At four o'clock in the afternoon, the figure of the Japanese warships began to appear on the sea level, under a clear sky, standing on the coast of Rizhao, you can clearly see the warships, like hideous sharks floating on the water.

In the telescope, you can see the cannon muzzle raised in front of each battleship, like a hideous fangs rushing towards the shore, emitting a terrifying murderous aura!

After several successive naval battles, Ito's command ability increased significantly, and he stood proudly in the command tower of the "Hashidate", with a confident appearance, and shouted in a deep voice: "All the warships of this team are approaching forward, and the speed is twelve knots, and they are lined up in a horizontal line!" ”

All the warships have their bows straight to land, which allows them to leave the opponent with the smallest angle of attack, but they can use the most powerful artillery of the battleship.

The 12 warships, including the 1st Guerrilla Detachment and the Auxiliary Fleet, formed a wide imminent array of 12 warships, which was particularly threatening against the backdrop of the 2nd and 3rd Guerrilla Formations in columns.

If you don't know what to do, it is almost certain that the eyes of all the people in the coastal defense force will be firmly attracted by it.

Yang Haiwei stood at the top of the lighthouse and slowly swept the entire sea surface with a telescope. Seeing more than a dozen transport ships escorted by the guerrillas on both flanks of the Japanese army, heading in the north and south directions, we knew that they must have come to an offensive tactic of breaking through in the center and flying on both wings.

The front was held with a strong main fleet, and the guerrillas on both flanks responded in a roundabout way. If his fleet goes out to meet the enemy, he will immediately be outflanked and suppressed by them. Under the siege of powerful artillery battleships, the mere small gunboats did not have a chance to play a role at all. Even if you can use your speed to disturb the perimeter with a small artillery attack. However, it was difficult to stop the Japanese landing operation.

Once they complete the offensive deployment of the two-sided army. Wants to stop the full expansion of the fighting. It's going to be quite difficult.

"If it's the Qing army, I guess I've been frightened by their formation now, right?"

Yang Haiwei remembered that in history, the Japanese army attacked Dalian Lushun with similar tactics, but in the end it did not come in handy because of the avoidance of the Beiyang Naval Division. But the idea is basically the same.

Jiao Hai also saw the clues, and couldn't help but mention: "Commander, should we use that 305mm cannon to scare them first?" It looks like the little devil wants to break through the empty door. ”

Yang Haiwei smiled slightly: "If they have enough intelligence support, they will know that we don't have a battery here, so it's not surprising to adopt the current tactics." But the scare is gone. Since they are lucky, this time I have to teach them a profound lesson. ”

"But...... If you let it get closer, the shipyard and the ships inside will be in danger! I'm afraid that if they are sure that they can't capture the ironclad, they will open fire and destroy it, and they will scatter it in two! ”

Jiao Hai is also somewhat accurate to the Japanese mentality. The Japanese would not come simply to take revenge on the Youngs or strike the gunboat squad, and that huge shipyard that could not be concealed in any way was first and foremost a tempting piece of fat.

The value of a fixed ship is enough for them to go crazy and adventure!

As long as you take it out, you can cut off half of the finale power of the Beiyang Fleet. If you can take it away, your strength will skyrocket!

If the Japanese knew, it was actually on other slipways in the shipyard. There are also four new gunboats of more than a thousand tons being built, and their madness will definitely go to the next level!

That's right. The deformed "Zhongshan Ship" in this world has only completed segmented production on the front foot, and the picture taken on the back foot is taken to the B plane and repeatedly played to the shipbuilders here. Craftsmen who had been building wooden sailing ships for many years, and who had now been trained to make steel welded steamships, began to draw scoops from gourds, and welded them little by little.

All of them are made of high-strength marine steel plates, and after they are cut in one time in this world, they are brought here and put into production, and all four of them are started at the same time.

Although the efficiency is many times lower than that of this world, and the welding process is a bit miserable, it is finally the beginning of the construction of real warships, and the first time to get started is the high-level technical means of building in sections. Truth be told, it's more risky. You must know that even if a small boat is only about 1,000 tons, there is an error of a few millimeters in one section, and the overall deviation faced in the final assembly may exceed the centimeter level.

That's going to be fatal.

However, we must not underestimate these craftsmen who have been able to build wooden ships with a displacement of hundreds of tons with a single construction ruler for generations. They may not be able to tell that much of the truth, but their hands-on ability is enough to blow a worker with only a few years of experience out a few streets. His eyesight and ability to grasp the precision of his hands are simply amazing!

Yang is not particularly in a hurry, and is very patient to let them understand the design little by little, get familiar with various equipment, and master the welding process. Even if it takes a year to complete the construction of four gunboats, it will be a lot of money.

The key is to take this opportunity to train a large number of qualified shipbuilders, and when the time comes, the construction of cruisers of tens of thousands of tons will be assured.

Jiao Hai can be said to be the most experienced technician in China's shipbuilding industry in this era, and he first came into contact with the sectional construction process. Right now, it is the stage when he is in charge of just getting started, and he really doesn't want to be irreparably damaged because of the war.

He didn't know that Yang Haiwei actually didn't want to!

This shipyard is a projection of a selective part of this world, and hard damage will accumulate. At that time, once this side is destroyed, there will be no more left in this world. The good factory equipment was suddenly finished, and this matter broke out that no one could clean up the deadly trouble.

That's why he had to draw a boundary line to ensure that the Japanese artillery shells would not fall lightly on the factory workshop.

At that moment, Yang Haiwei nodded: "I have measure." We can't let the empty artillery go and let them come forward so that the shore-based artillery can be fully lethal. But they all walked away, it was too cheap! ”

The Japanese fleet cleaved the waves and approached straight! The frightened atmosphere created by the fleeing fishing boats and merchant ships on the left flank greatly satisfied Ito.

That's exactly what he was hoping to achieve. The slowly approaching battleship was like a dozen bayonets stretching out to the opponent's neck, and it was certainly easy to kill if stabbed at once, but it did not have the terrifying effect that penetrated people's hearts. Only little by little, it is approaching. Let Sen Leng's blade constantly stimulate the other party's nerves. But because there is nowhere to run. Keep accumulating desperate feelings until you collapse!

Just thinking about it makes people roar with pleasure!

Ito wanted to destroy the will of the entire prefecture and its enemies before the battle began. In that case, it will be much easier to attack on land or plunder people and property.

Approaching, constantly approaching!

Twenty kilometers, eighteen kilometers, sixteen kilometers .......

It was thirteen kilometers long, and there was no movement on the other side. None of the annoying fast gunboats that were expected to show up! Could it be that they had already gotten the news in advance and fled?

Yuhiro Ito felt unlikely.

The fleet had a great deal of trouble to move here, and it was not until noon that the last time it received information, it was determined that the target ship was still anchored in Ishusu Harbor. And by that time, the fleet's field of view could already cover the coastline, and they simply had no chance to slip away.

"It's really strange and calm, after all, the guy who dares to attack the Imperial fleet has an admirable courage. But that's not enough. ”

A smile tugged at the corner of Ito's mouth. A big bad wolf unconsciously rose in the face of the banter and toying psychology of the little white rabbit. But he reacted immediately and secretly reminded himself: "Don't be careless! Such a bold and mysterious enemy. I don't know what kind of conspiracy I'm engaged in, don't be calculated. ”

Twelve kilometers!

This is already the maximum range of the powerful 320mm guns of the "Hashidate" and "Itsukushima" equipment. Even if you use black fire-medicine and iron lump armor-piercing bullets, it is still a shocking effect. It's too easy to bully small gunboats of several hundred tons and armed freighters!

The other party still hasn't moved!

A few hundred meters of breakwater were built to cover the critical area of the shipyard. From a distance, it's hard to see the details of the harbor.

Ito Yuheng finally got a little impatient, and shouted in a deep voice: "The main guns of each ship are tested forward!" Target the breakwater, be careful not to hit the shipyard! ”

The signal flag was quickly raised, and it didn't take long for the best-performing "Sina Speed" to first fire with the 203mm 40x Armstrong guns in the bow. Immediately after, ships such as "Hashidate" and Itsukushima also started one after another.

"Boom! Knock knock! ”

The dull sound was like the beating of a giant drum, and the sound was heard in all directions with the force that pushed the air away, stirring out of the sea into the distance.

The Japanese ship that opened fire, like a monster that swallowed smoke, was suddenly drowned in the billowing fireworks! The whistling projectile, dragging a heart-stopping roar, drew an even arc and fell straight into the bay!

"Ah——! The Japanese ship opened fire! ”

There was a slight commotion among the officers and men of the Navy in the artillery position. At such a distance, the battleship looks like a little shadow, and the other party actually makes a move, which is too fast, right?

Although Qiu Baoren hid in a sturdy bunker, they still felt unnatural when they were used to having steel to cover their heads. Turning his head to look out, he found that Yang Haiwei was still standing steadily on the top of the lighthouse, and he had no intention of avoiding it at all.

"This guy is really bold enough."

Qiu Baoren shook his head, and saw several thick water columns rising in the sea water in the distance, but none of them landed in the breakwater—the long-range shooting of the Japanese army was impossible to talk about at all.

Compared with the Qing army who couldn't hold their breath, the soldiers of the Yang family army on each gun position calmly seemed to have not seen anything, just paying attention to the signal in the headphones. The rest, leave it alone.

This steady momentum made Zhang Peilun, the last one who knew that the enemy was approaching, couldn't help but be speechless, hearing is false, seeing is true, Yang Jiajun's su zhì is unusual!

The smoke cleared, and there was no response as it should be, and the telescope saw that there was not even a figure running in a hurry on the shoreline.

Ito had a feeling of being humiliated, and with a gloomy face, he let the battleship continue to get closer, and at a distance of more than ten kilometers, he opened fire again!

Just a few seconds after their artillery roared, Yang Haiwei, who had already returned to the anti-artillery headquarters, ordered: "305 artillery fire!" ”

"Boom!" A loud bang shook the sea and the sky! (To be continued......)

PS: ps: It's been two days of tossing and turning with heating, and the roar of the electric drill is endless. Thank you to the book-friends from the south, YHW71, and wong_sjm for the monthly passes!