1825 My New Daming

Chapter 450 The Battle of the Fleet——Start! (ask for subscription, ask for monthly pass)
1832年12月25日，下午5点15分左右。

On the ocean surface more than 100 nautical miles west of Kwajalein Atoll, another face-to-face collision between the British Royal Navy and the Ming Navy is about to begin.Unlike the last meeting in the Strait of Malacca and the Great Strait, the warring parties this time met in the vast Pacific Ocean.

Although they met on the vast ocean, neither of the two warring parties thought of running away to avoid the battle. This naval battle is a rare opportunity for the British. If they don’t fight now, they will wait until Ming’s Pacific Fleet and Nanyang Fleet are completed. Assemble, they will have no chance of winning.

For Ming, if the main force of the British Royal Navy is let go, there will be many variables in the future landing in Australia, and the current world war may also be protracted.

Although the Ming Empire is not afraid of a protracted war, the nature of the current war is actually more "imperialist" than the First World War in history.It is purely that the two imperialists are vying for colonies and world hegemony, so neither of the warring parties intends to beat their opponents to death.

Daming is too strong for Britain, it can't be killed at all.

And Great Britain is the crap stick that splits Europe for Ming Dynasty, if it is killed, Europe will be unified!
Since the opponent can't be defeated, it's almost enough, and it doesn't make sense to keep fighting and waste people's money. So although both sides have lasting capital, they both want to decide a victory as soon as possible.

Of course, Admiral William Baga, the commander of the British and Australian Grand Fleet, didn't want to be sure of winning or losing. He still felt that his chances of winning were a bit small.Perhaps the large fleet should be returned to India, and then the Chinese should be allowed to land in Australia, relying on the Australian, New Zealand, British and Chinese troops with a powerful cavalry corps to last long, and at the same time use fast armored cruisers and fast aircraft-carrying armored cruisers to fight against the Chinese at sea. Can be bigger.

据威廉.巴加所知，英国本土的巴斯造船厂和阿姆斯特朗造船厂已经分别开发了两款标准排水量15000吨的快速装甲巡洋舰了.全都配备6门9.2英寸炮，最快可以跑出25节、26节！
When these two levels of Clippers are in service, there may be some fighting in Australia!
"Boom"

The sound of guns suddenly floated into the bridge of the King William IV. It turned out that the B fleet responsible for chasing and luring the enemy was exchanging fire with the cruisers of the Ming Pacific Fleet attracted by them!It wasn't until this moment that William Baga woke up suddenly. It was no longer the time to think about whether to fight a decisive battle.But the prelude to the decisive battle has already begun!
William Baga immediately ordered the battleship troops under his command to start formation, changing from a five-column marching formation to an artillery battle line. Since the speed of British battleships was generally slow, the King William IV class, Indian Emperor class, Victory class, Indomitable class These four levels of battleships can only run at a speed of just over 20 knots, so it takes at least 10-15 minutes to complete the formation change.

However, at this time, the battleship force of the Ming Pacific Fleet should still be 40000 yards away, and there will be no exchange of fire for the time being, so William Baga has plenty of time.Thinking of this, he looked up at the "dark cloud" in the distant sky. It was still far away, so he was not in a hurry.

Thinking of this, William Baga began to issue orders: "11 Sovereign-class ships form the first battleship detachment, and after the Sovereign class, 6 Indian Emperor-class ships form the second battleship detachment." The King class formed the third battleship division, followed by 2 victory-class battleship divisions, and finally the 11 indomitable-class divisions formed the fifth battleship division."

This time William Baga brought out a total of 5 battleships of the 41th tier, which is quite a lot!

And the Sovereign class that William Baga will arrange to take the lead is a "former hero ship".Although their performance is outdated, the age of the ships is still very new, so the British are not willing to retire them all.Therefore, they were rebuilt, and more powerful boilers and steam engines were installed for the Sovereign class, so that their speed could barely reach 20 knots.The four 13.5-inch recoil guns of the Sovereign Class were also removed and replaced with two triple-mounted 10-inch cannons.The rebuilt Sovereign class not only has a higher speed and can keep up with the cutting-edge battleships of the Royal Navy, but also the firepower of the six 6-inch rapid-fire guns is much stronger than the original four 10-inch cannons.

However, William Baga arranged for them to take the lead not because they were strong enough, but to test and attract the enemy's firepower, commonly known as cannon fodder!

跟在11条炮灰舰背后的，则是大英帝国皇家海军的杀手锏——6条标准排水量2.5万吨，满排近3万吨的印度皇帝级加上2条标准排水量2.9万吨的威廉四世国王级！

The cannon fodder tested the depth of the opponent, and then immediately resorted to the trump card to give the opponent a head-on blow!
Following the two levels of killers are the 22 Victory and Indomitable battleships—these two levels of battleships are neither new nor old, and they are not trump cards, but they are definitely the main force of the Royal Navy.

According to William Baga's plan, once the trump card is used, most of the opponents will be in chaos. At this time, it is time for 22 Victory-class and Indomitable-class ships to fight in groups-although the performance of these two classes of ships is not outstanding, but fortunately With intensive artillery fire, you can win by quantity.

In addition, as far as William Baga knows, the main force of the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Dynasty Navy that is approaching is only about 20 battleships. And he has 41 ships!
More than 40 is bigger than 20, so there are still advantages!

And if there are no accidents, there must be accidents!

"General, the enemy seems to have formed a horizontal formation!"

At 5:30, just as William Baga's fleet was deployed, an accident happened!
"Horizontal array?" William Baga was taken aback, "How is this possible?"

"Admiral," Major General Jervis, the chief of staff, put down the binoculars, then raised his finger and pointed to the smoke column that appeared in front of him, "The 12 ships should be old-fashioned Chinese battleships. I saw that they wanted to use these battleships as cannon fodder. Get our attention."

This is still what the heroes see and agree with!

"But why did they deploy a horizontal line?" William Baga didn't quite understand.

"Perhaps...they enjoy the torpedo attacks of these old battleships covering cruisers and destroyers? If these 12 classic ships attract the firepower of the Sovereign class, the cruisers and destroyers ambushing behind them can launch a round of charge. According to the intelligence of the enemy's vanguard formation There are more than 40 cruisers and destroyers among them, and hundreds of torpedoes can be launched at one time!"

"Damn torpedo!"

William Baga couldn't help swearing, and his face was a little ugly-in fact, the secret of the steam gas torpedo has been discovered by the British!Steam gas torpedoes are not 1000% explosive. In the past year or so of submarine warfare, the British have picked up a lot of steam gas torpedoes, so they can naturally copy them out.It's just that there is still a process from copycat products to mass production, and there are no troops equipped yet.Otherwise, the pile of [-]-ton destroyers of the Royal Navy can play a big role.

However, it is absolutely not allowed to question His Majesty's wise decision-making.

Thinking of this, William Baga had no choice but to order: "Order the first battleship squadron to turn left to seize the T position, but you must calculate the distance, don't let the enemy's battleship get too close, and keep the distance above 16000 yards!"

"Yes, sir!"

"Admiral, the monarchy of the British has begun to change!"

At the same time, on Daming's side, Guo Xiaobao, on board the flagship "Kong Ming" of the 103rd Fleet, also received a report that the enemy fleet was turning.

"Hehe," Guo Xiaobao said with a smile, "Is it to grab the T seat?" He raised his binoculars, looked at it and said, "It's quite far away, it seems that we are afraid of our lightning strike tactics. Very good! This distance Just enough for the 320mm main gun of the 'Island' class to exert its power!"

(End of this chapter)