Naval Academy, conference room.

Although it was already evening, the conference room was brightly lit, and students above the Naval Academy squadron leader gathered together. The Naval Academy cadets included newly recruited sailors and soldiers drawn from various naval divisions. The number of people reached nearly 12,000, with six brigades, twenty-four squadrons, Wu Ge and Yande also became the captains of the squadrons.

As Yinzhen entered the conference room, everyone stood up to greet him. Yinzhen walked to the head seat, pressed his hands and let everyone sit down. He said, "Let's go tomorrow and go to Fujian to fight the Spanish fleet. Everyone here is very unfamiliar with the Spanish fleet. Wuge, tell you about the situation of the Spanish fleet."[.]

"Yes." Wuge stood up and said, "Everyone, the Spanish fleet, also known as the Great Luzon Fleet, was temporarily stationed in the port of Manila in the South China Ocean from the West. The fleet consists of two second-level battleships, five third-level battleships, fifteen fourth-level battleships, and twenty various auxiliary warships, with a total of more than 12,000 people?

At this time, the Spanish fleet that invaded our Qing Dynasty's South China Sea According to the Guangdong Navy and Fujian Navy battle reports, there were 35 large and small warships. According to the customary configuration of Western warships, there should be two second-level battleships, four third-level battleships, twelve fourth-level battleships, and seventeen various auxiliary warships, with a total of more than 10,000 people."

Yinzhen signaled Wu Ge to sit down, glanced at everyone, and said: "In view of the fact that our naval second-class battleship, the South China Sea 1, is not skilled in the operation, and we will not participate in this battle for the time being. The naval battleships are twenty-five auxiliary ships, and with twenty-five auxiliary ships, everyone should be afraid of the Spanish fleet of eighteen main warships and seventeen auxiliary warships.

As the saying goes, knowing yourself and your enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles. We have learned about the comparison of the number of warships between the two sides. Let’s learn about the speed, artillery configuration and performance comparison of warships between the two sides. Yande, let’s talk about it.”

"Yes." Yande stood up and said, "The warships of our navy are all the same fast sailing warships. They are generally used in the fleet for offensive and pursuit of the chasing and chasing the sentry detectives. They are incomparable to the two, three and four main battleships. However, in terms of speed, they are far better than the main battleships.

In addition, what everyone is not clear about is that the artillery of the Spanish main warships, regardless of caliber size, can only be fired within 500 yards or even 400 yards according to the combat regulations. The most fundamental reason is that their artillery has no rifle, and once it exceeds 500 yards, there is no accurate head.

Our naval warships' eighteen-pound cannon has a hit rate of 80% in 800 yards, and the thirty-pound cannon can have a hit rate of 50% in 1,500 yards. The shooting speed of the cannon is close to twice the firing speed of the opponent's cannon.

What does this mean? We can attack outside the opponent's range, and the Spanish fleet is our navy's target ship!"

The Spanish fleet is our navy’s target ship!

Yande's words were so loud that all the navy showed an excited expression. The original fear of war and concerns about the huge gap in strength between the two sides were immediately wiped out.

Yinzhen stood up and glanced at everyone, saying, "In order to facilitate the utilization of our naval speed advantage, each warship is limited to 200 people, and each six warships form a team to facilitate concentrated firepower attacks. Now, I appointed Yande as the captain of the first squad. Delgao as the captain of the second squad. Liu Zhisheng as the captain of the third squad. Lin Wei as the captain of the fourth squad. Wuge, Yinxiang follows me in the center to command."

"Respect." Those who clicked the name stood up and responded.

Yinzhen said with a slight head, "The captains under the names of each team shall be appointed by the captains themselves."

The Fourteenth Old Man was a good method. Yinxiang thought to himself that in this way, the team leader had absolute control over the team, and could achieve the effect of using the arm to use fingers in battle, greatly enhancing the team leader's prestige.

Fang Bao was not idle either at the end of the spring garden. He was rushing to make an article overnight. Yinzhen ordered Zheng Qingyuan to find a few people who witnessed the Manila Massacre and tell Fang Bao about the tragic situation of the Manila Massacre and the robbery in the South China Sea. He asked him to write an article for the Beijing News, showing the bloody massacre in Luzon in Manila, and truly narrating the robbery in Manila.

Fang Bao naturally knew that Yinzhen wanted to use the Beijing News to arouse hatred from the Qing Dynasty and the people of the Qing Dynasty and do positive propaganda for him to send troops to Southeast Asia, and he wrote very carefully.

In the early morning, it was dim and a group of naval cadets in neat blue uniforms rushed to the Honggang military wharf. Most of the cadets who failed to participate in the first battle of the navy were from the second session, and they were also lined up in neat teams to see off their comrades at the wharf.

Looking at the teams of students excitedly boarding the warship, I don’t know which team started, and sang the navy’s military song. The waves rose, the seaside looked south, the sails were like forests, and the dragon was angry. Then one team after another started singing.

The dragon flag was flying on the pier, and the singing was loud. People who were awakened rushed to the outside of the pier to watch from afar. Seeing the densely decorated naval cadets on the pier lined up and slowly boarding the warship. Thinking of yesterday's rumors, the people were excited to board the time.

The Navy really set off to fight the Great Luzon fleet!

The news spread quickly, and people kept coming to watch after hearing the news. It was really unbelievable. The navy had only more than twenty small boats to compete with the rumored huge Luzon fleet, and the people were talking about it for a while:

"Is this going to fight the Great Luzon fleet? Could it be that I'm going back to the capital?"

"Don't talk nonsense, isn't it safer to go back to Beijing to take the land?"

"The fourteenth prince is a crime. They are all seventeen or eight years old. They die at the sea but cannot even bring the corpse back."

"What are you chewing on? This is a great army going to fight. Is it a good thing? I haven't heard that the fourteenth prince personally led his army to fight."

"Good example, our navy has backbone."

"Defend the country!" "Resist the enemy from the country's gates!" "Blood sprinkles the battlefield and does not lose its prestige!" "Defend the southeastern coast to the death!" As soon as the singing stopped, slogans suddenly sounded on the dock.

The onlookers only heard the hearts of the people, and many of them were wet in their eyes. It was rumored that the power of the Great Luzon fleet was so huge. I wonder how many warships could come back in this small naval fleet?

Zhang Mengjiao rushed outside the military port early and searched for Yinzhen's figure in the crowd with a telescope from afar. She didn't dare to go forward to see her off. She knew very well that the army had always been forbidden to let women get close to her when they went to war.

Many Western missionaries also rushed over. Although they were all Europeans, most of them were enemies of Spain. Bai Lihua stood in the crowd, silently drawing a cross and praying for God to bless him to make a miracle. He sighed in his heart, the brave Oriental! This time the Spanish stabbed a hornet's nest!

The loud and long military horn echoed at the pier, and the naval fleet set sail one by one.
Chapter completed!