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"Long live the Empress! Long live Britain! ”

Cheers rang out in the command tower of the battleship HMS Empress of India. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Because the Chinese battleship Yongli has been seriously tilted and will soon turn over! Arthur. Hood could even see through the binoculars panicked Chinese sailors struggling to swim to another Saxony-class battleship not far away.

But what's the use? It's just a matter of a few more days, and the ship and two other Saxony-class ships will sink in a short time! 'Arthur. Hood thought happily.

"Admiral! The Minotaur's telegram ...... Aspen's voice was very deep, "We have lost the Orlando!" It was torpedoed in two by the Chinese! ”

"What? It was the Orlando ...... "Arthur. Hood felt a pain in his heart, this 5,600-ton armored cruiser was the best armored cruiser of the British Navy! At 17 knots, the speed is almost comparable to that of a fast cruiser, and the firepower and armor are among the best in its class...... It's even worth more than the sinking battleship Yongli!

"Got it," Arthur. Hood put down the binoculars in his hand, his voice slow and calm, "Victory is always accompanied by sacrifice, and England will always remember every child who gave his life for her." And we, the living, must also do our duty! ”

Arthur. Hood pointed to the Hongguang, which was salvaging the officers and soldiers who had fallen into the water 3,000 meters away, "It's the next target, sink it and avenge the Orlando!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The British in the command tower burst into applause. In a sense. It was the Orlando sacrifice that won the opportunity for the three Indian Queen-class ships to sink the four Saxony-class ships of the Chinese Army. Of course, the reverse can also be said to be the four Saxony-class ships of the Chinese army, which won the opportunity to inflict heavy damage on the British Eastern Fleet for their main fleet.

Now it's up to who can get hold of it!

"Commander. The Yongli was abandoned! ”

Almost at the same time, in the command tower of the battleship Guangfu, Liu Buyun, a communications staff officer, was also reporting bad news to Feng Ziye, the commander of the Nanyang Fleet.

"1:1," Chief of Staff Zhao Dalong said in a low voice, "It's a tie now, but soon we will have the upper hand." Our 10 Tianjin-class and 11 Hong Kong-class have arrived in ......"

"11 Hong Kong-class?" Feng Ziye was a little strange, he obviously only remembered sending 10 Hong Kong-class ships.

"It's Heihachiro Togo's Hong Kong number. It has been loitering around the warring seas. ”

"Oh, I see." Feng Ziye nodded. "What about the 5 Nanzhi-class? Where have they gone? ”

With an unladen displacement of 7,150 tons, the Nanzhili-class armored cruiser was only put into service in 1876, not only in terms of speed and armor among the world's armored cruisers, but also with 2 twin caliber guns! This is not an old-fashioned rack-fired gun, but a tube-back rapid-fire gun! If you don't count the secondary firepower. The firepower of the Nanzhili-class armored cruisers was exactly the same as that of the Emperor-class battleships - of course, after the development of the rapid-fire guns of the caliber was completed, the Emperor-class would still be modified with cannons.

However, in this naval battle, the 5 Nanzhili-class ships were a powerful killer weapon in Feng Ziye's hands.

"It will take a quarter of an hour at most, and the plumes of smoke should already be visible on the battlefield." Navigation staff officer Tsuboi Kozo replied.

"What about us?"

"It'll be there in half an hour." Tsuboi said again.

"Commander, as soon as we arrive, the battle is almost over, right?" Zhao Dalong stood by the chart, smoking a cigar and said, "Our numerical advantage is too great. They have to flee unless...... Those three Indian Queen-class are out! He licked his lips, "That's Armageddon!" ”

Feng Ziye was silent for a moment when he heard this. Looking back at Chief Staff Officer Lin Tae-tsang and Artillery Staff Officer Ito Hyung-woo, "Have you prepared for the decisive battle?" ”

Don't look at the naval battle, which has been fiercely fought, but the real drama has not yet begun! Because the real capital of the warring parties has not yet been pushed to the table to open a size! For the British Eastern Fleet, the real capital was 3 Indian queens, 3 ravages, and 3 victories. As long as you don't damage or sink these 9 giant ships. The British will be able to continue to hold on to the Straits of Malacca in Singapore.

And for the Ming Royal Navy, 4 Saxony-class ships are nothing. The real old ones are 3 Great Emperor class, 7 Emperor class and 5 Nanzhili class. As long as these 15 battleships/armored cruisers are in good condition, then Arthur. Hood also did not hurt the Chinese at all.

"The decisive battle plan is already here," Lin Taizeng said. Just along the way, he and Ito Hyung-you, Tsuboi Kozo, and Liu Bu-chan repeatedly studied the final decisive battle plan -- in their opinion, the possibility of a decisive battle between the battleships of the two sides was very high. Because there was already a chaotic battle ahead, the British did not say that they could retreat, unless Arthur . . . Hood didn't want his own armored cruisers and fast cruisers, otherwise with the advantages of numbers, firepower and speed, the loading and fast patrols of the Ming Nanyang Fleet would be able to wipe out the opponent's warships of the same level. In this way, even if four Saxony-class ships are built, Daming's side will also win a big victory.

More critically, Arthur. The thirty or so cruisers brought by Hood had at least 13,000 Royal Navy officers and men on board. Although there were 200,000 men in the Royal Navy of the British Empire who were paid, no more than 50,000 officers and men actually served on the battleships and cruisers on the front line. They were the elite of the entire Royal Navy, losing more than a quarter in a single naval battle. The vitality of the British Royal Navy has been greatly damaged!

"Commander, we think that the enemy will concentrate 12 battleships and engage our battleship forces with horizontal charge tactics." When Hayashi Tai spoke, Ito Shoyu and Tsuboi Kozo had already set up a mock battle formation on the chart table with small wooden boats - these officers were the most elite officers in the Chinese and Japanese navies in history, and they were also naval elites in this time and space, and if there was any difference between them and history, it was that they had a more complete naval education, and they served in a "veteran navy" founded more than 30 years ago, which was definitely the best stage for them to show their talents.

"According to the current situation on the battlefield, the British fleet is fighting and retreating, and its purpose should be to join forces with the three Indian Queen-class ships, and then force our fleet back with the impact of the battleship formation, so as to win the opportunity to retreat with all its bodies. We used the tactics of double column encirclement, with 10 battleships as the front, and then used 10 Tianjin-class and 5 Nanzhili-class ships to detour to the flank of the enemy's horizontal formation to seize the T-position. Rely on the firepower and range of 5 Nanzhili-class 20 rapid-fire guns to deal a devastating blow to the British ships! ”

Feng Ziye and Chief of Staff Zhao Dalong glanced at each other, and nodded at the same time, although this Commander-in-Chief Feng didn't want to fight a decisive battle, but now he had to fight. Fortunately, it is not without a little certainty. Although the rapid-fire guns of the He could not deal with the battleships of the British, the 10 battleships of the Nanyang Fleet and the 5 armored cruisers of the Nanyang Fleet had a total of 60 rapid-fire guns, and they could always cripple the 12 battleships of the British, right?

"Boom ......"

The huge roar sounded in Zhu Guohui's ears at this time, and the current situation of this poor prince can really be described as dire and dire! As soon as he climbed aboard the battleship Hongguang from the bottomless sea, he saw a dazzling ball of fire rising from the hull not far away - it was caused by a British 6-inch blasting bomb! The battleships of the British, of course, were armed with blasting shells! There are not only 6-inch blasting shells, but also 16-inch giant blasting shells! But the naval battle has been fought until now, Arthur. Hood did not order the use of such huge and expensive explosive shells, which were to be used against the Emperor and Emperor classes in China, not the third-rate goods of the Saxony class. If it was a 16-inch blasting bomb that hit the Hongguang ship now, Zhu Jishi would probably have to be a white-haired man (Does Zhu Jishi have gray hair?). Send the brunette!

However, just a 6-inch blasting bomb filled with starch explosives almost killed Zhu Guohui, and the heat wave sweeping along the deck instantly evaporated the seawater on his body, almost scorching his uniform. (To be continued) R655 school bag nest

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