Zhang Bin excitedly said to the officers and soldiers in the submarine: "Good news to the brothers sù, just now we and the sharp knife joint attack results are very large, the Italian Navy two all-steel battleships were sunk by us, 1 all-steel battleship was heavily damaged by us, and the marshal has already sent us a congratulatory message! The marshal said that he would personally give all the officers and men of our submarine detachment a celebration! ”

As soon as Zhang Bin's words fell, the entire Bayonet submarine rang out with cheers, Zhang Bin smiled and pressed his hand down and said: "Be quiet, brothers, don't invite the enemy's bombs!" ”

There was a burst of laughter from the officers and men inside the submarine.

Zhang Bin said: "Brothers, there are still many warships in Italy, and our task is to sink more enemy warships and reduce the pressure on the main fleet!" All the bayonet crews are in place, ready for the next torpedo attack! We are the killer weapon of Dashuai, and we must not let Dashuai down! ”

The first mate of the Bayonet said with a smile at this time: "Captain, you can rest assured, the brothers will definitely live up to the expectations of the marshal!" I think that the first expeditionary fleet of the Italian Navy was planted in the hands of our two submarines, and this time the second expeditionary fleet of the Italians also planted them in front of us! Planted, the Italians will get used to it, haha! ”

The words of the first mate made the submarine burst into joyful laughter again.

Compared with the laughter and laughter in the Shenyang and the Bayonet, there was a depressing atmosphere in the bridge of the Queen Margaret, the flagship of the Italian Navy's Second Expeditionary Fleet.

Commander Roberte stood in front of the observation window of the bridge with a grim face, staring in amazement at the place where the Silvio and Valero had sunk in the distance.

Seeing that Robert was in a daze, Captain Ram of the Queen Margaret immediately walked up to him and said comfortingly: "Commander, in such a large-scale naval battle, losses are inevitable, and the entire Italian fleet still needs your command!" ”

Roberte let out a sigh of relief and said, "I don't have a problem! I just didn't expect the enemy's submarines to be so powerful, so I ordered 4 fast protection cruisers to immediately throw depth charges around the sea area of our fleet without stopping, and no longer let the enemy's submarines get close to our fleet to launch torpedo attacks! ”

Ram nodded and said, "Yes, Commander, I'll immediately relay the order to the 4 fast protection cruisers." ”

Ram then opened his mouth to say something, but opened his mouth, and finally did not say it, but turned around and ordered the Bannermen to convey the commander's orders to the 4 fast protection cruisers.

In fact, Ram feels very bad in his heart now, seeing that the warships of his Italian Navy and the U.S. Navy have sunk one after another, Ram wants to build a commander Luo Baiert is not time to think about the way back, but thinking that the commander Luo Baiert is bent on this expedition to the Philippines is bent on washing away his shame, and he will not agree to retreat, Ram can only sigh in his heart, hoping that God will bless the Italian Navy, and at the last time, he will bless himself to survive this naval battle. (To be continued......)