There are many ways to communicate between naval ships, including the flag bearer's flag language, lighting signals, and after the development of technology, there will be radios, satellite phones, etc.

However, in the era when electric mechanics was not yet popular, ships on the sea communicated with each other, and the most common one was the signal flag. People often saw a string of various types of flags tied to the masts or cables of warships. This is the signal flag.

Each flag represents a meaning, for example, the red diamond-shaped flag raised by the Zhiyuan is a faulty flag that is familiar to all seafarers.

Usually, in the vast sea, looking out and looking through the telescope to find a ship in the distance. At this time, he will observe a string of signal flags on the mast as soon as possible to determine the state of the ship.

If a faulty flag is found, it means that there is something wrong with the ship. According to the conventional rules of the navigation industry, as long as it is not a hostile country, any ship will provide certain assistance when seeing the signal flag.

However, such flags usually appear in the sea. Zhiyuan has been conducting routine inspections countless times along the way, and has conducted simple inspections in Suez Port. I have never heard of any faults? Why did the fault flag be hung?

"What's going on? Why did Zhiyuan hang the fault flag? Ask immediately, what happened..." Major General Jason immediately ordered the inquiry, and even he felt the strange atmosphere.

Zhiyuan's answer surprised everyone in the Joint Fleet "What? The boiler and power group malfunctioned? The warship could not slow down and stop? What's the fucking explanation!"

The British side was so angry that they were so angry. Are you a group of Chinese people coming to cheat us in front of us? The boiler and power group malfunctioned. Shouldn’t it be because of the loss of power and the inability to move forward or the speed is getting slower and slower?

Why did it come to your Chinese people's mouths, but it's impossible to stop and slow down? Just don't add coal to the boiler! How can you drive when the fire is out? There are problems, there are problems in China!

Of course there is a problem. Now Xiao Letian has returned to the command cabin. The Zhiyuan has officially entered the first-level combat readiness. Only the Chinese can understand the light signal language to convey information between the warships. The flag bearers are playing the flag language that outsiders can't understand at all, and all the British are stunned.

The veterans didn't have to look at it, and they could understand it as soon as they smelled it. "The Chinese are preparing for war! Something is going to happen... they are definitely preparing for war!"

The French in the town at the fifth stop was also stunned, especially the French consul Ferdinand who had arrived before, suddenly felt a sudden slap in his heart, "What's going on? What do the Chinese want to do! Did they notice our ambush... it's wrong! If they noticed the ambush, why would they still go forward? Are you not afraid of our cannons!"

Ferdinand also set out from Suez this morning and just arrived at the fifth stop town. He was really worried about not being able to take charge of this attack.

Behind the consul, stood the company commander of the cavalry company. He smiled respectfully and said, "It's impossible. The Chinese intelligence network will never cover this place, and even the British cannot... We are starting a completely new dark line, and we use an affiliated network independent of the intelligence network, which is impossible for the UK to detect!"

"Why? Why do the Chinese make such a strange move? Damn it, order them to open fire in advance and not wait any longer..." An inexplicable fear wrapped around Ferdinand.

The British veterans guessed nothing wrong. Now the Chinese are preparing for war, and the roar of first-level combat readiness sounded in the cabins of all warships.

"Level 1 combat readiness...the whole army mobilized...the first combat readiness..."

There were voices of commanders everywhere. When the third-level combat readiness was ready, ammunition had been distributed to the first-level units of the company, and was jointly supervised by the company commander and the company quarantine officer.

When the first-level combat preparations were made, each squad began to distribute ammunition to the individual soldiers, with a minimum of fifty bullets per person, and an average of six grenades of various types were each. The squad leader and veterans were responsible for the most dangerous incendiary bombs... The atmosphere before the battle was already spread.

Time passed minute by minute, and there were still the last fifteen minutes left before the enemy's shelling incident. The Chinese finally shared intelligence with the British side. At this moment, the Zhiyuan was only eighty meters away from the entrance of the canal.

"We have received top-secret information. To the west of the fifth stop town, there are artillery that are unknown to us... We have entered combat preparations, please prepare for defense..."

"God! Is Xiao Letian crazy..." Jason was so shocked that he didn't even have to worry about the Tianling Gai. "What a joke, artillery! Farting, why don't we know about such a big thing? Are you going to make trouble..."

"My mission is about to end, why don't you let me hand over safely..."

But Jason's rage was not over yet. Suddenly, two kilometers west of the town, a faint dune line suddenly popped up behind a dark red, followed by a rumbling thunder.

Above the dunes, two French spies had blood-red eyes and shouted loudly, "Fire! Shoot quickly... and shoot all the shells empty! Take our gold, now is the time for you to work hard!"

Behind the dunes, the scar-faced desert bandit yelled and ordered their subordinates to "open fire... open fire according to the pre-marked coordinates... whether he is accurate or not, we collect money to do this job. If the shell box is empty, we will retreat!"

Boom boom boom... One flowering fire shell after another flew in the air, and the traces of the ballistic passing could be seen faintly.

Boom... With a loud bang, the front deck of Zhiyuan was shot. The explosion of air waves and fires soared into the sky, and black smoke rolled up. The French observation posts hiding at the fifth stop were immediately exclaimed in excitement.

"Beautiful fight! Keep blowing..."

Consul Ferdinand was so excited that his whole body shook, "Okay, okay, God punishes these pagans! Send a newspaper and send a newspaper to Port Said, we have already taken action..."

The smoke of gunpowder covered the front deck of Zhiyuan. The British were already stunned. They seemed to have seen the tragic scene of corpses everywhere, and the French seemed to have seen the tragic appearance of the hull of Zhiyuan.

But reality will always give those arrogant people a loud slap. Xiao Letian and others in the command cabin just felt the vibration of the hull, and everyone looked at the smoke of the gunpowder with contempt.

"Four inches thick carburized steel armor...I see if you can bite it!"

"Since the enemy has opened fire, all units should pay attention... act immediately according to the established plan!"

The smoke of gunpowder disappeared, and a shocking black burnt area appeared on the port deck of Zhiyuan, but what surprised everyone was that the shell did not even exploded with a slight depression.

"God! There is not even a scar at all! The steel giant beast... is indeed a steel giant beast!"

Note: Today, a book friend in the group talked about how long will Yinlong be written? Let’s restore it here. The main line of Yinlong is very large. It’s still early to finish the book. In theory, it should be able to be written for a long time.

But I also have to look at the performance of this book. If the number of fans and readers is growing, even if it grows slowly, I will stick to it.

If the number of fans and readers is sharply reduced, then you must consider the finale issue. Therefore, the length of the writing is not about me, but about book friends who like Yinlong.

Let me say something off topic. Many book friends like to raise books. I also know that it is indeed refreshing to read for a long time, but it also has a disadvantage to keeping reading books.

You raise it too, he raises it too, and everyone raises it to read books, which will cause serious fluctuations in book grades, and may lead to a rapid decline in grades for a period of time.

This has caused a misunderstanding for the author, who will think that the book has no future, so under the influence of disappointment, there is a high possibility of eunuchs, unfinished situations, etc.

Then many readers will also encounter this situation. They have been raising books for a long time and finally decided to start killing them. Only then do they find that the books have been broken. There are still many such situations.

I have explained the truth clearly. I still hope that everyone will try to follow the updates as much as possible. This will also provide me with a very realistic reference data for writing a book.

There is also a long talk about the old saying. I hope everyone supports the authentic version, because no matter how much you support the pirated version or how much you follow it every day, this kind of data cannot be fed back to the author. Book friends should try to get the authentic version as much as possible.
Chapter completed!