May 10th morning.

In this sea area that has almost become the inner sea of ​​the Ming Dynasty, a huge fleet is rising and falling with the waves.

Compared with his brother Zhu Guohui who was on the battlefield for the first time, Colonel Zhu Guoguang, who had already experienced the test of life and death at sea, seemed calm and calm and walked into the commanding tower of his beloved "Tianjin" fast cruiser. This 4,200 tons airborne

The fast cruiser with displacement was suffered from Zhongchuang in a battle two months ago. He had to drive back to Hong Kong for a repair, and also made a minor modification, and 10 120mm caliber secondary guns were also used.

They were all replaced with 155mm rapid-fire guns, which unified the caliber of the main gun and secondary gun of the "Tianjin". This design seems a bit strange from the perspective of later generations, but the current naval ships are originally strange in shape, "Tianjin" class

It's definitely a relatively normal one.

The "Tianjin" ship commanded by Colonel Zhu Guoguang is the flagship of the First Fast Cruiser Detachment. The commander of the team is Major General Wang Born, who graduated from the fourth phase of the Royal Naval Officer's School. He is as dark as a carbon head. He is the current Minister of the Navy.

Wang Dehu's eldest son is 41 years old this year. Zhu Guoguang is the chief of staff of the fast cruiser detachment. This is the custom of the Ming Navy. The temporary fleet or flagship captain of the team also serves as the chief of staff.

Unlike the low bridge of the "Saxony" class and the lower and very narrow command tower, the "Tianjin" class command tower is very high, it is a real "tower" with good vision. It is also protected by thick armor.

The interior is quite spacious. Below the command tower is the communication center, which has ten latest fleet short-wave radio stations and two long-wave radio stations. It can command ten warships at the same time, and can directly contact the naval consultant of Yingtianfu thousands of miles away.

The communication conditions of the Ministry are much better than those of the "Saxon" class. However, now, the entire main fleet is in radio silence and can only accept telegrams, but cannot send telegrams.

"Commander, the Yongli call. The escort fleet has set off from Cainlan Bay."

Zhu Guoguang just went to the communication center and brought the latest news to Wang Born. The main fleet left Xingming Port last night while the night was dark. This port located in the later Brunei Kingdom's Seribaga Bay was in war

It was used for both military and civilians, but now it has become a frontier military port of the Nanyang Fleet. It is protected by large-caliber shore artillery layers. There is also a large dock in the port where ships can be repaired. Moreover, within 20 kilometers, it includes Xingming Fucheng.

, all became military forbidden zones and were strictly blocked by the army. However, in order to keep it absolutely confidential, the fleet left the port at night and lurked into the depths of the South China Sea, waiting for news that the British Oriental Fleet left Singapore.

There is no doubt that the light cruisers of the British Oriental Fleet are very active in southern South China Sea. The huge escort fleet will definitely be discovered by them. There are also radio stations on the British light cruisers.

The Ming Dynasty's Nanyang Fleet also deployed several light cruisers at the exit of the Strait of Malacca. They are all 2,500 tons Hong Kong-class fast cruisers, which are not suitable for participating in fleet decisive battles, so they are specially used to perform missions such as mine laying, reconnaissance, harassment and escort.

Zhu Guoguang once led several such cruisers to compete with the British at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca. He also injured several ships, but unfortunately he did not have the record of sinking. Without reliable armor-piercing blasting bombs,

This is how naval battles look like, it is easy to get hurt and difficult to sink!

In the Russian-Austria-Turkish War twelve years ago, there were even wooden sail battleships hit by ironclad ships with solid armor-piercing bombs and did not sink. In the end, they had to hit them into battle examples. Now all British warships have been equipped with horns.

This is why I am still obsessed with the enemy with the bow.

However, the Ming Naval Ordnance Bureau has always been disdainful of the bow of the enemy and the impact of the enemy ships! In the view of traditional naval powers such as Britain and France, this is because the Chinese Navy's high-level thinking is conservative and still stays in the era of sail battleships. But Zhu Guoguang

But I knew that the column tactics and principle of facing the enemy on the side of the Ming Navy were completely the result of his father Zhu Jishi's insistence... Some layman commanders are really an expert.

However, after Zhu Guoguang participated in many actual combat, he also felt that the tactics of the column to face the enemy on the side were quite desirable, at least it was convenient to command, easy to maintain formation and maneuver, and could also concentrate on using firepower. The only shortcoming was the lack of a final word.

The firepower is not enough to hit the corner to hit. So I have fought many naval battles and no one has sunk. I really don’t know if my luck will be better this time?

Just as Zhu Guoguang prayed for good luck, in Singapore, because looking out from the window of the office of the Oriental Fleet Overseas Command where he was, you can see three huge hulls like mountains! The latest and most important British Royal Navy

The powerful ironclad ships "Queen of India", "Remilis" and "Royal Oak" have all arrived at the port of Singapore and have been incorporated into the Eastern Fleet!

The ship type and displacement of these three battleships are the same. The total length is 108 meters, and it looks very fat. This is because the three ships have a huge oblique connection installed in the part of the bow.

The exposed turret was installed in the exposed turret, and three 16-inch and 28-diameter giant cannons were installed in the exposed turret. This is not a "three-unit" one, but the three-way firecrackers were installed in an exposed turret, which is also three warships.

One of the reasons why I am so fat.

The slanted turret is another reason why the turrets are fat. In history, the turrets of the "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan" of the Beiyang Navy of the Qing Dynasty were also placed in this way, both of which were slightly located on the ship.

In the front position, one of the two turrets is slightly forward and the other is slightly back, with the edges almost connected together. It is really strange! However, the purpose of placing the turret in this way is very clear, which is to make the 6 cannons of the two turrets possible.

All aim at the front. In addition, there are 10 6-inch rapid-fire guns, 14 47mm machine guns, and 7 14-inch white-headed torpedo tubes.

The three ships have an empty-load displacement of 14,000 tons and a full-load displacement of 15,500 tons. They have two 3-cylinder vertical three-inflatable steam engines, 3-axis double rudders, and 8-seat single-head cylinder boilers. The power during normal ventilation is 9,000.

Indicated horsepower, 11,000 indicative horsepower during strong pressure ventilation can provide a high speed of up to 16 knots. The maximum coal load is 1,490 tons, and it can sail continuously at a speed of 10 knots of 4,800 nautical miles.

The armor adopts a very novel composite armor method. The main armor belt on the side is about 75 meters long. The thickest part of the main armor belt on the middle side is 457 mm steel-surfaced iron armor, and then move forward at 406 mm and 356 mm respectively.

and decrease backwards, the inner part is a teak support layer of 102-203 mm thick. The upper part of the side is a steel-surface iron armor with a thickness of 102 mm (long 45 meters x about 2 meters high), (,).

As with these three "Queen Indian" classes, there was also a telegram from the Adventure light cruiser. A Ming Navy escort fleet of about 50 ships had left Cam Ranh Bay and was advancing south.

These include about 25 steam sailing ships.

They must have wanted to cross the Sunda Strait to transport supplies to Chittagong's Central Team... Just 12 hours ago, the team blocked Feni, which was only more than 90 kilometers away from Chittagong. In Chittagong,

There are another nearly 100,000 CNZ teams. They consumed a huge amount of money in their previous attacks on Chittagong. They had to replenish ammunition and heavy equipment before they could continue to go north to clear the 90,000 CNZ teams surrounded. (Unfinished
Chapter completed!