When Lin Fei was designing the Dynasty-class battleships, he was particularly careful about the protection of submarines and torpedoes, at this time, the world was frantically developing submarines and torpedoes, and maybe when, the Dynasty-class battleships would face threats from underwater.

In order to prevent the Dynasty-class battleships from becoming targets that could only be beaten and could not fight back in front of torpedoes and submarines, Lin Fei equipped the Dynasty-class battleships with the newly developed hydrophones, which can be regarded as simple sonar, which can make the roughest positioning of underwater sounds.

Lin Fei also equipped the Dynasty-class battleships with forty depth charges, each of which was filled with 40 kilograms of high-energy explosives, and the underwater explosion had a killing range of up to one kilometer.

Lin Fei did not equip the Dynasty class battleships with torpedoes, after all, torpedoes have a limited range and are extremely heavy, which is not practical at all.

In order to test the combat performance of the Dynasty-class, Lin Fei decided to transfer all four Dynasty-class battleships to the battlefield, and then mobilize four Emperor-class cruisers to form a powerful fleet composed of eight warships, which scared the British to death.

Lin Fei snickered to himself as he issued a transfer order, the crews of these four Dynasty-class battleships were all transferred from the Great Emperor-class cruisers, but the captains were newly trained.

Because the Dynasty-class battleships have the latest rockets, the captains need to be trained for a long time, and the captains such as Liu Daming, Bi Fang, and Shangguan Yunlong are busy with official business and have no time to participate in training, so they can only train the captain from other crews.

The captains of the four Dynasty-class battleships, the captain of the Xia ship was named "Duan Shuai", the captain of the merchant ship was named "Hua Hai", the captain of the Western Zhou ship was named "Lei Yuming", and the captain of the Eastern Zhou ship was named "Xia Siwen", all four of them were naval officers on the Great Emperor-class cruiser, and after a six-month training, they stood out from the forty competitors.

On June 25, 1898, four Dynasty-class battleships set sail from Jakarta to Hue, arriving at Hue on June 27, and the journey went smoothly and without any obstacles.

As soon as the four Dynasty-class battleships arrived in Hue, Lin Fei asked them to come to the command room and deploy the next battle plan.

Lin Fei unfolded a map, hung it on the wall, pointed to the map and said: "The target of our next battle is here - Phu Quoc Island, at present, the British have occupied Phu Quoc Island, and the two British battleships, the Sovereign-class battleship Hood and the Majesty-class battleship Mars, are leading four cruisers to cruise near this island. ”

"If we want to recover Phu Quoc, we must destroy these two British battleships, originally I planned to use the monster-class submarine to destroy these two battleships, but the British laid a large number of mines in the waters of Phu Quoc, and these mines also sank one of our monster-class submarines."

"If I let the monster-class submarine dispatch again, there will inevitably be a danger of touching the mine and sinking, so I decided to dispatch the rocket battleship, that is, the dynasty-class battleship, and our next task is to go to the waters of Phu Quoc Island and fight a decisive battle with the British main fleet."

After Lin Fei arranged the pre-war deployment, he personally boarded the dynasty-class battleship Xia Ship, which served as the flagship in this operation.

In addition to four Dynasty-class battleships, four Emperor-class cruisers, and a hot air balloon carrier, this is the second time that a hot air balloon carrier has participated in actual combat.

Nine warships sailed to the waters of Phu Quoc, and when there were still fifty nautical miles away from Phu Quoc, Lin Fei ordered: "Hot air balloon mothership, raise the hot air balloon and look for the British battleship." ”

On the hot air balloon mothership, a hot air balloon rises into the sky, and the visibility on this day is very good, and you can easily see the battleship dozens of kilometers away.

The commander on the hot air balloon mothership is the officer of the Huaxia Air Force - Lin Gecheng, originally Lin Fei wanted Lin Gecheng to command the airship to fight, but now the airship of the Chinese Empire has not been built, and Lin Gecheng is bent on fighting, so Lin Fei asked Lin Gecheng to command the battle on the hot air balloon.

In fact, the battle on the hot air balloon and the battle on the airship have something in common, that is, they both have extremely high requirements for finding targets, which requires the officer's eye to be excellent.

Lin Gecheng's eyesight is excellent, and Lin Fei has conducted special training for him, which includes - looking for stars during the day, looking for stars during the day sounds like a fantasy, but for pilots with excellent eyesight, this kind of training is a basic course.

Eyesight training also includes - catch flies with bare hands, flies fly extremely fast, if you want to catch them with bare hands, you must have excellent eyesight, this special training method sounds like a martial arts novel, but in the Air Force, this special training method does exist, the Japanese Air Force in the era of Lin Fei, used this method to train pilots.

Lin Gecheng relied on the eyesight specially trained by Lin Fei, coupled with the optical detection equipment derived from German technology, and soon found that thirty-five nautical miles to the east of the fleet, there was a fleet, and the number of ships was about ten, but the distance was too far, and the details of the ships were not clear at all.

Lin Gecheng reported to Lin Fei through the Blue Bird Machine: "Your Majesty, thirty-five nautical miles to the east of our fleet, a fleet has been discovered, and the fleet is heading due north. ”

Lin Feilang laughed loudly: "Except for the British warships, there can be no other people's ships in this sea area, order the fleet, catch up." ”

Lin Fei's battleship is the Xia ship, and this battleship is also the flagship of this fleet operation, Lin Fei's order will be issued by Duan Shuai, the captain of the Xia ship, and Duan Shuai immediately gave the order for the fleet to turn around and approach the British fleet.

Four Dynasty-class battleships, four Emperor-class cruisers, and a hot-air balloon mothership immediately turned around and headed for the British fleet, which had not yet discovered Lin Fei's fleet.

Theoretically, if a hot air balloon can see a British battleship, then a British battleship can also see a hot air balloon, but Lin Fei painted the outside of the hot air balloon with light-colored camouflage paint, and it was difficult for people on the British battleship to spot the hot air balloon from the background of the sky.

It wasn't until Lin Fei's nine battleships slowly approached the British fleet that the sailors on the British battleships reacted, and the commander of this fleet was Adriano, although Adriano met Lin Fei as a technical adviser, but he was the captain of the Hood ship, the commander of this fleet.

Rogest was by Adriano's side at this time, and when he saw the Huaxia battleship in the distance, he couldn't help but say: "Look at those battleships flying the Blood Fire Dragon Flag, they should be the warships of the Huaxia Empire." ”

Adriano nodded silently, "The Blood Fire Dragon Flag is the national flag of Huaxia, and I also know this, Lin Fei knows that we Westerners hate fire dragons, but putting fire dragons on the national flag is simply crazy contempt for us." ”

At this moment, the observer on the Hood suddenly reported: "Captain, there are nine warships in the Huaxia fleet, four of which are Emperor-class cruisers, one has a hot air balloon on its mooring, and the other four have a strange appearance, we have never seen them." ”

"Strange? What's so strange? Adriano's heart couldn't help but hang, the most terrifying thing about the Chinese people is that they can often come up with some brand new weapons and equipment, for example, during the Nanyang World War, Lin Fei was not far from the destruction of the country and the extinction of the species, but they were able to come up with a terrifying submarine and turn the tide of the war in one fell swoop, could it be that they came up with new weapons again?

The more Adriano thought about it, the more panicked he became, and called the deputy captain closer, "You come to take over my command, and I'll go and see Huaxia's new battleship." Adriano said and walked out of the command room, climbed to the mast lookout, took the telescope from the observer's hand, and looked at the Huaxia battleship in the distance, only to see a rather strange battleship in front of him!

The reason why this battleship is strange is because it is not small, it looks similar to the Sovereign-class battleship, but it does not have too many guns, only in the bow, three turrets are deployed along the central axis of the hull, a large warship with a displacement of more than 10,000 tons, but only three turrets, is this designer crazy?

The hull of the whole battleship is quite simple, there is nothing superfluous, all positions of the hull are very flat, it seems that the designer has a habit of cleanliness and hates messy things, Adriano didn't know at all, Lin Fei couldn't help but bring in the concept of stealth design when designing this battleship.

The warships of Lin Fei's era had to consider stealth without exception, so the hulls were very simple and flat, although there was no need to consider these in this era, Lin Fei still subconsciously carried out stealth design.

The strangest thing about the battleship was that the entire rear of the ship was made up of quadruple square cylinders, with a thick partition between each two, which divided the stern into small pieces, like a small room. Adriano didn't actually know that these partitions were explosion-proof partitions carefully prepared by Lin Fei.

120 rocket launchers are placed in the stern of the ship, containing a large number of rockets, once the stern is hit by the enemy's shells, it is possible to detonate the rockets, and an explosion may cause violent martyrdom, and then the entire battleship will be blown into scrap metal.

Therefore, Lin Fei set up an explosion-proof partition between each two rocket launchers, which is composed of hard steel plates, wrought iron, and hard steel plates, which can absorb the shock wave to the maximum extent and ensure that any rocket does not detonate other rockets after exploding.

Adriano's brows furrowed tightly, what is this thing in front of him, is it really some kind of extremely powerful new weapon?

Adriano was undecided for a while, and could only come down from the mast lookout first, and Rogers hurriedly came over and asked, "What do you think?" ”

"I don't see it very well, I can't see the details of these new warships at all." Adriano's face was full of frustration, and Rogers smiled disdainfully, "What is there to be afraid of, let's kill them!" ”