After the Thunderbolt was hit by a bullet and caught fire, its captain Gunellore played a clever trick, he saw that the fire was not too harmful to cause great damage, so he asked the damage management team to slow down the firefighting, and at the same time asked the herald to send the flagship with the signal "This ship is dangerous", so he sailed the Thunderbolt away from WwWlā regardless of whether the flagship gave any instructions or not

Seeing this, Hu Zhen did not order the ships to use artillery fire to pursue the Thunderbolt, but shifted their artillery fire to other Hubei warships.

Receiving Stark's flag order, the warships of the Hubei army desperately opened fire and bombarded the Chang'an. Although the Hubei army lacked the advanced artillery command instrument of the Huaxia Army, and the effective range of the main guns was extremely limited, the Hubei army had a large number of guns, and there were still individual shells that could threaten the Chang'an.

When Hu Zhen was observing outside the command tower, he suddenly felt a flash of white light in front of him, followed by an earth-shattering shock, he fell violently on the deck floor, and the whirring flames came in from the window, and several officers had no time to dodge, and their uniforms and beards were burned by the fire.

This is a 305 mm caliber shell from the Sevastopol, which was originally a blind shell, but it miraculously hit the command tower of the Chang'an.

From the outside, the explosion of this shell caused a huge flame in the command tower of the Chang'an, and it did not dissipate after a while.

Seeing that the command tower of the flagship of the Huaxia Army was shot and caught fire, the low morale of the Pacific Fleet immediately rose, and the officers and men who had the idea of fleeing the battlefield again had the courage to continue fighting.

On the side of the Huaxia Army, this made the officers and soldiers of the entire Huaxia Army fleet worry about it: That is the place where the emperor of the Huaxia Empire is located, if there is anything missing, what can I do?

Many people screamed on the spot: "Your Majesty ......"

There was also an exclamation on the radio channel: "Your Majesty ......"

Some people even thought to themselves: It's over......

"Your Majesty!"

In the strong firelight, people were temporarily blind, but several guards around Hu Zhen who were responsible for protecting were taken aback, and desperately groped to Hu Zhen's side.

At this time, several battleships of the Huaxia Army did not receive Hu Zhen's shelling data, so they angrily vented everything to the Hubei battleship opposite, used the rangefinder on the ship to measure the data, and used all the large and small guns on the ship to carry out a fierce artillery bombardment of the Hubei army.

Zheng Dingbang, Yang Yonglin and others, who had not yet arrived at the range of the shelling, saw that the flagship command tower was shot, and hurriedly used radio contact, but they could not contact the Chang'an, and even saw that the flag of the Chang'an fell on fire, and everyone's eyes were almost about to erupt fire.

"Accelerate, accelerate, go full throttle, shell enemy ships, protect the emperor!" Zheng Dingbang roared loudly, and asked the New York under his seat to break away from the column and rush to the battlefield at the highest speed of 21 knots.

The Brooklyn in the back also rushed to the battlefield at a top speed of 19 knots.

The Dingyuan under Yang Yonglin's seat originally had a maximum speed of less than 15 knots, and after the transformation of the Huaxia Army, the speed was only 16 knots.

In this desperate gallop, the New York took the lead in rushing to a distance of about 10,000 meters from the Pacific Fleet, which was already within the effective range of the Huaxia Army's 210-mm main gun.

The New York just collided with the Victory, which was running in this direction, and Zheng Dingbang did not hesitate to order the main gun to open fire.

However, the first round of shelling by the eight main guns on the New York all failed, and Zheng Dingbang ordered a second round of shelling to be organized immediately and accelerated towards the Victory.

Hu Zhen used a supercomputer system to design the 210 mm main gun with a rate of fire that could reach once in 30 seconds, which was the fastest rate of fire among the main guns of the world, and the Huaxia Army at this moment actually played an excellent rate of fire once every 27 seconds in a hurry.

After three rounds of shelling in a row, when the New York was approaching a distance of more than 8,000 meters, a shell finally hit the Victory, which was already dying.

In the next few rounds of shelling, the New York used a rangefinder to bombard the Victory, splashing more than a dozen 210-mm shells on the Victory, causing the Victory's unextinguished fire to burn again, and the speed dropped to less than 10 knots.

The USS Brooklyn, the USS Dingyuan, the USS Zhenyuan, and a large group of cruisers and destroyers also followed, spraying overwhelming artillery fire at the Hubei warships in front of them.

The Hubei army was immediately caught in the front and rear.

Still in the commander tower, Hu Zhen felt that his internal organs were shocked and flew out, his whole body was in pain, his ear piercings were buzzing, and he couldn't hear a single sound from the outside world for a long time. And the tower was filled with gunsmoke, and nothing could be seen clearly.

"If there is pain, it means that it is fine!" Thinking of this, Hu Zhen hurriedly stretched out his hand and groped around his body for a while, but did not find any external injuries, so he pushed away the many arms that stretched out to support, stood up strongly, and said to the crowd of people who rushed over to protect his body: "I'm fine, you all go back to your posts!" ”

It turned out that the command tower of the Chang'an not only hung sandbags to prevent artillery bombardment in wartime according to the conventional method, but also hung the unique equipment of this era - reactive armor!

This shell hit the command tower, just blocked by the reactive armor, the reactive armor was immediately blown to pieces, and the force of the explosion was all unloaded, so that the command tower was safe and sound, but the flames of the explosion burned into the tower through the porthole, and several officers were injured by the huge air vibration of the explosion, bleeding from their mouths and noses, and most of the signal flag of the Chang'an was burned, and even the flag marking the emperor also fell.

However, Hu Zhen fell down during the explosion and did push-ups with his hands and feet, and was not injured, except that it took a while for his hearing to recover and his clothes were burned and blackened.

But the explosion of this 305-mm shell was not trivial after all, the radio communication in the command tower of the Chang'an was interrupted for some reason, and even the communication channel between Hu Zhen and the nuclear submarine did not react.

In order to restore communication and communication, the personnel in the tower were busy, and Hu Zhen also hurriedly took out the backup communicator to get in touch with the nuclear submarine.

After seven or eight minutes of busyness, the flag marking the emperor's safety was hoisted, the radio fault of the command tower was eliminated, and Hu Zhen regained contact with the nuclear submarine.

However, the soldiers in the battle were still worried about the emperor's safety, Hu Zhen understood that this was the most important impact on morale, he grabbed the radio communication microphone, cleared his throat and said: "The enemy on this earth can hurt me The cannonball has not yet been made, I am fine, all the soldiers concentrate on killing the enemy!" ”

Hearing Hu Zhen's voice coming out of the broadcasting system clearly, the soldiers were boiling: "Long live the emperor!" Hooray! ”

When Hu Zhen began to command the main guns of the four battleships in a unified artillery attack with a data link, Stark knew that the Pacific Fleet was bound to fail, but he was unwilling to be destroyed.

It's just that the continuous shelling of the flagship of the Huaxia Army from seven or eight thousand meters away can't have the god-level luck of the Sevastopol hitting the command tower of the Chang'an with one shot just now. (To be continued.) )