"Let that group of waste stay away from us, otherwise I will directly order the fire to sank them."

Jones, the commander-in-chief of the Royal Navy Fleet of the British Empire, couldn't help but yell on his battle cruiser with a telescope.

There was a commissar next to him, and he immediately ran out to convey the orders. Someone on the warship waved flags and used flag language to convey the corresponding information.

However, the fleets of other countries, which Jones called waste, ignored his orders at all.

In other words, this sea area was really chaotic at this time. Even if the coalition forces had communicated in advance, they had arranged special personnel to watch the flag-language orders. However, when more than 300 warships arrived, who could see clearly whom?

Except for the British Empire's fleet that could see the command of their command ships, the fleets of other countries were really unable to see them.

The fleets of major powers such as France, Ottoman, Tsarist Russia, and Germany can be organized to reach the nearest designated sea coordinates, but the warships of those small countries are rushing around like small fish surrounding whales' corpses.

"Damn idiot."

Jones couldn't help but curse because he saw two warships colliding together. Although they did not sank, they basically lost the ability to participate in the war.

"Let them scatter, all scatter. Don't get so close. Are you afraid that the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Empire's Ming Empire will not be able to target and cannot hit them?"

At this time, Jones regretted that he had promised to let the fleets of those small countries participate in the war. They only had a dozen or even a few warships. In terms of tonnage and firepower, it was not as good as the warships of the Royal Navy of the British Empire. If he didn't obey the orders, or could not complete the formation after hearing the orders. He only knew that it would be a big trouble to rush around and affect the entire fleet.

But in political matters, a soldier like him cannot directly refuse.

"We have two days left, enough for us to complete the formal formation."

The adjutant next to him was also looking at it with a telescope and said in a relaxed tone: "At that time, we will ask them to go up and consume the ammunition of the Ming fleet first, and then we will go over and harvest the endgame, which will be beneficial to us."

"Haha." Jones sneered, "I asked them to be disobedient in the formation. Do you think if I asked them to die, will they be obedient? This is a war. If they run around, it is very likely that their artillery will hit us. Therefore, according to the original plan, they will form an encirclement around them, and our British Empire fleet will be the main force."

The adjutant nodded and said, "It's true, but although I believe we will win this battle, if the Ming Empire has any new weapons, we may also suffer some losses."

"No matter what new weapon they have, they cannot defeat us." Jones said: "We have more than 300 warships. As long as we have a formation, we can almost fire the gun at the same time. Thousands of heavy guns fire at the same time, their fleet will be destroyed by us at the first time, and there is no possibility of fighting back at all."

Allied fleets with absolute advantage in numbers all believe that they are bound to win.

The number and tonnage of warships also represent the number of artillery. In this era, it is difficult to see the scene of platoon battles. They are bombarded with artillery long-range until the opponent's warships sink.

"Actually, I'm curious about another question." The adjutant said: "Didn't the emperor of the Ming Empire say that he wouldn't go back if he didn't destroy our capital? How could he have captured our capital if he only brought one fleet? Even if our coalition fleet did not fight him, based on the number and tonnage of his warships, he would not have brought many soldiers. He would not think that we would be captured by him in one day like a country like Japan?"

"So he won't go back, die here, hahaha..."

Jones laughed and said, "However, based on the information I received, it took them only a few hours to capture the capital of Japan, starting from their landing. Japan does not have a real naval fleet, and it is impossible to stop them at all. From this point of view, and our previous defeat, the army of the Ming Empire... is indeed the strongest in the world."

The adjutant shrugged and said, "But they insisted on fighting with us with the navy, so they were sure to lose, and the emperor of the Ming Empire was also sure to die."

Jones laughed twice, looked at the warship formations in his sight beginning to behave well, and said, "This is impossible, because they know very well that even if their army is invincible, it is impossible to fight our British Empire from land."

The adjutant also laughed and said, "After this battle, they should give up the power of magic and continue to hand over the resources to our navy. I have always felt that magic is not good, only the strong ships and cannons are the real force."

"Yes, they will give up the power of magic." Jones also said firmly: "Just after this battle."

Time passed quickly, and it only took three days between the reconnaissance ships who discovered the Pacific Fleet of the Ming Empire and when they formally formed a naval formation to fight.

During these three days, after losing several warships, the coalition fleet finally formed a huge naval fleet formation in a very good manner, and in their sight, they saw the fleet of the Ming Empire.

"Go ahead at full speed and don't give them the chance to bypass us, let those idiots form a siege and fire immediately after reaching the attack distance."

After Jones issued the order, more than 300 warships rushed towards the Royal Navy Pacific Fleet, which was also advancing at full speed, like sharks that smelled blood.

From the perspective of the sky, the coalition fleet is like an umbrella, and the Pacific Fleet is like an umbrella handle. At this time, this "umbrella" composed of more than 300 warships is in the process of putting it away.

The umbrella handle will be completely wrapped in it by the umbrella surface.

The distance between the two sides continued to be closer, from five kilometers to four kilometers. No warship of the coalition fleet opened fire because their heavy artillery range was only three thousand meters, and at a distance of three thousand meters, there was no strike accuracy at all.

Whether you can hit the opponent depends entirely on luck.

Especially when warships on both sides are moving targets.

"We'll close to two kilometers and open fire."

Jones issued an order again, and he didn't want to waste shells.

Among the coalition fleets, the British Empire's fleet was the fastest because they had upgraded their warships with the help of the industrial revolution.

Steam power, metal hull, warship armor, new artillery.

Whether in terms of speed, defense, and attack firepower, it must surpass other national fleets of the coalition forces.

There are only a few countries that can match it, but even if they are as powerful as Tsarist Russia, their fleet size cannot be compared with the British Empire.

This is also directly related to the fact that Tsarist Russia's territory is too large. Not only part of its fleet will be parked in Europe, but also part of it will be placed in the Pacific Ocean.

The fastest British Empire fleet, the fleets of other countries in the coalition, had already narrowed the distance to three and a half kilometers when they were still four kilometers away from the Ming Empire fleet.

The distance of 500 meters is already a big influencing factor in naval battles.

When the fleets of other countries saw this scene, they continued to increase their speed, and as if they had money in front of them, they launched a crazily charge.

They all wanted to close the fire, and then argued that the target ship of the Ming Empire was sunk by them, and that Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty also killed them.

This is a great achievement.

"Three kilometers, the shells are loaded, and you are ready to move the ship horizontally."

The adjutant issued an order.

In this era, the artillery of warships is located on the side of the warship, so during naval battles, after reaching the attack distance, the hull of the warship needs to be moved horizontally so that the gun's muzzle faces the direction of the enemy fleet.

The British Empire's navy was actually very advanced and had built fixed artillery that could change the direction of shooting, but it did not form a standard configuration.

So their warships were actually not the kind of battleships from World War II, and were much behind in comparison.

However, the enemy they faced was a modern aircraft carrier formation that seemed very weak and could be swallowed in one bite.

The reason why it is said to be modern is that this aircraft carrier formation does not have missiles, only artillery and carrier-based aircraft, and there is no truly mature fire control system.

Not to mention carrier-based aircraft, the artillery seems to be no different from the coalition fleet, but in fact, there is a huge difference between the two.

The Qinhuang aircraft carrier.

Wu Yan stood in the captain's room, looked at the coalition fleet rushing towards him through the porthole, as if he couldn't wait to die, and asked, "Beichen, has the camera been set up?"

Beichen, who was standing next to Wu Yan, immediately replied: "Your Majesty, all the twelve cameras have been set up, and the setting angles are obtained after the teacher calculates them."

The teacher is talking about Annie. Her apprentice in the Ming Empire is much more than Wu Yan, the emperor.

Because Beichen has been learning about the manufacturing of fighter jets, warships, various equipment, and related knowledge of electromagnetic force, he also called Anne as his teacher.

"good."

Wu Yan nodded and signaled the camera in the captain's room to turn on.

Carrying this camera was Ruiwen, who transformed into a student of the Ming Academy of Sciences. This time she was watching the fun, so Wu Yan gave him a task to photograph his own imperial commander.

After Annie made the camera, Wu Yan wanted to record these things.

It was useless when I captured the capital of Japan before. It was not that it was not created at that time, but that Japan during this period was too weak, and it was meaningless to record it.

"Li Er."

Wu Yan's expression became serious and he spoke majestic.

"The last one will be there."

Li Hongzhang, commander-in-chief of the Pacific Fleet, responded excitedly.

Wu Yan asked: "How many countries are there in the enemy and how many warships are there?"

Li Er replied: "Your Majesty, there are 17 countries in the enemy coalition, with a total of 329 warships."

There were 332 ships before, and three of them collided.

Wu Yan asked again: "How many warships do we have?"

Li Er replied: "Your Majesty, our Pacific Fleet, the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation, has a total of 23 warships, one of which is an aircraft carrier and six are transport ships."

Wu Yan asked again: "Then do you think they surrounded us, or are we surrounded them?"

Li Er shouted: "Reply to Your Majesty, we are surrounding them."

Wu Yan laughed, looked sideways at Li Hongzhang, and asked, "The enemy fleet has many warships, and our fleet is alone and deep. Why are we surrounded them?"

Li Er's tone became even more high and he said excitedly: "Because your Majesty, you are here, because your Majesty, you are invincible. With the Ming army led by you, you will be able to defeat it."

Wu Yan nodded and said, "I think so too, so I can't keep a single ship if I kill them."

"Yes." Li Er shouted almost: "Your Majesty wins, the Ming army wins thousands."

The others in the captain's room also shouted out excitedly.

Then, the war officially entered the state of beginning.

As the actual commander, Li Hongzhang stood at his position and began to issue orders to the microphone in front of him. His voice also sounded in the room of all the warship captains of the Qinhuang aircraft carrier formation at the same time.

In contrast, the coalition fleet, which was still circulating in flags, was about fifty years behind.

From a high altitude perspective.

The two frigates and two destroyers are still on both sides of the aircraft carrier and are relatively close to each other.

The battleships of the six Ming fleets, three on the left and right, appeared on the side of the aircraft carrier, and were relatively far away, but their navigation positions exceeded those of the aircraft carrier.

The six cruisers protect the six transport ships and the rear wings of the aircraft carrier formation.
To be continued...