In the eyes of the British and French warships, the Song Zu ship first slowed down, then accelerated, and then slowed down, the first deceleration was relatively small, and the second deceleration was so great that it almost stopped.

Antonio instantly understood what was going on with Song Zu's ship, he picked up the microphone of the Jade Bird machine, and laughed wildly: "In order to obtain high speed, Lin Fei's ship used strong pressure ventilation, and now the boilers have been burned to the point of scrapping, they can't escape, so they immediately chased after it and sank Lin Fei's ship!" ”

Antonio remembered the eight cruisers after giving the order, and at this time three of the eight cruisers had already been beaten out of the battle, after all, the fire control system of the British and French cruisers was inferior to that of the Huaxia battleships.

On the one hand, in order to protect the cruiser fleet, and on the other hand, he was worried that the cruiser fleet would steal the merits, so he ordered: "The cruiser fleet, immediately withdraw from the battle!" ”

The captains of the cruisers were all junior seniors of the battleship captains, so they naturally did not dare to compete with their predecessors and superiors, so they retreated after receiving the order, leaving only nine battleships to move to the flanks of the three Huaxia battleships, intending to fully develop their broadside firepower and completely annihilate the Huaxia fleet.

Lin Fei's heart was relieved when he saw the cruiser fleet withdrawing, but when he saw the battleship fleet approaching, his heart tightened again, and he secretly thought, it's all up to the demon beasts.

Lin Fei picked up the microphone of the blue bird machine and said loudly: "Demon Beast Formation, please answer if you receive it, Demon Beast Formation, please answer when you receive it!" ”

Soon Qin Hui's voice sounded in the earphones: "I'm the Demon Beast Formation, please tell me if you receive it!" ”

Lin Fei calmed down his excitement and said, "The enemy fleet has all entered the ambush line, and is ready to float to the periscope level to meet the enemy!" ”

"Report to Your Majesty, we have heard the sound of the enemy ship, and we are ready to float to the periscope level, ready to float up to meet the enemy at any time!" Qin Hui's voice was full of excitement.

Lin Fei said "Okay", and ordered loudly: "Demon beast formation, all float up, meet the enemy!" After Lin Fei finished speaking, he secretly thought, today is full of dangers, submarine troops, don't have any more problems!

Qin Hui promised to understand that the duel between the submarine and the battleship was about to begin!

On the ghost shark boat, Qin Hui lowered his voice and ordered: "Float to the periscope level at full speed." ”

With Qin Hui's order, the helmsman on the ghost shark boat pulled the operating lever and emptied the ballast water tank, and the ghost shark boat was like a shark that found its prey, quickly and dexterously floated up, and soon floated to the periscope level.

"Raise the periscope and aim at the target!"

The torpedo chief put his eyes on the periscope eyepiece, shook the periscope lifting handwheel, the periscope slowly stretched out of the water, and a huge battleship appeared in front of the torpedo chief's eyes, with a neat hull, a tall freeboard, a compact chimney, and a huge turret, it was the monarch-class battleship, which had brought countless troubles to Lin Fei and intervened in the affairs of the Chinese Empire again and again!

This Sovereign-class battleship is located at the front of the British and French battleship columns, and it can be known from its side number that the name of this battleship is "Counterattack", and it is the closest to Lin Fei's ship, and it is the first to threaten Lin Fei's ship.

Sinking the Sovereign-class battleship has always been the dream of the Monster-class submarine sailors, and the purpose of the Monster-class submarine launching is to kill the Sovereign-class battleship by asymmetric means.

The torpedo chief suppressed the excitement in his heart and gave the aiming command, and the torpedo man adjusted the direction of the torpedo tube according to the torpedo chief's instructions, and at the same time, the torpedo man at the bow also injected high-pressure air into the torpedo tube, filled the torpedo battery with electrolyte, and prepared for a qiē torpedo launch!

"Report to the captain, the torpedo is aiming, ready to fire!"

Qin Hui's heart trembled, this was the first time that a monster-class submarine had launched a torpedo to attack a Sovereign-class battleship! Qin Hui took a deep breath and said in the calmest voice: "One torpedo, launch!" ”

The torpedo long wrench is wrenched, the high-pressure air cut-off valve is opened, and the high-pressure air instantly rushes to the tail of the torpedo, pushing the swordfish torpedo to break through the stopper, rush out of the launch canister, like a swordfish that rushes straight to the prey, and pounces on the counterattack ship.

The swordfish is one of the fastest swimming fish in the world, swimming at speeds of up to 130 kilometers per hour, but the swordfish torpedo cannot swim as fast as its "kind", the speed of the swordfish torpedo is only ten knots, although the speed is not as fast as the Sovereign-class battleship, but it is better in concealment and stability.

Unlike other torpedoes of this era that did not have a gyro-stabilized system, so they could not remain stable in the water, unlike the Swordfish torpedo, as soon as it entered the water, the gyro-stabilized system began to work, allowing the Swordfish torpedo to move steadily forward.

Since the counterattack ship is also moving, the swordfish torpedo is pointed in front of the counterattack ship, so that the counterattack ship can just hit the torpedo, and the distance of the torpedo movement is about a thousand meters, a distance of a thousand meters, and the swordfish torpedo is instantaneous.

The counterattack ships that were bent on chasing the Huaxia fleet did not expect that there would be torpedoes coming from the side, after all, they could not imagine that Lin Fei had dispatched the submarine, and the energy system of the swordfish torpedo was a battery, and the battery pushed the propeller to make the torpedo forward, unlike other torpedoes of the same era, which relied on its own high-pressure gas to advance, and the battery pushed the propeller without bubbles when it moved, which increased the difficulty of being discovered.

The Swordfish torpedo hit the middle hull of the counterattack ship without anyone knowing, and the trigger fuse was activated immediately, and the 120 kilograms of trinitrotoluene explosives detonated instantly, making a dull "boom" sound, and the powerful shock wave even made the ghost shark boat vibrate slightly.

In addition to the shocking sound, the scene of the torpedo explosion was also moving, a water curtain more than 20 meters high rose from the position of the explosion point, and the entire hull of the counterattack ship was swallowed up by the water curtain, and the gas produced by the explosion was mixed into the water curtain, and the water curtain presented a strange gray-white color, like a giant beast hidden at the bottom of the sea, which jumped out of the sea in an instant and swallowed the counterattack ship in one gulp.

The water curtain splashed everywhere, even thirty meters away, stirring up countless splashes around the counterattack ship.

Looking at the counterattack ship again, the position of the explosion point is the No. IV gun position, equipped with a 152 mm rapid-fire gun, and the powerful shock wave directly broke the connecting parts between the gun hull and the ship's hull, and this rapid-fire gun was directly lifted into the air, disintegrating into various parts such as gun barrels, guard plates, and gun body bases in the air, and smashed on the sea surface with a bang, splashing countless splashes, and all the glass of the whole ship was shattered.

The crew also suffered heavy casualties, the crew on the deck was instantly lifted away, the shock wave instantly shattered all the internal organs, the crew flew up to a height of more than 20 meters, fell rapidly, and slapped heavily on the water, and the bones that suffered the impact were instantly shattered!

The crew inside the hull was even worse, they were pushed away by the shock wave, and they slammed into the hull solidly, and the protruding valve handles and water pipes on the hull became deadly killers, they pierced into the crew's body, shattered the crew's internal organs, broke the crew's bones, and the inside of the hull was full of blood and corpses for a while!

After the shock wave passed, the sea water pushed by the shock wave hit the waterline of the counterattack ship, and the combat effectiveness of torpedoes in this era was extremely poor, so there were no warships at all that considered torpedo defense when designing, and counterattack ships were no exception, and at the position where the counterattack ship was hit, steel armor plates were not even laid, only a layer of refined teak was laid.

The steel armor plate could not block the bombardment of the torpedo shock wave, let alone the teak, a large hole more than ten meters long and three or four meters wide appeared on the side of the side in an instant, and the sea water rushed into it!

The seawater tore open the teak deck and rushed into the boiler room inside, and the four water-tube boilers exploded instantly, and the high-temperature and high-pressure water vapor sprayed out fiercely, and the British sailors on the side were directly roasted by the water vapor!

The entire counterattack ship was stunned, they were still dreaming of "being the first to hit the hero of the Flying Emperor Throne Ship", but in the blink of an eye, they were taken acutely, and then the entire battleship quickly entered the water, tilted, and even had a tendency to sink.

How is it possible that a Sovereign-class battleship would be sunk on this battlefield? The warships of the Chinese Empire are just ordinary cruisers! What did they hit us with?

The captain of the counterattack ship grabbed the bluebird and tried to contact Antonio, but the bluebird was damaged in the violent explosion! Just then, another Swordfish torpedo swam over and crashed into the stern of the counterattack ship!

In order to ensure sinking, Lin Fei ordered all the Demon Beast-class submarines participating in the battle to fire two torpedoes at each target, and of course Qin Hui did so.

After the explosion of this torpedo, another large hole about ten meters long and three or four meters wide appeared on the side side, and the sea water swirled into the hull, although the counterattack ship was a large warship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, but it could not withstand the two huge loopholes and kept leaking, and the explosion also tore the watertight bulkhead on the side side, and the seawater filled a watertight compartment and continued to pour one, and the British soldiers tried to close the hatch to no avail.

It only took a minute for the Sovereign-class battleship Counterattack to capsize and sink into the sea!

The Sovereign-class battleship, known as the king of the world's battleships, was sunk by Lin Fei's submarine like this!

The Sovereign-class battleship, this type of battleship that gave Lin Fei countless troubles, the battleship that once deterred Lin Fei and prevented Lin Fei from attacking Manila, the battleship that once helped the Japanese invading army escape and let Lin Fei completely annihilate the Japanese army's plan to fall short, and the warship that once sank five Chinese battleships in the Battle of Semarang, was finally sunk by Lin Fei on the battlefield!

The sailors on the Song Zu ship, the Tenglong ship and the Hidden Dragon ship cheered in unison, Lin Fei was so excited that tears almost flowed out, sinking this counterattack ship was just a moment, but for this moment, Lin Fei and the entire Huaxia Empire had been preparing for too long, too long!

Lin Fei looked at the ripples left on the water surface by the counterattack ship and the sailors fluttering on the water, and secretly thought in his heart, I wonder what Antonio would think when he saw the counterattack ship sinking, would he have thought that we had dispatched a submarine and used torpedoes?