In early winter, the sea breeze is bitter.

In the sea area at the southern end of the Lingzhu Ocean, the twenty fleets of Guangzhou ships under Wu Liuqi of the White Lotus Flood Banner kept firing artillery to attack the Pacific Fleet that was galloping in the distance. The rumbling of artillery was deafening. The smoke cleared. It turned out that the ships of the Pacific Fleet were unscathed. Wang Xizuo ship, although after a dozen rounds of shelling. His morale was soaring, but he knew in his heart that this was just to embolden himself. The opponent did not fire a single shot. This invisible pressure is stronger.

Deputy Li Jin asked, "Hall Master." What are they doing here? We all fired more than a dozen rounds of artillery, and they were so calm that they didn't return a single shot! Are you really afraid of us?

Wang Xi's big eyelids sank. Said: "Are you dreaming? The reason why they haven't done it yet. One is that they are testing our strength, and the other is that they have not yet found a suitable next opportunity. ”

Li Jin nodded and said, "You see that they seem to be arranging a formation, ten battleships are on our left, ten are on the right, and the other ten are far ahead of us, I don't know what to do!" ”

Wang Xi sighed: "Where do we know what kind of sea warfare! Usually it's just to drive away pirates. Two cannons can solve the problem, and now we are facing a regular water army, and we can only deal with the enemy in one way! ”

"What's the solution?" Li Jin looked at Wang Xi, who thought for a moment and said, "If you don't change everything, they want to surround us, what does the art of war say?" To surround the opponent, it takes several times the strength of the opponent. Right now they have thirty warships. And there are twenty of us, and as long as we guard against them, I don't think they can get close to us! ”

The voice fell, and a new round of shelling began, which shook Wang Xi's ears.

After the sound of the cannon, puffs of gunpowder smoke rose, and the smoke that covered the sea was blown to the front by the sea breeze near the battleship behind, choking Wang Xi to cough vigorously.

The surrounding area was thick with gunsmoke, making it impossible for the personnel on the battlement tower to see the movements of the Pacific Fleet on the opposite side.

On the bridge of the flagship of the first team, Shi Jianfei looked at the opponent's own formation unchanged, constantly firing cannons to scare people, and asked helplessly: "Do they still think that we are going to play a gang war with them!" ”

"Gang-hopping warfare is a traditional method of warfare, not only them, but also the navies of all countries in the world are currently regarded as the main naval warfare tactics!" Shen Yangwei replied: "It's just that our navy's tactical thinking is relatively advanced, focusing on artillery battles, followed by broadside battles and gang jumping battles!" ”

Shi Jianfei shook his head and said, "Strictly speaking, it is not absolutely ahead.

I heard that some of the naval officers in England have already begun to try! ”

Shen Yangwei nodded and said, "Some junior officers just think about it, and it is not a matter of a day or two to want to give their stubborn superiors recognition. Unless "

"Unless what?"

"Unless the English Navy fights us, they will change their tactical thinking when they are hurt"

Shi Jianfei said with a smile: "The Headmaster regards the English Navy as a potential enemy in the future, but it's a pity that England is too far away from us, and it will take a year just by sea, and this battle is exhausting." ”

"Not necessarily!" Shen Yangyu smiled faintly and said, "Isn't there a British East India Company after the South Seas?" ”

"That's early, too!" Shi Jianfei shook his head and said, "Before dealing with the British East India Company, we still have to settle Spain and the Netherlands, and I think we will still be allies with England in five years." After five years, it's impossible to say "small."

Shen Yangwei nodded and said, "At least three years will definitely be fine!" It will be three years after the battleship Zhenyuan, the giant ship built by the British, has sailed back, and if we start a war with the British, won't the battleship Zhenyuan be lost? ”

"That's right!" Shi Jianfei nodded and sighed: "It's a pity that we haven't been able to build that kind of first-class battleship yet, so it seems that the British Navy does have their pride, which is worth learning from."

"I heard that the new ship of Xiaonanshan Naval Shipyard has begun to be developed, codenamed Beiyun class, and it is a fourth-class sail battleship!"

"Fourth-class!" Shi Jianfei pursed his lips and said, "It's three levels behind other people's first-class battleships." That's the gap."

"That's it! Stop whining! , Xiao Shen Yangzhu smiled: "When our people come back from the country and France, we can also build first-class battleships ourselves!" ”

Shi Jianfei said with a smile: "I hope it's not like the Swedish Vasa, if it were me, I would have to be angry."

"Crow's beak!" Shen Yangwei was about to count him down for a few sentences, and the bridge staff officer reported that the various teams had entered the predetermined battle positions, waiting for the general attack order.

"Yay!" Shi Jianmao straightened his hat and ordered loudly: "The general attack begins."

"Total attack begins!"

Orders were issued step by step, and the teams quickly entered the battle state. According to the plan. The second and third teams flanked the enemy fleet left and right, while the first team seized the "prefix and horizontal position" of the enemy fleet. Disrupt the formation of the enemy fleet.

"Right full rudder!"

The flagship captain commanded loudly, and the second officer of the steering wheel hurriedly hit the rudder to the bottom of the right side and answered at the same time.

"Full rudder right!"

The flagship quickly turned to the right, and the bow split several meters of waves, drawing a long arc on the surface of the sea. The other warships also followed the flagship to the right, seizing the enemy fleet's prefix and horizontal position.

"Hold on".

The battleship made a quick right turn, and the hull tilted sharply to the right. The officers and men on the ship grabbed the nearby handles one after another. The mast, which was dozens of meters high, quickly fell to the sea on the right side and creaked at the same time, and if it was the first time to ride a sail battleship, you would have been scared half to death. Because the sails of this mast dozens of meters high are so tilted that it seems as if it will surely fall into the sea.

Hua Erfei held on tightly to Fu Nian. Look at the sentry in the mast-masted watchtower. The sailors who sank him on the mast ladder and the railing were full of admiration.

How bold it takes to do this!

Soon, with the completion of the turn of the battleship. The battleship quickly regained its level.

"Starboard artillery ready!"

With the order of the second officer of the artillery commander, it was issued. The starboard gun door opened, and the twenty-two Apocalypse Five-Year God of War guns in the two-tier gun deck were pushed out one after another, and the muzzles of the black hole holes were aimed at the galloping enemy fleet. Full of murderous energy.

Shi Jianfei looked at the enemy fleet approaching on the right, and the heads of the two groups of battleships were about eight or nine hundred meters away from the flagship.

"Fire!"

"Fire!"

The order descended to the gun deck, and the gunners pulled the trigger one after another. The wind-up trigger struck the millstone with a frightened sound, and the flint sparked, igniting the quick-igniting gunpowder in the primer tube.

There was a cannon bang, and the gun on the No. 1 gun position slammed back more than a meter before being stopped by the rope. Then the muzzle of the cannon spewed out tongues of fire. A long column of white-black smoke erupted, and a cannonball emerged from the smoke screen and whistled towards the enemy fleet.

Knock knock!

Immediately after the No. 2 gun position, the No. 3 gun position. It was not until the 22nd gun position opened fire in turn, and the shells flew over the sea level, emitting a series of overlapping whistling sounds, and scrambled to smash into the enemy fleet.

Over there, on Wang Xiza's ship, when the thick smoke drifting from behind was blown away by the sea breeze, Wang Xi found that the ten battleships that were originally in the front suddenly turned right and stopped in front of his fleet.

"What is this for?" Li Jin asked suspiciously, "Are they going to stand in our way?" Both of our ships are about the same size, so aren't they afraid that we will sink it? ”

"Are you scared silly?"

Wang Xi thought subconsciously, and then suddenly realized that something was wrong. The other side is obviously not stupid to block the ship with a ship, but with a cannonball.

"Oops!"

Before Wang Xi could say the next words, he saw the first battleship of the enemy fleet sail straight ahead. From the bow to the stern, two rows of fire flickered in turn, and then the rumbling of cannons was heard, and rows of cannonballs whistled in.

"Enemy attack!"

Wang Xi took the lead in hiding behind the women's wall. And only then shouted about the enemy attack.

Bang bang bang!

Hot shells smashed. Stir up columns of water several meters high. The sea breeze hit, wrapped in flying mist and sprinkled onto the warship, and suddenly drenched Wang Xi, Li Jin and others like a torrential rain.

The icy sea water poured on his body, and Wang Xi suddenly struck a spirit.

It's okay! Didn't hit!

Wang Xi waited for five or six seconds, but did not hear the sound of the cannonball smashing through and smashing the ship's plank, so he raised his head carefully.

"Ahh

Wang Xi was about to speak, when he sneezed violently.

"Hall Master, you didn't hit us! , Xiao Li Jin also raised his head, his face full of schadenfreude.

"Damn! Scare us! Wang Xi rubbed his nose and said disdainfully: "I thought they were very good!" Unexpectedly, the level of this * cannon is not good, it is about the same as us! ”

"That's what the hall master said!" Li Jin said with a smile: "This time we have the bottom in our hearts."

Wang Xi nodded, full of pride. Then he looked up and saw that the first battleship of the enemy fleet had sailed past, and the second battleship had sailed ahead, and as in the previous scene, the fire flickered and the shells whistled.

Bang bang bang!

Rows of cannonballs fired, setting off columns of water on both sides of the ship, and the sea water splashed onto the ship. It makes people shiver. There was a thud, and a cannonball smashed into the bow deck, smashing the deck in an instant. Huge hole in the eye. The powerful inertia lifted several planks into the air, crackling and smashing into pieces, injuring several sailors on the left.

"What's wrong with us?"

Wang Xi muttered to himself, his face full of disbelief. Li Jin next to him suddenly said: "We are getting closer and closer to the enemy ship, and of course the people's accuracy is also higher!" ”

Wang Xi heard this. Looking ahead, the warships of the 1st Squadron of the Pacific Fleet concentrated their broadside guns and opened heavy fire whenever they were in front of Guò. Sparse shells from the beginning. And then the calls kept coming. From the beginning of the first hit. When he got to the back, he hit his ship one after another.

Bang bang bang!

When they were four or five hundred meters apart, the hit rate of the opponent's shells rose in a straight line, and the shells rained down, hitting Wang Xi's ship and the head ship of the right flotilla one after another.

Wang Xi was dumbfounded, and the cannonballs flying in the sky felt like they were all flying towards his face.

There was a loud bang, and sure enough, a cannonball took care of Wang Xi's expectations, and knocked him next to him. The female wall was smashed to pieces. In an instant, splinters of wood were scattered. It hurts to hit the body through the thick clothing. The hot shells scorched the splinters of wood and sent puffs of green smoke. Under the strong shock wave wrap. Choking nose and eyes. Wang Xi stumbled. was knocked down by the air waves, and suddenly knelt behind the female wall in fright, trembling.

What battles, what commands, what the safety of subordinates. Go all ***! It's still about saving your life!

"Hall Master! Hall Master! Li Jin shouted loudly next to Wang Xi, and after shouting at some point, Wang Xi heard someone call him again.

"Hall Master, think of a way!" Li Jin shouted loudly, and the whistling of cannonballs and the violent crumbling of the ships that hit them, as well as the shouts of his men, stifled his voice, forcing him to speak in a louder voice.

Wang Xi's ears were buzzing. The brain was dizzy, and it took a long time for him to be awakened by Li Jin.

"Think of a way to do it!"

As soon as he became nervous, Wang Xi's usual mouth thief now became a stumbling person.

Li Jin shouted: "The hall master has opened the front of the note!" If you open it any further, you will be beaten into a sieve! ”※

"What then?" Wang Xi excitedly grabbed Li Jin's shoulders and said, "What do you say I should do?" ”

Li Jin was caught by Wang Xi, but he still gritted his teeth and replied: "Hall Master, you must avoid them!" We only have two guns in the bow, and ten battleships are on the side to deal with us, and two or three hundred shells are coming at us in one go! ”

"Yes, yes, yes!" Wang Xi said: "There are too few bow guns. Let's fire the guns from the side too! You go and give the order, turn left, and open fire to meet the enemy! ”

Li Jin was helpless, so he had to shout: "The hall master has an order, all ships turn left and open fire to meet the enemy!" ”

The order was given, and as the ship had been battered, the sailors on the deck suffered heavy casualties, but they could still maneuver the ship to turn.

However, to Wang Xi's dismay, he had just given the order to turn left, only to be hit on the left by the starboard guns of the Second Squadron of the Pacific Fleet.

It turned out that Shi Jianfei was ready to deal with it. Once Wang Xi couldn't stop the fierce shelling of the first team in front of him, he would choose to turn left and right to avoid it. The second team on the left and the third team on the right were driving parallel to Wang Xi's fleet, and once Wang Xi's fleet turned, it would definitely hit the guns of the Pacific Fleet directly.

At this time, the ten warships of Wang Xi's left flank fleet hurriedly turned to the left, and just gave the prefix to the second battle team of the Pacific Fleet.

There is no need to grab the word prefix and cross the position, the other party will take the initiative to send it over, and there is no reason why the second team should not want such a good thing.

Knock knock!

The starboard side of the 2nd Sentai opened heavy fire, and a shell weighing 12 kilograms roared in, causing countless waves of water. Wang Xi's left flank fleet also fired back. Shells on both sides come and go. The sea suddenly boiled.

However, after being occupied, Wang Xi's fleet suffered a loss. Because I don't understand this kind of naval warfare tactics, I don't understand the meaning of the words and tactics in it. As a result, Wang Xi's fleet was attacked by dozens of times more shells. The firepower output of both sides is strictly unbalanced.

Whoosh!

A volley of shells hit, and Wang Xi's ship was surrounded by the sickle tactics composed of the first and second teams of the Pacific Fleet, and the 1,000-ton giant ship was soon poked into dozens of holes. A dozen gun emplacements on the port side were dud, seven or eight. Heavy casualties. In particular, the head ship of the right flank fleet, after being attacked by a combination of the first and third fleets, caught fire in many places, and the starboard side of the hull was penetrated five or six times. The hole is open, the sea water is pouring violently, and the hull of the ship is tilted to the right.

"Turn right!"

Wang Xi saw that he was attacked by more shells when he turned to the left, so he took it for granted and ordered to turn right.

But what's on the right? On the right was the head of his right-wing fleet, turning to the left as he had just ordered.

Wang Xilao remembered it for a long time. When he tried to cancel the order, his ship had already collided with the head ship of the right flank fleet. With a loud click, the battleship hit the front of the port side of the warship on the right, and immediately tore a hole more than three meters wide.

The sea poured in, and the ship, which was supposed to tilt to the right, began to tilt to the left. And it sank at a speed that was visible, and the sailors above jumped into the sea one after another to escape, and they could no longer care about the icy water. The gunners on the gun deck had no time to escape, and sank to the bottom of the sea with the ship.

The huge impact force made Wang Xi's body rush forward involuntarily, and his forehead hit a big bag. This time, Wang Xi didn't shout. Instead, he stupidly watched his own ship sink the right ship.

His blind command, left and right, plunged the entire fleet into chaos.

rammed and sank the head ship of the right-wing fleet, Wang Xi's ship did not stop, but directly rolled over. Accelerated the sinking of the head ship of the right flank fleet.

However, Wang Xi's ship did not escape the range of the Pacific Fleet's shelling, because there was still a third team on the right!

Wang Xi's ship continued to turn to the right, and as a result, the formation of the first and third teams continued to work.

At 4:45 a.m., five shells fired by the No. 2 ship of the Third Sentai hit the starboard waterline of the Wangxiza ship at the same time, and the hot shells stirred up a violent splash of mist. The powerful penetrating force suddenly shot through the fragile underwater hull, and suddenly smashed open five holes. The icy waters poured in, causing the ship to quickly tilt to the right.

Wang Xi didn't grasp it firmly on the deck all of a sudden, and immediately rowed out five or six meters. Wang Xi was so frightened that he crawled everywhere, and happened to grab the leg of his deputy, Li Jin, who was clutching a cocked plank. As the ship continued to tilt to the right, the living people, corpses, and belongings on board fell into the sea. And the board that Li Jin was holding also detached from the hull little by little as the gravity increased.

"Don't!"

Li Jin looked at the exposed ship nails under the boat board with a bitter face, and he knew that every time he pulled out a ship nail. He was in danger of falling.

"Hall Master, I can't hold on!"

"Hold on!" Wang Xi, who was holding Li Jin's feet below, shouted vigorously, but this guy was fat and heavy enough, and he obviously felt that his body was constantly moving down.

With a snap, the planks finally couldn't bear the weight of the two of them, and flew out with the riveted spikes. Li Jin and Wang Xi screamed and fell into the sea.

The icy sea water made the two of them cramp and couldn't move, and after eating several mouthfuls of seawater, they were finally able to move, but the warship capsized, and a huge whirlpool was produced when it sank, which made Wang Xi and Li Jin flutter to no avail, and were finally sucked into the sea. If you want to know what will happen next, please log in..., more chapters. Support the author, support genuine reading! D