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The mine-striking silence of the Count Lauren light cruiser shocked Gommst? I have used flags and light signals to contact the port many times before, but the other party has not mentioned that there are mines on the waterway? It is likely that even the British guards at the port of Mumbai did not know when the channel in front of their home was mined?

Rear Admiral Philby is Gommst's most powerful senior strategic staff officer, Gommster who lost Philby's Rear Admiral is furious, and the huge fleet can only send alert ships off the coast of Mumbai to temporarily berth, Gommst knows very well that the fleet cannot always be on standby at full capacity, so that the ship's boilers and steam turbines cannot adapt, and the fuel is limited after all, only by clearing the mines in the channel of Mumbai Port, the Allied fleet can resume normal replenishment, although the tonnage of Bombay Port is very limited, Some have been attacked and severely damaged, but it is better to have supplies than not to have supplies. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, the process of demining is still alive, and a Bloomington-class heavy armored protection cruiser was also damaged and sunk, but compared to the Earl Lauren, which did not survive, nearly 200 Royal Navy officers and sailors on the Bloomington-class heavy armored protection cruiser escaped smoothly.

While Gomst was wrestling outside the port of Bombay, the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy under Zhanyang's command had been assembled, and the 22 light and heavy cruisers of the Indian Ocean Fleet were responsible for towing 40 Kraken-class torpedo boats 30 nautical miles behind the fleet.

For the life and death of the Chinese Empire, Zhanyang repeatedly argued his own battle plan, and even for a small detail can be repeatedly entangled for a long time, for Zhanyang, he always thought that the Führer would go to the Ceylon Peninsula to command the battle, but he did not expect the Führer to hand over such an important task to him, the Führer himself and the Chief of the General Staff Li Anmin went to Beihai in the hope of being able to settle the battle in a war, completely solve the biggest threat to the empire on land, and strive for a buffer zone for the empire.

Zhanyang faced his overall battle plan for the last time, this plan was implemented in two parts, because the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy did not have an advantage over the Entente fleet, and it was easy to be beaten to death by the old master, so this determined that the Chinese Empire could only adopt the mode of elite combat, that is, a rapid assault, engagement, and then withdraw from the battlefield like lightning, use their own battleships to attract enemy firepower, and then outflank the enemy from the left and right flanks at the same time, and immediately retreat after a successful blow, and fight with the enemy until dark, The fleet began to retreat, joining up with the Indian Ocean Fleet dragging the Kraken, and the whole army launched a general attack on the enemy position, and the Kraken and the Storm-class ocean-going destroyers launched a decisive assault on the enemy ships.

Then, the main force of the Imperial fleet interspersed with the enemy formation, fought an unexpected night battle, and tried to win the greatest victory at the lowest cost, and the battlefield was located off the coast of the port of Mumbai, where the sea conditions were very suitable for the Grand Fleet to fight a decisive battle, especially for a surprise attack by torpedo boats.

Zhanyang organized the main forces of the Imperial Navy participating in the attack into four formations, two Cangqiong-class, four Imperial-class, six Nanling-class battlecruisers, eight Zhenyuan-class battleships, twenty Glorious-class heavy armored protection cruisers, and all of the Indian Ocean Fleet and Kraken torpedo boat formations.

The Imperial Navy is in a weak position in terms of the number of warships, but the two Firmament-class battleships are the mainstay of turning the tide, Zhanyang plans to command two Firmament-class battleships, two Zhenyuan-class battleships and ten Glorious-class heavy armored protection cruisers as the central column, and use the Glorious-class heavy armored protection cruisers to escort the two Firmame-class and Zhenyuan-class battleships as a strategy, break into the Allied formation, and use the firmament-class thick and hard skin to attract enemy firepower. Destroying enemy ships with 380 mm guns equipped with the Sky class.

The left flank column commanded by Admiralty Minister Li Haibo is composed of four Empire-class battleships, six Zhenyuan-class battleships, and ten Glorious-class heavy armored protection cruisers, whose task is to serve as a firepower strike mission and wander around the central column, while the six Nanling-class battlecruisers commanded by Jia Wuji are organized into a right-wing column, and its main task is to quickly intersperse, disrupt the enemy's formation, and use large-caliber naval guns to bombard British supply ships. Transport ships and light cruisers or destroyers with torpedo launchers, while the reserve formations were under the unified command of Tang Ziqiang.

As for Zhanyang's tactical arrangement, Li Haibo, Jia Wuji, Tang Ziqiang and others have repeatedly discussed and studied, and believe that although this plan carries a certain risk, it can have the opportunity to severely damage the Allied fleet, and the navy's fleet is different from the army's ability to train a group of elites in a few years, and the navy needs a lot of money and time to cultivate, and this so-called training is likely to lead to loss of money due to the various problems of the cultivated people themselves.

Therefore, once the Imperial Navy can defeat the Entente side in this naval battle, then it will be able to win at least fifty to one hundred years of stable development time for the Empire.

After commending and boosting morale, looking around at all the captains attending the meeting, Zhan Yang said very seriously: "At this moment, it is related to the life and death of our Chinese Empire, in the face of the huge military pressure of dozens of European powers, the British took the lead in provoking a dispute in the Indian Sea, and at this moment the dispute has evolved into a full-scale war. ”

Zhan Yang paused slightly, and then said: "According to the instructions of the wise leadership of the Great Führer, the empire is in ruins, and most of the important production, metallurgy, shipbuilding, textile and other enterprises and factories are in the coastal areas, and the Chinese Empire has never been afraid of any country or organization, so according to the requirements of His Excellency the Führer, the empire will set the battlefield in the home of the enemy, return the war to those who try to impose the war on others, and let them taste the true feeling of being in war." ”

At 10 o'clock in the morning of August 29, 1869, the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet arrived in the waters off the port of Mumbai, and the Allied fleet under the command of Admiral Gomsted was also completely prepared, because as early as two hours earlier, the fast formation commanded by Jia Wuji, as the advance formation of the main fleet, had exchanged fire with the alert patrol formation of the Allied side, and as a result, three heavy armored cruisers of the Allied side were sunk and three escaped.

Admiral Gommst looked at his watch with his usual surname, and as a soldier, especially a navyman, it was especially important to grasp the time.

Admiral Gomsted glanced at the clerk behind him expressionlessly and said: "Record, on August 29, 1869, the Allied fleet encountered the main force of the Imperial Chinese Navy fleet in the sea area of twenty nautical miles outside the port of Mumbai. ”

The clerk standing behind Gommst looked a little old, about fifty years old, but the rank on his shoulder still showed that he was a major, and the old major was writing Gommst's dictated battle orders calmly, it can be said that this record is of little use if it is victorious, but if it is defeated, then this record is the best evidence of accountability.

On the bridge of the flagship of the Chinese Imperial Fleet, Zhan Yang took a deep breath and ordered loudly: "Clerk, please record!" ”

The young clerk looked a little excited, holding the dossier and looking at the extremely young commander, who was barely much older than him! Zhan Yang held the telescope on his chest and said: "The main force of the Imperial Navy fleet will have a strategic decisive battle with the Allied fleet, and all the soldiers participating in the war are determined to be loyal to the Führer and to be loyal to the Empire, and fight to the death with the strong enemy, and win the final victory!" Long live the Reich Führer! Long live the Chinese Empire! Long live the Imperial Navy! ”

The young clerk looked at the order given by the fleet commander with some surprise, because what Zhanyang said was not a standard combat experience at all, and the clerk looked at Zhanyang with some confusion, because everyone knew that Zhanyang was not only the supreme commander of the imperial naval operations this time, but also Zhanyang was also the deputy head of the empire, since the order was personally issued by His Excellency the commander, as a clerk, of course he had no right to question.

Zhan Yang also seemed to see the clerk's confusion, so he smiled faintly and said, "If we fail, then we don't need to explain to anyone!" So we must win this battle! Not only to win, but to win! ”

The seventy-three combat ships of the Entente side were divided into five formations and rushed towards the three formations of the Chinese Empire with great momentum, and there was a posture of eating them, but the Chinese Imperial Navy, which was familiar with naval warfare and experienced in a hundred battles, appeared unusually calm under the command of Zhanyang, and calmly began to maneuver according to the previous three formations.

The purpose of the Entente to divide the fleet of the Chinese Empire was already very obvious, but the Chinese Empire seemed to be unaware of it, and the three ship formations actually came head-on? The distance was rapidly shortening, and the guns of both sides were silent!

Both sides understand that at this time the contest is the quality of the officers and men of the fleets of both sides, and after the first round of shelling, naturally everything will be clear!

(To be continued)