Chapter 128 It’s time to show your true strength! (The sixth update is coming, please subscribe for the first time, please follow up)

In the Kii Channel, in the waters near Shikoku Island, on the British cruiser HMS Leander, Captain James John Gordon Boehmer of the Royal Navy was holding a telescope and nervously looking at the thick smoke rising from the sea in the distance!

There is smoke on the sea. Either there are ships burning, or there are ships deliberately letting off smoke. When the four warships of the Ming Dynasty fled from the waters near Awaji Island, they let off smoke for a while. They ran away in a flash!

Colonel Boehmer was determined to kill the British Royal Navy captain when he saw the enemy. Of course, he could not just watch the enemy slip away from his eyes. So he immediately summoned a Buffalo-class destroyer and the Leander 2 he was riding on.

-class cruisers formed a small formation, and then pursued the enemy ships escaping at a speed of 24-28 knots at a speed of up to 16 knots.

Of course, he can't catch up. And if he catches up with Colonel Boehmer, he may not be able to defeat him. At least the two Port Arthur-class cruisers cannot be defeated. Although his Leander second-level cruiser also has 4300

With a standard displacement of tons, the protection capability is not weak, but the Lushun class is far behind. The gun barrel alone is incomparable! A Lushun class has 16 155mm 40-fold rapid-fire guns, and the Leander

There are only two 7-inch 30-caliber main guns and two 6-inch 35-caliber secondary guns on board. The former is a semi-rapid-firing cannon. Although the latter is a rapid-fire cannon, its range and rate of fire are still far higher than those of the USS.

It can't match the Ming Dynasty's 155mm 40-fold rapid-fire cannon.

So chasing but not catching up is indeed the best result. If you chase, it means that the Royal Navy of the British Empire won the battle! Since both engines have no chance of fighting and the warship is sunk, then whoever escapes and who chases shows who wins.

Lost.

After the brave Colonel Boehmer led two British Royal Navy warships to pursue the enemy for more than four hours, he could finally believe that he had won the pursuit!

The enemy's shadow is gone, and he is almost chasing him out of the Kii Channel and into the Pacific Ocean. Even if he drives out the Ming Dynasty navy that invaded Japan, it can be considered a victory, right?

Just when he was about to return triumphantly with relief, an unexpected change happened!

Suddenly there were several roars on the sea, and then there was thick smoke billowing, as if some kind of ship was burning?

How is this going?

This can't be a British Royal Navy ship burning, right? There can't be a British warship in that direction. Because he was the most aggressive when chasing the "fleeing" Ming warship. The other two secondary protections

The ships were chasing "cautiously", and the speed did not exceed 15 knots, but he ordered the Leander to pursue the ship at a speed of up to 16 knots (the fastest it can run is 20 knots)!

Since it wasn’t a British Royal Navy ship that exploded, it was a Japanese ship or a Ming Empire ship that exploded. And most likely it was a Ming Empire ship!

Because they are running so fast, they must be running at full speed. In this case, the steam boiler can easily explode. In addition, they also took a lot of shells just now, and some of them must not have exploded. Maybe they are being cleaned and repaired.

It accidentally exploded!

If such a good thing really happened, the credit must be attributed to Colonel Boehme. He was promoted to colonel during the Napoleonic War (1814). It has been more than ten years now, and a brigadier general has still been promoted.

If he doesn't go up, he'll be old if he doesn't go up again. So he can't let go of this opportunity to make a contribution! He just needs to lead the formation and drive over to take a photo and fire a few more torpedoes, and the credit will be there!

Thinking of this, Boehmer took a deep breath and said to his left and right: "Left rudder 5 degrees, move toward the place where the black smoke comes out. In addition, send a semaphore to the Hippo and ask them to prepare the torpedoes!"

"Yes, sir!"

The two British warships, under the command of the brave Colonel Boehme, with the 800-ton destroyer Hippopotamus as the vanguard and the 4,300-ton cruiser HMS Lidian as the rear, cautiously moved toward the billowing black smoke, one behind the other.

open to the sea.

"Sir, it's a destroyer that seems to be of the Xinchang class. It seems to have been abandoned!"

Suddenly someone shouted in the bridge of the Lidian.

Boehme tried hard to suppress his excitement and looked around with his telescope - he didn't see any ships of the Ming Navy around. The waters in this area were close to Cape Muroto on Shikoku Island, and the destroyer of the Ming Dynasty was parked in the distance.

Less than 3 nautical miles away from the east coast of Cape Toki, there is no movement. And on the nearby Cape Muroto beach, there are two wooden boats that look like lifeboats.

Obviously, something happened to this destroyer and it was abandoned by the Ming Navy officers and soldiers!

Well, that should be the case, otherwise what could this boat be doing? Colonel Boehme really couldn't think of it.

"Sir, we can capture that ship!" The deputy commander of the Lidian had already made a suggestion at this time.

"Okay!" Boehmer nodded and said with a smile: "We can capture it. This is the real strength of the Royal Navy! Send a semaphore to the Hippo and order the Hippo to try to send people to board the ship and capture the destroyer of the Ming Navy. There must be

There are a lot of military secrets!”

"Yes, sir!"

"Bit, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep."

With the beeping sound of the telegraph, the specific positions of the two British warships were transmitted to the Port Arthur and Vladivostok on the other side of Cape Muroto.

Cape Muroto is actually a rather slender peninsula with low hills and the sea on both sides. One side is Kii Suido and the other side is Tosa Bay.

Because there are mountains blocking the ships, the ships on both sides cannot see each other. If there were no radio waves, it would be impossible for the Lushun and Vladivostok, which are currently located in Tosa Bay, to know the specific positions of the Lidian and Hippo, let alone

Use cannon to blast them.

But now, the radio on the Xinchang, which is "playing dead", can tell the two cruisers at the other end the positions of the Lidian and Hippo through the radio, thus acting as the eyes of the two cruisers.

The 155mm cannon on the Lushun and Vladivostok is also quite powerful - it is a 40-fold rapid-fire cannon with a range of up to 12 kilometers, which can hit the other side from Cape Muroto (a distance of five kilometers to six kilometers)!

Of course, in actual naval battles, this range is of little significance, because of the problems of ship body shaking and sighting level. The effective range of the Ming Dynasty's 155mm 40-fold naval gun is within 4,000 meters unless the sighting and sighting problems can be solved.

Due to the problem of excessive hull shaking, this 155mm gun can hit farther targets.

Now, the problem of observation and sighting has been solved by the Xinchang "pretending to be dead" and the radio station. The problem of hull shaking has been partially solved by anchoring the hull.

So the 20 155mm cannons on the Lushun and Vladivostok (the most in one direction are these) are ready! And these 20 cannons can also fire real concentrated fire - 20 cannons according to the instructions of the Xinchang,

Bomb the same target!

"Sir, two British ships have been fooled, one is the Leander-class cruiser and the other is the Buffalo-class destroyer!"

On the bridge of the Lushun, Officer Tongxun put down his phone headset and loudly reported to Zhuge Weidao.

Zhuge Weidao nodded and thought: "That Li Chenghui who seems a little slow turns out to be quite good at fighting. He can think of such damaging moves."

Thinking of this, he asked again: "Do you have Zhuyuan?"

"Yes."

Zhuge Weidao nodded and said: "Okay! Fire cannons across the mountain. Now it's time to show the true strength of our Ming Navy!"

"Boom boom boom"

Just when Colonel Boehme was happily waiting to capture a Ming destroyer, a wave of 155mm artillery shells fell without warning! And it also landed directly near the cruiser Leander! The latest one among them

, and even landed thirty or forty meters away on the port side of the Leander. Water columns of more than ten meters rose into the air, and huge waves even hit the deck of the Leander.

This could be considered a near miss, but it frightened everyone on the bridge of Böhme and the Leander!

Where is the sex scene going? Why is it so accurate?

There were no enemy ships nearby, except for one destroyer of the Ming Navy. That destroyer did not fire its guns, and it was impossible to have such firepower!

Could it be the Japanese cannon mounted on Mount Muroto?

The Japanese have betrayed the British Empire and become dogs of the Ming Dynasty?

Boehme still didn't understand what happened? The second and third waves of shells had already fallen, and they were more accurate than the last time. The second wave of shelling hit a cross-fire, and all twenty shells fell on Lid.

An'ao's front, rear, left, and right, and one even landed twenty meters away from the Lidian.

The first wave was nearly missed, the second wave was shot across the board, and the third wave. Now all the officers on the bridge of the Lidian had the thought that the end was coming.

Boehmer opened his mouth and wanted to give the order to turn the rudder and evacuate. Suddenly someone shouted in his ear: "Airships. There are airships in the sky! It's the airships firing!"

What? The airship is firing?
Chapter completed!