Lin Fei announced the adjournment of the meeting, and everyone dispersed.

The next day, Lin Fei's fleet began the final preparations before the war, the first thing to do was to replenish fuel, the warships of Lin Fei's era were all fuel-burned, and this era could only burn coal, the Tianlong ship and the Yunlong ship After a big war, the coal was consumed, and the Tenglong ship and the submarine dragon ship came from afar, and the coal was consumed a lot, and it must be replenished.

When Lin Fei designed the Dragon-class cruiser, he designed the coal tank on the two sides, behind the armor, which is also a popular coal tank design in this era, putting coal on the two sides, using coal to provide additional defense for the battleship, when the shell hits the side side, the coal can absorb the impact of the shell, and then protect the hull.

Ships have long brought coal from Luzon from the island's coal mines. When filling coal, you can only rely on manpower to fill the coal tank, the black and dirty coal ash is scattered everywhere, and filling coal has become the dirtiest job on the battleship, all the sailors on the ship, except for the captain, everyone picks up a shovel, shovels the coal into the trolley, pushes it to the battleship, and then loads the coal into the coal tank.

At the same time as the coal was filled, the ammunition and fresh water were also being refilled, and the sailors pushed the shells in small carts, loaded the shells into the ammunition compartment, filled them with large buckets, and then put the buckets into the fresh water tanks.

After a busy morning, the coal, ammunition, and fresh water were finally replenished, and Lin Fei ordered his subordinates to rest and wait for the next day to fight the Japanese Navy.

In the evening, a fisherman came back to report that he had found several ships outside Budaikou, all of which were flying the Japanese sun flag, which made Lin Fei firm in the idea that the Japanese fleet was looking for himself to conduct a decisive battle with the main fleet.

The next day, October 1, 1895, at 6 a.m., the sky was slightly bright, and Lin Fei led the Tianlong, Yunlong, Tenglong, Qianlong, and Pangu ships to leave Budaikou and march towards the vicinity of Penghu.

After Lin Fei's fleet left the harbor, it formed a scattered search formation according to Lin Fei's request, and cruised in the waters near Penghu at an economic speed of ten knots.

On the Tianlong ship, Lin Fei was staring closely at the naval battle simulation sand table in front of him, on the sand table were five lifelike ship models, each model was painted red, and the words "sky" and "cloud" were written on the models, and on one side of the sand table, there were six blue ship models, on which were written the words "Matsushima", "Gao Chiho", "Naniwa" and so on.

This sand table is the tool that Lin Fei uses to control the fleet, and he will read the location information of other warships in the fleet from this sand table to command.

Behind the sand table is the Jade Bird machine, every twenty minutes, the four warships will report the position of the Tianlong ship, there is latitude and longitude on the sand table, and the navigator will place the model in the corresponding position according to the position of the other warships.

Next to the sand table is the navigator's chart desk, and the navigator is nervously calculating with a few high-achieving students of the naval academy, when the ship is sailing, it must often calculate the position of the ship, otherwise the ship may lose its way in the sea.

Lin Fei stared at the sand table, thinking about the upcoming battle, after a while, he turned around and walked to the porthole, looking at the endless sea through the porthole, today's weather conditions are very good, the visibility reaches more than ten kilometers, Liu Daming is by Lin Fei's side, from time to time with a microphone to give various steering orders, Liu Daming is the captain, so the order to operate the Tianlong ship must be given by him.

Liu Daming chatted with Lin Fei intentionally or unintentionally while giving orders: "When will our torpedoes enter service?" ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "When you get the gyroscope out, you can enter the service." ”

"Gyroscope? I remember you said this word during the Battle of the Yellow Sea, that is, before you hit a torpedo with a water gun, what the hell was it? Liu Daming asked suspiciously.

The war was imminent, Lin Fei was not in the mood to give Liu Daming a knowledge lecture, Lin Fei smiled, did not speak, three hours passed, it was already 9 o'clock in the morning in a blink of an eye, no ship appeared in front of Lin Fei, and the other four warships did not report the discovery of Japanese warships.

At lunchtime, there was still no gain, Lin Fei's heart was filled with a trace of doubt, until the evening, Lin Fei ordered the fleet to temporarily anchor and rest, but no trace of the Japanese fleet was found.

Liu Daming asked in wonder: "Does the Japanese fleet not dare to fight a decisive battle with us?" ”

Lin Fei shook his head lightly and said, "My speculation should not be wrong, the Japanese must be seeking a decisive battle with the main fleet." ”

Liu Daming asked with some concern: "Will the Japanese fleet leave Penghu and attack southern Taiwan?" ”

Lin Fei's heart trembled, and then he shook his head and said: "It shouldn't be, our storage is a threat to Penghu, and the Japanese will not abandon Penghu." ”

Liu Daming nodded, but there was still worry in his eyebrows, although Lin Fei also had these concerns, but he didn't show it, Lin Fei spent the night in doubt and uneasiness, and the next day, October 2, at 6 o'clock in the morning, Lin Fei ordered the fleet to lift anchor and continue the search.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, just when Lin Fei thought that he was going to find nothing again, Ma Chengfeng suddenly sent a message: "Report to Your Majesty, in the northeast direction of our ship, six pillars of smoke have been found..."

Lin Fei's heart moved, the United Fleet, I finally waited for you...

Lin Fei walked to the porthole, picked up the telescope and looked in the northeast direction, and vaguely saw six pillars of smoke appearing on the sea antenna, and at this time he couldn't see the specific formation of the Japanese fleet, Lin Fei picked up the microphone and said in a deep voice: "Ma Chengfeng, continue to observe, and report immediately as soon as you see the shape and course of the enemy fleet." ”

Ma Chengfeng agreed loudly, Lin Fei put down the microphone and walked to the front of the sand table, a student had already placed the blue model of the Japanese ship on the sand table, Lin Fei stared at the relative position of his own warship and the Japanese ship on the sand table, without saying a word, the surrounding crew knew that Lin Fei was pondering, and he didn't even dare to come out of the atmosphere.

Five minutes later, Ma Chengfeng reported aloud: "The enemy fleet is heading due south, with a speed of about ten knots, divided into two parts, of which the first echelon has three battleships, forming a zigzag column to form battleships, the Akitsu Zhou ship, the Takachiho ship, and the Naniwa ship. ”

The trainee put the model representing the three battleships on the sand table, and Ma Chengfeng continued: "The second echelon, diagonally behind the first echelon, about three kilometers away from the first echelon, forms battleships, Itsukushima, Matsushima, and Hashidate, that is, the Sanjing ship, and in the flank and rear of the first echelon, there are six small ships, which seem to be torpedo boats. ”

With Ma Chengfeng's words, the trainees had already placed the model of the Japanese ship on the sand table, and a map of the battle situation at sea appeared, which clearly showed that the Draco had encountered the Japanese fleet, while the other four warships were still far away from the Draco.

Lin Fei looked at the navigator and ordered, "Tell me the relative distance from the Cloud Dragon Ship, the Tenglong Ship and the Hidden Dragon Ship to our ship." ”

The navigator had already calculated these numbers jù, and when he heard Lin Fei want, he immediately handed the book with the number jù written on it in front of Lin Fei.

Lin Fei took the notebook and looked at it intently, his lips moved slightly, as if he was calculating something, and after a full minute, Lin Fei put the notebook down, he walked to the Jade Bird machine, picked up the microphone, and said in a deep voice: "Call the Cloud Dragon Ship, please answer when you receive it." ”

Bi Fang, the captain of the Yunlong Ship, replied: "I am the Yunlong Ship, please speak when I receive it." ”

Lin Fei said: "Order your ship to maintain the current speed and move in the direction of 24 degrees west-north." ”

Bi Fang replied loudly: "Yes, understood..."

After Lin Fei gave the order to the Yunlong ship, he successively issued orders to the Tenglong ship and the submarine dragon ship, asking them to maintain the current speed and move in different directions, and the order given to the Pangu ship was to stay away from the battlefield and withdraw from the cloth bag, and after giving the order, he ordered the navigator: "Mark the position of the three warships every ten minutes." ”

The navigator agreed, and at this moment, Liu Daming walked over from the pilot's seat and said to Lin Fei: "You just gave an order to the other four warships, but you didn't give an order to our Tianlong ship, where should our Tianlong ship go?" If you go any further, you will have an exchange of fire with the Japanese fleet. ”

Lin Fei smiled mysteriously and said, "Order the communications chief Ma Chengfeng, raise the flagship flag, and tell the Japanese that our battleship is the flagship." ”

Liu Daming was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why are we doing this?" ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "You let Ma Chengfeng raise the flag first, and let's talk about it after the flag is raised." ”

Liu Daming picked up the microphone and conveyed the order, and Lin Fei continued: "Order the Tianlong Ship to turn and sail due south." ”

"Heading due south?" Liu Daming frowned and said, "Isn't that an escape?" We can't run away from the Zhiyuan..."

Lin Fei smiled faintly and said, "Escape? Where is the escape? ”

Lin Fei said and pointed to the blue model of the Japanese fleet on the sand table with his hand, and said: "The Japanese fleet has strong firepower on the side of the ship, so it is used to forming a zigzag column to carry forward its sideboard firepower advantage, which we have seen in the naval battle of the Yellow Sea, and today they put out a zigzag column. ”

"Our ship is heading due south, and when the Japanese ship sees our ship hoisting the flagship flag, it is bound to catch up to the south, and I have already ordered the three ships of Yunlong, Tenglong, and Qianlong to move in different directions." Lin Fei said and picked up the model of the three ships, swayed them on the sand table, and said as he waved: "I have carefully calculated, when these three battleships met our ship, the zigzag column of the enemy ship happened to be behind our ship. ”

When Lin Fei said this, he placed the three battleships horizontally in front of the Japanese ship's zigzag column, formed a "D" shape with the Japanese ship, and then waved his hand and said: "In this formation, our four battleships can concentrate their sideside firepower to attack the Japanese ship at the same time, and the Japanese ship can only meet the firepower of our ship with one battleship, so we have formed a situation of four ships fighting one ship on the battlefield..."

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