After Hu Zhen was in distress, all the warships of the Huaxia Army charged frantically, even the small destroyers and torpedo boats that could only watch the brawls of the large warships were dispatched, and bravely rushed to the Hubei warships to fire torpedoes and small-caliber artillery.

After the large-scale charge of the Huaxia warship group, the Hubei warships were shot one after another, caught fire and sank.

First of all, four old gunboats of the Hubei army with a speed of only fourteen or fifteen knots were surrounded and beaten to death, and then six destroyers with a speed of more than 20 knots were intimately embraced by the swarm of shells and sent into the abyss of death.

At first, the cruisers Parada, Diana, and Thunderbolt boasted of their large tonnage and fierce firepower, and flaunted their might against the cruisers and destroyers of the Huaxia Army, which were smaller than their own tonnage.

However, the Chinese warships had a large number of warships, a fast rate of fire, and accurate shooting, and once a cruiser with a wounded cannon retreated, a cruiser rushed forward to fill the position, and used a rangefinder with a 155-mm main gun to carry out precise artillery bombardment, which made the Hubei army frightened.

The Parada, Diana, and Thunderbolt were bruised, and the hull was on fire, and the speed was getting slower and slower.

One after another, the destroyers of the Huaxia Army bravely rushed up and fired torpedoes at the Hubei warships, forcing them to rush around in order to avoid torpedoes.

The cruiser Thunderbolt, which had a displacement of 10 tons, was the largest tonnage warship in the Pacific Fleet of the Hubei Army; after being hit by a 305-mm shell and then dozens of 155-mm shells, its speed dropped from the highest 19 knots to 15 knots, and it became big and stupid.

At this moment three torpedoes came at a rapid pace, and the Thunderbolt quickly dodged, but only two of them were dodged, and the other passed by the stern of the ship, crashing into the steering gear and exploding, blowing it up.

Although the Thunderbolt did not sink because of this torpedo, it had no steering gear and could not turn and maneuver, but could only move straight forward.

Sensing this situation, the Huaxia Army caught up one after another, concentrating artillery fire on the weak back of the Thunderbolt.

The captain of the Thunderbolt, Colonel Gunelore, was a very shrewd man, and at this moment, he knew that with the Thunderbolt only having a speed of fifteen knots, it could not turn a corner and change course, and in front of the cruiser of the Huaxia Army with a speed of 23 knots, it would be like a fat duck at sea being pursued by a group of piranhas, and sooner or later it would be eaten alive by a school of piranhas.

So, Colonel Gunellol ordered: "Children, if we continue to fight or escape, it will mean nothing to us or to the Oros Empire, but it is very meaningful for our families to live, so let's lay down our arms and surrender!" ”

The remnants of the Hubei officers and soldiers on the Thunderbolt had already been dizzy by the accurate artillery fire of the Huaxia Army, and they were dizzy when they heard the captain say that they would surrender, anyway, they would not be responsible when the tsar held them accountable in the future, and they would surrender if they fell, so no one objected, and under the command of Gunelore, several white flags were hung out to express surrender, and the steam engine engine was stopped and stopped in place, waiting for the Huaxia Army to come up and receive it.

Geng Huoyan was overjoyed when he saw this, and immediately ordered the bombardment of the Thunderbolt to be stopped, and sent soldiers armed with rifles, pistols, and other weapons to take a small boat to accept the surrender of the Thunderbolt.

The battleship Shengli of the Hubei army was first bombarded with ten 305-mm shells by the four battleships of Changzi commanded by Hu Zhen, and then dozens of large and small shells were poured by the battleships commanded by Zheng Dingbang and Yang Yonglin, and hundreds of shells were already hit, and even the captain was killed.

Everyone thought that the seriously wounded Victory would surely sink, and Zheng Dingbang was worried about the safety of the emperor's ship, so he gave up continuing to shell the Victory, and hurried to attack the main force of the Pacific Fleet with the battleship Changzi.

But the Victory was like an unbeatable little strongman, miraculously unsinkable, stiff and crawling at a speed of less than 8 knots on the sea.

Seeing that the Thunderbolt surrendered and was protected from shelling, the remnants of the Victory had an example and quickly stopped shelling the Huaxia Army and raised the white flag of surrender, but as soon as the white flag was erected, it was burned by the fire on the ship.

Fortunately, the warships on the side of the Huaxia Army did not faint, and many people saw the white flag that had just been erected and was burned, and immediately stopped shelling.

However, the raging fire on the Victory made the ships of the Huaxia Army hesitate again and again, and they did not dare to go up directly to accept the surrender, and the Hubei personnel on the Victory had to start abandoning the ship to escape.

One by one, the Hubei troops rushed to the side of the ship with the flames all over their bodies, and jumped directly into the sea as if performing acrobatics.

Geng Huoyan hesitated for a while, but decided to take a little risk to take the Victory, so he commanded the cruiser and destroyer to rush forward against the blazing flames of the Victory, and sprayed high-pressure water dragons at it to extinguish the fire.

While everyone was working hard, the Victory suddenly exploded violently, which frightened the cruisers and destroyers of the Huaxia Army to quickly withdraw two or three kilometers away.

But just when everyone thought that the dilapidated Victory was about to sink into the sea, after an explosion, the flames became much smaller.

It turned out that this sudden explosion, although it damaged a lot of equipment on the ship and brought the Victory to a complete halt, also blew up some of the raging fires, making the fire much smaller.

"Haha, I'm Geng Huoyan's five fires, just to burn the enemy, but not to burn the loot!" Geng Huoyan observed carefully for a while, found nothing abnormal, couldn't help laughing, and ordered: "All ships continue to go up in turns, spray high-pressure water dragons, extinguish the fire, and recover our loot!" ”

At the time of the surrender of the Thunderbolt and the Victory, all the old gunboats and destroyers of the Pacific Fleet had been sunk, and the cruisers Parada and Diana happened to be stopped by the battleships Dingyuan and Zhenyuan commanded by Yang Yonglin on the way to the main battleships.

Most of the sailors and crews on the Zhenyuan and Dingyuan are the personnel of the original Beiyang Fleet, and at this moment, they have been reborn from personnel to battleships.

The original 305 mm caliber 25 times diameter barrel main guns of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were replaced with 210 mm caliber 42 times diameter barrel main guns with a rate of fire of 30 seconds because the rate of fire was only one shell in five minutes, and the projection output firepower was greatly improved.

More importantly, in the Huaxia Army, in the past few months, the intensity of training can be completely described by the word crazy, the personnel of the former Beiyang Naval Division were shocked to find that the artillery shells they used in training in the past few months have exceeded the artillery shells they used in the Beiyang Naval Division for ten years in the past, and this high-intensity live-fire training has caused the brand-new barrels on the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan to be replaced twice, but when the report said that the new barrels would be replaced, the management department in charge of the baggage equipment did not even blink an eye, and approved the new barrels for installation.

Such a training capital cost has rapidly and greatly improved the combat skills of the former Beiyang Navy Division's personnel.

The tonnage of the Parada and Diana facing Dingyuan and Zhenyuan reached 6,731 tons, which was not very different from the 7,300-ton displacement of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, which were known as battleships, and the speed was still at 20 knots to the absolute advantage of 16 knots of Dingyuan Zhenyuan.

However, the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan were recuperated, the artillery command rangefinder equipment was sharp, the personnel were well-trained, and the shelling was accurate. The personnel of the Parada and Diana were tired and demoralized, and the hull was scarred by other Chinese warships.

As soon as the two sides looked at each other, several rounds of shells exchanged shells, and they were already distinguished. (To be continued.) )

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