1825 My New Daming

Chapter 299 Watch Out Underwater! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
"Report, the distance is 6000 meters!"

"5500 meters!"

"5000 meters!"

"4500 meter."

On the Zhao Zilong, the navigator's voice followed by a distance report made the atmosphere on the bridge more and more tense. After all, 5000 beggar-style battleships were firing their 15-inch guns crazily at a distance of 12 meters!That is a 12-inch gun, and a single shot from the hero-class armored cruiser may cause heavy damage. That is to say, Daming's industrial strength is the world's number one, and when a "mass-produced ship" like the hero-class operates in three shifts, it is possible to lay the first keel. It will be 10-12 months until the outfitting is completed.And you can start working on many ships at the same time!Otherwise, no one would be willing to use the armored cruiser to cover the torpedo boat to charge like this!

At a distance of less than 4500 meters, everyone was still a little panicked, and their eyes turned to Chen Huacheng who did not go to the thickly armored command tower, but took the risk with everyone on the bridge.

With the help of the light from the falling flares, the big guy saw a face full of "sorrow, anger" and hatred. Does this Chen Zongbing have such a deep hatred with the British?

Just when the officers below felt strange, Chen Huacheng finally gave the order: "Okay, slow down to 15 knots, full left rudder!"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hands and pulled the railing beside him. The huge inertia caused by the rapid steering of the hero-class armored cruiser with a standard displacement of more than 10000 tons was not so easy to bear, and he fell if he didn't hold it firmly.

"Yes! Headquarters!"

The captain who was personally steering the Zhao Zilong responded and turned the steering wheel to the end.In this way, the Zhao Zilong suddenly made a big cross on the sea, facing the enemy from the bow, and then turned to confront the enemy on the side.Because the turn was too fast, the hull swayed in distance, and it was still drifting for more than ten meters on the sea surface.Those who are not prepared will have no way to stabilize their bodies on the boat.

Almost at the same moment, all the armored cruisers, cruisers, and destroyers of the Ming Navy on the sea made a sharp turn to slow down. Although they slowed down before the turn, these warships who were suddenly "drifting" at sea still had a distance. Shaking, several of them looked like they were going to capsize.

Under such circumstances, these ships were naturally unable to fire, and they all became live targets for their opponents for a while.And the people on the British-Indian warship opposite looked dumbfounded - just now they thought they were about to collide with the ship, why did they turn the corner now?Know that you are afraid of death?
"Speed ​​at 10 knots, move forward! Order the ships to move forward, open fire, and hit hard!"

The bridge of the Indian Warrior, the flagship of the British-Indian Malacca Strait Fleet, was full of shouts from Major General Rodney at this time.

In his opinion, victory is probably within sight! The Ming warships swaying on the sea more than 4000 yards away are already his prey.In order to sink more targets, he simply ordered the fleet to advance while firing!
But he didn't notice that when those eye-catching armored cruisers, cruisers, and destroyers turned around one after another, there were still some inconspicuous small boats rushing towards him at an extremely fast speed
"boom!"

Suddenly, a [-]-ton hero-class armored cruiser in front suddenly burst into flames!
"Hit!"

"well played"

There was cheering on the bridge of the Indian Warrior.

Suddenly someone shouted: "Torpedo boat! There are torpedo boats in the sea."

Torpedo boat?
Before Major General Rodney could react, the floor under his feet "jumped" suddenly, and then fell heavily. He couldn't stand still, and fell to the ground. There came another roar.

"Boom boom boom boom."

It wasn't the cannon firing, it was the bang of something exploding underwater!

It's a torpedo exploding!
In the dim night, a black shadow slid across the warm sea water, with a wave of white waves rising from its tail.Under the cover of darkness, this black shadow and this wave are almost invisible to the naked eye.But if someone can really see through the darkness, they will find that what is sticking to the surface of the sea is a ship that looks a bit like a stick, with a column protruding from the middle, and there are two "bamboo poles" on the column.

That's right, it's a submarine!

It's a Daming Navy submarine!

In the battle sequence of the Ming Navy, there is probably no more mysterious existence than submarines.Because of Zhuge Wuzhong Wang's "Zhuge's Last Letter", the descendants of Zhuge's family pay special attention to it.

Long before the invention of the internal combustion engine, Jiangnan Heavy Industry, controlled by the Zhuge family, had trial-produced submarines in its Lushun factory.

The submarine project has always been the No. [-] secret of the Ming Navy.Its level of secrecy far exceeds that of aircraft carriers and aircraft.Before Zhuge Weidao won the position of military adviser, he didn't even know that the Ming Navy had a submarine admiral's mansion.

Even after he became a military adviser, he never saw Lieutenant General Zhuge Youmo, the submarine admiral.

This talented Zhuge family, who is of the same generation as Zhuge Youde but only 38 years old this year, is now standing on the bridge of the No. 002 submarine located at the western intersection of the Strait of Malacca.I was using the telescope in my hand to look at the large surface ships passing thousands of meters away, one after another!
"Uncle, there are at least 20 large ships worth tens of thousands..."

The person who spoke was a navy captain who was also a child of Zhuge's family, but his seniority was lower than Zhuge Weidao's, and he was also younger, only 24 or [-] years old.

"Yang Ke, don't call me uncle in the army!" Zhuge Youmo put down the binoculars and said thoughtfully, "Those are all battleships, right? So many battleships suddenly appeared in the Strait of Malacca...how did they come here?"

"Uncle...Junmen, do you still need to ask? Those ships must have come from England. They are clearly here to deal with our Nanyang Fleet! Fortunately, Uncle 51 has a good heart and let us lie in ambush here. Otherwise, Guan Tianpei will It's their way!"

This captain named Zhuge Yangke seemed to be able to pinch and count, and immediately figured out that these battleships belonged to the British.

"Junmen," Zhuge Yangke asked, "we have steam gas torpedoes on our boat... Do you think we are going to attack?"

"I don't want to attack, let them go." Zhuge Youmo shook his head repeatedly, "Now is not the time to disclose the submarine... so our task is only to investigate and report to the higher-ups. Those steam gas torpedoes are for our self-defense of."

In fact, these submarines owned by the Submarine Command are the biggest and thickest cards of the Ming Empire at sea!

Because of the secrecy kept by the Zhuge family for so many years, ordinary people in Daming don't even know that there is such an advanced submarine.No one in Europe knows either...so the existence of submarines cannot be easily exposed.

Zhuge Youmo said to Zhuge Yangke: "Yangke, go and raise the telegraph antenna... When those British warships are far away, we will generate electricity for the headquarters. The headquarters will naturally tell Guan Tianpei the news, and he will be fine. .”

"Yes, sir."

After Zhuge Yang got the order, he issued a note, and Zhuge You was the last one left, looking at the main force of the British-Indian fleet passing through the sea from afar, he murmured: "There are quite a few! It shouldn't be all There are always a few ships that can be picked up by our submariners!"

(End of this chapter)