Five minutes ago, at 9:50, the flagship "Reputation" commander bridge of the First Battle Patrol Team.

After receiving the captain's call, Major General Gunter immediately got up from the bed and rushed over before he had time to put on his clothes.

After asking the situation clearly, Gunter felt that the captain who dreamed of climbing up was making a big deal.

However, the Second Battle Patrol team did not stay behind honestly and ran to the front to fight Qiu Feng. I met by chance. Do you need to make a fuss?

That's right, I received information a few days ago that the local fleet of Liangxia Empire is likely to be dispatched in the near future, otherwise the joint fleet would not have come out in full swing.

That's right, more than two hours ago, an unknown fleet appeared west of the Watchmen Strait.

But, what does this mean?

The Watcher Strait is just a little wide, and there is only one channel that allows the main battleship to pass safely. The express war team, commanded by Admiral Betty himself, is outside the exit of the channel. Even if the 21st squadron of the local fleet comes out, it will be hit by the express war team.

The 21st squadron appeared in the open water dozens of kilometers northeast of the strait?

Obviously, that is absolutely impossible!

Besides, from the west are four battle patrols, and the 21st Squadron has six battle patrols. Could it be that he pretended to be the Second Battle Patrol Team, nicknamed the Tiger of the East Ocean. In the past two years, He Yongxing, who was regarded as the number one threat, would leave one-third of his main force and lead four battle patrols into the East Ocean, and fight a decisive battle with the First Battle Patrol Team with six battle cruisers?

Will He Yongxing make this kind of low-level mistake of inverting the primary and secondary!?

If this is true, you will wake up even if you fall asleep!

Six ships deal with four ships, forty-four main guns fired thirty-two main guns, and the fast battle team is only a few dozen kilometers away, so they are definitely sure to win.

Not to mention the complete annihilation of the 21st Squadron, as long as He Yongxing can be killed, it will be a first-class achievement!

But Gunter doesn't think he has such good luck.

More than two years ago, in the naval battle that changed the entire Western Continental battle, the fifth battleship squadron led by Gunter arrived in time, but because of his bad luck, he did not seize the opportunity to win in one fell swoop. Gunter missed a great opportunity and allowed Betty to rise to the top.

If he had good luck, Gunter would have been in the position of commander of the Eastern Force, and it would not be Betty's turn.

After asking about the situation, Gunter scolded the fussy captain, but turned a blind eye to several suspicious points.

For example, the other party's route is on the right side of the First Battle Patrol team, not on the left side. For example, when the four battleships approached at high speed, they did not answer the inquiry telegram sent by the "Reputation". For example, when the other party's leading ship uses light signals to communicate, they use international maritime public codes, rather than starting this year, and are connected to the new military codes every month.

The precious five minutes were wasted.

If it can be exchanged for the five-year life span, Gunter is willing to exchange these five minutes.

In fact, even at the last moment, Gunter did not wake up.

A minute ago, after the lookout observed that the other party had a commander's tower, Gunter did not adopt the captain's suggestion, but asked another group of lookouts on the rear mast to observe. Because it was blocked, the lookouts on the rear mast did not report in time.

At this time, the speed of "Reputation" is only ten knots!

It was not until half a minute ago, after the opponent led the ship suddenly turned, Gunter listened to the advice and ordered the "Reputation" to enter a state of combat.

Unfortunately, this order was not sent to the five warships in the rear in time!

After the "Reputation" turned, only the "Counterattack" followed suit.

Then, the lookout observed the flash of the muzzle and concluded that the opponent's first two warships were not "Jingang" class, but the powerful "Beihe" class!

It's very simple, the main gun turrets at the tail of the two warships are adjacent to the back-loading style.

Looking around the world, except for the newly built "Hude" of the Royal Bran Navy, only the two "Beihe" class of Liang Xia Navy are in this layout.

Unfortunately, the last few seconds were left for Major General Gunter and dozens of officers and soldiers on the bridge.

As it turns out, Gunter is indeed not the kind of general who is favored by the goddess of luck.

Although it was more than ten thousand meters away, the explosion of the fire and the fireballs rising from the enemy ship were still clearly visible. It was only seen from the telescope that it felt like a model of a warship was placed far away and a firecracker was placed on it. The explosion scene was not shocking.

"Damn!"

It was not until the smoke and clouds rose into the air that Bai Zhizhan woke up in shock.

The first round of volley shots and hit the enemy ship without a test shot. This luck was too good and a bit unbelievable.

Perhaps, it's not just luck.

"pretty!"

"here you go!"

"That's it, fuck him!"

Li Mingbo and the other three reacted when the explosion of fireball turned into rolling smoke and clouds, and then used words to show that they were all people with temperament.

Fortunately, no one cares about the heartfelt words that are touched.

Li Mingbo took the lead in returning to normalcy and grabbed the microphone as soon as he was done, but then he found that Bai Zhizhan, who was responsible for distance measurement, had not completed the essential work.

"Aim at the explosion point and set the target benchmark to zero."

Bai Zhizhan only nodded. His professional score in artillery skills was excellent, and range measurement was the basic subject in artillery skills.

Soon, Bai Zhizhan measured the distance.

Fourteen six thousand meters.

When the distance exceeds ten kilometers, the accuracy of the portable rangefinder is only 1,000 meters, and the last bit is the estimation, so the actual measurement accuracy is even worse.

Fortunately, the main ranging tool is not the portable range finder used by the lookout, but the 12-meter main gun range finder installed on the top of the bridge.

"Report to the headquarters, and observed the explosion flash, and the blast was near the bridge of the enemy ship..."

When Li Mingbo reported on the situation, the enemy fleet's leading ship was surrounded by water columns generated by the explosion of the shells.

To be precise, the vision is actually blocked.

Because I didn't see any explosion flash again, even if there were shells hitting the enemy ship, it would be dud and would not cause much damage to the enemy ship.

But the battle has just begun.

Although he was shot first, the "Reputation" did not lose its combat effectiveness, and more than a thousand naval officers and soldiers of the Bran Kingdom would never give up easily.

Counterattacks followed one after another!

"Brother Li!"

"See!" Li Mingbo did not talk to Bai Zhizhan and grabbed the microphone again. "Report to the headquarters, and observed the flash of the enemy ship's muzzle and the enemy ship's main gun was half-volleyed."

Relatively speaking, the gun's muzzle flash was brighter, but the duration was shorter and there was no obvious smoke.

Because the steering was not completed, only the main guns of the two turrets in front were firing.

Li Mingbo stretched out four fingers and gestured a few times, signaling the enemy ship to fire four shells, asking Bai Zhizhan and others to pay attention to the landing point of the shells.

Usually, half-volley of the main gun will be fired only when the fire is calibrated.

However, the four main guns at the head of the enemy ship opened fire at the same time, which was less like shooting at school, and more like a hasty counterattack after being hit by a sudden blow.
Chapter completed!