The oncoming breath was filled with the smell of the sea, and although Lu Xun was completely convinced that his ship was sailing with the wind, the head-on wind brought by the high speed of the sea ship made him almost think that he was sailing against the wind. The cold sea breeze in the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info was like a cold and piercing blade, which made his face ache and pain, and always added a few traces of wind and frost to him unintentionally. After staying at sea for so many years, the originally personable and weak man has gradually disappeared, and a decisive and clever fox quietly appeared in people's eyes. "The ...... of the most outstanding naval commander in Eastern Wu" and "the only man who can use trickery to suppress the Tang navy......" These are the names people call him, of course, he himself doesn't care much about such titles. Because he knows that these are things that have nothing to do with war, with victory, and for these things, he generally does not care.

The warfleet seems to have entered the range of Liaodong all the way to the north, and the sea here is different from the south, as if there is a faint yellowish color in the blue, which may be the origin of the so-called "Yellow Sea" nickname. This is not their destination at the moment, but just a halfway point on their trip. For them, no matter how novel the color of the sea is, what they want is not to enjoy the scenery of the sea, but to quickly pass through here, to the north, and then to the north, to the direction of Liaodong. It's a plan for today, and it can be considered a gamble. After all, it was unprecedented to cross most of China's waters to attack a method they had never seen before, without receiving supplies on the way. Not to mention any combat missions or the like, their voyage itself was an adventure -- an adventure to open up new routes.

“…… To be honest, if I hadn't gotten these equipment from Tang Guo, even if I thought of this, I wouldn't have dared to do it. Unlike now, although our trip is very risky, there is still a chance of success. Speaking of which, I really admire our enemies. Lu Xun said with a sigh. At this moment, he stood on the bow of the flagship, looking at the sea in front of him with a crystal cylinder, half sighing, half helplessly, the sea breeze pulled his clothes aggressively, outlining his slightly emaciated, but not thin body, which made people involuntarily impressed by his chic.

"Each other is his master. …… The world can no longer go on in chaos, and only reunification is what everyone is looking forward to. The hearts of the people are like this, and we have no intention of saying anything more, but we confirm that it will be our Majesty who will unify the world in the end. Jiang Xiu said eloquently, he had no doubts about the success of the upcoming attack, and he was very sure: "This blow will change the whole world ......."

"Change the world?" Lu Xun pondered the meaning of Jiang Xiu's words, and nodded lightly: "This is indeed true......"

Although on the surface, Cao Wei was responsible for the land and Sun Wu was responsible for the sea, but whether it was on land or at sea, both sides invariably sent their most profitable generals, such as Zhuge Ke, Han Dang, Xu Sheng, Zhu Zhi, Zhu Huan, Ling Tong and other generals, and Cao Wei also sent Gongsun Heng, Cao Ju and other most elite generals in Cao Wei's naval army. Judging from the lineup of the generals sent by both sides and the style of the soldiers who said it, Cao Wei and Sun Wu were Li Sheng's big strokes and ruthlessness, and they seemed to want to completely eliminate Li Sheng in this battle.

Will this be successful? For these, Lu Xun is not clear. The so-called "seven points of personnel, three points of destiny", what he Lu Xun can do is to complete the personnel as much as possible, and use the "mandate of heaven" to the greatest extent, which is already the limit of what a person can do.

The huge fleet consisted of hundreds of warships, perhaps because the alliance between the two countries was not as close as imagined, perhaps in order to be able to exert the strength of each general to the greatest extent, or perhaps to make the fleet easier to command, in short, this large fleet was obviously divided into several levels: Lu Xun let the Jiangdong army fight in the front, put the fleet of the Wei State in the rear, and arranged his own team with the structure of two geese marching formations. The reason for using the geese marching array was to balance the speed of the various types of warships in the fleet, and Lu Xun arranged the heavy battleships in the center of the fleet, and the faster warships on the two wings of the fleet to form combat effectiveness. Although it had been recognized that the battle line was indeed the best array for artillery warfare, neither Cao Wei's side nor Sun Wu's side fully accepted the layout of the battle line and set it as their only formation. This may be the so-called: the power of tradition.

After attacking the port of Jilong in Li Tang ten days earlier, the fleet embarked on a direct voyage north with a complete replenishment of war supplies. They knew that it was possible for Li Sheng to ambush themselves on the predetermined route, so they deviated from the predetermined route and sailed into a completely unknown sea area, sailing silently in a blue environment on the left and right. The Exponential Horse Clipper was released a hundred miles away, and they avoided all the guys who might appear in the direction of their voyage.

After sailing like this for ten days, Lu Xun estimated that he should already be able to see the ground, but what appeared in front of him was still the endless sea.

"Did something go wrong?" Lu Xun asked his star arithmetic officer sharply. The so-called star arithmetic officer is actually a combination of a calculator and a stargazer, using the method of arithmetic to solve the problem of navigation. This is not the first time, in fact, since the development of navigation as a large-scale activity from Li Sheng's hands, the industry of star calculation has been helping the development of the entire navigation industry. It's just that in the past, the astrological arithmetic was in an auxiliary nature, but now this astrological arithmetic is used as a means of navigation. This is a completely new attempt.

"Maybe it's a little off. After all, we don't have much information. But I can assure you that if we go east as planned, we will be able to see Vladivostok in about six days. Errors can cost us three to eight days, though. The star arithmetic officer said eloquently. Although there is a deviation due to insufficient intelligence, the distance of this deviation is roughly how much it is, and the star arithmetic officer himself knows very well.

"Three to eight days? That's also acceptable. Lu Xun muttered to himself, seemingly a little relieved, but in fact he was very uneasy. Almost at the same time that the star reckoner reported the time of the deviation, he had already confirmed that this attack was not as simple as attacking Jilong Harbor. "Vladivostok is still too far away from us." He sighed. Because it was too far away, Sun Wu's side might have sent spies deep into the sea kladivostok. As a result, they could not get the help of the traitor in today's sneak attack, and the help of the traitor was a very important means for them to capture Jilong that day.

As he spoke, he suddenly froze his eyes, and the crystal cylinder in his hand slammed into the air. Soon he saw something like this, a ball that seemed to be very large hanging high in the air, and at the bottom of the ball was a fire burning, and at the bottom of the fire was a huge basket. It was a manned basket, and Lu Xun unexpectedly saw that there was another person in the basket who was holding a crystal cylinder about the same size as the one in his hand.

"Damn it. This is Li Shengjun's spy. Lu Xun said viciously. Although he had never seen such a thing, and he couldn't help but be very curious about what people could bring to the sky, he still held back the trembling in his heart and confirmed the true function of such a thing, the other party was using this strange manned thing to observe the arrival of his fleet, which meant that this place was extremely close to the location of Vladivostok.

"The whole fleet is ready to fight!" Suddenly remembering something, Lu Xun couldn't help but shout loudly. There is no way to do this, since the other party's spies appear here, then there may be two possibilities: one, this place is already very close to Vladivostok, and you can see the land as long as you go a little ahead; Second, there is still some distance from Vladivostok, but Li Shengjun's fleet is near here, so the other side can use such means.

As things stand, the first seems unlikely. No matter how weak Lu Xun is about the ability of his subordinates, he still sees the judgment of the star calculator and the location of Vladivostok very clearly, so he doesn't think that he can reach Vladivostok by going north without seeing any land.

Since it's not the first point, that's the second point. Although it is a terrible thing to have such a possibility, Lu Xun still has to admit that this possibility is the greatest. He quickly judged it and made a temporary decision to fight the other party. "Destroy their fleet before taking down their military port." Lu Xun thinks so. In his opinion, the threat of the fleet to himself is much greater than that of the military port. The military port is only a place for supply defense, while the fleet is the site for attack. What Lu Xun was most afraid of was that when he attacked the military port with all his might, he did not block the opponent's fleet in the military port, but was fled by the other party outside the military port, forming a face-to-face attack on himself. This is simply a disaster for him, and naturally it is absolutely unacceptable.

"It's a big fight. But it's a big battle that we have to face. Although everything is completely different from what we imagined, it is also imaginable. After all, what we thought was too good, but it was not very suitable for the reality of the battlefield. Lu Xun sighed and said. This was said to Jiang Xiu beside him. If Lu Xun exists as the leader in front of the entire fleet, then Jiang Xiu is one of Lu Xun's hands and feet. Lu Xun's orders needed to be fulfilled through the captains of the detachment such as Jiang Xiu, so that he wanted to let them know as much as possible what he was thinking. In Lu Xun's view, only by letting his subordinates understand their thoughts and thoughts, and concentrating with themselves, can their plans be implemented perfectly. Of course, such an idea is obviously just a good idea in the current situation, and the poor communication between the detachments makes it impossible for his ideas to be realized, but Lu Xun doesn't seem to care about this, he completely holds an attitude of doing as much as he can to do everything in front of him, what he cares about is whether he has done it or not.

"In other words, what we are experiencing right now is neither the worst nor the best?" Although Jiang Xiu didn't know much about the origin of Lu Xun's orders, he trusted Lu Xun's judgments very much. Because the current Lu Xun is completely different from Lu Xun four years ago, Lu Xun at that time was just a "fledgling" novice, although he had the ability but was still not very popular, but at this moment Lu Xun is that they are completely worthy of the leader, they have an inexplicable superstition about Lu Xun, and this superstition is based on Lu Xun's own calculations. In Jiang Xiu's eyes, it is precisely because of Lu Xun's command that the Soochow Navy has developed little by little to today's trembling point over the years. Jiang Xiu saw all this in his eyes and remembered it in his heart. It was precisely because of this convincing past that he did not have any doubts about Lu Xun's orders at this moment, nor did he discount it in any way. He quickly conveyed the order.

Soon the tricolor flag was raised on the mast of the battleship, and the order of the chief general to the entire fleet was announced. For a moment, people who didn't know what was going on but knew that they had to obey orders took action. Under the order of the flag, the original wild goose marching array began to be mobilized, and the fast battleships arranged on the two flanks increased their speed, stretched the formation of the entire fleet into a straight line, and turned the bow of the ship to form a battle line -- as far as they could see, Li Shengjun had always emphasized that the battle line formation was precisely the formation that could be formed to maximize the gunboat firepower when the two sides were not in full contact. At the moment, they have not made contact with Li Shengjun's fleet, and they have not entered a state of hand-to-hand combat, so they naturally have to arrange such a formation.

The strange thing rose in the west-northish direction, and Lu Xun naturally judged that his enemy was in that direction. He immediately commanded the fleet to sail in the direction, and after a distance of about ten miles, he gave another order: "Take the fleet of the Soochow part as the main force and attack head-on; As for the Cao Wei part of the fleet, it was a surprise attack on the enemy from the right side. It was the east wind that was blowing at this moment, and he saw through the crystal cylinder the faintly revealing mast in the sea ahead, so he gave the order.

After traveling for more than ten miles, the formation of the opposite place naturally appeared in front of Lu Xun and others: more than two battleships were standing in front of them in four geese marching formations, roughly arranged in a diamond shape, except for the battleships in the first formation in front of them were all cruisers, the other battleships were all light and heavy formations, and during the period, I saw a lot of small boats with only the style of shallow horizontal gunboats, but it seemed that they were the offshore fleet of Vladivostok. Lu Xun judged that Li Shengjun had already mobilized all the warships of Vladivostok here, and it seemed that he wanted to have a decisive battle at sea with himself.

"Hmph...... That's exactly what I want! Lu Xun thought so, but issued an order: "The whole fleet acts according to the plan!" ”

At that moment, the more than 200 warships of his own formation lined up in a neat formation, like a meteor piercing the sky, and went diagonally towards the Tang army's main formation. Why do you have a slash? This is because the formation listed by Li Shengjun on the opposite side is a diamond-shaped formation, its formation is thick, and it is a strict formation, and it can be expanded into a battle line at any time. Lu Xun is a schemer, so naturally he will not do such a thankless thing.

His current idea was to accelerate with a diagonal charge, and then use the method of turning when the enemy was engaged, and then turn sideways. Although all these things will be more or less hit first in the end of the war, Lu Xun plans to use the big ship to open the way, and use the thick armor of the big ship to resist such a blow, so that his strength will not be greatly damaged. After all, the cross-section of the diagonal line is a little smaller, but after all, it is also a line, which is very different from the point of the straight line.

The fleet struck at such an angle that the two sides naturally formed a figure of eight. Because it was half a smooth wind, the speed of the warship was very fast, but in half an hour, the distance between the two sides was shortened from the original one hundred and eighty miles to less than ten miles now.

"Perhaps...... I'll be able to get in touch with each other in a while. Well, after a while, I'll have to trust and remind these people on my side. Seeing that the distance between the two sides is getting shorter and shorter, estimating how much time is left for the two sides to come to the "critical point" for five miles, Lu Xun thought so.

Although the technology of artillery has improved in the past three years, and the firing range has been much longer than before, considering that artillery must be in a certain number and scale in order to form a powerful combat force, the current distance between the two sides is only one and a half miles from the original one and a half miles to the current two miles. This seems to have become a rule, at least for now, Lu Xun has not received any news or rumors about what this rule has broken. Therefore, Lu Xun still doesn't know the entire battle situation according to his original cognition at the moment. There was nothing wrong with doing this, but he ignored one point, the artillery was originally developed by Li Sheng's side, and it always occupied the highest score in technology. Lu Xun has never seen an artillery with a maximum range of more than three miles, but it does not mean that this kind of artillery does not exist. Although Li Sheng, as the emperor, is not a very formal technician from the bottom up, especially in the research and development of artillery and weapons, he from later generations fully understands some very key and very practical points, and he can say some very simple truths, and these truths are often of immediate help to the development of technology, just like now.

Just when Lu Xun was still six miles away from Li Tang's formation, the rumbling cannon burst out in the side of Li Tang's fleet. The sound of the cannon is very deep and heavy, and people can feel the compelling force from afar.

"What are they doing?" Lu Xun thought like this, his thoughts flashed in his mind, and he quickly heard a few whistling sounds quickly approaching from the place where the cannon sounded, and then drilled into the sea of his fleet less than twenty zhang, and burst out a few waves that were more than three zhang high.

"What? How powerful is it at such a distance? Seeing this scene, Lu Xun was dumbfounded, but he remembered one thing very well: it was a full seven miles away from the opponent's middle formation to himself, and he was still in motion. It's amazing that the other party can pose such a threat to himself from such a distance.

Lu Xun, who had already dealt with Li Sheng a lot and had already realized what such a gap represented, couldn't help but feel a little gloomy in his heart. What does it mean to be beaten and not fight back? This is what I am right now. And if he doesn't fight back when he is beaten, it's not because he's willing, but because his skills are not as good as his talents.

"Scuffle, do you want to fight this battle? If there are enough of these cannons on Li Sheng's side, I'm afraid that we won't have enough ships. Looking at the column of water inspired by the landing point of the cannonball just now, Lu Xun was almost sure that the cannonball fired by the other party's cannon was the kind of powerful explosive projectile - this kind of projectile had a strong striking ability for his own warship. Not to mention those ordinary small ships, even a giant battleship like himself can't withstand the bombardment of those dozen or twenty guns. "Damn, speed it up, speed it up." Lu Xun didn't know what the rate of fire of this cannon was, but he still chose a very orthodox way to deal with it, that is, through the speed of his own battleship, he rushed to the range where he could attack the enemy to deal with them.

However, traditional methods often lead to non-traditional means to deal with them. In fact, from the moment Lu Xun saw the huge skin in the air, he should have expected that the enemy he faced this time would be several times more difficult to deal with than before. You must know that Vladivostok is the largest shipyard in Li Tang's side, and the various technologies in it are naturally the top in Li Sheng's army, and it is not strange to develop some epoch-making things that have been made because of Li Sheng's suggestion. In fact, what is striking at Lu Xun and the others at the moment are the three semi-finished warships of the "Tianshen" class that are being newly equipped by Li Sheng's Beiyang fleet.

The so-called "semi-finished" battleships naturally refer to the kind of battleships that have not been built at all. Although the warships that are currently exerting such combat power in Li Sheng's army are indeed very powerful, they are indeed "half-finished" in terms of their fundamentals. However, their so-called "semi-finished products" are entrusted to Li Sheng's understanding of the main ships of naval warfare in later generations, which are not at all things of this era: armored hulls, rear-loading rapid-fire guns, flowering shells, cone-type projectiles, rifled technology, rotatable main gun bases, armor protective belts, ......etc., these technologies that appeared only after a thousand or seven hundred years in the later generations, but now they appear in the naval battlefields of these three countries because of Li Sheng's existence.

Of course, these appearances are all greatly discounted: first of all, the armored hull is not a seamless battleship, but the use of the chain ship technology that can now be achieved to connect and cast five 10,000-stone battleships together, and the external iron armor piece, as armor, compared to the warships of later generations, even the so-called iron wood ribs can not be said, can only be regarded as a pure shoddy product, due to the incongruity of the battleship itself and the lack of flow, it is conceivable that such a hull, What kind of shortcomings will there be in terms of speed; The second rear-loading rapid-fire gun used the idea of a revolver -- from the very beginning, Li Sheng's side developed this as an oversized revolver.

Although in the process of development, because of the actual needs of cannon combat, many special technologies belonging to cannons have been added, such as: cannon elevation angle adjustment technology, etc., but in terms of the principle of this cannon itself, it is really a first-class thing of revolver. And this is still some verification cannon at all. Because many of the current technologies cannot meet Li Sheng's original requirements, after seeking many considerations, this kind of artillery formed has not been developed at all. It does not have the power of artillery at all, but the reality of the crane that Li Sheng saw in later generations. In fact, it was indeed a crane, but it was not hoisted by anything else, but by the long, deep barrel. In the case of using the best steel to cast the barrel, the barrel of Li Sheng's current rear-loading rapid-fire gun is twice that of the original ordinary artillery barrel, and for such a long barrel, it is obviously inappropriate to use manpower to adjust its pitch angle firing range, so Li Sheng added a hammock mechanism to them, and used a pulley mechanism to save manpower consumption.

Obviously, this is the most perfect design that can now be achieved. As for some other functions such as the laying of the brake rail, the protection of the circular female wall, and the construction of the rotatable base, etc., as in the case of this cannon, the weight of the cannon had to be increased in order to achieve the function, or the weight of the turret was increased. Although they were all influenced by another hint from Li Sheng, using a parallel artillery construction, the entire turret still weighed 3,000 stones. Even with the hull of the large chain ship that Li Sheng is currently using, such a weight still greatly limits the arrangement of this turret. So much so that on the current "Tianshen-class" battleship, Li Sheng only arranged one or three quadruple turrets in the front two and one or three in the rear and a certain number of side guns.

In terms of the number of artillery pieces alone, the "Celestial-class" artillery is only the scale of twelve new guns and twenty side-mounted guns, but because of the existence of those twelve new guns, the combat power of the "Celestial-class" battleship is above that of any ordinary battleship. Although the speed of the battleship is not too fast due to the hull of the battleship itself and the influence of the deep draft, the existence of eighteen masts and twenty-four sails and the propulsion of two armored water wheels also allow such a battleship to have a certain degree of maneuverability, even if this maneuverability is only at the level of ordinary heavy battleships, but compared to the huge volume of the Celestial-class, it is not bad.

"Pangu", "Nuwa", and "Fuxi", these are the names of these three warships. As the only warship that can directly attack the opponent from seven miles away, and the attack interval is only half of that of ordinary warships, they can indeed afford such a name. They are the product of Li Sheng's comprehensive consideration of "firepower, armor, and mobility" at the beginning, and they can be regarded as quite "modern" warships. Of course, the cost of such a battleship is also very expensive, although it is only a "semi-finished product", but its cost is already comparable to ten ten thousand stone-class battleships. Originally, they were only tested on the nearby sea north of Vladivostok, and they were not in the regular battle sequence of the Beiyang Fleet, but the current battle to defend the Vladivostok military port had to involve them as well. After all, this battleship contains too many secrets, too many things have been verified, and more importantly, with the capabilities of these three warships alone, there is no way to sail from Vladivostok in the north to Guangzhou in the south in the face of headwinds. Rather than let him be captured on the slipway, it would be better to make the most of it and let it join the battle.

If the skin does not exist, can the hair be attached?