After daybreak, Geng Huoyan ordered all cruisers and destroyers to stop harassing the Pacific Fleet and quickly withdraw to the south of the Tsushima Strait.

At this time, the main fleet of the Huaxia Army was already rising on the south side of the Tsushima Strait and waiting for the arrival of the Pacific Fleet.

Being able to fight in the battlefield of one's choice is different, you can do a lot of things that are conducive to combat, and it is much better to rest than the enemy.

In order for the soldiers to have a good spirit in today's battle, His Majesty the Emperor Hu Zhen took the lead in sleeping a good night last night, although lying in the narrow bed on the battleship, Hu Zhen just closed his eyes many times, and was still thinking about things in his heart, but after all, it was rare in the past few years, and he began to lie in bed at less than nine o'clock at night, and he still fell asleep two and a half hours later.

According to the battle plan, after waking up, all the personnel on the battleship took a hot bath with fresh water and soap.

Of course, some people will not understand, but the officer of the battleship explained that bathing can reduce the germs on the body of the innocent novel by a large part, and if you are injured in battle, it can greatly reduce the chance of infection, so bathing is also a procedure that must be performed before naval battles.

This hot bath is not inevitable even for Emperor Hu Zhen, but on this battleship, except for the big-headed soldiers or big-headed soldiers, there are no palace maids or the like, and His Majesty the Emperor can only bathe himself by himself.

After taking a bath, the logistics staff on the battleship prepared the best breakfast for all the crew.

In order to alleviate the tension caused by the warship's frenzied training for many days, the officers and men on the battleship who have not been on operational tasks for the time being are allowed to move around at will, and they can relax by smoking in the smoking area, and at the same time, they also use gramophones and the radio system to play the most popular guzheng music in the Chinese Empire, "Qin Wang's Breaking Array Song", "Spring River Flower and Moon Night", and "High Mountains and Flowing Water", so that everyone can feel happy.

Hu Zhen felt that the music played in this wide range was many times worse than the audio equipment of the world he came from, but many officers and soldiers on the battleship listened to it with relish, after all, this kind of gramophone is not something that ordinary people can afford now, and it can only be discouraged by the salaries of ordinary officers and soldiers.

Hu Zhen looked at the look of some people who were fascinated when they heard it, so he simply grabbed the radio microphone and said with a smile: "All the officers and men pay attention, if there is a big victory in this battle, I will pay for the purchase of a gramophone, and give a gramophone to each of the officers and soldiers participating in this battle. How is it? Do you want it? ”

Hearing that His Majesty the Emperor said that he would give gifts, and that those who did not like it could receive cash, all the officers and soldiers cheered, and their morale was so high that it could not be increased.

At this time, I finally heard a soldier in charge of lookout say: "I found a large number of ships in the northeast direction, and they are rapidly heading towards this sea area!" ”

Although it had already been learned on the radio that the Pacific Fleet was being led towards the Tsushima Strait, when they heard the soldiers on the lookout say that they had found a large number of ships with smoke columns, everyone on the battleship put down what they were doing and looked due north.

Hu Zhen was on the command tower on the flagship Chang'an, and instead of following everyone to look north, he looked down to check whether everything was working with the nuclear submarine.

At this moment, a huge black shadow in the imperceptible seabed shook slightly, and released six small things with the same color as the background of the sea and sky, flying high above the sea.

This is an unmanned aerial vehicle released by Hu Zhen's nuclear submarine to monitor the entire theater in real time at a high altitude in the theater, and provide a link of measurement data for the ships of both sides to Hu Zhen's visual eye.

A voice immediately sounded in Hu Zhen's ears: "Master, all the equipment is in good order, and it can provide accurate data links for measurements!" ”

Of course, Hu Zhen could not speak in front of the officers and soldiers, but nodded his head slightly in approval.

The first thing that appeared in the sight of the officers and men was the ten cruisers and twelve destroyers led by Geng Huoyan, and then the shadow of the Pacific Fleet appeared in sight.

After a day and a night of emergency maneuvering, Geng Huoyan was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist, but he was very happy in his heart, because it could be estimated that they were very tired, and the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army, which was chasing behind, was estimated to be tired like a dog after a day and a night of tossing, and it happened to be cleaned up by his own main battleship.

"Battleship formation set sail!"

All the personnel on the battleship ran into their positions and began to act according to their duties, hundreds of posts were in place, so that the battleship was running, the steam in the steam engine was stored to the maximum, the throttle valve was opened, the steam was released from it, the impact engine rotated rapidly, and the huge kinetic energy was driven by the complex crankshaft system to drive the propeller to make the battleship move at high speed and gallop forward on the sea surface.

The eight battleships of the Huaxia Army were divided into two groups, one was four "long" battleships, led by Hu Zhen himself, and faced the enemy Pacific Fleet head-on, and the other was Zhenyuan, Dingyuan, New York, and Brooklyn, led by Zheng Dingbang and Yang Yonglin, and prepared to go around the back of the Pacific Fleet.

It turned out that at the military meeting, Hu Zhen did not adopt Yang Yonglin's proposal to concentrate all the battleships into an artillery column on the grounds of agreeing to the speed of the voyage and unifying the caliber of the main guns for better command, but decided to personally command four cutting-edge battleships to face the Pacific Fleet head-on, while the rest of the battleships cooperated in a roundabout way.

Yang Yonglin was very suspicious of this, he grabbed the wireless intercom on the Dingyuan command tower and switched to a secret channel that only high-ranking generals can use, and asked Zheng Dingbang: "Commander Zheng, will it be dangerous for the emperor to command four battleships alone and face off head-on with eight battleships of the Hubei army with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons?" ”

Who knows, Zheng Dingbang's tone was full of confidence: "General Yang, don't worry, if I and one of you command the four most powerful battleships of our army, it will be impossible to confront the Pacific Fleet head-on and win, but the emperor has no problem!" ”

Yang Yonglin felt incredulous: "Is it really so magical for the emperor to command the artillery bombardment?" ”。

"Don't believe me, just wait and see!"

"I'm just afraid of ......" Yang Yonglin wanted to say, but he was afraid that it would be too late when he saw it, but he didn't say it in the end, but asked curiously: "Where did the emperor learn to command the navy?" ”

"I don't know! Maybe this will always be a mystery? In fact, Zheng Dingbang was also very curious about where Hu Zhen's accurate artillery command was learned, but he was puzzled and could only explain it with this sentence:

"Maybe this is really innate, the emperor was sent by God to save Great Huaxia!"

"This is ......" Yang Yonglin was full of doubts, but the Pacific Fleet was already approaching, the main fleet of Huaxia was already on the sea, and a big battle was about to break out, so he didn't have more time to ask why. (To be continued.) )