Chapter Two Hundred and Seven: Let's Dry and Sink One First
Since the fleet is basically berthed, although the power plant is still not turned off, the ships that can be berthed will not waste much coal, and similarly, will not produce much thick black smoke.
This is why the fleet discovered the fleet for a period of time after the discovery of the Chinese ship, and the lookout on the Chinese ship discovered the fleet.
On the Shan Yong, the captain Liu Chengming sat calmly in the control tower and listened to the report of the officer on duty. Since fleet commander Chen Yu was transferred to the post of chief of the navy, Liu Chengming has become the second commander of the Pacific Fleet after Chen Yu with his own skills.
"Order the fleet, move at full speed, and when you reach the range of engagement, open fire immediately!" Liu Chengming said coldly.
The mission of the Pacific Fleet is not simply to defeat the Flotilla, they are basically here to send the Marines and other landing force soldiers, and after sending these soldiers, they will blockade the entire Yellow Sea, prohibiting all ships from entering and leaving, especially warships.
Since the Chinese Empire announced its entry into the war, the whole world has been extraordinarily quiet, and there is almost no voice to intervene to adjust, and the great powers have all been staring at the war in the northeast with their eyes wide open. Even the British, who are the world's bosses, consciously chose to remain silent at this time.
To tell the truth, the rise of the First Chinese Empire was too rapid, just a few blinks of an eye, Wang Lin's army soared from more than 200,000 to 800,000, followed by the establishment of the First Chinese Empire, and before the powers could react, Wang Lin's army increased again to about 1.1 million.
As for the combat effectiveness of the Imperial Chinese Army units, what was it? At present, the world has not given a reasonable position, and it can even be said that the troops of the Imperial Chinese Defense Forces are still a force that has not fought a war. Only the previous battle in Hong Kong made the British more unforgettable.
It's just that it was only a small-scale battle, and the true strength of the Chinese National Defense Force could not be seen at all, and this time the Russo-Russian War happened to hit the meaning of the great powers of various countries, although Ben and Russia were not at the forefront of the great powers, but they also belonged to the end of the great powers.
Just by relying on this Russian-Russian war, we can see what is the combat capability of the Chinese National Defense Forces? Moreover, it is still one and two, and according to the current performance of the book and Russia, it seems that there is no intention of retreating, and there is even a feeling of continuing to increase troops. At present, the entire Western society is extremely indifferent to this war, and they want to rely on himself and the Russians to find out the details of Wang Lin.
Wang Lin, in the eyes of these powers, is like a local tyrant who suddenly popped up, with both money and strength, at least the Chinese ship and Xiaodouding in his hands are still more popular with the powers.
The sea water slapped wantonly on the hull of the Chinese ship, and the turbulent sea water violently hit the side of the hull, and the huge hull occasionally sank, loading some of the more fortunate sea water onto the warship. At this time, the wind direction on the sea was not very strong, and the sound of the 18 boilers and four steam engines of the Chinese ship working continuously and at full strength was incessant, and the officers and men on the entire warship could hear this roar.
It's just that at this time, they have been full of reason by the upcoming battle, and they have no spare energy to feel those other things, on the Chinese ship, every officer and soldier is quickly coming to their own position, quickly fixing their bodies in a certain place, and the warship usually needs to make various actions to avoid it during the battle, which is to prevent their bodies from failing to control the center of gravity during the battle, resulting in some problems such as falling.
After about 20 minutes of full speed forwarding, the fleet finally entered the range of the Chinese ships, and at this time, the fleet had already made a corresponding formation, but in order to prevent a surprise attack by the Russian navy behind it, the fleet still retained some warships to continue to monitor the Russian fleet still in the harbor.
And the main guns on the Chinese ship, still did not rush to fire, although it has entered the range at this time, but because the distance is too far, and there is no accurate aiming equipment, at such a long distance, it is still easy to miss, not to mention that this fleet is the kind of small ships of 1,000 tons, yes, in front of the Chinese ship, they are definitely small ships.
Dozens of ships were on the opposite side of the two Chinese ships, and at this time they were still very small, and they were not enough to fight against the huge body of the Chinese ships and the terrifying main guns.
After about ten minutes or so, the command officer of the main gun on the Chinese ship decisively ordered the cannon to be fired, and at this distance, they were already sure to hit the other side, even if the shells fell within 100 meters of the enemy's ship, the resulting air wave could still overturn the small body of the fleet.
With a loud bang, Li Er, the former main gun shooter, sent the shell out fiercely after aiming. A loud bang like thunder came from the main gun, and the roar of the cannonballs tearing through the air suddenly reverberated over the entire sea area. At the muzzle of the 381-mm gun, there were puffs of smoke, and the smell of gunpowder filled the air.
'Boom! After about a few tens of seconds of flight, the shell landed within 300 meters of the fleet in the blink of an eye, and a huge column of water suddenly appeared on the surface of the sea, like a huge fountain, spraying the sea water into the sky.
Although the first shell did not reach within 100 meters, and it was not lucky enough to directly hit any of the ships of the fleet, even though it was only like this, the 381-millimeter range of the 381-millimeter shell still set off a wild wave on the sea level.
Bursts of waves like earth-shattering beasts swooped down in all directions, and at this time, the fleet was also in a state of full advance, and in the blink of an eye, the distance between the fleet and the center of the shell explosion was within three hundred meters. The waves like a giant beast still beat the thousand-ton small ship and the weak body of the fleet back and forth on the sea surface, and the sea water surged onto the warship.
But soon, the sea water flowed back into the sea through the drainage holes, and only the still wet deck told us that the warship had just been attacked by the ferocious sea.
The shells failed to reach the enemy's warships at close range, and the waves produced by the shells were only some painless blows to the fleet, and the observer quickly calculated the various data in his mind, and in about a few seconds, he quickly calculated the new data.
After a shell was fired, the loader, who was already ready in the back, and the loader who was holding a huge shell in his arms, quickly withdrew the empty shell of the shell from the barrel with the cooperation of his comrades, and then quickly stuffed a new shell back into the barrel. After the shells were loaded, Li Er and several other main gunners quickly commanded the soldiers next to them to adjust the position of the muzzle slightly.
'Boom, boom', and several earth-shattering loud noises, like thunder, came again. The smell of gunpowder in the air became a little stronger, and the 381-mm shells once again tore through the air fiercely, and at the same time let out the surging roar, and rushed headlong towards the opposite fleet without any scruples.
The smoke after the cannon was fired temporarily obscured the gunners' view, and the gunners took advantage of this time to quickly re-stuff a shell into the barrel again. Fortunately, the warship was moving at high speed at this time, and the smoke generated after the cannon fire only lasted for a few seconds before it disappeared.
This time, several 381-millimeter shells hit a small Japanese warship about 50 meters to the left of a small Japanese warship, as if they had encountered their own father-killing enemy.
The lookout could clearly see that this was a small warship of about 2,000 tons, which was originally a high-speed and maneuverable warship, after withstanding a heavy hit from 381 mm caliber shells at close range.
The sea water is like a sea monster and a giant whale, like Hercules, wave after wave of sea water, frantically pounced on the two-thousand-ton ship, this small ship at first fought with the waves for a while, but soon, under the attack of wave after wave, this small ship can no longer withstand such a fierce attack.
At first, the hull tilted slightly to the right, and then many sailors continued to slide down the deck into the sea because of the angle of the hull. I have to say that the quality of this warship is okay, at such a close distance, in the waves created by 381 mm shells, the hull did not break, but was slowly overturned by the sea, and finally began to gradually lie on the sea.
The sea water in June was still a little cold, and the sailors who fell into the sea, except for shivering from the sudden cold, had only one thing in mind, and that was to escape, how far and as far as they could escape. Judging from the scene just now, the warship they are on must be overturned by this wave of air, and when the warship is silent, it will send out bursts of whirlpools, if they can't escape to a safe distance before this whirlpool arrives, then they will be 100% martyred for this warship.
The first meeting between the two navies was just a simple face-to-face, four shells, and the Chinese ship was able to solve a warship of the Chinese Navy, although this warship was only a small tonnage, but it was able to solve this warship with four shells, and it can still be seen that the navy of the Chinese Empire still has a certain combat effectiveness.
Sitting on the flagship Sina Speed Ship (Naniwa had been sunk at the first day of this book, so a Sina Speed Ship was arranged for him here), Vice Admiral Gua Sheng Waiji, saw one of his warships being sunk by the other party like this, and his heart suddenly burst into anger, and his eyes were red looking at the soldiers who tried their best to escape not far away, but in the end they were sunk by the warship, and the whirlpool brought by it was brought into the deep seabed. As a vice admiral, Vice Admiral Gua Sheng Waiji deeply understands a truth, once a soldier is carried into the sea by this whirlpool, then the survival rate of this soldier will be zero.
Before the war began, he lost a warship and dozens of elite naval soldiers, Gua Sheng Waiji's heart was already full of anger at this time, as if some hatred had been implanted in his mind, and he desperately shouted to the herald next to him: "Baga, order the whole fleet to move forward at full speed, even if it hits, it will sink them!" ”
(To be continued)