The speed of the "Gangut" has dropped to 5 knots. The old captain ordered the speed to be maintained, and then went to the deck to greet the guard soldiers. Zahwaki hesitated for a moment and followed him with his pistol in his pocket.

"General! Chikarkin, the second lieutenant of the Third Hussar Regiment of the Royal Guards, was ordered to lead his troops to report!" The officers of the Guards looked extremely arrogant when they spoke, which made every sailor present unhappy.

"Second Lieutenant, on behalf of all the officers and soldiers of the ship, I welcome your arrival! Please rest in the cabin!" The old captain replied tepidly, but that guy didn't buy his account.

"We are ordered to help you repair the warships. Please take us to the place where the failure occurs!"

"Okay!" The old captain still responded humbly, but he despised this self-righteous guy in his heart. How could this guy who is usually arrogant and domineering immediately know whether the machine on the ship is good or bad? The old captain has already taken some attention and has to make trouble for these guys.

"Sergeant, take this respected lieutenant to the boiler room and ask them to help us repair the two broken boilers!" The old captain said as he blinked at Zahwaki, who understood and led them to the bottom.

"Sergeant, half of your platoon is left on the deck, and half goes to the command room! No one is allowed to move without my order!" After the lieutenant of Hussar, he followed with a row of soldiers.

Three nautical miles southeast of the Gangut, the German submarine U-051 was slowly advancing on the sea. Captain Wolf and his sailors stood on the deck and watched silently the two Russian warships, one big and one small. The night wind in the Baltic Sea in October made people feel chills, and the German sailors were whispering while moving their muscles:

"Oh God! The Russians actually have such a huge warship, and there are 4!"

"That must be a battleship, a battleship that looks very new! Did the British secretly provide it to them?"

"Impossible, the British themselves cannot protect themselves!"

"I mean before the British Navy was hit hard by us, maybe one day in August, they sneaked here from Britain under our noses?"

"Then the British are too confident about their own strength! But these warships will definitely cause trouble to our fleet. Just the one in front of us is even larger than our "Essen" battleship, and the firepower on it must be not weak!"

"That's right, we should take this opportunity to kill it!"

Listening to the sailors' discussion, Captain Wolf's brows frowned. The mission of U-051 was only to monitor the movements of the Russian fleet, but judging from the Russians' course, the fleet was obviously heading towards Helsinki, and the warship in front of him seemed to have had some malfunction. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

"Everyone enters the battle throne and prepares for battle!" Wolf finally made up his mind that despite the revolution in Russia, it was still in a state of war with Germany.

"Send to the flagship, we are ready to attack the two Russian warships pulled behind!"

Soon, the U-051 submarine sailed towards the Gangut and Nantara at full speed. Its dark hull looked hideous and terrifying under the night.

After receiving the report of the U-051 submarine, Major General Yanic, the interim commander of the German Baltic Fleet, stared at the chart and thought for a while, and then ordered four armored battleships, including the flagship "Essen", as well as two cruisers, nine destroyers, two seaplane motherships, and four submarines to advance at full speed towards Helsinki, and the other two submarines went to support U-051.

Under the deck of the Gangut, Zahwaki was taking the group of guards who were ignorant of the sky and earth to turn left and right in the maze-like cabin, passing through the roaring turbine chamber, and circled around the small black coal cabin and the choking flue several times before taking them to the boiler cabin. There, most of the 25 Yaro-style boilers have been turned off, and the sailors in the boiler cabin stopped their work and looked at the group of people.

"Second Lieutenant, there are more than a dozen boilers here that cannot operate normally, so please help us see!" Zahwaki glanced at the guard lieutenant, who was rubbing the sweat beads on his face with a handkerchief.

"Uh...you can repair it first, let's guide you next to you!" The lieutenant's face didn't look good, and the soldiers behind him looked back and forth at the sailors around him, as if they wanted to see something from them.

Zahwaki walked to a stout sailor and muttered a few words. The strong man laughed twice, "Buddies, work is on! Don't worry, if you have any questions, just ask these guard commanders, they are here to help us repair these boilers!"

The sailors started to pound next to the boiler with a smile on their faces, and the second lieutenant of the Guards could only stand aside.

Zahwaki explained to the other two sailors a few words, then quietly left the boiler compartment.

About 500 meters behind the right rear of the Gangut, the destroyer Nantara was heading at the same slow speed. The lookouts above couldn't help but yawn at the dark and calm sea.

Not far from the right of the "Nantala", most of the hulls of U-051 are hidden in the sea water, and only the command tower on the upper part of the submarine is left on the sea surface. The black eagle crusading flag is silently floating in the sea breeze.

"The No. 1 torpedo is ready, the No. 2 torpedo is ready, confirm the ship!"

Wolf stood on the command tower, and the weak hull of the "Nantala" appeared in the scope, and a torpedo was enough to send it to heaven.

"The ship has been confirmed! The nearest ship! A distance of 710 yards, launch angle 80 degrees!" The weapon commander quickly reported the launch data, and the sailors in the torpedo compartment quickly adjusted the torpedo to the launch state.

"Torpedo No. 1, launch! Torpedo No. 2, launch!"

With two muffled sounds, two torpedoes quietly drilled into the sea. Even the launchers could not see the water marks they dragged out under the night. The people on the submarine were listening.

On the battleship "Gangut", the old captain was standing on the bridge and talking in a low voice with Zahwaki. Suddenly, two explosions almost made their hearts pop out. On the sea behind them, the destroyer "Nantala" turned into a large brilliant flame in an instant, reflecting the large sea surface.

Zahwaukee's mouth was wide open, and it took a while to close. The hull of the poor destroyer flew scattered like an explosion of fireworks on the surrounding sea. After hearing the explosion, the sailors all ran to the starboard side of the warship. They felt different in their hearts, but the unanimous idea was that no one would survive the ship, and rescue was no longer necessary.

"What's going on?" After several minutes, the second lieutenant of the Guards ran out of the maze-like cabin. At this time, the "fireworks performance" had already ended, and only some burning debris were left on the sea.

"Mine, or German submarine!" the old captain replied angrily and helplessly, "Lieutenant, what kind of situation do you hope for?"

"I...I hope?" The second lieutenant looked at the wrinkled face of the old captain in a daze. Obviously he didn't want it to be either of these two situations.

"Yes, could it be that destroyer that exploded itself?"

This sentence made the naval officers and soldiers around him scoff at the guard lieutenant.

"Then...what should we do?" The second lieutenant seemed at a loss, and his previous arrogant attitude had disappeared.

"Because we are on the same route as other warships of the fleet, the possibility of 'Nantala' hitting a mine is extremely small! In other words, it is very likely to be a German submarine, maybe it is not far from us, maybe there, or there!" The old captain said to the second lieutenant of the Guards in an extremely gloomy tone, and his hands kept pointing to the sea in the distance.

The second lieutenant looked in the direction of the old captain's finger in fear. Under the ignition light after the "Nantala" exploded, something seemed to be hidden in the looming waves.

"Ah... General, what should we do?"

"We must leave here as soon as possible, otherwise in a few minutes the German submarine will reinstall the torpedo, and our fate will be the same as that destroyer! Second Lieutenant, it's up to you to repair the boiler! Now the lives of all our ships are in your hands. Please try to repair those boilers as quickly as possible!" The old captain stared at the lieutenant's eyes, but those eyes were clearly filled with fear.

"I...I can't repair it, nor can my people. We just come up..."

"What? You dare to lie to a general of the Imperial Navy! Then now, lieutenant, take your people to the cabin and don't interfere with us here! Otherwise, no one of you will ever come back to the shore alive!" The old captain suddenly roared, and the lieutenant and his soldiers were all stunned.

"Yes, yes!" The lieutenant hurriedly ordered his soldiers to gather on the deck, and then he ran all the way there.

The old captain nodded to Zahwaukee, and he silently counted it in his heart, and there were many!

Zahwaki called some sailors again and asked them to put the guards in their house arrest.

"Captain, you really have a good idea!" Seeing the guards walking towards the cabin pitifully under the leadership of the sailors, Zahwaukee couldn't help laughing, but he found that the old captain still looked indifferent.

"Sergeant, although we have solved these guards, the destroyer is very likely to be sunk by a German submarine. In that case, the Germans must be still nearby!" The old captain walked quickly to the command room and shouted to the sailors below: "All boilers are raising fires, and the turbines are activated!"

After sinking the Russian destroyer, U-051 did not leave or dive, and the Russians did not find its specific location at all. The silent cannon on the Russian warship is the best proof.

"Go forward at full speed! Heading 70 degrees northwest!" Wolf issued the latest order. The submarine quietly drew a faint water mark on the sea surface, and the thin water marks spread out from the bow of the ship to both sides, and it disappeared ten meters away. Two minutes later, U-051 had already occupied a favorable shooting position in the right front of the Gangut.

At this time, the Gangut had begun to accelerate, but under the flames of the remaining burning substances of the "Nantala", its huge hull could not escape the German eyes.

U-051 soon aimed its tail at the huge Russian battleship.

"Torpedo No. 3 is ready!"

"The vessel has been confirmed! The only vessel! A distance of 840 yards, launch angle 75 degrees!"

Although the distance was a little farther, the "Gangute" was a huge target. Captain Wolf did not think much about it and immediately issued an order to launch.

Just as the torpedoes were gradually approaching, the Russian sailors on the battleship "Gangut" were still unaware of it.

"Captain, don't we fire flares? If it's really a German submarine, we need to know its location!" Zahwaki stood beside the old captain, and as the temporary commander of the rebel soldiers on the ship, he had become a member of the command room.

"Sergeant, you are still a newbie in commanding the battleship! In this case, the light will only make it easier for the enemy to determine our position, but it is difficult for us to see submarines that are only one-tenth of our size. What's more, they may dive into the water at any time!" The old captain's eyes were fixed on the front, and the sea surface in front was pitch black, and only the burning objects that had not yet been extinguished on the sea surface not far behind were still jumping.

"Yes, Captain! Everything is under your command!"

"Look at the guard soldiers, don't let them come out to make trouble! The first mate, the right rudder is full, we turn to St. Petersburg!" As soon as the old captain finished his sentence, the warship vibrated violently in a loud bang.

"Oh no!" The old captain was not sure whether it was a mine or a torpedo, but his intuition told him that it must be a German submarine.

"Check the damage to the warship quickly!" The old captain gave the order calmly, but he still prayed in his heart that the warship could survive the attack.

"A break of about 2 meters in diameter was blown out at the front waterline on the starboard side, and the sailors are actively plugging the leak! This damage does not have much impact on the main body of the warship, but our speed may be reduced a little!" The damage control room quickly sent a report, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"First mate, keep turning! The battleship is moving forward at full speed!"

The huge 25,000-ton warship began to turn, and the tall and sharp bow drew a huge hole on the sea surface. The sea water surged rapidly, forming small vortexes on the sea surface. The huge hull had almost no bumps, and the water lines gradually left the straits and scattered into the distance, leaving behind the battleship a wide and deep white water mark.

The Russian sailors on the Gangut could not hear the slight engine sound of the submarine, but the German officers and soldiers on the U-051 could clearly hear the Russian warships away from them.

"Hell!" Wolf cursed angrily, "It doesn't seem to be anything! The submarine turns and heads 30 degrees northwest!"

A few minutes later, the Russian warship sounded a little further away, and worse still it had completely hidden into the darkness.

"Is it...is it going around in circles?" Captain Wolf was a little surprised. "Anyway, it's going to Helsinki!"

U-051 simply couldn't catch up with the full-speed "Gangut" from behind, so Wolf decided to wait for it on his route to Helsinki.

Unfortunately for Wolf, the Gangut originally did not intend to go to Helsinki.
Chapter completed!