Chapter 554: It's Not Thunder
A warship is indeed a warship, and the soldiers have clearly seen that the rows of lights are indeed warships, and they are all warships. In the blur, the soldier's hand trembled, and when he suddenly saw the lights of the warship on the opposite side sweeping by, the mast fluttering was actually the Yellow Dragon Flag.
The Yellow Dragon Flag, only the navy of Liaodong, hoisted the Yellow Dragon Flag.
"The Beiyang Sailor is here." After a desolate roar, the soldier threw himself off the high lookout.
The prestige of the Beiyang Navy Division is a kind of Mount Tai in the hearts of the Japanese, and these names are so frightened that Japanese children will not dare to cry when they hear them. The soldier was also too anxious to notify the shore defense battery, but he jumped from it in a panic, you know, this is a lookout platform more than ten meters high, jumping from here, there is still life.
Fortunately, the other sailor was not as stupid as him, but grabbed his rifle from the side tremblingly, quickly loaded it, and faced the dark sky.
Smack, the sound of gunfire, which had not been heard in Tokyo for several years, was quickly transmitted throughout the entire coastal defense battery, driven by the air.
On the surface of the sea, the huge twin 300 mm main gun of the Hongzhang has begun to rotate slowly, and the sound of turret rotation is everywhere, although the sound of squeaking and rattling is harsh, but for Li He, who is now dressed in military uniform, it is a symphony that stimulates and excites people.
"Commander. The gun emplacements are ready, please instruct. The gun commander, dressed in a white sailor's suit and wearing a certain steel helmet and hat on his head, ran from the spiral ladder on the deck to Li He.
"Remember, at 1:15 a.m. on May 27, the First Fleet of Liaodong shelled Tokyo."
The recorder next to him quickly opened the notebook and wrote down what Li He said.
At 15 minutes, the gun commander raised his hand to look at his time, there were less than 5 minutes left. Without any questioning, Li He had already made clear the time of the shelling, so the gun commander ran down quickly again and began to inform the loudspeaker.
card, the time stopped at exactly 1:15.
The 300-mm cannon burst into flames of orange-red, followed by a thick white smoke blasting out of the long barrel.
The shelling of the guns of the ship Boom Hongzhang is the signal of the shelling of the entire fleet.
Suddenly, more than a dozen warships lined up in a row blew up the coastal defense batteries that had already been loaded with shells and calmed down.
Hmph, a cold snort, looking at the burning fort in the distance, a smile appeared on the corner of Li He's mouth.
Although he had not been to the fort here, he knew it well. After all, the map drawn by the Intelligence Bureau has been accurate to where the gun positions are and what bunkers are around, and what I said I need to do is to adjust the firing angle of each ship according to the coordinates.
The Beiyang Naval Division, which has installed new main guns and rapid-fire guns, is no longer the old-fashioned warship that could not fire a single shot in the past, but the 150-mm rapid-fire guns on the side of the ship have an average of six shells per minute, and the main gun has a speed of 1.5 rounds per minute, shooting out the shells.
Three rounds, three full rounds of shelling, the Japanese coastal defense batteries did not fire a single shot, or rather, there was no chance to fire the first shot.
There was a loud bang, and more than ten meters away, as soon as a column of water rising into the sky appeared in Li He's field of vision, he knew in his heart that the Japanese battery had begun to counterattack.
Quickly raising the telescope in his hand, Li He found the other party's location in one fell swoop.
"Order all ships to shell each other at the flash."
The place where the flash is must be the location of the Japanese battery, so Li He directly ordered to hit the place where the flash was first, and then shoot at close range, after all, there is no Japanese fleet now, and the biggest threat to his fleet is nothing more than those batteries.
The faint sound of boom boom alarmed Ito Hirobumi, who had fallen asleep, turned on the light, Ito Hirobumi got up from the bed in a daze, walked to the window, opened the curtains, and he saw that from time to time in the sky, there were flashes of red light.
I haven't heard that it's going to rain, how can it be thundering, Ito Hirofumi thought for a while, then turned around and went back to his bed. Turn off the lights again and cover with a quilt.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, thunder is getting more and more urgent.
No, it didn't seem to be thunder, and when he opened his eyes suddenly, Ito Hirobumi jumped off the boat and ran to the window without even putting on his shoes and pushed it open.
Red light, roaring, it sounded, it sounded like the sound of artillery, and moreover, it was the sound of the shore defense battery.
A cold sweat broke out on Ito's face when he thought of this, and he didn't dare to think about it anymore. After all, some things, if you think about it, are crimes.
Hirofumi Ito, who took a piece of clothing from the side and put it on his body, didn't even have time to change his shoes, and began to run to the Prime Minister's Office not far away.
Panting and running to the Prime Minister's Office, he saw that Inoue Xin and several ministers had already come to the Prime Minister's Office in a panic.
"What's going on? What's going on? Hirobumi Ito asked loudly in his slippers.
No one answered his question, after all, no one knew what was going on on the side of the shore defense battery.
"Go, check it out for me." Stretching out his hand, Ito Hirobumi angrily pointed at the attendant standing beside him and yelled loudly......
"Hey." Seeing the Prime Minister's devouring expression, the attendant ran out in a panic, quickly climbed a horse, and began to gallop through the night.
"Put."
The main cannon of the Boom Chapter, once again spewed out two orange-red flames.
The main warship is the main warship, since the Hongzhang joined the Beiyang Naval Division, live firing, this is the first time, Li He standing on the bridge can clearly feel that whenever the Hongzhang volley, the huge thrust can actually push the Hongzhang of more than 10,000 tons back more than two meters away.
The huge artillery fire of the Hongzhang made Li He can't help but cover his ears with his hands, and William, who was standing next to him, opened his mouth even wider, looking at the two guns in a daze.
That was the artillery he most wanted to have, but alas, such a warship could not be found in the German fleet.
Sometimes, he thinks that if his own fleet or his country's fleet has such a good warship in Liaodong, how can it be suppressed by the British, such a warship, even if it encounters one enemy and two enemies, it means victory, after all, this firepower, this armor is here.
"Report, the other side's shore defense has been suppressed by me." A staff officer said loudly after putting down the binoculars in his hand.
"Order, all ships arrive and shoot at close range, targeting Tokyo City."