Sa Bingzhen, who was studying the charts of the South China Sea on the 'Xianyang', suddenly received a telegram from the soldiers, he took it and looked at it, then walked to the splint and said to the flag bearer: "Tell them that the British navy has entered the South China Sea, and let them check the equipment of each ship and prepare them for battle." ”

The telegram was sent by a submarine tracking the British Far East Fleet, and it also said that the total tonnage of the British Far East Fleet was likely to exceed 150,000 tons.

Sa Bingzhen didn't expect that the British Far East Fleet also had so much tonnage, which was very inconsistent with the number given to him by Chairman Qin, and the number given to him by Qin Yu was that the total tonnage of Britain in the Far East was about 100,000 tons, but now it was completely beyond this number, which made him think that it was a dereliction of duty by the Huaxia intelligence department.

Sa Bingzhen took this telegram and showed it to a group of naval officers, and the naval officers were very shocked after reading it, they couldn't imagine that the strength of the British army was about the same as theirs, which had to make them cautious.

Sa Bingzhen said cautiously: "Since there is a big discrepancy in the intelligence this time, and the strength of the British Far East Fleet is not below ours, I decided to let the submarine attack it when necessary." ”

An officer said very carefully: "It's not good to expose the submarine now, didn't the chairman say try not to use submarines, submarines will be a big trump card of our navy." The other officers nodded in agreement.

Sa Bingzhen's face suddenly turned cold: "The general is outside, the monarch's order is not subject to it, our soldiers are too inexperienced, and the British navy can dominate the world because their naval experience is very sufficient, so do you want more soldiers to sacrifice?" Besides, when the time comes, it will be enough to let people kill all the British troops who know about submarines, and our navy will not be able to withstand a huge blow, so it is very likely that the submarine forces will attack the British warships. ”

The officers were stunned after hearing this, they didn't expect Commander Sa to be so ruthless and want to kill all the British naval soldiers, which scared them all into a cold sweat.

Sa Bingzhen knew the reason why Qin Yu did not let the submarine be exposed, one was to keep this trump card, and the other was to let the navy mature after a real war, but the current situation has exceeded Qin Yu's prediction, and a careless Huaxia navy will be greatly damaged.

All the ships of the Huaxia Navy are urgently inspecting the equipment, and the soldiers are very nervous, because this is the first time they have engaged in naval battles, and they are still facing the world's largest naval power.

Soon the ships were ready, and they waved flags to the flagship to indicate that they were ready, and Sa Bingzhen, seeing that the ships were ready, asked them to set up a phalanx to meet the enemy.

On November 2, 1912, at 8 o'clock in the morning, the Chinese Navy and the British Far East Fleet met near the Nansha Islands.

Winslow took a group of officers to stand on the flagship and look at the Chinese navy, and they were all very shocked at a glance, the domineering and exposed Queen Elizabeth-class 'Xianyang' and 'Chang'an' made them almost bite their tongues, such warships didn't even have their British ones, and then look at those 'Dreadnought', Sovereign-class, and Invincible-class warships, they even had a feeling that today was April Fool's Day. They couldn't figure out how Huaxia could have such a powerful naval warship, and the total tonnage looked similar to them, but fortunately, the headquarters sent several advanced warships to support, otherwise there would be no need to fight at all.

But at the same time they were shocked, the Chinese navy was also the same as them, they couldn't imagine that the British navy was actually some teacher warships from ten or twenty years ago, only a few of them were a little more advanced, and the British warships had an absolute advantage over their own.

After more than 20 minutes of silence, the two sides were ready to start fighting, and although the British Far East Fleet knew that their warships were not superior, they had absolute confidence to defeat those rookie Chinese navies.

At 8:30 a.m., the Huaxia Navy began with the 'Xianyang' and 'Chang'an', followed by the 'Ryukyu', 'Taiwan', and 'Hainan' of the 'Dreadnought' battleships, followed by the Invincible-class battle cruisers 'Qinhan' and 'Tang Song', and the Junquan-class 'Pearl River' and 'Heilongjiang', followed by some 'Orlando-class' and 'Nelson-class' armored cruisers.

The British Far East Fleet began with the Dreadnought, followed by six 'Sovereign-class' battleships, the 'Empress of India', the 'Hood', the 'Ramie', the 'Counter-Attack', the 'Determination' and the 'Royal Oak', then two 'Invincible-class' battlecruisers and two 'Old Man' battleships, followed by two 'Nelson-class' armored cruisers, two 'Savage-class' armored cruisers, and three 'Orlando-class' armored cruisers. The Goddess of Dawn', with some very old cruisers in the back.

At this time, the two sides are separated by 10,000 meters, and both sides are making final preparations.

"The main gun is ready."

"The secondary cannon is ready."

"The torpedo compartment is ready."

“……”

A loud report followed the telephone lines to the bridge of each battleship, and then to the command tower of the 'Xianyang' through the flag-waving flags and the ticking of radio waves.

"Report to the commander, all ships are ready."

After hearing this, Sa Bingzhen immediately ordered the attack, and the warships of the Huaxia Navy opened fire on the British Far East Fleet, and the sound of "boom~~~ boom" continued to come out of the Huaxia Navy fleet.

At this time, the British Far East Fleet was also ready to start attacking the Chinese army, and the accuracy rate of the British Far East Fleet was obviously higher than that of the Chinese army, and they concentrated their firepower on attacking the "Xianyang" and "Chang'an", as well as the "Ryukyu" and "Taiwan", and Winslow thought that if they attacked the capital ships of Huaxia, they would almost kill them.

Because the hit rate of the Chinese warships was lower than that of the British, they could only constantly let the warships avoid the shelling of the British Far East Fleet, and they felt a little difficult.

At 8:50 a.m., the battle had entered a fever pitch, and both sides had suffered a lot of losses, but the losses of the Huaxia were smaller than those of the British Far East Fleet, because the Huaxia battleships were more advanced than theirs, and the power of the cannons was also more powerful than theirs.

In order to reduce losses, Britain used six 'Sovereign-class' battleships, the 'Empress of India', the 'Hood', the 'Ramie', the 'Counterattack', the 'Resolve' and the 'Royal Oak', to form a battle line and began to turn, wanting to forcibly occupy the T-shape, while the two 'Invincible-class' battlecruisers, two 'old man-star' battleships and eight armored cruisers went around in a circle, wanting to attack the rear of the Chinese fleet.

Sa Bingzhen saw the intention of the British at a glance, and he immediately ordered a change of formation, with the "Ryukyu", "Taiwan", "Hainan" and "Xianyang" of the "Intrepid" battleships to deal with the six "Sovereign-class" battleships, the Invincible-class battlecruisers "Qinhan" and "Tang Song" and the Sovereign-class "Zhujiang" and "Heilongjiang" to deal with the two "Invincible-class" battlecruisers and the two "old man-star" battleships, and then let the rearmost armored cruisers deal with the eight British armored cruisers.

"Boom! Rumble! The sound of the sound lingered in the sky over the South China Sea, and countless columns of water more than ten meters high rose into the sky on the sea surface, and some warships were hit and emitted thick black smoke, and clusters of fire flew out on the warships.

The British Navy is worthy of being the world's first navy, the hit power is very high, many shells have hit the warships of the Huaxia Navy, the warships of the Huaxia Navy have a lot of wounds, but they did not retreat, but strong to face the artillery fire. The naval hit rate of the Chinese was not high, and very few warships hit the British Far East Fleet, only those old ones were hit and sunk.

Philimantle, who was on the 'Dreadnought', looked at the battle situation and laughed: "Hahaha, the warriors of the Empire have taught these yellow monkeys a hard lesson to let them know the power of the Imperial Navy. The officers below also laughed loudly after retreating, and the poor hit rate of the Huaxia Navy made them very happy.

Sa Bingzhen, on the 'Xianyang', said to the herald with a straight face: "Order them to avoid the British shells as much as possible, and use our speed advantage to quickly approach the British fleet, only in this way can we get a better hit rate." When the soldier heard this, he began to give orders.

The speed of the Chinese navy was more than a star and a half faster than that of the British, and they were hit by the unfamiliar operation when they first evaded, but as they slowly became familiar with it, the hit rate of the British Far East fleet also began to decline, and the Chinese fleet continued to get closer to the British fleet, and the closer they got to it, the higher the hit rate of the Chinese navy.

Looking at the Huaxia battleships that were quickly evading, Winslow opened his mouth wide, and when he saw that the shells of his fleet were about to hit the Huaxia battleships, those Huaxia battleships actually twisted their bodies to avoid the shells, and their own shells fell into the sea. He couldn't have imagined that Huaxia's warship mobility and speed were so high, which only the empire's native fleet could do, but now appeared in the backward country of Huaxia, he didn't know if the world was crazy.

When he saw Huaxia's warships rushing towards them desperately, he knew that it was bad, once Huaxia's fleet approached, he would suffer a big loss with the speed of Huaxia's fleet, so he immediately let the Far Eastern Fleet and Huaxia's fleet distance themselves.

At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the battle between the two sides was still in the heat of the white, the losses on both sides were very large, and on the whole, Huaxia had the advantage, but if Huaxia wanted to completely solve the British Far East Fleet, it would suffer great trauma, and even lose nearly half of the warships, which was not the result that the Huaxia Navy wanted, because Huaxia had to always be wary of the Japanese Navy.

The British Far East Fleet had lost a third of its warships at this time, and they couldn't imagine that the Chinese navy was so difficult to bite, and now they knew why Huaxia would provoke the empire, because the Chinese navy already had the same strength as the Far East Fleet. Winslow ordered a temporary retreat, because he did not want the Far Eastern Fleet to suffer a heavy blow, and the Empire could not do without the Far Eastern Fleet.

Seeing the retreat of the British Far East Fleet, Sa Bingzhen did not order the pursuit, because the soldiers were too tired, and they had to sum up their experience, and with the tracking of the submarine, he was not afraid that the British would get lost.