Adriano hesitated for a moment, "Mr. Special Envoy, this is not very good, after all, we don't know the reality of Huaxia's new battleship. ”

Rogers sneered, "Our Sovereign-class battleships and Majesty-class battleships are the most powerful warships in the world, and even if the enemy has a new warship, it is definitely not our opponent. ”

"Mr. Special Envoy, you don't know much about technology, I hope you will think about it more." Adriano was extremely earnest, although Rogerst was not a military commander, but he was a man of his word in front of the Governor of Singapore, and he was deeply trusted by the Governor of Singapore, so Adriano had great respect for Rogers.

"Lin Fei is simply bluffing, you don't have to be afraid of him, if Lin Fei really has a new powerful weapon, he will definitely use it at the most critical moment, such as the submarine during the Nanyang World War, and now it has not reached the most critical moment at all, so what Lin Fei took out must be something to scare people."

Rogers didn't know how to sum up such an absurd rule, and he was ashamed to tell Adriano, Adriano really believed it, the British in this era did not know as much about China as they did about their pet dogs, he gave a thumbs up, "Mr. Special Envoy still understands Lin Fei, I will order the fleet to discharge the battle formation." ”

Adriano immediately used the blue bird machine to give the order to form a battle formation, and the two battleships immediately formed a formation to meet the enemy on the side side, and Lin Gecheng, who was on the hot air balloon, quickly noticed this change and immediately reported it to Lin Fei.

Lin Fei saw that the British battleship was in an attack posture, and immediately ordered: "The hot air balloon mothership retreats, and the Dynasty-class battleships and Emperor-class cruisers are ready to meet the enemy!" ”

The hot air balloon carrier is just a high-speed ship, and it has no combat effectiveness at all, if Lin Fei puts this battleship on the battlefield, it can only become a target for the enemy.

The balloon motherships then withdrew from the battlefield to monitor from a distance, while observers on the Dynasty-class battleships and Emperor-class cruisers took on reconnaissance missions.

Although the range of the 306 mm guns on the British battleships reached 20 kilometers, due to the backwardness of the fire control system, the shells could not hit the target at a distance of 20 kilometers.

The British battleships were relaxed, because no one believed that the Chinese battleships could hit them at a distance of twenty kilometers, and even among the British Royal Navy, there was a view that the powerful things of the Chinese Navy were just submarines, and other things were simply vulnerable, especially surface ships, which were even more ineffective, so the British sailors had no worries about the upcoming big war.

The British sailors were talking about how much they would get for sinking the Chinese warship, and the officers were whispering about receiving the queen at Buckingham Palace......

On the Dynasty class battleship, it was tense and busy, according to the combat manual formulated by Lin Fei, fifteen kilometers is the best time to launch rockets, and now there are still five kilometers, and it is necessary to prepare in advance.

On the rocket launch position, the gyroscope stabilization platform has been running at full speed, because the inherent error of the rocket is larger than that of the artillery shell, so when launching, the stability of the launch platform is very important, so Lin Fei put the rocket launch position on the gyroscope stabilization platform, so that the rocket launch can not be affected by the movement of the ship.

However, this gyro-stabilized platform is quite power-intensive, and once it is operational, it consumes half of the power generated by the dynastic-class battleship's onboard generators.

In the fire control room, the fire control computer is running nervously, the motor driving the gyroscope is buzzing, the data entry person is nervously adjusting the dial next to the fire control computer, and the data recorder is nervously copying the data and transmitting it to the aiming position of the rocket.

According to the test data, when the HHJ-400-1 rocket attacks a ship 100 meters long and 20 meters wide 15 kilometers away, the probability of a direct hit is 4.5 percent, and the probability of range damage is 15 percent, so that is to say, we need to fire 15 rockets at a salvo to achieve a probability of range damage exceeding 90 percent.

Duan Shuai decided to divide the sixty rockets on one side of the hull into four waves and shoot them out in a salvo, so that the probability of damage to the enemy ship is quite high, Duan Shuai immediately asked Lin Fei for instructions, Lin Fei did not say anything, just smiled and said: "You don't need to ask my opinion, you are the captain of this dynasty-class battleship." ”

With Lin Fei's encouragement, Duan Shuai immediately formulated a strike plan, there were a total of six enemy ships, of which two battleships were the most threatening, so the rockets concentrated their firepower to attack the two battleships, the Xia ship and the merchant ship, the Hood ship, the West Zhou ship and the East Zhou ship, and the Mars ship.

Everything was ready, the British battleship was about to enter a fifteen-kilometer range, and the captain of the Xia ship, Duan Shuai, immediately ordered: "Rockets, attack!" ”

When Duan Shuai gave this order, Lin Fei subconsciously glanced at his watch, it was June 28, 1898, 11:15 in the morning, and the moment of the first use of rockets in human history was coming.

Before Duan Shuai gave the order, the sighter had already manipulated the launch canister according to the advance amount calculated by the fire control room, aiming at the position where the British battleship was about to sail by.

When the launcher heard the attack command, he immediately pressed the launch button, and the rocket engine immediately ignited, igniting the double-base drug inside the rocket, which was developed by the famous German chemist Haber, and the specific impulse (an index to evaluate the combustion performance of the rocket, the bigger the better) Although it could not catch up with the rocket fuel of Lin Fei's era, it was not low.

Under the impetus of the double-base medicine, fifteen rockets were fired one after another, and one after another the flames pierced the sky, and the high-temperature gas behind the tail of the rockets rushed out of the hull through the discharge channel and entered the sea, raising a piece of water vapor on the sea.

It took about fifteen seconds for the rocket to fly over a distance of fifteen kilometers, so the sailors on the British battleship had plenty of time to "admire" the "heroism" of the rocket.

In the eyes of the British soldiers, the hull of the rocket ship was very difficult to see, and the clearest thing that could be seen was the tail flame, which was bright yellow and dragged in the sky for five or six meters.

The British sailors pointed at the tail flames and exclaimed: "Look, look, it's a meteor!" ”

"Nonsense, how can there be a meteor on the battlefield...... Oh my God, what a shooting star! ”

Adriano and Rogerst in the command room also saw the tail flame in the sky, of course they didn't think it was a meteor, Rogerst frowned, "Mr. Adriano, what is that?" ”

Adriano shook his head silently, "I don't know, I've never seen anything like that. ”

At the same time, more and more British sailors saw the rockets in the sky, and they put down what they were doing, or rushed to the side of the porthole, or walked to the porthole, staring at the rockets in the sky and shouting, and at this time, the rockets ended their flight and fell.

Although Lin Fei installed a tail stabilization system for the rocket, due to factors such as engine combustion vibration, the error of the rocket was still very large, and when the first rocket fell, it was 100 meters away from the Hood.

However, the HHJ-400-1 rocket was filled with 40 kilograms of high-energy explosives, so many high-energy explosives exploded, the scene was absolutely shocking!

After a loud bang, a large column of water rose on the surface of the sea, which may not be called a "water column", but should be called a "water cloud", because it was a whole water curtain, as if there was a big hand in the dark, directly carrying a large piece of water.

The powerful shock wave pushed the battleship, the whole battleship was a shake, the glass products on the battleship, including the telescope in the observation position, shattered to the ground with a "bang", the British sailors were stupid on the spot, the glass products on our battleship, but after special production, the secondary artillery shells exploded in front of them will not be shattered, those meteors, how can they easily shatter it.

Once the glass in the observation position is broken, the aiming of the naval guns of the entire battleship will be affected, this is the destructive effect of the rocket, Lin Fei uses rockets, not to ask rockets to sink enemy ships at a long distance, only to ask rockets to damage the enemy ships.

The first rocket fell, followed by others, and one rocket after another exploded around the British battleship, and from time to time sailors were injured by the shock wave, and even two people died.

Finally, a rocket exploded more than ten meters away from the stern, and the ferocious shock wave instantly shattered the hull of the stern, and a large amount of seawater poured in, and the Hood ship immediately collapsed.

The blast also damaged the Hood's propeller and control rudder surface, and the battleship, which had been sailing at a speed of fifteen knots, was now instantly reduced to twelve......

After the summer ship launched the rockets, it immediately opened the water hatch and poured water into the hull, fifteen rockets, a full six tons, the battleship lost such a large weight at once, if it is not replenished, it will inevitably lead to a slight imbalance in the hull, this set of water injection balance system is also specially developed by Lin Fei for the rocket battleship, the weight of the shells is light, there is no such trouble.

The first wave of rocket salvo from the summer ship caused a lot of damage to the British Hood, and at this time, the merchant ship also began to fire rocket salvos.

The captain of the merchant ship is named "Hua Hai", who is Duan Shuai's good brother in the military academy, and Hua Hai saw that Duan Shuai ordered the launch of rockets, and he was not to be outdone, and launched rockets.

Hua Hai's luck was good, one of the fifteen salvo rockets directly hit the middle of the hull of the Hood, and the violent explosion directly tore more than a dozen sailors to pieces, and a chimney was instantly blown to pieces.