On the 11th day of May in the 12th year of Qiansheng, in the eastern waters of the Kingdom of Lieji, a ship with obvious characteristics sailed in this sea area.

If you know something about the navy of the Great Heng Empire, then you will be able to see at a glance that this battleship is a Yuanlin-class destroyer belonging to the Great Heng Empire.

This type of battleship is a series of ocean-going warships with the largest number of ocean-going warships built and in service since the unification of the Daheng Empire Navy, and more than 30 have been built and put into service, which is the largest number of ocean-going warships in service in the Daheng Empire.

After several years of development, many batches have been upgraded, and even the tonnage has climbed from 1,000 tons in the first batch to 1,300 tons in the latest batch.

If it's placed in other countries, it's estimated that it's a batch of one level, but the Daheng Imperial Navy doesn't like to do it like this, but likes to make it into a series.

Therefore, the Yuanlin-class destroyers, strictly speaking, belong to a series of destroyers, which are divided into two categories and six batches, basically a new batch a year, and gradually improve their performance.

The latest batch of Yuanlin-class destroyers that began to be built this year are equipped with a series of new power technologies such as coal-fired oil-fired boilers and water-tube boilers, and the speed has been increased to 27 knots, and the side hull protection is strengthened with hardened armor, which can effectively resist the attack of small-caliber rapid-fire guns, and the corresponding tonnage has also been increased to 1,300 tons.

However, although the Yuanlin-class destroyer has undergone upgrades and has multiple batches, its basic appearance characteristics and combat positioning have not changed.

The fleet model of this type of destroyer emphasizes rapid-fire gun firepower and endurance, and its main combat mission is to act with the capital ship, act as the close escort of the capital ship, and use intensive rapid-fire firepower to carry out anti-lightning operations.

In addition, there are ordinary models, which are widely responsible for all kinds of miscellaneous duties, including overseas garrison, escort, patrol, etc., replacing a large number of tactical positioning of third-class cruisers in the previous fleet.

The lightning strike model emphasizes high speed and lightning strike ability, and focuses on torpedo attack ability.

Although limited by the lack of contemporary torpedo technology, the lightning strike capability of the Yuanlin-class destroyer was not brought into play in the last Battle of Beauvois, but the destroyer's ocean-going combat capability, combined with its high speed and rapid-fire gun firepower, still enabled it to effectively undertake the combat missions of many third-class cruisers.

This is also why the Daheng Empire did not build a large number of third-class cruisers like the navies of other countries, but only built a small number of Yuchi-class third-class cruisers, and the design purpose of the Yuchi-class third-class cruisers is to use this class of ships as the lead ship of the destroyer, to some extent, in fact, the Yuchi-class third-class cruisers are further expanded destroyers.

Judging from the design and construction ideas of the Yuchi-class cruisers and the Yuanlin-class series of destroyers, it can be clearly seen that the Daheng Imperial Navy is completely different from the navies of other countries in the development of light ships.

The Daheng Imperial Navy pays more attention to light ships of more than 1,000 tons, relatively speaking, there is not much interest in the large size of simple torpedo boats, although some second-class destroyers of more than 500 tons have been built, but after building six, there is no follow-up, and this kind of second-class destroyers are not suitable for transoceanic operations, so this time the mobile fleet did not bring second-class destroyers, let alone third-class destroyers.

The Yuanlin-class destroyers have been built in large numbers, are widely in service, and have appeared for a long time, so the navies of all countries in the world basically know that there are a large number of such destroyers in the Daheng Imperial Navy.

The appearance of this Yuanlin-class destroyer in the waters of Bowa naturally means that the Daheng Navy is coming!

Around the ship, there are four other warships flying the flag of the Daheng Navy, all of which belong to the Fifth Destroyer Fleet of the First Mobile Fleet of the Daheng Imperial Navy, led by Sun Yuanwei, the major secretary of the Daheng Imperial Navy.

The destroyer fleet existed as the forward of the First Fleet, walking in front of the fleet, and they were relatively close to each other, in order to search the sea area in front and provide early warning to the main fleet in the rear.

To the right of the fifth destroyer, there is the third destroyer.

A total of ten warships of the two destroyer fleets formed a semicircle and searched forward, because the weather conditions were good at the moment, so the distance between each of the two destroyer ships was actually very far, and without binoculars, in fact, only a vague shadow could be seen.

After the ships are rolled out, their coverage area is very broad, which is enough to provide enough warning time for the capital ships in the rear.

In the rear of the search fleet, there is a high-speed mobile formation composed of the third cruiser and the fourth cruiser, led by two Fengyang-class armored cruisers and six Klan-class armored cruisers, and the eight armored cruisers in the formation, including four of the Klan-class armored cruisers who participated in the Battle of Beauva, and the commander of the formation is Admiral Ren Zhongping.

On the right side of the rear position, there is a battleship formation composed of four Jingzhou-class battleships, and this third battleship formation is also the core formation in the first mobile fleet.

At the same time, several battleships of the 4th destroyer flotilla served as escorts on both flanks.

Behind the battleship formation were the four second-class cruisers of the Zhendong class in the sixth cruiser formation behind the palace.

Because the Zhendong-class second-class cruisers still belong to the dome cruisers, and the dome cruisers in the last Battle of Beauvoa, the dome cruisers on both sides performed poorly, and both suffered great losses, this is because although the dome cruisers seem to use the dome armor to save armor tonnage, and use coal bunkers as auxiliary protection means, but this means is okay in the era of non-rapid-fire guns, but after the arrival of the rapid-fire gun era, this protection mode has a problem.

A large number of rapid-fire artillery shells directly hit the side of the dome cruiser with thousands of holes, which can directly destroy a large number of gun emplacements of this type of battleship, killing and injuring a large number of personnel.

How to say it, medium-caliber rapid-fire guns were too much of a threat to such a battleship without side armor.

In the Battle of Beauva, the four Crane-class armored cruisers were also attacked by a large number of 120-millimeter rapid-fire guns from the Gafia side, and suffered a lot of bullets, but because of their excellent protective performance, these rapid-fire artillery shells did not bring too many casualties to the Crane-class armored cruisers, and these four battleships maintained their combat effectiveness from beginning to end.

After returning to the Ryan military base this time, he can be pulled out to fight again after just tinkering.

On the other hand, the two second-class cruisers of the Xia Lin class, which are also more than 4,000 tons of dome cruisers, are still lying on the slipway and repairing them.