After the "Fisherman Action" plan was approved by the Executive Yuan, Wang Hailong immediately took action. Bi Jing didn't leave much time for the People's Army Navy, only one night.

Now the combat ships of the People's Army Navy have a total of 1 battleship detachment, 2 cruiser detachments, 2 destroyer detachments, and 2 patrol boat detachments. Among them, 1 cruiser detachment, 1 destroyer detachment, and 2 patrol boat detachments are all newly built. There are a total of 45 combat ships.

The four 6,000-ton protective cruisers built by the East China government, the Qingzhou, Yizhou, Dengzhou and Laizhou were all in service at this time. According to the customs of other countries, the warships of this class were named after the first ship, so they were officially named as the Qingzhou-class protective cruiser. The Navy organized the four warships into the 2nd cruiser team, with Zhang Wei as the commander of the fleet.

In addition, two 3,500-ton protective cruisers built by the East China government are in service, and two more are under construction. They are also named after cities, namely the Dongchang, Jining, Linqing, and Wuding. The first ship Dongchang is named the Dongchang class protective cruiser.

This type of warship is 108 meters long, 12.5 meters wide, draft: 5.5 meters, power of 9,000 horsepower, speed of 22 knots, and ship-based weapons are 2 dual-mounted 155 mm caliber 45 times the distance naval gun, 4 dual-mounted 100 mm caliber 45 times the distance naval gun, and 8 dual-mounted 50 mm caliber machine guns, but the * launcher was cancelled and the crew was 320. It is used as a high and low-end protective cruiser.

The Qingzhou-class has excellent performance and strong firepower, and can be used for long-distance and destruction, but relatively high cost and is not suitable for batch construction. Moreover, the East China government has no plan to go to the long-distance ocean, so there is only a plan for 4 ships. The Dongchang-class has low cost, low technical level, and short construction cycle. The Navy plans to build a total of 12 warships of this type, divided into 3 detachments, which are usually used for offshore patrols, escorts and low-intensity maritime conflicts. The Jining, which is currently serving in the Navy, has been temporarily organized into the Second Cruise Detachment. After the other two ships are in service, they will be organized into a separate team.

In addition to the Dongchang class, the East China government also built the Type 1 destroyer and Type 1 patrol boat. In the era of the traversers, destroyers were the backbone of the navies of various countries, but in this era, they were cannon fodder-class existence. The basic function was to escort, lead, reconnaissance, guide, guide the main warships in normal times, and assist the main warships in wartime. They did dirty and tiring work such as gun repair, cover, set off smoke, and cut off the rear. Although they were not conspicuous, they were indispensable in a fleet.

The destroyer designed by the East China government is 102 meters long, 8.8 meters wide, draft: 2.8 meters, standard displacement 1286 tons, power 5,000 horsepower, speed 25 knots, ship-based weapons are 2 seats single-mounted 125 mm caliber 45 times distance naval guns, 4 seats single-mounted 75 mm caliber 45 times distance naval guns, 4 seats single-mounted 50 mm caliber machine guns, 4 seats dual-mounted* launchers, and 150 crew members.

The destroyers were named after the county town. Now they have been built, named Gaomi, Jimo, Anqiu and Zhucheng respectively. They are mainly used for offshore patrols and fight with the large fleet.

In fact, in this era, the concept of destroyers and *boats can almost be mixed together, because * is the only weapon that small ships can fight against large warships, so it has become the standard for small ships. However, for the definition of boats, the East China government still used the old concept of time and space, calling warships less than 500 tons a boat, and abandoning the name *boat, collectively called patrol boats.

It turned out that the People's Army Navy's 2nd Destroyer Detachment was composed of five warships below 500 tons. Now all five warships are classified as patrol boats because they are renamed the 1st Patrol Boat Detachment.

The patrol boat designed by the East China government is based on the Helong patrol boat. In fact, it is the original Qing Dynasty Hailong class destroyer, with a length of 65 meters, a width of 6.2 meters, a draft of 2.5 meters, a standard displacement of 420 tons, a power of 2,500 horsepower, and a speed of 20 knots. The ship-based weapons are 2 seats single-mounted 105 mm caliber 35 times the distance naval gun, 4 seats single-mounted 50 mm caliber machine guns, 2 and 2 joint* launchers, and 65 crew members.

The patrol boats are named after the islands along the coast of Shandong. Now five ships have been built, namely the Huangdao, Lingshan Island, Sumen Island, Tianheng Island, and Liugong Island, which are mainly used for coastal and inland river patrols.

After negotiations with several other fleet commanders, Wang Hailong believed that this time he would just take all the fleet out for a walk. After all, training is also a main purpose of this operation, so it is difficult to keep the team at home. Moreover, all the warships are in Qingdao, so they happen to be dispatched together. In addition, this time, they are still at home, and they will be out for up to 2 or 3 days, so the preparations are much simpler, and there is no need to bring a supplementary transport ship. Even if they only bring half of the coal, drinking water, food, etc. of each warship, they only need to bring enough ammunition. After all, the Russian ship may not be able to save them. Maybe there will be another battle. In addition, it is possible to meet the Japanese joint fleet, so they must be guarded.

In addition, two crossing warships will be dispatched for this operation, one of which is still responsible for forwarding and monitoring the Lushun battlefield and warning the large fleet in advance, while the other one will command the entire fleet.

It was the first time that Wang Hailong commanded such a large-scale fleet. Although there was a radio station in this era and the warships of the Japanese Joint Fleet were installed, the radio station technology in this era was still very backward. Not only was the performance unstable, but the signal transmission distance was also limited. Moreover, even radio stations were transmitted using passwords. A short message was at least ten minutes, and a long message often took more than an hour. The radio station could only serve as an auxiliary, and still used flag words as the main signal transmission method between warships. Therefore, it is quite difficult to command a large-scale fleet in this era.

Although each ship of the People's Army Navy has equipped with walkie-talkies, and each ship can communicate directly, they are still practicing flag language to contact and control the fleet to adapt to the combat mode of this era. After all, there are only 45 ships now, and it will not be enough to develop to hundreds or hundreds of ships in the future. Moreover, even if it is a walkie-talkie, it is impossible to last for a long time. But firstly, the fleet was established too short and the training time is insufficient; secondly, the squadrons were trained separately, or 2 or 3 squadrons were trained together, and the entire fleet was pulled out in this way, and it has never been before. Therefore, it is still convenient to use modern warships to command.

One of the two modern warships dispatched was naturally Wang Hailong's Yueyang ship, while the other chose the Xiangyang ship. At the same time, the Wang Hai team ordered the Qingzhou and Yizhou to go overseas to Lushun Port to watch the battle. If you find any fleeing ships, you can follow closely and then notify the large fleet to send warships to intercept.

The remaining warships were in the sea area 200-300 kilometers away from the sea east of Qingdao, while training and waiting for the Russian ships.

It is about 500 kilometers from Qingdao to Lushun, so the Xiangyang ship took the Qingzhou and Yizhou departed overnight at 2 a.m. on August 9 and rushed to Lushun.

The other warships sailed out of Qingdao Port in sequence at 6 a.m. on August 10 and headed southeastward at a speed of 14 knots. At 12:30 p.m., Wang Hailong received a report from the Xiangyang ship that the fleets of Japan and Russia had fired about 40 kilometers southeast of Lushun.

Wang Hailong knew that the fleets of both sides were still far away at this time, so he didn't care. Instead, he ordered the fleets to train in turn without being distracted by the Japanese and Russian fleets.

At this time, the Xiangyang ship sent another message that due to the steering error of the joint fleet, the Pacific Fleet seized the opportunity, broke through the interception of the joint fleet, and drove southeastward with a speed of about 14 knots, while the joint fleet was about 20 kilometers behind to catch up with a speed of 17 knots. At this time, the Qingzhou and Yizhou were about 9-10 kilometers away from the Pacific Fleet, and the Xiangyang ship was slightly forward, with a distance of about 15 kilometers.

Wang Hailong made an ambition on the computer chart. At the current speed of both sides, the joint fleet would take about 5-6 hours to catch up with the Pacific Fleet. At that time, both sides were about to sail across Weihai and in the Rongcheng Sea area. However, it was too late at that time, and it was hard to say who would win the battle. However, it was still early to the People's Army Fleet, so Wang Hailong still ordered the fleet to continue training and reported to Qingdao.

But at 4:30 pm, the Xiangyang ship sent another message that it turned out that the joint fleet had caught up with the Pacific Fleet in the waters about 40 kilometers northeast of Weihai, and the two sides began to fight again.

It turned out that most of the warships of the Pacific Fleet were injured in previous battles. Although they were repaired, the maintenance capacity of Lushun Port was limited, so most of the injured warships were not completely repaired. Although the Combined Fleet had ships damaged in previous battles, there were fewer damaged warships than the Pacific Fleet, and they could be dragged back to Japan for repair immediately after being damaged. Of course, Japan's repair conditions were much better than that of Lushun, so the Combined Fleet's ships were in much better condition. As a result, the Pacific Fleet's speed gradually slowed down and was caught up by the Combined Fleet.

Wang Hailong calculated on the chart that the battle location of the Japanese and Russian fleet was about 200 kilometers away from him, about 3-4 hours. So he immediately ordered the consortium to concentrate and reorganize the queues, and ordered the 2nd cruiser team to go out to the 50-60 kilometers to patrol the sea surface, and wait for the order. Once the enemy ship was sent, he immediately notified the brigade to support.

At this time, the Xiangyang ship sent back news continuously. The two sides exchanged fire again this time, which was very different from the last time. The joint fleet had to desperately stop the Pacific Fleet and prevent them from running away again. The Pacific Fleet had to break through the interception of the joint fleet to the death, so the two sides also had to do their best this time.

The battleships of both sides naturally became the main force of this battle. For a moment, the two sides fought back and forth, and the sound of artillery fired fiercely. The Japanese ships Mikasa, Shikishima, Russian ships Crown Prince, Letvizan and Peresvet were all shot one after another.

At 5:30 pm, the front bridge of Mikasa was hit by a shell. Five minutes later, the Crown Prince's bridge was also hit. Three minutes later, the Crown Prince's command room was shot again. It seemed that the steering device was also damaged, and it turned to the right, leading the entire Russian fleet toward the direction.
Chapter completed!