"I have to ask for your understanding on the price reduction issue. You need to know that all my items are clearly marked, and I always pay attention to fairness and integrity in doing business. If I lower the price for you, what will happen if other customers want to lower the price again? ?Now the price I pay to the Swedish Navy is a Flying Eagle-class destroyer with torpedoes of 150,000 pounds, and the price to the Ottoman Navy is also the same. If we are friends, but I am not a friend of the Swedish royal family and the Ottoman Emperor. ?I am even considered a prince in the Ottoman Empire, so this matter is not a matter of money.
But we can change the way, why don't you rent it?" Yang Feng said.
"Lease?" Li Hongzhang didn't understand for a moment.
"Yes, the ownership of my warships belongs to Yang's Shipyard, and I leased them from the shipyard as Taiwan's commander-in-chief. If you are willing, you can also lease them in the same way, and the crew on them belong to the American Ambrey La Company. The business scope of this company includes defense guidance. You can also hire from Umbrella. Not only can you hire sailors, but you can also hire army soldiers. All my people in Taiwan belong to this company. Our business is permitted by law, and of course this is just the most common business practice," Yang Feng said.
The latter sentence is the explanation given by the U.S. Minister to Japan to the Japanese government. Umbrella is a private security company registered in Texas, and their actions do not represent the U.S. government's position in this war. Likewise, Umbrella is a private security company registered in Texas. The U.S. government also has no right to prevent a legitimate company from conducting legitimate business practices.
Americans will not bother Boss Yang with such trivial matters. Compared with him, the Japanese are nothing. Now the big guys like Rockefeller are trying their best to win over Yang Feng and open up the oil cracking technology and gasoline additive technology to them. At this time, Yang Feng wants the U.S. Pacific Fleet to help him attack Japan. Maybe the U.S. Congress will consider it.
Of course, hiring ground combat personnel is not something Li Ergui has yet to consider, but leasing two destroyers and hiring sailors to accompany the ships are necessary. Neither of them likes to procrastinate, so Yang Feng immediately wrote the letter. Two contracts were drafted on behalf of Yang's Shipyard and Umbrella Company. They were nothing more than commissions and combat responsibilities, including compensation for losses. Yang Feng had already studied it before coming, and then the two of them signed and confirmed it.
As for the two destroyers, they are naturally the Viper and Cobra manufactured by Armstrong Shipyard. The one accompanying this time is just to stay behind when leaving. In fact, the performance of these two destroyers is not worse than that of Yang's Shipyard, but Yang Feng I just don't think they are pretty enough.
Signing such a contract does not have any psychological burden on Li Ergui, who has always worshiped foreigners. He has many foreign employees, but now they have just changed from sporadic employment to batch employment. To solve this problem, the next step The two chatted happily, and even went out to visit the Nautilus outside with great interest. In order to impress the Beiyang Navy, Yang Feng specially arranged an exercise, with two destroyers responsible for the attack, and the Beiyang Navy went out. The two fastest warships, namely Zhiyuan and Jingyuan, then attacked with uncharged training torpedoes at sea.
As a result, in a one-on-one situation, both ships were hit. Based on the speed, distance, number of artillery and the hit rate of the previous naval battle, in this case, the two destroyers could even charge in and attack without suffering any damage.
Only when the two Zhiyuan ships attack a destroyer at the same time can they cause damage to it, but it can neither prevent it from launching torpedoes nor is it enough to sink it. This result shocked everyone's jaw, considering that because
Regarding the artillery rate of fire, the firepower projection of these two warships is stronger than that of the second ship Dingzhen, and their speed is faster, so if it is replaced by Dingzhen, the result will definitely be worse.
"How to prevent this thing?" Ding Ruchang said dumbfounded.
"There is no way to prevent it. One is to run faster, the other is to strengthen the firepower, and the third is to consider the anti-torpedo design when building. But this is not very interesting. In fact, the key is speed and firepower. As long as you can outrun the torpedoes
It's fast, or you can use cannonballs to sink the opponent beyond the launching distance.
As for the anti-torpedo design, it doesn't mean much no matter how good it is. If one torpedo cannot be destroyed, two can be used. In fact, according to the current warship design, even the Dingyuan cannot withstand such a torpedo. Don't think that it will explode underwater.
Just like the explosion on the water surface, the water pressure impact will amplify the explosion effect, which can not only destroy the hull, but even attack the keel. You should know what damage to the keel means to a ship." Yang Feng said proudly.
"It can run faster than a torpedo, how is that possible?" Liu Buchan said in disbelief.
Yang Feng smiled at his captain and snapped his fingers.
The Nautilus, which was carrying them to watch the battle, immediately began to accelerate. Official hats on the deck, including Li Hongzhang's, were blown off. These guys were so frightened that they ran into the cabin. Not long after they entered, they saw the Viper in the distance.
Suddenly a torpedo was launched at the Nautilus, but what almost made their eyes pop out was that although the track dragged by the training mine was getting longer and longer, the distance between the two sides was also getting longer and longer.
"This one will do." Yang Feng said with a smile at this time.
This guy only stayed at Liugong Island for two days, and soon set sail back to Ryukyu. Before leaving, Li Hongzhang proposed that he wanted to rent another landing ship from him.
"Sir, what do you want this for?" Yang Feng asked strangely.
"Brother Yang, it is difficult to transport Pyongyang by land, and Zhennanpu is in shallow water and cannot be entered by larger merchant ships, so I want to use your landing ship to transport supplies to them. Once there, the North Koreans will transport them to Pyongyang in small boats," Li Hongzhang said.
"In this case, there is no need to rent it. When you need it, just send me a telegram in advance. Anyway, it only takes one day for them to get here from Ryukyu at a speed of 18 knots." Yang Feng said, this
All six of his ships have uses, but they cannot be leased to him.
In this case, Li Hongzhang has nothing to say.
The Nautilus immediately left Weihaiwei, then turned around and sailed south. Since there was no destroyer to escort it, it simply ran to a high speed of nearly 40 knots, racing like a trimaran on the sea. It had just sailed less than 200 kilometers, and his
The captain, the Englishman Lister, ran to him and told him that there was a fleet in the distance.
"Fleet?" Yang Feng was stunned for a moment.
"According to the course, they should be coming to intercept us." Lister said, this former British battleship captain has a keen sense of this kind of thing.
"Ah, it seems that the Japanese know our whereabouts." Yang Feng couldn't help but smile.
Liszt also laughed. It was too funny for a fleet traveling at a speed of more than ten knots to intercept the Nautilus, which was traveling at a speed of forty knots.
"Play with them!" Yang Feng stood up and said, hugging Lin Luoke.
It was indeed Tsuboi Kozo who came. It can be said that the Japanese hate Yang Feng very much now, but they just don’t have time to trouble him. When he captured Ryukyu, someone in the Japanese cabinet asked the combined fleet to kill him, but considering
Now that we are facing a strong enemy, we really shouldn’t waste any more precious warships, so Hirobumi Ito prohibits the combined fleet from attacking. You must know that Yang Feng’s fleet is not weak. Even if you can win a battle with him, the losses to the combined fleet will not be small.
In that case, there would be even less hope for the Beiyang Navy. Besides, Ryukyu is not a big deal. He can occupy it for the time being. It will not be too late to defeat the Beiyang Navy first and then go back and take care of him.
But now that this guy is actually sailing alone, then this opportunity must not be missed. To deal with a yacht with only a small-caliber gun, there is no need to dispatch the entire combined fleet. The first guerrilla fleet is enough, so Tsuboi Kozo based in Weihai
Wei's traitor sent back the information and rushed to the flight line to wait for him.
Looking through the telescope at the three warships Yoshino, Naniwa and Takachiho heading towards him with billowing smoke, Yang Feng smiled and pulled Lin Luoco to run to the emplacement of a double 37 cannon, ** these three warships were very important to Parrot.
It's too simple for the snail number.
Tsuboi Kozo in the distance didn't know that he was going to be in bad luck. In fact, he was stunned by the speed of the Nautilus. Although the ship was boasted in the newspaper as having a speed of forty-five knots, as an excellent
Admiral, he firmly does not believe this nonsense. His Yoshino is said to be the fastest cruiser in the world, but its speed is only more than 20 points. The speed of the Nautilus is twice that, which is too exaggerated.
But today he has seen a lot.
But it was too late at this time. The Nautilus, which was sailing opposite, suddenly turned around and headed towards Yoshino's right wing. Tsuboi Kozo hurriedly ordered the same U-turn to intercept. However, because the speed difference was too large, the bow of the Yoshino ship was soon facing the Nautilus.
On the side, the two sides were seven kilometers apart. Under Yang Feng's guidance, his young fiancee enthusiastically aimed the muzzle of the double 37 cannon at Yoshino, who could barely see the outline clearly, and then opened fire suddenly.
This kind of artillery, with a rate of fire of hundreds of rounds per minute, sprayed out a violent storm of shells in an instant. The quantity made up for the shortcomings of the gunner. In an instant, Tsuboi Kozo saw a bright fire on the deck in front of him.
"Asshole, what kind of gun is this?" he roared angrily, knowing that this was already the limit of the range of his 120 Armstrong gun. Of course, actually firing at this distance was a waste of ammunition for him.
Of course Lin Luoke opposite would not know this. Due to the distance, she could not feel the atmosphere of war at all. She was just like a little girl who got a new toy and excitedly splashed cannonballs into the distance.
"Fire, fire back!" Kozo Tsuboi couldn't care less about anything else and roared an order to fire, but at this moment, a series of shells shattered the glass in front of him and smashed into the command room.