Chapter 354: The Ninth Wave

"What? The Imperial Chinese Navy came from behind? That's impossible! ”

"Don't be impossible, there's a fight outside, do you listen to this dense cannon sound, it looks like a small fight?"

"Hurry up and withdraw, if you don't withdraw, you will be blocked in this waterway and you won't be able to get out!"

In the secret waterway of Lunwa Island, dozens of warships of the British Navy are still fighting, and they have just destroyed the dome cruiser Haidai, which was stranded on the beach, and are preparing to beat the three ironclad ships Dingyuan, Zhenyuan, and Zhiyuan, which are also beached and stranded, into scrap iron. At this time, a fierce naval battle broke out in the Solomon Sea area on the north side of the secret waterway, and the sudden appearance of the main fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy caught the British Navy by surprise and plunged into a state of chaos.

At this time, the commanders of the British ships fighting in the waterway all gave the order to retreat, otherwise they would be blocked in the waterway.

However, Admiral Chen Shaoyi, who was bent on revenge, returned the favor with his own way, and used Matt's tactics to deal with the British Navy in turn, he naturally would not give the British a chance, and immediately led three teams of a total of six Hsiungfeng-class battleships and three Zhongning-class armored cruisers to the entrance of the secret waterway of Lenwa Island.

"Is this it? Sure enough, it's a secret waterway! ”

Chen Shaoyi snorted coldly, and the next moment he resolutely ordered to storm the British warships near the exit of the waterway.

"Boom!"

Dense shells smashed into the surrounding British ships, and the British ships in the secret waterways scrambled out, only to be fiercely attacked.

"Knock knock!"

The main guns of the first squadron of the three ships of the Wind, Hurricane and Hurricane fired a salvo, and the target was the British ship Clymene at the front. This is a new armored cruiser built by the British Navy, to counter the Haiqi-class dome cruiser of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

The two sides were less than three kilometers apart, and at such a close distance, the 305-millimeter armor-piercing shells fired by the three Hsiungfeng-class battleships accurately hit the Cleimine, piercing her armor.

"Boom! Boom! ”

During the Mars blast, the Cleimine caught fire and smoked from it.

The Clymene holds its black smoke tail. He staggered and continued to drive outward, but did not go far when he was hit by a volley of fire from the flanks of the Whirlwind, Gale and Gangfeng of the Second Squadron of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and six large-caliber shells hit directly, one of which hit the fatal penetrating damage and detonated the ammunition depot under the main gun on the rear deck of the Clymene.

There was a loud bang, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and a fiery mushroom cloud rose into the sky, erupting like gunsmoke and fire, reaching thousands of meters high. It makes people feel spectacular, but also deeply fearful.

"Retreat, quick, accelerate!"

"Hey, hey, don't go this way, go over there!"

"Damn black smoke, I can't see what's up ahead!"

"Oh God, the Darth is in the ass of the Tim Phillips!"

"Fake. The shipwreck is blocking the course, and we can't get out! ”

The detonation of the Clymene caused it to block the left lane, and a large amount of coal was burning. The fire was fierce and black smoke obscured the sky, blocking the view of other British ships in the vicinity, resulting in a series of collisions. Several British ships were sunk, blocking the channel, and dozens of British ships were trapped in the channel.

The Solomon Sea is still in the midst of fierce fighting. The British battleships also had a numerical advantage, but due to the confusion, lack of formation, and lack of command, they could not form a fist to resist the attack of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and a large number of British warships were sunk or heavily damaged.

The only dozen or so ironclad ships relied on by the British Navy sank and were wounded, and ten were trapped in the waterway and could not get out, leaving five outside, which were the flagships of the other five British vice admirals, but they were fighting on their own, and were soon besieged by the main warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy and were wounded in the fierce battle.

"Don't let him get close, fire the cannon attack!"

The British ironclad ship Norfolk of the Fourth Fleet was confronting the ironclad ship Pingyuan of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and the British captain soon noticed that two ironclad ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy, Laiyuan and Weiyuan, suddenly appeared on the right, so he hurriedly ordered the launch of fish radium to prevent the other party from approaching.

However, the real killer move was on the left, the Sunning armored cruiser suddenly broke through the interception of several British frigates, slid in diagonally from the flanks and rear, and suddenly rushed towards the Norfolk at high speed.

By the time the Norfolk found out, the extremely fast Sunning had already entered a distance of a thousand meters.

"Tom!"

The Fish Radium was launched and slammed into the Norfolk at high speed.

The Norfolk made an emergency evasion, but unfortunately was hit.

With a loud bang, the Norfolk port side waterline armor was torn open more than a meter wide, and fire and black smoke erupted, and the sea water swirled into it.

This kind of damage, the British army could not repair, their drainage machines did not work, and the sinking was a foregone conclusion.

The commander of the Norfolk had to give the order to abandon ship, and five minutes later the Norfolk, the flagship of the British Navy's Fourth Fleet, sank, and the other British ships of the fleet were completely invincible and immediately scattered in all directions.

The sinking of the ironclad ship Norfolk caused even greater psychological panic in the British Navy, and more and more British warships immediately turned around and fled when they saw that they were defeated.

However, not all British troops were afraid of death, and some British warships fought fiercely and fought back at the ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy like crazy.

At 2:03 p.m., the three ironclad ships of Jingyuan, Jingyuan, and Pingyuan bit the Mariland, the flagship of the British Navy's Third Fleet, and still adopted the tactics of dividing and encircling and raiding, which were the standard subjects of the Imperial Chinese Navy's training in peacetime.

The armored cruisers USS Canning and HMS Genning blocked several frigates of the British Navy's Third Fleet, giving the HMS Channing a chance to insert diagonally into the port side of the USS Maryland and successfully launch a radium at the Maryland.

As in the usual exercises, the Maryland was blinded by the tactics of the Imperial Chinese Navy, and before it could remember to react, it was hit by the fish radium launched by the Qianning, and the sea water poured back, causing the Maryland battleship to slowly tilt and begin to sink.

At this moment, something unexpected happened, and the four cruisers and three frigates of the British Navy's Third Fleet saw that the flagship was sunk by Fish Radium, but instead of escaping, they rushed over like crazy.

The Qianning went to attack the Maryland and has not yet returned. The two armored cruisers, the Canning and the Genning, opened heavy fire and burst a British cruiser approaching at the front, but the opponent was too numerous to intercept for a while, and was entangled by the other three British cruisers, but unexpectedly, the other three British frigates rushed directly towards the Jingyuan ironclad.

The Jingyuan ironclad ship urgently turned its guns to bombard the three British frigates close to him, and blew up one of the British ships with one shot, but the other two British ships had already approached the Jingyuan, and at this time, the only Pingyuan next to it came to the rescue and stopped one of the British ships again. However, there was also a British frigate, the Green Pearl, crashing into the Jingyuan at high speed.

"Launch Fish Radium!"

"Launch Fish Radium!"

The Jingyuan and the Green Pearl launched the Fish Radium almost at the same time, and they were also doing evasive actions at the same time, the Green Pearl was faster and dodged the Fish Radium launched by the Jingyuan ship, but it was hit by the reloaded rear main gun, and it exploded instantly.

However, the Jingyuan was slower, but it was unable to dodge the Fish Radium, but it avoided the vital part during the emergency evasion, and finally the Fish Ray hit the port side of the bow waterline. Blow up a hole more than half a meter wide.

A large amount of seawater poured in, and the sailors of the Jingyuan ship hurriedly used a water pump to drain the water, but there was more in and less out. The captain had no choice but to play the banner of "this ship has been heavily damaged and has withdrawn from the battle sequence". Quickly sail to the shore and run aground.

The same thing was happening over and over again, with more than two hundred warships of the British Navy taking part in the war, many of them old cruisers and frigates, but there were too many. The scene was very chaotic. The ships of the Imperial Chinese Navy in a state of formation, three in a group, can concentrate their firepower to attack one of the British warships. Sink it as fast as you can, but a panicked British ship often pops up behind you and an encounter breaks out.

Because the British Navy's artillery used hey medicine, black smoke filled after firing, after a large number of British ships exploded, the shipboard coal burned fiercely, billowing black smoke, and the battlefield was close to the shore of the island, the sea breeze was not strong enough, resulting in the black smoke over the battlefield becoming thicker and thicker, covering the sky and the sun, and a cloud of black smoke on the sea blocked the view.

In this case, the advantages that originally belonged to the Imperial Chinese Navy were weakened, and a large number of warships scattered and fled in the British Navy often encountered the warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy at close range, and both sides actually did not want to touch each other, but they just ran into each other.

At 2:17 p.m., the Haihuan was violently attacking a British cruiser when a British frigate suddenly rushed out of the black smoke behind the side. The British ship wanted to escape, but unfortunately on the way to escape, it always ran into the warships of the Chinese Empire, but this time, the commander on the British ship found himself in an excellent position to attack, so he immediately fired Fish Radium, which hit the Haihuan.

Originally, behind the Haichen and Haitian were Haichen, and there was generally no need to worry about being suddenly attacked by the British ship Fish Radium, but it happened that a large cloud of black smoke also blocked the sight of the Haichen and Haitian, so that they did not find the British ship that broke over at the first time, and when they found out, it was too late, the Haihuan exploded in a mine, the power system was destroyed, and it could not reach the shore and ran aground, and it sank soon.

Fortunately, the water depth in this place was only a dozen meters, and the main mast of the Haihuan was exposed to the sea, and many smooth sailors escaped and were rescued by Haichen and Haitian in time.

Black smoke shrouded the battlefield, and after several hours of fierce fighting, the visibility became worse and worse, and when Chen Shaoyi found that his own warships were sinking and realized this problem, he couldn't notify the ships, because the flag could not be transmitted at all in this situation, and other warships could not see it.

Scuffle, it's really a scuffle, it can only be seen who lasts to the end.

The British Navy had obviously become a frightened bird, and it could encounter the murderous warships of the Imperial Chinese Navy everywhere, so it could only hide everywhere, and if it couldn't dodge, it would fight hard.

"Boom!"

Another British frigate rammed and sank a British cruiser, and the British officers and men were all angry and cried, the original design of the ramming angle was obviously used to ram the enemy, but now it is only hitting its own people, and it is really being killed.

Without these British Navy, the pressure on the Imperial Chinese Navy was suddenly reduced, and the British warships that only ran away and did not fight, the Imperial Chinese Navy no longer pursued and fought fiercely, and let them escape, after all, the number of opponents was too large, and it was impossible to barely encircle and annihilate them, but they would lose a lot because of a small loss, so it was better to concentrate on attacking important targets, and how many could be sunk.

The naval battle has reached this point, and the victory already belongs to the Imperial Chinese Navy, it just depends on whether the final result is more or less.

There were more than 200 British warships, one-third of which resisted stubbornly, and when these British warships were successively wiped out by the Chinese Imperial Navy, the other British warships had no intention of fighting, and this time they completely began to escape.

At about 4:40 p.m., the entire southern sea of the Solomon Sea was dark, and there were sunken warships everywhere, billowing black smoke coming out, covering the sky and the sun, but the sound of artillery became less and less, and more than 100 British warships of all kinds were sunk, and more than 100 British ships were either seriously damaged or slightly damaged, but they all managed to escape.

The Imperial Chinese Navy did not pursue them, as they had a more important goal to eliminate, which was the more than twenty British ships trapped in the Lenwa waterway, where there were ten British revenge-class ironclads, which were the real highlight.

Matt wanted to play the game of shutting down the door and beating the dog, but Chen Shaoyi turned the door and beat the dog, but he successfully beat the British Navy into a dog and abused him.

The fierce battle continued, and Chen Shaoyi pulled nine Hsiungfeng-class battleships and four Dingyuan-class ironclad ships over to bombard ten of the British army's most advanced Revenge-class ironclad ships.

This time it was the turn of the British ironclad to be trapped in the waterway and beaten.

Six hours ago, when the British Navy besieged the Fourth Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, they did not expect the retribution to come so quickly, and in the blink of an eye, they were blocked in the same place by the Imperial Chinese Navy, and they were shut down and beaten by others.

Boom!

The British ships were shot one after another, and a large explosion occurred. Although the protection of their ironclad ships has been strengthened, they still can't stand the fierce artillery fire of the Imperial Chinese Navy, more than 20 warships are live targets, those cruisers and frigates were quickly sunk, and the ten revenge-class ironclad ships are quite resistant, and it took the Imperial Chinese Navy half an hour to sink two.

Chen Shaoyi did not order the Fish and Ray Boat to attack, otherwise the ten most advanced ironclad ships of the British army would have been sunk. He wanted to capture these warships and use them to make up for the losses of the Imperial Chinese Navy.

"Fight or surrender?"

The British commanders of the trapped ships were communicating with each other in the language of the flags, they were well aware of the situation outside, and the sound of the guns on the Solomon Sea was heard, indicating that the main fleet of the British Empire had been completely defeated. Now trapped in the waterway and unable to get out, either die in battle or surrender, there is no third way to go.

The British commanders of the ships hesitated, some in favor of surrender, and some fought to the death. But as the Indian ironclad was the first to raise the white flag, the commanders of the other seven British ironclads finally gave up resistance and surrendered en masse.

Anyway, it's not the first time to surrender, it's important to save your life, these British generals are very single. (To be continued.) )