Seeing the countless warships, densely packed with a large area, Li Fang's blood couldn't help but boil. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The size of the East India Fleet was much larger than I had expected, and although there was not a single battleship of tens of thousands of tons, there were far more cruisers and destroyers of several thousand tons than the Second Fleet.

At this time, the main fleet of the Second Fleet also appeared in front of Li Fang's eyes. The fleets of both sides were very large, far exceeding the scale of the Sino-Japanese War in the Yellow Sea in the East, and also exceeding the scale of the Battle of Tsushima in Luokou. The naval battle between the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Kingdom of China was already the largest naval battle in which the warships entered the steam age. The war is about to begin.

The commander of the Second Fleet, Lu Ping, followed Sun Hao, and when she saw Sun Hao standing on Cambridge in high spirits, he didn't seem to be worried about whether the Second Fleet would be able to defeat the Dutch East India Fleet.

"Commander-in-chief, the war is about to begin, although the Tang Man won a small victory in the battle patrol, but the final victory is unpredictable, please move the commander-in-chief to safety." Wang Xiaoshan, commander of the guard battalion, said on the side.

"Huh! Afraid of what? Our Second Fleet has such a strong warship, can't it protect my safety? Sun Hao looked at Lu Ping with a smile and said.

After Lu Ping heard this, he immediately straightened his chest, and then saluted and said loudly: "Report to the commander-in-chief, what Battalion Commander Wang said is very reasonable, the shells are not open, and the commander-in-chief is asked to rest in a safe place." ”

"It's all right, Commander Ben wants to see with his own eyes the victory of our Second Fleet over the Dutch East Indies fleet."

As the two sides grew closer, the Dutch East India Fleet began to force the T-shape. I saw the cruisers and destroyers of the entire East Indies fleet in an orderly manner, while the huge troop transport fleet was protected by dozens of gunboats.

Under Lu Ping's orders, the second ship also began to form a formation, preparing to fight against the Dutch East India Fleet. However, Sun Hao saw that the Second Fleet did not put on a T-shaped formation, but slightly adjusted the direction of the battleship.

Sun Hao also knew a little about the tactics of the navy, and the T-shaped tactics seemed to be very popular in the period of wooden battleships, and the T-shaped tactics were also created for the huge number of artillery groups on wooden battleships. Now that they have entered the age of steel and steam, the battleships are tactics with the main guns as the main means of attack, and the T-shaped tactics are obviously not suitable for the Second Fleet.

Although the Dutch East India Fleet was also dominated by main guns, they also installed a lot of rapid-fire guns, and if they wanted to use these rapid-fire guns, they had to use the T-shaped tactic.

About 10 kilometers away, several merchant ships from Britain and the United States were moving slowly, as if they were coming for this war.

Soon, the main battleships of the East India Fleet were only about six kilometers apart from the main battleships of the Second Fleet. The East India Fleet was no longer moving forward, but slowly sailing in parallel to keep the T-shaped tactics in play.

Five of the main battleships of the Second Fleet had already moved to the front of the fleet, six battlecruisers followed, and four battlecruisers, including the Donald, but these four battlecruisers had left the main fleet with 10 destroyers and were heading at high speed towards the rear of the East Indian Fleet.

After Sun Hao saw it, he did not interfere with Lu Ping's command, Sun Hao knew that the fleet duel was not a joke, and it had to be handed over to a professional to command. Regarding the Tangren's several battle cruisers and 10 destroyers breaking away from the main fleet, Sun Hao estimated that Lu Ping wanted to use the harassment of the enemy or use the high speed of his own warships to go around the enemy's rear to attack the enemy.

At 3:12 p.m., after Lu Ping gave the order for the first round of test firing, the battleship Zheng He opened fire first.

Rumble... Rumble! Eight cannons fired, their huge muzzles glowing with orange-red flames, and eight shells slammed into the East Indian Fleet with a sharp whistling.

The eight main guns fired a salvo together, and the huge recoil shifted the Zheng He, a giant ship with a displacement of more than 30,000 tons, by about one meter, but this time there was no phenomenon of sailors falling.

It was the first time for Sun Hao to feel the power of the giant ship's cannon, even if he was holding the guardrail with both hands, he could still feel the huge recoil just now.

The firing of the flagship means that the war has begun, and the other battleships, battle cruisers, cruisers, and destroyers have begun the first round of test firing.

Rumble... Rumble! The sound of artillery continued, and the shells of the Second Fleet rained down on the East Indian Fleet.

Admiral Odyssco, commander of the East India Fleet, looked at the Second Fleet with his eyebrows locked, although he knew that the warships of the Second Fleet of Huaxia were very large, and the caliber of the main guns far exceeded the caliber of all the warships in service in the world, but the Second Fleet began to fire at such a distance, could it be that the main guns of the Second Fleet of Huaxia were so high?

Hahaha! "Did the commander of the Second Fleet of Huaxia have his head broken by a door clip? If they fire at such a distance, are they blowing up fish? Adjutant Mexie said with a disdainful smile.

Admiral Odyssko was very unhappy with this adjutant Mexi, how could Huaxia be able to build such a huge warship, how could an incompetent person be the commander of the Second Fleet?

The fact that the Second Fleet began to test fire at such a long distance proved that the effective strike distance of the Chinese Navy had far exceeded that of the Dutch East India Fleet. Whether it is artillery technology, main gun range, and accurate strike capability, the Chinese Navy may have been ahead of other countries.

Thinking that this Chinese Chinese is the descendant of the Ming Dynasty, Admiral Odysscot can't help but think of the sea fleet that spanned the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years, and it was a super warship with a displacement of tens of thousands of tons.

At that time, the largest warship in the West was only more than 2,000 tons of displacement, and the Ming Dynasty already had such powerful warships, which is enough to show that the Ming Dynasty is far ahead of other countries in ship-building capabilities. Now that the descendants of the Ming Dynasty have developed for hundreds of years, it seems reasonable that their shipbuilding technology is ahead of all countries in the world.

Admiral Odysscot thought that the three cruisers of the patrol team had been sunk, and the patrol commander even sent a telegram saying that the opposing warships had always maintained a distance of about 10,000 meters to open fire, and their ability to strike accurately at more than 10,000 meters was no less than that of the Netherlands at a strike distance of about 6,000 meters. Thinking of this, Admiral Odysscoke couldn't help but worry.

If the warships of Huaxia's Second Fleet have the ability to use ultra-long-range precision strikes, making this T-shaped tactic by yourself is completely an act of seeking death. Even if the number of the East India Fleet was to outnumber the other side, it would be difficult to win the final victory, and if you want to win the victory, you can only take advantage of the numerical advantage, charge close to the Second Fleet and open fire.

Thinking of this, Admiral Odysscot slapped himself on the head, and then immediately ordered the cancellation of the T-shaped tactic and drove close to the Second Fleet at full speed.

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