Volume VIII 1239 Pinnacle Battleship

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The students of the Ship Master Academy were already crazy at the moment, Deng Shichang and the others felt that their hearts had stopped beating, and the blood flowing throughout their bodies had coagulated and stopped.

What a violent picture, the lonely northern knight killed through the formation, behind him was a sea of fire in the sky, the Russian fleet was pierced in an instant, and no one could stop the footsteps of the Zhiyuan.

The Diamond, which had just been flaunting its might, was already in shambles, and the other frigate had even its armor steel plates overturned.

Facing the Zhiyuan was also a small gunboat of more than 400 tons, which passed by because it had no time to avoid a direct collision with the Zhiyuan. There was a creaking and piercing scream everywhere on the sea, and there was a loud sound of the iron armor being broken, and all the iron armor on the side of the small gunboat was gently rubbed by the behemoth of the Zhiyuan, and the entire skin and flesh were scraped off.

"It's ...... Our...... The battleship ...... "The cadets couldn't even speak, but within three seconds they were jubilant: "Hooray!

The fleeing fishermen on the sea are also stupid, Rao is that they are all short-sighted ordinary people who have not seen the world, but on the battlefield can still distinguish which is strong and which is weak, the battleship with the dragon flag is so unruly that they forget to swim and flee for their lives.

"Long live the emperor! Kill these foreign devils...... "The common people don't know what a prime minister is or not, and in their simple consciousness, the one who can hang the dragon flag is the emperor's warship."

Stefansky felt dizzy in front of him, and at this moment he realized that Molière's information was not exaggerated at all, and even the number jù in the information was far less terrifying than the real number jù.

How thick is this armor? It can make him pass through the whole body in a volley of 10,000 cannons, and he has not blown through the armor even after ten shots, Iron Turtle!

The 210 caliber cannon is already terrifying, but I didn't expect this battleship to have so many short-range attack weapons, and after the fire was fully fired, it was like an iron hedgehog suddenly exploding the sharp thorns all over the body.

From the very beginning, there were no so-called battleships for steel steam-powered warships in human history. At that time, people's design ideas for warships were still considered to be multi-purpose and versatile.

Battleship, as the name suggests, is a kind of main battleship that meets the enemy in battle formation, which is a weapon system that has been formed along with the latest naval warfare ideas.

In fact, to put it simply, the so-called battleship is to use numerical superiority to carry out sea surface formation, to carry out intensive salvo fire with ultra-long-range large-caliber artillery, and to defeat the enemy with firepower, accuracy, and density.

The battleship relied on a powerful main gun and its own heavy iron armor, which allowed them to ignore most small-caliber weapons, and the huge main gun could sling children from a long distance.

Therefore, battleships generally do not pay much attention to short-range weapons, and people do not think of letting these ocean steel giants go to sea to fight bayonets, and generally the battle is over without waiting for the enemy to get close, and the salvo of the main gun is over.

Even if you get close, you are not afraid, those small-caliber weapon systems, at best, are scratching the itch of the battleship.

But it would be decades before battleships truly dominated the seas, and it would take at least thirty to forty years until the British Sovereign-class laid the rudiments of steel battleships and dreadnoughts standardized them.

The Zhiyuan at this moment is actually a representative work of the pre-dreadnought era.

The Zhiyuan not only has a powerful 210 main gun, but also a variety of small-caliber secondary guns, which have been designed with long-range and short-range attack modes in mind, and Xiao Lotian has used the Zhiyuan as an all-rounder from the beginning.

It is precisely because of the Zhiyuan's long-range and close combat that there is such a violent bayonet tactic at sea, Xiao Letian knows that there will definitely be fewer and fewer close naval battles like this in the coming years, and there will be one less such violent scene.

Bayonets at sea are always more shocking than boring long-range shooting, and this tactic has another important purpose, which is to make Xiao Lotian and Emperor Tongzhi appear in front of the Russians.

The intersection of the two ships was only more than ten meters at a close distance, and it was impossible for the Russians not to see Xiao Lotian and Emperor Tongzhi at such a close distance, the dazzling dragon robe, the crown, and the handsome special prime minister's military uniform, plus the flag fluttering at the top of the mast.

One qiē and one qiē proved to the Russians, 'We are here, and the two most powerful people in Asia are here!'

Captain Vinya's hat had long since fallen somewhere, he looked at the bright yellow dragon robe like a stupid chicken, he was even a fool to know who that little figure was.

"It can't be fake, Chinese don't dare to let the stand-in wear a dragon robe! That is the emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom...... My God, what have we done? What the hell is this war......"

"Tell the Commander what is going on here, we are in trouble! We can't fight down, this will cause global political turmoil!"

Stefansky saw the flag from the Diamond, and without saying a word, his whole body was petrified, and the most incredible thing happened.

Molière...... You...... Do you really want to kill an emperor today......"

Molière put his hand on his forehead and sighed in pain: "Why don't you listen to me? Why don't you listen to me! I have already told you, we can't beat this battleship, and now there is another emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, Your Majesty, we have no chance of winning! Do you really dare to kill the king?"

"Divide the troops immediately, gecko tail is the only option, our advantage is a large number, let Captain Wennia rush to the Taiwan side with the right flank fleet, we will go north directly, see the Zhiyuan chasing that side......"

"Then let our supply ships and troop carriers quickly leave the battlefield after the safe side...... The fleet that was targeted by the Zhiyuan immediately formed a scattered formation, surrounded the Zhiyuan on the left and right, up and down, and engaged in chaotic battles, so that they could take care of one thing and lose the other......"

"Time, all we need to fight for now is time...... Desperately losing a few warships, as long as our main forces can break through, our grand strategy will not fail......"

"Now we must take the initiative to exchange tactical defeat for strategic victory, and small losses for the final big victory!" Captain, don't hesitate......

Stefansky closed his eyes in pain, as a general of a fighting nation, he really didn't want to make such a choice, but is there any other choice now?

Just when he was struggling, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed dramatically, and something even weirder happened!

Note: Okay, the addition of the fifth layer of cake is complete!