Chapter 264: A fateful battle

The year 4592 of the Chinese calendar, 1895 AD, March 16 of the solar calendar. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The combined fleet of the so-called "civilized world" of the Europeans, 172 ships, under the command of the commander-in-chief, Admiral Seymour, left the anchorage and began a mighty march towards the belly of the South China Sea.

The huge air corps commanded by Rear Admiral Paramount has more than 2,000 airships, which are divided into two parts: one part of more than 300 airships will follow the large fleet north on the airship mothership, and the other part will stay on Natuna Island to establish a mooring base and prepare for a large-scale bombardment of the Nanyang territory of the Chinese Empire.

Paramount is a young man, he believes that the future war must be dominated by the flying machines in the sky, but now, the combat capability of the airship is extremely limited, and most importantly, he can only be under the command of the admiral, with the main combat mission of cooperating with the surface fleet as the main combat mission.

Despite the reluctance of such an arrangement, Admiral Seymour's orders had to be resolutely carried out.

The fleet of ships of the coalition fleet stretched out for more than 30 kilometers, and when seen from the coalition airships in the air, it covered the entire sea, and the momentum seemed to be about to engulf everything on the sea.

This kind of majestic momentum greatly infected the pilots of the airship who had been suppressed, and they immediately became energetic:

"This earth is still the world of Christian civilization, what yellow-skinned monkey can dominate the world?"

"Of course, those who don't believe in God can't be blessed by God!"

"Yes! Because we are civilized, we are advanced, so those barbarians who waste the resources of the earth are damned! ”

"After the battle begins, don't let a yellow-skinned monkey go!"

"The civilized men of Europe must destroy all barbarians!"

While the soldiers on the airship were coaulting, they didn't notice that a small black dot flew high above their heads, giving them an unobstructed view of the airship and the surface fleet, and transmitting the real-time video back to the supercomputer system on the nuclear submarine for accurate analysis.

The information processed by the supercomputer system was continuously transmitted to Hu Zhen's viewing glasses.

At this time, the main naval forces of the Chinese Empire were all concentrated in the position between the Nansha Islands and the Xisha Islands, quietly waiting for the arrival of the coalition fleet.

Hu Zhen watched the intelligence analysis of the supercomputer system while walking on the deck of the battleship Great Wall.

There seems to be no trace of people on the deck quietly, this is the arrangement of the Chinese Navy before the war, after more than half a year of hard training, the officers and men have done everything that should be done, what can be done has been done, everything is ready, on the eve of the war, all the officers and men should relax and rest well, so as to play the proper level of training normally.

Therefore, except for the necessary personnel on duty such as the battleship's boiler engine and the lookout sentry personnel, the rest of the personnel all went into the cabin to rest.

Hu Zhen looked up, and suddenly found that Zheng Dingbang, Yang Yonglin, and Geng Huoyan were walking over to salute him, so he stretched out his hand to stop them, and said with a smile:

"Our intelligence officers in ambush in the Natuna Islands have sent back information that the coalition fleet has begun to move north, and it will be a day at most to reach the decisive battle site we have chosen, and the big battle will begin soon?"

"Many years ago, when I was studying at the English Naval Academy, I never dared to imagine that today we would be at war with our European teachers who study navy," Cheng said. ”

"Yes! When the minister was in the Beiyang Fleet, even the queue command was shouted in English, and everyone felt that the European powers were invincible at all, and they never thought that the two hundred would now not only have to fight against the world's first English fleet, but also have to fight a decisive battle with the fleets united by the navies of almost all world powers! ”

Yang Yonglin felt as if he had a big dream, his heart was full of gratitude to Hu Zhen for saving him and the entire Beiyang fleet, and he was determined to fight bravely to kill the enemy to repay Jun's grace.

Geng Huoyan said: "When the department was learning to drive a steam engine and a ship with foreigners, it was full of bird spirit, and the department thought at that time, when and where to return all these bird spirits to these arrogant foreigners!" Haha, now the emperor has finally given us this great opportunity! ”

When Hu Zhen heard this, he laughed with everyone, laughed for a while, and then teased everyone: "We are about to start a war against our teacher, do you think we are destroying the teacher?" It's going to be a war with a teacher, and it's a war against a group of teachers! ”

Yang Yonglin is a steady soldier, he said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, now it is the whole white world and the Japanese kingdom to unite to destroy the hope of our Chinese nation, to trap our Chinese nation on the mainland forever, and to let us always be cattle and horses for them!" Such a division commander, don't do it! ”

Hu Zhen listened to it and changed to a positive color: "This world is the world of the law of the jungle as Darwin said, the strong are respected, and the strong are teachers."

After this war, the whole world will respect us and take us as teachers, and all self-motivated countries and nations will cry and shout that they will send students to study in the Chinese Empire. ”

"That's great!" Geng Huoyan thought about how to return all the bird qi to the foreigners.

Zheng Dingbang and Yang Yonglin did not respond to Geng Huoyan's plan to announce his personal vendetta, but continued to listen to Hu Zhen:

"I have ordered the Imperial Prime Minister Li Hongzhang to organize the government and academic institutions to begin to assess the development of the post-war situation and propose corresponding measures and policies to strive for the best interests of the Chinese Empire.

For example, it is necessary to promote Chinese culture and writing to the world, so that the world can learn the standards of Chinese civilization; In addition, it is necessary to promote the currency of the Chinese Empire all over the world, and all those who trade with the Chinese Empire and send students to study must use the Chinese currency, otherwise everything is not discussed. In this way, this war will completely change Great China, the Chinese Empire will master the world's oceans, completely change the face of the whole world, China will become the world's strongest, and the citizens of the Chinese Empire will generally become the richest citizens in the world! This will be the fateful battle of the world! ”

After Yang Yonglin listened, he solemnly knelt down to Hu Zhen, Zheng Dingbang and Geng Huoyan also knelt down, and said solemnly: "Minister Yang Yonglin (Zheng Dingbang, Geng Huoyan) must follow the emperor to fight to the death and fight this fate-changing battle!" ”

"Okay, now you all have to go back, I have to go back too, you must do one thing well!"

The three people who were still kneeling on the deck were stunned: "Your Majesty, what's the matter?" ”

"Sleep, rest, recuperate, and prepare for a fateful decisive battle with the enemy!" (To be continued.) )