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Guam, Apra Naval Base.

After two and a half months of offensive and defensive battles, the British army, after paying a huge price in casualties, finally gained a foothold on the east and west beaches, controlled all the small heights around it, and overlooked the entire Apra harbor.

The officers and men of the patrol battalion of the Apra Naval Base of the Chinese Empire blew up and sank the last patrol gunboat, and then retreated to the fortress fortress, where they fought side by side with the defenders of the fortress to resist the British invasion.

The British fleet sailed into Apra Harbor, and more British troops began to land, encircling the entire fortress of Guam.

Matt got off the ship with a black face, came to the Apra base, and looked up at the Guam fortress opposite, his scalp was a little numb.

In order to take this Guam, the British army has paid a heavy price, and has now captured two-thirds of Guam, leaving the last Guam fortress.

"Smash this turtle shell for me!"

At Matt's order, the British artillery positions deployed on the coastline and the guns of more than 100 British warships and ships sailing into Apra Harbor combined with hundreds of guns to fire a fierce salvo, vowing to blow up the fortress of Guam.

The cannon roared, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air.

The entire fortress of Guam was in flames, and thick smoke billowed into the sky.

The defenders of the Chinese Empire in the fortress of Guam avoided the enemy's edge, hiding in the underground bunkers and tunnels made of reinforced concrete, the electric lights on their heads flickered on and off, and from time to time sand and cement ash fell into the steel helmets and lunch boxes of the soldiers.

When the British artillery attacked, it was the time when the defenders of the Chinese Empire had dinner, otherwise the British infantry kept charging at other times, and the soldiers had no time to eat at all.

"Hurry up. The enemy is about to attack in five minutes! An officer of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army reminded.

"Battalion commander, when will the reinforcements arrive!" A fighter asked.

"It's coming!" The battalion commander replied as he gobbled it up.

"Battalion commander, let's not bring this, you say it's fast every day, it's been more than two months in the blink of an eye. You've said this sentence more than 10,000 times! Some fighters suddenly smiled bitterly.

"Well, it's coming!" The battalion commander continued to gobble up and repeated, but unfortunately did not answer the question.

"......" A group of fighters rolled their eyes, and they were also drunk with their battalion commanders, and they were powerless to complain.

At this moment, British artillery fire extended, and the British infantry launched another ground offensive.

"The enemy is coming!"

"Prepare for battle!"

The battalion commander swallowed the last bite of food in twos and threes, grabbed his weapon and gave a loud order.

The fighters who complained were dumbfounded. This Nima hasn't finished eating yet.

It's a pity that the military order is like a mountain, and the soldiers who haven't finished eating can only admit that they are unlucky, quickly pick up weapons and equipment, and rush out with the battalion commander.

As soon as I got out of the dark castle, it was hot in the trench outside, as if an egg could be baked in an instant.

Black smoke was rising everywhere from the surrounding positions, and it was a mess.

"Intensify the repair of the fortifications. Pack some more punching bags! ”

Soldiers quickly swung their sapper shovels and filled sandbags. Then it was stacked on a trench position, leaving only a single-position shooting hole in the middle.

"The enemy is coming!"

"Prepare for battle!"

Dense British troops appeared at the bottom of the mountain, and I saw them one by one, with their waists bent up, and they were advancing cautiously.

The red uniform of the British army, which has not changed for 10,000 years, is a live target in the eyes of the defenders of the Chinese Empire at this moment.

"Sniper!"

The battalion commander shouted. The snipers lurking in the shelter quickly pulled the bolt of their guns, locked onto the British commander in the sniper scope, and began to shoot.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Before the British soldiers heard the gunshots, the commander next to them had already had his head blooming, and blood was bursting all over the ground.

“Protectivefire！” (Cover Shot)

“Protectivefire！”

The British shouted. They all shot at the hill, but they were too far away from the sniper's position to see the target clearly, and they just shot probabilitarily, hoping to scare the sniper.

However, the snipers of the Chinese Imperial Army were so frightened that they still opened fire at various sniper points, picking on the headshots of British officers, so frightened that those British officers could only hide in Tibet, and some even lay on the ground motionless and pretended to be dead without face.

In the distance, Matt saw this scene through the telescope, showing an extremely shocked expression.

Snipers have always been a secret force in the Chinese Imperial Shence Army, strictly secret, and never announced to the public.

For a long time, European and American countries have believed that the snipers in the Chinese Imperial Shence Army are just sharpshooters with very accurate marksmanship, and there are also soldiers with very accurate marksmanship in the European and American armies.

Matt, however, saw the problem.

"At least five hundred yards away, what man's eyes can see such a distance?"

"Hell this Nima!"

"Wait, their rifles seem to be a little different! How can there be reflections? ”

Matt, as the supreme commander, had a vicious eye, and he could see the difference between the sniper rifle at a glance.

It's just that Matt didn't have time to think about it, he immediately ordered: "Order the artillery to fire at the position of the reflected light on the mountain!" ”

Knock knock!

Soon, a round of shells from the British artillery came over, focusing on the areas where there was reflected light.

A sniper of the Imperial Chinese Army was careless, and before he could dodge being hit by a shell, he died, and the sniper rifle was blown away and fell into the open.

"Go to a few people, be sure to bring back the sniper rifle, it must not fall into the hands of the enemy!"

As soon as the battalion commander gave the order, several soldiers of the Chinese Imperial Army braved the enemy's guns and guns and risked their lives to pick up the sniper rifle that had been blown up.

In the telescope, Matt saw this scene again, and he immediately understood that the secret was in the strange-looking rifle.

"Is it another killer weapon secretly developed by the Chinese Empire?"

Matt sighed bitterly, he had fought several Yapian wars with the Chinese Empire, and he was very sensitive to the killer weapons of the Chinese Imperial Army. The British lost the Second Elegant Piece War on the Patriotic Breech-loading Rifle, the Third Elegant Piece War on the Gatling machine gun, and the Fourth Elegant Piece War on the submarine and the Fish Radium, and the Fifth Elegant Piece War lasted for more than two months. The British army was slaughtered by another new weapon of the Chinese Imperial Army, the bloody heavy machine gun, with countless casualties, which made Matt remember it vividly, and now he saw a mysterious weapon and equipment, which was very fast.

"Use this mysterious rifle to shoot the opposing commander five or six hundred yards away, causing the opposing command to fail. This tactic is clever, very clever! ”

Matt was very reluctant to praise his enemies, but had to admit that his enemies were commendable.

"Report, Your Excellency Commander, the base camp is urgent, the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy has completed the merger, and the formation of the Pacific Fleet is advancing in the direction of Guam!"

Hearing this report, Matt's expression suddenly tightened. He said to himself: "I finally can't help but make a move, this time I want to see what other killer features you have in the Chinese Imperial Navy!" ”

Matt clenched his fists, he had been deflated lately, and he had been bullied very badly by the Chinese Imperial Army, and he vowed to take revenge and win back his dignity.

"Pass my order, the whole fleet gathers, and go all out to search for the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and prepare for a decisive battle!"

Matt was confident in the overall strength of the British Imperial fleet. Especially with the weapon of fish radium, even the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy surpassed the British warships in performance. But it could not stop the attack of Fish Radium, as long as the tactics were used properly, Matt was fully confident that he would sink the Chinese Imperial warship and win the naval battle.

It's just that what Matt never expected was that the news he got was half-true.

The Imperial Chinese Navy did complete the marshalling. The Pacific Fleet was formed, but the target was not Guam, but Sydney, Australia, where the British naval fleet was resupplyed.

The Chinese Empire, using intelligence, once again misled British intelligence. On this battlefield without gunpowder. It seems that the British Intelligence Service has never won against S.H.I.E.L.D. in the Chinese Empire, otherwise the outcome of the war would have been rewritten.

The main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy set out with great fanfare, allowing British spies to see that the fleet entered the Pacific Ocean from the Palawan Strait between Taiwan and Luzon, creating the illusion of going to Guam.

In fact, after crossing the Palawan Strait, the Imperial Chinese Pacific Fleet continued south along the Luzon Islands, crossed the Papua Sea three days later, and suddenly appeared off Sydney, Australia, a week later.

At this time, Matt was anxiously searching the Pacific waters near Guam for traces of the Chinese Imperial Fleet, while the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy quietly began to attack the Sydney Garden Island Naval Base.

At night, the Sydney Garden Island Naval Base is brightly lit, and large transport ships are loading supplies in the harbor at all times, and then leaving the port to Guam to resupply the British fleet.

90% of the warships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire are gathered in the Pacific Ocean, and it is conceivable that their logistics supplies are consumed an astronomical amount every day, and there is only one Sydney Garden Island Naval Base in Australia with the ability to reserve a huge amount of supplies.

On the command bridge on the foredeck of the battleship Xiongfeng, Admiral Chen Shaoyi, commander of the Pacific Fleet, waved his hand lightly, and then a high-power searchlight flickered regularly against the darkness in the distance.

This is Morse code, which is passed through the light.

The main warships of the Chinese Empire in the depths of the night quickly lowered their small fish and radium boats, and the four ocean-going submarines of the Chinese Imperial Navy under the sea also quietly sailed to the main channel and entered the attack position.

This is the latest Great White Shark-class ocean-going submarine in service with the Imperial Chinese Navy, with a total of six, namely the Great White Shark (SS-11), the Greytip Shark (SS-12), the Spotted Shark (SS-13), and the Blackhead Shark (SS-14), which were launched in 3974.

The Great White Shark class is the first large submarine of the Chinese Imperial Navy to truly realize ocean-going navigation and deep-sea operations, thanks to the progress of the Chinese Imperial Iron and Steel Industry and electric welding technology, the submarine shell built with special steel is far stronger than the previous wrought iron, corrosion resistance, compressive strength is many times higher, and electric welding replaces riveting to make the watertightness of the submarine shell more safe.

As an ocean-going submarine, as the name suggests, the Great White Shark-class submarine will become the fleet submarine of the Imperial Chinese Navy, which can follow the fleet to fight in the open sea, and its basic requirements are to have a large endurance and a surface speed of at least 14 knots, otherwise it is not enough to follow the fleet to fight.

The Great White Shark-class submarine, designed and built by Holland himself, has a displacement (surface/underwater): 1106 tons/1587 tons, and the main dimensions: 81.9 meters× 6.9 meters× 4.3 meters. Main engine: 4 sets of Starley NC type 6-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engines (for surface navigation), 2 sets of Plante X5 motors (for underwater navigation), double propulsion shafts. Power (surface / underwater): 4000 horsepower / 1500 horsepower, speed (surface / underwater): 14 knots / 8 knots, fuel loading: diesel 89 tons ~ 92 tons, endurance: surface 14 knots speed. The cruising range is 2950 nautical miles, the endurance is 12 hours at a speed of 6 knots underwater, armament: 8 533 mm Fish Radium launch tubes (including 6 in the bow and 2 in the superstructure aiming at the tail), 16 Fish Radium loaded, 1 128 mm naval gun, 150 rounds of ammunition, safe diving depth: 49 meters; Number of crew: 54.

The background of the development of the Jaws-class submarine is simple. It is a first-class submarine that is preparing to fight the British Navy in the deep sea in response to the Pacific theater environment. Due to technical constraints, in order to improve endurance and wind and wave resistance, the tonnage of submarines exceeded 1,000 tons, and in a hurry, only 4 were built before the decisive battle.

As the forerunner of the fleet submarines of the Imperial Chinese Navy, the Great White Shark-class submarine could not meet the maximum surface speed requirements of the Imperial Chinese Navy for the "Great White Shark" class submarine due to the low power of the diesel engine used in the submarine at that time. Therefore, in the end it was decided to equip the Jaws-class submarine with 4 diesel engines.

Because the construction of the "Great White Shark" class submarine coincided with the struggle between China and Britain for dominance in the Pacific Ocean. As a result, the construction period of 4 submarines of this class was shortened to ensure timely entry into battle.

It is precisely because the construction time was shortened that the shortcomings of this class of submarines were soon exposed in subsequent actual operation - the main engine vibrated violently, and the surface navigation performance was poor due to the small buoyancy of the reserve. In view of these shortcomings of submarines of this class, the Imperial Chinese Navy considered it difficult for the Great White Shark-class submarines to meet the performance indicators of fleet-type submarines. Therefore. The Jaws-class submarine was decommissioned in 3980 shortly after the Fifth Yapian War.

This is an afterthought, and there is no need to elaborate on it.

Just after the Chinese Imperial Fleet was ready to attack, a fleet of more than 20 transport ships sailed out of the Huayuan Island Naval Base. There were also four British ships escorting, including a cruiser and three frigates.

When the fighter arrived, Chen Shaoyi immediately ordered an attack.

In this operation, Chen Shaoyi's Pacific Fleet had a total of 36 capital ships, 28 frigates, 10 troop carriers, 12 supply ships, 22 lightning strike ships, and 4 submarines.

The capital ships include 9 Xiongfeng-class battleships, 9 Dingyuan-class ironclad ships, 9 Haiqi-class dome cruisers, and 9 Zhongning-class armored cruisers.

Among them, the Zhongning-class armored cruiser is the first to make its debut, and the nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers are Qianning, Canning, Genning, Zhenning, Zhongning, Xunning, Lining, Kunning, and Duining.

The Zhongning-class armored cruiser has a full load displacement of 5200 tons ~ 5310 tons, is built of all steel, with 200 mm special steel armor covering all hull lengths, and is equipped with two twin 254 mm main guns, one each in the front and rear, and a rotating turret installation; 6 128 mm secondary guns, symmetrically distributed, mounted in the earrings; 6 75mm anti-aircraft guns and 12 30mm Gatling rapid-fire guns, all of which were installed in open air batteries with shields, distributed in the bow, amidships and stern, symmetrical on the left and right. Two sets of 533 mm Fish Radium launch canisters, symmetrical deployment on the left and right sides of the stern, and a rotating launch pad.

Compared with the Haiqi-class dome cruisers, the Zhongning-class cruisers have not changed much in terms of armament, and the uniform armor protection is safer, but the most outstanding thing is the speed.

The Zhongning-class armored cruiser adopts two vertical 4-cylinder reciprocating steam engines with the latest technology of the Chinese Empire, with 12 coal-fired fuel hybrid boilers, which can obtain 15,000 horsepower of surging power, and adopts strong pressure ventilation technology during the completion test, once reached an astonishing 23,031 horsepower, driving 2 propellers, the cruising speed is as high as an astonishing 22 knots, and its instantaneous combat speed can soar to about 24.5 knots, which is the fastest surface warship in the world today.

Originally, the Admiralty of the Chinese Empire did not plan to send cruisers to participate in the war, but only planned to use eighteen main warships to fight a decisive battle with the British Navy, but Emperor Li Weiguo issued a special decree, requiring eighteen cruisers to participate in the war, and specifically asking nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers to participate in the war, believing that these nine Zhongning-class armored cruisers would make great contributions.

The generals of the Chinese Imperial Navy basically thought that the decisive battle at sea had to rely on the main battleships, and the armored cruisers would feel that they would suffer a loss if they participated in the battle, but since it was Li Weiguo who personally ordered it, it had to be brought with them.

Chen Shaoyi's tactics at the beginning were that ants eat elephants and eat the Royal Navy of the British Empire one bite at a time, but with eighteen cruisers to participate in the battle, he had to adjust his tactics.

It happened that this fleet raided the British Navy's Garden Island Naval Base in Sydney, which was a battle to block the door and slap the face, Chen Shaoyi planned to let the eighteen cruisers show their skills, anyway, there would be no danger for the time being in the vicinity of the British Navy's main ironclad ships.

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