"Finally gone." Looking at the Longtai-class battle group of the Huaxia Navy that finally disappeared in front of him, Makanov breathed a sigh of relief. Although he damaged two battle cruisers of the Huaxia Navy, his losses were even greater, especially the two Bayan-class armored cruisers that were sunk in the battle made him feel heartache. Essen disappointed him to play like this almost with a good hand, and the Russians focused on the result rather than the process, and this is true for Makanov. But now that he has finally driven out the Huaxia Naval Battle Group, he can get at least a month's respite. "I'll personally command the next battle." Makanov said in his heart.

It is true that there is no capital ship of the Chinese Navy on the surface of the Java Sea, but it does not mean that the Russians can sail smoothly in the Java Sea! Because under the turbulent waves, the underwater fleet of the Huaxia Navy has slowly passed through Belitung Island and launched its own hunt in the western part of the Java Sea! It stands to reason that this should be regarded as the backyard of the Russian Navy, but since the Chinese Navy entered the Java Sea, in order to ensure the safety of the "front yard", the Russian Navy has twice dispatched its main forces to the east to fight, but in the western part of the Java Sea, it has caused a serious vacuum of strength. Although the submarine force of the Huaxia Navy also sank a few ships at first, it did not attract the attention of the Russians because there were relatively few submarines entering and several small boats were hit. It wasn't until April 1, 1905, that the Russians felt the pain on their skin!

Makanov allowed the ships of the Russian Army to sail out of port when he was sure and very sure that the Chinese naval fleet could not appear in the western part of the Java Sea, and the 7,000-ton transport ship named Maria was one of the few ships of more than 5,000 tons in the entire Dutch East Indies Colony that had not been requisitioned by the Russian and Dutch navies. Originally, this was to be used by Makanov as a fleet handyman. But at the request of the Russian commander in the East Indies, the ship became the largest transport ship of the Russian Army.

With the increasingly passive situation on Kalimantan, the army fighting on the front lines is in dire need of reinforcements. With Makanov's permission, the ship immediately left the port of Cirebon and headed for Kalimantan with up to 2,500 Russian troops, 24 75mm rapid-fire guns, 60 mortars, 600 tons of ammunition and medicines, and various other supplies. And not long after the ship sailed out, a vague figure quietly floated up from the water. Then an antenna sticks out of the turtle-like thing.

"I sent a report to Cai Tinggan, who was waiting in the open sea, and said that a big fish had set sail. Let them prepare to intercept. Liu Bin, the captain of the Sea Tiger 2 submarine, said with a big grin. Since the poor performance of the last confrontation exercise, Liu Bin has felt quite depressed, and even a little paranoid later! The kind comfort between his comrades-in-arms was also full of ridicule in his opinion. He urgently needed to prove his ability on the battlefield, so his submarine was the first to enter the Java Sea, and then very smoothly solved 2 small ships of more than 1,000 tons with deck guns. But he was not satisfied with this result, but dared to sail towards the Dutch port!

Liu Bin, a well-fortified military port like Batavia, naturally did not dare to break in. The ships in the general civilian harbor are also of limited attraction to him. If you think about it, the army port of Cirebon is okay, there are a large number of army transport ships in it, and at the same time, it is not as well-fortified as the naval port. So on April 1, 1905, the day of April Fool's Day in the West, Liu Bin decided to make a big joke on the Russians!

Liu Bin has been near this port for three days, and during the day, the turtle is lying motionless in the sea, so he shows a periscope to observe the ships coming and going, to determine the safe route. Surface at night to recharge and ventilate. After more than two days of observation, Liu Bin has found a suitable path for his submarine to enter the port. Just as he was about to enter, the Maria suddenly rushed out of the city, which made Liu Bin depressed. "This was supposed to be my prey! It's cheap, Cai Ting is dry! Liu Bin scolded and said. Although he was somewhat depressed in his heart, he still reported this information to Cai Tinggan.

Looking at the distant Maria, Liu Bin, who was unwilling, retracted his gaze, and commanded his Sea Tiger to move forward little by little towards the channel of the port, although it has been observed for several days, but the channel full of mines is still dangerous, Liu Bin operates the submarine to climb forward at a speed of less than half a nautical mile per hour! It's polite to say that it's a turtle-like speed! Looking at the floating round things in the turbid seabed through the porthole, Liu Bin kept beating the small drum in his heart, not to mention this thing, a close bombing is enough to make his submarine doom!

There is a saying that seems to say that good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil. Liu Bin didn't believe this sentence. But today, Liu Bin really believed, Liu Bin just entered the entrance of the channel not long ago, a huge figure sailed out of the port again, the tonnage of this ship is not at all as small as the army transport ship just now, from the periscope, the length is more than 100 meters, the width is 18 meters, and the displacement is about 8,000 tons. "This is already the largest ship in the harbor, right?" Liu Bin thought in his heart.

At this time, the large artillery transport ship Windwhisperer, which was carefully leaving the port, did not know that the road was in front of him, a shark had already shown sharp teeth, this large transport ship was carrying a large number of materials and ammunition including 12 10-inch 50L guns, and there were hundreds of workers and technicians on it, they were originally in accordance with the order to transport the artillery and materials stored here to Batavia, after the first Java naval battle, the Russian and Dutch navies suffered heavy losses, not only the hull was hit with holes, A large number of artillery guns and turrets also needed to be replaced, which strained Batavia's inventory and labor. Therefore, it became an inevitable choice to transfer a batch of materials from other places.

Liu Bin didn't know what was loaded on the ship on the other side of the road, what he was concerned about now was how to choose a suitable position and then sink this big ship, directly blocking the entire port! Now Liu Bin is in love with the Dutch who laid mines in this sea area, and the dense minefields limit the width of the channel. Mines don't care if you're flying the Dutch flag or the Russian flag, once you do. The result is all the same.

The big ship in front of him was obviously turning, and the entire hull slowly turned sideways, and the wide side was exposed, and the distance between the two sides was less than 2,000 meters at this time! "The bow torpedo is ready to shoot!" Liu Bin didn't want to give up this opportunity, and after the firing was completed, two torpedoes came out of the launch tube with the command to launch. Like a sharp sword, it shot at the Windtalker that was moving slowly not far away!

"Torpedo into the water!" Then Liu Bin took out the stopwatch in his hand and started the timer. 1,500 meters is not a short distance, and after about 52 seconds, two loud noises are heard through the hydrophone. The sailor, who was leaning his ear against the hydrophone, couldn't help but shake his somewhat wooden head. Liu Bin then immediately raised his periscope to observe the sea, and two huge water masses hit the huge side of the Windwhisperer, which is supposed to be the effect of the ultra-high-pressure bubbles produced after the torpedo explosion pushing the seawater. The powerful torpedo directly blew out two large holes of more than 40 square meters in the hull, not to mention the damage to the tube. The design of civilian ships dictates that in the event of such a powerful blow can only be quickly silenced.

Hundreds of tons of seawater poured into the hull in a short time. The turbulent current instantly shattered the fragile compartment, and the fate of the entire transport ship was already decided one minute after the thunder, the huge hull quickly tilted to the left under the action of the shattering and sea water, and the whole ship was upside down on the sea level like a huge pot lid! Two minutes after the mine, the 8,000-ton transport ship sank to the bottom of the sea, leaving only a pile of debris floating on the surface. Except for a few lucky enough to escape, the rest of the hundreds of crew members and experts on the ship were buried in this cold steel grave before they could react!

At the same time that Liu Bin drew a strong stroke on his record. The transport ship Maria, which had just left the port, was also besieged by two submarines under the command of Cai Tinggan, who originally planned to use sampan guns to deal with the already somewhat overweight transport ship. But not long after the submarine surfaced. Cai Tinggan found that more than a dozen Russians were trying to push something, and when the canvas on it was lifted, Cai Tinggan couldn't help but say a foul word! "I X, 75 rapid-fire guns?!"

The Russians have never been a nation that sits idly by, and when they see the submarine surfacing in front of them, the first thing that comes to the Russians' mind is not to flash people immediately, but how to sink them with the weapons in their hands! The rate of fire of the 75 rapid-fire guns, which was up to about 10 rounds per minute, clearly met the needs of the Russians, and with the constant spitting of flames, shells fell around the submarine.

"You can't live by your own evil, I originally planned to force them to surrender, but these Russians actually dared to attack him! This made Cai Tinggan very annoyed. "Don't they know that if they don't die, they won't die?" Although the hull re-entered the water, the periscope was still on the water, and the accuracy of the artillery using the army gun mount on the unstable hull was tragic, and Cai Tinggan wanted to see how the ship sank to the ground!

"Boom!" With a loud bang, the Russians and artillery who were constantly firing their guns were directly shaken out by the huge shock, and a large explosion suddenly occurred in the middle of the entire hull, and another submarine leaned in when the Russians attacked the Sea Tiger 1, and then fired a torpedo, and this torpedo just detonated the ammunition placed in the lower part of the hull! The explosion of hundreds of tons of shells and propellants directly tore the transport ship to pieces, the entire hull disintegrated in an instant, and a huge column of water up to hundreds of meters rose into the sky, and then the whole ship quickly sank to the bottom, and no one had time to run away, even those who were lucky enough to survive the explosion were swept into the sea water by the huge whirlpool generated when the ship sank.

In less than one minute, nearly 3,000 people and hundreds of tons of munitions and other supplies were sent to the bottom of the sea. In less than half an hour, the Russians lost 15,000 tons of ships and almost 3,500 lives! And it was only 3 submarines that caused all this!

Thank you to the book friend jhonnyridden and the dumb-eyed monthly pass for their support. There was a recommendation yesterday afternoon, and today I look at the all-time low. As a single, the author itself is extremely uncomfortable today, and then look at the subscription——! Directly frozen——! (To be continued......)