Outside the Linga Islands. 【 I want: super fast update 】

The deck of the Sihai was busy, as the first ship of the second batch of four Jinghai class, because it was launched two years later than the first four brothers, so there was a lot of progress in performance, especially when it was launched, there was a large open space left between the two chimneys, and everyone thought that the fifth turret would be installed, but they didn't expect that this empty space would be three years.

It wasn't until eight months ago that a monster with two wings arrived and placed in a vacant spot, and everyone understood why it had been here for a few years.

With the arrival of this two-winged water reconnaissance plane, the Navy has once again added a sharp weapon, especially the ability of the aircraft to detect and direct artillery strikes during the exercise, which makes the destroyer captains wish to have such a plane on their own ship.

Jiang Feng is the third batch of pilots who graduated from the already famous Air Force Flight Academy, but he is indeed a member of the Navy, he used to be an observer affiliated with the Navy Airship Unit, and it happened that he was recruiting people to train flights, and he thought it was to train airship officers, but he didn't expect to be stuffed to the Northeast and become a naval pilot.

The yearning for the sky, not only did not make him regret it, but he was so excited that he died, and it was not until the first solo flight that it became clear how different an airplane was from an airship, only the airplane was truly reversed.

It has been eight months since he returned to the fleet with the plane, and in eight months, he, like the first forty-nine companions, has become a star in the navy.

Dressed in a standard jacket-style flight suit, with ear protectors and a helmet with wide windbreakers on his forehead, he looked rather strange, and although he had flown many times, he was still a little excited when he touched the wooden wings, as if he had seen an airplane for the first time, and it seemed that he could never get enough of it.

Today is different, because after the eight-month run-in period, after everyone has seen the role of the aircraft, he will usher in his first real combat mission.

"The report is all checked and ready to take off." After saluting Jiang Feng, the ground attendant handed Jiang Feng a list of all the inspection contents that had been recorded.

Jiang Feng nodded, but did not immediately take the pen and sign, but checked his beloved partners one by one again, from the flap to the tightrope between the wings, from the canvas on the wings, to the action levers that control the tail and wings, everything was extremely serious. The ground crew officer did not feel resentful because of Jiang Feng's distrust, in fact, anyone who graduated from the flight academy knows how important the pre-mission inspection is, because this is a lesson in exchange for dozens of blood, according to the pilot's oral statement through the radio at the time of the accident, to the post-inspection, more than half of the accidents in the training over the years were caused by negligence.

What's more, unlike the Falcons of the Air Force, although the structure of the Navy "Hummingbird" biplane in front of us is roughly the same, two similar rowing boats are installed under the fixed landing gear for the first time, and two pontoons with pointed bellies like the bottom of the boat, which allow the aircraft to take off and land on the sea.

However, because of the high friction of take-off and landing on the sea, the engine is more powerful than the Air Force's Falcon, which is why the first batch of equipment has been delayed until eight months ago.

Jiang Feng carefully checked all the task items, signed his name on the paper, stepped into his war eagle, and sat in the small cockpit.

The last time I went back to Liaodong, I heard that the Air Force had a bold guy, driving a plane to chase and kill the enemy, so that their pilots were envious, so that now the Air Force pilots have to bring a few grenades trapped together, but the Navy does not allow it, because the goals are different, the Navy pilots are facing steel warships, and the small ones are also hundreds of tons, unless there are hundreds of kilograms of bombs in the Air Force, otherwise don't want to gnaw those guys at all, so instead of carrying useless grenades, it is better to add a little more aviation gasoline to the weight, After all, the fuel consumption for take-off on the sea surface is several times higher than on land. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

On the rear bridge, the two flags of the signal corps were staggered, and several ground crew officers immediately hung the hook of the crane on the back of the wing, and one of them was hung on it and was slowly lowered to the sea with the plane, and when the plane came to a standstill, the one who accompanied it immediately took off the hook and returned to the deck with the boom.

When the signal flag turned green, Jiang Feng immediately twisted the ignition torsion, which was specially developed so that the navy could start the engine without relying on the ground to rotate the propeller on the sea surface, and used the principle of empty bomb to implement automatic ignition.

There was only a bang, like a gunshot, and the engine of the hummingbird's head immediately emitted a puff of black smoke, and the two-bladed wooden propeller also rotated rapidly, and finally turned into a shadow.

As the engine started, the hummingbird seemed to be called and began to drive forward slowly, and Jiang Feng immediately put on the windproof goggles and began to adjust the throttle.

A large amount of special aviation gasoline poured into the engine, causing a lot of black smoke to rise from the exhaust pipe, in this choking smell, the hummingbird became more and more, the pontoon under the landing gear brought two water marks and constantly jumped on the sea surface, when sliding out of the five hundred meters, the hummingbird's head finally slowly lifted up, so that everyone on the deck to watch the takeoff breathed a sigh of relief.

When the river breeze took off, another companion also flew into the sky next to the Anhai, and the two hummingbirds, like two soaring swifts, flew around the fleet and flew towards the Strait of Malacca in the distance.

As one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, Jiang Feng had just arrived in the sky with a hummingbird when he spotted a German fleet that was entering the South and Central Seas, but these people obviously didn't know that there were two big guys overhead, and they still drove forward unhurriedly.

Like the Army's falcons, the big disadvantage of the hummingbird is still that it lacks range, so it can't go deep into the strait and can only hover at the entrance, lest it can't go back and have to make a forced landing.

Just as Jiang Feng was checking the remaining oil, the partner in the corner of his eye suddenly raised his wings, looked up, and saw that he was constantly gesturing downward.

Although the Hummingbird has a radio that can directly communicate with the fleet, there is no communication station between the aircraft, and it is said that a shortwave radio station designed for air force communication during flight is being tested.

Seeing his partner's gesture, Jiang Feng hurriedly looked down, only to see two cruisers of about 3,000 tons suddenly appear in the strait.

"Enemies?"

Jiang Feng was not sure, after all, it was too high, although he had seen a lot of photos of Russian ** ships before, but he couldn't be sure for a while, so he immediately made a gesture to his partner and rushed down with a bunch of joysticks.

The sailors on the deck were probably focused on the mouth of the waterway, so they didn't notice the hummingbirds coming from the side, and when the river breeze descended to about 500 meters, they immediately leveled the plane and flew in the opposite direction of the other party.

Five hundred meters high, enough to attract anyone's attention The sailors on the deck immediately began to point, but before they could figure out what it was, the sharp-eyed Jiang Feng had already seen the Andrei flag flying behind the warship.

Russian ** ship!

After confirming the target, Jiang Feng pulled up the nose of the plane violently, turned on the radio and began to report: "Bird's Nest, Bird's Nest, this is Hummingbird No. 4." ”

"Hummingbird Four, this is the Bird's Nest."

"Confirm the northwest entrance, two protective cruisers, speed B knots, about a sea of knives, approaching." Jiang Feng repeated it twice in one breath, after getting the news that he was asked to continue to investigate Lou. He formed a formation with his comrades and began to circle over the Russian ship.

The Azov and Aurora were still studying the two huge "eagles" in the sky, and they did not realize that death was approaching, and when half an hour later, the two ships had just drilled out of the large dark clouds on the edge of the waterway and the fourteen battleships lined up, only the two captains were scared half to death.

"Fire!"

After Le Fei gave the order to fire, the eight Jinghai-class ships only fired a few shots in a lazy and symbolic manner, and all the tasks were handed over to the three Polaris battleships and the three Vladivostok-class heavy cruisers, because everyone knew that if the eight Jinghai ships opened fire with all their might, it was estimated that the telegram would be sunk before the telegram was finished.

The huge fire and the column of water that fell on them and rose into the sky made the two Russian cruisers frightened, especially when they saw that there were eight other warships in the distance that were exactly the same as the two warships that tortured him half-dead a month ago, they even forgot to fight back, and ran back desperately.

Twelve fifteen.

The Azov was the first to send a telegram and was intercepted at the mouth of the Strait of Malacca by fourteen enemy capital ships, six of which had guns of at least eight inches (203 mm) in caliber.

A minute later, the Aurora also sent a telegram that it was retreating after being shelled by more than a dozen enemy capital ships.

Almost at the same time that the Aphra sent a telegram, the Jinghai reported that it had intercepted the electromagnetic signal of the Russian ship, and at the same time, Lefei ordered eight light cruisers to join the artillery battle.

In an instant, the eight Jinghai-class ships, which had already itched their hands, opened their firepower in full force, and under the guidance of the two hummingbirds in the sky, the Gumen firing range reached more than 20,000 meters, and the main guns with a speed of six rounds per minute roared together, and that kind of power was not even much worse than the fire of the capital ships.

After 15,000 nautical miles of sailing, almost half of the world was spared, and both the Azov and the Aurora had long lost the important speed of their cruisers, even if the distance between them and the other side was more than 15,000 meters, but after the eight Jinghai-class ships fired at the same time, it was almost as if they were thrown into a rain of bullets.

The first to suffer was the Aurora, the famous ship that fired the first shot of the grass in later generations, and was hit by at least twenty 152mm armor-piercing shells in just five minutes, plus the trajectory of the shells became steep at this distance, almost all of them attacked several fragile horizontal decks, and after the shells penetrated the unprotected main deck, they once again penetrated the thin dome armor and hit the protected vital point.

In particular, one of the shots, after penetrating the thin stern armor and hitting the steering gear, completely destroyed the Aurora's hope of leaving.

The Azov is also not much better, three Polar Star battleships and three Vladivostok-class heavy cruisers poured all their firepower on it, although the six capital ships are old, and the range of naval guns cannot be compared with the Jinghai class, but the Azov is just a 3200 stewed second-class dome armor protection cruiser, and the thickness of the whole body is only 152 mm, so after being "grazed" by a 305 mm shell weighing more than 300 kilograms on the left side of the ship, the hull immediately cracked a one-meter-wide crack, After a large amount of seawater poured into the boiler room, the Azov lost speed completely.

Ten minutes later, when the three Vladivostok-class heavy cruisers rushed to within 6,000 meters, the two ships that were circling on the sea surface suddenly suffered a catastrophe, especially after the three ships gave up the expensive armor-piercing shells and switched to high-explosive bombs, it was simply a torture for the two ships!

After the 203-mm shells with a charge of nearly 35 kilograms of high TNT broke through the armor like a bull, they exploded inside the ship's body, and the violent explosion tore open the deck, leaving a shocking wound on the two ships.

The duration was only thirty minutes.

But when the details of what is known as the first naval battle of the twentieth century are gradually declassified many years later, everyone understands the impact of this battle, which was seen and recorded in detail by a British destroyer, and jokingly called by the British Navy as an elephant trampling an ant.

But the next scene made the British very unhappy, because the six capital ships of the Chinese Navy were blocked at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca for a whole day and one night on the pretext of searching for the person who fell into the water!

Roger Stewster did not know that the sea line of communication from Gapo to Banda Aceh had been cut off for a day and a night, otherwise he would have been suspicious, but in Banda Aceh, he had already finished filling up the coal and was waiting for news, and immediately ordered the cat to be picked up after receiving a telegram from the Azov and the Aurora almost at the same time.

The interception at the exit of the strait was not due to the expectation of the Russian fleet, six capital ships, eight Jinghai-class were obviously not the entire strength of the Chinese Imperial Navy, and they would not have thought at all that the Azov and Aurora would be able to play a message at the same time as they met the enemy!

So Roger Stewinst immediately ordered the fleet to set off, ready to force a breakthrough of the Strait of Malacca, because the enemy's forces that did not yet know where they were deployed had been exposed.

Such a few warships could not stop the huge Russian fleet at all, and there were only six capital ships in it!

But when, shortly after Roger Winst gave the order to pick up the cat, he was about to take advantage of what he called his "huge radio intelligence superiority" to force his way through, another telegram from the Ochakov made him break out in a cold sweat and bring great joy.

Natuna Islands, four types of battleships, four armored cruisers of the first class of unknown type.

Eight capital ships!

This is a large number of warships that all countries thought Li Mo could come up with, and they quietly anchored in the Natuna Islands, but let eight Jinghai-class and six old capital ships have a big striker, obviously to attract themselves to force their way through.

Although there are still six Duke-class ships that have not appeared, but at this time Roger Steinster would like them to come out to intercept him, because there is nothing to stop the huge Russian fleet from going to Dili, if they come out, they will become their prey, and now what he has to do is to take advantage of the fact that the Chinese Navy does not know that he has obtained their deployment at the exit of Malacca, and reach Dili as much as possible, as long as there is enough coal, then that area of broken islands will be a good place for him to deal with the Chinese Navy.

On 10 April, after three days in Banda Aceh, Roger Stewinst and Second Fleet Commander Nebogatov, Chief of Staff Brigadier General Nikola Clador, and several deputies decided to cross the crucial Sunda Strait and head to Dili before most of the main ships of the Chinese Navy were outside Malacca and 500 nautical miles from the Indian Ocean.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, a huge fleet of sixty-five warships set out, along with three spectator cruisers from Britain, France, and the United States.

At nine o'clock in the evening, a telegram from the Russian minister in Gapo arrived in Banda Aceh, but by that time the fleet had already set off for six hours.

At the same time as the telegram arrived, the main fleet of four Jilin-class, four-Dalian-class, four Duke-class and twelve destroyers quietly passed through the Sunda Strait between Sumatra and Java.

At the same time, eight Jinghai-class and four Defense-class destroyers also pursued them with all their might at a speed of up to Feijie.

At ten o'clock in the evening, Long Guozhang gave the order for all the staff to sleep!。。!