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The explosion was beyond anyone's imagination. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the moment when the bow of the Mississippi was hit, the thick mast was blown off, and even the bow was blown out of a gap of several square feet, and a dozen sailors nearby collapsed in a pool of blood, screaming as they covered their wounds on the deck.

"How is this possible?"

Surprised by the power of the Chinese's artillery, even the power of the 68-pounder cannon may not be comparable!

But how is this possible?

After a moment of surprise, Perry noticed that the smoke from the explosion of the Chinese shells was of a different color and that the smoke was extremely pungent. But at this time, Perry could not care so much, and the Chinese would actually fire, which was not at all expected by him.

And the warship was hit even more unexpectedly!

Although it was unexpected, Perry did not panic, and he did not immediately order a counterattack, because it was too far away to hit the Chinese warship even if it was fired.

"Aim at the enemy ship!"

"Stay in line!"

"The whole fleet is ready to fight!"

Orders came from Perry's voice, and he stood solemnly at the stern of the USS Mississippi, his eyes fixed on the small Chinese warship, which no longer retreated as before, but headed for the fleet at full speed.

"This guy is really crazy!"

Just as Perry was sighing from the bottom of his heart, he couldn't help but sigh at the courage shown by the Chinese Navy soldiers on this small warship.

"What a brave bunch of people......

Indeed, compared to this fleet. The "Xiangyu" is so weak that it is not worth mentioning, after all, the weakest gunboat of the US East India Fleet is far more powerful than it.

But at this time, the "Xiangyu" was like a warrior, thinking that an opponent who was far stronger than himself launched a decisive attack. At least in the eyes of outsiders, its attack is absolute.

But for Li Tianfang on the "Xiangyu", when he saw that the enemy ship did not open fire, he suddenly laughed.

"Alright, we won!"

As if to show their support for the captain's words, the gunners once again pulled the rope at the tail of the gun, and the guns retreated in the violent recoil, and in that cloud of smoke, eight shells flew again towards the cruiser "Mississippi".

Perhaps it was closer, and several shells accurately hit the side of the cruiser "Mississippi", and in an instant this huge warship was enveloped in thick gunsmoke, and one shell directly hit its paddle wheel. At the moment of the explosion, the flames burned at the same time, and with the smoke of the explosion, the flames rose into the air, and it looked like they were about to swallow the cruiser "Mississippi".

After the explosion, the cruiser "Mississippi" was in a mess, and all the sailors fell in a pool of blood as far as the eye could see, which caused the sailors to struggle in the pool of blood, and even some sailors were looking for their arms and legs in the pool of blood, and what was even more terrifying was that the side of the cruiser "Mississippi" was blown out of a huge gap, which was enough to be stuffed into a small boat, and an 8-inch gun was blown away, or fell into the sea from the hole.

Perry, like the others in the stern of the ship, was swept away by the blast wave, and when he opened his eyes again, his mind was ringing, his vision blurred, and the ringing in his ears drowned out everything else.

Dizzy, he tried to stand up, but fell on the deck again due to the slippery underfoot, and then he barely recovered his sight, and saw blood everywhere on the stern deck, and around him were blown away stumps and severed arms, blood like seawater, dripping all over the deck.

"General, General......"

Perry, who had not yet recovered from the explosion, just stared blankly at everything in front of him, when a young man rushed in front of him and shook his shoulder vigorously.

"General, General......"

In the shouts of the young midshipmen, the deafening ringing of the ears slowly spoke, and Perry finally heard the voice, it was a scream, like hell on the "Mississippi" where only the screams of the sailors were left, and on the deck a sailor covered in blood, walking back and forth, he seemed to be looking for something.

Maybe looking for his severed arm.

"General, general, what do we do now?"

Marty, whose uniform was stained with blood, looked at the stunned general and shouted loudly, as a midshipman, when he got up from a pool of blood, he only saw the corpses around him - after the violent explosion, the whole warship seemed to have been swept by a shrapnel grenade, and almost everyone was hit.

What to do?

Perry looked at the officer in front of him in amazement, he hadn't been able to wake up from the shock caused by the explosion, he just looked at the young officer in amazement.

"My God......"

Captain Ferris of the cruiser "Saskehana" could not believe his eyes, the "Mississippi" that had been intact a minute before was like a toy ship torn apart - his central mast was blown off, even the captain's cabin in the stern was half blown away, but it was the flames that lit the canvas on the mast and the billowing smoke enveloped the "Mississippi".

At this time, people seemed to have forgotten the small "Xiangyu" at that time, and everyone was surprised that the small warship brought heavy damage to the "Mississippi" at this time.

"How so?"

God could not help Ferris at this time, and just as he and the other five captains of the American East India Fleet, as well as the officers and men, were shocked by the momentary upheaval, a scream of terror once again lifted them out of their astonishment.

"The Chinese fleet! starboard rear ......"

As the scream of terror shouted from the mast, the officers and men of the American Navy of the East India Fleet saw a fleet in the distance coming towards them, not from the mouth of the Pearl River, but from the rear of the fleet.

It's a trap!

In this moment, everyone understood - they had entered a carefully arranged trap! These warships, which emerged from the rear of the East India Fleet, had already seized the "T" prefix, and the East India Fleet had not even had time to turn course in order to remain parallel to it for an artillery battle.

At the same time that the officers and men of the US Navy of the East India Fleet realized that they were in danger, Shen Ming, who was in the iron bridge in front of the chimney of the "Hanfeng", sneered.

"Concentrate your fire and don't let a single American warship go!"

With the issuance of the order, the "Hanfeng" ironclad ship opened fire first, and the 18 105-mm naval guns on the side immediately spit out a ball of cannon flames, and the white smoke instantly shrouded the gun window, and after the first round of salvo fire, the gunner in the armored gun room immediately pressed down the bolt, and the ammunition man, who had long been holding the shell, immediately stuffed the shell into the chamber.

Compared with the old front-loading artillery, the Han-style cannon was reloaded extremely quickly, but it was only a few breaths, because the artillery that "retreated" into the gun room in the back seat was once again pushed out of the gun window by the sailors, pointing directly at the enemy in the distance. Again artillery shelling was launched at the American warships trying to regain the front.

After the naval battle began, Perry, who recovered from the bullet shock, stood on the hellish Mississippi, and once again commanded the battle, although the rebel fleet relied on superior firepower to defeat the American East India Fleet with a preemptive advantage, and even the first round of shelling smashed the frigate Plelymouth at the tail of the fleet, and even sank into the sea slowly because of the violent explosion of ammunition on the deck without even opening the cannon quickly, but at this time, These naval officers and sailors still resisted stubbornly with their experience and rigorous training.

With the change of the battle line and the wind, the warships of the two sides slowly began to show a "V" shaped parallel, and those American captains and gunners did not miss this opportunity, they immediately operated the artillery to attack the nearest warship, although the power of the bombardment on the warship is far from comparable with the Han artillery, but it can still pose a threat to the rebel fleet, although because of the distance, coupled with the influence of wind and waves and speed, the accuracy of the shells fired by the American warships is limited, but sometimes there will always be shells hitting the rebel warships, Heavy high-explosive bombs also inflicted heavy damage on the rebels' warships.

At the beginning of the war, the "Xiangyu," which had attacked the US fleet like a madman, was also filled with gunsmoke, and a huge gap was blown open on its side; compared with this small gunboat, the "Hanfeng" flying the "flagship flag" was even more taken care of, especially when the distance was narrowed to less than half a nautical mile, and these US warships, which were almost ignited by high-explosive bombs, invariably concentrated their firepower on it.

Explode!

The sound of the shells hitting the iron plates echoed in the Lingding Ocean, and the bell-like sound of the bells sounded like a death knell, making every American officer and soldier of the East India Fleet look at it with horror.

"Ironclad!"

Perry could scarcely believe his eyes, he could simply watch as the shell hit the Chinese warship and then was catapulted into the air, exploding on the surface of the sea or in mid-air. Despite the constant attacks, the ironclad ship continued to spit cannonballs at his fleet as if it had no effect, and the entire East India fleet was completely shrouded in billowing smoke, and the warships were all burning with flames, as if they could explode or sink to the bottom of the sea at any moment.

Looking at the sailors on the deck who tried to extinguish the flames with buckets, Perry was shocked to see that when the water rushed to the flames, the flames seemed to burn on the water, the sea seemed to be dyed yellow, and next to each remaining American warship was a patch of yellow, the yellow was like a burning flame, and when the Plymouth began to sink in a violent explosion, the glazed Perry, looking at the frightened sailors on the ship, muttered in despair.

"We ...... Raise the white flag ......" (To be continued.) )