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But because the battleships were crowded together, only a dozen of the battleships besieged by forty ironclad ships fought back at an angle. More warships are in the inner circle, and if you fire outwards, you will only hit your own warships.

So the war on the sea turned into a situation in which more than forty ironclad ships bombarded sixteen battleships around the periphery of the Europeans in a semicircle.

This is a completely asymmetrical war.

The deafening sound of shelling was so incessant that no other sound could be heard. Cannonballs whizzed over the sea, and most of them landed in the water, creating huge columns of water on the surface. Sometimes hundreds of jets of water can be blown up around a single boat, large and small, making the nearby sea look like it is boiling.

Some spherical shells hit the ironclad or steel armor of the ironclad ship, making a loud crashing sound. Most of these spherical shells were bounced off by the steel armor, leaving only a few dents in the armor. Only a very small number of heavy shells were able to penetrate the armor of the ironclad, knocking out countless sawdust flying and causing substantial damage to the ironclad.

However, the number of more than 300 side guns of the sixteen battleships was not large, and the damage caused by the ironclad ships was very limited.

And the situation on the battleships of the Europeans was much more tragic.

Six hundred rifled guns bombarded the battleship. Although most of the shells on Li Zhi's side also missed, every time a flowering projectile was fired into the battleship, it set off a huge explosion that destroyed the battleship. The personnel in the battleship were like targets aimed at by hunters, and they were blown up into a blur of flesh and blood by the flowering shells fired one after another, and they were not humanoid.

Not only were the personnel on the fully open deck killed, but even the various decks and compartments inside the battleship were blown to pieces. There were large holes everywhere, and even some of the thinner planks were burning in the flames of the explosion.

One battleship after another was beaten out of combat and burst into flames. If the flames spread to the powder magazine, the entire battleship would be blown to pieces.

The ship's sailors frantically jumped into the water, trying to avoid the ship's annihilation.

If you look at the battlefield from a high vantage point in the sky, you will see a picture of smaller ironclads ravaging more than thirty huge battleships.

Adalbert stood aboard the Swordfish, his face flushed. He said to Gascoigne: "Your Excellency, noble Captain of the British fleet, we have no chance! Fleeing is death, and fighting hard is also death. Now I can only rush up to the broadside battle and fight to the death with the enemy! ”

Adelbert led a coalition fleet far more powerful than Li Zhi to blockade Osaka, but the situation turned out to be like this, and he had lost his mind a little.

Gascoin said with a sad face: "Li Zhi's ironclad ship is slower than us, how can we rush up?" ”

Adalbert roared, "Your Excellency, as a noble Baron of Britain, are you ready to surrender to people of color? What about the British sense of honor? ”

"No matter what the British do, we Dutch will not surrender to colored people!"

Gascoigne was so scolded by Adalbert that he couldn't speak, and his mouth opened to stammer.

He turned to look at the sparks that kept exploding from the battleships on the periphery, and his body couldn't help but tremble.

Adalbert shouted loudly, and the flag commander hung the flag, ordering the entire fleet to charge the ironclad! He then gave orders to the helmsman and sailmen of the Swordfish, and ordered the 1,500-ton ship to sail among the other warships and sail to the periphery.

Turning left and right, the Swordfish led the battleships that followed behind from the inside to the outside of the fire, and rushed towards the 700-meter ironclad ship.

Lu Hu stood on the Tianjin and watched in amazement as the Dutchman's flagship rushed over.

"What do the Dutch want to do? Our ship is obviously faster than them. Did they think they could rush up and take on the broadside? ”

Shi Dingping thought for a while, and arched his hand and said: "I'm afraid that the Dutch have lost their sense of proportion by us, this is a death struggle, and they want to fight with us to the death." ”

Lu Hu touched his chin and thought for a while.

"Concentrate your firepower to sink the red-haired flagship!"

The flag was hung up, and as soon as the Swordfish rushed to the periphery of the battle line, it was attacked by more than a dozen ironclad ships.

Armor-piercing shells rained down on the Swordfish, and in the blink of an eye, five or six flowering shells exploded in the Swordfish's hold. The screams were like the sound of pigs slaughtering in a slaughterhouse, resounding in front of the ship. The whole battleship began to shake violently on the surface of the sea, as if it was about to be blown apart by a flowering bomb at any moment.

Fortunately, as a third-class battleship, the Swordfish has a very strong hull structure, and it can barely withstand the damage of the flowering bullet.

Gascoigne knelt on the deck with a puff, took Adalbert's arm and said, "Commander Dutch!" Raise the flag and surrender, we can't win! ”

Adelbert glared at Gascoigne, shook off his hand, and roared, "Only cowards surrender to the yellows!" ”

Gascoigne wept and said: "We came to colonize the Far East, not to die!" ”

Adalbert roared: "Only by summoning the firmest will of our Caucasian people can we truly conquer this Ming with a population of 100 million!" ”

A cone-shaped flowering bullet suddenly came from the east and crashed headlong into the waterline hull of the Swordfish.

Adalbert suddenly stopped roaring, staring wide-eyed at the armor-piercing bullet that had broken through the shell.

If Adalbert remembers correctly, that location was a powder magazine.

The battleship's powder magazine was hidden in the lower deck of the guns. There is also a thick layer of wood on the outside of the powder magazine, which prevents the solid bullets from hitting the powder magazine directly.

However, the penetration of the conical steel core bullet is simply outstanding. After penetrating the hull near the waterline, the conical projectile broke through the partition of the powder magazine and plunged headlong into dozens of barrels of black powder.

A loud bang was heard, and the flowering bullet ignited all the gunpowder in the bilge of the Swordfish. Huge flames and shockwaves burst out like fireworks, engulfing the entire battleship in an instant. Half of the battlefield was illuminated by the light of this huge explosion, making it impossible to look at it directly.

The shockwave shattered the top deck in an instant, and Adalbert didn't have time to let out a scream before he was swallowed up by the wave of air.

It is no longer visible to the naked eye what Adelbert has become, but under the impact of such a wave of air, the explosion of his body is obviously the only ending.

Gascoigne was also hit, but he was standing a little off, and instead of being blown to pieces by the air wave, he was blown up and directly shocked into the air a few meters high, and fell into the sea with a pop.

When Lu Hu saw the Swordfish explode, he only felt that his eyes were sparkling, so he quickly twisted his head away. When he turned his head to look back, he found that the Dutchman's flagship had been blown in two without any suspense. In fact, the middle of the battleship, more than 20 meters long, did not exist in the hull, only the charred bow and stern burned on the surface of the sea, sinking to the bottom of the sea little by little.

The sea was littered with charred sailor corpses, white bubbles mixed with red blood, spreading around in the undulating waves.

The Europeans on the other battleships watched in amazement at the demise of the flagship.

Finally, they ended their senseless resistance and raised the white flags one by one.