Less than 5 nautical miles north of the Riau Islands, Zhu Guohui limped into the Yongli's No. 1 power room, which was originally one of the hottest, dirtiest, noisiest and most breathless places on the entire ironclad ship. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info In this day and age, working on a ship is an absolute chore! But now, the noise in the power compartment is gone, the ventilation is very good, and the cool sea breeze is coming in slowly - through a huge and hideous hole!

Three minutes earlier, a 16-inch armor-piercing projectile had hit the Yongli, easily tearing through the amidships' armor belts and the armor plates of the power compartment, and then crashing headlong into a three-expansion steam engine and completely shattering it, turning the entire power compartment into a hell with scattered steam engine fragments. As soon as Zhu Guohui came in, he smelled a strong smell of blood. Several flesh-and-blood human bodies were carried out, and one of them, Zhu Guohui, vaguely thought that it was the chief engineer of the Yongli, Ita Motohachirota.

"Brother Zihua, why did you come down?"

Just when Zhu Guohui took his eyes off the body that was suspected to be Itayuan Hachirotai, the voice of Lin Tongzhong, the captain of the management team who was organizing emergency repairs, sounded in his ears, and shouted his name.

Zhu Guohui looked over, and then saw Lin Tongzhong, who had become a "black man", in the dim light. The face that used to be white in the navy is now completely black, and I don't know if it was stained with soot or blackened by gunsmoke.

"Boom...... =a=Ben=Read=Novel="

Before Zhu Guohui could speak, the Yongli seemed to be slammed by something, shaking violently, and Zhu Guohui fell to the ground without standing firmly-obviously. Another British shell has hit the Yongli! This ironclad ship, which once made the new Japanese Navy proud. In the face of the 14,000-ton Empress of India. The danger of destruction is felt!

"The phone on the ship couldn't get through, maybe the phone line was broken, so the captain asked me to come down and take a look for myself. Tongzhong, how is it, can it be repaired? Zhu Guohui got up with the support of a marine soldier, he did not call Lin Tongzhong's name, not everyone in the Greater China system of this era will have a name, generally only nobles or scholars have a name.

Lin Tongzhong's father was nothing more than a farmer in Huanggang, Hubei. Because of the poverty of the family, he had to go out, and when he heard that gold mines had been discovered in New Japan, he borrowed usury with the intention of Bo Bo to break through. As a result, he made a fortune in New Japan, so he took Lin Tongzhong and his mother to settle down in New Japan.

"Fixed?" Lin Tongzhong smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth, looked at the steam engine that was already sparse, and shook his head, "The Yongli is finished, there is no steam engine, and there is a hit under the waterline...... No, it should be two! ”

At this time, Zhu Guohui and Lin Tongzhong had already sensed that the ironclad ship was tilting!

"Pipe damage, a shot in the starboard middle waterline! Penetrated the No. 3 coal tank. A huge influx of seawater! Someone was already shouting.

"Is the hatch closed?"

"You can't close it! The door is broken! ”

"Hell! I'll go over here! Lin Tongzhong shook his head, and walked out with a sad face. When he arrived at the hatch, he suddenly stopped and looked back at Zhu Guohui.

"Brother Zihua, I suggest abandoning the ship!" Lin Tongzhong gritted his teeth and said the suggestion to "abandon the ship", which is his power and responsibility as the captain of the damage management team - in the case of the warship is irretrievable.

"Is it really that serious?" Zhu Guohui limped after Lin Tongzhong and asked, "Isn't it just a solid bullet, why do you have to abandon the ship?" ”

"Brother Zihua, I can't be clearer about the structure of the Saxony-class, if it is shot above the waterline, let alone one, a hundred solid bullets will not sink. But it's not the same if the waterline is pierced, 406mm shells! There is half a meter in one opening, and now the waterproof hatch can't be closed, so I can't give up two compartments, the port side has to be filled with water, and the steam engine has been destroyed, and the power is only half of the power left at most......"

As they spoke, the two of them had already reached the walkway outside the No. 3 coal bunker, and in just such a little effort, the sea water had reached their knees. Several helpless members of the management team were standing outside the coal bunker, and when they saw Lin Tongzhong coming, they told him that the waterproof hatch of the coal bunker was not hit, but it was stuck by something - this is a common thing after being shot, and it is just unlucky (it may be that Zhu Jishi's name is really unlucky, so he is unlucky).

"I can only close the hatch outside, Brother Zihua, see it, it's almost flooded! The ship is coming to an end! ”

……

"Who's closest to us now?"

In the command tower of the Yongli, Yu Guibei stared at his red eyes, and gritted his teeth to ask questions.

Thundered......

Here are the 6 16-inch guns of the Empress of India answering. Now the closest to the Yongli, don't ask, of course, it is the Empress of India who is bombarding the Yongli!

The First Battleship Detachment, with the Yongli as its flagship, was scattered a quarter of an hour ago by three Indian Queen-class ships. The latter is a 14,000-ton ship, and there is a ramming angle in the bow, and the speed can even exceed 16 knots when it collides at full speed - that is, 28.8 km / h. Fortunately, Takehiro Enomoto's skill in maneuvering the ship was good, and he flashed fast enough to barely avoid it. But the column of four Saxony-class ships could no longer be maintained, and they had to fight on their own.

"The Hongguang is the closest!" Zhu Guohui held the telescope and looked around, and found that the Hongguang was about 3,000 meters away, tickling the Indian Empress with its 155mm rapid-fire cannon.

"Signal, get it closer." Yu Beigui paused, revealing a painful expression, "Abandon the ship now!" Enomoto-kun, give the order! Abandon the ship! ”

Five minutes later, the mournful abandonment sirens sounded everywhere in the ironclad ship Yongli, which meant that the first sunken battleship in the South China Sea would soon be born!

It needs to be explained here that the current New Japan is a tyrant country, and the Ming Empire is the world's largest industrial power in steel and shipbuilding. So there are no captains who "died and sank together". The price of a Saxony-class is only more than 1 million Chinese yuan, and if the Daming Admiralty places an order to Daming's own shipyard, the ironclad ship of this class will definitely be within 1 million. If you lose it, you lose it, there's nothing you can't think about. Therefore, after the abandonment alarm sounded, all the officers and men of the ship began to jump into the sea in an orderly manner!

Well, of course, jumping into the sea, and now we're at war. It is impossible for the Hongguang to get close to the Yongli, but it is only circling around the Yongli at 1000 miles, and at the same time, it is also using the Yongli's hull to block the shells from the Indian Queen. And the lifeboat on the Yongli has long been thrown away with the torpedo after the exchange of fire began, in the previous skirmish with the British, there had been a torpedo explosion caused the light cruiser to be scrapped and the lifeboat to fire caused heavy damage to the ship, so the Ming Royal Navy issued a new regulation, and these two things were thrown away before the decisive battle of the fleet began.

And just when Zhu Guohui jumped into the sea, endured the pain all over his body, and struggled to swim towards the Hongguang 1,000 meters away. His brother Zhu Guoguang is building meritorious deeds. His Tientsin is firing torpedoes at the hapless armored cruiser USS Orlando! The 5,600-ton British armored cruiser was badly wounded, the front and rear main guns were destroyed, and the secondary guns on one side were also destroyed. Although Lang Willy was unwilling to quit the battle and let the Orlando hold out for a while, but soon the fire became more and more intense and spread to the power room, and Lang Willy had to order the flag to be hung out and let the Orlando withdraw from the battle to save itself. As a result, he was targeted by Zhu Guoguang, who had just arrived.

Watching the two torpedoes dragging white water trails slam into the Orlando, and then turned into two huge fireballs with two booms, Zhu Guoguang let out a long sigh, he finally had the first result of sinking the enemy ship, and this was only the beginning of his good luck! Because on today's battlefield, there are too many wounded British who are trying to withdraw from the battle. ship. (To be continued......)