Chapter 331: Naval Battle (Part II)
With a bang, the Krupp guns of the Santa Maria directly hit the mine room of the Rustin ironclad, igniting the ammunition inside, and in an instant the terrible flames engulfed the battleship. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The Rastins, who didn't realize what was happening, died in the Yellow Springs.
And the officers and men of the St. Mary who witnessed all this were overjoyed, they had long since had enough of the Rastines running rampant on their land and their seas, and it was time to give them color back! I saw that the huge explosion almost completely blew up the ironclad ship into ruins, the internal machinery and the external armor were completely broken and shattered, and the entire battleship lost its combat effectiveness. With a mere covert attack, Plekhanov paid a huge price to the arrogant Neo-Brad kingdom.
But there was no joy on Plekhanov's face, and he seemed to be worried about something in comparison.
Suddenly, the man yelled:
"Left full rudder, do evasive maneuvers!"
There was so much power in his voice that John almost couldn't recognize the man as he had always thought he had been lazy, and when he gave orders, people couldn't help but obey them, and they didn't dare to disobey him at all.
Subconsciously, John, who was at the helm, steered the battleship to make an emergency evasive action, and almost at the same moment, the Rastin artillery fire fell directly. It's the other side's counterattack! In just a moment, the other party reacted, and it seems that he still can't underestimate the other party!
Plekhanov, who sneered, did not panic at all, at least for now, he was under his control.
"John, 12 o'clock, two o'clock, Krupp heavy artillery bombardment!" He immediately also estimated the direction of the enemy ship by ballistics, and Plekhanov's men carried out his order without hesitation. For this man, everyone on the ship believed that as long as he was there, they could turn it all around!
"Boom-" I heard the four Krupp heavy cannons let out a roar like a dragon.
The flames were soaring, and sure enough, the [St. Mary] hit two battleships again, although it was only a minesweeper assisted by the Rastins, but for a while, it also made the originally confident Rastines feel that they were in an ambush, and they suddenly became chaotic.
"We've been ambushed, we've been ambushed! I ask for support, I ask for support! ”
The first ironclad ship to be shot has almost disintegrated, and the hull that was broken from the middle gradually sank to the bottom of the sea, and the seafarers on board cried out for help in horror, but in the dark night, there was no one who fell into the water, and no ship dared to approach there, because the entire boiler had been destroyed, maybe the ironclad ship still had the possibility of exploding, and no one wanted to die.
Damn it! How could the Herod have had an ambush beforehand?
Annoyed, Marquis Ferdinand ordered his men to fight back, but the attack formation he had prevented was extremely detrimental to his fleet's counterattack, and he didn't even know how many of Nicaea's ambushed navy were, but that alone wasn't enough to set him back.
For a moment, the entire organizational system seemed to be paralyzed, and it seemed that their radio signals were also being interfered with.
"Couldn't you have won the trick?" Unable to hold back the anger in his heart, Marquis Ferdinand slammed his fist on the dashboard in front of him, and he snatched the communicator, and it was full of chaotic rustling of radio waves.
"Attention everyone! Attention everyone! Fight back now, fight back now, change formation! At this moment, he could only give orders like this.
"General, are we using searchlights to search for the enemy, visibility is too low now!" On the other side of the communicator, Deputy Commander Pernosa asked for instructions that field warfare was not something that ordinary navies were good at, and if they couldn't even lock on to the other side, they would not be able to effectively fight back.
But his proposal was directly rejected, "Are you crazy? Didn't that directly expose our position to the other party and become a live target? The fleet changes formation, the frigates scout and protect, find those Nicaeans, and knock them out! Although Ferdinand despised Nicaea, he did not think that the ambushed Nicaean was so easy to deal with, and the Marquis Ferdinand had no idea that the attack on him was nothing more than a ship.
If you know this fact, I'm afraid you can't laugh or cry.
But even so, this way of dealing with it immediately put great pressure on Plekhanov, after all, there is only one of them in the warship, and the fleet in the port is now estimated to be exhausted, and there is no hope at all.
"What to do, Captain!" John looked at Plekhanov and waited for him to give the order.
At this time, Plekhanov's expression was also solemn and terrifying, and he did not dare to order the battleship to open fire at will now, because there was undoubtedly a threat of detection, and the Rastines had changed their formation, and they might be hit by concentrated fire if they were not careful. Even if you have an ironclad ship, you can't withstand the siege of so many warships......
While the man was hesitating, the Rastin siege was shrinking step by step, and it was only a matter of time before he was discovered. But Plekhanov was still thinking about what to do, when a cannon shot interrupted his thoughts as he flew to the river.
It wasn't the Rastines who opened fire, but in another darkness, the fleet that had already been ambushed launched a surprise attack.
And under the light of the fire, the crescent tiger on the banner of the battleship looked particularly hideous, it was the fleet of the Turks. At this time, Serena was commanding the fleet to launch a general assault on the Rastins. For this military operation of the New Brad Kingdom, the Seljuk Khanate already had intelligence, and with the cooperation with the Pope, they had been waiting for the arrival of the Rastin for a long time.
Although most of them were old warships rather than newer ironclads, the Seljuk Khanate's navy was equipped with heavy enough artillery to wreak havoc on the Rastins.
In an instant, two more battleships were hit, and a raging fire broke out.
This, of course, encouraged the officers and men of the Santa Maria, and at the moment whoever helped them, the only enemy was the Rastins.
"Launch the torpedo!" Plekhanov then ordered his men to fire out all the few torpedoes, while the ship's main and secondary guns were aimed at the unprepared Rastin navy.
In the darkness, the sea flickered with shocking fires, the explosions came and went, and the dizzy New Bullard fleet had been completely damaged.