"Battle Alert!"

"Spotting the British fleet approaching!"

"All personnel are in combat mode in five minutes!"

"Repeat, this is not a drill!"

……

The battle alarm sounded on the main mast tower of the ship island, which was the earliest mechanical megaphone, which could not transmit human voices, but could only emit the most primitive crane chirping, which was used for battle alarms, loud and poignant.

The military musicians ran to the front deck at a fast pace, putting on their white uniforms on the way, and then gathered.

The commander of the military music chorus raised the baton in his hand high, and then fell rapidly, and the loud and passionate military music sounded.

This is a military music choreographed and directed by Li Weiguo for the Chinese Shence Army, called "The Dawn of Heroes" (theme song of the Three Kingdoms), which integrates China's own erhu, guzheng, pipa and other musical instruments, as well as Western violin and other orchestral instruments. At the beginning of the song, with the momentum of swallowing mountains and rivers, people's thoughts are brought to the face of China's 5,000-year magnificent history, which not only exaggerates the cruelty of war, but also expresses endless delicate feelings. As the music progresses, it constantly pushes the historical scene to a climax, which makes people's hearts surge, and the clear and spectacular ending completely blows the heroic spirit in the depths of people's blood.

As soon as this military music was produced, it immediately aroused a warm welcome from the Chinese Shence Army, because when the soldiers heard this military music, they would instantly inspire the heroic spirit in their blood.

This is the best military music before the war, and it inspires courage and determination to defeat the enemy.

The sound of military music penetrated the cabin, and the officers and men who were resting in shifts suddenly opened their eyes, turned over and got out of bed with quick movements, quickly put on their snow-white combat uniforms, and then rushed out of the hatch.

In the cafeteria, the noise instantly stopped.

The officers and soldiers who were eating wide-eyed. Pull the food in the food box as fast as possible, and then rush out of the cafeteria and run to his combat post.

In the commander's lounge, Vice Admiral Chen Shaoyi, commander of the Chinese Navy's Pacific Fleet, arranges his military uniform in front of a mirror, and his role as Lin Jiyun's successor to the Navy's Pacific Fleet has been controversial. Not because he is not knowledgeable and experienced, but because his surname is Chen, Chen and Shen are homophonic, and the old feudal diehards think it is unlucky, so from ancient times to the present, the main general of the water master cannot be surnamed Chen.

But in the end, Lin Jiyun supported it, and Li Weiguo also recognized Chen Shaoyi's knowledge and experience, and finally overcame public opinion and made him the commander of the fleet.

Chen Shaoyi is grateful and has been waiting for the opportunity to show his ambitions. Prove to the world that the Chen family is also a hero of the sea, and it is by no means an unlucky shipwreck.

"Report to the commander, all the officers and men of the ship have assembled on the deck, please instruct!"

Chen Shaoyi nodded, took the big cap strap from the adjutant's hand, and then walked out calmly.

On the bridge, Chen Shaoyi held an iron horn and spoke loudly.

"Soldiers! Raise soldiers for a thousand days. Use the army for a while! ”

"Five years ago, our brothers in the Chinese Shence Army defeated the world's most powerful British and French army. Since then, China's Shence Army has become the strongest in the world, but our navy can only nest in the river and watch the British Navy show off its might. ”

"Now, five years later, we are honored to have met our enemy, the British Royal Navy, known as the strongest navy in the world!"

"We are honoured because we can only be number one in the world if we beat the Royal Navy. The strongest in the world! ”

"I am honored because I will personally command this battle to witness the Chinese Shence Navy to become the strongest navy in the world!"

Chen Shaoyi's impassioned pre-war mobilization was intended to boost the morale of the soldiers.

Behind Chen Shaoyi, Vice Admiral Li Weijun, a staff officer of the fleet, listened very carefully. Some appreciation.

However, in the eyes of others, they didn't think so, and soon some officers complained in Li Weijun's ear.

"Chief of Staff, the enemy fleet is already close to ten nautical miles, how can the commander still be in the mood to give a speech? You should advise him! ”

Li Weijun glanced at the officer, smiled slightly, and said, "You don't understand, the art of war is like a tiger in one drum, and then it is exhausted. The enemy fleet was ten nautical miles away from us, but the actual engagement distance was only within five thousand meters, and there were at least forty minutes left from ten nautical miles to five thousand meters. During this time, if the soldiers are kept standing in front of the artillery and staring at the enemy ship waiting for the order to open fire, it will be particularly draining, and it will cause a high degree of psychological tension after a long time. It would be better to stand here and listen to the commander's speech, to build up morale, and to enter the combat position five minutes before the start of the battle. ”

Hearing Li Weijun's explanation, the officers around him seemed to understand a little.

"That's where I'm inferior to him!"

Li Weijun sighed, originally when Lin Jiyun was promoted to the Minister of the Navy of the Ministry of War, Li Weijun could have served as the commander of the fleet by virtue of the qualifications of the chief of staff of the fleet, but unfortunately he was finally defeated by Chen Shaoyi, Li Weijun was not angry at first, but later gradually found that many places were indeed inferior to Chen Shaoyi, and his mentality also changed.

Listening to Chen Shaoyi's speech, Li Weijun is also learning and improving.

"In peacetime, I talk about my heart and mind, and I die in wartime to repay Jun's kindness. The emperor and the court have spent a lot of money to train us, and we will serve the emperor and the court with our lives and blood! ”

"Since ancient times, the enemy is in front of your eyes, show your courage, let the enemy be frightened, show your fighting spirit, and let the place where the Chinese flag flutter is our land."

Chen Shaoyi used his excellent eloquence to boost morale impassionedly, and gave justice, courage, fighting spirit, and wisdom to all officers and men.

Finally, he shouted: "Long live great China!" ”

"Hooray!!" The officers and soldiers also shouted along with them.

"Your Majesty, Great Emperor of China, long live!"

"Long live !!"

"Long live the great Chinese Navy!"

"Hooray!!!

After the pre-war mobilization was completed, the enemy and us were already less than six nautical miles apart, which was converted into meters, about 11,000 meters, and they were about to enter the range of the main guns of the Chinese ironclad ships.

This timing is just right, highlighting Chen Shaoyi's strong concept of time, which makes Li Weijun and other officers who have disobeyed him before feel admired.

The officers and men of the ships shouted the slogan of "victory" and quickly entered the combat state.

"Prepare the main gun!"

"Ready!"

"Fire!"

When the flagship Dingyuan ironclad was 10,000 meters away from the nearest British ship's forward, the No. 1 muzzle of the main gun in the bow opened fire.

This was a demonstration to the British fleet. It was also the Dingyuan ship that was firing artillery to prepare for the next artillery salvo.

When the cannon sounded, the entire sea and sky seemed to be condensed in an instant, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense.

The British fleet did not return fire, as their main guns did not have such a long range.

However, the British Navy was not afraid, because it was basically impossible to hit their battleships at this distance.

Klaus waited. Wait for the Chinese fleet to first put on an engagement formation.

It's a pity that he was disappointed, because Chen Shaoyi was also waiting for Klaus to put on the battle formation first.

Obviously, whoever puts on the battle formation first will suffer first. Because the other side will put on a restrained formation in a targeted manner to seize the advantageous position.

The range of the British Navy's main guns was obviously not as far as that of the Chinese Navy, and the average speed of the fleet was less than 14 knots, while the average speed of the Chinese fleet was more than 17 knots, so Klaus was helpless and could only put up an engagement formation first.

Three-way tandem. In the Chinese art of war, this is called Heyi Town, and it is a decent tactic of naval engagement.

The seven main ironclad ships led by Klaus were in the center, followed by the flagship of the fleet, the Iron Duke, the Sultan, the Agile, the Fury, the Sovereign, the Hercules, and the Pioneer.

On the right flank was a fleet of cruisers, the flagships of the detachment "Devonshire" Devonshire, "Shropshire", "Sussex", "Norfolk", "Dorseteshire", "York", "Exeter".

The left flank was also a patrol ship formation, the flagships of the detachment "Leander", "Achilles", "Ajax", "Orion", "Neptune", "Perth" Perth.

A dozen or so British frigates did not participate in the decisive battle of the fleet, and were scattered five nautical miles away to conduct a vigilance, tracking and attacking the caught fish.

This formation is more flexible, and the Central Fleet goes up to engage in a frontal decisive battle with the opposing fleet. Both flanks are fast and maneuverable cruiser formations, which can quickly carry out interspersed division and encirclement tactics against the enemy fleet.

Facing this formation. Chen Shaoyi gave an order and divided the Pacific Fleet into two teams, with the Erlong Formation as the starting formation.

The first detachment of ironclad ships Dingyuan, Zhiyuan, and Jingyuan, and the domearmored cruisers Hairong and Haiyue.

The second detachment of ironclad ships Zhenyuan, Laiyuan, and Jingyuan, and the domearmored cruisers Haidai and Haihuan.

The other frigate formations broke away from the fleet and deployed on the periphery. Separately launched attacks on British frigates, which were also on guard on the perimeter.

Chen Shaoyi's purpose is very clear, he calculated that the speed of the British ironclad ships is generally about 14 knots, but in this regard, the ironclad ships of the Chinese Navy have 17~18 knots, and the average speed is 3 knots ahead, which can give full play to the maneuverability advantage in the decisive battle of the fleet.

Easy first, then harder. This is the answering step of Chen Shaoyi's math test when he was in school, first get the scores of simple questions, and then concentrate on answering difficult questions, and get one point. The advantage of this is that the overall score will be higher than that of students who do the difficult questions first and then the easy ones.

This principle is very simple, but it is often ignored by people, and Chen Shaoyi is not among them, so he boldly adopted a new naval battle tactic and concentrated superior forces to attack the British fleet's two-wing cruiser formation first. Third, it can quickly open up the situation and force the British ironclad fleet to change formations, which is conducive to finding out the loopholes of the British fleet and facilitating the next offensive action.

Chen Shaoyi is good at calculation, no commander can clearly remember the strange shape of the British ironclad ships, slipper type, disc type, butter box type and long bathtub type, it is simply a hundred ghosts at night, each ironclad ship's main gun structure and position are different, so there will definitely be a hole in the overall defense and shooting dead ends at a certain moment, and Chen Shaoyi is just waiting for the British to make a mistake, and then he will not hesitate to give the British a thunderous blow.

In general, the cruisers of the British Navy are not protected by ironclad protection, and they cannot stop the attack of the ironclad ships of the Chinese Navy at all.

Klaus saw the other party change formation, and immediately guessed the answer.

"Change formation!"

"Order the left and right flank detachments to move closer to this fleet!"

The ships of the British Navy quickly received the command of the flagship, and the left and right flank detachments reduced their speed and began to move closer to their own fleet.

The two fists that were originally stretched out were quickly retracted.

However, Chen Shaoyi was not surprised, the British Imperial Navy, which has been crisscrossing the world's oceans for hundreds of years, is not a vegetarian, and it is normal to have such insight.

"The first detachment is heading 010, the speed remains the same, the ships are kept at a distance from the enemy fleet, and the main guns can continue to fire!"

"The second detachment will judge on its own and cooperate with the first detachment to wait for the opportunity to attack!"

The distance of the second detachment is getting farther and farther, and it is inconvenient to contact and command, so Chen Shaoyi decisively delegated authority and let the captain of the Zhenyuan, the flagship of the second detachment, command himself.

The two detachments of the Chinese navy, one on the left and one on the right, began to circle around the British fleet, during which they continued to fire artillery attacks, and the shells fell on the sea around the British ships, stirring up huge columns of water one after another, and the momentum was astonishing.

In the face of this situation, the British Navy was also speechless, who let their main guns not have enough range to hit each other.

Although the main guns of the Chinese warships had too many errors in the accuracy of long-range shelling, and it was difficult for the shells to hit the British ships, after each comparison of the parameters was corrected, the next shell would inevitably be closer to the British ships, which made the British Navy very frightened, and could only constantly change the speed and course to evade.

The two sides competed with each other in this way, and the Chinese navy circled the British fleet while firing artillery. The British navy could only constantly change course to prevent the Chinese navy from seizing a favorable attack position.

However, as time went on, the British Navy gradually showed its flaws because its average speed was not as good as that of the Chinese Navy.

Although the British fleet was constantly changing course, it was slow to turn slowly. It's like playing basketball and suddenly being shaken from side to side by the opposing player a few times, and then being broken.

The tactical action of playing basketball can just describe the tactical action of the Chinese Navy at this time, and half an hour later, Chen Shaoyi finally waited for the first opportunity to attack.

"Left full rudder twice, combat speed, starboard artillery ready!"

"Full rudder left once!"

"Full rudder left twice!"

The Dingyuan ironclad ship made a sharp left and rear turn, and the ships behind followed in turn.

"Four cars into four, 18 knots of combat speed countdown, 8, 7, 6 ......"

The eight-second countdown is the energy delay time from the steam engine to the propeller of the propeller.

"The starboard main gun is ready!"

"The starboard secondary gun is ready!"

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"18 knots at combat speed!"

Combat speed is different from cruising speed, the latter is a speed that can be performed for a long time, and the former will only be used in the course of engagement, when using tactical actions, this speed can often only be maintained for about half an hour, and the transmission shaft will overheat after a long time, and it is easy to break down, so it will not be used until the critical moment.

But for Chen Shaoyi, half an hour is enough.

The First Squadron of the Chinese Navy suddenly made a big turn to the left and back, which immediately startled Klaus.

"The left detachment continues to hold!"

"The flotilla and the right flank detachment turned right and rear! Fast! Be quick! ”

In order to prevent the Chinese fleet from grabbing the T-shaped (T-shaped position in China) in the naval battle, Klaus hurriedly ordered his own fleet and the right flank detachment to make an emergency right rear turn.

However, at this time, Klaus suddenly found that the speed of the Chinese battleship suddenly accelerated, and before the British fleet could complete the turn, the Chinese fleet had accelerated to the "T" horizontal position and grabbed the first attack "match point".

The next moment, rows of dazzling firelight were reflected in Klaus's eyes. (To be continued.) )