Chapter 347 The Japanese ship is still quite durable!

Lu Song.

Today, the banners in the Subic naval base are flucent, and the gongs and drums are loud. Tens of thousands of Luzon Chinese and locals, together with the locals, walked into the military base, which was donated by them and built by them and built in person. It is known as the first in the Southern Ocean, to welcome the victory again and the generals of the three new islands from the Dutch. Taxi.

On the dock, the ship is bright. On the mast, the flag is hanging high.

Even every corner of the base is full of laughter, and everyone is smiling.

For soldiers, expanding their territory is their biggest dream, and for businessmen and ordinary people, new territory means countless new plantations, new minerals, and countless new opportunities to make a fortune!

This is colonization!

In just a few years, Li Mo put this country poisoned by opium on the road of colonization, and Borneo is the first target!

So when the news of the Hong Kong agreement reached to Luzon a few days ago, the threshold of the Commerce Department was suddenly squeezed out. Not to mention the well-informed Chinese businessmen, even the Luzon merchants who have just tasted the benefits of the new policy can't wait. If the Commerce Department hadn't said that the current ground war was still going on, it would have been unsafe. You first persuaded everyone that maybe the building would be trampled.

However, there are exceptions. For example, Master Li took the lead in encircbling a large area of land suitable for planting directly in Kundian and handed it over to the Nanyang Trading Company led by Slo as a new planting base.

Li Enfu, like a chicken blood, began to use newspaper propaganda to add fuel to the fire of Borneo, depicting this place with golden mountains everywhere, as if he ran up and pulled up the roots and grass inlaid with gold.

In his heart, he had already planned to emigrate millions of Chinese, imitate the Daxia Islands model, build a province directly, and fill it up there, so as to save any problems in the future.

Under this kind of bombing propaganda effect, it did play a role. Some landlords and gentry in the north who lost a large area of land in the new land law were finally moved and began to inquire about the price of land and other matters. Some people even united to send cronies to investigate.

But after all, it will take some time to end the war in Borneo, and the Prime Minister's Office has not made up its mind on the choice of a surname for sale or a long-term contract, so everyone has to wait. But even so, Master Li has been laughing so much. According to the current feedback, if a Let go of the plantations on the three islands of Borneo, whether to sell them directly or use long-term rental and sale, it is enough to help you build more than a dozen Subic bases!

But it was not so wonderful for these news to reach Britain, France and other countries, and Phillyteman, who was invited to visit the inauguration ceremony of Subic Harbor with Long Guozhang and several entourage, was even more frowned upon.

The huge military port in front of him made him regret helping Li Mo reach an agreement!

Standing in the middle of the harbor, the eight deep-water piers filled with cement are like giant's arms, extending out radially along Subic Bay, but this is only half of the berth. Along the coastline of the base, there are more than a dozen other berths!

In addition to berths, Filletman also saw a large number of cranes, warehouses, and small rails all over the docks for rapid transportation, and even two huge dry docks, as well as supporting maintenance factories, as a large number of positions and gun positions that have not yet been installed. There are even several airships stationed behind the mountain bag in the distance.

In terms of scale, there is still a gap compared with Port Portsmouth, the largest British naval base, but it is second to none in the South Ocean and even the Far East. Even because of the late construction, the facilities are better than those in Hong Kong and Singapore.

However, the purpose of his coming here today is not to visit Subic Port. Even if Li Mo repaired the military port well, the hostage will not be the same as being destroyed. The Yokosuka Port, which has not been repaired so far, is used by the navy to attack, not to defend! So he couldn't wait for Li Mo to change his naval strategy, build bases everywhere, consume money, and eventually make the fleet a patrol ship.

But this fluke mentality bypassed a small lush forest and saw the one that had troubled him for more than a month. In order to find out whether the battleship existed, the Admiralty even gave up its previous strategy of assisting the Netherlands and curbing Xinhua, and helped Li Mo swallow another huge piece. A battleship of delicious cheese!

Now all the mysteries have been solved. Even from the position where he stands at this moment, you can only see four double 12-inch turrets, but that's enough!

"Gunnie, you don't wait for me!"

Long Guozhang narrowed his eyes and looked at Felixman and those arrogant British naval officers leaving him with a smile. Like a wild cat smelling fishy, he rushed to the remote pier in the depths of the bay. A joke flashed in his eyes and nodded to Tan Xiaozeng, who came together.

Tan Xiaozeng smiled bitterly. There was nothing he could do with the jealous commander. He raised his hand to the distance.

The Phillyteman and the officers, who were so fast that they even wished to fly up immediately, did not notice the action behind them. As soon as they were about to step into the dock, they were blocked by several guards with live ammunition.

"Stand up!"

After seeing the arm of the naval chief of staff, the guards immediately raised their guns at the Phillipmans, which made their faces change slightly. They suddenly stopped their feet and quickly shouted, "We are the spectators of the Royal Far East Fleet of the British Empire. Your commander invited us to visit."

"I'm sorry, I didn't receive the notice." The gendarmes blocked the way with a gun and said coldly, "Please leave immediately, or we will be killed on the charge of espionage!"

Kill it?!

Phillyteman's face turned black. When did the commander of the British Empire Fleet become a spy? Even Germany and France at this moment, if the British fleet commander really wants to visit, they will protest twice at most!

"Damn it! You..."

Fittman was so angry that he trembled all over. Fortunately, Long Guozhang had come to him and pretended to scold, "Nonsense, this is the guest I invited. I'm here to visit our new battleship. Don't get out of the way!"

"Commander Dragon." After the salute, the gendarmerie continued to act: "According to the confidentiality law, you need to show the warrant of the staff."

"Ah..."

Long Guozhang patted his head, stamped his feet fiercely, and immediately turned his head to explain to Philipman that because the battleship was still highly confidential and was only open to allies, he forgot to bring a warrant when he went out.

"Forgot to bring a warrant? Only open to allies...!" Phillipman is so angry that he doesn't know what to say!

He knew that these people were acting, but he couldn't board the ship when he saw it. He could only watch Long Guozhang order people to go back to get the order. Then he took people, smoking cigars, and surrounded the battleship hundreds of meters away. He saw a graceful lady lying naked and making a string of wonderful waves, but he was too buttoned. It's so uncomfortable that you can't go to bed if you need a grain to untie it!

It's not good to sit, and it's more tiring to stand. Seeing that the sailors on the dock are constantly walking around on the battleship, it seems that there are hundreds of claws in their hearts scratching again. They are so sad that they almost want to rush over desperately.

An hour later, the officer who went to get the order returned to the berth step by step. After seeing the order, the gendarmerie retreated to the side. This time, Felitman learned to be obedient and followed Long Guozhang to let him lead the way, so that these bastards would not play tricks again.

"All of them have!"

"Regone!"

After seeing the commander boarding the ship with the guests and the commander's loud slogan, all the sailors straightened up and did not squint, so that the officers of the Felix and Far East Fleet had to praise that Li Mo's bastard did have two times. No matter what their real level was, at least their military appearance and posture were no longer Lose to any naval power.

After boarding the deck, Felitman's eyes were suddenly open. The wide deck, neat hull and thick barrel were all eye-catching.

But there are rules for visiting warships. Unless people agree to you to walk around at will, anyone who runs around will be expelled, so Felix, who can't wait to drag the battleship back to England, has to follow Long Guozhang with his surname to visit.

The front bridge, the conning tower, the rear bridge, and even the chimney, Long Guozhang had to point to the clouds and the fog for a long time, not to mention the five cabin doors closed the turret, and actually said tens of thousands of words about the quality of a raised rivet!

And what made Felitman angry and crazy was that he finally listened to him say tens of thousands of words about the quality of rivets, but this man obviously didn't want them to visit the inside of the turret. After taking them around, he drilled into the officer's rest area, the soldier's cabin, the coal storage cabin, and finally the ammunition depot. Boiler cabin, steam engine cabin, anyway, I've seen everything I don't want to see, and I haven't seen anything I want to see, especially the turret!

"Mr. Commander, can we visit the turret?" Until he circled around and returned to the deck. Seeing that Long Guozhang was going to take them back, Phillyteman couldn't help asking immediately.

"Look at the turret?"

How could Long Guozhang not know that Felix wanted to see the structure of the naval gun? Although the emperor was already in the heart to sell this battleship and was ready to package the management and retreat technology, the target was not the United Kingdom, so he shook his head like a rattle: "L. Gen. I can only say that I'm very sorry for this. It's a military secret. Even if I can't promise you!"

"But... well."

Filetman was about to speak in a hurry, but Long Guozhang deliberately paused for a moment and suddenly said, "Wait a minute, they are going to have a live shelling training. If you are willing to watch it, I can arrange it."

"Of course!" Philitman blurted out without thinking about it. Are you sure you want to see it? Long Guozhang blinked his eyes like lying to a child into taking medicine.

"Yes!"

Filtman nodded like a chicken pecking rice and said it several times. How could he give up this opportunity to watch the shelling at close range? Besides, who knows if Li Mo is lying again? Maybe these naval guns can't shoot at all.

However, when a small torpedo ship arrived, he finally understood why Long Guozhang asked a rhetorical question just now. How dare they didn't even give them a chance to stand directly on the deck to watch!

Phillyteman wants to leave, but this is the only time to approach and watch the power of this new battleship. If he leaves at this time, it is estimated that the Admiralty and the Prime Minister's Office will directly transfer themselves to West Africa to defend the desert.

When the officers of the Far East Fleet stepped on the destroyer's deck with a black face to blow the sea breeze, black smoke also came out of the chimney of the Chinese ship moored at the dock. After a moment, they slowly left the berth with the help of a high-horsepower tugboat.

Phillyteman took the telescope from his entourage and carefully observed every detail of the huge object next to him. According to the visual inspection, the tonnage of the battleship should be about 20,000 tons, and the water surface on one side of the hull was raised, which proved that the defense was not weakened because too many naval guns were installed and the upper layer was too heavy. Protection, this at least shows that in terms of structure, the Xinhua Navy has reached or even close to the level of Britain's bad practice.

Judging from the visit to the power module just now, the speed of the capital ship is not very fast, at most between 17 and 18 knots, but for battleships, it does not need to be too fast, because it will affect the accuracy of the gun.

Of course, the most important thing is the five 12-inch naval guns above!

Every navy knows that it is one thing to install the naval gun, and whether it can be used, or whether it can be volleyed is another. For example, similar to the Duke of the Xinhua Navy, the two main guns cannot be fired in a volley. Even if they can volley, the trajectory is not the same, and it can't form the overwhelming proposed by Sir Fisher at all. Surname coverage advantage.

So he would rather be wronged than watch this vital live shooting.

Fortunately, he didn't wait long this time. A high-horsepower tugboat had been towed about two or three thousand tons. The old-fashioned Japanese freighter with a ** symbol on the bow arrived 10,000 meters away. Looking at another captured Japanese freighter about to be covered by artillery fire, Commander Long's eyes turned red and recalled the war. How happy the navy is. In just a few years, it's time to have fun with a rotten ship!

"Mr. Phillipman, do you need to go up and check it?" Commander Long narrowed his eyes and licked his lips: "Actually, this ship is still very resistant. We have hit seven or eight ships. It's not bad!"

"..."

Where on earth did Li Mo get these more bastards and scum?

The officers were full of black lines, and they couldn't wait to immediately throw the naval commander who looked at the useless things for most of the time and threw them into the sea. Fortunately, the tugboat in the distance quickly turned the cable, and the torpedo ship under his feet began to accelerate. Phillipman immediately and all the British [* **] Officials threw down Long Guozhang together and crowded to raise the telescope next to the railing.

In the distance, the battleship with ten main guns began to rotate the turret, but the speed did not slow down. It continued to sail at a speed of about 16 knots. Seeing that they did not stop to do stationary artillery training, but simulated sports shelling during actual combat, Felitman's eyes stared even bigger.

Shortly after the Chinese ship crossed the decelerated torpedo ship, the air seemed to be torn suddenly, and only "Boom..." was heard. A voice suddenly exploded in my ear, and eight orange fireballs had burst out on the port side of my eyes. At the same time, the strong gunpowder smoke formed a huge smoke mass. At the same time, it also pushed the huge ship of 20,000 tons across several meters. This almost violent and tyrannical movement made a large number of white sprays gush out of the bottom of the ship, which was very beautiful.

Because it takes more than ten seconds for the shell to fly 10,000 meters, when everyone finished watching this scene and re-targeted the other side, eight columns of water suddenly appeared around the cargo ship.

"How did you hit it? It's all off! I don't know if there are any guests here?! Aim at the point!" Commander Long's eyes squinted and shouted proudly, which made people despise him, but Felix couldn't laugh at all. He shot at the enemy ten thousand meters away in a round, unless the goddess of luck covered the shell.

But in fact, it doesn't matter how many rounds of shelling it takes to hit the target. The thunder like a sound has explained everything.

"Boom..."

More than four minutes later, when the fifth round of sangulation was launched, the Japanese cargo ship 10,000 meters away finally suffered a fatal blow. Everyone saw that a huge fireball suddenly rose from the middle of the hull. While a mushroom cloud bloomed in the sky, the 2,000-ton hull seemed to be caught and shaken by Hercules. The ground is disconnected from the middle.

The naval guns in the distance are still roaring. As long as there is a wooden board on the surface of the water, the sailors will not give up this rare live ammunition shooting opportunity. The rolling smoke and the exploded fire finally made all the British [***] officials shut their mouths and made Felitman's fists tighter.

Five shots, a perfect performance, it not only broke its doubts just now, but also told everyone that a new era of battleships has begun!

Sadly, in such a close contact, I even stepped on my foot just now and stroked the revolutionary battleship, but I only saw half, no, half! I didn't even look at the important place.

These bastards, this is also called a visit?!

No way! Britain must have it, it must have it! No matter how much it costs! Since the naval commander can't make the decision now, he should go to Li Mo!

Thinking of this, Felitman immediately turned his head and looked serious: "Dear Commander, I must see your emperor immediately. Can you make arrangements?"

"Now?" Long Guozhang pretended to be surprised.

"Yes, now!"

"That won't work." Long Guozhang pouted his mouth, shook his head, and secretly stared at Felicman in the corners of his eyes before saying, "The emperor is experiencing the people's feelings in Sichuan. It will take about a month to come back."

"Li Mo is in Sichuan!"

Philip Man blurted out in surprise, even forgot his honorific title, and his face suddenly turned gloomy. Even the excitement of seeing the Chinese ship just now disappeared!

Li Mo's ability to enter Sichuan means that Sichuan has been controlled by him. Although strictly speaking, Sichuan does not belong to the south, its geographical location is too important. After Sichuan is pinched into the palm of Li Mo, it means that the north and the south are completely cut off. No matter what the Russians do in the northwest, Britain can't do anything about it. If you intervene again, unless you mobilize troops from India to bypass Central Asia and enter Tibet!

But that's too far away!

"Mr. Lieutenant General, I think you must be in such a hurry to see the emperor for the battleship." Long Guozhang narrowed his eyes and smiled like a cat seeing a mouse. He tilted the corners of his mouth and said, "You can rest assured that the emperor is about to leave for a global visit, and this battleship will also protect him to Europe at that time."

"This battleship also goes to Europe?"

"Yes! Go to Europe!" ......

(to be continued)