1825 My New Daming

Chapter 126 Stop Pretending, We Are Actually an Informationized Navy! (Fourth update! Also, again, please subscribe again)

If the flag is hoisted, of course the flagship will be ignored, the formation will be disbanded, and the ships below will watch and fight by themselves.

And this is also a tactic of the Royal Navy, called "chaotic battle" or "messy battle", which extremely tests the command level of the captains of the ships, the level of sailor training and actual combat experience.

A truly high-level navy can still cooperate in the chaos during "chaotic battles" and "messy battles". It is fake chaos, not real chaos, and it is the enemy who is really disrupted.

Since the Age of Sail, the British Royal Navy has been a master of disrupting and fighting melee battles. It often disbands the formation on its own initiative when its strength is not dominant or the situation is unfavorable, and then launches an attack, disrupting the enemy's formation, and then relying on itself Higher command and training levels win in chaotic battles.The only one in history that can compete with the Royal Navy in terms of chaos and melee is the navy of the Dutch Republic, which was still a coachman at sea.

But now, seeing that the formation battle could not be won, George Elliot could only resort to the old method of disrupting battles and melee battles.

Seeing that the Vengeance had hoisted the "don't care flag", the three second-class protective cruisers, including the Leander, the Mersey, and the Ayres, who were "soy sauce" behind the Revenge and the Indomitable, immediately turned around and moved from The formation rushed out, but they did not fight alone, but each brought a destroyer to form three two-ship formations, while the remaining two torpedo boat destroyers ran to the Revenge and the Indomitable to protect them. The two "bosses" continued to roam the battlefield.

The Revenge and Indomitable did not continue to maintain their original formation, and they also formed two double-ship formations with the destroyers who rushed over.

The two Japanese gunboats Echigo and Mino, which had been fighting soy sauce since the beginning of the battle, also formed a two-ship formation and began to retreat in the direction of Awaji Island.

In addition, the four camouflaged assault ships led by the one-eyed dragon Xixiang have long since disappeared.
"Sir, the British have disbanded the formation!"

Zhuge Weidao, who was holding a telescope on the Lushun and staring at the Revenge, heard Wang Wen's voice again.

"Disband. Want to run?" Zhuge Weidao quickly turned the binoculars and looked around, only to find that the British did not run away, but launched a charge.

"They're going to disrupt the battle!" Wang Wen said with a smile, "Sir, now is our chance!"

Of course Zhuge Weidao knew what "chaotic warfare" was?However, he also knows that the Ming Dynasty Navy will not disrupt the war. The Ming Dynasty Navy lacks actual combat experience, and the officers and soldiers who have not fought in the war are most afraid of chaos!

But Wang Wen laughed so brightly that it was a bright spring!

Zhuge Weidao quickly used his brain to think again, and he finally figured it out-the Ming Dynasty Navy has the advantage of informatization, and it is the informatization navy of the 19th century!

Although the four warships of the Ming Dynasty Navy had semaphore and lamp language since they encountered those camouflage ships before, which seemed very uninformative, but in fact, these four ships had radio transceivers on board!

Therefore, these four warships can completely chat beyond visual range, and they can cooperate with each other no matter how chaotic the battlefield is.

"Sir, the flagship Vladivostok called, let's release the smoke and head south out of the Kii Channel and sail southwest to Cape Muroto. In four hours, the Vladivostok will join us ten nautical miles south of Cape Muroto. confluence."

"Rush out of the Jiyi Waterway?" Zhuge Weidao frowned, "Is there no enemy fleet ambushing outside the Jiyi Waterway?"

"Sir," Wang Wen hastily reminded, "We have deployed early warning airships over the Tsushima Strait. When we encountered those camouflaged ships, the radio station of the flagship Vladivostok must have summoned them to come. It may be almost here. It flew over Kii Waterway. If there is an ambush, we will know."

Dimensionality reduction strike!
Zhuge Weidao thought: "The airship is early warning, if there are some precision-guided weapons for the telegraph communication, this will be a flying dragon riding on the face!"

As soon as he thought of this, Wang Wen said again: "The terrain of Cape Muroto is conducive to setting up an ambush. As long as there is an airship commanding in the sky, we will definitely be able to catch the British by surprise at Cape Muroto!"

It really has precision guidance!

Zhuge Weidao's confidence was greatly increased, and he immediately ordered: "Turn around, head south, release smoke and evacuate at full speed!"

"Sir, the four warships of the Ming Navy are releasing smoke and retreating separately."

Inside the command tower of the Revenge, George Elliot, who was holding a telephone receiver and talking to the damage control captain, suddenly heard the news that the Ming warships were dispersing and retreating, which surprised him.He quickly put down the phone, walked to the window in two or three steps, raised his binoculars and looked south, and found that there were indeed four streaks of smoke on the sea surface that were becoming more and more dispersed.

"Scatter the retreat?" George Elliot didn't understand, "Why did they disperse?"

"Your Excellency, Commodore, I think they broke up the siege in order to ensure that at least one warship rushed out of the Kii Waterway and sent the news of the attack by the Royal Navy of the British Empire back to Ming's Ryukyu base or Kushiro base?"

The one who answered George Elliot's question was Qiliang Shimadzu with gauze wrapped around his head. He fell headfirst in the explosion just now, but his life was not in danger, so he can still talk to George Elliot with a sad face .

"Scatter and break through? They are worried." George Elliot said, "Our two countries set up an ambush outside the Jiyi Waterway?"

"They must have thought it was a premeditated attack!" Qiliang Shimadzu frowned, "Daming will use this as an excuse to start a war against the British Empire, right?"

"Go to war? How dare they." George Elliot's heart sank.

The current situation is very difficult to say!

Originally, his purpose of coming to Japan from afar was to win Japan over to fight Daming, find out the bottom line of Daming, and at the same time see if Japan was worthy of the full support of the British Empire.

But now, the British Empire and its fleet have just had a fight with the Ming Fleet, which is far inferior to their own on paper. Obviously, they have suffered!

If this cannot be reversed, when the Ming court finds out, it will definitely re-evaluate the strength of the British Empire, and even if it does not go to war with Great Britain, it will definitely adopt more aggressive strategies.And Japan may also fall to Ming Dynasty, so that Ming Dynasty will no longer have any worries in East Asia!
Thinking of this, George Elliott said to his cousin Charlie Elliott: "Sign up the Indomitable, let it come up, I want to replace the flagship."

Changing the flagship is of course to continue fighting!
Now the Revenge can no longer continue to fight, and must be docked for overhaul—the two turrets are gone, and the front and rear ammunition depots are full of water. It is estimated that it will take several months to repair.I don't know if it can be repaired in Japan?

So George Elliot, who was unwilling to fail, had no choice but to board the Indomitable.

Charlie Elliot, who was hanging on his chest with gauze wrapped around one arm, stood at attention and replied loudly, "Yes, sir."

Qiliang Shimadzu did not intend to accompany George Elliott on the adventure, he quickly said to George Elliott: "Your Excellency, Commodore General, I will not accompany you to continue fighting against the Ming Navy. Report the misunderstanding in the nearby waters to the general, and there may be a diplomatic solution!"

George Elliot nodded: "Then the staff officer will take the Revenge and go to Osaka." He paused, and then said, "If the Japanese Empire is determined to fight, the British Empire will definitely provide all necessary assistance. Considerable assistance!"

George Elliot, who was about to transfer to the battleship Indomitable and go to the Kii Waterway for the last fight, never imagined that his enemy was the advanced "information-based navy"!When he changed the flagship, the radio stations on the Lushun and the Vladivostok had been connected to the Beiyang Fleet Command of the Ming Navy and the Staff Headquarters of the Ming Navy.

After receiving the news, Zhuge Weiyi, Shangshu of the Ming Dynasty Admiralty, and Zhuge Weiyong, the chief of staff of the Ming Dynasty Navy, were a little confused. They quickly called the two prime ministers, and then went to Prime Minister Zuo's mansion together to talk to the two prime ministers. We went to discuss countermeasures together.

(End of this chapter)