Yang Feng circled out of the Pilbara iron ore area, when I thought of every iron ore negotiation in the future, our great motherland had to wash its own butt, and then wait for Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton to come to the door, this goods can't help but be fascinated by this mine.

At this time, he wants to buy this place, in the eyes of the Prime Minister of Western Australia, it is simply giving money to the people of Western Australia, the desolation of that place is no less than that of Kalgoorlie, you must know that now the entire Western Australian free colony, the population is only a hundred thousand, and 80% of it is concentrated around Swan Lake, the remaining two million square kilometers of land, there are only tens of thousands of people, this desolation can be imagined.

In this case, Yang Feng has no need to be polite, it is still the same price as Kalgoorlie, one pound per square mile, and then he took a check for 200,000 pounds like buying vegetables in the vegetable market, and he directly bought the ownership of the land, like what prospecting rights, mining rights, how can there be a direct purchase of pleasure, and since then the most valuable land in Western Australia has become Yang Feng's private property.

Of course, the issue of prospecting and development still needs to wait for some time, and now Boss Yang is waiting with great anticipation for the news from distant China, and he can say that he will not be able to sleep and eat if he does not go to the land of Japan to plunder.

On the same day that Yang Feng bought the Pilbara mine, the Yellow Sea, the sea south of Harvest Island.

Lin Guoxiang was on his unprotected cruiser Guangyi, squatting in the bow of the ship with O'Connor, the captain of the Shanghai Bofors Foreign Company, with great interest, studying the steam gas torpedoes that had just been installed on his ship, and the two torpedoes that were about to catch up with the cost of his battleship had just been installed a few hours ago, and even O'Connor himself did not know why Boss Yang had asked him in a telegram that he must load these two torpedoes onto the Guangyi before six o'clock this morning.

This inexplicable task, but he tossed him a lot, hard work to hire a ship from Shanghai to Weihai, only to know here that Guangyi had gone north with the Jiyuan to carry out the escort mission, which is also fortunate to be him, if others came to inquire about Ding Ruchang, he would definitely not care, after learning that it was the task personally explained by Boss Yang, Ding Ruchang specially sent the fastest Fulong torpedo boat to send him to Ashan, and before Guangyi set sail, the two torpedoes were loaded on the ship together with the twin launch tubes.

You say that this torpedo can really hit more than two times? Lin Guoxiang asked curiously, although Yang Feng had said it before, but he still felt unbelievable, you must know that the current torpedo, regardless of whether it is a white head or a black head, the range is only a few hundred meters, and it is difficult to exceed even a thousand meters, let alone more than four thousand meters, which is simply incredible.

"Your Excellency, this torpedo is the latest product of Bofors, and even the British and German navies have purchased it in large quantities, and the price is as high as 10,000 pounds each, please don't compare it with those cheap low-grade goods." Anderson, an engineer from Bofors who had been escorting the torpedoes from Sweden, said with a proud face in English that was not as proficient as Lin Guoxiang, and that in his opinion any suspicion of this torpedo was a blasphemy against it.

Lin Guoxiang smiled, and before he could speak, he heard the observer on the mast shouting: "My lord, three pillars of smoke have been found in the south!"

Everyone on board suddenly became nervous, China and Japan are now on the verge of war, and if it is a Japanese warship, it will be troublesome.

At the same time, the Jiyuan in front also found a pillar of smoke in the distance, and then used the flag to inform Guangyi to prepare for battle, including the Fulong, which completed the task of transporting torpedoes and returned to the sea, and the three warships immediately got busy, cleaning the gun chambers, checking the ammunition, and watering the wooden deck, and all kinds of pre-war preparations began to be carried out in an orderly manner.

Soon three large warships appeared in the distance.

"You're in trouble, Yoshino, Naniwa, Akitsuzu, you add up to not even a fraction of their total tonnage, if you really want to fight, you will be wiped out." O'Connor held up his binoculars and looked at the three Japanese warships approaching in a column, and said somewhat gloatingly.

"O'Connor, we will be unlucky if they are all wiped out, if we really fight later, we must help them, the draft of these three warships seems to be five meters, and it should be very appropriate to set it at a depth of two meters." Anderson said hurriedly, crouching there and starting to depth the two torpedoes.

O'Connor reacted.

"Damn, I don't want to die here for this inexplicable mission." The pampered senior in Shanghai muttered to himself, and then helplessly squatted on the deck to help Anderson.

Lin Guoxiang also held the binoculars at this time, staring at the distance nervously, the two newly refitted domestic 120 rapid-fire guns in the bow of his ship, the muzzles were pointing at the three Japanese warships, the Fulong torpedo boat was quietly hidden behind him, this torpedo boat that can run more than 20 knots at the fastest because of the aging equipment, coupled with the quality of coal, can run 18 knots has already burned high incense, it has no other use except taking advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness and desperate sneak attack.

However, just when the two ships were nervously preparing for war and preparing to meet the enemy, the Yoshino three ships, which could already see clearly with binoculars, suddenly turned around and sailed eastward.

"Not necessarily, the sea is too shallow for them to maneuver." Anderson looked at the Japanese ship in the distance, frowned and said, it is obvious that Lin Guoxiang has the same opinion as him, the Guangyi did not dare to relax at all, and continued to sail south under the leadership of the Jiyuan in the distance, and it didn't take long for the observer to exclaim: "The Japanese ship turned around."

The Yoshino tribune, which was originally heading east, suddenly turned around and then accelerated, and soon Yoshino was the leader, with the wave speed in the middle, and Akitsuzu was in front of Jiyuan with the side side spread out opposite each other at the back and stern.

"Prepare for battle!" Lin Guoxiang subconsciously roared, and as soon as the words fell, he saw the fire shining on the Yoshino, and the whistling of large-caliber shells across the sky, and the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War officially kicked off.

"Rush up and get closer to within three thousand meters!" Anderson roared, Lin Guoxiang was stunned, but then understood, Guangyi, who was originally behind Jiyuan, immediately accelerated forward, and rushed straight to the Qiujinzhou in the distance, at this time, the main gun in front of Jiyuan suddenly roared, and now it was facing the wave speed in front of it, and the wave speed that had not had time to fire the cannon was immediately shot, but unfortunately there was no explosion of the shell, and the single-barreled 210 mm front main gun of the Jiyuan shot a solid armor-piercing projectile.

Immediately after that, the Japanese shells fell on the Jiyuan, and in the loud explosion, yellow smoke and fire rose on the bow of the ship.

"Damn, it's picric!" Anderson exclaimed.

"Why don't you fight yet?" Now the distance between the two sides is already three thousand meters, Lin Guoxiang couldn't wait to shout in the cockpit, it is no secret that the Japanese artillery shells use picric acid in the Beiyang Naval Division, including the Beiyang Naval Division itself has a large number of picric acid shells presented by Yang Feng, the power of this kind of artillery shells when it is real, so that the entire naval division is dumbfounded, but there is no one on the Guangyi, even the 152 mm rapid-fire tail gun replaced by the Jiyuan, this time it is also nitrocellulose shells, Ding Ruchang regarded these shells as treasures, and he did not take them out at all until he was forced to do so, especially the 600 305 shells that had just arrived, kept the warehouse key by himself.

"I'm just a mechanical engineer, not a torpedo launcher, and the firing procedure for this thing is complicated, and I need to calculate the angle." Anderson roared without looking back, at this time the Akitsu Chau had already discovered their intentions, and after Nanisu joined the fire on Jiyuan, it immediately aimed at Guangyi.

Dense shells exploded around Guangyi, and one even hit the amidships, the poor iron-ribbed wooden ship was blown to pieces, more than a dozen sailors were shattered in the firelight, and what was even more terrifying was that the fire ignited quickly, it was obvious that this thing was fundamentally different from **, and wetting the deck could not prevent the spread of burning.

Similar to Guangyi, the Jiyuan was also scarred under the intensive artillery bombardment, and the fire was burning in the bow of the ship, although its main guns also posed a big threat to the Japanese warship, but even if the black fire powder exploded, it was difficult to really cause damage to the enemy, not to mention that the rate of fire of the old guns was so helpless in front of the Japanese shells that rained down, and because the bow was against the enemy, the latest 152 rapid-fire gun in the tail had no effect at all.

"If we don't fight again, we'll be finished." Lin Guoxiang looked at the raging fire behind him, and shouted angrily, as soon as he finished saying this, a shell grazed the top of his head, and then he didn't know what he hit in mid-air, and it actually exploded in the air, and the shrapnel falling from the sky hit the ship in a mess, and even O'Connor screamed and covered his arms and drilled behind the front main gun.

"Alright, launch!" After Anderson finished speaking, he pulled down the trigger wrench, and the high-pressure air in the gas tank instantly poured into the launch tube, and then he heard a tom, and the torpedo weighing one ton was immediately blown out of it, and plunged headlong into the sea, and then an obvious white track line quickly extended towards Akitsu Island.

Everyone stared intently at this track, even Lin Guoxiang ran out of the cockpit, watching it crash into Qiujin Prefecture in the distance one by one, it was obvious that although the sea was full of smoke, the sailors on the Qiujin Prefecture still discovered the abnormality of the sea surface, and in a chaotic commotion, while turning to dodge, all the artillery, including those Habekaith rotary tube guns with a very high rate of fire, were aimed at the sea at the same time, and the dense shells hit the torpedo as if it was boiling, However, the torpedo was not disturbed by the impact, and still maintained a steady course and approached the target at a rapid speed.