The US Asian fleet gave up entering the South China Sea from the north of the Behara Strait. In order to avoid night combat, Lyons chose to enter the South China Sea from the southeast of the Panjiang Strait.

As the British Navy Marshal, Lyons's sophistication has enabled the British Asian fleet to escape from the encirclement and interception of the Imperial Chinese Navy again and again. However, even if Lyons has rich experience or cunning experience, facing the high-tech Imperial Chinese Navy, he still cannot avoid the fate of a decisive battle with the Imperial Chinese Navy.

At 5:03 a.m., a water reconnaissance aircraft from the Third Team of the Imperial Navy's Pacific Fleet sent back a telegram from the discovery of the main force of the British Asian fleet in the northern waters of the Dutch East Indies.

After research, General Lin Jianzhang, commander of the Pacific Fleet, and officers from the Fleet Command, believed that the goal of the Lyons fleet was to enter the waters near the British Malayan Federation, and to use the coastal fortress defense artillery net built by the Malayan Federation on Belitung Island as a cover, and enter the waters of the Nansha Islands along the coastline.

Once the British fleet enters the depths of the South China Sea, it will be difficult to find them again, because 11

From April next year, the South China Sea will be rainy, and storms above level 7 will be almost once every few days. In this way, the naval aviation reconnaissance aircraft will not be able to conduct reconnaissance and will not be able to control the movements of the British fleet. The huge British fleet has always had too great threat to the Central Pacific Territory of the Chinese Empire, so Lin Jianzhang decided to intercept the British fleet before entering the waters of the Nansha Islands.

The Lyons fleet continued to cross Beliyang, but did not know that the sky's reconnaissance aircraft had reported their location to the Pacific Fleet. Lyons thought everything was going well, but did not know that the Pacific Fleet had determined his intention and was taking a shortcut to him to conduct an interception.

At 8:19 in the morning, the Chinese Empire's intelligence station in Kuching City, the Federation of Malaya, issued a detailed report to the Pacific Fleet Command: "Today, the southeastern South China Sea is cloudy, with winds of three levels and waves of about one meter high."

At 11:42, the Third Squadron of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Empire discovered the British Asian Fleet near the Blue Island of Danmei and quickly approached. At the same time, the location was reported to the First Squadron of the Pacific Fleet. The main force of the Pacific Fleet revised the route again and selected the nearest route to conduct interception.

The British fleet also discovered the Pacific Fleet's reconnaissance cruiser. Lyons prayed that God would not encounter the main force of the Pacific Fleet, constantly adjusting its course and speed, in an attempt to get rid of the Pacific Fleet.

However, most of the warships of the British fleet were warships built in the early 1990s, especially the flagship counterattack, which belonged to the first generation of monarch-class battleships. The ship's age has reached ten years. If it weren't for the tension between Britain and China, she would have retired. Now the maximum speed is no longer enough, and she can't get rid of the Chinese reconnaissance cruiser at all. What's more, there are reconnaissance planes in the sky flying from time to time, and the British fleet has nowhere to be free.

At 12:17 noon, the main force of the Pacific Fleet arrived, 18,000 from the British Fleet

The Pacific Fleet Commander General Lin Jianzhang made a pre-war mobilization. The officers and soldiers of the fleet were full of fighting spirit and vowed to drive the British Navy off the throne of the world's number one.

Starting from 12:19, the Chinese Empire Pacific Fleet and the British Asian Fleet were moving towards each other and constantly getting closer. While moving, both fleets were making tactical adjustments based on the position and direction of the other fleet. Both fleets were constantly adjusting their tactical formations, and the fighting atmosphere was extremely tense.

On the bridge of the battleship Diqi, General Lin Jianzhang couldn't help but smoke a famous brand cigar from Bō Do Rico and ordered all officers and soldiers of the Pacific Fleet to allow two cigarettes to ease psychological tension. Since this time he was going to fight the British Navy, the world's most powerful navy, it would be fake that all officers and soldiers of the Pacific Fleet were not nervous.

Similarly, for the Royal British Navy, it has been arrogant at sea for hundreds of years, and a large-scale naval war has not broken out for a long time. This generation of British sailors had never experienced naval warfare at all, had no practical experience, and was supported by the naval warfare teaching experience in the sailing era. They faced the Imperial Chinese Navy, which had fought more than a dozen large-scale naval battles and won each battle. They were also unsure of it. They were facing the powerful Pacific Fleet for the first time.

Especially Marshal Lyons, he knew the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Empire's navy, which was an elite tempered from many naval battles. Like Lin Jianzhang, Lyons also nervously smoked a cigar.

After more than an hour of continuous adjustment of tactical formation, both sides tried their best to prove their strength to each other. But soon, the speed of the fleets on both sides was different. The Pacific Fleet was prepared to fight, and the speed was neat and uniform... First, the formation was adjusted very smoothly, and the average deformation was no more than twelve minutes at an average time. The speed of each ship of the British fleet was different and could not be effectively unified. During the third deformation, some British warships delayed the deformation due to insufficient speed, causing some chaos.

At 1:30 pm, both sides approached 13,000 meters. The Pacific Fleet changed its battle formation for the fourth time. When the British Fleet adjusted its formation, the Second Battleship Squadron and Sixth Cruise Squadrons were not transformed in place, causing chaos in the entire fleet formation.

On the bridge of the Pacific Fleet flagship, the USS Diqi, Lin Jianzhang keenly captured this weakness of the British fleet. He immediately became calculating in his heart.

At thirteen:39, the British fleet entered the Pacific Fleet's visual range of combat, and Lin Jianzhang issued a combat order.

"The entire fleet is fighting speed, ready to face the enemy!"

The order was issued, and the flagship Diqi quickly increased its cruise speed from 15 knots to 21 knots of combat speed. A huge chimney emitted rapid black smoke, and the bow of the ship split several meters of high water and advanced through the waves.

After receiving the order, the other squadrons followed the Diqi to do the same action.

Seeing the Pacific Fleet suddenly accelerating, Lyons on the Counterattack battleship also knew that the decisive battle began, and immediately ordered the entire fleet to fight speed.

At 13:55, the two fleets were 12,000 meters apart. This is about 80 nautical miles north of Danmeilan Island and 77 nautical miles from Zengmu Ansha Islands.

On the Diqi, Lin Jianzhang threw away the cigar and stomped it hard on the soles of his feet. He let out a long breath and said, "Shipman! Go to the Fleet Channel!"

"Yes!" The ship steward called the Fleet Channel and handed the walkie-talkie to Lin Jianzhang.

Lin Jianzhang picked up the step phone and said earnestly: "I am Lin Jianzhang! The rise and fall of the empire is here. I hope all the soldiers will work hard to fight the enemy, serve the court, and be loyal to the empire! I am on the bridge, watching you fight bravely! It's over!"

Lin Jianzhang put down the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Order, inform the communication jamming ship, the Nospa Jing, immediately implements maximum power radio interference on the enemy fleet. The first squadron follows the flagship operation, and the other squadrons implement the combat plan No. 6.

The order was issued that the cruiser Pipa Jing, located outside the fleet's combat zone, immediately activated a high-power radio jammer to implement maximum power interference on the British Navy's radio communication frequency.

At the same time, Lin Jianzhang drew a huge "L"-shaped action with his left hand.

The captain of the Emperor Qi, Chen Shouchang, was ready to go and immediately ordered: "Left full rudder!"

"Yes! The left full rudder!" The second deputy of the helm repeated Chen Shouchang's order.

The Diqi quickly turned left, the bow of the ship split its huge nose, and the hull tilted more than 70 degrees to the right. All the officers and soldiers of the ship grabbed the handrail tightly to prevent falling.

At this time, the Pacific Fleet (southwest heading) sailed parallel to the British Asian Fleet (northeast heading). When Lyons discovered that the Pacific Fleet had its fourth tactical deformation, he immediately ordered the British Fleet to change the formation. As a result, the British Fleet, which had insufficient speed, was too slow to change the formation. The Pacific Fleet, which had an absolute advantage in maneuverability, quickly changed to the fifth tactical deformation when the British Fleet had not completed the fourth deformation.

At 14:05, the Pacific Fleet made a "L"-shaped big turn. In the five minutes before the turn was completed, the Pacific Fleet flagship and the first team behind would be in the T-shaped vertical position, that is, the British Fleet was in the T-shaped horizontal position, which was beneficial to the British Fleet.

Seeing the Pacific Fleet deformed like this, Lyons was overjoyed and said: "Lin Jianzhang is still so bold. Unfortunately, we are not Russia. The British Navy will use cannons to tell you, "This is a wrong decision."

Chief of Staff Bill also looked excited and said, "It takes five minutes for them to complete the L turn. We must fight for this golden five minutes, destroy the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, and strive for strategic initiative."

Lyons nodded and immediately issued an order: "Order all ships to stop turning, and all main guns aimed at enemy ships and fired. The First Team attacked all the flagships of the Pacific Fleet to try to sank her within five minutes."

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

The British fleet flagship counterattack opened fire immediately after receiving the order. Two double-mounted porridge millimeter main guns on the starboard side and three 152mm secondary guns quickly opened fire, opening the prelude to the decisive battle between the Chinese and British navies in the South China Sea.

The shells roared and shot towards the Diqi, which was 9,000 meters away, and landed on the sea less than 100 meters away. The shells exploded, and instantly burst into huge waves of hundreds of meters high. The waves splashed, and fell on the bridge of the Diqi, which poured on Lin Jianzhang and other officers.

"It is worthy of being the most powerful navy, and the error of the first gun is no more than 100 meters."

Lin Jianzhang praised the enemy, but he was playing a drum in his heart, and he couldn't help but feel a little nervous. But soon he smiled, because only Lyons' flagship was firing at the Diqi, and the other ships seemed to have not received the fire order and continued to change the formation.

Chief of Staff Ye Zugui shouted: "It's great, it must be that the radio interference of Pipa Jing has been successful!"

Lin Jianzhang nodded, very happy.

Inside the Commander's Tower, when he saw the first round of artillery attacks was very close to hitting the Emperor's Enlightenment, Lyons couldn't help laughing. He knew that the British Navy's artillery skills were still excellent and there was no shame.

However, after waiting for a minute, the Counterattack only fired. The ships of other fleets did not fire, but continued to change the formation.

At this moment, the British Navy ships, who absolutely obeyed the orders, became fools, and took the initiative to give up the "T" horizontal position to the enemy.

"Damn it! What are they doing? Didn't you hear my order?"

Bill's smile also froze. He immediately asked the bridge staff on the side. The communications staff quickly replied: "Report to Mr. Marshal, our radio contact was suddenly interrupted and we could not contact the various squadrons."

Lyons said angrily: "Why can't you get in touch? What does the contact interrupt mean? Is the radio broken?"

The communications officer said with a confused look on his face, "It may be a radio failure, we are trying to figure out a solution."

Lyons suddenly looked angry and wanted to eat people. Bill next to him said, "The five minutes of gold have passed half of it! Not only did we not seize this opportunity to attack the enemy, but our warships were giving up the favorable T-shaped horizontal position to the enemy, and they were hitting the enemy's muzzle!"

"Damn it!" Lyons said quickly: "Change in flag language immediately and notify the squadrons to stop their stupid behavior immediately."

The Counterattack immediately changed to contact the flag language, but because the fleet was too large, dozens of warships stretched over ten kilometers on the combat plane. The commanders on various British warships complained that the flagship issued a stupid order, but had to execute it because the soldiers had to obey the order. It was not until the flagship switched to contact the flagship that they knew something was wrong with the flagship's radio.

However, the British fleet had lost this golden five-minute attack opportunity. Not only that, the British fleet had been changing its formation because it did not receive the latest order from the flagship, but ended up sending itself to the direction of the Pacific Fleet's firepower volley.

At 14:08, the two fleets were 8,000 meters apart, and the flagship of the Pacific Fleet, the Divine Fleet, completed the L turn. The Divine battleship, four double-mounted 305mm main guns, began to launch artillery bombardment on the British Fleet flagship counterattack.

"Dongdongdongdongdongdong!"

As the battleship Diqi trembled violently, eight huge bullets weighing 400 kilograms rushed out of the cannon chamber.

The shells drew neat arcs in the air, whistling and smashing towards the counterattack.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The shells fell on the sea surface less than 80 meters away from the side of the counterattack number and exploded. In an instant, eight huge water columns several hundred meters high formed. The height of the water columns was uniform and distributed on both sides of a straight line with an error of less than 1 meter, as if the large pillars of the Sea God Temple floated out of the sea, which was very spectacular.

Lyons and others on the counterattack were shocked. In terms of the power of the explosion, the opponent's 305 shells were no less than their 343mm shells. In terms of ballistics, the opponent's eight main gun shells fell on almost a straight line. Not only could they provide the opponent with accurate correction data for the next firepower volley, but if it hit, almost eight shells would hit at the same time.

Lyons couldn't help but gasp, and officers such as Bill also realized for the first time the new concept battleships pose a huge threat to them.

At 14:00, the two fleets were 6,400 meters apart and entered the high-precision shooting range of the Pacific Fleet. At this time, the first team and the second team of the Pacific Fleet completed the fierce tactical maneuver.
Chapter completed!