Taiwan Strait, after September, the sea breeze gradually decreases, and now it is almost windless late at night, although it is still above the sea.

oThe waves roll, but they seem particularly calm.[]

"The Chinese are really braver! Baga, they dare to fire on our warships!

We want to punish them with blood!" As the commander of the Japanese Joint Fleet, Shinsuke Kame sat on the Mikasa battleship, holding the telegram just sent from Miyako.

〖Japan〗The combined fleet of Japan is composed of the old-fashioned former battleship Mikasa, the Hikishima Noribata battleship, as well as four armored cruisers "Kashigaki", "Hikari", "Izumo", and "Asama" four armored cruisers "Kashiya", "Chitai,,, "New High", "Photosy", "Rangsu Xiao" and "Takachiho" six fast protection cruisers and ten old-style destroyers.

The data of the Mikasa battleship is significantly lower than the level of the battleship at this time. Its base displacement is ton long and width draft engine type: 2 reciprocating steam engines, engine output power: 15,000 horsepower maximum speed: 18 knots range: 7,000 centimeters (10 knots) Armor: Waterline armor belt 100-230mm, deck 50-75mm, turret 200-360mm, command tower 75-360mm Crew: 860 people Military equipment: 4 doors, 2 seats dual-mounted meter main guns, 14 doors, single-mounted 15.2

Centimeter secondary gun, 20 single-mounted 7.6-centimeter guns, 16-seat single-mounted 47-mm guns, and 4 45-centimeter torpedo tubes. Its armor is thin and its speed is too slow, only eighteen knots.

As for the four armored cruisers including Kasuga, they were repaired and used by the warships that were injured or silent during the Russo-Japanese War. Their displacement is ton main scale (length, width, and water draft.

7.32mm naval gun 254mm, 1 (daily double-engine installation is 203mm4)

203mm2 (4 doors per day),

152mm*4

80mm*10

47mm*6 power 2 reciprocating steam engines, output horsepower of 13,500 horsepower, 1180 tons of large coal loading speed of 20 knots torpedo 450mm*4 armored water line belt 88-180mm, deck 50mm, turret 150mm, command tower 75-360mm crew (person) 600, armored cruisers are even more backward coal-burning ships and have not been converted into oil-coal hybrid power. Therefore, this cruiser is basically an inland sea defense ship. It is useless except for targets at sea.

The remaining ships are even more clichéd. Even their destroyers' speed is only about twenty-one knots, and they are completely offshore defensive warships. Of course, in their opinion, the Su-Anhui government only has one battle cruiser and several large and medium-sized cruisers, and believes that these warships are enough to form an overwhelming advantage.

Thirty nautical miles ahead of the Japanese fleet, a fleet of small warships was waiting for an opportunity like a pack of wolves.

"Commander, all ships have reported the situation one after another. Everything in the warship is stable and can launch an attack at any time! In addition, our army's rapid exploration of the boat has found traces of the Japanese fleet, which is only thirty nautical miles away from our army." An adjutant next to Yiding came to report the situation.

"So how many enemy warships are there?" Facing the Japanese fleet, Zeng Yiding was a little uneasy even though he had trained for a long time. After all, the opponent's strength was too great.

"According to visual observation, there are two former dreadnought battleships, four old-fashioned armored cruisers, six fast protection cruisers, and ten destroyers. It is estimated that their speed is only sixteen knots!" The adjutant handed him the telegram again.

In fact, the telegraph aircraft has not been equipped on every battleship, but is only equipped on the command ship or on the exploration ship. Therefore, there are only four of the entire offshore fleet equipped with radios, namely l010 (fleet flagship), d021 (second team command ship), h031 (third team command ship) and the rapid exploration boat. There is a radio station, and the exploration boat is only a small boat of 200 tons.

It also does not carry any weapons, including torpedoes, and of course these two tings are used as defense machine guns, but they can be ignored. Its speed is as high as thirty-eight knots and is specially made for exploration.

"Okay! I didn't expect that the Japanese were all old-fashioned warships sent out. They issued orders to the other two teams to launch torpedoes on large Japanese navy ships as soon as possible. In short, our fighting motto must remember that if you exchange ten ships for one, the wolves will hit the target with one blow. But you should also pay attention to avoiding Japanese artillery!" For the offshore fleet, the slow Japanese warships on the opposite side were their prey, but they also knew that this prey had powerful teeth and sharp claws. No matter how dilapidated Mikasa was, it was still a battleship. Therefore, if they were bitten by their artillery, a small torpedo boat would definitely not have any chance of survival, and other armored cruiser artillery poses the same threat to them.

It’s a pity that there is no wind at night, but it’s still a murderous night. All the torpedo boats ignited the boilers and started, reaching a speed of twenty-six knots in less than five nautical miles.

The Japanese naval detachment was still urgently heading to Kaohsiung to block several Chinese warships chasing the Miyako, but when they approached the waters of the Penghu Islands, small warships suddenly rushed out from the front.

"Baga! What is that?" A fast defense cruiser with a clear road in front of him found several ships within five thousand meters. In a blink of an eye, he turned into dozens or hundreds of strange-shaped canoes, like an enlarged canoe. The warship was very small, only one-fourth or fifth of that of an armored cruiser. There was no weapon or equipment seen on it, and the speed was extremely fast. They rushed towards the Izumo at high speed and then turned and left suddenly.

"Click the alarm!" No matter what these warships are, or they are not warships at all, because these ships have no weapons at all, the Japanese sailors still sounded the battle alarm, and a huge and harsh alarm sounded on the calm ocean for a moment.

"What's going on?" Lu Mu Shanfu was restless all the way and had an ominous premonition. Now he suddenly heard the alarm coming and hurried out of the lounge.

After all, this fleet is too old. In offshore defense, the advantage of artillery is still winding, but once it is fought in the ocean, it will be different. Because the detour in the ocean is larger, their super slow speed will bring them the disaster of destruction.

"Report to the squad leader, a fast defense cruiser in front of him emitted an alarm but didn't know what he found! Their flag language was very vague, and they couldn't tell what the enemy was. It was a strange thing. The fast small battleship without any weapons was only about a thousand tons." The adjutant replied beside Shinfu Shin-suke.

"Hmm? Haga! Are the Chinese patrol ships?" Shinsuke Shin-suke couldn't figure it out, but at this time he heard the swap-singing shouts on the Izumo on the distance.

"What is that? Be careful of torpedoes, avoid them, avoid them quickly..." After they saw the Chinese torpedo boat, the torpedo boat also directly fired torpedoes at them. Because everyone's attention was on the strange appearance of the torpedo boat, they did not notice the torpedo. They did not wake up suddenly when the torpedo was only hundreds of meters away from them. It was a torpedo boat, and the high-speed torpedo boats should also be equipped with small-caliber artillery!

In fact, when this idea was first made, someone mentioned it to Dengsen, but Dengsen believed that the main function of torpedo boats is to launch torpedoes and maintain a high speed as the top priority. Therefore, the entire ship is built like a ridge, and the hull is also a narrow assembly line like a submarine in later generations. This shape allows the small power system of torpedo boats to win them higher speeds. Just as they approached the enemy warships four or five thousand meters, each torpedo boat instantly fired two torpedo boats, and each three torpedo boats aimed at a Japanese warship. The shape of the Japanese warships is arrow-shaped. Because the two battleships are slower, they are not affected in the rear.

o and.

However, the relatively fast speed of Himeji, the two armored cruisers Izumo, as well as Kashiya, Chitose, and the new high-level three fast-protective cruisers, were almost destroyed.

First, Kazuya was at the forefront and was the first to discover the Iron Blood Army torpedo boat. It had no time to react. Six high-speed torpedo hit the head of the torpedo. The armor in front of the hull was instantly smashed and then violently exploded inside. The other two hit torpedoes detonated at the same time. The entire 3,000-ton cruiser was instantly torn apart in the air, and its remaining limbs even flew a thousand meters away.

At the same time, several other front warships were also attacked by dozens or hundreds of torpedo boats. For a moment, there were violent explosions in the front.

"Baga! Form a defensive formation and sink those hateful Chinese ants!" The attack came too suddenly, and the torpedo boats fired too fast. Every three torpedo boats aimed at a Japanese warship and carried out fan attacks at a distance of three or four thousand meters. Even if the Japanese warships escaped a few gates, they still couldn't escape the misfortune. However, the Japanese army then changed their formations and became troublesome! The Japanese fleet had two battleships armed to the teeth, two armored cruisers, three fast defense cruisers, and ten destroyers maneuvering around, and torpedoes.

The range is only more than 3,000 meters underwater, and the distance is too far away, and the enemy ships can avoid it calmly. The reason why they can hit five Japanese warships so quickly at the beginning is entirely because the Japanese warships are also moving and did not notice the torpedo. Now the Japanese army has changed its formation. If they break into a distance of 3,000 meters, they will be bombarded by all the artillery artillery of the Japanese fleet, and the carrier-based artillery of almost any warship of the Japanese army has fatal lethality to it. Especially the artillery of six inches and above is almost killed by one another and injured by another.

"Generate power to the other two detachments, sea wolf strategy, three-sided assault, every forty torpedo boats hit and attack, be prepared to jump into the sea at any time!,, torpedo boats are originally wolves on the sea. Of course, the wolves in the past were too slow and could not catch up with prey at all, but now they are different. Perhaps facing Japanese warships, using this tactic will cause too much loss, but Japanese warships here are all too old and have no resistance in speed. For example, if Japanese cruisers have a speed of more than twenty-five, then they can pose a certain threat to the torpedo boat. If the torpedo boats want to launch torpedoes at close range, they can be caught up by the cruiser, but unfortunately, the Japanese fleet does not have it!
Chapter completed!