As the officers on the destroyer looked into the distance with binoculars, they immediately spotted a ship flying the Japanese Navy's rising sun flag. ..., and this ship is obviously a destroyer of the Japanese army, and they obviously don't know why they are here now.

"Where is this?" asked the captain.

Immediately, a staff officer replied: "This is already approaching Shandong. I am afraid that this time we encountered a Japanese patrol ship. This time, the navy of the Eight-Power Allied Forces that invaded China was mainly led by Japan and the United States." Lord. The British and the French also came here in the name of merchant ships, and did not send warships, which is why the British and French were able to come."

This time the British and French did not send warships. This is because Taiwan controlled the Strait of Malacca, so the main fleet of the British and French did not come. In addition, the British and the French did not plan to expand the scale of this war. Their goal was to safeguard their own interests, not to conduct a full-scale decisive battle with Taiwan for the purpose of expanding the war, so they did not choose to send an absolute large number of warships come over. In fact, the armies of their countries all came here on merchant ships, and the armies of these countries came to the Far East in batches on merchant ships, so they could get through.

The Japanese combined fleet and the American navy do not need to pass through the Strait of Malacca controlled by Taiwan, so they can send warships over without any scruples. Therefore, the main enemies of the navy this time are also the Japanese and the Americans. Their navy is still biggest rival.

"Japanese navy, let's go up!" the captain said immediately.

And the Japanese captain obviously spotted the Chinese destroyer in the distance.

"Report to the captain, the navy that discovered the Chinese is a destroyer. It seems that they are also going to patrol. What should we do?" The Japanese navy asked their captain.

The Japanese captain immediately said: "We still avoid fighting them, because the superiors asked us not to provoke the Chinese navy as much as possible. The Chinese navy is much stronger than ours. Let's not provoke them easily. Let's turn around."

Obviously, the Japanese captain obviously did not want to provoke Taiwan's navy, so he chose to turn around. However, some things are not as smooth as they imagined. Because this time is a war, the development direction of the war is obviously not to be carried out by anyone's ideas. You don't want to fight with others, so shouldn't others be able to chase your **** and beat you?

"Captain, the Japanese destroyer has been transferred away!" the watchman of the Taiwan destroyer shouted.

However, the captain of the Taiwan destroyer obviously did not intend to go back home, but said: "Catch me, chase them hard, this time we will take the initiative to deal with them. After a battle, how can we just do this?" Did you give up?"

"Captain, are we going to fight?" the lookout asked.

The captain of the Taiwanese destroyer replied: "That's right. It's time to test everyone. After all, the enemy came to our door, so of course we can't let it go. Anyway, we are going to fight now, our army brothers The fight has already started, so our navy can't show weakness. Otherwise, our army brothers are popular and drink hot food, and we navy are here to watch, what is that? So, let's catch up and fight hard!"

"Yes!"

Taiwan's destroyers began to speed up the operation of the boilers and increased the power of the boilers. From the usual cruising mode to the combat mode, this power gap is not a little bit. They immediately began to chase the Japanese warship in the distance, and then all the soldiers on the destroyer also began to take their positions, ready to fight.

However, the Japanese side was also very angry. The Japanese captain immediately shouted: "How can the Chinese people do this? We have not taken the initiative to trouble them, but they dare to chase us. They want to fight with us." War? We didn't take the initiative to fight them, but they actually took the initiative to fight us. This is really unreasonable."

The Japanese captain was obviously very angry. He was really very angry in his heart, because in his thinking, he still maintained the old way. In the past, the Japanese bullied the Chinese. Whether it was the Sino-Japanese War or the Yellow Sea War, it was the Japanese who bullied the Chinese. And after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Japanese were the masters in China, and no one dared to offend them. In the eyes of the Japanese, it is only they who take the initiative to provoke war against the Chinese, and the Chinese do not have the right to wage war against them.

This is the consistent logic of robbers. They think they are better than the Chinese, even if they lose to Taiwan, that is the case. Because Taiwan's navy has never really fought a war with Japan, and China's navy has never really fought a desperate battle with Japan. Therefore, the Japanese navy does not recognize that the Chinese navy is a powerful navy. They believe that the Chinese navy is built on money and has no strength at all. In addition, they used to be proud of the Chinese, so they also think that the Chinese are naturally inferior. It is already a favor for them not to fight the Chinese, but the Taiwanese destroyer dared to take the initiative to come and chase them. It made him very unbalanced. After a person has been a robber for many years, he naturally has a lot of so-called robber logic. They simply cannot use the logic of normal people to measure things.

"Turn around, we are going to fight these Chinese people, our big Japanese navy can't just be chased by the Chinese people!" the Japanese captain shouted.

"Captain, our superiors have said that we should try our best not to irritate the Chinese navy!" the staff officer persuaded.

It has to be said that the Japanese bullying and fearing the hard have also been brought to the extreme. They dared to bully the weak government of the Qing Dynasty, so they would not be afraid of anything in the face of the Qing Dynasty. But when they faced Taiwan, they naturally put their tails between their tails and did not dare to talk about war lightly. This is the so-called bullying and fearing the hard. They are afraid of the strength of the Taiwanese. Even if the quality of the high-level generals of the Taiwan Navy does not seem to be very good, the number of naval warships has an absolute advantage, and the Japanese do not want to have a decisive battle with the Taiwan Navy at sea. Even if the Japanese exchange two for one, the Japanese will be wiped out in the end. The battleships owned by the Japanese are only seven or eight battleships. If they really fight a war of attrition, they may not be their opponents!

But the Japanese captain was obviously not willing to accept this result, and he immediately shouted: "Turn back, this time I want to let the Chinese navy have a taste of the strength of the navy of our Great Japanese Empire. Although their army is very powerful, but I just want to tell them that our navy is not an army, and a century-old navy is not something you talk about casually. Their naval background is really too low, and we are not afraid of them at all. Turn around!"

As a bridge staff officer, he cannot disobey the commander's order, so he can only follow the destroyer back and prepare for combat. However, in this battle, whether they are a blessing or a curse, they don't know what will happen. However, the Japanese are very good at gambling, and they can even use their national luck to gamble. From the First Sino-Japanese War, they were just a big gamble, and the Russo-Japanese War was a big gamble, so they also gambled again and again. If the Japanese destroyer captain can defeat the Taiwanese destroyer this time, then maybe they will have a good future. But if they lose, then they will fail completely, and I am afraid they will become scapegoats.

So, this time, you can only win, not lose!

"Ready to fire!" The captain of the Taiwanese destroyer and the captain of the Japanese destroyer said together.

The two destroyers also officially began to "meet each other on a narrow road" and were ready for combat. And they are all destroyers, and their destroyers only have one artillery, so they don't need to **** the "D" prefix like battleships. Their artillery turrets can also be rotated at any time, as long as they are not facing each other. Do the gun battle, so they fight directly face to face. The destroyers of this era are still very primitive. Each destroyer has only one gun with a diameter of no more than 100 mm, and the rest are torpedoes. So they are actually fighting like a cowboy duel now, and they don't have too many tactics and other methods to pay attention to.

"Distance, about 3,100 meters, wind speed xxx, easterly wind..."

Range finders and wind direction observers also immediately began to calculate wind speed and wind direction, and combined the distance to carry out high-speed gunners, and then asked them to pay attention when firing. This era is just so cheating. If it is a future generation, radar and computer can help to calculate~lightnovelpub.net~There is no need for such manual calculation. Such manual calculations are not only inefficient and slow, but also not accurate enough. But this is the way it is in this era. Everything is done manually by humans, and there are not many intelligent devices. If it is a later generation, after the direct radar and computer calculations are completed, the missile will be launched immediately. From the discovery of the target to the launch of the missile, it will only take less than ten or twenty seconds. How easy is this?

But not now, everything has to be done manually. So this is the principle of a century-old navy. Without years of experience accumulation, there will not be so many reserves and sufficient quality in terms of talents. In this era, naval operations all depend on experience!

"Boom!" "Boom!"

The destroyers of Taiwan and Japan also began to fire at each other. (To be continued.)

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