【2nd Update】

Tang Shichang and Lin Yongsheng...... This means that the two ships Zhenyuan and Jingyuan are wandering around Panama, and these two Beiyang veterans are supposed to teach newcomers in the home fleet according to the new naval sequence, Qin Kai immediately made up for it with a bad taste, these two must be idle and panicked, and went to apply for an escort mission to go around South America, with the steady development of the domestic economy, overseas tourism, especially overseas territory travel under Chinese control, has still become a new fashion.

Lu Han's next report directly overturned Qin Kai's previous free brain, "Prime Minister, they were invited by President Tania of Colombia to attend the inauguration ceremony of the Colombian South Pacific Fleet, in accordance with the military mutual trust agreement signed by Ambassador Shen Shouchang and Colombia, we provided the Colombian Navy with 3 obsolete armored ships and destroyers, and I invited the Colombian, Peruvian, and Chilean fleets to go to Nicaragua together!" ”

This solution ...... As for the Republic of Nicaragua, a country that relies entirely on agriculture, if the sampan is considered a sea power, then their navy is a good idea, and the only advantage they can rely on may be the poor rainforest climate and barren grain production.

"Gengtang, send a report to Shen Shouchang, and ask him to contact Peru, Chile, and Colombia as a South American minister, and in addition, tell Deng Shichang that the shells of their 305 main guns are about to expire, try to let those shells exert some residual heat!" Qin Kai came behind Lu Han, looked at the destination on the other side of the Pacific Ocean on the map, and said with a smile. Let's be honest. Now Dingyuan and Zhenyuan are still in service. It is really his own historical complex, and he does not want these two warships engraved with the memory of the country to be sent to the steel mill for recuperation.

Although Dingzhen has undergone quasi-modernization, the original 16-inch armor of Dingzhen has become a roadblock to the transformation, so the space that can be transformed is really limited, but fortunately, the navy has long since stopped relying on these two 7,000-ton battleships to maintain sea power, and it is more than enough for naval training and missions, so it is still in the capital ship sequence.

After discussing with Qin Kai again, Lu Han left in a hurry, while Qin Kai stood in front of the hanging Pacific map. I can't help but be quite surprised by the ever-changing international situation, and I have gone to great lengths to get the Panama Canal from the French, which is definitely the lifeblood of the Americans to develop the navy, but I am now very interested in seeing what kind of situation will arise when the United States of America, which has a strong economy, and Roosevelt, who holds high the banner of "gentle words and big sticks," collide together.

On May 30, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador issued a joint statement later known as the "South American Joint Statement" at the appeal of the Costa Riccan government, condemning the ongoing military conflict in the Central American country of Nicaragua for affecting the security of neighboring countries. The Government of the Republic of Nicaragua is called upon to immediately communicate with the South American countries in this regard and to ensure the peaceful coexistence of the entire South American countries.

This was naturally a diplomatic offensive launched by Shen Shouchang, the Chinese minister to South America, which has always been aimed at Nicaragua. This diplomat, who has long been familiar with the South American political situation and the rules of the game of South American politics, only used a little trick to make China, the follower of all countries, wave the flag and shout......

Nicaraguan Prime Minister Martínez was obviously surprised by the condemnation from his neighbors in South America, Nicaragua's political situation has been unstable for a long time, and the domestic anti-government forces are strong, although the government army has been fighting fiercely for many years, the anti-government forces have shown an increasingly fierce situation, fortunately, important ports and sea lanes are under the control of government forces, and the recent agreement with the United States has given the ruling Liberal Party a little more confidence, after all, the country's finances, which are completely dependent on agricultural output, have long been dragged to the brink of collapse by the civil war.

Therefore, the Nicaraguan government immediately sent a note to several neighboring countries, asking these neighbors who can't hit each other to shut up quickly, although they are poor eggs, but that does not mean that a few poor neighbors can bully them!

But the result was apparently somewhat unexpected, and on June 7, after Prime Minister Martinez had a note to the Chilean consul, only three days later, on June 10 a fleet of 10 warships appeared in the port of San Juan Sul, the planned outlet of the Nicaraguan Grand Canal, led by the battleship Esmeralda of the Chilean Navy, now the undisputed first battleship in the South Pacific.

Nicaragua's maritime power was limited to a few patrol boats, where there was a force to counter the sudden appearance of the Combined Fleet of the Americas, one of the patrol boats tremblingly leaned up to give the signal to board the ship for inspection, and the other party's response was the twin fire of the 305mm main gun in the bow, and after the more than 300 kilograms of shells roared past with a loud rumbling sound, the Nicaraguan naval patrol boat immediately turned around and fled back to the port.

Deng Shichang's Zhenyuan and Laiyuan ships followed the tail of the South American Combined Fleet, and the Beiyang veteran stood on the foremast lookout with his head shaken, looking at the Chilean Navy's undoubted intimidation in the distance, and after a while, he said to Sun Xiao, the first officer beside him, with great disdain: "The Chilean is really ruining the battleship, if it were me, I would shoot directly into the port, it would be far more exciting than intimidating a small broken ship!" ”

As a new generation of middle-level naval officers, Lieutenant Colonel Sun Xiao, who graduated from the National Defense Military University, looked at his top boss with great respect...... And in his opinion, these small countries are not opponents of the powerful Chinese navy at all, and the only thing worthy of his attention now is the German Empire, in addition to the British Empire! It's just that it's too calm in the Pacific!

Just as the commanders of the four countries on the South American Combined Fleet happily held the Chinese flag and pounced on this defenseless port, the Nicaraguan patrol boats that had turned around and ran away disappeared at the mouth of the bay with one turn, and the two Chilean battleships immediately took the lead in turning the mouth of the bay, and when the Esmeralda had just pointed its main guns at the mouth of the bay, it suddenly turned its rudder and deviated from the direction in which it had originally entered the port, and it seemed to be preparing to turn around.

Deng Shichang, the commander of the Zhenyuan at the tail of the queue, was taken aback, but the entire fleet was sailing from south to north, and he couldn't see the situation in the harbor at all in this position, but he naturally immediately realized that there must be an unexpected situation, the Esmeralda battleship is the export model of the "Xia-class battleship", although the fire control technology canceled the central fire control platform, and instead installed the TF90 shooting commander, but 6 305mm, 43 times the diameter of the main gun and 17,000 tons of displacement, It is undoubtedly a product that stands at the pinnacle of today's battleships.

And the Chilean Navy inherited the naval tradition of the British system, and the commander of the battleship Esmeralda, Rear Admiral Hall, was also an outstanding officer of the Young Zhuang faction, so it was obvious that he had encountered a situation that he could not have predicted!

"Order, hoist the Admiral's Flag! Accelerate forward! It took only one minute for Deng Shichang to make a new interpretation and decision, no matter what the situation was, in the Pacific Ocean, there was absolutely no situation that the Chinese warship could not cope with, and the huge chimney on the Zhenyuan immediately emitted billowing black smoke and accelerated forward, dragging the slightly old hull away from the main channel and inserting it into the mouth of the bay in the distance.

At the same time, over the mouth of the bay shaded by the coastline, clouds of black smoke were already clearly visible, and several huge black smoke plumes rose into the air and wound into a large black plume of smoke...... In the distance, the Chilean battleships Esmeralda and Oigins, which were deflecting their course, had apparently observed the situation in the bay, and all the main guns on the battleships had begun to slowly turn and lower their muzzles at the same time.

Obviously, their feared opponent was close at hand, and on the lookout of the Chilean battleship, several signal men were desperately waving red and blue signal flags, sending a simple but clear flag signal backwards - the American fleet. (To be continued......)