"Ship found!"

In the morning fog of early autumn, Zhou Hong, a navy student on the second shift at night, saw a faint sail from the telescope, although it was only a flash, and he could no longer see it when he looked for it again, but he still shouted loudly.

Another officer and student immediately came over and also picked up a telescope to observe carefully, but the fog was too thick to see anything at all. He shouted to the lookout post on the mast, "See what?" ”

The lookout post replied that he didn't see anything.

"Are you beating the drums of war?"

"You're the star officer, it's up to you." Companion Dao.

Zhou Hong raised the telescope and searched in the fog again, but still found nothing. Still, he turned his head and shouted, "Beat the drums of war!" ”

A rapid and passionate drum beat sounded, and everyone on board was immediately alarmed. The officers and sailors on duty each shouted orders to prepare for battle, and the sailors and officers who were resting in the cabin immediately got up in their clothes.

In the captain's room, a young officer trotted open the door, "Captain, the drums are sounding." ”

"I heard, is there any hostility?" Tong Haifeng asked as he quickly put on his boots.

"The star officer Zhou Hong found the sail, but he is not sure, there is a lot of fog outside."

Tong Haichuan rushed to the bow of the ship, "What did you find?" ”

"I'm not sure if it's a boat, it seems to be, but the fog is too big and I can't find it."

Hearing this reply, Tong Haifeng was not dissatisfied, but patted Zhou Hong's shoulder, "You did the right thing." ”

"Raise the flag, let the ships of the fleet prepare, sail in formation, and protect the transport ships!"

Regardless of whether it was a false alarm or not, Tong Haifeng would rather do useless work than be really attacked by the enemy ship. They had already reached the Tatar Strait by this time, according to intelligence. There are already Russian ships moving here. Tong Haifeng has a whole fleet, but he still won't be careless about the enemy.

It was a whole fleet, and they were carrying many transports, and it was the first time they had taken this route, and they had docked to avoid two storms along the way. Along the way, their speed was not very fast.

At this time, it was still sailing in the Tatar Strait, and it was still some distance from the mouth of the Heilongjiang River.

The fog was so great that a lamp had to be hung on the mast to give orders.

The fleet began to transform into battle formation, with transports in the center, five battleships on the outside, and sloops and two-masted gunboats on the outermost.

The officers were searching the sea with binoculars, and the deck and artillery groups were on standby. The Marines also went to the deck.

The ships were silent, not making a sound.

"I think I'm hearing something!"

The lookout post on the mast shouted, "It seems to be the sound of a drum!" ”

When Tong Haifeng heard this, he was immediately alerted.

A sloop sailing boat rowed towards the battleship, "In front, there is a ship, a three-masted ship, flying the Russian flag!" ”

The news. Excited everyone on board. It's been more than a month at sea, and the enemy ship has finally been discovered.

"Catch up. Take him captive, and if he refuses to surrender, sink him. ”

Tong Haifeng gave the order.

The two Class 6 frigates immediately accelerated over, trying to get close and gain the upper hand before the Russian ship spotted them. The Imperial Navy of the Great Han is basically the tactical core. It is still similar to the countries of Europe, encountering the enemy at sea, gaining the upper hand, and then approaching, after entering the firing range. Full fire, boom.

If it is a fleet, then line up and line up for shelling.

Speaking of which, the tactics of the Navy and the tactics of the Army are similar, they are all the tactics of lining up and shooting, getting as close as possible, and then concentrating their firepower to bombard, and the most important point is to seize the upper hand.

It is from here that the word prevail comes from. For battleships, if you have the upper hand, you will be faster. Because the warships of this era rely entirely on the sails to borrow the power of the wind, the upper hand will have a great advantage. In addition, the artillery at this time is not smokeless, and once the cannon is fired, there will be thick smoke to obscure the view, occupy the upper hand, and be least affected by the smoke.

Many times, when two warships of the same class meet, it is to see who can seize the upper hand first, and sometimes in order to seize the upper hand, they will even chase each other for a long time.

And if the two ships meet, they will also grab the upper hand, and then line up in a line to close the distance and bombard.

The captains of the two Class 6 frigates were very experienced, and the sergeant major and non-commissioned officers on board were also experienced Europeans, and they were quite cunning to ride the fog and successfully seize the upper hand.

Before the Russian ships could find out, they had already fired their cannons.

There was no persuasion at all or anything like that, in the words of these two captains, how could such a good opportunity be missed.

"Load the chain bombs, aim for their masts, aim for their mainmasts, I'm going to blow their mainmasts in one salvo!"

When the mainmast breaks, the ship loses power and can only be slaughtered.

The captains did not use explosive bombs, which were too fierce and could easily sink enemy ships if they were not good, so they all chose better shells, chain shells, shells on the sea specifically for masts. The two solid iron bullets are connected by iron chains, and after being bombarded, once the chain is wrapped around the mast, the mast will suffer great damage, and may even break directly.

The battleship had turned its side to the Russian ship, and the gunners skillfully began to load the chain shells, and under the command of the gunners, the trainee gunners, trainee sailors, and some sailors were also in charge of assisting, several people, in charge of one gun.

There were not many real gunners on the ship, and there were fewer gunners than guns, and a gunner was often responsible for one gun on each side of the ship, because in the event of an engagement, the ship's cannons could basically only fire on one side at a time, so the gunners were responsible for two guns on both sides. During the firing of the guns, there will also be the assistance of the sailors of the deck group.

In just over a minute, the gunners had already completed loading and aiming with their assistants, and this speed was quite impressive, which was the result of countless training sessions.

"Fire!"

The gunners and gunnery officers were in charge, and when the whistle sounded, one after another the guns were ignited and roared, and the guns swooped backwards sharply, retreating far away, and the experienced gunners gave way early.

As soon as the cannon stopped, they immediately began to push the cannon to reset and continue to reload.

The gunner, with his binoculars, carefully observed the ship on the other side.

One, two, three, the hit rate of the guns was very high, especially the number of guns on these two sixth-rank ships was very large, thirty-two guns, even if only one side of the gun, was enough for the Russian ship that was much smaller than them.

The crunching sound was harsh in the sound of the cannon, but the gunner thought it was a very beautiful sound, because it was the sound of a broken mast.

Sure enough, in the crunching sound, I saw the mainmast snap violently.

"Hahaha, hit, the mainmast breaks."

"Stop shelling, stop shelling!"

The goal has been achieved, and there is no need to continue shelling.

By the time the gunfire had stopped and the smoke had cleared, the poor Russian ship was in front of everyone.

On the Wenzhou, Tong Haifeng also saw the results and was very satisfied.

The Ryan asked for instructions on whether to take the gangside jump gang to board the ship, Tong Haifeng thought about it and asked them to wait, and first sent someone to persuade the ship to surrender.

Andrei, the first navigator on the Wenzhou, was a Russian, but he had no other thoughts about the battle, and in his words, he was now a soldier of the Han Empire.

He took a large tin horn and began to shout at the Russian ship with the broken mainmast to surrender.

"This is the sea frontier of the Han Empire, you were attacked for invading the empire's sea frontier, and now you have been surrounded, I advise you to raise the white flag and surrender immediately, otherwise, we will be ordered to sink you!"

"Once again, I advise you, don't put up stubborn resistance, don't make senseless resistance, immediately lay down your arms and surrender, we will guarantee the safety of your lives!"

After the tongue-curled Russian words were shouted several times through the iron horn, a white flag was finally raised on the opposite ship, and then it waved.

Tong Haifeng ordered the Ryan to come up, and the rest of the ships were on guard, and if they found any undesirable behavior of the enemy ships, they would be sunk immediately.

The Ryan slowly leaned up, the bridge was erected, and the Marine Captain on the ship immediately led a platoon of soldiers under him to jump into the gang.

The feared resistance did not take place, and the deck of the Russian ship was littered, with the mainmast broken and resting on one side, and several bodies beside it, some of whom were covered in blood from the wooden thorns that had been blown by the shells.

The captain was a bearded Russian, dressed in a very ornate military uniform, and at this time stood on the deck with his head bowed with the crew of the crew.

"I'm Gregory. Ussulov, captain of the Kuzenetsov, surrender to you. ”

Grigory said as he offered his sword.

"You can wait for our fleet commander to come over and hand it over to him personally." The Marine Captain said, not taking the sword. He led people to confirm the safety of the deck before letting the sailors come over, and after the sailors came to take over the deck control, he led the marines into the cabin to check.

The Russians did not use any means, they did admit defeat and surrender, and did not try to lure the enemy on board the ship by deception and then counterattack to seize the ship. Because they have discovered that it is not just one enemy ship that attacks them, but a fleet with dozens of ships, and even if they capture one ship, it will not be of the slightest use, and they will still not be able to escape.

After everything was confirmed to be safe, Tong Haifeng finally boarded the boat.

"I, the commander of the First Special Group of the Seventh Special Group of the East China Sea Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Holy Han Empire and the captain of the battleship Wenzhou, and the former Captain Tong Haifeng, now accept your surrender."

After reporting his identity, Tong Haifeng took over the saber!

When he took this saber, Tong Haifeng's heart was very excited, and even his hands trembled slightly, he finally defeated and captured an enemy ship, although it was a fleet to defeat an enemy ship, but after all, this was the first enemy ship he captured, and it was also the first saber he received from the captain of the enemy ship. (To be continued.) )