This tactic formulated by Lin Fei is very similar to the tactics of Togo Heihachiro when he annihilated the Russian fleet in the Russo-Japanese War of his own era.

Togo Heihachiro relied on adventure and luck to seize the "D" shaped horizontal head, while today's Lin Fei relies on his superior command and radio communication equipment that was ahead of the times.

Liu Daming's first reaction when he heard Lin Fei's words was surprise, his eyes widened, his mouth was wide open, and he said hesitantly: "Can you do this method?" Why do I sound so suspenseful? ”

Lin Fei smiled confidently and said, "My judgment will not be wrong, you hurry up and give the order, the Japanese will open fire when it is late." ”

Liu Daming said "yes," ran to the command position, and gave the order to turn the rudder and head south.

When the Tenryu discovered the Japanese fleet, the Japanese fleet on the opposite side also discovered the Tenryu, and the first to discover the Draco was the Takachiho, and the captain Nomura Sadaosa immediately sent a message to the flagship Matsushima, but the Japanese fleet did not have radio communication equipment, and the transmission of information could only rely on signal flags.

The Takachiho ship hung out the signal flag that the enemy warship was found, and there was a small red flag behind the signal flag, which represented that the enemy warship found was the flagship.

Gao Chiho hoisted such a flag, the entire Japanese fleet was excited, their belligerence was even more than that of Lin Fei's fleet, in the previous search, they had not found Lin Fei's fleet, which made them extremely depressed, in addition to depression, they also had doubts and uneasiness, just like Lin Fei had.

The Japanese fleet had not found the Lin Fei fleet in the previous two days of searching, and the Takachiho ship Nagamura Sada, who had speculated that the Chinese Imperial fleet might have left Penghu and headed for the Keelung port area, intending to attack the Japanese troops in Keelung, while Prince Arisugawa Miyashihito, the captain of the Matsushima ship, speculated that the Chinese Imperial fleet might have left the island of Taiwan and headed to the vicinity of the Ryukyus to attack and harass the Ryukyus.

The Ryukyu Islands are located north of the island of Taiwan, between the island of Taiwan and the Japanese archipelago, the island originally had the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was a vassal state of the Chinese Dynasty since ancient times, and was later barbarically occupied by Japan, and has been Japanese territory ever since.

Compared with Nomura Sadashi and Prince Arisugawa Palace Weihito, Togo Heihachiro's speculation made people break out in a cold sweat, and Togo Heihachiro guessed that the Chinese Imperial Fleet might go north directly and ...... to the Japanese mainland Kagoshima and Nagasaki were attacking, this speculation is not groundless, the navy is the type of troops used to attack, with Lin Fei's military qualities in the Battle of Dragon Snake Valley and the Battle of Bagua Mountain, he will not be unaware of this.

However, Ito Yuheng insisted that the Chinese Imperial Fleet was still in the Penghu area, after all, the Chinese Imperial Fleet still had to defend the transportation line from the Chinese Empire to Taiwan Island, and did not dare to set up an expedition.

Today they discovered the Lin Fei fleet, and the previous doubts were cleared, and Ito ordered the Matsushima to fly the flag that the whole fleet was ready for battle, and then ordered the guerrillas to outflank the Tenryu.

Ito Yuhiro had just finished giving the order, and Heihachiro Togo whispered on the side: "General, the enemy only has one battleship, and the flagship flag is also hoisted, isn't this a little unusual?" ”

Ito Youheng shook his head and smiled: "Dongxiang, don't be too cautious, this flagship is very likely to leave the fleet due to mechanical problems, this is a good opportunity for us to annihilate it, Lin Fei, the emperor of the Huaxia Empire, may be on this battleship." ”

Heihachiro Togo nodded and said no more, but the doubts in his heart did not lessen.

At this time, the Japanese fleet began to speed up and chase after the Tenryu, among which the guerrilla commander Nomura Sada, the first order to speed up, the sailors on the three ships of Takachiho, Naniwa, and Akitsuzu immediately accelerated the speed of filling coal, and the ship's boiler chief also turned on the strong pressure ventilator, which can blow the wind into the furnace and make the coal burn faster.

The Sankei ships in this squadron also began to accelerate after the guerrillas accelerated, and so did the torpedo boat fleet that acted with the group, and the speed of the entire Japanese fleet gradually increased, and the distance between the Japanese fleet and the Tenryu gradually decreased.

The acceleration of the Japanese battleship was quickly detected by the Tianlong ship, and the captain Liu Daming immediately ordered: "Speed up." ”

The Tenryu ship immediately began to accelerate, the trend of decreasing distance gradually stopped, and the three ships in the guerrillas were relatively fast, so Ito Yuhiro ordered the guerrillas to speed up the pursuit, and Nomura Sadashi ordered the battleships to speed up again, and after twenty minutes, the three battleships accelerated to their maximum speed...... Nineteen knots, but it still can't catch up with the Dracon, because the maximum speed of the Draco is about the same as that of the Japanese ship.

It was impossible for a battleship to always maintain its maximum speed, and the three battleships maintained a speed of nineteen knots for ten minutes, and after slowing down, they still did not catch up with the Celestial Dragon.

On the Matsushima ship, Ito Yuhiro saw that the three guerrilla warships could not catch up with the Chinese Empire warship, and he was secretly anxious in his heart, and Togo Heihachiro whispered: "General, do you want to let the torpedo boat fleet try?" Torpedo boats are faster and may be able to catch up with enemy ships. ”

Ito thought for a moment and said, "The maximum speed of the torpedo boat can reach twenty-two knots, so they can try it." After Togo Heihachiro finished speaking, he turned his head and ordered: "Hang out the signal flag and order the torpedo boat fleet to fight." ”

The signal flag was hoisted on the Matsushima ship, and Suzuki Sei Shaosa was very excited when he saw the signal flag, he shouted loudly, ordered his subordinates to hang up the attack flag, and the six torpedo boats lined up in a horizontal formation and sailed towards the Tenryu.

In order to develop their sideboard firepower, the main Japanese warships formed a zigzag column, while the torpedo boat fleet, in order to increase the flexibility of the attack, formed a zigzag horizontal formation, which allowed the torpedo boats to attack from all directions like a pack of wolves.

The torpedo boat is a small boat, the speed is relatively fast, and the acceleration is good, and it only took ten minutes to increase the speed from the twelve knots that had been accommodated to the main fleet to twenty-two knots, while the speed of the Draco ship at this time was only seventeen knots.

The six torpedo boats pounced on them like six wolves, but Lin Fei ignored them, because he was the commander of the fleet, so he didn't have to think too much about the battle of a single ship, he looked at the simulated sand table of naval battles, and gave orders to adjust the course of the Yunlong ship, the Tenglong ship and the submarine dragon ship, so as to ensure that when the three ships met him, they were exactly in the position of the "D" horizontal head.

Lin Fei ignored those torpedo boats, Liu Daming couldn't ignore them, he waved his hand and called a herald, and said: "Order Sun Yong, prepare the tail cannon, and the Japanese torpedo boat will fire when it approaches." ”

Sun Yong was at the tail gun position at this time, and when he heard the order, he asked the No. 4, No. 5, and No. 6 gun emplacements closest to the tail of the gun to prepare for battle, and the gunners took the shells and focused on aiming at the torpedo boats in the distance.

Lin Fei finished giving the order at this time, and took Liu Daming out of the cab and walked up to the command tower, which is the same thing as the tower behind the wheelhouse, and the height is only one-third of the mast, where you can clearly see the situation in all directions.

Lin Fei raised the binoculars in his hand, looked at the approaching torpedo boats in the distance, and asked Liu Daming, "Are you sure to kill them?" ”

Liu Daming laughed and said, "Don't worry, it's absolutely no problem to kill them." ”

Lin Fei nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Okay, those torpedo boats will be handed over to you, kill them all, remember, don't use decisive weapons." ”

Liu Daming smiled heartily and said, "Don't use the decisive weapon, you have said it countless times, don't worry, you will never forget it." ”

Lin Fei nodded with satisfaction, turned back to the cockpit, and continued to command the fleet to fight, while Liu Daming stayed at the top of the command tower, staring at those torpedo boats.

Half an hour later, Ma Chengfeng, the chief of communications, reported to Liu Daming: "Captain, the enemy torpedo boat has entered the range of our ship's gunfire. ”

"Okay..."Liu Daming slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Order Sun Yong, give me a hard beating, and beat all the Japanese torpedo boats to the bottom of the sea..."

Ma Chengfeng immediately gave Sun Yong a signal to attack, Sun Yong excitedly tore open his shirt, rolled up his sleeves, and shouted at the gunners of the three gun positions: "Open the gun..."

The gunners immediately opened fire, and after four rounds of test firing, the shells finally landed in the front and rear of the torpedo boats, forming a straddle fire, and Sun Yong immediately ordered the full rate of fire to open fire.

The cannonballs whistled and flew towards the torpedo boats, and a column of water rose around the torpedo boats, and the water soaked the sailors, one by one like chickens in the soup, but these sailors were a group of chickens in the soup who had beaten the blood, they screamed strangely, and they were bent on sinking the Tenryu ship, and Makoto Suzuki was the best among them, he waved his arms and kept shouting slogans such as "Dedication to the Emperor" and "Blessing the soul", and every time he shouted, the sailors would shout in unison.

The Japanese torpedo boats did not have names, only numbers, this is because there are too many small ships like torpedo boats, and it is too troublesome to name them one by one, these torpedo boats are numbered from 15 to 20 in the Japanese army, and Makoto Suzuki is on the 15th, and a shell falls next to the 20th torpedo boat, and the violent explosion pushes the sea water, directly tearing the hull of the 20th torpedo boat under the waterline.

A large amount of seawater poured into the No. 20 torpedo boat, which lasted only a minute before sinking, but Suzuki Makoto did not have the slightest fear, and he ordered the flag to be hoisted to intensify the attack, and at the same time ordered the other four torpedo boats to disperse and attack the Tenryu.

The distance between the torpedo boat and the Tianlong ship soon approached two thousand meters, and Sun Yong gave the order: "Machine gun, open fire..."

The original intention of equipping battleships with small-caliber guns was also to guard against torpedo boats, which were unarmored and did not have strong defensive power, and were simply unable to resist small-caliber shells.

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