However, the British did not send their flagships out to surrender as the Japanese did, but simply sent a light cruiser. It was impossible for the "Admiral Spee" to get too close to the battleship "Malaya", but the gunners on the ship believed that even at a distance of about 12,000 meters, a salvo would be able to hit at least one shot, but it was difficult to say whether it would be able to hit the vital parts, and even Hank was not completely sure whether it would be able to penetrate the strongest parts of the British battleship at this distance

However, since Rear Admiral Langesdorf had decided to fight a war, he would not change his mind, and in order to increase his chances of victory, he also planned to make use of the ship's two four-pack torpedo tubes. The torpedoes carried by the "Admiral Spee" this time are all oxygen torpedoes that have been improved by China, although the caliber is not as frantic as the Japanese 610mm, but the power is still extremely terrifying, even if it is a battleship, it will have to go back to the shipyard for repair for at least a month or two if it is fired, and if it is two rounds, it is likely to sink directly, and if it is hit three times in a row, it will be even more dead

After discovering that the British warships that had come to be surrendered were not in the way of the torpedoes, Rear Admiral Langesdorf breathed a sigh of relief, if he stood in the way, then at most he could only sink a light cruiser, and everyone's sacrifice was not so worthwhile. Captain Langesdorff couldn't help but secretly think a little funny about his idea that he was completely out of line with naval tradition, "Those Chinese values have unknowingly affected me!" ”

The results of internal tests of the German Navy before the departure showed. The improved version of the oxygen torpedo will be the original two main defects (easy to self-detonate [easy to self-detonate during launch, during navigation, and before hitting, the main reason is that the oxygen kerosene engine of the devil at that time was too sensitive to vibration. It is easy to deviate [caused by insufficient lubrication, in the final analysis, it is because it is too dangerous to cause most of the soldiers to lubricate hastily. 】。 After all are solved, not only will the accuracy and reliability be greatly improved, but also because there will be no early self-explosion to warn the enemy, the advantage of its track is not obvious can be fully reflected, for relatively clumsy large warships, even if someone on the ship has a sharp eye to find it, generally speaking, there is no time to evade it. Hitting or not is all a matter of luck. If it is launched by a submarine (Note 1), the enemy will not be able to defend against it at all.

However, for surface ships, on the one hand, it is impossible to get too close to the enemy, and on the other hand, enemy ships will certainly constantly make various maneuvers to evade shells in a combat state. As a result, the accuracy of the torpedo is simply infinitely close to zero. Unless the distance of the launch is sufficient. And there are also a lot of targets, so there is a certain chance of hitting. So in previous battles, unless the target was already immobile, it was necessary to fire a torpedo to sink it more efficiently. "Graff. The eight 533mm torpedo tubes equipped on the pocket battleship "Admiral Spee" were basically useless, but now the enemy ships thought that "Graf. Admiral Spee surrendered, and even if they were still sailing, they would not make unpredictable changes of direction maneuver as they did in battle, and the difficulty of hitting naturally dropped significantly, so it was worth the gamble

Since some of the torpedoes have been used up in the previous mission of breaking the friendship and the "mending knife" in the two battles, the eight torpedoes fired now are already the reserve of the ship's zuihou. However, with the extra-long reloading time of the torpedo tubes, even if there is a surplus torpedo, it is not necessary to use it again in a single battle, and it is precisely for this reason that Langesdorff only left the torpedoes needed for one round of firing in the past.

About 8 minutes later, the British flagship battleship "Malaya" suddenly rose with billowing smoke, and the British, with their rich experience in naval warfare, immediately realized that they had been hit by a torpedo, but due to the inertia of thinking, the first reaction of the British was that there were German submarines nearby, until "Graf. The pocket battleship "Admiral Spee" saw the column of smoke raised by the battleship "Malaya" and opened fire, and they realized that they had been tricked, and the other side used the deception to win the opportunity to use torpedoes to carry out a sneak attack

Enraged, the British immediately returned fire, vowing to wipe out all the vile and shameless enemies, but at this time, not only did the smoke on the battleship "Malaya" become thicker and thicker, but the hull of the ship began to tilt and the speed of the ship also dropped rapidly, and the British realized that the wounds suffered by the battleship "Malaya" were far more serious than they thought. Zuihou, although the British carried out almost perfect damage management, the battleship "Malaya", which was hit by three 533mm oxygen torpedoes at once, still could not get rid of the bad luck of sinking.

But a battleship is a battleship, and before the sinking of the battleship "Malaya", the 381mm giant guns on the battleship "Malaya" retaliated against the murderer who attacked him, and in just one round of shelling, the "Graf. The pocket battleship Admiral Spee was completely destroyed, as a result of which the latter sank to the bottom of the sea much earlier

"Graff. Although the pocket battleship "Admiral Spee" sank forever in the sea not long after sailing, it still became the pride of the German Navy, because it not only successfully completed the task of breaking diplomatic relations in the ocean, but also sank 1 battleship, 2 heavy cruisers, and 3 light cruisers, which greatly boosted the confidence of the German Navy. The moustache, who was deeply inspired and moved, even took this opportunity to give a speech to further incite the enthusiasm of the German people for the war

And such a tragic result of this war also made the French government, which had previously delusionally thought of "bringing disaster to the east", sober up and began to make all-out preparations for war, but at this time, a major event shocked Shijie again: after the Soviet Union annexed the three Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) without blood, it put forward territorial claims to Finland, and after being sternly refused, it even blatantly sent troops to launch a surprise attack on Finland, and the Soviet-Finnish War broke out!

Note 1: However, because the old submarine was too slow, there was no chance to attack the enemy's combat ships at sea except for an ambush in advance, and as for sneaking into the military harbor to attack the moored ships, and because the mustache was worried that the actual oxygen torpedo would be copied by the British, he was not allowed to use the oxygen torpedo (that is, the oxygen torpedo was only allowed to be used in the deep-sea area where the enemy could not salvage it even if it occasionally sank to the bottom of the sea. So the real power of the improved oxygen torpedo was not fully realized until later after the formation of combat effectiveness of the teardrop-shaped submarine (to be continued......