Jagged Warlord

Others in the mountain house took out a few telegrams, handed them to Kamio Mitsuomi, and said: "The people of Tegaoke have investigated Laoshan Bay. Although it is far away from the fort artillery of the Chinese army and there is no need to consider the threat of coastal artillery, the defense of the Chinese is still spent. As a matter of fact, the Chinese army did not choose to expand the defense line because of its large number of troops, but made Laoshan the core of its defense line, and Wanggezhuang Bay is at the edge of its defense line. Look here, "

"Although this is the defensive periphery of the Chinese army, it is not a favorable terrain that cannot be used. If they deploy artillery on the mountain," Kamio Mitsuomi pointed to several small hills nearby with a pencil, "then the Chinese build their defense here Is it working?"

Others in the mountain house said: "These are a few lonely mountains that are not connected to Laoshan Bay. As far as military use is concerned, these mountains are not suitable for placing large troops. Even if you place cannons, they will not pose a threat to the fleet at sea."

The largest of these hills is the Pingding Mountain in the northwest, which is no more than 1.5 kilometers long. The others are all small hills about [-] meters long. Water is not suitable for large troops to enter, but it is suitable for deploying small teams of dozens or several people.

Others in the mountain house said: "According to the information we have now, the Chinese army has not built fortifications on these mountains, and they have not even set up observation posts. Three-point positioning can completely get the exact position, but it can only pose a threat to the landing beachhead troops. Our naval guns only need a few shells to destroy them."

"Well, that's where it is," Kamio Mitsuomi looked up at the others in the mountain house as he slapped Wang Gezhuang Bay hard.

At this moment, an alarm sounded, and with the sound of the alarm, the seemingly quiet fleet suddenly became busy.

"Report, a supply ship exploded, suspected to have been attacked by a Chinese submarine," soon a sailor came to report.

"Submarine, it's another submarine," the others in the mountain house were furious, "Since when did the Chinese people become so insidious and despicable? Immediately order the capital ships to fire to disperse them~~"

You must know that the capital ship is not a joke. The Welsh white coal that the navy specializes in burning will consume thousands of tons. Originally, white coal was regarded as a strategic reserve by the navies of various countries. Now that the situation in Europe is tense, it is difficult to buy even if you have money. , Japan also lacks coal and oil resources, which makes white coal more important. It is not worth the loss to consume such a large one-time consumption, and each barrel of a naval gun has a lifespan. Like King Kong, a 356mm heavy gun, a The cost of the gun barrel can equip an army brigade. The gun barrel needs to be replaced when firing at most 150 armor-piercing shells. Even the low-wear land attack shells can only maintain about 400 shells. Therefore, although the ships receive orders to fire , but because the location of the submarine cannot be determined, we can only estimate the approximate location and fire a few shots.

The watchman holding the binoculars on the mast of the battleship Settsu at the forefront of the formation put down the binoculars to relax his eyes, but unexpectedly saw a small black spot appearing in the sky. He quickly picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction of the black spot. Go, in the telescope, the black dot became clear, it was an airplane.

"A plane coming from the west," the lookout rubbed his eyes and watched. No matter how you look at it, the plane is not a Japanese plane. 25 degrees, the plane was found, it may be from China, "

This is a Xun-19 aerial reconnaissance plane. The pilot looked at the huge fleet on the sea from the air. It was a fleet composed of dozens of warships. The black smoke from the jets almost enveloped half of the sea and sky. Sticking out his tongue, he drove the plane towards the direction of the fleet, while the scouts sitting in the back row tried their best to distinguish the warships on the sea.

"Settsu, Hanoi, Anyun, Satsuma, King Kong, Hiei~" Wang Mingke observed those warships, while connecting their appearance with the pictures and movie screens he saw during training in his mind.

由于此时世界各国的空军都在起步阶段,飞机基本都是用來侦察敌情,因此飞机对军舰威胁还不大,因此日本舰队同他国的军舰一样,战列舰、巡洋舰在设计时并沒有考虑到空中的威胁,例如先锋摄津号战列舰,仅在上层船楼建筑两侧各安装两座法国哈乞开斯3磅改良炮,此炮被日本人命名为5公分对空炮,实际口径47毫米,42倍口径,而且他的仰俯角从负15度到正25度,事实上,这种火炮不过只是小口径速射炮罢了,尽管拥有对空炮的名,但因为沒有合适的瞄具,不过只能起到驱赶、吓唬侦察机的作用。

Immediately after spotting the Chinese plane, several sailors rushed to the anti-aircraft gun emplacement along the gangway, opened the breech bolt, and loaded arm-sized shells into the gun bore. They fired into the air almost without aiming.

boom boom boom

The current air defense technology of various countries often uses shrapnel with timed fuzes, and the charge of the shrapnel is only black powder. Unlike other countries’ aircraft that use wooden skeletons and outer covering canvas structures, Chinese aircraft use a large number of aluminum alloy structures. , The power of the lead pellets propelled by the explosive power of the black powder could not threaten the reconnaissance plane flying at an altitude of nearly 3000 meters. Even if the pilot lowered the altitude to less than 2000 meters for the convenience of observation, these anti-aircraft guns are still nowhere near itching.

"Return~" The pilot pulled the joystick and the reconnaissance plane made a big turn, and quickly returned to the airport on the coastline.

"Haha~ The China plane escaped," cheered the sailors on the Settsu

……Dividing line……

On the sea surface of the Qinhuangdao military port in Bohai Bay, four warships spewed not-so-thick soot, and sailed slowly at a speed of about five knots. It seemed that they were planning to dock. More than a thousand tons, and the smaller one is more than two thousand tons. These are the only four "capital ships" of the Chinese Navy, "Haiqi", "Hairong", "Haichou", and "Haichen".

The "Haiqi" ​​cruiser is the flagship of the Chinese Navy and the largest warship in terms of tonnage, but it only weighs more than [-] tons. , But these four small cruisers are the main battleships of the Chinese Navy. These four cruisers have just arrived from the south and are in need of water and coal.

And a hundred nautical miles to the south, the tonnage of any capital ship of the Japanese Navy's First Fleet, which is about to invade China, exceeds the sum of these four warships. In the past few years, it has been stretched to an incomparable level.

Immediately after the Haiqi docked, a large number of technicians and staff members boarded the ship to overhaul the warship, because in a few hours, it would serve as the flagship of the Chinese Navy to go to the Yellow Sea, and it would be a shameful defeat in the Sino-Japanese War.

Cheng Biguang boarded the bridge of the Haiqi, he was very familiar with this ship, when Xu Tianbao was the Nanyang Consolation Envoy, he was the captain of this ship, in Nanyang, he and Xu Tianbao used this ship The boat protected the local overseas Chinese, thus winning the hearts of the overseas Chinese.

Cheng Biguang caressed the railing, as if he was not caressed by his lover. Cheng Biguang raised his hand and looked at the palm of his hand, and found that the palm of his hand was covered with rust. The cruiser Haiqi was bought from England in 1896 in the Qing Dynasty. The ship is 18 years old, Cheng Biguang shook his head, looked at the rust in the palm of his hand, and said to himself: "Sure enough, old ships are useless, and old people are useless, too."

"Airplanes and submarines may really change the form of naval warfare." After this idea was formed in Cheng Biguang's mind, it became more and more intense. Cheng Biguang's so-called thinking and brain cells began to operate around this idea. If the plane is equipped with torpedoes and the like, it can be expanded with a small bomb, and the attack distance of the plane is farther.

Cheng Biguang looked at the seaplane carrier Liaoning quietly moored on the pier in the distance, and decided to go over to have a look.