The wind is high and the waves are strong, and the night is dark. The night sky was pitch black, and there was no moon or stars in sight. The dark sea and the equally dark sky are completely integrated.

To the north of the island of Desolasion, at the western exit of the Strait of Magellan, on the pitch black sea, at least twenty swarthy submarines were breaking the waves. Due to the strong wind and waves, the bow of the submarine was raised high from time to time, and then submerged under the water, but it always sailed tenaciously in a southeasterly direction.

This is the wolf pack on the Chinese ocean. The sharpest weapon of the Chinese Navy today.

Their purpose this time is the Strait of Magellan, completely ignoring the eyes of the Chilean government, sparing thousands of nautical miles to get here.

Behind the twenty-hand submarines were five huge transports, the smallest of which was also 5,000 tons, and then six groups of torpedo boats, plus two destroyers, for a total of twenty. From a distance, it was also a large fleet.

The truth of more than 200 miles will soon arrive, and the 23 submarines will set up a large ambush circle outside the western mouth of the Strait of Magellan, and they themselves will quickly look for reefs after arriving at the localities, and the destroyers and patrol ships of the Chinese Navy and some submarines in these places have carried out strategic reconnaissance, and they are no strangers to the sea conditions here, and the reefs can still be found.

Before dawn, the battery compartment of each submarine will be fully charged, and then it will dive to periscope depth, lurking on the reefs, waiting for the 'prey' to throw themselves into the net.

The transports were far away from the sea, and eighteen torpedo boats and two destroyers searched for islands, bays, and reefs to hide.

This is called 'waiting for the rabbit', also known as 'the wolf pounce'.

Liu Yang knew very well the strength of his opponent, five battleships, not to mention others, only these five battleships. It will be possible to easily destroy the entire Beiyang Fleet, if all submarine forces come to the surface.

But he was very confident in the battle in front of him. Although the wolf pack tactics that have only been played in textbooks and exercises have not been really applied to actual combat, their power is obvious to all. Moreover, compared to their own home, which only needs 200 miles of travel, the British and American combined fleets need to pass through the Strait of Magellan for 1,200 miles, and they must have easily arrived in advance. Then torpedo boats and destroyers would rush to the western entrance of the strait and follow the current to release mine after mine.

Liu Yang sincerely hoped that the Anglo-American combined fleet would be able to withstand the sudden blow. Rush out of the Strait of Magellan, or he will work in vain. And if the combined fleet retreated, they would find that the same treatment awaited them at the eastern entrance of the strait. The difference is that it is not as violent as Nishiguchi.

Therefore, as long as the Anglo-American combined fleet steps into the trap, Liu Yang is confident that he will be able to deal a heart-wrenching blow.

More than 100 miles beyond the harbor of St. Ynez, a new British high-speed patrol ship was rapidly submerging in the water, and the British sailors who had narrowly escaped the huge explosion had to be immersed in the icy water, less than 2,000 meters in front of them. The protective cruiser that was hit earlier is long gone, and the few survivors are struggling to survive......

In order to avoid the sinking friendly ship, an American armored cruiser behind urgently changed the rudder, but the danger that could arise at any time on both sides of the channel made the entire warship nervous. And on the bridge of this armored cruiser, the well-dressed captain of the American colonel looked extremely angry.

"Damn, a bunch of stupid dumbasses. Didn't so many people see which direction the torpedo came from? ”

"Mr. Colonel, no one has ever seen a torpedo track on the sea! It's too dark on the sea, and there's a lot of ice floe. The eyes of each of our lookouts widened! A major officer argued.

"Colonel, maybe they've run into mines? You see. The patrol ship is the bow exploded, will the Chinese submarine fire a torpedo from the front? It was very similar to the ...... of a mine," another officer was also on the sidelines to help analyze.

"It's possible! But it must not be safe around here, damn the Chinese! The American colonel, who was in his forties, said firmly:

"Pass my orders, turn on the ship's searchlights, and keep an eye on the surface of the sea, especially within 500 to 1,500 yards from both sides! Everyone's eyes widened for me. Maybe at the moment those damned Chinese are looking at us through a periscope. ”

"Cheer up the boys." Only then was the order to lower the lifeboat and rescue those who had fallen into the water!

Only a minute later, the searchlight on the eight-thousand-ton armored cruiser was turned on. Intense pillars of light moved back and forth on the nearby sea, not only on the patrol ship with the bow facing down, the stern facing upwards, and leaving the water three or four meters high. And according to the British sailors who are still driven by the desire to survive and desperately winter swim in the icy waters.

The scene here can only be described as a pot of churning dumplings, but no one on the American armored cruiser found the scene very funny.

One warship turned on the searchlight, and the battleships of the entire fleet turned on the searchlight. For a moment, in the Strait of Magellan, it returned from hazy gray to light. Everyone watched the encounter of the two pathfinder warships, and the battleships behind them thought that Chinese submarines were coming, and they were all very nervous.

The speed of the political fleet also slowed down sharply.

"Oh God, it's mines, it's mines. Look, look......"

The armored cruiser USS Columbia, the American battleship, found a swarthy mine like an ice floe with the help of a searchlight. The whole warship was immediately busy again.

……

Not to mention how much the 300 mines made the Combined Fleet, which was not far from the West Exit, suffer, the Anglo-American Combined Fleet finally turned out.

At this moment, Michael Russ felt that the sky was wide, the sea was wide, and his heart was also wide. "It's only the taste. Wonderfully intoxicating. Breathing heavily, Michael Russ had no idea that he was on his way to the ambush circle.

The combined fleet, with thirty-two warships remaining, headed north. The Chinese torpedo sank two non-capital ships exploring the way ahead, and damaged a transport ship caught in the middle, which had already turned back to anchor in the middle of the strait. The remaining thirty-two warships and transports flew towards the north with great vigour, without the slightest hint of timidity.

The British and Americans didn't know that they were rushing to be reincarnated, and Liu Yang Ruyi saw one after another British and American warships appear in the periscope.

"Torpedo No. 1, torpedo No. 2. Launch! ”

Liu Yang played the first 'cannon' of this wolf ambush battle. After giving this order, he 'snapped' and closed the periscope handle, "Put away the periscope, go slowly at 5 knots, and dive to 25 meters!" ”

These two torpedoes were just decoys and did not mess up the queue of the combined Anglo-American fleet. The effect of the ambush will be small, and the casualties may be increased. Therefore, it is best to make the prey panic and helpless before the wolf pack hunts.

Twenty seconds later, two explosions came from the water in quick succession, sounding like a drum beating in someone's ear...... Boom!

But is this really a hit?

No one can guarantee it. The ambush circle was already sixty or seventy miles away from the exit of the Pacific Ocean, but the sea was still made of ice floes, only much smaller. It's not impossible if you hit an ice floe.

The whole submarine sat on the reef like a dead fish without moving, and the crew listened silently to the sounds coming from the surface of the sea - there were sporadic explosions. It's time for the enemy to be in the **.

Compared to the silence beneath the water. At this time, the sea must be very lively now.

"Angle!"

"Right 35°82!"

"Angle!"

"Right 0°75!"

"The target has been determined, the No. 1 target is 600 meters away! Target No. 2 is 470 meters away! The bow torpedoes are all ready for launch, and the depth is 3.5 meters! ”

At the same time as Liu Yang fired the first shot, a periscope attached to a piece of ice floe went deep into the sea. In the era when there was no radar and sonar, only the captain could see the surface of the water, and the rest of the ship had to put all their trust and even their lives on the captain. and faithfully and without compromise to carry out his commands.

"Torpedo No. 1 launched! Torpedo No. 2 launched! ”

The captain quickly put away the periscope like Liu Yang, and immediately issued another command: "Speed 5 knots." The submarine turns right 10° and sails forward! ”

This submarine was relatively close to the target, and the two torpedoes fired were only 13 seconds away, and a huge explosion came from not far away, needless to say, it must have been a torpedo hitting the target, and the captain had seen the sea before firing the torpedo, and there was no ice floe in his line of sight. But when the second explosion was delayed. Everyone can't help but have some regrets.

Torpedoes No. 3 and No. 4 were soon launched, and this time the captain was even more eager, closing the handle of the periscope before launching.

"Put away the periscope! Dive to the bottom of the ocean! "One of the torpedoes just now hit an ironclad ship, and everyone else opened up except for himself.

Torpedoes glided across the sea in snow-white trails. Sprinting towards the warships. Two or more torpedoes were fired from three directions, east, west, and north, intertwining into a large net, which was almost trying to wipe out the warships in the forward part of the combined fleet.

Because of these torpedoes, you dodged the first day of junior high and couldn't dodge fifteen. With excellent command and control, huge warships can dance ballet on the sea. If there were only three or four torpedoes, it might really be fruitless. But now there are torpedoes not only from the front, but also on the left, right, and right, and they are not fired at the same time, so the time when they reach the vicinity of the battleship is naturally different. How to avoid all the warships of the United Navy? It's clear that you can't avoid it.

Although this is not a wolf pack tactic in the real sense, it is just a cut version, after all, in this era, radio is already there, but Nikolai. Tesla has not yet been able to put his new invention into practice, what kind of radio is a radio that is only a hundred and ten miles away? The signal is still good and bad.

Liu Xian wanted a real radio that could travel thousands of miles away. So without radio contact, wolf pack tactics can only go as far as they are now. Although the submarine surfaced to charge the target is easy to leak, the speed is too slow, and it cannot catch up with the speed of the combined fleet. (To be continued......)