Weihaiwei, today's Weihaiwei is completely different from a few years ago. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The north and south sides are towering forts, the south fort and the north fort, together, a total of 100 heavy guns, these guns are purchased from the United States, in order to speed up the construction progress of the Weihaiwei fort, Guo Ye spared no expense, from the United States to purchase the latest coastal defense guns, all of which are large-caliber rifled guns!

One hundred artillery pieces, 50,000 shells, this is the strength of the entire Weihaiwei Fort battery group! These things cost Guo Ye two million US dollars, which is converted into silver, that is, one and a half million taels, that is, Guo Ye, through the relationship between Colt and Grant, can get the cheapest arms, if it is purchased by the Qing government, I am afraid that it will be difficult to take it without four million US dollars, and it will definitely be slaughtered!

In addition to these two artillery battalions, the artillery battalion directly under the Second Division of the Lu Army and the artillery battalion of the First Brigade have also assembled in Weihaiwei and are ready for battle.

Yan Chunyu did not come to Weihaiwei, but sent Gao He to Weihaiwei, with Gao He in Weihaiwei, the problem will not be too big, what Yan Chunyu has to do now is to always pay attention to the overall situation of Shandong, the great enemy is current, Yan Chunyu does not dare to have the slightest carelessness, one wrong step is the danger of overturning!

Above the Yellow Sea, the fleet of the British Empire cleaved the waves all the way and galloped towards Weihaiwei.

With a telescope in his hand, Dundas looked into the distance, and two huge turrets gradually entered Dundas's line of sight!

Hiss......

Dundas gasped, he didn't expect that only four or five years had passed, and now Weihaiwei had completely changed! According to previous military data, there are two batteries in Weihaiwei, but the batteries are very old, and there are forty or fifty guns on them, all of which are old-fashioned old guns, which are not enough to threaten the most advanced ironclad ships of the British Empire, even if they are ordinary battleships, they are enough to defend against the artillery fire on the original batteries of Weihaiwei.

But what caught Dundas's eye was not the same thing at all! The two batteries have already been renovated, and there are dozens of artillery pieces standing on the forts, and the thick artillery muzzles alone are enough to deter Dundas, the commander of the navy, Weihaiwei, is definitely not a soft persimmon!

Perhaps, this time I really chose the wrong ......

Dundas's heart was a little shaken, but he immediately suppressed such thoughts, the British Imperial Navy has always been invincible, maybe the army has lost battles, but the navy, in the past two hundred years, can make the British Imperial Navy suffer a loss, and it really hasn't happened!

"Order, all the warships of the Imperial Fleet will rush forward, and after entering the firing range, immediately carry out a covering bombardment of Weihaiwei's battery, don't spare your hand, in the shortest possible time, destroy the Weihaiwei battery!"

"Yes!"

The staff officer on the side agreed and conveyed the order!

The Imperial fleet lined up in an arc and approached quickly towards the Weihaiwei Battery.

On the fort of Weihaiwei, the scouts had already seen the foreigner fleet that was rapidly approaching in the distance, and quickly reported the information to Gao E, who was sitting in Weihaiwei.

Gao E's face was solemn, and he came to the watchtower of Weihaiwei Fort, and watched carefully, at this time, the fleet of the British Empire was only a dozen kilometers away from the fort, and it would soon enter the firing range.

"Order, all the people in the two batteries are in a state of emergency combat readiness, and as soon as the foreigner fleet begins to attack, let me go, don't save shells! Order the two artillery battalions in the back to also be ready for battle, wait for the attack, don't be in a hurry, wait until the foreigners' warships are within the range of the artillery before fighting, or don't fight, if you want to fight, you will stab them out of three catties of blood! ”

Soon after Gao E's order was conveyed, the British Imperial fleet had already arrived five or six kilometers away from the fort, and Dundas couldn't wait for a long time, and as soon as he arrived, he ordered nearly twenty warships to be thrown into the battle.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The cannonballs of the imperial fleet were overwhelmingly smashed down on the batteries, just five battleships, there were more than 100 guns, in addition to the battleships, the fleet also had more than ten gunboats, in the battle of Fuzhou, a gunboat was sunk, a gunner was damaged, and it was impossible to participate in the battle for a short time, and a battleship remained on the Min River, stationed in Fuzhou, in addition to these, there were ten gunboats, a gunboat with four or five guns, that is not a few, together, there are nearly 200 guns!

Now that Dundas has given an order, the firepower is in full swing, and you can imagine what kind of pressure the Weihaiwei Fort is facing!

One shell after another landed on the Weihaiwei battery, setting off a huge explosion, however, this battery is obviously not so easy to deal with, the entire shell is granite except for concrete, and the lower body of the artillery is all under protection!

The explosion of the shell was only filled with gunsmoke, and it fell on the granite, only to smash a layer of skin on it, blowing up a shallow crater, and it was far from destroying the fort!

However, since the fleet has done it, the artillery on the battery will naturally not show weakness, this is all drawn from the Lu army, and it has been trained for a long time!

The British Imperial Fleet opened fire with all its might, and on the two batteries, a hundred guns were naturally also at full fire, and they fired towards the battleships of the British Imperial Fleet on the Yellow Sea!

The forts in Fuzhou can't help the British fleet, and it doesn't mean that the forts in Weihaiwei are also so wasteful! A hundred of the latest coastal defense guns, both in range and power, are not under the main naval guns of the British fleet!

Shells hit the fleet and hit the British ships!

On the "Elgent", Dundas's face changed drastically, the current British battleship is still five kilometers away, I didn't expect Weihaiwei's shore defense artillery to hit it easily!

"Quick! Quick, hurry up and avoid it! ”

Dundas shouted in his heart, without Dundas's order, all the battleships moved in a panic, careless, careless, the power of this battery is too strong, it is no longer weaker than the naval fortress of the British Empire!

"Boom, boom!" ……

One shell after another fell on the Yellow Sea, sending the Yellow Sea into a monstrous wave and a deafening roar! Of the 100 shells, only a dozen or so fell on the battleship, but in the face of the battleship escorted by the iron ship, only a dozen shells could not hit it hard, let alone not on the same battleship?

However, the battleship can resist, does not mean that the gunboat can resist, among the gunboats there are all wooden old gunboats, in the face of these shells, these gunboats, but they are about to suffer!

(To be continued.) )