If it weren't for the battle, even if something went wrong with this patch and the sea water poured in, it wouldn't be too much of a problem. Because at that time, the ship's damage management personnel were watching here twenty-four hours a day. As soon as there is a problem in this place, everyone will immediately take action and close the waterproof compartment, the ship may cause some minor problems due to the flooding of one compartment, but there will never be a major problem.

But at this time, the situation was different, there were many fires on the "Queen Elizabeth", damage management personnel were needed everywhere, and the continuous shelling also caused heavy losses to the damage management personnel themselves, so when the sea water poured in, the damage management personnel did not respond immediately. By the time they found out about the problem, the amount of water had gone into the water. Although they urgently closed some of the compartments (in the process, some sailors who did not have time to escape were also locked directly inside. These closed compartments will soon be filled with seawater, and the sailors trapped in them will have no choice but to die), but the large amount of water still caused the "Queen Elizabeth" to start to roll significantly.

If the angle of roll exceeds a certain level, the cannons on the "Queen Elizabeth", especially the 10-inch main gun, will be unusable. So, the British had to resort to some means to correct the roll of the deck.

Generally speaking, one of the most common and quickest ways to correct deck roll is to fill the watertight compartment on the opposite side to restore balance.

The British did the same, so the deck of the "Queen Elizabeth" gradually returned to level, and the 5-inch secondary guns on the warship also returned fire on the French armored cruisers.

Compared with the French armored cruisers, the "Queen Elizabeth" is much more stable as a platform, so its secondary guns are naturally more accurate. But even a secondary gun. Their rate of fire was also clearly too slow compared to the cannons of the French. Completely not enough to suppress the armored cruisers of the French.

On the other hand, the speed of the Queen Elizabeth was further reduced due to the effects of passive water intake and active water intake in order to restore balance. Now her speed has dropped to about eight knots. However, the distance between her and the Imperator has been narrowed even closer.

"How far are the enemy ships from us now?" Ignoring the approaching flames, General Nelson asked very calmly.

"About 1,700 meters or so." A staff officer replied.

"And a little closer, to 1,500 meters, let the main guns fire at the enemy ship." Nelson said calmly, as if the warship he was on wasn't burning.

The distance between the two sides continued to close, more 150 shells fell on the "Queen Elizabeth", and now the distance is much closer, and the efficiency of enemy shelling has increased significantly.

Fortunately, the ammunition depot of the "Queen Elizabeth" has special reinforced armor, and at least for now, there has been no breakdown of the ammunition depot. But by this time, the second detachment of the French had also been killed from behind. They, led by two supercruisers, were firing at the armored cruisers of the British from behind.

Because of their obvious disadvantage in numbers and firepower, the British cruisers were mostly suppressed, although they were doing their duty for England, as General Nelson had requested when he raised the Z-flag. But the huge gap in strength cannot be changed by spiritual strength alone. Although they also damaged a few French warships, the French obviously had a greater victory - almost all of the British armored cruisers were burned under French fire.

This result is very normal, in fact, as long as the number and firepower of the two sides are turned into a moment, and the battle equation of someone's cottage is calculated, you know that in this battle, the performance of the British is actually very good.

And after several rounds of shelling, the "Queen Elizabeth" finally approached a distance of about 1,500 meters from the "Imperatoraldo".

And at this time, the command platform of the "Queen Elizabeth" had just been passed through by a 150 shell. The shell pierced through and did not explode, but it still caused considerable casualties, and Nelson's lieutenant was hit by a piece of iron torn by the shell, and fell to the ground unconscious; Nelson was also struck in the chest by a piece of flying glass. He may have had some injuries to his lungs and blood from his nose and mouth, but he was able to stand on the handrails.

"Prepare the front main gun! Aim for Enemy Ship No. 1 and ......" Nelson shouted into the microphone, but at the end of his shout, he coughed violently, foaming blood coming out of his mouth and nose.

"Fire!" Captain Hardy, who was also wounded, got up from the ground and shouted the order.

The front main guns opened fire on the battleship "Imperator", which was just over a thousand meters away. As two fireballs emerged from the run, two shells fired straight at the Imperador.

One of these two shells grazed the bridge of the "Imperator", and if this shell had been more accurate, it might have wiped out Admiral Trevill and his staff.

Another shell hit the bow of the "Imperator".

With a loud bang, most of the bow of the "Imperatora" was blown off, so that the waves could pour directly into it.

Having lost the bow, the speed of the "Imperator" immediately decreased, and the stability of the ship was noticeably weakened because of the upper waves. However, in general, although this shell broke the "Imperator" phase, it did not paralyze the "Imperator".

It's just that the main guns of the British warships are reloading too slowly, and they are facing the enemy at the bow at this time, unless everyone has crossed over, their rear main guns will not be able to shoot.

However, considering the speed of the main gun reload, to be honest, the front main gun may not be able to complete the reload when everyone staggers over. Originally, Nelson could have used a better steering to see if he could turn the tail gun out of an angle, but now that the ship was badly damaged, it was difficult to complete such a turn.

"Pressurized and strongly ventilated, we crashed and sank the British Belardo!" Nelson finally stopped coughing, and he tried to keep himself from falling, and looked at the battleship "Imperator", which had lost its speed and became more clumsy because of the loss of its bow, and gave such an order.