The rumbling sound of the cannon gave Zhu Mian little time to think carefully about the part of the French ship No. 2 that was hit, and the sound of the bombing rocket explosion had already sounded on the hull of the Li Guang.

In particular, the rocket on the side of the ship not far from the command platform, Li Guanghao's instantaneous vibration made Zhu Li feel that his body directly hit the bulkhead of the command platform like a ball being thrown.

When Zhu Mian got up again, he glanced at the command platform, and couldn't help but secretly rejoice in his heart that the deck of the ship and the side of the ship had opened a hole a foot big, but other than that, the rockets did not cause other damage.

It's a blessing.

The spark of the rocket burst does not detonate the gunpowder, it is just a king-sized flowering bomb, and everything is easy to say. The power of the rocket itself is already the end of the crossbow after it bursts the hull.

Li Guanghao was hit by three rockets this time, and the three rockets did not arrive together, although the time difference between the front and back was extremely small.

Although the one near the command platform did not cause a major disaster, although the one in the bow opened a large skylight on the hull, and when I looked at it from a distance, I still thought that Li Guang had 'grown' an eye, and at most it had some vibration on the bow structure and had an impact on the life of the ship.

Only the one on the aft deck, the last of the three rockets to be hit, detonated a powder keg, but the explosion only killed or wounded one or two dozen people, overturned many guns, and ignited the lower sail of the mainmast.

The rocket left the rear deck of the Li Guang in shambles.

However, the damage of Li Guang was also exchanged for greater damage to the French ship No. 2, that is, the cruiser 'Loire'. The brave Lieutenant Colonel Henry and dozens of French sailors on the deck of the ship were left dead in the explosion, and the entire deck was full of flames, and large pieces of debris of wood jumped to kill and injure the French sailors on board. The powder keg of the Death made matters worse for the Loire.

The mutilated bodies of sailors lay on the deck of the ship, and the surviving French sailors were busy extinguishing the fire while rescuing the wounded.

Fa Ship No. 1 was no longer in Zhu Li's eyes at the moment, and all his attention was now focused on the staggered Fa Ship No. 2.

"Prepare for shelling, prepare for shelling......"

Under the control of the navigator, Li Guang turned around with all his might.

At that moment just now, Li Guanghao fired fifteen rockets. Although due to the angle and time constraints, Li Guang fired six rockets at the moment when the two ships were close to each other, and then when they were deflecting from each other, deflecting the course, Li Guang fired a full nine rockets, but only five of them were hit.

The remaining two-thirds either fell into the water halfway through or missed. Two of the rockets even brushed past the side of the French battleship, but it was useless, and it was also 'over'.

The French ship No. 2 was almost incapacitated. This judgment was obtained by Zhu Lian based on the sparks that erupted on the French ship No. 2. In that case, Li Guang could pull a little distance and send the French battleship to the bottom of the sea with rows of shells.

"Boom, boom—"

The upper and lower rows of cannon windows spewed out white gunpowder smoke in turn, and the smoke instantly enveloped the entire side of Li Guanghao.

Li Guanghao let out a roar. Zhu Lian stared at the French ship No. 2 from the binoculars, but unfortunately did not see any reaction, and when he was annoyed, he suddenly heard a cheer from the sailors on the Li Guang, and hurriedly raised the binoculars to look at the French battleship. You could see a raging fire rising from the deck of the Loire, accompanied by plumes of smoke and violent explosions.

"Damn, I didn't expect that I would intentionally plant flowers and flowers that would not bloom, and I would unintentionally plant willows and willows. There were so many scorching bombs before, but the bird didn't use it. At this moment, just a few cannons fired hot bombs, but they made a contribution in one fell swoop. Zhu Mian said with a laugh.

"Cai Lian, this guy has a level." Zhu Lian turned his head and praised Li Guanghao's pipe belt Cai for his level. This French ship No. 2 is finished. Li Guang can turn around and calmly clean up the French Ship No. 1.

The latter had suffered heavy losses before, and the time when the French Ship 2 bravely attacked, from the beginning to the end, was only twenty minutes full, and the French Ship 1 had only just extinguished the fireworks and regained its composure.

Of course, the cruiser is faster than the third class sail battleship, but can the cruiser, which has suffered a lot of damage, be faster than the third class battleship?

"I thought it would be better for us to let this French battleship go." Cai Lian, who returned to the command platform, said to Zhu Lian.

He wanted this French warship to become a billboard and spread the news of the Sino-French naval battle all over the world in the shortest possible time.

Zhu Mian was a little hesitant, and letting go of a prey for nothing made him a little unwilling. But Zhu also understood that his purpose in this battle was to send a signal to the Ottomans, not to really fight the French. If the two warships on the opposite side were Spaniards, he wouldn't have to bother.

"Bell Bell Bell ......" Crazy alarm bells suddenly sounded in the mast.

It turned out that at this moment when Zhu Li was considering, the French battleship No. 1 opposite, that is, the Sablé, suddenly turned around and pounced on Li Guang. This is not to close the distance and open an artillery battle, but to break through to 500 distances desperately.

The distance of one or two hundred meters was too close and too close, and Li Guanghao was not prepared before, and the sudden change of direction of the Sablé made Li Guanghao immediately fall into a dilemma.

Does Li Guanghao want to distance himself? Too late?

If you turn around now, it's okay to open the distance, if you can't pull away, the French battleships will occupy a great advantageous position.

The turning Li Guang will inevitably expose a large 'body' in front of the French, while the French ship is just a long stick.

Zhu Li hesitated, and then he was even more late.

"Forward, forward—" I didn't have time to think about it that much, I got the rockets ready, and the distance between the two sides was already five hundred meters.

In the explosion of "boom ......", Zhu Li's body was once again lifted up by the shock wave generated by the explosion of the powerful rocket, and the whole person fell back and hit the bulkhead. In the entire command platform, Cai Lian was the first to recover from the explosion, and the first thing he saw when his forehead was bleeding was the same command platform that had been destroyed by a storm.

The helmsman, Zhu Lian and others were swept into the corner like garbage. Blood all over the place!

Zhu Lian's arm was stunned in the explosion just now, and he was bruised a lot, but this time he suffered a big loss. When Cai was implicated and crawled over, Zhu Li, who had just regained consciousness, was still in a state of vertigo and was very unfocused. His arms and left thigh were also scratched by something, and the blood stained his pants black and red.

Zhu Lian didn't know where the strength came from after seeing Cai Lian, and staggered to the deck of the ship with Cai Lian's support, and what appeared in front of them was thick black smoke.

The bow of the Li Guang was hit, and there was already a wound before, and now the bow of the ship was completely broken, the head slash was broken, and the spherical sail on the top was also swallowed by the flames. It's as if the entire bow of the triangle has been bitten down. Thick black smoke rose, and there was a faint flame in it.

The sailors on the Li Guang were already pumping seawater with manpower pumps to put out the fire.

Busyness and black smoke became the theme of the foredeck at this moment.

Zhu Li did not feel sad about the loss, he was only glad that Li Guang still survived, this time in the rocket attack, Li Guang's front and rear decks were blown up, not to mention the loss of personnel, barrels of gunpowder only sporadic explosions, not serial explosions, but a great fortune in misfortune.

Zhu Li sat on the deck, and there was a powder keg at hand, and the cylinders wrapped in canvas were propellants.

And in this barrel, in addition to these propellant packets, there is also a full amount of water, seawater.

This is the seawater to be injected before the powder keg is sent to the deck. As for the gunpowder bag inside, there was a layer of oiled paper or oilcloth under the canvas to keep out the seawater, and there was a very tightly wrapped silk inside.

This is a method that Zhu Lian came up with after the naval battle with Spain. Although this method can ensure the safety of the powder keg on the deck of the ship, it delays the rate of fire of the gun to a certain extent, and at the same time, it is also possible to cause the propellant pack to get damp and affect the battle.

But looking at it now, Li Guanghao has suffered two rocket strikes in a short period of time, and now he can still maintain this appearance, and the trick he came up with is really useful.

Zhu Lian, Cai Lian, and all the people who are still alive on Li Guang are happy about this.

Because of their comparison - two French cruisers, all found heavy damage in the fire of rockets.

By this time, the Sablé had been transformed into a large torch.

"Prepare to save people!"

Cai Lian put down the binoculars in his hand, he saw a French officer, the specific rank was not clear, but he was definitely a French naval officer, standing next to the raging fire - next to him was the fiercely burning cabin, but as if he could not see the threat, with the cooperation of the two sailors, he manipulated the artillery and continued to fire at Li Guang, and then at the same time as the artillery fired, the big explosion on the French battleship made his whole person disappear in the smoke.

This kind of bravery is quite shocking, and this kind of despair also makes Cai Lian, who is also a soldier, very emotional.

Cai Lian is a very hard-hearted person, who is as hard as a stone, but he also has to say that the French Navy is really brave. Both the commanding officers of these two French warships and the sailors on the warships were very brave.

The naval officer was a French naval soldier, not unaware of the danger, but out of utter despair. In this naval battle, France lost completely, and there was no room for salvation from the loss.

But they are ashamed to be captured, they are desperate to fight back!

When the French ship No. 1 was in trouble, the French ship No. 2 dared to sacrifice his life to step forward to the top cylinder; When the French Ship No. 2 was about to finish, the French Ship No. 1, which had just taken a breath, did not turn around and run away, but dared to rush straight to Li Guang to avenge his comrades......

If the Spaniards had such a strong fighting spirit as the French, during the Battle of Nice, Zhu Lian and Cai Lian would all die.

The military doctor on the Li Guang hurriedly bandaged Zhu Lian's wounds, but Zhu Mian was unwilling to return to the cabin, he wanted to watch the four-hour naval battle finally end.

"This battle was fought, and the Ottomans can rest assured." Zhu Lian looked at the corpses on the deck, and couldn't say anything in his heart.

These people also sacrificed for the country, but their sacrifice was so far away from the motherland.

I hope that the Ottomans can only be worthy of this great gift to them.

Egypt was an important focus of the empire, and it was of vital significance to the global strategy of the empire, and the Ottomans must fight for it. Istanbul should not learn from the late Qing Dynasty, internal strife, and sit back and watch Ilam fight alone.