Chapter 1117: The Opening Battle (2)
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"Rose" and "Victory" are both cruisers, the speed is very fast, this time the momentum is surging, I thought that my huge fleet is nearby, the Qing army is just a cruiser, how can there be the courage to resist, it is definitely a rush to catch away, but I never expected that Su Ke would dare to be so arrogant and unreasonable to put on a desperate posture, when I can see that the porthole of the port side of the "Shunfeng" is fully open, the distance between the two sides is already less than one nautical mile, at most it is more than 900 meters away, even if Cook·‘ The order of Bosinia was issued in a very timely manner, and the British sailors were also extremely hard, but it took time to reduce the speed and turn the rudder, and the distance between the two sides was inevitably close to less than 750 meters, and at this time, the Qing army was already ready to 'shoot' the attack, but the two British battleships were still busy making tactical maneuvers, and it was clear that they were two good artillery targets. ().Access:.
"Concentrate your firepower and bombard the enemy ship on the left rear side of Lao Tzu!"
Su Ke is a graduate of the second phase of Houhai Academy in the navy, although he has never participated in the previous battle of Dongying, but he has never lacked the courage to fight bloodily, even if the enemy's large fleet is nearby, he will not pay attention to it, let alone wait for the two British warships to do a tactical maneuver, but when he waved his hand, he was already in a high-pitched voice.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Most of the sailors of the Qing army grew up after the battle of Dongying, although the actual combat experience is relatively lacking, but the level of training is not low at all - the three main fleets of the Qing army have two large-scale actual combat exercises every year, and the training on weekdays is even stricter to the point of strictness, really calculated, the military expenditure of the navy is actually much more than that of the army, but because most of the military expenditure is the account of the "Eight Banners Firm", the expenses shown in the national accounts are not too conspicuous, there is no doubt With so much silver smashed, the tactical literacy of the Qing Navy will naturally not be too low, no, it will be ordered, and the twelve 'guns' have roared in turn, and the huge anti-shock force has pushed the entire battleship back more than ten meters flatly.
The "Shunfeng" is a high-speed cruiser, and its function is to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and it is equipped with not many cannons, and all of them are medium guns, not all of which are equipped with heavy guns like battleships, but even so, the power of the artillery is still very strong, with a caliber of 15 and an effective "firing" range of more than 1,500 meters. Flower' bombs, only equipped with a small part of the conical solid bullets and shotguns, the first round of salvo 'shot' all are new type of 'flower' bombs, filled with projectiles and yellow 'color' 'explosives', the power is huge, has initially had the prototype of the blasting bomb, a round of 'shot' down, although most of them are empty, but there are still four shells hit the "Rose" fiercely, two of which hit the rear deck, the "Rose" stern exploded out of two big holes, the flames instantly steamed, The other two hit the starboard side of the "Rose",Sawdust splashed,Two of its upper gun portholes were destroyed,xt full works download/
"Fight back, fight back!"
Fang suffered such a big loss as soon as the war began, Cook · Lieutenant Colonel Po'sinia was furious, stamped his feet and roared.
The two cruisers of Great Britain are not the latest types of battleships of Great Britain, with a total length of 32 meters, a long and narrow hull, a two-masted schooner, only one gun deck, nine guns on each side, one gun on the bow gun, no guns at the stern rudder, and the function of the idea is roughly the same as that of the cruisers of the Qing army, which are used for reconnaissance and the transportation of letters and broke. The use of handover, as far as the ship type is concerned, is basically the same as that of the Qing army, but the volume is obviously smaller, and the artillery equipped is also medium-sized rear-loading artillery, the difference is that the artillery made by Great Britain is obviously behind the new cannon of the Qing army, and the black fire 'powder' is added in the way of manual estimation, and although the cannonballs used are also 'flower' shells, they can still be filled with black fire 'medicine', not the yellow 'color' 'fried' used by the Qing army Medicine', both the loading efficiency and the power of the artillery, are much worse than the standard artillery of the Qing army, but the British sailors' 'maneuvering' ship level and actual combat experience are obviously higher than the Qing army, although they were caught off guard by the Qing army's preemptive strike, but the adjustment is extremely fast.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Cook · Lieutenant Colonel Bosinia's general ordered that the "Victory," which had not been attacked before, took the lead in completing the tactical maneuver of turning, and almost as soon as the side side was facing the "Shunfeng," it had already brazenly launched a counterattack, and the nine "guns" fired one after another, and the round shells whistled through the sky, and smashed at the "Shunfeng" with their heads covered in the face, but the target head was obviously affected by the sharp turn, and only one shell smashed on the side of the "Shunfeng," although it exploded into a ball of fire Flowers', but failed to penetrate the ship's side, only blew up a shallow crater on the side of the ship, there is nothing else, the effective 'firing' range of the "Victory'" naval guns (curved 'shooting', 'shooting' angle of four degrees) is only about 800 meters, the distance between the two sides is almost 750 meters, even if the shells can hit the Qing warship, it is already the end of the crossbow, naturally there will not be much power at all, as for the remaining eight shells, but they all fell into the air, except for splashing a 'wave' Flowers, there is no rest, and the subsequent attack of the "Rose" shelling effect is even worse, there were originally only seven 'guns' left, one by one 'shot', all fell into the air, obviously, it is not that the British sailors do not work hard, but this distance is not the Britons are accustomed to shelling distance, the artillery itself is defective, the hit rate is naturally not very guaranteed.
"Drive diagonally, lean over and hit again!"
Seeing that the shelling was not effective, Cook · Lieutenant Colonel Bo'sinia couldn't help but be a little anxious, and he didn't want to fight with the Qing army at such a distance, so he hurriedly changed his tactics with a wave of his hand.
"Keep firing and focus on the wounded one!"
Before the war, although Su Ke's fighting spirit was fierce, he was actually a little apprehensive in his heart, after all, this was his first battle, and it was one against two, before he had not 'touched' the reality of the British, how could Su Ke really take it lightly, but when he saw that the other party had a round of artillery bombardment, he only scratched a little 'fur' on his side, and his hanging heart fell to the ground, and he didn't care about the tactical maneuvers of the two British warships, and excitedly issued the general order again.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The gunners of the Qing army were all well-trained, and although they lacked actual combat experience, they were all very high-spirited in the case of victory in the first round, and their hands and feet were a little sharper than in ordinary training, and the loading of the artillery was much faster than that of the British.
Perhaps under the influence of the first round of shelling of the Warring States, the officers and men of the Qing army almost took out all their skills, the effect of the second round of shelling was obviously stronger than the first round, twelve shells, six hit the target, one of the cannonballs even damaged the foremast sail of the "Rose", which immediately slowed down the speed of the "Rose", as for the remaining five shells, two hit the ship's building, causing a raging fire, and the other three smashed on the foredeck, blowing up the busy ' The British sailors of the wave were dead and wounded, and if it weren't for the 'squire' beside him, he would have killed Cook · If Lieutenant Colonel Po'Sinia was pressed under him, he would have become the first captain to die in this naval battle.
"Don't panic, keep getting closer, and order the 'Victory' to attack and attract enemy fire!"
Cook · Lieutenant Colonel Po'sinia escaped by chance, but he was not frightened by this, but when he pushed away the seriously wounded and dying 'attendant' who was pressing on him, he struggled to stand up straight, waved his hands, and gave the order in a loud voice.
"Boom, boom, boom......"
The officers and men of the British Navy were undoubtedly extremely outstanding in their ability and resolute in carrying out their orders; even when they were driving diagonally, the gun emplacements were nervously preparing for battle, busy but not 'chaotic'; even though the "Rose" had already suffered a heavy setback, the officers and men of the "Victory" were still unmoved, and quickly and diagonally grabbed a distance of about 600 meters from the "Shunfeng" and unceremoniously launched a ferocious artillery bombardment.
"Boom, Boom......"
Nine shells whizzed through the sky, almost in no particular order, and smashed towards the "Shunfeng", this time, the hit rate was obviously much higher, a total of four shells smashed on the "Shunfeng", one on the front and rear decks, another hit the side side, and the last one hit the rear sail of the "Shunfeng", damaging both spinnakers, and several other Qing officers and men were killed and wounded.
The British's counterattack opened two holes in the fore and rear decks of the "Shunfeng", causing a raging fire, which seemed serious, but in fact the damage here was not large, but the damaged two-sided spinnaker caused the speed of the "Shunfeng" to be reduced sharply. "'Milk' and 'milk' bears, dare to fight back, sons, hit Lao Tzu hard, and overturn the enemy ship that came over!" Su Ke is not the master who suffers losses and does not fight back, this time the "Rose" is far behind, and the "Victory" is constantly leaning towards his own ship from the diagonal direction, immediately changing the previous combat goal, and roaring and giving the general order.