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Xu Shoushan, who has been dealing with European foreigners for many years, is very aware of the greed and shamelessness hidden in the bones of these guys, as well as the contempt and pride they show in the face of weak countries. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Although the Huo Jiajun has been established for five years and has always achieved good results in the wars with the United States and Europe, in the eyes of the French, who claim to be a European power, they are still backward and barbaric, and they are natives outside the civilized world, just like the Qing Dynasty people of the same culture.

In addition, although Huo Jiajun's navy has expanded rapidly in recent years, most of the warships are distributed in the vast and sparsely populated, commercial and island-ridden Pacific Ocean, coupled with military secrecy, except for Huo Jiajun himself, the outside world does not know what level Huo Jiajun's navy has reached.

Therefore, according to Xu Shoushan's understanding of foreigners, especially those of the powerful world-class empires of Britain and France, they are likely to pay attention to Taiwan and Hainan, which are islands with abundant products and prosperous industries. Coupled with the fact that the British were now preoccupied with the economic crisis in Egypt and at home, it was a good opportunity for the French to expand their colonies and spheres of influence in the Far East. They will not let this opportunity go.

Patting Wang Jun on the shoulder, Xu Shoushan said with a smile: "We know that our strength is enough to ensure the safety of Taiwan and Hainan Island, but the French don't know. Therefore, we also need our navy to show its strength. Let the French understand that the present time on the Far Eastern Sea is not the time when they can do whatever they want!"

"Let's go! This battleship still needs you to command!" Xu Shoushan then said.

Red flag. Gu Ba suddenly remembered the Chinese People's Army, which had been frequently featured in mainstream European newspapers recently, had defeated the Netherlands and Portugal, and was now fighting with the Americans for the land of the Americas.

"Yes. Commander!"

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February is the calmest time of the year in the South Seas, and although the sea is still turbulent, the wind and waves are much lighter. And at this moment, on this calm sea, there are two huge fleets that are rapidly approaching each other.

"The Chinese People's Army in the East Indies?" looked through the telescope, looking at the lead-gray paint and towering bridge on the warship opposite, which is very different from the current European style. As well as the blood-red banner of the four gold stars in the upper left corner that slowly rose from the mast, surrounded by a golden dragon, Gu Ba couldn't help but frown.

For this one five years ago, trampled on Dutch and Portuguese corpses. Although he had heard a lot about the yellow forces that had sprung up in the East Indies, he had not studied them much, and he had heard a lot of news from the newspapers. However, as an aristocratic officer in the tradition of the Kingdom of France. He described the strength of the Chinese People's Army and some words of admiration revealed in the newspapers. But he scoffed at it and didn't believe it at all.

As for the new weapons that appeared in this army, Guba preferred to believe that it was the work of the Germans at the beginning, and the reason why the Chinese in Nanyang developed so quickly was also the result of the support of Germany behind.

Of course, he is not the only one in Europe who thinks so, after all, in five years, he has built a powerful force from scratch that is equivalent to the military strength of a second-rate European country. It's a little too incredible. They were willing to believe that it was the Germans who supported them in the first place.

After all, all the major powers in Europe bought weapons patents from the Chinese. And it was produced, but the Germans did not have it, and it is easy to think of the Mauser 1882 rifle that has now been installed in various German combat units. Moreover, trade between Germany and the Chinese in Nanyang has been too close in recent years. In the past few years of economic crisis, the domestic economic situation of the Germans has been much better than that of Britain and France, and it has to be said that the rapidly expanding market in Nanyang China has helped Germany a lot.

"It's just, how can they have such a powerful fleet?" Gu Ba frowned and looked at the fleet in the distance and secretly thought, especially the front one, but in terms of appearance, it is larger than the most powerful Baya-class ironclad ship in his own fleet, with a displacement of at least more than 7,000 tons, and the one in the back is slightly smaller, but it is also larger than the Baya, and on the two battleships, the twin installation of twelve 9-inch naval guns is enough to see how powerful the firepower of these two battleships is.

In addition, as a senior naval officer, Gu Ba has a very in-depth understanding of the construction and layout of warships, although he cannot understand the internal structure of the battleship, but through the telescope he quickly saw that the construction structure of the Chinese Navy's warships is very different from the current ** ships.

For example, all of the main guns have a fully enclosed turret instead of an exposed turret like the one found on the new French ironclad ships. The main guns were all laid out along the central axis of the battleship, the guns on both sides of the battleship were eliminated, but all were placed on the deck, the buildings above the deck became taller and closer to the bow, the sails were eliminated, the mast became more tidy, the high freeboard was adopted, and the bow was no longer straight but had an inclined arc. Of course, the most surprising thing was the iron wire with a length of more than 1.5 meters that stretched out from the back of the command tower and kept shaking from time to time with the turbulence of the battleship!

"What effect do these improvements have on the performance of the battleship?" he thought to himself. Although he did not think much of these yellow-skinned infidels, he also admitted that the top of the navy who could rise in the powerful power of the Far East in five years was certainly not a fool. Therefore, these battleship designs that he couldn't understand must have made him think about the benefits that he couldn't understand, and at this time, a desire uncontrollably emerged in Guba's heart, a desire to personally board the Huo Jiajun Navy warship to investigate.

But before he could figure out how to turn this desire into reality, the adjutant's words almost made Gu Ba's nose crooked.

"General, the Chinese warships have sent flags saying that their warships are patrolling the sea frontier, let's hurry up and get out of the way." ”

"What? these damn yellow-skinned monkeys!" said Guba, who couldn't help but scold.

It is no wonder that he is so angry, now the two sides are less than 20 nautical miles away from Vietnam's coastline, and more than 100 kilometers away from Hainan Island and Guangdong Province. What's more, both Hainan Island and Guangdong Province belong to the territory of the Qing government, more than 1,000 nautical miles away from the Nanyang territory of the Chinese People's Army. Therefore, the reason fabricated by the Huo Jiajun Navy to inspect the maritime frontier is completely untenable.

And judging from the route of the Ho Gia Army naval fleet, if they drive in a straight line, they will be able to reach the port of Haiphong in Vietnam in a maximum of one hour. What made Guba feel the most annoyed was that there was a warship with a combat speed of 15 knots to patrol the sea frontier?

At present, the speed of ironclad ships in European countries is generally 14~15 knots, and the fastest speed of cruisers is generally about 16~17 knots, so unless there is a war, the battleship will generally not increase the speed to the maximum, because in this way, the wear and tear of the main shaft and related parts of the battleship will become faster and higher, and the service life of the battleship will become less.

As for actions such as patrolling the sea and swearing sovereignty, the speed of the ship is generally about 8 knots in order to save coal and other reasons. Moreover, the people who do this kind of small work are generally small-tonnage destroyers and gunboats, or some small-tonnage cruisers, and ironclad ships of six or seven thousand tons like this are used as a strategic force of the fleet, and they will not do anything to patrol the sea and frontier at all.

"Send them that this is the territorial waters of the Kingdom of France, and let their fleet leave immediately, otherwise it will be considered a provocation to the sovereignty of our territorial waters. ”

After recording the order, Adjutant Hans looked at it differently, and looked at the solitude of the fleet in the distance. In his impression, Gu Ba, who was born in the aristocracy, was a typical white supremacist with racist tendencies. In the case of the superiority of his own fleet, in the face of the provocation of the navy of a weak country, he will almost always choose war rather than retreat.

"Maybe the commander has some concerns?" thought to Hans.

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"Hehe, Yushan (Xu Shoushan), look at the reply of the French, say that this is their territorial waters, let's leave quickly!" Li He kicked over with a document in his hand and said.

With the increasing number of warships in the Huo Jiajun Navy, the originally loose naval fleet organization and management system can no longer keep up with the needs of the development of the Huo Jiajun. Therefore, Huo Shan summed up some fleet building methods in later generations and the actual development of the Huo Jiajun, and divided the hundreds of warships under the command of the Huo Jiajun Navy into three major parts, one of which was the Pacific Fleet, which took Pearl Harbor as the home port and had two Mingxiang-class light cruisers, 18 general-class destroyers, and 20 Seahawk-class frigates, with Lu Han as the fleet commander.

The second is the Nanyang Fleet, which has eight coast guard-class frigates, 16 general-class destroyers, and 12 Seahawk-class frigates, with Taipei, Taiwan as its home port, and Xu Shoushan as the commander. The last one is the American Fleet, which is now supporting the Huo Jiajun in the New York operation, with four Admiral-class destroyers and eight Seahawk-class frigates, and Yang Yonglin as the fleet commander.

And Li He is now the political commissar of the Nanyang Fleet of the Huo Jiajun Navy.

After taking the document and looking at it, Xu Shoushan smiled and handed it to the others, "I have long expected that these proud French will come to this set." ”

"Well, that's what I said, but I still have some vision and patience when I look at Gu Ba, and I am a little surprised that he didn't threaten us with war, or directly fire cannons!" As the first batch of students of the Fujian Sailor Academy, Li He, like Xu Shoushan, has a deep understanding of foreigners, so he is somewhat surprised by Gu Ba's approach. (To be continued.) )