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Chapter 242 Expedition

Naval Academy, Conference Room.

Although it was already night, the conference room was brightly lit, and the cadets of the Naval Academy above the squadron leader level were all gathered together, and the cadets of the Naval Academy, including the newly recruited sailors and the non-commissioned officers drawn from the various naval divisions, had reached nearly 12,000, there were six brigades and 24 squadrons, and Wu Ge and Yande also became the chief captains.

As Yinzhen walked into the conference room, all the people stood up to greet him, Yinzhen walked to the first seat, pressed his hands weakly, let everyone sit down, and said: "Tomorrow, go to Fujian to meet the Spanish fleet, for the Spanish fleet, everyone here is very unfamiliar, Wuge, you will tell you about the situation of the Spanish fleet." ”

Ge stood up and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Spanish fleet, also known as the Greater Luzon Fleet, was temporarily stationed in the port of Manila in the South Seas from the Western Ocean, and the fleet includes two second-class battleships, five three-pole battleships, fifteen fourth-class battleships, and twenty auxiliary warships of various kinds, with a total number of more than 12,000 people?"

At this time, according to the battle reports of the Guangdong Navy Division and the Fujian Navy Division, the Spanish fleet that invaded the South China Sea of the Qing Dynasty had a total of 35 large and small warships, which were arranged according to the usual arrangement of Western warships, and should be two second-class battleships, four three-pole battleships, 12 fourth-class battleships, and 17 auxiliary warships of various kinds, with a total number of more than 10,000 people. ”

Yinzhen motioned for Wu Ge to sit down, glanced at everyone, and said: "In view of the fact that the operation of our navy's second-class battleship 'Nanhai No. 1' is not yet proficient, we will not participate in this battle for the time being, and the navy's participating warships are twenty-five auxiliary ships, and everyone should be afraid of the Spanish fleet with eighteen main warships and seventeen auxiliary warships with twenty-five auxiliary ships."

We learned about the comparison of the number of warships on both sides, and then let's take a look at the speed, artillery configuration and performance comparison of the warships of both sides. Yande, tell me about it. ”

De got up and said: "The warships of our navy are all one-color fast sail warships, which are generally used in the fleet for offensive pursuits and chasing sentinels, and are not the same as the second, third, and fourth class main battleships. However, in terms of speed, it is far superior to the main battleship.

In addition, what is not clear to everyone is that the guns of the main Spanish battleships, regardless of caliber, can only fire within 500 or even 400 yards according to the combat regulations. The most fundamental reason was that their guns were not rifled, and once they exceeded five hundred yards, they were inaccurate.

The 18-pound guns of our navy ships have an 80 percent hit rate at 800 yards, and the 30-pound guns can also have a 50 percent hit rate at 1,500 yards, and the firing rate of the guns is close to twice the firing rate of the opponent's artillery.

What does this mean? We can attack from outside the range of the opponent, and the Spanish fleet is the target ship of our navy."

The Spanish fleet is the target ship of our navy

Yande's words were resounding, and all the navies showed a look of excitement, and the original fear of war and the worry about the disparity in strength between the two sides were suddenly swept away.

Yinzhen got up and glanced at everyone, and said: "In order to give full play to the speed advantage of our navy, each battleship is limited to two hundred people, and every six battleships form a small team, which is convenient for concentrated firepower attack. ”

"Honor." Those who were called by name all stood up and responded.

Yinzhen bowed his head slightly, and said: "The captains and personnel under the names of each squad are appointed by the squad leaders themselves. ”

Lao Fourteen's method is good, Yinxiang secretly thought in his heart, in this way, each squad leader has absolute control over the team, and can achieve the effect of being like an arm and a finger in battle, which greatly strengthens the prestige of the squad leader.

In Liuchun Garden, Fang Bao was not idle, he was rushing to write overnight, Yinzhen ordered Zheng Qingyuan to find a few people who witnessed the Manila Massacre to tell Fang Bao about the tragic situation of the Manila Massacre, as well as the robbery in the South China Sea, and asked him to write an article for Beijing Daily, showing the massacre of Greater Luzon in Manila in a bloody way, and telling the real story of the robbery in Manila in the South China Sea.

Fang Bao naturally knew that this was Yinzhen's intention to use the Beijing News to provoke hatred against Spain from the Qing Dynasty and the opposition, and to make positive propaganda for him to send troops to Nanyang, so he wrote it with extra care.

In the early morning, the sky was light, and a group of naval cadets dressed in neat blue uniforms rushed to the Honggang Military Wharf, and most of the cadets who failed to participate in the first battle of the Navy were in the second session, and they were also lined up in a neat line at the wharf to see off their comrades.

Looking at the trainees of one team after another excitedly boarding the battleship, I don't know which detachment started and sang the military song of the navy. Immediately after that, one detachment after another began to sing.

When the dragon flag flew on the wharf, the singing was loud, and the people who were awakened constantly rushed to the wharf to watch from afar, and saw that the neatly dressed naval cadets on the wharf were slowly boarding the battleship, thinking of yesterday's rumors, and all the people were excited when they boarded the time.

The Navy really set sail to fight the Greater Luzon fleet

The news spread quickly, and the people continued to hear the news and rushed to watch, which was really unbelievable, and the navy had more than 20 small ships to compete with the rumored huge Luzon fleet, and the people talked about it for a while:

"This is to fight the Greater Luzon fleet? Isn't it going back to the capital? ”

"Don't talk nonsense, isn't it safer to go back to Beijing by land?"

"The fourteenth prince is doing evil, they are all seventeen or eighteen-year-old young men, and they died at sea, but they can't even bring back their corpses."

"What kind of tongue to chew, this is the army going out, say something auspicious? I haven't heard that the fourteenth prince personally led the army to the battle. ”

"Good job, our navy has backbone."

As soon as the songs of "defending the homeland and defending the country," "rejecting the enemy from the country," "spilling blood on the battlefield and not falling into the country's prestige," and "swearing to defend the southeast sea frontier" stopped, slogans rang out one after another on the wharf.

The onlookers only listened to the tightness in their hearts, and many people's eyes moistened, it was rumored that the strength of the Greater Luzon fleet was so huge, this small naval fleet didn't know how many warships could come back?

Zhang Mengjiao rushed to the outside of the military port early, and searched for Yinzhen's figure in the crowd with binoculars from a distance, she didn't dare to step forward to see her off, she knew very well that the army had never allowed women to get close to her.

Many Western missionaries also rushed over, although they were all Europeans, but most of them were enemies of Spain, Bai Lihua stood in the crowd, silently crossed and prayed for God to bless the miracle, and sighed in his heart, the brave Oriental Spaniards stabbed a hornet's nest this time

The loud and long sound of military trumpets echoed through the docks, and the naval fleet set sail one by one.

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