Chapter 137: Sea Eagle Five

Chen Jin looked at the telegram in his hand with some tears and laughter, shook his head immediately, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that these guys are also suffocated in the Naval Academy, and this is like a cat seeing a fish, and they are all around!"

Originally, the task they received this time was to use the radio on their warships to track the combined fleets of the Netherlands and Portugal, and to report the position of this fleet to Taiwan's General Staff and to their own ambush fleet ambushed off the coast of Xisha Province by wireless telegraph! However, this task was only given to him, the Seahawk No. 1 frigate, which was the first to be launched and had been at sea for almost a month! But he did not let the remaining four guys also take part in this operation!

"Has the telegram been sent?" Cao Zhijie looked at the first mate Wen Liang, who had just returned from the telegraph room, and asked indifferently.

"Already sent out......"

Looking at his words, Cao Zhijie smiled and asked, "Say whatever you want, although I am now the captain of the Sea Eagle 5, but in the army, we are also brothers who share life and death!

Hearing his words, Wen Liang's eyes flashed with a hint of emotion! "Captain! Although we received the order to provide wireless telegraphy to the General Staff Headquarters, it was only before the departure of the Dutch and Portuguese fleets, and now our task is to test the warship that has just been launched for sea trials under our feet, and make it more perfect, until we finally join the active service of the navy! However, now we are following the joint fleets of the two countries with such fanfare, is this a violation of the original military order of the Admiralty?" Wen Liangshen said with some concern.

Within the Huo Jiajun, 'a soldier should take obedience to his name and order as his duty' is not just a slogan! It is a code of steel that every officer and soldier of the Huo Jiajun must abide by! At the beginning, many people had already tried to violate him, but the lightest punishment among them was also dismissal from military posts and he would never be hired! It was precisely because of this military regulation that the General Staff Headquarters of the Huojia Army in Taiwan could always control all the armies distributed over tens of millions of square kilometers of land and sea in the Far East! Otherwise, even if they had advanced weapons and equipment, they would not have wiped out the Dutchman's nearly 40,000 troops on the islands of Java and Sumatra in less than a week at the cost of less than 100 casualties!

Hearing the worried words in his tone, Cao Zhijie smiled faintly and asked, "Wen Liang, what was the military order we received at the beginning?"

"Cooperate with the operations of the interceptor fleet, and test the final ability of the Sea Eagle 5 frigate in various sea conditions!" replied Wen Liang in a solemn tone.

"That's right, we're now cooperating with the interceptor fleet! And, in my opinion, there's no better way to test the xìng of a warship than war!" Cao Zhijie said with a sudden smile. Then he stretched out his hand and pointed at it, and then said: "Look at those three guys, it is estimated that they received the same military orders as us, but these guys arrived earlier than us, it seems that they all have the same idea as us, and they all want to participate in the first rare naval battle since the birth of the ironclad battleship! Therefore, we have no reason to let it go! And I guess the remaining three guys must be on their way here!"

Wen Liang understood that the three guys he was talking about were Zhao Quandong, the captain of the Sea Eagle 6, Ling Ziyun, the captain of the Sea Eagle 7, and Yue Zhongqi, the captain of the Sea Eagle 8!

"Captain, just now the Sea Eagle VII asked us about the location of the Dutch and Portuguese fleets! In addition, their captain also said that he ......!" The telegraph officer hesitated for a moment, suddenly gritted his back molars, and said quickly: "Cao Laosan, you are not fucking authentic at all, such a good thing as beating the Dutch, you didn't even inform me, you kid must remember clearly, you still owe me two taels of good tea last month!"

"Haha...... It seems that Madman Ling is really in a hurry this time!" After laughing for a while, he looked at the somewhat nervous telegraph officer and asked, "Where is the Seahawk 7 now?"

Seeing that the captain was not angry, the telegraph officer couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in his heart, and hurriedly reported loudly: "Now the Sea Eagle 7 has reached 300 nautical miles south of Banda Aceh in Xisha Province, and they are rushing here at a speed of 18 knots!"

"It seems that they have already crossed the Strait of Malacca!" Wen Liang said with a smile standing aside Since Huoshan sent the Dragon's Tooth Special Forces and the Military Intelligence Bureau to loot the vaults of the two banks that Britain finally wanted in the Straits Settlements, because of the lack of financial support, the British Far East Fleet's control over the Strait of Malacca has also dropped many times compared to before! And there are no high-power searchlights at this time, so at night, the Strait of Malacca is the most convenient and best waterway to communicate the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean for the current Huo Jiajun Navy!

"Well, send us our current position to the Sea Eagle Seven! In addition, tell them that they can have meat to eat now, but if it's late, they won't even be able to drink the soup!" Cao Zhijie said with a smile on his face.

"Understood, Captain!"

Looking at the telegraph officer who turned around and went out, Wen Liang's originally hanging heart finally relaxed! After seeing that all the eight Sea Eagle frigates that the Navy was still testing were rushing here, he finally had no worries about disobeying military orders!

Looking at his appearance, Cao Zhijie couldn't help but smile, patted him on the shoulder, and said pointedly: "Lao Wen look at it, the show is about to start!"

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"Munch, what did Rogers say?" Blake looked worriedly, Munch, who had just returned from the ironclad ship 'Queen Maria', the flagship of the Portuguese convoy, and asked a little anxiously.

Originally, the two had predicted that the Chinese People's Army might have the ability to build ironclad ships through the warship of unknown origin that had been following them! But they would never have thought that in just one night, the number of these warships had increased to four, and half an hour ago, the number had become five!

Originally, even if the Chinese People's Army could build ironclad ships, they would never have too many ideas, and they had already been followed by one after another warships of the same type, and they had no trace!

"Commander, as you expected, they rejected all of the two proposals they put forward to us without even considering them! Moreover, those hateful and arrogant Portuguese laughed at our broken brains! They said that those Chinese who were still in the feudal era did not know how to build warships at all, let alone such ironclad warships of more than 1,000 tons! As for our suggestion of sending warships to destroy the five warships of unknown origin, they also vetoed them!" Munch said with a blushing face, now with the Portuguese, not only did he not get the result he wanted, but he was also angry!

"Commander, now in the expeditionary force, we are the warships of the Dutch navy, and they have the advantage in both numbers and tonnage! Therefore, there is no need to consider the opinions of the Portuguese at all! When the time comes, even our own strength will be enough to destroy the five warships that are sticking behind our fleet!" Munch continued angrily, he really did not want to accept the ridicule of the Portuguese again! This was simply more difficult for him to accept than the failure of the expeditionary forces of the two countries!

Looking at his appearance, Blake also felt his determination, and couldn't help but think secretly in his heart at the moment: "It seems that there is no hope of forming a joint fleet with the Portuguese at all!"

"Well, Rear Admiral Munch, I agree with your suggestion, send our Dutch warships and drive out the five warships that are following us like kraft candy!" said Blake with determination.

"Yes, General, I'll give the order!" Munch happily saluted a standard Royal Dutch Navy salute, then turned and ran out quickly!

Listening to his footsteps getting farther and farther away, Blake sighed deeply, looked at the sea in the distance with his eyes stunned, and muttered to himself: "I hope my military order just now will not be wrong!"