"What do you mean?" Zhao Yun didn't know anything about the flag language, so he turned his head and asked Timur beside him.

Timur, who was a Mongol, did not know much about this and could not answer.

"Just ignore it!" If you can't understand Zhao Yun, you won't care, anyway, this time I'm here to move my fists, not to wrap my tongue, just roll up my sleeves and rush up to beat it.

The fleets of Huaxia and Japan had already discovered each other, and although they both opened up battle formations, they never made a light announcement.

The Japanese chose two cruisers in the center and in the front, and two destroyers in the outside and in the rear, and the geese-shaped formation headed for the Huaxia fleet, while Zhao Yun chose the one-line column most often used by battleships, ranking the Nassau-class battleships in the first and second places, the Haiqi in the back, in the third, and behind her were five wooden sail battleships.

The two sides kept closing the distance, and Kumoto, who had been standing there for a long time, saw that the fleet had entered the best firing position, sneered at the corner of his mouth, and said in a deep voice: "Start attacking!" ”

The two sides had already entered a state of war, and if it weren't for the lack of tonnage on their side, Jiuben would have directly ordered an attack.

Originally, he planned to send a Fengfeng-type destroyer to provoke the Huaxia people, but judging from the momentum, Huaxia had no intention of saluting first and then soldiering this time. However, seeing that the Haiqi had already appeared in the telescope, Kumoto could be regarded as waiting for the prey he was looking forward to, which was enough to stimulate Hisamoto's belligerent nerves.

Seeing that the Japanese raised their cannon barrels and began to accelerate their advance, Timur said, "The Japanese army is about to attack!" ”

"Boom!" The Kumotoza, which rushed up quickly, was the first to fire. The 10 140 mm caliber main guns in front of the two Nagara-class light cruisers fired in turn, aiming directly at the place where the Haiqi had just stayed, but they did not expect that the Haiqi had already fully filled the rudder on the right and broke away from the battle column, and the shells of the two Changliang-class light cruisers fell into the air, but the rising water column already meant the beginning of the naval battle between the two sides.

Seeing that the Japanese were firing, Zhao Yun slapped his thigh, jumped up and shouted, "Fire!" Fire! Pointing to the projection, he pointed to Kumoto's ship and yelled, "Aim at that cruiser first!" Call me! Hit hard! ”

The 280 mm naval guns that had already been prepared on the Nassau-class battleship were aimed at Kumoto's ship, and in the comparison between cruisers and destroyers, Zhao Yun disdained to deal with the Fengfeng-type destroyer with a standard displacement of only 1215 tons, but first sent the first wave of attacks to the more threatening Kumoto, the Nagara-class light cruiser.

Don't look at the small caliber of the main gun of the Changliang-class light patrol, just despise her, people don't rely on the main gun to eat, she is equipped with a 610 mm caliber quadruple torpedo tube, but it can fire a spear-type torpedo or its predecessor, the "C-type real yàn torpedo".

Although the battleships were thick-skinned and the Nassau-class still adhered to the fine tradition of German battleships saving tonnage to strengthen armor protection and strong damage resistance, Zhao Yun did not want to use German armor to try the Japanese spears. If this is not pierced, then it is nothing, in case a few holes are poked for the Japanese, and those submarines alone may not be able to keep people.

So Zhao Yun simply and rudely chose the Jiumoto ship that took the lead in attacking, for no reason, who let her fire first! And a Nagara-class light patrol beside him escaped.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! Columns of water rushed to the sky and exploded around Kumoto, who rushed up, and the waves caused the 5,000-ton light cruiser to shake violently in the waves.

The Nassau class was equipped with 6 main gun turrets in a hexagonal shape on the front and rear and on both sides, and was equipped with 12 280 mm guns, the main gun was an 11-inch 45 x diameter SKL/45 gun from Krupp, which was smaller than the British Dreadnought of the same period, but had a faster rate of fire. However, this hexagonal turret arrangement made it possible to fire only eight main guns simultaneously in the direction of each side of the ship. In order to cope with the artillery battle within several kilometers, a larger caliber secondary gun was used, and the Nassau-class secondary gun was 12 5.9-inch (150 mm) SKC/16 guns, 6 on the port side and 6 on the port side.

I don't know if it was the back of Zhao Yun's hand, or if Jiumoto's luck was too good, the two battleships fired at the same time, and as a result, none of the 28 shells hit.

However, after all, the Nassau class was the pride of the Germans, and it was a dreadnought built to compete with the British. The lifting device is electrically driven, and the speed of lifting the shells from the ammunition depot is extremely fast, the main gun reaches a rate of fire of 3 rounds in one minute, and the secondary gun has a terrifying rate of fire of 4~5 rounds per minute.

Under Zhao Yun's control, three more rounds of salvo fires were fired, and Jiumoto's ship was directly enveloped in a dense rain of bullets, and it was really bombarded by the battleship's guns at close range.

First, a 280 main gun shell exploded on the left side, forming a near-miss, tearing a large hole in the bow of Hisamoto's ship.

At least three 150-millimeter shells smashed into Hisamoto's ship, and although the Nagara-class light cruiser had a full load displacement of 5,570 tons, a quarter the size of the Nassau-class, the armor was still at the level of a cruiser. It was impossible to stop the heavy attack of the 45.3 kg armor-piercing shells fired by the 150 mm secondary gun, after all, the Germans positioned the secondary gun at the beginning of the design to deal with light ships such as cruisers or destroyers with weak defensive armor protection in close combat, which can be said to be the right medicine at this time. How could the thin-skinned Japanese light patrol escape this catastrophe. Kumoto's ship was immediately beaten and paralyzed at sea, and there was no longer the spirit of a maximum speed of 36 knots.

However, with Kumoto's desperate efforts, another Nagara-class light cruiser had already entered ten nautical miles, enough to launch the spear torpedo that the Japanese were proud of, although the range of the spear was claimed to be more than ten nautical miles, but for the sake of insurance, for this kind of torpedo that was still being tested at this time, the commander of this cruiser still decided to follow the previous Kumoto's opinion, and only after entering the ten nautical miles, only two were cast, and only after getting closer, all of them were cast.

But after waiting for a long time to buy him and risk death to enter the firing range, he fired out two torpedoes, but found that the five wooden ships in the opposite battle column had opened the lowest gun window on one side of the ship's side in unison.

The torpedo purchased by Zhao Yun may not be as famous as the Japanese spear torpedo, and the range is far inferior, but the latest high-speed torpedo ordered from the European company Whitehead is enough to fight the Japanese.

The Chinese people liked the history of using torpedoes, and the Japanese knew that from the Qing court, due to technical problems and political reasons at that time, it was impossible to build large ironclad ships in large quantities continuously, so they had to build and buy small torpedo boats by themselves. Moreover, there is such a misunderstanding among the generals of the Qing army: although the large ironclad ship is powerful, there is only one, and it will be lost if it is sunk. And small torpedo boats can be bought a lot for the same money, and if one is sunk, there will be many more to continue the operation. Moreover, the Qing army had suffered a heavy loss of Japanese torpedoes in the First Sino-Japanese Naval Battle with Japan, so they were particularly attentive to torpedoes. Even when Zhao Yun was messing around with Lu Yongxiang, the overseer of Zhejiang Province, Lu Yongxiang also named Zhao Yun to buy British torpedo boats and torpedoes.

So in the use of torpedoes, Huaxia did not lag behind the world, only a little behind Japan, which was leading the world. Due to the numerical superiority of the intercepted torpedoes and the unreliability of the Japanese torpedoes, only one of the eight torpedoes fired by the Japanese army cut a large hole in the side of the Nassau-class ship, which rubbed off a little bloody skin, and did not cause any major damage.

On the contrary, the light cruiser was forced to run around by seventy or eighty torpedoes fired by five wooden battleships, but it still did not escape, and the rich and willful torpedoes were fired, and after being hit by six torpedoes, the first one was smashed and sunk.

The Kumotoza, which had been stunned before, was hit by a 280-mm shell in the subsequent round of artillery bombardment, and the entire superstructure of the battleship was smashed to pieces.

Even though the Nassau-class only has a maximum speed of 19 knots, and the reciprocating steam engine causes the continuous reciprocating motion of the ship to shake violently when the ship is moving at the top speed, so that it affects the aiming and firing of the guns. This Nagara-class light cruiser with a speed of 36 knots could not escape from the palm of Huaxia's hand.

At this time, except for the two small men of steel, who were still sinking and one wounded, Pan Heng was in the same place, and at a distance of about 8 nautical miles, the other two Japanese warships did not evacuate, but gradually moved forward.

The peak wind type is Taisho 6-7 (1917-1918) eight. In the Eighth Fleet program, the Japanese Navy's self-designed Type 1 destroyer, also known as an ocean-like destroyer, was built. This type of warship is designed with emphasis on high speed and seaworthiness, with a total length of 97.5m and a standard displacement of 1,215 tons. The caliber of the main gun is nothing compared to the Nassau class, but she is also equipped with torpedo tubes, and this time pulling the top speed of 39 knots, it is obvious that she is desperate.

However, instead of the two Nassau-class ships, which were clearly King Kong, they chose to do so, but a wooden sail warship that crashed in the tail of the fleet. The persimmon had to be pinched softly, and the Japanese could not return empty-handed in this naval battle, so sinking a wooden battleship and returning home was already a consensus reached by the commanders of the two destroyers.

"Quick, left full rudder!" Zhao Yun stared at the two black dots in front of him, sweating all over. The direction of the Japanese attack this time was exactly the dead end of the wooden sailing ship, and dense weapons were arranged on both sides of the sailboat, but on the front and rear sides of the ship, because of the limitations of the boat, there were not too many weapons installed.

However, the Japanese could not have imagined that these seemingly clumsy old battleships, under the command of the camp, would turn their rudder so quickly, and when the Japanese advanced to a distance of six nautical miles, their prey had already adjusted one side of the ship, and the ship's side was three layers above and below, and the fifty-four gun windows were completely opened, exposing its hideous face to the eyes of the world for the first time.