On the calm sea, seven frigates with the flag of the Chinese Empire and the flag of the Navy are slowly moving, and the torpedo carrier at the tail will release a torpedo from time to time, as for the effect, this can only be said separately, anyway, the distance is so far, they can't see it, and they don't dare to get too close, because the other side has battleships to escort, just relying on these seven frigates, the result of rushing over is similar to the Japanese torpedo boat formation facing the main fleet of the Chinese Navy, A single shot can sink a frigate. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Bo Zhongzhi looked up at the sky, and behind him was a black and oppressive smoke, which was the exhaust gas emitted from the boiler of the Japanese transport ship formation, and their attack was precisely according to the direction of the smoke.

Because the distance was too far, they released about 100 torpedoes in total in this afternoon, but so far they could not be sure of their results, and no sound could be heard at this distance, and for the sake of safety, they always maintained a distance of about 15 nautical miles from the Japanese fleet behind them.

But it is not a way to hang like this, and the release of torpedoes at such a long distance cannot be guaranteed, first of all, the problem of hit rate cannot be guaranteed, and secondly, if the main fleet cannot solve the problems in front of it and cannot rush here, then these frigates can only delay the time for the transport ship formation to enter the port, and cannot completely prevent them from entering the port.

Perhaps, the only way is to take advantage of the darkness to send two frigates to the channel of entry as soon as possible to lay a large number of mines to kill and damage the Japanese transport ship formation as much as possible, perhaps there is no other way than this method.

And then what? Perhaps they could hide nearby and sneak a torpedo at them when the fleet came into port.

Looking up at the sky, it was almost an hour before it would be dark, and according to the speed of the Japanese fleet, it would take about two to three hours after dark to reach the Ryukyus. Well, if you can kill one, who will let me not be the capital ship?

A frigate with a full load of only 1,820 tons of displacement, if it could take out one or two dozen troop carriers under the escort of battleships, then the trip would be a great success.

And the poor two Japanese destroyers, even if they tried their best to catch up with the transport ship formation in front, according to the current speed, by the time they caught up with the transport ship formation, the transport ship formation would have already entered the port, mainly because it was a little late under the order of Togo Heihachiro, and after fighting with the Chinese Navy for a whole afternoon, the battlefield was basically about to run to the vicinity of Chiwei Yu, and the destroyer, which had a speed of only 20 knots, would take about seven or eight hours to reach the Ryukyus, and the time would almost be until the early hours of the morning.

"Can't you get in touch with the main fleet?" Bo Zhongzhi asked a little depressed.

The last time they contacted the main fleet was two hours ago, but after that the radio had no signal, and they could only communicate with the other six frigates, no way, this was a technical reason, the farthest radio could only reach a distance of about many nautical miles at sea, and there would be no signal if it was farther.

The communications staff officer shook his head, he knew better than anyone else that they had run out of the signal coverage, even if there was a signal amplifier on the side of the main fleet, they would not be able to contact such a long distance, and the reason why they still did not give up on contacting the main fleet was mainly to see if the battlefield was shifting towards them.

"Contact frigate 526 and let them maneuver in the direction of the battlefield until they contact the main fleet." Bo Zhongzhi ordered.

This was actually a mistake in command, and they didn't notice these situations at the time, but as it got dark, they lost contact with the main fleet, so they became more and more anxious in their hearts. In the past, there was no solution to this situation, and the easiest way was to use the principle of electric poles.

That is, a signal transfer channel is erected between the two farthest places, and both parties send signals to this transfer channel, and then send the signal to their respective receivers from this channel. This method is very common on land, and it is also one of the main means of communication for long-range communication of the army, which is to set up a super-large signal receiver at intervals, and then send troops there to station, responsible for maintaining and transferring the telegram, after receiving it, the code at the beginning of the telegram is the receiver, and they only need to forward the telegram to the corresponding direction according to the code.

The same can be done on the sea, and if they are not afraid of trouble, and have enough energy and fleet, they can theoretically make the radio signal run around the earth from this side of the earth and back again.

After receiving the signal, the 526 ships immediately adjusted their course, quickly broke away from the fleet, and bypassed the Japanese transport fleet in the rear, heading in the direction that the main fleet told them at the time of the last contact.

The frigate has a characteristic, that is, it is fast, and for the same distance, the Japanese destroyer will have to run for seven or eight hours at full speed, while the frigate will only need about four or five hours to reach it if it runs at full speed, and if the main fleet does not run far, perhaps after one or two hours, it will be able to receive a signal from the main fleet.

Subsequently, the ship was arranged by Bo Zhongzhi to go to the Ryukyu Port channel to lay mines, anyway, they will not go to Ryukyu in the short term, and there are enough Japanese fleet ships, so it is worth bombing? Of course, before the two frigates left, the mines on the other four frigates, except for Project 526, were transferred to these two frigates.

And after dark, they will almost be able to rush to the vicinity of the fairway, and then lay mines at night, anyway, this time it is to make little Japan cool enough at one time.

In addition to the ongoing battle on the sea, the day in the Chinese Empire is also tense and busy, and there may be a trace of worry and fear in the middle, of course, most people don't know what is happening on the sea in the east at this moment, and there are only a few high-level people who really know the situation, these people can be counted on one hand.

Emperor Wang Sirui, Imperial Prime Minister Wang Shizhen, Minister of Military Affairs Xu Shichang, and the commanders of the army and navy, there are only a few people who know, but the people below are constantly busy.

For example, on the army side, Army Chief Duan Zhigui sent several telegrams to the landing troops in the south, mainly the Fourth Group Army, which were resting and recuperating, to make combat preparations and wait for orders to carry out landing operations at any time. But so far, everyone is waiting, waiting for the news of the naval fleet to arrive, landing on Taiwan, can only be carried out after the navy wins, and if the navy does not win, the landing plan can only be canceled, there is no doubt about it.

The 10 divisions of marines were the main force in this battle, and although they had not completely finished their training, these units did not lack combat experience, because at least half of the troops were transferred back from the Russian battlefield, and they had already accumulated a lot of combat experience, and now they are just changing the mode of warfare.

In a certain training base in Shandong and Fujian, these marines have already practiced several landing operations, and they are already familiar with the process of landing operations; besides, the anti-landing system they have set up by themselves far exceeds the anti-landing system set up by the enemy. In such a big place, who would have to pick a place that has been made into a hedgehog by the enemy to land?

Well, even if there aren't many places for troops to land on a large scale, can't you use a deception tactic? As for the actual landing location, only a few high-level officials know about this so far, and all of these people without exception are Wang Sirui's confidants, and this plan was also formulated by these people in person, and none of the staff officers below were involved.

At this time, in the border area between China and North Korea, the troops of one army were slowly crossing the border, and then swaggering towards Incheon, and the other army had just been stationed in the Vladivostok military port, which was a complete military port built by Russia in the early stage and later recovered by the Chinese Empire.

In addition to these two places, the Chinese Empire also gathered about 200,000 troops in Port Arthur, and gathered the strength of an army in Yancheng, these troops on the surface are nearly 400,000, and on the surface, the task of these troops is not difficult to guess, because these places are all by the sea, there are docks, for large ships to enter and exit, if only these can not prove everything, then these soldiers began to go to the sea to train, then it can explain the seriousness of the problem, They are urgently conducting a landing exercise, so why are they doing a landing exercise? Taiwan?

And what about the more than 400,000 men of the Fourth Army in the south? So, the goal is clear, it's Japan itself, and these places all have the same characteristic, which is to be close enough to Japan.

However, the Japanese only saw the superficial situation, but did not notice that in Qingdao, more troops had been secretly gathered, and they were mainly marines, in fact, the Japanese intelligence was not wrong, and the military movements that have been leaked out at present are all troops who plan to land in Japan, but they have not figured out which troops will land in advance.

If they don't know this question, they can't determine the exact time of the landing, and where is the landing? They also can't know, but there are also a lot of doubts here, that is, aren't the Chinese afraid of the Japanese naval fleet? Will they again be able to break through the blockade of the naval fleet?

Therefore, the Japanese spies in China once again began to operate frantically, on the one hand, they kept an eye on the four troop gathering places that had been discovered, and as long as any troops boarded the ship and left, they had to notify the mainland immediately. On the other hand, they tried their best to find out the landing site. (To be continued.) )