Chapter 453 We bumped into it!

@@@@@@@@@@May 1, 1906.

As soon as it arrived at the Florida Strait, the Xinhua Empire visited the fleet and was intercepted by five American battleships. This news is not surprising. If the United States is in the Pacific Ocean because it is not strong enough to counterattack, then this is the Atlantic Ocean, the East Coast! If the enemy's unidentified national fleet easily enters a place that is regarded as forbidden in front of its own home to provoke itself, then the United States will really lose face.

The United States has never been a gentle businessman, just like a western cowboy. This country has always dreamed of showing its teeth. The war between the United States and the West in history and the Cuban war in reality are all manifestations of this.

Since the country became the world's first economic throne in 1894, it has been full of the call of the American century, aiming at the "open door" requirements of Latin American countries and even Asia, just gently testing the water.

When the country began to cheer and shout, the Panama Canal crisis was undoubtedly a pot of ice water that poured through the whole United States!

So when Ji Rushan entered the Caribbean Sea after leaving the fleet from Colombia, the newspaper began to be full of voices of obstruction, war and destruction. Under this pressure, the U.S. Navy could only send out of the whole army, vowing to block Ji Rushan and teach the Chinese a head-on lesson!

But neither those who blocked or tried to enter did not expect such an ending.

So that when Ji Rushan retired with the glory of the imperial general, many people asked him why he made that decision at that time, and the answer was only one sentence.

"If the gun can't speak, then use the tonnage to reason!"

A very simple sentence, but when Colonel Moore, the captain of the Wisconsin at that time, saw it, he threw the newspaper on the ground fiercely, trembling his fingers and pointed to the east. His voice sobbed and scolded, "They are bullying!"

is indeed a bully!

Use a battleship of more than 20,000 tons to hit a warship that can only be regarded as a large ironclad ship, and the result no longer needs to be repeated.

Standing in the bridge of the USS Virginia, Evans was almost petrified. All the U.S. naval officers who saw this scene were stunned. They didn't expect that the Xinhua Fleet, which had been quiet for a long time and even a little suffocated, would answer in such a way!

The Wisconsin was in a mess, and the alarm pierced the eardrums. Captain Moore stared at the rushing Heilongjiang, and the exquisite coffee cup in his hand fell and fell without noticing it.

You can't imagine how it feels for a steel monster of more than 20,000 tons, spraying thick columns of smoke, rushing towards you at a speed of 20 knots.

According to a later observer serving on the Wisconsin, "At that time, everyone was stunned. Everyone was all in a mess. I tried my best to sound the alarm, but no one cared about that. For us, it was a hell bison that was about to step on and was about to breathe fire!"

The cold bow split the sea and formed two vortices along both sides of the hull. This is not the Sino-Japanese naval battle. Deng Shichang rushed to the Zhiyuan led by Yoshino. This is the New Chinese fleet, which has been trained and sublimated in many naval battles over the past 12 years and equipped with the world's most advanced warships. It is a giant with more than 20,000. Beast!

The bow of the Wisconsin deflected quickly, and the rudder wheel had hit the lowest, but the old body still could not stop the approaching Heilongjiang. When the two shadows gradually approached and were about to overlap, some timid people even closed their eyes.

Evans clenched his fist hard. He wanted to order the firing immediately, but at this moment, Heilongjiang was less than 2,000 meters away from the Wisconsin. Once the gun was fired at such a close distance, it also meant that the enemy's ten naval guns could send the shells into the Wisconsin in an instant.

Ten 305mm shells are enough to make the Wisconsin disappear completely!

Seeing that the distance was getting closer and closer, a gloomy smile gradually rose from the corners of Fang Jin's mouth. He was not a fool. Even if his Heilongjiang account exceeded 20,000 tons, if he hit it straight, it would be paralyzed and sinked.

So the collision of the ship also requires a lot of skill, especially the two giants, which need to be accurate to the control of rice.

The captain personally took over the steering wheel, and the soldiers hugged anything they could grab around them. The cold muzzle still pointed to the target that was about to hit, and then.

"Gick your eyes wide and teach them a lesson!"

"No one can block my way!"

In Fang Jin's roar, the bow of the Heilongjiang ship suddenly deflected to the left, and the outer drifting ship's bow first hit near the rear mast of the Wisconsin at an angle of five degrees. The loud impact made everyone's hearts hang in their throats all of a sudden, and even Ji Rushan, who made the decision, pinched a cold sweat.

But he also knows that only the madman-like Fang Jin is most confident in this task. Although he usually laughs, in terms of domination and fighting as a warship, few people in the Xinhua Navy can be as accurate as Heilongjiang. What's more, his warship is full of crazy people who fight!

The huge bow bent and deformed at a speed visible to the naked eye. The secondary gun barrel extending from the starboard side of the Wisconsin was abruptly broken. The huge sound of toothy steel friction was frightening. When the two ships finally merged, the main armor belt of the waterline of the two sides suddenly bumped.

"Boom!"

This is not the sound of gunfire, but it is more frightening than it. Although the violent impact is only a moment, everyone feels as if they have experienced a century.

In the friction sound of

squeak~~, the Heilongjiang and the Wisconsin skewed to both sides at the same time like two pieces of watermelons split with a knife, and the main armor belt as thick as hundreds of millimeters twisted and deformed in the friction of the distance, and then cracked.

The huge impact force made the port side of the Wisconsin, which was half the tonnage difference, suddenly sink down. All the secondary guns on that side were immersed in the sea. Several unexpected sailors were suddenly knocked out, and even the deck tilted nearly forty or fifty degrees, splashing countless waves.

Although the Heilongjiang was also uncomfortable, because it was an active collision, the soldiers were prepared to prevent the impact in advance, so only a few soldiers who were not caught were injured. Moreover, due to the large tonnage, the width of the hull and the deflection angle were much smaller, the balance was quickly restored.

On the four American battleships in the distance, everyone was stunned by this scene. When the Wisconsin leaned to the left and the deck on one side was even completely immersed in the sea, almost every gunner was ready to fire. It was not until the two ships separated and the Wisconsin gradually regained its balance.

For Colonel Moore, what made him feel palpitated most was that when the two ships staggered, except for the other side still pointing to his gun mouth, the faces holding armrests, wide eyes and laughing at the corners of his mouth made him feel cold.

They did it on purpose!

And laughing at myself!

A stream of humiliation and grief rose from his heart, but he had no time to fight back, and it was even impossible to fight back. The damage caused by the instantaneous impact was extremely amazing. The thick armored belt on the starboard side had been torn open a large crack more than a meter long, and the sea was pouring in crazily.

Similarly, the wide-eyed Heilongjiang was also uncomfortable. The violent impact completely deformed the bow, and the sea water began to enter along the cracks. Although the port water line and the main armor belt did not crack like the other side, the internal structure was almost completely destroyed and had lost its protective role.

A few minutes later, when Captain Moore ordered to inject water into the port side and barely maintained the balance of the warship, the bison-like rampaging Heilongjiang still stubbornly rushed to the four American battleships 3,000 meters away when the bow was flooded.

The signal is still!

"My ship was ordered to hit your ship!"

And behind it, the remaining three Xinhua capital ships have already crossed the Wisconsin, which is being repaired, and the signal lights and flags are constantly waving, the same sentence.

In an instant, all eyes were focused on Evans' face. Is it a war, or a collision back?!

The air suddenly froze. For Evans, this was an extremely difficult choice. If there was a war, the farthest distance between the two sides at this time was only 6,000 meters, and it seemed that he also knew that the Wisconsin had lost its combat ability. He was not sure of five against four, let alone such a close distance of four against four!

But if you don't fire, then I'm afraid only God knows whether these Chinese madmen will do it again at their flagships. I'm afraid that they will be bumped into a pile of scrap metal!

As the captain kept reporting the distance figures, the hot Caribbean air seemed to be getting more and more anxious. Some people even began to look for the nearest fixed object, and the sailors on the deck were even more panicked.

No one expected that the situation would change like this. Evans didn't expect that the other party would solve the blockade in this way. Looking at the Xinhua Fleet galloping in a row like mad cows and rolling black smoke, Evans raised his right hand and hesitated for a moment before waving.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and the helmsman couldn't wait to turn the rudder and make way for the crazy people opposite.

At 3:00 p.m. on May 1, 1906, the Pacific Fleet of the Xinhua Navy visited the fleet and broke through the blockade of the U.S. Navy in a shocking way. Although it was later said that it was because the United States was not ready for war, which led to this result, but in any case, in fact, the Chinese The capital ship entered Cuba for the first time in history!

In the grand welcoming ceremony with a sense of victory in the port of Havana, Ji Rushan only used one sentence when reporters asked how to break through the blockade.

"We bumped in!"

Against the background of his voice, it was the staggering figure of the Wisconsin. Two days later, the U.S. battleship barely arrived in Miami under the escort of two ocean-going tugboats, and the whole United States was detonated again!

As many as eight American battleships surrounded the port of Havana again. The Nicaraguan Grand Canal negotiations that had just begun were interrupted again, and Mars splashed again!

However, it doesn't matter anymore, because Ji Rushan can't leave Havana for the time being. In fact, the Heilongjiang also had to be overhauled because the bow was flooded. However, due to Cuba's lack of maintenance capacity, the Xinhua Navy, which lacked a base in the Atlantic Ocean, had to contact Germany and asked them to send a maintenance ship to Cuba.

In the end, it took a full month to barely ensure the navigation ability. The visiting fleet led by Ji Rushan embarked on a visit again, and finally completed the first round-the-world voyage in the history of the Xinhua Navy. After the Heilongjiang was immediately sent to the dock for overhaul, with maintenance funds as high as two million blue coins

(to be continued)