When Wang Feng ordered that when Boss Chen led the fleet into Qingdao, the fleet was anchored in Zhenjiang, and the sea route from Zhenjiang to Qingdao was about 1,200 kilometers, and the journey of the navy of the Democratic League was only one day slower than that of the foreigners.

As soon as he arrived in Qingdao, the position of the coalition fleet could be roughly deduced according to the information that came, so Boss Chen did not dare to delay for a moment, and immediately went north to Tianjin.

It took less than two days to travel about 550 kilometers from Tianjin to Qingdao, and in the early morning of 16 November, they lurked in the waters of Tianjin.

Although I knew that the harbor was about twenty kilometers ahead, the sea was so dark that I couldn't see anything but the rattling of the waves.

According to what was known in advance, the allied forces landed at the Dagukou Fort at the mouth of the Haihe River, and although theoretically, the Haihe River system could lead all the way to Beijing, the Haihe River was seriously silted up, the river channel was narrow, and there was a marked difference between the wet season and the dry season.

In the wet season, small frigates of about 1,000 tons can be carried on the Tianjin section of the Haihe River, but in the dry season, ships of 300 or 400 tons can hardly move forward, so the coalition forces have to abandon the ships and go ashore and disperse the fleet along the mouth of the Haihe River, with a total length of nearly 10 kilometers.

In order to avoid accidents of collisions at night and to worry about being discovered by foreigners, each ship has an air dead wind lamp hung on the stern of the boat, which can ensure that the light can be seen from the back and not seen from the front.

The closer to the shore was, the slower the speed became, and Boss Chen and a group of high-ranking naval officials stood on the bridge of the flagship General Li Guangbi, raising their eyes and looking around.

"Commander Chen, look!" Zhang Tianxi suddenly pointed forward.

In the haze, a dim light gradually approached. Suddenly, everyone cheered up, and almost got close to the front, so that they could barely tell that it was a canopy boat.

A person poked out of the canopy boat and called, "Is Commander Chen here?" ”

"I am!" Boss Chen replied in a deep voice.

The man hurriedly said, "Commander Chen." The brethren had already found out that 18,000 of the coalition forces had abandoned their ships and landed on the shore, and about 5,000 of them had been left on board, but because of the lack of manpower and the darkness of the night, the coalition forces did not send small boats to patrol, but parked the merchant ships at the outermost periphery, and the warships were located on the shore side, and it is said that the barrels of the guns were pressed with shells. You can launch at any time, and your current location is fifteen kilometers from the coastline and three kilometers south of the mouth of the Haihe River. ”

Elder Chen shouted loudly: "Okay, I know, you guys hide yourselves!" ”

"Yes!" The canopy boat gradually rowed into the distance, disappearing into the darkness.

Chen Lao Liu groaned: "Big brother, the fleet of the coalition forces stretches for ten kilometers, and we only need to attack any point. will attract vigilance, with the fire of the muzzle. He can easily position himself and concentrate his superior firepower to besiege us, and even in the dark, we will suffer a great loss, so we might as well scatter the ships and torpedo the ships among the warships. Flares were fired to illuminate the coastline, and then torpedoes were fired, with the first round attacking the outer merchant ships and the second round attacking the inner warships. After two rounds of attack, the coalition should have lost nearly half of its ships, and with his haste and lack of manpower, we may not be able to break it even though we are outnumbered. ”

"Good!" Boss Chen nodded and said, "Just do as you say." ”

The number of NLD warships, originally 16, was later captured by the British battleship Gladun and the Dutch battleship Netherlands, and after repairs and replacement of naval guns, the number increased to 18, and there are only so many at present.

This can't be helped, after all, the East China Sea Fleet base has only been opened for a few months, and the North Sea Fleet base and the South China Sea Fleet base have only begun to be built, and it will take a few more years to really produce a large number of warships, during this time, the Navy's focus is not only to build three 4,600-ton destroyers, that is, to modify torpedo boats, so far, there are a total of 120 torpedo boats, each with two rounds of ammunition, because of technical problems, it can only be loaded at one time for the time being.

At the same time, due to the maturity of welding technology, ironclad battleships were also put on the agenda, but for the time being, the construction plan was included in the experimental type, two frigates of 2,500 tons.

On the sea, the ships were only connected by lights, and gradually dispersed, but fortunately the fog in the north was not so frequent at that time, otherwise it would have been impossible to arrange more than a hundred ships in a straight line, but even so, it took three hours for the ships to line up about five kilometers from the coast, in which the battleships were lined up horizontally and the torpedo boats were lined up.

This five kilometers is not actually measured, but calculated by the positioning and speed of the ship told by the secret agent, even if it is not accurate, the error will not exceed two or three hundred meters.

The artillery facing the coast is all filled with flares, which is the latest research result of the technical department of the Democratic Alliance, and is made of magnesium powder, aluminum powder, barium nitrate, sodium nitrate, natural dry oil, rosin, shellac and other raw materials, which are exceptionally bright and can last for 15 to 25 seconds, and the maximum illumination range can reach 1,000 meters.

Modern flares are detonated at high altitudes, and then parachutes are released to land slowly, but perhaps due to technical and technological defects, the current opening rate of parachutes is very low, so they simply do not use parachutes and are directly used as artillery shells.

When magnesium powder and aluminum powder are burned, they can instantly release thousands of degrees of high temperature!

"Put!"

"Bang Bang Bang~~" On the General Li Guangbi, several guns on the side fired in unison, and several light points shot rapidly into the distance, and then, several clouds of snow suddenly burst out in front of you, this kind of bright light, giving you an illusion that the sun fell to the ground, and it stabbed people's eyes a few kilometers away, which made everyone have no doubt that if the distance is too close, it is possible for the eyes to be directly burned.

Since the flare does not explode in the air, the illumination range will inevitably be affected, but a few hundred meters is enough, and a dark ship suddenly appeared in front of it, and it did not wait for another order, and the torpedo boat immediately fired a torpedo, and at the same time, with the positioning of General Li Guangbi, the remaining seventeen warships also fired flares one after another, and the entire coastline of more than ten kilometers was unobstructed!

The light was wide open, and more torpedoes were fired, only to see the fire in front of them, and the ships were blown to pieces, revealing the warships hiding behind, but to everyone's surprise, the warships did not immediately return fire.

"Whoosh~~"

The torpedoes continued to be fired, and since each torpedo boat could only carry two torpedoes, there was no point in remaining on the battlefield after the launch, so they turned their bows and headed towards the rear.

"Boom, boom~~" The torpedo boat had just made a U-turn gesture, and a violent explosion came from ahead, and dozens of warships were caught in the fire!

It was only at this point that the remaining warships began to return fire, but strangely enough, the artillery fire on their own side was so obvious, while the return fire of the coalition fleet was very scattered, as if they had not found a target and opened fire at random.

Everyone doesn't quite understand that there are still nearly fifty foreigners' warships left, and they may not be organized without the strength of a battle, it shouldn't be like this. (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you for the reward from Lin Yin and Pailong Bay~~~~