Shak Bay. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Located 300 nautical miles north of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, the bay is an excellent natural haven and is famous for its abundance of grouper, so many Chinese fishing boats come here to try their luck.

Clear skies, white clouds like mist, and a few thick plumes of smoke in the white sails on the sea, it is common to see sailboats walking together in this era.

Xiao Wu stood on the deck of his own boat, and with a few uncles, he turned the reel and reeled the net hard, and the increasing pressure on the crank made him feel proud, as long as he came a few more times, maybe his family could make money to buy a kind of machine like that of Australian fishermen in the distance.

Compared with the old sailing boats, the efficiency of fishing by locomotive boats is much higher, but the capital investment is not small, such as the more than 300 tons of wooden-shelled coal-fired fishing ship of the foreigners in the distance, and it also costs 3,000 blue coins in China.

Fortunately, as the days have gotten better and better in the past few years, I don't have to worry about not being able to sell it after the harvest, and the family has also saved some money, plus the third brother has become a platoon commander in the army, and he can send money back every month to subsidize it, and it seems that he can make up enough money.

If you're lucky, you can catch a few high-quality fish, and you might be able to sell them for a good price when you get home.

Xiao Wu smiled proudly, shouted neat slogans with several uncles, and tightened the net hard, seeing that the fishing net was tightening little by little, but he heard a sudden thunderous sound in his ears.

"Boom"

The loud sound frightened Xiao Wu not to hold the crank, and the fishing net that had just received half of it slid sharply and turned violently with a wheel.

This is fatal, if the rope is put to the end, the fish in the net must have all run away, so before he can see clearly where the thunder is, Xiao Wu even pounced and grabbed the crank, but when he finally stabilized, he found that several uncles were looking into the distance in a daze, and their faces were a little strange.

The strange appearance reminded him of the dry thunder that had just risen from the ground, and he quickly turned his head to find the source of the sound, and when he turned his head, his face turned blue like several uncles.

I saw that two warships flying the Australian flag in the distance were gesturing in their direction, and the barrels of the cannons on one of them were still facing their direction.

It was not a rare dry thunder at all, but the sound of shells exploding.

On the Vincent, the artillerymen quickly pulled the running bolt, withdrew the shell and reinserted a 127-mm shell, and Sen Leng's muzzle moved again, aiming at the Chinese fishermen in the distance.

This is an old second-class protected cruiser with a displacement of more than three thousand tons, one of ten cruisers received by the Australian government from the United Kingdom, and next to it is the Calvin of the same model.

They have been cruising the west coast since they were ordered to shell Perth Harbour, the Chinese mob.

For Captain Caron, who was still serving in the British Far East Fleet a few years ago, he didn't want to kill those Chinese cleanly, because these yellow-skinned Chinese were no longer as weak as they were ten years ago, because they had a country behind them that was extremely powerful for Australia!

Australia shouldn't provoke the Chinese Empire!

But as a soldier, especially a senior naval officer, he could not resist orders, so he set off with the Vincent, shelled Perth Harbour with his companions, and came here to patrol and expel the Chinese who operated in the waters.

As the shells were reloaded, the distant fishing boat finally got into action, but instead of leaving, they hastily cut the nets and fled into Denham Bay.

There's Australia!

Captain Caron gave the order to open fire again, and two 127mm shells burst out of the chamber, making it easy for Australian sailors, most of whom had served in the British Navy, to deal with such a slow little fishing boat. 【 I want: super fast update 】

The shells landed accurately in front of the fishing boats, blocking their attempts to escape into the bay, and one of them exploded just a few meters from the bow, carrying columns of water and fragments that swept across the fishing boats, tearing not only the sails but also a nearby Chinese man.

"Third uncle!"

Xiao Wuyi hugged the third uncle who was covered with blood, tore off his clothes vigorously, choked back tears to plug the wound on his head for him, and when he raised his eyes again, his eyes were already blood-red.

But this scene did not exchange the pity of the warships in the distance, but skillfully Australian sailors filled the shells again and began to prepare for the next round of shelling and expulsion.

It's just that Captain Caron and everyone didn't notice that under the horizon in the distance, a few wisps of gray smoke suddenly drifted underneath.

"Colonel, they're about to enter Denham Bay." The second mate pointed to the fishing boat that was still running into the bay in the distance, and reminded Caron loudly.

Captain Caron had already seen the fishing boats still fleeing into the bay, and he was so angry that he stomped his feet fiercely and shouted: "These Chinese who don't know whether they are dead or alive!" ”

"Aim, sink him" Before the words were finished, there was a sudden agitation in the bridge, and everyone heard only a nervous shout coming from outside. "Seven o'clock! Chinese fleet! ”

"What!"

The hasty warning made Captain Caron no longer care about dealing with the fishing boats, and the telescope quickly twisted in the direction of seven o'clock, and when the target appeared in the frame, his face suddenly turned pale.

I saw that two large cruisers flying the Blood Cloud Dragon Claw Banner that had never been seen before were hurrying towards them, and there were four large torpedo ships beside them, judging from the splash of the opponent's bow, the speed of these warships was all over thirty knots!

God, two large cruisers of more than thirty knots!

"Prepare for battle!"

"Signal, ask about intent."

"Tell them it's Australian territorial waters!"

With Captain Cuarón's words, the two protective cruisers immediately began to deflect their bows, and when the billowing black smoke in the distance got closer and closer, Xiao Wu seemed to feel that his pupils were about to explode!

It's our warship!

It's the Blood Cloud Dragon Claw Banner!

On the two Australian cruisers that were rapidly deflecting, lights and flags were constantly sounded, but the Chinese fleet in the distance was still speeding at a speed of thirty knots as if they didn't see it.

"Damn it, right full rudder, full speed!

"Everyone's ready!"

"20,000 yards!" Almost at the same time, the navigator shouted.

"18,000 yards!"

"15,000 yards!"

"Damn, they're still close!"

"Colonel!"

"12,000 yards!"

"Oh my God, are there all boilers in there?!"

"10,000 yards!"

"Ready!"

When the navigator reported the figure of ten thousand yards, Cuarón's whole person seemed to tense, and few people who were not familiar with naval warfare knew it, which meant that at this distance, the enemy's fire could be fully fired, and the hit rate was at least thirty percent or more!

In particular, since the establishment of the Chinese Navy, it has been famous for its long-range and high-precision artillery bombardment, and the distance even reached 15,000 meters, or 16,400 yards, when it killed the Russian Imperial Battleship in seconds.

This record is still posted on the wall of his captain's room!

Compared with the distance that is getting closer and closer, the other party's action of not answering, and rushing like a brute bull, makes him worried, he knows very well what his two protective cruisers will do at this distance, and what will happen to two large cruisers similar to the upgraded version of the Jinghai class in this situation, if the other party is willing, he can even hit himself hard in a few minutes.

Everyone, all looked at Caron, the air was filled with the smell of scorching, those gunners on the deck were dripping with cold sweat, if a cannon misfired at this time, then there was no doubt that it would be a disaster immediately!

Looking at the two Australian cruisers that were quickly turning towards him and preparing to intercept them, the sneer on the corner of Jiang Haoran's mouth became more and more intense, whether it was tonnage or firepower, he was sure that he could severely damage the other party in a few minutes, and if he was lucky, he could even sink it, but the command's order was "In the absence of a threat to life, you must not be the first to fire." ”

In this situation, there must be no threat to life, so if he can't fire first, he wants to bring tension and pressure to the other party through this high-speed approaching oppression, and then forcibly isolate the two Australian cruisers from the coastline.

"Separate them from the shoreline!" Jiang Haoran coldly gave the order.

10,000 yards, a distance of more than 9,000 meters, for a fleet of more than 30 knots, only need to smoke a cigarette, before the two Australian cruisers could figure out their intentions, the Yangtze River suddenly took the lead in turning left, using high speed, straight behind the Australian cruiser, and the stern pulled out a long white wake on the blue sea.

"Damn, he's going to go around behind us! Left full rudder! Left full rudder! This scene made Captain Caron cry out like crazy, and immediately ordered the heavy left full rudder to regain the battle position, but he did not expect that at this time, the four destroyers were like crazy, and they actually overtook the cruiser and pounced at a high speed of about 34 knots.

At this moment, all the Australian officers on the two cruisers understood that the opponent had played a trick to use a high-speed cruiser as the lead to cut off their own ties with the homeland.

This means that you have lost contact with the land you need to defend!

There is an iron motto in the navy, "If you lose the land you need to defend, then send your warship to the bottom of the sea!" ”

Whether it is the Vincent or the Darwin, the order is to ensure the safety of the West Coast, and now the opponent wants to isolate them from the West Coast, if strategically speaking, this is already a complete defeat again and again!

Veer?!

Looking at the four destroyers at speed, Captain Caron ordered to stop the action unexpectedly, which made many people very strange, thinking that the captain was scared, but only a few warships that had been trained as captains in the British Royal Navy understood that if they rushed to fight for the battle position with the light cruiser at this time, it would be equivalent to leaving their backs to the four destroyers, and if the other party launched an attack at this time, then!

For the sake of more than 1,000 officers and men of the two ships, Captain Caron canceled the order, and by the time the two cruisers were reorganized, the Yangtze River had already grabbed their inner side, and even the gun muzzle had been turned.

Captain Caron's face changed and changed, he never thought that a large cruiser of 10,000 tons was as flexible as a torpedo ship, in addition to admiring the other party's *** ship technology, he was curious about this cruiser that was much larger than the Jinghai class, and he didn't understand how the Hua Empire raised a warship of more than 10,000 tons to 30 knots and could be so mobile and flexible.

For him, already a failure!

Resistance has no meaning other than senseless bloodshed.

On 5 September 1907, the Royal Navy's 21st Destroyer Fleet arrived on the west coast of Australia and, after a silent battle, expelled two Australian cruisers, the USS Vincent and HMS Darwin, to the coastline of South Australia.

On 6 September, two Jinghai-class light cruisers and six Defending-class destroyers of the 13th Fleet of the Royal Chinese Navy, reinforced by the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, also arrived in Darwin, announcing that they would protect the coastline of North Australia from this moment on.

When Captain Caron, who was cut off with a knife and lost contact with his homeland, returned to Adelaide with two cruisers in disappointment, the whole of Australia fell into a panic, and everyone understood that compared with the powerful fleet of the Chinese Empire, the Australian Navy formed was just a child!

On September 10, the Prime Minister of the British Empire urgently summoned the Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the entry of the Chinese Royal Navy into the coast of Australia.

At the same time, Feng Qi, the ambassador to the United Kingdom, also ridiculed each other, accusing the Australian Navy of shelling innocent Chinese and overseas Chinese, causing more than 2,000 casualties, and said that he asked the Australian government to compensate the victims with 10 million pounds, and at the same time give the Chinese in the two places normal treatment such as *** rights, otherwise they will never withdraw from the patrol fleet.

On 25 September, the British fleet of cruisers crossed the Suez Canal to the waters off South Australia, but was immediately intercepted by the Chinese Empire's Nanyang Fleet, which included two Dalian-class heavy cruisers and two Jinghai-class light cruisers.

Rear Admiral Jobs, commander of the reinforcement fleet, knew very well how powerful the two Dalian-class heavy cruisers on the opposite side were, and although the tonnage of the three first-class cruisers and the four second-class cruisers in his hands seemed to be quite large, they were afraid that they would suffer a big loss if they really fought, so they had to use the high-power radio stations purchased from China to send reports at home.

On October 1, the National Day of the Chinese Empire, British and Australian envoys arrived in Shanghai at the same time and began negotiations with China on the issue of Northwest Australia.

To their surprise, Tang Shaoyi, China's negotiator, did not ask for sovereignty between the two places, and even said that he would not interfere in Australia's domestic affairs, but if the Australian government continues to implement racial protection against overseas Chinese in Australia and does not give them the rights they should have, then China does not rule out the possibility of sending the army to protect them.

This message has dumbfounded people and countries around the world who are ready to watch the show, and it has also made the nervous Australian government and the United Kingdom breathe a sigh of relief.

On October 10, Huo Zheng, the representative of the Chinese in Australia, arrived in Pontianak and began negotiations on the status of the Chinese with the Australian representatives waiting there, while Hua and the British chose to sit on the sidelines.

This series of news did not make Li Mo, who was conducting post-battleship experiments with McKinson in Huludao, have any reaction, because this is a war that cannot be fought, Britain needs to face the aggressive Germany, five Caesar-class are enough for them to have a headache, and Australia itself lacks military strength, the navy only has ten cruisers, six of which belong to the old man in the eighties of the last century, and the army is a weak underbelly, and the whole country adds up to more than 20,000 people, which is not enough to fight against itself.

So just a simple guarantee, neither Britain nor Australia is willing to start a war lightly, as for Huo Zheng's negotiations, Li Mo doesn't want to ask, Li Enfu and Tang Shaoyi have a thousand ways to turn this negotiation into a pot of porridge, as long as it is delayed for a few years and not let Australia merge all, it is enough!

And the important thing is that this incident will distract Britain and make it unable to deal with Germany wholeheartedly, so that the pressure on Germany will be less, and the First World War may be more intense!

However, when Du Dazhuang sent the news that the Great White Fleet would depart on October 20, he suddenly put down his work, and the corners of his mouth sharply hooked a trace of curve. ~！