830、The Seven Incredible Events of Dameng
As soon as the British arrived, the ship began to enter a state of combat readiness. The soldiers ran around. The artillerymen drilled into the fort. The machine gunners picked up their machine guns, and each sailor was in their place. In this case, of course, a large number of officers who controlled the instruments would come in to the captain's office.
It was not convenient for Yi Yun and the others to continue making trouble in the captain's room, and everyone was dressed neatly.
The soldiers entered the captain's room one after another, and they were guarding the instruments they were responsible for. Due to Yi Yun's bad taste, all the instrument soldiers in the captain's room were female soldiers. One of them was walking and suddenly felt something on the ground in front of them. She looked carefully and found it was a pair of pink underwear. The female soldier was shocked: "Where did this...this thing come from? Who accidentally dropped the underwear?"
Yi Yun Khan, isn't that Li Hongzhang's? But he couldn't say it, so he had to scold the female soldiers with a stern face and said, "Why are you guys wearing underwear? As you walked, the underwear fell out of it... It's too unreasonable."
The female soldiers were also sweating profusely. A few girls in pink underwear quickly reached out and touched their underwear. They felt that they were still wearing them well. Then they breathed a sigh of relief. Several girls protested: "Prince, although we are not as smart as the princesses, we are not as clever as we wear underwear. How could it fall out of it while walking?"
Yi Yun said: "Then whose is this?"
The female soldiers looked at each other. After a while, they began to check each other who was not wearing underwear. The result of the inspection was of course that everyone was wearing it. Everyone wanted to break their heads and couldn't understand why a pair of women's underwear was thrown in the captain's room... This secret was later widely praised by the female soldiers. It was composed of a ghost story called "The Seven Incredible Events of the Big Cute" and later, the story became like this: In the unmanned captain's room, there was a pervert wandering around, and his favorite was women's underwear... After this story came out, the female soldiers did not dare to enter the captain's room alone, and they had to come in groups before they dared to enter.
Well, let’s not mention these unconventional later words, but the Cute Mai was on full alert. I saw a British fleet with a not-too-large size appeared at the entrance of the Strait of Malacca. The flagship of this fleet is of course the Queen Elizabeth. The standard displacement is 33,000 tons and a full load displacement of 36,300 tons.
There are four cruisers next to them, four destroyers and frigates, and the cruisers are all 10,000 tons. Yi Yun cannot recognize that many. The destroyers are even smaller. Only a few thousand tons, but at this scale, they are enough to dominate the world. It seems that the British came here with these new fleets this time. They also intend to destroy the fleet of Da Mengguo in one fell swoop, because in the British intelligence, Da Mengguo only had one large warship, that is, Da Meng. In addition, the Beiyang Navy ships such as Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were only 7,000 tons, which was not as large as their cruisers. Moreover, it was not only a problem of tonnage, but also due to the advancement of weapon technology, old warships such as Dingyuan and Zhenyuan might not even win the British destroyers.
There were radars on the British fleet. They also discovered Yi Yun's Da Meng at the same time. They saw the Da Meng floating alone on the sea. The British were immediately overjoyed and rushed towards Yi Yun happily.
In fact, with the technology of the two armies, naval guns have the ability to strike the enemy outside the range of sight. These days, naval guns can hit more than ten kilometers away, but that kind of attack is too unreliable and it is okay to use them to fight on land. If you use them for fleet warfare, you need to pay considerable luck. If you waste countless ammunition, you may not be able to hit the target... Although Europe has the technology provided by the Industrial Revolution, the soldiers' speed of learning these new technologies cannot keep up. Although Yi Yun can use the "infectiousness of the home" to directly let the soldiers learn shooting technology outside the range of sight, Yi Yun's materials are tight and he dare not fire guns randomly outside the range of sight to waste ammunition.
As a result, both armies adopted the tactic of entering the visual range and then fighting again. It was pitiful that they used emerging technologies like this.
The British fleet in the telescope was getting bigger and bigger. Admiral Li Huamei, the captain of the Big Cute, couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Although she had fought countless tough battles in the Wind Sail Age, she said it was the first time that this was the battle of such a giant steel ship. This was different from the naval battle in the Wind Sail Age. It didn't matter if you got a dozen shots in those days, but you would be miserable if you got a shot in these days.
She couldn't help but nervously said to Yi Yun: "Prince, do we want to fire first?"
Yi Yun shook his head and said, "Don't be anxious! Let's turn around and turn to the direction of Ise and Beiyang and fight and retreat." It turned out that the Beiyang and Ise were still supplying oil on a small island in the east at this time, so the Da Meng was alone and it was unrealistic to fight and go against the British fleet with one ship.
Li Huamei nodded and issued an order.
The Big Cute began to turn around, obviously showing an attitude of running away. Of course, the British did not allow it to escape and quickly chased after it. The admiral of the British fleet was named David Betty, a new commander of the young British generation. He has always performed well in the British Royal Navy. He once suppressed the local people in Egypt and Sultan and made great achievements in military affairs. In history, this guy has also come to China and participated in the campaign to suppress the Boxer Rebellion. He performed outstandingly in Tianjin and was promoted to naval colonel. Of course, the Big Cute Kingdom has no Boxer Rebellion, so this guy changed from suppressing the Boxer Rebellion to dealing with the Prince Yi Yun of the Shanghai King. This is called the similarity of history!
Betty was in the captain's room of Queen Elizabeth, laughing proudly: "Hahaha, in the last battle, the Great Man in the Mad Man relied on this huge Da Cute, and defeated our coalition's navy, but they certainly could not have imagined that we had already developed the Queen Elizabeth that would not lose to him in a blink of an eye! And we also formed a huge British navy. Hahaha, this time the Great Man in Mad Man is dead. When we kill the Great Man, we can rush to the edge of the Shanghai Oasis and bombard their industrial base, hahahaha..."
Betty laughed wildly, but there was an old voice beside him: "Although the naval can destroy all the coast, if you want to completely destroy the Shanghai Oasis, you still have to rely on our strategic level destruction spell." The speaker was the Pope. He didn't like the Industrial Revolution from the bottom of his heart, but... the Industrial Revolution is a trend of development in Europe after all, and he could not stop it, so he had to repeatedly remind others: "It's better for our Holy See."
Betty looked at the Pope unhappy, but didn't say anything, but was unhappy. In fact, due to the emergence of emerging technologies, the Holy See's position in Europe has plummeted. A new generation of generals like Betty are not very responsible for the Holy See's account.
At this time, the big cute roar fled eastward and fired the cannon. The shells fell into the sea more than ten meters outside the left string of Queen Elizabeth, splashing huge sand columns, and yellow sea sand rose and fluttered from all sides. Betty laughed and said, "Their artillery skills are so bad, we can also fire..."
The 381mm caliber cannon on Queen Elizabeth also exhaled its anger. The shells passed by and hit the Big Cute, but they failed to hit it accurately. They landed on the sea next to the Big Cute, and also stirred up the sand pillars soaring into the sky.
Seeing that Yi Fang had also beaten the wrong way, the Pope sneered: "I also said that the artillery skills were bad, didn't you beaten the wrong way too?"
Betty's tender face turned slightly red: "Well... this is an accident. Our two ships are several miles apart and are sailing at a speed of more than twenty knots. In this case, it is difficult to hit accurately."
The Pope snorted: "So I said technology is not good at all, but magic is the best. No matter how far away the magic is, it can hit it accurately."
Betty was unhappy and cursed: Stop talking nonsense, how could your shit magic be so powerful? Before you recited the spell, someone hit your forehead, and you were still farting magic. Thinking of this, he couldn't help but touch the revolver inserted in his pocket, thinking: My new revolver is loaded with six bullets, and you can shoot you six shots in a very short time. I don't think you have time to chant the spell.
Of course, this idea can only be thought about, he dared not kill the Pope.
At this time, Yiyun's ship was still running away. Betty ordered a chasing. The Elizabeth was a ship burning mixed with oil and coal, so once it sailed at full speed, it would add coal, and the big chimney on the ship would roll in black smoke. However, Yiyun's Big Cute was completely burning oil and did not smoke at all. After this, the technical gap was obvious.
Betty couldn't help but say wonderingly: "The Big Cute doesn't have a chimney. Is their skills still one head taller than us? I can't believe it."
The pope sneered: "That's why I said I shouldn't do anything. After all, I'm not as powerful as the Great Man in the Cute Kingdom. Isn't that a waste of time? Everyone uses magic, so no matter how powerful the enemy's skills are, they are not afraid."
Betty really wanted to kick the Pope in the face, but he forced himself to hold it back and ordered, "Gunner, aim for me."
The cannons roared, chasing and running. Because they were too far apart, only the giant cannons of the two large ships, the Big Moe and Elizabeth, could greet each other. Even if other small boats fired guns, the small-caliber shells were useless to hit the Big Moe's 150mm armor. Therefore, the frigates on the British fleet simply did not fire the cannon, but just sailed forward desperately, trying to get closer to a certain distance before exerting the power of the cannon.
However, how could the full-fuel boiler of the Dameng be lost to the British fleet's kerosene mixed fire? Yi Yun just sailed lazily and could easily keep a distance so as not to allow the small shrimp ships of the British fleet's tiny ships to get close.
Chapter completed!