September 27th. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

At the entrance to the Gulf of Suez Canal, under the mast of the rice-shaped flag fluttering high, Captain Andrew, with a bearded face, held up a telescope with an annoyed expression.

What annoyed him was not the five huge warships on the opposite side with wide sunshade sails, nor the leisurely Chinese soldiers on the deck, but the fact that this was the third batch of Chinese fleets to train around the world through the Suez Canal in a year!

When will it be the turn of the Chinese to repeatedly train around the world?

What made him angry was that the light cruiser Careful under his feet was only 2,640 tons, but the guy on the opposite side who was full of barrels and carried two plus planes looked like it must have exceeded 10,000 tons, but the Chinese actually called them light cruisers!

When it passes by, where do you put your face?

Although he would have liked to simply say, "The canal is closed." But after all, they had informed the British Navy in advance, so they could only stomp their feet twice to get angry.

"Let them" Captain Andrew was about to say let them pass, when out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed that the already strange boxy horn on the bridge of the other party's light cruiser suddenly moved to aim at himself, but when he looked closely, he didn't notice anything unusual at all.

"Dazzled?"

Under the oblique rear deck of the bridge commander tower of the Arubangbo River, there are two cabins protected by thick armor, above which are radio and communication cabins, and below are the fire control command cabins set up.

The ventilation pipes that run through the whole ship make a whirring sound, and the hot air outside is processed by the air conditioner and turned into a gentle breeze and sent to all parts of the ship, so that it is not too stuffy.

In addition to the three combined mechanical computers that control firepower, it is also the brain of the whole ship, directing and dispatching all weapons on the warship, ensuring that the fire channel is unblocked, and providing commanders with all kinds of data references.

Originally, this kind of place was not so hot, because it was all hand-cranked mechanical computers, but with a row of large metal cabinets installed here, it became stuffy, and if it was not for the designer to combine the central ventilation and air conditioning systems, it would be a question of whether it could be installed, because it was installed with too many electric pipes that were easy to heat up.

The cabinet is connected to the top of the bridge with wires, and the thing that resembles a large square box is the equipment of Sinovel and the radio detection instruments, the rows of buttons of different colors on the top of the cabinet, and the five digital lights composed of a large number of diodes in the center represent the bearing, length, distance, speed and direction of the measured target. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

According to Li Mo's opinion, it already has the basic effectiveness of the radar, and the only flaw is that it cannot be actively scanned and detected in real time, which is mainly a processing problem after the electrical signal is reflected, but he still insists on that sentence, any equipment needs to be upgraded in actual use, so he gritted his teeth and purchased twelve sets, first equipping the twelve Yangtze River-class light cruisers, on the one hand, for testing, on the other hand, he also hopes to accelerate the formation of the real radar by working in different sea areas and different environments.

As the observation tower on the top of the bridge turned the steering wheel, an invisible radio beam shot at the British cruiser blocking the way, and the five digital lights began to beat continuously in the blink of an eye, and the radio signal was converted into electricity, and the diodes representing various numbers were lit up synchronously and flashed.

The whole process takes only 30 seconds!

This is unimaginable progress in the era of using optical ranging, you must know that although the distance between the other party is only 4383 meters, but the optical rangefinder positioning, it takes at least more than a minute, if the distance is far, the speed, then the response is slower, and according to the experimental data of the Ministry of Science and Technology, the use of the detector will still not exceed one minute.

Whether it was Tang Kun or Wu Yingke, they didn't look at the numbers.

This is just a test, and the radio detector will turn off very much after the numbers are obtained, and that's because the current power pipe life is so short that if it is used for a long time, it will burn out.

What's more, the British are arrogant, and they don't have a Chinese fleet that sails around the world and greeted them a month ago, not to mention the three improved Duke-class, which will not let the British Empire rush to worry about it.

A few minutes later, after the Careful Horn in the distance sounded the flag that could be passed, the Brahmaputra took the lead and plunged headlong into the canal waterway with its companions.

By the canal, the desolate desert makes the soldiers who come here for the first time very curious, the blue water and the golden sand, forming a stark contrast, the long canal is like a tiny blood vessel on the earth, but the problem is, this blood vessel is too important!

Whether it is Tang Kun or Wu Yingke, they are very aware of the importance of this canal, at the moment when the Panama Canal is still under construction, this is the only convenient sea passage in Eurasia, a quarter of the total number of global shipping must pass through here every year, if the Strait of Malacca can also go through the Makassar Strait a little farther bypass, but the Suez Canal is not avoidable, unless you are willing to go to the distant Cape of Good Hope, accept the baptism of the Indian Ocean storm, or just look at the face of the British.

To tell the truth, sometimes the Chinese navy really hated that the emperor was born one hundred and eighty years earlier, so that the Grand Canal would not be grabbed by the British, but the sad thing is that this is obviously the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but it was finally entrusted by the British.

Although Hua has a powerful navy and controls a small half of the Pacific Ocean, under the careful watering of the emperor, the people of the Hua Navy, who are becoming more and more broad-minded, know very well that they still do not belong to a world-class navy, because the real world navy does not depend on how powerful the fleet you have, but on how many important straits and golden waterways you control to hold the world.

So at present, only Britain can be called the world's first naval hegemon, this is not technology can be defeated, open the map can see, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, the Suez Canal, the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, the Strait of Magellan and the Frank Islands, are all controlled by the British, if it is not for the United States is hurrying to dig the Panama Canal, then the world will always be under the command of the British!

Huahai people, while defending the country, have another dream in their hearts to compete for the world's top strait passage!

Although the Panama Canal was within reach for a while, it was eventually abandoned for some reason, but this does not mean that it is over, the world has been filled with too many white voices, and it is time for the Chinese to share some of the burden.

The fleet moved slowly, and it would take a full six hours to cross the entire canal at a speed of fifteen knots, but fortunately this was not wartime, because it would be equivalent to six hours of enemy fire from both banks!

This strength is enough to destroy any powerful fleet in the world.

As the Brahmaputra had first emerged from the canal and entered the Mediterranean, the fleet again encountered the British patrol ships, but this time without any delay, and after only a few inquiries, the British cruisers departed.

At 11 o'clock on the night of the 27th, when the fleet was heading towards Truk Island, taking advantage of the nightfall, the commander of the formation Tang Kun suddenly ordered the lights to be controlled, and the sister ship Nujiang continued to sail towards Istanbul as originally planned, but the other four ships suddenly turned around with full rudder and headed north, heading straight for the Ottoman port of Latakia.

In the early morning, the sound of prayer in the mosque kicks off a busy day in the port of Istanbul, where fishing boats unload their goods carrying bounty from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, and in addition to fish, it is also home to Europe's largest sponge harvester, a floppy creature that has been processed into a high-quality material used by European aristocrats to make furniture.

In the palace of Ildiz, Muhammad V was enjoying a hearty breakfast, and beside him, Mehmed Talat Pasha was reporting to him on the tension with Italy that had been growing for a short time.

Pasha was an honorific title for a high-ranking official in the Ottoman administration, meaning something like a lord.

Talatpa's debriefing, which turned the delicious fish sauce and desserts into unappetizing garbage, also made Mohammed V extremely resentful, during this time the Italians used the excuse that the Diaspora in Tripoli and Cyrenaica had been threatened many times, and it was said that the troops were already being mobilized, but the damned British refused to allow themselves to mobilize troops through Egypt to reinforce there at this time, wasn't this a deliberate attempt to help the Italians?

Originally, he was also ready to mobilize the navy to transport soldiers, but he only had one Izmael purchased from China to sell, and Italy not only had the sharpness of Dante, but also had a number of old battleships, relying only on a main battleship and those inferior small warships, it was not an opponent of the Italians at all.

Muhammad V knew very well that if he could not transport all the soldiers to the North African provinces, then sooner or later the Italians would greedily raise their knives and forks, but what was there to do to break the *** of the Italian Navy at this time?

Talatpa also frowned, as an officer of the al-Shabaab party, he had had enough of the repeated foreign destruction of the Ottomans over the years, and had long thought that he should teach those Western European guys a thorough lesson, but after comparing the strength of the two sides, this idea was quickly dispelled.

Now that the Italians have bullied the door, is the Ottomans going to wait?

As soon as the words of the "Honorable Sultan" Talatpa were spoken, the chief of the palace guard flew in: "Your Majesty, one, one plane, is hovering over the palace!" ”

"What?!"

Not to mention Mohammed V, even Talatpa was shocked, where did the plane come from in Istanbul? Could it be Italian!

The two of them flew outside, raised their heads and found that a small biplane was hovering in the sky, and the two were no strangers to this kind of gadget that is now popular in Europe, but they were stunned when they saw the hideous dragon claws on the fuselage!

Chinese?

Isn't their flying team in the port of Kuwait? How did you get here?!

Just as the guards raised their guns to aim, the plane suddenly turned around and flew off to the open sea, which made everyone breathe a sigh of relief, but before the tone could go on, the foreign minister had already rushed to Mohammed V: "Your Majesty, something is wrong, the Italians have issued an ultimatum!" ”

"They're going to declare war!"

The bad news was not over yet, Admiral Hakan had already walked in, hugged his chest and saluted: "Dear Sultan, the Royal Navy's round-the-world visiting fleet has just arrived in Latakia and asked if we can provide them with coal. ”！ ~！