Holding the aluminum dinner plate, Li Zhen, like the sailors beside him, hurriedly found an empty seat and sat down, "and began to eat vigorously." ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

No, since the encounter with three French reconnaissance cruisers two days ago, the fleet has carried out several evasive maneuvers" and encountered three small warships of different countries on the way, so the meal during this time has been abnormal.

Now on the plate, which I don't know whether to call it lunch or breakfast, in addition to rice, there are pork rice noodles and a fried potato chips, and as for the green vegetables, I haven't seen them since I passed Cape Horn, but the battleships and supply ships have large cold storage, so everyone gets a cup of sour lemon juice.

Sickness is the enemy of seafaring, even more terrible than the enemy"The Russian expedition had been plagued by plague in the fleet, so it was extremely important to keep food and fruit fresh.

Fortunately, the conditions of the warships now are much better than those at that time, especially the large-tonnage heavy battleships of the Guam class, which not only have spacious living and have a ventilation system in the central government, but also have a special medical cabin on the ship, and there are five additional medical officers among the officers and men.

Compared with the Guam class, the conditions of the Tumen River are much worse, but with the assistance of formation, it can also deal well with problems such as illness and supplies.

Li Zhen counted the time while eating, and 33 days have passed since the evening of August 2, which can be said to be an unforgettable month in his life so far.

From the beginning of the shelling of the Falkland base, the 31st squadron was like a brutal hungry wolf, first tearing apart the British Uruguayan fleet, and then sinking the American transport fleet" Then three more ships were sunk on the way across the Atlantic, and after replenishing in the Gulf of Guinea, they again encountered the reconnaissance detachment that should belong to the French African fleet, and the three small cruisers of 1,000 tons were just hors d'oeuvres in front of the 31st fleet.

Tiredness, irritation mixed with the impact on every part of his body, until this moment he understood how crazy his father was to send the 31st fleet deep into the Atlantic on a mission!

Sailing here, you will see columns of smoke almost every hour, if it were not for the limitations of ammunition and other restrictions, "it is estimated that the number of ships destroyed is at least more than fifty!"

Unlike the sailors around him, he can get some secret information, such as why he was supposed to leave after resting after the original supply was completed, "And the two interception fleets that are coming!"

As soon as he thought that he might encounter at least 7 capital ships to intercept him, he was both nervous and expectant, although they had seen a lot of battles along the way, but what else could make him excited about the decisive battle with the capital ships?!

The rice grains quickly decreased, and Li Zhen involuntarily took the chopsticks and dipped some lemon juice and drew them on the table.

The front is Cape Verde, there are three, the flanks are four, it seems that there are many left flanks, but the four US capital ships were all urgently pulled out from the sea trials, "Even if all of them are replaced by veterans, it is very remarkable to be able to exert seventy percent of their combat effectiveness, how will the commander choose?"

As he pondered, a murmur in his ear interrupted his thoughts. 【 I want: super fast update 】

"Dong, that's the Emperor."

"Huh? What's wrong? ”

"Hehe, it's nothing, I just didn't think that our Lao Jiu would have the opportunity to eat in a canteen with the emperor." , "Fuck off, the emperor has been here for a few months, what are you pretending to be."

"Huh." Lao Jiu smiled handily, and saw that only the emperor was still around, but he didn't dare to go over, just asked his partner to squat and eat with a plate, Li Zhen suddenly smiled at them and gave up most of the table.

The two scratched their heads and sat on the side, but out of deep-rooted awe, they only dared to be next to half of their buttocks, fortunately, Li Zhen saw that there were more of them, although he was already very familiar with everyone these days, "but it is always a little unnatural" so he smiled: "My father said that if you can eat, you can be moved" Sitting like this, I'm afraid it's going to get stuck in your throat. ”

"Huh." The two sailors smiled innocently and finally sat up straight, "That old nine seemed to be a sailor who liked to inquire, and asked boldly: "The emperor really said that?" "Of course, my father used to eat with everyone on the ship, and he said that the navy is a physically demanding job, so you must eat and sleep well to have the energy to fight. ”

"Ah, the emperor also stayed on the ship?"

As soon as Lao Jiu's eyes widened, his partner kicked him: "Stupid, have you visited the old base in Masti Island Bai?" Didn't the instructor tell everyone that the emperor and the commander were all fought together from the sea! ”

Lao Jiu picked up the meal, vaguely for a long time, and held back a sentence: "I, I was lazy that day, and I didn't go to sleep!" "Huh. Li Zhen smiled, and was just about to chat with these two partners when he heard a shrill siren suddenly in his ears.

"Grandma, I always hate to be disturbed when I eat!"

The voice, so that everyone suddenly rushed out, Lao Jiu took the dinner plate and ran while desperately stuffing his mouth into his mouth, just a dozen meters to stuff most of the bowl of rice into his stomach, and when he rushed to the corridor, he had wiped his mouth dry, draped the rest of the dinner plate into the vat, and said angrily: "If you don't beat their eggs this time, you will waste this bowl of rice in vain!" The alarm bell rang throughout the battleship, and countless sailors ran to the battle position from the dining room, rest cabin, etc., Li Zhen originally returned to the power cabin, because he was a trainee electrical officer, but when he heard an officer in front of him suddenly shouting that the trainee officers all rushed to the deck to help the anti-aircraft guns, so they immediately ran to the deck with Lao Jiu and them.

Lao Jiu was the gunner of the deck-mounted twin 25-mm cannon, located on a platform protruding outwards behind the forward bridge, which was originally developed for fighters, but was developed with versatility in mind, "and is gradually replacing the original 127-mm Viper machine gun."

There is a ring between the two barrels, the cross inside the ring is the sight, there is a millimeter shield in front of the gun emplacement, and there is a small ammunition depot under the platform to supply ammunition.

When Li Zhen rushed to the deck with a steel helmet and followed the old Jiuhao artillery crew, he found that several thick clouds of smoke had risen from the sky due north, and the fleet had formed a parallel to the smoke column, and began to accelerate and prepare to break out of the encirclement.

Airship activities have a certain radius" needs the support of the base, so seeing this scene, Li Zhen understands the situation at the moment, the fleet is trying to break through the important Cape Verde base in the Atlantic!

Lao Jiu pulled the bolt hard, and the ammunition compartment behind him had already stretched out a big hand holding two rows of magazines, Li Zhen immediately took it when he saw this, and then pressed a group of five thick cannonballs into the barrel.

"The Emperor?" Lao Jiu turned his head and saw that it was Li Zhenshi, "Everyone was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hand: "No, no, you go back" It's too dangerous here! ”

Seeing this, several other people also asked Li Zhen to go back, but he didn't think that he first smiled and pointed to the ensign epaulette on his shoulder, and then pointed to the airship and a seaplane hovering in the distance, and said with a smile: "Do you think" they can get close? "That can't be! Within 6 kilometers, whoever gets close to the old man can pinch out his egg yolk and serve you wine! Lao Jiu's rude words made everyone laugh.

Besides, there is no reason to crush people to death in the army, and if Li Zhen insists, the soldiers will not dare to resist, so they have to grit their teeth and forget about this time for a while, "Work together to deal with the enemy in front of you, but Lao Jiu and Dong and the others are still ready, in case there is really a big danger" immediately put him back and said.

At the same time, in the Malaya of the E fleet, Vice Admiral Kafka looked at the bow and quickly deflected, obviously not ready to stomp his feet with his own hard lead fleet, because he only had two capital ships in his hand at the moment, and the Agincourt, which originally set off together, had a power failure on the way, and it was still dragging behind four nautical miles.

As a senior officer, he didn't think that his squadron could fight hard with the lead fleet, so he did not set off immediately after arriving at the Cape Verde base, but patiently waited for the US fleet to arrive and move, but he did not expect that "a few days ago, a reconnaissance detachment of the French North African Fleet accidentally did not send back a communication telegram on time, disrupting the entire deployment."

This is extremely abnormal"All three reconnaissance cruisers were equipped with radios, and even two damaged ships should have sent a telegram back, but they disappeared as if they had evaporated, and no one knows where to this day.

This accident made Kafka restless, and thanks to the efforts of the Admiralty, "the Entente had gradually integrated the forces in the Atlantic, conducted a dragnet search here, and each small fleet was given a fixed reconnaissance route" and then sent back telegrams on time every day, so that the scope could be gradually narrowed according to their search location.

So the failure of the reconnaissance fleet to send back the telegram "immediately alarmed, especially since it had disappeared from the Gulf of Guinea, suggesting that it was likely to have been attacked by surprise."

But what kind of attack can disable three radio stations at the same time, and not even a minute or two of telegrams?

When he immediately sent a telegram to the US Fleet A, asking for immediate reinforcements of the Cape Verde base, he also decided to hold here first to prevent the other side from taking advantage of the chaos to enter the North Atlantic!

After three days of waiting, the U.S. fleet hadn't come yet, but it didn't want to bring Zhang Ren back" When the reconnaissance plane came back and reported that the 31st fleet appeared on the front, even if he didn't want to fight at this time, he had to go all out to intercept it.

The two super battleships of the Malaya and the Ireland were the core striking forces, but Kafka understood that if he used traditional tactics, he would probably be torn apart, because the Chinese navy had too obvious advantages in long-range artillery bombardment and speed.

Fortunately, he still has some hole cards in his hand, "such as the seaplane carrier Ark Royal, which is resting in Cape Verde not far behind him."

The mothership, converted from an old freighter, was originally intended to patrol the Atlantic waterways, but it played an important role at this time, because the Admiralty had previously tested the method of aircraft dropping torpedoes to attack warships during the Battle of the Dardanelles, and the seaplane carrier happened to have Schott-184 seaplanes capable of carrying this task, and it also had five airships to help the battle, and they also carried 50 kg of bombs.

Of course, Kafka did not expect a 360-mm torpedo to take out the Guam, because experiments have proved that this kind of small torpedo with a speed of only 30 knots, a range of 1,000 meters, and a charge of only 35 kg cannot deal with large warships except for merchant ships and destroyers, so he only wants to slow down the other side "until Agincourt and the American fleet arriving 150 nautical miles away."

But now it seems......

Looking at the 31st Fleet that crossed in front of him at a speed of 26 knots," Kafka smiled bitterly, "Order them to take off, and let the Galatea and the destroyer squadron stop them and attack with torpedoes as close as possible!" ”

General Kafka picked up the telescope again and aimed it at the billowing black smoke, but he didn't know that when the 12 Schott-184 seaplanes that had already been put on the surface of the sea by the boom began to take off, in the distant pilot fleet, the Tumenjiang and Dongting Lake had also laid down five Ospreys with powerful engines of 450 horsepower, and as the propellers rotated rapidly, the five Ospreys quickly jumped up from the sea.

The young Li Xiuyan and the steady Kafka took out the bottom of the box at the same time!

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