The fleet was moving at full speed, and the scene was very shocking. Twelve attack submarines followed behind the flagship Beijing. At this time, on the deck of the No. 001 attack submarine, the captain of the submarine brigade was in the ocean, facing the cool sea breeze, and his mood was particularly high. "Captain, look at this jiashi has found the enemy fleet." The subordinate said excitedly. "Needless to say, it's time for us to show off our skills, damn my hands have been itching for a long time, and I've been suffocated by reconnaissance missions in the past few months."

"That's right, it's really not a taste to see the enemy ship flaunting its might and not being unable to do it. Captain, it's time for us to be born" "Tell you, if you attack in a while, if anyone drops the chain, Lao Tzu will not agree!" "Report, commander order, the battle will start in a while, and you are not allowed to attack without an order!" The flag-whisperers shouted loudly. "Reply, subordinate order." Yu Yang is full of ambition, and he looks like he is determined to win.

The Flag Whisperer waved a small flag to continue to convey the message. "Captain, what does it mean that the naval battle will start for a while and not let us go out." "I don't understand this yet, good steel must be used on the blade, and we must hit the enemy's vital point when we attack, so that we can be taken by surprise and unprepared, and quickly defeat the enemy. Pass on my orders, and if there is no order, whoever dares to attack without authorization will be subject to military law. ”

When the sun showed a smile from the east, the two huge fleets met, and suddenly a piercing alarm sounded in the sky, and the battle alarm was sounded almost simultaneously on both sides. Perhaps last night was too excited, and Commander Baker only entered the dream at midnight. At this time he was sleeping deeply, and suddenly the battle alarm went out, and Baker was awakened. At this time, an adjutant ran in embarrassed, "Your Excellency General." We found a large number of fleets head-on, presumably the main fleet of China. ”

Beck was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly put on his clothes and went to the command cabin. "Report to the general. The huge fleet that appeared on the opposite side has been confirmed to be China's main fleet, with 6 capital warships, including two huge warships, with an estimated displacement of about 8,000 tons, which are China's new warships. Baker hurriedly raised his binoculars to check, and sure enough, a large number of enemy fleets appeared in front of him. Long. Baker put down his binoculars and said, "I see, yesterday we encountered the enemy's decoy fleet, which was specially designed to lure us into the bait. ”

"Thank God. Lucky God is on our side. It seems that there is a problem in the communication between the enemy's fleets, and the enemy's main fleet does not arrive on time to the battlefield, which fully shows that the Chinese navy still lacks experience. Especially the lack of sailing experience. I observed enemy ships, except for two large battleships. The other 4 warships are all around 5000 tons. And we have 10 capital ships, except for the Liberty, which is badly damaged, the other capital ships are intact. ”

Baker returned to normalcy and said happily: "Fighting on the sea, bravery alone will not help, I am confident that I will fight the enemy fleet, and you will show your courage and play the majesty of the sea supremacy." If we inflict heavy damage on the enemy's main fleet in this battle, it will be at least 10 years. The Chinese Navy cannot gallop across the oceans. Baker's bold words were contagious to everyone, and they were united for a while. It seems to be full of fighting spirit. But Baker got a little carried away, not to mention that the Chinese fleet had a secret weapon, and it was at ease. The coalition fleet, although the losses in yesterday's battle were not large, but after all, they were broken.

On the flagship Beijing, a subordinate reported: "Report to the commander, the subordinates have found that the enemy's main battleship has been damaged, and two of the main battleships have been damaged to varying degrees. One of his subordinates was surprised: "Could it be Captain Deng??????。 Dai Hui said: "It seems that the decoy fleet has encountered the enemy fleet, Liliang is so disparity, the decoy fleet must be in a bad situation." Now is not the time to think about them, after all, the decoy fleet consumes the strength of the enemy fleet and is too advantageous for us, order the ships to go into combat readiness. ”

Soon the two sides entered the firing range, and the heavy artillery fire began to roar, and Dai Hui ordered the ship to be expelled, and the frigate to deal with the enemy's gunboat first. Dai Hui observed that several gunboats were hiding behind, so he guessed that the enemy gunboats were too badly damaged to participate in the battle, so he ordered the ships to be destroyed, and the frigates concentrated their fire to ravage the enemy gunboats.

The Philippine detachment of the coalition forces dispatched 40 gunboats. In the battle with the decoy fleet, 4 gunboats were sunk, and 6 gunboats were too badly damaged to participate in the battle, so the number of allied gunboats was reduced to 30. Dai Hui's mixed fleet has 20 frigates and 10 destroyers, and the two sides are equal in medium warships. However, the tonnage of 10 destroyers was larger than that of the enemy gunboats, so the enemy's gunboats were in a difficult situation when the battle was loud.

In less than 10 minutes of the shelling, two enemy gunboats were hit and set on fire, which immediately boosted the morale of the officers and men. The Empress still did not participate in the battle, but commanded in the back, and the Liberty did not participate in the battle, but hid behind. In this way, the enemy is 8 battleships against 6 battleships, and the contrast between the two sides on the battlefield is roughly equal, so they are all extra careful, and their hit rate is not very high. Dai Hui saw that the battleship Cambridge had been severely damaged, so he ordered the artillery to focus on the Sunset.

The front main gun of the Beijing continued to roar, and the fourth round of firing hit the front main gun of the Sunset, only to see the front main gun dumb fire in the explosion, and the protective steel plate of the front main gun was torn apart. The Sunrise hurriedly turned its bow, and the battleship Beijing seized the opportunity to fire three rounds of shells in succession, and the third shell hit the foredeck of the Sunset. I saw that the iron anchor steel cable winch on the foredeck of the Sun Never Sets was blown away, and the wire rope was entangled on the deck.

At this time, a shell hit the Beijing sidespin, and one sidespin gun was destroyed. "Commander, it's time to attack the submarine!" A subordinate is in a hurry. Dai Hui said: "It's not time yet," in fact, Dai Hui had an idea, his mind was not only to defeat the enemy ships, but also to capture the enemy ships to the greatest extent, he completely saw clearly, the enemy fleet broke out a large-scale naval battle with the decoy fleet 100 percent, and paid a certain price. These are enough, so he has to break the will of the enemy at a critical moment. Due to the interference of frigates, it was very difficult for enemy ships to concentrate their artillery fire on our battleships. If they were dealing with frigates, they were hit by battleships, so the hit rate of the main battleships of both sides was not high.

Suddenly, a coalition gunboat was hit by a critical explosion and sank, and Baker was shocked inside. He found that all the gunboats had only the power to parry. Gradually falling into the downwind. In particular, the opponent's medium-sized warships are very effective against their own gunboats, and cause extensive damage to the gunboats. Soon one gunboat sank, two gunboats. 4 gunboats withdrew from the battle. Baker couldn't keep a gentleman's demeanor anymore. The Empress was then ordered to go forward to participate in the battle, and the Liberty was ordered to use its sidespin guns to support the gunboats.

The flagship Empress, the USS Liberty, entered the battle and reversed the decline of the coalition warships. Zheng Haitao commanded the Harbin and aimed at the Battle. Dai Hui, Zheng Haitao, and Wen Biao discussed privately beforehand, that is, in a naval battle. Deal with the British battleships with all your might. The reason is that the British Navy has the strongest combat effectiveness and the strongest will to resist. After all, the British Navy is the hegemon of the seas, and this is by no means in vain. The British Empire's greatest pride is its navy.

If you want to break the enemy's will and capture the enemy warship, you must defeat the arrogance of the British, so Zheng Haitao aimed at the battle. The British Battleship did not show weakness either. also aimed at the Harbin. After a few rounds of counter-shooting. Each side was hit by one bullet. However, the Harbin was a 305-mm shell and the Combat was a 250-mm shell, and one shell from each side turned out to be different, a hole was blown open in the front deck of the Harbin, and the front main gun of the Combat was almost blown away.

The Battleship quickly retreated and then turned around, and Zheng Haitao took aim at the America. The USS America was very cunning and evaded shelling several times. However, a destroyer suddenly took aim at the USS America. A cannonball hit the chimney, only to see the chimney burst. Smoke erupted along the crack.

Wen Biao commanded the battleship Fuzhou to be depressed, and the enemy's Hurricane and Philadelphia invariably aimed at the Fuzhou.

The USS Xinsheng, USS Awakening, and USS Returnback were enemy ships captured in the Battle of Taiwan, and they fought fiercely at the USS Los Angeles and French and Portuguese warships. In a situation where the opponent is evenly matched, it is impossible to kill the opponent with one move, so the possibility of the battleship sinking is very small. Naval battles are fought in the event of shelling by both sides, and usually exit the battle after heavy damage. The battle lasted until noon, the enemy gunboats, two were sunk, and 10 withdrew from the battle. The Chinese fleet withdrew from the battle with two destroyers and four frigates with serious damage.

The battle situation entered a state of scorching, and the battleship Beijing commanded by Dai Hui had already hit several shells, although it did not hurt the muscles and bones, but this move undoubtedly boosted the morale of the enemy fleet. The flagship Empress also aimed its guns at the Peking. Dai Hui thought that the time was almost up, and decisively ordered the attack submarine to attack, the primary goal was to sink the enemy's flagship Empress, the secondary target was the British ship Sunset, and the second target was the British ship Battle, and the second target was the British ship Battle, the Tempest. After the attack submarine sortie, Dai Hui ordered four destroyers and three frigates to leave the battlefield and make a detour back to the north side of the enemy fleet to prevent the enemy fleet from escaping to the eastern part of the Philippines.

After receiving the order, the captain of the attack submarine group immediately issued an order to the attack submarines in the language of flags, and every three attack submarines were combat groups to launch the first attack on the enemy's flagship Empress. Team 1 failed to attack, and Group 2 was substituted. And so on until the Empress is sunk. After the order was issued, Yu Haiyang commanded the attack submarine No. 010 to dive first and sneak into the sea area where the two sides were fighting. About half an hour later, Yu Haiyang led 12 of your attack submarines into the waters where the enemy fleet was located.

The three attack submarines of the first group, with periscopes peeking out of the sea, were engaged in a fierce battle between the two sides, and no one paid attention to the small periscopes that appeared in the sea. The captain of one of the submarines observed through the periscope and constantly gave instructions from his mouth. "10 degrees to the left, 3 forward, 1500 meters." The other two attack submarines were also adjusting their angles and moving at full speed, and the three submarines lined up in a column, with the clear purpose of sending the torpedoes to the same position and then achieving the goal of sinking the enemy ship.

The commander of the attack submarine in front constantly gave instructions: "Very good, the target is correct, the distance of 8 hundred meters torpedo launch into preparation, 5 hundred meters, 4 hundred meters, torpedo launch!" "With two bursts of air, the torpedo soldiers reported that the incident had been successful." It's good, the torpedo surfaced to face the target, ordered the submarine to dive and evacuate! "Quickly dived and evacuated after completing the launch mission, making way for the launch position of the second attack submarine. As a command ship in the ocean, he only carried out attack missions when necessary, so he used a periscope in the rear to observe the attack. (To be continued......)

PS: It can judge the success of the battle at the first time and measure the talent of the imperial generals.