Chapter 614: The End Was Sealed at the Beginning!
Chapter 614: The End Was Sealed at the Beginning!
From the appearance of the ironclad ships and those armored sail-steam hybrid warships, the balance of war has begun to tilt at the moment of their appearance, and when the naval officers and men of the main fleet of the United States of America watched as the powerful detachment was easily torn to pieces by this terrifying demon fleet that rose from the sea of hellfire, with magma and gunpowder smoke spraying from its mouth and nose, when the ironclad ship led by the leader smashed the interception of the detachment with the momentum of destroying the world, When they came into sight, the souls of almost all the officers and men of the United States Navy were almost frozen.
Then an even greater nightmare began, the ironclad ship ignored the outrageously dense artillery and disrupted the formation of the entire United States Expeditionary Fleet in a very unreasonable manner, and every time its bow and stern heavy guns fired, it tore a terrible huge hole in the hull of the American navy's proud battleship, and then there was a heavenly explosion, a huge fireball, a disintegrating hull, and a broken and burning mast made the sea as miserable as a fiery hell.
What terrified the officers and men of the Navy even more was the terrible flames that erupted from the side of the terrible black battleship, and rows of sharp and huge warheads easily tore the ship's side, human body, and mast to pieces, and almost nothing could stop it.
And those armored sail-steam hybrid warships could not go on a rampage like the ironclad ships, but their strong defenses, and the combat effectiveness that was not inferior to the United States Navy were not inferior, and soon stirred up a bloody storm in the formation of the United States of America fleet.
Rear Admiral Hall was a very good naval commander, but in the face of such a fleet that did not fight according to common sense, he was disappointed, coupled with the rapid destruction of the detachment, and the captains of the fleet of the United States of America, which were formed by privateers, pirates, and bodyguards, immediately subconsciously restored their inherent combat mode for more than ten years, and the formation of the fleet began to collapse.
At this time, the formation of the Eastern Fleet also changed, and after several huge battleships attracted the main force of the forward force of the United States Fleet, the fast warships in the rear began to brave the crazy artillery fire of the United States of America to intersperse, and a large number of trained Japanese servants waved their swords and shook the cables, forcibly jumping to help the side of the melee combat.
Although these servants suffered heavy casualties, once the portion was successful, it was also a terrible disaster for the officers and men of the United States of America warships, who were small but agile, and importantly, the way in which these servants attacked without killing caused the advance of the United States Expeditionary Fleet to fall into confusion.
Looking down from the top of the sea, the formation of the United States of America Expeditionary Fleet on the surface of the sea resembles a large, stout sea basilisk, its fanged palate struggling to devour its fat prey made up of several sturdy warships.
And now, the basilisk's fangs are being corroded by the servants at any cost, and around the basilisk's massive head, a large group of warships are like a group of ferocious and brutal tiger sharks, quickly outflanking.
And in the waist and abdomen of this basilisk, the detachment of the Orientals led by an ironclad ship was like a Poseidon weapon that was enough to pierce the sky and the eye of the storm, tearing the basilisk's waist and abdomen into a huge wound, and the flying flames and the billowing smoke were like the flesh and blood splattered out of the basilisk's body, covering a large area of the sea.
Commodore Hierro, the commander of the Spanish Chilean colonial fleet, couldn't help but draw a cross on his chest, looking at the Oriental ironclad that was rampaging across the sea in the far distance, and in his eyes, it was as terrifying as the three-headed dog of Hades in hell.
With its terrifying destructive power, outrageously strong defensive performance, and terrifying mobility that moves freely on the surface of the sea, whether it is against the wind or downwind, this oriental strange warship has brought too much disbelief and shock to this commander.
Castile, the Doge's advisor, felt like his heart was clenched by the big hand of a demon, and his mind had frozen almost at the first bombardment. In his mind, it is probably only a miracle of nature that can be compared to the explosion he sees in front of him, except for a volcanic eruption.
"The Yankees have lost ......," Brigadier Hierro sighed deeply as he looked at the sea that seemed to have been covered by flames and smoke.
The Governor's advisor standing beside him also nodded silently, at this moment, the expeditionary fleet of the United States of America had lost its formation, and was being besieged by the Eastern Fleet, which had the advantage in numbers, although they were still resisting stubbornly, but the rout was already visible, and it was only a matter of time before the final defeat was finally lost.
"If there was no detachment, no, it should have been if there was no terrible battleship that seemed to never sink, and the victory of the war would probably have been rewritten." Commodore Hierro's eyes were fixed on the black ironclad that was haunting the smoke and fire, almost gritting his teeth, and his face was full of greed and possession that went deep into the marrow.
"If we had such a ship in Spain......" Castile the Governor-General's adviser was almost dripping on his teeth. But when he said this, Brigadier Hierro's eyes couldn't help but light up. "Yes, if we Spain have such an indestructible and fortified warship, then the so-called invincible armada of the British, our Spain is not without a force."
"Honorable General, what do you mean......" Castile looked at the commodore who was nearly a head taller than herself, with some astonishment.
"I don't think there's any need to look at it anymore, what has happened before is enough to prove the terrible strength of our dear allies in the East, not just in numbers." Brigadier Hierro took a deep breath and stretched out his finger to point at his head, which was very meaningful.
Castile quickly understood what the commodore meant, and a smile of excitement appeared on his face: "That's right, dear general, you are so right, this is the New World, the navy of the United States of America has failed, but they still have a strong army, as long as we can pay enough to help our eastern allies, I believe that the husband of our dear eldest princess, the emperor of the east, will make a wise choice." ”
The naval battle, which lasted from ten o'clock in the morning to five o'clock in the afternoon, ended in the crushing defeat of the expeditionary fleet of the United States of America, and the warships that were able to flee the battlefield and return to the mainland of the United States of America accounted for only one-fifth of the total number of the expeditionary fleet, and the remaining warships either sank into the depths of the sea or became the trophies of the Orientals, and included about 5,400 officers and men of the American Navy, and all the battleships of the third and second classes. None of them were able to return to the east coast of the New World.
And the steel super-era warship, after this war, gradually revealed its hideous face and famous name, and became a new thing that the whole world paid attention to, its war, symbolizing the end of an era, and the arrival of a new era of navigation - the arrival of the ironclad era!
And when the Western countries are struggling to catch up with the pace of the Eastern Empire in the direction of the development of ironclad ships, the Pacific Ocean has become the maritime backyard of this huge empire under the management of the Chinese Empire, which has the advantage of advanced weapons and equipment......
The Battle of Chiloe Island, the defeat of the United States of America Expeditionary Fleet, could not be transmitted back to Philadelphia, the current capital of the United States of America, in a short period of time, and it is for this reason that the United States of America continues to devote a lot of manpower and material resources to this war that the outcome was already doomed from the beginning......
“…… I will never forget the sight of countless companions falling to my left and right, their strong bodies powerless in the face of that terrible weapon of war, easily torn to pieces like paper figures, and the terrible artillery fire that was like a nightmare...... That was the first time I had seen the horrors of the Devil of the East, and yes, I swear in the name of God that if I had known the true strength of the Orientals, I would rather disobey the order than get involved in this war that cost me nearly ten years of my freedom. A captain of the United States of America fleet, who had been imprisoned for ten years in a prisoner-of-war camp for miners, wrote in his diary.
And in the third year after the Sino-American naval battle on Chiloe Island, and the third year after the Annihilation of Shoshone, those powerful Orientals and the Indians drove the troops and colonists of the United States of America back into the territory of the United States of America at the beginning of its existence, the founding fathers of the United States of America, the drafters of the ** Declaration, because of their expansionism, strongly supported the United States of America's war for the expansion of the national territory. Calling on the people for the future of the United States of America to fight an unprecedented territorial battle with the Chinese Empire in the New World, a year earlier in the presidential race against the more moderate politically inclined John Brown. Adams, who became the second president of the United States of America, Thomas Brown. Jefferson gloomily announced his resignation from the presidency.
And in the presidential race, he lost to Jefferson's John. Adams was elected the third president of the United States of America, and on the day of his inauguration, he delivered an inaugural speech that was deeply remembered by the world.
“…… The most terrible mistake of the United States of America was to overestimate its own abilities and treat our opponents as a bunch of savages, for which we have to pay the price of eternity...... We originally had the hope of becoming a strong man in this world, but now, because of our own mistakes, we have become a great power that has lost hope of growing and growing, and has become a great power determined to lead the direction of the New World, to a spectator who has lost its future......"