Munitions Empire
Chapter 1388 - 1388: 1305 The enemy cannot fight back

Communication has been suppressed, leading to poor communication affecting the entire Fleet of the Laines Empire. If they could receive telegrams, they would probably have already heard the news that the joint Fleet of Dorne and the Great Qin Empire has been heavily damaged.

Of course, Dorne and Qin Country have ill intentions, as they did not inform Laines of their Fleet's heavy damage, or even their complete annihilation, and they even kept it confidential.

At least they did not send the news to the Laines Empire's embassy immediately, as they were busy rescuing the soldiers who fell into the water.

The Fleet of the Laines Empire is extraordinarily massive and also too dispersed. Dozens or even hundreds of sub Fleets form a Single Line Serpentine Formation, stretching for hundreds of nautical miles, completely relying on light signals and telegrams for coordination.

The problem is that radio silence is practically impossible to execute: light signals and flag commands can be used on warships, but who among the Sailors on civilian ships has ever practiced this set?

Therefore, to maintain the Fleet, most of the time, these ships have to send telegrams, but before action, Laines strictly limited the content of the telegrams and the number of telegrams.

Now that the war has erupted and their Fleet has already been attacked, radio silence has naturally been broken, and sending telegrams to report the situation has become a matter of course.

As the flagship of the escort sub Fleet, the Laines Empire's destroyer Sturgeon led the charge towards the waters where the Tang Army submarines might be present. The destroyer Thunderbolt followed closely, aggressively lunging at the target, trying to regain their ground.

They want to sink the enemy submarine that launched torpedoes at their escorting convoy to avenge the sunken transport ships.

In fact, what they didn't know was that the prey was meticulously setting up traps, just waiting for these so-called hunters to take the bait.

Inside the quietly cruising submarine, the crew was loading torpedoes. In the torpedo bay equipped with a complete set of semi-automatic loading slides, everyone was busy and working intensely.

Even with a fairly perfect design, loading torpedoes is still a very troublesome task, and reloading four wire-guided torpedoes in one go is even more troublesome.

They have to deactivate the torpedo's fuse safety devices and simultaneously inspect the various equipment inside the torpedoes to ensure functionality. After all, these devices must connect to the submarine via cable and accept the submarine's control, in order to accurately hit the target.

To be safe, this time they did not hesitate to use expensive wire-guided torpedoes, and the submarine has already submerged to a relatively safer depth of 60 meters.

At this depth, they can no longer lock on opponents using the periscope; everything relies solely on sonar equipment.

However, correspondingly, they also obtained benefits: without the periscope, they would not expose their exact position, making the opponent rely on sonar to lock onto them.

This essentially means pulling both sides into an environment where they use sonar to detect each other, competing in the precision of sonar equipment and the experience of the operators.

"The enemy ship has entered the attack range! The angle is suitable!" The sonar operator confirmed the opponent's position and provided the shooting parameters. The first officer marked the opponent's direct trajectory, then handed the calculated results to the captain.

"Fire the torpedo!" Of course, the captain did not hesitate, directly ordering to fire the torpedoes, launching the first round of attacks. Compared to the past, when submarines encountered destroyers and had to hide, their counterattack methods are now much sharper.

Accompanied by orders one after another, the torpedo launch tubes in front of the submarine were opened, seawater filled the torpedo tubes amidst tiny bubbling.

Following that, compressed air pushed the heavy torpedoes out of the launch tubes, and the thick torpedoes raced toward their target.

As time went by, the torpedoes distanced themselves from the submarine and quickly resumed their depth: it was set to cruise at a certain depth, naturally ascending to the set depth, ensuring it could hit the underwater part of the ship in the most reasonable position.

They had maneuvered early to a position suitable for attack, and the opponent's destroyer guessed the wrong location, exposing its broadside.

The torpedoes entered the shallow water area, leaving a white trail on the sea surface, followed closely by the second torpedo nearing the surface position, closely following the first torpedo, rushing towards the high-speed target.

The Sentinel on the mast of the Laines Empire's Navy destroyer Sturgeon kept watching the sea surface and immediately noticed the abnormal situation, pointing at the sea surface and loudly reminding the folks below to pay attention: "Torpedo! Incoming torpedoes!"

The first officer on the Sturgeon heard the shout, quickly walked to the lookout position outside the bridge, raised his binoculars, and saw the white trail rushing from the front side.

He lowered the binoculars and turned back, coincidentally seeing the captain also lowering his binoculars, then said: "We guessed the position wrong! Or the enemy has two submarines!"

"Hard to starboard! Bow towards the enemy!" The captain focused solely on ordering evasive actions to avoid the incoming torpedoes.

Upon hearing the command, the helmsman began to frantically turn the wheel, causing the destroyer to tilt due to the rapid turn. Their ship's tonnage isn't large, with a full displacement of only over 3000 tons, so its maneuverability is excellent, theoretically able to easily dodge the torpedo attacks.

In fact, the captain of the Sturgeon didn't take this submarine opponent seriously at all, he even thought the opponent was simply crazy upon sighting the torpedo, supposedly that submarine's Commander would have left silently after confirming the Laines Empire's destroyer guessed wrong.

Now, the opponent dared to audaciously attack… In the eyes of the Laines Empire's captain, this was simply courting death.

"Notify Thunderbolt! Correct the enemy submarine coordinates… Give them these coordinates!" The captain of the Sturgeon destroyer stared at his destroyer's turn, watching his ship's bow gradually aiming towards the distant torpedo trail.

Soon, the two torpedoes would pass closely by his destroyer, and the submarine exposing its position would be like a lamb waiting for slaughter, destined to be sunk in this sea!

"They have already used up all their torpedoes! They can't even manage a final struggle anymore." The captain confidently declared.

The submarine bow sold to them by the Great Tang Empire only has 4 torpedo launch tubes, even counting the two tubes at the stern, they can only launch 6 torpedoes!

Loading torpedoes on submarines requires a long time, now Tang Country's submarine has exhausted its torpedoes, coincidentally in a state unable to fight back when hit, clearly, the advantage specifically stands on their side, the Laines Empire!