The chances of survival of the sailors who escaped being swept to the bottom of the sea were not high, and the fleet was still under attack, and no one would have the heart to rescue them by being beaten. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info Although this is tropical, the sea water on this winter night in December can still freeze people to death, so a large part of these sailors soaked in the icy sea water may freeze to death within ten minutes.

"Help!" "Help us!"

The sailors on the sea shouted at the shadow of the ship as they swam towards the turning battleship.

"Colonel Stone! What are we going to do? The first mate asked from the side.

Ston was also anxious, those sailors naturally did not let him worry, he was worried about the safety of the captain and those officers on the Vincent. You must know that even for those who live at sea all year round, it is very difficult to train qualified seafarers, especially captains.

"What else can we do?" Ston anxiously ran to starboard and looked out, he vaguely heard a sudden rhythmic sound in the distance, and his intuition told him that it must be those guys who claimed to be the Chinese Coast Guard just now, "Turn in the direction of the sound, the other party must be moving, if we don't destroy those enemies, we will fall into the sea and wait for others to save us!" He pointed in the direction from which the voice came from and shouted at the officers behind him who were waiting for orders. Full sails, full speed! Gunner loads, double propellant, and waits for the order to shoot! ”

The gunners on the deck and on the second deck of the guns ran quickly, pushing the bronze guns back into the middle of the ship, and then the loaders opened the barrels with great skill, stuffed the wrapped propellant into the barrels, and topped them to the bottom with the loading. After hearing the order to reload the double propellant, these loaders were obviously stunned for a moment, and they had never received an order to load the double propellant in actual combat. But the order had already been given, and naturally they quickly stuffed the second package of propellant into the barrel again, pushed it to the bottom with a loading rod and compacted it. The shooter punctures the cartridge through the ignition hole with an awl, and then places the ignition rod on the nearby stove and roasts it on fire. The sight of the sight widened helplessly, stretched out his neck and looked out where there might be enemies. But there was no fire on the surface of the sea, except for their boats, and the blinding band of light that had been so bright before it was as abrupt as it had come, had disappeared abruptly at the same time that the Vincent had been beaten.

The flotilla was led by the flagship to turn in the direction of the sudden sound, and the cruiser Bu Zhongfu was also quite nervous, just now the spring cannon had sunk one such battleship in only three shots, and the enemy sailors were now fluttering on the surface of the sea like dumplings in boiling water. This made him full of confidence in the "black technology" that the traverser had at this time, and he couldn't help but give the order to the driver loudly: "Full speed ahead, turn to 285, reload ammunition." ”

Before the words fell, a "bang" sound was heard from the bottom of the ship, and the speed of the whole ship decreased sharply in an instant, and the sailors who did not grasp the handrail for a while rolled all over the deck with a grunt, and the loader at the machine gun position on the port side accidentally tripped over the ammunition box on the ground and fell directly from the ship's tower into the sea.

"Help!" Bu Zhongfu's heart jumped, the sound just now must have been wiped out, or it was a rock. Although the cruiser is an all-steel structure, it is no joke to wipe the bottom or hit the reef while moving at full speed.

While beckoning the alright crew to pick up the man who had fallen into the water, he opened the hatch to the bilge and shouted inside, "How's the damage?" ”

The lights were on in the cabin, and the engineers were running around the cabin, some adjusting the engines, some shouting something at the cabins below.

It didn't take long for He Lin, the chief engineer, to run over, holding on to the handrail and looking up at Bu Zhongfu, who was looking anxiously at the bottom, and shouted: "The reef was wiped to the bottom just now, are you people on the waterline blind?" Is the sonar blind? ”

Bu Zhongfu, who had been a sonar, almost didn't jump, but he couldn't say anything. The fight was so happy just now, everyone was watching the beaten enemy ship sink to the bottom of the sea in the explosion, after all, such a spectacular scene has never been seen before, so both the lookout and the sonar man crowded to the side of the ship to watch the battle, and the whole boat cheered, so the driver drove the boat into the reef while cheering loudly.

"Captain!" At this time, the sonar man poked his head out of the operation room and shouted at Bu Zhongfu, "There is such a reef here, we just ran into it." ”

"He's meowing!" Bu Zhongfu burst into a foul mouth angrily, "Why did this reef let us crash into it?" He hurriedly lowered his head and asked in a loud voice to the chief engineer, "How is the damage to the bottom of the ship?" ”

He Lin looked up at him, turned around and asked the engineer behind him a few words, and then shouted at him loudly: "The bottom of the ship is a little damaged, some places have been deformed, and there are leaks in some places. ”

"Can't you close the watertight door?" Bu Zhongfu continued to ask, "It's okay to sail slower, right?" ”

"Water, you uncle!" He Lin directly burst into foul language, "You think this is the Titanic, right?" The watertight door is also watertight, but there are only two layers of cabins below, and this fishing boat of more than 100 tons plus watertight cabins should be opened? ”

"What then?" Bu Zhongfu didn't know anything about this fishing boat, and he didn't dare to say much at this time, so he had to ask He Lin honestly, "What should we do now?" ”

"There is a leak in some places," He Lin whispered twice on the shoulder by a marine engineer before he looked up and continued, "There are also some pressure pipes that have been damaged due to the sudden arrest just now, and we will return to the ship now." ”

"Return?" Bu Zhongfu is about to die of depression, and this first real naval battle is just like this? He pointed to the warships in the distance that were turning towards him with their lights on, and asked reluctantly, "Chief Engineer, these enemies are still preparing for battle!" We just hit a boat and go back? ”

"Of course you want to go back, you still came out of the submarine, do you know how dangerous it is to force the ship to sail if the hull is damaged? It's a big deal on your waterline, just jump into the sea, if we are trapped in the boat under the waterline......" He Lin's words were interrupted by Bu Zhongfu waving his hand in a hurry before he could finish his words.

"Okay, okay! Return immediately, turn to heading 273 and go full speed ahead......"

Before the words fell, He Lin jumped up in three steps and two steps, and shouted at the driver: "Don't speed up!" Drive slowly! ”

The driver stared at both of them dumbfounded, not knowing who to listen to.

At this moment, the lookout shouted, "The enemy ship continues to approach!" The distance is 400 meters. ”

Before he could finish speaking, he saw the enemy ships in the distance begin to turn to the left, and the lookout continued to shout: "They are going to open fire!" Beware of concealment! ”

Although the speed of these Medeno battleships was only about six knots, the turning speed was really fast, and it took only more than ten seconds for the bow of the ship to turn to the west, and the starboard side was facing the direction of the cruiser. Rows of firelight erupted from the portholes of the double gun deck, followed by the sound of bowling balls of iron whistling over their heads and to their left and right, and then the roar of enemy ship guns and the popping of shells falling on the starboard side at the same time.

"They can't see us, they're betting on their luck!" He Lin shouted loudly, "Quick! Let's get out of here first! ”

"This ......" the pilot was confused, although the cruiser was not broken at all at this time, but what to do? Listen to the chief engineer or the captain?

"Set the course!" Bu Zhongfu put his index finger in his mouth for a moment, then raised it above his head, and then issued a loud order, "Heading 270, full speed ahead!" As he spoke, he pushed He Lin out of the cabin, "Don't worry about the waterline for now!" Hurry up and plug the leak! ”

Although He Lin was full of complaints, he was not the captain after all, so he had to rush into the bottom cabin to find the leak location.

"Machine guns on both sides are ready, we're going to pass through the middle of their fleet!" Bu Zhongfu shouted loudly.

The Overlord was now protruding from the outermost part of the shelling queue, the loaders were desperately reloading their guns, and Ston was considering whether to order the double propellant to be reloaded, when he heard a sudden roar from far and near.

"What the hell is this?" The second mate pointed to a dark figure in the distance and shouted, and everyone saw it clearly by this time—it was a ship, with a high bulwark at the fore, a small two-story building in the middle, and a strange pipe standing on the foredeck, and several people were busy with it.

Seeing that the busy people suddenly hid to the sides, and the operator aimed the pipe at his own boat, Ston couldn't help but shout: "Hide quickly! He shouted as he threw himself on the deck behind him.

At the same time, only a squirt was heard, and then something "thud" against the bulwark of the Overlord, and then fell into the sea with a pop.

"Damn, it's a dud again!" Bu Zhongfu was so depressed that he finally fired a dud bullet from this must-kill shot, and hurriedly shouted: "The machine guns on both sides fire freely." ”

At this time, the two machine gunners, who had been suppressed for a long time, suddenly burst into happy cheers and pulled the trigger at the same time.

Before Ston could get up, he heard a sudden sound of "tom tom tom" firing not far away, which was obviously the sound of firearms, but the ship didn't look big, how could there be so many people holding firearms at the same time?

Suddenly, he heard a miserable scream, and the second mate beside him was knocked to the ground with his back facing the sky, and his hands and feet twitched a few times before he moved. Ston hurriedly crawled over and flipped the body of the second mate over, his chest and abdomen had two large holes, and blood was still gushing out, and the person had only breath out but no breath in. The bullets of the enemy ship's firearms whipped back and forth on the bulwark of the oak plank like a terrible whip, and the flying wood chips were fired in all directions, and even the artillery deck was shot several times by the opponent, and many people were shot and fell to the ground in this rain of bullets, and for a time the people on the two gun decks were in chaos. At this moment, the strange ship passed through the gap between the Overlord and the ship in front of it, and it was then that Ston realized that the other party was only using two positions to fire these firearms, could it be that these people had eight hands? Is it possible to grab many firearms at the same time and fire?