Volume VIII 1313 Blockade of the Straits

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"Keep firing...... Blow up these boats...... God, what kind of ships are these?" the battleship gun commanders ordered the cannons to fire as they watched in amazement as the small boats that did not resist swarmed up.

The shells shot as desperately as they didn't want money, and one small fishing boat after another was hit, but what was jaw-dropping was that those small boats were not blown to pieces as usual, but they could always blow up clumps of mud and sand with one shot, and then slowly fell silent to the bottom of the sea.

"What are those ships carrying? It's pitch black like big rocks......

"No, the big rocks aren't that regular......"

"Look at the ships, some of them are tethered to each other......"

The Ryukyu sailors were indomitable in the face of the fire of the Russian warships, and each small ship was blown up and sunk, which made the other ship bosses and sailors even more violent and bloodthirsty.

"Third child, are you going well...... You have become a god, eat incense in the temple of the god of war...... Remember to leave a good mouth for my brother!"

"The brothers rushed forward...... Sink the ship into the bay and block the east entrance of the strait...... People die and birds are facing the sky, and they will not die for thousands of years! I fought with them......"

The flotilla was getting closer and closer, and the sky was getting brighter and brighter in the east, and when the flotilla had rushed to a distance of more than five hundred meters, Hermansky finally saw the contents of the ships clearly.

"My God! These Chinese want to block the exit of the strait, they want to trap us in the strait!"

Hermansky's frightened voice changed, and the most terrifying thing may have come to his mind: "These Chinese know the hydrological situation here, they know the qiē below this sea area, and they are still going to create artificial reefs to sink our ship!"

"Hit the plan! Hit the shot, fire the gun, fire fiercely...... The whole fleet sped up and rushed out of the strait to ......"

Hermansky's mouth was full of bitterness, and he was annoyed by his previous judgment, which had let all the warships hide in the strait, just to rely on the narrow three-kilometer strait mouth to block the Zhiyuan.

But who would have thought that Xiao Lotian would not play his cards according to common sense! How could he think of making artificial reefs? This is too poisonous, right?

As a naval admiral, Hermansky knows that the hydrographic information of various seas is the top secret of various countries, and the domineering power of the empire depends on the powerful Royal Navy, and the Royal Navy is awesome in being able to control the golden shipping lanes around the world, and the key factor in controlling the golden shipping lanes is not all dependent on the strength of ships and guns.

The hydrological situation of various sea areas is an important data for naval operations. It's like the army needs to have a military map, to understand the height of the terrain, to know how to draw contour lines.

Fighting at sea is more complicated, you have to know where there are reefs, where there are open reefs, how deep the water is, the division of the undercurrent in the sea and the speed of the water...... It's not even a joke to say that whether there are various legends in this area, such as Bermuda's dangerous legends, is one of the intelligence.

Naval operations are too complicated, not to mention that you have to understand the climate of this sea area, such as wind speed, typhoon season, whether it is heavy rain or something...... And this qiē is the top secret of the navies of various countries.

Xiao Letian has been operating the western Pacific Ocean for several years, and those sail warships were all training ships before, so what do they usually train? Hydrological exploration is an important part of training.

The depth of the water in the narrow strait of Amami Oshima is well documented, as are the number of light and dark reefs, and the distribution of complex currents.

The garrison position chosen by Hermansky was originally an area with many reefs, and a common feature of this kind of sea area is that it is not too deep, after all, even the reef can leak out, and other areas continue the same seabed landform, and the average water depth is only twenty or thirty meters.

At such a depth, 2,000 small boats can be blocked, and those huge cement blocks with four claws will quickly entangle together to form an endless artificial reef once they enter the water.

It's too late, it takes time for a behemoth like an ironclad battleship to go from a standstill to a high-speed cruise, and these Ryukyu water ghosts will definitely not give them time.

The distance of 500 meters passed in a flash, and although the shells sank one fishing boat after another, the huge base of more than 2,000 was not something that could be destroyed in a short time by seven warships, and soon the first batch of martyrdom ships rushed to the mouth of the strait, less than 50 meters away from the Svetlana.

The ship's face was wiped out by the skin of the cannonball, and the blood flowed down like a waterfall, but as if he didn't know the pain, the corners of his mouth tapped instead, and he was still laughing.

"Explosives! It's finally here...... Grandpa, I'm the first!" the sailors on deck lit the fuse, and the tongue of fire began to rattle and burn under the ship.

"Boss, hurry up...... Our mission is accomplished!" said that, the sailor jumped into the sea and began to swim desperately towards the safety of the sea on both sides.

The captain of the ship spat at the tall Russian fleet in front of him, "Bah! You just wait to be slaughtered, and ...... said, he jumped into the sea with a brisk walk, and rushed out five or six meters in one dive.

There was a muffled bang, and the explosives blew a large hole in the bottom of the boat, and the sea water rolled in, and the whole fishing boat made a tooth-aching click, and then staggered and sank into the sea.

At this time, the two fishing boats next to the ship had also ignited the explosives, and the captain and the sailor began to swim desperately to a safe place with the urine bubbles of livestock around their waists.

The three boats were originally tied together with brown ropes, and this sinking into the water was immediately entangled with each other, and dozens of huge cement blocks tied to the iron chains and brown ropes began to hit each other, and soon pressed on the sediment on the bottom of the sea, alarming countless deep-sea fish.

"Bomb the ship, everyone, blow up the ship!" The roars of the water ghosts on the sea came and went, boom, boom, boom...... The muffled sound of explosions was continuous, and the sea was filled with small whirlpools caused by sunken ships.

The mud and sand at the bottom of the sea were rolled up, and the originally blue water suddenly became turbid, and at the same time, Hermansky's eyes were cloudy, and his eyes were red, and tears almost flowed out.

Hermansky watched as a frigate that had no time to slow down was crushed on the cement block, and the sound of scraping the bottom of the ship was extremely harsh, and the officers and men on board were running around in horror and even forgot to fire their guns.

The process of covering the iron armor of the wooden hull is actually just a design for the transition from a sail battleship to a pure steel battleship, don't look at the hull of these battleships, but there is no iron armor protection under the ship.

The heavy oak could not break the sharp cement blocks at all, and soon the bottom bilge of the frigate began to flood in large quantities.

Hermansky clutched his head in pain and closed his eyes, "The whole fleet is reversing...... I can't break through from here, so I will move to the entrance of the strait to the west, and tell the commander of the sù fleet, we have won the plan, and now we must leave...... It's still too late!"

Before he finished speaking, the lookout of the battleship suddenly pointed to the north in the east and shouted: "The enemy has another fleet! Captain, look!"

Note: This is today's second watch, maybe there will be four watches today!