Chapter 960: Annihilation
About 100 warships of the European Combined Fleet continued to rush towards the Daming fleet, while another 200 or so European warships fled to the Sifang Sea, hoping to escape the pursuit of the Daming warships.
The battleships of the European Combined Fleet that fled and the European warships that continued to rush towards the Daming fleet were all continued to be bombarded by the Daming steel battleships, and no matter what the warships of the European Combined Fleet did, they could not escape the end of their sinking one after another.
"Boom!" The British flagship, where Duke Peter Burston and Archbishop Spaport were located, was also hit by a 150-millimeter secondary shell, and the hull was shattered into a large hole.
"Boom!" The Dutch flagship, where the commander of the Dutch fleet was located, was also hit by another shell, and this was the second shell to hit the Dutch flagship, and half of the Dutch flagship's hull was shattered!
"Nope! I don't want to see God yet! I don't want to-----" shouted Archbishop Spaport in horror on the British flagship.
Archbishop Spabot had sensed the imminence of death, but he didn't want to die yet!
Boundless fear and despair envelop the Archbishop of Spabot!
Finally, when the number of warships of the European Combined Fleet was only more than 200, the fleets of the two sides collided with each other at zero distance.
"Boom!" A 5,000-ton Ming battleship directly collided with the hull of a European battleship that had been heavily damaged by three shells and was about to sink.
"Ah" A large number of European naval soldiers on the warship were shaken into the sea, and the European warship that had become two parts of the warship also sank as fast as possible.
"Boom!" More and more Daming steel battleships directly hit the hulls of the remaining wooden battleships of the European United Fleet, and even without the bombardment of cannons, the Daming steel battleships can break the hulls of these European wooden battleships and sink them by just impacting!
Terror!
"Boom!" Another shell hit the British flagship, where Duke Peter and Bertton and Archbishop Spaport were.
Under the huge explosion, the hull of the British flagship, carrying Duke Peter Burston, the nominal supreme commander of the European Combined Fleet, and Archbishop Spaport, the representative of the Vatican Pope, instantly tilted, indicating that it was about to sink.
"God!" Archbishop Spaport shouted out in horror and despair.
'It's over! Duke Peter Burston also muttered with a pale and desperate face.
"Boom!" Finally, the British flagship, Duke Peter and Archbishop of Spavid, which was about to sink, was also directly hit by a 5,000-ton Daming steel battleship, and the broken hull disintegrated in an instant.
"Nope! Plop ——-" under the strong tremor, the Archbishop of Spaport was directly shaken into the sea, and the Duke of Peter and Burston also sank into the sea with the broken and disintegrated hull of the battleship.
After the sinking of the British flagship, the Dutch flagship was again hit by a shell and began to sink slowly.
Like the last straw that broke the camel's back, the entire European Combined Fleet collapsed, not a single battleship could still insist on continuing to fight, their will completely collapsed, no matter how experienced the naval commanders and soldiers of various countries were, no matter how loyal and fearless the admirals and soldiers of various countries were, at this moment, they no longer had any will to continue to resist.
Because there is no hope, they don't see any hope! No matter how desperate they try and how hard they try, there will be no hope of defeating this fearful Daming Iron Fleet.
The Daming Iron Battleship was too powerful, so powerful that it crushed all their beliefs, and forcibly imprinted the terrifying cognition that the Daming Battleship could not defeat in their hearts.
Escape! Get out of the sea! Flee to a place where there is no Ming battleship! This is the thought of all the remaining generals and sailors of the European Combined Fleet warships!
The naval battle is already clear at this moment! The huge battleship group of 1,221 of the European Combined Fleet was defeated and fled! The Ming fleet, composed of ninety-six steel warships, began to hunt down the fleeing European Combined Fleet warships!
There were only more than 200 warships of the European Combined Fleet that fled.
Moreover, the battleship of the European Combined Fleet that escaped the farthest was only two thousand meters away, and the nearest one was only twenty or thirty meters away from the Daming battleship.
And the main guns of the Daming battleship have a firing range of more than 7,000 meters, and even the secondary guns with a slightly smaller caliber have a range of more than 4,000 meters.
"Give the order to go down, not one will be left, all of them will be sunk!" Shen Jingchao ordered indifferently.
Long before the naval battle, the Ming court had set a strategy to sink all the invading European Combined Fleet warships and completely play the majesty of the Ming Dynasty.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "One by one, the ships of the European Combined Fleet, which had fled, were sunk.
On the sea, European warships shrouded in fire were slowly sinking.
A European warship that was only a few dozen meters away from the Ming fleet was aimed at the cannon on the three Ming ironclad ships at the same time.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
"----No," the Combined European Fleet soldier on the battleship shouted in fear, but his voice was instantly drowned out by a violent explosion, and more than a dozen shells hit the European Combined Fleet battleship one after another.
In an instant, the entire hull of the UEFA was shattered and sank to the bottom of the sea in an instant, leaving only a large number of broken wooden planks and the stumps and severed arms of the UEFA sailors floating on the surface of the sea.
"Bang! Boom! Boom! "Ninety-six Daming steel warships continued to fire guns, accompanied by the explosion of huge water columns, and European warships in rout were constantly sunk.
Soon, there were less than a hundred warships of the European Combined Fleet that were still on the run.
And the European battleship that escaped the farthest is still within 2,500 meters, and if it goes on like this, let alone escape from the range of the Daming steel battleship, it is difficult to escape from 3,000 meters away, after all, the speed of the Daming steel battleship is much faster.
There was no hope of escape, and boundless despair hung over the hearts of the remaining United European Fleet soldiers.
A number of warships of the European Combined Fleet have stopped their rout and surrendered under the white flag.
However, even if they surrendered, they could not escape the fate of being sunk, because the order of the Ming court was to sink all the invading European Combined Fleet warships, and they did not accept their surrender at all.
Daming is to completely play the national prestige of Daming at the most cruel price.
Soon, as the most important European Combined Fleet battleship was also sunk, the naval battle was less than half an hour, and the 1,221 warships of the invading European Combined Fleet were completely wiped out, and not a single one was left.
Only a large number of broken wooden planks and the corpses of European naval soldiers were still floating on the surface of the sea, as well as a large area of sea water stained red with blood, indicating the tragedy of the naval battle just now.
The sound of the artillery stopped, and so did the smoke on the sea.
The bloody waters, as well as the large number of corpses floating on the surface of the sea, attracted many sharks to start eating the corpses.
The tragic naval battle ended, and the Ming fleet composed of 96 steel warships won the naval battle.
Compared with the total annihilation of the 1,221 huge warship group of the European Combined Fleet, the Daming Iron and Steel Battleship was not damaged, although there were some minor damages, but they were not fatal.
Compared with the two sides, the huge advantage of the steel battleship completely announced the obsolescence of the wooden battleship.
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