.East China Sea.

The chrysanthemum-embled gilded ship jewelry splits the waves, and a powerful fleet is like a sharp sword, pointing directly to the entrance of Tsushima Strait to the north.

The four small cruisers of the Fourth Team, the Ultimate, Takachiho, Akishi and New Takashi, were the first.

These four new cruisers are all small Bremen-class cruisers ordered by Japan from Germany's Volkeng and Emperor William Shipyard four years ago. Japan calls it the "Langsu Class". Among them, the Langsu is the ship of the same name that was seriously injured and retired after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, and the ship of the same name that was sunk in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895. This class of warships has a standard displacement of 3,320 tons and a maximum speed of 23 knots. It is equipped with ten single-mounted rapid-fire cannons of one-five millimeters, twelve machine cannons of 37 mm, and two torpedo launch tubes.

The alert on both wings was the fourth team composed of the new Japanese "Suibi" class destroyers and the fifth team composed of the "Buzhihuo" class destroyers, namely the fourth team's Suzuo, Chunyu, Murai, Asahi, and Yangyan, Congyun, Xiwu, and Wuzhihuo of the fifth team.

The Speedbird class is a new destroyer developed by Japan to suppress China's large-scale "Mist" destroyers. Before the "Mist" class, the main destroyers of various countries generally had a displacement of only 400 tonnes. In order to suppress the "Mist" class, the Russian Navy developed the "Brave Class" destroyer, while Japan developed the "Speedbird class" to deal with it. The Speedbird class's standard displacement is 1,050 tons, equipped with four Armstrong-style rapid-fire guns of 40 times the diameter of 120 mm, six 47 mm Hatchkas rapid-fire guns, two 35 and 6 mm torpedo tubes, and a maximum speed of 28 knots.

The Fuzhihuo-class destroyer is a reduced version of the "Speed ​​Bird-class" in the absence of military expenditure. It has a standard displacement of 720 tons, equipped with three 100 mm rapid-fire guns, six 37 mm machine guns, two 350 mm torpedo tubes, and a maximum speed of 28 knots.

Located in the middle of the entire formation, the eight majestic armored cruisers are the product of the "Six-8 Fleet" plan in Japan's military filing in 19OO.

The leader is the Armstrong-type armored cruisers Panser and Changlu, designed by Sir Watts, the British shipbuilding director, and produced by the Volkeng Shipyard in Germany. The standard displacement is 9,750 tons, 132 meters long and 21 meters wide, and the maximum speed is 21.5 knots. The first-class main gun is two double-mounted 20,3 mm forty-five-diameter turrets, the second-class main gun is fourteen single-mounted 152 mm forty-dip speed-fire guns, the secondary gun is 12 76 mm forty-dip speed-fire guns and eight single-mounted 47 mm Hatchkas rapid-fire guns, and four 457 mm torpedo tubes. The side armor of this type of ship is 175 mm thick, the deck armor is 67 mm, the main gun is 152 mm anti-shield, and the command tower is 381 mm, all of which are Krupp steel armor.

The third and fourth ships were purchased by Japan from Chile, and were produced by the British Armstrong Shipyard and Vickers Shipyard respectively. As the situation in South America eased, Chile looked for buyers in the middle of the journey.

Japan, eager to expand its naval strength, bought two ships in 193, joined its second fleet of the Combined Fleet, named the Izumo and Takaba, and classified it as armored cruisers. This type of warship has two ten-inch (254 mm) main turrets, fourteen secondary cannons, fourteen small-caliber rapid-fire cannons, one hundred and twenty mm armored on the side, two hundred and fifty-four millimeters of turret armor, and the maximum speed of 19 knots.

Asama and Yakumo are the same type of ships of the Imao and the Takashiro. They were produced by the British Armstrong Shipyard and entered service in 192. The data is similar to the Imao and the Takashiro.

The Ima and Ome are of the same design as the Asama, but are commissioned to produce in French shipyards, and their performance is similar to that of Izumo.

From these eight armored cruisers, we can also see the mixed-race characteristics of the Japanese Navy, as well as the helplessness caused by the conflict between the weak shipbuilding foundation of small countries and the strong desire to expand the army.

In the Asama commander's tower, Hikonoko Uemura sighed softly.

"Commander, what's wrong?" Kato Tomosaburo asked with a strange question.

"Maybe I'm over-thinking." Hiroshinosuke Uemura said with a serious expression, "I regret it now. It would be great if I could draw two more battleships from the first fleet... It doesn't matter if it slows down the formation speed for two or three knots, and it doesn't matter if it scares away the Chinese people..."

Tomosaburo Kato was startled: "Commander?"

"I don't know why, but I always feel that the Chinese fleet is waiting for me in front of me." Hikaru Kamiura said with a serious expression, "That kind of pressure is really breathless... This is the so-called military power of ever-winning, it is really a terrible thing..."

"Your Excellency" Tomosaburo Kato said with a sigh, "If you do not have the confidence to defeat, how will the soldiers fight? Although the Chinese Navy won the Sino-Japanese War in 1894-1895, it is definitely an invincible enemy. In any aspect, our army currently has an absolute advantage. If the Chinese fleet does not come, it is a good opportunity for us to establish martial arts honors."

Hikaru Uemura stared at the chief of staff and nodded softly: "Kato, you're laughing..."

At this moment, a cloud of rain could be seen in front of the fleet. Hikaru Kamiura murmured: "I can't figure out the enemy's route, but contact should also happen at night... Be prepared for night battles. Notify all ships that dinner should be at five o'clock in advance, and A-level rations. Tonight, add midnight snacks, which are also A-level rations..."

The Second Fleet of the Japanese Joint Fleet was twenty-one nautical miles north.

The rainfall from the sky washed the deck, and the sailors in raincoats still insisted on performing their duties at their posts. Sa Zhenbing, commander of the Black Panther Detachment, was watching the surrounding formations through the observation window.

"Report, the fleet formation has been completed," said the combat staff in abruptly, "The guerrilla warriors have arrived at the designated combat position."

"Very good." Sa Zhenbing nodded, "Based on the direction and course of the airships reported before, I see that the enemy fleet is about to reach our visual range.

It's... "

"The position is two, one o, two, one o (two, ten thousand yards), four smoke pillars were found, and the outline of the ship shadow was observed... four enemy small patrols, with about sixteen smoke pillars behind...The ship shadow is clear, four small patrols, eight equipped patrols, four destroyers on both wings...the course is three, two o, speed is four..." As the lookouts in the horn roared rapidly, the battle alarm sounded throughout the fleet.

"Here you come." Sa Zhenbing and Chief of Staff Guo Zhenlin looked at each other, with a look of depression and excitement.

"Flag the flag: 'The Empire is looking forward to you fulfilling your duties and defeating the stubborn enemy.'" Sa Zhenbing said calmly, "The whole team has it, turn to the 230th day, maintain the speed, and it is expected to enter the combat distance in thirty minutes. The guerrilla team's position is corrected... Now go back to the commander's battle commander bridge. In this battle, there is the commander's command position."

Thirty minutes later.

The shrill battle alarm sounded through the flagship "Izumo", the flagship of the second fleet of the Japanese Combined Fleet. A slightly panic sound of the lookout was heard in the sound tube: "The pilot ship's flagship language, the enemy ships were found in front of me, and the distance was one, three oo, three oo, four oo, and two oo"

"The fourth team slows down... Turns toward the 29th o, our team's second battle is fast, move forward." Commander Hikaru Komura shouted sternly, "Flag the flag saying: 'The glory of the imperial navy, in this battle, we will work hard to repay the emperor's kindness'"

Soon, each ship played its own flag words.

Changpan: "Our ship will fight to kill the enemy."

Asama: "Seven lives serving the country, today"

My wife's name: "I've been drunk all over the pit and I've been trampled on the four hundred states of China"

...

Tomosaburo Kato said confidently: "Commander, our team is full of fighting spirit. This battle will surely wash away the shame of Sino-Japanese War."

Hiroko Uemura looked up at the monster floating in the sky, with a serious expression until the other party seemed to be retreating because of the approaching rain clouds, then he relaxed and raised his telescope.

Ten minutes later.

"The enemy ship pilot ship Asama class steering direction 29 o, speed 20, distance 12 oo"

The lookout's roar spread throughout the Cheetah armored cruiser.

"Want to cut across the T-head of my team?" Guo Zhenlin frowned, "Our shooting commander can no longer turn the rudder to shoot accurately if it exceeds ten degrees..."

Sa Zhen nodded and shouted coldly, "The team's second battle speed is fast, turn left to the course 29 o, and drive in the same direction as the enemy ship."

Two minutes later.

Asama Commander Tower.

Chief of staff of the Second Fleet of the Japanese Joint Fleet, Tomosaburo Kato said in confusion: "This is the turn, and we are heading in parallel with our army? What do the Chinese people want to do? Launch the ship's shooting at a distance of 12,000 yards? Are they crazy?"

Previously, the Chinese military uniform patrol battle line was in a cross-cutting position of the second Japanese fleet, but because the navy's combat distance was generally only 4,000 to 6,000 yards, the Japanese second fleet was 12,000 yards.

The position began to turn forward, and was about to turn across the Chinese army toward the front and occupy the t-head. The Chinese army immediately turned left in the formation and drove in the same direction to deal with it. Two powerful ironclad ships formed two parallel lines on the ocean surface with a distance of 12,000 yards.

Hiroko Uemura was calm and rubbed his hands, his eyes flashed. He didn't know what he was thinking. After a moment, he spoke: "The whole person turned right and moved closer at an angle. I want to see what the Chinese people are going to do... Want to take advantage of the cannon? You have to be able to hit the cannon too."

The Japanese army, which still follows the classic naval combat theory of the Royal Navy of the British. They did not know that the Chinese armored cruiser, equipped with a three-meter rangefinder, equipped with an integrated shooting command plate and electrified signal transmission, and an airship with a shooting correction, equipped with a unified caliber and a multi-caliber main gun, a large elevation angle, and able to share shooting data, have far exceeded their understanding of naval combat tactics.

"Each ship launches test launch"

The cheetah's artillery master calculated the shooting elements calculated by the distance clock and variable distance rate disk on the shooting command disc, and converted them into the shooting data of each main gun through the signal transmitter and the transit switch, and passed them to the main turret. The huge hull shocked suddenly, and the eight three-and-five main guns were staggered left and right on each turret, and they burst out long flames in two batches. Eight heavy bullets chased each other and flew towards the Japanese pilot ship, the Imperson, which was 12,000 yards away.

Almost at the same time, three other Chinese armored cruisers also fired heavy bullets. The four armored cruisers, a total of 24 three-five-mm main guns, all facing the same side, and fired at the Japanese formation No. 1 ship, the Imperatus.

The arrangement of the patrol columns of the Japanese Second Fleet was carefully designed. The pilot ship Iron-1 and the second ship Takara-lu were all built by German shipyards and strengthened their protection. As a formation pilot ship, it can withstand more enemy artillery fire. The third ship Izumo and the fourth ship Takara-4 are known for their firepower and can quickly exert firepower and severely damage the enemy, but because of their relatively weak armor, they are protected in the middle. The fifth ship Asama Asama is a flagship, and its protection is far beyond Yun, and it is in the fifth and sixth with its sister ships Yagum. At the end of the formation are Wuma and Ome produced by France.

Asama Commander Tower.

Hikaru Uemura looked at the surging water column that exploded one hundred meters away from the starboard side of the Imamura and murmured: "The Chinese are crazy? Just fire so far?"

"This is to stop the shooting... They want to stop us from seizing the T-head position." Kato Tomosaburo said, "But he is lucky, he is so close..."

But just over a minute later, the two of them had turned pale. Hua Jun's third round of volley shot actually shot a fork at Panshou.

"Oh no." Kato Tomosaburo is the leading artillery expert in the Japanese Joint Fleet, but his face turned pale at this moment. "What luck did the Chinese people leave today? They actually shot the slit in the third round. This is dangerous."

Almost as if he was annotating his words, in the fourth round of shooting, four Chinese artillery shells exploded with water and smoke columns covering the entire Panshe.

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Five rounds, sixth round...

"Panshou... two bombs were missing on the starboard side, one bomb was missing on the port side, all the bombs were shot in the turret on the head of the ship, two bombs were shot in the starboard side, and water was in the starboard side..." The lookout's voice was panic, "Panshou's main mast broke...Panshou caught fire, and one bomb was missing near the engine compartment..."

"This is not luck." Kato Tomosaburo had a dark face. "The Chinese army has been able to accurately shoot from a long distance. This commander, please order the whole team to start z-shaped maneuvering."

Hiroyuki Uemura shouted: "The whole team turned two more Luofu points to the right, with the maximum battle speed, start the z-shaped mobile command of the sixth team, the fourth destroyer team, and the fifth destroyer fleet, immediately launch lightning strikes to cover the turning of the main column."

Cheetah.

Another heavy bullet hit the starboard side of the enemy ship No. 1, and another one was nearly missing. The enemy ship No. 1 paused almost visible to the naked eye, and its speed dropped sharply, leaving the battle line. A burst of fanatical cheers suddenly erupted from the bridge of the Cheetah.

"Prepare for melee? The whole team turns right ninety degrees, and the ship stern faces the enemy. The second battle speed is fast, and the combat distance is maintained to notify the guerrillas to operate." Sa Zhenbing looked at the figure of the enemy ship looming in the explosion water column on the opposite side, without a trace of trembling in his words, and was still calm and stern.

"Our team is two or one, the enemy lightning strikes the formation, eight ships are out of the line, with a speed of twenty-eight, a distance of one or two oo, and a course of two nine o." The lookout's roar resounded again throughout the ship, "Original two or three o, four enemy patrols, a distance of one or four o, a course of four or five, a speed of twenty-three"

"Since you have your trump card, then you'll start." Sa Zhenbing said lightly, "Order the Sixth Cruise Team and the Guerrillas to start the operation."

At this moment, the lightning formation composed of eight Japanese destroyers had already pulled the smoke screen and rushed forward at a speed of 28 knots from the Chinese army's heading side. At the same time, its light patrol troops also rushed up at the maximum speed. Soon, the Chinese guerrilla team, which was hidden and standby on both wings, and the Chinese guerrilla team located on the side of the main battle line, also quickly launched operations.

The Chinese army was equipped with two double-connected 152 mm main turrets, and the "Peach Blossom"-class minecraft ships with a speed of 28 knots. They took the lead in intercepting the Japanese lightning strike forces and took the lead in launching an interception operation with their main guns. The four wave speed-class light cruisers with the Japanese lightning strike forces could only rush forward with artillery fire, trying to use one-five mm rapid-fire cannons to attack the Chinese army at close range.

Soon, the Langsu, which was the first to take the lead, was hit hard by the two ships of the Chinese army, and the superstructure was beaten to pieces and ignited a fire. The Chinese army quickly turned and drove in the same direction as the Japanese ship, continuing to play its range advantage, and attacked the Japanese ship with its tail turret.

The fierce Japanese lightning formation was following the six Chinese light patrol teams toward the Chinese uniform patrol team, and suddenly a Chinese light patrol team and destroyer team appeared on the flank. The leading Chinese guerrilla formation was Xu Bo's "Battle Sword". Xu Bo, who served as the commander of the guerrilla team, stood in his battle position and pointed forward in his hand: "The maximum speed of fighting in the whole team, sudden

hit"

The formation of the Japanese army had already expanded and pounced towards the Chinese military uniform patrol detachment in the shape of a geese wing. The sudden emergence of the Chinese army was attacking the Japanese army's flanks. Faced with this sudden threat, the Japanese light patrol in the center of the queue quickly adjusted its course and prepared to face the Chinese army with the word T. The remaining eight destroyers continued to pounce towards the Chinese military uniform patrol units at the maximum battle speed of 28 knots, covering the turning and fighting of the main formation.

At this moment, all the heavy oil boilers were used, and the rapid Chinese army troops, which were all black and gray smoke columns, appeared in a shocking manner in the most resolute situation. Afterwards, Xu Bo waved his saber and pointed his heroic posture in front of him appeared on the screen many times. But at this moment, no one would have thought of these.

The battle that belongs to them has begun. Life and death, glory and destruction will be decided at the next moment...

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