"The Spaniards are going to break through!" The loud report of the watchtower officer came from the microphone.

Zheng Donghe stood intently at the command tower and looked at the window, he naturally saw the black smoke billowing from the mouth of the bay in the distance, he turned to Liu Hetu who was looking at the sea chart and smiled: "General, the Spaniards are probably rabbits, we haven't done anything yet, why did we run away and walk on the shallow water...... If the ship is damaged, it won't affect our plans! ”

Liu Hetu looked up at his old partner, isn't this guy just thinking about preemptively, what he has to think about is what happens after letting the Spanish fleet bow its head, that is the key to this trip, "Donghe, don't blow up and sink other people's boats, I don't think this Cerveila is stupid, he ran the shallows because he saw that our ship was too big, so he gave it a shot!" ”

Zheng Donghe hehe, since he had already authorized himself, he naturally took the lead, he turned around and shouted towards the microphone leading to the firing command room, "Prepare for shelling...... target, 500 meters ahead of the Spanish fleet...... Hit the firepower that will make the Spanish rabbit dare not run anymore! ”

With the command room's order, the twin main guns that were accelerating the movement of the Spanish battleship had already been aimed at, and began to slowly turn the half-grid dial, and in the shooting command room that had been set up separately, a Storm III precision fire controller that occupied half of the room was already running at full speed, and on the mapping machine on the side, the lines marking the distance between the two sides and the rate of change in position were slowly drawn.

The Storm III precision fire control platform configured on the Sky Wolf Battle Patrol was originally a new product that had been improved for more than a year, and the accuracy of the production was already more than 1/40 of the compass point. Today Germany is equipped with a shooting commander. Already ahead of its British counterpart. The accuracy of its equipment for ranging and biasing is still at a quarter to one-sixth compass point, not to mention that the fire control platform and the shooting commander are originally two products with a generation difference.

The observer officer had already reported the results of the ranging in a loud voice, and at the same time began to input the real-time number jù into the dial at the ranging point, "Ranging, enemy ship, 7433 meters, 1 time...... 7454m, 2 ...... 7398 meters. 3 times! ”

The long-awaited rangefinder officer had already rotated the dial to input the rangefinder jù into the system, and the distance marker operated by the rangefinder immediately calibrated the initial distance in the form of ink dots on the huge drawing on the side of the platform.

"The relative position of the enemy ship, -11, -17.8, course angle 65.11 degrees...... Complete! At the same time, the enemy ship's orientation plotter officer gave the opposite position of the enemy ship at the moment, and at the same time, the input was quickly completed through the guò direction adjustment handle.

"Wind direction, 61 degrees north-west. Wind speed forecast of 12.8 m/s, strong wind condition. Complete! The Wind Deviation Calculator officer quickly completed the setup and pressed the ready button.

"The distance change rate is 1.05, stable dìng!"

“……”

In less than 10 seconds, the reports in the firing command room came and went, and the green light bulbs on the storm fire control platform were lit up one by one, and a set of shooting parameters had been displayed on the dashboard, and as the core of the entire fire control platform, the battleship shooting commander needed not only superb command art, but also accurate judgment and bold decision.

Lieutenant Colonel Wu Hongyuan, commander of the battleship Sky Wolf, looked at the fleeing Spanish fleet on the sea level in the distance, and immediately issued his combat order, "Shoot at the base angle at the elevation angle, disperse 1 scale, and shoot a single shot!" ”

Almost at the same time as the order was given, the red light for all the gun emplacements to continue was already on, and the other two firing officers immediately pressed the electric button for the shelling!

Rumble...... Rumble...... Rumble......

At 9:03 a.m. on March 2, the 13th Rapid Fleet, which was rapidly cutting to the periphery of Matanzas Bay with a battle line, fired the first round of school shells at the target, and the 640-kilogram high-explosive shells fired by the Wolf swept over the rough sea level and smashed heavily on the channel in front of the opponent.

"The Chinese have opened fire!"

"Bastard, get back to your combat duty!"

"Prepare to fight back ......"

On the heavy cruiser Casimi, the commander of the Spanish fleet, Rear Admiral Sevila, stared at the three huge battleships in the distance (the Spaniards couldn't tell the difference between battleships and battle cruisers at all), and his face showed undisguised worry, as a senior officer in the navy, although Spain has never been equipped with heavy guns with a caliber of more than 13 inches, but the navy has always been the most open in the army, the opponent's main gun after the launch of the loud sound like a train pressing on the top and the huge waves caused by the high-explosive bomb on the water, he clearly recognized the power of the opponent's main gun!

The Gasimi Heavy Cruiser, the best of the Spanish Navy cruisers of this era, was launched only two years ago, and became the flagship of Spain in the American colonies, with a displacement of 6,200 tons, with a mainstream twin 9-inch main gun, in addition, the excellent protection ability comes from the main armor up to 9 inches of carburized steel armor, all installed in the main armor belt of 14 102mm rapid-fire guns, neat gun windows and long 42 times the diameter of the barrel, making this heavy cruiser look from afar, with a transcendent beauty.

However, the Spanish Navy, which was born in this era, although it still has the blood of a matador, has a deep regret, the once huge maritime empire has become a thing of the past hundreds of years ago, and the once powerful Spanish Armada, because of the continued instability of the domestic situation, the battleship construction plan has been stranded for as long as 8 years, and the planned construction of the Spanish-class battleship is still on paper.

Rumble...... Rumble......

Just a few hundred meters away, a violent explosion once again set off several columns of water that soared into the sky...... But compared with the earlier round of single-shot calibration, after only one round of shooting, the Chinese battleship launched a full-fire fire, from the main gun aimed at the Spanish fleet, almost at the same time, the huge recoil force, suddenly pushed the high-speed maneuvering Sirius battle patrol in the opposite direction, and a moment later, the Chinese battleship had rushed out of the dark again.

The overwhelming whistling sound and rumbling loud sound converged into a crazy war symphony, a few seconds later. Rear Admiral Sevela saw ahead of the fleet's breakout. It was cut to pieces by 3 staggered huge barrages. And the Heavy Patrol of the Garsimi is rushing at full speed towards the sea of death!

"Turn the rudder left! 15 degrees! ”

"Slow down...... Slow down ......" didn't need Cervera to warn at all, the first mate in the cockpit was already roaring loudly in anger, and at this moment, even a fool knew the result of rushing into that barrage.

"General...... The Chinese don't seem to want to hurt us, so are you thinking about talking to them? Fleet staff officer Fili on the side obviously saw the determination on the commander's face, and it was obvious that this fleet commander from a naval family was definitely likely to order to move forward. So, he had to remind him at this critical moment.

Boom Boom Boom ...... Boom......

Before Severa could make a final judgment, the third round of shelling had already roared, and the interval was ...... It was only less than 1 minute, which made the Spaniards, who normally fired at an interval of more than 2 minutes, feel incredibly immense, and this time, the most recent shell landed less than 200 meters from the bow of the heavy cruiser Gassimi!

"Slow down...... Hang out the flag, we ask for talks! "Major General Sevela faced a stern warning of the annihilation of the entire army. He finally gave up on the unrealistic idea, one way or another. It seems like a good idea to talk about it first!

And the signal sent by the Spanish fleet was immediately responded, and soon, the Spaniards put down a small steamboat, and Rear Admiral Sevela decided to go to the opposing ship in person, he really didn't understand how these damned Chinese ran to the Atlantic, and also stared at themselves, this qiē happened too unreasonable and illogical!

When the Spanish steamship slowly approached the battleship Sirius, the Spaniards of the whole ship were shocked again, the slender hull with a total length of 135 meters was completely different from the high freeboard design of the Spanish heavy cruise, and the huge main gun sticking out of the side made the whole battleship even in the situation of the 7-meter waterline, still showing a huge deterrent power that made people oppressive.

Battleships of more than 20,000 tons...... Evera's mind popped up with his first judgment, and just as the Spaniards boarded the ship, a scene appeared that stunned them, and after a strange buzzing sound in the sky, they were very surprised to see an airship throw a long rope from the sky, and then slowly land on the platform behind the bridge of this battleship!

TMD, this is too unbelievable, can there be an airship on the battleship...... Even the battleships of the British Empire had never heard of carrying such a thing! Soon, the Spaniards were once again seeing the magic of China......

Liu Hetu met the Spaniard in the command tower, and after a brief introduction, he said very neatly: "General Severa, we are here to help you, of course, first of all, it depends on whether you are worth helping, whether you are useful...... If our cooperation is completely meaningless, I advise you to immediately abandon resistance and return to Spain, otherwise your navy will become a sinking figure and a trophy for the Americans! ”

Sevela was almost ready to give the young and vigorous Chinese general the middle finger, but considering the artillery skills that the other party had just shown, he didn't plan to let the fleet sink in Matanzas right now, so he continued to listen patiently, but there was already a bit of anger on his face!

Seeing that the Spaniards were enraged, Liu Hetu smiled in his stomach, this is what he wanted, if he didn't completely make the Spanish bullboy enthusiastic, God knows if these guys would want to run back to San Diego like rabbits again!

Zheng Donghe on the side immediately jumped out, he took out a telegram that had been translated into Spanish and handed it to the Spaniard with a not very good-looking face......

"Your country is ready to participate in diplomatic mediation in the conflict between the United States and Spain...... Is this news true? The telegram was issued in the name of the Chinese government, hoping that the United States and Spain would immediately stop military operations, and that the Chinese government would jointly mediate with a number of European countries.

"General Seveira, this is the hope that your government has put forward to Beijing, but if you are completely vulnerable, even the Kingdom of Great Britain will not be able to concede to the Americans!" Liu Hetu immediately picked up the topic and said the key question. (To be continued......)