In the sea near the southern exit of the Blanche Waterway, the Imperial Chinese Navy and the British Navy were engaged in a fierce battle.

The British Navy had only ten ironclad ships, and was beaten and scarred by nine all-steel battleships and six ironclad ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy. The 20 cruisers of the British army were chased away by the 15 cruisers of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and they were abused so much that they did not want to.

At 8:47 a.m., with the sinking of the British flagship Kent, the British officers and men on the other warships were frightened, and there was a tendency to a total rout.

Matt never expected this situation, and he deliberately attracted the attention of the Imperial Chinese Navy with his flagship, but ignored the huge negative effect on other British warships once his flagship was sunk.

"Quick, let the York raise the fleet command flag and tell them I'm not dead!" Matt said anxiously, he was seriously injured, and in the past few months, he had been so angry by the guerrilla warfare of the Chinese Imperial Navy that he vomited blood many times and fell into a coma, and his old illness recurred, and he suddenly fainted.

The retinue hurriedly sent Matt to a nearby shore to rescue him, and at the same time informed the captain of the York, Rear Admiral Deby, that he should take over the command of the fleet and continue to fight against the Chinese Imperial Fleet.

After Debbie was notified, he was bittersweet, happy that he finally had the opportunity to be the commander of the fleet to command the fleet to fight, but at the same time he also saw that ten minutes into the battle, most of the firepower of the capital ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy was aimed at Matt's flagship, and the flagship Kent was sunk as soon as possible.

This Nima flagship is purely a target for hatred!

Debbie is helpless, as long as Matt is not dead. It was necessary to accept Matt's orders, take over the command of the flagship, and inform the other ships that "Matt" was not dead. The captains of the other ships were warned not to think of running away and to continue the fight.

At this moment, the captains of the British ships who wanted to escape and the British sailors drew circles together to curse Debbie and Matt to "die", causing Debbie to sneeze more than a hundred times in a row (rhinitis attack), almost not killing him.

"Command Alford (Ahhh And (Ahhh HMS Hampshire leaned towards the ship (Ahh Close! ”

"General, are you alright?"

"Hurry (ahhhh Go and carry out the order! (Ahhh...... Ahh ）”

Debbie kicked the signal soldier and told him to give the order, because it was a matter of life and death for the York, and his life.

On the opposite side of the sea five thousand meters away. The Xiongfeng was galloping at high speed, and inside the command tower, Chen Shaoyi was happily letting the photographer take a photo of the sinking of the Kent. I'm going to take it back to my country and show it.

"Report, the USS York raises the Fleet Command Flag and the Commander-in-Chief Naval Flag!"

"What?"

Chen Shaoyi hurriedly picked up the binoculars to look at the ironclad ship York, and sure enough, he saw the Yorks raising the fleet command flag and the command flag representing the commander-in-chief of the British Imperial Navy, in other words. Matt wasn't dead. Escaped to the York.

"Your uncle!"

Chen Shaoyi's face suddenly darkened.

"Give me concentrated fire to sink the York!"

The battleship Hsiungkaze waved the flag "Attack York" and then turned around to attack York, followed by the Tempest and Tempest of the same team.

Knock knock!

The three ships, Mighty Wind, Tempest, and Tempest, accelerated towards the York, and at the same time opened fire from their main guns, launching a fierce attack on it.

Sure enough, pull hatred!

Debbie smiled bitterly, but he didn't dare to be careless, it was about his life.

"Fire!"

The Yorks opened no less heavy fire. The target is the Hsiungfeng, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. If she can sink her, it will be a miracle, and it will be no problem for her to be promoted to the third level.

Debbie was also excited to think!

However, the fantasy is plump, but the reality is skinny!

If you want to sink the battleship Hero, it seems that the ironclad ship of the Yorkie in front of you is not so good.

There was a loud bang, and the ironclad ship of York trembled violently, and Debbie was shaken to the ground without paying attention, falling on all fours, and the beautiful fantasy disappeared in an instant.

"Fack, damage report!" Debbie cursed, got up, and asked the adjutant about the damage.

"Just now, the ship's belly was shot at point G, the steam pipeline was damaged, and the power dropped by at least 40%!"

The power dropped by 40%, and Deby's face turned green when he heard it.

It's not fast, but if it drops by 40 percent, it's not much different from a snail! This Nima still doesn't let people live!

"Hurry up and fix it!" Debbie roared, and spittle flew wildly.

Boom!

Another bang!

The York shook violently again, and the blazing air wave wrapped in choking gunpowder smoke tore Debbie and the others in the command tower to the ground.

"Which one got shot again?" Debbie got up with a black face, feeling like half of his body was falling apart, and asked angrily.

Soon an officer pointed to it, and Debbie looked up to see that the entire top of the command tower had been lifted off.

A cold sweat suddenly broke out on Deby's forehead, even the command tower is not safe now, don't be so cruel!

"It's fish radium!"

"Get out of the way!"

"It's too late!"

The howls of British soldiers could be heard over the microphone, filled with fear and despair.

Due to the loss of nearly half of the York's power, the actual speed was reduced to five knots, which is really about the same as the speed of a snail crawling. So Chen Shaoyi decisively ordered the three ships Xiongfeng, Hurricane and Storm to each launch two Fish Radiums, and ten seconds later, two of the six Fish Radiums hit the port side waterline of the York.

Before the 70s, the protection of British capital ships below the waterline was very weak, and perhaps the British thought that shells would lose most of their kinetic energy when they hit the water and would not affect the hull, so they ignored the protection below the waterline.

Two 533mm Fish Radium easily broke through the underbelt armor of the York's waterline and exploded inside the hull.

Boom Boom Boom ......

With the sound of explosions inside the ship's hull, the entire York shook violently, like a magnitude 10 earthquake.

Debbie clung to the wall hanging, her face turning green with fright.

At this time, the explosion inside the hull ended, and the air expanded dramatically and then contracted sharply due to the depletion of oxygen, causing a vacuum to suck. Huge sums of seawater were frantically sucked in from the breach.

The York quickly began to tilt, and Debbie clung to the wall hanging, looking out through the window of the conning tower. They found that the surrounding British sailors were rolling into the sea with the sharp inclination of the deck, and some sailors were holding on to the guardrail to keep themselves from falling into the sea, howling in horror.

"Your Excellency, Commander, jump!"

Without waiting for Debbie to answer, one by one of the officers around him quickly jumped into the sea.

Debbie hesitated for a long time, but finally closed his eyes and jumped.

However, when Debbie emerged from the sea, the surrounding British sailors howled in horror again. Swim frantically into the distance.

Debbie didn't know what they were afraid of at first, they had already fallen into the sea, and what were they running away. Where to run!

The next moment, Debbie noticed that the sunlight in front of him was gone, and a huge black shadow was enveloped.

When he looked up, he was terrified.

I saw that the York was overturning. A huge deck is falling from mid-air. And Debbie was too late to run at this time.

"Fack!"

With a "bia", the battleship slapped on the sea, stirring up huge waves hundreds of meters high, and the sea water was instantly dyed red......

The sinking of the York, the death of the provisional commander Deby, and the fact that he did not have time to hand over command to anyone else, resulted in a group of other British ships left without a leader and in disarray.

"We can't defeat the Imperial Chinese Navy at all. This is simply sending to death! ”

"Look at the Ander sinking too!"

"It's not just the Ender that's sinking, you're looking at the Shropshire over there. The entire ship island was in flames, and the Norfolk seemed to have been hit hard! ”

"Run, if you don't run, you'll be finished!"

In the distance, several British cruisers and frigates turned around and ran, they were the first to enter the battle and withdraw from the battle after being heavily damaged, repairing the battleship next to them, and at this time they were the first to desert.

On the battlefield, as long as a deserter runs away first, and there is no commander to stop it, then a great rout will be triggered, and all soldiers are not fools, who does not want to live.

The British warships in the battle saw it, so they turned around and prepared to flee.

Chen Shaoyi liked to see this situation the most, the retreating enemy was not terrible, and it was easier to deal with, so he ordered the whole fleet to attack and beat the water dogs.

However, a scene that soon occurred changed the state of the battlefield.

I saw that a British frigate that had escaped the fastest suddenly touched radium, and a big explosion occurred, and the entire battleship was blown to pieces, and a fiery red mushroom cloud rose into the air, emitting a dazzling light, so that the officers and men of the ships of the Chinese Empire thousands of meters away could see it clearly.

Immediately afterwards, another escaping British cruiser touched radium, and the bow of the ship was blown to pieces, the flames soared into the sky, thick smoke billowed out, and the entire hull was also head-down, sinking rapidly.

Two British warships sank in succession, which immediately made the commanders of the British ships who were planning to escape dumbfounded.

"It's water radium!"

"How can there be radium there?"

"That old bastard from Matt must have done it!"

The British commanders of the ships instantly understood, they knew that Matt was exporting Radium in the rear, but at that time they got the news that there was still a safe waterway to get out, but unfortunately they were all deceived by Matt, Matt did not leave a safe waterway at all, he just wanted to fight against the water, and everyone wanted to escape.

"Fack! Matt, why don't you die as a cousin! ”

"Stop, it's all radium!"

The captains of the ships stopped the battleship in time, and I don't know how many water radiums Matt's old bastard had arranged, but it was certain that he would die if he rushed straight over like this.

The officers and men of the ships of the Chinese Imperial Navy who were chasing from a distance were also stunned, what the hell is this Nima, why did the British touch radium themselves?

"General, how do I feel that something is going on here! No matter how stupid the British are, they won't go to the safe course and touch radium themselves! ”

A staff officer said to Chen Shaoyi.

Chen Shaoyi's eyebrows suddenly twisted into pimples, and his fingers tapped on the table, and he didn't feel quite right.

"Look, the British warships are all stopped, they don't run!"

"If they don't run, are they waiting for us to beat them?"

"It is estimated that the brains of the British have been beaten into fools by us, this is the rhythm of preparing to surrender!"

Hearing a few staff officers sneering at the British, Chen Shaoyi's face suddenly turned pale.

"Shut up Lao Tzu! Horsepower next door, we're fooled! ”

Seeing Chen Shaoyi going crazy, no matter how stupid the staff officer was, he realized the seriousness of the problem.

"It's the water radium that has a problem!"

"What's wrong with radium?"

"You stupid, the British planted a lot of radium at the exit over there before we came!"

"Impossible, didn't we see the British's Radium just now? We interrupted, at most a few Radium, and we all know the location! ”

"Grass, you know a hammer, even the British themselves have touched radium, can't it explain everything!"

At this time, Chen Shaoyi finally said: "We didn't meet Matt by chance, he calculated that we would take this waterway, and we were deployed here early!" ”

A staff officer said: "As for Matt's dozens of broken ships, even Bulei can't stop us!" ”

"What if you add the main fleet of the British Navy behind?" Chen Shaoyi suddenly asked rhetorically.

The staff officer continued: "But the intelligence shows that the main force of the British fleet is not behind us, and they do not take the Blanche waterway, but go south to the Solomon Sea. ”

Another staff officer said: "The reconnaissance ships we sent have been following the main force of the British fleet, and they really did not take the Blanche waterway, I think Matt is just deliberately delaying us at this waterway crossing, so that their main force has time to rush to the south exit of the Blanche waterway and wait for us, when we have just experienced a high-intensity battle, the soldiers are tired, and as soon as they get out of the Blanche waterway, they will be attacked by the main force of the British navy, and they will definitely suffer heavy losses." We just need to sink these British ships, take advantage of them and retreat, and just don't take the southern exit! ”

Chen Shaoyi nodded, what these two staff officers said was very reasonable, which made him doubt and dispelled it.

However, Li Weijun, the chief of staff of the fleet, who had been silent, suddenly spoke.

"Your analysis is very reasonable, but you ignore one point, it is still the radium area. The British themselves were touched, and it was clear that Matt did not want the British fleet to get out alive. So the question is, if according to your analysis, the main force of the British Navy is waiting for us on the other side of the radium area, but don't they know why we have to drain radium when we encounter radium, and we are full? ”

"Yes, we can take a detour, there's no need to drain radium!"

Those staff officers were from Chen Shaoyi's faction, and when they heard Li Weijun belittled them, they were immediately unconvinced: "The British may only want to blow up and sink a few of our capital ships, so that their pressure will be reduced in the decisive battle!" ”

Li Weijun snorted coldly: "When are we going to explore the path with the capital ship?" ”

Yes, the Imperial Chinese Navy has always been using frigates and cruisers to explore the way, and even if it is bombed, it will lose at most one auxiliary warship, and it is impossible to lose the capital ship.

The staff officer was still unconvinced: "But, how do you explain that Matt deliberately intercepted us here?" Don't tell us Matt intends to surround us here, they don't have that time at all! ”

Li Weijun said to Chen Shaoyi: "They just plan to surround us!" ”

Chen Shaoyi frowned and said: "But once their main fleet turns around, the reconnaissance ships we are following behind them will notify us as soon as possible, knowing that our reconnaissance ships are much faster, and we have enough time to evacuate the Blanche waterway." ”

Li Weijun insisted: "But what if something goes wrong with our reconnaissance ship? Or they ambushed our reconnaissance ship! (To be continued.) )