Chinese fleet?!!

The Chinese are crazy ?!

"How many ships do they have?!"

Days couldn't help but ask the adjutant beside him for the first time.

The answer was a frightened and overwhelmed face.

Thanks to the recent propaganda of the "Yellow Peril Theory".

The image of the Chinese in Western Europe has successfully become such characters as Cyrus, Saladin, Attila, Genghis Khan and so on.

Two or three hundred years after the Europeans reached the top of European hegemony, they recalled the fear of being dominated by the iron hoof from the East.

Oh.

It's not just the Iron Hoof this time.

And battleships!

Ironclad!

Days himself is like falling into an ice cave.

He boarded the bridge and held his binoculars to look out over the sea to the east.

Soon I saw a black column of smoke emerging from the sea in the distance.

Black smoke drifted into the sky, forming a black cloud in the distance.

Soon.

Under the black smoke, one warship after another began to appear.

"Capital ship! It is the capital ship of the Chinese!! ”

The hands holding the binoculars were trembling, and Days couldn't help but roar.

“1、2、3、4”

"Eight Zhen-class, eight Hong-class, is the Chinese's eight-eighth fleet! A whole eighty-eight fleet! ”

Dyce's head went blank.

An eighty-eight fleet appeared in the Indian Ocean, and they certainly couldn't have come to tourist!!

A word came to Dyce's mind: World War!

The world war is about to begin!

It's just too scary.

Days is just a small person, and his goal in life is just to be able to hang out comfortably at the naval headquarters in London until retirement.

He never thought about it.

I will be a witness and witness to the beginning of a world war.

"Major! We are going to report to the headquarters of the Indian Ocean Fleet! ”

His lieutenant reminded.

"That's right! Turn! Turn!! Return to the Maldives at full speed! ”

Dyce's back was in a cold sweat.

He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself.

Holding the binoculars, he continued to probe in the direction where the fleet was coming: "An eighty-eight fleet, and several frigates at the same time, there may be a huge group of landing ships behind them!" ”

He said aloud as an officer next to him scribbled to his notebook.

"The damned Chinese are really here!"

"The world war is about to begin!!"

"Spot an enemy patrol ship!"

On the battleship Zhenwu, the atmosphere has also reached a very tense moment.

Zhu Yimi stood on the command tower, holding a telescope and looking ahead.

Of course, it was impossible for his eldest brother to appear at the Zhenwu level in person to participate in this big battle.

After all.

For the Ming Empire.

The importance of the crown prince is far more important than the victory in this naval battle.

The stability of the heir to the empire means the stability of the future of the Ming Empire.

No one dared to let the prince come to the battlefield to take risks.

The commander of the Indian Ocean Fleet, Zhang Bao, and the chief of staff, Chen Huacheng, were in the flagship command room in the cabin at this time.

Connecting ships with the latest radio technology is a technology that was born just last year.

Thanks to the contribution of a mysterious person.

After the Electric Power Research Institute of the Royal Academy of Sciences of the Ming Dynasty developed the world's first wired telegraph, it soon developed radio technology - historically, wired electricity technology began to appear around the 1830s, and the world's first telegraph appeared in 1837.

And now in this plane.

Because of the "reminder" of a mysterious person.

Telegraph technology appeared more than two decades ahead of schedule.

At the same time, it also points out radio technology in passing - historically, the discovery of radio alone had to wait until the 1860s.

But sometimes that's what science is.

Discovery, more difficult than application.

And now.

On this fleet.

There is a radio communication connection between the captain and the fleet commander of each fleet.

But alas.

Radio long-distance communication is still a difficult problem to solve for the time being.

As a matter of fact.

Radio communication on the fleet is sometimes limited by distance.

However, this is already a cross-generational thing.

In the command room of the Zhenwu, the staff officers can maintain contact with the ships through radio, so as to achieve long-distance communication and more complex and flexible command than the flag language.

"Wind direction, southeast wind, wind speed level 4."

"Order the fleet to move northward and cut into the northwest of the Maldives archipelago from the north!"

Zhang Bao gave the order.

"Will they fight?" He looked at his chief of staff, Chen Huacheng.

"Definitely! Don't they have a tradition of fighting when they see the enemy? What's more. They have more capital ships than we do! Chen Huacheng said.

Zhang Bao nodded: "Our artillery is all explosive shells, it is difficult to sink the opponent, but it only needs to be damaged, if you can knock out the power of a few opponent's capital ships, you can have a record of sinking enemy ships." ”

"The power is all gone, isn't it too wasteful to sink them again?" Chen Huacheng smiled.

"That's right." Zhang Bao nodded, he never thought that the current naval battle would become what it is now.

Since everyone is a sturdy ironclad and there are no reliable explosive armor-piercing shells, it is not easy to sink an ironclad.

In the past ten years, a head-to-head confrontation between naval powers has not taken place.

But in Europe, there were still some naval battles.

Some of them are examples of ironclad and traditional sail battleship battles.

The wooden-hulled sail battleship was hit by the ironclad ship with solid armor-piercing bullets for more than a dozen rounds and did not sink, and finally it was directly hit and sunk by the ironclad ship.

Based on this kind of example.

The navies of many Western countries believe.

In the era of ironclads.

The power of the cannon is weakened by the thickness of the armor.

If you want to sink an enemy ship, you have to revert to some of the methods of the navy of the classical era - such as ramming.

Therefore, the ironclad ships of the navies of the British Empire, the French Empire and other countries are now optimized for impact and installed with solid ramming angles.

But the ironclad ships of the Ming Navy did not have any ramming design from the very beginning.

It showed disdain for the tactics of bowing the enemy and sinking the enemy ship.

In the eyes of the Anglo-French traditional naval powers.

This is the conservative thinking of the high-level of the Ming Navy, and they still use ironclad ships as sailships.

Right now.

In the telescope vision of Zhu Yimi, the captain of the Zhenwu, there were tall bows of British warships.

"The British have appeared!!"

Zhu Yimian suddenly put down the telescope in his hand.

I couldn't help but get excited.

Although said.

In the midst of military exercises.

The principles adhered to by the Ming Navy, such as "facing the enemy from the flank", "column tactics", and "pursuing damage with fast artillery", have been proved to be sufficient to form an advantage over the ironclad ships of the Western Navy.

But

It's all a drill thing.

What will really happen in real combat.

Who knows?

(End of chapter)