"Woo-woo-"

The Qing fleet was sailing near the Zhongsha Islands, when suddenly the flagship let out a short and long whistle, and the sailors who had just finished lunch and were resting left their resting places one after another and quickly ran to their respective posts. ****

A short and long whistle is an order for the fleet to enter a state of readiness. It should be said that the Qing fleet at this time will not have enemies. But the reason for this was that the naval norms, inherited from Britain and strengthened in China, were to keep the fleet at all times in a state of high war in order to cope with any eventuality. Therefore, no matter where they sailed, whether they left the port or returned to the sea, everyone in the fleet remained in a high level of mental concentration. The situation of sailing on the sea is also ever-changing, and you don't know when it's going to happen. Especially when the fleet is attacked by submarines and both battleships are "sunk", the fleet's rapid reaction capability becomes even more important.

Mental concentration does not mean that tension will not be relaxed, tension will break a person's nerves, relaxation will make people feel helpless when encountering unexpected situations. Only mental concentration, so that everyone in the fleet can respond most effectively in the shortest possible time. Therefore, sounding the horn of preparation from time to time during the voyage has become the fleet's uninterrupted training during the voyage. According to Wu Deren's words, it is necessary to train every behavior of everyone on the fleet into physical instinct, as long as the alarm sounds, even if the brain is filled with, the body will automatically react. For this reason, Wu Deren sounded the alarm five times during a meal at most. The sailors, of course, were not happy, and ate a meal for two hours. In the end, it was necessary to clean up the warships that were scattered in the panic and trampled on the food everywhere. It wasn't until the fleet entered the harbor and the first sailors to disembark had landed ashore that the commander sounded the alarm again......

It turns out. Although these practices are excessive, from a military point of view, they ensure the fastest reaction speed of the fleet, can respond effectively to any contingencies, and can also train sailors to have a deep understanding of their own work. For example, in order to ensure that they would not cry without tears after the training was over, the experience summed up after countless lessons has been written into the fleet marching regulations: a yellow line is drawn in the middle of each aisle for the lunch box, and the rules of passage on the right side are followed. In order not to make the commander laugh at the sailors after every training. The angry non-commissioned officers and sailors followed their own experience in combat and training, summed up the best support locations for each combat position on the ship, readjusted and planned the rest compartments and temporary rest places, and made clear signs with yellow lines. The result made Wu Deren very embarrassed. He was laughed at by the sailors.

Li Guanshan, who watched the sailors drill every day, was very excited, and the first condition for a strong soldier was to prohibit it. Except for the unreliable Commander Wu on the entire ship, every sailor has always had a resolute face. They meticulously carried out reasonable and unreasonable orders, and they never complained.

"The order will do. No prohibitions. What is within the reach of the constitution, what is customary. If the heart of the whole body is followed, the government is also expected. This sentence is from "Pipe? Legislature" describes the law as solemn, disciplined, and conscientiously implemented. When Li Guanshan told them this sentence while chatting with the sailors, these resolute sailors blushed. Because the sailors thought that this was a very profound knowledge, they were just a Qiu Ba who was a soldier. It's too far away for them.

"Originally, we were illiterate, but if we want to stay in the fleet, we need to read. No way. The rules set by the emperor himself. If you fail the exam, you will be expelled from the navy. Old sir, you are a university scholar, you said that we can shoot and sink the enemy, why do you want to do learning. We don't have to go to school when we go to sea, and this time it is estimated that it will take three months to study, but in fact, I don't want to go back at all. It's too hard to do a good job." This is the sailor's description of Li Guanshan's miserable life after returning to the voyage. As he spoke, there was a pained look on his face.

"Don't you know, old man, that when we were rampaging on the coast of Japan, it was called an arrogance. Don't say anything, let's give little Japan a cannon first, you didn't look at it, the mountain was bombed down by us. "This is what the sailors told him about Li Guanshan, what they did back then. At this time, the sailors danced with joy.

"Actually, the Russians' artillery was quite accurate, and a shell hit the deck and smashed such a big hole. I have a brother who happened to be in the place where the shell exploded, and after the war I only found a pair of intestines, and I don't know if it was his. But the Russians' shells didn't hurt us, and we didn't sink a single ship, not only sank their four big ships, but also captured all of them. This is a description of what the sailors told him about Li Guanshan during the Battle of Tsushima. That sorrow was followed by a long pride of pride.

"You have not only defeated the enemy, you have never been defeated. The method you came up with was not only promoted in the entire navy of the Qing Dynasty, but even the British came to learn it. You are proud to make the world's most powerful navy bow its head and ask you for advice! This is what Li Guanshan told the sailor.

The whole ship was full of young men in their teens and twenties, but they were resolute, and their training was very hard, because Commander Wu of the fleet would always sound the alarm for war from time to time. And these lads never complained, all this seemed to them to be just normal. And it was these people who not only defeated the Japanese, but also completely annihilated the Far Eastern Fleet of the Russian Maozi. Commander Wu of the fleet is only in his early thirties. Thinking back to myself, when I was thirty years old, I was still told by my father that my heart was undecided. And when these wars against Japan and Russia were in the sea, they were full of pride. They will even despise the bridge after each training session.

They are proud, they are also unruly, they are a division of tigers and wolves. Li Guanshan told himself like this, and he also strengthened his determination to face the saint. Li Guanshan wanted to see with his own eyes what kind of Ming Jun led such a tiger and wolf army.

In the eyes of the sailors, their commander Wu Deren always wanted to laugh at them again, but never found a chance. Except, of course, for newbies. So. When the alarm was remembered again, the sailors just instinctively reacted and ran back to their positions, doing what they should do. An expression that would have been the same. Everyone knows that the battle in Nanyang is over, and it is time to go back and share the spoils. Everyone waited for the bridge to give the order to disband.

The sailors heard the short and long whistles, and even Li Guanshan, who stayed in the cabin to rest, also heard them. However, they were no longer curious, and after many days of traveling with the fleet, he had understood the meaning of these simple signals. In addition to complaining that every word affects the nap, it is more about the affirmation of the imperial fleet and the expectation of the saint opposite. Because everyone understands that the emperor can train such a strong army. He won't be a mediocre king.

But there are always exceptions, and this time the order to disband was not heard, but a new whistle was heard.

"Woo-woo-woo-"

Two short and one long. It is an order to prepare for battle. Who else is the enemy at this time? There is no need to understand that as a sailor, you only need to sink the target with a shell, and as for who the enemy is, it has nothing to do with them.

After a short pause. The non-commissioned officers shouted, "Prepare for battle—"

The lookout post has begun a 360-degree search for enemy ships. No one dares to guarantee that the enemy will appear only from one direction. The safety of the rapid-fire cannon is held in the hand, and it can be opened as soon as the enemy is in sight, and the gunner is ready to fire at any time. And the ammunition magazine for the main gun was opened, one shell and two packs of propellant were fed out, and then into the barrel with the help of machinery......

Li Guanshan and the three of them couldn't sleep, and the situation had changed greatly this time, so they hurried to the bridge without caring about much. They also saw on the gangway of the bridge that led to the destroyers of other representatives of the Chinese in Nanyang. Already escorted by two other destroyers, they left the formation to avoid the south side, and the fleet had begun to accelerate.

"Forward alert destroyer reports. At 10 o'clock, the British fleet was moving towards us at high speed in a battle line. It is 32,000 kilometers away from the main camp. This is what Li Guanshan heard when he pushed open the hatch of the bridge, and it was a report from the lookout post.

Li Guanshan and others, who had been sailing with the ship for many days, not only visited the battleship, but also learned some things about the naval battle from their conversations. For example, the battle line is only used in battle, and there are special cruising formations for peacetime navigation.

Now that the British Navy is lining up the battle line and moving towards the Qing fleet at high speed, is it going to war? Li Guanshan originally intended to withdraw from the bridge, because it involved the command of the battle, and he didn't want a few old men to affect the judgment of the generals. But Wu Deren motioned for them to come in and talk.

"General, is this going to war? It's better for the old man and others to quit. Li Guanshan stepped forward and said.

"Are you afraid?" No one expected Wu Deren to ask such a question.

"Afraid? If it weren't for the general's thousands of miles to help the Nanyang Chinese, Lao Yu and the others would have died. Li Guanshan laughed and said: "Now that I can fight with General Yu and others, I only hate myself for being old and frail, if I am twenty years younger, how can I go up and fire two cannons, no matter how bad it is, at least I can carry the shells." Now there is nothing to do but drag down the army. ”

Hahaha...... Wu Deren laughed wildly: "You are not afraid, what are we soldiers afraid of." As he spoke, he pulled Li Guanshan to the front of the bridge, patted the phone and said, "Now let Lao Tzu hear it clearly, the father of Nanyang will say a few words to you." After speaking, he pointed to the call tube and said to Li Guanshan: "The whole ship can hear it here, say a few words." ”

Li Guanshan didn't refuse, but just coughed twice and cleared his throat: "Young men, it was you who saved the Nanyang Chinese, and you are all like that." Now, let the foreign devils see, we Chinese are not easy to bully. After Li Guanshan finished speaking, he was frightened by the echo in the pipe, and the answer was really deafening.

Feng Qi, chief of staff of the fleet, shook his head after receiving the telegram handed by the signal corps: "Nothing is known about this in China. ”

"Is that a fight or not?" Wu Deren only cared about this issue, and as long as the chief of staff started fighting, he dared to order the fleet to recoil over. However, the gunnery officer on the side said as if fanning the flames: "All the artillery of the fleet has been prepared and can attack at any time." ”

Feng Qi's eyes widened: "Close your beak." "War with the British, this is the common wish of the sailors from Commander Wu Deren to the lowest rank, even if they fail, even if the whole army is destroyed. Although he also thinks so, how can the current Qing Dynasty have the confidence to start a war with the British?

"It's not right, no matter how big it happens, it won't allow the British fleet to attack us on its own initiative, unless it's a declaration of war. But we didn't get any warnings. Feng Qi reacted: "Let the vigilant destroyer keep an eye on the gun barrel of the British ship and see what the state is." ”

"You're saying it's a temptation to do the same as we did in Malacca?" Wu Deren also understood.

"Unless someone in the country hides something from us, but as long as Chief of General Staff Cheng is there, I believe this will not happen."

The British Far Eastern Fleet is now in sight, and it is getting closer. The Qing Nanyang Task Force had already completed its combat formation, and its speed had also come up, and it was also lined up in a battle line and rushed straight towards the British Far East Fleet. The fire control room followed the observed data and notified the turret again and again of the corrected shelling elements. Wu Deren had already informed that as long as he "moved", all the artillery would be pointed at the British fleet that was getting closer and closer. Wu Deren held the binoculars and stared at the main gun barrel of the Determination, the flagship of the British Far East Fleet. As long as he moves, Lao Tzu will aim at you.

At the forefront of the fleet is the destroyer Cruiser, and they are saying over and over again: This is the Qing Nanyang Task Force, which is carrying out escort missions, please report your intentions. But no matter how the flag was waved, the British Far East Fleet, under the leadership of the flagship Resolve, rushed straight towards the Qing fleet without saying a word in a battle formation at a high speed of 18 knots. Until the Cruiser had retreated into its position, the British fleet still did not respond.

HMS Resolve, the third British Sovereign-class battleship. After the Battle of Tsushima between Qing and Russia, in the face of the increasingly powerful combat capability of the Qing fleet, the British sent the Resolve to the Far East, hoping to use the power of this ship to deter the Qing State. However, by the time the ship arrived in Hong Kong and completed maintenance, the Qing wars in Indonesia had long since ended. Now with this ship as the flagship, Phillimant is determined to take revenge on the Qing State for the attack on Malacca that caused the British Navy to lose face.

And the reason why this happened was because the British patrolling destroyers took the initiative to retreat in the face of the Qing ** ship, and the Germans openly declared that Britain had begun to force the newly rising naval power, so Germany wanted to develop its navy with all its might, so the German Navy has frequently left the port to provoke the British Royal Navy, so Kaiser Wilhelm II forcibly passed a new naval bill to build a strong high seas fleet in the future, and the premise of all this is that Germany has been expanding its shipyards. But the facts are very clear to everyone, that is just what the Qing ship did when the British ship was not prepared and the British ship was still in the harbor. Everyone believed that if the British ships lined up in advance, Qing Guo would not dare. But the Germans did not think so, and they had to preach all over the world that the reason why Britain did not dare to challenge the Qing was that Britain was no longer strong enough to defeat the Qing in the Far East.

What can a destroyer do in the face of a battleship but back down? The whole world knows the truth of the matter, but the Germans are fanning the flames there, and the British Empire cannot afford to lose this face for the glory of the Royal Navy of the British Empire.

Philimant, the commander of the British Far East Fleet, was extremely resentful of the Germans at the moment, in fact, he didn't want to do it at all, just because the commander of the Qing fleet on the opposite side was the Erlenzi Wu Deren. Filimant knew Wu Deren too well, and he was the one who really dared to shoot at him. Philimant didn't even dare to imagine that if Wu Deren really fired at him, the consequences would lead to a full-scale war between the Qing Emperor and the Qing State.

"General, is this appropriate?" Filimante's deputy said with some concern: "The command just let us try, but it doesn't want war to break out. ”

"Don't worry, it's just that I didn't expect the Qing people to send a vigilant destroyer so far away during an ordinary cruise. Although our actions were discovered in advance by the Qing people, the British Imperial Navy was formidable. Phillimant said casually: "The Qing people's attack on Malacca has disgraced the British Navy, and this time we must earn back this face." If the Qing people want to complain, they should complain about the Germans. ”

"Lao Tzu is not powerful, I think Lao Tzu is easy to bully. Tell you, this time Lao Tzu is still dead. Wu Deren said viciously: "Tell the rabbit cub below to aim at the British warship for Lao Tzu and crash into it." (To be continued......) u