"You have to ask for the understanding of the people who make the Taiwan Lord, you have to know that I have a clear price for this thing, and I have always paid attention to fairness and integrity in doing business, if you reduce the price, what if other guests want to reduce the price? Now the price I give to the Swedish Navy is 150,000 pounds for a Flying Eagle-class destroyer with torpedoes, and the price for the Ottoman Navy is also the same price. I even had to count as a vassal in the Ottoman Empire, so it wasn't a matter of money.

But we can do it another way, why don't you lend?" Yang Feng said.

"Lending?" Li Hongzhang didn't understand for a while.

"That's right, the ownership of my battleship belongs to Yang's shipyard, and I lease it from the shipyard as the chief soldier of Taiwan, if you want, you can also lease it in the same way, and the crew on it belongs to the American Ambrera company, this company's business scope includes defense guidance, you can also hire from Ambrera, and not only the crew can be hired, even the army soldiers can also be hired, my people in Taiwan belong to this company, our business is allowed by law, Of course, this is just the most ordinary business practice. Yang Feng said.

The latter sentence is the explanation of the U.S. Minister to Japan to the Japanese government, that Ambrera is a private security company registered in Texas, USA, and their actions do not represent the position of the U.S. government in this war, and the U.S. government has no right to prevent the legitimate business practices of a legitimate company.

The Americans will not bother Boss Yang for such a trivial matter, compared to him, the Japanese are a fart, and now the Rockefeller predators are digging hollow ideas to win over Yang Feng to open up the oil cracking technology and gasoline additive technology to them, at this time Yang Feng wants the US Pacific Fleet to help him attack Japan, maybe the US Congress will consider it.

Of course, at present, it is not time to hire ground combatants, this Li Erdevil has not yet considered it, but it is necessary to lease two destroyers and hire sailors with the ship, neither of them likes to drag, and then Yang Feng drafted two contracts on behalf of Yang's shipyard and Ambrera Company respectively, which are nothing more than commissions and combat duties, including loss compensation, Yang Feng had already studied it before coming, and then the two of them signed and determined.

As for the two destroyers, they are naturally the Pit Vipers and Cobras made by Armstrong Shipyard, and this time they are accompanied by them, just stay directly when they leave, in fact, the performance of these two ships is not worse than that of Yang's Shipyard, but Yang Feng thinks they are not beautiful enough.

Signing such a contract, for Li Er, who has admired foreign flattery all his life, there is no psychological burden, and the foreign employees under him have it, and now it is just a matter of replacing sporadic employment with batch employment, to solve this problem, and then the two of them talked very happily, and even went out together with great interest to visit the Nautilus outside, in order to deepen the impression of the Beiyang Naval Division, Yang Feng specially arranged an exercise, which was attacked by two destroyers, and the Beiyang Naval Division produced two of the fastest warships, That is, the two ships Zhiyuan and Jingyuan, and then attack at sea with uncharged training torpedoes.

As a result, in a one-on-one situation, both ships were hit, and by the speed of both sides, the distance, the number of guns and the hit rate of the last naval battle, in this case the two destroyers could rush into the attack distance without even suffering any damage, and only when the two ships of Zhiyuan attacked a destroyer at the same time, it could cause damage to it, but it could neither prevent it from firing torpedoes, nor enough to sink it, this result shocked the jaws, considering that because of the rate of fire of the artillery, The firepower projection of these two warships is stronger than that of the Dingzhen 2nd ship, and the speed is faster, so if you change to Dingzhen, the result will definitely be worse.

"How can this thing be prevented?" Ding Ruchang said dumbfounded.

"There's no way to prevent it, one is to run faster, the second is to strengthen the firepower, and the third is to try to consider the anti-torpedo design when building, but this doesn't make much sense, in fact, the key is still speed and firepower, as long as you can run faster than the torpedo, or you can sink the opponent with a cannonball outside the firing distance.

As for the anti-torpedo design, no matter how good it is, it doesn't make much sense, one torpedo can not be blown up and two can be used, in fact, according to the current warship design, even the Dingyuan can't carry such a torpedo, don't think that the underwater explosion will be the same as the explosion on the water surface, the water pressure impact will amplify the explosion effect, not only can destroy the hull, but even attack the keel, you should know what the damage to the keel of the road means to a ship. Yang Feng said proudly.

"Faster than a torpedo, how is that possible!" Liu Buyun said incredulously.

Yang Feng laughed and snapped his fingers.

The Nautilus, which was carrying them to watch the battle, immediately began to accelerate, and the official hats on the deck, including Li Hongzhang, were directly scraped off, and these guys were so frightened that they hurriedly ran to the cabin, and soon after entering, they saw the pit viper in the distance suddenly fire a torpedo at the Nautilus, but what made their eyes almost stare out was that although the track dragged out by the training mine was getting longer and longer, the distance between the two sides was also getting longer and longer.

"This one will do." Yang Feng said with a smile at this time.

The cargo stayed on Liugong Island for two days, and soon set sail for Ryukyu, when Li Hongzhang proposed to rent another landing ship from him.

"My lord, what do you want this thing for?" Yang Feng asked strangely.

"Brother Yang, Pyongyang has a difficult land transportation, and the shallow water in Zhennampo is inaccessible to large merchant ships, so I want to use your landing ship to transport supplies for them, and then the North Koreans will transport them to Pyongyang in small boats after they get there." Li Hongzhang said.

"Then there is no need to rent it, when you need it, just send me a telegram in advance, anyway, from the Ryukyus here, they will only be a day at eighteen knots." Yang Feng said that his six ships were useful, but they couldn't be rented to him.

In this case, Li Hongzhang has nothing to say.

The Nautilus then sailed away from Weihaiwei, and then turned around and sailed south, because there was no destroyer escort, the cargo simply ran to a high speed of nearly 40 knots, and the trimaran flew like a wild flight on the sea, and as soon as it sailed less than 200 kilometers, his captain, the Englishman Liszt, came to tell him that there was a fleet in the distance.

"Fleet?" Yang Feng was stunned for a moment.

"On course, they're supposed to be here to intercept us." Liszt said that the former captain of a British battleship had a keen sense of this kind of thing.

"Ah, it seems that the Japanese know our whereabouts." Yang Feng couldn't help but smile and said.

Liszt also laughed, a fleet of more than a dozen knots intercepted the Nautilus, which was traveling at forty knots, which was too funny.

"Play with them!" Yang Feng put his arm around Lin Luoke and stood up and said.

It's really Tsuboi Kozo, the Japanese can say that they hate Yang Feng now, but they don't have time to trouble him, when he captured the Ryukyus, someone in the Japanese cabinet asked the combined fleet to kill him and clean him up, but considering that the current strong enemy is now, it really shouldn't consume valuable warships, so Ito Hirobumi forbade the combined fleet to attack, you must know that Yang Feng's fleet strength is not weak, and even if he can win, the loss of the combined fleet will not be small, in that case, there will be no hope for the Beiyang Naval Division, Besides, Ryukyu is not a big deal, and it is occupied by him for the time being, and it is not too late to defeat the Beiyang Naval Division first and then go back to clean him up.

But now that this cargo is actually sailing alone, then this opportunity must not be missed, to deal with a yacht with only small-caliber guns, there is no need for the combined fleet to be dispatched at all, the first guerrilla fleet is enough, so Pingjing Kozo rushed to the route and waited for him according to the information sent back by the traitor in Weihaiwei.

Looking through the binoculars at the three ships Yoshino, Naniwa and Takachiho who were heading towards him with billowing smoke, Yang Feng smiled and pulled Lin Luoke to the gun position of a double three-seven gun, ** These three warships are too simple for the Nautilus.

In the distance, Tsuboi Kozo didn't know that he was going to be unlucky, in fact, now he was stunned by the speed of the Nautilus, although the ship was boasted in the newspapers as forty-five knots, but as an excellent admiral, he resolutely did not believe in this nonsense, his Yoshino is known as the fastest cruiser in the world, the speed is only more than twenty points, the speed of the Nautilus is twice as fast, it is too blowing, but today he has seen it.

But at this time, it was too late, the Nautilus, which was sailing relatively closely, suddenly turned around and cut to Yoshino's right flank, and Tsuboi Kozo hurriedly ordered the same U-turn to intercept, but because the speed difference was too large, it soon became that the bow of the Yoshino was facing the side of the Nautilus, and the two sides were seven kilometers apart, under the guidance of Yang Feng, his little fiancée enthusiastically aimed the muzzle of the double three-seven cannon at Yoshino, who could barely see the outline, and then opened fire suddenly.

This kind of artillery, which had a rate of fire of hundreds of rounds per minute, spilled a storm of shells in an instant, and the number made up for the gunner's shortcomings, and in an instant Tsuboi Kozo saw a fire shining on the deck in front of him.

"Bastard, what kind of cannon is this?" He roared indignantly, knowing that this was already the limit of the range of his 120 Armstrong gun, and of course it was a pure waste of ammunition for him to fire at such a distance.

Of course, Lin Luoke on the other side didn't know this, because of the distance, she couldn't feel the atmosphere of war at all, just like a little girl who got a new toy and excitedly splashed cannonballs into the distance.

"Fire, shoot back!" Tsuboi didn't care about anything else, and roared angrily and gave the order to fire, but at this moment, a series of shells shattered the glass in front of him and smashed into the command room.