Provincial sky. Calm sea with good visibility. This is the Yellow Sea, the waters of the Eastern Ocean, the sea of Jiaozhou Bay, less than 50 nautical miles from Qingdao, a German lease.

A fleet is sailing from south to north, the voyage is not fast, but the distance between ships is very close, although there are not many warships, only seven, and the displacement is not large, the largest is only the cruiser class, but in this dense formation situation, in close observation, there is still some momentum.

This is the Chinese Navy's "task force exercise fleet", led by the protective cruiser "Sea Fold". They were followed by the protective cruiser "Sea Depth" and the protective cruiser "Sea Chip Protection Cruiser" Hairong. "Light cruiser" Fei Hong ", destroyer "Fei Ting. "Destroyer" Flying Eagle. Among these seven large and small warships, except for the light cruiser "Feihong," which is temporarily under the command of the Navy's First Detachment, the other six warships are all from the Navy's Xi'er Detachment, and the Chinese Navy now has so many modern warships at its disposal, and this task force exercise fleet is now under the command of Huang Zhongmo, commander of the Navy's Second Detachment.

The reason why the naval task force exercise fleet will appear in the sea of the eastern ocean of Jiaozhou Bay is because a joint maritime military exercise will be held here, and the participating parties are the Chinese Navy task force and the German special task force to visit China, and this military exercise will be carried out for two days, and the subject of today's exercise is maritime escort and wartime high seas inspection, and the chief director of the exercise is the German Governor of Jiaozhou Bay, Rear Admiral Trumai, and the president of the Republic of China, Zhao Bei, will serve as the chief referee of the military exercise.

This naval exercise will be the first large-scale joint military exercise between the Chinese Navy and a foreign navy, and the air force will also participate in the naval exercise for the first time.

In today's naval exercise, Huang Zhongmo will command the task force exercise fleet to play the role of an "enemy fleet," and he will command the fleet to "attack" a German transport fleet, and then the German escort fleet, which has received a telegram asking for help, will quickly arrive to disperse the "enemy fleet" by "fighting more with less." Considering that the strength of the Chinese fleet is not strong, there will be no German battleships in today's escort exercise, and the German warships "participating in the battle" are also cruisers, namely the light cruiser "Bremen," the light cruiser "Königsberg," and The light cruiser "Emden", the former dreadnought "Wittesbach", the former dreadnought "Hesse", and the mine-laying cruiser "Albatross" will be used as a seat ship carrying the chief director of the exercise and the exercise magistrate, and will sail on the side close to the six places.

In fact, in Huang Zhongyan's view, this kind of exercise arrangement of the Germans was really the result of the chauvinistic sentiment of the great powers. The warships of the Chinese fleet are generally old, slow, and in poor condition, far inferior to those new German cruisers. ", "Königsberg", "Emden" were designed from the beginning to be based on attack ships, and it would be most appropriate for them to play the role of the raiding fleet, but the Germans clearly did not intend to arrange it this way.

Of course, Hwang Jong-seo did not show any dissatisfaction, and there were two main reasons for this: the first. The reason is the support of the president. Because the president has expressed his strong interest in "breaking the battle at sea" more than once, he has long been urging the Admiralty to formulate a detailed naval assault operation plan and corresponding tactical arrangements. The second reason. Since the First Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Navy has not fought a naval battle, and the young naval officers are extremely lacking in actual combat experience, so this naval military confrontation exercise with the German Navy is a valuable opportunity for the Chinese Navy to see the gap with the naval power, so that the Chinese Navy can intuitively see the gap with the naval power, so as to sum up experience, so no matter what purpose the Germans go out of to let the Chinese fleet play the role of the "enemy fleet", they are actually helping the Chinese Navy realize where their own gap lies. Of course, Huang Zhongshy will not be angry because of the problem of the role.

That's why. Huang Zhongheng not only did not complain, but devoted himself to preparing for the war. After leading the fleet to Jiaozhou Bay yesterday, he has been urging his subordinates to inspect equipment and wipe weapons in anticipation of the upcoming fierce "naval battle." "If the German fleet does not come, it will be enough, and if it does, Huang Zhongxu intends to give them more and less fights, no matter how arrogant the Germans are, the Chinese naval officers and men will let them remember this naval military exercise.

It is now eight o'clock in the morning, and according to the exercise, the merchant fleet that plays the role of "transport fleet" will leave the Qingdao dock at about nine o'clock, and then it is time for Huang Zhongxu and his fleet to play. The routes are confidential. Either south or north, Huang Zhongio must send a reconnaissance ship to reconnoitre.

Zhen Zhongmo had already sent a reconnaissance ship just now, but it was not an ordinary reconnaissance ship, but an aircraft carrier, the name of the ship "Clairvoyant" is an old merchant ship converted into a warship, with a full load displacement of 4,000 tons, loaded with four seaplanes with pontoons, relying on the ship's two cranes to release and recover on the sea, except for a few machine guns on board there is no other armament. Moreover, because it was remodeled from an old merchant ship, the voyage was relatively slow, and the whole voyage was only eight knots, but because it relied on aircraft for reconnaissance, its reconnaissance efficiency was much higher than that of reconnaissance ships.

This "aviation reconnaissance ship" was modified by the general manager of the Republic of China himself, and the name of the ship was also named after the general play. Today's exercise will be the first public appearance of this new type of warship, and as for whether the naval officers of the German fleet will be surprised by this, Huang Zhongyan is not sure, after all, all countries have greatly strengthened their aviation construction in the past two years, and it is difficult to say that there are no warships of similar purpose in the German navy.

However, Huang Zhongmo knew that at least the Japanese fleet was very interested in the "clairvoyant," and since he led the fleet to leave the Dagu anchorage, the Japanese warships had tracked all the way from Dagu to Qingdao, and until Huang Zhongheng and the "Feihong" heading north from Shanghai joined up in Jiaozhou Bay, the Japanese warships still showed no signs of leaving.

The two Japanese warships were also old-fashioned warships, one was the second-class cruiser "Takachiho", and the other was the second-class cruiser "Akitsuzu", these two Japanese warships participated in the Battle of Dadonggou in the Sino-Japanese War that year, and because of the age of the ships, they were classified as second-class cruisers by the Japanese Navy shortly after the war. Compared with the "four seas" of the Chinese Navy, these two Japanese warships are somewhat backward in performance.

Originally, the two Japanese second-class cruisers were just swimming back and forth in the nearby sea, monitoring the Chinese fleet's every move, and later the Chinese fleet sent out "clairvoyants." The two Japanese warships were like sharks that smelled fishy smells, and they quickly pounced, trying to get closer and take a closer look, so theoretically speaking, the Japanese Navy had the intelligence that the Chinese Navy had been equipped with aircraft carriers earlier than the German Navy.

Now, the Japanese ship "Takachi-sama." The warship was still approaching to reconnoiter the "Clairvoyant," and flashes of light broke out from time to time on the deck and bridge of the warship, and it was the Japanese soldiers taking pictures of the "Claireye," while the other Japanese ship, the "Akitsuzu," had already turned the rudder and headed north, but it was not known whether it intended to immediately transmit detailed information about the "Clairvoyant" back to Japan.

Although it is not clear about the intentions of the Japanese warships, Huang Zhongmo knows that the two Japanese warships are now frantically shooting wireless telegraphies, which can be judged from the radio signals intercepted by the telegraph room of the "Haiyi", but because those wireless telegraphs are coded, it is impossible to know the exact content of the telegrams, nor is it certain whether they are in contact with the telegraph network on the six grounds, considering that the current wireless telegraph communication distance is not far, and the telegraph relay stations set up by the Chinese side along the coast will not serve the Japanese warships. Then the biggest possibility is that the two Japanese warships are in contact with each other.

Huang Zhongmo is not worried about taking on the charge of "leaking secrets", because this time "clairvoyance. The high-profile exposure is stepping out of the direct arrangement of the center. In the telegram to the Admiralty, Zhao Bei made it clear that the "Clairvoyant" should be allowed to participate in this Sino-German joint military confrontation exercise, so that foreign governments should understand that the current squadron is no longer the kind of army that only has rifles and artillery in the past, and that this armed force has mastered some key technologies of modern warfare, and moreover, they are fully confident that they will lead the trend of the military technological revolution and use technical means to narrow the distance between them and the military powers, and they may not have a place on the stage of world wars in the future. Whether for European countries or American countries, China's military will become a force to be reckoned with, which is a huge variable for the international strategic landscape.

"Change the newspaper and ask if the "clairvoyant" has ascertained the situation at the port? ”

Huang Zhongio stood on the bridge, holding a telescope, and looked at the "Clairvoyant" a few nautical miles away, and now a plane was landing on the sea near the warship, obviously, it had brought back reconnaissance information, so he gave an order to an adjutant beside him.

Then, Huang Zhongxu raised the telescope again. Take a closer look at the one that is still "clairvoyant." At this time, one of his naval officers on the other side was also standing on the open bridge, holding a telescope and looking at the "Hai Analysis", perhaps also looking at Commander Huang.

Huang Zhongxu graduated from Fuzhou Shipbuilding School. It was the fifteenth cadet of the driving class, at that time, it was a year, the Sino-French War had just ended, and he failed to catch up with the Battle of Mawei, which was both fortunate and unfortunate, and the fate of the soldiers was on the battlefield, Huang Zhongheng understood this. During this period, he successively interned on warships such as "Jingyuan Weiyuan Kangji" of the Beiyang Naval Division, and completed his advanced studies in the Weihaiwei Liugong Island Gun School, and then, he was lucky and unfortunate to catch up with the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, and at that time, he was the Beiyang Naval Division "Jiyuan." Navigator of the protective cruiser.

As a first-hand witness to the Battle of Toshima and the subsequent Battle of Daidonggou, Huang Zhongio fought against the Japanese Navy many times, and he never dared to despise this formidable opponent.

The powerful Beiyang Naval Division was defeated by the Japanese Navy, so can today's Chinese Navy fight the Japanese Navy in adversity?

In this regard, Huang Zhong continued to worry about Zhong Zhong.

Japan is an island country, the navy is the foundation of its survival, and it is also the focus of its strategy, while China is a big country in the sixth, and the sixth army is the foundation of survival, and this innate gap cannot be eliminated by relying on a group of enthusiastic officers and soldiers. Read!