After the capsizing of the Elisa Peter, the gunboat Berlin soon suffered its fate, and the French cruisers "Oponiat" and "Ambuscade" sank it with large-caliber naval guns, and because the ship sank so fast, most of the crew did not have time to escape, and only the few survivors on the deck were able to swim ashore. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After the main battle on the water, Lone Ba ordered the fleet to sweep the river and prepare for an attack on the port area. At the end of the fierce battle, the river was full of floating corpses and people who had fallen into the water, and the neutral warships parked in the harbor immediately lowered their sampans to rescue the people who had fallen into the water. But the red-eyed French warships were not so gentlemanly at this time, and the sound of rifle fire was constantly coming from the ships, and the Prussian officers and men who fell into the water were being brutally slaughtered, as one French captain recalled: "The water was full of wooden blocks, broken masts, and fragments of the hull, and on the ground of these drifting debris were poor Prussian soldiers who wanted to live, their heads rising from the surface like little black dots." Our sailors, who have shown an enviable spirit and discipline since the beginning of the war, are now so excited by the battle that it is very difficult to prevent them from shooting at these black spots drifting on the water. ”

After clearing the water, the French ships began to shoot tentatively at the shore, and the mines laid on the shore in front of the Prussian army were detonated by the French ships' fire, resulting in a violent explosion. The French warships believed that the Prussian artillery was firing, so they began to concentrate their shelling on the nearby Prussian batteries.

At 10:45 a.m., an ammunition depot of the Prussian army was hit, and another violent explosion occurred on the shore. At 11 o'clock, Guba ordered the shelling to stop and prepare to end the battle. When the fire of the French warships stopped for a while, a group of Prussian artillery began to launch a fierce shelling of the ironclad ship "Ocean" using the Krupp cannons of the concealed batteries, and the "Ocean" was hit, and five French officers and men, including the lone adjutant Major Lyvel, were wounded. Enraged, he ordered a concentrated fire bombardment, and the heroic Prussian battery was quickly suppressed by French artillery fire, and all the artillery was destroyed, and at 11:55 the cannon fire died down.

In this battle, Prussia lost 7 warships and more than 1,600 killed, while the French lost no ships, only 26 killed and 72 wounded.

At the end of the surface battle in the port of Kiel, two French cruisers, the Aroyude and the Embera Capo, appeared outside the harbor at the same time, and these two ships had come to report the results of the battle to Lone and support the battle after completing their combat mission.

At the same time as Guba led the main force of the fast detachment to attack the port of Kiel, the first detachment also rushed to the port of Yad to attack, stationed in the port of Yad is the Prussian Navy "Friedrich Karl" ironclad, the ship has a displacement of 7043 tons, with 16 210 mm guns, is one of the main ships of the Prussian Navy, but it has to face the opponent is two powerful French ironclad ships "Herroing" and "Savoya", "Herroying" and "Savoya" are ships of the same class, both with a displacement of 6070 tons, with 8 240-mm guns and 3 190-mm guns; The cruiser "Aroyud" supporting them has a displacement of 1,388 tons and has 9 150-mm guns, and the ironclad ship "Amid" has a displacement of 3,569 tons and has 6 190-mm guns.

When the first detachment arrived at the port of Yad, the commander, Lieutenant Commander Lisby, did the same thing as Guba in the port of Kiel (both taught by a master), first destroying the Prussian coastal defense batteries at the port with heavy artillery fire, and then storming the harbor. After learning of the attack of the French ship, the "Friedrich Karl" ironclad ship anchored in time, and intended to rush out of the port, but failed, in order to prevent the general ship from escaping, the ironclad ship "Amid" blocked the channel, and then Lieutenant Commander Lisby led two ironclad ships and a cruiser to rush into the harbor to besiege the "Friedrich Karl", and the "Friedrich Karl" under siege under the leadership of the captain Colonel Mark desperately resisted, but could not withstand the superior artillery fire of the French ship, Under heavy bombardment from the 240 mm guns of the French ironclads, the "Friedrich Karl" quickly turned into a pile of burning scrap metal. At the last moment, Captain Mark drove the battleship to run aground, and after discovering that the "Friedrich Karl" had no resistance and the officers and men on the ship had fled, in order to save shells, the French sailors boarded the "Friedrich Karl" in a small boat, detonated the ship's ammunition depot, and completely blew up the ship.

After the final care of the wreck of the "Friedrich Karl", the French ship approached the shore position, and unexpectedly found a large number of old wooden sail warships moored here, due to the wrong wind direction, these old ships of the sail era have been guarded on the shore and cannot move, after seeing the "Friedrich Karl" destroyed, the Prussian sailors on it ran away. The French had no interest in shooting targets against these wooden boats that looked like handicrafts, and Richby, who did not want to waste shells, simply sent sailors to take steam sampans and set fire to them one after another, staging a Western version of "burning red cliffs".

“…… The wooden sailing ships of the Prussian army could not move in a hurry, and they sat and waited to die, and the stars of Ben Yong scattered, and the French army Shui Yong calmly set fire to it, and the smoke and flames soared into the sky, extending to the houses on the shore, and the fire did not ......go out for three days" ("Lin Yizhe's Diary")

While the first detachment attacked the port of Yad, the second detachment, led by Lieutenant Colonel Potel, launched an attack on the Prussian ironclad ship "Arminius", anchored at the mouth of the Elbe.

The Arminius was a small ironclad ship with a displacement of only 1,917 tons, with two twin 210 mm round main turrets, arranged from the center line to the end, and was the first ironclad ship of the Prussian Navy. It is now used as a shore defense ship for the defense of the Elbe estuary.

It is worth noting that the ironclad ship "Arminius" was ordered by Prussia from Britain to meet the needs of the war with Denmark, and Prussia won the Prussian War in the Prussian-Danish War, which made the Danes hate it to the core. The French Navy's attack on Kiel was naturally supported by the Danish Navy.

When the French fleet reached the mouth of the Elbe, the ironclad ship "Arminius" was patrolling, and after discovering the French ship, the "Arminius" tried to escape, but was soon pursued by the French ship, and in front of the ironclad ship "Cologne" with a displacement of 6,420 tons and two 240 mm guns and ten 190 mm guns, and the ironclad ship "Revenge" with a displacement of 6,220 tons, eight 240 mm guns and four 190 mm guns, the "Arminius" had no hope of victory, and after about 20 minutes, " The Arminius was smashed from head to toe and soon exploded and sank. By the time the old ironclad ship Flanders and the cruiser Banshee arrived, only the mast of the Arminius was left on the sea.

In the subdeck cabin of the ironclad ship "Ocean", Gu Ba drafted a report to the French government and prepared a commendation order for all ships participating in the war:

"The atrocities of the Prussian soldiers on French soil have been avenged by your companions at Kiel and by your bravery, but France demands a more glorious reparation, and with a brave sailor like you, she has everything. -- Lonely Pull"

The French warships that destroyed the Prussian Navy were in a very passionate victorious mood. It's just that under the tricolor, the commander is looking at the situation in front of him, but he is thinking about other plans.

According to the orders of the French government, the real task of the battle was to occupy the port of Kiel and clear the way for the landing of the French army. And the annihilation of the Prussian Navy was a pre-preparatory activity for the capture of Kiel.

Unlike the French generals who rushed forward, Gu Ba always showed a steady style in commanding operations, and he would never take risks without complete certainty. After careful consideration, Guba decided that the ships would concentrate their firepower and fiercely shell the nearby Prussian batteries, and "the ships would use grenades to fire at suspicious targets on the shore and around them." At 2 p.m., under the cover of the gunfire of the warships, dozens of officers and men of the landing party carrying the "Golroas" and "Sulfrant" took sampans and forcibly landed ashore.

Seeing that the nearby batteries had been cleared, Guba redeployed the combat operation. At about 3 o'clock, the French Army, led by Major Pierre, was the first to leave on the transport ship "Alton", rowing a sampan towards the beach. At 3:30, the French Pierre's brigade successfully landed on the beach and quickly advanced inland. To the surprise of the French army, no trace of the Prussian army was found, and various Prussian fortifications fell into the hands of the French army one after another. "The Prussian army has inexplicably disappeared, leaving some civilians who do not seem to hurt on the surface." At about 5 o'clock, facing the red, white and blue tricolor flags that were waved around, Lone Pull stepped on the land of Kiel. Soon after, the French army entered the city of Kiel, but still no trace of the Prussian army was found, and Kiel fell into the hands of the French.

The French generals were so surprised by this dramatic scene that they did not order their troops to move on, but to hold on to Kiel first. At the request of Guba, the French Army sent a reconnaissance unit to search the interior, but still no trace of the Prussian army was found.

Unbeknownst to Gubba and the French army generals, the fact was that there were not many defenders of Kiel before they attacked them. Due to the fierce fighting on the Franco-Prussian front, the Prussian army suffered too many casualties, and the number of troops was seriously insufficient, the Prussian government had no choice but to transfer troops from all over the country to replenish the front, and the defenders of Kiel Port were naturally not spared.

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