2080 No-Sail Zone

The British plan was like this, more than 30 warships of the British home fleet that had sailed into the Baltic Sea arrived in Narva and attacked the Chinese army attacking Narva with the guns on the battleships!

The more than 30 British battleships were all battleships in the era of big ships and huge guns, among which there were 12 dreadnoughts, equipped with 14-inch guns, and the remaining 18 battleships were cruisers or destroyers, with guns of more than 200 mm and some more than 100 mm.

The amount of gunpowder delivered by these thirty battleships is equivalent to thousands of artillery pieces of the army, and the amount of gunpowder delivered by these thirty battleships to the battlefield is equivalent to airdropping dozens of artillery divisions to the German Fifth Heavy Division! That's why the German emperor rejected Schlieffen's plan to stop the war, and Moltke and Adenauer were relieved.

The British fleet was stationed in the port of Helsinki at this time, and they immediately left the port of Helsinki after receiving the order to attack, and approached Narva, which was on the seashore, and the large-caliber heavy artillery and medium-caliber artillery could completely hit the Chinese army in Narva, while the Chinese army did not have a navy in the Baltic Sea.

The British home fleet is a pivotal maritime force, of course Lin Yuan will not ignore them, the agents of the General Intelligence Directorate have long bought a house in Helsinki that can see the port, and they look at the warships in the port all day long, so as soon as the warships leave the port, the agents sent out the news.

Lin Yuan learned that the British home fleet rushed to Narva, his heart trembled, if these dreadnoughts were fighting his fleet at sea, he was not afraid at all, because these dreadnoughts were simply targets in front of missiles, but if these dreadnoughts bombarded their own land with heavy artillery, they would inevitably bring great losses to their own army!

Lin Yuan sorted out his forces in St. Petersburg that could attack the British fleet, the air force is definitely a killer weapon to win with one blow, although the J-25 does not carry anti-ship missiles, but the bombardment is enough for the British fleet, especially the armor-piercing blasting shells equipped by the bombardment.

Each of these armor-piercing blasting shells weighed 1,000 kilograms, with an explosive warhead in front to penetrate the target's protective shell, and a 300-kilogram black sorkin explosive charge in the back.

These British warships were all old warships, and the number of anti-aircraft guns was very small, and they were completely unable to resist the bombing of the bombing by the bombardment of the British air force on their own, and the British air base was far away from home, and the fighters were unable to escort the warships.

Although Lin Yuan's air force has a huge advantage over British warships, he can't directly bomb British warships, after all, China and Britain have not started a full-scale war, and Lin Yuan doesn't want to start a full-scale war now, he still wants to wait for another half a year or so, and wait for Russia to resume again.

However, the British battleships did not give Lin Yuan time, they were heading towards Narva, and in two hours the shells would fall on the heads of the Chinese army, Lin Yuan thought to himself that he only had two hours to prepare.

Lin Yuan picked up the phone, first ordered the bomber unit at the St. Petersburg Air Base to complete preparations for attacking the British battleship, and then dialed the phone number of the French Embassy, found the French Ambassador, and sent a telegram of inquiry to the British.

Britain quickly replied, and the telegram said: "We, the British Imperial Fleet, are conducting exercises in the Gulf of Finland, not targeting other countries, and we ask China not to overreact." ”

Lin Yuan scolded in his heart when he saw the telegram, what a cunning British, your warships are shrouded in artillery fire at the sight of our army, and they even say that they are not aimed at other countries!

Lin Yuan was pacing in the room, and suddenly an ingenious idea came into his mind, he picked up the phone and said, "Pick me up Meng Tingkai, the commander of the Third Air Force Division." ”

When the phone was not connected, Lin Yuan asked directly, "How are you preparing?" ”

Meng Tingkai replied: "Report to Lin Shuai, we are all ready, the reconnaissance aircraft unit has discovered the location of the British battleship, and we can take off at any time to bomb the British battleship." ”

Lin Yuan asked, "Do you have any information on British warships there?" Including the range of naval guns, you have all these things, right? ”

Meng Tingkai said: "The intelligence department has these things. ”

Lin Yuan said: "Very good, you immediately count and sort out the range of the naval guns, and then make a safe zone for the army according to this range, do you understand what I mean?" ”

Meng Tingkai said: "The safe zone is so that the enemy's naval guns can't hit it? Is that right? ”

Lin Yuan said: "That's right, that's what it means, the safe zone of our army is the no-sail zone for British warships, and you must not let British warships enter the no-sail zone." You announced that you are going to conduct bombing exercises in the no-sail zone, prohibiting any ships from navigation, understand? ”

Meng Tingkai replied loudly: "My subordinates understand! ”

Lin Yuan suddenly aggravated his tone and said, "I only give you half an hour to complete this order, and after half an hour, if I don't receive the 'No Navigation Notice' issued by you, you can go to Heilongjiang Farm to feed the pigs." ”

Meng Tingkai hurriedly said: "My subordinates understand! ”

It took only 10 minutes for the intelligence staff officers to draw up a no-sail zone according to the range of the British naval guns, and then issued a notice to the whole world that the Third Division of the Chinese Air Force would conduct an air-to-sea bombing exercise in the waters of the Gulf of Finland between 56 and 59 degrees north latitude and 25 to 28 degrees west longitude at 13 o'clock on 3 April 1899, St. Petersburg time.

The 3rd Air Division switched the military radio to civilian frequencies and broadcast them once a minute, which could not be received by the British Navy's home fleet.

The commander of the British Navy's home fleet was also a famous British naval commander in the Lin Yuan era - John ? Abbasnot? Fisher, who is known as one of the most outstanding reformers in the history of the British Royal Navy, actively promoted many naval technological reforms, such as replacing coal with oil, during the Lin Yuan era, to maintain the British Navy's advantage for decades to come.

John? Abbasnod? Fisher was also one of the earliest advocates of missiles, and he once spoke out on many occasions to replace naval guns with missiles, but under Lin Yuan's misdirection, the doctrine of big ships and giant artillery was very loud in the whole world, and no one paid attention to Fisher's cries.

After the British Far East Fleet was completely annihilated by the Chinese fleet, the doctrine of missiles replaced the doctrine of large ships and huge guns, and some people in Britain came forward to advocate the mothballing of battleships and cruisers that had already been built, and the transfer of this large amount of expenditure to the Naval Research Institute for the development of missiles.