1043 Lonely Knight of the Great Ocean
Peru, including Chile, is a country that does not have a well-established industrial base, and all their ironclad warships are purchased from Western shipyards, so you can imagine how those arms profiteers can give them the best goods.
In fact, even if they were given the best warships, these poor countries would not be able to afford them. And the West now has the consciousness of using the money of third countries to test weapons and equipment for itself.
Under the low price is a deep trap, the average thickness of the iron armor is only about three centimeters, at most it can defend against heavy machine gun bullets and solid projectiles in the past, for 210 caliber flowering bullets, this layer of iron is a piece of paper.
People are poor, horses are thin and hairy, poor countries and weak countries can only rely on people to breathe, and the Western powers themselves have eliminated the internal transformation of the wooden warships, covering a layer of ironclad and selling them to these small countries as ironclad ships, and the price is not low.
What? You don't want it? Hehe, that's whatever, you can't even look down on such good British and French goods, so let's have more ambition and make it yourself.
Obviously, not that country can hold back its ambitions, and they can only bow their heads in the face of reality.
In the arms business, the European powers have made real money, and those wooden-hulled warships that will be reequipped sooner or later have a place to go, and more importantly, in this arms transformation, their engineers have been trained and have more experience in the design and production of ironclad ships.
If one or two naval battles break out in these small countries, it will be the happiest thing for Western military strategists, and after the war is over, they will collect all the data on the battlefield for analysis, and adjust their future naval strategy, this kind of thing of using the lives of other countries to test their own armaments is really too cost-effective.
The navies of Chile and Peru are the product of this strategic thinking, and to paraphrase a common saying in Sijiu City, this kind of warship is the "silver gun wax head" that is useless.
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The explosion of the Vascarán immediately alarmed the entire sea, and the troops on land did not know what was happening at sea because of the distance, but the main Peruvian fleet was dumbfounded at the moment.
The smoke and flames from the explosion engulfed the Vascaran by a third, and the screams resounded through the sky, and the sailors covered in fire crackled and fell, and the interior of the battleship was filled with smoke.
The battleship has been scrapped, the commander was directly stabbed to death by broken glass, the continuous flames cannot be saved at all, and it is only a matter of time before the entire battleship is burned.
"Right full rudder...... Ignore the range, fire at me!" the voice of the captain of the Sun trembled, and he couldn't understand what kind of battleship it was.
"There are no flags, and I don't know which country's warship this is? Could it be that the Westerners have directly intervened in this war?
No one can be distracted on the battlefield, just in his tense two battles, the Sun has completed the right full rudder maneuver, and the two 148 caliber main guns on the side are aimed at the steel monster in front of the two cannons.
At this moment, the mysterious battleship that sailed at high speed had rushed to a distance of more than a thousand meters from the Sun, and the accuracy of this kind of close-range shooting was already very high.
Boom...... After two loud bangs, one shell blossomed on the side of the mysterious battleship, while the other hit the port deck of the enemy ship directly.
"Well done! God forbid! First hit! Keep reloading......" There was jubilation on the Sun, but before they could reload the second shell, the lookout was horrified to find that in the smoke of the mysterious battleship's explosion, two long gun barrels had rotated and cut through the black smoke.
Rumble...... With a monotonous bang, the 210-caliber gun accurately hit the sun's broadside waterline at a range of one thousand meters. The entire hull of the Sun shuddered with a huge explosion, and then it poured rapidly at a speed that was visible to everyone, and the iron armor and wooden hull of the waterline were torn open a huge gap with a diameter of two meters, and tons of seawater poured into it.
Two guns, only two guns! The mysterious battleship directly sank two Peruvian ironclad ships, with a total tonnage of 2,200 tons.
The two battleships that were about to sink became flaming torches, and the sailors struggling to survive in the sea swam away in horror with floating objects, and many people could not forget the terrifying scene.
In the billowing black smoke, a huge pale blue ironclad ship, wrapped in an invincible domineering momentum, passed through the wreckage of the two ships unruly.
The huge barrel was as thick as a bucket, and the light and heavy weapons on both sides were too lazy to fire a shot at the sea, and at this moment, the feeling of these Peruvian navy was like the proud knights of the Middle Ages passing through a group of surrendering peasant soldiers, and the pride that came from the bones pierced their hearts.
The deepest impression is the golden bow statue of the bow of the ship, everyone knows what that strange creature like a snake is, the evil dragon, but it has no wings, the legendary sea serpent? The sea snake does not have such a noble temperament at all.
That was the deepest impression left by the mysterious warship in South America, lonely, cold, and proud...... There is also an incomparable domineering.
The commander of the fleet roared and ordered all the battleships to change formation, they were going to besiege this damn ironclad heavy ship, and if they lost again in twenty dozen times, then they all had to be court-martialed.
"Surround it...... Sink him, no matter the cost...... No, no, no, find a way to capture him, we want this ship, my God, what the hell is this? Why don't I have such memories in my intelligence library......"
"Fire...... Don't skimp on ammunition and keep firing!"
On the arrogant battleship in the distance, a young captain had a smile on the corner of his mouth, he put down his binoculars and said with a sneer: "The prime minister once told me that the most refreshing thing in war is to abuse the opponent with the difference in technology and the times!"
"The Zhiyuan has been ahead of European ironclads for at least 20 years, so how many years are you entry-level pseudo-ironclads behind?"
"Huh...... Thank you for providing me with so many mobile target ships!Alright brothers, our feast has begun, and the folks of Iquique are waiting for our support!Signal fireworks to the land and let the friendly forces counterattack immediately!"
"This is the Pacific Ocean, and this will eventually be the inland sea of our Chinese! Now there is no need to disguise, this is not the territory of the British......
"This sea, from now on, we have the final say!"
The first ironclad battleship in Asia, the first main flagship of the Ryukyu Navy, Xiao Lotian provided design drawings, and Prussian engineers finally finalized the production of epoch-making battleships...... Zhiyuan! officially joined the Iquique naval battle sequence!