"Hey, don't digress the topic, I haven't finished talking about the enemy yet, I'll talk about it after the tactical discussion! Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles, and if you think blindly before you understand the enemy's situation, you will only think about it more and more", Li Hui realized that he had seriously digressed from topic at this time, and hurriedly spoke to bring the topic back again, "I have already introduced the situation of the Sankei ship, and now I will talk about the situation of the Chiyoda armored cruiser." ”

"How fast can the Sanjing ship run now? Don't you know Dongyang either? After noticing that Li Hui did not mention the speed of the Sanjing ship, Liu Buyun immediately asked, unconsciously he had subconsciously regarded Li Hui as a "jack of all trades"

"Of course I know this, but the issue of speed must be considered comprehensively in combination with the situation of the entire formation, and it will directly affect the tactics, so I plan to introduce it at the end." , Li Hui explained briefly, and continued to the topic, "Chiyoda is a warship with a story, but today I will only introduce its performance, the standard displacement of this warship is only 2400 tons, which is a lot worse than the Sanjing ship, but it is an armored cruiser, it has a waterline armor belt, and the thickness is much larger than the dome armor of the Sanjing ship, so the actual defense is not weaker than the Sanjing ship, and it may even be stronger, after all, we have set the blasting bomb as the main bomb, and the blasting bullet has a special effect on warships without surface armor, But against armored ships is much less effective. The Chiyoda is equipped with 10 Armstrong 120 mm rapid-fire guns, one at the bow and one at the tail and four on each side, and up to 6 120 mm rapid-fire guns on the side of the enemy can attack a target at the same time. Therefore, in terms of combat power estimates, we can regard Chiyoda as the fourth Sankei ship, which is very close in both attack and defense and speed. ”

"No, I remember that the maximum speed of the Chiyoda is nineteen knots, and the Sankei ship is only more than 16 knots, how can it be said that it is very close with such a big gap?" Admiral Ding Ruchang immediately questioned that although he was a naval layman, after years of hard work and self-study, Ding Ruchang now at least had a good understanding of the naval knowledge on paper.

"Chiyoda uses locomotive boilers, the pipes are too thin and easy to clog, and the Japanese have been using low-quality coal produced in their own country in order to save money, although the age of the ship is not very long, but the power attenuation has been very serious, now at most twelve or thirteen knots, and it will continue to decline. Although the speed of the Sanjing ship is also declining quickly because of design problems, it has not reached this level after all, and it is estimated that the speed of the Chiyoda should be faster than that of the Sankei ship at the moment, but it will not be long before the speed of the two is a grade", after Li Hui answered Ding Ruchang's question, he realized that he had inadvertently said half of the speed of the Japanese ship that he had originally planned to put to the end, and he had to stop talking at the moment, but he thought that the remaining three Japanese ships were all old ships, and the officers and men of Beiyang were more familiar with them. There is no need to introduce in too much detail, so he simply continued, "Although the speed is far worse than the four new Dome Clippers, compared with other Japanese ships, these four Japanese ships are relatively fast, so these four warships in the Japanese team should be in front." And the speed of the three old ironclad ships, Fuso, Kongo and Hiei, which were dragged behind, would never exceed 11 knots, and it was even more difficult for the old ships to maintain high speed for a long time, so when the Japanese army was advancing at full speed, it was actually easy to disconnect between the front and rear teams."

"In this case, compared with our army, the Japanese people's own team actually does not have an obvious speed advantage, and can only use this team to contain our army in the front, and then use the fast fleet to detour back to the weak side of our army's horizontal team, and wait for it to break through the three ships on the weak side to complete the outflanking attack on our army's front and back", Liu Buchan deserves to be a "real admiral", only based on the performance characteristics of the Japanese army's eleven main warships, he accurately guessed the tactics they were most likely to take, and thought of the tactics to deal with it as in history, "But if the Japanese army is really disjointed, Then it is very likely that our main force will cut it into two sections, and the Fuso, King Kong, Hiei and possible oil bottles dragged behind will have to be left behind by Lao Tzu! ”

Historically, the Beiyang Naval Division relied on this style of play to occupy an advantage, and the Japanese ships dragged behind were hit in large numbers, but it was a pity that the shells used by the Beiyang Naval Division at that time were too bad, and as a result, none of them could be sunk, but now the problem of the shells of the Beiyang Naval Division has been solved, and the situation is naturally very different. If it is still the situation of the confrontation in Dadonggou, it is possible that the devil's rear team will be wiped out, even if, as Li Hui said, the Kongo ironclad ship, which has not participated in the war in history, also appears in the array of the main decisive battle of the Chinese and Japanese navies in this time and space, the situation will not change much.

Compared with the dismal results in history that were shaved by devils, being able to sink many Japanese ships is undoubtedly a huge progress, but Li Hui was not satisfied, he said his opinion with a serious face, "Three old ironclads, plus a few possible unprotected ships, such a result is indeed enough to plug the mouths of those clear streams, anyway, they will only measure the victory and defeat by the number and tonnage of the sunken warships on both sides." But is it really okay to deceive oneself like this? What if we could kill all of these Japanese ships? Half of the strength of the Japanese Navy is in the fast fleet, and half of the remaining strength is in the Mikei and Chiyoda, I don't just look at the cost of the warship, you must know, the rules of the Japanese Navy are different from ours, and they will not let the officers and men of the Navy serve on a warship for more than ten years, and every time a new ship enters service, they will give priority to the best naval officers and sailors, so those old ships are not only poor, but also the people on board, how much practical significance can it be to kill them? Even if all the old ships of the Japanese rear are sent to the bottom of the sea by us, it will be insignificant to the Japanese Navy, and only by trying to eliminate the Japanese fast column and the four main forces of this team can the Japanese Navy be broken, and we can really win the war! ”

Although he said his ideal goal, Li Hui didn't have much to do about how to achieve it, after all, he was just a military fan after all.

However, what Li Hui did not expect was that the "Zhuge Liang Society," an informal officer meeting that had begun to be accepted after Li Hui's vigorous advocacy in the past few months, had unexpectedly become an opportunity to solve this problem.

Originally, when the Beiyang Naval Division discussed tactics, it was at least at the level of a deputy general to speak, but now as long as it is above the garrison, it can speak at the meeting to make suggestions or opinions, and the mind participating in thinking has suddenly increased many times, and the probability of coming up with a good solution has naturally increased significantly