At half past seven o'clock in the morning of November 19, 1908, in a separate rest compartment on the British Navy's Giant-class dreadnought battleship Giant, Bridget, commander-in-chief of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, was awakened by a rapid knock on the door.

Last night, the seven commanders of the United Expeditionary Fleet had a late dinner, and everyone drank very happily, and Bridget had drunk a little too much, otherwise according to his usual habits, he would have already gotten up at this time.

Bridget got up from bed, put on her pajamas, opened the hatch, and found that it was the second officer of the Giant.

The second mate saw Bridget open the hatch, and immediately said urgently: "Your Excellency, the radar has found that a very large fleet has appeared on the sea 80 kilometers in front of our joint expeditionary fleet, and it is very likely to be the main fleet of the Chinese Empire. ”

Among the Entente and Allied Powers, Britain's radar technology is the most advanced, but the effective detection range of the large radar mounted on the battleship is only about 100 kilometers, and the small warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy like destroyers are not large, and the detection range is even farther than that of the British large radar.

Last night, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire sent destroyers to reconnoiter the traces of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and finally the destroyer's radar discovered the Combined Expeditionary Fleet at a distance of more than 100 kilometers, and then after transmitting the news back to the main fleet, it turned around and returned to the direction of the main fleet, and the entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet did not notice it.

Bridget hurriedly said, "Wait for me for 1 minute!" ”

After saying that, Bridget turned around and walked to the bed in the rest cabin, and quickly put on his general's uniform on his body, which didn't take 1 minute. He put on his military uniform and said to the second mate urgently: "Go to the bridge!" ”

Then the two men almost trotted all the way. Coming to the bridge of the Giant, the captain of the Giant, Ryan Meade, saw Bridget and immediately said, "Commander." The navy of the Chinese Empire appeared, and from the situation shown by the radar, this should be the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and it seems that they want to have a decisive battle with our joint expeditionary fleet here. ”

Bridget pondered for a moment and then said: "This is exactly the situation we want to see, but I didn't expect that the main fleet of the Chinese Empire's navy would choose here to have a decisive battle with our joint expeditionary fleet, but since we are here, we will not have any retreat, and we will order the battle alarm to be sounded." Inform the commanders of each country and arrange the ships in a battle group to prepare to meet the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy! ”

After speaking, Bridget showed a hint of joy on his face, although he didn't expect this naval battle to come so quickly, but it could bring the main forces of the Chinese Imperial Navy together, but it saved a lot of trouble for the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, as long as the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy was defeated, the sea supremacy of the entire Asia would belong to the Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

Bridget never imagined that this decisive battle with the main forces of the Imperial Chinese Navy would be lost, with a combined expeditionary fleet of 72 dreadnought battleships and 72 all-steel battleships. In terms of strength, the navy of the entire Chinese Empire was far surpassed, and not only Bridget would not have thought that this decisive naval battle would be lost, but also the commanders of the other countries of the entire United Expeditionary Fleet, and even the leaders of the Entente and Allied powers. I never thought that in this naval battle, the United Expeditionary Fleet would have the possibility of losing.

Then a piercing siren sounded through the area, and the United Expeditionary Fleet had thousands of warships. Begin to form according to the previous assignment. The warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet are organized according to the battle team when sailing. At this time, an order was received for thousands of warships of the Entente and the Central Powers. Quickly completed the formation of the battle team, and continued to move forward with great momentum, facing the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy.

At around 8 o'clock on November 19, the main fleet of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire and the joint expeditionary fleet of the Entente and Allied Powers met more than 280 nautical miles northwest of Sri Lanka Island.

Bridget stood in front of the observation window in the bridge of the Giant, and said to the captain of the Giant, Ryan Meade, "Send a signal to the warbands, according to our previous plan, to approach the main fleet of the Chinese Imperial Navy." ”

It turned out that the commanders of several countries of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, considering the very large size of their own fleet, decided to divide the entire fleet, mainly the battleship fleet, into three parts.

During naval warfare, the Joint Expeditionary Fleet will face the enemy in a formation surrounded on three and a half sides, with a part of the warships on the front pinning down the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and two parts of the warships on the flanks, and the tactics of outflanking, with the ultimate goal of giving full play to the advantage of the large number of main warships of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet.

The large joint expeditionary fleet was divided into three, and the warships in the middle included the first team of dreadnoughts composed of 4 Bellerophon-class dreadnoughts and 4 giant-class dreadnoughts of the British Navy, the second team of dreadnoughts composed of 8 St. Vincent-class dreadnoughts of the British Navy, 6 Neptune-class dreadnoughts of the British Navy and 2 Valdo-class dreadnoughts of the Russian Navy were organized into the third team.

and the British Navy's 6 Majestic-class all-steel battleships, 4 London-class all-steel battleships, 4 Duncan-class all-steel battleships and 10 Edward VII-class all-steel battleships, forming a fleet of 3 all-steel battleships.

There are also 3 ironclad battleship fleets, 4 large fast armored cruiser teams, 5 fast protection cruiser teams, 8 destroyer teams, and 10 torpedo boat teams of the combined expeditionary fleet.

The strength of the warships on the left and right is about the same, and it is not weaker than the warships in the middle.

The warships on the left side of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet include the 6th Dreadnought Fleet of the German Navy consisting of 8 Oldenburg-class dreadnoughts, the Dreadnought 7th Squadron consisting of 4 Westphalia-class dreadnoughts and 4 Helgoland-class dreadnoughts, and the Dreadnought 8th Fleet consisting of 6 Nassau-class dreadnoughts and 2 Austrian-class dreadnought battleships of the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

and the German Navy's 4 Wichelsbach all-steel battleships, 6 Braunschweig-class all-steel battleships, 6 Deutschland-class all-steel battleships, and the Italian Navy's 2 Queen Elena-class all-steel battleships and 8 Queen Margaret-class all-steel battleships, forming 3 all-steel battleship fleets.

There are also 2 large teams of fast armored cruisers, 5 teams of fast protection cruisers, 6 teams of destroyers, 10 teams of torpedo boats.

The remaining warships of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet were all on the right, including the 4th Dreadnought Squadron of the Russian Navy and the 4 Dreadnoughts of the French Navy, the 5th Dreadnought Battleship of the French Navy, the 5th Dreadnought Battleship of the French Navy, and the 9th Fretting Squadron of the Italian Navy, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the 8 Dante-class Dreadnoughts of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

As well as 6 Republic-class all-steel battleships, 6 Liberty-class all-steel battleships and 4 Dandong-class all-steel battleships of the French Navy, and 3 Peresvet-class all-steel battleships and 3 Borodino-class all-steel battleships of the Russian Navy, forming 3 all-steel battleship fleets.

On the right side are also 2 large fast armored cruiser squadrons, 5 fast protection cruiser squadrons, 6 destroyer squadrons, and 10 torpedo boat squadrons.

The six submarine squadrons of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet were also divided into three parts, and followed the three warships on the sea surface on the bottom of the sea to approach the direction of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, preparing to launch a torpedo attack after approaching.

In the bridge of the First Fleet's flagship Fengtian Super Dreadnought, Sun Xitao stood in front of the observation window, looking at the Allied and Allied joint expeditionary fleets in the distance with a telescope, and couldn't help but sigh easily, "It's really spectacular!" ”

Then Sun Xitao put down the binoculars and asked Yin Jian, the captain of the Fengtian beside him, "How far is it now?" ”

Yin Jian replied in a calm voice, "Commander, the distance is almost 30,000 meters closer now. ”

Yin Jian once served as the commander of the Sakhalin garrison fleet, in the Japanese raid on Sakhalin that year, led the Bokou garrison fleet, which was far less powerful than the Japanese fleet, to resist bravely, and finally the eight small warships of the Bokou garrison fleet at that time were all wiped out, Yin Jian still led the surviving naval officers and men of the berkou garrison fleet, and cooperated with the army to block the Japanese troops that landed.

After the war, Yin Jian was personally received by Lin Daxin, praising Yin Jian and the officers and men of the Bokou garrison fleet for their spirit of fearlessness against strong enemies.

Through the telescope, Sun Xitao had already seen that the joint expeditionary fleet in the distance was divided into three parts, and he couldn't help but snort coldly and said: "It seems that the commanders of these fleets of the Entente and the Allied countries are very confident, and they pressed over with a semi-encircled posture as soon as they came up. ”

Yin Jian showed a smile and said: "I don't know how long their confidence can last, and the commanders of those Entente and Allied Powers will definitely be surprised in a while." ”

Sun Xitao continued: "Order the first and second formations of dreadnought battleships, the first to third formations of all-steel battleships, the first to fourth formations of large fast armored cruisers, the first to eighth formations of fast protection cruisers, the first to ninth formations of destroyers, and the first to twelfth formations of torpedo boats, to form a middle fleet to meet the enemy warships in the middle. Order the 3rd and 4th formations of dreadnought battleships, the 4th to 6th formations of all-steel battleships, the 5th to 7th formations of large fast armored cruisers, the 9th to 16th formations of fast protection cruisers, the 10th to 17th formations of destroyers, and the 13th to 24th formations of torpedo boats, to form a right flotilla to meet the enemy's right flank. The 5th and 6th formations of dreadnought battleships, the 7th and 8th formations of all-steel battleships, the 8th to 10th formations of large fast armored cruisers, the 17th to 24th formations of fast protection cruisers, the 18th to 25th formations of destroyers, and the 25th to 35th formations of torpedo boats, formed the left flotilla to meet the warships on the enemy's left flank. (To be continued......)

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