On the periphery, there are at least 30 or so lookouts, carefully staring at the surrounding movements, at this time from the shore, about 12 kilometers or so, the width of this piece is a little larger, those ships are almost all in the shadow of the island, this is the usual practice of pirates.

Wait patiently, be cautious, and hit with a blow, this is the characteristic of the pirates, like wolves on the sea, silently staring into the distance, the pirates have not thought about it, to put the observation boat, some fishing boats, as long as a little camouflage, put on a few pirates who have been fishermen, is a real fisherman, but the liaison officer from Singapore, brought good news, when the ship group arrived, there will be British warships to send a signal, and guide them into it, saving them a lot of effort, This is also the fundamental reason why they are patient here, they believe that as long as they get the signal, the distance of more than ten kilometers is not a very large distance, and when the other party finds out, they can enter at least 2 kilometers, or even within 1 kilometer.

The pirate base camp, a special lookout post, can clearly see that in the channel, in the direction of them, the searchlights that suddenly appeared, the searchlights that were regularly arranged in a triangle, and rotated clockwise, as they agreed, it was the news of the British fleet, they did not have radio and other means, they could not completely transmit all the news back, what could be transmitted back was just simple. For example, where is the ship, how many are there. Of course, from one fleet to five fleets. Of course, there is also the news coming back, but no one pays attention to this. As long as there is a fleet coming, for pirates, one ship is robbed, 10 ships and 100 ships are also robbed, and a fleet is better, so it is easy to be attacked, and if a single attack is successful, then all of them will be taken.

Hidden in the middle of the islands in the middle of the place of the flotilla. Beginning to set off, one after another, although there were many pirates, all of them held their breath, not daring to make any sound, one after another, streamed out, from the sky, in a vast area of about 20 kilometers. On either side were the absolute high-speed fleet, and they were like two arrows, outflanking the entire group.

The coastline has always been monitored by the entire observer, especially some observers. I imprinted most of the coastline in my mind, in a certain way. Any clue will catch their attention, and it's not a clue now. It's a lot of small boats, like ants. Crazy rushed out of nowhere, taking advantage of the darkness of the night, rushed to the fleet, such an obvious thing, of course, can be seen clearly.

The first siren sounded, then the second and third, and when most of the people saw the swarming pirates, a naval battle officially began.

Andrei, who was located on the destroyer, also noticed that in the hands of their sentry, there was also a night vision goggles given by the Northwest, and the time when the pirates did it was likely to be at night, in this era, whether it was abroad or in China, the rate of night blindness accounted for a considerable part, that is, the Northwest, has been preaching balanced nutrition, for children and the army, they have always paid more attention to this, increased the intake of vitamin A, and after the nutrition came up, China was also busy relatively speaking, There is a huge drop.

No matter how it falls, people's eyes, in the dark night, can not see far, a few hundred meters is already the limit, more than ten kilometers away, it is not clear at all, but the night vision goggles with enhanced infrared effect, without the pursuit of precision and accuracy, can see a few kilometers away, especially relatively large, fast-moving things.

Yang Yuanzhao knows very well that in this battle, German destroyers are very important, after knowing that the other side still has a few ironclad ships, even more so, no matter what, it is just a question of how much to lose, but now, if there is no fleet that can deal with ironclad ships, what awaits them will be a nightmare, the power of ironclad ships, after seeing other warships of the world's navies, he knows very well that even if there is only thirty or forty millimeters of homogeneous armor, it is not something that the current northwest can deal with, It's just a matter of paying more casualties.

Andre didn't care much when he got the night vision goggles, this thing, in his opinion, nothing, but really at night, the surrounding qiē is not clear, even with a little weirdness, the infrared on the retina is formed a different image than usual, but the outline can be seen at about 6 kilometers, this is enough to shock, with this, in the naval battle, there is no need to worry about not seeing each other at night.

In the world naval warfare, sometimes at night, a fog, can change the outcome of a battle, in destroyers and cruisers, often used chimneys, even in World War I, and even some special places in World War II, will have a considerable effect, the horizon is always the best place to distinguish, before the radar has not fully functioned, the horizon is the strongest, the naval warfare of this era, has just entered the era of optical ranging and optical targeting.

Andre he was just playing with it, looking at the excitement, and didn't delve into this, when the signal came from the northwest side, telling him that there were a large number of pirate ships, and they were thinking about them coming quickly, they only noticed. The sentinel's face was surprised, especially, seeing the dense locust-like pirate ship, frantically thinking about rushing over here, the feeling was completely different, it was a lot, dense.

"There are really a lot of people!" Andrei said in surprise.

The sentry next to him was also full of emotion, facing the pirates who came like locusts, especially under the cover of night, if they were not careful, and were rushed into an area of 500 meters or even 300 meters by the other party, even the destroyer may not be able to reflect it, and when the time comes, the light weapons on these ships will pose a great threat to the bare targets on the destroyer, and the sea will really be in great trouble at that time

The location of the pirates is between them and the British destroyer, so to speak, the location is quite well chosen, even if they want to rush over, it will take at least 15 minutes or so, such time, a pass of about 11 knots, at least three or four nautical miles, in this case, when it is discovered or even exchanged fire, it will be too late.

In terms of the pirate's strategy, it seems to be very good, Andre didn't plan to do anything next, he let his destroyers combine into a battle camp, ready to shoot at any time, next, it depends on how the northwest behaves, if they can resist the pirate's attack, then it will be easy to do, the icing on the cake, for anyone, it is a very easy thing to do, but if not, he also needs to measure, if possible, rescue Yang Yuanzhao, the worst, also need to cover his escape.

Among the flagships, Yang Yuanzhao calmly watched the progress of the battle situation, it can be said unceremoniously, the pirates appeared without accidents, the sound of telegrams, at this time is interconnected, this is the most fundamental control measure, he must be the first time, know the basic situation of all the outermost warships, because this is very important for his command, his judgment.

In the core area, where the third layer of defense is, the artillery has already begun to prepare, and the dark night is not conducive to the design of the artillery fire, but the strictly trained artillery can look at the design elements that they see, make adjustments, and prepare, so as to ensure that there is a greater accuracy rate in the war. Dense pirates are the biggest target, but they need to find a more suitable one, try to put it into the range, and strike at the maximum strike range and fire intensity.

The pirate ships of this era are different from the past, dilapidated fishing boats, in the case of money, most of the civilian ships can get it, every part of the pirates, there is an obvious flagship, which is the most worthy goal, one or two thousand ships, in fact, most of the ships are the most ordinary, can be called fishing boats, such a huge number of cases, densely rushed up, making people pinch a cold sweat, feel very dense.

The pirates kept rushing forward, 12 kilometers away, approaching step by step, from 10 kilometers to 8 kilometers, the opposite fleet did not have any reflection, several pirate leaders, felt that luck had come, the other party did not have a chance to reflect, they only need to exceed this section of the death zone, to reach the safe area of about 4 kilometers, when the time, the fastest, more than 12 knots of sea ships, can take 10-12 minutes to complete this voyage.

When the pirates entered within 5 kilometers, the range of most of the artillery, the radio waves passed through the space, transmitted to each part of the fleet, the naval battle officially began, 36 guns have been loaded, all the shooting elements have been calculated, and the selected target artillery began to tilt towards the sea with cannon fire, more than 30 flashing shells, rushed towards those pirate ships, the first selected are some cargo ships of more than 5,000 tons, these ships are enough to be called huge in the pirate camp.

Almost half a minute later, the artillery crossed a distance of 5 kilometers and fell to a sea on the opposite side, but unfortunately there were not many of the 36 rounds, both sides were traveling at a considerable speed, and the sea water was not a straight line, dozens of seconds, it was enough for them to change their position, and only 7 of them were hit, and 2 of them were accidentally hit, did not hit the target, and hit the boat.

The fire rose on the hit ship, illuminating the surrounding Qiē, one of the 3,000-ton ships, was directly hit and caught fire, high-explosive shells against unarmored targets, more effective than armor-piercing shells, this gun, directly through the thin deck, exploded inside, seemed to ignite coal and some fuel oil, the fire was surging like a pillar, unveiling the beginning of the tragic naval battle. (To be continued......) R1292