Volume VIII 1322 Dying Detachment

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There was a heat wave in the boiler room, and the shovel threw the refined coal into the burning boiler with a shovel naked, the flame released infinite heat energy, and the boiling water vapor brought strong kinetic energy, and the Svetlana propeller began to spin rapidly.

The massive steel battleship slammed into the shallow northern waters, its bottom scraping against the rocks and chunks of coral reefs shattered by sturdy propellers.

The boiler compartment was at the bottom of the battleship, and the people working here could clearly feel the vibration under their feet, and they could hear the sound of hard objects scraping under the ship, and the screams of tooth aching frightened them.

"What is this going to do, Captain, where is this going?" asked a blonde sailor, frightened.

"Don't talk about that, we only have two hours a day to go out on deck, and I don't even know where I am now......" Another black coal shoveler shook his head and sighed.

"But...... But we've never heard anything like it! Are we hitting the rocks......"

"Bah, bah, bah...... Don't say such unlucky words, the naval battle is a good mouthpiece...... Win all battles, win all battles!"

There were 12 coal shovelers in the huge boiler bunker, guarding the six burning coal inlets and struggling to pick up shovels, cinders and sweat mixed together, and punched out furrows in the skin.

From the copper pipes in the boiler room came the chief engineer's frantic almost twisted roar "Add coal...... Speed up the coal, increase the firepower! God bless us, burn all this coal, and don't leave a single cinder ......."

"Increase the fire!" At this time, there was a sudden boom outside the boiler room, and the whole coal pile trembled, and the coal hit back and forth, and it was the battleship's main gun that began to fire.

The keel of the entire battleship made a creaking and rubbing sound, which everyone in the boiler room should have been used to hearing for a long time, but today's sound made these hearts welled up with a trace of unease.

"Why do you always feel like something is going to happen......?" the blond-haired young man had not finished speaking, when suddenly the battleship shuddered, as if it had hit something.

Bang Dang...... Click......

In the loud noise, people fell to the ground, and just as they were about to get up, the blonde boy suddenly screamed in horror, "It's water...... The boiler compartment was flooded with ......"

Like a mischievous child pinching the mouth of a faucet, high-pressure sea water shoots out through the cracks in the bottom of a boat, sprays onto the ceiling, and then rains down.

"The boiler room is leaking...... Bring the pumping machine over quickly......" The boiler chief rushed to the copper pipe and shouted loudly, but at this moment there was no sound response from outside, only a chaotic and noisy roar and the sound of rolling cannons came from the copper pipe.

The boiler chief couldn't hear what was being shouted outside, and it took him a long time to distinguish one word, that is, to open a cannon, and now he could only hear this one sound clearly on the battleship.

The boiler chief knew that something was wrong, and when he looked back at the brothers, he found that the sea water that had just been like a trickle had become a boiling spring at the moment, and the four brothers rushed up to block it with their own bodies, but how could this be blocked.

"Brothers, it's already a mess outside, and I can't find where the chief engineer is...... No one cares about us anymore, and it's all the sound of artillery outside...... Now there are two roads, one is to hold on here and wait for death, and it can be blocked for a while, and it will be ......"

"The other way is to rush out and fight with a gun like a man, we can't be coal shovelers for the rest of our lives!

People didn't hesitate at all, "I'll choose the second way!" They all said that we were soldiers, and the result was shoveling coal, and I was tired of shoveling coal endlessly......

"Okay, everybody's annoyed, I'm annoyed...... Open the hatch and rush out, and see how majestic the battle is!"

The influx of seawater was so rapid that by the time one opened the hatch and was about to cross the bilge upper deck, the seawater had already submerged into a flaming boiler.

There was a stabbing sound, water vapor suddenly filled the air, and the temperature of the boiler room soared sharply like a sauna!

Leaving the familiar post, the whole battleship was in complete chaos, full of sailors running wildly, wounded sailors on the deck were dragged into the cabin, and the floor was littered with red blood and dirty footprints.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of burning gunpowder and the thick smell of blood, now compounded by the salty smell of evaporating damp seawater.

All the formations are in disarray, soldiers at all levels are fighting according to instinct, people cannot find their commanders, and officers cannot find soldiers! In addition to the wails of the wounded, there are all kinds of roars of searching.

"Whose hand is the key to Arsenal Three...... Damn it, who knows how to speak!"

"The iron door of the vice-captain's room is stuck, and the fire axe is smashed open......

"Chief of Communication...... Where is the chief of communications? All the flag bearers on the deck are killed......"

"The second gun needs a loader! Who's fucking trained to load, get over here......"

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Everyone is running, everyone is shouting, everyone has a hideous expression on their faces, and humans have become beasts controlled by instinct.

The ignorant boiler room people, like not a member of this battleship, stupidly walked through the cabins and tunnels like the walking dead.

Just now, the blonde boy saw a wounded soldier crawling on the ground in the cabin, and just as he wanted to go over to help, he heard a loud bang, and a cannonball drilled into the cabin from the hull, and the violent explosion immediately blew the small cabin into ruins.

When the smoke and dust cleared, people found that the cabin was already in the open air, and the hull outside had been blown open with a large hole with a diameter of one meter, and people could clearly see the mountains and rivers outside and the tragic battlefield.

"Oh my God! The detachment has all hit the rocks! I see, this is the commander deliberately letting the battleship run aground, this is looking for the best firing position to suppress the enemy on the mountain!"

"Didn't we win last night? Why did it become like this after such a while? It became a self-defeating attack? What the hell is this place......

The main battleship under Hermansky's feet was slowly tilting, the Svetlana had finally grabbed the best firing position, and the remaining ships of the sub-fleet were also in the best gun positions, but these battleships were also coming to the end of their lives.

The shelling is the swan song of these battleships, and the smoke of gunpowder from the Chinese artillery positions opposite is the last revenge of these battleships!

Hermansky was in tears, and he watched as the frigates and capital battleships rushed up to the reef, rammed and then ran aground and lost power, like a sperm whale dead on the beach, struggling with the last bit of body.

"I've done my best! I've really done my best! Commander-in-Chief, we must seize the time we have paid for our lives to escape! Axon, please hurry, we really won't last long......"

"Please, God bless us, there must be no accidents at the exit of the strait to the west! Please hurry up! There is really no time......"