The explosions overhead were loud and tight, but they had no effect on the 501 itself, where Liu Yang was located.

With so many torpedoes coming at the same time, the British were scrambling just to deal with the danger, and it was impossible for them to immediately lock on to the position of the submarine and release depth charges.

No. 501 is even lower than 45 meters under the ocean surface, and as long as it is not hit by depth charges, no matter how fierce the explosion on the sea surface is, it will not hurt it at all.

The Project 501 submarine slowly broke out of the battle circle at a slow speed of 3 knots, and it needed to float at a safe distance, and then observe the sea situation before deciding whether to continue the attack. And he also wondered if the torpedo boat had already appeared. These high-speed warships, which generally have a speed of more than 35 knots, are suitable for victory in chaos at this time.

After 10 minutes of outward speed, the speed of the submarine immediately accelerated, and 20 minutes later, the submarine No. 501 three kilometers away quietly stretched out the periscope, and then Liu Yang saw that the world in front of him was much brighter, and he saw two tall fireballs rising on the sea, they were so dazzling and brilliant, and they were illuminated like white within a radius of several nautical miles!

I actually rushed to watch the results!

It was a full ten seconds before the submariners heard the two loud explosions. Then just as Liu Yang was about to twist the periscope to observe whether the torpedo boat appeared, another fire ball appeared in front of him, and the fire ball increased dozens of times after an instant! The newborn fire ball rushed higher and higher with the sound of a series of explosions, almost reaching into the sky, and its volume was rapidly expanding with the increase in height, and finally appeared in Liu Yang's sight like a mushroom cloud planted with mushrooms.

"I hit the jackpot this time!" Liu Yang's eyes were red, and he couldn't help but call out, and he brought the deputy next to him to the periscope. "Look, we hit the ammunition depot of the warship. This is at least an ironclad ship of the first rank, or simply a battleship! ”

Before the adjutant had time to see clearly, the crew had already shouted excitedly, a first-class ironclad ship or battleship, this is completely the glory of submariners. You must know that the mysterious figure of the submarine appeared on the battlefield in this series of battles before. However, no submariners have yet confirmed the record of sinking or severely damaging first-class ironclad ships and battleships. The foreigners' newspapers also used this incident to publicize the limited power of submarines. Now, it is possible to use the facts to face the whole world that the power of submarines is omnipotent. At this moment, no one cared if they were on the edge of the battlefield, and everyone cheered with joy!

"General, this is at least a 10,000-ton ironclad ship. We've really laid down a big guy. The adjutant only glanced intently to confirm that it was the flames caused by the explosion of the ammunition depot, and that such a violent explosion could only be found on a first-class ironclad or battleship.

Liu Yang took the lead in stopping the restlessness in his heart, "Okay, we are still on the battlefield, we are still on the battlefield." Let's not forget that we are still fighting. ”

"Now. The submarine went at a speed of five knots and advanced 2 km. Prepare for battle. The torpedo bay was immediately reloaded—"

More than 20 submarines formed four interlocking ambush circles, and the scope was so large that it also included most of the combined fleet under sail. Liu Yang now didn't know whether the warships of the Combined Fleet that fell outside the ambush circle, that is, at the tail of the fleet, dared to enter the ambush circle to 'save' his companions, but he knew that the scene he saw when he just surfaced must not be the special favor of God, it was an instantaneous possibility that would only exist on the basis of huge results. The combined fleet is now definitely suffering heavy losses. And he didn't even see the shadow of the torpedo boat just now, that is to say - all the current results were made by submarines!

As the commander of the submarine force, Liu Yang couldn't be more comfortable now.

But Xu Yongtai was very unhappy. As the commander of the torpedo boat, Xu Yongtai's face at the moment was so cold that he could scrape off a layer of frost.

"Accelerate. Accelerate, accelerate—"

The submarine force's torpedoes had already severely damaged the British and American combined fleets, and the smoke and sound of the explosion could be heard from more than a dozen nautical miles. But in just half an hour, more and more explosions hit Xu Yongtai in the face like whips, and he didn't want the torpedo boat unit and the two destroyers to become cleaners cleaning the battlefield.

"Surface ships. It's a torpedo boat ......"

The high-speed approach of the surface ship forces immediately attracted the attention of the combined Anglo-American fleet. A series of shelling from the "boom, boom, boom ......" fell in the middle of the torpedo boat units. But six groups of torpedo boat units and two destroyers did not shy away from retreating, accelerating, accelerating, accelerating again, sailing in the S-corner. This is how torpedo boat units and destroyers responded.

Michael Russ clutched his head in pain. "Oh God......" The underwater submarines had not completely gotten rid of them, and these high-speed torpedo boats came up again. The situation of the combined fleet has become even worse, and the safety of the warships has become more dangerous.

"Fire, fire. Knock out those pesky flies for me! "The first ship of the American Indiana-class battleship, the Indiana, Theodore. Roosevelt roared loudly. Torpedoes, he hates torpedoes now!

The powerful Indiana-class battleships can't help those underwater rats, but they can definitely teach the Chinese surface warships a big lesson. It's just a pity that the main gun can't be fired.

The battleship Indiana was the first battleship built by the United States itself, and although they received great funding from the British in the design of the ship, the design of the entire battleship was mainly completed by the Americans. Positioned as a small shore defense battleship, the Indiana-class battleship was very powerful, with four 13-inch 35-caliber main guns and eight 8-inch 35-caliber secondary guns (203mm). Four 6-inch (152mm) guns, 12 3-inch (76mm) guns, 20 6-pounder guns and six 1-pounder guns were also installed in the port and port gallery, and the whole ship was armed to the teeth. However, since this was a battleship designed for coastal defense, the freeboard was designed to be very low in order to reduce displacement. When the sea conditions deteriorate slightly, the foredeck will rise to waves, which will seriously affect the speed of the ship and the main turret operations. And in the current sea, the sea conditions are notoriously poor.

The four powerful main guns could not fire, and the only thing the Indiana could rely on was the secondary guns.

Eight 8-inch 35-caliber secondary guns (203mm), four 6-inch (152mm) guns, 12 3-inch (76mm) guns, 20 6-pounder guns and six 1-pounder guns, and fifty cannons of various calibers rained down on the submarine forces. The waves were raging, and black gunpowder smoke also enveloped most of the ship's hull.

Except for the Indiana, the other capital ships and non-capital ships, as long as they could shoot, were all frantically aiming their shells at the torpedo boat units.

Now the situation of the entire combined fleet is too bad. If as many as 18 torpedo boats and two destroyers had come close to unleashing a torpedo attack, the entire Combined Fleet would have been wiped out.

The warships of this era did not have any anti-mine armor, and it was impossible to combine the main armor belt with it, and combine it with multiple watertight compartments to form an underwater anti-torpedo system. Every warship is hit by a torpedo with a charge of 500 kilograms, and the cavity effect that occurs instantly under the water will inflict a fatal blow on the 10,000-ton ship.

The old American battleship Indiana is quite powerful, right? China's four battleships, if they were to go head-to-head, were not necessarily the Indiana's opponents. But if it gets hit by two or three torpedoes in a row, the expensive steel monster will have to say 'bye-bye' to the world.

Seven torpedo boats were hit during the impact, five of them sank outright, and the other two became two paralyzed dead fish. But the remaining two destroyers and eleven torpedo boats desperately approached 500 distance from their respective targets, and then, dozens of torpedoes were instantly released into the sea.

They joined the battle, and there was no suspense in this collective hunt at sea. The sea is full of black oil stains, all kinds of floating debris, sinking or capsizing ships, and thousands of people who have fallen into the water, and the light on the sea surface is shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and people's vision is blocked by the smoke of various burning materials, so that the sneak attack of the submarine force has become more like a fish in water.

The formation of the Combined Fleet is long gone, and the surviving ships can only rely on their own speed to get out of this Sea of Death as quickly as possible and dodge the torpedoes that suddenly come out of nowhere!

After firing the last torpedo on the boat, Liu Yang and all the officers and men of his 501 ship silently withdrew from the stage, peeking at the scene of the battle and at the helpless British and American ships under the sea at the corner of the war. If, that is to say, if the surface ships participating in the hunt can have a few more capital ships to attract the enemy's firepower, reduce the sacrifice of torpedo boats by half, or add another batch of submarines and torpedo boats, Liu Yang feels that this battle can even kill the entire Anglo-American combined fleet.

When the sun rose right in the sky, the battle was over, and fourteen ships of the combined American and British fleets escaped, including three battleships, six ironclads of the first and second ranks and armored cruisers, two supply ships, two dome cruisers and one high-speed patrol ship.

The Chinese Navy exchanged 11 torpedo boats, one submarine and one destroyer for 18 warships of various types in the British and American joint fleet, with a total tonnage of more than 100,000 tons. It was an absolute victory. Eleven torpedo boats, a submarine and a destroyer are worth a few dollars? How much can a few hundred torpedoes be worth? Can there be a battleship worth it?

God, his old man, this today closed his eyes.

The Anglo-American combined fleet consisted of a total of five battleships, two of which were directly sunk in this battle, and two more were heavily damaged.

Not all of the fourteen British and American warships that escaped ascension were intact, and at least four of them were badly damaged, and they returned to the water with a belly, and it was not known whether they would be able to make it to the ports of Chile.

Liu Yang urgently sent out a signal flare, asking the supply ship to hurry over to replenish the consumption, and he wanted to continue to chase north. Maybe you will run into British and American warships that have fallen behind on the way.

The remaining seven torpedo boats and one destroyer were tasked with salvaging thousands of British and American sailors who had fallen overboard. Then go and ask where the other three ships of the fleet have gone. When entering the Strait of Magellan, the fleet consisted of 35 warships...... (To be continued......)