However, what Lin Fei feared did not happen, the Dutchman's torpedo boat did not collide with the ghost shark boat, and the ghost shark boat pulled the determination ship into the torpedo range in the ignorance of the British and Dutch about it.

In the periscope, the determination ship was clearer, and Yu Yongming put the 115-meter-long hull into the periscope reticle and calculated the distance with a proportional relationship...... Four hundred meters, just within the range of the torpedo of the ghost shark boat, he ordered softly: "Attention torpedo man, one torpedo, set at a depth of five meters, ready to be launched." ”

Modern submarines have special torpedo compartments, but the ghost shark boat does not, because the ghost shark boat is relatively small, so the command cabin and torpedo compartment are all together, and the torpedo man quickly heard Yu Yongming's order.

The torpedo man opened the tail door of the torpedo tube, the tail of the torpedo was exposed, the torpedo man lifted the engine ignition safety, set the depth to five meters on the depth fixer, pushed the torpedo back to the launch tube, and then opened the valve of the high-pressure cylinder, let the high-pressure air fill the launch tube, and waited until the air pressure of the launcher reached the launch standard, and immediately reported to Yu Yongming: "Captain, the torpedo is ready." ”

Yu Yongming took a deep breath and said, "Launch..."

The torpedo man pressed the launch button, and the hatch in front of the launch canister was immediately opened, and under the impetus of high-pressure air, the torpedo came out of the tube and swam towards the determined ship, and the torpedo man immediately said: "Captain, the launch is successful." ”

Yu Yongming quickly said: "Inject water into the bow of the boat..."The torpedo equipped on the ghost shark boat is a "white-headed torpedo" purchased by the Spanish from the British, with a caliber of 655 millimeters, and the weight of each one is as high as 500 kilograms.

After Yu Yongming gave the order, he put his eyes on the periscope and waited to see the results of this torpedo, the torpedo speed of this era was not fast, and it took almost two minutes to swim over a distance of 400 meters.

Yu Yongming waited and silently muttered in his heart, it must hit, it must hit, everyone in the ghost shark boat is the same, they stared at Yu Yongming tightly, hoping to hear the word "hit" from his mouth.

In Yu Yongming's periscope, the Determination ship with the searchlight on was very clear, and suddenly, I saw a huge water curtain splashing from the side of the Determination Ship, and the Determination Ship shook slightly, Yu Yongming shouted excitedly: "Hit..."

There was jubilation inside the ghost shark boat, Yu Yongming didn't have time to be happy, and said quickly: "Quick... Shoot the other three torpedoes. ”

While waiting for the results of the first torpedo, the torpedo man was ready to launch the other three torpedoes, and when he heard Yu Yongming's order, he immediately pressed the torpedo launch button, and the three torpedoes flew out of the launch canister one after another and swam towards the Resolve ship.

The average draft of the Determination ship was 8.4 meters, and the fixed depth of the three torpedoes was 5 meters, which happened to hit the underwater side of the Determination ship, and each of these three torpedoes had a charge of 30 kilograms.

The first torpedo slammed into the center of the Resolve, triggering the fuse to detonate the explosives inside the torpedo, and the explosives exploded violently, pushing the sea water into the Resolve.

In this era of naval guns as the decisive weapon, the battleship has no anti-torpedo design, and the same is true for the determination ship, not only does it not have an anti-torpedo design, but the defense of the underwater side is almost negligible, its side armor only covers 1.2 meters below the waterline, and the rest of the teak deck is completely exposed.

The steel armor could not block the impact of the torpedo explosion, and the teak wood was even more impossible to block, under the impact of the explosion, the side hull was instantly torn open a large hole with a diameter of three meters, and a large amount of seawater poured into the hull.

The explosion also caused a fire, which quickly spread inside the ship, and the Sovereign-class battleship had a heavy design flaw, that is, there was an ammunition channel between the bow and stern along which the flame could spread, and this defect was now fully revealed, and the fire quickly spread to the bow and tail of the battleship.

Before the British on board could react, the second and third torpedoes followed, one in the bow and the other in the stern, and two large explosions opened two large openings in the hull.

These three torpedoes, plus the previous one, four torpedoes crashed into the Determination ship one after another, and the four big explosions blew up everyone on the ship, and Claros exclaimed: "What happened? ”

The captain said to Claros, "Your Excellency, something has exploded on our warship..."

Claros asked in a panic, "Did someone attack us?" ”

The captain shook his head blankly, "These things are not clear now, and now is not the time to talk about these things, Lord Envoy, please prepare to leave the ship." ”

"What? Preparing to leave the ship? Mr. Captain, are you going to give the order to abandon the ship? Claros' mind went blank when he said these words, the Sovereign-class battleship was the pride of the British Empire, the most advanced battleship in the world, and no country's battleship was its opponent, how could it be reduced to the point of being abandoned?

The captain said helplessly: "Your Excellency, we are doing our best to save the battleship, but there is little hope, the speed of water entering the starboard side of the hull is too fast, and the water pump can't keep up with ......."

"Captain, the ship's hull is tilting nearly fifteen degrees to the right, and the water filling power of the left hull has reached the maximum, but it still can't maintain the balance of the hull..."An officer hurriedly ran over and said.

The captain hurriedly asked, "What about the leakage plugging situation of the damage management group?" Did you find the leak? Is there any hope of blocking? ”

"Report to the captain, the leaks have been found, there are four places, but it is difficult to plug them, because each leak is more than three meters in diameter."

"Damn," the captain said in a deep voice, "close all watertight compartments near the leak point to make sure the ship doesn't sink." ”

"Captain, it's useless, the damage management captain has already given the order to close the watertight compartment, but there is too much water on the starboard side."

Although the Sovereign-class battleship was powerful, even if it was a powerful battleship, it was impossible to survive the blow of four torpedoes, and the captain sighed and said sadly: "Order to abandon the ship." ”

As soon as the order came out, the whole Determination ship mourned, the Determination Ship is the pride of the British Empire, carrying the glory of the empire on which the sun never sets, and carrying the dignity of the Anglo-Saxon nation, no one dares to imagine that it will sink ...

Britain is worthy of being the world's first naval power, although the battleship is in danger, but the sailors on the ship did not panic, they left the lifeboat to Claros and others, put on their own life jackets, hugged the lifebuoy, jumped into the icy water, swam to the Watchman and the Trailblazer, and the two cruisers also sent small boats to rescue the sailors.

The captain of the Determination ship straightened the captain's uniform, and said calmly: "Mr. Special Envoy, please withdraw the ship, I will fulfill the oath I made before God and sink with the Determination ship..."

Claros grabbed the captain's arm and said angrily, "You bastard, coward, coward... Do you know who sank me? I don't know... We don't even want to find out who sank it, do we want to die? ”

The captain was speechless, Claros pulled up the captain and said: "Let's go, let's withdraw the ship together, find out the person who sank us, we, the British Empire, will give him the most severe punishment..."

Claros and the captain withdrew from the Determination, which slowly sank and gradually disappeared into the sea, and the boats sent by the Watcher and Pioneer also rushed to the sinking waters to rescue the drowning sailors.

Lin Fei in the distance watched the determination ship gradually sink, the excitement and excitement in his heart were overflowing, he couldn't help but be happy, a few months ago, in Taiwan, if it weren't for the British fleet to intervene, Lin Fei would have wiped out all the Japanese, and what Birch Mountain Shiki, what Nogi Noshinori, would have become Lin Fei's prisoners.

Lin Fei took a deep breath, picked up the microphone and said loudly: "The whole fleet, according to the No. 1 retreat plan, retreat." "The "No. 1 Retreat Plan" is to retreat ten kilometers to the east, with the purpose of allowing the ghost shark boat to rendezvous with the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship.

The two warships quickly withdrew to the predetermined sea area, and at this time a sailor reported: "We have found a ghost shark boat." ”

The ghost shark boat has been following behind the Tianlong ship after firing the torpedo, and now they are far away from the British and Dutch warships, and finally dare to surface, Lin Fei directly gave the ghost shark boat an order: "Sink the ghost shark boat, and all the crew withdraw to the Tianlong ship." ”

The reason why Lin Fei gave such an order was that he was worried that the ghost shark boat would be discovered by the enemy, he knew very well that now that the British were mad, they would soon investigate this matter, and he would not leave the handle of a submarine to the British.

Yu Yongming and the crew were quite reluctant, but Lin Fei had an order, they couldn't disobey, and used explosives to blow up a few big holes in the hull, and the ghost shark boat slowly sank into the sea.

The sinking of the Sovereign-class battleship Resolve frightened the Dutch, and Williamson immediately sent a dinghy to report to Governor Sumanville, who heard the news, pinched his arm fiercely, and said in a panic: "I shouldn't be dreaming, how could the British Sovereign-class not sink?" ”

The informing officer said: "According to the analysis of Mr. Commander, the Resolve was sunk by a torpedo. ”

"Torpedo?" Su Manwell muttered the name, sweat suddenly oozed from his forehead, his legs went limp, and he sat down in his chair.

The messenger officer said: "That's right, it's a torpedo, the Sovereign-class battleship is a type of large battleship with a displacement of up to 15,000 tons, and the only thing that can sink such a large battleship is a torpedo." ”

Su Manwell waved his hand lightly and said, "Did we dispatch a torpedo boat tonight?" ”

The messenger first nodded, and then said with an innocent face: "But our torpedo boat did not fire a torpedo." ”

Sumanwell smiled bitterly, "Do you think the British will believe it?" ”

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