The commander of the Second Expeditionary Fleet of the Italian Navy, Roberte, had a gloomy and terrible face at this time, Lin Daxin, who should go to hell, actually made some fake warships to lure his fleet to attack, but Lin Daxin's fleet was waiting on the side, and his own fleet made the first move. Not only did he bear the reputation of undeclared war, but Lin Daxin didn't have any losses, which really made Roberte angry.

However, it is a face-to-face posture, and the Italian Navy and the two fleets of the US Navy will definitely be able to defeat Lin Daxin's fleet, and Roberte is very confident in this, and his face looks better when he thinks of this.

Immediately, Roberte slapped the table in front of him fiercely, and ordered loudly: "All warships turn around, line up in battle formation, and prepare to seize the T-shaped head to meet the fleet of the Qing Dynasty." ”

U.S. Navy Asian Squadron Commander George? Dewey also hurriedly ordered 12 U.S. warships to turn around and meet Lin Daxin's fleet.

While the warships of the American fleet and the Italian fleet turned around one after another, under the water in the waters of Manila Bay, the submarines Bayonet and Sharp Knife, which had been submerged, had already found an opportunity to make a move.

The Bayonet, a submarine purchased by Lin Daxin from modern time and space, was 1,000 meters away from the left side of the Italian fleet, 10 meters below the sea surface, with the bow facing the direction of the Italian fleet.

After the practice of two submarines, the steam gas torpedo developed by the Shenyang Arsenal could not be fired at too deep water level, otherwise it would be easy for the steam gas torpedo to sink into the sea, and the torpedo must be launched 12 meters below the sea surface. So the bayonet submarine did not dive very deep.

Zhang Bin, the captain of the Bayonet, is now a naval colonel because of his combat exploits, and Zhang Bin observed it through the periscope at this time. It was found that there was exactly 1 large Italian warship within the best attack range of the submarine, although Zhang Bin did not have the details of the Italian warship in his hand, but looking at this warship, it should be an all-steel battleship, so Zhang Bin ordered: "No. 1 and No. 2 torpedo tubes are 5 degrees to the left!" ”

A moment later, the first mate of the Bayonet reported: "Captain, torpedo tubes No. 1 and No. 2 have been deflected 5 degrees to the left!" ”

Zhang Bin then ordered: "Fill the No. 1 and No. 2 torpedo tubes with water!" ”

After a while, the first mate reported: "No. 1 and No. 2 have been filled!" ”

Zhang Bin shouted loudly: "No. 1 and No. 2 torpedoes are launched!" Let's say hello to the Italians first! ”

"Tom, tom!" 2 533-mm torpedoes, after being launched from the launch tubes, drilled to the surface of the sea at a high speed of 45 knots. Rushing towards the all-steel battleship Alfonso of the Italian Navy, the gas from the tail of the steam gas torpedo formed a white wave on the surface of the sea.

The Alfonso was turning the bow of the ship as ordered. At this time, the soldiers on the watchtower above the Alfonso shouted in horror: "Torpedo! Torpedo in the direction of 1 o'clock on the left! ”

The captain of the Alfonso ordered to quickly reverse the car, but there was not enough time for the Alfonso to dodge, and two torpedoes hit the Alfonso's left waterline armor almost simultaneously amid the terrified shouts of the Italian naval officers and men on the entire Alfonso.

"Boom-boom-" The 203-mm armor on the left waterline of the Alfonso simply could not withstand the blows of two 533-mm torpedoes. Two holes of about 3 meters appeared on the left side of the Alfonso, and the raging water poured into the Alfonso's ship.

At the same time as the Alfonso was attacked, the all-steel battleship Dante of the Italian Navy was also attacked by the submarine Sharp Knife, and two 533 mm steam gas torpedoes hit the right waterline armor of the Dante, also opening two holes in the Dante.

The Alfonso and the Dante are both all-steel battleships of the Queen Margaret class, with a full load displacement of 14,974 tons.

Plus 2 all-steel battleships Alfonso and Dante. The location of the torpedo hit was not an important part, and the damage management personnel of the Italian Navy on the two warships were under the command of two Italian captains. The watered compartment was quickly sealed, so that the seawater did not continue to pour into the ship, so that the two warships would not sink.

But at this time, both the Alfonso and the Dante were almost 1,000 tons of seawater, and the Alfonso was about 10 degrees to the left and the Dante was about 10 degrees to the right.

Roberte, commander of the 2nd Expeditionary Fleet of the Italian Navy, saw the Alfonso and Dante being torpedoed. Suddenly thinking of the naval battle a few years ago, he suddenly exclaimed: "Submarine! Lin Daxin's submarine! Immediately ordered the Umberto and Reckoli to drop depth charges in the direction from which the torpedoes came from in the sea on the left. The Chaona and Kuferla searched for the direction from which the torpedoes came from on the right and released depth charges. Other warships beware of torpedo attacks! ”

After the end of the first assault on the submarines Bayonet and Sharpknife. The two submarines immediately dived and began to move, which was supposed to prevent enemy ships from shelling the area where the two submarines were located with naval guns. Thanks to the timely transfer, the four Elba-class protective cruisers of the Italian Navy dropped dozens of depth charges at the location where the two submarines had just fired torpedoes, and this kind of depth charge developed by the Italians can be set to explode at a maximum depth of 80 meters below the sea, and if the two submarines do not leave their original positions, the armor of the two submarines is a modern space-time high-strength alloy, and they will also be blown up and sunk in the sea.

At this time, the three fleets of the Northeast Navy were already less than 15,000 meters away from the American fleet and the Italian fleet, and in the bridge of the all-steel battleship Shenyang, the flagship of the First Fleet, Lin Daxin received a telegram from Zhang Bin, the captain of the Bayonet.

The telegram said that the Italian Navy had a weapon that was very dangerous to submarines and could explode in the deep sea.

When Lin Daxin heard this, he immediately remembered that he understood through modern time and space that this should be a weapon called a depth charge, so Lin Daxin immediately said to Sun Xitao, the commander of the First Fleet beside him: "Send a telegram to the two submarines, so that they don't attack rashly, and they must be under the condition of ensuring their own safety." to launch a torpedo attack on American and Italian warships! ”

Lin Daxin didn't expect that the Italians actually had depth charges, a weapon that posed a great threat to submarines, which made Lin Daxin's two killers a little constrained.

And these 2 submarines purchased from modern time and space. It can be said that Lin Daxin is treated like a baby, and Lin Daxin doesn't want his two baby submarines to have any losses here. If 1 submarine is blown up and sunk, Lin Daxin can die of distress, so Lin Daxin would rather have no results in the 2 submarines that he regarded as killers, and he doesn't want the 2 submarines to have an accident.

Lin Daxin frowned, losing his killer feature. It seems that a bloody battle at sea cannot be avoided.

Lin Daxin then said to Sun Xitao: "It seems that the only way to solve the battle is to rely on naval artillery." Order the fleets to form battle lines, seize the T-shape, the First and Third Fleets against the Italian fleet, and the Second Fleet against the American fleet! ”

Sun Xitao nodded and said, "Dashuai." You can rest assured, our Northeast Navy has hardly slackened in its training in the past two years, that is, the two submarines have lost their killer role, and our Northeast Navy also has the ability to have the confidence to defeat the combined fleet of the United States and Italy in the decisive battle of naval artillery at sea. ”

Originally, the commanders of the three fleets of the Northeast Navy hoped that Lin Daxin would not follow the fleet, and just wait for the news of the victory of the Northeast Navy in Manila. If Lin Daxin had an accident, the three commanders would not be able to afford this responsibility.

But Lin Daxin studied the navy since he was a child and encountered this kind of decisive battle between the world's first large-scale all-steel battleships. The whole person was a little enthusiastic, and the three fleet commanders couldn't stop it. Lin Daxin got on the bridge of the Shenyang, took over the commander-in-chief of the three fleets, and personally led the three Northeast Navy fleets to meet the United States and Italy Combined Fleet.

After Lin Daxin gave the order, the 33 warships of the three fleets of the Northeast Navy lined up in three columns and began to cut diagonally and crosswise, seizing the position of the T-shaped head.

Second Expeditionary Fleet of the Italian Navy. Before engagement, 2 all-steel battleships were seriously damaged, in order to prevent 2 warships from capping on their side. The Alfonso and the Dante had no choice but to pour seawater into the other side of the ship as they sailed to keep the ship balanced. However, the speed of the two warships dropped from 20 knots to 15 knots.

The 2 all-steel battleships were seriously injured before they could engage Lin Daxin's fleet, which made the commander Roberte's face almost turn iron blue, and found that Lin Daxin's fleet began to seize the T-word, Robert pondered for a moment and ordered: "Order Queen Margaret, Angelo, Dejo, Sirio, Joncarlo, Khima, Queen Elena, Silvio, Valero, Sergio, 10 all-steel battleships to form the first battle line and seize the T-prefix." Six large fast armored cruisers, along with the wounded Alfonso and Dante, formed a second battle line, following behind the first. 4 protective cruisers cruising on both sides of the two battle lines to guard against submarine sneak attacks! For the sake of the honor of the Italian Navy, this commander ordered that all Italian warships must fight the enemy to the end! ”

Commander of the US Navy's Asian Detachment, George? Dewey was terrified when he saw that the two Italian all-steel battleships had been seriously injured before they could engage in battle, and this was the first time he had seen the power of Lin Daxin's submarines, and he immediately ordered all US warships to guard against the torpedoes of Lin Daxin's submarines. But the torpedoes of Lin Daxin's submarine are not so easy to guard against.

George? Dewey also ordered 12 U.S. warships to line up in a battle line and begin to seize the T-shape, with the Italian fleet and the U.S. fleet facing Lin Daxin's fleet on the left and right.

As the fleets of the two sides continued to approach, the Bayonet and Jiandao submarines launched another attack from a distance of 2,000 meters, and the steam gas torpedo developed by the Shenyang Arsenal had a maximum range of only 2,200 meters.

Of the 4 torpedoes, 2 torpedoes from the Skacher submarine were fired at the Italian Navy's all-steel battleship Elena, but one torpedo was hit by the 76-mm rapid-fire gun on the Queen Elena and exploded halfway.

Another torpedo was fortunately dodged by the Queen Elena, which made the Italian naval officers and sailors on the Queen Elena burst into cheers one after another, and those who didn't know thought that the Italian Navy had won this naval battle!

The two torpedoes of the Bayonet were fired at the US Navy's large armored cruiser Ruckerin, although the US Navy officers and men on the Ruckerin discovered the two torpedoes fired at their own warship at a distance of 1,000 meters, most of the US Navy officers and men on this warship were new recruits, and when they saw the torpedoes attacking their warship, they could not help but panic, so that the warship's evasion action was not in place.

The 57-mm rapid-fire guns on the warship were also not effectively intercepted, and as a result, two torpedoes slammed into the waterline armor on the right side of the Ruckerin under the terrified gazes and fearful screams of the US Navy officers and men on the Ruckerin.

The Ruckerin's waterline armor was only 100 mm to 200 mm, and two 533 mm torpedoes easily penetrated its waterline armor and exploded inside the Ruckerin, and one of the torpedoes exploded near one of the Ruckerin's main gun magazines.

After the torpedo attack on the Ruckerin had two explosions, a louder explosion sounded, dozens of 260-mm shells in the ammunition compartment of the Ruckerin were detonated by the explosion of the torpedo, and the shells exploded and almost broke the Ruckerin in two, and it didn't take 5 minutes to sink to the bottom of the sea in Manila, most of the 635 US Navy officers and sailors on the Rukelin sank to the bottom of the sea with the warship, and many of them jumped into the sea and were sucked into the bottom of the sea by the whirlpool generated when the warship sank. In the end, other U.S. warships lowered their lifeboats, and less than 30 survivors of the Rooklin were salvaged.

After the two submarines Bayonet and Sharp Knife finished firing their torpedoes, they didn't look at the results of the battle at all, and immediately dived and moved into the distance, otherwise they stayed where they were and waited to be bombarded by the enemy with naval guns, or waited for the enemy to blow them up with depth charges.

Zhang Bin, the captain of the Bayonet, saw from the periscope that two torpedoes fired by his submarine had sunk an American warship, and he said to his subordinates very happily: "Brothers! Ha ha! We were lucky to open the record and sink a US warship, giving our Northeast Navy a good start! ”

When the officers and men of the submarine in the bayonet heard this, they immediately cheered, Zhang Bin pressed it with his hand, so that the submarine was quiet, Zhang Bin continued: "Brothers, although the enemy has a weapon that poses a great threat to our submarine, we must continue to risk dangers, constantly look for opportunities on the bottom of the sea, cooperate with the main force, and defeat the United States and Italy combined fleet!" Brothers, are you afraid? ”

The submarine officers and men inside the Bayonet shouted in an uproar: "Captain, lead us to do it!" ”

Zhang Bin nodded with satisfaction and ordered: "Take advantage of the underwater speed of our submarines, keep a distance from the United States and the United States and Italy, look for opportunities, and continue to launch torpedo attacks!" (To be continued)