On the vast sea, the night shrouded the entire fleet, and the sound of waves crashing against the warships kept coming, one wave was stronger than the other, and even the battleships weighing 20,000 tons began to shake uncontrollably. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Some of the small-tonnage warships around were even more crumbling, and it seemed that they might sink at any time, but the bad weather did not stop this fleet, they still maintained the speed of formation, and slowly sailed towards the depths of the sea.

The entire fleet was kept under the lights, the sea was dark, and there was almost no communication between the ships, but inside the warship, in a closed room, there were several radio stations working non-stop, and during this time, they could only communicate with each other in this way.

Because the waves were too big, except for the larger battleships, the other warships could not fight at all, and even normal driving was very difficult, and the officers and men on the ships also fixed themselves in their respective positions to prevent injuries, and at this time, the most painful were the officers and soldiers in the command cabin and the damage management troops and power units below who needed to work non-stop.

After enduring fifteen years and suffering fifteen years of white eyes, now, they can finally be ashamed. Thinking back then, Deng Haohong was just a hairy boy in his early twenties, and now he is nearly forty years old, his hair has turned slightly gray, and he has a tuft of beard on his chin, which is quite the style of Deng Shichang back then.

A year ago, Deng Haohong was promoted to the captain of the Zhiyuan-class Deng Shichang, and the name of this battleship was a warship named after Deng Haohong's father, Deng Shichang, and the Zhiyuan-class was also named after the battleship that sank in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War. The warships of this class were originally planned to be named Wang Sirui the Great-class battleships, but they were eventually denied by many parties.

The first to deny this proposal were the military high-ranking officials, who feared that the first domestically produced battleship would be lacking in quality or performance, and that if the battleship named after the emperor was sunk in a naval battle, the blow to the entire empire would be huge.

Later, the emperor himself was directly opposed, and vetoed this proposal, and assigned a new name for the next battleship, the battleship of this class currently being built was named the Zhiyuan class, and its two battleships were named Deng Shichang and the other was named Liu Buchan.

After that, there is a third ship, which has just been launched for sea trials and has not yet entered the navy service, and the battleship is named Lin Taizeng, and there are only so many rumors at present, but some other cruisers, frigates and the like are also named after the generals of Beiyang and the battle in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War that year.

Although the name is the same, it also indicates that the Chinese Empire is nostalgic for that scene back then, but the difference is that the Zhiyuan ship was just a small warship with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons, while today's Zhiyuan-class battleship is a huge battleship with a displacement of 23,000 tons, with a full load of 27,000 tons, and maintains a maximum combat speed of 18.8 knots.

Deng Haohong was assigned to serve on the Deng Shichang ship, which can be said to be a kind of fate and an expectation of the top management, which led to the failure of the Beiyang Fleet due to various reasons. Now, the Chinese Empire has created another new 'Beiyang' fleet, and has used a large number of descendants of the generals and officers of the Beiyang Fleet, and as far as possible they are assigned to the warships named after their predecessors for service.

Although this kind of incentive measure is somewhat extreme, it has also played a very good role in stimulating the enthusiasm of officers and men for training, and after several years of systematic training, the current 'Beiyang' fleet, both in size and strength, has far surpassed the fleet of the past, and although the Japanese navy is also developing, Japan, which has lost a large number of advantages, has long since slowed down the development speed of its navy.

Originally purchased from the United States and other European countries with a total displacement of more than 90,000 tons, the empire has now more than doubled the size of this fleet.

The First Fleet of the Imperial Royal Navy, which is currently the most powerful fleet in the entire navy, has one of the Dreadnought-class battleships purchased from the United States, and the rest of the warships occupy half of them, about eleven. Later, the Second Fleet was divided into the Third Fleet, and the Second Fleet, which was originally on par with the First Fleet, was instantly doubled in size, but because there was a Dreadnought-class battleship, the Second Fleet was still ranked second.

Last year, the First Fleet added two Zhiyuan-class dreadnoughts, which were superior in terms of displacement, number of guns, and armor to the battleships, cruisers, and destroyers purchased from the United States, and the number of frigates was increased by more than 20 ships.

This point is thanks to Wang Sirui's wise move back then, if it wasn't for the foreshadowing that had been laid before the founding of the People's Republic of China, the construction of the imperial navy would definitely not have been so fast. At present, there are more than 1,000 outstanding design engineers in the naval shipyards alone, about one-third of whom are shipbuilding talents from various countries who have been recruited from overseas, and 60 percent of the remaining two-thirds have experience in overseas studies, and 90 percent of them have experience in building warships.

Under the leadership of these engineers, craftsmen with shipbuilding skills in some coastal areas also quickly mastered the technology of building warships, and became more and more proficient.

At present, a Zhiyuan-class battleship, from the beginning of laying the keel to launching the sea trial, it will only take fifteen months at most, and the speed of the battleship below 10,000 tons will be even faster, like the kind of frigates and destroyers of two or three thousand tons, it is no exaggeration to say that one can be built in five months.

Although Wang Sirui does not know how to build ships, but he also knows the shipbuilding methods of the United States in later generations, and today's imperial shipyards are using the method of segmented manufacturing, so today's Chinese Empire can also build a fleet a year, and is also cultivating a large number of talents, and this speed will be faster and faster in the future.

"Commander, it's windy here, so you might as well go in." Deputy Captain Liu Hong stood on the bridge with his hands on the railing, looking at Deng Haohong, who was looking at the distance in a daze, and persuaded him.

Deng Haohong is the commander of the First Fleet, and he is also the captain of the Deng Shichang ship, but this captain's position is only a formality, Deng Haohong only put the flagship on the Deng Shichang ship, and the specific command of this warship is in charge of the deputy captain Liu Hong, and the Deng Shichang ship is also the only warship equipped with two deputy captains among all naval warships.

Of course, although Liu Hong is the deputy captain, he is the first captain, and the treatment is also carried out according to the captain, and the reason why Deng Haohong occupies this position is more about the memory of his late father.

Deng Haohong nodded, retracted the thoughts flying in his heart, the moment he entered the command cabin, Deng Haohong suddenly thought of something, he was thinking, when his father went on the expedition, was he in the same mood as he is now?

"Commander, the commander-in-chief is calling, it is expected that our fleet will converge with the Second Fleet in half an hour." A communications staff officer came out of the closed room at the back of the command module and handed a telegram to Deng Haohong.

Although they have certain advantages in terms of warships, they are still inferior to the Japanese Navy in terms of combat experience, and there are not many generals in the fleet who have combat experience, so as one of the few generals who participated in the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the deputy commander of the Imperial Navy, Sa Zhenbing, also personally commanded this time, but Sa Zhenbing continued the low-key style of the flagship, and he chose a small and fast destroyer as the flagship.

Although it is very strange, it is more able to ensure the safety of the General Headquarters.

This time, their mission was to start from Port Arthur, then go south, join the Second Fleet in the East China Sea, and then move east to block the Japanese fleet supporting Taiwan, according to intelligence, the Japanese Navy will send a combined fleet to protect the landing of three infantry divisions in Taiwan.

Japan's Combined Fleet is actually a combination of several different fleets, which is the same nature as the First Fleet and the Second Fleet, so that Japan's coastal defense around Japan will inevitably be empty, but in order to ensure control of Taiwan, Japan eventually sent the Combined Fleet to protect it.

Of course, their task is to escort the ship halfway, and when they are about to arrive in Taiwan, they will begin to break away from the fleet, and then hide on the sea, once they find that the Chinese Empire has forcibly landed on Taiwan, then the combined fleet will suddenly kill them, solve those Chinese infantry who are trying to land on the sea, and take the opportunity to destroy the Chinese navy covering it, in order to stabilize Japan's control over Taiwan.

Although it was extremely dangerous to do so, the Japanese mainland was also making preparations for coastal defense, and the spies in China did not hear of any changes in the Royal Army in the north, and it was precisely this situation that made Japan make this bold decision.

The Chinese Empire, on the other hand, gathered more than 40 large and small warships, including four dreadnought-class battleships, 13 heavy cruisers, 17 destroyers, and nine frigates, as well as five 20,000-ton supply ships.

It can be said that the Chinese Empire gathered four-fifths of its navy this time to snipe at the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet, and the size of the Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet was about 40 ships, accounting for about two-thirds of the Japanese Navy.

The advantage of the Chinese Empire was that they had already mastered the dynamics of the Japanese Navy, and if they did not change their plans at the last minute, then they could wait to catch the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy.

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