Chapter 11: Thunder Strike

Sure enough, by the afternoon of the next day, Hebb gathered a total of eleven warships from Britain, France and the United States and began to move in the direction of the Dagukou Fort, ignoring the warnings of the Qing army.

When they arrived less than five kilometers away from the Dagukou Fort, Hebu gave an order, and the six battleships in front of the eleven battleships took the lead in firing and launched a fierce artillery bombardment towards the Dagukou Fort!

All of a sudden, on the Dagukou Fort, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the sand and gravel were flying! The entire Dagu mouth was caught in artillery fire, and Hebu sat proudly on the flagship, invincible.

However, Hebb was too soon to rejoice!

Just when Heb's fleet was getting closer and closer to the Dagukou Fort, suddenly, all the reed mats on the fort were lifted, dozens of heavy guns were exposed, and the Qing troops quickly stuffed the shells into the barrels, and then quickly ignited!

Knock knock!

A continuous burst of artillery rang out, and dozens of shells hit the fleet overwhelmingly!

Heb's face changed dramatically! What's going on? What's going on? Didn't Commorel say that there were only a dozen guns above Dagukou? How could it be that dozens of shells were fired all of a sudden?

However, at this time, Heb wanted to question Commorell again, it was too late, dozens of shells exploded on the sea surface, the distance was close, the power was great, in just a quarter of an hour, on the Dagukou battery, more than 200 shells had been fired, and before the British, American and French fleets reacted, the battleship was beaten to the ground!

Although the artillery skills of the Qing army, not how much? However, now that the distance is so close, and the battleship is such a huge target, how can it not suffer a big loss at all? In particular, other people's artillery skills are not very good, but it does not mean that Guo Ye and He Zhengqing are not good, both of them are proficient in artillery skills, and each of them is operating the largest artillery and launching an attack on the fleet!

From the very beginning, to the present, the two men have fired more than a dozen shells, and at least ten of them have landed on the battleship! As for the other Qing troops, no matter how bad the artillery skills are, they won't be able to hit a single one, and the blind cat can hit a few times when it touches a dead mouse!

The tonnage of the battleships is better to say, those ships with too small tonnage, after a few shells, pouted their butts, and slowly sank to the bottom of the sea!

Heb was furious above the flagship, and kept giving orders, commanding the navies of the three countries to launch a fierce attack towards Dagukou, and at the same time began to change the formation, in order to widen the distance between the warships and facilitate the dispatch of warships.

It's a pity that Hebb missed one thing, that is, with the strong armor of the flagship, he knocked a lot of obstacles such as chain stakes in the sea, but that was only the nearby sea, and now there are obstacles in other places, and other small warships do not have such a strong power, and the obstacles can be smashed apart by just relying on the hull! As a result, the entire fleet could only be lined up here in a straight line, crowded into a ball.

Heb is really anxious, if he continues to fight like this, the losses of the navy will be too great!

Hebb roared: "Order the flagship to rush forward, the two giant ships of the Cordiff and the Minnesota are separated on the left and right, guarding the two wings, firing with all their might, and we must suppress the fire of the Dagukou Fort for me!" ”

The flagship took the lead in opening the way, the four main guns and eight secondary guns on the ship opened fire with all their might, and constantly poured shells towards the battery, the naval military quality of Britain, the United States and France was far from being comparable to the Qing army, especially in the artillery battle, the gap was huge, although now relying on the geographical advantage, the opponent's fleet was beaten to a miserable point, but his own family also knew that he was suffering!

In such a short period of time, more than ten guns of the Dagukou Fort have been damaged!

He Zhengqing was seriously angry, he was really a evil sect, these foreign devils were too accurate!

He Zhengqing looked at Guo Ye on the side and shouted, "Boy, what now?" The battleship among them was so powerful that one shell came down and hit us with three shells, and it was so accurate that it wasn't much worse than me! ”

Guo Ye was also very anxious at this time, if he couldn't take advantage of the advantage to repel or defeat the Western fleet now, he wouldn't be safe with his own small battery!

At this time, the British warships in the distance have begun to approach the tidal flats, and groups of British troops have begun to line up, ready to force landing, once the opponent's army has landed at the mouth of Dagu, at that time, it will be even more difficult to repel the opponent's attack!

Guo Ye gritted his teeth and shouted, "Big brother, come here, come here!" I'll measure the distance for you, you will adjust the design elements, and the two of us will cooperate! To hit their flagship, you must hit it hard, and only by hitting their flagship can you force it back! ”

After all, the artillery of this era is too unfamiliar to Guo Ye, far less skilled than He Zhengqing, and he can only try his own ranging ability to the extreme now!

He Zhengqing hurriedly ran over and began to operate this cannon nervously! Guo Ye was nervously measuring the distance on the side!

"To the southeast, at a distance of eight hundred and fifteen zhang, offset four points to the left, immediately reload the shells, and then fire!"

Guo Ye had already locked the boiler of the British flagship, at this time, the best way was to directly aim at their steam turbine, a few shots down, as long as it was hit, the boiler would explode, and the entire warship would be scrapped!

"Launch!"

He Zhengqing roared angrily, with a loud bang, and the cannonball rushed towards the flagship in the distance like lightning!

Bang!

Rumble!

With a loud bang, the shell fell accurately on the flagship, but alas, there were still some deviations and did not reach the boiler of the flagship!

"Great!"

He Zhengqing almost jumped up with excitement and roared hard.

Guo Ye smiled bitterly, this is called great? Although we concentrated people, this shell did not pose much threat to the flagship of the people, it just caught fire, and as long as the fire was extinguished, the fight could continue!

Guo Ye shouted: "Big brother, don't shout, hurry up, continue, come again, you must hit the smoking place of the opponent's warship, one hit will be hit, as long as it hits there, this warship will be scrapped!" ”

He Zhengqing was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood, it might be the seven inches of the giant ship, right? Although he doesn't know much about warships, he admires this brother next to him very much, and he will fight us how he says!

"Again, in the southeast direction, deviate by seven points to the right, eight hundred and seventy-six zhang!"

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A series of four shells all fell on the flagship of the British army, Hebb was completely panicked, I wipe, I was still laughing at the Qing army's artillery shell technology just now was taught by small-footed women, and their shells became extremely accurate! Damn it!