Ma Chengfeng told Lin Fei the news that the two British warships were sailing towards the Leopard-class high-speed transport ship, and Lin Fei broke out in a cold sweat after hearing this, and immediately ordered Ma Chengfeng: "Send a message to the two British warships and warn them not to approach our ships again." ”

Ma Chengfeng immediately sent out the news, but it was completely useless, and the two British warships not only did not stop, but instead accelerated and sailed towards the Leopard-class high-speed transport ship.

Ma Chengfeng said anxiously: "Report to Your Majesty, the warning has been issued, but it is useless, the two British warships do not listen to us at all, and their speed is faster, and now the speed has exceeded twenty knots, and the speed is still increasing." ”

Liu Daming doubted on the side: "The maximum speed of the Yoshino ship is twenty-three knots, and in the world today, there are only a handful of warships that can break through the speed of twenty knots, except for the Yoshino ship, there is no one else, but isn't the Yoshino ship sunk?" Why did it come out again? ”

"It seems that these two warships are the same class ships of the Yoshino ship..."Lin Fei was at a loss in his heart after speaking, according to naval history, Britain has not been equipped with a ship of the same class as the Yoshino ship, what is going on?

Lin Fei was thinking about it, and Ma Chengfeng's voice became even more urgent, "Your Majesty, the British battleship is only five kilometers away from our Leopard-class high-speed transport ship, what should I do?" ”

Five kilometers is definitely a dangerous value, most of the naval guns in this era exert their power within three thousand meters, if Lin Fei does not take action, the six Leopard-class high-speed transport ships will be completely exposed to the threat of enemy ships' naval guns...

If Lin Fei wants to take action, he can only order the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship to fire on the two British ships, but those two battleships are British after all, and fighting them is equivalent to starting a war with the British Empire, once he starts a war with the British Empire, he will inevitably be involved in a full-scale war, and the development results of the whole two years are likely to come to naught overnight...

"Report to Your Majesty, it's four thousand five hundred meters..."

Should I fight or not? What the hell were the British warships going to do? Is there any other purpose for moving so close to us than to open fire?

"Report to Your Majesty, it's four thousand meters..."

Can't watch them launch an attack on the army, Lin Fei turned his heart sideways, slapped the command platform suddenly, and said through gritted teeth: "Alert shooting at the British warship..."

"Understood...""Boom" There was a loud bang, the Draco ship immediately opened fire, a puff of white smoke erupted from the bolt, drifting to the battleship, a column of water splashed in front of the British warship, at this moment, the "rice flag" symbolizing the British Empire suddenly fell, and a "red, white and blue" tricolor flag fluttered away, it was the Dutch flag, these two warships, turned out to be Dutch warships...

Lin Fei roared angrily, "Bastard Dutchman, he actually used the British rice flag to trick me and beat me... Beat to death..."

At this moment, the two Dutch warships had already turned their bows and faced the Celestial Dragon and the Yunlong Ship with their side sides, and the speed of turning was so fast that the Celestial Dragon Ship and the Yunlong Ship sighed to themselves.

The two Dutch warships immediately opened fire, and a cannonball whistled through the air, and the Celestial Dragon and Cloud Dragon were immediately surrounded by splashed water columns.

Lin Fei understood at this time that these two warships were Dutch warships at all, and the purpose of their visit this time was to sink their own Tianlong ship and Yunlong ship, as long as the Tianlong ship and Yunlong ship sank, the six Leopard-class high-speed transport ships behind them would be live targets...

These two Dutch warships resemble the Yoshino, and it is entirely possible that they are the same class of the Yoshino that the Netherlands ordered from the British Armstrong ...

Lin Fei didn't know at this time that these two warships were indeed the same class ships of the Yoshino ship, and the construction company was the construction company of the Yoshino ship...... British Armstrong Company, this company is very famous, and many of the artillery guns used in the Qing Kingdom are products of this company.

When did the Netherlands buy these two ships? This incident can be traced back to March 1895, when Lin Fei and the Spaniards fought in the Philippines, when Lin Fei's army was invincible and invincible, the Chinese in the Philippines heard that Lin Fei was coming, and they all ate pot pulp to welcome the king's division, Lin Fei armed the Chinese, and quickly drove away the Spaniards.

The Spanish plight was a great stimulus to the Dutch, as there were also large numbers of Chinese in the Dutch East Indies, especially in the heart of Dutch rule...... Sumatra and Java islands, there are more Chinese, and the Dutch are worried that one day Lin Fei will lead troops into Sumatra and Java and liberate these two islands like the Philippines, so they spent a huge amount of money to buy warships from the British.

At this time, the Dutch national power was weakened, and the royalists and constitutionalists in the country were fighting endlessly, and the Dutch, in order to save the cost of designing warships, directly purchased the already designed battleships from the Armstrong Company, that is, the same class ships of the Yoshino.

These two battleships were supposed to be delivered, but the process of the delivery of the battleships was interrupted by the Determination Ship incident brewed by Lin Fei, and the British said that you Dutch had sunk all our Sovereign-class battleships, and they wanted us to sell them to your warships, dreaming... So two battleships were seized indefinitely.

It wasn't until Lin Fei supported the restoration of the Lanfang Republic and handed over the Dutch East Indies Governor Sumanville to Britain that Britain began to relent, and Armstrong kept lobbying the British Congress (Armstrong did not deliver the battleship, it would not get money, not only could not get money, but also paid huge liquidated damages, and in the context of the whole Europe attaching great importance to commercial credit, Armstrong did not dare not pay liquidated damages), in this way, the two warships finally arrived in the hands of the Dutch and launched an attack on Lin Fei today.

Lin Fei ordered the two battleships to turn to meet the enemy on the side of the board, but they lost the opportunity, because the Dutch successfully used deception tactics, so they occupied the initiative on the battlefield, and preemptively faced the side of the Tianlong and Yunlong ships, and four 152 mm rapid-fire guns and four 120 mm rapid-fire guns fired shells wildly at the two battleships.

The rapid-fire guns of the Yoshino ship had a fast rate of fire, and in the Battle of the Yellow Sea, it once fired a high rate of fire of ten rounds per minute, and the Beiyang Fleet suffered greatly from it, and those who witnessed the Battle of the Yellow Sea used a word when recalling the naval battle...... Bullets are raining down, and today, Lin Fei has also experienced the taste of bullets raining down.

Columns of water rose beside the Draco, splashing on the ship from time to time, drenching people all over, and the shock wave made the battleship tremble from time to time, making people dizzy.

Suddenly, a shell hit the No. 4 gun position in the stern of the battleship, it was a high-explosive shell, and the violent explosion directly knocked a naval gun firing group to the ground, and five gunners fell to the ground, blood gushing like a spring.

Lin Fei designed the shell placement compartment for each gun position, this kind of storage cabin is a small grid on the side of the gun position, the shells can be stored in it, and the small compartment has a cover made of steel plates, specifically to prevent the shock wave from causing the shell to detonate, this ingenious design saved the Tianlong ship's tail gun, and the terrible martyrdom did not happen.

The sailors of the damage control team immediately rushed to the vicinity of the explosion point to rescue the personnel and extinguish the flames, but the explosives in the shells of the Dutch battleship did not burn, so the battleship did not catch fire too much.

At the same time as the Tianlong ship was hit by a bullet, Bi Fang, the captain of the Yunlong ship, sent a message: "Your Majesty, please retreat quickly, and hand over the two Dutch ships to me..."

Lin Fei roared angrily: "Ridiculous... The Dutch ships have more guns than us, aren't you looking for death when you fight two ships? Less nonsense, we***..."

At this time, the battlefield situation was very unfavorable to Lin Fei, and each Dutch ship concentrated four 152 mm caliber naval guns and four 120 mm caliber naval guns to bombard Lin Fei's battleship, and Lin Fei's side was still turning, and the number of artillery that could be concentrated was far less than that of the Dutch ships.

In the blink of an eye, two more shells hit the side of the Tenryu, the battleship shook twice, and the sea water poured into the hull of the ship at once, and the sailors at the breach were busy repairing the breach.

Lin Fei encountered an unprecedented crisis at this time...

Liu Daming rushed to Lin Fei and shouted: "Old Lin, retreat quickly, we are not opponents now..."

Lin Fei said categorically: "We can't withdraw, if we withdraw, the Leopard-class high-speed transport ship will be hit by them as a target..."

"We can't do it if we don't withdraw, now the enemy has the upper hand..."

"Less nonsense, if I don't withdraw, I won't withdraw, there are still two thousand of our brothers on the island, if we withdraw, they will have no backup, under the siege of the Indonesians, they will run out of ammunition and food, and they will all be killed by the Indonesians, do you want to receive two thousand second children in glass jars?"

Liu Daming stomped his feet fiercely and scolded his mother, "Lao Lin, why are you so confused?" If we withdraw, the dead will be the army, and if we don't withdraw, the dead will be the army and us, isn't it very clear how to choose? ”

Lin Fei frowned and asked, "Do you really think so?" ”

Liu Daming said with a straight face: "Nonsense, this is a matter of life and death, am I still in the mood to joke?" ”

Lin Fei asked, "Brothers think the same way?" Everybody thinks we don't have a chance of winning? ”

Liu Daming said anxiously: "There is definitely no chance of winning, the Dutch have already seized the advantageous position, we are moving to the advantageous position, I don't know how many shells we will suffer......"

Lin Fei didn't wait for Liu Daming to finish speaking, grabbed the microphone of the Jade Bird machine, and said loudly: "Listen, brothers in the whole fleet, I'm Lin Fei, we can't withdraw now, if we withdraw, the infantry brothers will all have to be trapped and tortured by the Indonesians, can we watch it?" ”

"The brothers think we don't have a chance of winning, you're wrong... I want to tell you that although we have no advantage in the number of artillery and no advantage in battle positions, we have an absolute advantage in the fire control system and personnel, and each of you, even if it is just an ordinary sailor, is an elite trained by the Huaxia Naval Academy, and in this regard, you are much stronger than the Dutch..."

Lin Fei raised his voice: "Brothers, as long as our two warships concentrate their side firepower, we will definitely be able to regain the advantage." ”

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