The sound of a beep whistle broke the silence of Puerto Buenaventura after a night of revelry, and the harbor city, with a population of only 200,000, was immediately in a state of chaos. 【 I want: super fast update 】

Battleships began to catch fire, thick iron cats were quickly retracted under the help of the noose, and the docks were full of Colombian sailors running.

For ordinary people living here, this scene seems to be commonplace, since this place has become a naval base, the Americans will attack and disturb every once in a while, so it has become customary for warships to be dispatched urgently, when the United States returns again and again in vain, people here feel pity, and they all feel that if Colombia had these big guys, maybe those Panamanian separatists would not dare to defect to the United States, so that the entire Colombian people would be humiliated.

The dock scene of the M dagger made Captain Casillas frown slightly, and turned his head to look at the two Royal Chinese Navy warships next door, although they were also very busy, each sailor had found their place, and even billowing smoke was already billowing from the chimney.

Captain Casillas was not surprised by this scene, as a captain of the Colombian Navy, he had studied at the Royal Chinese Navy's naval school in Dalian for two years, and had led warships to Honolulu several times to hold joint exercises with the Chinese First Fleet.

This is not something that can be compensated for by study and hard training, and this kind of emergency assembly must be carried out through the accumulation of one war after another, because at this kind of moment, only the soldiers who have experienced the test of war can deal with changes without being alarmed and reach their battle positions in a short time.

The Colombian Navy is too young, all of them have no experience of war, lack of psychological preparation in case of emergencies, and inattentiveness in attitude are common problems of all South American navies, because these sailors simply do not have the concept of entering war in the next moment.

Although the chaos made Captain Casillas's face slightly hot, the Medellin (that is, the former Russian Chesarevich) in front of the line half an hour later still took the lead and slowly rushed out of the harbor, and the second to leave the port should have been his flagship Bogota (formerly the Russian flagship Alexander III), but at this time, the Chinese cruiser Anhai gave a signal to ask to leave the port, and out of politeness, Captain Casillas agreed to let them leave first.

Due to the emergency, the three hundred Chinese marines were temporarily left behind, which allowed the Jiaoshan to keep up with the departure speed of the capital ships, and as the two warships slowly sailed out of the harbor, the Bogotá and another battleship also left the harbor and rushed towards the black spot on the sea in the distance, and at this time they had already distanced themselves from the Medellin, which had set off first, because it took a preparation time for the steam engine to speed up, so the distance between the three ships was getting bigger and bigger.

After entering the Gulf of Panama, the Anhai and the Suburban formed alone, breaking away from the Colombian fleet that was divided into two parts, which was not surprising, because no matter which country's fleet encountered war or unexpected situations when visiting a third country, it would take refuge for the time being.

Looking at the Huahe Colombian warship that was scattered after coming out of the harbor, Mayo sneered at the corner of his mouth, and secretly said that the Chinese people are nothing more than that, and they think that they dare to ignore international conventions and join the Colombian fleet to block themselves!

On the Medellín, the captain ordered to continue approaching, and the sailors on the deck quickly opened their gun jackets, filled the shells into the gun chambers, and turned the turrets, but everyone was not too nervous because this kind of thing has happened many times, maybe one day, maybe a few days, the United States will leave, because Colombia at this time is not a country with only gunboats!

Perhaps in the Spanish style of the matador or in the enthusiasm of South Americans, the Colombian Navy was full of provocative maneuvers, and the muzzles of the Medellín were all aimed at the American battleships in the distance in the undulating waves, and they were still approaching. 【 I want: super fast update 】

This provocative behavior made Mayo frown, he didn't like to be pointed at by naval guns, especially the naval guns of these Spanish mongrels in Central America! Therefore, he ordered the signal corps to play the banner of "This is a US ** ship, leave immediately, otherwise it will be regarded as a hostile act."

Being threatened to leave at the door of his own house is a great shame for the navy of any country, and this signal sent by the Georgia suddenly made all the Colombian sailors indignant, not to mention that there are two Chinese warships not far away, if this is spread, they may not be able to raise their heads for a lifetime!

So the captain of the Medellín immediately gave the order to keep approaching!

Captain Casillas seemed to be very satisfied with the actions of the Cullias, but Lin Xiang, the special instructor of the First Fleet of the Royal Chinese Navy in Colombia, laughed suddenly in his heart when he saw this scene, and at the same time quietly looked at his watch, the time was up, and immediately put on a nervous look on his face: "Rear Admiral Casillas, the Medellin is too far away from us, if the United States suddenly launches an attack, then ......." ”

Lin Xiang's words made Captain Casillas frown, he understood that the other party was a kind reminder, but the Americans had come dozens of times, and they had never seen a sudden fire, and the two countries were not in a state of war, so he said with confidence: "Lin, thank you for the reminder, but I don't think the Americans will attack, you look at their gunners, they are watching." As if to convince Lin Xiang, Casillas also handed over the telescope and pointed to the American sailors in the distance.

Lin Xiang also deliberately frowned: "Your Majesty, the United States has torpedoes, so I think the Medellin should be allowed to leave at least five thousand meters!" ”

"Five thousand meters?" Casillas thought about it for a while, and saw that the Medellin had already crossed this distance, and decided to accept Lin Xiang's suggestion and be careful not to make mistakes, so he immediately went to ask the flag bearer to send a signal.

In the bridge of the Anhai, when the Medellin sailed within four thousand meters of the Georgia in advance, Chang Gui had already drilled and borrowed a telescope from an observer and smiled at Captain Xu Zhenpeng: "Look at the smoke?" ”

"These bastards!" Xu Zhenpeng was also a rising star in Beiyang that year, hearing the words of this seal head, he grinded his teeth in pain, and turned his face away from the smug expression of this bastard.

If only that second of time could freeze!

Then you will see Chang Gui waving his hand under the deck of the Anhai, the seal operator on the deck pressing the button to control the transmitter, the flag-bearer of the Bogotá struggling to play the flag of "get away", Mayo lighting a cigar and staring at the Medellin viciously, the American gunner has just filled the first shell, and the helmsman on the bridge of the Medellín is rolling the rudder at a rapid speed, and the bow of the ship has begun to deviate!

But this moment is destined to be included in the world naval mysteries of the same level as the Maine incident in later generations!

Boom!

A sudden and violent explosion made the eyes widen even the eyes of many Chinese sailors who did not know the details, and the explosion gushed out with a huge water mass from the rear bridge of the Medellin facing the bow of the Georgia, and the back of the 12,900-ton hull seemed to be held up by a sea monster, and then smashed heavily on the water, splashing a big wave.

The cold steel began to creak with a tooth-aching sound, "The whole warship is starting to twist and deform!"

Rear Admiral Mayo's cigar fell from his gaping mouth on the deck, Captain Casillas' smile instantly froze, Chang Gui and Xu Zhenpeng high-fived fiercely, while Lin Xiang pinched his palm with his fingernails, and then put down the binoculars and shouted in horror.

"Torpedo! It's a torpedo! ”

"The Americans released a torpedo and must rescue the Medellin!"

Lin Xiang's shouting made everyone in the bridge of the Bogotá suddenly come back to their senses, in fact, due to the angle problem, the Medellin across Bogota and the American Georgia completely blocked the view, and there was nothing to see from the direction of the Colombians, "So Lin Xiang's shout is mostly to create a preconceived imprint!"

Because there are no mines in this area, according to the situation just now, coupled with the shouts of the "experienced" instructors of the Chinese Navy, everyone thinks that it is the destructive power that torpedoes can create!

"Talk about dead Americans! They declared war! Fire! ”

Captain Casillas stared at the blood-red eyes, he never thought that the Colombian Navy would be severely damaged just after he saw it, if the Medellin was lost, then the Colombian Navy would lose one-third of its combat strength, plus Lin Xiang's shouting made him subconsciously the United States launched a torpedo, so at this time, whether he wanted to or not, "he has no third way to go except to fire and escape."

If you lose a capital battleship and escape back without firing a shot, then not to mention the captain, including the staff adjutant around you, will be sent to a military court, so it is equivalent to a sentence that he must carry out the conflict to the end!

"Boom, boom, boom——。" The two remaining Columbian battleships opened fire, and the fire exploded from the ship violently, sobering up Rear Admiral Mayo a lot, "The Medellin was destroyed in front of the Georgia, which means that no matter what he explains, it is pale and weak!"

After looking at the Medellin, which began to sink like the Maine back then, Mayo's whole body fell into coldness, although he was grumpy, although he hated these inferior mongrels to death, but he was not a fool!

The moment the explosion burst into the sky from under the water, he knew that Colombia had left the United States!

At this moment, he has only one option to attack, completely destroy the last two battleships of the Colombian Navy!

At the end of the morning in Colombia, two Colombian battleships and two American battleships engaged in a fierce exchange of fire in waters thirty nautical miles from the port of Buenaventura, and due to the inexperience of Colombian sailors, they were "quickly suppressed by the Virginia and Georgia, at this time, the Anhai, which was 15,000 kilometers away, suddenly accelerated, approaching within 10,000 meters and launched a rainstorm of artillery bombardment between the two warring sides!"

At 10:40 a.m., the Anhai sent a telegram to Mayo, demanding that he immediately stop attacking the Colombian Navy, which was already clearly at a disadvantage, "otherwise the Royal Chinese Navy will automatically be regarded as an attack by the United States against its allies!"

This telegram made Mayo stomp his feet angrily, although he dared to eat the Colombian Navy without doing anything, but he did not dare to make the decision to start a war with the Chinese Navy! So I could only watch as the two Colombian battleships quickly fled back to the port of Buenaventura under the protection of the Anhai.

At 1 o'clock, the speed support ship of the Suburban Mountain sent out a signal for help at the same time, rushed in front of the Virginia and Georgia, and began to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water on the Medellin regardless of their own danger, at that time a Colombian military reporter on the retreating Bogotá took this picture, when this photo of bravely rushing into the enemy's guns to rescue the Colombian sailors was reprinted by all newspapers under the media rendering, so that all the officers and men of the Suburban Mountain were even awarded the Colombian Warrior Medal by the Colombian government.

At 2 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Suburban Mountain returned to the port of Buenaventura with the only remaining rescued Colombian sailor and four bodies, as well as a fragment of an American torpedo supposedly salvaged by Colombian sailors, Buenaventura's telegraph station was instantly packed!

On April 29, 1913, Li Mo, who was in the Mariana Islands with four wives on a tour of the pretext of enlargement, received a short telegram encrypted by three drons, with only ten words on it.

"Colombia is in our hands!"! ~！