Rise of the Overlord

Chapter 175 Attack from Under the Sea

Although no trace of any submarine was found, and no one saw the trajectory of the torpedo launch, Pifanu, the commander of the Royal Navy Escort Fleet in Monia, quickly judged that the super dreadnought battleship Narcissus, which was sunk, should have encountered Submarine attack.

Immediately, Commander Pifanu ordered that all the warships of the Royal Monia Navy equipped with depth charges immediately drop depth charges on all suspicious places. However, of the remaining 160 warships in the Royal Monia Navy, only [-] light Only cruisers are equipped with depth charges, and the number of depth charges equipped on each light cruiser is not large.

These fifteen light cruisers are not depth charges specially carried, but after the submarine of the Royal Sharad Navy attacked the port of Newport City at night, the Royal Monia Navy hastily developed a batch of them in order to guard against the Royal Navy of Sharad. Simple depth charges, equipped to a group of light cruisers of the Monia Royal Navy.

On the bridge of the super dreadnought battleship Banshee of the Royal Navy of the Monia Empire, Commander Pifanu said to Captain Harroway of the Banshee with a gloomy face: "Why are there only ten of our more than 160 warships?" Five light cruisers equipped with depth charges is simply ridiculous, how do we deal with enemy submarines?"

Haroway, the captain of the Banshee, couldn't help complaining in his heart, you Pifanu is the commander of the escort fleet, and all the information of the entire escort fleet was handed over to you before departure, only fifteen ships The responsibility for the light cruiser to be equipped with depth charges should be entirely on you, the commander, what do you mean by asking me now!
Of course, it is impossible for Harloway, the captain of the Banshee, to speak out what is in his heart. He pondered for a while and said: "Commander, according to the information of all countries, the navies of the Tang Empire and the Ziyue Empire are not equipped with submarines, so we That’s why not equip every warship with depth charges.”

Commander Pifanu covered his head with his hands and said, "So what should we do now? Obviously, the Narcissus must have been torpedoed and sunk by a submarine, but we have so many warships, but we only carry a small number of depth charges that can deal with submarines. "

Captain Harroway of the Banshee immediately suggested: "Commander, I think you should send a telegram to the commander of the Rielland Navy Escort Fleet, Your Excellency Yurik, and ask about the depth charges equipped by the Rielland Navy Escort Fleet. Condition."

Commander Pifanu put down his hands, nodded and said, "Then quickly ask the Rielland Navy if they are carrying a lot of depth charges this time? I didn't expect that the Navy of the Tang Empire even equipped submarines. The Admiralty sent a telegram informing the Admiralty of the news that the Narcissus was attacked by a submarine and sank, and asked if the Admiralty had any suggestions?"

Soon the commander of the Rielland Navy escort fleet, Yurik, sent Pifanu a bad news, because the Rielland Navy also did not know that the Navy of the Tang Empire had submarines, so this time the entire Rielland Navy The Irish Navy escort fleet has only eight light cruisers on top, equipped with a small number of depth charges.

After reading the telegram sent by Urik, the commander of the Rielland Navy, Pifanu sighed and said to Harroway, the captain of the Banshee: "We are in trouble, and now the combined escort fleets of our two countries are not many. Depth charges, and we don't know how many submarines the Tang Empire's navy has, it seems that it will be very difficult for the escort fleets of our two countries to get close to the coastline of the Liuyun Empire."

As soon as Pifanu's words fell, suddenly there were several violent explosions in the distance. Commander Pifanu quickly looked out from the observation window of the bridge, and then Pifanu's face changed even more. Unfortunately, the Royal Monia Navy's trusted-class battlecruiser HMS Loyalty was also attacked by submarines.

It's just that what Pifanu didn't know was that the submarine that attacked the battlecruiser Loyalty was not U18, but U18, which hurried from nearby after receiving the telegram from U25.

After U25 launched four 26900mm torpedoes to the Royal Navy Loyalty of Monia, a battlecruiser with a full load displacement of 533 tons, it quickly began to dive before even seeing the results of the battle.

The main armor of the Monia Royal Navy's Credible-class battlecruiser is only 203 mm, and its defense power can be said to be very weak. As a result, three of the four 533 mm torpedoes hit the battlecruiser Loyalty. Three huge openings were opened, and three boilers of the Loyalty exploded. High-pressure steam leaked from multiple steam pipes and caused a fire.

Immediately after the battlecruiser Loyalty was attacked, three light cruisers of the Royal Monia Navy equipped with depth charges dropped more than 30 depth charges near the battlecruiser Loyalty. What kind of threat does the U100, which is more than 25 meters below the sea surface, pose?

The depth charges equipped by these light cruisers of the Royal Monia Navy are only 60 kilograms, and they can only explode at a depth of more than 100 meters underwater, which cannot threaten U25, which has dived more than [-] meters.

Although the Battlecruiser Loyalty was not sunk by three 533mm torpedoes, the power system of the Battlecruiser Loyalty was severely damaged. After the damage control personnel on the Loyalty controlled the fire and water, the Loyalty The speed of the battlecruiser was less than 3 knots left.

Pifanu, the commander of the Royal Navy Escort Fleet in Monia, had to let a large armored cruiser drag the battlecruiser Loyalty. The escort fleets of the two countries quickly evacuated from the sea area under attack, and turned around directly, not heading towards the coastline of the Liuyun Empire.

It turned out that the Naval Department of the Monia Empire learned that the escort fleets of the two countries were attacked by the submarines of the Tang Empire Navy, and a super dreadnought battleship was sunk. They immediately consulted the emperor of the Monia Empire, and then ordered Monia The Royal Navy escort fleet returned the same way, no need to go to the Liuyun Empire.

Yurik, the commander of the Royal Navy Escort Fleet, soon received the same order to let the escort fleet led by him return the same way to avoid greater losses.

However, when the escort fleets of the two countries withdrew, a battlecruiser Canyon of the Royal Navy of Rielland also encountered a torpedo attack, and this attack on the battlecruiser Canyon had already sunk a super dreadnought battleship No. U18.

After the submarine U18 sank the super dreadnought battleship Narcissus of the Monia Royal Navy, although the captain Xu Zhenjie was ready to take another risky attack, Xu Zhenjie did not let U18 go up immediately, but let U18 continue to dive to the bottom of the sea At a depth of 130 meters, Xu Zhenjie commanded U18 to dive in the water for almost an hour before Xu Zhenjie ordered U18 to float up to a position six meters above the sea surface and raised the periscope, and six meters is already the maximum distance that U18's periscope can ascend .

At this time, Xu Zhenjie discovered that there happened to be a huge warship less than 18 meters away from U500, and based on the memory of this ship, Xu Zhenjie recognized at a glance that this warship should be the fourth ship of the Rielland Navy. One of the Canyon-class battlecruisers.

Using the information systems of the original Cangyu Empire and the Ziyue Empire, the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire and the Royal Navy of the Ziyue Empire have collected graphics of most of the warships of the world's major naval powers, so that the officers and soldiers of the two countries can meet each other when they meet. Identify them from time to time, and even get the data of many national warships.

The data of the Rielland Navy’s Canyon-class battlecruiser immediately appeared in Xu Zhenjie’s mind. The standard displacement is 25500 tons, the full-load displacement is 26240 tons, and the maximum speed is 25 knots. It is equipped with four dual-mounted 45-caliber 330mm main guns.

Facing the sudden feast, Xu Zhenjie couldn't be polite, and directly ordered to launch four 533mm torpedoes at the battlecruiser of the Rielland Navy. Afterwards, Xu Zhenjie didn't even wait for the four torpedoes to hit the target, and hurried Order U18 to dive rapidly.

In the end, three of the four 18mm torpedoes launched by U533 hit the Canyon, the lead ship of the Canyon-class battlecruiser of the Royal Navy of Rielland. tons of sea water, and the speed was even less than 2000 knots left, and became brothers with the battlecruiser Loyalty of the Monia Royal Navy.

Yurik, the commander of the Royal Navy Escort Fleet, also sent a large armored cruiser to tow the battlecruiser Canyon.

The two seriously injured battlecruisers, even if they were dragged by a large armored cruiser, would not be able to go fast, and could only reach about 9 knots. In order to get rid of the threat of the submarines of the Datang Empire Navy as soon as possible, the commanders of the escort fleets of the two countries sent a telegram After a discussion, it was decided that the navies of the two countries would each retain two light cruisers and two destroyers to protect the two seriously injured battlecruisers, and the main force of the two countries' escort fleets would be withdrawn first.

Because the underwater speed of the VIIC submarine of the Royal Navy of the Tang Dynasty was less than 8 knots, the main force of the two escort fleets quickly evacuated safely. However, what the commanders of the two escort fleets did not expect was that the next day In the morning, the two seriously injured battlecruisers, the two large armored cruisers towing them, and the four light cruisers and four destroyers protecting them were killed by eight Lion-class battlecruisers from the Third Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Great Tang Empire. The cruisers were driven up.

Submarines U18 and U25 were ready to attack again later, but when they surfaced enough to raise their periscopes, they found that the huge fleet of the Monia Navy and the Rielland Navy had retreated the same way. And according to the underwater speed of their two submarines, they couldn't catch up with the navies of the two countries at all, and they couldn't even catch up with the two battlecruisers that were injured behind.

If the two submarines ventured up to the surface of the sea, they might have the fastest speed of 17.7 knots. In that case, they would probably catch up to the two injured battlecruisers behind.

However, the news that the two submarines seriously injured two battlecruisers of the Monia Navy and the Rielland Navy and separated from the main forces of the two navies reported to the Royal Navy Headquarters of the Datang Empire, and the Royal Navy Headquarters of the Datang Empire sent Submarines U18 and U25 gave orders to stop the pursuit.

Then the Royal Navy Headquarters of the Datang Empire forwarded the telegrams sent by the two submarines to the Third Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Datang Empire, which was already cruising in the waters near the Liuyun Empire.

After the Third Fleet received the telegram, it sent eight Lion-class battlecruisers over to see if they could capture the two seriously injured battlecruisers of the Monia Navy and the Rielland Navy. up.

When eight battlecruisers of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire appeared in the distance, the two large armored cruisers, four light cruisers and four destroyers of the Monia Navy and Rielland Navy quickly fled away.

The seriously injured battlecruiser HMS Loyalty of the Royal Navy of Monia and the battlecruiser HMS Canyon of the Royal Navy of Rielland raised the white flag before the eight Lion-class battlecruisers approached.

After the officers and soldiers of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire took control of the two injured battlecruisers, Su Yi, who was far away in Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Empire, immediately received a system prompt, congratulations to him for capturing the two enemy battlecruisers, Reward Su Yi with two British Lion-class battlecruisers.

(End of this chapter)