"Report to Commander Chen, a fleet of ships fifteen nautical miles ahead has been found, with a total of twelve small and medium-sized vessels!" Just as the fleet was sailing forward, the lookout post at the top of the mast of the General Lee Kwang-pil suddenly roared downward.

Although the speed of General Li Guangbi is not the fastest, but he has the largest tonnage, and it is natural to be used as a flagship, and the guns on the ship have been completely replaced, precisely because of his large tonnage, so two 152-mm cannons were replaced in the bow and stern, and two 122-mm howitzers, two 122-mm cannons, and three 75-mm howitzers were installed on both sides, a total of 18 guns, and the firepower was extremely powerful.

"Huh?" Boss Chen hurriedly picked up the binoculars and looked forward, indeed, there were more than a dozen black dots driving unhurriedly in front of him, but due to the distance, he couldn't see the pattern of the flag on the top of the ship for the time being.

"Full throttle, full speed ahead!" Elder Chen let out a loud shout.

Boss Chen is simply fearless, the Democratic Alliance fleet has a total of one battleship and nine frigates, and another ten gunboats have combat effectiveness, and there are twenty ships that can be put into battle, and there are only twelve ships in front, even if all of them are battleships?

"Boom~~" In the sound of the engine starting, Xian Yunying couldn't help but ask: "Boss, it stands to reason that the coalition fleet should all enter the Yangtze River, even if he replenishes supplies, he should travel from south to north, how can there be a fleet heading south?" Where would this ship be? ”

Boss Chen also said incomprehensibly: "Let's see when we get closer." ”

In a short time, black smoke was released from the chimney, and the speed of the fleet was noticeably faster, and the flag in the telescope approached as it went. It is also becoming clearer and clearer, and the flag is composed of isodistant black, yellow and white tricolor stripes.

"It's Russian!" Lan Fang, who was on the boat, shouted on behalf of Que Liubo.

The dark face of Zhang Tianxi, commander of the South China Sea Fleet, flashed with doubt: "How can it be Russian?" Looking at his direction, it should be back to Singapore. Could it be the withdrawal from the combined fleet? Why is there only such a small ship left for him? ”

The fleet was in hiding, cut off from mainland news. Until now, I don't know that the Russian army has suffered a big loss in Hong Kong.

Boss Chen frowned: "No matter how many of him there are, since there are appetizers, then don't eat for nothing, give the order, the whole army has entered the first level of combat readiness and is ready to go to war at any time." ”

The flag-bearer waved the flag at the ships.

In this era, countries invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the development of high-horsepower engines and large-caliber artillery, and pursued giant warships in tonnage, in order to gain the triple advantage of speed, firepower and range.

This also led to the period of galleys and galleys. The naval warfare mode of the naval warfare of the columns, which has been popular for hundreds of years, has come to an end, but the old system has ended, and the new system has not yet taken shape, and this period is also a period of confusion in the development of the navy, which is reflected in the formation, and the same is true, although Wang Feng can give the ship formation according to the modern navy, but the lack of means of communication has made him dispel this idea, and only divide the ships into formed ship formations and temporary ship formations. The transport ships were incorporated into temporary ship formations.

In full charge, the transport was slightly guarded by four gunboats, and the other sixteen combat ships were centered on the General Li Guangbi. The team was adjusted during the drive, and finally it spread out in a goose-shaped formation.

This is an ancient land formation designed to outflank detours. However, the defense in the rear is relatively weak, and the advantage of this formation is that it can give full play to the power of the bow main gun. And due to the small cross-section of the bow, the probability of being hit is also relatively reduced. His most basic requirement for the fleet was to have a high speed and a smooth command system, so the General Li Guangbi, who had the strongest firepower and the longest range, but was not fast, sat in the center.

In the Sino-Japanese naval battle in the Yellow Sea, the Beiyang Naval Division once deployed a goose-shaped formation against the enemy, resulting in a crushing defeat; in fact, judging from the heart, the goose-shaped formation still very much conformed to the characteristics of the Beiyang Naval Division, but the problem was that the ships of the Beiyang Naval Division were generally old, slow, and the power system was outdated, and they lacked adequate exercise training, so that a considerable number of ships actually broke away from the formation in the process of formation, were surrounded by the Japanese army's well-trained vertical formation, and were annihilated one by one.

The distance was getting closer and closer, and the Russian fleet had obviously spotted the pursuers in the rear, and the piercing alarm suddenly sounded.

"What's going on? What's going on? Prince Menlev hurried out of the cabin and asked urgently.

"Report to Your Excellency!" One of the sailors shouted: "There is a fleet chasing after you, and the column is in battle formation!" ”

"What?" Prince Monlev was so frightened that he ran onto the bridge in three steps and two steps, picked up the binoculars and looked back, and his complexion changed drastically in an instant.

This fleet, lined up in an inverted V shape with a large angle, a battleship in the center, and a two-wing cruiser and a small and medium-sized frigate, rushed straight with billowing black smoke.

Especially the military flag flying high on the bridge of the opponent's ship, the upper two-thirds is bright red, there is a golden five-pointed star in the middle, embedded with sickles, hammers and pens, and the lower third is three blue and two white five horizontal bars, that's right, this is the Navy flag of the Democratic League, Wang Feng copied the PLA Navy flag!

"Damn, it's the Democratic Alliance!" Prince Monlev roared: "My God, how could you meet the forces of the Democratic Alliance here? Oh, I understand, they didn't hide in the Yangtze River at all, but wandered in the open sea looking for opportunities, they really fell into eight lifetimes of poor mold, what should I do? What are we going to do? ”

Prince Monlev pulled his hair in a hurry, he only had two corvettes, and the other ten were transport ships with only basic firepower, which could be used against pirates, but there were not enough regular warships, and the Democratic Alliance forces behind had sixteen warships.

What's even worse is that his ship has suffered heavy damage in Hong Kong, and after only simple repairs, the speed is far from the normal level, and the ten transport ships are ordinary civilian ships, which are not as fast as warships when they are designed, and they are in the vast sea, a thousand kilometers away from Singapore, and they can't escape if they want to.

"Your Excellency, we have to fight to the death, the Democratic Alliance army does not need to be taken prisoner, both horizontal and vertical are dead, maybe their warships are strong outside the middle and can fight for us to survive." The captain suggested on the sidelines.

The adjutant also said: "The Chinese have never been good at making warships, to look at me, most of their warships are imitated from captured British warships, many key technologies have not been thoroughly understood, just a bare appearance, in actual combat there are bound to be many problems, how do you know if you don't fight?" ”

The six cruisers of the Democratic Alliance Army, with streamlined hulls and extremely stable movements, did not look like they were shoddy, but Prince Menlev had no other way but to shout: "The whole army obeys the order, turns the bow of the ship, and prepares to meet the battle." With that, he hurried down the bridge.

The flag-bearers waved their flags over and over again, including the transport ships, and slowly turned their heads, and all the soldiers went up to the deck bridge, except for a limited crew who were loading the ship's guns, most of them were holding guns, and they wanted to fight back against the NLD Navy with bullets! (To be continued......)

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