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Almost as the Second Pacific Fleet was spotted heading towards the Le Maire Strait, located under the toes of South America, warships were moored in the seemingly calm fjord of Wollaston Island, and the smoke-spewing chimneys reminded people that they were still igniting despite being moored there.

In the past nearly a month, the "Zhenyang Fleet" hidden in this foreign sea has been practicing their artillery skills here, and the icebergs on the sea have become their targets, and in the long wait, everyone's mood can be described as highly tense, and everyone is waiting for the final order to be issued.

When receiving the telegram from the discovery of the Russian Second Pacific Fleet, Su Yueyang, who was the instructor of the fleet, was on the back deck with Han Che, the chief of staff, the two of them were smoking cigarettes, and Su Yueyang was even going to write a short poem, as one of the formulators of the naval battle battle plan, he had enough reason to be nervous, or to be happy, but unexpectedly, as the battle got closer, they behaved more and more calmly.

In contrast, as the deputy chief of staff, Akiyama Shinyuki, the whole person seemed a little overly nervous, and even the whole person began to become a little nervous, or overly sensitive, and it was precisely because of this that the three of them would breathe and relax on the back deck.

"Discover the Second Pacific Fleet of Russia!"

The news of the discovery of the Russian fleet came with alarming speed.

"Let's go!"

Dropping the cigarette butt casually, Han Che walked quickly, to be precise, he was running. He was only thirty-seven years old. It looks no different from an ordinary sailor. He was covered in muscles, his face was dark, and his bald head looked like a standard sailor.

In fact, if you don't look at the ranks, it is difficult to distinguish the officers and soldiers in the Northeast Army, they are all the same dark complexion, they are all the same bald heads, and their bodies look the same strong and powerful.

After entering the staff room. Han Che's elbows leaned against the table, leaning out his upper body, his eyes habitually turning. As chief of staff, he had already done ninety percent of the work he was supposed to do. The only thing left to be tested was the real war, but at least there was one more job he had to do right now.

A telegram was sent to the base camp.

It was a telegram on behalf of the "Zhenyang Fleet" to express the determination of the fleet to the commander and the country before rushing to the decisive battlefield, and as the chief of staff, he must now draft the telegram immediately.

And next to him, there were several staff officers who were constantly dancing their pencils.

"The enemy has appeared, Zhenyang attacked, and all the staff fought bravely. Thought it was a big win! ”

"Not bad!"

Looking at the telegram that had just been written, Han Che nodded. This is a show of determination, a show of the determination and will of the Zhenyang fleet, and it is also a flattery.

The staff officer immediately stood up. When he took the draft and wanted to go to the instructor, Han Che suddenly said something.

"Wait".

Then he had a pencil in his hand, and he took the draft back, first deliberating for a moment and then revising it slightly.

"Dark clouds cover the sun, the wind is high and the waves are urgent, Zhenyang receives the enemy, and the country is waiting for good news!"

After the telegram was sent, Fang Jingzhi, as the captain of the "Jinghai" combat ship, asked Li Weizhong, who was silent, for instructions:

"Your Excellency, Commander, did you give the order to leave the port?"

There is no doubt that it is time to strike!

After obtaining the consent of the commander, he consulted the nautical staff again, and then ordered the signalman in a loud voice,

"Each team will leave the port in a predetermined order!"

The order was given very quickly. From the time the signalman gave the order to the signalman to the signalman to the time when the signalman hung the first signal flag on the mast, the whole process took less than 30 seconds.

The command was not sent wirelessly to the individual warships, but to the flag signal. Orders were sent down from the fleet to the warbands, and from the warbands to the ships.

The chief of the signal stands on the deck of the signal flag of the "Jinghai". The glittering signal flags were used to form a flag, and the ships raised the answering flags halfway after receiving the order, and when the "Jinghai" finished sending the flag signal, all the ships raised the answering flags, and all of them expressed their understanding.

"Ships, receive!"

The signal chief shouted from the signal flag deck.

After the navigation staff officer heard it in the sea breeze, he immediately repeated it to Su Yueyang.

"Ships, receive!"

Fang Jingzhi repeated it to Li Weizhong again.

He nodded, and the nautical staff officer shouted to the signalman again,

"Flag down!"

He ordered him to lower the signal flag, and by this time the instructions had been given to the warbands to "prepare to leave the port." anchoring".

The scene was the same on all ships, with the trumpeter's horn blaring and the herald running around the ship with his whistle. The windlass on each ship rattled loudly, causing the hull to tremble.

From receiving the order to the battleship's departure, it only took less than 15 minutes before and after, and the speed was so fast that even Han Che, who had always been extremely harsh, nodded with satisfaction at this time, and Akiyama Shinyuki, who had become a little nervous in the family for a while, slapped his fist with satisfaction, and then said seriously.

"It seems that we will definitely win this time!"

The reason why he said this was simply because from the very beginning, the fleet had shown the results of intensive training, and if they could achieve the level of peacetime in the engagement, there was no problem in winning the battle.

The deputy commander's words made Fang Jingzhi, the captain of the first batch of "Jingyuan" who was born in the United States, glance at him, his seemingly solemn expression showed a trace of pride, several years of intensive training are completely manifested at this time, as long as everyone can show their usual results, there will be no problem!

When the fleet began to sail, at the same time as the battle order was issued, the sailors in the cabin immediately got busy, and the narrow hatch was full of running sailors.

"Remove all combustibles!"

In the cabin of the Jingyuan, the sailors kept running in the cabin with the orders of the boatswain. Canvas hammocks, officers' mattresses, and all other combustibles were enclosed directly in the cabin. Unless the battle is over. Otherwise, the cabin would not have been opened, and the sailors with the notes in their hands were running between the cabins, and the wartime terms "corpse room" and "emergency infirmary" were posted on the hatch with their posted papers.

And these nouns undoubtedly reminded the sailors that the battle would soon begin.

While the sailors in the cabin were preparing for the war that might come at any time, it was early in the morning, and it was a busy scene on the deck, with deck nozzles spraying seawater on the deck. Although it is impossible for the North American Red Oak deck to be completely soaked in seawater, an extra minute of water can reduce the possibility of burning.

For the Northeast Navy, they always have many experiences that the navies of other countries do not have, such as the fire prevention of the deck and the fire prevention of the cabin, which are all based on past exercises, to be precise, according to the performance of "Shimose explosives and charges", and this kind of gunpowder was successfully developed by Professor Shimose Masayo of the Department of Chemistry of Tohoku University nine years ago, and the shells filled with Shimose gunpowder officially became the standard weapon of the Northeast Navy that year. This move was extremely rare in the world at that time, due to the fear of bitter acid explosion and unstable explosiveness. The navies of the European powers did not use this kind of high explosives and charges, and until now, the warheads of artillery shells of various countries are filled with cotton gunpowder or even black fire and powder with weak explosiveness. Compared with black fire and medicine, this kind of artillery shell has a series of amazing characteristics, first of all, the sensitivity of the artillery shell is extremely high, that is, the small rope in the mission can cause an explosion, and after the explosion, it will not only form the shock wave and shell fragments when the ordinary black powder shell explodes, but also accompanied by a fire with a core temperature of up to 1,000 degrees, which is said to be ignitable to steel, and the flame formed by the explosion of this gunpowder explosion will spread and flow like gasoline on fire, and it can continue to burn for a period of time even in water.

Although the more stable new type of explosives and charges have been widely used, Shimose explosives and charges are still the main artillery charges of the army and navy because of their easy availability of raw materials and low cost, and they are used as armor-piercing shells by the navy because of their stable performance. The direct impact of the widespread use of Shimose explosives and munitions on the Northeast Navy is that it attaches great importance to fire prevention in its damage management, which is based on the conclusion reached by tests over the past many years.

"Wang Pengfei, hurry up, another sandbag......"

At Li Jianguo's shouting, a heavy bulletproof sandbag was tied to the railing of the bridge of the command tower, and several layers of bulletproof sandbags were also added to the armored skirt under the turret.

"Rinse through, be sure to soak the sandbag in water!"

The non-commissioned officer commanding the damage management team shouted that bundling bulletproof sandbags can block shrapnel, but it may not necessarily block the ignition effect of the shells, and immersion in water can play a certain role, although it is not known whether the Russian Navy uses picric acid shells, but it must be prepared just in case, and the water-soaked sandbags are more bulletproof.

"Does it work?"

An officer asked rhetorically as he looked at the non-commissioned officer who was commanding his subordinates.

"Picric acid explosives will burn even if they fall on the sea, and they will naturally burn more violently when they fall on the deck, what can this be for, I see that we still have to do a good job of donating."

"It can always be of a little use, at least it can make them burn for a while!"

The non-commissioned officer said with a smile, this would make him look relaxed, but in fact, the drum had already beaten in his heart, perhaps, this was the last time he saw the sunrise in his life.

Thinking of the sunrise, he looked towards the horizon, when the warship had sailed into the fjord, and on the ridge of the mountain to the east could be seen the sun that had just jumped out, and the sun was shrouded in dark clouds, the edges of which were red, and the waves were undulating, and the sound of the waves crashing against the shore even drowned out the roar of the warship's motives.

It's not a properly belligerent weather!

Han Che, who walked out of the bridge, silently pondered in his heart.

"Looks like we're going to get closer!"

There is no doubt that although the navy's artillery training in the past emphasized long-range, today's weather clearly tells Han Che a fact -- the artillery battle of about 8 kilometers can no longer be considered, and in order to improve the hit rate, the distance should be shortened, and only in this way can the impact of the deterioration of the weather be diffused.

If it is said that studying the navy in the United States has brought some kind of influence to Han Che, it is for him, he knows very well the essence of naval warfare, the essence of naval warfare is not so much the competition for heroism, but the sum of calculation and technology, science and technology cast the battleship, and precise calculation determines the victory or defeat, as for bravery, there are many times, heroism is meaningless, but at any time, no one will deny bravery.

At this time, the warships that were originally boiling and busy without stopping, after being busy for nearly two hours, all the warships had completed their combat preparations, so they seemed quiet, when Han Che was looking at the deck outside the bridge, he could see the guys dragging boxes of meals on the deck, during the preparation for war, everyone no longer had the opportunity to eat in the restaurant, as for the usual take turns to eat, it was even more thrown aside, now everyone must seize the opportunity to eat, no one knows when lunch will be eaten, Maybe by then the naval battle has already begun, and it may even be the last meal for many.

"Eat, the big guy hurry up and eat enough to have the strength to fight"

With a bang, the tired and panting sailors rushed to the wooden food box like a mad snatch, grabbed the food directly with the lunch box, and then devoured it as if eating, and you could see that their sweaty faces looked a little solemn, even with some uneasiness, but they forced themselves to eat.

"Hey, Sergeant Major, look at the day, it's not going to snow today......"

Wang Li, who was forced to swallow a few mouthfuls of rice, couldn't eat it anymore, just holding the lunch box, looking at the sky, looking at the dense dark clouds, his mind seemed to be a little heavy, his heart had already returned to his hometown tens of thousands of miles away, thinking about his father and mother at home.

"What, I can't eat anymore?"

Liu Feng, who continued to fight with rice and meat pieces, squeaked in response.

"Eat quickly, eat more, I don't know when the next meal will be, let's eat desperately now, and when it's time for the war, we will fight desperately!"

As soon as the words fell, Liu Feng took another bite of rice.

"Die, not only do we have to pull the back, but we also have to be a fucking full ghost!"

A word of death, only the dozens of sailors surrounding the turret skirt stopped, this is something they have been unwilling to think about, and want to deliberately avoid it, and now? But finally someone started, everyone's expressions dimmed, and they realized that they had said the wrong thing, and Liu Feng casually put down the lunch box in his hand.

"Cry! Cry if you want to! Wait for everyone to finish crying, then wipe away the tears, like, like a sailor, let's die together! ”

Yes, for sailors, the fate of the brave and the cowardly is the same, they either live together or die together! (To be continued.) )