Chapter 467 Separate them from the coastline!

@@@@@@@Shark Bay.

Located 300 nautical miles north of Perth, the capital of Western Australia, the W-shaped bay has become an excellent natural safe haven and is famous for its grouper, so many Chinese fishing boats will come here to try their luck.

The clear sky, white clouds are like fog, and the white sails on the sea are mixed with a few thick smoke. In this era, the pictures of flying sailboats are very common.

Xiaowu stood on the deck of his own boat and turned the net with several uncles. The increasing pressure on the handle made him proud. As long as he did it come a few more, maybe his family could make money to buy a boat like an Australian fisherman in the distance.

Compared with old sailboats, the efficiency of machine-ship fishing is much higher, but the capital investment is not small. For example, the foreigner's foreigner's more than 300-ton wood-shell coal-burning fishing boat also costs 3,000 blue coins in Xinhua.

Fortunately, with the better and better days in the past few years, there is no need to worry about not being able to sell it after harvesting. The family has also accumulated some money. In addition, the third brother has become a platoon leader in the army, and he can send money back every month to subsidize it, and he can also collect enough money.

If you are lucky enough to catch a few high-quality big fish, maybe you can sell them at a good price when you get home.

Xiao Wu smiled proudly and shouted neat slogans with several uncles. He closed the net hard. Seeing the fishing net tightening little by little, he heard a thunderous sound suddenly in his ear.

"Boom."

The loud sound made Xiao Wu so scared that he didn't hold the handle. Half of the fishing net he had just received suddenly slipped and turned violently with a reincart.

This is deadly. If the rope is put to the end, all the fish in the net must have run away, so before he can see where the thunder was, Xiao Wu even grabbed the shaking handle, but when he finally stabilized again, he found that several uncles were looking at the distance in a daze, and his face was a little strange.

The strange appearance reminded him of the dry thunder just now. He quickly turned his head to find the source of the sound. When he turned his head, his face turned blue like several uncles.

I only saw that two warships flying Australian flags in the distance were gesturing in their own direction, and the cannon barrel on one of them was still facing their own direction. Looking at the ripples on the sea not far away, I suddenly understood it all.

That's not a rare thunderstorm at all, but the sound of shell explosion.

On the Vincent, the artillery quickly pulled out the bolt, exited the shell and re-stretulged a 127mm shell. The cold muzzle moved again, aimed at the Chinese fishermen in the distance.

This is an old second-class protective cruiser with a displacement of more than 3,000 tons. It is one of the ten cruisers received by the Australian political axe from the United Kingdom. Next to it is the same model of Calvin.

When they were ordered to shell the port of Perth and suppress the Chinese mob, they have been wandering on the west coast.

For Captain Caron, who served in the British Far East Fleet a few years ago, he doesn't want to kill those Chinese, because these yellow-skinned Chinese are no longer as weak as they were ten years ago, because there is a country behind them a country that is extremely powerful for Australia!

Australia should not provoke the Xinhua Empire!

But as a soldier, especially a senior naval officer, he could not resist the order, so he set out with the Vincent, shelled the port of Perth with his friends, and came here to patrol and expel the Chinese who were active in the sea.

As the shells were reloaded, the dull fishing boat in the distance finally took action, but after hurriedly cutting the fishing net, they not only did not leave, but fled to Denham Bay.

That's Australia!

Captain Caron issued an order to fire again, and two 127mm shells rushed out of the muzzle. For most of the Australian sailors who had experience in the British Navy, it was easy to deal with such a slow small fishing boat.

The shell accurately landed in front of the fishing boat, blocking the passage they tried to escape into the bay. One of them exploded a few meters away from the bow, and the water column and debris swept through the fishing boat, tearing not only the sail, but also injuring a recent Chinese man.

"Third Uncle!"

Xiao Wu hugged his third uncle with a bloody face, pulled off his clothes hard, and blocked the wound on his head with tears. When he raised his eyes again, his eyes were already blood red.

But this scene did not bring the pity of the warships in the distance. Instead, the skilled Australian sailors filled up the shells again and began to prepare for the next round of shelling and expulsion.

It's just that Captain Caron and everyone didn't notice that a few traces of smoke suddenly floated under the horizon in the distance.

"Colonel, they are about to enter Denham Bay." The second pair pointed to the fishing boat running into the bay in the distance and reminded Caron loudly.

Captain Caron had long seen the fishing boat still fleeing to the bay. He stamped his feet in anger and shouted, "These Chinese people who don't know life or die!"

"Aim and sink him." Before the voice was finished, the bridge suddenly became restless, and everyone only heard a nervous shout coming from the outside. Seven o'clock! The Chinese fleet!"

"What!"

The urgent alarm made Captain Caron have no time to deal with the fishing boat. The telescope quickly turned to the direction of seven o'clock. When the target appeared in the frame, his face suddenly turned pale.

I only saw that two large cruisers flying blood cloud dragon claw flags that had never been seen before were coming in a hurry. There were also four large torpedo ships beside them. Judging from the splashes of the other side's bow, the speed of these warships exceeded 30 knots!

God, two large cruisers with more than 30 knots!

"Prepare to fight!"

"send a signal and ask for the intention."

"Tell them that this is the Australian territorial sea!"

With Captain Caron's words, the two protective cruisers immediately began to deflect the bow. When the black smoke in the distance was getting closer and closer, Xiaowu seemed to feel that his pupils were about to explode!

is our warship!

is the blood cloud dragon claw flag!

The two Australian cruisers that deflected rapidly kept lighting and flag signals, but the Xinhua Fleet in the distance was still galloping at a speed of 30 knots as if they had not seen it.

"Damn it, right rudder, full speed!

"Everyone is ready!"

"20000 yards!" Almost at the same time, the captain also shouted.

"18,000 yards!"

"15,000 yards!"

"Damn it, they are still approaching!"

"Coloe!"

"12,000 yards!"

"God, are there boilers in it?!"

"10000 yards!"

"Prepare!"

When the captain reported the number of 10,000 yards, Karon seemed to be tense. People who were not familiar with naval battles rarely knew it, which meant that at this distance, the enemy's firepower could be fully opened, and the hit rate was at least more than 30%!

Especially since the formation of the Xinhua Navy, it has been famous for its long-range and high-precision shelling. When it killed the Russian USS Prince, the distance even reached 15,000 meters, that is, 16,400 yards.

This record is still posted on the wall of his captain's room!

Compared with the closer and closer distance, the other party's delay in answering and rushing like a bull made him more worried. He knew very well that his two protective cruisers were at this distance. In this case, what would happen to the two large cruisers similar to the upgraded version of the Jinghai class? If it was right If Fang is willing, he can even hit himself hard in a few minutes.

Everyone looked at Caron. The air was full of burning, and the gunners on the deck were sweating coldly. If a cannon hit by mistake at this time, there would undoubtedly be a disaster immediately!

Looking at the two Australian cruisers that quickly turned to him and were ready to intercept, Jiang Haoran's sneer became stronger and stronger. Whether it was tonnage or firepower, he was sure to hit the other party in a few minutes. If he was lucky, he could even sink it, but the command's order was "no threat to life." Under such circumstances, you must not take the lead in fire.

In this case, there must be no threat to life, so if he can't fire first, he has to bring tension and pressure to the other party through this high-speed approach and pressure, and then forcibly isolate the two Australian cruisers from the coastline.

"Detray them from the coastline!" Jiang Haoran gave the order coldly.

10,000 yards, a distance of more than 9,000 meters, only a cigarette for a fleet of more than 30 knots. Before the two Australian cruisers figured out their intentions, the Yangtze River suddenly took the lead in turning left, using high speed, straight into the back of the Australian cruiser, and the stern pulled out a long line on the blue sea. The long white tail flows.

"Dad, he's going to go around behind us! Left full rudder! Hurry up and fill the rudder!" This scene made Captain Caron shout like crazy and immediately ordered the left rudder to return to the battle position. Unexpectedly, at this time, the four faster destroyers exceeded the cruisers as if they were crazy, and rushed over at a high speed of 34 knots.

At this moment, all the Australian officers on the two cruisers understand that the opponent played a trick to cut off their connection with the land with a high-speed cruiser as a guide. Although this is not of great significance in actual combat, it has a deep meaning at this moment!

This means that you have lost contact with the land you need to defend!

There is such an iron training in the navy, "If you lose the land you need to defend, please send your warship to the bottom of the sea!"

Whether it is the Vincent or the Darwin, the orders received are to ensure the safety of the West Coast, but now the opponents have to isolate them from the West Coast. If strategically speaking, this is a complete failure!

Turn around?!

Looking at the four faster destroyers, Captain Caron ordered everyone to stop moving unexpectedly, which made many people very strange. They thought that the captain was afraid, but only a few warships who had been trained by the captain in the British Royal Navy understood that if they rushed to grab the light patrol at this time. The battle position is equivalent to leaving the back to the four destroyers. If the other party attacks at this time, then!

For more than 1,000 soldiers of the two ships, Captain Caron cancelled the order. When the two cruisers were reorganized, the Yangtze River had grabbed their inner side, and even the muzzle had completed the steering.

Captain Caron's face changed again and again. He never thought that a large 10,000-ton cruiser was as flexible as a torpedo ship. In addition to admiring the other party's ship technology, he was also curious about this new cruiser much larger than the Jinghai-class. He didn't understand how the Xinhua Empire took more than 10,000 tons of warships. It has been promoted to 30 sections and can still be so flexible.

For him, it has failed!

Resistance has no meaning except meaningless bloodshed.

On September 5, 1907, the 21st Patrol Fleet of the Royal Chinese Navy arrived on the west coast of Australia. After a silent battle, two Australian cruisers, Vincent and Darwin, were deported to the South Australian coastline.

On September 6, two Jinghai-class light cruisers and six defense-class destroyers of the 13th cruiser fleet, reinforced by the Pacific Fleet of the Royal New China Navy, also arrived in Darwin and announced that they would protect the coastline of North Australia from now on.

When Captain Caron, who was cut off and lost contact with the country, returned to Adelaide with two cruisers in disappointment, the whole Australia fell into panic. Everyone understood that compared with the powerful Xinhua Empire Fleet, the newly formed Australian Navy was just a child!

On September 10, the Prime Minister of the British Empire urgently summoned the ambassador of Xinhua to the United Kingdom and expressed his strongest protest and dissatisfaction with the entry of the Royal New China Navy along the coast of Australia.

At the same time, Feng Qi, the ambassador to the United Kingdom, also sneerated, accusing the Australian navy of shelling innocent Chinese, causing more than 2,000 deaths and injuries, and said that she demanded that the Australian political axe compensate 10 million pounds to the victims and give normal political treatment such as the right to vote for the Chinese in the two places, otherwise they would never withdraw from the patrol. Logo Fleet.

On September 25, the British reinforcement cruiser fleet crossed the Suez Canal and arrived at the sea of South Australia, but was immediately intercepted by the New China Southern Ocean Fleet, including two Dalian-class heavy cruisers and two Jinghai-class light cruisers.

Major General Jobs, the commander of the reinforcements fleet, knows very well how powerful the two Dalian-class heavy cruisers on the opposite side are. Although the tonnage of the three first-class cruisers and four second-class cruisers in his hand seems to be quite large, I'm afraid he will suffer a big loss if he really fights, so he has to use the high-power radio station purchased from Xinhua to send it in China.

On October 1, on the National Day of the Xinhua Empire, British and Australian envoys arrived in Shanghai at the same time and began negotiations with Xinhua on the issue of Northwest Australia.

To their surprise, Tang Shaoyi, Xinhua's negotiator, did not claim the sovereignty of the two places, and even said that he would not interfere in Australia's internal affairs. However, if the Australian political axe continued to carry out genocide on overseas Chinese in Australia and did not give them the political rights they wanted, then Xinhua would not rule out the use of army protection. The possibility.

This release of information made people and countries all over the world who were ready to watch the play dumbfounded, and also relieved the nervous Australian political axe and Britain.

On October 10, Huo Zheng, a Chinese representative in Australia, arrived in Kuntian and began negotiations with the Australian representative waiting there on the status of the Chinese, while Xinhua and the United Kingdom chose to watch at the same time.

This series of news did not make Li Mo, who is conducting the final battleship experiment with Huludao and McKinson, have any reaction, because this is a battle that can't be fought. Britain needs to face aggressive Germany, and five Caesars are enough for them. Australia itself lacks military strength. There are only ten cruisers in the navy, six of which belong to the classics in the 1980s, and the army is even weak. There are only more than 20,000 people in the whole country, which is not enough to fight against itself.

So it only takes a simple guarantee that neither Britain nor Australia is willing to start the war lightly. As for Huo Zheng's negotiations, Li Mo doesn't want to ask. Li Enfu and Tang Shaoyi have a thousand ways to turn this negotiation into a pot of porridge, as long as it is delayed for a few years and Australia will not be fully united. And that's enough!

And most importantly, this matter will make Britain more distracted and unable to deal with Germany wholeheartedly, so that Germany's pressure will be less, and World War I may be more intense!

However, when Du Dazhuang sent the news that the White Fleet would leave on October 20, he suddenly put down his work and suddenly raised a curved arc at the corners of his mouth...

(to be continued)