Early in the morning of October 11. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

At six o'clock, a trace of local fish white filtered in through the porthole, and Hippert was already fully dressed. The aisle outside the hatch was still quiet, only a unique rumbling sound echoed, and although the wake-up bell had not yet sounded, Hipper, and the other six German naval trainees who lived in this ** cabin knew very well that the entire battleship had actually woken up.

From the moment the commander of the whole fleet gave the order to sleep at ten o'clock last night, he knew that the battle would break out today.

In the room, the companions did not speak, and each was busy with his own preparations, and Hipper opened the diagonal telescope bag and took out the eight-fold telescope brought from Germany.

This is the result of German optics, which not only can see more clearly than previous old telescopes, but for the first time, tick marks have been added to the upper and lower parts of the lens, allowing the observer to easily calculate the distance to the target.

Opening the lens, Hipper carefully wiped the lens, he was proud of Germany's achievements, but he also knew through this small telescope Limer's attitude towards the navy.

Because in the past few days, he has found that even the observers of the destroyers of the Chinese Navy have been equipped with the same telescopes as themselves, which are not produced by Hua, although they have obtained all the optical manufacturing technology of Germany, but the slight gap in technology and technology makes their own eight-fold telescope actually unable to meet the requirements, and the scale is not so clear.

Therefore, after learning about the telescopes made in Germany, Li Mo immediately purchased 500 telescopes from Germany, which is not a small amount, you must know that even if this telescope is calculated with Hualan coins, it has reached the price of 1,000 each.

This is the attitude, the attitude towards the Navy and sea power!

Li Mo has never been stingy with equipment, since the founding of the army, he has always handed over good equipment to the navy, under this kind of care, the navy officers and men insisted on strict training, and finally came out of nowhere.

A few years of life in the Chinese Navy has given Hipper a real glimpse of what it means to train rigorously, and he disdains the outside world about luck, just the annual consumption of tens of thousands of training ammunition is enough to prove that the rise of this young navy is no accident.

Hipper sighed at the camera, carefully wiped, and when he couldn't know that the Chinese Navy had all the combat plans this time, he took the initiative to choose to be an observer, because on the warship, only the observer can have a panoramic line of sight and can clearly see the various mobile tactics and options in the battle between the two sides.

Of course, he didn't have much interest in Russian tactics, and Roger St. Winster didn't even learn all the tactics of the Sail Era, what he cared about was how Hua would use the eight capital ships under his feet!

When he pushed open the hatch, the Chinese sailors around him had already crowded into the aisle, one by one, dressed in neat and clean white navy uniforms, squeezed into the narrow sink, and then took the meatloaf, steamed buns and kettles from the cook, and walked to the battle station one after another.

Going up the ladder, Hipper climbed to the foremast and was about to climb onto the mast when a large hand reached out. Looking at the yellow black pupils, he also smiled slightly on his smiling face, and grabbed his big hand and squeezed it into the narrow mast.

The two telephones were attached to the bulletproof steel plates on the inside of the mast, and the telephone lines passed through the hollow mast and connected to the bridge.

Like the Chinese observer, Hipper hung the kettle he was carrying on the bulkhead, sorted out and counted the telescope, sextant and other equipment again, and then took out the dumpling and meatloaf and bit it, but neither he nor the person next to him drank much water.

There are sixteen observers like this on the Jilin, who are on the fore and aft masts and on the bridge, don't think that the observers are an easy job, especially when the war is about to start, sometimes even staying on it for a whole day, if you drink too much water, it will cause trouble to climb up and down and go to the bathroom, so many times the observers have to endure thirst. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Biting on the meatloaf, Hipper observed the fleet, which was more than half smaller than it had been when it set off, especially the capital ships, which had left only twelve after leaving six and two in a row.

Why did they leave? Was it a decoy thrown out, or was it ambushed somewhere? Could it be that Hua is going to rely on these twelve capital ships against the Russian fleet, which has a total of 65 ships?

Hipper's deep thought, the eight hedgehogs gathered around him suddenly began to accelerate, although he couldn't know exactly the specific data of these magnified destroyers, but it was at least faster than Feijie, which still made him a little surprised.

The sudden departure of the destroyer made the air freeze, and the veterans knew that this was a call for the fleet to start searching for targets, indicating that the formation had entered the theater of operations, and the enemy could appear at any time!

Half an hour later, Hipper found that eight Jinghai-class cruisers with four destroyers suddenly chased after them from the rear, and almost without any preparation, they scattered in all directions to protect the front and rear of the capital ship, like a welling dog that had been trained strictly, and this speed and sailing skills made him feel excited.

Huā spent 17 hours and 450 nautical miles, allowing everyone to see the speed advantage of the Jinghai-class light patrol rushing forward, and at the same time, they also understood why the light patrol was so valued by the navy, because when there was an emergency or long-distance high-speed support, only these guys could do it at present.

The return of the eight light cruisers made Long Guozhang let go of his worries, with these guys, the large number of second-class cruisers and destroyers and even torpedo boats in the Russian fleet would not be able to break through their attack and disturb the capital ships.

As for the eight capital ships that blockaded the Strait of Malacca, struck Dili and seized the island of Dutch Guinea, it was determined that they could not participate in this naval battle due to their speed and mission.

At 9:15, Long Guozhang reorganized the fleet.

The 1st Battleship Detachment, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Guangxi and Guangdong, was commanded by Long Guozhang.

The 2nd Battleship Detachment, the Duke, Prince, Akashi and Tsugaru, was commanded by Yayashi Yasuzen.

The third patrol detachment, Dalian, Dandong, Fengtian and Harbin, was commanded by Ji Weishan.

The 4th Light Patrol Detachment, Jinghai, Dinghai, Ninghai, Pinghai, Anhai, Sihai, Yanghai and Zhenhai, was commanded by Le Fei.

Sixteen ships of the destroyer detachment, commander Lan Jianshu.

As the appointment was issued, the commanders of each detachment quickly divided and fine-tuned the ranks of the teams and the order of shelling according to the situation of each ship in their formations.

At 10:05 a.m., the destroyer Garrison sent a telegram to get in touch with the Golden Eagle, and at the same time, according to radio navigation, it was determined that the main force of the Russian fleet had entered the sea off the Mintawe Islands, a distance of 75 nautical miles!

While the sirens over the main fleet of the Royal Navy were constantly sounding, inside the flagship Alexander III, Roger St. Winster was restless and always felt that something was wrong.

Because the radios are all out of order!

Yes, all the radios are noisy and harsh as long as they are turned on, and this situation has been going on since the early hours of last night, although since the North Sea, the radio has often suddenly appeared intermittently such anomalies, no less than a hundred times, but it is only an hour or two long, and it will always disappear, so everyone only thinks that it is just a radio failure, especially the inventor Tivchenko did not follow after diagnosis, and he was firm in this idea.

But now the situation seems to be a little strange, no matter which one, as soon as it is turned on, it immediately falls into a scream, which can make him anxious to death, "You must know that the radio is not only the big trump card in his hand, but has played an important role in the voyage of 10,000 miles, and he is about to enter the enemy area" but suddenly all of them failed, which seems to be a little too strange.

"Could it be that the adversary knows that he has a radio?"

At the same time as the thought arose, it was immediately suppressed by Roger Thowinst himself, Tivchenko has been in the sight of the Admiralty since he invented this thing, and the radio was not manufactured on a large scale, it was all made by Tivchenko alone, so the possibility of leaking secrets is very small.

And Tivchenko and the Kamchatka maintenance ship were also blown up and sunk in the chaos that night: "We also found the bodies of some sailors on the Kamchatka, and this phenomenon occurred as early as when the Kamchatka was still there", could it really be a malfunction?

Roger St. Winster was eager to figure this out, but at the moment he could not afford to delay any longer, and there were still 150 nautical miles to go before the Sunda Strait, which could be intercepted, which was an important strait from the South Ocean into the Indian Ocean, through which the enemy would have to pass whether he came from the Strait of Malacca or from Luzon.

It doesn't matter whether the Azov and Aurora sent by themselves yesterday can escape back, the important thing is where the main force of the Chinese Navy will definitely stay last night, even if the abnormality is found this morning, it will be 400 nautical miles from Malacca to the Sunda Strait, and it will take 22 hours at the speed of the old festival, and it only takes 12 hours to cross the Sunda Strait by himself, even if the remaining six Duke-class ships have not yet appeared, but it is impossible for the six ships to stop themselves!

At 10:40, in view of the confusion when they were harassed by the two Jinghai-class ships before, and the fact that they were about to arrive in a dangerous area, Roger Sterwin also adjusted the formation.

The first battleship detachment, the commander Roger Stewinst, the flagships Alexander III, Borodino, Duke Suvorov, Eagle and Glorious, these five Borodino-class battleships with a full load of 15,200 tons, with two twin 305 mm naval guns and four 210 mm naval guns, are the strongest force in his hands, in addition, the prototype of the Borodino class, the legal emperor, has also been incorporated into the detachment, so that not only the bloodline is unified, but also the performance will not be much worse.

The second battleship detachment, the commander of the fleet, the deputy commander of the fleet, the Foksam, the flagship Victory, Peresvet, and Oslyabya are both battleships of the first rank Peresvet, plus the Chesarevich, as well as the Retvizhan and the Duke of Tavria Potemkin, all of which also have two twin 40 times caliber 305 mm guns, and a small displacement of 12,700 tons The third battleship detachment, commander Nebogatov, flagships Petropavlovsk, Sevastopol, The Poltava, the great Sisoy, and the two British sold Atomic Speed class Peter the Great and St. Petersburg, although the first four main guns are 305 mm, and the last two are 254 mm, but these six are all second-class battleships, especially the last two, although the caliber is lower, but the rate of fire, fourteen 190 mm secondary guns are outstanding.

These eighteen battleships were the core striking force in Roger Sterwinster's hands, and in addition to this, he also divided into three cruiser fleets.

The first cruiser squadron was the Gromschuy, the Russian, the Three Saints, the Navarlin, the Alexander II and the Nicholas I, and although the latter two were second-class battleships, they were incorporated into the cruiser fleet considering that they had been in the water for more than ten years.

Koo II Cruiser Squadron, Rurik, Bayan, Parada, Diana, Varyag, Warrior,

The 3rd Cruiser Squadron, Kagul, Oleg, Askold, Ushakov, Xeniavin and Novik.

As for the remaining second-class cruisers, large gunboats, and destroyers, they were organized into two other sub-teams, so that the scene of chaos was completely solved, and the Russian fleet was put in order for the first time.

As the fleet slowly completed its formation, Roger Steven's long-lost confidence finally returned, and even the Russian sailors on each ship began to take pride in the majesty and size of the fleet, a small destroyer suddenly burrowed out of the horizon like a ghost.

"Enemy ships!"

The poignant sirens and the destroyers that suddenly rushed straight forward made the nerves of the Russian army that had just relaxed suddenly tense, and looking at the little guy on the edge of the sky, a haze rose in everyone's hearts.

Expelled him?

Roger Steven, after thinking about it, curiously did not give the order for the cruiser to sort, not even change course, but to speed up the passage.

His order made both Fisher and Seymour on the Donegal, who had been accompanying the Russian fleet outside the fleet, frown, and it was clear that the Russian Vice Admiral had made the same mistake as he had done in the day, not realizing that the Chinese Navy possessed a mysterious means of long-distance communication.

Twenty minutes later, two more destroyers appeared on the north side of the fleet at lightning speed, which attracted the attention of Roger St. Winster, and just as he continued to hesitate whether to send a second-class cruiser to destroy, three British, French, and American observation ships began to accelerate with observers from various countries, and were the first to break away from the Russian fleet.

At eleven thirty o'clock, when the number of enemy destroyers increased to seven, Roger St. Winster finally realized that something was wrong, and his heart continued to sink, thinking that the six Duke-class ships that had not appeared until they were probably in front, and immediately ordered the ships to abandon the coal bales on the deck.

As bales of heavy coal were thrown into the sea, the speed of the fleet increased from the original mouth to the old section, especially since the capital ship was freed from the shackles and no longer had to suffer from the low freeboard swells.

At 11:45 a.m., when a bag of coal was thrown into the sea, Roger Stevenster suddenly made a move that stunned everyone.

Order to turn right!

Not to mention Fisher and others who watched the battle, even Nebogatov and other Russian commanders did not understand this order, only some later researchers believed that Roger Stwinst realized that he was about to encounter the enemy's main force, so he was afraid.

Is it true? Nobody knows.

Whether it is experience or ability, Roger Stevenster does not think that he is the best candidate to master this huge fleet, he has learned sail naval combat experience before, and he is not familiar with ironclads at all, so this order is more and more confusing.

According to Fisher's later memoirs, he did not think that Roger Stewinst was afraid, but that he wanted to use maneuver to shake off the oncoming enemy, but the problem was that the inexperienced commander forgot an important thing.

Velocity!

After 15,000 nautical miles around the world, the average speed of the Russian fleet had dropped to an unbearable old knot, and some logistics and old warships were less than 12 knots, perhaps his motives were good, and he was right to avoid it, but the problem was that he had forgotten how difficult it was for such a large fleet of uneven speed and low maneuverability to turn.

It took twenty minutes for Roger Winster to turn and regroup, but by then it was too late, and a cloud of smoke had already appeared on the horizon.

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