Chittagong, British India, docked at the dock of the British Navy's Indian Fleet's flagship Bellerophon-class dreadnought battleship Magnificent, the commander of the Indian fleet, Admiral Carragher, had a heavy face, he was the commander of the Chinese fleet of the British Navy a few years ago, participated in the great maritime breakthrough in Hong Kong, and deeply understood the strength of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and now the joint expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Allied Powers has not yet set off in Europe, and the warships of the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire have appeared on the sea outside Chittagong, Although it was only a few destroyers used for reconnaissance, the dark clouds in Carragher's mind were getting thicker and thicker.

In Carragher's mind, from time to time will flash the tragic situation of the big breakthrough a few years ago, one after another British, French and German warships, on the way to break through by the warships that were still called the Northeast Navy were sunk, many of his subordinates who got along day and night, all disappeared on the sea forever with the battleships, and the scenes of the sinking of warships have continued to appear in front of him in the past few years, and the current situation is somewhat the same as the situation in Hong Kong back then, and the British and Indian fleets led by him have a very high probability of being attacked by the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire, and in a short time, he could only rely on the Indian fleet to resist the navy of the entire Chinese Empire, and there was really absolutely no hope of victory.

Seeing the face of the fleet commander Carragher, the captain of the Magnificent Wheelbeck, he couldn't help but ask worriedly: "General, the warships of the Chinese Empire have appeared in the waters near Chittagong, and it seems that the navy of the Chinese Empire has known that the main force of our British Empire's Indian fleet is hiding in Chittagong." I wonder if they will launch an offensive against our Chittagong? ”

Carragher sighed and said, "We don't have to take chances, our Indian fleet and the entire Asian colonies of the British Empire still pose a very big threat to the Chinese Empire. Before the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers arrives in Asia, the navy of the Chinese Empire will surely want to destroy our Indian fleet first. I can only hope that the shore defense guns in Chittagong will perform at a higher level and cooperate with the warships of our Indian fleet. Resist the attack of the Imperial Chinese Navy. ”

Welbeck, the captain of the Magnificent Shipper, asked helplessly, "General, can we resist the attack of the Imperial Chinese Navy?" ”

Carragher smiled bitterly and said, "I hope God can bless us!" ”

Britain has always been wary of the Chinese Empire, so after the war between the Eight-Nation Alliance and Lin Daxin, it has also been constantly strengthening the strength of the British Indian fleet.

However, India is very far away from the British mainland, and it is impossible for the British to arrange a lot of warships to India, and Britain also needs to deal with the threat of the Allied navy, and if there are too many warships around the Chinese Empire, it is also a provocation to the Chinese Empire. In Australia, the British considered these two aspects, and considering the difficulties in the supply of various materials in Australia, the British did not deploy many warships in Australia, so that the British fleet in Australia was no threat to the Chinese Empire at all.

This also led the Chinese Empire to focus less on Australia, but on the somewhat threatening British Asian colonies.

What can make the British entangled is that no matter how many warships the British mobilize, they will have the maritime power in Asia. Don't think about surpassing the Chinese Empire, after all, in terms of displacement, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire is the first navy in the world.

Moreover, Britain has numerous colonies around the world, which need to be guarded by the British Navy. It is also impossible for the British to put more warships in the Indian fleet, so that the current strength of the British Indian fleet can only be said to be not weak. But when it comes to facing the entire Imperial Chinese Navy, it is very weak.

Now Britain has declared war on the Chinese Empire. The British and Indian fleets were uncomfortable, and they didn't want to fight. But there can be no escape, otherwise without the containment of the Indian fleet, the situation of Britain in the Asian colonies will be even more difficult, and Carragher is full of pessimism about the future war, relying only on the strength of the British Indian fleet, can he hold out until the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers reaches Asia?

Carragher was right, the Royal Navy of the Chinese Empire learned that the British Indian fleet had taken refuge in Chittagong, and was already mobilizing warships to prepare to attack Chittagong, before the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers arrived in Asia, to solve the British fleet, which was not too weak, after all, the British Indian fleet had 4 Bellerophon-class dreadnought-class dreadnought battleships, 2 Majestic-class all-steel battleships, 4 Dreadnought-class all-steel battleships, 2 Duncan-class all-steel battleships, a total of 12 capital battleships, Coupled with other types of warships, if they are combined with the Combined Expeditionary Fleet, won't it make the enemy even stronger!

At the same time, the Royal Army in the southwest of the Chinese Empire was also constantly mobilized, preparing to attack the British colonies of India, Burma, Nepal, and Bhutan in Asia when the Royal Navy launched an offensive, opening up the second battlefield of the war between the Chinese Empire and the Allied Powers in addition to the Russian battlefield.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of October 23, 1908, the Chinese Imperial Army in the east outside Chelyabinsk began a large-scale attack on the Allied positions outside Chelyabinsk, which also indicated that after the Chinese Empire and the Entente and the Central Powers officially declared war, the fierce battle between the two sides began.

After all, the two warring sides gathered millions of troops in Chelyabinsk at this time, each with hundreds of warplanes and tens of thousands of various artillery, there is really no one in a big war of this scale.

According to the plan of the Chelyabinsk City Front Command of the Royal Chinese Army, before the ground forces of the Royal Chinese Army launched an offensive, the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese First carried out a fierce bombardment of the positions of the coalition forces outside the city of Chelyabinsk, especially the positions on the east, south and north outside the city, which needed to be taken care of by the fighters of the Air Force, with the intention of launching an attack on these three directions before the army launched an attack. Destroy as many coalition positions as possible and suppress coalition artillery. With the bombing of the Air Force, the artillery units of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire. There will also be heavy artillery shelling of the positions of the coalition forces outside Chelyabinsk, providing the most favorable support to the army with artillery shells.

However, after the fighting, the reality did not follow the plan of the Chelyabinsk City Front Command of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, and the battle entered a white-hot battle from the very beginning, and the coalition forces here in Chelyabinsk City can be absolutely different from the performance of the Russian Army alone, such as the previous two major battles between the Chinese Empire and Russia, the battle of Novosibirsk City and the Battle of Omsk City, the Russians had almost no power to fight back against the blows of the Chinese Imperial Air Force and artillery, and were completely suppressed by the fighters and artillery of the Chinese Empire.

The coalition forces in Chelyabinsk not only had a large number of anti-aircraft weapons. There are also fighters that cooperate with the anti-aircraft weapons on the positions to resist the bombing of the Chinese Imperial fighters, and because of the interference of the air defense weapons and the coalition fighters on the positions of the coalition forces, the fighters of the Chinese Empire cannot bomb the artillery positions of the coalition forces like the previous cities of Novosibirsk and Omsk, so that the artillery of the coalition forces has no power to fight back against the artillery bombardment of the Chinese Empire.

After the Chinese Imperial artillery opened fire, the artillery positions of the allied forces also began to counterattack, so that the artillery of both sides entered a fierce artillery battle, and there was no situation where the Chinese Imperial Army and the Russian army were one-sided.

"Knock knock knock-" In the sky, an improved Yellow Sparrow fighter of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Imperial Chinese opened fire on a coalition fighter with its on-board machine gun. Then, with a "boom-" sound, the coalition fighter was blown up in the air.

However, then the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter was hit by the anti-aircraft artillery on the coalition position because it was entangled with the coalition fighters at an altitude of less than 2,500 meters. With a puff of smoke, it was planted to the ground.

“0354！ 0354！ Pull it up! Pull it up! ”

“0354！ 0354！ Speak! ”

Pilots of other modified Yellow Sparrow fighters saw the crashed Modified Yellow Sparrow fighter No. 0354 and shouted loudly over the radio intercom.

It is a pity that the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter No. 0354 was hit in the position of the cockpit by a shell from a ground anti-aircraft gun, and the pilot of No. 0354 was killed by the time of the anti-aircraft shell. It was impossible to respond on the radio, and the improved Yellow Sparrow fighter crashed headlong into the coalition positions at the end. Turned into a ball of fire.

"Attention fighters! Attention fighters! Pull it up! Pull it up! Rise to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters and do not entangle with coalition fighters at low altitudes. There are too many anti-aircraft guns on the ground! ”

Originally, the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire wanted to use machine guns, airborne machine guns and aerial bombs to destroy the anti-aircraft fire of the coalition positions first, as they did against the Russians before, but there were a lot of air defense weapons on the coalition positions, and with the cooperation of the coalition fighters, the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire did not clear the ground anti-aircraft fire very smoothly, and many improved Yellow Bird fighters were shot down when they were engaged with the coalition fighters, and these were the credit of the air defense weapons on the coalition positions. The allied fighters were still not enough in the face of the improved Yellow Sparrow fighters of the Chinese Empire, and not a single improved Yellow Sparrow fighter was shot down by the allied fighters.

So the commander of the Royal Air Force ordered to change tactics, raised the flight altitude, and let the improved Yellow Bird fighter fly to the sky above 6,000 meters, which not only evaded the harassment of the coalition fighters, and the maximum flight altitude of all coalition fighters did not exceed 4,000 meters, but also flew out of the range of the air defense weapons of the coalition position, but the improved Yellow Bird fighter could only use the three 50-kilogram aerial bombs it carried to strike at the coalition position.

At this time, the improved Blue Eagle bombers of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire also flew over the positions of the coalition forces outside Chelyabinsk, but because the anti-aircraft fire on the positions of the coalition forces was not completely destroyed by the improved Yellow Bird fighters, hundreds of improved Blue Eagle bombers could only fly to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters to bomb the positions of the coalition forces outside Chelyabinsk.

Such high-altitude bombing, of course, is not as accurate as low-altitude dive bombing, so that the artillery positions of the coalition forces have not been completely suppressed by the fighters of the Chinese Empire, although the artillery on the positions of the coalition forces is still constantly destroyed by aerial bombs, but the number of artillery of the coalition forces is too much, and more than 10,000 artillery pieces still use unusually fierce artillery fire to cover the entire position built by the Chinese Imperial Army east of the city of Chelyabinsk, especially the artillery positions of the Chinese Imperial Army, which is the focus of the artillery bombardment of the coalition forces.

The Royal Army of the Chinese Empire currently has 8 main armies outside Chelyabinsk, each of which has thousands of artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 75 mm, not counting mortars and anti-aircraft guns, and the land forces of the 7 countries of the Entente and the Central Powers have even more artillery concentrated in Chelyabinsk than the Chinese Empire. Together, there were as many as 12,000 guns with a caliber of more than 75 mm, and as soon as the artillery of both sides joined the battle, almost the entire area of dozens of square kilometers around the city of Chelyabinsk was shrouded in smoke from the explosion.

"Boom-boom-boom-" Shells constantly fell on the artillery positions of the Imperial Chinese Army, and from time to time large-caliber artillery pieces were hit by artillery shells of the allied forces, but fortunately, the distance between the artillery and the artillery was quite far, and some of the large-caliber artillery shells next to them were exploded and caused by the explosion, at most affecting one or two nearby guns, and did not cause large-scale martyrdom.

Of course, the large-caliber artillery group of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire was not polite to the artillery positions of the coalition forces, and the artillery positions of the coalition forces were caught in explosions everywhere, and the bombing of the Chinese Imperial fighters caused the losses of the artillery of the coalition forces to be several times more than that of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.

However, this situation also made several commanders of the front command of the Imperial Chinese Army outside Chelyabinsk very dissatisfied, and the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, which had always destroyed the enemy's resistance with superior firepower, suffered very huge casualties in such a fierce battle.

Ni Fan, the commander of the Third Guards Army and the commander-in-chief of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire in Chelyabinsk, received the report on the battle situation, and said to the other seven commanders in the headquarters with a frown: "Although I expected it, I didn't expect that the Allied and Allied armies in Chelyabinsk City would have such a large number of anti-aircraft guns and other large-caliber artillery, and the difficulty of this battle would be even more difficult than we expected. (To be continued......)