Volume VIII 1242 Leaving the Battlefield

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What are the Russians waiting for if they don't flee? Now the problems encountered by Stefansky and others are not only the Zhiyuan and the artillery along the coast, but the greater threat comes from underwater, that is, the mouth of the Minjiang River, which is full of reefs.

Just as the St. Peter led many warships to return fire on the coastal mountains, Molière suddenly felt an abnormal tremor of the hull under his feet, and a slight abnormal noise.

Just when Molière thought it was his hallucinations and delusions, a soldier suddenly rushed up from below deck and shouted, "There is a foreign object on the bottom of the ship, we have scraped the bottom of the ship......"

The soldiers looked out from the railing, but fortunately there was no marine pollution at that time, and the water was so clear that people could find the reef hidden underwater.

"Commander...... We're in the reef area, we can't go any further, we have to steer the right full rudder to avoid it!"

Stefansky's mind turned to understand the crux of the problem, the St. Peter is the main flagship, the largest tonnage and the deepest draft, other shallow draft warships have not yet rubbed against the submarine reef, but the St. Peter has already had an accident of scraping the bottom of the ship.

The iron armor of the wooden-hulled battleship did not reach the bottom of the ship, and God knows what will happen if you go any further!

At this time, Stefansky really wanted to give himself two slaps, why do you have to sail close to the coastline, what am I afraid of? What do I have to be afraid of!

"Right full rudder!, the principle is offshore, rushing directly from the northeast......," the commander squinted at Molière, and sighed long, "just do as you say!" I admit that I misjudged, and I should have listened to your ...... just now."

Molière didn't have the time to taunt the commander, he nervously judged the situation and quickly gave the order to retreat: "The diamond is only slightly injured, it should be able to hold on, let General Wenya lead the right flank battleship to continue to entangle the Zhiyuan......"

"After all, Emperor Tongzhi and Xiao Letian are on that ship, they can't fight bayonets at sea forever, the adventure just now is actually to provide a chance for the ambush soldiers on the shore to open fire......"

"Now the ambush has appeared, and they have also forced us into shallow water, they want us to run into the reef and sink! This is really a vicious strategy, worthy of a generation of heroes!"

"We can't hesitate any longer, the tide will fall in a few hours, and if we don't go now, we won't be able to go, I'm afraid even the frigate will have to hit the rocks!"

"If you are a hero, you have to have the courage to break your wrist! Let General Vinya be ready to dedicate himself to the empire! Let him lead his fleet to entangle the Zhiyuan and force the ...... to the east as much as possible."

"If you really can't do it, you will crash into it! Jump ship to fight! I don't believe that they don't care about the safety of the emperor and the prime minister!"

Molière looked back at the supply fleet and troop carriers in the distance, "Let them follow us closely, no matter what provocations the enemy encounters, do not return fire, and rush over as fast as possible......"

Take a deep breath, take a deep breath again! Molière slammed his fist on the railing: "There is salvation! We can still be saved! As long as we speed up, I estimate that our losses can be controlled within 25 percent! Our vitality is not seriously damaged at all!"

The melancholy Vinya received the latest order, he did not resent, he knew that the situation in front of him was only one way to go. He began to give frequent orders to the right flank fleet, and the military formations of the original linear division began to disperse, gradually turning into an inverted bowl to suppress the Zhiyuan to the south.

The distance between the Russian warships was widened, and all the artillery was concentrated on the Zhiyuan, no matter how high the hit rate was, and whether there was any damage effect, anyway, the movement was not small.

From beginning to end, Lin Zhen was suppressing the firing speed of the main gun, the purpose of this naval battle was not to completely annihilate the enemy but to deliberately expose the location of the Zhiyuan, so as to dispel the concerns of the Russian army, and only in this way could they rest assured that they could boldly drill to the Golden Island, where is the main battlefield to bury the enemy.

"It's not happy, it's so unhappy! When will I be able to let go of my hands and feet? I'm so anxious...... Open fire and sink that frigate at nine o'clock!"

Rumble...... With a loud bang, the blast swept through the bow of the ship, and the high-explosive shell hit the waterline of the Russian frigate, and the huge explosion shredded the iron armor and the wooden hull inside, and the boiling sea water poured in, and the battleship's hull began to capsize.

"Damn! Lin Zhen, what are you doing so accurately? We must delay time, we must delay time as much as possible......" Xiang Ying scolded all the time, and the angry Lin Zhen really wanted to drop his sleeves and go back to the cabin to sleep.

The slowly sinking battleship shocked the arrogance of the enemy, and the enemy ships that pressed the Zhiyuan subconsciously distanced themselves, for fear that they would be the next victims.

The battle was no longer fierce, the Russians did not dare to approach too much, and the Zhiyuan did not want to close step by step, and the battlefield fell into a stalemate.

The battleships fired a shot at an interval of ten minutes from each other, and then they were vigilant against each other and slowly retreated in a southeasterly direction. Now only the new soldiers of the Royal Forest on Yanshan and Gujiao Mountain are still in high spirits, blowing up the St. Peter, and then bombing those supply ships and troop carriers.

The rumbling cannon frightened the Russian supply ships desperately turned to the east, they no longer dared to approach the Chinese coastline, and they could run as far as they could at this moment.

The Russian army on the troop carrier had gone completely crazy, "Idiot, bastard, all rubbish! The navy is all rubbish...... and there were angry shouts everywhere, and they could not have imagined that the mighty expeditionary force would suffer such a big loss.

In the more than three hours of skirmishing, six battleships were wounded, two of which were sunk, and only one battleship, a Chinese warship, caused this qiē.

"These incompetent navies should be sent to the gallows! Why should the great Tsar waste gold on these wastes! They should all give us the army, we are the first strong army of His Majesty the Tsar!"

"Damn, this war will depend on us in the end! You Qing slaves, you yellow-skinned monkeys...... Wait and see, you're waiting for us to clean you up!"

Boom Boom Boom ...... The shells exploded in the sea, and the waves splashed on the heads and faces of those who cursed.

The naval battle at the mouth of the Minjiang River began at about 9 o'clock in the morning and ended three hours later, and by about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, there was no shadow of warships on the battlefield, and the main fleet of the Russian army broke through from the northeast with supply ships and troop carriers and entered the deep sea area.

And the Zhiyuan, under the entanglement of General Wennia, is gradually moving to the southeast, and it is no longer visible at this moment.

Only the dead bodies and wreckage on the sea testified to the great battle that had just begun, the smell of gunsmoke in the air had not yet dissipated, and the frightened seabirds in the sky were constantly circling and chirping.

Deng Shichang looked at the sea level where the battleship disappeared in the distance, and listened to the cheers on Gujiao Mountain, he clenched his fists and vowed: "A good man should be like this! A good man should be like this! I must command such a warship in my life, otherwise I will not be blind to death!"

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