Chapter 125 Steel vs. Steel (IV)

Baoding Command Tower.

The Russian costume patrol in the northeast is already in sight.

The Bayan, Gromoboyi, Russia, Liurik, and four Russian destroyers: Jixiang, Yongwu, Weiming, and Wushu, rushed forward at a speed of twenty knots, trying to seize the t-head.

Xu Bo held the telescope and looked at the two Japanese protective cruisers who were running away in a panic in the water column jungle ahead. He looked at the fierce Russian battleships in the northeast and said lightly: "I want to lure us to Dongxiang, and then the Russians cut off my retreat. I really think we are three-year-old children... Since the Russians want to make contributions, I will give him a chance. The Chief of Staff, instructed the whole team to follow the flagship and turn right with sixteen prayer dots. If you want to copy my T-head, I will let you know what high-speed maneuver is."

Xie Jiangchao responded excitedly: "Turn right and send a signal, follow the flagship, first battle speed..."

With a command, the head of the Baoding-class flying scissors drew a graceful arc on the sea surface, splitting the white waves, and turning from the northwest to the southeast. Subsequent ships turned clockwise in turn. With the help of the 27-card high speed, the entire fleet ship quickly reached a ninety-degree angle with the Russian ships rushing towards the northeast.

Test launch expands.

The flagship of the Russian First Armour Patrol Team, Gromoboyi.

Looking at the water columns that exploded within a radius of hundreds of meters around the warship, the Russian formation commander Rear Admiral Nie Bogartov looked gloomy: "So fast... What kind of ship is this firepower at the battleship level, the speed of the destroyer, what is this... These yellow-skinned Satans, God curses them."

The chief of staff next to him whispered: "Your Excellency, should we turn... The Chinese used their speed advantage to seize the T-shaped head and could shoot accurately at long distances. They had twelve twelve-inch cannons, while we only had fourteen eight-inch cannons, and they also had three perverted second-class protective cruisers, each with eight six-inch cannons. In any case, we have no chance of winning. Why not turn to the west as long as the Japanese main formation comes up, we are turning around and cutting off the Chinese's retreat."

Niebogartov nodded after pondering for a moment.

"Escape after the battle? We are almost attacking... The command is passed, our team turns left and turns eight prayer points, the first battle is fast..."

The flagship of the first cluster of the Chinese army, the command tower of the Baoding.

Xie Jiangchao sneered: "Want to run? The old bull car in the 19th quarter, and the battle tour and navigation competition with the Empire's 27th quarter? This is really an interesting decision."

"I just want to lead us to Dongxiang." Xu Bo snorted coldly, "Since that's the case, the whole team turned left and went back to the northwest to go up."

Soon, the Chinese army formation, which was driving at full speed, returned to the initial northwest voyage, and marched parallel to the Russian army in the northeast at a speed of more than eight knots.

The test launch of the Chinese army began again.

The cruiser Liurik, who was behind the Russian army, was the first to fail.

This garage ship, which started in the Baltic shipyard in 1890, once set off a cruiser competition in Europe.

At that time, Britain and Russia launched a fierce colonial battle in Afghanistan and Persia. In order to shock Britain, Russia built a series of "high speed" raid cruisers. The Liurik, in that era, with its "high speed" of 19 knots, an astonishing displacement of 11,690 tons, and the powerful power of four 203mm main guns, once made Britain's maritime escort troops panic, directly stimulating the British to develop a new generation of armored cruisers with a 9.5-inch main gun.

With the rapid development of naval warship technology, this old ship is already in decline in front of the new Chinese warships.

The two Chinese soldiers, the Baoding class, sentenced the Liurik to death in the fifth round of volleys.

Liurik, with a scarred stride, was shot out by a Baoding-class armor-piercing projectile in the middle of the main armor belt. The soft steel hood of the three-five mm armor-piercing projectile fell off. The pointed conical armor-piercing projectile inside drilled into the engine room under armor protection. The Chinese armor-piercing projectile was self-destructed by lime mortar to prevent the early explosion of TNT charges. The delay fuse at 0:25 seconds detonated the heavy bomb in the engine room, and the violent explosion turned the cruiser into a dead fish.

The entire ship lost power, the water pump failed, and the cold sea water surged into the trench.

It was another dense firepower, the Liurik sinking.

The Russians were then affected.

This ship's standard displacement is 12,100 tons, and the product of its contemporary era, witnessing the tragic situation of Liulik, he had long wished he could grow his wings. However, at the speed of 19 knots, facing the Baoding-level battle patrol of the Chinese army with a intensive firepower at a speed of 27 knots, he could only gain despair.

Five minutes after the Liurik, a fire broke out on the Russian ship, and its speed dropped sharply, and it was already a declining day.

The Baoding and Anyang, three sword-level warriors flew past like the wind, and the four destroyers behind them surrounded them like wolves, approaching the launch of torpedoes, and the Russians turned into several segments in a continuous loud bang.

The flagship of the first cluster of the Chinese army, Baoding.

The roar of the Maoyan Lookout came from the speaker: "The direction is 300, the enemy armored ship is 8, the speed is 18, the distance is 20,000, the course is 135."

"Are you here? Dongxiang..." Xu Bo's face turned right, "The whole ship continues to gather fire and shoot the right-wing Russian No. 2."

The Bayan, which has a displacement of only 7,900 tons, a speed of 20 knots, and is equipped with two six-inch single-mounted guns, is obviously not a match for the second ship of the Chinese army's Baoding class. It took only five minutes to support this Russian patrol.

The last Gromobauyi ship had become a frightened bird. In the face of the test launch of the Chinese army, Niebogartov, who had already suffered a lot, let out a hysterical roar.

The Japanese-Russian joint fleet is the main battle with its own team in the East.

Under the guidance of the airship, the Chinese army Lin Taizeng clustered in the north and Xu Fan clustered in the south, and rushed over at the maximum speed of battle.

Japan and Russia, who lack battlefield reconnaissance capabilities, know nothing about this.

Due to the drag of the Navarrin, which has a speed of 15 knots in the Russian battleship, the fleet of Togo has advanced at full speed, and the distance between the Russian battleship itself and the first team of the Japanese Combined Fleet in the south has reached 14 nautical miles.

Guangzhou number.

"The whole team executed Case A No. 1."

Xu Fan put down the Zeiss military telescope in his hand and said lightly.

With a command, the two clusters of 350,000 tons of steel began to change in complex queues.

Looking from the air, the two wheel arrays of the north and south of the Chinese army below began to decompose. The circles of light warships outside began to unlock and split into columns.

The steel warships plowed through the waves, and the white waves rolled. Complex lighting signals were emitted from the top of the main masts of each team's flagship, guiding this site to turn and adjust the speed of the Russian warships, and take their place.

From the air, the wheel-shaped array of Chinese troops was blooming like lotus flowers, and the outer rings composed of light ships bloomed like petals, and the battleship wrapped in the middle emerged from the sky.

In Xu Fan's formation, two battleships gathered two nautical miles, with each ship being five hundred yards apart. As the Guangzhou from the right wing column issued a signal, the Guangzhou led the Fuzhou, Wenzhou and Zhangzhou to rush forward at high speed, turned left eight prayer points, and moved southward. Four ships commanded by Sa Zhenbing followed, and a long steel snake four miles long quickly formed, seizing the T-head of the Russian Makarov cluster.

On its left wing, the Chinese army's light patrol third and fourth teams, as well as the first mine team, have advanced southwest at the maximum battle speed, attacking the Japanese destroyer troops in the south and defending the left wing of the ships. On the right wing, the second mine team rushed to the Russian second destroyer team and was ready to rescue the damage of the battleship ships at any time.

Lin Taizeng's formation launched another steel battle according to the plan, located north of Xu Fan's formation, and still heading westward toward the highway.

In the northeast of Lin Taizeng, the first, second and third lightning strike teams, which were heading west at the maximum speed, were fiercely rushing to the second team of the destroyer on the northernmost side of the Russian army cluster.

On the south side of Lin Taizeng's team, the fourth torpedo team marched side by side with him to provide cover.

The seaplane mothership Flying Eagle has released half of the seaplane and is also following the team under the shield of the Fourth Torpedo Team.

Russian Makarov formation.

The Russian battleship, which was turning to the southeast, suddenly encountered an unprecedented blow.

"Is God the end of the day? The Chinese people's floating monsters... There are too many my God, this is the disaster"

The lookout's terrified voice made the entire bridge creepy.

"Our airship, no, is from the Japanese...the damn Japanese people caught fire, they were vulnerable in front of the Chinese...they came, and came to the Virgin Mary for the fleet. What do they want to do?"

Lieutenant General Makarov frowned.

Chief of Staff Moras had rushed to the lookout window and soon exclaimed: "There are too many...what do the Chinese want to do? It is said that their combat effectiveness on land has been bombed by airships. Could it be..."

The Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun temporarily installed by Russian warships, as well as the modified 37 and 47 mm rapid-fire cannons, began to fire.

These huge Chinese airships seemed to be strolling in the garden, slowly turning their bodies from a height of 4,000 meters, as if they had no interest in the swelling flowers that exploded below, and just slowly adjusting their positions.

All of this seemed to the Russian army staring at him, but there was a heavy pressure.

"What they seem to have dropped...is it a bomb? God, it seems there is also starboard."

Above the water, Russian warships rowed out messy water splashes

The Chinese airship twisted its fat body and opened the sliding door of the bottom cabin. The fifty kilograms of aviation bomb fell down like rain. The delay fuse generally controlled the bomb to a position of 50 meters to the water surface and exploded. The shrapnel flew across, and the huge and turbulent water columns. The huge and bloated bodies of the Russian warship appeared and disappeared from time to time, and occasionally a ball of flames exploded.

After venting, the Chinese airship seemed to be still unsatisfied, so it threw down another sack of leaflets. The sacks opened in the air, and pieces of paper flew, and many floated onto the Russian warships.

The curious Russian sailors picked up the Russian army and saw that it said that the Russian army was defeated in the north, Kropatkin was captured alive, the Tsar was besieged in Irkutsk, and Russia was about to be defeated. Now there are powerful forces of the Chinese navy, and there are still 100 airships and fifty submarines ready to encircle and annihilate them at any time...

In the midst of chaos, several Chinese submarines that had already submerged near the Russian fleet shot torpedoes, which immediately triggered another chaos. The Russians who had just wiped the sweat began to turn the bow of the ship like a wind, and several warships almost collided.

When the Russians finally controlled the situation and counted the losses, they felt relieved. What was really considered a loss was just some fur. The bombs dropped by the Chinese were shockingly poor, and the torpedoes fired by the submarine in the chaos were not hit. The deaths and injuries of the entire fleet were not even 50 people.

However, at this time, the lookout could no longer find the Dongxiang formation to the south.

But this is no longer the most important issue, the key is to re-format.

Otherwise, the huge fleet would not be able to move forward at all.

Mikasa.

"The Bayan caught fire and stopped sailing. He stopped sailing. It was a destroyer... Four Chinese destroyers, torpedo... After that, two thunders hit the swelling, one stern, tilted... It sank too fast. The Russian first patrol team only has the flagship Gromobaoyi."

"The Gromobauyi caught fire too quickly... The Chinese people's sword level was surrounded, and they were in danger..."

Watching the enemy calmly knocking off friendly warships under his nose, but he was powerless because he was less than the effective combat distance. The Japanese naval officers in the bridge almost became a group of grudges.

"The Chinese are turning, what are they doing... Turning eight prayer points clockwise... They are snatching the t-shaped head and firing 14,000 yards. The Chinese are firing the entire ship to guard against impact."

Togo Hirahachiro looked pale and grabbed the handrail tightly.

How has China's shipbuilding technology developed to such a level? Originally, the two Guangzhou-class and the two Cheetah-class ships were extremely difficult, but now there is such a monster. It is extremely fast, has fierce firepower, and can fire and shoot from a long distance.

The flagship of the first cluster of the Chinese army, Baoding.

Xie Jiangchao's face was flushed at this moment, and he couldn't help but feel excited: "Do it, do it, do it, do it, you can't even dream of it. You can directly confront the eight Japanese main battleships so quickly. Our name will definitely be left in the history of the Imperial Navy. No, it's not just leaving a name, we are in history. If we can blow up two ships, even if only one is enough..."

Xu Bo was also a little dizzy at this moment.

What kind of glory and luck is it that commands such a powerful rapid formation, and even launches ships to actively attack the Japanese Navy's elite combat power, and fights against eight first-class naval warships.

At this moment, the voice of the top scholar from the Haida who had risen all the way was also trembling slightly: "Continue to maintain the speed of battle... inform Marshal Xu Fan of the battle situation."

At this moment, the two Baoding-class Chinese soldiers were deploying a total of twelve three-five artillery guns to bombard the flagship and pilot ship of the Japanese First Team.

The Satsuma has a maximum effective combat distance of 12,000 yards, but in fact, the relatively confident combat distance is only 9,000 yards. Due to the understanding of naval combat and the backward development of fire control command and sighting systems, the Satsuma class cannot conduct effective shooting in battles of more than 10,000 yards.

Satsuma.

"Did you shoot a cross shot in the third round? It seems that the Z-shaped navigation cannot completely solve the problem." Shimamura Suo's face turned pale, "Your Excellency Commander, open the fire...even if it's just disturbing the observation and shooting in the local area."
To be continued...