As the officer on the destroyer looked into the distance with a telescope, he immediately spotted a ship flying the Japanese Navy's Rising Sun flag. And this ship is obviously a Japanese destroyer, and they obviously don't know why they got here now.

"Where is this?" The captain asked.

And immediately a staff officer replied: "This is already approaching Shandong, I'm afraid that this time I have encountered a Japanese patrol warship." The navy of the Eight-Nation Alliance, which was the main invasion of our China, was mainly on the Japanese side and the American side. And the British and French also came in the name of merchant ships, and did not send warships, which is also the reason why the British and French were able to come. ”

This time, the British and French did not send warships over, this is because the Taiwan side controls the Strait of Malacca, so the main fleet of the British and French did not come. In addition, the British and French did not intend to expand the scale of this war, their goal was only to protect their own interests, not to expand the war and engage in a full-scale decisive battle with Taiwan, so they did not choose to send an absolutely large number of warships. In fact, the armies of their countries also came by merchant ships, and the armies of these countries came to the Far East in batches by merchant ships, so they were able to get through.

The combined fleet of the Japanese and the navy of the Americans do not have to pass through the Strait of Malacca, which is controlled by Taiwan, so they can send warships over without any scruples, so the main enemies of the navy this time are also the Japanese and the Americans, and their navy is still the biggest opponent.

"The Japanese navy, let's catch up!" The captain said immediately.

And the Japanese captain obviously also discovered the Chinese destroyer in the distance.

"Report to the captain that the navy of the people of China was discovered, which is a destroyer. It seems that they are all going to patrol as well. What are we going to do? "The Japanese Navy asked their captain.

The Japanese captain immediately said: "We should avoid fighting them, because we are asked not to provoke the navy of the Chinese people." The navy of the Chinese people is much stronger than ours, and we should not provoke them lightly. We make a U-turn. ”

It was clear that this Japanese captain clearly did not want to provoke the Taiwanese Navy, so he chose to make a U-turn. However, some things did not go as smoothly as they imagined. Because this is a war, it is clear that the direction of the war is not left to anyone's whims. If you don't want to fight someone else, then can't someone chase you and beat you?

"Captain, the Japanese destroyer has been transferred away!" The lookout of the Taiwanese destroyer shouted.

However, the captain of the Taiwan destroyer obviously did not intend to go home, but said: "Chase me, chase them fiercely, and this time we will take the initiative to clean them up." It's hard to have a battle achievement, so how can we just give up? ”

"Captain, are we going to fight?" The lookout asked.

The captain of the Taiwanese destroyer replied: "That's right. The time has come to test everyone this time, and finally an enemy has been sent to the door, so of course we can't let it go. Anyway, we are all about to start fighting now, and our army brothers have already started fighting, so our navy will not be able to show weakness. Otherwise, our army brothers eat and drink spicy food, and we, the navy, are here to watch, so what is it? So, we catch up. And hit hard! ”

"Yes!"

Taiwanese destroyers began to speed up the operation of the boilers, and increased the power of the boilers. From the usual cruise mode to combat mode, this power gap is not a little bit and a half. They immediately began to chase after the Japanese warship in the distance, and then all the soldiers on the destroyer began to take their positions and prepare for battle.

However, the Japanese side was also very angry, and the Japanese captain immediately shouted: "How can the people of China be like this." We haven't taken the initiative to trouble them, but they dare to chase after us, do they want to fight us? We didn't take the initiative to fight them, and they actually took the initiative to fight us, which is really unreasonable. ”

The Japanese captain was clearly very angry. He was really angry in his heart, because in his mind, he still maintained the same way as before. In the past, it was the Japanese who bullied the Chinese, whether in the Sino-Japanese War or during the Battle of the Navy in the Yellow Sea, it was the Japanese who bullied the Chinese. And after the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese were masters in China, and no one dared to offend them. In the eyes of the Japanese, only they have the right to take the initiative to provoke war against the Chinese, and they do not have the right to wage war against the Chinese.

This is the usual bandit logic, they think they are better than the Chinese, even if they lose to Taiwan, that is true. Because Taiwan's navy has never really fought a major war with Japan, China's navy has not really fought a desperate battle with Japan. Therefore, the Japanese Navy does not recognize the Chinese Navy as a powerful navy, they believe that the Chinese Navy is built on money and has no strength to speak of. Coupled with their pride in the Chinese in the past, they also think that the Chinese are naturally inferior, and they are already a favor to them if they do not fight the Chinese, but Taiwan's destroyers actually dare to take the initiative to come and pursue, which makes him very unbalanced in his heart. After a person has been a robber for many years, he naturally has a lot of so-called robber logic, and they can't measure things with the thinking logic of normal people.

"Turn around, we are going to fight these people, my Japanese Navy can't just be chased by the people of China!" The Japanese captain shouted.

"Captain, we said above, try not to irritate the navy of the Zhina!" The staff officer advised.

I have to say that the situation of the Japanese bullying the weak and fearing the hard has also been brought into full play. They dared to bully the weak government of the Manchus, so they would not be afraid of anything at all in the face of the Manchus. However, in the face of Taiwan, they naturally put their tails between their legs and did not dare to talk about war easily. This is also the so-called bullying of the weak and afraid of the hard, and they are afraid of the strength of the Taiwanese. Even if the quality of the high-ranking generals of the Taiwan Navy does not seem to be very good, the number of warships in the Navy has an absolute advantage, and the Japanese do not want to fight a decisive battle with the Taiwan Navy at sea. Even if the Japanese exchange two for one, it will be the Japanese who will be completely wiped out in the end. The battleships owned by the Japanese were only seven or eight battleships, and if they really fought a war of attrition, they would probably not be opponents!

However, the Japanese captain was obviously not willing to accept this result, and he immediately shouted: "Give me back, this time I will let the navy of the Shina people taste the strength of our navy of the Great Japanese Empire." Although their army is very powerful, I just want to tell them that our navy is not an army, and a century-old navy is not something to talk about casually. Their naval base is so low that we are not afraid of them at all. Give me a U-turn! ”

As a bridge staff officer, he could not disobey the orders of the commander, so he could only follow the destroyer back and prepare for battle. However, in this battle, whether they are a blessing or a curse, I don't know what will happen. However, the Japanese are very good at gambling, and they can even gamble with their national fortunes. From the First Sino-Japanese War, they were also a big gamble, and the Russo-Japanese War was a big gamble, so they were also gambling again and again. If the Japanese destroyer captain can defeat the Taiwanese destroyer this time, then maybe they will be able to get a good future. But if they lose, then they will be completely defeated, and I am afraid they will become scapegoats.

So, this time you can only win, not lose!

"Prepare to fire!" The captain of the Taiwanese destroyer and the captain of the Japanese destroyer said together.

Both destroyers have also officially begun to "meet in a narrow way" and are ready for battle. And they are all destroyers, their destroyers only have one gun, so they don't have to snatch the "D" prefix like a battleship, their gun turrets can also be rotated at any time, as long as they are not facing away from each other, they can also open fire, so they fight directly face to face. The destroyers of this era are still very primitive. Each destroyer had only one gun with a caliber of no more than a hundred mm, and the rest were torpedoes. So they're actually fighting like cowboy duels now, and they don't have too many tactics and other methods to pay attention to.

"Distance, about 3,100 meters, wind speed XXX, easterly ......"

The rangefinder and the wind observer also immediately began to calculate the wind speed and direction, and combined the distance with high-speed gunners, and then asked them to pay attention to the firing of the gun. This era is also such a cheat, if it is the future generations, it is completely possible to let radar and computers help calculate, and there is no need for such manual calculations. Such manual calculations are not only inefficient, slow, but also inaccurate. But this era is like this, everything is done manually by humans, and there are not too many intelligent devices. If it is a later generation, after the direct radar and computer calculations are completed, the missile will be launched immediately, and from the discovery of the target to the launch of the missile, it will only be within ten or twenty seconds, so how trouble-free?

But not now, everything has to be done manually. Therefore, this means that the truth of the century-old navy, without years of experience accumulation, there will not be so many reserves and enough excellent quality in terms of talents. In this era, naval operations all depend on experience!

"Boom!" "Boom!"

The destroyers of Taiwan and Japan also began to fire at each other. (To be continued.) )