1825 My New Daming

Chapter 122 I beat you at the monarchy level! (Tomorrow early in the morning, the first order will be requested on tomorrow 10th!)
On the battleship Revenge, George Elliot also rushed to the bridge after hearing the news, and was holding up his binoculars to watch the chase that was taking place [-] to [-] yards away.

His trip to Japan this time was very smooth until he was woken up from the bed by his orderly just now.The Japanese side didn't realize that he was here to fight, so they were extremely enthusiastic.Not only did they send a Navy officer equivalent to the Minister of the Navy to Mito Port to greet them, but after receiving the airship provided by the British side (for a fee, of course), they kindly invited the Elliot formation to visit the Yokosuka Naval Port in Edo Bay— ——It was the home port of the shogunate navy, and it was never open to the outside world. The Elliot formation was the first foreign naval formation to enter there!
After leading the formation into Yokosuka, George Elliot was also invited to Edo, where he entered the Edo castle of the actual ruler of Japan, General Tokugawa Iezari, and had an audience with him in the Ohiroma with a very high standard. General.

Although, he also accompanied the general to the castle tower of Edo Castle, and watched the performance of the shogunate naval aviation together.Seeing the airship throwing lantern shells down from the sky, the general seemed very satisfied, and a group of ministers also said nonsense like "don't be afraid of Daming anymore", as if they were going to take Japan to fight with Daming,
After meeting the general, Elliot went to the famous Edo Yoshihara to observe the customs of Japan for a few days accompanied by Tokugawa Nasaki and Shimazu Qiliang. Well, that is quite "vulgar"!

Just after Elliot had a good understanding of the customs of Japan, he received an invitation from the Emperor, asking him to go to Kyoto to have a face-sacrifice. By the way, he experienced the customs of Kyoto again.

What a great honor!

Since the founding of Japan, there have been countless foreign envoys who have seen General Tokugawa, but the number of foreign envoys who have seen the Emperor can be counted on their fingers, and all foreign envoys who have seen the Emperor are from the Ming Empire.Elliott is also the first Westerner to receive this honor. Just based on this fact, one can tell how successful his trip to Japan was.

So before he was woken up by the orderly, George Elliot was lying on the bed in his cabin, dreaming of pushing Japan into the fire pit to consume Daming, but when he woke up from the dream, he encountered something he could never have dreamed of when he arrived at the bridge. matter.

A formation composed of two Ming cruisers and destroyers is chasing four merchant ships flying the flag of the East India Company!

"Your Excellency, Staff Officer, what's going on? Isn't this the territorial waters of Japan?"

The bewildered George Elliot saw that the Naval Adviser of the Japanese Shogunate, Shimadzu Sailiang, who was accompanying him to Kyoto, had also arrived at the bridge, so he hurriedly asked him questions.

"Your Excellency, Admiral," Qiliang Shimadzu said although he had never studied in the UK, but he could speak Japanese English through gritted teeth, at least Elliott could understand, "Although this is Japan's territorial waters, the Ming Navy's Beiyang Fleet Their warships always come whenever they want, regardless of the territorial waters, they call this freedom of navigation!"

"This is too unreasonable." Elliot frowned, "Then why are Ming's warships chasing merchant ships flying the flag of the East India Company here? By the way, are those merchant ships really from the East India Company? So fast!"

"Those four merchant ships should be smuggling ships affiliated with the East India Company!" Qiliang Shimadzu said, his brows furrowed. , so the price is very high, and it is inevitable that some people will take risks. Therefore, the smuggling ships active in the Ming Dynasty and the coast of Japan are all refitted. They seem to be ordinary merchant ships on the outside, but their speed is usually very high. Some even had artillery installed."

He paused, then suggested in a low voice: "Your Excellency Admiral, why don't we pretend we didn't see anything!"

"Pretend you didn't see anything?" George Elliot frowned, thinking, "Can you pretend you didn't see this? The merchant ships of the British Empire were in the territorial waters of the British ally Japan, in front of the Royal Navy fleet. Being hunted down by Ming's fleet and the strength of the Ming's naval formation is much smaller than that of the British fleet! Under such circumstances, the British fleet dare not fart, so what will the accompanying Japanese think? The news spread to Europe, what will the great powers following Great Britain think?"

"Sir," Charlie Elliot, George Elliot's cousin and chief of staff, came up to remind him in a low voice at this time, "this is Japanese territorial waters, and those merchant ships are flying the flag of the East India Company. According to public international law, the Ming Navy Without law enforcement power, and our strength is obviously superior, we can completely force them back!"

George Elliot nodded, deliberately showing a contemptuous smile: "That's right, we have twelve battleships, they only have four, and we also have the most powerful battleship in the world!

Turn around and go to rescue our merchant ships. In addition, we signaled to the Ming Navy that this is the territorial waters of the Japanese Empire. According to the agreement between the British Empire and the Japanese Empire to protect the freedom of trade in territorial waters, we are obliged to protect Japan’s territorial waters. Freedom and safety, ask them to leave immediately! "

"Yes, sir!"

"Sir, the British-Japanese joint formation has turned and rushed towards us!"

"Sir, they also played the lights, saying that this is Japan's territorial waters, and asked us to leave immediately"

"Sir, it has been confirmed that the other party has a total of twelve steam warships, including ten British ships, two Japanese ships, and two ironclad ships, including a Sovereign class! In addition, they also have four camouflaged assault ships!"

In the bridge of the Lushun, with the announcements from the staff officer and the signal officer, the air has become very tense!

What is happening now, in the eyes of the people on the Lushun bridge, is clearly that Britain and Japan have colluded to set up a trap against themselves, and the purpose is probably to destroy these four warships of their own!
This is sixteen against four, the advantage lies in the enemy!
And regardless of tonnage or firepower, the opponent has obvious advantages!Even if they fight for speed, the opponent will not suffer too much. Although the two battleships are not fast, the British cruisers and destroyers are not slow. If they are allowed to chase and fight, the consequences will be very serious!

At this moment, Chen Jian, the deputy commander of the Lushun, suddenly said, "Military division, what should we do now?"

Now all eyes are on a certain Zhuge strategist who can pinch and count!

Zhuge Weidao also complained in his heart. It was the first time he got on the ship, and he encountered such a thing. The other party has two iron-clad ships!

"Can you confirm the opponent's ship type?" Zhuge Weidao asked about the opponent's strength while trying to calm down his nervous mood.

Wang Wendao: "Currently, it can be confirmed that there are one Sovereign-class, one Indomitable-class, three second-class protected cruisers, five destroyers, and two Japanese wooden gunboats. Sir, the enemy's strength far exceeds ours!"

Zhuge Weidao pinched his fingers while counting and said in a low voice: "Sovereign-class Indomitable-class. If the bow is facing the enemy, there are 2 useless 13.5-inch rear-loading guns and 4 useless 16-inch front-loading rifled guns. "As he was speaking, he suddenly shouted: "Yes!"

"What's the matter?" Chen Jian looked at Zhuge Weidao, with beads of sweat on his forehead.

"Fight!" Zhuge Weidao said, "When you meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins!"

"But the enemy has twelve warships and four camouflaged assault ships, and their strength far exceeds ours!"

Zhuge Weidao shook his head, gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter, we are fast, we can quickly seize the T position, and concentrate 20 155mm naval guns to attack the leading Junquan. As long as we severely damage the Junquan, we can escape safely! "

"That's Sovereign!" Chen Jian said in shock, "There are two 2-inch cannons on the bow of the Sovereign-class ship! The Indomitable-class behind the Sovereign-class adopts a diagonally connected fort layout, and the four 13.5-inch cannons are all You can fire forward!"

"Can't hit!" Zhuge Weidao was full of confidence, "I've already done the calculations. The six cannons of the Sovereign and Unyielding classes are slow to reload and have poor accuracy. They will definitely miss ours, and our 6 The theoretical rate of fire of a 20mm rapid-fire gun can reach 155 rounds per minute, and the rate of fire in combat can reach 6 rounds per minute. As long as it takes 4 minutes, it can shoot 10 rounds, and it can hit 800 rounds with a 5% hit rate!"

He paused for a moment, then turned back to the signal staff and said, "Give Admiral Li a light and tell him my analysis and suggestions. Then tell him that this is our only chance to win, and it may be the only way out!"

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