Chapter 8: This is not an exercise (2)

Everything was a foregone conclusion. Yu Buhui smiled bitterly and picked up the radio and shouted loudly: "All ships have paid attention, all ships have paid attention, I am Yu Buhui. Please report if you hear it." Soon, the reply from other ships came from the walkie-talkie: "Courage, please instruct me when you hear it!"

"Heard the Chengfeng Hu......" After all the ships said that they heard it, Yu Buhui ordered in a low voice: "Dear colleagues, everyone has seen the situation in front of them. I ask everyone to never lose face of our Chinese Navy. Now I order to launch the Yusha Plan."

There was suddenly silence in the walkie-talkie. After a while, I heard the other ships sending a unanimous answer: "I understand!" All the answers were sonorous and clear.

The Chinese fleet on the opposite side obviously slowed down, and all the transport ships began to gather slowly. Jason couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw it. It seemed that the Chinese were planning to accept their conditions. Jason's happiness could not last long because he clearly saw the flag utterance sent from the flagship of the Chinese fleet, "Get out of the channel immediately, otherwise we will fire."

Jason felt panic when he saw this. Such a small fleet was still so domineering when facing a powerful opponent. Don’t the Chinese Navy be afraid? Who are their soldiers? Jason made a silent gesture, and the messenger understood it, but Jason didn’t say anything, and the messenger had to wait for Jason’s orders. Jason, who had been silent for a while, finally gave the order: "Fire!"

The six 305mm caliber front main guns on the "King Arthur" were the first to attack the "Gulang". The six main guns fired together, and the huge explosion shocked the "King Arthur" and trembled. The coffee cup placed on the table demanded a vibration and slid towards the edge of the table, and eventually fell. The cup made of ceramic fell and shattered after touching the deck.

Six huge water columns were aroused by the Gulang roster one after another, and the water splashed all over the sky filled the front deck of the Gulang roster. Yu Buhui seemed to feel no danger at all, and calmly issued an order: "Broadcaster!"

"arrive!"

"You record it and send a telegram to the country!" The radio operator immediately took out the paper and pen, and looked at Yu Buhui calmly amid the rumbling cannons. Ji Li did not notice any tremor caused by panic in his hands.

"Highly 100,000! Shanghai, Commander Deng of the East China Sea Fleet was transferred to the central government, and the code-name fleet encountered a powerful British naval formation. Now our location is 600 nautical miles from the English Channel. Our fleet has no way out. The British fleet is attacking me. The fleet commander is unrepentant and determined to carry the entire fleet into a shattered move. This is just a urgent telegram. August 26, 3:25 pm."

After giving the order, Yu Buhui smiled faintly and ordered loudly: "All warships should pay attention, follow the flagships, and drive the fast train to attack the enemy fleet." As soon as he finished speaking, the Gulang was already leading the way towards the British fleet at high speed, and the other four warships also quickly followed, leaving only 10 merchant ships gathered together, silently watching the five warships make their final resistance. All the crew members on the transport ship lined up on the deck, watching the five warships pounced towards the British.

Yu Buhui looked back at the transport fleet and shouted loudly to the messenger: "Tell the transport fleet, we will take the first step."

"Let's fire! Concentrate all your firepower and hit King Arthur. If you don't hit him, hit Chen Ta. If you die, you have to drag a cushion!" Yu Buhui almost used all his strength to roar.

There were no bold words or slogans, but this small fleet rushed towards the British fleet without hesitation, as if the opponent was not strong.

After the British fleet opened fire on King Arthur, the entire fleet immediately opened fire together. Fortunately, the first round of attack did not hurt the Chinese warships. The Gulang kept leading the other four warships to avoid Z lines. While approaching the British fleet, they used 6 260mm front main cannons to pour out anger at King Arthur.

"Boom! Boom!" The Chinese fleet was filled with smoke. In the first volley, several shells fell on the hull of King Arthur. Unfortunately, the caliber of the shells hit seemed to be insufficient. They only made a few jingles when they hit the thick armor on King Arthur. After leaving a few white dots on the armor, they did not cause much damage to King Arthur.

Flashes of thick smoke rose from various British warships, and the British fleet's second volley was achieved. The rapid destroyer Minjiang, which had a displacement of 5,000 tons, was immediately hit by five rounds. One of the 305mm caliber shells drilled into the engine compartment and exploded. After the Minjiang was shot and caught fire on the deck, another dull explosion occurred, and the 83-meter-long ship was broken into two pieces from the middle.

"Brothers! Let's take a step first. See you in 18 years!" After Hu Jiuyue, the captain of the Minjiang River, shouted, the silence returned to the walkie-phone. He only saw the sinking of the Minjiang River rolling up a huge vortex, and ruthlessly rolling the soldiers who were still struggling on the sea.

"Fire! Blow me hard!" Yu Buhui's eyes wide open, his eyes were red, and bright red blood beads flowed from the corners of his eyes. The six main guns in front of the gate kept firing at King Arthur. The efforts of the Chinese fleet finally came to fruition. The British, who had always pursued speed, also tasted the pain this time. The weak armor on King Arthur's right wing was torn a hole by the front main gun with a 260-meter caliber, and after the explosion, King Arthur's smoke came out. Then another shell happened to hit the mast of King Arthur. With a rumbling sound, King Arthur's main mast broke, and the huge main mast hit the deck hard. The observer on the mast made an arc in the air and was thrown to the sea. It stirred a small splash.

This strike was not enough to sink King Arthur. The warship just slowed down and began to slowly circle around the place. However, the artillery fire on King Arthur has never stopped.

The breakage of the mast scared Jason into a cold sweat. The direction of falling off was wrong. If he hit the front, the command cabin would probably be smashed to pieces. While Jason was scolding the damn designer why the mast was so big, he kept asking the entire fleet to concentrate firepower to sink the remaining four Chinese warships that were approaching forward.

With a rumbling sound, a 305mm shell hit a main gun of Gulang. The huge explosion raised the entire turret, and the fire caused by the explosion spread rapidly on the fore deck. Yu Buhui clearly saw that the limbs of several soldiers turned into pieces and flew away in the explosion, and a soldier continued to struggle in the fire. The fire spread very quickly and was difficult to control. The explosion detonated an ammunition compartment near the turret, and the fire became more and more fierce.

During the crisis, several sailors didn't know where to find the old quilt. They picked up a few buckets of water and poured it on their bodies. Then they wrapped themselves in the quilt and rolled into the fire. They wanted to use their blood to extinguish the flames. Yu Buhui saw it, his eyes were sore. Yu Buhui, who never knew what tears were, fell down and pointed at the front and shouted with all his might: "Go forward at full speed and do not sink the enemy ships, we will sank them."

The entire Chinese escort fleet had stopped doing anything to avoid it, but rushed straight towards the British warships. The artillery fire on each warship had almost never stopped, and continued to pour out rage at the British warships.

Jason soon discovered the intention of the Chinese fleet and kept calling on each ship to use the most intensive artillery fire to block it, while ordering the warships to keep a distance from the Chinese fleet.

The entire British fleet was attracted by the desperate actions of these four warships. All artillery fire was covered at the four warships. Two more shells hit the port side of the Gulang, and the ship was torn open and water began to enter.

Yu Buhui didn't see panic at all on his face, but instead showed a strange smile.

"Boom, rumble." Another Fearless Class Battleship, "Adam", which was constantly firing fiercely at the Chinese fleet, suddenly made a huge explosion, which scared Jason who was commanding the battle. What's going on? The 28,000 tons of water displacement of "Adam", the armor on the warship was definitely not easily torn apart by the shells of these small battleships in front of him. The only explanation is torpedoes, but the Chinese warship is at least two nautical miles away from Adam, and the torpedoes are impossible to attack. Jason suddenly felt that behind him, his backbone was cold.

"God! It's a submarine. The damn Chinese actually have submarines to escort them." Jason shouted suddenly after awakening.

"Nottinghan, Royal Garden, find the Chinese submarine immediately to sink it." Jason ordered, and the two destroyers immediately stopped shelling and began to rush towards the submarine. Deep water bombs were thrown to the sea one by one.

Jason looked at Adam, commanded by his old partner Major General White, with a lot of water inflows. Three torpedoes accurately hit Adam's three places in front and back. The large amount of water inflows caused Adam to sink quickly, and saw that the situation was no longer helpful.

Jason, who was red-eyed, shouted to the Chinese fleet that continued to pounce on him: "Sheng them all!"

At this time, the four Chinese warships were only a little more than one nautical mile away from the British fleet. Although the tonnage of the four warships was not large, their speed was much higher than that of the British warships, and the distance between the two sides was constantly getting closer.
Chapter completed!