Kiyin Waterway, in the waters near Shikoku Island, on board the British cruiser Leander, British Royal Navy Captain James. John. Gordon. Bo Mai was holding up his binoculars and nervously watching the smoke rising from the sea in the distance!

When smoke rises from the sea, either a ship is burning or a ship is deliberately emitting smoke. Previously, the four warships of the Ming Dynasty were released for a while when they opened up from the waters near the island...... Smoke and run!

And Colonel Bommer is sure to destroy the British Royal Navy Captain when he sees the enemy, and of course he can't watch the enemy go from under his nose. So he immediately summoned a Buffalo-class destroyer and his second-class cruiser, the Leander, to form a small formation, and then pursued the enemy ships that had escaped at a speed of 24-28 knots at a speed of up to 16 knots.

Chasing, of course, can't catch up. And when he caught up with Colonel Burmai, he estimated that he might not be able to beat it, at least the two Lushun classes would definitely not be able to beat. Although his second-class cruiser Leander also has a standard displacement of 4,300 tons, and its protection capability is not weak, it is much worse than the Lushun class. The cannon barrel alone can't be compared! There are 16 155 mm 40 times the diameter rapid-fire guns on a Lushun class, while there are only 2 7-inch 30 times the diameter main gun and 2 6-inch 35 times the diameter secondary guns on the Leander, the former is also a half-speed fire gun, although the latter is a rapid-fire gun, but both the range and the rate of fire are still far less than the Ming Dynasty's 155 mm 40 times the diameter of the rapid-fire gun.

So chasing it, but not catching up is indeed the best result. If you chase it, it means that the Royal Navy of the British Empire has won the battle! Since neither warship sank, then whoever escaped and who chased showed who won and who lost.

After the brave Colonel Bermai led two British Royal Navy warships in pursuit of the enemy for more than four hours, he could finally be sure that he had won the pursuit!

The enemy's shadow is gone, and he is about to chase out of the Kiyin Waterway into the Pacific Ocean...... Even if the Ming Navy that invaded Japan was driven out, how could it be regarded as a victory?

Just as he was about to return triumphantly with a sense of relief, an unexpected change came!

Suddenly there were a few roars on the sea, and then thick smoke billowed out, as if some ship had burned?

What's going on?

It can't be a Royal Navy ship burning, right? It was impossible to have British battleships in that direction...... Because when chasing the Ming warship that "fled in the wilderness", he was the most vigorous. The other two second-class escort ships were very "heavy", and the speed did not seem to exceed 15 knots, and he ordered the Leander to pursue it at a speed of up to 16 knots (the fastest can run 20 knots)!

Since it was not the ship of the British Royal Navy that blew up, it was the ship of the Japanese or the ship of the Ming Empire...... And most of them are Ming ships!

Because they must be running at full speed because they are running so fast, and in this case the steam boiler is easy to fry. In addition, they also suffered a lot of shells just now, and some of them must have not exploded. Maybe I accidentally blew it up while cleaning and repairing!

If there is such a good thing, the credit must be given to Colonel Bomer...... He was promoted to colonel at the time of the Napoleonic Wars (1814), and more than ten years have passed now, and a brigadier general has not been promoted, and he is old if he can't go up again. Therefore, this opportunity to make meritorious contributions cannot be missed! He just had to drive over with the formation to take a picture and shoot a few more torpedoes, and the credit would be there!

Thinking of this, Bomai took a deep breath and said to the left and right: "5 degrees to the left rudder, head towards the place where the black smoke comes out...... Also, flag the Hippo and get them ready for torpedoes! ”

"Yes, sir!"

In this way, the two British battleships, under the command of the brave Colonel Burme, with the 800-ton destroyer HMS Hippo as the vanguard and the 4,300-ton cruiser USS Lidsan as the rear, cautiously drove towards the smoky sea.

"Sir, it's a destroyer...... It seems to be Xinchang level, and it seems to have been abandoned! ”

Someone suddenly shouted from inside the bridge of the Lidjan.

Bomai tried to suppress his excitement, holding his binoculars and looking around—he didn't see the ships of the Ming Navy around. The waters in this area were already close to Cape Muroto on the island of Shikoku, and the Ming destroyer was parked less than three nautical miles from the east coast of Cape Muroto, motionless. In addition, there are two wooden boats that look like lifeboats on the beach of Cape Muroto nearby.

Obviously, something happened to this destroyer and it was abandoned by the naval officers and men of the Ming Dynasty!

Well, it should be like this, otherwise what is this ship doing? Colonel Burmai really couldn't think of it.

"Sir, we can capture that ship!" The deputy commander of the Lid'an had already made a suggestion by this time.

"Good!" Bo Mai nodded and smiled, "We can capture it...... This is the true strength of the Royal Navy! Flag the Hippo and order the Hippo to try to send someone to board the ship and capture the destroyer of the Ming Navy, there must be a lot of military secrets on it! ”

"Yes, sir!"

......

"Drip, drip, drip......"

With the sound of a telegram, the exact directions of the two British warships were transmitted by the radio waves to the Lushun and Vladivostok on the other side of Cape Muroto.

Cape Muroto is actually a fairly slender peninsula with low hills and the sea on both sides. On one side is the Kiyin Waterway, and on the other side is Tuzuo Bay.

Because there is a large mountain to obstruct it, the ships on both sides cannot see each other...... If there were no radio waves, it would have been impossible for the Lushun and Vladivostok, which are now located in Tuzuo Bay, to know the exact location of the Lid'an and Hippo, let alone bombard them.

But now, the radio on the Xinchang, which is "playing dead", can tell the location of the Lid'an and the Hippo to the two cruisers on the other side through the radio, thus acting as the eyes of the two cruisers.

And the 155mm guns on the Lushun and Vladivostok are also quite powerful - they are 40 times the diameter of the rapid-fire guns, with a range of up to 12 kilometers, and they can be hit from Cape Muroto to the other end (5 to 6 kilometers away)!

Of course, in actual naval battles, this range is of little significance, because of the problem of hull shaking and observation level, the effective range of the Ming Dynasty's 155 mm 40 times the diameter of the naval gun, that is, within 4000 meters...... Unless the problem of sighting and excessive hull shaking can be solved, the 155mm gun will be able to hit a target at a longer distance.

And now, the problem of observation and sighting has been solved by the "playing dead" Xinchang and the radio station. The problem of the hull shaking was partially solved by anchoring the hull.

So 20 155-mm cannons on the Arthur and Vladivostok (at most these in one direction) are ready! And these 20 cannons can also hit a real concentrated fire - 20 cannons bombard the same target according to the instructions of the Xinchang!

"Sir, there are two British ships that have been fooled, one is a Leander-class cruiser, and the other is a Buffalo-class destroyer!"

In the bridge of the Lushun, Officer Tong Xun put down the phone and headset and reported loudly to Zhuge Weidao.

Zhuge nodded for the Dao, and thought: "That Li Chenghui, who looks a little sluggish, turns out to be quite good at fighting, and he can come up with such a bad move......

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Do you have Zhu Yuan?" ”

"There it is."

Zhuge nodded for Dao and said, "Okay!" Fight across the mountain...... Now it's time to show the true strength of my Ming Navy! ”

......

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Just as Colonel Bommey was jubilantly waiting for the capture of a Ming destroyer, a wave of 155-mm shells fell without warning! And it also landed directly near the cruiser Leander! One of the most recent shells even landed thirty or forty meters away on the port side of the Leander, and a column of water of more than ten meters rose into the air, and a huge wave even crashed on the deck of the Leander.

This is a close miss, but it scares everyone on the bridge of the Burmer and Leander!

Where's the gun? How can it be so accurate?

There were no enemy ships nearby, just a destroyer of the Ming Navy...... That destroyer did not fire a gun, and it could not have such firepower!

Could it be a Japanese cannon mounted on Mt. Muroto?

The Japanese have already betrayed the British Empire to the Ming as a dog?

Bomai still hasn't understood what's going on? The second and third shells had already fallen, and they were more accurate than the last, and the second wave of shelling fired a single shot, and all 20 shells landed in front of and behind Lid'an, and one even landed 20 meters away from Lid'an......

The first wave is close to the division, the second wave is cross-shooting, and the third wave is ..... At this time, all the officers of the bridge of the Lidsian had a thought that the end was near.

Bo Mai opened his mouth and was about to give the order to turn the rudder and evacuate, when suddenly someone shouted in his ear: "Airship...... The sky is full of airships! It's an airship firing guns! ”

What? Airships firing?