All-people naval warfare: from patrol boats to aircraft carrier fleets

Lu Teyansi's face changed when he heard this, and at the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and glanced at Ye Bai, fortunately, his own commander gave an order in advance, allowing the Yanhuang to break away from the formation and sail at full speed, gaining a certain amount of time.

"Prepare the ship's guns, and as soon as they are in range, open fire immediately, drawing the attention of the enemy ships. "

Although Lütjans did not know the course and development of the naval battle of Shipu Port, based on the results detected by the radar, he had almost a rough guess and analysis, since the friendly fleet took the initiative to disperse and break through without firing a single shot, either its strength was inferior to others, or it did not have the slightest intention of fighting.

But in either case, the situation of the friendly fleet is already very unoptimistic, and all he can do now is to attract the attention of the other party, contain the enemy warship, and cover the safe breakthrough of the friendly fleet.

Especially those two warships that sailed slower and turned to break through to the port, if he was the commander of the enemy fleet, he would inevitably send warships to block the port, and then send warships into the port to attack, not giving the other side a chance to escape.

This time, Ye Bai didn't mean to interject in the slightest about Lu Teyansi's command, and he was secretly relieved in his heart, fortunately, he spent a lot of money to add a lot of power equipment, otherwise it would be a big trouble.

The two boiler rooms and the engine room of the Yanhuang itself are equipped with perfect power equipment according to the data given by the system, so that the Yanhuang can reach the theoretical maximum speed of 32 knots, but Ye Bai used the space spar to upgrade the small space of the logistics cabin.

It is true that Ye Bai is happy with the many rewards after the upgrade of the small space of the logistics cabin, but it has also caused a serious problem, the boilers and turbines in the power cabin that were deliberately modified before the upgrade provide enough energy for the small space of the 343 logistics cabin before the upgrade, and there is even a surplus.

After the small space upgrade, these boilers and turbines can no longer support them, taking up a lot of the power energy originally used to drive the Yanhuang, and even the top speed of the Yanhuang has been reduced to 26 knots.

In this case, Ye Bai had to eliminate all the previous boilers and turbines, and replace them with the Admiralty-type three-drum fine-tube water-tube boilers and Parsons gear reduction steam turbine units currently used on Yanhuang, and they were also equipped with 4 respectively, which were installed in 4 specially modified energy cabins.

The power energy provided by the four specially renovated energy compartments is all used to support the energy consumption of the small space of the upgraded logistics cabin, which makes the power energy supply of the Yanhuang return to normal state, and also restore the previous maximum speed of 32 knots.

If this were not the case, the current Yanhuang would not be able to break away from the fleet formation and rush to Shipu Port as soon as possible to support, I am afraid that it would become a burden to the fleet and drag down the speed of the entire fleet.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

When the Yanhuang had just arrived about 10 kilometers away from Shipu Port, under the order of Lu Teyans, three twin 152mm diameter main guns broke out one after another with a huge roar.

One 152mm round fell into the sea, and there was a violent explosion, and the huge columns of water were created by the shock wave of the shell explosion, which frightened the French naval officers and men who originally thought that victory was in their hands.

While continuing to maintain the state of pursuit of the Nanyang naval divisions that were scattered and breaking through, he quickly looked in the direction where the shells were flying, only to find that in the distance (CAAA) there was a huge steel battleship (CAAA) splitting the sea at a very fast speed and coming at high speed.

"Ironclad ......"

With a displacement of up to 7,000 tons, the Yanhuang is an all-steel battleship, which in this era is almost equivalent to a main ironclad ship, and just looking at the size is enough to make these French battleships with a displacement of up to 5,000 tons ashamed.

The French fleet, which mistook the Yanhuang for an ironclad ship, immediately panicked, where could it care about continuing to pursue the battleships of the Nanyang Naval Division, and hurriedly began to turn the bow of the ship, preparing to meet the battle, and even the 4 French battleships that had left the three battleships of Nanchen, Kaiji, and Nanrui, which had already left the pursuit of the Nanyang Naval Division to break through to the north, were also alarmed, and quickly turned around and rushed to support.

With just one salvo, the Yanhuang attracted all the attention of all the French battleships, and gradually formed a semicircle, and one main gun fired at the Yanhuang continuously.

In the face of a large number of flying shells, Lu Teyans did not panic at all, calmly issued one order after another, with the assistance of Qi Sicheng, constantly changed directions, and avoided the falling shells from the sky as much as possible, and at the same time, the three twin 152mm guns and two twin 102mm guns on the ship were also constantly firing back again.

Don't look at the number of warships in the French fleet as high as 6, but none of the battleships can be the opponent of the Yan Huang, and in the situation of fighting more and less, only a few shells fell on the hull of the Yellow ship.

In the violent explosion, although some of the armor values of the Yanhuang were knocked out, the damage to the Yanhuang was not too great, and the biggest result was only to make some wounded on the Yanhuang.

The French fleet did not cause much damage to the Yanhuang, on the contrary, the Yanhuang's counterattack artillery fire was quite sharp, and when the ship's guns roared, they concentrated almost all their firepower on the French battleship.

In the face of the fierce artillery fire of the Yanhuang, the first unlucky ones were the two smallest and weakest pole mineboats in the French fleet, as mentioned before, the pole mineboats at this time are equivalent to suicide warships, and only by getting close to the side of the opponent's battleship can they detonate the mines on the long pole, thus causing damage to the opponent's battleship.

In this era, because of the level of science and technology and the technology of warships, such a pole mineship is still somewhat useful, but in the face of such an epoch-making light cruiser as Yanhuang, let alone play a role, it can only become a live target.

Although in Ye Bai's heart, the Yanhuang can only be regarded as a treaty-type light cruiser, not to mention compared with those cruisers in the 21st century, and even those powerful light cruisers in the late World War II are far behind, but at this stage in the late 19th century, it is undoubtedly a black technology warship.

Without giving the two pole mineboats in the French fleet a chance to get closer, several salvos of two twin 102mm guns blew the two French pole mineboats to pieces and turned them into a pile of scrap metal and sank to the bottom of the sea with the bones and wreckage of the French naval officers and men.

The tragic scene of the two pole mineboats also frightened the officers and men on the other 4 French battleships, if it were not for the years of training, the honor and sense of mission as soldiers, or the contempt for the flower planters, they would really have turned around and fled at this time.

These Western countries have always been like this, although there is no shortage of murderous existence, but in the case of knowing defeat, they rarely fight to the last soldier, and surrender is even more commonplace.

Isn't it just a white flag on the mast of a battleship, isn't it just a matter of underwear, in the eyes of these Westerners, there is no big deal.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

The guns of the ships on both sides roared constantly, not to mention that the Yanhuang was one against four, the number of guns was not as good as the French fleet, but the firepower was quite strong, and its own armor protection was not on the same level as the French warships, and it was still in the upper hand.

Such a fierce naval battle attracted the attention of many people, and although the merchant ships and civilian ships docked in the port of Shipo were frightened, they could not extinguish their curiosity, and they all climbed to a high place to watch the naval battle from a distance.

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

Amid the cheers and prayers of some local people, not long after the battle, a French battleship that was constantly firing unexpectedly launched a continuous explosion, a large number of fires appeared, and in the thick smoke of gunpowder, it sank directly.

Ye Bai held the binoculars, and was also surprised to see that the French battleship sank for no reason, and he saw very clearly that the main firepower on the Yanhuang was all concentrated on the most powerful wooden-hulled protective cruiser in the French fleet, and the battleship that suddenly caught fire and sank was not within their strike range at all.

What's going on?

Just when Ye Bai was puzzled, the excited voice of the communication soldier was already heard next to him: "Report to the commander, captain, Peng Ze and Yujiang have arrived at the battlefield and successfully sank an enemy warship with a torpedo." "

Well, the case has finally been solved, and the dare is that Peng Ze and Yu Jiang have already arrived at the battlefield, and joined the battle as soon as possible, taking advantage of the fact that all the attention of the French fleet was attracted by the Yanhuang, they used torpedoes to sneak attack and make a contribution in one fell swoop.

The French battleship was secretly attacked and sunk, and the situation on the battlefield has been reversed, in terms of numbers, the French fleet and the Chinese fleet each have 3 warships, which can be regarded as equal.

But in terms of real combat effectiveness, it is simply a heaven and an underground, not to mention the Yanhuang, which has the strongest combat effectiveness, even the two destroyers, Peng Ze and Yujiang, have enough ability to send the last three French warships into the sea to feed Wang Ba.

What's more, after the French fleet sank 3 battleships in succession, the Chengqing and Yuyuan gunboats, which were originally forced to hide in Shipu Harbor, sneaked out, and their eyes widened when they saw the battlefield.

In the original naval battle of Shipu Port, Jiang Chaoying did not dare to fight back against the French ships out of fear of war, but ordered his ship to be scuttled, and then reported that it was sunk by the French torpedo boat.

(PS: The author's mistake, at that time, only found out that Jiang Chaoying was once the pipe band of the Yangwu, but ignored his ability and character, and now it is impossible to change the previous content, and the captain of the Peng Ze was changed to Liang Zifang, the deputy steward who died in the Battle of Mawei, and the author is deeply sorry for the inconvenience caused to everyone).