The sail battleship that appeared on the battlefield was the Jiang Feng, which was crippled as soon as the battle began. Although the foreign trade warship Jiang Feng uses steam as the main power, as a product of the replacement period, Jiang Feng's hull still retains a large number of sail locks.

Jiang Feng, who was killed in the power system as soon as the war started, no matter how anxious he was, he could only watch the excitement from afar. In addition to urgently ordering repairs, Captain Ma Erwei could only jump on the deck and scold the street. Ma Erwei, who was known as a brave man in the army era, watched the Xinyu launch a fearless suicidal charge, watched the Yancao and the Yujie sink one after another, watched the Wuxi and Xiangchen struggle to support, and watched the Shanxiao fight the wolves, he had the heart to row his own boat to catch up. But Jiang Feng is also a big guy of almost 2,000 tons, and rowing is definitely not good, so he can only hope for emergency repairs. But the result brought back by the chief engineer was very bad, Jiang Feng's transmission shafts were deformed, unless he returned to Hong Kong for overhaul, emergency treatment would definitely not be possible, no matter how anxious Ma Erwei was, he could only find another way. Ma Erwei was in a hurry on the deck, and accidentally tripped under his feet, almost falling him.

"What the is this? What about the first mate? How can there be clutter on deck? Ma Erwei, who was already crazy, looked at an unknown object under the mast, and he was even more angry.

"Report, the captain is a sail, because he has not returned to port, and he has temporarily put it here after the last exercise." The first mate is sweating down, Ma Erwei is usually very good, but at this time, no matter how good a person is, it is easy to get angry.

"What the fuck,...... Ay! Raise the sails for Lao Tzu! Ma Erwei is good at scolding two foul words, but he is a serious foreigner, a top student at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Because he was used to the steam engine, he was in a bad mood and irritable just now, so Ma Erwei didn't notice the meaning of the sail, and now that he calmed down a little, he had a way.

Ma Erwei, who came out of the orthodox naval academy, all have experience in manipulating sailboats. Moreover, Guoxinga also inexplicably asked all sailor cadets to master the driving skills of sailboats, so all naval academies have pure sail lock warships to train cadets. In his daily training, Jiang Feng occasionally raised his sails to practice and save some coal by the way. Today the sail was a lifesaver, the boiler steam engine was dead, and the sail lock could also drive the ship up.

"Captain, shall we catch up with the formation?" After regaining momentum, the first mate asked Ma Erwei where to drive.

"Our boat can't be reversed, and if we go up, we will never move forward, so we only have one chance. Catch up with the formation, we only have three cruisers in total, if the Shanxiao can't withstand it, there's no point in us going up. If you want to do it, you can do it big and provide the most powerful support for Shanxiao! The most brilliant thing about the enemy ships is the three ironclad ships, let's get their ironclads if we want to do it. "Ma Erwei is not only brave, in addition to his bravery, he is also famous for his calm and cleverness. After watching the battle for a long time, he naturally knew where the key nodes were.

"We can't gnaw on the armor of the ironclad ship!" The first mate was embarrassed.

In the naval battles of this era, there were serious armor stronger than artillery, and if there were no cutting-edge weapons in Northern Manchuria, the general Iron King Eight would be basically invincible. The United States is still in full swing in the civil war, and the eight pairs of iron kings on the north and south sides have ended up 0-0 all year round. The Jiang Feng is equipped with old-fashioned Armstrong guns, which can't gnaw at other people's armor at all, and no matter how good the Ma Erwei fighter is, it's useless.

"Don't fire the cannon, the mosquito bites the old cow, the egg is useless, what's the use of opening him! Hit Lao Tzu, exchange a life for a life, and sink it for Lao Tzu! Ma Erwei gave up his artillery and chose to strike a decisive blow. He's also depressed! Not to mention the cutting-edge warships of the Sea Wolf and Sea Lion classes, even if there is one of the battleships of the Bohai Fleet here, there is no need to watch the British rampant.

The Ellecourt was so big that it wouldn't be of much use if Jiang Feng hit it, and the Gemini had already begun to sink, so there was no need to hit it again, so Jiang Feng aimed at the Welshman. Ignoring the call of the friendly ship and not afraid of the covering gunfire of the enemy ship, the Jiang Feng rushed to the Welshman, which was fighting fiercely with the Shanxiao. However, after all, the sail is not as good as the steam engine, not only can it not be reversed, but the speed is also greatly affected, and by the time Jiang Feng rushed into the battle formation, the Shanxiao had already begun to sink.

"Captain, the Shanxiao is not good!" The artillery fire of the enemy ship almost washed the deck of the Jiang Feng, that is, God forbid, and no large-caliber shells hit the Jiang Feng's waterline, otherwise Jiang Feng would definitely die before his ambition was paid. Even so, the sailors on the ship were half down, and the grinning first mate had a broken arm.

"Fuck, I'm going to have to pull a cushion to die, hit him for me!" Ma Erwei was also bleeding from his head, and while wiping the blood in front of him, he resolutely gave the order to impact.

"Captain, look!" The first mate held the telescope with one arm, and then he pointed in surprise in the direction where the Shanxiao had sunk.

"Ahh Rush to Lao Tzu! Ma Erwei also looked there, and then let out a hissing roar.

The mast of the Shanxiao is still a little exposed on the sea, holding a person on it, and it is impossible to see in the telescope whether it is Xu Hongxing, the captain of the Shanxiao. This man holding the mast in one hand is struggling to wave a blood-red battle flag, he is not asking for help, the meaning of the battle flag is - bloody battle to the end, to the death!

In Ma Erwei's roar, Jiang Feng crashed headlong into the port side of the Welshman, and the huge British warship was not only knocked open with a huge breach, but also immediately lost control of its direction. No one thought that in the era of steam engine ironclads, ramming tactics could still be effective, so Kent, the captain of the Welshman, who was knocked to pieces, did not give the correct instructions. The Welshman, which lost control, immediately shook off the perpetrator Jiang Feng, who was much smaller than itself, but it crashed into the Alekaut in front of it. Jiang Feng is only 2,000 tons, and it has collided with the 6,000-ton Welshman like this, and if the Welsh hits the Ellecourt, the consequences will be absolutely unimaginable.

Under Gillet's emergency evasion and Kent's hurried reversing order, the two capital ships of the British army finally dodged each other. But Captain Kent's reversing order was too urgent, and when the Welshman reversed at high speed, the sixth-level battleship Slenei behind it couldn't dodge anything, and the two battleships with full horsepower came to a heavy rear-end collision. Just now the Jiang Feng hit the port side, and this time the Slenny hit the starboard side of the Welshman at full speed, and the tonnage of the Slenny was larger, which made the Welshman seriously tilted to starboard. The Slenny was going to slowly retreat and let the Welshman slowly return to normal, but Jiang Feng, who still had a breath left, took the opportunity to launch a close fire on the Slenny, and the sixty-eight-pounder gun directly opened a hole in the bow of the Slenei. The separation of the two ships is a technical job, and it must be done slowly, as soon as Jiang Feng refueled, the Slenny panicked, and the speed of reversing was greatly accelerated. Not only did he give the Welshman a quick in and out, but he also made a big hole in the bow on the right side of the ship, which was already fine.

The British ships in the rear team just wanted to rush up and completely solve the Jiang Feng, which had opened a big hole in the bow and had begun to enter the water, but Arima Erwei had a good start, and Ding Shengping and others were not willing to be lonely. The boiler of the Wuxi resumed operation, and Ding Shengping also raised the red battle flag of "bloody battle to the end, to the death" on the flagship Xiangchen, and the two ships also rushed at high speed and rammed several other British sixth-class warships.

Even the battered Welshman, under the force of its own momentum and the tons of seawater pouring into the breach, began to lean to port again. Kent gave the order to abandon the ship, then tied himself to the mainmast, shouted long live the Queen, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea with the Welshman. Kent didn't do much in the battle, and he was a little panicked after being hit, but he was a qualified British nobleman, and he managed to sink with the ship.

The probability of hitting an enemy ship in the vast sea is not large, but the British formation was first beaten by the Shanxiao and then confused by the Jiang Feng's soul, so the Xiangchen and Wuxi also collided with their targets respectively. They didn't have as much luck as Ma Erwei, and they didn't crash into the soul as soon as they could, but they also severely damaged two sixth-level warships.

The situation was reversed for a while, but the doomed defeat was nothing to be done, and the gunboats behind the British formation began to move forward, besieging the three ships that were also wounded themselves, and the Ellecourt completed the turn and rejoined the battle group. The tonnage of the three cruisers in North Manchuria, together with one piece, is not as large as the Eilecourt, not to mention that the distance is so close, Ding Shengping, Ma Erwei and others are all ready to be martyred. The huge guns of the Ellecourt had just been aimed at the three ships under its nose, but there was a violent explosion on its own bridge, and two 158-millimeter shells and one 127-millimeter shell hit the Elecourt almost simultaneously. The two gunboats on the outside of the British formation were also hit by a 127-millimeter shell, and the gunboats, which had no armor tonnage and were small, were immediately sunk.

The Cuiliu in Dalian Port has always been in a state of combat readiness, but because Ding Shengping did not open his mouth, and Guo Xing'a did not want to expose his cutting-edge warship too early, the Cuiliu did not enter the battle for a long time. The open sea was turned upside down, and there were already passing merchant ships that sent the news back to the port, and the Cuiliu could no longer hold it at this time, so it immediately pulled anchor and left the port, preparing to support Ding Shengping's left-behind fleet. Hu Chaoxiu also didn't expect that Ding Shengping would fight so badly and the remaining fleet would suffer such heavy losses.

The Ellecourt had already been badly wounded by the Shanxiao, and now that there was another ironclad ship with strong firepower in North Manchuria, the situation would become unfavorable to the British if it continued to fight. Half of the Lushun fleet has been killed, and the remaining half is basically half disabled, and the task of annihilating the Lushun fleet has been accomplished, and Gilette doesn't want to fight any more crookedly. After all, only ironclads can deal with ironclads, and now that the Welshman and Gemini are all finished, and the Ellecourt is seriously injured, the wooden battleships of the British army will definitely not be able to bargain with the ironclads of North Manchuria, so it is better to get out as soon as possible. Seeing the situation clearly, Gillet decisively gave the order to retreat, and the British ships began to adjust their course and withdraw from the area of battle.

The Cuiliu did not chase after it, not because it was afraid of revealing its strength, but because there were more important things to do. The sea is now full of people, and there are still many sailors floating in the water on the sunken warships, and the Cuiliu has to rescue the seriously injured Jiang Feng, Xiangchen, and Wuxi three ships, and has to send lifeboats to go down to retrieve people, where there is time to chase Gillet.

Both the Welshman and the Gemini abandoned the ship on their own initiative, so most British troops could sit comfortably in lifeboats and then run away with the fleet. Several warships in North Manchu were all fighting to the last moment, so the surviving people could only float on the sea with the broken wood of the ship, and if it wasn't for the Cuiliu in time, most of them would have drowned in the sea. Of course, there are also a few unlucky British people who fall overboard, and they are surrounded by kind yellow people, and from time to time someone with good water will swim over and try to continue the fight in the water. After a lot of hard work, they finally survived the arrival of the lifeboat, and then they met the more amiable Chinese, who would stretch out a strong hand from the boat and end the wandering suffering of the British with the pistol in their hand. The British provoked the war, which led to the sinking of four battleships of the Lushun Fleet in North Manchuria, with untold casualties, and the soldiers, of course, had nothing to say to the British. The battle was over, everyone's hearts were heavy, and Ding Shengping was even crying on the deck of the Xiangchen.

The Far Eastern Fleet basically annihilated the remaining fleet of Arthur at the cost of two fifth-class battleships, the Welshman, Gemini, a sixth-class battleship, the sinking of two gunboats, and the serious damage to the large ironclad battleship Ellecourt, two sixth-class battleships, and three gunboats. The battle was indeed not very good, and the North Manchurian Navy was able to harden the main fleet of the United States, and it did have its own set of moves. But Gilette also had a huge catch, and the eighty-eight-millimeter dud bullet stuck in the hold of the Ellecourt was the treasure that Gillet had obtained.

In addition to weakening the strength of Northern Manchuria, an important purpose of Britain's war against Manchuria was to obtain military secrets of Northern Manchuria. If this dud can be studied well, the British Empire will be able to obtain the secrets of the powerful shells of North Manchuria, and the various fields involved in it are of great significance. Unfortunately, when Gilette organized weapons experts to go to the Ellecourt to study the dud, a very unfortunate accident occurred, and the dud bomb actually exploded, not only all the weapons experts were killed, but Gillett was also blown off his right leg. Shells could never avoid the problem of dumb fire, and in order to avoid accidents, North Manchuria installed a set of alarm-like timers* on large cannonballs, and Gillet was just in time for the clockwork to run out.

However, what Gilette encountered was only a small explosion, and the real big explosion was in the general Xingyuan of Changchun, looking at the report of the Battle of Dalian, Guoxinga was completely blown up.