Volume VIII 1234 Sudden Battleship

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"Blow the horn and send an emergency alert...... Unknown ship found in the northeast!Unidentified and typed......"

"The incoming ship has a visual speed of 15 knots, no sails, and is purely steam-powered...... Oh my God, why is this ship so fast?"

"Supply ships, troop carriers were separated from the fleet and transferred to the rear...... The main battleship entered the defensive formation, with the St. Peter controlling the left flank and the Diamond controlling the right flank ......"

The young men in the Harbour Master's School had good eyes, and these sailors from far northern Europe had good eyesight, and when a faint smoke ribbon appeared at sea level, the horns of the whole fleet continued to sound, and the flag-bearers began to signal to each other, and the fleet was changing formations in an orderly manner.

Yan Fu, Liu Buyun, Ye Bojun, Deng Shichang and others are all leaders in the school, and all the homework is very top-notch, of course they can understand the meaning of the smoke belt of the steamship.

Generally speaking, the coal with more impurities, mainly the coal with too much sulfur is cheaper, but this kind of coal has weak firepower, insufficient heat, and produces a lot of black smoke when burned, which can be seen clearly in the sea for more than ten miles.

This kind of coal is only used by merchant ships who want to maximize profits.

And white coal, also called anthracite, this kind of high-quality coal that can be ignited with a foreign fire, the fire is fierce, the heat is sufficient, the key is the release of smoke, the color is light and there are few particles in it, and it can also help the warship reduce the distance of detection on the ocean.

However, the biggest disadvantage of white coal is that it is expensive, and the price has approached three times that of ordinary coal.

"The Emperor Bodhisattva has opened his eyes! The one that can use the white coal must be the battleship, where did the battleship come from? the British, the French, or the Americans' ......?"

In fact, everyone wants a name lingering in their hearts, but no one dares to say it, they are afraid that every qiē in front of them is a dream, and the dream will be shattered when they say it.

Maybe there is really fate in the dark, and at this moment, Deng Shichang's tears couldn't stop flowing down, it was no longer a drop of tears, but two streams sliding down his cheeks.

I don't know what he's doing, at such a tense moment, he actually has the heart to tidy up his clothes.

"It's that ship! I have a hunch that it's that ship! Legend has it that the steel monster of the ocean attacked Dakar at night and singled out Iquique...... It's Zhiyuan, it must be Zhiyuan!"

"Xiao Lotian is here, Xiao Letian is really here!" Deng Shichang choked, his shoulders kept rising and falling, and his fists clenched his nails were embedded in the flesh.

Yan Fu was three points calmer than him, and he said tremblingly, "Not necessarily! Prime Minister Xiao Cheng only has one ironclad ship, and it is rumored that this battleship sneaked back from Europe, and was almost wiped out by Britain and France in the Atlantic!"

"This is the ultimate weapon of the Ryukyus, this is their last killer weapon, how can they send out the initiative to attack?

After all, Ri Yige is French, and he doesn't have a good impression of Xiao Lotian and Ryukyu, "Don't care about any warships, let's avoid sailing towards the mouth of the Min River immediately, and now the first task is to send you back safely......"

"No!" everyone shouted in unison, "Instructor, please let us watch the battle, we want to see the battleship, we want to see this naval battle!"

"Nonsense! You are all students, my task is to take you to class and not to take you to watch the battle, who is responsible for what happens? Besides, even if it is Xiao Letian's warship, an ironclad ship can never be the opponent of a fleet, and only you fools will have such unrealistic expectations......"

The feelings of the students were already unstable at the moment, where could they stand up to the cynicism of the French instructors, Liu Buyun and Deng Shichang surrounded them with a group of students.

"What are you talking about? There is a kind of ...... you say again," Liu Buyun stretched out his hand and pointed at Ri Yige's nose and scolded: "You get a salary of 1,000 taels of silver a month, and your income exceeds that of a first-class official in Beijing City!

"I sue you, Lord Zuo hired you to teach us how to become naval officers, not for us to do business after becoming the captain of the ship! Now that the naval battle that will determine the fate of the Qing Dynasty is about to begin, do you dare to let us watch the battle?

"Yes, you say it again!" The crowd was so enthusiastic that the students were so frightened that the big French nose was scared.

"No, no, no, I'm just worried about your safety...... What if, if something happens to you and you ask me to take responsibility?

"Damn! Master, four generations of my family are scholars, and four generations have been officials, so I will slander you? Listen, even if we all die here today, you don't have to take responsibility!"

At the same time as the training ship of the Harbour Master Academy staged a drama of seizing power, a fierce quarrel broke out on board the Russian flagship, the St. Peter.

The French knight Molière said nervously, "No, I absolutely do not agree to a naval battle here, if that ship is really Zhiyuan, we definitely have no chance of winning, I can't let you take the risk!"

Stefansky looked at him coldly, "What did you say? You let our whole fleet escape? Escape in front of a battleship? Are you insulting us? Even if that battleship is advanced, we can drown him with our numerical superiority!"

"No, Commander, please listen to me...... Let's take a look at these materials first, this is all sent to me by the intelligence ship that has just been connected, we can't afford to provoke this battleship, we can't fight hard!"

Molière had a thick pile of information in his hand, which was the first-hand information recorded in detail by the British and French military attaches when the Zhiyuan was cruising in the Ryukyus.

There are photographs, hand-drawn sketches, and some numbers deduced by the military attachés. And Molière had fought the Zhiyuan at close range, and of course he knew that all the numbers were true.

To put it mildly, the number of jù in this is far from the real combat power of the Zhiyuan, and the real combat power must at least double it!

"Commander, I ask you to calm down...... We can't compare to the firepower of the Zhiyuan, and the power of the 210-caliber main gun is not something that our iron armor can resist! As long as it is hit, it will inevitably penetrate ......."

"Not only that, the diameter of the Zhiyuan's artillery is far more than our artillery several times, I have observed that within eight kilometers, the accuracy of these three main guns has reached the level of our four kilometers of close fire!

"Fighting speed? You haven't seen how fast this ship is, there is no other ship in the ocean that can catch up with him except the clipper! This is a devil's ship, this is not a devil's ship that can be produced by today's technology!"

Note: Another chapter has been added, the promise of the fourth layer of cake has been completed, and the fifth layer of cake will be added for everyone tomorrow!