"The enemy is underwater! Turn on the lights! Be on the alert to the dive! ”

With the commander's order, the searchlights of the ships of the Ming Imperial Navy turned on, casting huge spots of light on the water. Soon the warlord in charge of the lookout in the far reaches of the flagship town shouted, "There! Discover the periscope! ”

With the blessing of the magic guide equipment, the battle queen's vision is better than that of ordinary people, and the battle queens who specialize in observation and observation on the battleship are basically carefully selected "clairvoyants", in the world here, they have replaced the function of the battleship's shooting control system to a certain extent, making the battleships of this era have shooting accuracy that exceeds Lin Youde's original time and space.

In the Battle of Jutland in the last time and space, the German fleet had a hit rate 50 percent higher than the British, reaching a staggering three hits per 100 rounds, while the British only had a pitiful two percent hit rate. So Jutland fired tens of thousands of shells, and in the end only a few hundred hits.

But on this plane, both sides of the Battle of Jutland hit more than six percent, so the casualties were much more terrible than in another plane.

The Germans still had a 50 percent higher hit rate than the British, the decoy fleet led by British Admiral Betty was almost completely wiped out, Betty himself was killed, and the British High Seas Fleet also suffered huge losses.

Now the Ming Fleet's flagship Zhenyuan port side of the sub-gun position Shen Ji first discovered the periscope, and at the same time as loudly intriguing, she began to operate the firing control command instrument in front of her, and conveyed the firing to the sub-gun under her command. In 1933, people's perception of anti-submarine was still stuck in the last war, and countries such as the United States and Britain had just begun to study advanced things such as sonar, and the Ming Empire, which was still a little far from the advanced level of the world, certainly did not have that kind of thing.

The anti-submarine warfare principle followed by the Ming Empire was still to discover the periscope, and then the battleship bombarded the waters around the periscope with a secondary gun with a time-delay fuse, trying to hit the submarine itself underwater, while the destroyer rushed up and dropped depth charges.

During the First World War, the performance of submarines was relatively poor, and such tactics often worked.

In World War II, at least the sub-artillery was used to bombard submarines sailing at depth through periscopes, which was not very effective.

The secondary cannon of the Zhenyuan continuously spewed flames, and the shells fell around the periscope one after another, exploding a column of water.

At this time, on the bridge of the Zhenyuan, the fleet commander looked calm: "The left rudder is full, turn to the course 230." ”

The basic principle of submarine warfare is to turn the head of the submarine to face him immediately after discovering the position of the submarine - it is okay to turn his back to it, in short, the central axis of the hull should be as parallel to the course of the submarine as possible, which is conducive to avoiding the torpedo of the submarine.

While the huge body of the battleship tilted due to the full rudder turn, the fleet commander continued to order: "Everyone pay attention to the water!" The torpedo track was spotted and reported immediately. ”

As soon as the words fell, the deck of Zhenyuan trembled violently, and at the same time, the sound of the explosion shook everyone's eardrums.

"We've been thundered!" The staff officer guarding the bridge window shouted, "Mine in the middle of the starboard side." ”

"That's the main armor belt, and there is not much charge in this torpedo warhead, don't panic." The commander of the fleet remained unmoved. At this time, the electric bell rang on the bridge, and the staff officer in charge of communications picked up the phone, answered it, and then handed it over to the fleet commander.

"How's it going?" A girl's voice came from the other side of the phone, "How many enemy fleets are coming?" Have you confirmed the enemy Shinhime? ”

"No, don't worry, it's just a sneak attack by an enemy submarine."

"I'll go to the organ department now, and if there is a need, please General Chen don't hesitate to send me to attack immediately."

"Yes, Ms. Song."

As soon as the fleet commander put down the earpiece, the deck under his feet trembled again.

"What's going on? The tracks of both torpedoes slipped right under your noses? The commander yelled at the staff officer, "What the hell are you doing!" Send senior officers to a few lookout positions at once, and I'll shoot you if you leak a torpedo! Even if we are hit by thunder, we must also be hit by thunder! ”

After the roar, the fleet commander's expression was still very calm.

He had no reason to panic, the enemy's torpedo charges were insufficient, it seemed that the caliber was not large, it should be a torpedo fired by a small submarine, probably aimed at harassing the Ming fleet and weakening the combat effectiveness of the fleet.

This level of harassment is not to be feared, although the Hailong has been lost, and it seems that there are several other frigates around that are burning with mines, but the main force of the Ming army is unscathed, and there is no need to worry at all.

At the moment when the fleet commander thought this, the deck under his feet trembled slightly. As an old seaman, the fleet commander immediately sensed something unusual.

"What's going on? We're slowing down! ”

The captain looked at the clock and found that the pointer was still pointing at full speed, but at this time he also felt that the speed of the ship was decreasing, so he picked up the microphone and shouted to the engine room: "The speed is decreasing!" What happened? ”

"The turbine is running normally, and we see no change in shaft speed here – wait a minute, what are you talking about? Shaft speed is accelerating? This is not to be ...... God, we've got a problem with our propellers! The resistance on the shaft is decreasing! ”

Before the navigator could report, he felt the deck under his feet tilt, and his first reaction was that the ship's right side was fully ruddered. He immediately shouted at the helmsman: "Who gave the order to turn the rudder?" ”

The helmsman was sweating profusely and desperately turning the rudder to the left, but the battleship still turned to the right.

"The servos are not responding! It's useless to turn around! ”

The helmsman's shout shook the calm expression on the fleet commander's face, and he cursed loudly: "What the fuck is going on? ”

The next moment, the watchman's chant overpowered his voice: "Port side, there is a shooting light!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the whistling of the shells piercing the air pierced everyone's ears.

Immediately afterwards, a huge column of water rose on the water outside the port side of the Zhenyuan.

"Two near-misses." The staff officer in charge of the observation reported very conscientiously, "Eight rounds in total!" ”

At the same time, the lookout shouted again: "More shots!" ”

Without waiting for the shells to fall, the fleet commander grabbed the earpiece and shouted to the operator: "Take the department!" Fast! Ms. Song, please take off immediately! The enemy's fleet is coming! ”

**

As soon as Ming's Shenji took off, the people of Yingzhou killed him violently.

The magic armor of both sides is imitated from the British, and from the appearance it looks like they are in the same room.

While there was a fierce battle in the sky, the fleets of both sides on the sea were also entangled in the night. But the maneuvering paths of several capital ships of the Ming fleet were strange, and the formation of the entire fleet had been completely torn apart, which was very fatal in a chaotic night battle.

The Ming fleet does not have a big killer radar, and the communication ability is not high, and if there is a formation, it can also rely on maintaining the formation to distinguish between friend and foe.

What's worse is that at the beginning of the night battle, the light ships that could still move with the capital ships they were responsible for escorting seemed to have begun to be infected by the capital ships, and one after another turned into headless flies scurrying around the battlefield.

The scales of victory began to tilt in the direction of the Yingzhou people.