Chapter 452 My ship was ordered to hit your ship!

@@@@@@@@@@ The beautiful Caribbean Sea is sunny and the blue sea is as clear as crystal.

Along the way, there are amber-like islands on it, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. At the same time, it can't help but bring a sense of mystery here.

Countless intertled islands make the sea extremely broken, just like the messy southwest Pacific Ocean. The unique geographical environment makes it a favorite paradise for pirates.

In the 17th century, this was the only place for the business fleets of the European continent to reach the Americas. Therefore, piracy activities at that time were very rampant. Not only did they attack past merchants, but even the British Royal Fleet were not attacked. It is said that the treasure buried under the sea was enough to fill an island, so that Today, many people are searching for the treasures left by pirates in this area.

Two fast freighters traveled together and drilled into the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea north along the westernmost point of the island of San Antonio. This is a small fleet of white sugar to the United States in the middle of the island of Cuba. The American sailors on the deck laughed happily and seemed to be immersed in the naval battle in this area a few years ago. It was the war that established the dominance of the United States in this area!

It was the efforts of the U.S. Navy to defeat the Spanish fleet and successfully let the world remember the strength of the United States. Although the army's poor performance later made the war more or less regretful, Cuba finally surrendered to the feet of the United States and fully opened the market to American businessmen.

Although the share of white sugar trading fell from the highest 100 million US dollars to 50 million today due to the intervention of the Cuban political axe, the "open door" Cuban market has brought new sales to American goods, which is enough to make up for the losses caused by white sugar.

In fact, American businessmen do not want Cuba and the Caribbean to be too poor, because they can't afford American goods if they are poor, so properly letting these small countries master some resources and profits can undoubtedly promote the development of domestic manufacturing.

Crossing the Colorado Islands, the famous Florida Strait, Miami's wine is waiting for everyone to taste, so everyone can hardly wait.

But when the bow just got out of the strait, all the smiles suddenly froze, because two opposing fleets appeared off the sea of Havana in the distance!

The thick black smoke covered the blue sky and brought a trace of tension to the quiet and peaceful sea. When the sailors squeezed into the bridge one after another and rushed to watch through the telescope, a touch of red loaded in the familiar Star-Spangled Banner suddenly stung everyone's eyes.

In the middle of the blood-like red, there is a ferocious dragon's claw holding a broken arrow like a warship!

Blood cloud dragon claw flag!

is the famous Chinese naval fleet in the Pacific Ocean!

God, why did they come here? Did the Panama Canal open overnight? Isn't it enough for those Chinese to steal a large amount of white sugar business in Cuba? Do you still want to occupy here?!

Suddenly, the two fast cargo ships immediately realized the danger, and the captain almost did not hesitate to order to turn the rudder. No matter how big the cargo ship is, if it wants to pass through the two opposing fleets, it is undoubtedly dancing under the muzzle of the gun!

Looking at the two fast cargo ships turning away, the corners of Ji Rushan's mouth evoked a smile.

The voyage from Chile to here is more than 8,000 nautical miles, which is really boring and boring. Although I visited Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia along the way, the strange exotic customs also opened the eyes of the fleet, but after all, it is too far away from home, and there are already three departures. Yue, strong soldiers will not only feel homesick.

Fortunately, there is a radio telegraph. The high-power long-wave telegraph machine can let everyone know the news of their hometown at all times, and sometimes there are even one or two letters from home. These seemingly inconspicuous things have become the best gifts to stabilize people's hearts.

Now the telegraph machine has become the most dazzling business in China. After the purchase in the United Kingdom, the first-generation radio market began to be fully opened. This new thing caused a sensation in the world in an eye. Each 2,000 blue coins brought tens of millions of income to China in less than a year, rich and beautiful. The country even purchased 2,000 units in one go.

At present, only Germany has obtained a patent and can produce it by itself. Originally, other countries are also ready to imitate it, but the problem is that Xinhua has the patent right. Whoever produces the radio must pay Xinhua a patent fee of 500 blue coins per unit. If it is an invention in a small country, you may be able to play tricks, but Li's electronic set The group is Li Mo's private! Thinking about the price of offending a mad emperor because of this little thing scares many people away, and many people can only continue to choose to buy from Xinhua.

Of course, there are also concerns that Xinhua will tamper with telegraph machines, so they would rather pay high patent fees and produce by themselves. However, according to the Intelligence Department, because countries get started too late in the manufacture of electronic devices, there are still great shortcomings, resulting in imitations often not as good as the original version, even the earliest radio patents. Germany has to purchase some necessary electronic devices from Xinhua.

The five American battleships opposite are obviously equipped with radios, because Ji Rushan can see the unique long antenna used by the first generation of radios from the American-style cage mast in front of him.

"Damn it, it's still an imitation!"

Fang Jin sat like a skin sitting on the narrow side bridge and smoking. The battle captain who ascended to the sky from the destroyer seemed to be particularly immune to the elegance of the navy. After so many years, in terms of knowledge and experience, he can be called the best in the navy, but this temper always seems to be Can't change it.

There is no doubt that he is an alternative. In the Xinhua Navy, where the traditional elegant style of Britain prevails, only he likes to brag and farts when the sailors have nothing to do. He doesn't go to the spacious officer's restaurant but likes to squeeze into the soldier's cabin to grab food.

Ji Rushan once laughed and scolded, saying that he was the enemy of all elegance in the world.

Now this enemy is staring at the eyes, smoking, and looking at the high cage-like mast. It is really hard to figure out why the imagination of Americans is so rich that they have to make such a unique thing.

However, the mast above is really big, and there is still room for two lookouts standing on it, but now the Xinhua Navy is discussing the cancellation of the mast and setting up a special observation bridge.

Since two Kunlun Mountain class and two Jinghai class have gone to the Gulf of Mexico to replenish heavy oil, there are only four capital ships left here, and on the opposite side are five American battleships, three Virginia-class and two older Illinois-class, as well as four small Type of destroyer.

Although it was four to five, it did not make everyone nervous. Instead, it swept away the messy thoughts in the journey, and everyone concentrated on observing the five American battleships.

To be honest, if there is really a war, I'm afraid that the five American battleships on the opposite side are really not enough. Even the largest Virginia class has a displacement of only 15,000 tons. Although the firepower equipment is similar to that of the Duke class, it has one of the biggest defects, which is also the strange design brought by the American whimsy. That is, the 305mm main turret and the 203mm secondary turret are mixed together, which looks like a two-story pagoda.

This design, which seems to enhance firepower, allows only one gun to fire at the same time, whether it is the main gun or the secondary gun, and the other must stop when it fires. This is undoubtedly a suicidal behavior in the battleship confrontation that emphasizes the density of fire coverage.

As for the other two Illinois-class, the displacement is only 11560 tons, and the main armor is as thick as 410 mm. The two dual-mounted 330 mm main guns seem to be very powerful, but the rate of fire is extremely low, and it is only 35 times the caliber. The armor is not made of surface carburized Krupp steel, but older. The protection of Harvey Steel is not as strong as that of 305 mm on the Jilin, and its extremely low fboard also leads to a very poor airworthiness.

If he can fight, Fang Jin is confident that he will end the battle in an hour, but the order is not to fire first!

The command's order is also correct. After all, it is not far from the coast of the United States, and it is the Atlantic Ocean. There is no ally around except Cuba, which is difficult to protect itself. In the absence of supplies and logistics, starting a war is equivalent to seeking death.

But the problem is!

Fang Jin inhaled a cigarette fiercely. In his eyes, the Virginia-class No. 3 ship Georgia began to accelerate. On the chicken cage-like mast, the signal flag that this was the U.S. territorial sea and left immediately kept playing, which made him really unhappy.

"This is the eighth expulsion tactic. Aren't the Americans annoying?"

Fang Jin extinguished the cigarette butt fiercely. If he could have a pair of perspective eyes at this time, he would see that the grumpy captain's heart had been beating fast for a long time, and there was thick smoke in his nostrils, almost similar to the hot bullfight with his head stimulated by red cloth!

When Georgia quickly passed in front of the four capital ships, made a big circle and then returned to the battle line. The guns were swinging up and down throughout the whole process, full of the provocation of cowboys in the western United States, which made every officers and soldiers of the Xinhua Navy angry!

"This is a provocation. The Yankees want to force us to leave in this way!"

"Qiyu, this is the high seas. We are the Xinhua Navy. We are going to visit Havana and let them leave." Although he was full of anger, Fang Jin could only hold back his resentment and wave the signal with the flagship.

"Report, Chinese."

Before the communication officer finished his words, Major General Evans had stopped the report. He was tired of such a report. It was nothing more than the other party's request to enter the port of Havana and so on.

Looking at the four new capital ships on the opposite side, not only him, but all the U.S. [***] officials are both envious and nervous. What they envy is the other party's new warships. What is nervous is that the order requires them to prevent Xinhua's visiting fleet from entering Havana port before the end of the negotiations, and If you get the order, you are still not allowed to fire first!

"What kind of bullshit command is this!"

Evans scolded from the bottom of his heart and was extremely dissatisfied with the decision made by the Admiralty. If he really let the other party fire first, he could guarantee that his fleet would lose opportunities in a few minutes, but fortunately, the other party also seemed to have scruples.

"The Georgia is back."

"The Wisconsin is leaving."

As Georgia returned to the queue in a big circle, Evans sighed and continued to carry out this boring expulsion and intimidation. Although he did not know whether it would work, he knew that several other battleships were rushing to help at this moment. Perhaps when the number increased, the Chinese would I retreated knowing the difficulties.

The old Illinois-class No. 3 ship Wisconsin slowly buffered out of the battleship and began the expulsion operation again. The speed of 16 knots made him look like a snail.

And what really makes him palpitated is that this kind of expulsion seems to have no effect on the other party. If the American [***] ship of one action after another is a heroic western cowboy, then the Chinese people opposite him are the cold-blooded soldiers with arrows and spears without blinking, waiting quietly.

It is worthy of the army that has been tempered by several naval battles. It is still cold under the stormy waves, but the more calm they are, the more nervous Evans and all the American people are, so they all think of the four support battleships that are about to arrive.

"Did the telegram be sent?"

"Yes, but the signal is not very good. It is recommended to use it." After a pause, the communication officer looked at the Xinhua warship in the distance and said, "Try with the Chinese machine."

"Fed."

Evans cursed secretly and waved his hand to agree.

He did not want to use the Chinese-made radio, because the technician said that he could not rule out the possibility of being tampered with and the signal being intercepted by the other party, but at this moment, in order to contact the support fleet as soon as possible, he had to use a more powerful Xinhua radio station.

However, he guessed it correctly. When the Virginia sent out a radio wave, the radio station on the Jilin had intercepted the message. Since the United States was also the first time to use radio, it did not use encrypted telegrams, and soon the message was sent to Ji Rushan.

"Request for permission for shelling and expulsion! Are there still four coming?

Two telegrams made him frown. Although the United States was confident to break through and leave even if the United States pulled all the battleships over, the problem was that the general manager required to find a way to break through the blockade and enter Havana.

Although Ji Rushan doesn't quite understand the need to enter Havana, it can definitely stimulate the strategy of the United States. After all, Cuba is under the nose of the United States. Once the Panama Canal and Cuba are disturbed at the same time, I'm afraid the United States will go crazy.

"But what method should be used?"

Looking at the American battleship blocked in front of them, the Wisconsin, which was approaching the expulsion operation, and the port of Havana not far behind them, Ji Rushan's eyebrows suddenly raised.

Quickly walked to the front of the nautical chart, calculated the distance between the two sides, and then sneered at the corners of his mouth.

"Report, flagship command!"

The sound of the report made Fang Jin jump up excitedly like a rabbit. When he finished reading the telegram, his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Boiler pressurization!"

"The No. 2 and No. 3 power modules are launched."

"Tell me the stress index at any time!"

"All units are in a state of readiness, and all the decks are evacuated!"

"Prepare for impact!"

Orders were issued from the bridge of the Heilongjiang, making the warship of more than 20,000 tons like a wild cat suddenly awakened from its sleep, with hair all over its body.

When the Wisconsin circled in front of the fleet and began to return slowly, the captain suddenly shouted: "Pressure 180, full load, you can go."

"Let's go!"

"Sign a signal." Fang Jin gave the order fiercely, and his left hand suddenly grabbed the nearest armrest.

When two thick smokes suddenly rushed out of the Heilongjiang chimney and rushed straight into the sky like an angry dragon, Evans and all the American sailors were nervous and wanted to leave? Or is it?

Because the boiler and steam turbine have been semi-open and the preheating is sufficient, before their thoughts begin to spread, they saw that the huge Heilongjiang had rushed out of the fleet and began to accelerate crazily, catching up with the Wisconsin's buttocks.

Then, everyone saw the flashing signal light and the constantly waving flag.

The signal is!

"My ship was ordered to hit your ship!"

(to be continued)