When he heard the huge explosion from the base camp, the cruisers patrolling outside Lushun Port were ready for battle. The six second-level cruisers quickly contacted through the lights and tacitly formed a battle line formation.

At this time, dawn was about to break out, and it was indeed the darkest moment of the day. Experienced sailors couldn't help but close their eyes and wait for the rising sun that appeared for a few seconds.

When these sailors opened their eyes, they found a wisp of smoke rising along with the rising sun. The special-mix fleet immediately became excited. Although the artillery bombardment these two days was exciting, the enemy of the British Navy should be a warship galloping on the sea, not a turret that could not move at all.

Today, it may be because Lushun Fortress could not support it, so it sent a warship to fight. Although it was only a second-level cruiser, the Knight-class cruiser could still fight against any ship of the Northeast Republic Fleet. The six Knight-classes were enough to defeat all the Northeast fleets. What's more, as long as the opponent was dragged for 40 minutes, the main fleet would arrive and eliminate the opponent's seemingly OK fleet.

As the distance gradually progressed, "Jing Ke" appeared in front of the cruiser of the Special Mixed Fleet, like a noble black swan appeared in front of a pile of fat ducks. A first mate in the cruiser murmured to himself: "God, this is the most elegant ship I have ever seen." The captain next to him shouted loudly: "Sir, let us kill it with this ugly warship now."

At three thousand meters, both sides started firing guns at the same time. The six Knight-class cruisers had a total of 12 260mm caliber artillery, 36 152mm rapid-fire guns, and 48 57mm rapid-fire guns. They could exert half of the firepower when they were on the battle line. However, there was no unified command system, and even the command system of a single ship was not.

On the contrary, "Jing Ke" and "Nie Zheng" have a total of 72 75mm rapid-fire guns, which can exert firepower from any position. They have an extremely simple fire control command system. Of course, the caliber of the 75mm shell is too small to pose a threat to the Knight-class cruiser.

So, in just the third round of shooting, the British ship Lord Need was hit by five shells. However, except for one shot hitting the lounge, causing 6 people to die, the other four shots were all popped up by armor, and the Knight-class 180mm armor was obviously not something that 75mm shells could penetrate.

Seeing that the opponent's artillery fire could not pose a serious threat to him, the British fleet was in high morale and the artillery fire became more and more accurate. However, the same result appeared on "Jing Ke". Although he was patronized by several 152mm shells, the steel plate equivalent to the thickness of 240mm steel plates was very honest and kept these shells out.

However, as time went by, a 260mm armor-piercing projectile finally hit the tilted part of the ship of the Nie Zheng, causing a large hole with a diameter of 1 meter above the waterline. Fortunately, there was no ignition of the ammunition, but a 6-unit 75 artillery had been blown up and caused a fire.

The British cruiser saw shells hit the opponent's warship, and his morale was greatly boosted, but he heard the messenger report that the Lushun direction ship Shadow Thirteen is a large one medium size twelve. It should be the main force of the Lushun fleet.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and it turned out that a 250mm shell had fallen near the 'Lord Need'. The huge water column dripped the bridge of the 'Lord Need' everywhere.

In the distance, the Kyuyuan opened fire with more than a dozen cruisers.

Seeing this, the British cruiser fleet gave up the siege of the two ships "Jing Ke" and turned to face the upcoming main force of the Far East Fleet. The two ships "Jing Ke" took the opportunity to break through.

When the Far East Fleet saw the two ships "Jing Ke" breaking out, they were unwilling to fight and retreat. When the eight battleships of the Special Mixed Fleet arrived, they could only see bubbles floating on the sea, and all the ships of the Far East Fleet could no longer be seen.

On the calm sea, there were two small cruisers passing by, which was the Northeast Transport Fleet. It had been three days since the day of breaking through, but before seeing the British transport ship, Tan Fenglin felt a little uneasy. Could it be that the British were alert and changed the route? Tan Fenglin thought of Zhao Gang's explanation and had an idea in his mind.

On April 16, 1895, the British large transport ship Royal Betis saw a lonely and beautiful dual-purpose ship on the waters of Taiwan. At this time, Royal Betis was driving from Hong Kong to Lushun as usual, carrying 5,000 tons of coal. After the sailing ship discovered Royal Betis, it sent a signal - "Correlations are exhausted, can some coal be called?"

After seeing this signal, the old Captain Porter of the Royal Betis laughed. It was a miracle to see the ship burning all the coals for the first time. The old Captain Porter made a very enthusiastic decision to provide one hundred tons of coal for free, and to teach the rookie captain on the ship, gradually approaching the other party. [

Tan Fenglin had been observing the Royal Betis for a long time, and although it did not hang the national flag, it still determined that it was a British ship. However, given that it has not opened yet, Tan Fenglin did not want it to run away. So he took out this trick to ask you to get into the trap.

Just as the Royal Betis was carefully leaning on his help, an unexpected scene happened. The flag of the French sailboat suddenly fell, replaced by the naval flag of the Northeast Republic! At the same time, the guard plate on the side of the sailboat fell, revealing a flashing muzzle.

The British seemed to suddenly wake up, hung up the white flag obediently, stopped the ship and surrendered.

Tan Fenglin was very gentlemanly and asked all the British crew members to go to the 'Jing Ke', and then sent a small team to board the Royal Betis, exploded the sea gate, and sent it to the bottom of the sea.

The old Captain Porter was very depressed. In his opinion, if he fell into these savage life, his best outcome was to be killed by someone. In Europe's description of the Qing Dynasty, it was impossible to see that these Far Eastern people had the temperament of even a little civilized.

In order to save his life that looked very bad, Captain Porter made a request for a "ransom". Each person is worth 100 pounds, and Captain Porter himself is 500 pounds.

When Tan Fenglin stopped at this point, a strange expression appeared on his face: "Captain Porter, you may have misunderstood. What you encountered in the Far East Navy broke the squadron, not pirates. You and I are all fighting for our country. After resolving the dispute in an extreme way, I will not hurt you, if you do not try to harm our interests."

Potter shook his head like a rattle: "God, there will be no next time. If you catch me one time, then cut my head off!"

"Captain Porter, I said, we are not pirates, but regular troops. Why don't we go for a cup of green tea and waste our time on this boring question on such a wonderful afternoon?"

Porter was attracted by Tan Fenglin's demeanor, yes! What else is more exciting than afternoon tea after dinner?
Chapter completed!